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288 (8) Home Fertilizers Mixed . ' . Some day you will want to mix your own Fertilizers, so as to get them CHEAPER and BETTER than any other way. You need my book on Home Mixing, containing FORMULAS and instructions, as well as other informa tion. Send your name and address on Post Card to Dr. WILLIAM S. MYERS, Director of Propaganda 71 Nassau Street, New York NO BRANCH OFFICES af his book will be sent you Entirely Free BALE-TO-THE-AORB CROPS SHOULD BE THE RULE. Messrs. Editors: Many Tanners consider one-half bale cotton very eood. 1.000 to 1,200 pounds splen- did. and consider l,50u to ,uuu - . , . . . pounds unreasonaoie. after the scraper. Afterthlnnlng.lt Is cultivated once a week, If na rain to form crust, and always cultivated as soon as the land will permit after THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, My cotton is ready for thinning in three weeks from the time it la up, I use the weeder several times be fore thinning. In fact, I almost thin It with the weeder. I find cotton grows off more rapidly after the this amount Is grown without a di rect application of fertilizer. We average from 1.400 to 2,000 pounds yearly and have even grown the hard-baked crust splendid yield of 2,300 pounds on up land, without any home-made or commercial fertilizer being applied. Thte yield was made on land that does not average over 8 barrels of corn per acre. Our first step in securing such yields is in having a pure-bred ac climated seed, not imported, but im proved by careful -home breeding. means a great loss of forms and young bolls. I have found shallow, level cultivation give the largest yields. In summarizing my experience, I offer the following: Have an early, home-bred, acclimated variety and keep it so by careful seed selection. Do not follow cotton after cotton, but rotate so cotton will follow cow- " v a , ..j.,!.,- fK getting in such a hurrah and planting .one-half opened and selecting the . . nn,. seed. I select from stalks that meet --'""Vi Vi I IZ 1 .-h..- oic soil, take time and get the soil as fine the requirements in earliness; also v v ,1 stalks that "have bolls of uniform a ia warm utsiurw piuuuug. meu as ear- te? tee Choice Recleaned Stocks of Whip-poorwill,- New Erar Black Clay and Mixed, at lowest prices. Our Descriptive Catalog of Seeds Mailed Free. It gives comprehensive informa tion on farming and gardening. We carry best stocks of Clovers, Grass Seeds, Alfalfa, Seed Corn, Millet, Seed Pota toes, besides a complete line of Vegetable and Flower Seeds and Lawn Grass. WOOD, STUBBS & CO. Louisville, - Kentucky Field-Selected Weekley's Improved Seed Corn Graded ready for planting or on cob $2.00 per bu. King's Improved Cotton Seed, specially selected for earliness and prolif icness, $1.00 per bu., f . o. b. Statesville, N. C. Apply IREDELL TEST FARM Statesville, N. C. Cotton Seed for Sale 50 bushels known as Ricks' cotton around Rocky Mount, has a big reputation. 10 bushels Simpkins' seed, 25 bushels Cook's Prolific. Have some Russell Long Staple seed. $1 per bushels. f. o. b. Address G?0. W. DALES, Sharpsburg, N. C. You can't sow thistles and reap igs. II you plant Ferry s Seeds vnn ,7 1 J v Brow exactly what you expect and in a profusion ana perfec tion never excelled. 2? (vVajfO) Fifty yyy yAS7s of X lA TfcCr tudy and SASjibJs experience V V-C Y$fo&. "lake them re- KJf 1JaD,e. For sale r X sr every where. Ferry's V BLT Seed Annual X Vrireeoa x y D.u. ?(. experience everywhere. I seed request FERRY Detroit. "Thome's Improved-Cotton" Seed I have a few hundred bushels of cotton seed for sale that are my personal selection; the stalk is bunchy with limbs close to ground. It bears heavily of medium large bolls, mostly five 4ocks,yielding-4l-4int. l-made 822-pounds lint per acre last year. Price $1 per bushel. Reference, Citizens Bank. JOHN T. THORNE. Farmville, N. C. WOOD'S HM-GRADE Harm Seeds. A G pc at Corn That was a wonderful result obtained by Mr. Schoolfied in- 1969, when he grew 730 bushels of his two-eared corn on ten acres at a cost of less than 10c. per bushel, and then again in 1910, 700 bushels on the same 10 acres at a cost of less than 10c. per bushel. This is the corn that the farmer who farms for a living is looking for. Thiss corn is for sale by s JOHN A. YOUNG Greensboro, . ' . North Carolina We are headquarters for the best in all Farm seeds. Grass and Clover Seeds Seed Corn, Cotton Seed, Cow Peas, Soja Beans, Sorghums, Kaffir Corn, Millet Seed, Peanuts, etc. Q Wood's Crop issued Special" monthly gives timely information as to seeds to plant. each month in the year, also prices of Season able Seeds. Write for copy, mailed free on request T. W. WOOD & SOUS, Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. Cook's Improved Cotton Seed 1 FOR SALE 'The Best Up land