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. .'- T,!E P"95MSIVE PARMER
has made an exhaustive investigation of the sub- one bushel per acre of lespedeza or Japan dm...
ject and written a -uuukuu, mw j v: vv:
thinks that $20 should.be nearer the 'average cost, :, cut -for hay
-be broadcasted over the oats to b
the Jonowing- fall By cuttL ,!
"Ton can ttH by i man'i farm whether
be reads u or not"
or
The Progressive Farmer Company
(Incorporated under the lajrt of North Carolina.)
119 W. Hargett St, Raleigh, N. C.
, CLARENCE FOE.
TATT BUTLER.
a L. MOSS, . .'
W.F.MASSEY,
JOHN S. PEARSON,
, J. A. MARTIN,
, President and Editor
Vice-President and Editor
. Managing Editor
Contributing Editor
.Secretary-Treasurer
v. Advertising Manager
yet we continue to get reports such .as the follow
ing from a bampson uoumy reauci . r
" "Your article on the Torrens System is very,
timely. A lawyer in my home -town told me
'some months. ago it would cost' me at least:
one hundred dollars to get a title'." , ' . "
But-for., the., efforts .oforganfeeT farmers we .The second year plot 2 goes in corn after crim.
should not yet have had. the Torrens System in son clover, as above. indicated, peaVtTbTsown '
North Carolina" or Mississippi, and farmers . m tne cbrn.at. the" last cultivation.- After tfc ,
both states should find out the attitude of the "haVvestcd'the Veas toh. 't?,?
neighboring- lawvers, and. govern themselves ac- t - , - u me vines
lespedeza Hay in September, there will v
timeparticularlyjn the lower, half of the Cott
Belt,.. to seed: this plot to crimson clover iu-
uc pwvvtu.imuuMUj turn IflO IOUOWing April
May.;.. . V .
J. L. Mogford, General Representative
XTORTH
11
Carolina farmers should write Secre
tary Toseoh E. Pogue, Raleigh, for a copy of
the. State Fair premium list on field and garden
crops. Send a postal for it and begin planning to
bring an exhibit to Raleigh next fall. '
in-
course
THE postmaster at Nashville, Tenn., has done
something - that postmasters in other cities
v might well do as in fact numbers of them are
doing. As a part of his work in promoting the
usefulness of the parcel post system, he has pre-,
pared and sent to the citizens of Nashville "a list
of. producers who have agreed' to furnish butter,
eggs, chickens, farm products, and the like, direct
to the consumers in Nashville, all of those named
being near enough the city so that perishable
goods can be received . from themv with" perfect
.safety." Write the postmaster in your nearest city,
and ask him if he has such a list.'
BECAUSE of our Education Special next week,
which will necessitate leaving out of that-issue
our "Diversification and Independence" articles
and letters, we find it necessary to make a slight
chancre in our announced orocrram. Because of
w m
the lateness of the season and the consequent fact
that most farmers intending to make side appli
cations of fertilizers have already done so, we
deem it best to postpone the fertilizer discussions,
announced for this week, substituting therefor a
discussion of the livestock problem as it affects
Southern farmers. This allows us more space for
a full discussion in our issue of June 26 of our
educational problems. We "trust that this arrange
ment will meet with the approval of our readers.
NEVER a June passes, with the sun burning hot,
with the, oat crop coming off, stubble : lands
needing to be seeded, the corn and cotton de-'
- manding attention, and men and teams as a conr
sequence rushed to the limit, but th-at we are sore
ly tempted to leave the stubble lands bare and idle. -Lespedeza
sown on the oats in March is. the great
est help we know of in avoiding this heavy June
rush. On any fair grade of upland, any where -south'
of a line drawn from Shreveport, La.,
through Jackson and Meridian, Miss.; Montgom
ery, Ala. ; Macon, Ga. ; and Charleston, S. C, we
are certain that lespedeza will, under average con
ditions', ' give a good yield of hay after oats." Of
course on bottom lands and the better uplands it
will give a good cutting of hay much farther
north. Try some another year, you'll like it. "
cording, They should give their patronage in all : ana corn staiKs. plowed -under preparatory to
legal cases to sucn lawyers , as shuw mcuuwi w unu& wkiw,! uw.tutiuvytu spring.
