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Chattanooga’s Reliable Firms
WHO APPRECIATE YOUR TRADE.
Modern Farm Methods
As Applied in the South.
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Notes of Interest to Planter, ,
Fruit Grower and Stockman
Cheat is Not Poisonous.
Some correspondents are asking
about cheat. One wants to know if it
is a distinct species or a hybrid; an
other asks if it is poisonous and adds
that sometimes oats sowed in the fall
turn to cheat.
The plant commonly known as
cheat in the South is Bromus secali
nus. It is certainly not poisonous,
but makes very fair hay when cut
young. There is in some sections an
other grass that is called cheat; it is a
species of rye grass, Lolium temulen
tum, or Darnel. This has long had
the reputation for being poisonous.
But it is easily distinguished from the
common cheat, as it has a stiff, erect
and prickly head, while the common
cheat has a branching, nodding head
like oats.
People get cheat in their oats from
sowing foul seed, for the seed of the
cheat is very much like a small grain
of oat, and people not acquainted
with the different plants would take
it for oats. Get your land free from
cheat and then sow clean oats and
you will never have any cheat. You
had as well try to grow a pine tree
from an acorn as to grow cheat from
clean oat seed, though there are peo
ple who imagine that the cheat is the
result of the oats turning to a differ
ent plant. I have known college grad
uates to have this superstition, be
cause they had never been taught the
life of plants. You say: “You know
that sometimes oats sown in the fall
turn to cheat.” I do not know any
thing of the sort, but do know that if
you sow cheat seed with your oats
you will have cheat, even if the win
ter kills the oats; for the cheat is
hardy and one knowing nothing about
plant life, and seeing green leaves
there, imagines he has pats till they
head all cheat, and he then imagines
that the oats have turned to cheat
when they were cheat all the while
from the time the seed sprouted.
If you had sent samples of the Vir
ginia oats you sowed last fall to the
experiment station they could have
told you that there were cheat seed
in them. In Maryland a week ago I
saw a field of winter oats that were
half cheat, but the farmer who had
them was an intelligent student of his
profession. He did not imagine that
the oats had turned to cheat, but he
kn'ew that the seedsman in Baltimore
had sold him foul seed. “Whatsoever
a man soweth that shall he also reap.”
If there are no cheat seed in your soil,
and you sow none with your oats, you
will never see a cheat seed in the
crop.—W. F. Massey.
Alsike For Moist Lands.
I want to grow some hay. My
land, or the most of it, is low and in
clined to be buckshot. Will alfalfa
or red clover grow on such land?
Bermuda grows fine on my place.
There is no hay grown in this neigh
borhood. and I would like to start in
the hay business.—W. H. Harris.
Answer: At the best, only tempo
rary success could be had with alfalfa
or red clover on poorly drained land.
Since Bermuda is thriving on this
farm it had better be relied on for
one of the main hay plants. Of course
it is wise to use a clover or alfalfa in
stead of a grass for hay when condi
tions are favorable to good returns
from the clover or alfalfa, since it
will improve the soil. There
is a be used on wet
soil for hay oi^fc^ure —alsike clo
ver. It will even stand submergence
for a time, while it will also grow on
uplands. Till tests in the vicinity
show that alsike will thrive, however,
it is advisable to plant only limited
areas till results point to the future
policy. It will not make as large a
yield as red clover where red clover
is a success, but the alsike is more
likely to thrive. Its habit is more re
cumbent, and before cutting it will
not seem that there is as much hay
on the ground as there really is. Al
sike may be grown alone, but a mix
ture of hay plants will give a larger
yield.
On the moist land as described the
following mixture can be tridNC wich
strong hopes of success: Four pounds
of alsike clover, five pounds of tall
fescue (called meadow fes
cue, English blue spass, Randall grass
and by other names), four pounds of
red top and five pounds of orchard
grass seed. This mixture will give
good grazing as early as February, in
addition to the hay }t will yield. By
having grass growinj with the alsike
clover, the clover wi* not make erup
tions on the skins of worses and mules
that graze it, which *uld sometimes
happen if grass eaten with
the clover. Hay buyew in a commu
nity may have a decpd preference
for the hay of some pj®ticular plant,
and in seeding a meadcMkit is best to
plant whatever will satP|u,this pref
erence, however it may
be, if it can be done without sacrific
ing too much. Pearson is not far
from Jackson, Miss., and other places
that should be good markets for hay;
there is a good net income from hay
growing, and the boll weevil is not a
great distance from this point, so hay
raising seems to offer a very good op
portunity to any man who has wasted
enough money in trying to kill grass
that he is ready to look at the gain
that can be had by growing grass and
making it into hay. Progressive
Farmer.
