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WHY WE NEED DRAFT HORSES IN THE SOUTH Page 5. 4t Vk, J Yl U U i b J , A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee. FOUNDED, 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. VrA YYV1T 17 SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912. Weekly: $1 a Year. PLANT t 1 'I " ' i 4 - - t v Is -s -- - v I ............'.:-v.:.:. MVV Tfr ::::::;::. v.-.-.v.-.'.v ....'.. - v- : i , ( V ) St . v i V I s vw " j h-. 5 t. v ' ' 'v -.-- ...... t , x 4. ' .vVo ""t- ft COWPEAS AND SOY BEANS I A FRUITFUL PLANT. T may seem to readers a little early for us to be stressing this matter as we are this week; but we do not think so. Indeed, we feel that the planning and the preparation for these crops should have gone on right along with the preparation and the planning for the corn, the xotton and other crops. For cowpeas and soy beans are not mere "filler crops, to be used on lands otherwise idle, or to fill in gaps between other crops, or to plant where other crops will not pay . .They are good for all these purposes, but ; they also have a rightful place in the farm rotation. The summer leg gume crop, for hay and pasture and soil improvement, should be regarded as an essential part of the rotation just as much as is the corn or cotton crop. Properly handled, it will pay just as well for the time and labor spent on it as will either of the other crops ; and, more than that, it will enable the other crops to yield much larger profits than they otherwise would. If it be true that a good system of rotation is a necessary part of good farming, it is equally true that provision for plenty of leg umes in the rotation is necessary to the making of a good rotation. Much is said sometimes about how crop rotation helps build up the soil, but it must be remembered that only such rotations as include plenty leguminous crops will im prove the soil at all. It may be less wearing .on the land to grow corn and oats and cotton in a rotation than it would be to grow any of them year after year; but in either case there is a constant drain upon the soil and no return to it except from outside sources. When a crop of cowpeas or soy beans or any other legume is grown there is a return. These crops will take from the air the nitro gen needed for their growth and part of this will be left in the soil in the roots and stubble of the crop. This is why we must make the legumes a regular part of our rotation, grow them just as regularly and treat them just as well as we do any other cropthis and the other fact that they give' us, when used for feed, the element our livestock usually needs most that is, protein, Plenty of legumes means good feed, good animals and good land ; and among all the legumes we can grow there is none more valuable than these two. It is not one bit too early to begin preparing the land for them, getting the seed ready, and otherwise arranging to give them anrnportunity to show just what their value is. Indeed, in most sea soiSf puld now be time to have some of them planted for summer grazinlithe pigs. Time min it has been demonstrated that pork can be made more cheaplyfhese crops than is possible with concentrate feeds alone, or with cod grass. Then, there is the hay crop which in the South is always short. Yet the cowpea is almost an ideal hay crop even if it is a little hard, for some folks to cure and it can be grown so easily that farmers in other sections cannot understand why the South should buy their inferior, grass hays. " Indeed, it is rather hard for the Southern farmer to tell why he does not grow enough hay . to supply his own needs ; and the fact that he does not is. not to So, once again, this year get ready 'and "plant cowpeas and soy beans ' liberally and persistently. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!: F, J"' tttin IMttttWWjM i:.sijWs::-:ii .-t COWPEAS AT TENNESSEE EXPERIMENT STATION FARM. FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. BIGGER YIELDS PER ACRE Only by Increased Yields Can the Farmer Hope for Decent Profits 7 BREAKING THE YOUNG HORSE Kindness and Firmness Are What Count ' 14 DIFFERENT KINDS OF CULTIVATORS Where Each Kind Will Do the Best Work 8 HARROW CORN AND COTTON Don't Say You Can't Do It Try It S HOW TO COOK VEGETABLES And AVhy They Are . Worth so Much in the Diet 10 LEGISLATION FARMERS SHOULD WORK FOR Find Out What LESSONS OF TnE TITANIC Criminal Carelessness and Abound ing Heroism 13 Your Candidates Stand For 12 PLANT COWPEAS AND SOY BEANS Letters From Our Readers and Answers to Inquiries 0 PROFESSOR MASSEY'S VISION The Regenerated South He Dreamed of is Becoming a Reality 4 PROGRESSIVE AND STANDPAT FARMERS Which Class Do You Belong to? 20 TnE RIGHT SORT OF FAIR If Yours is Not Clean, It is Not the Right Sort .V. 21 TIMELY NOTES FOR THE POULTRYMAN Little nints to Be Heeded Now 10 WHY THE SOUTH NEEDS DRAFT HORSES A Convincing State ment of the Case by Prof. H. A. Morgan 5
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