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VcL XXW. No. 32.
RALEIGH, II. C, SEPTEMBER 16, 1S09.
Weekly: $1 a Tear
Better Plowing as a Guide Post to "$500 More a Year Farming."
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HEN YOU COME to think of it seriously, it would
be hard to find a severer criticism of Southern
agricultural methods than the simple statement of
Dr. Butler's on page 3 that he saw last Mirch 189
ne-horse plows at work and only 19 two-horse plows.
This means that ten out of every eleven farmers were do
Hag practically twice as much work walking twice as ,
many miles as necessary to plow an acre of land, and that
when the plowing was , done it was not well d one. In
other words, in ten cases out of eleven the labor of a man.
is considered of less value than that of a mule, and in ten
cases out of eleven 1
the crop is reduced;!
below what should 3;
reasonably be ex
pected on that land
by poor work in
the initial, prepaxa-w
tion for it.
Did you ever
think that to pro
duce a maximum
crop allxonditions
must be at their
best soil prepara
tion seed, cultiva
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the : other factors which' go to the making of the crop ?
When the land is poorly broken the farmer is at once as
sured that he is not going to make the crop he should. N
matter what else he may do, he has, by this improper
breaking, made it a settled fact that he is not going to get
as large a yield on that land as it is capable of k producing.
Is it not strange, then, that we are content to go on doing
such poor plowing year after year?
"It is impossible
to do good plow
ing with the little
one-horse plows
commonly used in
our tenitory." We
cannot say this too
often or stress It
too strongly. Until
you get a plow and
a team with which
you can break up
your land thor
oughly and ha
respectable depth
you are not going
toraake the crops
you Kould. Good plowing is the very basis of good farming, and until we do
bettrr plowing we are going to be regarded, and justly, as poor farmers.
Wc believe in deep plowing as much as anyone, we think; but goodrplowmg
18 net a mere matter of depth. Good plowing means plowing that leaves the
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loose, well pulver
ized, and thorough
ly mixed to a rea
sonable depth. We
do not want the fur
rows flopped flat
over, nor do we
want patches and
f trips all over the
field where - the
plow is allowed to
i come half v out of
the ground, leav
ing hard, unbroken
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The fine, mellow seed-bed which is, next to a good soil.
Xhe first requisite of a good crop, can be obtained only by
a Drigrupropeny-aojustea plow, that has power enough
ahead of it to draw it steadily through sods, roots or hard
places. The plow which "drags-up" or "runs on the point,?
or tries to stay out of the ground puts a needless strain upon
the team and the plowman and seldom does good work.
Here are some good plows doing good workii Contrast them
wim inc one-norse
makeshifts that run
two or three inches
deep ; and contrast
the teams that draw
them with the little
mules that couldn't
.pull a plowthat was
. really plowing.
' Good farming is
j impossible without
good plowing, and
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gooa plowing is
impossible with the
sort of plows com
monly used in the
South.
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Courtesy Dcre & Company.
INDEX TO THIS ISSUE.
A Steer peeding Contest, A. L. Freneh, .
Better Feeding of Milk Cows, John Michels, .
Centenary of Admiral Semmes, . .
Don't Let Politicians Spend the Road Money, - -$500
More a Year Farming: By Learning Why
We Plow and How to Plow, . . .
Grow Winter Oats, W. F. Massey,
How to Make a! Lawn, W. F. Massey, .
Put More Bagging on Your Cotton, . .
Seasonable Work in the Poultry Yard, Uncle Jo,
Selection of Seed Corn, C B. -Williams, .
Selection of Seed Corn and Tobacco Seed, W. F.
" Massey, ; ' i . ' ' . . ' . . ' .
The Coming Better Day for Southern Farmers, .
"Too Wet to Cure Corn StoverV? , .
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