The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-12-17

is the rule, the tenant has = better
chance, while the landowner finds that
his farm is improving instead Of run
ming down. Men in eastern Maryland
have become millionaires by buying
and renting land, and their tenants
ave proSpered and have bought
farms, and the same system IN the
South would rapidly do away with the
One-mule tenant and make him q
more prosperous and successful man.
All Of which means of course that
every young man should as soon as
possible get land Of his own to i'm
prove. Land is still cheap in the
South. but the day of cheap and is
rapidy drawing to a close, and the
men who own land and cultivate IT
in a profitable way Will find its value
increasing all the time. Mr.. POE has
we'll shown the valu Of intensive
work on small farms in
and what we need in the out is to
understand the profit there is in the
intensive working Of a small farm
rather than spreading out efforts over
a large area and scratching the land
instead Of blowing it well.
The boys in the corn club have
shown how the productiveness Of the
land is increased by heavy manuring.
and If we can get n acre up to the
production of over 200 bushels of
curn, why not extend the same to ten
acres. rather than try to spread it
over 100 acres. Stable manure is i'm
p%ortant. but the same result can be
had with cas- and crimson clover,
aided by commercial fertilizers, n
when we get one acre to make two
to three bales Of cotton, the cotton
crop assumes a much greater import
ance. But lis Improvement cannot
be Well dom with only a single mule
70 IL thn - ft~ Fo~ ~ ar rr0 AVN
an eight-inch furroW in a clay soil,
n the loss on ven a small place
will soon more than pay for another
horse.
We hope that all OF the young men
who read this paper and are now try
ing to farm with a single horse or
mule will determine to get out Of the
one-hOrse class at once. 0 can do
it if You will.
The Farmer and Fertilizer Expert
tents
Harrow seems inclined to criticize
my advice in regard to experimenting
with the soil to find what is needed
i'll the way of fertilizers. He thinks
that the average farmer will not do
this with any exactnesaI Probably
not, but we are writing for the read
Ing farmers, rather than the average
man whose crops cut down his States
average in the making OF statistics.
farmer and we would like to get him
educated up to the point of taking
some pains to n out what his soil
needs. But there are thousands ali
over tho South who are sufficiently
intelligent to make these experiments,
and l know Of some good farmers
who have tested their soil tn this way,
and have done it with care and &C
Curacy. The average farmer is down
IN the ruts, and we want to elevate
all the readers OF The Progressive
Farmer away above the average, and
we assume that most Of them are
lalready above the average or they
would not be taking the paper.
OF purse l can advise a man in q
general way in regard to what would
probably be a profitable fertilizer in
his soil, but as I have often said. il
looks too much like ~quackery to ad-
wise in all cases as to what a farmer
should use for the greatest profit
When a man writes to me: ssMy land
ls poor II makes about ten bushel.
CT corn an acre; how much fertilfze,
and what kind shall I use to get fit.
bushels an acre?" l simply have te
tell him that I do not know, and DC
not think it can be done in that wav
+ My constant effort is to get farmer,
= 1a1iH IisnI ana mus TO increase
the humus content in their soil 81
+ that any fertilizer they may use vii
! have a better effect than 1t Will or
g the old dead mixture OF sand anf
clay. l want to show them that b,
: 5000 farming, with the legur,es. am
= the growing and feeding Of these viii
! the ~eottonseed meal, they can entire
~ avoi the purchase Of the cost,
nitrogen in a fertilizer, and on III,
t majority of the upland clay soils o
: cept a good carrier Of phoanhori
f acid. and by spending the san,,
r amount OF money for this that the,
+ now spend for a complete ferti,;yer
q they can farm far more proftablv.
= want to get all OF our farmers q,
OF the entire dependence on fertilizer
TO make a crop. and to show than
that they need not spend money %