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m ; . - 'r -' ' -''.'v FIXING COTTON, PRICES Page 12 .. . , ; . . , , ,- - . -.f ' 7?trT' TTlfnirS TSfniVf i EASTERN EDITION A Farm and Home Weekly for The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida, FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C Vol XXXIH. No. 22 SATLXy, JUNE 1, 1918 $1 a Year; 5c a Copy r THAT feeds are to be scarce and high-priced for at least another year is a practical certainty. Knowing this, every farmer in the South should during the next six weeks do everything in his power to insure an adequate supply of home-raised feeds for the next FIVE WAYS TO INCREASE WJ YEAR'S FEED SUPPLY will soy beans, millet or Sudan grass. Peanuts and sweet potatoes for hogs may also be planted well into July. 3. Put all low, wet spots to growing hay. There is hardly a farm in the Cotton Belt that hasn't one or more rich wet hollows that ard j I " " .-.--- . . - mm i ? 1 1 ' " f T "I 11 11 ' I l ' ' -"" - - mil ii i.j. ...... .ji u - ' J I Wll'. iii--,. v .J f'tH.J.JUJLJ ""1 ! - . , ' : - 7 " ' -" : '' " ,7, .7 - 7 ' . ' ' I h ' ; f - ' -77 - .. ' . ' , ' ;' j GOOD PASTURES AND PLENTY OF HOME-RAISED FEEDS ARE OF FIRST IMPORTANCE IN MAKING LIVESTOCK PAY twelve months. Here are five suggestions that we believe will help in doing this: I- Put a legume crop in every acre of com. Any land in corn that does not also grow a crop of cow Peas, velvet or soy beans or peanuts is doing only half its duty, and the same is Pretty nearly true of the owner of the acre as well. A good growth of any of these will furnish fine grazing well into the winter and thus save the harvested grain for later use. 2. Plant a hay or grazing crop or corn after all oats and wheat. Idle stubble land ought to be an abomination in the eyes of any farmer, and certainly s to all good farmers. If there be any dubt as to an adequate supply of corn, some of the richest of the stubble land may well be planted to corn. Cowpeas, or a mixture of cowpeas and sorghum, will make a Sood crop of excellent hay,as not paying their taxes. If these cannot be ditched and drained, we can at least grub out the bushes and stumps and get a hay crop off them. 4. Plow up cotton on land where stands are bad and plant DONT FAIL TO READ How to Keep Well in Hot Weather . . . Work for June with Orchard and Truck Crops ... . . . . . Farm Work for June . . Flower and Lawn Hints Livestock Suggestions for June . . . . . How to.Feed and Care for the Dry Dairy Cow Make Sure of the Feed Supply . . Travel Notes and Conversations June Suggestions for the Housewife . . . Poultry Suggestions for June Sweet Potato torage Houses . . . . Use and Carp of Machinery in June . . . Page 5 6 8 10 II 12 13 14 17 22 23 corn or hay. In some sections cold weather and heavy rains have resulted in poor stands of cotton, and where this is the case and there is any likelihood of a feed shortage, it will probably pay to plow up the scattering cotton and plant a feed crop. , . 5. Build a silo and fill it, if you have fifteen or more head of cattle to winter. As was so well brought out in our last week's "Silo Special," the slo is almost indispensable to the man who would make a success with dairy or beef cattle. But of course there must be crops to fill it, and these must be planted within the next six weeks. 1 : ill! r ' i i!!7: J' m IS'. Ii fit iiT. ' J" '- - '"- 7 -'77 '7'':.7,'7'V' ' - "'"..' . '7:;. 7vi4 -V7"A.V'::--"7,'.::'---': v V-' 7v i7". ,
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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