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Agricultural
Suggestions for January Farming.
The Progressive Farmer.
January, 1908, should mean a
great deal more to the progressive
farmer than did the same month
of last year. While the old year
may not have proven itselt to be
a rich heritage financially, it has
brought to us lessons and experiences
that should prove to be
helpful in our future operations.
The mistakes we have made (who
has not made them ?) should he j
turned into stepping stones lead-|
ing up to higher agricultural
knowledge and attainments.?
We should try not to forget our
mistakes, but rather to remember
them and profit by them.
BIGGER CROPS AT LESS EXPENSE.
January is the month of good
resolutions, the first one of which
should be a determination to do
better farming in 1908 than we
did in 1907?to make better
crops and to make them at less
expense.
Says Mr. C.vril G. Hopkins in
Farm Science : "The soil h;v
two distinct functions to perform
in crop production. First, the
soil must furnish a home for the
plant, where the roots can penetrate
the earth upon which the
plant must stand. Second, the
soil must lurnish plant food, or
nourishment* for the growth, development
and maturing of the
plant."
With these two principles in
view we can easily understand
the importance ol good plowing
po as to produce the best poesi
ble home in which the plant is to
grow and develop il we aro to
have satisfactory crops.
TIIK PLOW SHOULD ISK KEPT BUSY
NOW.
The fall months were so nearly
perfect tor gathering crops that
but little time was let! for any
other work. Especially was this
true in the cotton-growing sections.
That is one objection to
large cotton crops. They are exacting
and require all the availa
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nie lauor 10 ue ODiainea 10 picK
i the cotton and leave neither time
nor labor to attend to other proasing
work. As a result, in the
cotton-growing districts, very little,
if any, tall plowing has been
done. This means the plows
should now be found going every
day when the land is in condition
to plow. And inasmuch as
in plowing we are preparing the
home for the plant to grow, each
plowman should strive to see
ho v well he can prepare that
home or break the land.
and there's a right and a wrong
WAV TO I'l.OW
Very few of our people really
know how to plow. Our average
plowman goes into the field with
a view of gel ting through the day
as easily as he can and with but
little thought or care as to the
quality ol the work done. The
plow should be held tirmly, and
a furrow of regular width and
even depth should bernade.com
ple?ely breaking and turning
every part of the soil. Plowing
is intended for more than simply
turning the soil upside down.?
It is to break down the particles
and release plant food and open
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up the land so as to take in water
to be used by the plants in the
later droughts.
Oil account of its importance
much should be written about
plowing; though on account of
the weather, there is usually not
a great deal of plowing done in
January. However, the advice
j hero given will keep and hold
; gooa wneuever cu? piuwiug chu
1 be done.
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| PLAN FOR LOTS OF CORN?TURRETS
A REASON.
In planning the crops for 'the
year, too much importance cannot
be attached to the advisability
of planting enough in corn
and other food crops tor home
onsumption. With corn now selling
at prices ranging, according
to locality, from seventy to nine
ty cents a bushel, it should not
be a hard matter to get the wideawake
farmer to plant enough to
supply home consumtpion. Especially
is this true, when there
is -^possibility that cotton will
sell for a lower price next tail
than it is now bringing. I say
this because the statement is made
that SO per cent of the cotton
mills linvn rcrnnllv r?nrfcai!nc!
production. It this is allowable
in the lace of a abort cotton
J crop, a9 we now have, how much
more certain would it be with a
j arger crop?
SAVE ALL TilK MANURE POSSIBLE.
Keep the stable lot well litter
ed with leaves and straw for the
stock's sake and for the laud's
sake. A load of manure in the
stable is worth more to the farmer
than a sack of fertilizer at
the lactory. There is a great
deal more in 9iable manure thaimere
plant food. It contains myriads
of bacteria that in someway
unknown to the average farmer
break down and liberate plant
food in the soil, which make i!
of far more value than commer
cial fertilizer containing an equal
amount of plant food. Save all
tlie manure possible. If it does
not lessen the fertilizer bill it
will increase the crop production.
On days when neither plow;i
ig nor other work can bo done,
if they are convenient to the
field, it will pay to haul rotted
leaves and throw directly on tie
land. The fertilizing value will
justify the hauling and the organic
matter added to the soil
> will also be helpful,
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FERTILIZER TO UK HIGHER THIS
SPRING.
If you have not 9ent for the
Bulletins mentioned in The I'roI
yressive Farmer of three weeks
ago do so at once. They contain
much valuable information and
were published especially for
farmers. Bring this matter up
at your next Farmers' Union,
Alliance, or Cotton Association
meeting. It will also be well to
discuss the fertilizer question
and see how large an order can
be made up. it is well to remember
that fertilizer can he
bought by the carload for a less
price than when only a ton or
two is wanted. In this connection
it may not bo amiss to say
the prices of fertilizer v ill be
higher this spring than they
were last. This should be an
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incentive to make and save manure
on the farm.
HOW 18 YOUR ALFALFA COMING ON?
The exceedingly dry fall prevented
many from getting a
srana 01 anaua. wnere mere
is a stand and it is desirable to
top-dress with manure now i9
the time to apply stable manure
and cut in with a disc harrow.
It is better to make all prepara
tion a month or two before time
to sow the seed.
OATS AND CANADA PEAS.
Do not overlook putting in a
good supply of spring oats, if
fall oats wore not already sowed.
Thosa who have good land can
sow Canada field peas with the
oats. The peas should be put
in, two bushels per acre, three
or four inches, deep, and afterwards
put in the oats at the rate
of one and a half bushels per
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Spartanburg special in the
Charlotte Observer: W ill F<>s 1
ter, convicted of murdering John J
Y^ung, an ageil white man, was ^
to-day sentenced by Judge Gary J
to be h'inged February 7th. Foster
received his sentences with
iudifTerence. When asked why "
sentence of death should not be
pronounced, he made no response, c!
The killing ot Young w is one of ?
the most brutal that evorocenrred t?
in this county.
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