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GROWING" COTTONWTHE SOUTHEAST-Page5 " J. I 1 A. YTlIllJv ED U n WragBftfB ,5 MD SQUVHBRB3 FA&ffi BSETIT A Farm and Home Weekly for The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N.C. Vol. XXIX. No. 11 SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914 a $1 a Year; 5c, a Copy ONCE MORE-ARE YOU BURNING DOLL ARS ? . . . ; , : ; , - v ilium, iiwr iiiiimiiimMiniiiiii mn ,;mMuXr,mmrnf'u',,iiim,-i iimmmiuim. mmmaimi urn i A NORTH CAROLINA HERD. HEADER. Owned by B. B. Miller, Mt. Ulla, N. C. WE positively refuse to stand by without a protest and see the thousands of dollars worth of valuable fertilizers sent up in smoke from our Southern farms. This indiscriminate burning of cotton and corn stalks, grass, straw and trash every spring is an actual disgrace an economic crime that we hope not a single Progressive Farmer reader is guilty of. Of course there may be times when the use of fire is excusable, but such occasions are very rare. Where the boll weevil is bad and the work can be done in October, it is possibly good practice to burn the cotton stalks, especially if a cover.crop. of.crim son clover is sown on the land. But we find that about one farmer in ten thousand in weevil territory destroys his stalks in October; and to burn them in the winter and spring as a means of controling the weevil is worse than useless. Let us see what we are losing when we burn stalks and litter off our lands: FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE A Reading Course in Agriculture 1 1 Boys,-Join the Corn Clubs . . 14 Cholera Cures1-1-Another Fake 16 County Commencements . . 22 Facts About the Digestibility " of Foods V . . ... . . 12 Furrow Slices ...... 6 Story of a Successful Poultry Farm 18 Torrens System Saves Money . 9 Woman Suffrage Debate . . 13 Chemists have found that where 300 pounds of lint cotton has been grown, the whole stalks, including leaves and burrs, contain 23 pounds of nitrogen, worth, at current prices, $4.60. In other words, where a farmer (?) grows ten bales of cotton and burns his stalks, he deliberately destroys 380 pounds of nitrogen, or the fertilizing equivalent of more than 50 sacks of cottonseed meal. Where corn stalks, grass and straw are burned, the losses are little less. What would you want to do to a man, Mr. Farmer, who deliberately set fire to one of your outbuildings and burned several tons of costly fertilizers? -Yet this is exactly what you your self are doing if you persist in burning over your fields. Rich land is the way to big crops, and when you travel the fire route you're going in exactly the opposite direction.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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