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Saturday, September 30, 1916 (7) 1151 ALL- ROUND- THE FARM t'PIfK DRY, GIN DRY, STORE same, state, on the same river, with nPV" . the same character of lands, and Violating These Three Rule., Ttfgeth - With 'Sorry Gin and Careless rinners, Now Cost Cotton Farmers skilled ginners ! ; This is in addition same freight rates. .The planters who sold in that town pay $40,000 a year for the privilege of patronizing a few badly managed, gins, or un- COTTON ANTHRACNOSE CAN BE-PREVENTED -N' AAnrinn t $10,000,000 a Yea TN YOUR campaign for the better I ment of the farmers' condition, 1 your editorial staff and .many of VGur correspondents insist upon the necessity of careful preparation of the soil before planting. Now, as cotton-picking is at hand, you would serve your farmer, constituents well by pressing upon their attention the importance of , careful preparation of cotton for selling. This means pre paring it4 to be spun, for in the end it is to spinners that it must be sold. Now, these spinners are careful people. They want the cotton which will spin the best; they will pay more .for" it. Proper ginning of cotton makes a great difference in its spin ning value.. When it is picked dry and ginned dry in a gin properly han dled, it will be smooth and fleecy. It makes what the buyers call, a "good sample." That kind' brings the best price. When it is picked wet or damp, and ginned wet or damp, or ginned too fast, the sample will show rough, knotty, and, in the worst cases, the lint is torn and broken -"gin-cut." That kind always brings a poor price ; often it is hard to sell at all. It is really worth much less. The broken bits of fiber blow out, or are carded out, making more waste, reducing the portion which will make yarn. The manufacturer takes nothing for granted. He knows daily what is the waste, . or loss in weight from pickers to cards ; also the gross waste, or total loss of material in process of manufacture. Also the production, the breaking strength of yarn, and every item which tends to show -what the mill is doing. Sup-' pose the average loss in weight from pickers to cards is 8 per cent. If, by reason of bad ginning, the same grade loses 10 per cent, this bad gin ning costs the mill not merely 2 per cent waste of material, but a nearly equal percentage of loss of labor, an unknown loss in the spinning, where the broken fiber flies into the air, and Now Is the Thne to Rid Your Farm of This Disease REPORTS from all over South Car olina indicate that this fungus boll rot of cotton is more widespread and more destructive in all sections of the state than ever before. Those who have followed the progress of the investigation of this disease at "naps" by the saws. There are gins .Clemsori will remember that anthrac- which, skillfully worked, will deliver nose can be "controlled by careful the lint" in its full length, soft and seed selection, fall plowing, and crop fleecy. Such ginning does not cost rotation. to the 'regular reduction of $1.25 to $2.50 per bale on "gin-cut" cotton, There isno reason why they should continue this loss. Xhe time is past when there is any need that the fiber be torn, cut or wedged into hard of some officer in each county, for ex- amnlf fhp rniintu rlprlr rr rnnntv treasurer, and blanks of this kind supplied tree to lawyers, real estate firms; farm owners or farm renters? "You will pardon my taking the lib erty to make this" inquiry, but your suggestion is so practical and con tains so much of great possible value to all sections of the South that I have been constrained to say this, much about it." We may say that . we have printed a number of these rental contents, and will be glad to send them to our , readers for one cent each. , ' - any more than the bad sort. Itideed it often costs less, and can be made to cost much less. If planters demand expert gin work, if they will take no other, the demand will be speedily met. If possible, get planting seed from a field where there is no disease. If .this is impossible, select seed from stalks which are absolutely free from disease and are, not near diseased