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IHollings COFFINS Our store is still i ing, witn a well s can suit you, doi til you see what * - ? # We have one slight! a. ? l ?? <t iu uLsi uujei sur 4 opened from the ia< J. w. Green Manuring'. Who hat not heard of the cow pea as a hay-making and a soil-improving plant? Anil, who has not been let to believe thatNone-third or more of the ^ nitrogen anu other plant food elements W found in this plant at maturity, are left in the roots and stubble after the crop is harvested and cured for hay; j that is to say, out of every hundred pounds of nitrogen etc., found in the: pea crop at maturity. 83 1-3 pounds are " the roots and stubble? - ! * This was our beat information up to , a short time ago, and even now some I of our best agricultural advisers insist on proverbial third of the nitrogen, etc., j being left in the underground portion of j the plant. Like the old idea of the sour- i ing of the soil on well-drained land, some man seemed to haye guessed at the amount of nitrogen, etc., left in the roots and stubble and hastened to rush his intention into print. Now, a ton of cured cow peas has, in I the whole plant about, 40 pounds of nitrogen. If one-third of this arpount wore in the roots and stubble we would have left on the soil and in the soil about 14 pounds of a vailable nitrogen per acre in case the acre produced a ton ol cow pea bay. This amount of nitro icn Is equal to that furnished by 700 pounds of an 8-2-2 fertilizer?a pretty heavy application for most farm crops. This seemed to be rather weighty argument in favor of cutting the vines, feeding them to live stock, and putting the manure back on the land, regardless of the fact that the manure from a ton of cow pea bay fed to cattle will cover?well, what part of the acre will it cover? Our farmers haye been acting on this advice for a number of years in the face of the daily decreasing fertility of their lands under this system. -fAr. W. A. Marsh, of Union county, took this advice literally, sowed oats, cut and removed them, then sowed cow peas on oat stubble and then cut these for bay when rtiature. This practice was continued till his lani would not produce a crop even of peas. Examples could be multiplied where the pea crop has been i removed year after year with disastrous i results Indeed, it now seems that the i surest method of depleting the fertility ' of the soil Is to rehiove a crop of cow ' ^ pea vines from it every year for a few i years in succession. The real explanation of this ohenom- i enon has finally been discovered. In an | exhaustive series of tests and expert- < ments conducted by a number of out i be*, experiment stations it has been < found that the amount of nitrogen, etc., i left in the roots and stubble of the cow i pea plant is not one-tbifd, but about one-tenth, ff that found in tbe whole plant. Here seems to be one of the leading factors In the explanation of the running down of average soils by the ; annual removal of the pea crop. An- i other, and, perhaps the leading factor, j is that all the organlo matter la remov od from the soil for a sariee.of yean by ..-.d-y - 'fl p ?^ i -I . - '*V *y' " " V . . - ^ ^ ' ' " . worth's % and CASKETS t full to the overAc selected stock, so ^ ft promise to buy u we have. -f . \ ?' y used oak ^case pia: 1150 spot cash, this : ;tory 0 0 H?LLL this method and thus all bacterial life j is driven from the land, which is there- j by rendered dead. These dead soils are not necessarily robbed of their mineral plant foods, however, as will be demon- | straied by piowingdown a cow pea crop or a good crop of rye for a year or two in succession. One top of green- cow pea vines contains about 5.5 pounds of nitrogen; 2 pounds, of phosphate; and 6 pounds of potash. It is an easy matter, on average soil, to get a growth of 12 tons-<3^ sonie one of the rank growing varieties per acre, which will cure up into three tons of hay. Composition of green cow ? hied vuui|>nieu wnn composition; of fresh cow and horse manure. MATERIAL. NITROGEN PHOSPHATE POTASH Greon cow peas 5.4 2 6.2 Cow manure 7.6 1.6 7.3 Horse manure 8.7 1.9 7.3 With this yield per acre there would be produced on a ten acre field 120 tons of green pea vines which, if cut to pieces with a shaipdisc harrow, plowed under and thoroughly incorporated with the whole soil stratum, would add to this field about 650 pounds of nitrogen and render available 240 pounds of phosphate and about 750 pounds of potash. By .thus using the pea crop as green manure the farmers get from the air as much nitrogen in the first ten inches of the soil of his 10-acre field as he would get from 80 tons of manure or from 16 tons of an 8-2-2 fertilizer. Hp gets as much phosphate rendered available to the succeeding afop as he would get from 150 tons of manure or from 1 1-2 tons ot an 8-2 2 fertilizer. The potash thus rendered available is equal to that obtained from over 100 tons of manure or from nearly 19 tons of an 8-2-2 fertilizer. And the humus obtained from this amount of vegetable matter turned into the soil will be suf ticient to feed bacterial life for years ; to come and will add immensely to menKnninal biiai'iVHi vviiuiblvilO anu YV a LCI HUlUing capacity of the land. The result of having lost sight of the fact that the humus or organic matter contents of the soil is the basis of all successful farming have been apalling not only in North Carolina but over the whole South. Can we afford to reduce the vitality of our lands still further ' and hope to retain ownership of them? When we have finished this series of articles on feasible methods of soil improvement we expect to take up and. sutline a condition that is even now tattling down like a pall over the farmers of North Carolina.?J. L. Burgess, North Carolina Department of Agriculture. -? ~Y J\ To the Public. I havevone million cabbage plants. Karlv Jersey,! Wakefield and Winningiteaa, are r ready for sale. Price II. 2S per th( uand. Special price on large lots. 0 v\me your orders. \W. W. Holm as, Yjxiuiaburg, K. C. " . \] . Furnitiirc and # / no, good as new, guara^Oed^r 10 yeai Ls an exceptional bargain at this price, 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 ? ,0 l / ' * NGS WORTH. Read and Remember. Ltemember for this will jnean dollars saved for vou. We dol not hum-.lrum your ears. As an honest business concern we do not.use alluring ads with red letters. As a matter of . fact we do not advertise often. Our reputation is well known and our business is growing all the time. WHY? To give you a plain and true reasorf why; just come in and look at our immense stock. It the neatest, cleanest andi most up-to-date Line of merchandise to be found ' anywhere and above all we ask you\cordia/ly to compare our prices. By buying from us you get the\bendfit of our vast experience of knowing how and what to buy/ We naturally buy big and get same goods very much cha/per. You get the benefit. We give you lower prices than yo(uNcan get in larger towns.' Keep an eye"on the quality. Thisyis Vu age of quality. We have used our-best judgment to b\iy merchandise of quality. Our/ciotmng is composed of the cream of 1/e season and a\reat variety to pick from. An extra lar^e amount ofr ladi/s cloaks, shirts, sweaters and childrens apparel. STANDARD HIGH/CLASS SHOES. \vW handle the strongest line of mens and ladies shoeJ, such as the well knowh^brand of VV. L. Douglas, Rice and Ilutchinwand other tamous makes. Do yourself jus tice. B113' where you can f>uj right. AARON DEITZ, Louisburg, N. C. ...They Make Riding Easy... r V / D-.i-i T; ?N " - new nuuuei Aires on your puggy win maKe your wheels last longer and mkkl riding a pleasure I am prepared to do the vemrN^est work on short notice. 23 years experience in the buggy business Yours ttruly H. C. TAYLOR, iLottisburg, N. C. Jackson Tri-State Motor Car Co. * Louiaburg, *. C. Wishes to announce thavfroni now on they are prepared to do any and allNdlid4 of machine work. 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