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Vol. XXIII. No. 30
RALEIGH lD. C, SEPTEMBER 3, 1908
Weekly: $1 a Year.
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PART OF 275 ACRES OP ALFALFA, 10 DAYS AFTER MOWING-
One man is standing, the other kneeling in this glorious growth Corn in the distance. Are not these two
grand forage crops worth trying for? Shown by courtesy of Modern Farming, Richmond, Va.
PURE-BRED ANGUS, A BEEF-MAKING MACHINE.
If you want to grow beef, feed your forage to well bred cattle ;
they gain faster, dress better, sell higher. Indiana Experiment
Station Circular No. 14, just issued, shows inferior and scrub bred
, stock gain from .77 to 2.13 pounds a day for six months, in feeding
test, while high bred steers gained from 2.37 to 3.20 pounds per day.
Half pure steers gained 2.64 per day for six months, quarter pure
2.13, a difference of 24 per cent in favor of well-bred cattle. The
further you get away from scrub stock and the nearer you get to
the pure bred, the better it will be for your profit account,
FEED YOUR FORAGE ON YOUR FARM.
Pea Hay, alfalfa hay, fine grass hay, corn stover, corn silage if you haven't great tides of such forage rolling up .toward your
barns to be fed to thrifty stock this winter, why haven't you ? Is it because you haven't the barns, or because you haven't the stock, or
because you haven't the forage, or because you have none of these things? If you are not rich in a glorious harvest of forage this
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neglecting these things in order to make a little more cotton- cotton that costs you and your family so much in toil and sweat, so
much in money, and so much in anxiety about your price and your profits- then change your plans far enough to raise on a part of
your cotton lands some forage crops that you can handle by machinery, feed these crops to stock, market your butter and beef and
bacon as finished products, return the manure from your stock back to your land, make more bales of cotton with less labor on fewer
acres, and thus increase your profits on your cotton, your corn, and your forage and at the same time add to the richness of your
soil, the joy of your work, and the pleasure and comforts of your family. Study this lesson of growing heavy forage crops and feeding
them right on your farm.
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A NEW FRAUD ON THE FARMERS.
Last week in a widely circulated paper, the
Saturday Evening Post, is a wonderful tale of a
new wheat called the Alaska. There are cuts of
the heads, and a long tale about how the grower
discovered it and nursed up a .large lot from a
few grains, and stating that in one season it made
at rate of 222 bushels per acre. ,
What the fellow paid for getting the article in
to the Post I do not know, but if the editor allow
ed it to get in as reading matter without pay, it
is so much the worse. Farmers who do not recog
nize the ear-marks of a fraud may be induced to
invest in the thing, which is really a very poor
wheat which the millers long ago rejected under
the name of Seven Head wheat. It is said to
make a good yield, but if the grain is of poor
value for milling, the yield is of little conse
quence. This same article, or a similar one, was sent to
. the Ohio Farmer for publication. But fortunate
ly this was an agricultural paper, and could not
be fooled like the Saturday Evening Post, into
grinding the axe of a fraud. The editor roasted
the thing and said that "if the fools were all dead
even among the farmers, nay, even among the
Naders, we not need" put them on their guard.
ur Southern farmers have been fooled so of
ten by fertilizer recipe peddlers and sellers of unheard-of
trees, that it is to be hoped that their
eye-teeth have been cut, and that they will not
pay, one dollar an ounce for this wonderful wheat,
which is put out as a winter or spring wheat
either. As soon as I saw the illustrated article
in the Saturday Evening Post I said to a friend
at hand that it was a fraud all the way through,
and I have taken pains to look up what has been
reported about it. Any one interested can find
out all about it by writing to the Colorado Ex
periment Station, Fort Collins, Col.
W. F. MASSEY.
DON'T TAX FERTILIZERS TO GET ROADS.
Mr. Reynolds wants me to write articles favor
ing an additional tax of fifty cents a ton on fer
tilisers for roads. I cannot advocate such a tax,
because it would be throwing the burden of the
road tax on the farmers alone, and because I be
lieve the courts would at once wipe it -off the
books. But if any farmer living on such roads
as Mr. Reynolds describes in South Carolina would
keep an account of the time lost, the damage to
teams and wagons pulling over these roads two
or three times wbere one trip would suffice on a
good road, he will soon come to the conclusion
that an annual tax of $10 would be getting off
cheap if it gave him good roads.
W. F. MASSEY.
WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S
PAPER.
Annual Meeting of Farmers' Alliance, Geo.
F. Parrott 4,
Diseased Coops of Chickens, Chas. M. Scherer 14
Go to Work for Schools, Farms, and Roads. . . 9
How Good Roads Help Farm Life. . . ....... 7
How to Kill Mosquitoes in Cistern and Brooks 6
How to Make a Silo With Wooden Hoops,
W. F. Massey ... . . . . . . . . . . .... . . ... . . 11
LookOut for the Cabbage Web Worm, R. I.
Smith ... . . ................ ..... .15
Make Your Loafing Acres Yield a Profit. . . . 3
Napoleon's Tomb ; and Versailles, Clarence H.
Poe ,. . . ..... ... ..... . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . x 2'
Officers and Resolutions of the Farmers' Con
vention ................. .5
Saving Pea Hay Out of Doors, W. H. Caldwell 12
Southern Farmers Should Raise Beef, A. M.
Worden ...... .... . . . . . ... ...... ..... 10
Southern Prosperity Depends on Richer Soils,
A. L. French . . . ... .... . ; . . . . . . . . . . . . n
The Farmers State Convention Some Salient
Points ..................... . 8
Vetch, Grain, and Clover, P. W. Davis. . . . r. 12
Weight of Peas in the Pod, C. L. Newman. . .V 5
Why You Should Plant Special Purpose Cow
peas, C. L. Newman ... . . .... . . f . . . . ... ' 3
With Our Rural Carriers. ............ . . . . . 13
Woman's Share in Out-of -Doors Beauty . . . . . 7
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