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r Our Farm Department | Devoted to the Interest of Those Who I V Till the Soil 3 f CONDUCTED BV J. M fcFATY 1 Why Not Let the Grass Make Mon ey for Vou? One of the essentials of success ful stock raising Is good pasturage; and one of the greatest handicaps to successful stock raising In many sections of the South is the lark of suitable pastures. A good pasture means, first of all, plenty of grass; but there are other things necessary to make a really good pasture. It must have water and shade as well as grass; and in any section where cultivation has succeeded range conditions it must be enclosed. Now of shade and water there is no scarcity in the South, and we have the grass, too, if we would on ly realize it. But when it comes to fences we are tremenduously handi capped. It is safe to say that there are thousands of farmers in every South ern State who would grow many more and much better cattle and horses, hogs and sheep, if they had good pastures for them to run in. Yet it is easy to find all over the Cotton Belt fields grown up to Ber muda?one of the finest pastures grasses in the world?in which the owners plant corn or cotton year after year and spend all summer fighting the grass only to have a poor and very expensive crop at the season's end. We heard not long since a farmer talking of how he was going to kill out the Bermuda on a poor hill-side preparatory to getting it ready to sow in grass. All that he needs to do?and all that thousands of other farmers need to do?is to put a good fence about that field and some stock on it and give it a little attention for a few years, keeping down briers and bushes and giving it an occasional harrowing, and he would have a pas ture which would pay him ten times as much as he is now getting from those acres. A good permanent pasture should be one of the established Institu tions on every farm; and in the de spised and neglected Bermuda we have a grass of which Professor Spillman of the U. S. Department of Agriculture says that "no other grass bears pasturing better or yields more herbage in the form of pasture." With our winter-growing grasses and legumt-s It would be easy for us to supplement it so as to have pastures practically the whole year round. Yet we go on fighting it to grow sorry crops of low-priced cotton and tobacco to pay for the butter and beef and lard and bacon this same grass would make for us if we would let It! Only another one of the South's neglected opportunities.?Progressive Farmer. How Old is the Silo. That there Is nothing new under the sun is amply proven by the ex ample of the silo. The first of these was a pit or room, below or above the ground, used for the storing of grain. In very early times in Egypt, Italy, Spain and Mexico, seed was stored in such rooms. But the pres ervation of green food in silos possi bly commenced about one hundred years ago. In 1786 Symonds wrote ? a T * ? 11 ?.1 1...... oi Kc&imiiM pruHt'rviuK irt-au icafcs for cattle in caBks and pits In the ground. In 1S43 Johnston, an Eng lishman, published an article on pre serving green clover, grass, or vetch es in pits, basing his statements on observations made in Germany. Pits were dug 10 to 12 feet square, and about as deep, the sides lined with wood, and a clay floor made. The green stuff was placed In the pit, and plenty of salt scattered over It from time to time. When the pit was full, the top was well salted and a close-fitting cover of boards was placed over It. Dirt to the depth of a foot or so was thrown on the cover to exclude air. In a few days, after the contents had fermented and settled, the cover was removed and more green fodder was thrown in and the cover again put on. In Eng land, between 1860 and 1870, Sam uel Jones stored tares, or rye, cut green and chaffed, and fed the fer mented material on an extensive scale. Adolph Reihlen ?who had liv ed a number of years in the United States, on his return to Germany, stored green maize in pits at>d thus was probably the first person to use corn silage. The first silos In this country wero built in 1875 by Manly Miles of Michigan, while Fran cis Morris of Maryland commenced experiments along this line the fol ! lowing year. With all the favorable experience and remarkable success of the silos, singularly enough a few still doubt and hesitate.?Indiana Farmer. Two Great Evil* That Should Be Avoided?But are Not. Since the tariff is likely to be the main topic of public discussion for some months to come now, it is well enough for all of us to under stand the fundamental facts Involv ed; and especially necessary that farmers of all parties learn the facts and make their influence felt through personal letters to their Congress men. Otherwise, the farmer's voice will not be heard. "No individual farmer," as Wallace's Farmer points out, "has Interest enough to go go be fore the committee and present his case," nor are his organizations rep resented. His part heretofore has been simply to bear the burden and keep quiet while by these methods of Indirect taxation every average citizen, white or black, rich or poor, pays $10 a year for pensions with out knowing it and $10 a year for army, navy, and other military pur poses, and liko heavy taxes for oth er purposes. Here are the two great evils which It Is almost impossible to prevent creeping into any tariff policy: 1. The tariff tax, being collected I without the consumer's knowledge. Is allowed to become excessive, and extravagance in government results. "Does any one believe," as one wri ter wisely asks, "that our pension bill would ever have reached $50, 000,000, much less $160,000,000, if the money had to be collected by direct levies through sheriffs and tax collectors?" 