The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-10-30
PRACT ICAL FARMER HAS
GOOD PLAN FOR TENANTS
stGGfsTs LANDLORD ALLOW
TENiNTs PAY MONEY RINTS
FOR TURfE ACRES.
FrOp ed That the Three Acres b.
Planted In sweet Potatoes
STOCK Reefs and
kIefer Pears.

" Jordan. who has spent forty
seven years farming In Ellis county.
has reached the conclusion that the
fellow who puts his whole time g
raising cotton Is not much OF a
farmer and ought 10 get little book
learning or practical experience. He
cult raising cotton several years
aEo when the price reached a low
level. and even the high prices Is
not going to tempt him 10 piddle
With II again. hut that Is due 20 the
fact that he has reached an age
where he can't chop cotton and
can't pick IL so he won't fool with
IL lie offered some mighty good
advice to tenant farmers and land
lords when he dropped In for VISIT
with the newspaper man Saturday
morning. lie said
'Aiy advice TO the tenant farmers
and the landlords would be that the
landlords allow the tenant to pay
him $1,000 an acre for three aires
OF land on which to grow crops
other than cotton and corn. Ny
advice TO tenants would be TO
plant one acre of the three In Nancy
Hall sweet potatoes, another in stock
beets and the third in Kiefer pears
The acre planted to sweet potatoes
viii yield enough for the family use
and sell from s10o to s2oo worth.
i know this by experience. | had
potatoes planted this year and have
sold $500 from the patch. ! have
another 500 worth to sell aud will
put up sl0o worth OF seed potatoes
"The acre planted TO stock beets
viii produce more COW and hog feed
than fifteen acres planted to corn
know this from experience. One
acre will run two Jersey cows and
ten head of hogs for a period OF
twelve months and cause the cows
to give more milk than they would
give on any other feed and fatten
the hogs as fat as any other ration.
"The kiefer pears will yield $500
worth OF pears each year after an
average sized family have eaten all
they desire.
Combine the three crops and a
fellow has grown enough stuff to
pay his grocery bill and he may
have the first and the last bale of
cotton to go into the bank. That is
just applying common horse sense
in farming. Any man can do it. Al
present prices the ten hogs. fattened
on the stock beets. will bring S2e0
to the farmer The two Jerseys will
provide milk and butter for the
family and some to spare. ! never
learned this out of book or through
reading the papers, but ! dug il out
oil the ground after following the
cotton farming trade for thirty odd
years. OF course | am fortunately
situated for growing alfalfa and
such crops. But find that d fellow
has to build up his land occasionally
and that nothing builds up so quick
~ as stable manure Where fell
low Is situated so he can pasture his
crops he gets untold benefits from
the practice, =
Mr.. Jordan would be glad to see
every tenant in Ellis county pay
money rent for three acres of land
and try his experiment this coming
year and If YOU fail just notify him
He believes With all his heart that
il will be the best investment ever
made and that the landlords will like
wise profit by reason OF the tenants
become prosperous.