The farmer and mechanic., 1912-10-15
Prof. Massey's Views
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SEED and must use a speclfs,
t1ty per acre He hauls ara
any FENCES needed. the }tTa s
furnishing the material. ana
piies tne paint and whitev7sl e-
ehe buildings, furnished bv -
he pays one-half the gram
rent and delivers the grain @s
elevator. but all the corn stov.-
and roughage belong 10 m. -
Inc tenant can pasture a sn.
OF sheep free on the VIII
WINTER and the practice i
western sheep in the fa.l @
them in the spring.
The department Of Aari,,r..
issued a bulletin on this svSts.
practiced on this great est
entitled "A System OF Tanan,
ing and It's Results" Farmers -
Ieun No 437. which can h., h
any one Interested. l have bee
many years familiar with th4 60
III which this system preyailv
know We'll that it has been a M,
to the country and the farmers -
tnat the agricultural interests ....
have onderfully improved und,r &
system.
know OF one man who had drr.,,
a long life been prominent il s"o..I
affairs and business and politics =
the county, who all his life "
renter. though fully able to h,,y zr1
1arm ne might want. but found t..f
no coulo make more on = rea-,ai
farm The landowner. Of f-e.
pays all the taxes. The tenar.
mers are wheat and corn f,rr..-r
and / believe that if any one WA
start a similar system in the Cotton
states there would be built up .n
agriculture such as the South Fe
never seen. But to get men VII re
real farmers and have the means -
farm we'll there must be on the f..r,.s
dwellings that such men viii H.. n
and buildings for stock. af proper
capacity So long as the tenant
merely cropper, carried by a n4,r-
chant, the tenant system VIII h4
curse to the South and the cabins
and novels for mules will prevail. M
agricultural advancement Will he ,r-
tared. The founder Of the oeta..
have mentioned and another Iu#n ia
the adjoining county became m,Nur
aires at farming while their T;.l:s
prOspered and made money, too aad
the land improved in production aud
value
Who will be wise enough t. s,..rt
such a system in the Cotton States
Is Your Cotton Giving You a Profit
It is not SO much getting IS cots
for cotton, if it costs ten cents Is
make it, as it is in knowing how ta
grow cotton at a cost that Leaves !
profit when it sells for ten cents 4
paund- The man who, by good farm
ing, raises over a bale an acre ha- a
big profit if cotton goes to IS c,atS
he iC g.,
cents, while the man who takes Il.
acres to make a bale has not much
profit even at 5 cents and none =, ali
at ten cents. It is all in the mar ana
his farming. The man who tries .o
galvanize little life into an old decd
mixture Of sand and clay fth 100
pounds Of 8-2-2 per acre can never
make money growing cotton. 10 l"at-
ter what the price may be-
Now with cotton at ten cents tie
men who have taken the adviee =
The Progressive Farmer and made
cotton for less are getting protiS
while the man who raised only ne
average crop is getting little Or t9
profit. It is evident that the "otl1
will take $4,000, ,000-bale crop It .
fair price, and the problem for the
cotton farmer Is how TO mako the
cotton on one-third the area nov
used and how to keep the ather two
thirds improving and growing a4Eill-
ary crops Of value for feeding stock
and selling grain. One correspen-
dent in trucking section wrote ta,,i
he, like others there. has been '.t-
giecting corn and he had to buy so7h.
and it hurts" he says. And t6e
same is true Of the greater pa
the cotton country. There IS 80
nd
And when a man is making no pf'-
fit on his cotton and still has . ol2
corn and hay and meat, II hnie-
worse
The cure for all this hurt Is r.
farming and a total abandonment --
the idea that there is no nonGE ".
anything but cotton. and that cotsst
can stand the paying for everEth.t.6
else.
Ross Magnus, a man so year ~