The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-29
PRO. MASSEY'S VIEWS
at thai rate. and he did not want 70
come where they could not have gooo
schools.
Notes and Comments.

SCHOOLS.
Notes and Comments.
I have Just returned from a flying
trip into South Carolina, Wnere l nave
been inspecting and a laree
plantation of wonderfully fertlie sou.
On my trip down through the eastern
Shore counties Of Virginia 1 was
| pleased to notice thai they are grow
ing more crimson clover. The sweet
potato crop is the great crop there,
and they labCriously rake and haui
out pine straw all winter ana Spredd
it on the land to plow under Tor the
sWeet-pOtatO crop, while a crop "
crimson clover would give them more
and better organic matter and nitro
| gen, too. Cooperation has done Won
| ders for his section. I wa stalking
with a trucker on the boat, going over
to Norfolk, and he said that they
never made much trucking until the
organization of the produce
tina now sells their crops. The secre-
tary of the exchange keeps in tOuch
with all the markets bv Wire, anu
knows just where to send the cars to
best advantage. He spends $1,000 TO
$4,000 a year in kilograms, but 1t is
the best-paying expenditure they
make, and when the season is over,
there is always a large surplus to di-
vide among the stockholders. The ex-
Ac<A - Ao ~ S@oNh S'AAA PS
and sells for every one.
Let Farmers Work Together. - AS
the editor says. there is a great deal
that all m can do by neighbor-
hood cooperation. Expensive breed
ing stock, expensive machinery and
other things can be gotten on a CO.
operative plan that each one could
not easily get for himself. Then in
| rnanV canfiQnc there iS 00-0Dar2flOn in
food. A group of farmers will feed
beef cattle and kill one at a time and
divide up the meat among the mem
bers Of the club, and in that way
arIner can get fresh beef in uInmer
and winter in an economical a
Rotation Plans.-Plan. as DR.. But
Ter suggested, to start a rotation. y
Georgia correspondent asks me to tell
what is the Government method" of
growing corn and cotton. | suppose
the reference was to the mons
ton work of DIR. Knapp and his men.
Their method is simply the method Of
good farmers everywhere. We do not
plan a rotation to rest land. but to
make 1t work harder, and at the same
time increase in productivity and grow
more crops. We use q rotation largely
for the purpose of getting more Vege-
! table decay into the soil to make it
warmer. more mellow, and to retain
moisture better, and at the same tins
to get nitrogen from the air instead
OF buying it in fertilizers.
+ Good Farming COming-Mr. Nixon
has evidently caught the book-farrning
fever. Go ahead and get and read all
the books and bulletins you al and
make the winter a season for study
and Improvement and planning for
nS4ny rnvt Srnn NV raa~
who does this is on the way to pros
perity. Mr.. Cobb. too, is on the right
road, as we'll as Mr.. Cooper, and, in
fact, all over the South, if they would
only speak out. there are thousands
that have imbibed the spirit Of The
Progressive Farmer and Gazette, and
are on the way to prosperous farming
Dat SOving.-If you failed to get
oats sown IN September or October
would now, in the upper South, defer
it till after the middle of February.
But I would then SOW the winter va
rieties Of oats, for they do better ever
in spring than the regular spring
oats. I found them still sowing oats
in central South Carolina the second
week in November, and from there
southwark it may do to SOW now If tbs
weather allows them to get started
we'll.
Peanuts and Corn.-Land was in
peanuts in 1909. b~roadcasted with
manur that winter and planted tC
corn with peas among the corn. Pro
poses to apply a heavy dressing OF
floats and turn under the corn stalks
and peas and plant early potatoes in
five-foot rows, and plant corn between
them. ] would not do this. | would
plant the potatoes, with a liberia,
dressing of high grade fertilizer strong
in p~hosphoric acid and potash in the
regular way, and get a first class croT
Of potatoes in June, and then plant
the corn. If it is necessary to put the