THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL, 1NTEIIESTS OP OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO AU. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF. STATE POLICY.
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Volume XVII.
RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1903.
Number 48.
AGRICULTURE
HARRY FARMER'S TALKS.
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Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
How much feed must I give my
hogs to make them gain a pound in
weight ?
This question is continually com
ing up and. is so important that it
should be discussed until every f arm
er is familiar .with the subject.
Take corn as a basis and these fig
ures are about correct. A good
thrifty pig of an average breed of
hogs will gain in the summer ten
pounds in weight for every bushel
of corn consumed. "When the weath
er gets cold it will gain about eight
pounds if the average temperature
does not fall below 45 degrees. When
it goes below that point and the pig
is left out in an open pen so that it
does not have any protection, except
ing a little straw for bedding, it will
not gain any thing at all when the
temperature falls beiow 28 degrees
"TV, and will only gain about one
pound for every 2 degrees F. above
that point.
Farmers have long apro learned
that hoprs kept during hard freezing
weather do not gain but oftentimes
actually lose in weight. We have of
ten noticed this and have abandoned
the plan of keeping our bacon hogs
later than the 10th of January.
So any one can tell about whether
it pays to buy corn or meat. If corn
is worth 65 cents a bushel in Chica
go hogs will sell on the same market
for IV2 to 8 cents per pound live
weight. This is the main reason why
meat was so high the past summer.
With a large crop of corn we may ex
pect lower prices for meat.
We want some tobacco raisers to
give their experience with the differ
ent kinds of tobacco. Mr. Moye
might give his experience along this
line. He lives in what might be
termed the new tobacco belt.
Do you send your children to
school? If not, -why do you keep
them at home ? You know John and
Mary are growing very fast and soon
will be grown. How would you like
to see John treated like the negroes
last fall when they could not register
because they could not read and
write? He will be treated the same
way. The grandfather clause may
be upset bf the courts, but that will
only make matters worse for the ignorant.
This is only a very small reason
why we should educate our children.
We have resolved to give our chil
dren an education if we do not have
anything else to give them. Our lot
so far has been less easy for the lack
of education, and we know that of
our children will be far worse if they
are left to grow into manhood more
ignorant than we.
HARRY FARMER.
Columbus Co., N. C.
More About the High Point Poultry
Show.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
We herewith hand you premium
list of the Second Annual Show of
The North Carolina Poultry Asso
ciation to be held in High Point, N.
C, January 16-20, 1903.
While the management has thought
proper to make the entry fees on
single birds 50 cents and on pens
$2.00, yet we would call your atten
tion to the greatly increased regular
premiums, and the most splendid list
of specials.
We have secured the Cox Hall in
which to hold our show, located on
corner of North Main and Washing
ton Streets which is right in the
heart of the city. This hall has large
windows on all sides and is undoubt-
t.
edly the best lighted show room in
the State. The hall will be brilliant
ly lighted with electricity at night,
and we have arranged for musical
and other attractions for each even
ing. This will be the last show of
the season, and here will be assem
bled the many prize winners of other
shows to fight to a finish the last bat
tle. Our judges, G. O. Brown and Dr.
S. T. Lea, are of national reputation,
and the ribbons received from these
noted judges at this great show will
be worth many dollars to the owner
of birds winning them.
All birds on exhibition at Char
lotte Show can leave there the morn
ing of 16th and arrive at High Point
at noon, and will be admitted to
Show Room provided they have been
properly entered prior to January
12. We take great pleasure in stat
ing that Gov. Charles B. Aycock will
deliver an address on the night of
the 16th, which we feel sure will be
-highly entertaining.
The annual meeting of The North
Carolina Poultry Association will be
held Saturday night, 17th, and every
North Carolina poultryman not al
ready a member should be present
and join the Association and thus
help us bring the Old North State
to the front as a poultry producing
State.
A. E. TATE, President.
JAS. P. KERR, Secretary.
