Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24
BY H. H. WIND
Editor, Cairo, Grady County
Messenper


Messenger
Mr.. E. J. Anderson lives on farm
of his, consisting of 62 1-2 acres, four
and half miles southwest of Pelham.
His entire tract is enclosed with wire
| fence. He has eight fields which
makes about fifty-fve acres in cul-
tivation, (the balance of his land is
! taken up by a pond) which is his pas
ture, lanes, house, barn, chicken runs
etc.
He lives in a six room house of
the bungalow type. He has barn,
cow shed, one brooder house, three
laying houses, each 15x20 feet, and
other small houses. His equipment
consists of two mules, turn plows.
weeder, Joe harrow, disc harrow, and
other necessary tools.
To operate his farm he hires a man
for $40 per month and meals, boy
and some women and children whom
he pays each $1.00 per day.
The named he uses only when the
rush is on. He does more than any
man on the job, working sixteen
hours in busy seasons, although he
is 63 years of age.
He believes in fertilizer, and has
| learned that fertilizer is necessary for
a good crop. He uses it unsparngly.
He used sixteen tons of high grade
guano and fifty tons of stable ma
nure. for part of which he paid $500
per ton and hauled it from the con"
vict camp at Pelham. Now ne is not
a rich man, Just an average man, but
he uses his head as we'll as his hands
How does he use so much fertilizer
and come out of debt? Here is the
answer. The following is list OF
what he sold in 1925:
Butter beans, from six acres, $500,
cabbage $500, English peas S2oo'
chickens and eggs up to June l only
S1.425, 63 head of hogs Sl,649,
sweet potatoes 1915, butter 500, pc
cans $25.
Now what has he to begin 1877
with?
Sixty head hogs, including 7 grade
Poland China brood sows, pure breo
hoar: 600 bushels of sweet potatoes
so pounds pecans; 600 laying hens
corn: some money in the bank, (he
did not tell me this, guessed it, A
good supply of stable manure for fer
tilizer and fields that are more Ter
tile than the beginning of 1925, H'
made 500 bushels of corn on IL Il
. acres of land.
How he manages his hogs is Of in
+erest. He keeps them enclosed o.
; carpet grass and lespedeza with Or
corn thrown to them. He Craze
, Them thru the winter on rye and oats
, He hogged off 2 IL acres OF gree
, corn, and let them have two tleld
of peanuts and sweet potatoes. II
saws keep hogs clean, inoculate then
and supply comfortable beds in col
weather.
: His expenses are not bad. His Ia
| bor bill is not but 5000 per year, hi
: fertilizer bill was $3.50, his hens cos
. So every day. He considers 1t prof.
r table to buy corn if necessary to SCI
fat hogs, and it was necessary TO
him to buy about 100 bushels to max
them number ones. He buys all tn
| feed for his hens. l cannot writ
everything he told me while wa
5 with him one hour.
Mr.. Anderson is making success
: without cotton or tobacco. HE zig
ured out his program, which ever.
farmer should do, even if he include
cotton. This man has no laying by
| time. His is job for twelve month
in every year, and yet he sells some
thing every month. He is improving
his land, he has the first choice O.
fresh eggs and vegetables, and thu
speculator on the cotton marke
doesn't say anything to him.
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