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DRAFT HORSES IN THE SOUTH—Page 5.
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Vol. XXVII. No. 17. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912. Weekly: $1 a Year.
PLANT COWPEAS AND SOY BEANS I
I TT may seem to readers a little
| |_ early for us to be stressing this
matter as we are this week;
but we do not think so. Indeed,
we feel that the planning and the
preparation for these crops should
have gone on right along with the
preparation and the planning for
the corn, the cotton and other
crops. For cowpeas and soy
beans are not mere “filler” crops,
to be used on lands otherwise idle,
or to fill in gaps between other
crops, or to plan* where other
crops will not pay. They are good
for all these purposes, but they
also have a rightful place in the
farm rotation. The summer leg
gume crop, for hay and pasture
and soil improvement, should be
regarded as an essential part of
the rotation just as much as is the
corn or cotton crop. Properly
handled, it will pay just as well
for the time and labor spent on it
as will either of the other crops ;
and, more than that, it will enable
the other crops to yield much
larger profits than they otherwise
would.
If it be true that a good system
of rotation is a necessary part of
good farming, it is equally true
that provision for plenty of leg
umes in the rotation is necessary
to the making of a good rotation.
Much is said sometimes about how
crop rotation helps build up the
soil, but it must be remembered
that only such rotations as include
plenty leguminous crops will im
_ i.1_«^I1 nf oil It mov hp
tor them, getting the seed ready, and otherwise arranging to give them
an opportunity to show just what their value is. Indeed, in most sea
sons it would now be time to have some of them planted for summer
grazing for the pigs.
Time and again it has been demonstrated that pork can be made
more cheaply with these crops than is possible with concentrate feeds
alone, or with corn and grass. Then, there is the hay crop which in
the South is always short. Yet the cowpea is almost an ideal hay
crop—even if it is a little hard for some folks to cure—and it can be
grown so easily that farmers in other sections cannot understand why
the South should buy their inferior grass hays. Indeed, it is rather
hard for the Southern farmer to tell why he does not grow enough
| ha" to supply his own needs ; and the fact that he does not is not to
his credit.
So, once again, this year get ready and “plant cowpeas ah I soy
beans” liberally and persistently, j|
COYVPEAS AT TENNESSEE EXPERIMENT STATION FARM j
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
BREAKING THE YOUNG HORSE—Kindness and Firmness Are ji
What Count. 14
DIFFERENT KINDS OF CULTIVATORS—Where Each Kind Will j
Do the Best Work. 8
HARROW' CORN AND COTTON—Don't Say You Can’t Do It—
Try It. 8
HOW TO COOK VEGETABLES—And Why They Are Worth ho
Much in the Diet. 10
LEGISLATION FARMERS SHOULD WORK FOR—Find Out What |
Your Candidates Stand For. 12
LESSONS OF THE TITANIC—Criminal Carelessness and Abound
ing Heroism. 18
PLANT COWPEAS AND SOY BEANS—letters From Our Readers
and Answers to Inquiries. 0
PROBLEMS OF THE OVERFLOWED DISTRICTS—What Should
Farmers in This Section Try to Do This Year?,. 7
PROFESSOR MASSEY'S VISION — The Regenerated South He
' Dreamed of is Becoming a Reality . 4 1
PROGRESSIVE AND STANDPAT FARMERS — Which Class Do
You Belong to?. 20
THE RIGHT SORT OF FAIR—If Yours is Not Clean. It is Not the
Right Sort . 21
TIMELY NOTES FOR THE TOULTRYMAN—Little Hints to Be j
Heeded Now . 10
WHY THE SOUTH NEEDS DRAFT HORSES—A Convincing State
ment of the Case by Prof. H. A. Morgan.. 5
A FRUITFUL PLANT. T -- " , ' '
less wearing on the land to grow
|: and oats and cotton in a rotation than it would be to grow any
°t them year after year ; but in either case there is a constant drain
P°n the soil and no return to it except from outside sources.
When a crop of cowpeas or soy beans or any other legume is
f0Wn there is a return. These crops will take from the air the nitro
1 n needed for their growth and part of this will be left in the soil in
roots and stubble of the crop. This is why we must make the
anr]UmeS a regular Part °f our rotation, grow them just as regularly
f tyeat them just as well as we do any other crop—this and the other
I usn , they give us- when used for feed, the element our livestock
y needs most, that is, protein,
. ^enhv of legumes means good feed, good animals and good land ;
a®°ng ah the legumes we can grow there is none more valuable
I n cse two. It is not one bit too early to begin preparing the land