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Saturday, September 3, 1910. V, (3) 689 of the building so there was plenty of room for the cats to get all about In behind . them. Then when the weather got fair again we brought in the entire crop of seed corn and cord ed it up on these shelves, so before we had any frost of any account the seed corn was dry as a bone. A. L. FRENCH. lot better than none at all, and much more satisfactory than cottonseed hulls at $S or $10 a ton. Don't pull corn fodder. It Is too ex pensive a "luxury" for the average farmer; but If you heed the feed, harvest the whole crop and get three times as much feed at very little ex tra cost. ' . $500 More a Year f arming : How to Get It BY NOT PULLING CORN FODDER. ' . v Reasons Why This Unprofitable Practice Should Be Abandoned ' How to Handle the Corn Crop. A By Tait Butler. A PLACE TO KEEP THE SEED In our subscription-raising cam-' CORN. paign, prizes of $1 each have been THERE MAY BE some difference sale for forage in your neighborhood Messrs. Editors: One rainy day, awarded as follows: Aug. 22, C. A. of opinion-as to the best meth- or you have no live stock to consume early in September. 1909, the writer Wyche, 19 subscriptions; Aug. 23, ods of harvesting the corn crop, it, then we. can only say that you brought his hammer, saw,, etc., into Thos. W, Kirton, 16 subscriptions; but no one who has madea real test ought to have the live stock to eat the "Madam's summer kitchen and Aug. 24, A. T. Aiken, 10 subscrlp of the cost of pulling corn fodder has - this feed, for it-has a feeding as well began to saw and pound away at a tlon; Aug. 25, Dr. Geo. H. Ross, 102 any doubt as to that practice being as a fertilizer value, and it is scarce- great rate. Pretty soon the door subscriptions; Aug. 26, Robt. Jig unprofitable. Wei think the corn ly likely that any of your land opened and some one asked what I gett, 10 subscriptions; Aug. 27, ;C. crop ought to be put into a silo, or if would not be benefitted by a little was doing in her kitchen. Without A. Wyche, 60 subscriptions; Aug. 29, that can not be done cut and cured more stable manure. If, however, looking, up 1 said as pleasantly as Mat Lucas, 11 subscriptions, for forage. Our, reasons for this the feed can not be used, or sold and possible, "Just making a ra,ck on Prize of $5, week ending Aug. 27 nirtnion are that we need feed, that feeds richer in fertilizer value which to "store our seed corn." All Dr. Geo. H. Ross, 102 subscriptions. corn stover can do uutameu. oa wvueuc, ucu we aavise leaving tbe I heard was "Well!!" Then I was all than half its feeding vaiue compareu wfh the Drice of the other feeds TEN THINGS TO DO THIS MONTH. 1. Begin sowing winter oats. Keep on working all land in tended for winter grain's, making it as fine and firm as possible. 21 Sow cover crops, rye, vetch, crimson clover, rape, etc. whenever you can. Sow some pasture lots for the hogs, and one for the chickens. . r ,i- 3. Cut up the corn when ripe, shock loosely and Shred the stover if a shredder comes your way. This, of course, if you haven't a silo to put it in. x 4. Save the cowpeas, soy beans and other hay crops. Don't neglect even the crabgrass. Too much hay in the South is a thing unknown. ; . " 5. , Save seeds make the best possible selections in the corn field before cutting, and in the cotton field before picking. Insure cowpeas and soy leans for planting. Save also a supply of garden seeds. . " 6. Plant fall garden-stuff- lettuce, radishes, onions, etc. Prepare land, for setting fruit trees and small fruits. 7. Keep the hogs going their best. Add some grain to what they get in the pastures. Give the cows . some grain, too, if pastures get dry. 0 8. Get next winter's supply of wood ready, and put it under a conveniently located woodshed where it will keep dry. . . 9. See about your roads; if they need improvement, talk it over with your neighbors and decide on a plan. Make a. road drag some rainy day. 10. Visit your schools; help the chHdrenaITyoucanr con- suit with the teacher, and then co-operate with her. which we buy. and mat our ianas need more stable manure. ; But the haw of wasting our corn stover, which contains from one-third to one half the feeding value of the corn prot) has become so firmly; fixed in our agricultural practice that it will he many years before tne . corn crop is put into silos or cut and shocked and cured for forage. V The first step toward the proper harvesting of the corn crop is to in duce farmers to stop the expensive practice of fodder pulling. This prac tice exists practically no