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NEXT, WEEK FARM HOMES AND BUILDINGS SPECIAL
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The Carolinas. Virainia. Georeraand Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH N.C.
Vol. XXXIL No. 9.
SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917
$1 a Year; c. a Copy
THE
MAN
WHO
BURNS
DOLLARS
j TE ALL know him, the man who burns dollars
W this season the haze of blue smoke from
burning stalks, grass and other rub
: bish overhangs his farm; advertising
his destructiveness to the. world.
, He revels in the use of fire.
"7 Corn stalks are cut and la-
boriously piled by hand
; and the torch applied;
lj grass, straw, and weeds
i are raked into long
j! windrows and burned
!' In fact, he burns
about everything
in the fields except
the cotton stalks,
and the only reas
on these are not
I burned is because
; years of burning
i: vegetable matter
have so impover
: ished the soil that
: it is incapable of
growing anything
! but 'bumble-bee' cot
: tonthe stalks of which X
are too tiny to rake or
; pick 'up. Let's see what
I hes losing actually throw
fc ing away.
!'. From analyses at hand, it ap-
jj pears that corn stalks and the ac
companying fodder contain about one
h Per cent of nitrogen, or twenty pounds per
ton;, worth at present prices about
5. jJ Weeds, grass and similar
materials probably run equally
high in nitrogen content. Thus
theman who burns a ton of corn
stalks, grass or weeds is deliber
ately destroying $5 worth of plant
food, since fire drives off, into
the j air practically all the nitrogen-contained.
We believe the hu
mus value of such materials is as
high as theii direct fertilizing
value and if this be So, their burn -
ing means a total loss of $10 for each ton destroyed. l
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In other words, the man with a twenty-acre -I;
field of corn stalks, assuming 1000 pounds :
of stalks per acre, is losing a round
' i
W &10U wnen lie ourns these instead
of plowing them under. At J
the same time he is prob- n
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A GOOD STAND OF WHITE CLOVER. SEE PASTURE ARTICLE ON PAGE 3
DON'T FAIL TO READ
Dewberries and Blackberries: How to Grow Them
The Boll Weevil Problem .....
"Little Gardens" in March . .
Fighting Insect Pests in March . .
How to Terrace Lands . . . . ..
Poultry Suggestions for March . . .
Farm Work for March ......
Fertilizer Analyses and What They Mean
Livestock Suggestions for February . .
ably buying ferilizers at
high prices in the effort ;
to keep his humus-
hungry fields up to
profitable yields.
It is not enough
to say that stalks
and grass are in
the way of cul
tivation, for if
they are cut to
pieces and
plowed under
in time they will
very soon be
thoroughly rot
ted and incorpor
ated with the soil;
nor is it enough to
say that we have no
implements for cutting
the stalks to pieces, for
if we have no disk harrow
stalk cutter, it will pay
many times over to chop up
the stalks with a hoe, rather
than sacrifice their plant .food and
humus value by burning.
This is a time .for soil conserva
tion and soil building, a time for
saving and utilizing every possible
pound of plant food. The man who
fails to do these things, who burns
plant foods instead of saving them,
will sponer'or later find himself up
against- poverty on a worn-out
farm. :
Paee
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