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V SHALL I HOW SHALL I FERTILIZE r.7Y IVHE AND OATS? Page G 3 and O. . J.JL V X . X II I 1 I I I X X f S I I r 1 I Title Resrlstered in U. S. Patent Office.) Vol. XXIII. No. 31. " RALEIGH, N. C, SEPTEMBER 10, 1908. Weekly: $1 a Year.' THE SOUTH NEEDS BETTER HORSES AND CAN RAISE THEM I " At the bottom of better farming in the South is the use of more horse-power, bigger and better horses, horses bred to the business of pulling loads and walking with a business-like stride all the while. Such horses are ,, . . needed in prepar ing the soil and har vesting the crops that grow on it. And, in turn, the crops of corn and grain and peavines and grasses and clover and Mother forage which can be raised so cheap ly in the South by proper farming will help youfto grow the horses you need. Take hold now and make the South a land of such horses as those of Europe of which, Editor Poe has written as fol lows I in his this week's letter from abroad: "And the horses, the magnificent horses they such big, strong fellows in the Cotton Belt. Well, anyhow, it is horses such as these that you see on European farms, and it is with them that the farmers here break and cultivate the land with such thoroughness as to produce the splen did crops I have seen growing ev erywhere I have yet been. "As for the draft horses in the cities, they have been the admiration of our entire party. Col lege prof essors,' col lege girls, lawyers everybody has 1V - i 1 ;, are themselves worth coming across the ocean to see! If I had needed any thing else to con vince me of the need for the fight The Progressive Farmer is making for better work horses in the South, this trip to Europe would have r sup plied it. Do you remember that nic- ture we had on the first page of The Progressive Farmer about six weeks ago "The Sort of Work Horses Western Farmers Use," showing four big muscular, magnificent looking horses ready to hitch to the har row? The picture must have impressed you, for we don't often see V. riiiiiiiiii "SiSllsiWsl Alii; SPLENDID TYPE OP THE DRAFT HORSES USED IN BELGIUM. This picture, shovra by courtesy ofJ. Crouch & Son, LaFayette. Indiana, represents one of their magrniflcent imported Belgian draft stallions. Notice'the full, compact, powerful body of the Belgian type, possessing a maximum of weight within a givenlspace, an essential for moving'great loads with least exertion. paid the Dutch and Belgian horses trib utes of interest, in spection.and praise such as even the. masterpieces of art in the great galle ries here mightwell envy,. 4 Why, they look as big as Bar nunis elephants. was the not unjusti fiable delarationof a young lady as the ' great Percherons passed by us. King ly horses, bearing themselves as if conscious of royal blood, strong as lions, but thorough ly gentle, beautiful in form, hauling gi gantic loads on wagons that when empty would alone make good loads for the miserable looking dray horses belabored by ne gro drivers in our Southern towns and doing it all with such Wonderful ease and with such majestic and rythmical movements that it was a positive pleasure just to watch them for an hour at a time." - ' WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S ' paper: - - Cnecking Cotton, J. C. Gordon .... ; ...... . 3 Cotton Planters Should Push the Use of Cot-- r ton Bagging, D. D. Gibson. . . ... . . . .... 5 Condition of Cotton Crop August 25. . . . .... 4 Drainage Convention at New Bern To-day, Joseph Hyde Pratt ....... . . .... . . . 4 Drag Your Roads Now, Joseph Hyde Pratt. . 12 Kverybtfdy Works in Europe, Clarence H. Poe 2 Kasy to Put on 2J Pounds Per Day, A. L. French v . .............. ... ... . V . . 10 iHiIizors to Follow Cowpeas, Prof. C. L. Newman ..................... : . . . 3 Pall Garden Work Mrs. C..S. Everts. . . .... 15 kood Roads Catechism, Thos. E. Wicker . . , 12 J0W Slial I Fertilize My; Wheat and Oats?. . 9 How to Get a Good Stand of Lawn Grass 6 jve Stock Troubles. . . . . . . . . . . ........ . . .11 ant Watercress in Your Spring Brook, Chas. Scherer ... . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . 15 Parable of Mr. B. A. D." Farmer, Chas. M. bcheroV 15 Plow-Handle Talks 15 Send for Some of These Vetch Seed, Chas. M. Scherer . . . ..... ... . . : . . . ..... 16 September Work With Poultry, Mrs. J. C. Deaton ....... ... . . . . ... . . . . ......... 14 Stop Wasting Your Heritage . ............. 9 Slobbering Caused by Japan Clover, Dr. G. A. Roberts ....... .... .................. 11 Truckers and Growers' Annual Meeting..... 4 Set Out Asparagus in October. 15 With Our Rural Carriers. . ........ ..... . 13 What to Do for Sorehead, Uncle Jo. . . . . 14 TRY HEAVY MMING FOR AIjFAIjFA ON A SIAIiL SCALE. It has been long known that lime is necessary for sweetening the soil for alfalfa, and its success in the arid West is largely due to the amount of lime in the soil, it having not been washed down as, in the humid regions. But now Joe Wing, of Ohio, who Ms probably had more experienceinn alfalfa than any other man in the country, and who has hundreds of acres of it growing, says that this sort of liming is not enough, and that alfalfa wants lime in such abundance that the soil would lie unfitted for other plants. He claims that four tons of lime per acre is about right, and that with this much lime the crab grass will not bother it. Four tons would mean about one hundred bushels of lime per acre. The farmers in Pennsylvania formerly" used more than' that in their ordinary farm cropping, till they found that they, were liming too heavily, and now seldom use more than twenty-five bushels for most crop ping. I haveconsiderable confidence in what Mr. Wing says;-and would like to have an opportunity to test his ideas if I were now growing alfalfa. But anj" one-cSlTtest the matter on a small scale by applying lime at rate of one hundred bushels per acre "tTrfa small part of an alfalfa patch. It will certainly do no harm and may open up the way to greater success with this crop. s
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