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Vol. XXX. No. 18.
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1915.
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THE
CORN
CROP
AS A r&iilt of a huniber of years worki the Mississippi Experiment
Station has fo corn to be
$i250;V This in as the aver
age Southern 'farm it may be as
sumed that the average per acre costof production over the entire South
will be in thet:nfiighbbrHood6f$i5. Then since the South during the
last ten yearsr has averkgd little more than, f if te per acre, it
follows that bn'aiji average''
the corn we haye raised has
cost us around a dollar , per
bushel. . l"1 .i,Xjg. ,jik
If this has been the aver-:
age cost,: hw: about the
thousands and thousands of "
in their place, ever alone safely be depended upon as the most economical
means of doubling our yields of corn. As supplementary sources of
plant food, particularly as sources of phosphorus' and potassium, we
never expect to be able to do without commercial fertilizers; but to use
them as a source of nitrogen for: corn is poor economy. :
. Our choice then would be a rank, growth of bur or, crimson clover to
turn under for every acre that goes in corn. Here too the embarrass-
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acres that have made less
than the average. . We have
all seen tnemruhty; neg-.
lected, weed-infested patch
es of the "little yailer kind'
of corn that actually fail to
make enough to pay for the '
seed and fertilizer used. ; Of
course the fellow who farms
in this way can better af
ford to buy his corn than
raise it; but we are inclined
to think that such a farmer
has missed his calling, and
that he would be better em
ployed working for wa-K
ges at a dollar a day, where
his employer can do the
heavy thinking for him
But these facts are not
arguments against our rais
ing corn; rather they indi
cate that until we double,
our present average yields
we are going to find corn
u" a linyiiiy poor DUS1- A DOUBLE CROPPING SYSTEM THAT PAID , ; "
ness. This brings US around Corn and soy beans on farm of J. D. Carmichael, Sunny SoutlTXla. These are growing on- land from which the same year had been taken three tons per
to the undniohU u ; acre of hay from a mixture of oats, vetch and crimson clover
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ing fact bobs up that we haven't these
clovers for every acrer but we do believe
that they are within easier reach of the
average farmer than the required amount of
stable manure. ' v
Here, as we see it, is the key to profi
table corn crops in the South and the solu
tion of the problem of moving our- corn
cribs from Iowa to Dixie; see that hereafter
every acre of your corn follows . a crop of
r clover plowed under. Good seed is impor
tant, thorough preparation and cultivation
are necessary; but the greatest problem of
all is getting and keeping rich land. Bur
and crimson clovers, crops that are at home
on every well drained soil from Virginia to
Texas, furnish the means.
Aire you going to use them hereafter?
the farmer who only makes average yields,
whether they be of corn or cotton, is never
going to do anything more than break even,
d h fortunate enough to keep out of
bt. The ten-biishels of-corn per-acre man
lsenerally tne man who averages a third of
a oa ex)f cotton, and a lifetime of poverty
8 au that such yields can ever mean. ,
of ThKit S the remedy? If we had ten loads
stable manure to go. on every- acre that
toes m corn this year we believe we'd, have
n i aimost certain means. ofVdoublingt oUr
corn cro The trouble here ; is thaV we
that ! mane,;and;tVempfe
until (?nt afford;to cbntinuerto buy iofn
suffix ettSvllvt6.ft"iiie
can commercial fertilizers, while valualile
DON'T FAIL TO READ- Paw
Cotton Prices and Acreage Reduction 3
Facts for Corn Growers . v . . .10
Forage Crops That Are Good . . 6
Get the Boys Over Sixteen to Join the
Union ' v '
Last Call for Saving the Clover Seed . .
More Forage Crops oh Every Farm . .
Not; a Siingle North; Carolina County
Feeds Itself . . . ... -
Organize a Marketing Association Now 11
Ten Livestock Suggestions lor May . . 8
Thinning Apples atid Peaches . . . . 7
Twelve Things to Do in May .... 4
Uncle Cornpatch Presents a Prohlem . 10
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