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This Paper and Home Magazine Rest of Year for 50 Cents I err rri and E SOlWOQtl MaQHt i J profiRESSIVE FARMER VOL. XX. NO. 17. THE COTTON PLANT-VOIi. XXII. NO. 18.. RALEIGH, N. C, JUNE 6, 1905. Weekly $1 a Year. tug Frooresslve Farmer AND THE COTTON PLiANT. (Consolidated September 27, 1804.) Entered at RalelRh, N. C, as second class mall matter. EXPERIMENTING WITH ALFALFA. Fanners Should Not Become Discouraged if Complete Success is Not Attained the First Year More About Inoculation. CLARENCE H. POB. B. W. KILQORB, 1 C. W. BURfcETT, J Editor and Manager. Agricultural Editors. A LITTLE LETTER TO THE SAMPLE COPY READER. My Dear Sir: This number of The Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant has come to you marked 'Sample Copy." That means that you are one of a number of wide-awake farmers and truckers in the Carolinas and Virginia who ought to read Tli- Progressive Farmer, but don't. It's not fashionable nor profitable to try to farm here without The Progressive Farmer. And it's not fashionable because it doesn't pay. Every week the most successful and enterpris ing farmers and truckers of our territory write our paper of methods and ideas which help them make money and which will help you make money. . ., " . - -: :-. There are some papers vou can't tifford to take, and there are some you can't afford not to take. The Progressive Farmer is one you can't afford not to take. " : - - - It is not an expenditure, but an investment, and pays for itself every issue. "Most money pays only 6 per cent a year," says Mr. Asheley Home, "but the money I pay for The Progressive Farmer pays me 6 per cent a week." "The Progressive Farmer," savs Mr; J. M. Paris, "has given me $100 profit in improved land, crops, and stock for every one dollar I have paid for it." Put there's no use to arue. Here's the paper to speak for itself-and here we are making the litest offer in the history of the paper: To anv man who has never taken The Progres sive Farmer we will send our paer and the Min neapolis Home Magazine from now till January 1, 1U0G, for only 50 cents! You know The Progressive Farmer is worth while, and we assure you that the Home Magazine is also worth while. It is a large 24-page illus trated monthly, one of the best of the women's magazine, the regular subscription rate being 25 cents a year. It is filled with strong editorials on women's affairs; interesting romance; travel and deceptive articles; fancy work and fashion arti cles, and departments of housekeeping and flori culture. The regular subscription price of The Progres sive Farmer alone from now till January 1st is 65 cents, and in addition to this, we offer a first-class monthly magazine for the women readers cf your i'amil- all for only 50 cents! This is unquestionably the biggest offer ever made bv The Progressive Farmer management a special cut price open only to those not now subscribers no profit in it for us and made only t insure 1,000 new readers before July. Vv'e count on you as one of the lucky thousand. And the quicker you respond, the more you get f r your money. ' Order to-day. Messrs. Editors: Some of the reports that are coming to me about alfalfa seeded this spring in rhVAtfi a f ailing nn the rart of the nlants to make the growth expected, while other reports are very encouraginsr. It will not be at all surprising if nrmnv arp. disannointed and some make complete failures with alfalfa this season for the reason that it is an experimental crop with most of our tflrmp.PS. and thev do not know the peculiarities and requirements of the plant, nor do they know that the land upon which they planted it is in right condition to grow alfalfa successfully. TVfro is a frreat deal about the crop yet to be D " 1 , If learned, and we need not expect to learn it all in one or two seasons. Some of the reports coming in state that the plants are small and yellow-looking, and the wnt- rifo xcro-i-if tr Irnnw what IS the trouble, and also who thev shall do to make the alfalfa grow and have the rich green color-indicative of thrifti- ness. TVio sm all e-rowth and vellow looks indicate the kft nf hflcteriA. on thA roots. I have some on my own farm neaT Goldsboro that does, not show TiTnrAT innnnlation notwithstanding tlfe seed were tieated with inoculating material. The lack of proper inoculation is, I presume, because eixner the lnnH or p.oTtriition ot weather is agamsx xne development of the bacteria. It is not enough that the seed or soil shall be inoculated, but condi: .a miief K nVht for the development of the bacteria in the soil or we need not expect satis factory results. In my case 1 think there has been -v -milill rain nn A that has Drevented the de- luu xiivi " - - -I "velopment of the bacteria." The land, though ranging from sand to a stirt loam, is rexenxive oi . ayyA TvrrthsiKlv has aciditv in it; though it was heavily limed in the earlv spring. However, i nnnco he whatever it may. the alfalfa is not doing like I would be glad to have it do. I have advised