2. The farmer and the laborer not being there to speak for themselves, the tariff burden falls with grievous heaviness upon the poor man, taxes being imposed upon the necessities rather than upon the luxuries of life. Poor and rich alike must eat three meals a day, must wear one suit or one dress at a time; and by a tax levied on the common food and clothing of man, a poor farmer or tenant worth J 1.000 may pay about as much tax as a man worth $100,000. These evils, moreover, are not on ly possible; they are actual. A trip to Europe is all one needs to demonstrate this. In London you can buy a suit of clothes for $12 that would cost you $30 at home; you can buy gloves for $1 that would cost you $2 here; your field glasses that cost you $12 In New York are offered you in Paris for i'S, and so on and so on. To quote again from Franklin Pierce's book concerning the workings of our American tariff today: "Every particle of clothing on your body, from the boots on your feet to the hat upon your head, without one single exception, costs you from fifty to one hundred and fifty per cent more than it would without the tariff. The trust sits by your fire and your table, taxes every piece of glass, cutlery and pottery in your house, makes you imj iriuuit; upun vvvrj iiiwe Ul wuui, cotton, and furniture In your home, and robs you steadily day in and day out by its excessive prices. Re member that this increased price does not go to sustain the Govern ment. More than 19-20 of it at last goes into the treasury of the trust." In view of all these things. Presi dent Taft acts none too soon In urging his party to genuine revision and reform. If It Is achieved, his party will be greatly strengthened; if not, the minority party will have an issue upon which it can once more arouse the nation.?C. H. Poe. Reclaiming Our Worn Soil*. The cheapest and best soil reno vator and land builder for the South is the cow pea. There are other legumes, such as soy beans, vel vet beans, vetch and clover, which are also good and which give hand some profits on the labor employed in their cultivation, but when It comes to best for all, no man can make a mistake when the cow pea as a general purpose all round soil builder is placed In the front ranks. Every farmer who has tested the value of cow peas for improving his lands and at the same time giving an abundance of the highest class forage for live stock will quickly testify to the statement above made as being both accurate and conserva tive. Every farmer who observes lo cal conditions In bis neighborhood knows that the uplands In the old States East of the Mississippi River have been worked to death in cotton and washed out by the one-crop sys tem and careless cultivation. Without commercial fertilizers giv ing artificial plant food, the far mers in the old States as a rule would be absolutely helpless in the production of yields that would in any wise prove profitable. It is the duty of every farmer to build up bis lands instead of pursuing a pol icy of destruction. He owes it as a | duty to himself, his children and fu ture generations. | In Europe lands which have been In cultivation a thousand years are I today producing njpgnificent yields : of wheat, barley, oats, rye and oth- ] er food supply crops; and without | the use of commercial fertilizers. | ? The farmers in the old country plow | deep and use stable manures as fer-!' tllizers. Our country Is young. On- > I ly a few generations have passed since our forefathers cut the forests | and turned up the virgin soil rich In natural plant food. Today we find those once virgin soils torn and fur- | rowed with washes, the top soil prac tically gone and the fertilizer facto- I ry now dependent upon to furnish that plant food which our bad sys- .1 tem of farming has heretofore wast- , ed. We are strong believers in the ' liberal use of commercial fertilizers and believe that they can be used to a much more profitable advantage | on highly improved soils than on lands practically worn out. We urge every farmer in the South to nlant cow peas on every available pli of land they have each year. i'.ant peas in the corn middles, tiiher broadcast or in rows; plant them af ter cutting off the wheat and oats. Wherever cow peas are planted one year, crops planted on the same land the following year shows a most de cided gain in yield as compared with former years. The soil becomes more pliable; it works better; its mechanical condition is improved and its natural fertility greatly increas ed. All that is needed to convince the most skeptical is a trial. Thou sands of farmers know the true val ue of cow peas and each year plant them, but there are thousands of others who become so absorbed in the fascinating business of giving all their time and attention to cot ton that they do not plant cow peas or any other leguminous crops. These are the men we appeal to, to change their present system of farming and get on a profitable basis of agricul ture. There is no better friend to the Southern farmer than the cow pea, be he a poor man or an indepen dent one. It is the best soil reno vator and mortgage lifter known to Southern agriculture.?The Cotton Journal. They Got Rich Farming. < And so it is everywhere, it is the man and his brains behind every enterprise that bring success. Down