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'REFERENCE - SPECI AL"iNEXT - WEEK: . RESOLVE NOW TO SAVE IT : qT ) fSI CD "I . f-y CD C?j CV EZV j I C? " (7UI4--J, p. u i (f cJsa jfeaf km m 1? A STRP M F.V VfTTON 'J. :?-f i.-. .; ? , A Fstrintand Home meekly! for ; 7; : The GaroUnasVirginia, Qeorgia, and Florida, FQUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C hroL- XXXIII. No. 6. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1918 $1 a Year; 5c a Copy Make February 18-23, "Straw and Leaf-hauling Week -rnR two reasons, every Southern farmer r should this year aim to make every acre yiejd to its utmost. In the first place, tne wona needs the very biggest crops we ban grow; and, ' second, the world is paying prices that afford us an opportunity such as we have never before had of getting a profit from our labor. That we may meet this joint responsibility and opportunity, it is necessary that we make each acre do its best. And that we may do this, liberal fertilization is necessary. In addition to using commercial fertilizers liber ally and every pound of manure produced on the farm, it will pay handsomely to supplement these with four or five tons per acre of straw and leaves from the woods. As we have pointed out in recent issues of The Progressive Farmer, a ton of pine straw has a plant food value of $3.52, and a ton of oak leaves, $; 261 In addition to this- actual plant food value, these, materials add valu-: able humus to the soil, so that it probably is not far wrong to give pine straw a value of $5 per ton and the leaves $8 or.. $9.' Certainly this value is much too high to let these materials lie in the woods or to let them go up in smoke from the first carelessly started fire. So we propose that on every farm in Ihe South the week of February 18-23 be observed as "Straw and Leaf hauling Week," and that during this period the labor of all men and teams on the farm busy itself hauling and scattering leaves and straw over the fields. Few jobs will pay better m these times of high-priced crops. Will you-1 observe the week on your farm?' f ; 4--4 "' i u' "fit 1 ? m&jt sty's DONT FAIL TO READ- Getting Rid of Stumps . . . ' . . ; 6 Early Garden Suggestions . . . . 7 Farm Work for February .... 8 Tractors for Southern Farmers . . 10 Poultry Notes for February . A. . . 11 Caring for Spark Coils and Vibrators 13 Cotton Pnr.fU;nn ur.n c- View. . . . t "v 4 i4 You Know this Kind of Sladcer? . 14 ATalk With Progressive Farm. M er Subscribers ; . ,;. ,.'.'15 F wife"7 Suwe$tions ror tbeHous Y Marketing by Motor Truck . . . f 20 .tvM XJ VIST's a i V i MAKING A FIRST-CLASS SEED BED - ; ' '
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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