The farmer and mechanic., 1910-04-05

0A0lc, itS We now nave IMAM To DO
for ourselves
''1-ne Farmers Union is an educa-
tional body Not a single school book
keeps the farm in mind. Only one IN
every fifty children get beyond the
public school A great work before US
IS to revise the public school system
where it applies to farmers chill
dren.
The speaker sad that Superinte Cd
ent Joyner and President Hill were
in sympathy with this movement. He
advocated sending for new A. and
NJ. College text book recently pub
lished. There should be an ayTicul
tural high school in every county 10
, come. after the public school.
we are in this educational work 10
stop the drain from the town.
North Carolina has led IN the mat
ter of intensive and scientific farming.
Co-operativ buying has been stressed
, too much. Farmers ought to be Il
buying but selling peole. II YOU
viii look at our WOrn-Out heldS-onr
farmers plowing with a scooter plow-
you'll see we are not farming right.
We advocate deep plowing and rota-
ton of crops. A new theory has been
discovered that by running the land IN
the same crop it becomes less prOduc-
| tive. A piece of land in potatoes Tor
i fifteen years got SO it would not make
/
i izing they planted the land in barley
/ and it grew splendidiy. Potatoes and
barley require the same soil ingre-
dientS. Crops continued too long on
/ the same land produces dangerous
and hurtful toxins.
"A three and four year rotation pre-
vents the toxins. and then you can
| bring the land back to the original
crop. They say the use of CONNER
| cial fertilizers simply destroys toxins,
and constitutes its chief value.
The department at Washington
| recommends the application of lime.
which destroy toxins and prevents
acidity in the soil. Why can We not
grow peas now as we'll as several years
ago? | think it is from the long con-
tinued use Of acid phosphate You
| can't grow clover or any leguminous
crops as we'll as formerly Lime reg
ulates this.
4 hope to see the day when We
! can cut out the commercial fertilizer,
! The Southern Cotton Oil Co. in Char
! lotte offered much 6-3-5 fertilizer
as the farfers needed for cotton lands
! in exchange for the seed from the
| cotton produced. / was one who bit
at that. l tried this fertilizer on
! plot of ground separated only by
! terrace from another plot the same
| size On the latter | used mar! llme
! and 100 pounds Of cotton seed meal
! I got just as good results from the
/ latter as from the former and kept
! my seed 1T is wonderful what God
! has done for the soil Every acre
! to the depth of one foot contains from
$4,000 to $4,000 worth of plant food
potash, etc.
's,The thing to do is to plow it up
and let it get the action of the sun
and air The soil needs hunus. not
! guano.
| If you keep up your soils 1t VIII
! not be hard to make a living. The
| Farmers Union stands for q iiVe-at-
home policy 1 see people buying fat
hack bacon-and hay. We sweat our
! selves to death trying to XII grass
| then buy hay. Do you know the lateSt
disease? Not hookworm, peliagra or
appendicitis but 'store-eat-us Inc
remedy is this live al home.
Dr. Alexander recommended as a
good crop for hogs essex rape, tol-
lowed by sorghum cane. and ths Dy
| GOV heans Another good crop, he
said is alfalfa. It's hard 10 get
stand of You have to use llme.
\. G. man says he can grow pork al
, cent a pound on alfalfa. Now ploW
up a plat of ground. put it IN SOY
! beans and have it ready Tor aiAdiid q
next fall Alfalfa hay is worth pouhu
/ for pound in feed value with the Dest
quality Of bran
The Union has waged a war
against debt Better to go hali starNeo
one wear to get on the cash basis
st beliece its better to ra'se loou
/ crops than cotton Dont deceNe
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