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1i , . M . jlH I ... gTM o) Rf fg To) (Title BefUtered In U S Patent Office.) A FARM AND HOME WEEKLY FOR THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, AND GEORGIA. VoL XXIV. Ho, 12. RALEIGH, N. C, APRIL 29, 1909. I Weekly: $1 a Year. Saving of Waste Products as a Guide Post to T $500 More a Year. 11 'Hi ERE is a corn field ol the kind that fills the farmer's heart with gladness and his pocket with good hard cash the kind of corn field we hope you are working for this year. We are looking forward to the time when such corn fields will he the rule, instead of the exception, all over our terri tory ; and when we have such corn fields we shall have equally productive fields of cowpeas and soy beans these must come as part of the preparation for the big corn crops, and fields of cot ton producing, on the aver age, two or three times as much as our cotton fields now do- these will follow the im provement of the soil brought about by the growing of the legumes. When we get these fields andthese yields even before we get them, in fact , we must, to make the most out of them, utilize the whole product of our corn and cot ton and hav crops. Those are startling figures given on the next page; but can you m. . - - . . . j . ft , . - ' ' ' ! Courtesy Atlanta Land and Trust Co. doubt their substantial accuracy ? When we have good live stock and enough of them to consume our cottonseed meal and thus give us bolh the feeding and mariurial value of it, and when we utilize the corn stover we now waste and thus save the money we are now paying out for imported hay, weshall double bur average crops per acre, and bring about that much-to-be-desired time when the farmer shall raise his rood on his own tarm and not be dependent upon a cotton crop of low productiveness and uncertain price for all he must eat and wear. j . R;n wnrWintr toward thia end this verv vear. by eettins some stock even if only a fewr of good quality, and by saving all of the Rmn wnrlrincr crops you raise instead of allowing such a large per cent of them to be wasted or to remain unutilized. 1 Index to this Issue. This Week's Message. A Profitable Corn Field, W. G. Crook. ..... 4 A New Agricultural Conscience 8 $oOO More a Year Farming: How to Make It-XVlI. . ................ 2 How to Feed the Sick, Mrs. W. N. Hutt. .... , 6 How to Get Rid of Fleas and Ants, R. I. Smith 7 How the Boys Are Waking Up Yalobusha County, T. A. Early. 12 How to Cultivate Cotton Properly. . ....... . 8 Lameness in Horses and Mules- II. .-. ...... 10 Make the Farm the Place to Which You Will Wish to Retire ... 7 Notes and Comments,. W. F.-Massey. ...... . 3 Our System of Soil Wasting is Criminal, A. L. French 4 Plant Corn Thickly in the Row, Jno. K. Good man ; . . 5 Some Busy Season Suggestions T 8 Stdek and Stock Feeding, W. F, Massey . . 3 The First Essential of Successful Stock Raising 11 Trucking Notes From Several States, W. . F. Massey 15 The Things You Can Do and the Things You Cannot ...... . . . . ..... . . . . . 8 '$20 Paid for Hoeing 36 Acres, Jas. W. Morton 5 What's the News? 9 1 R CROOK'S account of how he increased his corn yield from 31 to 55 bushels per acre without using either manure or fertil izers is a story that should be an Inspiration to farmers everywhere. With the exception in some cases of the subsoiling, the plan followed by Mr. Crook may be profitably adopted by farm ers all over our territory, and will bring equally good results. I As Mr. French says, it is criminal to run down the soil, and only the man who takes care of his land can hope, to make good crops year after year.. Then when ! one has made a good crop there is no use of letting a good part of it go to waste. We wasted untold millions in the old days when the cottonseed was regarded as a nuisance; we wasted other millions; when we used the raw seed as fer tilizer and got nothing out of the oil; we are going to waste millions in this good year, 1909 by using the meal as a fertilizer instead of feeding it and getting both the feeding and manurial value. Think, too, of the waste of our corn stover and of the vast amount of forage we allow to re main unused because we have not the stock to consume it. Of course, it pays to grow cowpeas in the corn even if they are all allowed to remain i -: ;t - ... oh the land, but how much better it would pay i they were fed to hogs before they go back to the soil. Don't fail to read, too, Dr. Butler's article on page 11, "The First Essential of Successful Stock Raising." More stock we must have, if we are ever to farm in an up-to-date manner, and to have more ;-stock we must have more feed. Resolve this year to raise your own feed, instead of hav- ing to pay two prices for It next spring. With corn and cowpeas, peanuts and potatoes, sorghum and soy-beans to say nothing of the grasses and our cottonsed meal surely we should make feed enough for our work stock and for enough cattle and hogs to furnish us butter and milk and beef nd bacon. J : -i- I And, as an encouragement to more live stock, and .better farming, donH fail to read Mr. Gower's Report of the Catawba County Live Stock Associa tion on page 10. There are whole pages of inspi ration in that little article. Let; ever Progressiver Farmer reader who wants '$ 500 More a Year Farming" set aside five or ten acres and devote this land to hay raising, just as an experiment to see if it will not show him a way to get the "$500 More a Year" without seri ously interfering' with his present system of. crops. I.: ' A- A i Us 1 1 v it c i : - 1 i v.. Hi V 1 r i- Ik' i
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