The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-05-09
FARM | AND OWNERS
BEING ENcOURAGEDBy
RAILROAD COMPANY
SUGGESTIONS OFFERED IN THE
SPIRIT OF HELPFULNESS
AND PROFIT.
VALUE OF ENSILAGE DISCUSSED
Information and Data Disseminated
viii Be Supported by Approval of
Experts and Agents in State and
Government Service.

That the Nashville, Chattanooga &
st. Louis Railway is evincing a deep
interest in the improvement of agri-
culture and live stock breeding along
it's lines is indicated by letter re-
Gently sent out by the industrial di-
vision of the traffic department of
that road to the farmers and breed
ers living adjacent thereto in the
state sof Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala
bama and Georgia.
The company feeling that the farm
lend owners and practlca lagricul-
turists along its lines will appreciate
advice and suggestions when offered
in the spirit of helpfulness and mu-
tual profit, is following planned line
of endeavor looking to much needed
Improvement in existing agricultural
conditions in the territory reached by
it's rails. The suggestions to be Of
fered will embrace lining the soil
where that element Is lacking, the
sowing of winter cover crops, the cul-
tivation of such leguminous plants as
the clovers, ow peas, soy beans, and
alfalfa for creating ''humus" in the
soil and enliching it, rotation and di-
versification, and improved live
stock. The information and data, to
be disseminated in the form of per-
sonally signed letters and printed
pamphlets and booklets, will be sup
ported by the approval of agricultur
al experts and agents in state and
government service, and will there
fore be based upon long continued &C
tual demonstration and experimental
results.
Many thousands of acres of corn
cotton and wheat lands along the
Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis
Railway, under prevalent methods Of
handling, lie bare and idle and ex
posed to the inevitable washing o.
heavy rains ir the winter, that may
with little extra trouble and expense
be turned 70 good account and made
| to yield their owners substantial prof
il in the form of increased fertilit!
and early spring grazing when mos
needed This the company hopes t.
accomplish. The sowing of such
green winter cover crops as rye ant
the clocers will be advised and en-
couraged These crops if sown witt
last cultivation of corn and cotton
oi early enough in the fall to attain
substantial growth before the sol
freezes, will thrive during the W inter-
preventing washing of the surface
and will afford valuable late winte
and early spring pasturage. In tn
meantime the fertility of the soil will
be substantially increased. especial
ly If turned under the following
spring.
The value of ensilage as an eco
nomical feed for live stock will b.
pointed out, and instructions as t
how to build, best material to be used
cost of building and maintaining silo
ION the farm, will be disseminated.
In the work proposed the compan.
hopes to enlist the hearty co-opera
ton of every owner of farm land
along it's lines, and it invites sucl
suggestions with respect to local con
ditions as it's interested friends will
he good enough to proffer. With tn,
letter lately addressed to the farmer
is enclosed a self-addressed ant
stamped return post card, providing
for such Information as will be Of val
ue to the company in prosecuting tn
work 1t is hoped that every farme
interested will promptly furnish tn
information requested.
L. P Bellah, Of the industrial de
partment of the company, is activel,
in charge of the work.