fair and square by offering to get Torrens titles : The third year plot 2 goes in cotton, oats to h
, vuiiyn.imuuies.in tne fall, thus hp
- ' n U1U& ' anew me mree-year rotation Of
A T.PttPr From a Ster lias Farmer-Citizen .u;, ,.,.,;;:, 70n' 0f
- OT - t w 1V4 7 vuuicu- m me same way plot
A FEW days ago we wrote a beloved fortae3!"?
A contributor to The Progressive Farmer ask- into cotton .the first year.
T ig him why we had not heard from him in ' Such a roat;on as thls furnishes, a crop each of
recent months. In the course of a private letter oats corn and cotton and .three legume crops in
mi jwmb, auu, win cuuugn livestock to handle
the-surplus feeds;raised,; affords the quickest way
- we know of to get rich land... And farming without
' rich land is generally a losing business. '
; In the lower halfof the Cotton Belt all the crops
nlc ennprvkintr trustee in-buildine our new - . ' V H,Uamy succeed: in
schoolhouse and in planning and planting our..--lue .Wr especially on the thinner soils,
- grounds for a school farm; librarian and
treasurer of our church, "and planning to put
a permanent fence around the church ceme-'
tery. I have been so tired when night came
that a game or two of parcheesi with my wife
and, mother was about all that I could stand
for." : - . . - '
This is such a cheerful and inspiring catalog of pea fields, and then get the oats in at a date early
useful activities that we: cannot refrain from, pass-- enough to avoid the danger of winter-killing.
ing it on to our readers! This man is every year . " . .
making both' his farm and his neighborhood better- - Helping Biuld Q Good Neighborhood
for his having lived"; and in addition to doing all " r - 'r s-
this work for school and church, we happen to,
know that he, Js always active in his local and
county Farmefs' Union, , :
just received in reply he says:- '.
"Since January L have been unusually busy
with my farm, getting out stumps, opening an
avenue to a public road, that I ; have worked
- twenty years .to .secure, ditching, repairing,
- nlantiinp'. and buildinsr in a small wav. I was
,, . r"- . ; .... ,., w. . , , ... . ... .
cowpeas or soy beans might be profitably substi
tuted, for the lespedeza. .Some authorities would
-recommend 'that, the oats follow the corn crop, but
especially with corn after clover plowed under in
April or May we cannot see how it is possible to
harvest the corn, give the livestock the run of the
IN OUR morning daily we find this item about a
MrJ..W. Pennyrnot far from our office, who is
.taking theurest -steps to help build up his
In every community we need more such sterling ; neighborhood, r Said Mr; Penny to the newspaper
farmer-citizens, men who are not only anxious to man: ' ?
improve their ownr farms and homes but "make
themselves neighborhood leaders" men who when;
they. die-will leave something, else behind them be
sides a few acres, bams, and dollars.
Are; you such a citizen, Mr. Subscriber ? If not,
you can make yourself one.".".' s
A Cropping System for a Forty-acre Farm
"I have had a tract of land divided up last
- week to sell on -easy terms ; the whole plot
contained some 400 acres, and I had it split up
r into farms; that averaged about 50 acres each.
