Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-09
Incidents on the Farm

The month of May set new
record for heat and drought in
this part of the world, and it is
a real satisfaction to know that
it has not been that way every
where. Keeping potatoes through
the winter is such a risky business
that most of the farmers try to
keep only enough for the table sup
ply. The farmer on this place says
that he would rather buy the slips
and set them all out at the same
time. Consequently we order from
Florida. This year we sent in our
order late, the regular time for this
but at that time this year we were
sitting by fires, and seeing frost
every morning, and when we did
order they were having so much
rain that the slips could not be
gathered. Here we were having
Every night about the last thing
that I do after finishing in the
kitchen is to notice the fireflies,
and they are still very high-mind-
ed. I go IN the living room and say
to the farmer, THE fireflies are
plies th2t the whirlwinds are still
stirring up a dust. This section of
the Tennessee valley makes good
crops, but. to one born where the
land is light it is almost a miracle,
for when it rains it il sticky AMI
the usual condition in the planting
time, it gets hard right away.
A dozen or more people ordered
slips when we did and it has been
interesting to hear their various
methods for trying to keep them
farmer had carefully prepared his
land, I won't say how many times
he disked it, narrowed it. and then
he went over it all with a hoe to
break the clods. When the slips
came it was fine as ashes. He water
and tried two methods in tae final
method Some he covered with soil
as soon as he flrmed them down.
others he left With the hole only
loose soil over the wet: There has
been a north wind with the Their
mometer at nine@y-two at least sew
en- hours a day, the wind has done
the damage, and we are waiting to
see which lot Of slips do best: AL
most every one that came tor tnelrs
asked his method and told their
own. No two were just alike: l
don't pretend to know. a thing about
potatoes until they are brought In
the house ready to be cooked. by
it seems to me that there would be
some uullOIHl way OlAS Iva VI NAA~
one for wet weather. 1t is the same
with corn and cotton, every man
has his system and that way he
works regardless of whether ne
makes a failure or good living.
They are the most Optimistic peo-
other name for it? Right now wheS
cotton is ten cents a pound there
is only a cut of twenty-five per
cent in the acreage rms Dry
weather has a compensation for the
oats have been cut and housed with
no loss from rain, and cotton chop
ping has gone merrily on. Last year
the price for chopping was three
dollars an acre, and the man en-
pqoying them was told that they
cake, that vegetables did not APP
peal to them. This year there is
nothing said about the bill of fare
and a dollar day is the price.
The last day of May I took off
a hen. She has eighteen beauties.
patch where there is hedge OF
blackberry bushes and set the coor
there 1 buried a fruit jar in th5
ground so as to have plenty OF
water for them without having TO
take it so often. 1 put can OF
should see those babies grow: Early
every day l take them a piece OF
egg bread that was cooked the day
before and see that there is plenty
of water in their shallow drinking
vessel, then about ten and four
put out plenty of the baby chick
feed. Sometimes use hominy' grlts,
or oatmeal. but l never. give baby
chicks one mouthful of wet feed
till they are at least month ola;
1 give them fresh buttermilk and
when they are as far off as. these
l have two vessels. One I bring to
the house each day and said out
so that there is no faint TO cause
disease. 1t is hot and 1 am as brown
as an Indian going through the
sun, but if we are TO make a sue
cess Of anything we must not con
slider trouble in taking care of it.
Last year we had a sow that sud
denly began to catch chickens. She
was the craziest thing. after them
that I ever saw. We did not know
what to do with her. She cost near