The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-07-03
THE PRESENT DAY FARMING

rvrry rird Of business has taken
1u now methods and when We meet mp
with an old STYLED merchant we are
.rrv ant to call him a back number
WIZ l. this not 20 be applied TO the
formers as well. It Is true That lar-
NOR. have taken up advanced meth
pds. The manufacturers OF agricui-
ural implements in a manner forced
onto the farmer new methods ana OF
he use Of the many kinds of farm
tools. 1t is very apparent that certain
kinds Of crops were successfully
crown 20 or more years ago, are not
producing in sufficient quantities no"
owing 10 the depleted condition OF the
soil fertility. So il Is chat the firm
or must use some plan whereby that
ne can feed the soil with organic ma
tcrial consisting of vegetable matter.
This is not likely to be done where
! the land is cropped in corn and wheat.
. even by rotating these crops; because
the nitrogen in the soil dies out, ana
/ - land runs together and becomes
/ hard. compact and cIoddy, TINS cuts
. OF the vcrtilitation Of the soil so
/ that the mineral salts sarh AZ phor-
/ pIror.s. Potash. and sulphur. DO not
! fes5cnd. while the land may be sul'f-
cir1uy supplied with these salts. the
use Of the commercial fertilizer only
holos To further exhaust the avail
able supply The farmers IF ST. Fran
| co.'s county should grow more ard bet
! ter -attle This would enable Them
TO sscd down the farm INTO pasture
/ and at the Same time realize a living
proTt. The 3ure-bred dairy ANA beef
rattlg should be raised instead OF the
/ Monrurel breeds which are SO com
mon The return from the good pure
bred dairy COW il often round to be
ablr 10 produue as much butter as !
or , Of the common sort. The pure
bred beef animal grows to mueh lar
ger .Tzc and because Of the meat yield
commands much better price. THE
pure bred steur when slaughtered for
beef will net from 60 to 50 per cent
of hi.s gross xeight and ir consequence
of this the Packing Conpanys are
willing to pay n much higher price
for this grade of cattle ard again this
sort of n steer Tery frequently Will
weigh from $500 10 1900 pounds when
finished reaty for the market and will
not require any more gram than II
will 10 take TO falten Mongorel steer
that weighs $50 to 1900 pounds. The
dairy cow should be pM on the tarm
WITH the beef cattle. Il must be re-
me mbered that these are two distinct
breeds of cattle because the type OF
the high class producing dairy COW
is nearly the oppositJ of the high,
grade beef cattle. A good COW should
be expected to produce $50 to 45C
pounds Of butter fat during the year
at q prier OF 25 cents, per pound, which
is the average according to past years
this will make from $3.50 ia Sll2.JR
So we see that 10, cows OF this sor
! would finance the expense Of any or
c binary farm. In order to have sucl
: COWS It is necessary to breed up 4
this standard, because this sort o
:. cows are very high in price and diff
y ficuit to get because of their earnini
? power. The Hay to get good cattl
!, is to use good bulls, The farme
II should not be satisfied with any thin
g short of the best. Where n farme
q secures this sort of bull to be use
!, exclusively on his own farm he
p not able to keep hin. longer than abot
% three years owing to caves be'n
Z, sired by the bull and is compelled
" send MIN TO the DlOck DeloTe TIE uil
re NAL really is Fit for use because the
should not be bred before they are
IN years of age. In order to over CON
le this difficulty, the farmers shoul
al form cooperative or community ca
tie breeding clubs and buy the bull
so that there could be three or fol
IS or even more, kept in neighborhoc
and then each year these anima
or could be interchanged and thus COZ
Of tinue the use of the bulls until the
r. were old and tired and | am of Il
,g opinion that the farmers of st. Fral
ur co.'s county will have to make the ca
b. tie breeding a feature Of this far
is methods before the wealth of Il
or country will advance to any conside
able extent. D, L. HARBOUR