BEK 26, 1926.
6c COPY—11.60 PEE YEA*
i i in c , m
propriately named the “Mother of
Apricalttttal Prosperity^’ - Whet&nr
she is found in numbers, there also
is found paved roads, attractive farm
houses, good rural schools and
churches, rich land and most, impor
tant qf all—healthy, contented farm
families. -
There are several reasons why dairy
farming promotes prosperity. The
work on the average farm is not dis^
tributed evenly throughout the twelve
months of the year. There are sea-j
sons when the farmer is flooded with
worth and there are seasons when he
is idle.. The dairy cow affords him
profitable employment every day in
the year. The milking and caring for
the milk and cream must be done.
The farmer who is milking a few
cows receives some cash each week of
the y&r. This money, coming in reg
ularly, makes him independent of
charge accounts at the store. Invari
ably the man who is m a position to
pay. cash for what he needs can buy
at a lower figures than the man who
asks the merchant to credit him for
£etural months at a time. In other
words/ ten dollars in cash each week
has a great deal more purchasing
power in a years time than an equal
amount (five hundred rad twenty-five
dollars) payable at the end of the
year.
Dairy cows furnish a cash market
for the home grown feeds, some of
which are too bulky to sell profitably.
Even the best! quality of hay must be
baled before it can be disposed of
unless it is fed on the farm. > There is
no other animal that is as efficient a
.machine for converting rough feeds
into cash as is the dairy cow. When
the farmer feeds his crops to cowb he
not only gets paid for the feed in milk
but he also retains most of the fertil
ising value of these crops to return
to the land in the form of manure and
in thiB way enriches his farm each
year. A system of agriculture which
does not provide for keeping up the
land cannot endure and is unsafe even
for a short time. 1
-- There is no food that will quite
mi™ the place of milk, especially for
.children. Every farmer needs a milk
cow for the family. It will be good
business for him to keep several more
for a cash crop.
FIRES CREEK
J. H. Barlow, T. M. Hicks, Sam
Roach and Verlin Martin have been
hflVHi»g lumber for Ledford Bros., for
tiie past few days. ,
\ Roach & drilling In wheat for
J, H. Barlow. '
S. J. Leatherwood is moving to An
drews tide week.
Mr. D. Brooks and son and his son’s
wife made a trip to By!** & <3* l*st
week tci see Jus mother who whs very
-tick.
. Arkie Dale who baa^iiyed for many
years on Mrs. Aubrey's place has
to the Lon Watson place.
* Van Roach moved into his
dwelling last Friday.
The fires Creek School is progrees
nicely and the children are all
I with their teacher. -
WiH Heden has gone to Rob
BREAKING HOME TIES
By A. 8. CHAPIN
r —r
Coe® BYE,
Sou — ,
AHBffOQP LUCK *
You* b bothers
WENT OFF TO.
•we city last
YEAR. AwVe
Ahj't rtEAft® A
WORD FUOM'EM
i SwCE —
If JlWWTYM*#
Broke foun.
mother's .
SlTlAftO! J
goo? .mw* *■
Don't csv T*»rf«
I'LL Soow MAKS
"ME WORLD >
M X SHORT tiw TUB W
WILL 36 FULL OP MY ««
I WlU. 30 IN EVERY Be®*
AMD WEYWILL HASH Ml
DAYS lb COME AS A Hi
Conversation — f
■rtuRIff OP—
WC'u. W
£2£!
&rt-T»K* (T «»»,*_
pouc5 »mo eer -no
ALL-ciaep
optenCbti
The NECK
O GET TOO
> cn«tr, y
r it in vL/
PINELOG NEWS
Faftning it very backward in this
section. *
Captain R. A. Dyer and family
spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. H.
E. McClure Sunday.
Mr. Paul Cabe entertained his
many friends with a corn husking and
musical Saturday night.
Prof. Joe Myers made a business
trip to Murphy Saturday.
Rev. Sam Green filled his regular
appointment at Pinelog Baptist church
Sunday.
Sandy Carter filled his regular ap
pointment at the home of H. E. Mc
Clure Saturday night.
J. C. Evans was a visitor on Pine
log Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Dewey Hanson recently moved
to the Pinel$g teacherage.
Mrs. F. M. Bell and daughter Stella
were visitors at the home of Mrs.
Fannie Ivester.
Miss Carrie Moffitt who teaches on
Pinelog spent last week-end with
home folks on Shooting Creek.
Mr. Crelm Reece spent Sunday with
P. J. Milber.
Mr. A. D. Evans who has been to
Asheville attending Federal Court
returned home Thursday of last
week:.
{judge James R. Hamilton
GRASSES*
PASTURES FOR
MACON COUNTY
By J. R. Sams
I have been requested to write a
short article for the Franklin Press
on the above subject. Some farmers
may be surprised at the great num
ber of grasses throughout the world.
Authorities state that about 6000
different grasses have been classified
and named in the world. While this
is true, the farmers of Macon county
could get along quite well with eight
out of the six thousand grasses so far
as hay crops and temporary and per
manent pastures are concerned.
