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Ottlil Retfrtered In U 8 Patent Offloe.) (Copyright. 1909, by Toe Butler. Editors) A FARM AND HOME WEEKLY FOR THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, AND GEORGIA. VcL XXDL No. 49. RALEIGH, H. C, JANUARY 21, 1S09. Weekly: $1 a Year f , ... - ' ' - - Crop Rotation as a Guide Post to "$500 More a Year Farming. iUourtesy ol Farmers' Guide. PROPER ROTATION OF CROPS MEANS UP-TO-DATE FARM EQUIPMENT " Wherever clover and bluegrass are grown," we once heard.! an observant and thoughtful man say. one always hnds good stock; big bctf. intelligent progressive : people", In other words, wherever the farmer, plan to keep up the fart of thCi &Jrl9 U would mean big barns, filled whh feed far 1 hat is just wnat fl1?hee j 8wine: would mean beautiful homes, surrounded with grass and flowers and trees, and telephones and good roads, good school houses and churches; it WOUfe inaction :CSKdaI-fcS' y WiU find well-toiko farmers and an advanced community iaid Prof. C A Mooers of Tennessee, once ; "go into a section where the soils are poor, and you will find poor people and little or no PIOS$u:M know from our own observation, that this is true. We all know, too, thatsoils. in-large measure, are simply what farmers L a! fKW 'or wheHaing system-or lack of system-has made them. The first thing to do. hen, is to set about building have made he", or what economical merhod of doing this can be found than the adoption of a well-regulated rota, SnTcrptUwfor' -Tte first aim the,bu:lding up of the soil." and which, therefore, "includes at least one leguminous crop for ..each crop that draws its ly'-J2" ..j up our lands so that it would be "easy for us to average forty Such rotations ge fJ eTould see aU over the South, not little "shackly" stables with a" disconsolate bushels of corn or a bale of cotton to lb up alongside, and a one-horse plow or two leaninjr against the fence. bul troomy. ytdH. oc& improved machinery and die ; comforts and conveniences that the up-to-date farmer should have. ' 1 ; We Are Not Doing as Well as We Could R. BUTLER says that with a rational sys tem of rotation it will be easy to.build.up annthpm lands until they will average a bale of cotton or forty bushels of corn to the acre. Our good crop reports tell of much better yields than these in instance after instance. On another page is a clipping from the Yorkville S. C.) En quirer telling how the poor lands of that section hare been built up until they produce crops rival- li-,-. nf thfl 'Wftstfirn nrairies. A letter from Scotland County, N. C, tells of hundreds of acres making more than a bale of cotton and forty bushels of corn to the acre. . : ... ( Does not all this prove what Professor Massey has been telling iisso long that we have: not been farming, only planting cotton? And ; will any man now, in the face of this evidence, say that the present low average yields of Southern farms are necessary? It is a part of our creed that we are just at the beginning of agricultural Independence and pros perity in the South. And this independence' will come to each of us as the result of individual ef forts toward better farming, keeping always in view the improvement of the soil as the first con sideration. If we didn't believe that you could make $500 a Year" by better farming methods vie wouldn't spend time telling you W do Ik ; k We dare not say ; that we cannot raise better crops and make more money, because the evidence is all against such a propositon.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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