Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-12

| is demanding attention, and from the
way the hogs are quarreling at feed
| ing time, their pastures are not what
they have been. There have come
many letters from districts that had
too much rain. Almost all this year
these corners of Alabama, L@ennes-
see, and Mississippi have suffered
from a lack of rain, corn and peas
are nothing like they should be.
Some say it has been death to boil
Weevils, but we can't eat cotton, nor
feed it to our stock, and what profit
| is it to make some extra cotton and
pay from 25 to SOC bushel more
for corn, and then probably get nub-
bins. A man with a hundred bushels
Of corn to sell next summer will be
as well off as the man with the extra
bale Of cotton-cash buys corn in
| the summer.
It's not good judgment to put all
ones eggs in the same basket. Nor
to farm on the one crop, long credit
| system. The farmers wife should
| have butter, or cream, eggs and
chickens to sell every week, and in
the fall a shoat to weigh at least
a hundred dressed. Three COWS, one
sow and thirty hens cared for sys-
tematically will do this. One new
calf in the spring, one in the sum-
mer and the other in the fall will
even things, and if the COW with
| her first calf is fed and MIXED care
fully, she will give milk till you
| dry her yourself about six weeks
before the new calf comes. I know
a splendid cow that wanted to go
dry" as some express it. She did
not give half a pint for a week. Her
feed was changed, a bran mash given
her, and that we'll sailed, and she
''came back to her milk" Now she
will give milk right along until she
| Is ready for her new calf. That
week she gave so little was a try
| ing time. Her mother had never
given milk year, and she was just
| like her.
The farmers wife can't sell all
these things and go to the field.
That's foolishness, for the home de-
mands every minute of her time.
Chickens get in the garden, prowl.
ing dogs get the eggs, a pig finds
a hole in the fence, hawks get the
pullets in the fall. and baby chicks
in the spring. Then there's mend
|
numerous to mention. Many a wom-
an works at night, but that's burn
| ing the candle at both ends. Be
| reasonable, laziness is a sin, and so
| is working as a regular habit.
All OF us, men and women, have to
do things out of season occasionally.
| I've churned after supper, and have
baked my 1iehtbread then. but there
was a good reason for both, and it's
not habit
The farmer sows the seed, til1s the
soil and depends on the weather. The
woman who ships baby chicks, eggs
for Matching and hens, or cockerels
to renew fiocks, sends out her stock
to all sorts OF people. Some "have
no luck" and some have it all. I've
had some such nice letters this fall.
There were two settings of eggs sent
to Trion, Ga, all but one Matched
and the lady has twenty-one she
raised. A man bought three hens
last fall: he wrote me from Florida
that one Of the hens gave him forty
ieggs in forty consecutive days An
other says she raised nineteen out Of
twenty baby chicks. Most probably
others lost every one. Once I set
fourteen eggs the day after I deliv-
cred a hundred selected eggs, not
one week old, all or mine Matched
and the man claimed twenty-five
were infertile. He just didn't know
his business.
To use a slang phrase, "don't bite
off more than you can chew" If
you have new incubator, don't
test your eggs till you can tell pos
itively. It's a good plan, if you
have q broCE1y hen, to wait till the
eighteenth day and put those you
are not certain about under her
Dip them in warm water and see If
some of them will not wriggle. The
sure way Is to number them and
write what you think about each one
Cn sheet of paper, using the num-
bers there, too, and when the TWEEN
ty-third day comes break each one
and see if it TALES with your re-
mark. Breaking old eggs is not
pleasant, but many things come to
us in our days work that are not
enticing, yet common sense tells us
to carry on.
This is Children's day at the fair
in Tuscumbia. It's the first time
that I've missed. I thought 1 was
going to take a little girl, but she
can't go, so I will go with The
Farmer tomorrow.
There have been cars filled with
happy families, buggies with some
standing behind, surveys so full
wonder how their feet are fitted in,
and big wagons with hay instead of
spring seats. / am glad when l see
the children given a chance to see
things, to learn by comparison, and
to form ideals to work up to, or to
avoid. These wagons loaded with
happy youngsters will make the
trip as easily as the cars did last
year. The roads have been worked
and are fine. In voting for bonds
this county gets good roads and all
the money, too, for the contracts
are taken by home people, who have
learned the business by actual ex-
perience in other parts of this state
This community had men and teams
| enough to do this road, and $500
was a tremendous help when pay
day gave them checks on the bank.
The contractor is a quiet, even-tem-
pered man, and he made rule that
no team can be overloaded, nor can
one be whipped; cursing is not al
| lowed, and when a victim to that
awful habit 'breaks loose" he is
laid off for one, two or three days,
and sometimes for a week. Conse-
quently it seems that the mules and
horses thrive on this work. Plenty
of them haul yard and a half of
gravel and six pull the big plow.
Acorns are dropping, persimmons
likewise, and it was reported last
| week that Mr.. Possum has beaten