The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-08-31

though the boil weevil will greatly
reduce the years crop, as that pest
is rampant in Lee County. velvet
beans were rioting; stock were III
plenty.
Without eXaggeration, the Negro
farmers of Lee County are raising
what they eat The committee hau
dinner at the home of a farmer named
Benford, who lives some seven or
eight miles out of Opelika. On the
table we're seven varieties OF nome
grown vegetables, cooked with meat
when necessary, from the SMOKE
house. The biscuit and corn bread
were both made from the grain sroWh
nv Farmer Renford. Milk and butter !
came from their own COWS. Out
back. apple trees were heavy with
ripening fruit in an orchard Whlch
paid 500 year from sale OF fruits'
The garden carried collards, CAD
bage, tomatoes, mustard, carrots,
sweet potatoes, butter beans, peas
and okra. He carried thirty acres OF
corn, fifteen acres of cotton, velvet
beans in abundance. Farmer Benford
owns $50 acres of land, about loo OF
which are under cultivation.
At the home of Farmer Somers,
the committee found again large
acreage of corn and foodstuffs, plenty
Of hogs, a run of beef cattle, and
dairy COWS. The farmer sells regular
" to the markets of Opelika. He,
like all the farmers, had large run
of poultry. ,,
Farmer Dowdell was one of the big
finds. He had thirty head OF hogs
twelve COWS, fifty bushels OF wheat
in his granary which fell short thirty
bushels this year, he having raised
eighty bushels last year; meat in his
smoke house, a yard full OF poultry
In his fields, which were luxurian
with corn and velvet beans, and which
fourished in cotton, he employed TIM
"Mangum" method of terracing, aldet
by Demonstration Menafee. I'M
method consists in making wide, loN
terraces, depending on the slope, an
planting on the terrace. Thus nj
fields had held their fertilizer, thel
water. and bore no signs of washout'
He owned some $50 acres, and set
table from his own produce.
Farmer Murphy had II turkeys o
the roost pole, three middlings an
d one ham still hanging from last year
killing; five hogs in the pasture, an
an orchard weighted down with peal
and apples. He owns 100 acres, wa
Growing plenty of foodstutf, some
sell. His wife was collecting he
sacks of dried apples from the frol
porch as the committee left the
home.
The Farm Woman.
Just out of Salem, Ala. is a Negl
, woman farmer Crowder by nam
~ She was the most aggressive maj
-. of them ALL A charcoal pit barre
~ the road of her house. Back OF the
=" was pile of new shingles, which 81
:; was paying for with the charcoal tn
~ she sold in town. She owns six COW
no two mules, four hogs, corn, the be
~ of which carriel three and four ca
=, to the stalk; sugar-cane, velvet benz
a., SOW beans, tomatoes so abundant
80 to be fed to the hogs. Between t'
D and three bushels we're spread @
~ in her hack hall. She plowed III
10 the rest" when she could find no o
~ to pillow for her. She owned
zoe acres.
en The Lee County folks have also
~ system of marketing. There are {
H. tain days when they send to
~ market poultry, butter, milk, co
, .n thus keeping themselves in poof
% q money, and knowing how to regll
90 the use of their produce at home.
ro,, farmers reported owing less on tn
~ crop this wear than ever before;
~ were using intensive methods;
!. = we're little bothered with the v
n1 the next President, the migrat
;n question, or the high cost Of livin'
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