The Raymer enterprise., 1915-08-26
OF SOUTHERN FARMER
Watching Little Things 10 surest Way !
to Avoid Hard Times. Drought and
Injurious Boil Weevil.

The average southern farmer wants
to do things on big 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 few cents.pr
few dollars each day. He thilks
that 1t 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 in his section OF the
country. writes ]. W. Beeson OF Me-
ridian, Miss. in Progressive Farmer.
Then he mus not despise the small
things, A 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.
a few lambs or few kids for sale
each year ought to be in his plans.
He should have few purebred pigs
for sale as breeders besides what he
can raise for meat
He will have to learn to make q
garden the year round instead OF
planting in the spring only. and let
ting the weeds take 1t the balance OF
the year There are at least IA kinds
OF vegetables that can be grown In
the winter in the Gulf states. He
should plant a garden every month OF
the year. Heretofore, the southern
farmer has let go to waste the yege-
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 q
variety OF fresh vegetables for his
family all the winter. and then when
II is properly sealed and labeled he
can sell the surplus to a good advan-
tage in the winter. He should see
that the blackberries on his farm are
gathered and canned for winter use
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 a
surplus to sell He can raise two
crops on the same ground. He should
raise large quantities of sweet pota-
toes and build dry house to dry
them out and keep them for his own
use and for sale at righ price In the
spring. We could sell 20 carloads
now at 81 to sl.50 per bushels. The
southern farmer must supply the
North and all Europe with sweet po-
tatoes.
He should raise plenty OF sirup
cooked by steam, using a saccharom-
eter so as to make 1t of uniform densi-
ty. He should seal 1t with solder. in
tin cans like tomatoes. label 1t, and 1t
will keep for an indefinite length OF
time. He can find good market for 1t
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.
ncts, We are too wasteful. Things
grow so easily here. we do not value
them as we should Come easy. 60
easy can be applied to our southern
people as a rule We have such long
growing season with good rainfall,
and 1t is so easy to grow crop, that
we do not see the importance of saw
ing every particle of II. II we rotate
our crops we will .uild up our SOIL
and when We raise many things on the
farm II one thing misses, the other
will hit, and we will not be troubled
so much with hard times, drought. boil
weevil and low prices.