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EASTERN EDITION
A Farm and Home Weekly for
The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDEl' 886, AT RALEIGH, N C.
Vol. XXXII. No. 38.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,
$1 a Year; 5c a Copy
Nitrogen
NOT long ago we were inspecting a piece of poor hill
land in cotton. One hundred pounds per acre of
nitrate of soda had been given this cotton in the
form of a side-dressing, but one row through the middle
of the field had received none of the soda, though it had
gotten acid phosphate at the rate of 200 pounds per acre
along witn the rest of the field. A count of the matured
bolls on the row that had had the soda showed 99 in ten
steps, against 38 on the row alongside that got no nitrate of
soda, or an increase of more than two and one-half times.
What was true jn this case will, we believe, be found
true on most lands of the South, the exceptions being lirri
ited areas of bottom lands or fresh lands that have not yet
been depleted of their nitrogen. Over three-fourths of
the South, in our opinion, nitrogen is the limiting factor
in crop production.
But .the use of commercial nitrogen in any form is
seldom the most economical procedure. Nature has put
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thousands of tons of atmospheric nitrogen over every acre
of our farms, and by using peas, beans and clovers large
quantities of this may be brought down and stored for the
use of future crops.
This month and next, hundreds of thousands, yes, mil
lions of acres of crimson clover should be planted in the
Cotton Belt, for as a winter nitrogen-gatherer it has no
superior. Not only this, but it covers the land and saves
the plant foods already, in it. Will your acres remain bare
this winter, or will you cover them with a carpet of life
giving green?
DON'T FAIL TO READ
Make November "Thrift Month" , . . 3
Better Go to Farming ...... . . . 4
How to Hold a Community Fair . . ' , . . 5
Last Call for Crimson Clover
"Save the She Stuff "
Farm Management in a Nutshell
The One-horse Plow Chief Enemy to Good
Farming in the South . .
Some New Books Worth Reading .
Let There Be No Waste .
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