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5SS (U) mm V t VLk' , ' ; PROGRESSIVE FARM Tfc ,Hre lnn ii to be obtained by subscriptions matfcrconditions, as well as personal 1:1:.. " . ... . i - - .. . .. from bra in est men, wno wm oe paia r the fanners hare made their crops." This is help that counts. and I l nil rvar mm should be to get. rid of weeds and make dust 'mulch with the least possible harm Vt? roots. The man -who docs this is doin ' cultivation, v . : - . . 5 g06d fctratfsBtr . rOBUSSID EVERY SATURDAY BY The Progressive Farmer Company, qoocpritedgnder the kwi of Worth Carolina.) OFFICES: SMiIMa TO Fourth Aw.: RaJal, N. C 1 19 W. Hawtt St.' hHH, T. 24 m B.M.C. BUt. DaHaa, Tim. Slaughter Wda. CmnCUKICATTCOM atEGAKDINO ADVERTISING OB SUBSCKIP STONS AKj5MUE88BD TO fcfTHKB OFFICE. ENTERED AT to ooMcaga or masch s, w. CXABZ3CCS FOX, tunpBrnjca, & n Mosa. . . W. r MAStTT. . tOCt. W. X. HCTT. JOB a HBIBSOX. a. jl mastix. . Snimarine Campaign Threatens Cottca and Tobacco Prices rIPEBATIVE as were then .the reasons for making every farm feed itself, these -reasons -have been made doubly emphatic by develop-, ments since America's entry . into the war,:- a - montn ago. w u.,.'. -..J:; ap4 .,.. g.u ... " RmnanvV submarine . camnaten. A jomtli: am .!, ,;.i--:;'rVv--T 13 certn. r-ato, most of us "PPosed thatthU al riKmMW UAUl.tv lUCia W OfflM A S COMMISSIONER ol Agriculture Wade d Xju OTm Tr puy fays, there are three ! -y- - wm neip win th: . vicyreaident wdwiw strccceding M well as Germany had expected. On . . Contrltattnt Btttor Editor Woman'i Department . . Secretiry-Treaaurer . . AdTertWng Manager AS MARCH and April are months in which, to Mav the month to clean the crops f grass and weeds and start them off thrifty been at the tate of 1,200,000 tons a tnonth So that tflV the other han4 it appears that it is now surpass, , m$ Qatttr pKHladng.botmtiflJ q ing the KaUerVexperfatio ; ''"oii -' tln1r. A.p1l nnti, sfe;DS tnlW rr" ' seller ton :- v , ana playing this part is" gointf to mean iSffhole lot more than hofrL 1,000,000 tons capacity; While as a tmtttt 6i it is announced that her destruction has recexitly ; and vigorous. "Get the grass before it gets you. rT'S por business to plant a crop and then let the bags and worms get it, nay, it's almost criminal during these times of world-wide scarci iv. We trust you are keeping fully informed on Be sure to read conservative an agency as the Associated. Press declared last week : "If the Germans keep up their present rate of destruction officials admit without hesitation that their campaign threatens .to sweep clean the seas.- , It is the belief of The Progressive Farmer that how best to fight these pests. Professor Conradi's monthly articles on fighting the Germans will not keep up this "present rate, insects in the orchard and garden, and also get in destruction." We feel confident that aome touch with your county demonstration agent if you are threatened with an invasion. method must -and will "be found to lessen the ex tent of their ravages. ,But at the same time we must face the fact that after all we can possibly hope for in this respect is accomplished shipping to "European countries is even then going to be THIS year every farm family should grow all the legume food crops possible to take the place, in a measure at least, of high-priced meats. Cow- peas are excellent human food and are highly seriously curtailed and food will certainly Tiave nutritious; Duncn ana poie oeans are easily, growu, th rirfir f av vprrwhpr nv-r rnttnn and tn. inTneetinsiS aiid- advising through the daHj ptpen and tthtnrixe'as to how tbe farmer should 1 condect hb tasiaesv It is1 going to mean that? the bnmt;inea cast solidly back the farmed ,with . credit to aid him in. growing the crop and! marketing facilities neat-iall that will insure him! in so Sir as possible against gists and fow prices. 1 J- ixw a wimji, uv M M M aiaa-l u u is nc rlgai kind. In this case, the right kind is the kind that! isjyacked up by deeds. The farmer's duty in this time of National need is plain, but the business : man, too, bat h& duty and the manner of his'per-: forming it will be the . test of his earnestness and j patriotism. : Let every man attest his loyalty by; concrete service. ' may be had all summer, and are relatively , high in protein content; and the "same is true of lima or butter beans, both the Vunch and climbing -varieties. Don't fail tb plant liberally of all these. bacco. Men and women abroad can wear worn and patched clothes and. thus get along with mighty little American cotton, "while they can do TN LINE with the campaign for making the South England may regulate shipments accordingly. For A self-sustaining in the matter of food and feed, these reasons food prices are most certain to con- Food and Feed Crops First Put Every ! Acre on the Farm to Work careful attention should be paid to canning and preserving any surplus of fruits and vegetables. Just now the outlook for fruit is generally good, and there are gardens where gardens never grew, before. This means that many families will have more than can be immediately used. Let's call the cans and jars into service and save everything. rLD Dr. J. B. Hunnicutt made one distinct con tribution to Southern agricultural thought He kept everlastingly preaching against clods in the cultivated fields "snndried brickbats" be called them. And there is still need for more preaching rP crops to feed man and beast next year, of the same "sort. It is a pity that, when Id Dr. The .success or the submarine campaign makes Knapp came to write his "Ten Commandments of absolutely necessary what was already a patriotic tinue relatively higher