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r FEED CROP SPECIAL. - hM . J Jl '-'J i J pzu- j I A J c4y: ! : r:V;s fifes' atfV'--. - mnv i"t33 .iiJi"'AKr- - . ...:......-. . . tfkFarin and Home Weekly Sfor the Carolinas. Virginia. ' Georgia and Tennessee; ' -v v FOUNDED, 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol. XXVII. No. 20. SATURDAY, 'MAY' 18, 191.2. Weekly : $1 a Year. THIS issue is meant to be a "follow-up" of our Better Live stock Special last month. Good livestock cannot be had without good feeds, and the South has had few . farm ani mals, and those of poor quality, largely because Southern farmers have been adverse to growing feed crops. They have preferred to grow crops which could be sold at maturity. Now, it is a great thing to have crops which can be taken to market and converted into cash whenever they mature, and we believe that almost every farmer should raise some such crop or crops. We do not believe, however, that it is a wise plan to depend entirely upon the sale of crops in their raw state. The farmer can feed a large per cent of his crops to 1 good ; I i y e'sto c k manufacture his grain arid roughage into flesh and milkahd get more money while making a lighter ; draft ; upon his soil. Farmers in most sections have found thfe outV; it :is only , kmner'diine'' any- wJiete s until m i is ed. farming succeeds; the one-crop system. This change has been j ong . delayed in the South Let's Grow Our Own Feed Crops This Year - -V';' 1 GOOD PASTURE CROPS AftE OF FIRST IMPORTANCE. for various reasons, but it isiiow being made the live stock farmer is coming into his own here as elsewhere. While livestock farming is a higher type of agricul ture than the mere raising of one or two sale crops, it does not follow that it is profitable to raise just any kind of stock. It takes good stock to make money. And to have good stock it is necessary to have good feeds and plenty of them. In this issue we have, there fore, tried to give the experience' of a number of farmers with a number of crops specially suited to our soils and climate. We doubt if in the letters we are publishing this week and those we shall publish next week will be found much that is new ; but we believe there will be found much that is convincing and helpful much. that will be of value to those farmers who have not kept as many farm animals as they should, or who have not fed what they have as well as they should, because they have not had sufficient feeds or feeds of the right kind. It is our great advantage in farming here in the South that we can grow more feeds to the acre than can be grown in al most any other section, arid the list of crops which will thrive and yield a profit in our territory is so long that enumer ation would be tiresome. Isn't it, then, a thing very much to our discredit that we not only do not keep the livestock we need, but that we do not grow feed enough for what we have ? It is certainly not because feed crops will not grow here, so it must be either because we do not know how to grow them or because we are too what? "shiftless,' "tri fling' "careless;" is any of these the word, or shall we say too "prosperous," or "busy," or "independent?" to grow them. Whatever the reason for our failure along this line, the reason is no longer good, if it ever was. It will pay us to grow the feed crops we need, and more than we now need and to feed them to good livestock ; and it most certainly does not pay us to raise cotton and other . money crops to buy . corn arid hay and pats from oth er sections. j As long as we keep up this prac- tice 7 we : will be sending', abroad! money which we might as well keep at home; i v Iwiiibedoinga: - large amount . ' o f unneces-;" sary labor in ; the cultiva tion of crops ; will be doing with less work stock than we need, and will be wearing out our soils instead of improving them. Let's quit it and grow our own feeds and some to sell this very year ! FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. CULTIVATING IRISH POTATOES Keep the Surface Fine and Level 15 DAY-OLD CHICKS What the Seller Can Rea onablv Do H v FARMING IN THE MOON Old Superstitions or Modern Facts? 4 FEED CROPS OUR READERS RAISE Letters From the Men in the Field. . . ; 5, 0 GET A CANNING OUTFIT How One Reader Made Money Last Year 8 GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS The Farmer Must Learn to Vote as a Farmer, Not as a Party Subject. . . 18 HOW TO CARE FOR A MARE AND FOAL Some In structions Worth Heeding Just Now 12 MR. FRENCH'S FEED CROPS Corn, First of All, Then Clover, Redtop and Timothy 4 NINE THINGS FOR THE FARMER'S WIFE A Range, Fireless Cooker, Washing Machine, Sewing Machine, Telephone, Good Kitchen, a Vacation, Good Reading Matter and Home Water-Works 10 PREVENTION OF MISSISSIPPI FLOODS A Big Nation al Problem . '. H WHAT THE COWS SAY ABOUT THE SILO Testimony Which Cannot be Doubted 3 At a' .V
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