The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 17, 1906, Page 2, Image 2
Agricultural
A Lone Star State Sample
Of Compact Agriculture.
Prize Letter in Home and Farm :
S x years ago 1 married and
went, to farmiug with a view to
raising cotton as a money crop. I
expected a bale to the acre, which
wmr not impossible on black
laud, properly cultivated, without
Mr T-ioll Wouvil
But he had made his appearance,
and I saw that a change
was necce8sary and must be
made to make the books balauce
at the end of each year, as 1
started to keeping books when
we were first married. It is
something of a job the year
round, but still it is a pleasant
one when you have become accustomed
to it. A day book, or
monthly as I may call it, and a
ledger is all that's needed for the
farm. 1 carry each month to
ledger. At the end of the year I
can account for every daily paper
1 buy and whatever is sold. It's
there to show what it was sold at.
But, back to the cotton: The
weevil is here and we think to
stay. But with dry, hot weather
from June 1 to middle of July,
and an early maturing variety of
couon we are aoie 10 gee a gooa
crop if properly cultivated. Iu
1904 1 only had five and a half or
six acres of cotton. It made 6,
535 pounds. I plowed it out each
week for eight weeks with cultivator
and gathered the infested
squares three times. 1 planted
on March 14 and by July 20 the
orop was all matured and ripening,
it being Kinny's Improved.
Up to this time I had raised
only hogs on three four-acre
fields, twelve acres in all, with a
registered Poland China male
and three well-bred sows, and I
had a herd of twenty-five head of
nice hogs.
In October I planted two fields
to oats. 1 have pastured them
through winter. At the middle
of March I take hogs ofF one lot
and let them run in the other
until eaten out or destroyed. By
the time the first one will be
headed out and getting ripe ; then
I l _ i i? ? ? i ?? ?
i ier me nogs nave tnem. wnen
I do this the other lot has been
planted in Spanish peanuts, while
the third liekl has been planted
to sorghutn about March 1.
This is ripe by the time ripe
oats is cleaned up. When hogs
are put on sorghum, plant the
other oat field to peanuts, and by
Aug. 1 the first planted peanuts
will be ripe and ready for hogs.
1 then plow the cane stubble and
it comes out again and makes as
good u crop as the first one was.
This year I doubled the herd,
that is, 1 have fifty live head instead
of twenty five, as last year.
.4 While growing hogs to gather
the crops was a big advantage, I
had to pump water bv hand: so
r when I sold the fattened stock I
p invested in windmill and tank,
3 with piping for hog pens, horse
lot and kitchen, and you may
imagine what a relief it is to
come from the field at noon and
night and simply turn the wat?r
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yu, uisieauoi naving 10 pump ior
an hour or more.
I am now fencing altogether
twenty five acres in four six acre
field. I am breeding for a 100
head for next year. If I have no
setback, with the aid of four
horsea, a good sulky plow, a 10inch
cultivator, a two-horse riding
planter for cotton, corn, sorghum
and cantaloupe seed, I can
Department.
cultivate the forty acres all O.
K. with only a little help in hoeing.
You see the hogs do most
of the gathering.
The cotton cr< p is small, onlv
five acres this year. 1 would it
be less, but the two Jersey cows
are very fond of the seed, and it
pays for our trouble. We make
$8 to $1) a month from the cows,
besides having all the milk and
butter that we need in the family.
I do not consider milking a drudgery,
as I have good stalls to milk
in in bad weather.
With twenty five acres to plaut
for hogs to graze on, eighteen
acres for corn, and with the aid
of four or five acres in cotton,
two acres in cantaloupes, I made
$100 per acre on the cantaloupes,
in 1004, and $50 an acre on cotton
land net. So you Bee, with
the aid of my wife, with her leghorn
hens, bronze turkeys and
the sale of butter, how we
balance the books at wind up of
the year. It is my aim to improve
the land, the stock of hogs,
the mule colts, the Jersey heifers,
leghorn pullets, the bronze turkeys,
and the two little girls,
three and a half and five years
old, by keeping dear old Home
and Farm for them when they
are a little older, as we have
been subscribers since we began
housekeeping.
H. H. McOauley.
Wallis, Tex.
Dairy Notes.
(By Shepard.)
Salt is an everyday necessity
to dairy cows.
Irregularity interferes with tiltsecretion
of milk in dairy coww.
There is a larger proportion
of waste with an old cow than a
young one.
Utensils for the dairy should
have the fewest seams and rough
places.
Neither dirt nor odors can be
strained out of milk.
lfutter, when churned too long,
becomes solid and greasy instead
of open and grainy.
No buUermaker, however expert,
can make good butter from
improperly ripened cream.
Cows may be ever so good,
but they cannot make milk without
the materials to extract it
from.
