Saturday, .March 23, 1912.
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rSofl : FcrtiHty What; It Js and i How i 10 12 ; of , corn, : During ; t&ia
' n im ' . - - sDerlod.iibt one -Donnd or' commercial
. : ;S,V at all ; 'was
loams.on, adjojaxnoarxos i used-! , . r? u-?;I V: - -' - 'o 4.
-.. x no not necessariijyieia tnesame since buying: my farm, I have I ol
.amounX of 'crop ,eTen.lfr te&, .were?-.lowed: the' .wine rotaliofi; only wheat
originally of the ?same formation,", has been -left .-"out. 'and potatoes and
and rewateted by thasariie rain ,and Hrats altu.;Q
r warmed Ayjtfe same' sun; r To What is rnrrffteld? IrBt4inea1cof
ithls dtte?Theranswer lies ln the"dIi.&Vliate
verencempnyslcar ;condluon. pother ea
njryslcalctiaracter "of-Xhe j&A pro&i made a : little over 1imslsVjDferfl
4il Up TUX V1WMW5PJ
f'a.blyv'has
yields than
agreater Irifluefnceiln cropVafcre. Our 'lirstt
anttie ma Jorityt people Srifo $ hardly 50 0 ?t
btishels "s per acre, j
i realize. hat-iseant
: condition is theHeiture 'of' theVsoil. v6oMBtiel per ' acre.! - These were
soaked vspil 5ismall,; Ir or "pore ? barhyar4jmanure
IntoJthV 6oil of -suffic)etirad:so eJolc -iiMrjSi?
as theyhoud tor ,ab-theyoVdeepf
into the soil in search of plant food,
and so. suffer in 'time of drouth, v "
- Air is a important for the roots v.
as fortne leaves;in a water-sogged c
soil little air is present, and so be
sides this a cold soil Is the result. '
H. WEAMB. -:
Rock Hill, S, C. -
acre- I am keeping a good' deal more
stock; and expect to apply? a large
amount of c barnyard manure- No
filth at all is hurned, and cover crop
is kept over as much land as possible.
I turn all rye growth when from 1 2
to 20 inches high. " , .' -
,CW. C. CROOK;
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Good Livestock Makes Soil Building How Good Tools and Good Work
" ; - Pay. - - - - " ;
, I HAVE been . manager ;of a .
badly run-down farm for the' last 1
.three years,, I will give some, of my
methods .and conclusions in building
up and increasing soil fertility. .
; ; I was probably better situated than
most Southern farmers, in that I did
not have to make the farm pay the
bills and support a family. In the
three years, as a whole, It did so, but
the first year some $3 was spent to
every $1 produced.
We stocked the place with plenty
of work stock, ; heavy brood mares
and a small dairy. For tools we had
wagons, manure spreader, . grain
drill, mowing, machine, ', hay rake,
two-horse -an'd one-horse cultivators,
weeders and- spike-tooth . harrows,
disk and moldboard plows disk harr
rows, clod roller, seed planters and
numerous small tools. , .
; On. this farm I have found the disk
plow one of the most useful farm im
plements. . . If you don't have . the tools and
use them,' you will not have the fer
tile soil;; for if bur soil id not natu-
- -Easy. ; ' , - '.
rpHE i:wo main; essentials for build
! X ing and maintaining soil fertility:
are ;.. (1) a good rotation,; 2); live-:
" Stock. ; V . J ,
Given a well-draimed -farm and
. strict and - intelligent adherence to
these two features our land must im
i: proved '
. , My plan is to practice a three-year
rotation, and' winter cover crops and
- dairy cows The "cover crops, such
as vetches, crimson clover and rye,
can be profitably grazed off and what
is left plowed under to add humus to
to the soil. By keeping livestock the :
crops are .not sold (except in case
of surplus), but are fed and go back
k to the fields as manure.
-Qy the added use of acid phos
. phate or ground phosphate rock the
soil fertility can be increased from
. :year to year. " . -
Make the cows; or their. produce,
and hogs the money crop and watch
the yields increase-
H. R. HUBBARD. .
' Williamsburg, Va. , "
when laying-by corn, and continued
until I had all cultivated land sowed.
The stuff I had for feed and seed and
to turn under, and the way that disk
.plow did work It. up! ,
-So my prescription for making a
fertile: soil1 is.xleep, sthorough. prepa
ration, rapidrhalldw ; cultivation;
making- all possible iise of; ithe le,
gunies; "spreading all barnyard nia-
nnre on top of soil as fast as made ; '
feeding all grain and hay Jl is pos
sible to raise to good livestock; keep
ing the land working at all times j
using heavier teams and larger tools;
doing : more work with same human
labor.
