HOME CANNING NUMBER
m and Home Weekly for
Garolinasginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 16, AT RALEIGH, N. C
Vol. XXIX. No. 17
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1914
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SOME IDEAS ON CROP CULTIVATION
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'Green hills an' meadows sweet,
Birds where bldoms are stvingin'."
FOR the next three months the cultivation of the crops will demand
by far the larger part of the time on most Southern farms. To
do this work most economically and most effectively to do it
in such a way that maximum crops with a minimum of expensive labor
may result this is an object that every progressive farmer may well
strive for. . '
Keeping down the grass and weeds and con
serving the moisture supply should be the chief
ends sought in cultivating our ordinary field
crops, and the methods and implements that
accomplish these most economically, with the
least injury to the root system of the crop in ques
tion, should be the ones used. With a field so
wide and conditions so diverse as exist in our
Progressive Farmer territory, .it is manifestly
impossible to prescribe particular implements or
particular methods. However, we do believe
that there are a few practices that are good or
bad all over the South, and we want to call
attention to what we consider a few of these,
First; of aty we are sure fhat the section har
row or a weeder 6n lignffeandy lands may be
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE
Canning Club Programs
Care of Mother and Baby ,
Cleanliness in Canning Pays ,
Home Canning Experiences ,
Home Remedies from the Pan
try Shelf ....... 11
More About the Torrens System 1 2
Rich Soils of First Importance 12
Use the Parcel Post More . . 12
Waste Peanuts for Hogs . 14
What Other Folks are Saying 13
used right now with protit by a very large proportion of our readers.
With our beating spring rains and drying winds hard crusts are com
mon, and it is often difficult to get good stands, especially of cotton.
Right here, by using it just as soon as the ground becomes dry enough,
is where the harrow demonstrates its great value. Don't forget that a
good stand of strong, vigorous plants is a long
step toward a profitable crop.
Then comes the matter of depth of cultiva
tion. The first cultivation or two, particularly
on rather tight soils or after packing rains, may
well be rather deep; but thereafter to secure the
fcest results shallow cultivation should be care-'
fully practiced. Nor is it enough to assume that
this is being done for in many cases careful in
spection will show that plant roots are being
cut wholesale, with a permanent stunting of the
"crop a$ a result.
We might say more on this subject, and par
ticularly abourthe folly of the turn plow in cul
tivation and the losses that come in most cases
from laying by on a high bed; but we expect to
deal with these more at length in later issues.
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