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A FARM AND HOME WEEKLY FOR THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, AND GEORGIA.
VoIv XXIV. No 8. RALEIGH, N. C, APRIL 1, 1909. Weekly: $1 a Year.
A GOOD START FOR THE CROPS AS A GUIDE
POST TO "$500 MORE A YEAR."
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OESN'T this look like farming ? The cultivation of two rows at one trip across the field mans something accomplished in a day. The
work is well done, too, the soil thoroughly stirred and pulverized on the surface, and left smooth and fine behind the cultivator to
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drive, three mules and cultivate two rows at a time some of us cannot yet drive two mules and cultivate one rowbut we believe the
time is rapidly coming when the one-horse cultivator will be regarded as entirely out of date, and when the man who goes to cultivate
his corn or his cotton with a turning plow will be regarded as hopelessly unprogressive. The time to use a turning plow is in the first
preparation of the soil, and immediately after the plow should come the harrows. We have heard it said that there are "farmers" in
the South who actually do not own a harrow I Is.it any wonder that our average yields are low when the young plants are expected to
start in hard dry, baked, rough or cloddy soil, unretentive of moisture and so holding locked up: and unattainable the food the young
plants houl te8C things ought not so to be." No crop should be planted until the soil has been made mellow and fine. It will pay
. if , raae to delay the planting for one more working of the soil, if it is not already in good condition; The crop will
in practically every wc
crow enough faster to make up for the delay. j I
Th fter the crop has been planted it is sheer shiftlessness to wait until the grass and weeds have such a start that it requires a turn
eX1 kan(le them. The harrow and the weeder should be used instead, and they should be used often enough to keep a dust mulch
ing plow to a Qn all land that is well drained (and all cultivated Jands should be well drained) the cultivation that will leave
on thesu ace o re(juce tne first two or three inches of it to a fine powder is the ideal cultivation. With a deep, loose, humus-filled feeding-
the soil leve an ulow this dust covering, the crops will grow and thrive through any drouth we of the South are at all likely to have,
ground for -the plants belowtn tf won.
Start the crop right and tne oaiu j :