These and like things persisted
in, and we will soon. be producing
$1,000 to $2,000 per. farm laborer",
instead of $ 2 0 0 to $ 3 0 0 as at present.
. CHAS. G- MEDLIN.
Salisbury, N. C. , ,
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Improving Land -Without Fertilizer. , rally fertile, we must make it so. For
... Hi ara fa nAtninir nnUn n I
I TOOK charge of my father'sfarm barnyard manure, .supplemented
when I was 16 years old, and' had 4 with -proper- commercial .fertilizers,
full' management of it until I was 'Most farms do not have. this in suffl
23. Since then I have been farming cient quantity to avail much, so we
for myself eight years. On our loamy must make the start without much
top' soil : with -"red - underlying clay manure. "Z Then, with, deep, thorough
subsoil we doubled the yield on fa
ther's farnj and have done almost
as well on my own- On father's farm
there was one upland field of 16
-; How Cover Crops Have Helped.
I AM a young farmer. 2 4 years old
and I have been farming since I
. was 18. I started with three or four
acres of poor .land and the rest of
"the place was all In brush.
I did not have a cent to start with
either. Now r I ( have - about 20 acres
cleared that $50 per acre would not
: buy. I will try- and tell how I made
them fertile- ;L The first thing I did
was to save all the ' manur'e and
' spread as fast as made. Then planted,
corn! and sowed - cowpeas, rye and
crimson clover, taking nothing off ex
cept the corn. Left pea vines, clover
and rye to be plowed down in the
; spring. : .. .. 0.;. .. : ':.r0--
T lronf fhla mthn1 nn fnr twr nr
Fxcyaxatxuu. guuu start to- tnree years I W0Uld graze hogs On
use of ajl the summer and winter le-
acres ; that had been in cultivationl
over 3 0 years. ' This land ; was, pro
" duclng, when ' father bought it, from
four to five barrels of corn per acre,
from 600 o 800 pounds of seed cot
ton, and from eight to 11 bushels of
wheat per acre. - Our rotation was as
follows: Wheat, with cowpeasj after
wheat harvest" at rate of one and a
half bushels per acre, and rye after
pea's in , fall. Cotton second year,
with, rye alone or rye and crimson
clover at last plowing of cotton.
gumes possible success is almost as
sured. . ' , ..
The crying need of the South is
more and better livestock; but I am
firmly convinced that if the energies
put forth in advocating more live
stock were directed toward the
growth of more and better feeds in
stead, the livestock - Interest would
take care of itself. It Is more feed
and not more consumers of feed that
we need, as the books of any South
ern grain and hay merchant will
peas in, fall until they gathered all
the peas and then take them off until
spring. Two , acres of this ground
raised' 3,850 pounds of leaf tobacco
last year that brought me over $150
net per acre. . ; : . '. -With,
the aid of . 400 pounds 14. per
cent acid phosphate per acre with
peas, clover and manure saved from
concrete stables, I do not own, an
acre of cleared land, but would grow
6 0 bushels of corn. . Every foot of
my cleared ground has got a growing
crop on it ndw, and I always, expect
to keep my ground covered with some
crop that gives a profit and then a
feed crop. I always feed my land
oncea year with crimson clover or
peasand sometimes 'both, with the
addition of a coat of stable manure-
I owe all I know about farming
show. Get - the farmer to grow feed
Third year, corn with cowpeas at last (cowpeas, . soy beans, alfalfa,
, plowing and rye in fall. No grass or clovers, .vetch, ryeetc ), and h will
stalks were wasted, but: was turned not turn it under in the raw state
for. the benefit of soil. , " . many times, but will feed it to cattle
The land was subsolled several instead. Neither will he sell it: but
' times, going about two inches deeper if he does, his neighbor will buy it, by-reading good agricultural litera-
. eacn iail, until it was ufots-eu uuu . auu tue ouuiu is uu worse ou. ,
subsolled to a depth of 18 inches. 1 Next to 'the disk plow, the thing
After nine years of. sueh work, 'the that has helped me. most is crimson
yield on this land was from 1,600 to clover, rye, etc., used to. turn under
2,150 pounds of seed cotton per acre; and for feed. The first year I worked
18 to 28 bushels of wheat, and eight this farm I commenced sowing it
ture, and I . am proud to say that' The
Progressive Farmer has been my
teacher. H. J. WOODWARD.
.... Clayvllle, Va.
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