The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-03-04

tn!S winter
AND then he go poor in the spring
'nat ne cannot even pull that tooth
pick OF q pillow You try to break your
land with" said Henry. Cant you
see That you can never pillow your
iand right with such a piow and such
a mule ?"
but Henry, | have not the money
10 buy any more mules. and owed
more at the supply store in the fall
IMAM my cotton crop sold for, and
now how am I to ge, another mule
and ~ bigger plOW
We'll. one way you can do il is 10
stop ioafIng- out at the store and COM |!
planning OF hard luck. 1t does not
help your credit at the store nor at
the h4nk. People nowadays seem to
look more closely than ever at a
mans habltS before they will trust
him with money or goods. A Young
man of industry and energy. who
makes q reputation for sticking at
his work can get credit to almost
any extent, and if you put your credit
where 1t will help you out of the
ruts, you can soon get away from
NE one e mule farming. Tha is
what l did, and | put my credit to
getting me q team and implements
so that / could do better work and
raise better crops. and get in that
way on q cash basis. You know very
we'll h Il l could get anything I
want on credit, but they know Very
we'll III town that l deal for cash and
get the lowest cash price for any
thing | want to buy. and I am not
compelled to take any old price for
what l have to sell, for l can hold on
to my crops till the price suits. l
never sell cotton in the fall. for then
the spectators are pushing over each
other TO get the price down SO that
they can get the crop out Of the
farmers hands and then push it up.
And | wait until it is pushed up, and
all the fellows that have to sell their
weak cotton are out of the way and
have no money left. You had to sell
last fall for about nine cents. I sold
some OF mine for thirteen, and ex-
pect TO get more for the rest.
Then. YOU see that my team Of
mares is able to hau Il big
load Of corn, for they get all they
need to eat, and I am feeding part Of
my corn to beeves this winter, and
while | may not make q great deal
out of them. they will bring cash in
the spring, and will have left me a
lot of manure to make corn on my
crimson clover sod IL the spring. while
you aJe going in deb for some S-2-2
fertilizer that is One-fOurth sand, and
4 trying to make corn with a couple
y. tH0'NiES IL tAAsh H A1S LUZ
row, and the corn roots are soon out
in the middles where there is nothing
. OF any account to feed them. You
do not make corn enough to serve
! you and your mule, and it is largely
! because our land is merely scratched
over and the corn roots cannot sc
i down i'll dry weather and the corn
t fires TO the ears and you do not even
s get good fodder?
Y II was i'll your class, Jim, and YOU
r know it; but ] got 20 reading AND
n studying about real farming and de
s tcrmined that if j went broke / would
r break doing my level best. Get on
Y out OF the o%ne-nuie class. Jim. ant
put our shoulder to the wheel. TAKE
e The Progressive Farmer II stud,
what other people are doing. You vii
4 never be any better off so long a:
You stick Ill the ruts and are arrait
= to pull out"
HOW MUCH SII4AGE PER ACRE
it II am thinking of building a silo 70
q twelve to fifteen cattle. How man.
O acres OF land, making thirty bushel
of corn an acre, will it take for sucl
a silo ?'
y That is about as easy to answer Il
a How big is "a lump of chalk Cor!
k on some land and in some climate
~ may make thirty bushels of corn a
II acre ana YET not make as nlucH Stag
II as land somewhere else with Il differ
a ent growth that makes thirty busllel
IF an acre. 1t depends, too, in an
re section. largely on the season. fl
ig while in some seasons the corn graf
mayc be made, the growth will lot b
TT so heavy as in a more moist SeiSol
e. AS a rule, l do hin that on VI
Or land, corn making thirty buShels a
acre will make more than ten tons &
in Silage an acre. On moist and Yer
fertile bottom lands I have had d
III fine growth Of corn as ] ever Sa'
nc grow, and yet by weighing every loa
r as it went to the cutter. | never Wer
over twenty tonS OF silase an aCr
III Yet 1 have read statements from tn
Il North, where corn does not grow /:
heavily AS in the South, OF thirty-ty
tons an acre, and from away UP
Michigan j read a story that they Ia