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NEXT WEEK BETTER GARDENS AKI) ORCHARDS SPECIAL ( A? A Farm Yiinie Weekly for The Carolinas, Virgii Georgia, and Florida, FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol. xxXii. No. i. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1917. $1 a Year; 5c. a Copy T TERRACE THE ROLLING FIELDS HE Southern farmer has no bigger job than that of soil-saving Keeping our lands in sod will of course largely prevent their washing and soil-buildings The poor-land farmer has a handicap in the away ; but the time probably will never be when a very large area in beginning that the very best of methods along other lines can r the South will not be planted to cotton, tobacco and corn the clean BALE-TO-THE-ACRE COTTON ON FERGUSON SEED FARMS, SHERMAN, TEXAS hardly overcome; but the rich-landfarmer, even with poor tillage methods, poor seed andpoormaTketing, very generally is able to make good crops and some profits. """"""" The very first step in making our lands rich and keeping them so is tfl nrovant 4ti. i xt-' 1 x. t A j F'VTtui me waste 01 uie piam iuuu elements that nature gave them and those that we ourselves apply. On tens of thousands of fields our methods are much like trying to fill at the bunghole a barrel with the head knocked out: we apply fertilizers year after year, only to let the r&eaVy rains leach and wash away, for ever beyond our reach, the very cream of these. A We speak advisedly when we say that 90 per cent of the cultivated farm lands in the South are subject to serious erosion unless properly handled. Travel from Virginia to Texas, and the gully is every where one of the conspicuous features of the landscape. But the time has come for an about-face, and as never before our best farmers are realizing this. , They know that without soii-saving and soil-building Profitable farming' is out of the question; and are shaping their plans accordingly. DON'T FAIL TO READ- Paee Plants for an Ornamental Hedge ... 5 Facts About Fertilizers ....... 6 Keep the Calves Growing 11 Cost of Raising Pigs . 12 Boll Weevil Reaches the Atlantic Ocean 14 Six Things to Do This Week and Next . 14 The Opportunity of Our North Carolina Legislature- . . . 14 Fight Against the Crop Lien Gaining . Strength . . . 15 West Is Organizing Farmers' Clubs by ""Thousands . IS A Reference Library for Club Work . .16 A Neighborhood Book Club . . . . 17 How Tobacco Farmers Can Get Warehouse Profits . . ... ... . . 22 ;Twelve Things Your Local Union Should Do 22 culture crops. This being true, on our rolling lands the rightly built terrace must be used to save our fertility. Made right, the terrace is no obstacle to the use of implements, nor is it a nursery for harmful weeds and insects, as is the old-fashioned, razor-back terrace. Properly laid off and dragged and plowed up to a width of 15 or 20 feet, rows are laid off right on the terrace, and generally the best cotton and corn in the field are growing on it. And once built, good ter races are permanent, holding the land and helping it to get better year after year, in stead of poorer, as is now too often the case. If you are farming rolling land, you must, sooner or later, come to the broad, cultivat ed terrace; so why not do it now, before an other year's heavy rains have further de pleted your plant food supply? Practically every experiment station and extension Agency in -the South is now giving serious thought to this problem, and yours in -your state can help you. Get in touch with your county demonstration agent, or, if you have none, write your state agricultural college. .We must save our rolling cultivated fields, and the broad terrace is the first step in do ing so. Better start on them today.
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