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! SIX-TttTMriQ T nn : ' - --!:rV..-.- .t nmr iJUl TON PRICES Page 16- EASTERN EDITION A Farm and Home Weekly for He Carolinasy Virginia, Georgia, and Florida, Vol. XXXV. No; 37. FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C SATURDA. 4yz iKBER 11, 1920 $1 a Year; 5c a Copy BUILD RICHER SOIL WITH CRIMSON CLOVER R onrf makes a rich man" is truer in these times of high-priced labor, feedand seed, than it was when the close observer who first noticed that the best farmers were to be found working fertile land said it. of cottonseed meal. This crop of clover furnished enough grazing during the winter to pay the cost of growing it, leaving the manure as a gift, besides the protection afforded the land during the winter months. j , -' " ' ' m - I : : :V;:i::Ss::;:f;S:ii?S; , - 1 3,1,1 1 f ' T PLOWING UNDER THE "MAKINGS" OF A bg CORN CROP ' Turn under a erimson clover crop like this next spring and watch your crop yields grow The farmer who puts put a year's hard labor on thin, poor land that "U not make a quarter of aj)ale of cotton to the acre is a spendthrift and wasteful of the ' wealth he already, has. ' Whew we. seeM goad farmer, who makes a bale of cotton to. the acre, big yields of corn,, oats' and hay, whose hogs and cattle and horses are always fat, Khose house has modern conveniences and 'who rides in an automobile and "ts a right to, we know his land is rich, either naturally or through the use of legumes and fertilisers. - Make your soil fertile ani add these things unto you. For renovating a poor soil, rebuilding a wornout soil, or making a. good foil better, crimson clover is one of thejvery best aids a Southern farmer can luid- An experiment'station test showed that crimson clover plowed under in the 'tring has added''- tgnjoni ".of jr. manure to the'acre, including 130 pounds f n'trogen taketL yir?:r airATk-- . 'as much "as would be added in a ton Build up a piece of land this winter and take your profits later in big com and cotton yields. Prepare a good seed bed, using' a disk if f he ground was pfowed in the spring', and add a ton of ground limestone. Three hundred pounds of acid phosphate will also pay. Order your seed as quickly as possible and just before planting inoculate them with soil from a neighbor's crimson clover field, or with a commercial culture from the seed store. In September or October, for most of the South, sow 18 to 1$ pounds of seed to the acre, broadcasting or harrowing them in; or, if dry, rolling with a corru gated roller or culti-packer. . . Get ' in the ranks of crimson clover farmers Jhis fall, even if only an acre is planted. The. seed and inoculation frdt this can be used on other fields next year. If you cannot: prepare a special patch, sinu crimson Clove in the cotton middles after the first picking and cover ' with a harrow. 1 v , 1 1. Al m V it r t v: At 1 6 v. Si. s m , 1 -Kit , '. r. .;jK- f f - 2 '- "tt"!'-'- V;-
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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