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& A FARM AND HOME WEEKLY FOR THE CAROLIN AS, VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, AND GEORGIA.
VoL XXIV. No, 11.
RALEIGH,! H. C, APRIL 22, 1909.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
Better Pastures as a Guide Post to "$500 More a Year"
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Index to This Issue.
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Are You Going to Farm Better This Year?
W. F. Massey
Corn at Ten Cents Per Bushel, C. R. Hudson . .
Cotton on Hill Land, W. F. Massey........
$500 More a Year Farming: How to Make
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Get Ready for Hot Weather, Uncle Jo
How to Make a Good Crop of Corn, S. A.
Knapp ............................... 5
Keep Improving Your Pastures, W. F. Massey 3
Let Patent Medicines Alone. 8
Notes on Lates Issues, W. F. Massey 3
Raising the Dairy Calf, Felix Williams. ...... 13
Sweet Potatoes, W. F. Massey. ............. 17
The Care of the Young Chicks, E. G. War din' 16
The Early Cabbage Crop, W. L. Kivett. . .....
The Fletcher Method of Eating, . . . .
The Tasks on Which We Must Get to Work. .
Things to Observe in Planting Cotton, R. L.
Bennett . ............
2,000 Pounds of pork From Two Acres Soy
Beans and Peanuts, A. J. Moye . . ........
What's the News?. .
With Our Rural Carriers
Yields Doubled, Profits Increased Three Fold,
E. S. Millsaps
Your First Duty as a Farmer. . . . . . .
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ANY prosperous farming sections are prosperous largely because of their pastures. In
fact, a good pasture seems to be regarded as a necessary part of a well regulated
farm almost everywhere except in the South J Here, unfortunately, pastures worthy
of the name are exceedingly rare. This is not because j we have not the land, for, as is
pointed out on page 2, a very large percent of our farming lands is now of little or no par
ticular value to us. Neither is it because we have not the grass, for in Bermuda we have one
of the best pasture grasses to be found anywhere. We can supplement it with our other
grasses and clovers, and make pastures that will produce as much beef or pork in the course
of a year as will the famed bluegrass pastures of the Central West.
The reason we have not done this before this time seems to be that we have failed to under
stand the nature of either stock or grass. We have expected grass to grow on soils too poor
or in too bad condition to grow anything else; and we have imagined, if our thoughts may
be judged by our actions, that stock can .find a living if just turned loose in the world and
given a chance. The result has been poor pastures and poor stock. A steer or a pig may
rove around over old sedge fields, through brier p atches, across cane brakes, and under
scrub pines and black jacks and keep alive; but he will not lay on enough flesh to return
any profit to his owner.
A good pasture means an enclosed field where there is water and shade and grass
plenty of grass, so that the animal can find all he wishes to eat without any exertion and,
having eaten, can lie down and rest and grow fat. I
When we have such pastures as these, we shall have fat pigs and productive cowOand
thrifty, mellow beeves and sleek, happy horses and mules. And these, in turn will mean
better lands, better crops, easier and more remunerative farm work a more prosperous agri
culture, in short, and a higher standard of farm life.
Other folks get all these things from their pastures, why not we ?
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