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Agricultural Farming Wastes. .How Carelessness Keens the ,? Know-it-all Farmers Poor. Th< Progressive Fai mer : It has been raining steadily all %ia\, and while 1 am housed up, 1 ?:r; reading some, writing a little, posting my books and planning for the campaign that is to follow *1J this bad weather. Yes, the weather is bad, but stock are all comfortably housed, and tools and machinery under sheds. 1 could not feel comfortable mysel' if any of the dumb brutes ^ ere exDosed to this cold rain. -All farm operations are at a standstill, so far as active work is concerned, but the wise farmer is planned ahead for the comdug season. It is said that no Other business could stand the drawbacks that come to the farmer and succeed. Well, maybe not, but these bleak wintry days -are a help to many of us. We rest and recuperate, both man and boast; we lay our plans, read our agricultural papers, study the bulletins, and in many ways fortify ourselves for the busy season later on. Aro your tools and machinery ainder shelter, good friend? I passed a good farm the other day and saw all the tools scattered about the barn, nothing under shelter except the wagon. I know of a reaper that has never S>een sheltered since it was first .^et up. Now, good friends, this is one drawback that men farming can aiot stand. Why will a man buy costly machinery and leave it ex posed to all kinds of weather? 1 cannot answer that qutstion, and will leave it for my readers to ponder over. Auother thing 1 cannot explain is why a man will leave his cattle out all winter ex posed to the weather. Some time .since I passed a farm and saw a few poor cow8 standing shivering in the cold, trying to eat wheat straw. Not a shelter, nor the sign of any other feed, and the man expected these cows to give milk. 1 once knew a man who did not have a stable for his hoise. lie kept him tied to a tree in the yard. Mr. Editor, do 1 expect to start any great reform movement by writing about these things? llardly, because the people who do these things do not read your # paper, nor ?n.v other farm paper. I They are the folks who know rauore about farming, stock-raising and all kindred questions tyan all the farm papers com jned. They are also the folks i.o give chattel mortgages for nplies. Good friend, if you , 'Id see thifl by courtesy of the ^ uj(r in aending you a sample f ? , let me make one or two 4 'i&estions. First, subscribe for 1(*fe paper and read it every week 4uddqn)e aH you do your Bible, or in*1 maybe a little "samer," and as oniin stu vnn Hnha^fiiiu f/?. t-hka 'OO - "'V vwvt.MV t v/1 VIIO On ' reaper get out and make a shelter fV for those poor cows, then gather up ihe tools and put them under shelter, and don't forget piggy tind leave him out in the rain ;*ind snow. Then proceed to get wrathy at me for telling you about it. E. S. Millsaps. Irdell Co., N. 0. Department. New Experiments With Corn. i ^ .. ... n.xperimenrs witn corn at the Nebraska Experiment Station have just been compiled and published as Bulletin 91. Tests of a number of varities of corn in different parts of the state have continued. Something over one hundred farmers are engaged in these tests. It was found?*thut uo one variety of corn is equally well adapted to all parts of the state. By dividing the state into six sections, it was shown that certain varieties yielded best in certain sections aud other varie ties in other sections. The yields j obtained by each experimenter I are stated in the bulletin. Corn was planted sufficiently thick so that it could be thinned out to from one to live stalks per hill, 44x44 inches apart. Ou good soil with liberal moisture supply, three stalks per hill gave the largest yield of grain, al though the ears were smaller than where the planting was thinner. Experiments indicate that towards the western edge of the corn belt two stalks per hill are better than a large num ber. The plats of corn having the thickest 6tand had the largest nrnnnrt.inn r?f hnrren ntnllra On r ? r -*,WM "* - w? wVW...w. w .. the other hand, suckers are more abundant in the thin stand of corn. These suckers serve a use ful purpose iu producing ears when the stand of corn is thinner than the soil and moisture can easily support. Iu regions of sufficient rainfall it would not seeui advisable to remove the tillers iu ilij hope of improving the yield. Experiments with seed corn from different states lead to the conclusion that seed corn should be raised as near as possible to trie locality in wiucii it is to ue planted. Seed corn placed in a dry seed room in the fall gave 20 per cent better stand in the field than seed corn from the same field that was left in the crib over winter. T. L. Lyon Nebraska Experiment Station. Some Profitable Experience. Editor Southern Cultivator: This cold rainy day reminds me of many such days, when I lived in town, and had to work in a dark shop to make expenses or draw on my little savings for a livelihood for these rainy days; and maybe our wood was nearly out, and no wagons would run such bad days as this. Hut 1 worked hard, aud saved enough to buy a nice farm in the country, ana stock anil feed to run it the first year ; bought a sawmill outfit and sawed the timber where 1 wanted to clear the land, built a good house, and made other improvements on the place, sold my shop and home in town, and moved to the farm, where we have been living now nearly two years. My v. ife