Evening journal., 1912-12-03
A TONIC FOR
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SANDY SUILS

what is the matter with that
oountrys u has had humus star,a-
ilon and no legumcs. am about
ready to lay down the motto. no
reai agriculture without legumes.
ard i is pore true in the sand than
eiscvrorc.
figS and Beans Make Profits.
'lf had Mr. Lippincotts job.
however. and were trying TO put
prosperity into Delaware I'd whoOp
up those unfcrtilized acres. That Is
DclaNare's hold on the future Those
acres lead TO livestock Truck comes
O little quicker. but the glut. the
gluti II takes the sand out of
man to strike a gut Nothing kills
like uncertainty There is no like
lihood Of a glut on pig, and that PEN
insula sand will grow the food for
him. Pig money is in the year you
start. too, and the only drawback is
a fence. Let the farmer who looks
up start with inoculated soy beans.
From the shale hills of Central Penn
syivania there is an inspiring exam
pie TO follow. A field yielded seven
bushels Of corn TO the acre in 1910
In 1911 Il was sown TO soy beans and
the pigs were turned into eat them
The pigs ate the bean leaves first
and the pods afterward, and made 500
pounds OF pork per acre. Anybody
can figure out what that is worth
Now, Mr.. Delawarean, put soy
beans as cowpeas, and there is no
pigs into your soy beans. Mr. Lip
pincott might just as we'll have
started his poor mans acre with soy
beans as compeas, and theer is no
necessity for plowing them under. If
the field had had a fence he could
have turned in the pigs that first
year. Fifty dollars viii buy the 2O4
rods Of wire 10 fence in sixteen acres.
II you are too poor to buy a fence
You can chop enough poles to make
a worm fence. Then, to save trouble
you can bean that field and pig the
beans for several years unless you
want to branch out.
II you do want to branch out take
two fields and put them alternately
into corn and beans The way the
pigs will fatten IN those beans while
YOU SIT and keep tho mosquitoes off
yourself VIII surprise you. And then
the way the corn will grow after the
beans are plowed under viii also sur
prise you And II yce can get some
vetch to grow with the beans It will
feed the old sows most of the win
ter and IL will start the pigs In April
before you plow It up. Then you can
easily work crimson clover in the
corn. and that, too. will feed hogs in
winter and in spring Then in lit
tie while YOU can sell your farm 10
some frozen-out man from New York
on Dakota, for he can't do such fine
things I'm his country-but you won't
want TO sell your farm by that time
The soy bean has a bigger root
rNatem and leaves more nitrogen in
he soil than the cowpea does, and II
does not kill so suddenly when frost
comes. but the cowpea "a also a good
plant both for the ground and for
hogeing down. It. too, is a nitrogen
T8therer
'One more way to do It easily. Re
call the neighbOrs sandy field that
got a good crop Of vetch by sowing
IS In the corn. Now 81 you are very
fond of the simple life. and don't
want to bother with fencing, and
don't like to have pigs round and
just want TO keep on growing corn in
the good old way made better. here's
your recipe: Sow vetch IN your corn
the last time you plow It. lnoculate
your vetch, then let Il alone for a
whole season. Let II rest I'm the
good old way. That vetch will mat
itself and cover tho ground by the
end of May. It will die In July. and
the second crop from its seed will
come up in September and by plow-
ing time the second year you will
have one Of the biggest sods that was
ever plowed in Delaware. Netch has
Jumps of nitrogen on its roots about
as big as broomcorn sede, and lots o
them. The corn that will follow thil
dose will make you think you have
Inherited money. Netch really doe
rest the land.
Live Stock That VIII Insure thu
Future.
"The real future OF the Peninsula
lies not IN truck. but in livestock
Having reached its truck limit thu
rest is now loahng. lt could rais
enough truck for the whole continen
and inasmuch as there are SOM
other districts in the same business
much of the Peninsula is not busy
The trucking industry has caused
center to rise up here and there, ant
then we have spots of depression II
between, and the trucking center
themselves are by no means alway
prosperous II the people OF the Pen
insula could by some good luck max
the discovery that It is pigs they nee
they might be as prosperous as Iowa
I suspect that they can beat Iowa a
making cheap pig. Iowa has tn
great advantage OF fertility. Tn
Peninsula has far less of IL. but
can use legumes and double crop
ping until the Iowa corn and no
farmer rubs his eyes and asks II yo
are kidding him. j tried II on on
lust the other day. When ! convinC
ed him that was in earnest he want
ed to know Just where that countr
was and II he could get any litera
ture. He wanted to send il TO a fel
low back in Iowa who could sell 5
acres for about $4,000 and have hi
stock left
"Of course there is no reason VIII
Mr.. Lippincott's friends in the san
could not fatten cattle. II they want
cd to get up early enough In th
morning and wait on Mrs. Cow the
could keep about one COW to tw
acres and have a little truck on III
side. If truck is essential to their hal
riness.
when the Peninsula once disco'
ars livestock the abandoned field
tie pine forests and the undraino
cramps viii go. and II will be a lar
OF dense population. great prosperii
end high land values while comme
cial fertilizers last A land that hs
shown itself good for alfalfa, goc
for corn and good for clover, and fu