The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-09-20
MORE TALK ABOUT THE CORN
CROP


MORE TALK ABOUT THE CORN
CROP.
Riding several miles in the country
yesterday, l saw men topping cor
and stripping the blades or plants
the ear were hardly too ripe
for table use as rOasting-ears. They
fail to undeNtand that SO long as the
leaves on the corn are green they
are getting material for starch-making
and storing in the grain. But strip
the green leaves off and the corn
gains no more, but simply dries up
and there is weight of grain enough
lost to pay a good price for all the
fodder obtained.
OF course the fodder got in this
way is a better article than hat from
the cut-down orr but the farmer
is paying a big price for It. The
practice has grown out Of the neglect
of the grasses in the South and hence
the lack of hay. The remedy is to
grow more hay from peas and soy
beans and clover n grass. Then
the stOver from the corn crop has a
place of smaller Importance to the
farmer.
There is another important reason
why We should grow more leguTne
forage in the South, and this is its
value in balancing a ration. In the
city where l live the livery stables
feed their horses on nothing but corn
fodder. The result is horses too fat
for good work, since they must eat
more Of this carbonaceous feed than
is good for them to get what protein
they need. Drive one of these horses
that are kept at these stables, and IN
vcr rather COO weather they lather
with sweat, and are too soft to be
driven.
Nforo oofe - 1n~r o1,> opl aorr
fodder is badly needed here. Oats
are far better grain feed for horses
than corn, and oats can be grown in
the South more successfully than else
where if grown as a winter crop.
Last fall I induced a friend here to
SOW some winter oats. He got clean
seed and, of course, had d clean crop
and no cheat. His oats are in de-
mand for seed. for every one of his
nelghbOrs now wants to SOW winter
oats, and he is selling them by weight,
for they weigh 3S pounds to the meas
used bushel, and 80 pounds is the
standard weight for a bushel of oats,
come up to it.
When to cut the corn is a question
often asked. 1 would cut it when
the grain is completely denied. This
can be taken as evidence that its
growth is complete. So long as the
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the grain is gaining. If corn is to
go into the silo, cut it as soon as in a
fairly good roasting ear shape or
barely past it.
l cannot tell the exact proportion
between crimson clover seed in the
chafI and clean seed, but the practice
is to SOW 40 pounds Of SEED in chaf
where We would sow 10 pounds Of
clean seed.
Apples of Gold III Pitchers OF Silver.
Editorial in Greensboro Telegram.)
Former Congressman B. z. Grady
has a communication in The Tele-
gram this morning that is worthy of
attention. His words touching the
duty Of the intelligent patriot are like
apples Of gold in pictures of silver.
Truly, the most binding of civic OBJ
legations upon a man is TO study the
tendencies Of present governmental
policies and give his voice and vote
to the political party which he be-
lieves is advocating the measures
which may bring the best results to
him, to his ~neighbors and to pos
ter1ty.' Because a certain party in a
certain limited sphere seems partial to
young or old men or seems an error in
this, that or h other particular, is
no sign at all that the party as a
is not better han the opposing
party. The fact is that there are good
men in both of the great parties and
good planks in the platforms Of 9th
But we believe that the measures ad-
vocated by the Democratic party are
those best calculated to bring the
greatest good To the greatest num-
Der of people and that the claim of
the Democratic party to the support
of the unbiased mind is a claim not
to be lightly set aside.
BOTH OLD AND YOUNG.
The Spirit of Pr~orrcssiyenesS in