than prices of cotton and tobacco, and the demand for the latter products is absolutely uncertain. The farmer who makes his. farm feed itself and then grows cotton and tobacco as a surplus crop may come out all right in the end, but there is no polite language to describe the farmer who in the face of present conditions fails to put food and feed crops first, who fails to provide the biggest acreage ever in gardens, potatoes, pork-making Agriculture" he didn't go a little further with Commaadment No. 1. It begins Preparea deep and thoroughly .pulverized seed bed," which is .all.." right, but he. ought to have added, "by harrowing all land the same day it is plowed." Every day now one sees fields full of "sundried- brickbats" which could have easily been pulverize'd if the one simple rule had been followed '. Harrow all land the day it is plowed. That is to say, in breaking land always stop long enough before night so as to harrow every foot of ground "you have plowed .bet fore "taking out" for the night. The two H's Humus and Harrowing are the best cure for clods. . ." " . ". :' duty. - Hovr Deep ShaU ft Cultivate? THE two ends primarily sought in crop culti vation, are weed and grass destruction and - - moisture conservation. Another factor that must be considered, however, is the" plant root system. If this .in cultivation be too greatly in jured it is evident that whatever weed destruction and, moisture conservation may be attained will be more than offset. ' The point, then, is to kill the weeds and save the moisture, and at the same time do the least possible injury to the plant roots. -When the rmr rs..Mn. a.t..a. i . vuug, iuai is, Deiore corn DLE acres, like Idle folks, are up to little good. This year particularly, every farmer in the South should aim to get the utmost possible; returns from every acre on the farm. Let's see some of tbe ways in which this may be done. 1. Drain tb wet m&te Ithcrfs hardly a farm but .has wet spots that are making nothing and aro eye-sores as welt A good ditch or a line of tile through these will not cost a great deal and will make of them some of the best land on the place. If they cannot be drained in time for gen eral crops, plant them in soy beans in June or July. 2 Kill th pasture pasta, If our pastures, so called, are to furnish the best of clovers and grasses for ouf stock, it is high time that the robber weeds, bushes and, briers-be dug out.' To leave them to shade the land and steal plant food is sheer waste. , . ' . 3. Follow all oats and wheat with another crop. To leave stubble, land' idle is another form of waste that should ie seen nowhere this season. Cowpeas are excellent crops to use, but if seed of these cannot be had, plant corn or sorghum. Let every man work every acre to its utmost capacity. " ; : ' ' .yj: ' : A Thought for the Week AND now we' see all America rise and sharpen her weapons in the; midst of peace for tne common struggle. Together we will carry On that strufffflp? atiil wtiin last imposed military- victory, our labors will not I.'. 0nf task will be, I quole troai i; AS CONCRETE illustrations of what ' business men may do to help farmers in the campaign for makine the South self-snstainine. we have in mind two examoles. We are advised that the and cotton eet - - , " . - . w itiKii. ii is nrnn. . . ... banks at LaurcVMiss are extending credit to the able that no harm and u- . wncwoeo.; w task-will e, l quote i - . extent of $25,000 to needy farmers for purchasing r.ther An ... " " UC UOTe cooie words of Fresident.Wilson, "to organu.v seeds, fertilizers and feeds-the actual, necessities rainer GeeP cultivation. Especially is this so in society of nations."-1 well know that our enefflij for making a crop. The business men there are"086 hzvy rains have packed and run together wto lve never before them. anything but also guaranteeing ta farmers, withput any obliga- the soil. Later, however, if is important that all zons .of .carnage, will never cease tc j-cI' at t tion poa the part of the latterv a price of not less cultivating implementVe r uu I obe a dream. Such has always been the fate o than 1 a bushel for corn and peanuts and $20 a frealc aa few u, f W cnouh t0 ideas at their birth; and if thinkers and men o ton for velvet beans in the pod.' Of course these f. . possible, but at the same action had allowed themselves to be discouragea are minimum prices, and more will be paid if the me dcep oougn to make a mulch thick enough by Peptics, mankind would still be slaves. After market justifies it. Then down at Corpus Christi, to save a good part of the soil moUtnr tw.. material, victory we will. win this moral victory. Nueces County, Texas , in a section which, like depth, as generally agreed noon ' We wil1 scatter the ponderous sword of l east Mississippi and west Alabama, was hard hit stations and best tirZr I ,j Penmejit : ism; we wiU establish guarantees for peace; and i last year by adverse weather conditions, we have . , ' , mcrs' shonld average about then we can disappear from the world's stag another 'striking example of what business men ntlies' unless it be in the dry sections of we ahall leave, at the cosf of our common j mayd4Hereit is, announced that "Seed will be Uknoma and Texas, where three inches. mav he aaolticra the noblesf beriUge . future gencf; aold t the famers at actual cost, they to give a better. . ations can possss-M.' Vivian!,- Vice-Fremier ot ftotcfor the amorunt drawing 5 per cent Interest. As to the implements we shall " I P"' in - tddrcsa; before House of Ecpresenta- V- - ; cements we shall use, sod and cli- tives. Washlnnn n r ,m.i 1017. I - ' " f ' mj j ;
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