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CLOVER SPECIAL
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EASTERN EDITION
Farm and Home Weekly for
Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C
Vol XXXII. 30.
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1917
$1 a Year ; 5c a Copy
How to
Double
Your
Crop
Yields
Economically
YIELDS of 15 bushels of corn. and one-third of a bale of cotton per
acre don'f pay. 1 Yet these are theaverage yields inv the Cotton
Belt. Stating the matter another way, the average farmer ; is not '
for the summer crop to follow. And that it does enrich- the land
is attested by, the fact that a good crop of clover contains about 75
pounds of nitrogen" taken from the air, or the equivalent of 500
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making his farm pay.simpiyeia.use his yields are too low t6 leave
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Increased I yields, economically obtained Southern
these, , richer lands "are a first and vital'
. essential. To get ricli lands, in turn, we
must, if we are to get them economically;
. use the legumes nature!s' great agencies
for bringing down from the air and stpr
. ing in the soil the 'lUonipfTtbn
, trogen that ! lie above' every farm V ;
In this Glover- SpeciaLof The Progres
sive Farmer ;w,e are strsmg the clovers;;
? and crimsori ; clover rticujlyW U-:
buiding agencies. "Experience has amply;
proved that crimson doyer is adapted ,to
. practically ;all well drained soils in the
Cotton Belt, and it is of tremendous po-
tential value to Southern farmers in that,
irgrows in winter and early spring, when
. vOUf. soil's are usually idle. "s Bf April it is
; ready to?plow under to enrich , the landv
pounds? of nitrate of soda or: 1250 poUnds cbf cottonseed
Still another reason .for planting crimson clover lies in its value as
a protecting winter coyer
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Crimson Jxloyerj?;' by covering thei
with a carpet of green iir winter, largely
jpreYente.4l4s lossv Jtf addition it is one;
oi ' the vexy best vWinter ! and early spring
grazuig. crop3 we know, '-v ''"
terfoogressivxarajer. is jcontmced
that the legume route peas and beans in
summer xanu crimson .cioycr .iwiuicr- w
ther rpad to bi yields'W
X)f:the value o coyaah(i soy andyel
vet leans w already in ; large measure
know; but dt - the reat v
we are just Beginning to .Icar'niVHT"!
ihg that?ifUmean fat fields. an(i fat
yields that it wUl doubleyour returns
that it will put money in your pocket, we
ask ryOU to give it at least a Uial.
believe you will never regret it...v
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' Clo wSeed Are Not' High-priced tVV:' i&k 1 2 i
Gfettini Stands of Cloven Five Suggestions.
he Best Fertilizer in the World . 12,
A Variety of Comment, y. V V ; ?
Medical Inspection of School Children Needed 13
A Successful Farmers' Gin .. . . '
Coyer Crops Theiir Importance in- Maintain-
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