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Hid Da:t Ilulch Is the Thing:" V:,-
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TWO things, " plant . 'foods and moisture in
; I abundance, arc vitally "necessary to the pro-
duction of laVge crops. Without - both of
thse or either of them, crop must at least in part
plant,
; 4: 1 1 - c -::-lVE FARMER
Then if velvet leans and peanuts are ndt
the corn, let's be s::rs to ; ut ia r!;nty of cowpeaT
Covpeas or soy beans after the oats and-wheat
should also go la y.ithcut dzhy. Other fine hoe
crops that may be'phnted after the small grain
are peanuts and sweet potatoes. Then ia August
and September arrange to cct in a big acreage of
.- oats, Abruzzi rye and bur and crimson clover.
There's big money in hoes nrnviV. ;
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UBS. W. H. XOTT.
'JOHN 8. PEAESCJI.
J." A. MABTEC. -
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'',rir"i.: . .V - Edttw Womas Dtpartaeoi
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AND now everybody is-congratulating. Dr. H, Q.
,v , Alexander, C President of ; the State -Farmers'
. Union. Farmers all over; North ; Carolina wilW be
interested in the announcement that he is to mar
: ry. Miss Ethel Brinkley, of Elm City, on June 19. , '
THE solendid dak shown on bur rover page this
I : ' - s! ;-;.T; x-week grows' coi the farm of R. B; McLaughlin.
i mScBl StatesvillemCThts stately white oak measures i.. : U,4o Jrrtft,
30 feet in circumference just above the ground, r y. r . . , x
, and has a spread of . branches of ,106 feet. The " ci 1 s
, South needs more of these stately trees, r , . - ' . I.iOVe Uie , 2)(Lelet0nS
Lr:i TVi fAn mf Ko In tfi snil'for the
14tl iUC iiwu,uu ww - - i . ;- t . . ,
and water must be present in order. that this plant vc " torthenL; The time
food may be kept in solution. Plants carr take only t0 rare these feeds is right now. ; ,
a liquid dietsolid food-is bf no value tothem.; X y- riu p ' .
From May until August is a critical time .with LTQZ1 ICZI 5 fcxperi-
most of our . .cultivated crops. The weather is. j CI2CC Vil!l ClD Qat Crcp '
warm and often dry, and evaporation "is rapid.. .,. -r '
Under such conditions, moisture conservation; is NEAW-V.:all the Cotton. Belt north of the
of first importance,' and in attaining this everVV; .J thiriy-third paralieh of latitude , the bat crop
farmer should' know the value of rtnaking : and this yearvis practically a failure,1 and much of
maintaining a dust mulch. - " w tlie crop south of this line is very poor. While the
; This mulch acts just like" a blanket jn keeping r. results are rather discouraging, bright ""now is the
the .water in the soil. :Any farm boy who has time t0 8tuIy the causes that have brought about
turned over a board or plank lying flat on the-- these- poor yields and; in so far as is possible,
ground ' has found it moist and cool underneath, :
though possibly alj around the soil may have been
parched antf ;dry.- Th'e farmer who maintains by
means of an earth or dust mulch' just such, condi
tions over all his fields is the man who is;, likely
correct them hereafters What are some of the
conclusions we mayr draw from this' year's experi
.ence r ; ;:.; ; r , sy'h.-. :,-- ) . C . - .
vl.V-Th winter wa much harder than the aver
age on' the oat cropJn tnany parts of the South
the temperature; was the -lowest in twelve years,
.arid we feel-safe Jn saying, that in not more
than one winter in eight or ten will as low tern-
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peratures prevail. Inother wordsr this year's ex-
O FARMER would let' the skeleton of a hog ! perience does not at all1 affect, the established fact
or cow lie around the ; house,' and yet ' in that, four winters out of , five, early fall-planted
OVER-subscription of, the; Liberty Loan ' TVT
bonds would do more to discourage Germany 1
than anything else that could happen now, snow- . traveling over the South it is amazing to see "oats, will survive, any where south' of, parallel 35
the war arid saying lives. We hope many farmers
will become subscribers.
