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Why Not SUy on the F?rm7
Without much doubt many of
our readers will at thie time of
the year be thinking seriously
over the question of whether
they will stay on the farm or
move to town. We have not
much doubt that it would be wis
dom for some of them to make
the change. There comes a time
in the life of the farmer when it
becomes necessary for him to
take things easy, perhaps to
educate his children, and when
this can be done best by renting
or selling the farm and moving
to town.
We are quite as well convinced,
however, that the majority of
farmers who make this change
make a mistake, and if their real
thoughts could be read they
realize that they have made a
mistake and regret that they did
not stay on the farm.
Farming is about the only
business that we know of in the
United States that enables a
man to retire when but little
past middle age and live in some
sort of way on bis income. Where
one business man retires there
are twenty farmers who do so.
It will not always be so; it has
not always been so in the oast:
but the phenomenal rise of laud,
due to the development of trans
portation and to the increased
value of the dollar, has enabled
thousands of farmers to retire
and live in ease and comfort.
So long as a man is able to do
a half day's work on the farm,
so long as he is not qualified to
engage in some new business in
competition with men who have
been at it all their lives, we are
satisfied that he will have more
real comfort and more real hap
finess if he will stay on tbefurm.
t is not necessary that he should
have full charge of the farm.
We do not approve of the
plan which some farmers fol
low of retaining full charge of
every detail, requiring their sons
to follow their methods, reliev
ing them of all responsibility,
and thus driving them uwav
from the farm if they have any
real capacity. When the farm
boy comes to man's estate he
must be trained not merely to
execute orders but to take re
sponsibility, and much of the
buying, planning and manage
ment of the farm should be left
to him. This is necessary for his
development and training, not
merely as a farmer but as a man.
it will not cost any more to
build a neat, comfortable house
on the farm tban it will to build
one in town. It will not coot
nearly as much to live in com
fort on the farm an it will in towu.
It will not compel the farmer to
form new associates, an he will
be compelled to do to a certain
extent if he moves to town. He
will usually Hud the company of
a favorite pony, a pure bred cow,
or pure bred chickens and tur
keys in the country better for
bim than the company of some
disgruntled and discontented and
disappointed fellow farmers who
have moved to town and realize
that they have made a mistake.
If he lives on his farm, takes
care of a few acres, or engages in
some specialty in farming, such
as breeding corn or developing
new varieties of grain, or breed
ing some pet live stock in a small
way, he will have better physical
health and better mental devel
opment than if he cuts loose
from the past and adopts a dif
ferent mode of life. To be either
healthy or happy one must think
and work as well as eat and
sleep. There is plenty on every
farm, or even a few acres of it, to
occupy the mind and hands of
the farmer who is not able to
undertake the heayy work of the
farm as he did in the past.
Chauge of employment and
change of location is often in
jurious to the health of those
past middle life. We have not
the slightest doubt that many
farmers die earlier than they
would have done had they re
mained on the farm instead of
moving to town.
It is objected that the country
schools do not furnish equal op
portunities for education with
those in the towns. This is to
some extent true, but not nearly
to such an extent as many peo
ple imagine; nor is it necessarily
true to any extent at all. If
farmers will insist on raisins the
standard by which the teacner is
measured in the country schools,
raise salaries of teachers propor
tionately, and do their best to
develop the school life in the
neighborhood, the evils of which
they complain may be remedied
to a very great extent. (Ho long
as farmers give the school teach
ers no higher wages than they
could earn as hired girls in the
city they should not complain of
poor country schools.) We have
noticed that these boys and girls
from even ordinary country
schools prove themselves to be,
at least the equals and in many
cases the superiors of tbe young
men and women of the same age
who acquired the first elements
of their education in the graded
schools. This, wa think, is the
evidence given by almost every
graded school teacher with whom
we have ever conversed. If farm
ers will take the same pride in
their country schools that they
do in their live stock they can
demand a superior class of teach
ers and furnish a much better
education than they now do to
those who must stay inthecoun
try.