Mr. Davis, who is on xne piacc, tu three inches above the Willi IUC uiu- - - cround and allow the clippings to lie on the 1rh T shall advise this clipping process every two or three weeks until the plants begin to show improvement, which I am expect- ins- to follow. he cupping win cau ru to branch and become more stocky, and give to them a stronger root growth. In addition to the clipping I shall endeavor to -f tho nlat with soil from mv al- falfa field at Hillsboro, and if nodules do not e rta f thfi remammer plants, will n-n that so as to see it there is any difference between soil inoculation, and that from nitro-culture. By carefully lifting the small plants with a paddle, or-anythmg that will take up the soil with the riant, and gently shaking ff ;t will h an easy matter to tell it tilt SUli UU aw ' ' - . the plants are in6culaed. If they are not inocu lated, the roots will be free from the little no i if ara lnofiiilated. there will be uuies; wiiiii? u- ' , on the roots from one to a dozen small nodules, from the size of a pin head up to the size of a o-rain of wheat, according to the quantity of m gr.T:lT thl soil. I shall be glad to have re- . j? . it,rteo xxrhn nrft exnermienting as to what extent they find these small nodules on the roots-of their alfalfa. . . I do not want any reader of The Progressive -r-i HttIt tnr a moment uuia ichci o ten with blue ink, or with any. idea of discouraging ten wixn m flifftlfa. but on the contrary xvis writU torevent any one from becoming Hisf mirnirprl and eriviner nr the fierht for alfalfa. I - regard the crop as one of too much promise to be abandoned on account oi lailures ior one or. two years even. The excessive rains this season are more favorable to weeds than to alfalfa; there- fore we will have to help the alt alia m its battle against the weeds. The mower is the most ettee tive weapon I know for this purpose. The fre-: quent use of it will be death to the weeds and life to the alfalfa. T f.nn bear testimony to the advice of Dr. Free man to those who are contemplating planting air falfa to begin now to prepare the land, and the. best way is to sow the land m peas. 1 believe it will n-mw hp.t.t.er after a cron of neas or some legume than it will after a hoed crop." Such a crop may assist m inoculating the soil which is so: necessary for the successiur growth oi aitalla or- any leguminous crop. - - - Tn nnnnpc.tinn with what Mr. Parker has writ ten here, we direct attention to a hew Depart-: 'J. C A . Ij I I in n - nntiAJ in. ? llieil I OX ilgriUUilurB ojuiicliii jusi laa ucu uu xn- l - r o :i i "vr:- tt':;. Rn,in.;n UCUlatluu , vi' uuu iiiuutu lirom.this we quote the ionowmg: - When Failure Is to Be Expected. " j ; TnrMnlntinTi will -fail wllPTA other COPi in no (aside from the need o bacteriaX are not t.. ri into account, as the following : .(1). In soil that, is acid and m need oi . ,t ..j.. i a .- .... the proper activity of the bacteria, as ;r i; growth of the plants. (2) In soil that responds in a marked i.y v. fertilizers, such as potash, phosphoric aoid. -r lime. Th nrtivitv of th haeteria in securing: nitro- rrori Tnm tho air anrt renaermfiT IX avaxiauie iu me -legumes does not do away with the need' for such iertiiizmg eiemenxs as poiusn aim puuapuyiuD.,- (3) It must also be remembered, tnax mocuia tinn 1nps not. "ant like macric :" it will not over come results due to bad seed, improper prepara tion and cultivation of ground, and decidedly ad verse conditions of weather or climate. In the use of cultures, also, failure is almost certain where the directions are not carefully studied and intelligently followed. . , -x a..o t"-J -'-' w " . ncrxr nfinila iirft studied in the laboratory and by means of actual field-plot trials to determine yield and quality of crops and the enecx oi one ht -f nil nwin f nrons. the very great com-- nloYitv so il and farm management becomes" tr Tho volno rf rnrft-hred bacteria, whether asso- Jk. 11V ? UAUV ' 9 ciated with the crop or existing independently in the soil, as is true of tertilizers, can nox De pre dicted with certainty on any soil without trial. Success on similar near-by lands may be taken as good evidence. But, unlike fertilizers, bacteria should in time be so inexpensive that each farmer can afford to try them for each leguminous crop on each field or soil type on his larm. xne mexu ods of distributing in dried form and the easy methods of multiplying on the farm m sufficient ooi'a trt JnomilatA fields will make it possi ble to bsve all fields inoculated at all times. - s . -r?i?- ra are oil ant. to mismanacre: either living recklessly from day to day, or suffer ing ourselves to be gulled oux oi our momeuw .nstnm We should despise a xne maiiinca vj. . . , - .r; - man who ffave as little activityand forethought - i l v r to the conduct ot any oxner uusmc8S. . . . . - oa the forest for the trees. . . . . And Uailll'J" Dt vvy Jt- ' t it is only on rare provocation that we xjan me to take an outlook beyona aaiiy wuwiw- Stevenson. 7 - v
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