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N v A SUC CESSFtJL CO OPERATIVE CREAMERY Page 8 V ' x . . - " . - . " ' " , ' ' ' ' 1 1 - i - . : : V. r .r - Carolinas, Virginia, Geo&ia, and Florida. . " " A:: ' FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEk H, N. C VoLXXXlL No. 20. SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1917 $1 a Year; 5c. a Copy How To Double the Returns From Each Acre In Corn! DURING the past ten years the average acre of corn in the South has yielded, on an average, 15 bushels. We propose here to show " that it is possible this year to exactly double the returns from each acre in corn. To do this, three things must be done. 1. Cultivate shallow and often. Drouth at a critical period often is responsible for heavy decreases in corn yields Drouths of course are be yond our power to pre vent, but cultiva tion of the right through legume crops, but right now we have many millions of acres that are sorely in need of nitrogen, and there is no time to wait for the legumes. The corn crop needs it and needs it immediately. To supply this immediate need, nitrate of soda or sul phate of ammonia at the rate of 60, 80 or 100 pounds per acre when the corn is about waist-high should be used. This is step No. 2, and should, on millions of acres of our thin lands, raise . the corn yield another - five bushels per DO YOUR BEST TO DOUBLE YOUR CORN CROP The Shortage of Wheat Makes It Necessary to Depend More on Corn, and Corn is the Great Food and Feed Crop That the South Still Has Time to Grow in Abundance kind may largely offset their evil effects. When we destroy grass and weeds by cultivation the moisture and plant food they would have taken of course go to the corn crop. Let us, then, see to it that these. robbers are never allowed to grow in our corn fields. Good cultivation also saves moisture for the corn crop by preventing loss through evaporation. Every j'farmer should aim to" have a dust blanket or dust mulch maintained in every corn field. This is step No. 1, and should, if generally practiced, raise the average yield not less than five bushels per acre. 2, Top-dress with nitrate of soda r sulphateof ammonia. We think there is no possible doubt that the great-1 est plant food need of corn, at least in the . South, is nitrogen. Of course the best 3. Plant peas, beans or peanuts with all corn. Just as nowadays thfc farmer who fails to get a second'erop after his small grain is do- I ing poor work, so the farmer who fails to grow a legume crop with his corn is falling short of his op portunities for increasing the feed and plant food supply. Using any one of the three crops named will cer tainly result in an increased return from the land that will be worth at least five j)ushels of corn, and prob ably ten or fifteen. This is step No, .3. DON'T FAIL TO RE ADr- Potassium: Its Place in Crop Production and Soil Building . . . . . . . . V . . 6 Lest We. Forget . ; . . . ... 7 Home -raised Feeds Necessary to Successful Dairying . . . . '. . . . . Start With Hogs Now . . . t '. . . . Grading Cotton Seed . . . . ...... Let Every Farmer Make a Big Corn Crop . . Plant a Big Acreage of Sweet Potatoes. . . Raise the Staple Food Crops . i " . ... . Traver Notes, Conversation and Comment A Woman's Holiday . . May. Suggestions for Tobacco Grower 10 11 12 12 42 12 13 15 22 i; Are you going to do' these things that will double the return from your land, or are you going, to be content with the usual 15 bushels? ' A I n r p ! I hi 1 A n . i b hi l ' f 8 1 1 r : ' 1 j ! i, . . 4,. Hi lit '111 . it y J. way to getcthis nitrbkens-frdm Wair ' ' 'l. ' ' ' witn tne usual is ousneis , , , , I , ' ' ' ' t'. ... J X'-TS''' - - vJ-' " ' . . ., , , T . ' ' ' - , . . ' . ,-' - (! N. . ' V " ' " I ' ' ,' ' . .- ..-v ' '-V - '-!m' V" " i. ' ! v
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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May 19, 1917, edition 1
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