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COTTOM SPECIAL. , it ji A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolina Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. PROGRESSIVE FARMER VOL. XXII. NO 5 THE COTTON PLANT VOL.. XXIV. NO. 4. RALEIGH, N. C, MARCH 14, 1907. Cotton-A Bale per Acre Should be Our Minimum not; ur Maximum. Weekly: $1 a Year. attendance on its growth ; the shower that . . . "CoUm-whala.royalpianl.it is!" Henry Grady once exclaimed. -The world waits in talis wntspertng on tts leaves is heard around ih that chills it-and the dew that descends from the stars are w y , "s" tempered by the prayers of all the people ; the frost than the advance of the Russian arkyJATnZtZZ' T?t uVlf MtU Tf f " grem Uaf is more "England in evervbank anJ,An..loosi,i,l It u gold from the instant ttpihs forth its tiny shoot. Its fibre is current marshaled under a flag that will conYtnk aliegZfZ LrlTLT- TT'f W humble that r uueKiance oj the world and zvrtng a subsidy J rom every nation on earth." This eloquent tribute to the South's great staple crop is even truer to-day, if possible, than when Grady uttered it twenty - years ago- and still we ! V' hilt . ll n 1 f annMoiatinn n 1 . ... . ...... UJII.V1UVU Jl importance of King Cotton. . We do Tint tfnat. it nt if c mvaHv Hocamrac We are reckless in selecting seed for nlantirisr. W nlow as if wp if wo nnJIln , X 11T I iiic un ujjpcr crust. we impover ish the land by the one-crop system. We fail to grow legumes enough to feed the land. We use expensive and out-of-date methods of cultiva tion. We make a bale per acre our maximum when it should be our mini mum. And with a monopoly of the i ' i . . wuriu unci ciuuung material saie in our grasp, we refuse to combine as we should in demanding a proper price for the lint we crow. It is the purpose of this number of The Progressive Farmer to call atten tion to each of the faults abovo enumerated by means of which we humiliate King Cotton and injure ourselves, and to urge each cotton farmer to avoid these errors in his 1907 farming. To our aid we have summoned the most successful farm ers and farming authorities in the Carolinas and Georgia, and every let ter printed is a strong presentation of some one or more of these sub jects. Let us consider the articles in order. Ontpage 2 our Prof. Kilgore han dles : the question of fertilizing. In the very outset he makes it plain that we are spending millions every year for ammoniated fertilizers that might be saved to us. if we would keep hu mus in our lands by growing cow peas and clovers and by proper rota tion of crops. The formulas he gives will be found useful either in home mixing or in deciding what brands of ready-mixed goods to buy, and his advice in regard to the best forms of potash and nitrogen to use and the advisability of making two applica tions instead of one, is especially timely. On page 3 Prof. Newman, of the South Carolina Experiment. Station, contributes an interesting discussion f varieties, especially notable being "is prediction that in a few years the Jong staple varieties of cotton will be aore largely grown than the short staple sorts. And on the same page Mr. Lane points out the folly of put ting land to cotton and making only one-half bale per acre oh it when it would grow forty or fifty bushels of Peanuts, or 150 to 200 bushels of sweet potatoes double the net re- , ' - - ' I I' - ... , '4KTr f - V SAVING THE LABOR OF ONE MAN. so much how to make two blades of grass grow where on gew before an to make one lauviu uu bxia wui&. ui iwu uiu itui) auu ncio ib 10 iiiiMii moaern im pietnents ann machinery come to the farmer's relief enabling one man and two horses to cultivate as much land as two men and two hortes would cultivate with old-fashioned one- hnno fnnlnmant T)ia nVint rcyro Vi n Vi oroorlt Vi t-ct-it-Iti tori fWm n ct--. tt v. i and Poe; Don bleday. Page & Co., Publishers Illustrate bo h the wisest! method of afterthe crop starts. V 4se9iaes making the cotton, how evef, we have the problem of getting merest prices for it after it is made, iiere Mr. Charles Cotton Moore calls attention to the Cnttnn AssnHnHnn ' pnithis subject, however, we shall (have much to say through the year, pave much to say through the year; iml the Farmers' Union will also have its full share of attention in our jol'umns. An intensely practical letter is that of Mr. H. M. Johnson, on page 7. His explicit directions as to the kinds of tools and kinds of fertilizers to use cannot fail to be helpful. This review is growing so long, however, that we find ourselves able to give only a bird's-eye view of the remaining features of the paper; On page 10 we have summarized the opinions of a number of wide-awake ( farmers who have broken away from j bid) lines and made daring tests of growing cotton without hand-chopping. A subject of the greatest prac tical value, we especially commend these experiences to the attention of Ouij readers. Enormous indeed would e Sthe saving if such progressive nethods were adopted by cotton grcjwers throughout the South; and thef experiments of Messrs. Bagwell, Moj-ton, Stribling, and Brown ought tfrbe brought to the attention of qvqry man in the South who raises (Continued on Page 15.) turns with but one-half the cost of harvesting. Perhaps none of our articles is more useful than that of Mr. S. H. Hobbs. Every ' paragraph counts. His advice about substituting light Simmons No. 2 hoes for the heavier sort now generally used will do much to save labor and chopping. And he is everlastingly right in saying that "a Southern man ought to count it a disgrace ever to be caught j buying another bushel of corn or pound of hay." ! '.. Continuing the subject of Ibng sta ple cotton taken up by Mr. Newman on page 2, we are printing on page 5 an article giving seven r files for success, as worked out by Mr. J. C. Stribling, while Mr. Daniel Lane on the same page makes a further con tribution on the subject of fertilizers. WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER. if . Page. $3300,000 by Using Better Va- . rieties, C. B. Williams ... Chjbp Five Acres a Day, How to, 1 IS. H. Hobbs ; . 4 Fertilizers for Cotton, B. W. Kil- ! ore 2 Fertilizing and Cultivating Cot- i ton, D. Lane 5 General Plans for Cotton, H. M. - I Johnson 7 Know Your Soil, W. A. Simp- j kins . . . 17 Lohg Staple Cotton, How to Suc i fceed With It, J. C. Stribling. . . 5 Making Cotton Without Hand Chopping ............. s . . . 11 Narrow Furrow Plowing Only Right Method, A. L. French. . . 13 ie Papers Yon Ought to Stop. 8 TolMrs. Farmer, C. C. Moore .... 6 Tp Bales Per Acre, T. J. W. i Broom ... Varieties of Cotton and Corn, C. I . Newman,. Wall Papers and Woodwork, Mrs. 4 Walter Grimes ......... 12 1
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