The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26
WANTS OF SOUTHERN FARMER
Watching Little Things Is Surest Way to Avoid Hard Times. Drought and
 injurious Boil WeeviI.

The average southern farmer wants to do things on biz scale. He wants to make money first of all instead of making living first of all. He wants to see his money come in big Jumps. He spurns the idea of a few cents or few dollars each day. He thinks that it is hardly worth his notice He has been accustomed to hauling one bale or many bales of cotton to town in the fall of the year and getting a big roll of money.
 The southern farmer must learn first of all to make everything for man and beast on the farm that can be provided for il nis section of the country, writes J. w Beeson of Me ridian, Miss, in Progressive Farmer. Then he mus not despise the small things. 4 few cents each week for eggs and few cents more for sur plus butter. a few fowls for sale occasionally. COW or steer for sale and colt or two or three to sell, few lambs or few kids for sale each year ought to be in his plans. He should have a few pure-bred pigs for sale as breeders besides what he can raise for meat
 He will have to learn to make a garden the year round instead of planting in the spring only. and let ting the weeds take it the balance of the year. There are at least II kinds of vegetables that can be grown in the winter in the Gulf states. He should plant garden every month of the year. Heretofore, the southern farmer has let go to waste the vege- tables he did not need. He will have to learn how to gather up the frag ments. that nothing be lost" Instead of letting snap beans get hard. and tomatoes rot and squashes and okra get hard. he should get in the habit of canning what he cannot consume on his own table so that he will have a variety of fresh vegetables for his family all the winter. and then when 1t is properly sealed and labeled he can sell the surplus to good advan tage in the winter. He should see that the blackberries on his farm are 61iAACA GU anu IdI1Ltd AOl VI lAlE4 uoO and for market. Strawberries. rasp- berries. dewberries, peaches, pears and apples should never be allowed to go to waste, but should be canned for winter use and for market.
 The farmer should raise Irish pota- toes to last all the year and have surplus to sell He can raise two crops on the same ground. He should raise large quantities of sweet pota- toes and build a dry house to dry them out and keep them for his own use and for sale at a figh price in the spring. We could sell 26 carloads now at s1 to sl.50 per bushels The North and all Europe with sweet po- tatoes.
 He should raise plenty Of sfrup cooked by steam. using a saceharom- eter so as to make it of uniform deH5i- ty. He should seal it with solder. in tin cans like tomatoes. label it. and it will keep for an indefinite length of time. He can find good market for it in the North and in Europe as well as in the South The skimmings from cooking sirup should be fed to pigs. cows or horses or put into the silo.
 The southern farmer must learn to take care of the waste and by-prod- uets We are too wastefuI Things grow so easily here. we do not value them as we should. Come easy. go easy can be applied to our southern people as rule. We have such long growing season with good rainfall. and it is so easy to grow a crop. that We do not see the importance of saw ing every particle of it. If we rotate our crops we will huild up our soil. and when We raise many things on the farm if one thing misses, the other will hit, and we will not be troubled so much with hard times, drought, boil weeyil and low prices.