in Georgia, James Smith has be come more than a millionaire since the war at pure farming with cot ton, wheat, peas, and corn, till he now farms 20,000 acres of land. In Queen Anne County, Maryland, Wil liam McKinney became a millionaire buying farms and renting them on shares since the war, to grow wheat, corn, and clover. Andrew Woodall, in Kent County, Maryland, became a millionaire since the war in the same way. Mr. McKinney left an estate of forty-two fine farms and r Capt. Woodall had thirty of them. And yet all over the country we find men saying that "farming don't pay." The kind of farming they do never will pay, but real farming pays in any section of this country when there are brains and energy behind It. It is the man behind it every time that makes all the dif ference between success and failure. ?W. F. Massey. Don't Be a One Crop Farmer. I)r. W. 3. Spillman, of the United States Department of Agriculture, once told some Texas farmers that the most unfortunate thing on earth a country can possess is a single crop that makes men a living and brings them sudden wealth. That is true alwayy. Said Dr. Spillman: "1 don't care if it Is peaches that he depends uppn. In time, if he depends upon peaches alone the far mer is sure to go to ruin. The sin gle crop system is uncertain, and unsafe." He urged diversified farm ing everywhere. Much as he was pleased with alfalfa, Dr. Spillman said It would play tricks occasionally that would cause it to fall he'aw the profit mark and should uot be de pended upon as the only thing for roughage.?The Cotton Journal. WANTED?A man with teams to contract to cut and haul logs to mill; also 2 good loggers. A. C. John son, Bensou, N. C., R. No. 1. Do Not Fail to Get a Bottle of Rice's G. G. Liniment, For Rheuma tism. Neuralgia and all pains it is the best remedy sold. Try a bottle and you will never be without it as thou sands are ready to praise it. Manu factured, by the Goose Creese Com pany. of Greensboro, and sold by Johnston & Holt, Smithfield. N. C. | A Bank Account J R Saves You jj 8 Loss of Money and Loss of jt sfiwp Q jj Saves You jj 9 Time in making settlements a and disputes about them Q 9 afterwards M Saves You ~ 0 And your family risk of jjl | life oj j>ersofial injury 1 And Makes I )3 a written receipt of all your 8 6 payments and business M transat'tio< s. * i Ei 4 per cent par annum compound- {I Bed quarterly paid on Savings De- A posits. H Branch 9 5 Banking Company Q WILSON, :: North Carolina VVc Can Do the Work! For Dump Carts, Log Carts, Road Carts and all kinds of Wagons call on me. All kinds of wood and blacksmith work done on short notice. See our Cold Tire Shrinking machine. Let me do your work. . J. H. Wellons, Prineeton, N. C. FARMS! FARMS! If you want to buy or sell, state your wants. List mailed upon request. R. E. Prince, Raleigh, N. C. EARLY Sweet potato plants, $1.50 per 1000. The Wakefield Farms, Charlotte, N. C. NOTICE The undersigned having qualified as administrator on the estate of Blackman Ballance, deceased, hereby notifies all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to me duly verified on or be fore the 5th day of March, 1910 or this notice w?U be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons in iebted to said estate will make im mediate payment. This 1st dav of March, 1909. L. F. BALLANCE, Admr. I Avoid Trouble I ? Women. when threatened 1' I with a mishap, should lake I} I Cardnl and prevent the Iron I Me from occurring. | ' : In yonr delicate condition Ij : I It will save yon much pain I) I and misery. Thousands have V i II tried Cardnl before conllne- 11 I ment and have lonnd It al Is [J wouderlul beaetlt. O iCARDlll I Mrs. Fannie Nichols, of ft Mexico, Mo., writes: "last I year I was threatened with r a mishap and Wine of Cirdnl I helped me TPcrc that; any J other medicine. Now I have j| a line healthy boy. I think Cardnl the finest med* !ne I |; know ol for female troubles, I ' and I " Ish s!l suffering wo- I men wou!a try H." C :f CarduL ^ Sold every where. ^ | The Sunny South g ? CORN and COTTON PLANTER % Combined is by far the lightest and most durable J- planter sold today. The entire planter is made 3 jfj of Steel. You can regulate the distance you wish S Jrt to plant your corn also the amount of cotton seed 9t' to sow per*acre. 5 minutes is all time it requires \X ? to change from Corn to Cotton Planter. Examine \M | oars before you buy. J8 Yours to serve, jj* % The - Cotter-Stevens - Co., j| P. S.?Last season we sold 18 and we have 18 satisfied customers. IjS Headquarters For I Heavy and Staple Groceries, General Merchandise, High Grade Fertilizers, Buggies and Wagons, Furniture, Coffins and Caskets. . . Compare our prices before .you 6uy. Cotter-Underwood Company Smithfield, N. C. 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Guiley & Guiley, clayN'?c: DISTRIBUTING DEPOT FOR "PITTSBURGH PERFECT8 FENCES, ALL GALVANIZED STEEL WIRES. FOR FIELD, FARM AND HOQ FENCING. THE GNLY ELECTRICALLY WELDED FENCE. EVERY ROD GUARANTEED PERFECT. The DURABLE Fence, ? None so STRONG. n53"1? - ? ps pT All large wires. 4?-. . I ; | BLL. Highest EFFICIENCY. , 39.fl I LOWEST COST. N? Wraps ? | L '?hM ivloisture ^1 L TT -[7_?J ,?i| --1 1? and cause j^rj? j ?c?j?;^F | " "lltTSEueuii Purscx" Fsscino. (SpecialStylo.) Ab&oiuUly STOCK PBCuF. iVc can SAYS YCU foCXEY on Fencicg, CALL AND sec IT. I have just received a solid car of Pittsburgh Fence and will be glad to compare fence and'prices. \A/. /V\. SANDERs
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