Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-09-25
FROM THE PEOPLE.
Shuqualak, Miss, Sept. .1S, 1914.

, Mr.. ]. w. Haddon. Macon. Miss.
Dear Sir: think you are right abou
planting oats in the fall. l planted Il
acres last fall and harvest this sprinl
| 65 bushels per acre, threshed. an
sgQing TO plant within the next thirt,
4 days 1e5Acres and am also trying Il
I get my neighbors to plant at least five
acres in oats Ito the .rnule) this fall
! had last winter two acres in,oats fenc.
ed off t itself. In january l turned
into these oats few motherIess calves
that let stay until the middle OF
March. The oats by this time looked
as though they were dead, though
threshed from this patch 65 bushels per
acre.
I figure that we can easily make so
bushels of oats per acre on good land.
and follow this land in June corn and
peas. planting one row in corn and one
in peas, which is half and half or every
other row of each. By this means you
can make at least one-half corn crop,
good pea crop, besides the peas, get
ting the fertilizer the peas are to the
land.
want to impress on the farmers the
necessity of preparing the land we'll be-
fore the oats are planted. Am going
to turn my land under good and deep
with two-horse pillow, harrow well,
and put oats in with seeder.
| have thresher and gasoline engine
and am going to get seeder, hay raj
er and harvesting machine with binder.
With this we can make oat crops cheap
er than anything else.
Some one in each neighborhood
should get seeder, thresher and binder
and do the work for his neighbors and
by this means it will pay all to go into
the, oats business more extensively,
You can make from two to three
times as many oats by planting in the
fall than you could By planting in the
spring. In fact, oats planted in the |
spring is very uncertain and in the |
long run will not pay. By planting in |
fall you are not only sure for a good |
crop, but you get the benefit of the
winter grazing for your calves. pigs
and colts, and better still, it does not
effect the yield of the oats at all, in
fact. believe it is benefit by grazing.
Our part of the county will do their
part to get $1,000 acres planted this
fall. Every one l have talked to say
hey are going to plant oats.
have sold 400 bushels of my last
1ear's crop at rs cents per bushel. and
.ould sell 1000 more bushels in my i
if l had them.
If Noxubee county will keep this
move up it will be great thing for all,
IS have found out, this year that we
annot depend on cotton to buy feed {
tuff, although, / have customer that ,
to me today (Sept. 17) five
ales of cotton that was picked from
"a acres of land and he thinks he will |
ct another bale from this piece of ,
round. Where this cotton was made .
he boil weevil has been raging for (.
our years, and he says they are worse
mis- year than ever before, and had it
OF been for the hot dry weather, he 4
oesnt think there would have been
"a cely any cotton made at all on ac-
punt of the weevil. This crop was I
lised out in the poor hills near Ghol- a
IN where land is worth about $40. 90 to n
Is. 90 per acre. Of course this could
ot have been done in the Eastern part
the county where land sells for from a
IS. 90 to $50 90 per acre. Besides, the e
Irmer lives in that part of the coun- q
v where the Government Boil Weevil
xperts have not been. What would -
, have done had he been tutored and :
aimed by experts how to raise cotton =