The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-02-25

IhinGE oo36 jamie
"A ba1-tongDa." sid Henry, may
dc % e11tcA IN b bottom q 49,
fuYruw vAexo you hare no snbsoti
plow but t. break land With b bull
tongue l. = relic oz S2xbaTism and no
better than the forked stick the Arr
cans plOw with. I turn my and eight
inches deep with two grade Pe1chefon
mares such rs you see to This WAGON.
and on hill land inclined to wash l
run q subsoil piow In b same furro"
to loosen the soil sixteen inches deep.
And / ind that my land retains mois-
ture for the corn crop, and no mat
ter On which side Of h full moon
1t - planted I make the best crops
in the neighborhood. You had oeff r
read The Progressive Farmer a<a
study how to ploW."
Billy Lunaman listened to Henry
with some amazement. Don't you
moon when you kill hogs? I never
Kill till the moon Ia right"
NO." said Henry, Il try to have
my hogs fat, and then watch the
weather. and when II Is cool enough 1
kill them. and I never know what the
stage Of tn moon IS. and ] always
have as good meat AZ anyone. Dad
you ever try killing hogs that were
equally fat, some the day before the
full moon and the rest the day after
and could o see any diffeI ence in
the meat. Billy"
"Well, I do not know that I have
ever tried that, but / ave always
heard that a hog killed between the
full OF the moon and the new moon
would not make much grease"
And l have heard just the op-
poSite," said Henry. land both cannot
be right Therefore I pay no atten-
ton to h moon. You planted your
corn last spring after the full of the
moon. a. busy getting the ma
nure out Of my field n did not plant
till after the new moon. You knO
that ] made more corn an acre than
you did. and l have plenty to sell
and you have hardly enough to keep
your stock alive. Better watch the
soil and the manure and grow plenty
Of ~roushage to feed and make the ma
nure. Then pillow deep n prepare
the land we'll and it will eve MAKE
the slightest difference which side 4
! the full moon you plant it on. Jamie
do you take The Progressive Farm
| err"
mot now. / did take it. but it was
no use. l could not follow the plans
they talk about. l only have one
mule. and a bull-tongue pillow, and It
takes all the corn l can grow to feed
that mule. and what would I do with
two mules and q big ploW? Then,
too. they talk about making peahay
and cutting corn off at the ground and
feeding stock to make manure. Fact
is. I don't want to be pestered with
the stock. After the corn is in and
m" cotton g;nned l don't want to have
q lot Of cattle to loOk after all winter.
It l can get cotton enough to settle
up with the store in town and try to
keep my mule alive in winter, it is
about all the work I can look after.
1t K all the cotton to settle up
anyway. and II 1 had two mules what
WOuld I do In Winter?"
With W. good mules and a good
pillow and harrow and a good riding
cultivator, you would raise more cot
ton on half the land you work now,
and would have room for a rotation
Of crops and peas and crimson clover,
and Q would soon be making cot
ton more than enough to settle. and
corn to sell, too. just as ] have been
doing since I got out Of the one-mu.e
class l used to DO as Q are dong
but | got to reading the paper and
found that there was a better way and
I tried it. and now I do not have
to rush my cotton on the market &c
settle up, for l deal for cash for every.
thing and do not need to go in DEBT
to start the cotton crop in spring
l. So>N>S ~ AAA III Sci
) and oats to sell, n I can hold my
cotton till l find the price fair. It i:
the weak cotton like yours hat breaks
down the market every fall. The
, spectators know that you have go
to sell. and they take advantage o.
that to push the price down, an6
l after they get your cotton, up it goes
: Better drop all this moon nonsense
5 and get another mule this spring ant
prepare your land better, and the1
cultivate it better. T put piles O
fertilizer on my cotton crop. both il
the burrows and broadcast, for ther
!. is whore it pays best, but I alUay
have a crop Of crimson clover O,
which ! have spread manure as fas
4 as made all winter to turn for corn
That makes me not only a good GRO,
q OF corn but a crop Of a after tn,
: corn. n peas after the oats helm tn,
n cotton crop if fol owed by criTnso,
d clover. ] can make cotton with sim
7 ply a heavy application Of acid phos
phate and potash, and while yo, MAI