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SAVE FEED NOW, AND PLANT FEED CROPS. V "N Reg'd U. S. Pat. Office. A Farm and Hon 0 Weekly For the Carolinas, Virginia, 6 -gia and Florida. FOUNDED, V AT RALEIGH, N. C. Weekly : $1 a Year. . Vol. XXVIII. No. 34. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1913. . 11 11 Si - ' r-srr-. ., - Are You Going to Buy Feed or Fertilizers Next Spring ? MOST readers will buy fertilizers; all too many we fear will buy feed. We do not object to your buying fertilizers. If boughtwithjudgmen, they will add to your profits. We do ob ject, however, to the buying of feeds for their livestock by Southern farmers; and also to the buying of plant food they could get for nothing. It is going to go hard with the man who has to buy corn and hay next spring; for the prices are going to be "way up yonder." It goes hard with any man at any time to have. to. buy nitrogen so that he can make decent yields of Corn and cot ton. In this issue we ;J have tried to tell you how to avoid both ; these unnecessary expenditures. -.. ... ,,j first, as to fertilizer bills. You can be either gathering or saving ! nitrogen every day this winter, if you will only do it. Nitrogen costs ; twenty cents a pound often; so it will pay you to do it, especially as : ! it requires no exertion on your part after the first great effort. You tlknow how it is done, because we have told you about it so much you ijmay be tired hearing of it. Plant cover crops on your bare lands; ; that's all. Crimson clover, bur clover, vetch, rye, there are plenty ; of crops to plant. 1 1 Next, and chieflv. as to the feed rrnns So mo rtlon coma ornne The crops you plant for winter cover will give you a lot of feed if you need it ; the crops you plant now for feed will protect your land dur ing the winter. Plant all of the crops we have mentioned and more y-udis, wneat, rape, turnips, not forgetting a patch of alfalfa if you ;jhave prepared for it, and a permanent pasture. ; Friends, you may think we write a lot about and insist almost ttnrp. onably upon these matters of winter cover crops and an abundance of feed ; but it is as certain as can be that the soils of the South cannot be made and kept fertile if they are left bare during the winters, and that until you grow your own feeds you cannot develop a respectable livestock industry. These two thincrs. in short, are at the vprv ha agriculture here in the South ; and until more attention is paid to them .southern fields will continue to wear out and the poverty-stricken cropper" will be here to depress the price of cotton every fall. a- Read the various articles on the planting of winter croos in this issue ; and then get out into your fields and get ready to have the green stuff growing on them this winter. You will not regret it next spring. FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. Bedding for Steers Comparative Values of Materials Often Used . 12 Corn Stover Two More Plans for Economical Handling .... 6 Crimson Clover Three More Reminders 4, 14, 19 Fitting Poultry for the Fairs How It is Done 16 High Prices for Feeds Surely Coming and You Must Meet Them 10, 19 How to Make Bread Mrs. Hutt Gives a Recipe and a Man Tells the "Whys" . .89 Pasture Talk By Mr. French and Prof. Gray 5, 12 Plant Shrubs and Vines and Fruit Trees Make Your Home Beautiful and Have Plenty to Eat 10, 15 Race Segregation Letters from Readers and Newspaper Comment . 1 1 Rye as a Cover Crop Not the Best, But Better Than None . . 3 Seed Corn Talk By Dr. Butler and Prof. Massey 3, 4 Silo Experience This Time From a Virginia Farmer 12 Some Educational Figures We Are Just Making a Start . . . 14 Sow Oats Why You Should and How to Do It 3, 5 'Kv.'W,-:': : sv'1 ,.,...:.-;v..-, ' I A VIKCilNIA SOY BEAN FIELD A GOOD YIELD OF FINE FEED. it
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