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312 (20) r.vf -a. 5. -V- -V;- ;.:-:'.:,.;'-;;-;-V:;' - , ";:ca:inssivE farmer jile woriv andfarm'-father and ions all over the -far more than pff set' their ; rot immunity and (7 IV si --South should mvestigafc W J for information. 3 : r i COME remarkable figures snowing tw impor I ZrVU?--0.-tancc of rotation are,giy rL., 7 J I ynV t UiAJi3UaVJ f mtation are eiven by Prof; C-A. Gear- l XJ-'rW (SknTOt'r-:harV of the Ohio Experiment StaiionIn a ;twenV::. v4T- yuYHEM.,1 : . JL. thP followiop result .VereC ,tx", obtamed, average yields per acre auri wevnrsr . . ' - ' . veirs belnff compared with average yields during The Progressive Fam then : the. average. - uc-ouauiuitijr ,iu - any seed are w . treeot it.., DctftDoIt , Cncorporiti under the liwi of NorCi Carolina.) 119 W. Hargett St, Raleigh, N. C. for twenty years given : fi&jWi sqStatec Chemist of North Carolina, states, that: "The roots, stem, k.. AAaSs bORN YIELD E JLCEB4N BUSHELS ?iif's .7? uu"a j,145 i i.v' CLARENCE P02, TAIT BUTLER. 5 tt L. MOSS, ' T ; W. F. MASEY, . JOHN S. PEARSON, AA.UARHN. President and Editor . Vit-Presidaitmnd Editor , ; ' Ilanatfing Editor , 'Cdntrikutinjr Editor - SttairTmsurer ; . AdvfrtiainK Manafftr- Continuous no Manure i . . Rotatkm no manure Continuous with notation wltn manure First Five; Pourth" FlveUvraie tons, con. ! ; tm 3 . . Tears ..for 20 Tears - At,-'-t.ii.2'L.'i : i - 8.4 ' "r :-15. e V-.-4-Hr. POUnds of Years 26.26 X L' Mosford. General Repreaentatiire t 1 VT OTTCE Mr; Wrieht's announcement " in" last? :X1 week's Progressive " Farmer, as to the chance for North Carolina' schools getting, second "orig- J ; foal libraries" now. Why not sc yonr teacner about it? ' - If- i NEXT week's paper will be a sort of boys knd girls' club number, $1,500 in corn club prizes being announced then, together with messages ; from corn club, canning club and pig club agents all over the South. - Even with manure" it5ilt.beseen,t . r.u .:-..,u. nUmA J rn are doing when bushels per acre (comparing the fourth .five-year If you produce r period with the .nrst uveyear peripa tne stalks you are "iion with the manured fields increased the yields accordiiig to the aljoVe gures, deliberately de' :9 than fifteen bushels per acre.- r!- y , string 677. pounds of nitrogen, worthNat present f " nj Ttr" prices about $1); and jtill we" grumble about the ; (Last Cafl for the Band Wagon : - m pfl& of FertiUzers; , t;..,,r M W:nf!t:l''H... v - : -.'ft,-:",-"- REMEMBER, The Progressive' Farmer's" great . H W-J-w an4 forever th,s miserable thirtieth birthday1 Jubilee Offer wiifpositive- tjrt aaam costmg us million, ly expire with. fast dayof this ' month,; -0l!ars;. cm mmi, that hence- and now is the time for every reader to get on the . , c """""""""""" . canoossiblvolow lttmder or ii??? it tn cfhn wraeoc ANY friends will lament the death of Dan ;band wagon. Hven if you are pauLtweii.aneaov . r . . . . .... - Hughes; Assistant Commissioner of Agricul better do the required extra work for us and get " i - "n ""- - nt of Georgia. He had takenan especially keen yot;r reneai for an extra year at the Jubilee rate. V VClVCt UcanS A ine Crop tO Plant This Year CT32iQ'A few paid-ahead riders W thought -er..