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120 (4) 3 ,;.s Wiut Partners Want fo Itirtotv Dy W. F. MASSfiY ARE YOU FARMING AS WELL AS YOU-KNOW HOW? and waste but will be where crops will need it? Do you know that a clover or other sod turned under deeply will. If You Know Better and Choose to tend to hold the soil together and Remain in the Old Rut, It Is Your Own Fault I; KNOW mariy who understand ful ly . tire value- of cowpeas and crimson clover in the improve mcnt"of the soil, and yet they grow little patches of th'eni and leave the greater part of their land bare all winter, and for their crops depend on little applications of the commer cial fertilizers instead of -getting all their land better stocked with de caying vegetation, humus, as we call it. They know that a humus-filled soil will make good applications of fertilizers more profitable by retain ing" moisture in the soil for their solution, but they never adopt any systematic rotation of Crops that will bring these legumes regularly oh the land and be constantly increasing the humus content. They are only patch work farmers and do not use their brains or knowledge in the improve ment of their soil. And they write to me asking how much fertilizer and what mixture for this, that or the other crop, but are -tdounprbgressive to adopt a-rational system for the improvement of all their acres. They write that their land is poor, and fail to understand that it is themselves that have been keeping it poor. They see instances of great success in the South where men have adopted modern farm methods and are making money in in the imprbyemehTbf bid- podr farms and making them fertile- farms, and yet do not realize that their farms could be improved by the adoption of similar methods. They know that they are in the old ruts, and they know, that there are ways for getting out of them, and yet they fail to use the methods they have been taught. Thousands of men are not farming as well as they know how. They read the farm papers and ; read of how other men are advancing, ahd , building up their land, when they might be showing the same good ob ject lesson to their. neighbors who,do not know how these things are done. .' Inertness and lack of effort to im prove are keeping whole sections back. Are you who read this farm : ing as well as you know how? Talking with our county demonstra - V THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER , through Ioe'-ho"'tipi;an4-eiay.. fcFthVtew. subkrfterV Twill give it and cultivate the garden stuff far' againv .F ; r ; :.:' 11 ' better than with; an ordinary ;hoe: Trenches 15 Inches deep are made And this tool now has been applied' feet; aart. .These are filled half to a wheel and handles to push jt', full of fiae old "roHen manure and ' throuW the rows. . An old darkey thisi covered 2 inches with soil tu. once said to me-when I set , him-to 'seed are then sowed rather thinly fa work with one of these, "Boss; I could a row, aridt wrren they are a few make a cotton-crap with this thing.", inches-high are thinned to 2 feet aJj tend to now tne sou iogn regiJariy toir.xt4MWMtlUmh-W-of thlT prevent much o the washing Do '6 thy you, know tnat JJ;"" ,- sri; t ;nt0 a 'cultivator,.;. 0&r for.:! wVertiittlaalihriftitttoe tV corn w,th a turning jllcutoff cltWat6r Z I . prefer the onej-isydug in in- theispringTd the l7ixlTol wU stu-with one tawheel ratherahavtion continued jnd lome-n . up tne son 10 mc iu . . as I can work as:elose as needed with soda- used i again; - and the manr the corn and striping the blades " wltl1 W w wheels- L : w ' - e fertilized ;antl-cultivated clean till below or stripping all the blades whiler Then for making: rows and furrows ' time to apply the manure. The object" the shucks are green and the ears I have arlittle garden -plow that can ; is to get a strong -growth of crowns sticking straight up will diniinish the be pushed along "a line with a marker., for - the next springs Big asparagus , crop of corn, and that this waste could attached to mark tfc; next row, and - the result of -.heavy and constant be prevented by allowing the corn to-in thbwa . ,v mature more and then cutting it with ing 0 - - - r a binder and shocking the bundles? - be donwith a hoe. - In fact, in farm 1 - jr4iAAli:citlnil,AfA. O i Do you know that even "a child or garden we need the best imple- - u - can d6 better plowing with a sulky nients to save labor, for the "man : "THERE is a ma,n .in my section sell- 'I - 8 gfuuuu suijuaic iutK ana re- commends it; highly for mixing with -:i cottonseed 'meal and,; other amnion- i iates ;as arsubstitute-for. acid phos- I phate, Please tell me in The Progres- 1 sive Farmer whatyoii know about this - I sulphate rbek.?: Any; fellow making any such state- I ments is a good man to avoid. Sul- phate of what? You do not say, and a :; sulphate must have some base to be a sulphate. If he call's his article merely i sulphate rock, - keep-, your money in Z . your ' pockety It ' is probably ground . . j phosphate rock, and that will not well take the place . of acid phosphate in a ,' mixed fertilizer. As I Jiave often said, :;1 it may r be a good thing for a good .' farmer but a pbort thing for a poor farmer, Better use acid phosphate, for his calling his article sulphate rock . marks the fake. A SUCCESSFUL SOY BEAN HARVESTER1 ' - :" j '; .'ifl: r I aHE soy bean harvester here snown is a two-wheeled machine I - which straddles therbw and is drawn by two horses. As this machine moves up the row, four 'series of rapidly revolving arms shatter the seed into a receptacle at the rear. Wheh using this har vester the plant should have ihfed their leaves; and for aniore suc cessful operation, the crop should be on a slight ridge elevated not less than six to eight inches above the water furrow; Under favor able conditions, two men and two horses can harvest an acre of soy beans in two hours by this method.' There is a slight waste in usifag . this machine, but this waste is more than compensated for by the saving of time and labor. - F. H.