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may be saved in one or two days ol plowing and ;it 

 the same time an unusually good job of stalk destruc- 

 tipn is done. The address of the makers of this stalk 

 bender will be given to anyone requesting it of the En- 

 tomologist. 



Best Method for Weevil Control in Fall. — The satis- 

 factory burying of green stalks now possible with this 

 inexpensive attachment to the regular plows, the econ- 

 omy in time and labor required, the possibility of pre- 

 serving all vegetable matter for soil building while at 

 the same time obtaining a very satisfactory fall con- 

 trol of the Aveevils: these together with other favorable 

 considerations which we have not sjkicc to mention 

 here, lead us to recommend the early fall, deei) ])low- 

 ing under of stalks with the aid of the stalk beiuler as 

 the best method now known for the fall campaign 

 against the boll weevil. In our opinion this method 

 avoids the chief objection to the burning of stalks: tin- 

 destruction of humus-making vegetable matter which 

 most southern soils need very nuich. It is in line with 

 the best, most progressive and most i)r()fltal)le farm 

 practice of the present time. It will ])e adopted in- 

 creasingly by men who own and operate their own 

 lands, by those working under a share rental system 

 and by standing renters who can either make their 

 arrangements by October first or who can arrange for 

 a lease period of more than one year. 



Annual Lease a Hindrance.- For the best interests 

 of the land owner who is interested in having the soil 

 in which his capital is invested built up, improved in 

 ])roductiveness, and increased in either sale or rental 

 value, and also of the ambitious renter who desires 

 to increase his income and make a better home, with 

 a better living and better educational opportunities for 

 his family, the annual standing rent lease system is the 

 poorest system imaginable. I'nder it, we can be C(>r- 

 tain that practically every tenant is going to take out of 

 the land every thing thai he can get and that he will 

 l)ut into it nothing that will not yield him fullest re- 

 lui'ns the same year. This means a poor system of 

 farming; a depicted, increasingly unproductive soil 

 and lower crop production at greater expense; a poorer 

 farm and a poorer farmer who must keep moving 

 from place to place in a vain .search for a better op- 

 l)ortunity under a hoi)eless system. 



(llean Vp The Farm: Remove The Siiunps. — Besides 