UUVV. M A T U A A VU JT W VA A VUUU W ViH . ('...AAVl W
- how many other offensive looking 'skeletbtts' are j which runs thrbugh
left: lying around.- There are, skeletons . of dead" ; Arkansas, and along the "southern boundary of
-buggies, wagons, plows, wheelbarrows, farm build- Tennessee. " '. "-j -
ings, etc.. Just :-as -soort as v any 'farm machine, V 2. Early planting is $afe$t. Almost universally
vehicle or building As definitely dead that is to : , the oats.: that "goi by" safely this year were those
are the vegetables recommended for June planting, Sayv if it is so broken up that it is not going to be "planted" earlyin September in the upper part of
? Utitude of Raleigh, by State Demonstration Agent- ati4r; anf! ift UJit. minJv farmer should the Cotton Belt and in' October in the lawVr a"r
i.rj."i '-!' - ..-.-.'.'. ' . -.."A .V)isi..' '.,.-.-' . - . Irt ".3i-: . -:r ," " v:":'i" .-:: .."'' V"' . i. : ;; v :"':.
Hudson r snap beans, lima beans, beet carrot; corn;
cucumbers, lettuce, melons, okra, pumpkin, radish,
squash, tomato; also sow - cabbage;, collard : and
celery in, beds for late transplanting. " 1
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"0 OTATE the garden crops but not the garden
: f spot is the good advice given by, Mrs; Jane
McKimmon. On too many farms the garden- is
never in the same place; more than -two years in
be quick to move the skeleton somewhere out of
"sight v'-f; , '
Yet" it is too often the , case -that the helplessly
crippled old buggy is left in sight till it rots; ithe
broken mowing machine is. conspicuously in evi
dence until it rusts to pieces ; a last year's hogpen
3. Vinter-Lillinff i lets on Eumuc-filled soiU.
The soil that is mellow because of -a good supply
of . humus is" ' usually .wanner than , the soil
without., a . good supply ot rotting, vegetable
matter and heaving during 'hard freezes is cer
tainly less. : In our observation, the oats planted
is left just as it was when the opening ,was made ? on glands "welt supplied with humus have survived
IMEsuccession,withjthe result that the land is never--;" lfc le,uu$ qui, wnue even a winu-wrecxea ianus m uie. same neignoornooa
1 h niade rich enough to grow really fine vegetables. 5 Ibarn or smokehouse may be left to; disfigure the- they, haye.been killed.,-
Gardening wan all beholders for an 4. Ontinost aoila a top-drestinc of nitrate of
i'-ir kH'"6 vu ;uuv- mvvi ; y f vu w mriehnite nerrrt ' " - ' .,,- soda or m nhiU nf mmnn; rf . Thp af
acreage; and for this reason the garden should
; ; always be the richest .spot on the farm. Keep it
Ia ; in the same place with a good fence around it and
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"Mend or end it" should be every farmer's motto crop : needs 'nitrogen, and ' this is an element in
in all such cases If. the, wrecked: thing can' bewhich most Southern soils - are deficient. We
mendrd, do so quickly ; if it. can't, then "save the 4 know of fields this year where ' 75 to 100 pounds
-useful pieces, storing, in rsome suitable place,; and 3 per acreofi nitrates of sodar'ia March actually
destroy the, worthless patts.' .v . ''. trebled and even quadrupled. the yield, as proved
'j-i 'he first rainy, day let's look 'around and see' - from unfertilized check plots in the same fields.