The coming of six or seven new families to
that neighborhood will do as much as any
thing you can put on the land toward building
it. up provided they are the right sort of peo
ple, and that is the only kind that I want to
'settle down anyway."- "
IN PLANNING a cropping system for the aver- It's a pity , that more farmers who have more
; age small farm, we would, for a number of land than they need to cultivate do not sell off
reasons, advise that staple crops, such as corn, fifty-acre tracts to good people who will help build
oats, hay, cotton and livestock, be grown at first, up the neighborhood. Frequently a farmer holds
and then truck and fruit crops, if found profitable, on .to three 'or four . times; as much land as he
could be gone into gradually. Certainly it is much needs, saying that ,he wants it for division among
safer to go about it in this way than to risk every- his. children, only to find-in his old age that all the
thing at, the beginning on crops that are perish- children have left-because- a
able and uncertain. 'good neighborhood and Asocial life. We heard of a
Going- about the matter in this way and making "case recently where a .farmer .who owned more
he should make application. He should write the; tjie production of the above mentioned staple than 500 acres -and Was cultivating"vonly a fraction
crops the. mam business, we would suggest as a of it, would not sell- small farms off it even to ms
ifirst stei that-theiJorty acres to be farmed be children and erand-chifdren. The result was that
A NORTH Carolina reader writes4 to say' that he
wishes" to get on the lists for all available agri
cultural bulletins, and wishes tokndw to whom
State Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, for its
bulletin, which is published monthly ; write the
Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh, for its
bulletins, which are published frequently but not
at stated periods Then he should write the
. United States Department of Agriculture, iWa'sh
. ington, D? C., and get its list of farmers' bulletin,"
or consult the list published in the recent "Refer
ence Special". of. The Progressive Farmer. He will
have to- specify just which of these bulletins he
wishes, as it is the policy of the National Govern-. Generally the uses to which , plot 1 are to be out
divided ino four, equal areas of ten acres each, they have been forced to leave, leaving him in pit
We will call these plots 1, 2, 3, and 4. Plot 1 should iful loneliness, when, he might have been in the.
be devoted to the house and lawn, the barn and - center of a happy "colony-Vf his offspring. ...
barnyard, garden, chicken yard and runs, orchard,. Many a. farmer' would greatly increase his own
and asmall pasture adjacent to the barnyard and happiness ndthat of, his family by selling fifty
so placed that it will open into plots 2. 3 and 4: acres tn ri inod white nekhbor.
will be fixed, and.it is not to be included in the
rotation plans for plots 2, 3 and 4. '
Plots 2, 3 and 4 we would devote to a well, plan
ned rotation, and, once underway, we would' hold
to this rotation, regardless of any temptation io'
WEDO not wish to be unfair to anybody, but ' ' fronf lL nht oi combinations sug
VY the evidence we get certainly indicates that gest emselves, but, with corn, oats, hay, "cotton
those ; North Carolina lawyers i who have been an( livestock as the main crops, we believe the
making a good part of their living investigating following will be as good as can be found- -
name Qr number. We hope many subscribers, now
while this information is ; before them" will sit
down- at once and write for; these publications.
IVour taxes pay for them and ybu should get 'the
benefit. . ,
A Thought for the Week
rrRE South is a land Jhat has known sorrow
H ' ifis a-land that has. broken the ashen cro
.and moistened it. with tears ; a, land scar
and riveri'by the'plowshare of war and W"u ,
with the graves of her dead but a land of legen ,
-land of song, a land of haUowed and heroic
ones. To that land everv arop vi my "'"V' ?
fiber of my.being,-every pulsion of W
consecrated forever. I was born ot.ner r .
land titles have a very convenient way of misun
derstanding the'vTprrens System. In spite of the
fact that Attorney-General Bickett, who should
be, the best authority in the State, estimates that
the average cost of getting a Torrens title should
be about $25; and Attorney Bruce Craven, who
Beginning with plot 2, we will plant it.in oats in
l lorever.: i was uwm . i ur
September or October, drilling the oat !wwpn was nurtured at her breast, and when my
ner Dosom ana rockea to. sieep W4M1 i .xxrTar-
The late Senator v..
oats -.Detween i . r t . r r " :iined upw
the cotton roVs. Oat drills are now made that do ?hal come' m.ty&iti tt
this ;work: rapidly: and satisfactorily,-without-in- Z Z.
juring the cotton crop. In February or March mack,' of Tennessee.
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