Newspapers / The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, … / June 11, 1908, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
6v ' IPM Y5 (cO.(o 5 4 h , Title Registered in U. S. Patent Office.) Vol. XXIII. No. 18. RALEIGH, N. C., JUNE 11, 1908. Weekly: $1 a Year. DO YOU RIDE OR ARE YOU FARMING AFOOT? " Start your two-horse riding cul- j tivator," was the advice you read i last week in " Suggestions for June Farm work." We hope a bigger per cent of Progressive Farmer readers are adopting this advice this year than ever before. Consider what the farmer gains who is cultivating his crop with such improved im plementsas those shown in the picture: (1) he is saving time, (2) he is saving labor, (3) he is doing better work than he ever did in the old one-man, one-horse, and one furrow way, and (4) he is saving himself. Sweeping two rows at the time, he can cultivate his entire crop within the time when it should be cultivated, while the season is yet in the ground. He leaves be hind a long double trail of clean fresh earth, and the young roots, left feeding themselves fat under the uniform, moisture-holding dust mulch, are giving the crop rich col or and rapid growth. How much more has been done when night comes! And as for the farmer himself, who has been ridirier in stead of walking, what a difference i v i - s it in his feeling, after the big day's work hThereis money lost and much time lost each and every time a man does anything ' a machine might do or that two men and two horses do what one man and two norses witn tne ngnt macnine might do. In the modern march of progress ive farming in the South, how are you travelling? Do you belong to the infantry or the cavalry ? If you are , spending these warm June days walking up and down each row two, or three, or four times be fore you can leave it for the next; it is a good time for you to do a lot of good thinking. And if when might overtakes you, it finds you feeling that you have not done half as much as you wanted to do that day and finds you also feeling too tired to do anything but rest, hadn't you better do some thinking and change to more progressive and profitable methods?. Think upon these things. The time is at hand when 'more and more of our Southern farmers should get out of the infantry, quit farming afoot, and join the rapidly recruiting army of cavalry farmers who do their work faster, better, and easier, by means of more horse-power and machinery. He fights enough who obtains the victory. Duke of Alva. I had rather men should ask why Cato had no statue than why he had one. Marcus Porcius Cato. WHAT YOU WIMj FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER. Alfalfa in Crab Grass .................... 13 Buckwheat and Rve for Chickens. . . .... . . . 15 Cotton Acreage for 1908 .. .......... Fertilizers for Peas . . . . .... . Farming in the Philippines, Chas. M. Conner . . Farm Questions Answered. . ... T ....... .N . Fertilizer for Sweet Potatoes. .......... Garden Notes :. .... . . . . . . . How to Live One Hundred Years. Live Stock Breeders Should Organize, A. D. French 10 3 2 3 5 14 t .M 3 2 12 15 6 Old Farming and the New, G. W. Savell. . . . Practical Farm Questions Answered. . . . . Planting Peas for Seed, Chas. M. Scherer . . . . Plow-Handle Talks . . ............. . . .t. . Poultry Questions Answered by Uncle Jo. . . . Suggested by Last Week's Paper. . . ...... . . Two Opportunities for North Carolina Farmers . . 9 What's the News? ..... ....... :. . '.. . , . . . 8 IN THE PAPER THIS WEEK. If you merely skim this week's paper you are going to miss something, that you ought to get. ThWe's a whole page (page 2) of timely practical fariiKujgstions answered by Professor Massey. Possibly thk " very thing you wanted, to know is right there, tir possibly on page 1 where he takes P some important things suggested by last week's paper. The letters. 4 and 5 will be found to have unusual interest. Hw to sow millet and turnip seed through a grain drill, when to put nitrate of soda on cotton, -iing cash without cotton, more about , silos, and how to dehorn calves, are a few of the topics "dt are pointedly handled, wr. b rench nnsha vi Plea for a North Carolina Live Stock Association, vvrjHe On everv nthoi nora rwf Viic wooV'a nanpr ! e, ei e are liye topics that no progressive reader Should overlook. Comments Suggested by Last Week's Paper. Successful Farming With Tenants. Mr. Scher er makes some excellent suggestions in the issue for June 2nd in regard to tenants. The fact is, the whole system of tenant cropping in the Cotton Belt is wrong, and a loss to land-owner and ten ant alike. - - If a man has more land than he can work with his own means, he had better sell it or let it grow up in pines than to parcel it out in the usual way. But if the large tract was divided into smaller ones, and decent houses and outbuildings placed on each, so that a respectable man could rent it, there might be a great change. Then if the rent ing is accompanied by an agreement as to the course of rotation to be adopted, and just what part of the expenses are to be borne by land lord and tenant, and the tenant assured,, that so long as he farms right his tenancy will be per manent, there would be hope for the South. A similar system is in use in Maryland. Forty-two farms of the McKinney estate in Queen Anne County, Md., are occupied by intelligent farmers, and these farms have been improved greatly in productiveness while rented, and the late owner and organizer became a millionaire since the war at farming only. But so long as the cotton farms haye only cabins for negroes and a little log hovel for the mules, a respectable tenantry cannot be had, and the land will never improve under thb annual cropping system. The example of the millionaire cotton farmer, James Smith, of Georgia, shows what a man of business energy can make in cotton. farming where the improvement of the land is kept in view. Mr. Smith has built up his immense plantation by de grees under his own supervision, and not by put ting croppers in to grow weak cotton to bear the market in the fall.- It is a great pity that men of means in the South cannot see the great oppor- tunities that are afforded in business-like farm ing. . . " ' ; ' & .... Saving Clover Seed. The purchase of clover seed from men who do not clean it well, has spread more vile weeds over the country than anything else, and Mr. Clarendon Davis gives good advice. If a farmer will get and sow per fectly clean red clover seed, no matter what the price he has to pay for extra cleaning, and will ; then grow clean clover and save his own seed, he will avoid the bringing in of foreign weeds that infest so many fields. One man in Virginia wrote me that his land has gotten so infested with the -narrow leaf plantain that he cannot grow, clover at all. He got all of the plantain seed in the clover seed he bought without inspection. In getting clover seed, if you are not well versed in weed seeds, you had better get samples and send them to the Experiment Station for examination, and never buy from a sample that is hot clean. Better pay $10 a bushel for clean seed than to have foul seed given to you.' Take the advice of Mr. Davis and grow your own clover seed. . r : y. . : Double and Treble Your Corn Yield. Mr. Crowder says that his corn crop has - doubled through reading The Progressive Farmer., If "he and others who read our paper will presevere in methods advised, and will carefully breed up the tc productiveness of their corn and get rid of barren plants, he will not only double the crop but treble, it. There Is certainly some improvement In corn in North Carolina, but far slower than it should be. In 1903 the average production of North Carolina had advanced from 12 bushels per acre to 14.7 bushels, and in 1904 to 15.2 bushels; and In 1906 to 15.3 bushels, while South Carolina had advanced from 9 bushels per acre to 12 bushels in 1906.- But Maryland In the same time had ad r (Continued on Page 9.) " . " r i - f ' i 1 ' 11 ii f! .1 'A fc I 1 lit ' P
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 11, 1908, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75