Cotton Yet Discovered" I have not less' than 1500 bushels selected seed or aDove couon yet unsold, inese seed were not ginned out until second day of March this year, i run my own ginnery and Cook's Im proved is not molested until fully through gin ning for public. Mv best customers are those of whom I get their second orders of two or three years apart. Sold U. S. Government doing Demonstration work in North -Carolina for past four seasons. Price $1 per bushel or $100 (.for one hundred bushels. Address C A. WILLIAMS, Ringwood, HalilaxlCo., N. C type, the lint and size of seed being very carefully considered. By con sidering the last named quality very closely, I have een- able to improve my seed until I get 500 pounds of lint from 1,200 pounds of seed 'cot- ton(No seed for sale.). When the cotton is ginned I am there in per son to see that the gin is well clean ed, also moving the seed at once. Professor Massey says "the gen eral cotton average per acre is 200 pounds." I believe that the method of selecting the seed from the seed room is largely responsible for the low average. PotlargeyieldsIfiiidthis-Tota-tion to give best results i First year, wheat followed by corn, peas sown after wheat harvest, at the rate of 2 bushels, per acre, or 1 bushel per acre-andrl 2-pounds-crimsonncIoverrf Second year, corn, with cowpeas at last plowing, either alone of with 10 pounds crimson clover.. We get best results when sown with clover as we are able to have one nitrogenous crop to decay on the soil, also one to turn for . green manure . In the spring. Third year, cotton, with crimson clover at last plowing, or rye in the fall. By , this rotation we have brought up an old upland farm from 600 to 1,800 or more pounds seed cotton per acre. In preparing cotton land I break the land and harrow until I get an ideal seed-bed. It Is gen erally argued by farmejrs that cot ton will- make just as much per acre where the land is merely ridged and cotton planted just any old.' way. Prom experimenting, I find no crop will pay any better returns for the time spent in preparing the soil for its reception, than cotton. After many experiments I found I was able to get larger yields when the cotton was planted in drills 3 feet apart and thinned to one stalk every 15 to 18 inches. ly as possible push the cotton with all possible speed. Cultivate shal low and often; allow no , crust to form and remain; keep the surface as near level as possible, to prevent soil washing. Sow crimson clover. at last "plowing", or rye in fall after harvest, to protect the soil. Huron, Tenn. W. C. CROOK. BATTS Four-Ear Prolific CORN Trade Mark Registered The trade-mark guarantees the genuine Batts seed corn. This corn led the world in 1909 (226 2-3 bushels per acre), and 1910 (201 bushels per acre.) Superior prolific jaualityi provedinevery Southern StateSee my booklet. Prices f. o. b. Garner One gallon, ...... t .80 One peck 1.50 Halt bushel 3.00 Bushel . 5.00 J. F. BATTS, R. F. D. 1, Garner, N. C Mexican Big Boll The best all-round cotton. Three good qualities combined. Large bolls, extra early and a good linter. Limited quantity of select seed at $2.00 per bushel. I. B. F AIRES R. F. D. 12 Charlotte, N. C. Pure Bradford Watermelon Seed. Best melon in cultivation. 1 oz. 15c; 2 oz. 25c; Vi lb. 40c; Vi lb. 70c; 1 lb. $1.25, . postpaid.- . Pkg. . best early cantaloupe seed free with every order. , V Pemit silver or money order. W, I WATTERSON, Baskervllle, Va. FREE SEED BOOK 7xX?" lt and racti about the high quality Held Mda we ell aud guarantee aouud.olean. good. We ihlp oo approTaU uoiaMeaaineiaaeeas LOUISVILLE SEEDCO..Loitsvtlli,Kj. ouie uiiiriDuvora lor in Orehard Ortui 8tt& Commimion Co. GOODMAN'S PROLIFIC CORN Well-bred, fixed tvne. twin voriotv nrhUa deep grain, medium hardwhite cob, 64 lbs! m ear snens one Dusnei uooa yieider, a prize Winner at Knlpltrh Nntlrmal C.nrn fihnw- Select ears, nubbed. shelled, sacked, f. o. b. Mt. Ulla. N. C. peck 75c, bushel $2.25. Remit with oraer. juhn K. UOODMAN. Mt. UlUrN. C. KP.rn rnnM ImDroved whit. 1 0147 A Hoon rrrolrt maHnm COb. aulck to cerminatA anH other varieties tested; limited amount for sale v..wi uusnji, ji.w per peck, adaresi, iROSEDALE FARM, Walkertown,N,. C. :, v ', At f 1 J, S&.fi-yi .,v Everybody Talks Yield Cotton Seed TE WANT to talk quality and price; Our Piedmont Long staPle Cotton sold from .the gin at 24 1-2 cents per pound. Yielded very nearly a bale to the acre, gins 35 per cent. 60 bolls make pound of cotton. Why not grow high priced cotton? Limited quantity seed, $2.00 per bushel. Slmpldn's Proline selected from field that yielded over a bale-to the acre, 75 cents per bushel 3 bushel bags. Cow Peas Soy Beans, seed Sweet Polatoes, etc. Write for speciatpwce list. Hickory Seed Co HICKORY, N.C.
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