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t r and SoiMOM MSHTOtt PROGRESSIVE FARMER VOL. XIX. NO. 50. TILE COTTON PLANT VOL. XXL NO. 49. Tie Progressive Farmer AND THE COTTON PLANT. (Consolidated September 27, 1904.) Entered at Raleigh N. C, as second class mall matte CLARENCE H. POB, B. W. KILO ORB. 1 C W. BURKETT, J Editor and Manager. Agricultural Editors. HOTES FROM PROF. WILLIAMS. About The Progressive Farmer, A Valuable Free Book for Stockmen, and Alfalfa Growing. The best thing in the papers this week "is the announcement that Editor Poe declines the offer to the editorship of the New York magazine and will remain in charge of The Progressive Farmer. It is my conviction that no place in the world to-day is so inviting to a young man of construc tive mental power as the South. Great things are to be done here in the present generation. We have come into our constructive period. And the South intends to deal well with those of her sons who love her and know how to servo her. I believe a Mot r u rw- circle. They are wide awake and keen to go for ward. They will support you, Mr. Editor. If I may pass from this pleasing fact to stock raising, I should like to say that if you wish a valuable book, write to your Congressman and ask for a copy of the Twentieth Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry. This report con tains an article of one hundred pages on the man agement and feeding of pigs. You will get valua ble information from it. And if your Congress man is as good a one as mine, he will be glad to send it to you. Another thing I have learned is how to get a good field of alfalfa. Try this plan, if you are interested. Select a half acre near your feeding place. It must be well drained and good land. Give it as much stable manure as you can spare this spring. It is a little place, so plow it deep and harrow it fine. Then sow cow peas on it. Then in September, if the cow peas are not too rank, plow them under, running a cutaway harrow over them first. Then make a solid, fine seed bed and sow 10 pounds best alfalfa seed. In May this plot should be ready for mowing. And you can cut it every thirty days. Whenever you can spare a load of stable manure, spread it on the alfalfa. H. H. WILLIAMS. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A Progressive Fanner's Comment on Our Last Issue. Messrs. Editors: I send my renewal for this year, 1905; I am more pleased than ever with the paper. The last number, January 24th, was one of the best of all the good numbers. Charles Petty has some good ideas on health, planting oats, and exhausting land. Deep plough ing? thorough harrowing,, and double cropping with cow peas and clover is fine. Our dairyman friend, C. C. Moore, is a plum, pointed, spicy writer, and always gives good ad vice. He is small in statute, but has a large brain, and full of energy. And all farmers should take RALEIGH, N. C, JANUARY 31, 1905. Weekly $1 a Year. his advice about cows and keeping farm accounts j. nave Deen xaKinsr an mvfmtnrv nt nw nnoaoooinTia twice a year (January 1st and June 1st when I list ior taxes; every year tnat 1 have farmed for 40 years, and wHpti nnmm &r naA -! o-nI-i - - ' wwv-Ms,v Jiaublug, CbU aiUUUilli of crops made; and all the important events and worK aone o ntne farm. I often refer to it to know what laborers, stock, etc., employed that year and the number of horses, mules, cattle, etc. I practice Professor Burkett's advice as to feed ing the cotton seed to stock, and it pays better than any other plan. Dr. Freeman always gives something good about home comforts, health, terracing, deep plow ing etc.; and he writes like he talks, in an open, frank, honest style. H. W. King's advice about saving money is good. The farmers lose a great deal by not read ing our agricultural papers, by which they would often avoid the impositions practiced on them by. unscrupulous agents. And when you want any4 thing go to your own merchants or manufacturers and buy a good article and pay for it, and he will always give you satisfaction. Yoiir Pflitnriflla this xxrfcr o to err an A n-nA emrA - u vm.m w. xvsu maw fiuuu AA JSKJLm And as loner as vou writp that spare you. Stay with us in North and South Car olina, and hfiln lis to ficrht nnr nxxrrt Vofloa a-nA An- w -w qMV WwBA ? u lUVUVU UUU IPihiis.fioplj-Jarid ofjours. And it .will .arum- .,f.notinna rt Inst TOOoV in "TTlA R PMT) rtlcl D fT OT a Rural Commonwealth" "Improvement of Public Roads:" "Better Methods of Rural Education;" "School Libraries ;""Rural Mail Delivery and Tele phones;" "Farmers' Clubs;". "The Old-time far mer and his Modern Prototype" all of which I enjoyed so much and will file away and read it over and over again. I hope our farmers will take Brother Parker's advine and stand nat: hold fast to