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- "i" 702 (6) THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER 1 SJ .I i H: II i 5, 1 if ft if ! I. v.. 1,': Mil si i m "Hi t:1!i i I! '11 Producos Victory The ncd River Special 18 PREPARED Ayv T-' IIUXLsTORTf i 4 la tr- - reach-' ! oC a neat army or in the uveshu of a great crop those who are pitted fauotodoYfnlo(te . Beat off the nation' enemie. BEAT OUT THE NATION'S GRAIN. It , must be done if the nation i to live. . - Id dther event it it preparedneis with "the Maa Behind. the Gun" that does the work. This patented device, found only in the Nichols 6c Shepard Company's thresh ing machinery, can show more prepar edness (or securing and more actual ca- v pacity in securing and saving grain than . any other separating mechanism that in ventive ingenuity has yet produced. Are you prepared for a financial victory when this year's crop are threshed 7 Preparedness is now a great national issue. Some of your own neighbors have quietly pro vided the means to take advantage of this fact by saying "never again" to the thresherman that doesn't own a Bed River Special machine. Send for the "extra" Home Edition paper that tells you about it. You might as well ask for a Big Catalog at the same timet Both are free . . NICHOLS & SHEPARD GO. (In Continuous Business Since 1848) BUILDERS EXCLUSIVELY OF THRESHING MACHINERY Red Hirer Special Threshers, Feeders. Wind Stackers Stean and Oil-Gas Traetioa Ensues CATTLE CREEK, MICHlQAIi When the Squares Form is the time for late top dressing your cotton with Nitrate of Soda. It's im mediately available and will speed your crop through drought and other dangers. Let me send you books on Cotton how to fertil ize, how to fight the Boll 'Weevil Just send a post card. The books are free. WILLIAM S. MYERS 25 Madison Ave. New Yoth Let us send you valuable Information and suggestions to help you decide right in the ' selection of your alio filler. For a cutter that -will cut the corn aa fast as yon can supply it . elevate as high as needed run with your regular farm engine Investigate the BLIZZARD Ensilage Cutter It la. the tried end true cotter for the tuner. SimpW to nndentand md run. Umwutllr ear. Hakea ma-cot Uaa Durable. Repair corf email. WRfTl todeT.SMntionhw bIm of silo, sad of aaa Sine, xor aioBDie miormauon, aieo iree Dooueta, 191 Cato" "What Umts Say," "Makbuc f.v . Pay Pettw." T' - Th Jog. Dick Mfg. Co. Box 42 - Canton. Ohio CJvJ or Homifd rt-TrA . ,'Ta w X KEEP CROPS ON ALL LANDS THIS SUMMER JBBNEW ALL YOTJB SUBSCEIPTIONS THBOUGH US Our clubs save you money. We will gladly- maKe a special ciuo on any papers you may wish. One letter, ona money order and if a all awenaeo, to. . May we aerve you? TII'E PEOGRESSIVE FARMER Summer Cover Crops Are As Impor tant as Winter Cover Crops Somer That Are Good 7 TDLE acres like idle laborers cause a A depreciated labor . income. Crop ping systems must be so planned that . substitutions can be made when sea sonal influences necessitate. The oat, crop is being harvested, and as sum mer is just beginning, another crop should be sowed at once unless les pedeza was planted in the oats last February or March. In that case an other crop is already coming on. The hot weather during, our long summers decreases the organic con tent of the soil unless shaded, by a growing crop. Nitrogen is the most costly of all the elements of plant food, chiefly because it is removed from the soil easier than any of the others. Hence if the land in oats isn't kept busy, the percentage , of nitrogen;, es pecially in the organic form, will be reduced. The surface of the soil be comes warmer through receiving' the direct rays of the sun, which causes greater transference of the heat to the lower depths. , The temperature of the surf ace soil may be raised suf ficiently high to' decrease beneficial bacterial action. In such cases the organic matter in the soil is diminish-' ed by burning. The reasons then for growing another crop immediate ly following oats is to maintain the crop-producing power of the soil, to keep teams and laborers busyto pro-' duce more cheap forage and food stuffs, and to increase the efficiency of the farm. Now what crops can be successfully grown at this season of the year? The old reliable cowpea is probably used more than any other. Spy beans, sorghum, peanuts, sweet potatoes," and Mexican June corn are others to se lect Silage from these late crops is good, though the tonnage may be; light. Combinations of sorghum and cowpeas, of corn and peas, and of corn and soy beans can be used to ob tain greater tonnage and more valua ble silage. Sorghum and the clay or the Whippoorwill peas sowed togeth er with a grain drill will probably give as large a tonnage as any other single or combination crop sowed at this time. In this case the harvesting and cutting at the silo is rather ted ious. A, mower with a short cutter bar will in most cases be used for cut ting. IJowver, if the growth is not too luxuriant the1 grain binder might be substituted which would insure. easier loading and less work at the silo. More of the crop could be saved by the binder. It is not essential that silos be erect ed to use late crops. Peanuts,soy beans, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes will gen erally mature for" hog pasture. The Cotton Belt farmer cannot produce pork on corn alone sufficiently cheap to compete with the Corn Belt farm er. Forage crops, such as those men tioned, can be substituted. The, hog will then do the harvesting, saving expense in this operation as well as in the handling "of all manure made. Such pork hardened on corn two to three weeks -. before marketing will not be too soft for the packing houses. ;.:;J.; .7 i , , " . i;t Even this method of harvesting is not essential. The peanuts can be plowed out and cured on stakes in the field, after which the nuts? can be picked and . marketed for 'oil or con fection purposes and the tops, used for hay. " Sweet potatoes can be dug and stored through the winter, if prices during the harvesting season are unsatisfactory. Peas and soy beans may be cut for hay or plowed under for green manure. If the fall be