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-H..J.jar I NEXT WEEK-CLOVER SPECIAL "P5 ' ' v . AFarmandHomeldyfor , ptfoffSe The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida, FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol. XXXII. 29. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1917 $1 a Year; 5c a Copy LET'S LAY BY ALL CROPS CLEAN THE two main purposes of cultivation being to save moisture for the growing crop and kill' grass and weeds, it follows that cultivation should be kept up so long as these objects are attained. If there is to bean error, let it be a tendency to cultivate too late rather than stop too soon. A grassy, weedy cotton field at picking time isan abomination. It means that moisture and plant food that should have gone to the production of twenty-five cent cotton have teen wasted; it means cotton hard to pick, samples ; stained grades j lowered. - Likewise, a corn field overgrown withvweeds -instead of peas" or beans ' means waste, and waste m- W ' ' - at ax time when we can least af f ord-it.: And thfc same is true of- every othf-r Wuiivatdtx)p-we grow2weedy fields mean decreased yields and trouble' in . harvesting. " " 1 - Still another phase of this problem, and one to which too little attention is given, is the matter of re infesting our fields , with weed seeds that will prove troublesome next year. . Crab grass that matures seed this fall means millions of plants next spring, and this means trouble if we have a wet spring. Every cockle bur plant maturing , this season means dozens and hund reds of plants to make Cultivation more expensiye next year. The best of all ways of -keeping these pests in check is tp never let them make seed. . Just how late cultivation shall be kept up must of course be determined by the circumstances in each par ticular case: but it is safe to say the job is not done until we have made sure that no weeds will have a chance tp mature seed before frost. . DON'T FAIL TO READ- Paw Preparing for Fall Oats ........ 3 Keep Pigs Growing all Summer on Pasture 8 Get Ready For the Winter Legumes . 10 The South Coming With a Great Corn Crop 10 How a Community Fair Helps . . . . ' . 11 The Right Place to Put the War Tax . . 11 Why Put Cotton in the Food Control Bill? 11. What Starch Foods Shall We Eat? . . .12 Order Field and Garden Seed Promptly . 15 J, m mmMmm mmmm liill i. 1' ml- ' I ' mm m4t .Wit, ''w. f m- - 1 '"...It "If ' "f-r. I. j. " .rf' 6- r' v 44 . wv. ' . . . . ' t i - - - 1 lit t i M t' U' ii hi A HOW AT A 71(11',
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