The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-27
Prof. MaSsey's Views

1t is a saving Of labor to have
place for everything and then hav'
everything in its place when wanted
Have a truck patch with long row:
and use the horses i'll most Of It ant
where the rows are necessarily mar
row use the wheel hand-cultivator and
not the hoe, for the hoe, as | have
said, is a costly implement.
/ use in the garden a little five
tooth c%ultivatOr with q handle like a
rake and it is wonderful how rapidly
1 can go over the ground. 1t beats
even the wheel cultiyator for | have
both and last summer hardly used
the wheel cultivator at all.
Clear oak lumber, well seasoned,
will make a good si,o, but the best is
cypress. No matter how long it is sea
soned, the oak lumber will shrink and
open the cracks worse than pine or
cypress.
IT is a saving of labor to have all
the farm implements in fine order at
the beginning of the sping work, and
not ave TO lose time in getting new
parts or in cleaning up implements
that should have been put away clean
ed last fall.
Stick to the clover crops, Harrow"
A correspondent in West Virginia re-
Gently wrote to me nat one of his
n~eighbors told him that it would be
better for him to buy stable manure
than to depend on c-oyer and peas.
lie wanted to NOW which was right.
| told him to stick to the peas and
crimson clover, for it is far cheaper
10 grow m thai to haul it on the
land after paying for it. The market
gardener may make it profitable to
Duy stable manure for his igher
priced rOp and intensive culture,
but the general farmer had better de-
pend on the legumes and their feeding
ana use the mineral fertilizers lib
orally.
| would like to say to Mr.. Eggles-
ton that | have seen men burning
broomsedge and in the rush Of the
name | saw the hot air carving the
seed all around before the flames had
a chance to kill them, and there
would be more seeding Of broomsedge
from burning tina from turning un-
der. ! have seen many q field Of
proomsedge burnt off annually in the
P1edmont section of Virginia for the
purpose OF making young pasture in
the spring, and the more the field was
~ liIC bfttJ1l-
sedge grew. The annual burning
really thickens it. This is no theory,
tut the experience Of many in the
hills Of Virginia. Whenever broom
sedge appears in a pasture, break the
500 al once and cultivate in a hoed
crop and get back to grass again and
set better grass.
les, II YOU are cultivating the land.
De q good farmer. Do not write. as
lEany do, to me, MY land is Door"
" ny is It poor If you have been Gull
hvatlng it for years? Are you not to a
great extent responsible for its being
poor! Have YOU farmed it with a
Sood plan to increase it's p~roductiye-
ness, or nave YOU simply planted crops
and gambied on the chances with
httle dribble' of 2-S-2? If SO, YOU are
rot a farmer at all, but a mere soil
gambler and a WaSter of your inner
trance. Now is the time to make a
mango. Stop soil gambling and go to
farming In a systematic way and
make the farm pay its way to fertil-
Ivy. Ihe farm will pay for its i'm
lrovement II you will but give it q
nance. There is no money in the old
gambling method, while there is
money TO be made at good farming
lhere is no profit in taking four acres
tC make a bale of cotton at a cost of
~ cents q pound, but there is mon
IA cotton ever at the present price il
you make from one to two bales an
acre.
PROFESSOR Morgan we'll saws that
rotation for n South should ernpha-
SIZE winter crops" There is less
nard freezing and more rain in win
Ter than in the North and hence the
,cacning OF fertility from bare land
- sreater IMAM in the North. A crop
" crimson clover not only saves the
Heetng nitrates but adds the NITROGEN
it gets from the air, and thus is net
Ter IMAM q mere green groth like rye
mat simply saves what would Other
wise be washed away. But even rvo
is better than bare land.
/ have been on tho fam, g.
Clarendon Davis in Alabama. ana
nave the great wheat crons L.