The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 22, 1908, Page 2, Image 2
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Agricultural
^ Department
Pick Cowpeas or Save Hay.
J. C. McAulitt'e in the .Southern Cultivator:
A reader of some of my work
wants to know if it is more
profitable to pick cowpeas at two
dollars per bushel than it is to
save hay at twenty dollars? I
I have never found it so and 1
hardly think that any one else
can find it so. However, it is a
hard matter to see how a farmer
can afford to teed lweuty>dollars
of hay to his cattle. There is
just one thing that must be done
in matters of this kind in order
to make farming successfulPractice
home economy, and by
that 1 mean grow the things
^ 3 _ ? 1 1 il
uctiueu ai liumtj ttuu inmi use
them.
It is a little bit foolish for a
man to say that he can feed
twenty dollar hay because it
doesn't cost him but five dollars
to grow it. It is worth its full
price as obtained iu the market,
no matter wnere grown or what
the cost. In order to get twenty
dollars worth of good from cowpea
hay it must be gup.rded from
the start. In the beginning feed
it to good cattle, or fine horses
and mules. Save the manure
and apply it to the farm. This
is simple, but it'. truth.
Again, no matter which is
cheapest, be sure and pick
enough of those pea9 to grow
the next one. They don't cost
two dollars a bushel, but they
are worth five dollars per bushel
to the man who plants them. It
is not too late to plant peas in
Georgia until the middle of July.
It'll be a good plan to hustle
around now and put in an extra
acreage. It may take more than
two dollars to buy a bushel lor
seed it you haven't saved them,
but remember they are worth
five dollars and besides you'll
get a start if you save your own
seed this fall.
There is no question but that
these things are valuable in
farming. It is the small patches
that come in sort of extra like
that makes the matters of this
character so important. It is
like interest to the financier who
is engaged in legitimate business.
It may not result in a fortune to
the farmer who follows this
course, but it mean" the difference
between prosperity and
failure.
Kennedy's I.axat ive <.'oiigh Syrup aet s j
gently upo i the bowels and thereby '
drives the cold out of the system ami I
at the same'ime it allays intiainmu-i
tion and stops irritation, children!
like it Sold by All Druggists, tv * s !
How are You Going to Har-j
vest Your Corn Crop?
A. I?. French in the Progressive Farmer.
Within less than sixty days
your corn crop will he ready to
harvest and if you have not been
thinking hard ol how best to
harvest this important crop, will
you not do so now? You have
perhaps been in the habit of
pulling the fodder, topping the
stalks, snapping tho ears from
the stalks, throwing in piles,
then picking up, hauling t<? a
point near the corn crib, having
a shucking, then throwing the
grain into the crib, three or f^ur
ears at a time and gathering the
shucks by the armful and packing
in other houses. Gathering
THE LANGA
up the little bundles of blades c
in the fields, will, of course, be t
slow work, and when the buudles j
are stacked in the little single I
stacks more than half of the feed i
will be exposed to the weather i
~ 11 a i a ? a _ i
uii wmmr, hqu wnen reauy to do j
fed will have little iood value i
lett. i
there's a way that is a whole '
lot better for uplands. i
The above method of handling '
may be necessary on low hot- 1
torn lands that are quite likely (
to overflow. But for second i
bottom and uplands there is a 1
better way and one that is a '
whole lot better. The writer
has watched a good many men 1
pull fodder aud has wondered as *
many times if they had any idea '
of the amount of time they were *
casting. Some way, pulling
fodder never looked to the writer 1
like a man's job. The amouut
of feed one could secure in a day '
being so very small when coin- '
pared with other methods of sav- 1
iug feed. Set one hand to pulling
fodder, give another a corn i
knife and let him go to cutting '
the entire stains. At the end ot <
the day the man with the knife (
will have 6aved more of the J
blades than the other man has J
secured: he will have at the
same time harvested the tops, (
ears and shucks and saved them
in good-sized, well-built shocks
when only a small amount of the
feed will ba exposed to the weather;
and he will have saved
enough of grain shrinkage by 1
cuiting tlie entire stalk to pay [ 1
for the work of harvesting twice (
oyer. 1
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A WORD ABOUT SHOCKING CORN.
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A number of men have told j
me that parties have been at i
them about the loss of grain <
caused by fodder pulling, while ]
at the same time said parties j
were losing both corn and lodder .
because of shocks falling down i
and becoming damaged. This !
i9 not a necessary condition ol i
corn shocking at all. We have i
been handling corn in this way i
ior seven years in the South and
have never lost a dollar's worth i
of either grain or feed by wea- <
tlier damage. Like everything ]
I else, there is a right and several i
wrong ways of shocking corn. |
If the corn is to be cut. by hand,
we prefer to tie "standaids"
around which to set. tlie cut corn.
