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A Farm and Home Weekly for
The Carolinas. Virginia, Georgia, and Florida,
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N."C.
Vol. XXIX. No. 41
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1914
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Now Is the Time to Plan
Nem Year's Work
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A WELL PLANNED GROUP OF FARM BUILDINGS
This is the season of the year for making systematic plans for the next year's work; attention to the farm buildings should receive early consideration
THESE bright fall days find the average Southern farmer busy in the
harvest fields, and a large part of our time and efforts are neces
sarily taken up with this work; but at the same time let us not for
get that autumn is the logical time for planning our farm operations for
the next ,twelve months. Unquestionably one of the serious defects of
our farming system has been a lack of adequate plans and the tendency to
do things in a haphazard way, which is equiv
alent to doing them inan unprofitable way.
One of the things To which we hope Pro
gressive Farmer readers will give immediate
attention is that of establishing a well defin
ed crop rotation that can be adhered to for
years. It is said that in European countries
such systematic rotations are followed that
the farmer can tell just what crop grew on a
particular piece of land ten years ago, and
what crop will be planted on it ten years
hence. Of course it is needless to say that
in the South perhaps not one farmer in a
thousand has his plans so systematically laid.
What rotation shall be followed must of
course be determined by the individual
farmer and his local conditions; but for
DON'T FAIL TO READ- p.
A Constructive Program for Acre
age Reduction 7
Care of Poultry in October ... 17
Cooperation Versus Individual Own-
. ership of Farm Machinery ... 10
Cottonseed Versus Cottonseed Meal
for Feeding 10
How to Pick and Market Apples . 23
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How to Score Babies 8
Making the Oat Crop Pay ... 5
The Farmer and the County Fair 10
Virginia Farm News 15
the man who makes cotton, corn and oats his staple crops, it will
undoubtedly pay to divide the cultivated land into two equal parts,
one of these to go in cotton and the other to corn and oats, with cotton
on the corn and oat land the following year and the grain on the land that
grew cotton. In this way, with peas in the corn; peas, beans, or lespe
deza following the oats; and crimson clover sown in the cotton middles
in the fall, there is no reason why our lands
should not make forty bushels of corn and
a bale of cotton per acre with less commer
cial fertilizers than we are now using.
Other work that should be planned now
is the tiling of that low wet spot down in the
field; stopping those washes on the hillside
and building broad terraces wherever need
ed; and removing the stumps on the newly
cleared land.
When we have systematized ou"r farm op
erations, installed a rational plan of crop
rotations, and made our farms the business
like plants, both in production and market
ing, that they should be, we will have taken a
long step toward putting the farm on a prof
itable basis.