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Identifier: boysagricultural38hill (find matches)
Title: Boys' agricultural club work in the southern states
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Hill, I. W. (Isaac William), 1861-1945 Chambers, C. L. (Charles Leonard), 1884-
Subjects: Boys Southern States Societies and clubs 4-H clubs Southern States
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

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rritory adapted to the growing of peanuts. (Fig. 3.) Theunit of acreage in peanut clubs is 1 acre. Measuring the crop.—To determine the yield in bushels, weigh the peanuts in the vine when they have been thoroughly cured. Then weigh out 100 pounds separately. Pick the peanuts from this 100 pounds and weigh the picked nuts. Multiply the weight of all the 114370°—19 2 10 DEPARTMENT CIRCULAR 38, C. S. DEPT. OE AGRICULTURE. nuts and vines by the weight of these picked nuts. Point off the tworight-hand figures and divide by 30, if the Spanish variety wasgrown, and by 22 if the Virginia variety was grown. The result willbe the yield in bushels of picked peanuts. Subtract the results ob-tained after pointing off the two right-hand figures in the above fromthe entire weight of the peanuts and vines and the remainder will bethe weight of the hay. POTATO CLUBS. Potato clubs should be organized wherever there is a demand forthem. The unit of acreage in potato clubs is one-eighth of an acre.
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Pig. 4.—Boys club member preparing a seed bed for crimson clover following wheat.Crop rotation is of the greatest importance in maintaining soil fertility. CROP ROTATION CLUBS. Crop rotation is of the greatest importance in maintaining soilfertility. It is essential, therefore, in teaching a better system ofagriculture in the club work, that boys be led away from the one-crop system. Too frequently boys plant the same acre to corn oroihcr crop year after year, thus putting into practice the very systemwhich has impoverished the lands of the South. Therefore, it isearnestly recommended that crop rotation, with leguminous plants inthe rotation, be practiced by all club members. (Fig. 4.) The samecrop should not be planted on the same acre two years in succession. BOYS CLUB WORK IN SOUTHERN STATES. 11 The following schemes lead to a three-year rotation. These rota-tions, or a modification of them, will be found suited to conditions inthe territory of the Office of Extension Work in the

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  • bookauthor:Hill__I__W___Isaac_William___1861_1945
  • bookauthor:Chambers__C__L___Charles_Leonard___1884_
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