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Milk and Butter.
Do not put cool and warm milk in
the same vessel.
One advantage of feeding calves by
hand is that one can then know just
what and how much they are getting.
Make pets of the milk cows, so they
will be gentle and easily handled.
Nervous cows do not do the best as
milkers.
There should be good ventilation
where milk is kept, and the in-going
air should not carry any bad smells
or taints into the room or cellar where
the milk may be.
If calves are being raised on skim
milk, use great care to keep clean
the buckets they feed out of. Bowel
trouble and a stunted condition are
caused by uncleanness.
The man who is in the habit of do
ing things well has much in his fa
vor as a dairyman. Dairying calls for
well done work, and the grade of the
■work corresponds with the net profit
to be realized.
While the aims of the common
farmer may not call for a cow of one
of the pronounced dairy breeds, yet
the man who is going into dairying on
a considerable scale cannot afford to
use any other kind than good grades
of such breeds.
When anything very unusual or
very serious is wrong with a cow it is
best to call in a veterinarian. She
might get well without his service,
but in the long run it will not be best
to save a little by not employing him
losing the cow or reducing
her \miue by not employing him.
The milk of only healthy cows is
fit for food or for making butter. The
mistake of supposing that milk is all
right as long as it does not smell or
taste bad is sometimes made. One
may consume milk or butter from a
diseased cow without suffering seri
ously from it, but it is unwise to run
the risk it involves.
Do not try to keep milk in good
condition in a hot room without ice.
If there is no cellar dig a hole in the
ground—make a sort of cave, if noth
ing else can be done. It is surprising
what an aid a roomy hole four or five
feet deep, from which the sun is ex
cluded, will be. It will keep the
milk and butter in better condition
and promote health in a way a hot
room cannot.
The dairyman will have his ups and
downs, but his net profit will not
vary so much from year to year as
that of the average farmer will. If
the dairyman uses good judgment,
knows his business and does not get
sick, he will not have to have much
experience to reckon at the beginning
of the year about what his net profit
will be at the end of the year.
Thin cotton cloth costs very little,
and it is a fine plan to use anew
piece at each milking for straining
the milk. Then burn the piece used,
and next time use anew piece. It
looks like one could with ease thor
oughly clean a cloth used for strain
ing milk; but the probability is that
thorough cleaning will not be done
by even careful dairymen. It is tak
ing little chances of making a fail
ure unnecessarily that put many
hard-working dairymen out of busi
ness.—Progressive Farmer.
Quick Returns on Investment.
For the small farmer, the hog is
the animal par excellence to grow, as
he matures in from ten to twelve
months, and has a ready cash value
on the market. Furthermore, hogs
can be raised cheaper than any other
class of stock, for under the modified
system of practice outlined below
hogs may be made to weigh 180 to
200 pounds in ten to twelve months
on a minimum ration of grain, say
five to ten buhsels of corn. This
compared with the exclusive corn fat
tening generally practiced would rev
olutionize the whole business from a
financial standpoint. The South do£s
not grow corn on aeything like *ie
scale followed in the West, but it has
been clearly demonstrated that sub
stitutes of equal value to corn can be
utilized in the South at a minimum of
cost, so that the compensating influ
ences of nature have placed the
Southern farmer on a plane where he
can compete successfully with the
Western hog raiser. Southern
Planter.
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Clothiers, Hatters, Furnishers
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We wish to notify the readers of this paper that there are
a number of unscrupulous spectacle peddlers traveling s in
Georgia and Tennessee claiming to be agents of our firm.
Such claims ate FALSE and we denounce these parties as
FAKIRS and IMPOSTERS and will prosecute any offend
er of the above If we can secure evidence against him.
Broken Lenses Duplicated on Short Notice
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