Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-09-17
OF SOUTHERN FARMER
watching Little Things 10 surest Way
to Avoid Hard Times, Drought and
Injurious Boil Weevil.

'"JSssVoo 0OtI WSSvus
The average southern farmer wants
TO DO things on q 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 a few cents OF
few dollars each day. He thinks
that it Is hardly worth his notice. He
has been accustomed to hauling one
pale or many bales of cotton to town
In the fall of the year and getting q
big roll Of money.
The southern farmer must learn
nrst OF all to make everything fol-
man and beast on the farm that can
be provided for in mis- 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 fol
eggs and few cents more for sur
plus butter. q few fowls for sale
occasionally, COW or steer for
sale and a colt or two or three to SELL
few lambs or q few kids for sale
each year ought to be in his plans,
he should have q few purebred pigs
Tor 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 it 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 q 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 80 that he will have q
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
gathered and canned for winter use
and for market. Strawberries. rasp-
berries. dewberries. peaches. pears
and apples should never be allowed
to 60 to waste. but should be canned
for winter use and for market.
The farmer should raise Irish pota-
toes to last all the yecr 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 q 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 $50 per bushels. The
southern farmer must supply the
North and all Europe with sweet po-
tatoes.
He should raise plenty OF strip
cooked BY steam, using q saccharom-
eter % as to make it of uniform densi-
ty. He should seal It with solder, in
tin cans like tomatoes. label II. and II
win keep for IN indefinite length of
time. He can find Q good market for 1t
in the North and In Europe as well a.
in the South The skimmings from
cooking strip 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-
ucts. We are too wasteful. Things
grow 20 easily here, we do not value
them as We should. Come easy, 20
easy can be applied to our southern
people a. . rule. We have such long
growing season with good rainfall,
and 1t IL 20 easy to grow q crop. that
We do not see the impor lance Of saw
ing every particle of IT. II We rotate
our crops we will suild up our, SOIL
and when We raise many things On the
farm II one thing misses, the other
will hit. and we win not be troubled
% much with hard times, drought, boil
weevil and low prices.