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AtliHARIlOW J h ' iT' ,Mi tZJ CIS V 1 :c 1 i i-i 3 PUtitef .' ' Mam. n4 Home Weekly for Carolinas. Virginia Georgia, and Tic FOUNDED 18 86.K ALEIGH, VoL XXXI. No. 19. SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1916.. LESS ACRES OF COTTON ::::!::o:::o:-::::!:::S:i'::::v:vS T T A TV Tl i TV , T ACRE WAWAWw,v1vvwMII,JlxWM'lwff'W'W" I ::-:'::::v:vx::v:: , -a...inM.i-M,lM.iliiwi''"'"' .ii . "' , . . . ' v : ' a WTFT n that MADOVER TWO BALES PER ACRE ' v-. v-rC.OMiw TMIE average yield of lint cotton in the South is about 180 pounds per acre a , yield so low that it means less than a Jivmg wage to the producer. At the same time we are sending away to the North and West, even before our cotton crop is made and harvested,- the ; proceeds of it for corn, meat and other supplies, for which we pay prices that nlaintain.the Northern and West ern farmers in affluence." ; " Continued cropping in cotton, impoverish ea soils, low yields, dependence on other sections foriood and feed: here's" the com omation that's keeping many a man's nose on the grindstone; the combination that means that many a man will ' 'scratch a poor man s back" for the jest of his days. The consciousness of this truth becomes universal in the cotton country, the sooner Will Q.l . , ' J- - . : a- " r IUCI u gncuuure Decome me spien- DON'T FAIL TO READ- paee Livestock Suggestions for May . . . 3 Better Implements and Better Methods of Cultivation . ... . . V Farm Work for May . . V . ;. . JO Vice-President Marshall's Message . . 12 Constitution and By-Laws for a Breed- . ers'-Association . . . . 14 Write Mr. Congressman about Rural Credits . . . . . . i 16 Get Out Some Good Men as Candidates for the Legislature . . . ... .17 How the People May Really Rule . .'17 Safeguarding the Initiative and Refere- dum What the Rural Credits. Bill Prorides . 23 Let us never forcret thafiust average farm-- ing and just average yields are unprofitable, and mean, at best nothing more , than a bare living, and it is only as we rise to yields of 30 and 40 bushels of corn and oats and a bale of cotton per acre that our business returns us a profit that will enable us to live in bet ter homes, have better toads, better schools, and a better rural civilization. . And back of all these must be a. better soil, made better and kept better by soil-enriching crops. Watch your bills for food, feed and fertilizers! If you are not growing these and cannot grow them, then farming is the wrong business for you . Bur we can grow them, and we can do it to better ad vantage than the sections that ,we now buy from. Food, feed and fertility firstl Let' us not forget that by these we win pros m v tin, H f perity. i "AUI C i . t
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