late; these crops may mature seed which can be picked. June corn is I soft, but if fed intelligently can be used the same as any other variety without serious trouble. . . : Any of these -crops shade the soil during the most severe part, of the summer," thus saving; organic matter,' .Prevention of this gives two values to the summer crops, A. F. KIDDER? - w I bers of applications are sent in th .lecturer can arrange a scries of In pomtments ... at - very small cost ?" - each individual meeting. st or Free BooSdei off lrnplement Sheds More About Ideas Gotten "Down on ! the Farm' , Inotice in The 'Progressive Farm er, of May the 6th, ' the article on page 3, Ideas gotten Down on the Farml and was interested in it. I I am a" farmer and The Progressive Farmer was sent me last May a year ago. I began to read it as soon as it came, and the more I read the more interested I got. I told my wife, A .attractiveiv lt mi.. - . ' w vu ana am. Uncle John Says ply illustrated namni,u ... plement 'Sheds, written by Prof k t T. Ekblaw.of the vColleof f published by-the: National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, goes into C CStirn 0f how t0 build buildings for the farm of sufficient 'strength and durability to prove in the highest degree economical for the builder -The author, in addition to his tech nical suggestionslays down as a gen eral : proposition the advisability of painting the farm buildings, for pre servation against weather, insects, or other destructive agencies, as well as to give; the. farm a prosperous ap pearance. He says also that an imple ment shed can be erected in such a manner as to be simple, artistic, and utilitarian. His pamphlet gives hints for the erection of open, simple, two story and wide enclosed types. " Published, by the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, Chicago, 111., and sent free on request. tins They sau any boyc'n be president; maybe so, hut: yowrle Uncle can't help bein'-a little jubous about the ones that $ brought up on a steady diet of cigarettes. "these people want to help us farm ers; they are trying to teach us ev erything for our good." I aim to stick to this paper as long as it teaches me this way. I think so much of The Progressive-Farmer, I felt like I wanted it in every home, But when I started out I found so many people like the man who got his ideas "Down on the Farm" that I soon became discouraged. I have'been. farming the most of my life, and am now 62 years of age, and I think I average with my neighbors. I never allow my neighbors to make more stuff off the same grade of land than I make. :.: R. C. FIELDS. Glen wood, Ark. k SALE DATES CLAIMED The Progressive Farmer is glad to an nounce and claim for the breeders the fol. lowing dates upon hlch sales of pure-bred livestock .will be held: - nOLSTEINS June 1 W. a A. Uetzow, Topeka, Kans. July : 3 Woodlawn Farm Co., Sterling, 111. SHORTHORNS June C C. J. McMasters, Altoona, 111. June 7 Thomas Stanton, Wheaton, 111. 'June 8 Carpenter ft Ross, Mansfield, Ohio. June J Frank R. Edwards, Tiffin, Ohio. Nov. 6 Frank Scofleld, Hillsboro, Texas. Shorthorns. Louisiana State Fair Grounds, Shreveport. - . Our readers will confer a favor upon us if they wUl keep us advised ' of sales, and we will be very glad to claim further dates for breeders If they will let us know in time. Thla Is quite Important, as it often pre vents a conflict of dates and adds to the success of each individual sale. Our greatest offer la one old subscriber and one new subscriber both one year for $1.50- Get a neighbor not now subscribing to Join you on this proposition when you renew.- , ' : DOCTOR LEARNED The Power of Pure Food Good Opportunity for Women's v and Farmers' Clubs THE J. Van Lindley Nursery Com pany, Pomona, N. C, has employ ed a man to give illustrated lectures in communities interested in beauti fying home and school grounds, the only condition being that the people of the community pay the lecturer's actual traveling expenses. . The "Stereopticon pictures show grounds before : planting, and then show, in the beautifully colored views, the same place properly plantedwith trees, shrubs, .flowers, lawns,, etc. As the different plants and shrubs are shown, the lecturer also tells how to give each proper attention, including' the proper methods of planting, fer tilizing, pruning and budding. This is a good way to teach a. large number of peoplein each community the best methods of beautifying their homes, and "those, interested should get into touch with the Van Lindley Company. It is a good opportunity for farm women's clubs or farmers clubs to get an attractive and unus ual feature for a meeting, and if num- Sometimes a physician who has ex hausted medical skill on his own case finds that he has to look to pure food for helpr Such was the experience of a Southern physician who has spent a great many years in his profession. The -services of my life-time, he says, "have been to try to better man kind to help' them preserve health, and, to regain it when lost. So it is with greatr pleasure I recall my hrst introduction to Grape-Nuts. . . , -T had never investigated this food until I came to use it in my own case. I had tried to heal myself and had had the services of other prominent phy sicians Then I clutched at Grape Nuts as a. drowning man clutches at a straw. :;-'.-c-'-' . " " , , t Ta my gratification I found that i had discovered something besides a broken reed to lean upon, for the toou began to recuperate me immediately, and it helped me to such an extent that I eat anything that. I desire, and do so without distress. A "I have not only - found a gooa friend in sickness, but a most cious dish as well. It is the most nu tritious article of diet .1 have eve found and I notice its splendid ettects more particularly at night time, tor saucer of Grape-Nuts. and milk is toi lowed by a most refreshing sleep anu perfect awakening. 0 "My only regret is that I was so slow to look into the scientific merits of - this wonderful food." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to imeV " 1 are lenuine, true, nnd fall of buman interest. " "
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