The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-01-02

IftS Ia tRpNs o%'@
ae m1ch cotton on the one-thlrd area
hat they now grow on the Whoie,
cost would be cut down seriously,
and a low price would not U dls-
tress- The man who has lone TINS
and has oats and wheat 70 SELL haS
to feed and cattle To eat IL noes -
eat the corn after grazing an sum.
mer on the great variety of crops that
can be grown in a constant success
sion in the South, will not be serious
~ hurt by the low price OF cotton.
SO long as the Southern FARMER
huvs bacon tina the Western farmers
he railroads. the packers and the
home merchant have all had tntli
pro.it out Of. while he pays them az
ont OF cotton. his cotton crop IS go
inc to cost him too much. The only
security for the future is in reduc1hg
, the cost OF growing cotton oy soou
farming. The great dhncuIty Is 70
get the Southern farmers 10 ia.il
well SO long as cotton brings q llne
! nrice. AS a farmer years age IN
South Carolina said to me when cot
ton was at it's lowest price, INC !neIe
was 2 great deal Of interest mani
tested in diversified farming: we
will never go to farming wen I'll
we are whipped into It. II seems
that the boil weevil is whipping them
! into better farming in the far South
When Louisiana. and mississippi are
selling corn, it is 8 good lndlcattioil,
and rhaps the boil Weevil will not
be an unnixed evil
The Leaven is Working a Little
Will it not pay me better TO buy
$500 worth of cattle and raise 1eed
for them to eat during the WINTER
and SOW rye, etc. and save tne ma
nure to Use on my farm, 1nsteau Oh
buying $500 worth OF guaIO every
ro1rC would OnlV have TO DuE
stock one year. and would have more
every year. and, IN the other hand,
would have only half Of my land to
use for my money crops. as l would
have to raise roughage on the other
half. The way I propose is to raise
i. feed for stock on one-half my and
and my money crops on the other half
] and then reverse them. Please ADVISE
: NE.
Letters like this one show that
: farmers III the Cotton Belt are be
!. ginning to ST dy and plan for some
4 thing better. Our friend says that
4 lie works two horses, but has only
: so acres of cleared land. But he i:
I beginning to realize that some sort Q.
d stock feeding will be of advantage
T and doubtless, II will be. But while
e short rotation. is advisable for tn
r. pic improvement OF the land.
II two-year alternating of the crop woult
HETulS De me DGS1 tulIS. I1t Is IL
8 ~ick-infested section, and is tina
&c handicapped by the quarantine lice
e He could not safely bring improve
q cattle there to feed. and there is 1t
u tie profit in feeding scrub cattle .
the wamps. At least not more tina
q the value Of the feed could be realize
l. from tina sort of cattle. But he ca
lie start with the native cows and ca
a buy a calf of the Polled Angus bree
~ to raise for a bull, and that will Civ
him some better feeders, and b
- breeding the same bull once on h
III heifers. and then changing the bu
by getting another calf that he ca
IA raise immune to ticks he can 500
re have 8 stock or feeders little inf.
81 rior 10 the full blooda.
!. But he should go about the in
! p~rovernent OF his land in a %syste1nat
way by adopting the three-year rots
90 ton ! have often advised. His mont
crop is doubtless cotton, but that
- not the Only crop he can sell and ST
have rotishage for stOck Let him q
vide thai 90 acres into three fields il
stead OF two. Plant one-third
corn, and among the corn SOW De;
a at last cultivation. Cut the corn {
~ at maturity n cure it In shocks a,
~ at once disk the peas down and DIR
ia in winter oats in September, as he
CO in the upper part Of Eastern Nor
hIAS tIop VI od4Sx q
,,,+ he will have a lot of cat straw
co feed. and can at once SOW the land
peas, or a mixture Of peas and S
arv beans to make into the best h
grown for stock. Then SOW crims
clover on the StUbble after the hay
he saved Il in the early spring tn
cd this under for cotton. and he will ne
only 3 liberal dressing OF acid oh,
phate and potash, or Thomas oh,
phatc and potash, to make the colt
art crop. -Four hundred pounds Of oh,
ere phate and rs pounds Of muriate
low potash an acre, half in the furr
and half broadcast, will make him
ing cotton crop. Then SOW crimson c
scF among the cotton In late Septe
cot- Der, and on that clover spread all W
the ter the manure made from feed
ad- the hay and corn slower and colt,
seed meal exchanged for seed. and
too the spring turn all under for G,
again.
ers, It will take q few rounds OF This