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- t i t t NEXT WEEKGAkDEN SPECIAL f' f . . t,. wt- ""'""V - .-- -- - .. '"' .'."' ' '- ' ft 1 i 1 ls if EASTERN EDITION A Farm and Home Weekly for plwiS Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. -OCT Wot XXXIIL No. 3. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918 a Year; 5c a Copy Don't Be Stingy with Plant Foods This Year THIRTY-CENT cotton, two-dollar corn, two-dollar wheat and dollar oats are going to mean splendid profits this year for the man who farms right. And one of the very essential things in farming right is the wise and liberal use of plant foods. 2. Use commercial fertilizers liberally. It is false economy to stint the use of commercial fertilizers because prices seem high. Com paratively, they arc low, and we,are certain that fertilizers wisely used will pay as they have never paid before. r WTB w . : 7 1 - .j isiliiiinlWI' ! . rtfljy'.'.v V ' -'"tw--"- -iiilin-f1' 9 itfiTthhiiA. Lift a.iV.ir r-.- Whf i hnrr -f - -- i - - -- - - rf-J-....,. W-...,-,. i I iifii i i irW 111 i il ;iCOHiIA 18 FAST HEOOMINU A (JURAT LIVESTOCK STATE Some lino Hr'forl ownot by W. Ik rionntp, I'owdcr Ki)rlng, Cobb County, Ot-orviu We can prove that a dollar wisely spent for plant foods will this year bring greater returns than ever before. This is true, be cause, while fertilizers have gone up in price, they have not gone up as much proportionately as have the prices of the crops we raise. . Conse lucntly, 1918 is a year for heavy fertiliza tion. Two points especially should every farmer constantly hold in mind. 1 . Save everything about the farm that has any fertilizing value. As Mr. Williams pointed out in last week's Pro i:ressivc Farmer, many materials that arc ''ilinarily wasted should be carefully "mscrved and put on the fields. Ordin !' oak leaves are worth $6.26 a ton. nnc straw $3.52, wheat straw, $7.24. 'amjrard manure. $6.26, chicken man $10.12, and soon. These things must be wasted; rather, let us devote all ' 'c time we possibly cm to saving them ; -nd putting them on our hungry fields. urthermore. don't toterate the use of . ,,rc in fields or woods-plant food is (,rm 100 much to send up in smoke. 5 8 10 DONT FAIL TO READ How to Care for and Feed the Boar . . The Automobile: Carburetort and Their Troubles 6 pfantert, Seeders and Fertilizer Sowers . . Will Commercial Fertilizers Pay at Pretent Prices? The Potash in Commercial Fertilizers Is Available 14 The Rise in the Cost of Making Cotton . . New National and International Movements Select Worthy Candidates This Year . . Have You Saved Your Ounce? For Cleaner Country Stores ...... At the same time, it is the duty of every farmer to study closely his soil nnd crop needs, that he may make the wisest and most economical use of every pound of fertilizer lought. For instance, potash is scarce , and high-priced, and we do not believe its use is justified except in the sandy coastal plain sections from south Alabama to Vir- j ginia, and then only on cotton, tobacco and possibly some special truck and fruit j crops. Leaving out the potash will great ly cheapen a fertilizer, and on probably 90 per cent of our cultivated acreage the ab sence of potash will make no great differ ence. Phosphorus is the element most widely needed, and it is still relatively cheap. It will pay practically everywhere except on the heavy lime lands in parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana. Arkansas and Texas. Nitrogen, too. is very gener ally needed, and the literal use of it will pay nearly everywhere on lands that tend to make too little stalk and leaf growth. Don't be stingy with plant foods this year. Make sure you are using them wisely, and then use tl.cm heavily. 14 15 15 16 17
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