where else except in the South. We do not know the reason for the practice here, but possibly it is because hay is always scarce and corn fodder, when well cured, is good forage. Why It Does Not Pay to Pull Fodder. There are two reasons why it does not pay to pull corn fodder either of which should alone be sufficient to stop the practice. (1.) When the fodder is pulled sufficiently early to be of the greatest feeding value, the removal of the leaves from the plant decreases th.e yield of corn nearly enough to pay for the feed value of the forage obtained. (2.) It costs as much to pull and save corn fodder stalks in the field cutting them up alone again. But I knew It would at the preseat prices of labor as the and plowing them under; but never wear off after awhile, so kept right fodder is worth after it is saved, and burn them nor pull fodder. On the at work until I had a nice set of if the same time, money and energy other hand, if moore feed is needed, shelves with all the way across thd that are put into fodder pulling were why not save the entire plant instead end of the building. The shelves put into the growing of hay, double of just the leaves? The whole plant were spread far enough from the end th quantity of feed would be. se- can be saved for about half its feed cured. V ; - , ing value, while it costs the full feed To the boys who are raising aji ing value of , the fodder to save the acre of corn for the Corn .Club prize leaves alone. . we wish to say, don't pull the fod- From 40, to 50 percent of the feed der, but if you will not taTie our ad- ing value of the whole corn plant Ice, then we ask that you pull the is in the leaves, shucks and stalks, fodder only from every other row, which constitute the stover, while leaving half the '- fodder unpulled. from 50 to 60 per cent of the feed When gathering time comes gather ing value of the whole plant is in the the corn from - the rows inhere the ears. Of the feeding value of the fodder was pulled, separately, and stover, about 10 .per cent is in the weigh the corn, and then gather the shucks, 30 per cent in the leaves, unpulled rows and weigh the corn and 60 per cent in the stalks, from these. : As labor becomes more scarce and Experiments made in practically high-priced, to, pull fodder, or har U the Southern States indicate, that vest any part of the crop by hand, with com yielding 30 bushels to the will be too expensive. When that acre the loss from pulling" the fodder times comes, and it has already come is not far from five bushels to the in some sections, it will .be found acre, it may vary from practically that the easiest way to harvest the ao loss at all up to 20 or 25 per cent, corn crop will be to cut it by macnirir depending probably on the state of ery and either put it in a silo or shred maturity at the time , the fodder is and husk it by machinery. PiUled.-'lf the corn is green when Fodder Pulling Luxury, the leaves are pulled, the yield in . . h height of ears will be greatly lessen- The man who pulls fodder; or de ed; whereas. If .the corn Is nearly pends upon corn fodder for his long ripe the loss will be very little. The forage, is the fellow who is always corn grains are largely- made uri of . out of forage along in April and May; starch and this can nnlv ha made in but who ever heard of a man who the green leaves of the. plants, hencer saves the entire corn crop being out if the Icavno nni hfAi, (Ka of rouehaee? We have heard it corn is fully made the yield must be stated thai corn stover was '.'mighty "Ut off.. poor feed." It is not as good as some Wki X , L " other kinds of forage. We may even wat to Do With the Corn Stover.- admlt that we haye Been lnferior corn W no forage is needed from tnV.stdver that was really, "mighty poor corn crop that is, if there Is no feed' but, even that. was a whole Eastern Carolina Seed Rye? Crimson Clover. Vetch, Winter Oatr, Rape, Bulbs, etc. Z. M; L. JEFFREYS, - - Goldsboro, N, a Seed Rye For Sale Sanders Improved Seed. Winter Oats Ripens in May.' Delivered f . o. b. Clayton, $100 per buthel - , ; , . W. H. SANDERS, - - Clayton, N.C. ROCK PHOSPHATE Highest grade, finely ground Tennessee Phos phate Rock guaranteed 28 to 30 per cent phosphoric acid, sold direct to consumers at lowest prices. Prompt ihipments. r ' Southern Lime & Phosphate Co,, Birmingham, ' - - - Alabama. E. McK. GOODWIN, Supt I. R. CLODFEIUR. Clirk. NORTH CAKOLINA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. Morganton. N. C, Aug. 18, 1910. Blue Ridge Lime Co., Fletcher, N. C. Gentlemen: . 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