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M 1 FERTILIZERS FOR SUMMER LEGUMES Par 3. - U: . - ; . 2 Vol. XXVIII. No. 20. A Farm and Home Weekly For tiCarolinas, Virginia, vjeurgm ana riono:, FOUNDED, 1886, AT RALEIGHTc A fTT a -i- . 3A1UKUAY, MAY 17, 1913. Weekly: $1 a Year. Reg'd U. S. Pat Office. I ITT m tr tn. - " IZI " Farmim IT IS remarkable how fast the signs multiply that it is to be either corporation farming or co-operation farming in the South. Consider these straws, for example. A man has just left our office who told us of having recently seen the overseer of an Illinois corporation f a r.m on his way South to buy Georgia land for the corporation. "Our Illinois land is worth $200 per acre,' V he said, "and doesn't yield as much as your Southern land selling for one-fourth as much." Like wise, the Phil adelphia Coun try Gentleman publishes as a leading feat ure" article, "Opportunity in the South," with the fol lowing matter in bold black type about the problem of the Mississippi MWWlWMWWti , J DRIVEWAY LEADING TO HOME OF MR. CHAS. PABST, OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI. Pecans on Left of Road, Eiht Years From Graft. Seventeen Trees on One Acre Produced Last Year 900 Pounds Nuts, Worth 55 Cents -.Per Poud. Small Trees on Right Grew Three to Six Feet in Eight Months. Photograph From W. H. Bouslog, Gulfport, Miss. Valley planter: "Purchase of the plantations by corporations, with definite ideas of organization, development and operation, seems to be the answer, and such a plan, backed by big money, can be made to show a profit." At the same time we have before us as we write this, a clipping about a 17,000-acre North Carolina farm just purchased by a million aire, and a prospectus of a farming corporation now being promoted in Savannah, Ga., its leading spirit Writing us as follows: "You have certainly hit the nail on the head when you say that this kind of farming is coming. It is also true that co-opera-tjon between farmers is the only way to. meet this kind of compe tition, and co-operation will not then be a matter of choice, but a necessity." Once again we say to our Southern farmers : These are the signs of the times. Get ready for the new era. Big money sees the possi bility in Southern land, and it is up to us to "shoot, Luke, or give up the gun." Farm land is becoming too valuable to remain in the con trol of ignorant or unproductive labor. We must either become pro gressive farmers or hire ourselves to corporations that will do pro gressive farming. There is no other choice. And to become a progressive farmer, don't forget that you must both learn to produce economically, scientifically, and you must learn to co-operate with your neighbors in buying and selling. Neither one will do alone. You can learn about either scientific marketing or scientific pro duction and yet be beaten down by hav ing to face competition with men and corporations who practice both scientific production and scientific marketing. And in both production and marketing you need co-operations-cooperation in buying and running all modern im proved ma chinery, co-operation in buy ing fertilizers, co-operation i n marketing the produce. - "Better farm ing is coming in the South. The movement is as irresistible as a tornado. We who are here now must ourselves do this better farming or hire ourselves out to those who will. FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. A County Field Day Also a "Better Baby" Show . . . 15 Constitution of "United Farm Women" Also the Year's Outline ' of Study and Suggested By-Laws 8 Co-operate With Neighbors to Make Farm Work Easier-How You Can Do It U Cotton Chopping Machines Three Implements for "Blocking Out" 5 How to Tell if Lime is Needed-The Simplest Tests for Soil Acidity 1 8 Pastures Worth $140 an Acre-Interest Paid on This Amount .12 Plant More Legumes Put Them on Every Unemployed Acre . . 10 Prof. Massey's Comments-Timely Work on the Farm, in the Gar den and With the Flowers 4 Soil Acidity- What Causes It and How It May be' Prevented 5 The Codling Moth-Life History and How to Control It" .... 7 Varieties of Cowpeas-Some of the Best for Special Purposes and How All Could Be Improved . . . -. . . . 6 When Horses Should Not be Pastured-When They Are Doing Hard Work or Being Driven Hard . ' 3 I! V
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