The Little River news., 1921-04-16
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Gardens are necessary to supply the best of vegetables for the home, and also some for canning or drying.
 Then we must have good herd ot COWS. Get pure bred cows; then, when you have surplus, you can sell for a good price. These cows must be car- ed for and we'll fed so that the farm will be supplied with milk and butter. We should even have g surplus, for good butter will always add mater ial1y to the farmers purse. If we pro- vied a good pasture we can have a beef to butcher occasionally for mar ket or the home table.
 Thoroughbred hogs have their place in this plan of "Safe Farming. 2 It cost less to raise thoroughbred than it does a mongrel. A thorough bred will grow fat and remain so on much less feed than a razor back When butchering days come thor oughbred will go much further toward filling the smoke house and will do it much more satisfactorily.
 "A good farmer in Little River County can have pasture twelve months in the year. Rye, oats, the vetches and some of the clovers four ish here during the winter and spring while through the summer and fall we have plenty of leguminous plants such as alfalfa, soy beans, lespedeza, and peanuts.
 With permanent pasture provid- ed, I would raise my own mules and would even have a young mule to sell now and then. I would also raise and have for sale few thoroughbred pigs and Jersey heifer or two.
 "A small piece of ground would sup ply my family and give me a surplus of the best of syrup.
 Poultry would carefully look after, for with chickens, a few turkeys, guineas and ducks, could supply my family with an unlimited amount of the best of fresh meat and eggs Then surplus flown and few dozen eggs would. in the run of year, add con- siderably to the farmers purse or would purchase many of the smaller articles needed about the housenold. Poultry takes some feed, of course, but this must be raised on the farm Then purebred poultry pays a greater return on the investment in the short est time of any crop on the farm. T'
 T would attend carefully to the sa ing of the farm manure. On man, farms enough fertilizer is wasted to pruduce crop. I would strive to market my crops on foot, thus taking nothing from the farm that could be left there. By feeding my crops to live stock and then selling my crops to live stock and then selling my crops on foot would, each year. leave my land in better condition for the fol- lowing crops.
 After I had provided my farm with fruits and vegetables, live stock and feed for them and my family, would carefully attend to the marketing ., the surplus. The farmers must adopt some cooperative plan for market ing their products. After studying the plans so far proposed, I believe that the plan now practiced in Cali fornia to be the best. Our crops should be marketed as far as possible throughout the year and not all thrown on the market at one time. They should be sold through one general selling organization for in such a way the products of one farmer would not be thrown against those of an- other and thus weaken the price of ali. The consumer pays enough for the products now, but the farmer receives only a small per cent of this. We market through too many t.'middle men" Cooperative marketing Will stabilize the market for farm products and give just reward to the farmers for their labors.
 "Then, in conclusion, we will rotate our crops, plant plenty of legumes, conserve our soil, raise our own live stock, our fruits and vegetables, our corn, our poultry and eggs, our milk and butter, with a surplus of each, a new and brighter day will dawn for Little River county. It will mean that better farms, better homes, more mon- ey, more of the little pleasures of life, better educated children and last, but by no means least, a happIer and more prosperous farm, and, above all, we will have reigning in our hearts, in our homes, and in our lives, God given peace and contentment."
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