Another objection offered is the
condition of the roads. We have
not much patience with this ob
jection, since it has been demon
strated that by the intelligent
use of the road drag country
roads can be kept in compara
tively good condition nearly all
the year around, at an expense
that does not exceed the ordina
ry poll tax in a country town
ship.
Still another objection is that
the farmers do not have the
same church privileges as those
in town. This, too, is largely
their own fault. The waj to
make good country churches and
eucourage country preachers is
to attend church,pay the preach
er, take an interest In every good
work that is going on, if not in
your own denomination then in
some one most nearly akiu to it.
Farmers do not realize how much
good can be obtaiued out of the
country church untd they enter
into its work with the proper
spirit and with the intention of
making the community better to
the full extent of their power,
even if they do not become mem
bers
When farmers realize the pos
sibilities there are in country life
this tendency to move to town
will diminish. V\ ith the rural
delivery, rural telephones, better
roads, aud increasing comforts,
there is no reason why life in the
country should not be superior
in every respect to the life of the
city or the ordinary county seat
or village.?Wallace's Farmer.
The Immigration Problem.
There is need of more thrifty
people in North Carolina it) every
department of industry. Thous
ands of acres <A land are yearly
unfilled because there is lack of
folks to plant, cultivate and
reap. The State has the small
est percentage of foreign born
people of any of the Uuited
States. It has made much ef
fort to secure immigrants, and
even now, when we feel the need
of labor, there is no desireforim
migrants uuless they are the
right sort.
South Carolina has been mak
ing a big effort of late to spcure
immigrants and it is succeeding.
We have been watching its ef
forts with deep interest, for the
conditions in this State are so
like those of South Carolina that
we may learn from the exper
ience of our sister State.?News
and Observer.
W. W. Finley, the new Presi
dent of the Southern Railway, is
a native of Mississippi, having
been born at Pass Christian in
1853. He entered the railroad
service as a stenographer when
he was only twenty years of age
and has worked his way up until
now he is at the head of one of
the greatest railroad systems in
the country.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BKOMOQuin
ine Tablets. Druggists refund
money if it fails to cure. E. W.
GROVE'S signature on every
box. 25c.
LIQUOR AT CORN SHUCKtNCS.
Years ago when so many peo
ple drank liquor it was consider
ed highly important to have it
at almost every corn shucking.
We have so often beard it said
that farmers could not get corn
shucked without liquor. This is
a mistake, as a large number of
them now do not use any liquor
at all to have their corn shucked.
Of course in a neighborhood where
everybody usee liquor it is ex
pected but it is not necessary. We
like the plan of putting corn away
in theshucks and doing the shuck
ing rainy days when bauds can
not work out doors, but if a
farmer wants to shuck his corn
before bousing it be can get it
done without the use of liquor.
Some farmers have their shut-k
ings in the afternoon and give
the sbuckers supper but people
are not compelled to drink liquor
if they shuck corn at night. We
Jhave noticed many cases where
liquor was a hiudrance instead
of a help. Men would drink so
much they could not shuck corn.
Suppose twenty farmers help each
other with their corn and each
buys three dollars worth of liquor
there is a waste of sixty dollars,
and after all, they have to do the
work. The liquor does not do
the shucking, if they help each
other without buying liquor there
is a saving of sixty dollars to the
twenty men. We think about
ull the corn raised gets shucked
liquor or no liquor. We regard
the use of liquor at corn shuck
iugs as a useless expense aud a
practice out of which harm fre
quently comes.
To the Farmers of Johnston County.
When cotton wasouly six cents
per pound it was not hard to get
farmers to attend the meetings
of the Southern Cotton Associa
tion and they would theu give;
some money to its support, but
now cotton is a goou price and
most, of them are indifferent to
ward the Association. We havei
appealed in vaiu to them to sup
port the work. We are now mak
ing one more appeal. We want
to raise some money to be sent,
to Italeigh for work iu the State
and to Atlautu for the general
work before Christinas. Judging
from the past we can not expect
many to Uelp, but we do - expect i
some to help There are always I
some who take an interest iu
such things. Farmers who help
ed last year will probably help
again. Send us the mouey aud
we will acknowledge I lie amounts
iu The Herald and lorward the
money to headquarters. The
Southern Cotton Association has
done much for the farmers by
getting them to decrease acreage,
to hold cotton when too low
aml|gettiug the bankers and bus
iness men to help the farmers.
