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SOY BEANS FOR SOUTHERN FARMERS Page 5 C N f&AKl Fikl&Kl Gazette A Farm and Ht Weekly for The Carolinas,Virginiairieorgia, and Florida, FOUNDED 1886,AT1ALEIGH,N.C. Vol. XXIX. No. 24 SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1914 $1 a Year; 5c. a Copy IS YOUR SOIL STAYING AT HOME? " l i . i L t- ,,,1, f "OUR CREEKS AND RIVERS RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF OUR BUTCHERED ACRES" THE above picture is not pretty, and it is particularly unsightly to the progressive farmer who has come to see that only over rich lana lies tne road to prosperity, but the scene is a real one one that is too common in the South, and one that we must learn to abhor if we are ever to make any profits farming. . . In season and out The Progressive Farmer has preached the exceeding im portance of rich land ; and, in season and out, we shall continue to stress its exceed ing importance. Annually the South spends perhaps seventy-five million dol lars for commercial fertilizers. But, re gardless of the amount of commercial fer tilizers used, regardless of the amount of manure applied and the green crops plowed under, regardless of all we may do, we shall always be poor so long as we allow the rains to rush over our rolling lands, stripping the best soil away, leaving only the rocky, sterile skeleton of the fat soil Nature gave us. How these losses may be avoided we Page DON'T FAIL TO READ- Dipping Hogs 13 Dooryard Sanitation and Conveniences 8 Grasses for the Hill Country ..... 12 How Is Your Fair ? 10 How the States May Get the Benefits of the Smith-Lever Act 10 Methods of Spraying Tobacco 7 More Mulatto Statistics . . ' . . . . 11 New Soil Acidity Test Discovered . . . Reminders From Sunny Home Farm Some House-cleaning Suggestions . . The Garden in June The Week on the Farm United States Warns Against Fake Hcg Cholera Cures 13 What Crops to Plant After Small Grains When to Lay By Corn and Cotton haye discussed repeatedly, and the subject will be further dwelt upon in future issues. One point we wish to make here is that any farmer worthy of the name should be jealous of his soil fertility, and careful to see that the least possible amount of it is going away to muddy our creeks and rivers and to leave behind a poor farm and a poorer farmer. European countries, particularly Germany and England; have so conserved their soir fertility that op lands that have been in cultivation a thousand years they are making double the amount of grain per acre that is being grown on the com paratively fresh lands of the United States. Soil conservation, perhaps forced by stern necessity, has been carefully looked to. It may be that we will require a similar motive to impel us to do the same thing; but the wise farmer, the man who wishes to make a good living and a little surplus and leave a fertile farm to his children, will look to the problem of soil fer tility NOW. 13 6 8 4 10 6 3
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