Good Farming in Halifax. ' -Editor
of The Progressive Farmer :
Well, Mr. Editor, as I have read
so many letters in The Progressive
Farmer about good farming in dif
ferent parts of the State, I would
like for you to know what some of
our farmers are doing in old Halifax
County. I will mention two of them :
First, Mr. J. E. Glasgow, who
started a poor boy with no capital.
Now he owns 1,000 or 1,200 acres of
good land. It would do any one good
to go with Mr. Glasgow over his farm
I went with him to look at his hogs
Christmas day. He has 27 head in
his low grounds that would have
made between 4,000 and 5,000 pounds
of pork if killed then, and they were
not half done eating up the peas.
Mr. Glasgow is a progressive farmer,
and makes a plenty of everything to
eat he told me that he cleared $7,000
on his farm in 1901, and last year
(1902) about $1,000.
Next, Mr. J. D. Brown, who has
a one-horse'farm. He made 10 bales
of cotton, $700 of tobacco sold at
barn door, not strips, 75 bushels of
field peas, 100 bushels peanuts, 25
gallons syrup, 30 barrels corn, 6
stacks of fodder, and of peavine hay
he doesn't know how much. How is
that for a bad crop year? If this
escanes the waste basket you will
hear from me again.
LEONIDAS.
Halifax Co., N. C.
From Guilford.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer :
Wheat has a fine stand here; some
think it is rather too thick. It looks
well in Chatham where I saw it and
it was well put in, lands were well
prepared. Fine turnips every where
heard from, and all vegetables have
been abundant except Irish potatoes.
Our people do not plant extensively.
The seasons are so unfavorable some
years that they are cut short so much
that many people do not like to take
the risk. But the man that has large
quantities of old straw or pine or
oak leaves can grow potatoes almost
any year if he will plant at the prop
er time and then, as they begin to
come through, let them be covered
very deep whenjthere is a good sea
son in the land. The potatoes plant
ed for cultivation should not be plow
ed deep but scrape the top surface
lightly. Be sure in all cases to give
them a plenty of feed, say 800 to
1,000 pounds of good high-grade
guano to the acre, well stirred. Give
good food and plentiful with the
proper attention.
You may think this statement too
soon, but let your plans be in your
mind long before the time for execu
tion. Now is the time to get all
things ready. Haul in and pile your
litter near by. -As a class, farmers
study their calling in all its parts
very little, and I am often surprised
at the questions asked how to do
this and when to plant. Brains and
labor must go in concert to succeed.
R. R. MOORE.
Guilford Co., N. C.
Agricultural Movement Toward Canada.
American farmers are going to
Canada by the thousand. "Free land,"
once the brightest attraction to the
United States, may no longer serve to
attract the industrious here, and
Canada has become indeed the land
of promise. In two great movements
settlers from this country are going
to the dominion. One of these move
ments is towards the province of On
tario, where 25,000,000 acres of good
farming lands await settlement. The
American Company, of which W. H.
Utt, of Chicago, is solicitor, is being
established to take advantage of this.
The other great movement is into
Manitoba. .The first is intended to
draw the farmers of the middle West.
The second to attract the grain rais
ers of the far West. Here is a view
of the situation as set forth by a
Canadian official, and it is most sug
gestive of changing conditions here:
"The United States, with reference
particularly to the middle West, is
composed of tenant farmers. It is
impossible for these farmers to ob
tain the land they cultivate. This
land is held by the few, the men of
wealth. The farmer, even though he -were
able, cannot purchase the land,
because the wealthy few will not sell.
He cannot own his home if he con
tinue to live in' the United States.
He cannot go elsewhere in the coun
try and obtain land. All the govern
ment properties have been taken.
There is no available farm land in
America, so-called." -Chicago Rural-Voice.
"I think," said Mr. Dooley, "I
wouldn't like to be an iditor, after
all. I sometimes wonder why they
don't come out with a line printed
acrost th' first page: 'We don't know
anything about it, an' we don't care,
an' what business iv ye'ers is it, any
how V " "I shud think th' wurruk
wuld kill thim," said Mr. Henessy,
sadly. "It does," said Mr. Dooley,
''Manny gr-reat iditors is dead,"
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