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The Carpi inas and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT LEIGH, N. C
Vol. XXXI No. 10.
SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1916. .
$1 a Year; 5c. a Gopy
Food and Feed Crops Will Pay Best This Year
TO THE thinking, reading, .wide-awake farmer, there can be only
one sensible course to follow inM 9 16, arid that isp first of ail, to
feed his family his livestock and his land, and then devote his
surplus lands and 'energies to 'the production of whatever cash crop
Of course, - as in the past, there are going to be thousands of-tenant-
any cotton farmer. We can raise these crops at home at . from one-
third to one-half the stpr nrices, and improve our lands at the same
time. Now is the time to ; an a big corn acreage amply sufficient to -
supply your home heeds, with a surplus to spare; now is the time to
plan to put velvet beans, soy beans, cowpeas, or peanuts in; all the .
corn and after the oats. : : ' . -,
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A BUMPER CROP OF SOY BEAM HAY ON FARM OF A. M. WORDEN, TULLAHOMA, TENN.
farmers, along with others who, by reason of their methods, are on the
straight road to tenancy, who will put everything in cotton, tobacco,
or some other single crop, depending on it to furnish the money to pay,
for food, feed and fertilizers; but this is all the more reason why the,
thinking farmer, the man who is getting ahead by using his head,
snould make; living at home his primary
.business.-;. ; ";,:,';Vi;'v:Z.v-;rJ'';
sCotton now is ' bringing only fait prices;
the price is tending downward instead of up-,
ward, and there is no definite assurance that
prices will be high next fall. But whether
prices are high or low is aside from the
main point; for even were cotton selling at
twenty cents -a pound; we hold that no man .
can afford to grow it. to the exclusion of
food, feed arid soil-building cropsgrow it
to buy bread, meat, molasses, corn! oats, hay
and f ertmzers ' ; : : '.
Let's get right on this question, Brother.;
Let's make a good living, .whether we make
any cotton or tobacco orjiot. ; The follow
ing are, it seems to us, points that every
farriier in the whole South should make it
his business to see to, and see to now; r; ? -
1- Cut out the feed bills. Dollar corn
from Iowa and $25 Western hay will break
2. Cutout the meat and bread bills. Plenty of corn, peanuts,
peas and beans usually mean plenty of meat, milk and butter; these
produced on the farm, in turn, mean cotton money to go in the bank
instead of into the pocket of the "time prices ' supply merchant.
3. Cut down the fertilizer bills. For 75 per cent of the farmers
of . the South, a really good system1 of
rotation farming, a system that "would in
clude the planting of peas some
other legume in every field of - corn and
after every acre of oats; a crop of crimson
clover to plow under ; for every acre; of
corn to be planted; and a crop of green on
every single acre every winter, would
enable us to cut out commercial nitrogen
and potash, leaving only phosphoric acid
to 1 be bought, and this could be pur
chased in rock phosphate alt only a frac
tion of the cost in acid phosphate. In
other words, living at home and farming
as we should will enable us to cut our
fertilizer bills anywhere from 50 to 80 or
90 per cent;
Let's try these plans this; year. -.-.They-,
will place us on: the straight roadtoward
rich land, fat cattle, big crops and inde
pendence. , r
DON'T FAIL TO READ
Growing Early and Late Tomatoes
March Jobs for Busy Farmers . . .
New light on Composting . . . .
Farm Work for March . . . .
Green Manures and the Sour Soil Myth
Buvina Work Harness .
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Tobacco Farm Work for March
Snrincr MahiDulation of Bees.
Harvesting the Southern Strawberry Crop 1 6
Livestock Suggestions for March . . . .18
More Victories for the Tdrrens System . . 21
Plan Now for the County Commencement 21
Try a Neighborhood Rural Credit Associa
tion 21
March Suggestions for the Housewife . . 23
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