i whatr: "skeletons ;:are t in evidence; on;; our iarras 'The oat crop comes to maturity during Jthe cool
Ml Theodore H. Price-the famous cotton authority -and ma .way;with them; To have them lying spring months when. soil nitrification is. going on
:vK:?&NjHR scarcity; of : labor quickens interest in any
; ! V plan to effect economies at this point. , We are re-
printing therefore an extract from a letter; written
to the Dallas Cotton and Cotton Oil News, by
rl-'-
ing.Co.?r Denying that he has lost faith in his ma
chine, Mr. Price says on the contrary;
f "I believe the company of which I am presi
dent Jhas I a mechanically successful cotton- '
;;:;picknhiachine.- The ; only thing in therway .
of its commercial introduction" has been that
;C it costs too much to manufacture it. i'We ;are 1
; ' now endeavoring to reduce that cost and I am
. hopeful: that within twelve, months we shall '
have ; a successful cotton-picking, machine '
that will be within the financial reach of near-.
,ly every planter." , ,y.:'A-;'.: ' i.CV::;" - -
tisement of shiftlessness. f it wilt make us ait feel . nitrogen is very helpful.
better to get-rid of thenl. - " . ' ' On the whole, while the bat crop this year has
: .'" - 'rrr- : '-r ' .' ; - v; Deen almost afailure, we are confident that-four
Feed end Feed First : Plant Plcnty of V f fiZc ?4 5att mad5 to and pay
brazes xrops tor the nogs
OGS are worth fronrfourteen to sixteen cents
a ! , pound s live weight,; but corn is . sell-
A Thought for the A7cc!i
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11" a 'V0 llve . we?ght: but corii " ,s: sell7 - CU WE had forced-into our harids the sword of
.. v -i, ing for about twodollars a-busfieh ; In other France At first we bore the brunt almost
words, hogs and corn have gone up . in about the .vTAalonc-JWc made a great effort and drove our
- -it.v ' . . v . enemv DacK irom tne rnresnnirt rt farts, vvc kavv
P H THE latest United States Deoartment if Arictd l T ' TV nni-l De f to alt the allies of France a.- breathing space in
ik&l Place
their flags alorfcrside of ours. Now they are ready.
j -i v : v vyut Avirtjr i ins ycar as A6.tor' as compared . - T t t , .V
j :,- 1 jiJ : with $1.02 May l, 1916-an increase of 141' per cent .- In oth. words, .while herc:a
I ; r ; v; in twelve months. Corn likewise was selW Mar be made in hogs, these profits
re' gbbdrbfits to Now "you are coming..- Now. alt' freemen : in the
can onlv come ,wPa aw .stanamg snpuiaer to
1 this -year for $LS0 a bushel as' compared with 72 the an who raises" them on:cheap feed
: 'cehts-a.-"buiihe1 a v9, ma " v , - - . . , r uic tne ena ot the conflict I We will
' twelve months' period had advanced only 64 per. .beharves;el hogs. themselves. . : .
cent.vThls indicates what.the onerop farmer isY! :jEv
up against in trying to. buy bread to make cottoriT ;' practically every farmer in the South; should have
t luiougn witn tnis war. tne
between . man's ' eagerness for
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;;iTf:"7tffo" wlV ;ims war at grazing crops tor every month in the year, includ
bread and Vis eagerness for clothing avbVn'"2.1 ' any force to prey upon freemen, because
these davS of sacrifice: it is! not' for material vic-
tory that we fight,' it is for moral victory. When
' this war-is over there will be a final and perma-
nent rpeace for :the:.whole world and' peace' wm
reign in every corner of this planet.: There will no
more marked: , Plenty of people get alone? orettv da, lespedeza and bur arid white - clovers; : Tf -Va had men;who
j jIil 5 , c aiongpreuy.; . , . , r V - r11 . their .hlnniTanrf nf tfc.lr cnnle in eprvice of human-
rrr:r::.: uuinc5?ttl a hungry; man ; ,u ,crmuua pasture nas not already been prow iiTr
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vided, there is still : time- to start it ; this season, address in New York City, May 10, 1917. , : : ;
Js nevcr,a happy one. The .world wants food more
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