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URL HUNT
COL W
In his addresss to the people
at the Taylor county fair, held at
Butler, Mr. W. T. Anderson laid
much stress on the econmic use
of farm waste. Kentucky farm
ers, Mohawk river farmers and
others used to dump the stable
manure into rivers or creeks
or haul it off as so much worth
less trash. And cotton hulls were
given .'away to whoever would
pay the freight on them. One
can pass by tenants houses on
the farm and see that the tenants
do not yet even pen the cattle
or the manure.
These things—this farm waste
—led Col. B. W. Hunt to write
concerning the bagasse, which
we call “cane-pummies,” and
its waste, and how it can be
economically utilized by the
farmer, and following is his
letter to Prof. John R. Fain,
professor of agronomy, State
College of Agriculture:
“Dear Prof. Fain: Answer
ing your inquiry regarding en
siling bagasse, f lam feeding
daily sugar cane to all my bo-
vines. No words less strong
than sinful waste describe the
non-use of the remainder of left
storks after expressing the juice
of sugar cane and soghum.
“I am pleased to say that my
cowu. otherwise well fed and
also running in velvet bean fields
yet cat the bagasse with avdity.
“I do not think it possible to
produce I etter flavored milk than
that from cows eating sugar
cane waste and peanut meal.
“These two cattle feeds are
evidently destined to immeasur
ably advance the live stock in
dustry ot the cotton-producin’fe
States.
"The bagasse I shredded very
fine, blew it fresh from the
canchull into silos, sprayed it
with water and packed as any
other dnsilage crop.
“I wish every newspaper in
the south would shame the
dairymen who buy beet pulp
bagsse, paying the beet * mills
therefor the railroad toll and
passing by a roughage I prefer
viz , sugar cane bagasse, thrown
out to waste,
Benj. W. Hunt.”
The above letter from Col.
Hunt speaks for itself. It will
be observed that he turns his
cattle on pasture of velvet beans
and uses peanut meal as a food
for his cattle.
Talking with Judge F. F.
Putney, an extensive farmer of
Dougherty county, he said in his
contracts he would require plant
ing freely of peanuts, as we
now have a ready and assured
market for them, the same as
for cotton seed.
In a chat with Col. John E.
Donalson, of Bainbridge, who
has extensive planting inter-
eets in Decatur county, he spoke
very encouragingly of velvet
beans and peanuts as money
crops. On one ot his farms he
planted only a small acreage in
cotton of early variety, planting
in a shallow or water furrow, so
that the cotton was protected
from winds, just as we now
protect oats, making safe early
planting. This was ahead of
fhe weevils.
On that same farm, a large
one. he planted velet beans and
peanuts. The velvet beans when
young and tender are eaten just
like butter beans, or can I be
used on the table as we do mash-
potatoes. It is a new dish to
tenants, but they like it and it
reduces the cost of living.
As peanut gathering is a job,
I asked Col. Donalson how he
managed it. He said: “When
the time comes and we plow up
the peanuts, we stack themVip
as you do fodder, vine and all.
We do not wait to dry the pea
nuts. They do no rot. We
stack >hem as you do fodder,
right from the field as they are
plowed up. Later threshing
machines come around and
thresh them and the peanuts are
taken to the mills and are ready
for sale.” Col. Donalson said
his tenants were pleased with
the results and have more money
than those on the Dougherty
county farm which was planted
in cotton inthe same old way.
Mrs. Donalson was with
the Colonel and she added:
“Some two years ago we were
’depressed over the weevil ques
tion, but now our lands are as
valuable as ever. Velvet beans
and the peanut solved the pro
blem. Our tenants on the plan
tation, devoted to these crops
other than cotton, are in better
shape than ever before. I have
become very much interested in
farm diversification. The first
year of the change as negro
tenants have to learn, is some
what troublesome, but after that
we have found the tenants take
to it, for they raise more hogs,
and make their living on the
farm.”
Now this was interesting to
me, because it was the eperi-
ence of practical people; for none
excel Col. and Mrs. Donalson in
culture and conditions. Their
experiments are worth something
and buoy one with cheerfulness
Col. Donalson in his chat
further remarked “that it would
be unwise to pass embago laws
that for the present we must
quit our over-indulgence in lux
uries. Not embargoes, not boy-
j cotts, but we need a wholesale
; selfdenial and prudence. We
| waste to much; there is waste
on the farms, waste in the
households and the people of the
I United States are living to fast,
I and wasting their substance in
i peckless indulgence. Let us re-
S turn to saner standards of living,
!rather than resort to embargoes!
! and and thereby gain the illwill
l ot all the Allies.”
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