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JkJXVIJUX A DEFINITE Pi PREP A! I Numbers of bankers, merchants, and farmers of the State are aroused to the danger of the advancing boll weeTil, but many of them have no definite and easily followed program which will prove effective in making the situation livable when the weevil arrives. Any 'crop rotation proposed must tsJce into account renters and share croppers who are a majority of our farmers, and it must at the same time appeal to the large landholder whose active co-operation will be obsolutely necessary. Every authority on the subject agrees, first that the cotton crop should be reduced, Meond, that food crop* should be incr?iu?d| t^ird, that the soil, should bo V enriched, boforo tho weevil arrives. Tho incroased food crops should, of course, . ho readily markotablo, and should afford tho maximum improvement to ( tho soiL 1 btliev* we have on* cfop tho 90 or 100 day velvet beau?which U admirably suited to this purpose, and 1 purpose, tho following recipe for tho one-horse tenant farmor which may be readily adapted to use by farmers of any . size. The average one-horse farmer now plants say twenty acres of cotton and four acres of grain (corn and oats.) Let his merchant and landlord insist on his planting this year nt mini and eighteen acres or less of cot* ton. In the six acres of corn insist that he plants early velvet beans. Next year (1918) hare him plant nine acres of corn with velvet beans and fifteen acres of cotton. Six acres of these fifteen will be behind the previous year's velvet bean crop and will require no fertilizing except Acid Phosphate or Ground Phosphate Rock, costing $2.00 to $3.00 per acre. In 1919 the corn and velvet i bean crop should be increased to twelve acres and the cotton reduced to twelve, nine of which will be behind the previous year's velvet beans and require but a small outlay for fertilizer. In 1920 the cotton acreage may remain at twelve acres and the other twelve should fain bo pat into corn and b?m and each year thereafter the cotton will follow the bean crop and the beans follow the cotton crop. A cover crop of Abrazxi rye (or in some cases ?. Crimson clorer) should each ^ year be put in the cotton. While the boll weevil may be expected to arrive here within two years, it is probable that im PAPERS PEB THE PRESS AND BANNE. TBI-WEEKLY CONSTITO THRICEAWEEK N. Y. W THE PROGRESSIVE FAB WEEKLY ALABAMA TW THE HOME FRIEND Total YOU GET THEM THE GREATEST SUM these days when dally newspapei offer comes as a grateful relief to the to keep abreast of the times by readir Issue. 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Coke his maximum damagt will not come before 1920. If tins scheme is followed, our cotton acreage will by then all be upon land which has the previous year produced the finest of humus and nitrogen crops?velvet beans?the fertilizer requirement being less than 50 per cmjkt. of that now considered necessary. Upon such land and wiith such fertilizing we may, by following the government recipe for thq production of cotton under boll weevil conditions, expect to malpe at least as much cotton per acre as is now being made. With moderate fertilizing the corn may be expected to make not less than tea bushels per acre and the beans not l*u than fifteen bushel*. Tbree hundred bushels of grain is new more than half the Tain* of the product of the average twenty-four acres rented or share cropped, and is quite equal In value to the average cotton crop upon ' the same acreage. It will in most cases be necessary to plant for horse feed about two acres in oats followed by peas or beans to each twenty-four acre crop. This will come out of the corn and velvet bean acreage and will not interfere with the efficiency of the scheme. If tobsicco is plant ed, it should come out of the cotton acreage. The worst infested boll weeTil areas in South Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi are now using this velvet bean profitably. The farmers claim that they can raise from twenty to thirty bushels per acre of beans besides an average corn crop. Wherever they are being raised in any quantity oil mills and merchants have prepared themselves to grind them for feed and the farmers, I understand, are receiving about $20.00 per ton for them in the hull. We, ourselves, this year planted fifty-nine acres of these beans in corn, on poor, sandy soil. We made from ten to iSvta?n hush. Is of corn and from fifteen to twenty-seven bushels of been* per acre, the average yield of beans being twenty and onehalf bushels per acre (figuring ninety pound* per bushel.) We had seven acres of ^hese beans on better land which produced thirty-three and onethird bushels per acre. They are a magnificent feed, suitable for feeding to mules and cattle without grinding. Hogs will also do well on beans, though it is better to -feed them ground. In order to grow velvet beans successfully !t is necessary to get them in early. We recomYEAR FOR $2.75] B..... lyear, 52copies F Ktaw 1 IRAnnrkipq 1XI/A> *. . . X JfOOl) MTV WV|f?VM ORLD 1 year, 156 copies iMEB.....lyear, 52copies ~ EES lyear, 52copies lyear, 12 copies 480 copies F ALL FOR $2.75 IN OFFER EVER MADE e ps cost so much the above subscription up-to-date rural resident who deelres ig the best of newspapers of frequent ?. 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Abbeville, S.G. j i OMING JOLL WEEVIL / r mend the planting of corn in sevan-foot rows and the planting of velret beans in an open hovel furrow in the middles from April 20th to May 1st. On poor land plant one bean every eighteen to twenty-four inches, on rich lend one or two beans every three or four feet. If preferred, the beans may be planted between the hills of corn. It is absolutely necessary, however, to get them in very eerly if a full crop is to be made. It will be impossible to get the co-ope ration of tha tenant class in carrying oat this program naloss they are assured a reasonable tenure of the land. The land owner' should assure his tenant that he will not be required to move as long as he carries out this rotation and properly cultivates his crop. One of the most attractive feaures of the program outlined above is that it is safe and practicable even if the boll weevil should delay or entirely CMie his progress (a theory for which there is no warrant.) If adopted, it will result in the enrichment of the soils, the increase of live stock, big reduction in farm expense, and an all round sane farming system. Another most compelling reason for greatly increasing the production of grains and live stock is the world war in which it seems this nation will be forced to become a participant. A food famine threatens half the world and even this great food producing nation has no adequate surplus with which to relieve the necessity of other people, and is itself feeling most acutely the high cost of the necessaries of life. Both self-interest and patriotism should at this juncture induce every farmer in this country to produce all the foods'tuff possible. * I hope very much that every landowner, banker and mer- I chant in the State will realize | the absolute necessity of using | his most earnest efforts to so- j cure the adoption of this or some closely similar program J this very year by all our farmers, both largo and small, white and black. It U not mainly a question of philanthrophy; it is ono of actual broad and buttor, in which the banker, merchant and profoMional man U just as much intorostod as is tho farmer. Lot us than nil wako up before it is too late and do the obviously necessary thing for our own and the State's safety and prosperity. DAVID R. COKER. Hartsville, S. C., Feb. 5, 1917 WANT ADS OR SALE?Pure Georgia Cane Syrup at wholesale, in barrels and cans, direct from the farm. Write for prices. W. H. Davis, Augusta, Ga. 1-3-18. OR SALE?A few good plug mules* J and horses. The L. W. 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