The record. (Greenville, Ky.) 1899-1???, 1917-03-01

i've fields for years are limited in our
operations and such a method is far
beyond our greatest possibilities.
To find and employ some. economic
al and profitable means is our only
hope, and though it may be a sur
prislng fact such a means, if we will
but accept it, is within easy reach
of every farmer in the county.
No farming people have ever been
able economically to maintain the
fertility of the soil without the use
of livestock. Farming without the
use of manures is waste of energy
and can only result in failure. Some
light may be thrown on the cause of
our present conditions when we learn
that in the county on 1850 farms
there are only g., Sol cows. Manure
Is the best means of improving the
condition Of the soil and the import
ance of carefully preserving it for
use upon cultivated fields can not be
too strongly emphasized. Then If
such is the case it is at once neces-
sary for the farmer to keep more
live STOCK. To raise and feed beef
cattle has been found improbable
on good many farms due to vari-
Gus reasons, but fortunately we have
been unable to find a single farm
where the dairy COW with proper
management has failed to pay. Sit
uated as we are, with two railroads
through the county placing US in d.
rect touch with the very best mark
cts, we should be receiving each
year large returns from dairy pro-
ducts. Almost every farmer within
several miles Of shipping station
should, be milking a number of cows
shipping the cream to the markets
and feeding the skim milk to hogs,
poultry or young stock.
In years time a COW will pro-
duce, when bedding is used about
Il tons of manure. When COM
pared with the present price of fer
tillzers this is we'll worth over $50.
A so bushel crop of corn will take
from the soil something near SIS
worth of plant food. In other words
one COW will give back to the land
all of the fertility, measured in dol
lars and cents, taken out by crop
of corn yielding 100 bushels. If
this same COW is just plain ordin-
airy cow giving two gallons of milk
daily which will test. four per Acent
and the butter tat from this milk will
sell for thirty cents per pound, then
the farmer is realizing from the cream
alone about 500. The skim milk is
worth SIa and the calf $40 making
the cows production for the years
time amount to Sol without consid-
ering the value of the manure. 1t
will cost about $40 to feed the aver
age cow for year, leaving a profit
of something close to $50.
The work in which we are now
engaged is big work. Too soon
we must shake off this mortal coil
and depart for the great adventure
that lies beyond While some are
busy with the preparation of mon
ument of stone to mark their last
resting place and serve as memory
of their work let US be building fer
tile farms, and when we come to en-
ter into the bosom of Mother Earth
we need have no fear but that a men,
DRY will llnger, to be held and cher
lshed in the hearts of the generation
that will spring up IN our wake. The
safest way, the most economical
way, and without doubt the best
way is through live stock. SO in
addition to our present methods let
US begin the work of Improvement
through more and better cattle and
strive to pay to these lands that have
given to us our existence something
of the debt we owe
JAS. II. Moore,
County Agent.