and children are all healthier and happier and enjoy life much better here than they did in town. 1 will tell how I began to farm ; I rented out a one-horse farm for standing rent and run three others myself. Among the first steps 1 made towards farming was to read the Cultivator, then I went to work as near like It said, as my means and circnm stances generally would admit of. I kept two good mules and one horse, a few cows, and a good many hogs; have cleared a great deal of fresh land, built good tenant houses, terraced my land, bought what I could not make in the way of good farm tools and implements. I keep a forge and a good Bet of wood and black smith tools, bo that I can keep tuy farm implements in good condition, don't think it pays to work with dull or worn out tools This year 1905 haa been quite an unfavorable one for farming in this section, but we have made fairly good crops; any way we are eating cur own hog and hominy and burning our own wood these cold rainy days. I will give my plan for dividing up my crops; I cultivate about 100 acres with three plows which I run myself. I plant 30 acres in cotton, about 5 acres in potatoes, sorghum, popcorn and sugarcane, 10 acres in oats, fol lowed with Soarnsh trround ueas and 5 acres in old fashion or run niug ground peas, and the balan ce in corn, with field peas in | every row. I have no shredder, but cut part of my corn crop in fodder stage, so I can cut plenty of hay. At this writing, Dec 20th, I have half of my oat crop up and growing, will sow balance in spring, and nearly all my c <t ton land turned with a two horse plow. Now, Mr. Editor, if you think it worth the while I woulo be glad for you to comment on my plan and offer any improvement that might suggest itself t< your mind, that would be practicable for a poor mau to try. VVhai do you think of laying off corn land on hilly land, with middle buster in fall or early spring? I think it would be a great help to the terraces in holding water, if nothing else. Any advice you see fit to give on these lines through the (Jul tivator will be gladly received. Wishing the Cultivator a mer ry Christmas and a prosperous year for l'JOG, I remain yours in the work. M. S. Richland, Ga., Dec. 20, i905. Comment by the Editor: We do not know any better comment we can make, than ?im ply to say?Go on, you are on the right road. We will add? the plan for dry bedding or men laying off the row as you nuggest with a "middle bnHter" ia a good one. We have heard many good farmers say they had tried the "drv-bedding" or throwing two furrowa together with the Mallory plow, and were delighted with it, and were satisfied it materially increased their yield. Using Brains on the Farm. TO iL _ Ll I KT rrom mo oavaunan news: The moat, productive farms of the country are those of the northwest. This is not because the natural conditions are more favorable in that section than in others?the south, for instance ?but because the northwestern farmer is a stickler for system in his business. lie does nothing by guesswork. He keeps books and takes a strict aocounting or expenses and income. lie knows what it costs him to grow his crops, and when he has marketed them he knows what his profit or loss has been. He knows the tro I 11 n r\ f kr oaim nor nr? Win lv ? ? T u I m o wi n wpi UK) *4 H 11 1 n IliRlylJ I II~ ery and his stock and taking advantage of newest methods. lie is a reader of newspapers and magazines and keeps abreast of the progress of the world. Year after year the farmers are mix ing more and more brains with the brawn and guano they put on their fields, with most satisfactory results. I TO THE TRAD nnm i [ rwi\ wmmmmmBt mrwmmimwsamtm ; If you want your money present month I Don't S A Nick] till you get 01 Clothing, Sh coats, odd Par Jackets and L other things. Wc have od in all these tl going to close the price. With best w patrons genera iderburk 9 | Horses, Mul M Our Mr. Hood has just close J loads of Mules and Horses?! ^ cars come here, one of horses i V nn i 1 :? - iwj. it, uu iicau tu arrive in a wires they are the best we 1 Some closely matched teams that weigh from 1100 to 1250 < portunity to buy brood mares, finish and family broke. Buggies, I Two solid cars to arrive this w ? Wagons, \ ? Have iust closed a deal for ? stacks of them on hand of all s 1 four horse with regular ot bro; ? all. Those who do not feel abl j vehicle can buy a second hand, J second hand buggies, carriages W we are going to sell regardless || uome and I for we are far ahead of any dealers east of the Mississipj f harness department. We mar J ness and have no competition. ^ Remember, we buy as well a s Gregory-Hood L r- i ? . ING in i III! ______ ; to SAVE during the > pend v, .. 'e 1" ir prices on oes, OverT 1 t us, uaaies a h find red els and ends hat we are j regardless ishestoour lly, Comp'y. i nmi .. I 1 ies, Mules! I u d another deal for six car ^ 180 head. Two of these J ind one of mules. Think J few days, and Mr. Hood & lave bought this season. ? of extra fine mare mules f sach. This is a ?;rand op- ( Have some with extra ^ buggies. |... eek, all kinds and styles. J X 7 i rv agons. ^ 100 more, and we have & >izes?one, two, three and W id tire. Come one, come V e or willing to buy a new f , as we have at least 100 ^ ; and wagons on hand that J of the price. Don't fail to ^ See Us ? retail stock and vehicle t 3i river. Remember our ( lufacture all of our har- f n ? s sen. & | live Stock Co. t * it __i y . / I