the cotton and reduce the acreage. They have been talking it for years, but every one thinks the other fellow will n-pt. nhpnrL and so thev ero on in the old rut until they have cut it so deep that they can't travel it now. Twelve years ago I cut my cotton crop one-half to ten acres to the horse, and doubled, the mm. wheat, oats. hav. cattle, hoes: and have been making an independent living, educating the chil dren and improving the land. And if Sam Archer will come to see us, we can set him down to some good country hams and ii t x. x sausage, some good nome-maae patent uuur ground at the Mecklenburg Roller .Mill, and nome raised corn bread, and a mess of big or lye hominy, with a dessert of peaches and Jersey cream, or strawberry pie. Have sold more than half my cotton at iu cents and have the balance stacked away, and will hold on with tar, pitch and turpentine grit, notwith standing! held some last year from 16 cents to 11 cents. . . Rr vmi spft T am trulv a loyal farmer. And I hare no idea now of going back to the ante-bellum or extensive cotton planting system of farming, but will continue to work less land and more thor rvn rrTi 1 xt rfl?sA mnre nro visions, more stock, more manure, and use improved implements with mod ern, practical methods. 1 would like tor our iarm rra to trv this plan for a few years, and they will be in better condition. Well, there are many other good articles that I would like to notice from your good correspond ents, but it "would make this letter too long, and I am afraid the reading would be dull. But I en joy them all the Home Circle, Social Chat, Read ing Course, and all. - With good wishes for them all, and great prosperity for The Progressive Farmer and may its field of usefulness be greatly enlarged. W. E. AUDREY. Mecklenburg Co., N. C. THOUGHTS FOR FARMERS. Give the Girls a Chance. . The daughters of well-to-do farmers do not have full work. They cannot do ordinary "farm work with their father and brothers. Those living in the cotton sections may pick cotton a few weeks, but they are not fully employed the balance ' of the year. Why not turn over the poultry to the . girls? It is a pleasant and interesting business. Besides The Progressive Farmer, take some first class poultry paper. Let the girls charge the fam ily with all the eggs and fowls used at home and keep an account of sales. In this way the father will get a valuable lesson as to value of poultry as well as of girls. Bear in mind that two dozen turkeys averaging 12 pounds each are now worth as much as a bale of cotton. Another suitable business for girls is raising bees and honey. That is light work and quite remunerative in good honey years. A girl might have a liking for cattU and then she should have charge of the milk and butter. That would be an excellent training for. ward to lmowow to" 'Ao things tiiat have, to be done in every family. Give the girls the best chance possible. The Tenant System. For years we have been watching the tenant system. It is generally injurious to land. There will be little subsoiling, sowing of small grain, planting of fruit trees, terracing and ditching, when tenants rent land from year to year. The best plan for the landlord is to hire his plow hands the year round. Then he controls the farm. He can either hire the hoeing and picking cotton, or he can do all the plowing and let hands hoe and gather crops, receiving one-third after expenses for fertilizer and ginning are paid. The next best method is to furnish stock and let the tenants do all the work and receive one-half. That is about the rule in the Piedmont section of this State. It is quite noticeable that the farmer who owns his : farm animals and directs the work, improves his land every year. Any farm cultivated by short . term tenants with poor stock, will go down until no one will live on it. CHARLES PETTY. Spartanburg Co., S. C. INDEX TO THIS ITUMBER. A Business Talk, The Editor 4 A-Progressive Farmer's Comments . on Our Last Issue, W. E. Ardrey ....... 1 ...... 1 Bee-Keeping Notes, S. W. - 3 Brief Notes About Fertilizers, E. E. Miller. . 2 Building a Silo, C. C. Moore 3 Current Events : Editorial Review. 8 Damaged Cotton Will Sell Lower, C. B. Howard 11 Feeding Horses, C. W. Burkett. ............ . 3 . . Fertilizer Prices : A Correction. 5 Hold Your Cotton, H. C. D. ...... . . . ....... 11 New Orleans Cotton Convention Reviewed. .. 5 Notes from Prof. H. H. Williams. 1 Terracing Land, John McDowell. 2 Thoughts for Farmers, Charles Petty .1 Winter on the Farm, D. L Departments on usual pages: Home Circle, 6 Social Chat, 7; State News, 12; General News, 13; Teachers' Reading Course, 14; Sunshine, 16; Markets, 16. - -1 ;(:- ii 5 $ A I I 1 J j t h -;! : 1 1 ''I X ' 1 r -1 .
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