These are made by interweaving
the tops of several stalks of corn
across two rows. These stalks
worked in together in this way
make a good support tor the center
of th coin shock, and it the
corn is set an equal thickness
around this standard and is
slanted at the same slant from
every direction, with the tops ot
every ounuie leaning toward the (
center of the shock, and the tops (
of the shock securely tied with .
twine, not one shock in two
hundred need to tall down. 1 .
know of a field of a hundred 11
acres that last fall did not con- <
lain a tallen shock at shucking 'i
time. c
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JIOW TO SHUCK AND STORK KAHS. <
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Now. if this corn is to he <
shucked by hand put the box in {
the wairon, drive right to each 1
j shock; shuck the corn, throwing i
the ears into a large banket (not <
on the ground), then dump it 1
into the wagon, and when the <
wagon is loaded, drive to the
STEP NEWS. JULY 22,
srib and unload with a scoop
thovel instead of using (he hands.
&s fast as the corn is shucked
jind the fodder into bundles
ibout one foot in diameter, set
ibout thirty to forty bundles in
i shock, tie the tops with twine
md the feed will keep all right
Liu til dry euough to haul and
dock in long ricks or to shred.
It the corn is cut with a liar
vestev, use a horse" and set
he eorn around this in the same
jareful way as when using the
jtandards. This writer is allround
everywhere when corn is
3eiug put in shock, and makes
t a point to see that every shock
s built right. We use good
ilzed sliocKs; those that will
jhuck?in good corn?from
three quarters to one barrel
(seven and one half to ten bushsi
baskets of ears).
Of course the silo beats every
3ther method of harvesting the
joru crop, but we cannot put it
all in the silo.
"Health Coffoo" is really the closest Cotfee
Imitation ever yet produced This clevar
coftee substitute was recently produced
by Dr Shoop of ltacine, Wis. Not a grain
at real coffee in it, either. Dr. Shoop's
Health Coffee is made from pure toasted
grains, with malt, nuts, etc. lteally it
would tool an expert who might drink it
for coffee. No '2U or 3d minutes tedious
boiling; "Made in a uiinule." says the doctor;
sold by Bennett Grocery Co. w
Cotton Bagging for Cotton
Bales?Example of Mississippi
Farmers' Union.
The officers of the Farmers'
Union in Mississippi have made
% contract with the cotton mills
to tunish 14.000,0' 0 yards of
Jotton baggiug, a sufficient quantity
to cover 2,000,000 bales
Tl -
ii uutLuu. iijey propose 10 paCK
ivery bale of cotton grown by
die members of the Union in that
State in this baggiug, and to en;ourage
its use by all other lar[ners
with whom they have any
influence. We are told by the
Atlanta Constitution that while
the annual cotton crop ol Mississippi
does not aggregate 2,000,000
bales, or anything like it,
ihe Farmers' Union in that State
are so firmly convinced that they
will nave co-operation from cotton
growers in surrounding Stat
es that ttie demand for cotton
bagging will far exceed the qom
tity ot the bagging ior whicl they
have contracted.
Why should not cotton b<- covered
with cotton cloth' It is
neater than jute, and equally
strong. In will supply an additional
market tor the notion produced
by the growers. It will
make the growers independent
>1 the great jute bagging trust, j
md will contribute immensely to {
he commercial and tnanuiacturng
s'renitth of the South. Why !
send to India for jute in which!
,o bale the Southe-ii cotton crop
*hen the staple can be packed 1
letter 111 bagging made from cot-;
on grown in the Southern fields?j
?The *ews and Courier.
$100 lleward, $100.
The readers ol this paper will he pleased
n learn that there is at least one dreaded
lisease that science has heen able to cure
n all its stages, and that is Catarrh,
(all s Catarrh Cure is the only positive
inre now known to the medical fraternity
'atarrli being a c onstitutional disease, repures
a constitutional treatment. Mall's
'atarrli ? uro is taken internally, acting
lirectly upon the blood and mucous suraces
of the system, thereby destroying
ho foundation of the disease, arid giving
he patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing
ts work The proprietors have so much
'aith in its curative powers that they otter
)ne llnndied Hollars for any case that it
alls to cure iSond for list of testimonials.
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