Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
FARM DEMONSTRATION

tons.
When intervieded Mr.. Barton
said: Your county has great pos
sibilities for agricultural develop
When necessary additional meth
DDS are adopted the sandhill farmer
will lead other sections in many
respects. He has ideal materials
(sandclay) for building the most
economic road in the south, ana
| find that most important work al
ready well under way, without
which no county can come to incl
/ front. He has a soil for ideal pro- |
duction of crops for soil building
and winter grazing of livestock OF
all kinds. He has conditions that
wily naturally lend themselves read
l lily the growing of peaches, grape,
scupernongs, berries, tobacco,
pecans, melons, potatoes and other
profitable crops in addition to cot
ton, corn and the small grains, all
of which may be fertilized largely
by nature through the velvet bean
4 (either the bunch or runnlng), hay
ing vetch, peas, peanuts, soy beans,
and other profitable crops which
will and must be adopted when the
boil wecvil begins its ravages, which
are near at hand. If our farmers
will but realize this and gradually
begin lin a small way at tirsD to
grow and to acquaint themselves
with these crops, we shall have
fewer pranicstrickcn farmers and
business men and fewer failures UNI
der boil WceVil infcstatiOn. This
= county is fortunate also in having
v city and mill population that vii
furnish a ready market for part O
II such addition crops produced.
The Greatest of All The LoJuza'
Crops.
II In the velvet bean, which is wei
II adapted to this section, we have
III soilbuilding and a winter grazing
III crop that far cXcells any crol
II known to the south. On my sand,
II farm | have for years fattened AM
Hi wintercd my livestock, from tn
II cattle and mules to the poultry, Of
n! velvet bean grazing alone-th
III poultry, of course, are benefitte
III only when the cows Craze near III
III residence. ..s
III 1t is the only grain that will Ii
iii in The fields until spring withou
Ill almost total decay. Hogs prefer tn
III seed tramplcd on the soil becaus
III soft and easily. masticated. Othc
s!l livestock consume those not thu
III trampled, and get sufficient rough
III age from the vines which renal
iii sound enough for such food"
iii Mr.. Barton, proposes to be, not
II theorist alone, but an agriculture
practitioner; his hobby having bee
to purchase poor, depleted farms
and by the use of winter and sun
III mer legummes in rotation with otf
er crops, to rebuild the fertility {
II his soils to where no fertilizer wa
necessary except ground phosphat
rock and potash.
It'll He has mad ten years eXperienC
in farm demonstration work i
Hill South Carolina, in the capacity c
II county agent, district agent an
assistant state agent, respectivel!
iii during which time he wrote an
iii had published primary tex
books on agriculture for us
Hi in the public schools of tht
Ill state. Yet he does not claim t
know it all. He will have an offic
III at the county seat and requests thu
iii all interested in the agriculture
Hi development of the county call thel
I'LL ION Saturdays or write him, whel
|If you are located, and he will TAX
iii pleasure in visiting your farm du
HI ing the week. He says that withol
Hi co-operation of the farmers he ca
nm do nothing toward bringing tt
Hi county to the front in agriculture
iii development.
Hi
iii November Health Report.