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Wayne, statement of the first vMr's hn;np ; Greene and Lenoir - w ----- - -- -r--. j www f wwa.,vwa XI FIVE COUNTIES OUT OF QUARANTINE ' Leans: tra moxtsasra and stock ..... S,44 3.0 Supply account ,,,, 46. IS Cash on hand ..................... 261.81 Delinquent dues, interest and fines..- 121.61 Cumberland. counties, freed from the cattle tick, hare just been exempted from- the Federal cattle quarantine. Now let all neighboring counties take up the fight! . J": How Good Pastures Add to Farm : 1 ' Profit, A BELIEVER IN RYE AND BERMUDA -1 more thrifty than they would be on a - much heavier feed without the. pas ture. ; ; We also hare 16 acres of rye and . ' oats . that we nasture some. aJsr an A GOOD pasture is one of the es- acre of crimson ; clover that forms sentials of a good farm. The why part of-our pasture : T of so few cattle. and livestock is usu- :-Our lots ooen.directlr into Bermu- (First Prize Letter) ally '"I A haven't got the pasture." And this is a condition not to be pooh-poohed at; -Without more cat tle; cand grass to feed more cattle, da and bur clover pasture and the fields are connected so that it's an' easy Job to change them about. 1 We've never entertained an idea "Diversification and Independence'' is that Just any old place, too poor to a iidiu nut lu.yrucK. - grow prontaDie crops, wouia make,a In the yallejrs where it is low and satisfactory pasture; on the contrary, the natural grasses thrive and grow . some of the richest -land on our olace luxuriantly,- the pasture proposition -strips and nooks and corners along is :more easuy soivea ; dui in tne niu tne Dranches are being set to Ber country, there is more to the subject' muda and; bur clover; for we realize than a roll of wire, ; It used to be the the necessity, of having stock, con custom in this part of the state' to venient 'to water- and such land fence the fields when they got so makes a much; finer growth of grass poor "that crops, failed, and turn the than the worn -hillsides It is aho 'old cow in to either eat Igrass and much more profitable to grow grass grow tat, or eise me ,witn tne noiiow to tne waters; edge than to allow a horn, and the poor old cow would ; border of briers and broomsedgei 'y usuallyelse "-Nowwearcrbeginnm to learn that 20-cent beef . doesn't do about a dozen hor, and to date four well; where seven -cent cotton won't fShortborn ,heifer calves have joined grow, and people are ready to inquire, our herd, and we expect two more How can 1 have me a good pasture t . -.within a fortnight. We are. hauling My experience has .convinced me.; large Quantities of manure onto fields that rye is a good spring pasture crop for co for very poor land. I ljke- oats and nick -on. the. key-to; successful stock clover better far grazing, but I find growing, , and . stpek-growing is "the that if. the soil is properly prepared ; basis of successful farming. We can't and rye sown early in the fall it wiH grow stock successfully without good make a heavier growth on poor land pastures!' and the better the pastures than anything we have tried. . . the better the stock, and consequent- inree vears aero we aeciaea to nave it inrvoetier xne larm. ' a Bermuda pasture, and set' Bermuda . .Besraes the plants already named I grass in the field that was then grow- have sune -timothy,,herdsgrass, .red ing corn, -between the corn rows, at , clover, white clover) ; lespedeza, and laying by time. Later on in the fall we sweet clover, and all do well espe- sowed rye. among the corn stalks and cially the -sweet clover which I , like Bermuda The rye came on'earry in very muchand though the Irishman's the spring, and the Bermuda Mater,- goat might from, his, nature of pure which gave us a good pasture the cussedness prefer to eat the splinters whole summer. In the more, fertile off a rail fence or the letters off 'the part of. the field the Bermuda. is now tombstones in the cemetery, yet our thickly sodded and we no; longer aN stock,, when : running on good pas- tempt" to sow rye here : ture,-wiIUrea(oYertheorchard . But less fertile places that will not - lence and eat it when it s old and grow Bermuda rapidly will rrow rye. tough R. E. L FLOWERS, We have a field that was planted to Quitman, Ark. cotton last year and rye sown after 1 - - the first picking, which has .made a V What Sort of Pastures Have Yon? good growth and will soon furnish us - TYPICAL Union County pasture a pod spring pasture. ha$ Uen AeserU6 as a plccc of I am also experimenting with bur knd where rQ cloverf but have not succeeded m get-, fence arounsd it Thaf description ting a stand so far I am trying to aIgo fit the aye pasture in raise enough seed this year to try it aU the othef cottonVcounties; And more thoroughly. Let The Progressive Farmer con- usually the pasture has a good stand of old field pines growing in it. Now tZT fciVraluA .5laf2 and Lawn K"? fence B-.iT-T T uws aeaa ruuianoA i j onn baIi -s. WARD MFG. CO Catalog w Ward ZC, Decatur, IadL tinue tot preach more livestock and. arid then, however, you'll find a farm better pasture ; I am tiredof seeing ' er who has put his best land in pas theipoor jold family cow tied, in the tures and stocked it with clovers and garden. C L. EAKER, Cherryville, KL C GREEN GRASS BETTER THAN . v T WEEDS AND BRIERS ; - (Prize Letter) pasture grasses land that will pro duce a bale of cotton or fifty bushels of corrf per acre. Of course it takes some nerve for a farmer in the Cot ton Belt to do that, but he is always well rewarded for his nerve. If we can't quite get the consent of our minds to put some of our better lands HERE at Glen-Ayr we have about in pastures, we ought toat least put 10 acres set to Bermuda and bur - the-two-horse plow on some of our clover, and though last season was old pasture lands in February or extremely dry the Bermuda afforded March and make a seed bed for seed grazing all- through the long hot ing a mixture of permanent pasture months, until killed by frost. Since 'grasses, for -hni Unds. The seed re ihenhbuKcloverhas taken quired for this purpose will not cost, its place and forms a thick carpet for any more, per acre than the expendi feedihg hogs; horses, caule, geese andl' tute we have been making for com chickens, and with, just a little corn,"; mereia! fertilnzers toput under cot-. I think the horses and hogs are much, ton. J. Z. Green. . 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The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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March 20, 1915, edition 1
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