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THE PROGRESSIVE PARMER AXD SOUTHERN FARM GAZETTE. Saturday,. January 8, 19lt . . . j M . Mw Profeooor Macoey'o Editorial Page. Farm Work for January. I I ARMER9 WHOSE barn are filled -with feed and., whose stalls have cattle In them to moV hppf nr cows to make butter, will have Dlenty to do during the winter. But the man like an old fellow I struck once at an insti tute in Eastern 'North Carolina, who "don't want to be pestered with them," will hate no cows nor beeves to feed, and will kick his heels by the fire and borrow money to start his cotton 'crap in the spring, and year after year will be doing the same tb,lne over and over. 11. ' The farmer will now h'ave a chance to improve his soil by driving out daily with a load on a manure spreader and leaving it well spread on the land, whenever, he can go with team and spreader. If you - have a chance to get a lot of good rich wood's earth when you have nothing better to dp, haul that out and spread it, too. But do not waste manure and time and labor mixing up a lot of fence-row earth, cottonseed and poor lot manure into what you call "compost," and then imagine that it is good manure, dribbling it in the cotton rows like something precious, when it has very little more value than so much leaf mold. -Spread-over-the-iand-anything-you-can-getrthat will help it, but have good feed and feed well, and then you will have good manure to spread. But cows standing outside all winter and living on corn shucks or straw cannot make manure of much value. It will be shucks and straw and nothing better. But feed peavine hay, cottonseed meal, corn and corn fodder, and you, will have the manurial value And peavine manure is cannot profitably use some tile drains.. Nothing like tiles for sinking the water level In the solL : . - . r There Is thte. difference between feeding dairy cows in winter and feeding beeves: the cows will need more work and attention, but the -product will bring money every day, while you must wait till spring for the beeves. But where dairying cannot be done in the best way. It is better to feed beeves. ' . Cows that will be coming in fresh in the spring cfcrmiH rinvfl extra cnod attention in winter, and do not imagine that because a cow is dry she can Hvft nn nnthiner and make a good calf. See that the sows that are to furnish the spring litters have dry and comfortable shelter. Get all your hog meat smoked during the win ter and have it ready to sack and secure from flies before warm weather. : . - vi. :;r If you have to buy corn or cottonseed to plant In spring, get it early. But do not go far away to distant sections of the country to seek seed corn. You may- have- better f ofybur purposes in your own granary. And if you get good and early cottonseed - try- to - keep it -up to standard, or above) by careful selection next summer. 3 Thoughts Suggested by Our Last Issue. RIGHT INDEED is the future for such far- represented by the feed. as far ahead of straw manure as the hay is above the s'traw before feeding. ni. Repair all buildings that need it, , and you will find that comfortable quarters will save feed in the barn. "Pine boards may be higher than usual, but they are cheaper than corn and hay to main tain the animal heat. If you left any implements or machines out in the field last fall get them in at once, clean them up, and oil the metal parts and paint the woodwork. Farm tools and machines cost too much to let them waste for lack of care and shel ter.; . ; . rv. ".- Land that is now bare can be plowed in readi ness for the spring crops, but the real farmer will not have any such, but will have a winter cover of crimson clover, orven of rye, to protect the land in winter. Now is a good time to see where the land needs drainage, for if water staads at any time it wil be standing now. Then while other work is no pressing, look after the ditches, an A see if you mers as Mr. Jesse M. Jones, who has real ized the value of deep plowing as a means not only for checking surface washing, but for conserving the moisture of the soil to tide over the summer drouths. I hope to see the day when the hill farmers in the South will realize that with deep plowing and filling the soil with humus making material, having a sod to turn whenever breaking for a hoed crop, they can abandon ter racing altogether, and when all the hoed crops are cultivated-shallowly - and - flat and no furrows made to gather heads of water on the hills to break down and make gullies. year will certainly see the last of fifteen cents pound. a nr. Tiutler says, what we must aim at i the building up of the soil by the restoration or! the humus that made it rertlle and productive when it was new ground, and I wish that even farmer in the South could realize what a great helu the cowpea is in doing this. .The farmer who makes plenty of peavine hay at a cost of $7.50 per ton. and does not sea it rpr even $20, but feed it on the place be is the man whose farm will he on the-upward road, t and when he makes a big? crop of oats and uas a Dig crop of hay on . the same land after the oats,4t matters far less what cotton sells for than it does to the man whose whole fate depends on the cotton crop. Mr. Kyzar has found this out in Alabama, and every farmer in the Cotton Belt will find it true if he pins his faith on the cowpea and a good rotation, with all the cattle he can feed. . In the week beginning January 17th I have en gaged to make seven lectures at the University of West Virginia to the. students