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A LITTLE SERMON FOR FARMER FOLK-PaCc 11- " EASTERN EDITION A Farm and Home Weekly for f Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida, FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol. XXXII. No. 34. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 117 $1 a Year; 5c a Copy Stop Growing Scrub Crops: Select Seed Now IN the future the agricultural measure of the South will largely; be guaged by the quality of our labors and the products thereof It is not going to be enough that we labor with our hands; head and hand, brain and brawn, must labor together that we may produce quality products in quantity. Probably jn no other single instance do we fall so lamentably short Aren't these increases worth working for? Right now, every farmer in the South should make up his mind to be done forever with scrub seed. If the varieties of cotton and corn now grown are known to be well suited to our local conditions, the next step is to maintain their standard and even improve them by field selection. ' ' '- 1 GROUP OF W1L20N COUNTY, N. C, CANNING CLUB GIRLS as in the quality of seed we plant. During the past ten years the razor-back hog in most of the South has become a memory only, his place having been taken by sleek pure-breds. Scrub cattle are go ing out. Jerseys and Holsteins for milk and Herefords, Shorthorns and Angus for beef are coming in. - Scrub stock are giving way to the pure-bred, simply because the pure-bred is the great est profit-maker. But we are lagging in the matter of breeding up our field . crops by careful seed selection. Many experiment station tests and the experience of hundreds of good farmers have shown beyond all doubt that seed corn or cotton seed adapted to local soil and climatic condi tions and held up to a high standard by careful, intelligent selection, may, on an average, be depended upon to increase yields from 10 to 20 per cent. Putting the average increase due to pure-bred seeds at one-sixth, we have, in the case of cot ton yielding one-half bale per acre, at present prices an increased per acre crop value of about $12.50: in the case of corn yielding 20 bushels per acre, we have an increased value per acre of about $6 DON'T FAIL TO HEAD Paue Making Cowpea Hay . ." How to Succeed With Community Fairs . . Come to Raleigh August 28, 29, 30 . . . Sods and Pastures for Soil Improvement . . Butter Fat and Income How to Dehorn Cattle . . ...... Are Lightning Rods Any Good? . . . . . 10 Preserving Vegetables by Fermentation . . 12 Many Weddings Soon . . . . . ... . . 13 A Golden Opportunity for North Carolina Farmers 15 Virginia and South Carolina Farm News . .18 Beginning with the cotton, the best bolls from the best stalks, the stalks conforming most nearly to the desired type, should be care fully picked and ginned separately, to prevent mixing. These selected seed should be used for planting a seed patch next spring. Then a year from now rigid selection in this seed patch should again be practiced, the carefully selected seed going to plant a. seed patch the year following and the general run of seed from the seed patch being used to plant the general crop. A similar plan should be followed in selecting the seed corn, care being taken each summer to detassel all barren or otherwise undesirable stalks in the seed patch to prevent their crossing with the good stalks that are to furnish the select ed seed. Scrub seed and scrub farmers go to gether, and both, under the new order of things, must go into the economic scrap heap. Why not begin now and make yours a farm "where tnone but pure-breds shall have a place ? A 5 6 7 8 8
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