--- - o dunning them wnen we were oniy camng auen- , - - c, . u 6 ' , V U ; leffumes on everv Southern ann. hut wo ture interest m problems, and the time of his death. tion to this money-saying opportunity. just Us. firmly -believe in the summer le- ilE ARE crlad that so majiv of our raaders made . L: vn-. f'unfinnc VV use of our ''Subscribers' Free Service Blank" - --vW,w. truth j that we are never going to, in our issue of February 19, but thenumber of re- ve come, in by the thousands these last thirty greatcst- p-sslbie profits from our ef. .spouses asigrptat . W f"e,nds are. st th 4,1(1 wc. forts until we use bothwinter and summer legumes while to get all the. requests properly classified . don't like to lose a single friend But if a man-. r wuAt,AVAr - A n , and attended to. We shall work on these just as i fast as possible, however, and hope no reader will 5 become impatient . .. TJQN. Francis D. Winston, of Bertie, writes us does not renew, we are bound to assume he doesn't T . - ' -r t, u ' . - Just now it is wise to be thinking about the want our oaoer. Consequently this will be the ; - v-t , . that he listed his income for taxation in 1914 though examination of the records shows that we were correct m saymg that no income taxes were v r ' n ui : reported to the Statereasurer fromtharcounty, March the biggest, of 11 Jubilee monthy . . . i he btate Tax Commission is now taking up tne matter with the Bertie nuthoritres. nr 1 V last Progresswe Farmer some fr.endslt recme ei,iehj-toraJ1',ttJltton to the merits and st.ll other subscnbers.are m danger of "CoftheveWtW OrigiriaUy suited to sections only conusance the fast-of March. , . , . - oni'Sie Gulf Coast, new varieties of rltT. .r. - .beans -toe been importedand developed that Vi' f''"t! r' TV AIRY schools will be held in March in school- ' ' 'P'-- houses in various North Carolina counties as . 1 - follows : In McDowell Countyr at Nealsville, March ;V "A: " 6 and Garden City, March 7; in Qeveland,at v,icveiaiia aviins, Marcno; an aioKes,xniiara, marcn 10; Wake, Knightdale, March 13; Warren, Ridge way, March 15; Chatham, Gulf, March 17. ; What to Do. About Cotton DcH JXct cr - - - - Anthraenbse m w make it afe to recommend this great soil builder and forage crop "pretty, nearly everywhere cotton Is grbwni ; . . V . The Early Speckled is early enough to mature seed as far north" asiTennessee, and we would rec- ITH serious and . widespread damage in ommend it as probably the best variety for the Texas lasUseason from cotton boll rot or northern two-thirds of ;the Cotton Belt. It does anthrachose, this serious -cotton enemy not make as -great' aine growth as does the old- yn .-,4 is - . IT 3 V - f R: HE judges have just announced their decision regarding the prizes offered to the farm! fife schools whose boys made the best records in judg ing animals-at the recent North Carolina Live stock Association meeting in Salisbury. , The first prize, a handsome, silver loving cup," given by THe seems to have pretty well established itself nearly fashioned; velvet bean, and hence is not as great J everywhere - in the Cotton Belt,'and numerous in-; a soil-improyer ; but' it is a prolific seed producer, -quiries; are 'coming to us relative to measures of some authorities claiming it superior to the old controlling it, - " variety in this. respect, and hence is a valuable : -;The disease is due to a fungus that attacks the , feed crop : If wantei purely; for soil-building pur cotton boll, any time irom the falling of the bloom ' poses, without regard to seed production, it will nS1 mnfiirp At first st timr Tilhlrish nrt tb -..rrfvMfc :lJiL ii'r hm nA. late maturing StaSchboV areu' enlarges .ntU the whole boll may.b6 yariety. .; r ; ' ,. . - close seconds, winning other excellent prizes; The anectea ana uestroyea. xs ine case wim raany . while larly bpeckied. beans can, we vz boys from Red Oak school were a little too'oldJor. other, fungous diseases, boll jot is usually worst r safely counted on to