Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-10-02
OPPORTUNE SUGGESTIONS.

From the many concentrations which have
come to us, we are now fully persuaded that the
advice, to the farmers and planters of this section
contained in issues of the BEACON the past two
weeks, was safe and extremely apropos.
We believed in the sanity of it. from the very
first. 1t could not be otherwise, inasmuch as it,
for the most part, came from men of sound exper-
fence and close observation, whose practical minds
make of them excellent judges of the opportune
things to do on the farm or plantation home. and
give to them the knowledge of how those things
may be best done.
That the suggestions appeared. as to sowing
winter oats, will be wisely and widely needed is
almost an assured fact, Just as it an assured truth
that the sower who purposes putting his land to
oats and previously exercises the best care. intel
ligence, and skill in the preparation of the soil,
for receiving the seed, is more apt to derive a sat
~isfactory yield from his planting than will be he
who does the work in a haphazard. slipshop way,
trusting to luck, rather than faithful effort, for the
increase.
AS a rule or custom, our people, especially those
of the prairie belt, have not heretofore given the
p~rovident thought and pains-taking attention to
the details of making ready for putting the seed in
the ground, as the Importance of this part Of the
business ~iustiies and demands.
The ground should be thoroughly broken and
narrowed and left as free from clcds rs possible
the smaller the particles to which the soil can be
reduced by proper blowing and narrowing, the bet
ter the chances for a perfect stand, and a good
yield; and the nicer the discrimination used in the
selection of the seed, having reference to the varie
ty best adapted to the locality as we'll as to tn
quality, the more satisfactory will be the result
from seed planting to harvest time.
Each sower must, of course, determine for him
self what he ought to do-what he can do and j
will to do-in the way of fertilizing his acres If
oats or, for that matter. his acres in any crop.
If he is lacking in the knowledge of what to do:
which is the power born of experience and intel
ligent observation, then the BEACON can think of
no safer rule for his guidance than to seek coun-
sci of his most sensible and successful neighbor, if
such can be found with the right experience; and
if he cannot be found, Their consult the govern
ment's special agent in charge of Farmers Cooper
alton Demonstration Work for your immediate
section.
Judging from the experience of, and results
TUuuCtu VIZ OdGo III Ull'O OuilUy Wy IL IL ICI,
J. J. Prince and others, as given by them in the
last issues of the BEACON, We can see no reason
why any Noxubeeian should go astray in an oats
crop, if when in doubt he will call upon these farm
ers for information.
To secure the best results in production, as we'll
as in marketing the product, of the farm or planta-
ton, let it be borne in mind that pluck and brains,
persistent energy and sensible, systematic effort,
compose the sine qua non to the success sought.
In no calling or occupation, nor in any of the
avocations of life is it more true, there is no ex-
%cellence without labor" than in the fixed pursuits
of agriculture where success is dependent upon the
art Of tilling the land for seeding and the growth
of crops.
1t has always been so; or, at least, has been,
ever since that early morn when pristine purity
fled before the progressive knowledge of the prim-
al specimen of the genus homo-ever since Adam
in Eden ungallantly sought to excuse himself for
violation of the first prohibition law, of which
there is any record, by putting the blame on Eva,
who, like the real lady, she was, accepted the
blame without complainings or vain repinings; ever
since the serpent was cursed, and the sorrow of
woman multiplied; ever since the ground was ours
ed for the mans sake, and he condemned to eat of
it in sorrow all the days of his life-to eat the herb
of the field, and his bread in the sweat of his face.
There, however. this consolation.
If one cannot escape the labor, he can, at least,
tighten it nightly by putting brains in his work,
and doing the work at the right time, in the right
way.
A banker is a so.between for those who don't want to do
ANYTHING with their own money and those who want to do
something with somebody's else's money.
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smoker
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