CLOVER-VETCH SPECIAL
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, AFarm and Home Weekly for : ,
The Carolinas. Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH. N.C.
Vol. XXXL No. 32.
SATURDAY, 'AUGUST 5, 1916.
$1. a Year; 5c.' a Copy
THE GLOVER
ROUTE
MR. FARMER, we mean this as a little, friendly, personal talk to
you a talk about making more money. Interested, are you?
Well, we thought you'd be. Not that we care a hoot about mak
money for money's sake, but because we do believe the South needs
more money more money to build for us better homes; better schools,
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ceed. Not only this, but once you have grown it, once you have re
joiced at the beauty of your fields covered with a winter: carpet of
green, once you have seen the wonderful corn crops and cotton crops
that grow after the clover, you will never again be content without it.
There are cases on record where single crops of crimson clover plowed
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PEOPLE SAID IT WOULDN'T GROW-BUT IT DID
Crimson Clover on Farm of N. J. Johnston, Cullman, Ala.
with better equipment and better teachers, better paid; better roads;
and to get for us a few more of the comforts and conveniences that
Southern farmers have as much right to as any people on earth.
Are you agreed that you can very, well use
a little more than your farm is now making;
for you? Then let's put our heads together
and see if we can figure where it is to come
from. Out of the soil, if at all, you say, and
the answer is absolutely correct. But how?
One acre of good crimson clover plowed
under is worth as touch as six to ten tons of
stable manure or a thousand pounds of cot
tonseed meal. This clover gets this great
amount of fertilizer from the air.'and it gets
it m the winter and early spring, when cot
ton and corn lands are idle. . Not only does
it hold your soils in winter and keep them
JTorn washing away, but day and night it is
ousy making you and your lands richer. '
Now don't say clover will not grow on
our land. Anywhere" from east Texas to
Virginia, on any average well drained lands,
know absolutely that clover will sue- -
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under have doubled the corn crops following. At present we are av
eraging not over eighteen bushels of corn per acre; if we were asked
for the surest and cheapest means of doubling this yield, our; answer
-would-be crimson clover, Likewise are
we certain that just a very few crops of
clover plowed under will double, treble,
even quadruple our present average of
a pitiful third of a bale of cotton per
acre. . ' ,
The greatest crop ever introduced
into the South, is what those who have
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tried crimson clover say of it. It will
grow practically anywhere cotton and corn
will grow, and as a fertilizer and humus-,
maker there is nothing that beats it.
Thousands of farmers have already grown
it successfully; thousands more will begin
growing it this falL
. Won't you try an acre or so, carefully
following all the instructions given else
where in this issue? Won't you join us
in our journey along the clover route to
wealth?
DON'T FAIL TO READ-
Have a Winter Cover Crop to Plow Under
for the Corn Crop . . . . . .
How to Succeed with Bur and Crimson
Clover . ... ... . .
How to Know the Commoner Clovers, and
'Vetches . . . . . . . . . . ..
How to Boil Bur Clover Seed to Hasten
, Germination . . . . . . . .
Inoculation: What It Is and How to Do It
Farm Work for August . ... . .
James Whitcomb Riley, Poet of Country
Uf e . . . ... . . .....
Aucrust Garden Notes . .
More About the New Rural Credits Law . 24
How to Have a Legume Crop on Every
Acre Every Year .
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