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tl t ' y m - v - - ' - - - j.J0-P Sbiiai-Car61ina,Vircinid, Home WesMy, for North and Tenit2cc23, and Georgia. VclXXV. lb. 12. : ; , , j -.RA1EGI1, II. C. I.1ARQ1 2G, 1S10.. ij.:: ,: : : -UcJJy: $1bYuj. H6i$ . Gotttih Growing Could Make: thedSouth MJch . ! '- ' .... , . . . . ,L ' ....'' ' : . - ' . - : . . ' , .... 'V:-.- j ..... VIEW ON COTTON, FARM OF W. A. SIMPKINS. f u :3 - DIDonler resize oiner. aay ; , ana fits went on o point out uiui ws. i ru.vjr g'' . .--w w. 6, y..w, cae 6n we have a virtual monopoly of cotton, the greafat farmers should indeed be among, the richest and most contented farmers pn eth. Jhat of the crop, or of the land they live in, but of the wrong methods that they hwefoHo i '-X v j;''1 " '"-- - ef us "appbse," ai the children toy, "for a little while. In the first place, let us suppose that every farmer in the Cotton Belt would begin this year a systematic rotation of his crops ; that he would plant at least one-third his lanil to legume crops; that he would feed these crops along with his corn and stover arid cottonseed meal to live stock, and return the manure from , the stock to x his soil Let us suppose that he would begin to take care of his soil, to study its needs and tolabor for its enrichment; that he would, as fast as possibte, fill it with humus, drain or terrace it ifrnecessaryivget ria of stumps and ditches and other obstacles that hinder successful cultivation with improved implements and more stock. Let us suppose that each acre planted to cotton this year would bd well plowed and thoroughly pulverized before planting time; that the seed would be of the best obtainable strains; that the fertilizer applied to the crop would be chosen with special reference to the crop needs jbn that particular soil ; that cul tivation would begin with a weeder or, light harrow before the grass started arid would be kept up till late in the season ; that the land would.be sown, in a cover crop next fall, and next year's cotton crop planted on land where aleguminous crop had grown this I year. Leiussuppose that these things were kept up for ten years; or even five years, j ; ; ; ,V 'i v f At the end of that time would the South, in your opinion, be a poorer Would cotton farmers live1 in better houses, or poorer ones ; would they have more rnjoney ifiantodayl or ess wou Id refinement and culture and progress and aspiration be more' or less in evidehce-thari at presenf X. v.; 'V;r7. illv -hi J-"- .. v,'!y,;;-.t a : '!!' Every farmer in the Cotton Belt is hot going to do these things ; but why should, not every teader of this paper, so far as is in his 'power, work towards this ideal ? ' Xfith first consideration given always to the upbuilding ofthe soil; with due attention given to food arid feed crops and Ahe growing of live stock, with a careful; paimtalcing study of the great problems of soil prepara tion, seed selection, fertilization and cultivation, with every acre in cotton made to produce justihe largest yield practicable, cotton is bound to bo.' a-profitable, crop a wonderfully prof itable crop, bringing wealth untold to the: men who grow it, and despite boll weevils, bad seasons, speculators, and the chronically shiftless and indifferent; making the South the fairest and richest agricul tural land upon which the sunshine falls. :'u " j ': ify-'-vi in i Jt Let every Progressive Farmer and Gazette reader have for his motto this year j The greatest proj 'it from every acre of cotton grown, with enough food arid feed crops, and eriouph live i stock : to make trie id free man in the fall, whether prices are high or tow.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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March 26, 1910, edition 1
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