The farmer and mechanic., 1910-04-19

the moon to me-" and Vet only = r.,
had shown any interest
want our farmers to take. hold
and push this thing" he said .'so,,..
don't want to take hold becane. tt',',,
say this and that, and one saws it.s
just scheme to make the land brir,,
more to raise taxes. and that We o.ah.
TO keep things as 'skacc' as nossfI,
and make the town folks hungry, r,-
what We have. Id like u see ary
ma nan N inns county who las tho much.
1he FARMERS need more corn them
selves Aren't we shipping western
corn in here by the car Ioad2
wish l had Thousand bushels rtcht
now, and hundred thousand pcunhs
OF meat, to sell AT prevailing prices
saw a boy the other day. u miles
from town, who had his prize acra
ready for planting, aud he told me
L am going TO raise $50 bushels on
my acre | haven't heard a crown
man say he was going to raise ham
Of that. The boys are the stuff Thev
are going to surpass US The men
must wake up and take interest II
we develop this county like it ought
to be, we will bring in new peopla
and new enterprises, and We must set
to work III earnest It's no hardship
to set apart an acre and buckle down
to it TO win q prize; and if YOU cont
win, you'll raise more corn than lou
ever did
Can Do Better If
Mr.. ]. d. Grimes followed. L Just
want to say" said he, that in farm
ing. every one of US knows better
how to do than We do do He then
explained various processes Of farm
Ing, answering questions, and There
ensued general conversation that
was helpful in the extreme Mr.
Grimes is a ripe farmer and he had
careful listeners, Among other
things, he said that the farmers do
not work their land enough before
they put the seed in it, ought to plow
better. If possible, ploWing should be
done in the late fall or late winter
and again in the spring. if ueedGuL
after which it should be made smooth
with drag or disc harrow. Speaking
Of fertilizers. he said the great need
was more humus in the soil we
f! ke out too much and dom par
enough back, he declared. Ie5~ u~
cioVer,--the legumes, he said-4r- the
thing. Stable manure is the best o5
all fertiiizers, but nobody haG enpu@h
OF 1t People must not expect to mas"
crops Year after year with fert,liI.-
alone. Some one asked him abou.
fertilizer "burning' a crop; he said
fertilizer wouldn't ''burn'' if the 1+Dd
had the vegetable matter in il t.let
it ought TO have.
Selecting Seed Corn.
On seed selections his plan is t.
select the corn in the field, taking the
tWo-eared stalks and those with ears
close TO the ground This puts the
ear close to the food supply ana
doesn't rob the ears Of so much fo.t
to make a lot of useless stalk. il
was best to have Il patch for e-"t
corn, how uever, and the tassles of 49,
undesirable stalks should be cat "f5.
Answering a questkJn about en1ut.
which several said WAS more comIunfa
last year than usual Mr. Grimes Said
his crops always suffered from il g."
that nobody knew how to stop =
Ihefe was an idea that once i'm
land it stayed there year afte N.a..
and that the only way was to cat o..
the stalks which showed smut Il.
burn them. Also some thought thai
IN shredding the corn and feeding
and putting the manue back on l.F
land, caused 1t. Another thousht 0'-
disease was on the grain and Wr..
back to the field with it
Predicts Irrigation for North Caro!5ha.
Rev. j. d. Newton was asked ;'
talk. II e said he grew more and mur.
interested In farming year after }~ar.
but was unable to 10 much Of it, This
year he was going to make q f."
acres do their very best. Both he ana
his boys have entered the contests.
ana he Sald II they didn't WIN Il irIZT
and still did their level best they
would be winners just the same. lie
predicted the time when irrigation
would be used in this country, made
possible by electric power. and that
then We would make as good crops a.
they do out West.
In closing the meeting. President
Wilson urged the contestants 10 see
that there was humus in their prize
acres, see that they plowed deep to
start with, and that no crust formed
on the soil, cultivating shallow II a
dry season, deeper if hard rains came.