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COOU SPECIAL. " T Aeglsterel in U. S. Patent Office.) A Farm and Home 'Weekly for the Carolines, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. Weekly: $1 a Year. Vol. XXFII. No. 5. RALEIGH, N. C, MARCH 12, 1908. Doubling the Value of the South's Corn Crop : How to Do It. Home-liaised Hog and Hom iny : Cheaper Cotton and Cat tle; More Mules and Machin- . ' m 111 these are tnree aiinera tive mottoes of The Progres- NVt. r""K'l t"V i"v vw f those is "Home-Raised Hog and Hominy." The first part of this motto was covered in our Hog and Ilacon Specials o me weeks ago. "Move your smoke-house from the West," wt then our advice, and to this we now add, "Move you Vor.a crib also." A full hundred year? of farming experience ..ha proved beyond doubt that th only permanently prosper ous farmer is the one who, as the old proverb has it, "lives at home and boards at the aine place": he does not have his crib and smoke-house a thousand . miles away. And that is a pertinent inquiry made elsewhere in this issue: Tid you ever know a fanner wild had cdrn toe sell who wras net well-to-do and a man look ed '.up to in liis neighborhood? The trouble about us here in the South is that we have-giv- little land to corn except that left over after the best, had been given to cotton - and that we have cultivated even thi only after our best atten tion has been given to cotton. But .now a ' revolution has V't in. All over the South corn-raising is having more attention, and in some coun tie Corn Conventions , have aroused no less enthusiasm than political rallies in the hlen days. And this is well. s?d it is well, too,, that we are "beginning to recognize a half- fiozi:!i ivfonns in our manner i ? handling the corn crop in t thf South. ' " ' " tn the first place, there is ths matter of seed. A carefully hroii and carefully selected va ri' ? wiH undoubtedly make I-:?' per cent more than i mmon scrub . seed. In other j orK with the same labor, foresight,., fertilizer - expense, ! TOO COARSF. This criticism of three typical ears of com the middle ear being the best for seed will help our readers in selecting their planting com. Selection should be made in the fall from stalks producing the largest total of shelled com, and then only the best of these ears used for seed the following spring. WHAT YOU WILL FIND IX THIS WEEK'S PAPER. Corn Crops Without Fertilizers, W. R. Walker . ... . Bl- Corn Crops Without Hoeing, Jacob Schmidt ... ..... . . . Caring for the Hen and Chickens. . . . . . . . Own Silage as a Money-Making Dairy Feed, Prof. J. S. Moore Hshting insect Pests in March, Franklin Sherman, Jr. ...... j .iva Essentials for a Big Corn Crop, H. C. Davidson How to Breed Up Your Own Seed Corn . . . .... . .... . . Isrw to Grow and Handle the Corn Crop in the South ...... Hush, Corn Pone ajid RflttAn.Hi.Mii Parable of Mr. Nye Cornless. . . . ... .... ... . ... ... Plant a Seed Corn Patch, L. A. Strupe . . . .... . ... -'Quid Calves Be Fed on Butter?... . . ....... . . ... ome Corn Facts and Figures, Dr. Tait Butler ...... Mate Farmers' Union t nho.wo. Am.iv. iDt m " "v iULLV;, jn.yillf . . ..... w j Make Com Raising Pay. ..................... ............ 2 Page. o - . . 4 .. 16 . .13 ...17 . . 5 .. 11 . . 11 . . 8 10 5 12 7 6 machinery - expense, land-rent expense and tax-expense, you can make 33 1-3 per cent more bushels by growing the vari ety best adapted to your soil and section, and you are THROWING AWAY just this much corn by planting poorly selected seed from" scrub va rieties. And having found th best variety, the seed must be se lected from the field, for while crib selection is better than none, it is impossible to tell in the crib which ears' ore from stalks growing only one ear and which from stalks grow ing two or more ears. (1) The oesc variety oi corn ana '&) field selection to keep up its quality must be, therefore, a primary consideration. Then- we need better prepa ration of the land for corn (and for all other crops, for that matter). "Deeper prepa ration, -shallower cultivation": this is a good motto for most farmers, and to this should be added, "Get rid of hand hoe ing." In growing corn there is small reason why we should not use the same labor-saving implements by which corn is made so cheaply in the Great West. The photograph on this page in last week's issue- -cultivating two rows at once -is a good illustration of how a good corn crop may be made Without hand hoeing. Then having cultivated, the crop with small expense, do not f ollow the suicidal policy of tearing up the corn roots when the crop is laid by. It is by its roots that the corn plant gets the food by which it grows, and . aside from the cruelty of it, it would be no less foolish to knock out half the teeth of your grazing cow and expect her to do as well than it is to cut half the roots of your growing corn and ex pect the yield not to be de creased. , Last of all comes the stover and here it is that after working half the year to make the crop, oui farmers throw away about a fourth of its value. Only 51 per cent of the feeding value of the corn plant is in the ear and the other 49 per cent must be had tlirough silage or shredding. Fodder pulling is folly. This phase of the com question, however, will be discussed at greater length in later issues of our paper, and for the present we leave the messages in this issue with our readers, emphasizing as they do Better preparation and shallower cultivation ; better varieties and better selection of seed; doing away with hand hoeing; the folly of cut ting corn roots; and the saving of the stover. With a proper regard for these principles it is not one whit too much to claim that the value of the South's corn crop to the farmer may be doubled without extra cost and this would mean millions to the South. "By proper and systematic breeding, we can increase the com crop per acre almosti if not quite, as much as by the improvement of the soil itself." (See artiele on Corn Growing in the South by Prof. Massey on page 1.1.) IDEAL TYPE TOO SMALL
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