stalks. Gin this cotton for seed by Tl,n 4- U 1 A i C U 1 i. ' 1 J men, iuu, wc aiiuiuu ciiu luicvci. iid.uu, ui.ai d. gin wiicre iiu UlacascU the practice of laying the bales on cotton has been ginned and plant on the ground, in the weather, often land that has not been in cotton for without any covering, and sometimes one year. actually under the eaves of the barn After cotton has been left off of or other building, to receive the wa- land for one year, it is safe to plant ter that falls. It issmDtasy to see the same land back to cotton pro-' Clod Crusher Makes Good Oats Seed Bed i - - MANY farmers think that theydo not need a clod crusher because they have no clods. Even on sandy soils the clod ) crusher is a valuable implement for the oats seed bed. According to E. S. Pace, district agent for the University of Florida, Extension Division, it packs, the soil around the oats seed and leaves the surface mulched. The hull on the oat'kernel holds the soil away from the seed and pre vents absorption of moisture. If the crusher is run over the ground the soil will be brought in closer contact with the seed. The clod crusher will firm the soil so that capillary mois- . ture can rise and still it will mulch the surface so. that evaporation will be slow. Better germination can be had by using this implement for the fore going reason, and maximum yields cannot be had without a good stand. Fields that have been thus packed will not lose soil by wind drifting as readily as those where the surface is loose. CORN AFTER CRIMSON CLOVER MAKING 45 TO 50 BUSHEL'S PER ACRE Scene on Farm of N. J. Johnston, Cullman, Ala., Who Has Found Crimson jQiover One of the Greatest of All Crops how a sensible farmer can get his vided you use seed which are free consent to spend time and money from disease. growing the cotton, and then take Fall plowing aids materially in get pains to make it rot. It is impossible 'ting rid of anthracnose. As soon as to imagine a reason for such a. pro- you have finished picking, run; oyer ceeding. A good authority estimated the field with a stalk cutter and then the damage to the reputation of the the average loss in weight of dam- turn the stalks under. Avoid buying mills, from weak yarn and knotty aged bales the past season at 40 cotton seed for planting from people cloth. This last item is not easily pounds to the bale. This is clear loss, you do not know to be perfectly non reducible to figures, but is orobablv for the Votten cotton will-scarcely est. , . l ' . . . . !. . '. re rni .1J 1 - . 1 t fetch enough to pay tor taKing it on. inree-year-oia seea are aiways iree But in reality we see the thing done from this disease, and will sprout every-year, and done by farmers who better than one-year-old seed; sq pass for sensible men. How long they may be used with safety. Clem would these farmers have to wait son College Bulletin. greater than the other three com Dined. . , With cotton at 10 cents, the waste is equal to $1 per bale. If the manu- facturer'can psranp Via rfVir flirAA -w w v V S r v v 11 A u 'items of loss, by paying $1 per bale before seein? a manufacturer leave more for perfectly ginned cotton, Will his newly-made box of calico out in e ao it? As . a matter of fact, he does do it, daily, universally, as every cotton buyer knows. A badly ginned bale of cotton, of good middling grade, is "graded down" to middling, the rain or under the drip of a build ing? And who is most in need of economy, the farmer or the manu facturer? x Comment on this practice is use- Says All Tenants and- Landlords Should Use the Progressive Far mer Rental Contract WE ARE in receipt of a letter from Mr. F, H. Abbott,- District Agent of the Southern Settlement and De- Wheat Yielded More by the Use of Lime "VT EITHER manure nor any com lN bination of fertilizers has been able to produce a full yield of wheat without the help of lime," said Direc tor C. E. Thorne regarding the value of lime on soil similar, to that of the Ohio Experiment Station at Wooster, This year manured land yielded 21 to 26 per cent more wheat where lime was applied. Another plot fertilized with nitrate of