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" S5UU MURE A YEAR FOR THR A VRR A nr? criT itut?t?m i? a t tit i?d zf -- - , .-.fa. .i i i i wJ4U UVV A AXJUAVAl A" i JLl.Va.TJlllX"i rtjjU J -... . Jfei UK 1 Slteh v S - ' u iL y v w 1 Vi i J j i j .... - 'r"1saj2.:C:. ' Abrai ud Home W4r":' : ' inia, Cedrgia. and Florida. FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C VoL XXXI. No. 14 SATURDAY, APRIL 1,1916. $1 a Year ; 5c a Copy A Nitro gen-g N our article last week on green manures, of crops to be plowed under -for fertilizers, we pro duced experiment : station - evi -dence of the great value of these crops r For example, sorghum planted after rye stubble yielded 5,525 pounds: of hay per acre; after crimson plover stubble, 9,750 pounds per acre; and after crimson clover, entire plant turned under , 10,300 pounds. Reckoning sorghum hay . at $10 a ton, we have here an increased yield worth nearly $25 an acre due to the clover crop. Again, oats after velvet beans plowed under yielded 33 bushels per acre;-: after cowpeas plowed under, 31 bushels per acre; and after crab grass and millet stubble, .only 8 bushels per acre. - ; We hold that these facts are of tremendous importance to South- ern farmers; so important, indeed, -that we believe every single culti ivated acre in the South should have some sprtiof nitrogen-gath; cring crop; planted on . it this : year. t , ' : ; But this: is impossible, you . say? By no;means! Not only is i . '. ' it quite possible, but it can be : . - ' one at the same time we are producing our crops of corn, oats and cotton. Let us see. OV , - v ' In the first place, the pat land is only doing half its duty unless it produce a legume crop after the oat crop is harvested. In the lower central South lespedeza or Japan clover makes a splendid hay and soil-building crop after oats ; ' on" the stif f er clay iands, soy beans produce an immense lot of feed; cowpeas do Veil nearly every where ; ' and in the Coastal Plain sections the Early Speckled velvet beans may very profitably follow oats for soil improvement and fall and winter grazing. - Then we must come to regard our corn fields as not returning anything like a max imum profit if they produce corn only, and must put all of them to work growing, in addition to the corn crop, a crop of peas, soy beans, velvet beans, or peanuts. Finally, every cotton field in the South should next fall go in crimson clover, to be Plowed under the following spring and fol lowed by corn or cotton, This clover can be put in in September without at all in- Jerfring with the cotton crop on the land. ti In view of the demonstratpd fact that when atnering Crop for Every Acre This Year Www! r i iznz'1 - - - L, .- ' ' v-v.--.-- - - - - - . : S''"1"''' t 'Al PS?''"? v ir ;, X' , ' S '"'' " , '""ZrA, ' '",'? win 'VA, 'M A PAUSE BY THE BR00KSIDE the soil is inoculated, crimson clover is at home on practically every well-drained soil type in the South, no cotton field should, be without this great winter-growing legume. . This,K then, is an outline of what we consider the only sound crop ping system, and we believe every farm er in the-South whose main crops are corn, cotton and small grains might weU adopt the slogan,, "a nitrogen -gathering crop every year for every cultivated acre. " Adopting such a plan and stick ing to it year after year will accomplish at least two far-reaching results : First," it wjll enable us to laugh at high-priced fertilizers,- for in most of" the South such a system will make us independent of them; second, it will enable us to turn the tables on the Northern farmer and ship him corn and meat instead of our buying his, as is now the case. Nor is this theory. Every year thous ands of our best farmers are doing these very things, and doing them to the etern al betterment of themselves, their soils, an(J their neighborhoods. Why not you ? Why now now? ':z: . DON'T FAIL TO READ Livestock Suggestions for April .. . April Jobs for Progressive Farmers . . Bacteria, Our Invisible Friends and Foes More Soy Beans for the South . V Farm Work for April San Jose Scale . . . My Covf Has Got the Hollow Tail . Milk Fever in Cows . . . The Value of a Good Name . . . . . Walk Humbly Before the Lord, but No body Else . . . . The Burden of Taxation and What to Do About It Fage 3 4 6 7 8 12 14 14 16 16 17 Inheritance Tax Laws in Southern States . 17 Needed Economies in Government . . 17 April Suggestions for the Housewife . . . 19 Keep Your Local Union Strong . . . . . 22 Beautify Homes and Farms, Says Barrett . 26
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