in. the Short course, onhorticultural subjects. I would like to meet there the West Virginia subscribers to The Pro gressive Farmer and Gazette, and f know that, young or old,they can gain by attending the en tire winter course there, for there will be other v weeks besides mine. j r; ' Did you notice that Mr. Johnson got 305 bush els of corn from four acres planted with prolific corn, and 562 on ten acres planted with the one ear sort? And yet, there are farmers who will Insist that they can get more corn from one big ear per stalk than they can from two medium- sized ears. But when it comes to a contest the prolific corn always, wins. In Mr. J. F. Batts'article in our last issue Mr. Batts was "made to say that" he applied 2,000 pounds cottonseed meal to his corn land. This should have been 200 pounds. It is the folks in The Progressive Farmer and I am glad that Mr. Batts Is going to try to see Gazette Family whn r narrvfnir Smith airri- what can be done with corn over a field in a busi-' UnitnrA fnrwnr witW i$h imoinr .mho t q ness-like and profitable way. There is far mpre OT,A nf mir r,waiuri. t -p TTvhn hnirta o be learned in this way than by the wasteful the world'a reonrA Wn.AVnv w a. piling on of a lot;of fertiliser won a single acre, cade. It is another one of our readers-Mf? W. A. uooa crops maae at me least cost is wnat we need Simpkins who probably beat the South in yield to learn more than big crops on an acre regardless 0f cotton last year. The men who won the lead- OI COSt. Inn r. 4 ' v '"iJ '.: "6 4ica at tue Virginia vjorn sjuow werw buu scribers of ours. Writing in the Daily News Another thing, too, in Mr. Batts' experience and Observer in his first report of how he made should be adopted by every farmer. This is the nis banner yield, Mr. Batts said: "Let me say, keeping of a seed plot of corn . and cotton, and Mr Editor, that I am a reader of The Progressive breedin g up the productivity of the seed used. Farmer and Gazette, and this article would not mere is luiiy as much to be gained in this way De complete if I failed to give credit for the heir as tnrough the improvement of the soil itself. I have received from it." "Less land In cotton and more cotton per acre" . ' , should be the slogan of the Southern farmer. Pif- A Progressive Farmer and Gazette ad will do teen-cent cotton is not going to last, and the the work. A man has just left our office who has man who figures from this year's price that he practically closed a deal for a $20,000 farm, cannot afford to grow anything but cotton, is go- bought, because he saw the ad in The Progressive tag to find out his mistake soon. The high -price Farmer and Gazette. No matter what you have 22" 7ery low t0 Bel1 ftom Dushel ot cowpeas to a river planta- uuuiyr crop coming tion, an ad with us will bring you buyers. Your interests as-a cotton planter are looked after constantly by the ex perts of the United States Department of Agriculture they are the leaders in proving the worth of new methods and new machinery and when they make a statement you know that it is the result of careful and painstaking investigation and intelligent expenment In Farmers' Bulletin 302, Page 25, Mr. W. A. Orton Bays: "Plant with a good machine, preferably one that will drop the seed in hills at the desired distance and thus save labor in chopping to a stand." THE HARRIMAN SEED DROPPER is the only Cotton Planter made that drops the seed at regu lar intervals just where you want it and Just enough in each hill to insure a good stand. The seed don't have to be rolled or delinted for use in this dropper, and 1 bushel will plant 4 acres. The broad-faced covering wheel regulates depth and permits shallow planting, insuring quick germination. The Harriman Seed Dropper will save enough the first year in labor, money and increased yield to pay for itself three times Over. Write TODAY and we will send full details-CON- VDJCmG PROOF of the work of this wonderful, money-making, crop-increasing cotton planter, and tell you where to buy It The Harriman Manufacturing Co., 58 RlVtR AVENUE - HARRIMAN. TERR. : x Can also be used for plant ing CORN, PEAS. BEANS. The advertisers In THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND GAZETTE s,AT8 tnll and flrma Al VnAnr .aIUVHK- ... . . ,.; . advertisers shoul l be carefully addreau" it i? im 2? a! ihey womlse. All letters to . . ber or deparimeut In answering ad The Progressive Farmer and Qawtte." tod ay, "I saw your ad In CUTTERS The present tyie of Stalk Cutter, as used today, originated n oir factory over fifty years ago. r0r - fctat tino to the present day, the P. t wcu lua.ieaainf suik cotter oa the muita otau gutters require weight, propeny, distributed, to do successlul work. , Be- "-tww! M4wo; iuaviiiuc9 ui Sell Cnnnn THav ora As nn a vnii wont be satisfied with th ;tn. In the P. & O, .rw you gei reversible knife heads,, which can be re- wa miYM Kieaier striKing torce: closed wnwi ooxes, . which exclude all dirt and sand and retain Ke.oil, making light draft. In short, you get the nignest type of machine that can be produced. Made Either Single or Double Row. oixry-aeven Years ol "Knowing How" Hammer! T . ' . ' ' into Every one of Them. - . insist on getting P. A V piowa. Ha oeaier. a They have been the World's Best i tnt -lr J uiuvators, &xc. irom by an Unqualified Guaranty a T.Sn ert two-thirds of a century and are Backed will be ttSSffQSSfSX pamPhlet d P. & O. Catalog, parim & Orendortf Co; Canton, Illinois. 31 W C: !tl P
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