make as much vine and seed the regular contesV b seasons and in rank growing cotton on :, as'cowpeas, they-hare" an additional advantage in heavy land. " Particular varieties . and strains of the low cost of seed, quotations nowbeing as low cotton,: too, may be "more seriously affected than : as $li0 a bushel." Planted ;with corn, a bushel of others, this having been especially notable in some seed Is sufficient for; ve .pr six acres. This, of strains of Half-and-Half and Cook cottons. Paren- coursers a great-deal less than the cost of seeding theticallv we may say. however that even with, thft samp srM tn rrrwnpas. ' their susceptibility to rot, these two .varieties have Try atJeast a few of the beans this year ; we be.-. invWestefn agricultureii He and Dr. Knapp and been: among :the best yielders- at several -of our- lieve the results 'will "please you. ex-Secretary of Agriculture Wflson were in Iowa Southern experiment stations. , " - . 1 ' " ' ' 1 together, felloW-WOrkers of about ;the same age. " Tnri far as .remedial masnrM-ari rnnr;Arf l tn.'i' ill-4 WtuAr V-s'v'rfWhen'' he ornized-his'Vnaoer-iwehtMne- vears- . - . "7 7 . 1- - A inoUUl iur Uc r.:J;- -they are preventive rather than curat ve, once the "' - - s&rr ago, ne adopted as its motto, "Good Farming,- Dear . , " j 1 i - . , utt rvrS.r-.rhiniAfttr'-VitAy- t .Mrt'.--A a- u-i . iit,u:t disease? attacks a field there being little or nothing .xttppt? . :im. Antnimtlna and vaiuaow. force in each field of activity. 'Uncle Henry" that can. be done, that year.- Doubtless : the best 4 H working habits Tof President Wilson : Pu. .Bwyw.w6u.u..uy.uu gcucanuM auu wm iung preventive measure consists in planting seed tronr luamy, ; cAaciucss, ,mc iuww- . .tucvuvuaiciy rciucuiuereu. ,: ; . ; stalks and: fields that are in a special contest arranged for them.. .We extend :; congratulations to all these young farmers. ' W the; death of t ; - f V ; Henry Wallace, Editor of Wallace's Farmer, "f Des Moines. Mr. Wallace, familiarly known all I over Iowa as Uncle Henry, was in his eightieth year, and had long been one of the ablest, fignres nrn ottp iu ii'wrcA;i?w. iree irom tne aisease.- i his ; club and canning club work the of state pig club agents should be added Alabama J. C. Ford, Au- ' .v burn. - - - ; Arkanaas H. K, -SanderSr v ' . Uttle Rock, Florida None. Georgia J, E, Downing, -v "f Athens. . -,-wv ,.;; - Louisiana W. H. Balls, - Unltremlty StaUon, Ba '.'- .ton Reuge. - - , Mieslsslppl P. H. Sandara, Agricultural COUe .. ' ; 1 positively rfcnowa.'to be -uJllAem is not always-easy, but et:- t tv as a rapiu. v w w i. i i ij i i 1 1 r vii i ti iuri i i i i ii ii i i i 1 1 i 1 1 v. .1 t mm w - - . . followihg list : " . can he done. ; in other words,Vrigid seed selec-,: thinker.; a a! . " WA "V;tK ;nexf; "which is the -product of his.habitorexercisi 8 ;f North Carolina; P. Poi-y If a ' stinwater.-: i,.-:.-, - f-.f . f . v i-1, . : f . . - man is ever late :once for .an appomiroc . rBouth Caroiina-L; , x. , Ba- known badly infected cottons to be .entirely f teed 'President; neither he nor the President ever i VirginiaNone.. . .- At,:; Zi. .-..i- round physical condition.: It might he wen , - - ' i ' ""f rv,,fc'v wu-utvvkv aivu ti uiu tKtuut several . - ,i . . i " 1 - -Ti hi nu c7 ' . ; '; Vvjt,- ' . ' i- A - " : ' , 7 .tion here that-he never smokes;. In.5 " Amcr. : vr- : -v -..hundred miles awav: for two reasons fU tb larV: -j ni.'..t Taft. Arnc The pig club, agents: and boys, are -doing remark-, :.of climatic and soil adaptability of these seed may ican-Mafcazine;' - rr: "
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