The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-05-09
Continued from page g.

1t DehooVe5 the farmers, my
friends, to do eXactly what YOU
are doing today in coming togetn-
r. and organizing for the purpose
II lettering your conditions. Or
lanlze for the purpose of cooper
alton in buying, and for the pur-
nose OF cooperation in drainage,
and in building roads and build
iag schools and in building up the
country in every way. And II
must say that am very glad that
me people in this county have
such a great start toward mater
lal development, and .. | must
congratulate you ON it;and I hope
that other counties will catch the
spirit and go forward at great
er rate than they have been 60
ing heretofore.
Now, my friends, there are
many vital questions that would
like to talk about, but time will
forbid, but there are just a few
that | feel that l must mention
before conclusion, and one is how
to build soil, yet that is a very
expensive way. /. costs great
deal to do that. There are other
ways you can build soil and pro-
duce crops and enhance the value
of your lands. Land that is sell
ing for $40 today will sell for $40
as soon as you inaugurate these
better plans and methods. Land
selling for $50 today will sell for
200 per acre in a few years after
you adopt these improved meth
DDS. You go through the cvun-
try and you will find old fields
that were abandoned thirty or
forty years ago. They were
abandoned because your fathers
and mine thought they had be-
come unfit for cultivation. They
cultivated them until they had
taken all the humus and vegeta-
bic matter out Of the soil and they
then thought the land had been
rendered unfit for agricultural
purposes, then they went off and
cleared other lands. What are
you going to do? Lands in use
in Scotland one thousand years
ago are in as good state of cult
walton today as when first put in
to cultivation, and we think here
that we can wear out the land in
twelve years. We have never
studied how to break it up, anc
make it grow nitrogen crops that
will build up the soil and make i
more productive than it was a
first.
was talking with a tenant Of
mine a few days ago, and tolc
him something about deep pillow
ing. | said l wanted him to brear
this land in the fall, and he sai(
They Say the spring is the time
to break the land" | asked VIII
are they" and he said some o
these neighbors around here.
said few know anything aDou
the value of deep breaking in III
winter, and do you know anything
about the value of growing a win
ter cover crop to protect the Ian
in the win.er Do you kno,
anything about growing crop
that will produce nitrogen, an
a crop that you can turn under i
the spring for fertilizing purpos
es. | said | wanted him to tr
that. He said he was a man wit
a big family and could not tax
any risks, that he was too poo
to lose.
Here is a man, Mr.. WIS. Cobl
president of your Union, WI
knows something about deep Gu
tivation, because | have been G
his farm and seen some of it. TT
time to break your landi is just ;
soon as your crop is gathered
the fall. You want to begin
cultivate vetches and clover.
believe the best is the ordinal
reporter missed kind vetch ar
the red crimson clover, and whe
ever you begin to break your lar
In the fall and grow these wint'
cover crops, and crops that W
gather nitrogen, and deposit it
the soil, then you will begin
build your land, and you will ne
er do it before. You can pla
the vetch and it produces nj
growth, something like eighte
inches high. You can cut it ne
springtfor forage and it max
the finest kind Of hay. Eve
farm animal on the place will E
vetch during the winter. 1t COS
you nothing to grow it. 7
grow it while your lands are OF
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