The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-12-17
always to respond to these demands
and the larger the balances of deposits
the more of this capital there is avail
GOSPEL OF GRASS.

If there is one thing that The Her
aid would preach earnestly to the
farmers of Maury county it would be
the gospel of grass. There are in this
county hundreds and hundreds OF
acres of land, SCARED and furrowed
hill sides that today are not worth the
taxes paid upon them, that could be
with little effort and grass made the
most productive and profitable por-
tons of the farms to which they are
attached. One can ride over the coun-
ty and see these washed and quilted
lands, that are an eye-sore, mute re-
proach to and condemnation of care
less, Indifferent and negligent farm
ers. Many of them have been aban-
doned because they could not longer
! be plowed and cultivated with profit.
Nature intended them for blue grass,
/ the king of all grasses and which if
given half a chance always makes it,
self profitable.
Nothing will do more to make prof
table and permanent the great agri-
cultural resources of this county than
live stock. There is no better way to
grow and prepare live stock for the
market than upon our blue grass hills.
With a climate like that of this favor
ed land, with pastures that can be
made almost cover the entire year,
with abundance of water and plenty
of lime in our soil Maury county is
admirably adapted for growing stock.
1t is almost wholly free from the dis
eases and pests that afflict other Sec
tons Of the country. There are farm
ers of this county who today have
fat sleek cattle, that have not been
fed a particle of hay or grain and
They have been in lush blue grass
that was either not pastured during
the summer or pastured lightly.
There is nothing that will be more
profitable than these kind of pastures
Upon no sort of feed will the cattle
thrive better.
Nature intended more of our rolling
lands for grass 1t has never expect
ed that we should permit our inces-
SAINT and continuous cultivation to
wash and leach away the fertility OF
the ages. Man may have a perfect
legal right to so farm his soil that it
is destroyed for all practical purposes
but no man has the moral right to do
so. Nor is there any profit in cult
waiting land year after year, with the |
cost of labor and machinery and tools, |
as compared with the we'll sodded |
grass lots where porkers and beeves |
and mutton are in the making. There |
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more real satisfaction than stock up
on pasture properly cared for, All
the time the land is improving, be-
coming more fertile. At the same
time the stock is daily growing into
money. Raising live stock on blue
grass pastures comes as near as pos
sible in this world of having ones
cake and eating eating it at the same
time.
Pastures are seldom property car
ed for. They are used too often as
a convenience, No part of the farm
will respond more quickly to favora-
BILE treatment than the pasture lands
Give them half decent treatment and
expect no more than would be obtain
ed from the same amount of land if
cultivated and there will be no troub-
lie about the results. More grass,
more live stock means better and
more profitable farming in Maury
county.