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EASTERN EDITION
A Farm and Home Weekly for
The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida,
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
Vol. XXXV. No. 34.
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AUGUST 21, 1920
$1 a Year; 5c a Copy
m YOUR SEEDSMAN
SWT if jfrano: ftaf jo many farmers are perfectly willing to pay any price 4 doZar or 200 spent for clover seed now will be zvorth more
that dealers may ask for commercial fertilisers! They just go ahead and tofy & to $100 spent for nitrate of soda next spring. In nitrogen and
! order whatever they need and pay zvfiatever the market says and yet if humus-, shed to our soil the clover will pay us better; and all winter long
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BIG CROPS ON FERTILITY FROM THE AIR
Coin and Cgwpeas Following Leguminous Cover Crop.
dover seed or rye advances a few cents a bushel, these same people put on a
l(-uy face and say they "can't afford to buy clover seed or rye this year!'!
The Progressive Farmer believes in the liberal use of commercial fertilizers.
Labor is too costly Jo waste On land which will yield only one-third of a bale
f cotton per acre or tiventy bushels of corn per -acre. We must cultivate none
but Productive soils, andwheveyer it takes commercial fertilizers to make them
Produce, let's use fertilizer and plenty of it of the right kind.
dt the same time, however, let's be always on the lookout to get our Jertility
as cheaply as possible. And there is no doubt about it that we can buy our
nitrogen cheaper from a seedsman in. the fall than from a fertilizer dealer in
we zvill also have the pleasure of looking at "sweet fields arrayed in living
green", growing in richness all the time instead of looking at befre, bleak and
desolate fields from which the fertility is steadily leaching out.
When the ground is dry a considerable amount of feed can be secured by
alloiving the stock to graze the clover. This is just another point to be counted
when comparing the value of fertilizer bought in the seed with that bought in
the sack.
We ought not to be too stingy to buy fertility, but neither should ve be too
stingy to buy clover seed and grow fertility at home. There is no dealer's or
manufacturer's profit to pay on this home-raised fertility because there is no
dealer at all and the Lord is the manufacturer. .
A Complete INDEX to This Issue Appears on Page 4
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