JUDICIOUS FERTILIZING 419 



Any good hay press may be used that will leave the bales 

 ill good shape to pack in a car, if it is wished. In some mar- 

 kets the tall corn is most preferred, but in Southern Kansas it 

 grows so rank that it is too coarse. I sold one lot of broom 

 corn to a home manufacturer, and some of the brush was two 

 and a half and three feet long. The dwarf broom corn makes 

 a better brush, for it is finer. There are quite a number of 

 men in our county who make up their own brOom corn or hire 

 it done, and exchange it for goods. 



JAMES C. MARSHALL, 



LA CYGNE, LI^JN COUNTY. 



Crrain-^ Cattle — Ilo[/s — Stojie — Osar/e Hedge — Sulky Plows. 



I believe there is no cheaper way of manuring land than 

 to grow the fertilizers on the ground where they are needed. 

 In order to do this I raise but two crops in three years. 



Wheat stubble, with the growth of weeds, should be- 

 turned under deeply in the Fall or Winter, for corn. Corn' 

 stalks, with the early growth of weeds, should also be plowed 

 under, from the middle of June to the middle of July, for- 

 wheat. 



After a trial of from ten to twelve years, I find my land 

 instead of growing poor by cultivation, gets better. The same 

 system will answer for any crop. Some people forget Frank- 

 lin's maxim, "always taking out of the meal chest and never 

 putting in, will, sooner or later, bring us to the bottom." Thia 

 is as true of the land as of the meal chest. 



GRAIN. 



Corn and wheat are our two great staples. Flax does well 

 here, but until some way of utilizing the straw can be found, it 

 does not pay as well as other crops. One of our great wants 

 is a paper mill to use the flax straw, the Indian mallows. 



