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DRAINAGE SPECIAL J EASTERN ED&TION A Farm and Home Weekly for Garplinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N.C Vol. XXXII. No. 42. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1917 $1 a Year; 5c a Copy w TERRACE THE ROLLING FIELDS E hold that soil-building is the Southern farmer's biggest eco nomic problem. Not over 10 per cent of our lands are natur ally rich; the remaining 90 per cent are poor, when we measure we can grow soil-building legumes more easily and quickly than the Northern farmer, and thus can build up run down soils faster. The point, then; is not only to make our soils rich, but to save '''I ' WHEN THE CORN IS IN THE SHOCK them by the commonly accepted standards. Now no man can make money farming poor land. Whatever his crop may be, the soil on which it grows must be sufficiently produc tive to make crops above the average if he is to get living wages for his labor. A rich soil and a poor farmer is a far better profit-producing combina tion than a very poor soil and a good farmer. The ignorant Negro in the Mis sissippi Delta may make a bigger net profit than an intelligent white man on a washed-away hillside. There can be no soil-building without soil-saving. In our efforts to make our fields fertile, it will avail us little if we apply manures and fertilizers and plow under legumes and then let the rains wash away this plant food. Ours is a soil-wasting climate. Long, warm sum mers and mild winters with a heavy annual rainfall make it much harder to maintain soil fertility here than in the colder, drier North On -the other hand, DON'T FAIL TO READ- p 4 How to "Select and Lay Tile Drains .... 5 How to Build Broad Terraces ...... 6 Making the Terrace Drag . 12 Judging Farm Fair Exhibits 15 More Two-horse Power Brains . . . .. . A Variety of Comment . Honor Your County's Real Leaders . Rules for Feeding Infants and Young Children The Tenant Problem 22 Odd Jobs for Local Unions ....... 23 Our Great New Serial Story Begins Next Week .............. 25 their richness. On our rolling fields, and this means probably 80 or 90 per cent of all the cultivated lands in the South, this means that we must have first of all well laid out, rightly built terraces. We would supplement these with deep plowing, cover crops and plenty of humus, of course; but the terraces must come first. The broad, cultivated ter race means there will be no waste land in the field, and it is no hindrance to the passage of any kind of farm machinery. Building it of course means some time and labor, but they, will be well spent. Study the articles and letters in this Special on terracing, take up the mat ter with your county agent, and arrange to terrace all your rolling fields this fall and winter. Doing this will put you in a fair way tcbecoming a rich-land farmer, and in this modern day this is the only kind of farmer you can afford to be. Put broad terraces on your rolling tfelds, and do it now. 16 17 17 18
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