The Jones County news., 1915-02-18

turner's used 70 buy commercial
fertilizer by high sounding names; to-
day he buys It for what the analysis
says it contains; he is not satisfied
unless he thinks his seed IS good: be
has quit arguing to me that corn OF
OF nubbin and seed out of a, little
sotten-erd watermelon are as good
FOR planting az any that the Cover
ment aud all the experts could raise
Four years ago, be said that corn and
j feed made fine breeds Of hogs and
cows; but today he no longer says
that.
-Four years ago be said that a ter
race could not be made SO you could
cultivate II and stop the washes In
Tie field and absolutely save the land;
today he has the broad terrace and is
cultivaung II; WASHES all stopped; best
stun in the held growing on the ter
race; and am being cpssed little
for not getting them laid OIL faster.
Can't get around fast enough
Once 10 while you will hear chro-
nic grumbler say, we ought to do
away with that old agent; such fellows
as a rule needs more help than any
one else, and thinks he knows more
than anybody; there Is nothing more
for him to learn. Last year / ordered
one bushel Of Crimson clover seed
and one ton Of soil to inoculate the
land With, and had nine and a tenth
acre patches sowed, demonstrating
that Crimson clover could be grown
here. The result is / have ordered
over 1900 pounds OF clover seed my
self, and +. j. Ward has ordered
several hundred pounds and sold
them.
The Government furnished the
inoculaton free, and something like
200 acres was sown to clover in the
First District this fall. All due 10
the Government demonstration work
AS rule, when the boil weevll hits u |
county it demoralizes the people but it
was not The case with Jones county.
BY the help and cooperation of some
of the best farmers OF the county we
demonstrated that cotton could be
made in spite of the boil weeyil, and
the results of these demonstration
fields is that we have made more
cotton for the number Of acres planted
this year as whole than ever before
in the history OF the county, due to
the influence of the demonstration
work. These are facts and not say
ings; other farmers make all their
home SUPPLIES, selling corn, meat, hay,
oats, potatoes, syrup and other home
made products. Very few mortgages
were recorded against the farmers for
supplies ia the last four years, and /
believe i am safe in saying that farm
ers owe less now according to the
number than ever before, and had 1t |
not been for the European war we
would have had more prosperity than
ever before. A farmer could have bid |
farewell to every fear and wire his |
weeping eyes; he would have had |
money 10 his pockets and plenty of
home supplies. have visited large
number of farmers. / have written
240 letters, mailed out several humid
red circulars, and bulletins; / have
travelled $500 miles 10y team, visited
and had interviews with Ave hundred
people OF my county travelled five
hundred miles by rail during the year
1914; have helped in every way pos
sible | could to do bett er farming,
raise more and better stock, raise
more feed to feed them on, take bet
ter care of the manure, and make |
more of it; do their own mixing of |
fertilizers; and my main effort has |
been and will be to preserve the land |
by terracing, and build it up to q |
higher state of cultivation; and to
make the tarm and rural home more
beautiful and desirable tollve in than
any where on earth.
OF course have had considerable
opposition, and have been abused,
but great deal of it has been for
lack OF understanding And l have
been TO the point several times OF send
ing in my resignation; but when l
would look over the feld, as l travelled
through the country and see the ter
races / had laid off and was built up
cultivated aud the washes stopped,
which stood out as monuments OF de-
monstratiou work, could take new
courage and push on; and the kind
treatment, good cooperation | receiv-
ed at the hands of some of our best
farmers OF the county gave me the
greatest encouragement OF ali; ald will
bs long remembered
Another consolation have is the
results of my work can beseen all over
the district by all. While | realize
there is lots TO be done and the field
is ripe for improvement, | am encour-
aged with what We have accomplished