These eight grasses are as follows
viz: Orchard grass, Tall Meadow
Oat grass, Meadow Fesene, Kentucky
Blue grass and Bermuda grass.
Then there are six clovers, (so
called) viz: White Dutch, Japan, Al
ayke, Hop, Burr and White Sweet
clover that should be used liberally
in every grass mixture. Bur. clover
will not do much in Macon county
except on rich warm natured land
White Blooming Sweet Clover will
do well in any secttion of Macon
county when lime is used freely. And
on some soils it will do well with little'
or no lime; but it is a lime requir
ing legume. White Dutch clover,
Japan clover and Hop clover are
small pasture plants independent of
lime requirements. Alsyke is to some
extent perennial and produces heavy
crops of seed when not grazed too
close and will remain in the pasture
for several years. The White Dutch
clover is perennial, and the Japan,
Hop and Bur clovers are annual re
seeders. They should be sown in
every pasture mixture for more reas
ons than one. They give variety to
live stock. They come along from
Bur clow in February to Japan
clover in September, and they gather
nitrogen from the atmosphere and
place it in the soil to aid the grasses
in growth, which have not this
power* Now with tiiw night gnnftft
take the proper care when establish
ed. >
No one ever thinks of preparing a
piece of rich land and planting good
seed corn in the soil and then going
away till harvest time and expect to
come back and reap a good harvest.
Why then should a farmer expect
more of grass and clover when
wanted than corn? Yet, the grasses
.11 endure great negligence and
mse and still yield a dividend; but
ne dividends will be much larger
/hen proper care is bestowed. Until
jroperly established, weeds and bush
js should be kept down; it should
lever be over-grazed, and should be
eseeded, cultivated and fertilized
when it shows failure.
j What I mean by cultivation is by
using a spike-tooth harrow on the
sod occasionally and sow a light dres
sing of seed. In some instances
where the sod becomes sod bound and
the land becomes hard and tough, a
disc harrow and the spike-tooth har
row should be used with caution; and
reseeding with an application of lime
and acid phosphate is good for the j
pasture. Any management that keeps'
the grasses and clovers a dark green,
and vigorous is good for the pasture
for the live stock and also for their
owner.
264.4 Miles Per Hour
—y
GROWS 258 1-2 BUSHELS ON It
ACRES
Mr. H. M. Crawford of the Elf com
munity, Hiawassee Township is an
other good wheat producer, he pro
duced 258 1-2 bushels on ll acres last
year, this being 23 1-2 bushels per
Acre. 'Mr. Crawford did not make
any special preparation of the land
that he grew this on, it being
just ordinary Clay bounty land, he
only used 200 pounds of fertilizer per
acre on part of the eleven acres and
150 pounds on the rest.
Mr. Crawford is one of Clay
county’s most progressive farmers, he
keeps his land built up by diversifica
tion of crops deep plowing and the
turning under of all refuse matter on
his farm, by doing this he keeps his
! land- in a highly productive state, and
makes good yields each year. Mr.
Crawford would not have made 23
1-2 bushels of wheat per acre if he
was not a real farmer .a farmer who
makes a business of farming. We
consider this a splendid yield of
wheat. If all Clay county farmers
made such wheat crops and did not
ship it out of the county but chop up
the surplus and feed it with other
feeds that can be produced fight on
their farms and feed this to a dozen
or more good hogs it would not be
long until flay farmers would be as
prosperous as any farmers any
where.
HOGFEEDING
GETS RESULTS
Eleven Pigs Gain 202 Pound* in Three
Weeks on Old Country Rations
The following record came to my
attention through the County Agent’s
Office. The Countk agent dropped
in to see Mark Weaver’s pigs as he
was the first man to put the pigs on
feed, they had done so much beyond
his expectations that he and Mr.
Weaver decided to weigh them and
see just what they had done. Three
weeks ago eleven pigs weighed 281
pounds or an average of 25 1-2 pounds
each, estimated gains were 102 pounds
in this three weeks, making them
weigh 383 pounds. When the scales
were applied this was what happened,
the pigs that weighed 281 pounds
| or an average of 25 1-2 pounds each,
estimated gains were 102 pounds in
this three weeks, making them weigh
383 pounds. When the scales were
applied this was what happened the
pigs that weighed 281 pounds three
weeks before at this weighing weighed
483 pounds a gain of 202 pounds, they
had exceeded the estimate gain 100
pounds, they had went from an aver
age 25 1-2 pounds to an average of
44 pounds each. If these pigs con
tinue to gain not as they have gained
for the last three weeks but an
average gain for the next two weeks
they will weigh 679 pounds, a gain
of 288 pounds. This will mean the
following; that they have over doubled
their weight going from an average of
25 1-2 pounds to 52 pounds and they
will have eaten $16.00 worth of feed
and made over $30.00 worth of gain.
“WATCH THE PIGS,” they will fool
your expectations. Scrub hogs have
been paying lots of Clay county debts,
good blooded hogs will make her pros
perous. Quite a number of Clay
county farmers have begun to feed
hogs for the market whose record of
feeding and gain we have not yet se
cured, but they will be published as
soon as they are available.