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Saturday. January. 27, 1S17 V (7) 91 FARM WORICWR FEBRUARY - By B. L. M08S 'UL-L WW- mi' : t Lju UJ OPEN sunny weather during the nual losses in plant foods from the latter half of February .may be uriwiseNuse of the torch, but we ven expected over'most of the South, ture the assertion that it will run high -nd with it comes countless jobs, in-, into the millions.Straw, stalks, and tistently demanding attention. To get trash should be cut to pieces and as many as possible of these out .of 'plowed under the plant .food value the way before the even more busy is very considerable, and in addition davs of March and APril come, should they furnish much -badly needed hu--be the concern of every wide-awake mus. Branches of trees and even logs farmer. -t may be advantageously used in stop- ' V - Flug guinea. We expect never to. cease urging the overwhelming importance of rich land if we are to make any money It - would be an excellent idea to take some rainy day and carefully go farming, and there s no better month ,;pveT the farm machinery, putting ev- Vion February mwhich to do some ervthincr to rights. A mi Ccinor tint nr things that will help us gradually to bolt, a plow point, or a' broken part, make our soils richer, instead of poor- Can easily be replaced now, but later, er, as is now too often happening. In at 'the height of the rush season, truth, soil-building- should have, a machinery out of repair may cost us large portion of our-thought and ef- many dollars because of delays: Get fort every -month in the :yeary but everything ship-shape now for the right now there are some soil-f eftil-A "big drive." ity jobs that demand oui especial at- ICI1L1U1I. 1. Neen rn rilrtwa mnmn r ovarir day in February is a good rule. Stalks . .. It is of vital importance ; that we held the plant food now in our soils, and grass .turned under now are us ually well rotted by April, whereas, if as well as that we expect to add, for ;pj0Wed under shortly before planting unless we do, we will be like a man in they may. give us serious trouble later. never . getting anywhere. : Boil-saving is just as important as soil-building. Full 90 per cent of the cultivated; lands of the "South, believe, are suffering serious losses ; from wash ing, and on these rolling, fields abso- Fertilizers should be bought this month .by farmers expecting to use : them, and before we buy, let's remem ,ber thaj there's no job that will pay us better than that of carefully study ing our soils and crops and their plant food needs. Nitrogenous fertilizers, lutely the first step in spil-sying and such ' as cottonee(r meal, nitrate of soil-building must consist in building terraces of the right kind. "By the right kind we mean-.erraces accurate ly laid off with a levelp usually with a drop of four or five inches to the hun dred feet, and then plowed and drag ged up eighteen or twenty inches high at the center and at least fifteen or twenty feet wide. On any of -our moderately rolling landsi such a ter race, properly laid off and built, will prevent 90 per cent of the soil wash ing that is now taking place. V' More over, rows can be laid off right on and parallel to such terraces,- thus permit-, ting the utilization oT every foot of land in the field. " . - February, too, is a month, when. we should be especially vigilant in seeing to it that nothing is burned off the land that may be otherwise utilized. No man has ever calculated our an- There has been Increas No In the price of ' N or Any Decrease In the - -Size of Paclrage Or QuaBty W the Food . v - . soda and sulphate of t ammonia, are especially valuable r in ; increasing stalk arid leaf growth, while the "phos phoric acid we get In acid phosphate promotes fruitage and hastens -maturity. With these simple facts in 'mind, it should not be difficult for us to use the jertilizers that will give us the greatest returns for the money in vested. ;x . "; . What nitrogen-carrying fertilizers to use this year is a problem that we may well-tudy. At present prices, nitrogen in cottonseed meal is cost ing too much when compared with its cost when bought in the form of ni trate of soda and sulphate of ammo nia. The best authorities agree that there is.no particular difference in the value of the nitrogen in these three materials, and jthis being thecase, it is our business to study the analyse.s closely and then imy the material that give's us our nitrogen at the lowest tost per pound. -. . : '-' 1 ' : " . Had you considered a" March, appli cation of nitrate of soda on the oats ? If it appears that the. growth of straw will be scant, 75 to 100 pounds of soda per acre about the middle of March will greatly increase the yield. ' Let us repeat, that we have too much patch-work farming and too few-broad, open fields. Fields marred by 'stumps, gullies, clumps of, bushes and briers, and unsightly fence rows not only look bad, but they are, bad business. Such things occupy land that should be making crops for us, harbor noxious weeds and inspects, and afford an example in untidiness that our children ought not to have.. - ' ; " : If the fall-sowed clover doesn'rlook as well as -it should, a light ap plication three, or four tons per acre of stable manure wifl help it great ly. Besides, the manure out on the land will be losing less of itsplant fpod value than. if left at'the barn. -' : . - A LOGICAL DEDUCTION , ' .' , ' - ". A representative In Congress recently ask ed his tailor: - "How is It that you have, not railed upon me for your account?. X ehouldn't have.ben jrurpxlBed had you done so, for ..It has "been 'quit a -while since-1 'received "my clothes." - . , . "Oh," explained the tailor, with, a smile, "I never ask a gentleman for money.'. "Indeed ! How, .then, do you manage If be -doesn't pay?'- r' .'-:; , : ;'Why, after a. certain time I ,con,dude that he Is not a gentleman, and then I ask him." 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