-JETER plow that holds the plow to its cut whose farming or gardening sayes jn than a man can do' with a walking- " labor is making a greater margin be plow? Do you know that a wheat tween cost and value of the crop. 4.11 tiTll rvtf ' iti n4e tor hrter ann r.. .1 r ' '.--T - lPllf uw t Y" T " It, " n xne Iarm rnen we need to use Other sorinff bloomin shrubs are mab - the cron better than sow me- un: j . winer spring piooming smuu T. T;w;,i --c"lulc power ana treated ill' the same way. troiig Shrubbery 41X7HEN and how" should I prune "'the' shrubs -that' bloom in the spring, such as r SpireaS, Forsy thias etc.?---; r . , The oinly time; to ;pVuhe these is just aftier thelbloorii is over. Pruned now; you will 'cut off the bloom. I have plants of the Spirea Van Houtti which are a snowy mass in spring. As soon as the bloom fades I shear the Whole plant . ovef, cutting off all the shoots that have, bloomed. Then the bushes made' a " mass of fresh shoots for the " rtext years bloom. tor recently, he said, "There are many by hand and harrowing in, leaving machinery accomplish more than man ' r'here who are farming "as well as I . could tell them, but all around these1 '" are men -who are not' farming as well , ? 3S theyjknow how." You take The' r C" Progressive Farmer. Has it had any ' ; effect in the improvement of your some deeper than they should be and power; and in the garden we need some not coverea ar aur . the tools that will make odr hand Do you know that a fanhinjgf mill power more effective. . will prepare yolir small grain better , :, ; fdf seed by elimihating the light shrivelled grain and giving you the An AsDarafflls Bed? w The Himalaya Brry EV"EIIY now iancl -then some one write? praising the Himalaya berry, a sort of climbing blackberry. This wat tripH Vif (nr tAvfal vears and farm? You' have read for rear best and heaviest seed for the grow-- of the value of a rotation of crops ing of the crop? "T"; PUT but an asparagus bed last found tobe worthless. ' The New and always having a winter cover Do you know that by . Hopping a spring in the following manner: York Station at. Geneva says tnat " of clo.ver; or' rye. Do- yoU prac- sdd.flat upside down-you are; making I dug a hole' 4x12 feet' and IS inches: was one of -BurbajJt's introductions, tice these methods, or do you grow" a layer of loose vegetation to cut off deep, putting six to eight inches of the Geneva Station the plants corn merely with commercial ferti- the rise of the soil moisture when stable manure in the bbttom and made a very strong growth, but were lizers at a greater cost than; if. you proper edging up of the furrows covering with- fbUr; inches-of soil, not, hardy. The fruit as .produced had the clover to turn under?. You5 would prevent this? ' , - Then placed the roots on the surface there was absolutely worthless, and have been told that a crop of clover D6 you know that a loose; cloddy and covered with four inches of rich 'the same result was, found here in will furnish more nitrogen than a ton held will not make as good a crop ot earth They made a fine growth the of cheap fertilizer an acre, arid yet wheat or oats asland that has been past Summer, and I kept, the Weeds do you keep your land bare in winter well prepared some time ahead and and grass pulled out How shall I . and depend on fertilizer to make" has been disked -and - harrowed -and treat the bed now to jgefc the best re- v torn, anu icave. your iana no Detier iiuipcu-nii me bui uvc is uuc buu suhji than before. the crop was grown? Do! w$l! settled? .Dp' you khbw that YoU do not say how far apart you . you still work your corn with a one- mule - power isX Cheaper . thah' man olanfed the rnt:nA trf ; JLv; h?fsetf)low after breaking the land power, and ..ithatbne man. withwo you say about pulling weeds l am of . "PAN I grbw curra& and goose- -. with the same implement, while you- mules and a riding cultivator can do the opinion ' that vbu haveHSianteH ' U-t.-rrT.. ;u wM-ln south know that with .deeper plowing and better worlt than two taeh!th plbws :the i,ed too thiTb gS eatter level,, rapid, cultivationith weeder ma cottony cornfield, and that the, asparagu the roots must have plenty"- u"cai? S?tohcS, but if me uuu more cncapiy on a ciover i oac wuur mm iuviimsc irous abart and fwrt In lT' t t a , ' votl sod turned unaer? ..' ; - Tl.l, khowlog ll ee Ml wBy 221 LtS. iW&L.-: "?:??L?S H . , ,ijtt-A-,i- u-. . vin oui me eccu iusi a lircie fruit it nlat1M, on' moiai ' es: wiu 9t,uv gooseberry bush spienui made one moderate southeastern" Maryland. Like many of Burbanks - things; ' it may have some value in California and the Pa cific coast. . ; U ' CWbhli atari Gtbtthttiles . T" U: i' k ' i '1 i At uv you naui.oui 'ine manure-you uiu muug ihhuc. oiu vayr , urhew I wart have left to waste in the barnyard Then in the garden, do' you know ; the undisturbed rrW,? -1 C ,.g? , f " . ; and sclttcr it bv harid. when vou could that the hld.f?ihlrtJd hL iV- f?k? ruil,at k I had.a : : lbad it up daily-as tist as made into . slbWest and mbSt cbrt Raleigh', whlchvfalade :b 1 ' a hin-cr AiAS AM tiA t l" ?lcrsll7i u5an P.1?"1 Pne5v , 1 have fully described ' trr-owthi- and in' m Vfcafs ' xUlm. Are.a0 ;n,MC' ,Ke avetne method heretofore in-The' Prb rjosrv.- I -hhere' Fay vafiety.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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