The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-06
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lac A\oilii, but | 90 ue44eNe IL Sp-c.aI-
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- @ iiohGy crop tIIdL Is au4le. u you.
Io4ioto' ana tuen So ARRANGE YOU
MINIS aS 10 give tnat croa I.e hes;
booSlD'e Chance in your rotation. IN
Not>NA -O.t eileIo 5 40 cop tnat
LII ~HI-iPttc Win cocoon as d .uU1t,
crop II the farmer farms ana doe.
Ho' merely pant COlton year aIter
year Oh Ola Oedu sou With the aid o. a
A.tie 10" gfauc IcILllzer. tie snoulu
associate Iii MS farming the egumrs
Aoi forage ana teeu.u5, anu co.u ana
odlS as auxiliary crops, and IL ne
l"1ihs Win these IN a Soou rotation
oNu iiiaheS MANURE, he Viii Soon nau
that these auxiliary crops are not
A-e-eiy supplies" but are
crops 10 60" 1Of sale. The South is
iabtuiy Setting 4neo the Corn belt,
- IoU44~ o-~ H-aa411-r1- ..~,e
corn TO sell, ana when TINS Canes pace
eli over the South the IeeulnA OF Iar..i
ANIMALS will naturally follow, and
digger cotton crops vii be made on
lcsS land.
Mr.. Crooks COrn.-Mr. Crook has
gotten to the Lou bushels ali acre III
get to 80 bushels. He used Loco
pounos an acre OF 1922. Now l VIII
wager That the corn never knew tina
he used that 2 peg cent Of anmon. a
ana II Is d qucstIUn unv-4oI ou az
tennessee land the 2 per cent of pot.
ash was OF any Ndlue. IL II - tae Iei
clay Of the old dolomite limestone,
/ am rather sure that the potash wa:
wasted. Deep breaking n subSOil
ing OF the hill lands is important as
intanS Tor cntCh-uS Naail4As anu ii IA
over the red hills Of the South. wher'
one sees line of Weed-gTown terrac'
banks with bitches behind them, tn
bitches were cut deeper and the sur
face rock that abounds in many place
was put into the bitches and covered
or tiles put in, n the soil deepl
pIowed and subsoiled, the terrace
could be plowed down and never miss
| "a kept n more eAal4y cultivate
fields, if a sod was gotten on ther
every three or four years.
2 Better Farming.--I was on
farm in South Carolina a week ag
where the magnificent lowlands woul
' grow 100 bushels Of corn an acre
: ana the owner said that he had som
corr there that last summe was no
cultivated at all. as the weather va
!, so wet that he could not get on n
! H is going to do some thing, and a
over the South there are lands Wher
:, thing WouIa be the making Of the Ian
and the fortune of the farmer
I While Mr.. Carver's half ton Of manur
| would not have near the amount Q
, available plant o. that a ton OF goo
= fertil err would have, it would do VIVA
the fertilizer would not do, put organ
: decay in the soil that would show IL
I fleet along after the fertilizer was eS
harsted-Make all the "cowan0' W
Z can. and use it as fast as made, an
! Won will soon find that on all the nj
y ion9c IF Georcia am ali over n
dmo country where farmers ar
the bull-tongue for III
u two-horse turning pillow, that they WI
{ soon be using bigger ploWs and tn.e
t rnn1es abreast with q subsoller benin
q +bau and with the deep breakln
and the growing of q sod on the Ian
& 49, o(-9v hocs Fhe terrac
hanks will soon disappear.
! ROIr-wEEVIL MAKING PROG
RESS.