Diversified farming in the cotton Diversified farming in the cotton belt diversifiedfarmi00alfo Year: 1914 MORE AND BETTER LIVE STOCK 35 in the summer though heavily fertihzed. We cannot plow deep or turn under the corn and cotton stalks, oat and pea stubble, grass and weeds with a one-horse plow. One Horse Plows and Cultivators Poor Practice Cultivating crops with one-horse plows and one-horse cultivators is a slow process and should not be practiced unless the land is full of roots and stumps. This is an age of labor-saving farm implements and no farmer can afford to walk down each middle
Diversified farming in the cotton Diversified farming in the cotton belt diversifiedfarmi00alfo Year: 1914 MORE AND BETTER LIVE STOCK 35 in the summer though heavily fertihzed. We cannot plow deep or turn under the corn and cotton stalks, oat and pea stubble, grass and weeds with a one-horse plow. One Horse Plows and Cultivators Poor Practice Cultivating crops with one-horse plows and one-horse cultivators is a slow process and should not be practiced unless the land is full of roots and stumps. This is an age of labor-saving farm implements and no farmer can afford to walk down each middle three or four times at each cultivation. The one-row cultivator should be used by every farmer. The farmers of the South should raise the necessary horse power. Mil- lions, of dollars are leaving the South each year, for the purchase of mules and horses. Few small farmers can afford to keep mules and geldings—at least half the work stock on southern farms should be draft mares, actively engaged in heavy work and colt production. It is a great economic waste not to use one or more draft mares on every farm. The modem method of preparing the soil The man who employs mules or geldings in farm operations receives in return only their labor. Mares employed for farm work, if intelligently handled, can do all the work that is required and will produce in addition a considerable number of colts, which rapidly develop into marketable animals, thereby adding to the farm income. Brood Mares for Work Animals It is generally considered that three brood mares must be kept to do the same work that can be done by a pair of mules or geldings of equal strength, but the difference in feed cost is slight, and the value of the colts produced off-sets such difference in feed costs with a considerable balance to spare. It is perfectly clear that when work done on a farm by two geldings or mules, is equally as well done by three mares at a very slight expense in feed cost
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