The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-01-14


Joe's father
commercial fertilizer Seems 10 me II
we could flnd sDmethln' TO take its
place we could save whole lot"
limits just the thing we want to
do-lnstead of paying the fertilizer fac
tories for IL, do our own manufactur-
Ing
Sure, nm make the profit ourselves.
You know and ] know the commercial
fertilizer is gone in year. Maybe a
little OF the phosphate stays In the soil
for the next year. but not enough 10
do any COED Got TO buy again next
year"
That's So
Now. see by this here bulletin
we've just read that an experiment
showed that seven years after piece
OF soil was treated with barnyard fer
tilizer It showed effects OF the stun as
against piece OF the same land treat.
ed with commercial fertilizer. That
showed no trace hardly after the sec,
ond year"
Looks like the thing TO do Is 10 fig.
ure the way TO get more barnyard stun
and build the land up so It will stay
built" commented Joe.
That's just what mean, son. Stop
the outgo for the commercial chemical
stuff"
How nre we going TO do IT,
IT'S goin' 10 be slow work. In the
Hrlf MIA 80, hat
tie, an we've got practically no money
now. But we can do this Winter Is
on. an folks VIII sell cattle cheap rath.
er than feed EN-. We ought 10 he able
10 pick UP dozen or so half starved
little calves for next to nothing We
can get credit at the bank for hun
dred dollars. an think we better put
II I'm calves"
Say" observed Joe that's per
fectly fine scheme. | know where u
can buy two five-months old calves now
for 81 apiece"
An I'll start tomorrow TO bust up
six or seven acres more an put In
more oats. It's late. | know. but they
will make all right. That will give
winter grazing and stun TO feed on an
straw 10 bed cm In an turn under
later, We can pull them calves through
without much cost until grass comes
ont; then next summer put every foot
OF ground We can in pea vine hay"
Peas are fine for the land-collect
nitrogen from the air and store 1t on
the roots In those little bumps-no
dulles the book calls thcm.' said Joe
Then the leaves that fall from the
pea vines help put humus in the land
along with the decaying roots"
so with the oats and pea vine hay
and fodder we win be well fixed to
take big herd oi cattle through next
winter and what nubbin corn we
raise said Mr. Weston Wen keep
the cattle up at night bed EN- in
leaves an straw compost it, and we've
got good start on fertilizer In two
years more we ought 10 have those
calves In prime fix for beef cattle and |
get $50 apiece for EN-"
THAT looks mighty fine" assented
Joe Besides the oats being grazed |
by the cattle viii help the oats. and |
the land VIII get the benefit of what |
fertilizer is dropped there then. and |
that will amount to heap"
Then continued MIR Weston. 81 |
figure that this next fall. instead OF
selling our cotton seed. we ought TO
swap II 10 the oil mill for cottonseed
meal and hulls. There's heap of fat
tening stun IN the meal. and II forms
about fourth of these commercial
fertilizers and furnishes nitrogen. Mix
the meal and hulls and feed 1t to our
cattle. We get the benefit of the fat
tening for the beeyes an then have the
rest OF II with the nitrogen In II for the
land"
Say, you were late getting started
but you sure are farming like an up
to date farmer now enthused Joe
'Tryin' TO make up for lost time,
'on Wen have somethin' yet, you an
|. Well, us was sayin, in this scheme
we practically get our beef cattle for
nothing, got the benefit OF permanent
for the land and ought TO
make profit of 90 or 10 per cent on
zach animal"
1T looks good" tudicfaily7 admitted
Toe.
1T Is good, and it's horse sense too.
Why, II we Just broke even on ham