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Show COTTON SITUATION IN TEXAS Should Be Settled Policy of Southern'; Farmers to Emancipate Themselves Them-selves From One-Crop Bondage. Z Texas has produced about four mit- lion bales of cotton this year. The acreage is about five per cent smaller than last year, but the yield is greater Prospects are not bright for the marketing mar-keting of the crop and the people of Texas are doing what they can to re-i lieve the situation for the planters by, "buying a bale," by the "wear-cotton-r goods" movement and by other expedients. expedi-ents. These methods of boosting cotton may have some little effect on the situation, but when they slu,ll have run their course Texas still will have' a big cotton crop hand along witbr remnants of the jt year's production, produc-tion, says Louisville Courier-Journal.. This also will be the case in other Southern states where the tendency has been to "spread" on cotton and lo "skimp" on other, products. When, cottou is low or is not selling readily; the South necessarily feels the pinch of financial stringency. The remedy-was remedy-was set forth in the recent advice of: Secretary of Agriculture Houston; when he said that it should be the set, tied policy of the southern farmer' henceforth "to emancipate themselve' from one-crop bondage." Farm-Kelp Question. Any farmer ought to be able to sa plan his work that he can keep the same help the year through. Th men who do the milking are free most of the day for plowing or taking care of the crops. But it needs the personal per-sonal interest of the boss. Farming: has become a question of wise managementof man-agementof head workand we will' see lots of people come to the front' as successful because they do not allow their think tanks to beeome-rusty. beeome-rusty. Mating Buff Orpingtons. In mating Buff Orpingtons, remember remem-ber that if you use big-boned, broud-backed broud-backed males, oversize really for the breed, you are surer to get strong t.,e. ly chicks that per-lst in living in'splter of cold and bad .sage. Never bree.I from a thin, long type, drooped-tail j Orpington. Somehow massive build and big bone tell for more in this- j breed than in some others. j Keep Salt Handy. , If you don't keep salt so your horses I '"ni cf tUe can et 11 a" te time, bo a little more careful than aua, in. this respect just now, for these ani mals are eating a larSe amount of very dry feed in the stalk fields anj at the straw piles. Too many farni,;rs n, lect salting their stock. The best wiv is to keep it so they can gul l( ' ' time they want it. Keep Hog Pens Clean. The dust accumulates in the ho.--sheds before you know it thin sea-ori of the year. Watch this and keep ibe , dust down. It is a louse in-a ,iis(,.lw j breeder. A hog whose lungs ure ful, of dust cannot have much vitality Effective Deodorizer. ; A very effective deodorizer for the' ' hog house is made by puttinpa t ihle spr.onlul of curbolic acid in a bticlu-t j of water. Sprinkle over the floor. Stop Up the Cracks. ' Stop up the cracks i Uu, , sl.etls and poultry houses: retnenilter the lower animals are as suscr-pUM- to drafts its we ourselves. j Pay Little Debts. ; Sell a little cotton and p:n- vour I little debts ' ' r |
