The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-10

HI N"'HS ueIg inquired MIR
II Somerville MS Joe. aftor INV
~ Ing seen the bank teller hon
or his check promptly by paying 81 Il
'he plowman. walked into the store.
I've come in to get eight bushels OF
rye
What fory
I'm going 10 SOW II broadcast thick
over the four acres I've already had
II broken. cross broken and narrowed
fourteen inches deep. and I'm ready 10
plant"
But we nre not going TO raise rye
Joef' was the dubious query
mo, sir. but we are going 10 make
rye raise cotton md corn for ms"
How,
Well this is October Let the rye
grow until january: then turn II un.
der. and II win rot by planting time
and tighten that old barren soil heap
besides furnishing good deaf OF val.
liable plant food
Well. now whcrr'd you get that
ideaY asked Mr. sdmeryilIe In ndmirn.
ton.
Saw II In one OF those bulletins the
state commissioner gave me The other
day"
We'll, rs worth trying II the state
says It's the thing 10 do reckon we
can afford 10 do Il What, else nave
you donc7'
Joe told him about rhe leave. and
the barnyard scrapinSs ,nd the eight
loads OF fertilizer he bought His part
ner clapped him on the shoulder.
That's the stun Wen show these
folks around hero something about
farming yet"
NOV. please. SIR. get that wire fenc-
ing out tomorrow don't want the
neighbors' pigs TO eat up our rye
You can count on the wire and man
10 put II up. Are you keeping count OF
expensesy'
-Yes, sir. I'm not going TO pay out
q cent except by check. 70 we can
have receipt for every payment"
THAT b sound business"
And wish. II you please, sir. you'd
write around and fDd out the best VA.
1eties OF seed corn TO plant and the
best sort Of cotton
Yes. we must get the very best vari.
eties. think we can get corn that
will bring two and three ears 10 the
stalk instead OF only one. like the sorts
we have around here"
"And about the cotton. Mr.. Somer.
Vile. I've heard daddy say that be
always got more for his first bale than
any other.
THAT b usually true n the firvt bale
Il early, before the main crop is dump
I'd on the market With two or three
million bales of cotton all over the
soath being offered for sale at once. Of
course. the pricc goes down" Joe pom
Aared moment
.Then II seems to mo- he said. n
We can got sort OF cotton that VIII
be ready to pick before the rest we
WIN mako more on " WORT vsT
Exactly. II we get naturally
~ tk maturing variety and Hve II ey-
~ opportunity and hasten II along
WIN stimulating chemical fertilizers
We ought TO beat the main crop by
three weeks and get at least $1S a bake
for It.
well, you zee about writing for the
80. and let's get the earliest variety
~ can hat gives n big crop. II We
inst ret an early cotton that don't
mako much Of crop we haven't gain
I'd anything on the standard cotton
that makes u heavy crop but n late.
have wer
You're pretty close ngurcr, Joe
IN attend to tho seed"
Look here. Mr.. SomexyfIle, lstS put
one OF those acres in oats instead OF
sowing II in rye, and not plov tho
oats under"
s;Not much money in an acre OF
0ts'-
..Not BY itself, hut can get the oats
on by the middle OF May or lst OF
June and then plant 1t in Mexican
June corn. with cowpeas sowed broad
cast in the rows.
"Well. that sounds better-two crops
a year or that land
.Better than that. I'll pull the fod-
der from the cornstalks the last or
July or LIST OF August We ought to
ret $50 bundles OF fodder, worth 2ls
cents bundle
THAT'S three crops-nne"
.,rhen that corn VIII be matured by
the middle of September, Get II on at