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-tv:'' A Farm and Home Weekly for
the Carohnas, Virginia. Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 19o
HARNESS THE IDLE i&ES
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N farm management two well recognized principles are (1) that each
acre shall be required to produce maximum crops and (2) that a
sufficient acreage be cultivated to insure for men and teams as
nearly as possible i ;a mumbf 'employment, under working condi
tions best suited to effideiit effort. In other wofds, very' acre
yield good crops, and enough, acres must be cultivated to insure fair
wages to the farmer. ,...
In actual farm practice Cotton Belt farmers are too often falling
profit, so should we insist ch acre we own be required to
renuer a gooa account ot itselt.v 1
2. Drain the wet spots and fill the gullies. Who has not seen
in nearly all parts of the South the wet hollows, feet deep in the rich
est soil on the 'farm, "producing nothing but a crop of weeds ? Who
has not seen the gullies, dozens and hundreds of them, that cut our
broad fields into patches and waste our soil fertility? The presence of
these undrained, non-productive spots and soil-wasting gullies means
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"HOG HEAVEN"
Hogs and Alfalfa on Helen Temple Farm, Plainview, Texas
short of these ideals. It is rare indeed that we find a farm that is aver
aging fifty to seventy-five bushels of corn and one to one and one-half
bales of cotton per acre; yet sujh yields are economically possible on
wige areas, and the; ;farmei who falls
short of averaging them over his entire
farm is corresponidingly failing to realize
Vl1 nis opportunities. How can we cor
rect tnese deficiencies and put our acres
n a maximum profit-yielding basis? Of
course the use of clovers and other
legumes as well as manures is absolute
y essential in any well ordered system,
out this week we wist especially to em
phasize other points that are scarcely
'ess important. '
' Demand of each and every
e on tne farm that it do its share.
simply means, where a man has 80
dcres of land and hnc
eith- that the unused 40 acres should
er be put t0 work in some way or
Dro t and the Proceeds used to im
as V remainder of the farm, dust.
Sel, Uc fxPert dairyman- weeds - out and
Pace
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DONT FAIL TO READ
Good Advice for the Crop-selling Season . .
How We Improved Our Farms . . . . .
Secretary Houston Urges the Federal Ware
house Bill ....
Six Suggestions for Handling Dynamite . .
Orchard Work for the Winter Months .
Interest in Pure-bred Beef Cattle in Georgia
Keep Down the Mud in the Barnyard this
Winter . . . . ' !
The Cultivated Hill Lands Must Be Terraced
When Dynamite Pays . .
Taxation as a Remedy for Absentee Land-
We Need More Comradeship in Farm Work 13
How Farmers Got Together and Improved
Their Communities . . ... jj
How Drainage Pays . . .
The WorK or wm -"r-
that we must learn more about tile and terraces and how to use them
to make our farms yield us greater returns.
3. Dont tolerate stumps, trees and bushes in the cultivated
fields. We believe in orchards, shade
trees and wood lots, but they should be
in their proper places, and this means
that they have no business in the culti
vated fields. Their presence, along with
a sprinkling of stumps, simply means that
we can never use to advantage the labor
saving machinery that is absolutely es
sential if we get maximum returns for our
labor. We well know that ridding fields
of such nuisances is no easy job, but it is
a job that should be tackled with a de
termination that will never slacken until
it is finished.
Let us repeat, that good farming con
sists in getting from each acre the
maximum returns that are economically
possible, and in handling an acreage
sufficient to insure low labor cost
through the use of improved machinery.
And right now is the time to plan and
work for these things for another year.
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