The Association has asked the
farmers for only ten cents per
bale on the cotton raised this
year. We should lie very glad
for them to pay it. As soon as
you read this let us hear trom ;
you. We want to send the mon-!
ey before Christmas.
W.M.Sanders, J.M. Beaty,
Chairman. Secretary.
OLD
PEOPLE
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Because it contains the very
elements needed to rebuild
wasting tissues and replace
feebleness with strength.
.We return money if it fails to benefit.
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Renew your subscription now.
2-HORSE CROP FOR RENT
Will rent a 2-horse crop?about
sixty acres. Good house and
out houses?Radford place?on
my Watson plantation mile and
half South of Smithfield. Rental
five 500-lb. bales pood lint cot
ton. See F. H. Brooks, Smith
field, N. C. James H. Pou.
FOR SALE AT A SACRIFICE.
A fine farm and country store
in Johnston County li miles
from Southern Railroad; 5 miles
from Clayton; 7 miles from
Smithfield, on the public road.
This farm is a square block; four
straight lines; 312 acres; 150
acres in cultivation; 110 acres
fine cotton or tobacco land; 40
acres good land for corn or oth
er grain. Buildings alone cost
half my price for this farm.
Store will pay 10 per cent, on
the whole investment. Reason
for selling: my time is all
taken up with other business.
Write for full description and
price. Address
J as. A. Sanders,
Raleigh, N. C.
The Bank of WAYNEhashad
Sixteen years of Successful man
agement?during this time it has
earned more than Two Hundred
and Fifty Thousand Dollars?it
has paid to its shareholder more
than One hundred and Fifty
Thousand Dollars in dividends,
and now has a Surplus of more
thau One Hundred Thousand
Dollars.
THREE FARMS FOR SALE.
One tract contains 139 acres,
second tract 95 acres and the
third tract 60 acres. There are
good buildings, out buildings
and tobacco barns. This land is
suitable for all crops grown in
this section, and extra fine to
bacco land. These farms are
located eight miles from Smith
field and five and one half from
Pine Level. Two of these places
will be offered at a sacrifice.
Write or come to see me. Z. L.
Talton. R. F. D. No. 2, Smith
field, N. O.
NOTICE!
Taken up at my house, oue
black boar with blaze face; mark
swallow fork in each ear. Own
er can get him by paying for
this notice and feed.
C. V. Bailey,
R. 1, Selma, N. C.
NOTICE!
On account of a miller we will
have to stop our corn and flour
mill on Swift Creek. Would be
very glad to have some compe
petent man apply. We want a
miller for certain part of toll.
Will notify the public when we
start up again.
Respectfully,
A. M. & P. W. Barber.
For three cents to pay post
age, The Bank of Wayne will
send you a Booklet containing
the prominent facts of North
Carolina History.
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R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY'S
TAGS, AS SPECIFIED IN AND FAC
SIMILES OF WHICH ARE SHOWN ON
THEIR 1906 CATALOGUE OF PRESENTS. ?
This space was bought to remind holders of our tags,
wholmay have overlooked the fact that our offer of presents
for the return and delivery to us of tags, as made and adver- j
tised in our 1906 Catalogue and Circular of Presents, ex/>ires \
by the terms of the offer itself on January isi, 1907. <
We would not consider giving presents to one with- ?
out giving presents to all, for tags that reach us after our
offer has expired, and for this reason we will not consider
any cause whatever for delay in delivery of tags, and we will
positively refuse to give presents for any tags that reach
Winston-Salem, N. C., after Tuesday, January 1st, 1907,
which is the full extent of time as heretofore stipulated
in our offer.
No employee has authority to change or modify this
or any notice or offer made by us.
LR. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.. WINSTON-SALEMa^N..C.
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