The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-03-07

best fertilizer and are running their
farm on that system.
The demonstration farm is perhaps !
the most interesting sight around !
5umrall. Comparatively small acre
"a has been given to each crop in !
order that a great number of crops
may he planted and the versatility of
the soil and climate established. Oats
are doing well and SO are beets. on
ems, peas. ccllards, potatoes, straw
berries, figs cherries. pecans, peaches,
atsuma oIanscs, Crane fruit, bermuda
pasphalum, COW peas, orchard grass
white clover and many other crops
OF course the fruits ere not bearing
yet, but the healthy condition Of the
trees is evident.
Breed Live Stock.
The demonstration farm is not lin
tied in its scope to crops. There is a
completely equipped dairy, IT,
sanitary in every respect, and there
70 c,97. 7 hey are not fine
blooded COWS. The Cummins people
nov ,hat the majority of their set
iefs are net able tc start with highly
.looded stock, and the company wants
to demonstrate what the average
farmer can do, not what the wealthy
mel cai. do. So tie fourteen cows
are jrst plain, South Mississippi
scrub" COWS. But the bull is reg
istered Hereford; one of the most per
feet specimens that could be procured
and the company has offered the ser
vices Of this bull to the community
This offer applies not alone to the
settlers whom they bring in, but to
every one who cares to breed up his
stock
The only way the COWS differ from
other South Mississippi cows, is that
there Is not tick ON them. The farm
contains modern dipping vat and
this, too, has been placed at the dis
posal Of the community without
charge.
1t is the same way with hogs. The
sows are just plain sows, but the boar
is registered Poland China, and his
services, also, are free to all the
neighbors.
The chickens are Rhode Island
Reds, and there are about a hundred
of them. There will be several hun
bred before summer.
Raising live stock on the demonstra-
ton farm serves two purposes. First,
it serves to show the settlers how to
do it, and second, it provides
a means by which the company
may furnish the settlers with COW,
pigs and chickens at the lowest
possible price The demonstration
farm is not run to make money
However, it is making money; be-
cause. run on business principles, as
1t is. it can't keep from making it.
The farm is under the direct super
vision of j. w. Dill, and is under the
general supervision of Carl NJ. Rose,
southern manager of the Cummins
company. Mr.. Rose graduated from
the agricultural department of Cornell
University, and then, to get more def
mite knowledge of this specific climate
aHf soil, graduated from the Missis-
sippi Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege.
1t is Mr.. Roses business to help
the settlers and he attends to his
business. He not only shows them
what can be done on a demonstration
farm, but he helps them to do it on
their own farm. One of the Bohemian
women the other day had setting of
fine eggs but no setting hen. She
told Rose she needed a setting hen
He got 1t for her. Another settler
was running a very fine new double
disk harrow the company had recon-
mended, but 1t needed oiling. Rose
noticed 1t and told the settler to oil
1t. The settler didn't know how; and
besides, there was no oil. Rose
stopped an automobile, borrowed some
oil. and in five minutes the harrow
was running with fifty per cent less
strain on the horses.
Teach Economical Methods.
Although a graduate of an expen-
sive agricultural college, where they
teach highly improved and sometimes
highly expensive methods, Mr.. Rose
has the idea that a farm ought to be
run with as little expense as possible.
That is the reason he saves all the
manure from the place and does not
use commercial fertilizer. That is the
reason he advocates the purchase Of
when the machinery saves