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and vetch, very little will have the bacteria in the soil, hence we have to 

 inoculate the soil with the special bacteria suitable for the plant we wish to 

 grow. 



The quickest way to do this is to get some soil— say, five bushels— from 

 land on which they have grown and sow broadcast over one acre; this will 

 inoculate the soil sufficient to grow a good crop. From this acre we can 

 get all we want for future use. Again by sowing the same land for three 

 years in succession the soil will become inoculated sufficient to produce good 

 crops. I do not think anything of inoculated seed; have seen them fail so 

 often that, as a rule, you lose the money invested. 



The best season to sow crimson clover and vetch is from the first week in 

 September until the 15th day of October. On pea stubble sow immediately 

 after cutting vines and put in with a spike-tooth harrow. 



Among cotton, following the pickers, sow seeds and put in with cultivator, 

 run shallow. You will not injure the cotton and secure a good stand at this 

 time of the year. I do not like sowing these seeds when plowing the crop 

 the last time, because the sun is so hot, and if there should follow a drought 

 practically all the plants will be killed. 



In conclusion. I wish to urge you to use all the legumes mentioned above 

 over all the farm possible, plow deep, working into the soil all vegetable 

 matter possible, and by all means use the best rotation for your lands with 

 the crops grown. If you will do this, all food products used by man and 

 beast will be produced on the farm, your soil in a few years doubled in 

 fertility, mortgages and crop liens unnecessary, and you will enter upon an 

 era of prosperity. 



CARE AND FEEDING OF WORK STOCK. 



(Including preliminary remarks on need for more Live Stock and selection 



of same.) 



By G. A. ROBERTS, North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



NEED FOB MORE LIVE STOCK. 



Seeing the need for more live stock on most of our farms, I cannot refrain 

 from adding a word of emphasis to what others have said along the same 

 line. 



As I see it, there are five grave reasons for keeping more live stock of 

 some good kinds on our farms : 



(a) For the production of manure in the improvement of the soil; 



(b) For providing a home market for our farm products and maintaining 

 a large portion of their fertilizer value on the farm; 



(c) For supplying ourselves with the necessary animal products, such as 

 meat, milk, and butter ; 



(d) For furnishing at least a large portion of animals required by others 

 in our State not able to raise their own; 



(e) For increasing the working efficiency of our farms in using more and 

 heavier animals with improved machinery, when conditions permit of it. 



SELECTION OF LIVE STOCK. 



Not that we would advise any one without considerable experience to buy 

 animals by the car-load lots, for too many of us would lose what we already 

 have in "biting off too much." Nor would we advise any, except those few 

 having had some experience, to purchase more than a very few, if any, pure- 

 bred females at fancy prices. We would, however, advise and strongly urge 

 the use of none other than pure-bred sires, selecting a breed suitable for the 

 purposes desired, and continue to grade up our stock with that breed. 



