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AM iSESIT&IEI&KI F&f 4 GAZETTE
A Farm and Home Weekly for v-
Carolinas, Virginia, GeorgiaVttnd Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
Vol. XXIX. No. 9
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1914
$1 a Year; 5c. a Copy
What's the Matter With Southern Farming?
I. WE DON'T USE ENOUGH HORSES AND MULES
ACCORDING to the census of 1910, the average American farmer
used 3 1-3 horses. Iowa and Kansas averaged 6 per farm, and
the Dakotas 7. But in North Carolina and South Carolina in 1910
there were only 1.3 horses and mules per farm, in Georgia and Ala
bama 1.4, Mississippi 1.6, Virginia 1.7 and Arkansas 2.4. In the map
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II. WE DON'T RAISE ENOUGH HOGS
TOWA has 34 hogs per farm, Nebraska 26, Illinois 18, and the whole
United States averages 13, whereas the average in South Carolina
is less than 4 per farm, in Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama and
Mississippi is less than 5, Tennessee and Texas 5.6, Georgia 6.1, Ar
kansas 7.1. In the map herewith each complete dot represents 200,000
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III.-WE DON'T GROW ENOUGH
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that while the dots are
thick as crows for the
Northern States, neither
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words, each of these States
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acres in hay and forage
crops in 1910! No wonder
The Progressive Farmer
continually urges that the
South must take the motto,
"First the Feed and then
the Stock!"
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FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE
A Reading Course in Agriculture
The Value of Crop Rotations . .15
A Soil Builder at Work-The Story
of a Man Who Places Soil Fertility
First 5
Early Melons A Simple Means of
Getting Them 22
Fertilizer Mixtures We Need to
. Know More About What They Are . 3
Furrow Slices Instructive Ideas from
the Field 7
Grazing Crops for Hogs A Rota
tion that Hog Raisers Should Know
About 18
Making Broad Terraces A Simple
Device that Will Aid in the Work . . 7
Marketing the Peanut Crop Points
About the Selling Game We Need to
Consider . 6