The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-24

/ niehed all the stock and did all the
/ labor and ne was to pay no rent on
/ live stock. but was to feed all hay
and fodder on the farm. The tenan,
! buys the clover seed and PAYS half tina
! cost OF fertilizer for the wheat crop.
and gives one half the crops as rent.
I If he sells any hay he must pay half
of that. but if he feeds II, it Is his
! property. OF course. the tenant then
aimed to grow all the clovor he could.
and 20 feed all the stock he could raise
food for, and the farm got the manure
The first farm proved such success
( that the merchant bought another, and
good farmer was ready TO take it,
md he went on year after year buy
iES farms from the r., E:s OF this
-arl;tr ones and renting them on the
same contract The landlord furnishes
all paint and whitewash FOR the
iri2o:ngs and the tenant applies them
tcnart builds the fences He for
n!shes in the FIRST place con- tortable
dwellings and barns that a good
farm'r would occup%. ana Keeps them
IN repair Al the tiule the founder of
the estate died. he was assessed a mil
lion dollars for real estate. and owned
hfty-siN farms averaging about 30
acres each. and the whole section was
greatly improved and the tenants made
farms OF their own. You can get full
description OF this estate. which is
stu carried on IN the same way by
the heirs, by writing to the Secretary
of Agriculture. WASHINGTON. u g.. and
asking for copy OF Farmers Bulle-
TN on Tenant System and it's Re
suits Such a system would build up
any section OF the country. But it
means good tenants. mon who have the
means 10 stock and carry on a farm
properly, and good dwellings, that
such men would live in. ON this es-
.a:e no farmer is ever moved so long
as ne farms according to contract and
numbers during the more than thirty
years {; has been carried on. have
handed down the farms to their sons.
or bought farms and gone on them to
improve them in the same way. The
tenant system OF the South with
cabins only and novels for the mules
and ignorant tenants from year to
year. results in impoverishment Of the
soil, and no profit TO landlord or ten
ant know Of no way in which man
OF means can do more for his section
and for himself than by adopting some
such system, and getting good farmers
into the South | know OF al least
one other man in Maryland who be
came millionaire by this system. and
others are succeeding in the same way.
Tho Wccdcr.
on light, sandy soils. and on loan
soils that are meilowcd BY an abund
Ancc OF humus the weedor Is one of
the most efficient implements for rap
idly going over the corn or cotton in
its earlier growth. But the wecder is
an implement for the good farmer on
clay soils, and not for the poor farm
or on such soils, for on a clay loan.
deficient in humus and crusr!ng hard
the wceder Will have little effect, and
on such soils the spike harrow. or
smoothing harrow with teeth slant
ms backwards. will do hctter work
than the weeder. But If the farmer
farms properly and nils his soil with
organic decay and gets it in the mel
low condition such materials make he
can use the wecder TO advantage for
gong over early and killing tn. weeds
lust as they terminate, and in this
way keeping the grass out OF the hills
and doing away with the need for
throwing earth to the corn. Harrow
well before the corn is up. and thcn run
inc weedcr tin the corn is eiX inches
or more nigh. 1 know OF ono farmer
! In Maryland who cult!vs>cs his crop
, entirely with the wccdcr Eo
uses II IN the carly stages in its usual
form and later puts wccdor teeth into
riding two-row cultivator ana
straddles the rows, merely scratching
The soil. and thus gets all the weeds
in reach terminated and no more
brought up by deeper WORKING. and
his corn is clean OF all Weeds ana
grass az cutting time
Cutting and Shocking Cnrn
on. advise the cutting OF the corn
=; the ground and curing in shocks
hut wo need the BLADE fodder. and tho
cut down SUN is poor feed Why IS
the cutting down bcst?" 4, is best for
several reasons In the nrst place. II,
/ clears the land at once for the seed
ing OF the winter grain that should
| follow corn In the second place j,
has been proven by carefully conduct,
! "d experiments that the stripping OF
IN" blades and the cutting ~ the tons
\ done al the time it is usually don.
always decreases the corn crop as
much rs the saved fodder &, 80.
oi course the stripping OF the blades
apd me cutting OF the tops gives 4
1 better lot q! feed than the cut down
StoVer and southern farmers have got.
1 zen INTO tn" hspit because the fodder
Z is their total dependence for rouah-
aS". iut where a man makes plenty
/ O! has, he does not need the laborious
/ stripping and topping and tho waste
oi corn TO get 1t Tho cured stovcr.
/ rum through the shredder can h,
! flckcd OF stacked 20 feed. and more Of
J u VIII 10" eaten than fed whole. and
IA" refuse VIII make FAR better all
Sofhcht OF the manur, in tn. stables
30 TAR rs the actual manual labor &
concerned there is little difference
The cutting of AT The ground ana
hooking can ho done NOR. rap..
4 Out y Il heavy work. a know from
'Gtu"! experience have stripped
blades and cui tops and nave cut down
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