The Little River news., 1920-02-04
Stay Win ihs Principles
 of Safs Farming, Says
 the County Demonstrator
(By Geo. M. Johnston, County Agri-
 cultural Agent,)

(By Geo. M. Johnston, County Agri- cultural Agent.)
 | We have learned from past exper- fence that to put all our efforts to one crop is bad policy, on the other hand, we have learned to devote some of our time to growing live stock and the practice of safe farming means more than one pay day for the farm, and this means happiness and prosperity, while the one crop system means poor soil and unprosperous people. Which plan will you adopt for 1920?
 Live stock means great deal if the farm is to be successful.
 I have shipped from Little River county during the past ten months six teen cars of hogs and cattle under the cooperative plan thereby demonstrat- ing the value of cooperation. These cars of live stock brough the farmers who made them up in round numbers $25, 100000. Not more than one hun dred and sixty farmers were interest ed in the shipments so far. Look what it would mean if all the farmers would raise ten to twenty good hogs to be sent to market in this manner. Twelve real good hogs in the last ship ment brought $467.OO; one baby calf weighing 12O pounds sold for $1S.6O.
 Raise Good Chickens.
 Gull your flock now, it does not pay to keep non-laying hens, food is too high to feed to hen that loafs on her job. Use pure bred eggs of good laying strain for matching for your breeding stock and increase the flock to fifty laying hens. Organize egg cir cles, and market comparatively.
 What crops can I grow to help my live stock?
 If you have not already done so SOW at once Rape and Oats for grazing for the pigs and chickens. Sow in May two or more acres of surghum and two or more acres of soy beans for grazing in the summer months. Plant not less than four or five acres of Nancy Hall sweet potatoes, and four or five acres of Spanish peanuts; plant sweet potatoes and Spanish pea nuts from May 18th to July 1st, ill we'll prepared fertile seed beds,
 Give the potatoe and peanut crops clean shallow cultivation just as you would your cotton. in the fall hary- est all No. 1 potatoes, take them to the potato curing house to be cured for market, leave all the large potatoes in the field to fatten the hogs. Cut and cure the peanut hay for food for work stock and turn the hogs in to harvest the nuts. The peanut tops and sweet potato vines together with other waste food of the farm would fatten some lambs and calves for market.
 Permanent pasture necessary if you grow good live stock.
 II yOu nave HUI diIC1uy oCdi CCu e pasture on your farm do not wait an- other moment to begin planning one. 4 we'll kept pasture is a greater asset than any part of the farm, therefore it is business proposition not to neg lect it. Sow from March to June on we'll prepared soil i've pounds of Ber- muda seed per acre, Sow twenty pounds of Lespedeza seed per acre. and four pounds of White Clover seed per acre. Sow from June 1th to Sep tember 18th three bushels of Burr Clover seed in burr on Bermuda sod.
 Organization Will Help Farmers.
 I am anxious to see this year a live working community organization in each school district for the purpose of aiding farmers in cooperative buv- ing and selling farm products and if you are interested in the betterment and upbuilding of your community help me work out this organization in doing so we will have taken step to- ward progress.