In warming cream, never heat
it. so as to melt any of it, as it
will make it soft and off flavor.
Learn well to make five cows
profitable before increasing the
number to ten.
A stable may be apparently
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v/ivan (din y u i iidi uui uujcuuuii*
able odors. A thorough whilewashing
will remedy this.
Because you are feeding the
milch cows a liberal ration of
concentrated food, do not think
i( a reason for omitting plenty
of hay and fodder.
Dairying has reached that
period when every step con
nected with it must be conducted
according to business prin
ciples to securo a lair return of
profit.
A good cow will make more
pounds of human food in a year
than a steer will make in a life
time, and you have the cow left
over for next year.
The time that a heifer is allowed
to go dry atter her first
calf is dropped affects her habit
in this respect all of her life.
Breed the heifers early and
cultivate the habit of early ma
turity. A heifer running until
three years old before having
her llist calf will rarely make a
heavy milker.
The Colored Farmers' Conference.
Urgent Call for a Pull Attendance?Some
Pertinent
Questions?"Why the Colored
Laborer is "Worth no
More Than He Now Receives.
Written for The News.
What is the remedy for the
very dark conditiou of things
that confront us as a race in
wns section r rainers, can you
not stop your sons from loaling,
sitting on the corners of th?
streets, spending their da>'6
around the club rooms and de
pots? Is it a fact that the negro
race in many instances b
degenerating? Under the shadow
and intluence of the christian
church and educational institu
tious can we not have bettei
men and better women? Our
farmers' conference for Feb 22n<
has before it many grand pr ?b
lems for its consideration, llov
many coloied men in the county
that are able to take a lour, fi\e
or eight horse farm and condu' t
it to I be satisfactinn of thft nwn
er without an overseer? IIow
many colored farmers that hay
made from six to ten loals o!
fertilizer lrom the woods air
stables? llow many colored
farmers so thoroughly under
stand the divert- ifying of cro| and
the improvement of lam
that he is willing to risk an ol
fer from any man, who is will
ing to iuruish him with supplie
for the running of an eight horse
farm? How many negro farm
ers have provided all the board
tor his garden so that when
plowing time comes his wife will
have no trouble in preparing her
garden? What the country need
most in the farming line is men
thai can take large farms and
control and conduct thorn to the
advantage ol the owner and
themselves. How ninny colored
farmers can out down their num
ber ol day8 of going to town
this year and put them in the
garden and potato patchos. We
complain sometimes ol low wag
es lor work, but how can the
owner do otherwise when he
pays him len dollars a month to
work and pays a man twenty
dollars lo keep him at work.
Wl...? <1.~ i i:_i .1
tv iit'u nit* iMiiew i nai
confidence in all mankind that
lie can do a day's work as well
without being watched as he can
when the overseer is looking at
him, then and not until then
will the negro bo able to get
full value for his labor.
I pray the day when both the
white and the black man will be
willing to appropriate money to
that man or set of men that will
teach the races the best thing
for both races. Let every colored
farmer in the county see to it
that he be present Feb. 22 at
the great annual gathering.
Yours,
M. D. Lee.
TO THE #
TRADING
PUBLIC!
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your money during the
present month,
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Don't Spend
A Nickle
till you get our prices on
Clothing, Shoes, Overcoats,
odd Pants, Ladies'
Jackets and a hundred
other things.
We have odds and ends
in all these that we are
going to close regardless
the price.
With best wishes to our
patrons generally,
V
Funderburk Comp'y.
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I nunoLO. \
| Horses, Mules, Mules! f
& Our Mr. Mood has just closed another deal for six car ?
^ loads of Mules and Horses ?180 head. Two of these ^
^ cars come here, one of horses and one of mules. Think ?
of it, 60 head to arrive in a few days, and Mr. Hood ?
wires they are the best we have bought this season. W
1 Some closely matched teams of extra fine mare mules V
? that weigh from 1100 to 1250 each. This is a grand op- {
Jportunity to buy brood mares. Have some with extra ?
finish and family broke. ^
1 Buggies, Buggies. I
Two solid cars to arrive this week, all kinds and styles. 1
* Wagons, Wagons. ?
II lave just closed a deal for 100 more, and we have ?
stacks of them on hand of all sizes?one, two, three and
four horse with regular or broad tire. Come one, come ?
all. Those who do not feel able or willing to buy a new ?
p vehicle can buy a second hand, as we have at least 100 ?
J second hand buggies, carriages and wagons on hand that J
| W we are going to sell regardless of the price. Don't fail to W
(Come and See Us f
for we are far ahead of any retail stock and vehicle V
dealers east of the Mississippi river. Remember our V
f harness department. We manufacture all of our har- 1
J ness and have no competition.
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