soda, acid' phosphate' and muriate of potash gave 21' per.' cent more wheat where limed than on unlimed soil similarly fertilized. The yield on a plot receiving com plete fertilizer with nitrogen in sul phate of ammonia gave 115 per cent increase in crop by . application of lime. or lower; and this means a loss' to less. Indeed" the story would be in- , t- Organization Baltimore the n cm of , . , ,j:ti. :c ua oir n veiopmeni urganizaiion, oaiumore, , - yji jji.o. or more, wnicn . creuiuie, u unc uau uui nv wuw . , . , , n uo:i , . mis aoes not maice oi ms eyes, uui n uucs ovv" the mills whole. If 'does' not even thing that the farmer, whose life is cver the loss of material, as well one of the most laborious, should de- Psted spinners believe,- while the stroy the fruit of his labor in this napped" fiber is never- quite "open- manner. ; ' but passes into the yarn, making 7 .'Twenty-five years ago the writer weak and covering the cloth with was urging the importance of both of our .suggestion that a written con tract be made between landlord and tenant, and also endorsing the form of contract printed in the recent Renters' and Landlord's Special of The Progressive - Farmer. Mr. Ab bott says; I was moved to write a note of UnSIO-1 4-1 1 - yj urging vv- w --- r -."Sntiy knots. Selling agents torn- subiects here treated, and it is de V din, CUStOmer.S nr 1rct ronnt-i flnn o t-n nkrx-vo V10 in tllP Hilar- 1 T 'J siiffm- ti . ' picasmg iu " congratuiaiion wnen i ,reau your uiu syctiai nuiiiucr on cunsuii- schools some time ago, but this letter is prompted particularly by the suggested form of rental contract in your September 9 issue. That is an excellent form of contract, both as to simplicity of style and substance, noth" rhe Planters themselves will ter century farmers have made little spien(ii It :Q y such Sods if offered for sale, progress in these matters. They-still dated s Snv f 1 aic vciy ctnuw liicir luuuw iu u. bvu . v $5 Z h T COtton 11 is ;doubtful if and .they still store it on top of the it ;n bale would induce them to take bare ground, under nothing but the - an v ninttfa.j . i r wnrt t vl"a"lu-' ana h sucn gin thf '!,un? t0. Prevail in a locality, Buffer; . 1S shunne(i good cotton: duett g-' al0ng with the bad, the' re uuction in r; j - ' . The Implement Shed FROM now till next spring most of the implements of cultivation will not be used, nor will the planters. The place for them, and , for all other im plements not in mse every day, is un der the shed. Why? What does a man work for? Implements cost money. Exposure to the. elements causes them to rust, warp and decay. When they are gone more work must be done to get more money to buy more implements, when just a little work and a little care at the right time woul4 have made them last a year or two or three longer. Clem son College Bulletin; t sky; and these practices are frequent, not rare. suffering i 1S shu.n,ne(i' god cottons Is there no argument or persuasion which if followed generaly, not only , . ll& along with tfi huA tViAr- . ii ; 1 cnoi-a : u cu u,, u.-u... t, lOn in ' j ' " . WniCn Will inuutc men iw ojjai v, m me uuuui uui iiuuugnuui 111c lU price CUP tn crant nrflorc . 4 .' 1 1. r;nn ' ...-t. Ui.Y. -pi 4 . tnemseives 10SS auu wasic uy siup- iuuuuj, wuuiu uicdii vcijr 111UL.11 uuin ine writAr i . . .. 1 ' cf 1 i. 2.1. ' it.. 1 j i vher tV. . 3 KIJown a TnarKet ping practices wnicn anoru uu picas- iu mc luau uu .nic uuu auu inc ianu thP h'c ruiea, cent lower, ure and no sort ot aavaniager of Z00 trough, thah in a market U1 same sia o - . . ame Slze 60 miles away, in the Rome, Ga. itself. Is there not some way that J. P. COOPER. the Jorm of contract' suggested by you could be brought to the.attention Wanted: 50,000 Names Of Northern, Eastern and Western Farmers WE WISH to send them a copy of our October 21 "Homeseekers' Special." This issue.will be devoted to facts about agriculture in .the South. There are great opportunities here for them. . " Can't you send us a list? The more you send, the better we will like it.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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