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BETTER OUTLOOK FOR COTTON-Page 13
m x A Farm and Home Weekly for
The tSirolinas, Virginia. Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N.X.
Vol. XXIX. No. 40
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914
$1 a Year; 5c. a Copy
CONSIDER THE HAY CROP
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(8.174 POUNDS OF' COWPEA HAY FROM 21 ACRES
Farm of Geo. L. Colburn, Lake City, Fla.
WHILE we all hope the great European war will end soon, it is
dangerous to assume that there is any real certainty of its early
termination. What we must do is to take no chances on the
future, but arrange now to meet the situation with overflowing barns
and smokehouses, out of which the home demand may be amply sup
plied, with a goodly surplus to be sold at war-time prices. The first
step in such a live-aMiome program must log
ically consist in an abundance of hay and for
agecrops that have always paid well and that
in most cases now must either be produced at
home or gone without. -In preparing for an
abundant harvest of such crops next spring, it
is vital that certain important steps be taken
immediately. First of all, turn to last week's
Progressive Farmer and read again what Prof.
Duggar says about saving a liberal supply of
cowpea and soy bean seed. These seed usu
ally command high prices during the spring
months," and it is imperative that liberal quan
tities be harvested and protected against wee
vils and other insects for the spring seeding.
Then in those parts of the Cotton Belt where
DON'T FAIL TO READ w
Boiling Bur Clover Seed to Hast
en Germination 5
Community Service Days in North
Carolina ........ 7
Demand Fair Prices for Your
Cotton Seed ....... 3
Do Not Push Peanuts On the
Market . . . 9
Livestock Suggestions for Octo-
er
Treating Seed Oats to Prevent
Smut
lespedeza is proving a profitable hay crop liberal quantities of these
seed should be saved for seeding in the oat fields in February and March.
Then comes the oat crop, to which we have repeatedly referred as
one that may, when rightly handled5, take the place of cotton as a cash
crop. Proper handling, of course, means fall seeding, the earlier the
better; treatment for smut; judicious fertilization; suitable harvesting
and threshing machinery where the oats are in
tended for the market; and the' seeding of ev
ery acre of oat land to some legume that later
is to be made into hay. It is this latter point to
which we would call especial attention just
now the urgent necessity for seeing that an
abundant supply of peas, beans or lespedeza
seed is saved to seed every acre of corn and
oat land next spring and summer.
This war will likely mean to us, Mr. Progress
ive Farmer, many disagreeable things, many
real hardships; but let us make sure now that
one of the humiliations we will not suffer will
be that of buying next spring dollar-and-a-half
corn and twenty-five dollar hay to make seven
cent cotton.
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