Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-05-08
IMPROVED
AGRICULTURE
N. C. & St. |. Desiring Coop.
GRAFTON of FarmerS.-- Raising
Of Thoroughbred Poultry
and Live Stock En-
COuTaged.

That the Nashville, Chattanooga
st. Louis Railway is evincing deel
interest in the Improvement of agri
culture and live stock breeding along
its lines is indicated by a letter re-
Gently sent out by the Industrial Div
ision Of the Traffic Department of that
road to the farmers and breeders liv-
ing adjacent thereto in the states OF
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and
Georgia.
The Company, feeling that the farm
land owners and practical agricultur-
lists along it's lines will appreciate ad-
vice and suggestions when offered in
the spirit of helpfulness and mutual
profit. is following planned line OF
endeavor looking to much needed i'm
provement in existing agricultural
conditions in the territory reached by
its rails. The suggestions to be offer
ed will embrace lining the soil where
that element is lacking, the sowing of
winter cover crops, the cultivation of
such leguminous plants as the clovers.
COW peas, soy beans and alfalfa for
creating "humus" in the soil and en-
riching 1t. rotation and diversified
tion, and improved live stock. The
ted In the form Of personally signed
letters and printed pamphlets and
booklets, will be supported by the ap-
proval Of agricultural experts and
agents in State and Government, and
will therefore be based upon long con-
tinued actual demonstration and ex-
periencmental 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 expos
ed to the inevitable washing of heavy
rains in the winter. that may, with
little extra trouble and expense, be
turned to good account and made to
yield their owners substantial profit in
the form of increased fertility and ear
ly Spring grazing when most needed.
This the Company hopes to accomplish.
The sowing of such green winter cover
crops as rye and Che ciovers will be
advised and encouraged. These clops.
il sown with the last cultivation of
corn and cotton, or early enough in
the Fall to attain substantial growth
before the soil freezes, will thrive
during the winter, preventing wash
ing of the surface, and will afford
valuable late Winter and early spring
pasturage. In the meantime, the fer
tility of the soil will be substantially
increased, especially IL turned under
the following Spring.
The value of ensilage as an econom
ical feed for live stock will be pointed
out, and instructions as to how to
build, best material to be used, cost of
building and maintaining silos on the
farm, will be disseminated.
In the work proposed, the Company
hopes to enlist the hearty cooperation
OF every owner of farm lands along its
lines, and it invites such suggestions
with respect to local conditions as its
interested friends will be good enough
to proffer. With the letter lately ad-
dressed to the farmers is enclosed
self-addressed and stamped return post
card. provided for such information as
will be Of value to the Company in
prosecuting the work It is hoped that
every farmer interested will promptly
furnish the information requested.
Mr.. l.. p Bellah, of the Industrial
Department of the Company, is active
ly In charge of the work.