Newspapers / The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, … / June 20, 1905, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
I L and G)e KM01 Wimt PROGRESSIVE FARMER VOL. XX. NO. 19. THE COTTON PLANT VOL. XXIL NO. 18. RALEIGH, N. C, JUNE 20, 1905. Weekly $1 a Year. m rrooressive farmer AND THE COTTON PLANT. (Consolidated September 27, 1904.) Entered at llalelgh, N. C, as second class mall matter. CLARENCE H POB, B. W. KlLGORfu, 1 C. W. BURKBTT, J Editor and Manager. Agricultural Editors. THOUGHTS FOR FARMERS. The Food Question. Very few of the intelligent farmers know how much it costs to furnish their table one year. Nearly all of them use and waste much more food than is necessary. Our Southern people have in herited a liberal hospitality. If the editor of The Progressive Farmer should visit the home of any of his well-to-do readers, he would find enough food on the table for twice the number to be fed. It falls to the lot of the writer now and then to .eat with a tenant on the farm. - With no servant to feed, we have seen fried ham on the table suf ficient for the breakfast of five or six people, when there were only three to eat. If the family has a pig or two, the surplus can go to them, but it is a bad habit to cook extravagantly. Children get erroneous ideas of economy. We knew a woman once who would have two or three kinds of meat on the table and for desert several kinds of pre serves, pies and cakes. The whole layout was m exceedingly bad taste and far from appetizing. Every mother of a family should study rigid econ omy "in cooking. At the same meal there should be no vulgar variety as though one was trying to make a display. Cook just enough for the need of the familv and no more. Better be a little short rather than have a lot of food left over. But even with care there will be "left overs," but the careful manager will have savory hash or meat pies out of the scraps of meat, and biscuits and loaf bread will go into toast. What Does Food Cost? Mrs. Alice Brice kept the mess hall at Erskine College, Due West, S. C. She received a salary. vera, frxf otnrlpTita TVfla &7.00 a month. With that she hired cooks and waiters, bought food and fuel, and at the end of the year she had ieit as a surnlus $235.00. which was divided amongst the 1 students. There were no complaints as to quantity or qualtiy of food. The cost was about Sit n o .V. TV. Vio Viomtk TchprA fuel IS not r ' ' il -XJ XL 11.1 a v- " Viirfvl and a crood cow or two kept the table expenses will be brought down Drettv low rrnvirlp1 tbo farmer makes his own bread, garden truck and potatoes. The thrifty everv day and Sundav at $2.50 to $3.00 a month, provided tlA ho a ennd luiio supplies aii uuuic, j.v w o lesson for children, especially the girls to study Kitchen economy. The rench women are saiu x-u d thev can take the euld odds and ends of a meal, usually wasted in the. Smith nnrl ort nr nn oxp-ellent dinner or supper. We saw a young professional man start ing out in thp rirrht wnv n few daVS agO. He boivllt O esMm knna DOl'll TTTn TTTlll Pflfllf that ;i 1 1 , 1 f-,,f v .r T V, -f liMaVfaot on1 the balance with the bone will give us fine soup f"r dinner "Vnthinrr will ha wasted in that home. More Cows Needed. Ihis week a business man from this county said that he had ridden a day or two in search of cattle. He could buy only a few poor ones. Every day small calvps -from twn dava to two months old are brought to this market. The farmers seem io think that they cannot afford to raise cattle. If they pursue the sone plan a few years they will be buying or doing without milk and butter. Fresh milch cows now bring $30.00 to $40.00. These same calves sold to-the butcher at $1.50 to $2.50, if fed well would bring $10.00 to $15.00 when a year old. Every farmer should endeavor to raise a surplus cow or two every year. It does not cost as much to raise a milch cow as a bale of cotton. A few acres of land set in Bermuda grass and a few acres of sorghum will feed several cattle a year, especially if a little pea vine hay and cot ton seed meal are added. CHAS. PETTY. Spartanburg, S. C. Thoughts for Tobacco Farmers. Messrs. Editors : I would Dref er to write on mv pxTp.ripnfp nu a -fnrmpr with -fruit- whp.ftt nr nther farm products if I were not more interested in tobacco and in sympathy with the growers, as I know from experience of a life-time of about sixty years, that tobacco cost the average farmer more hard and constant labor, -more outlay oi monev than anv other croD. and no marerin at present price,' unless you are so fortunate as to be ijavorabl- situated, and owner of a kind of land that, will nrndnop. thp finest tvne. Even in this case, the profit is small, while the average of all the tobacco sold -on the largest loose tobacco mar ket m the world falls below the cost of .produc tion paused bv the A. T. Comnanv holdinjr the situation and keeping back "the marginal part of the price" of the raw material that the iarmers ought to justly have to build up the waste places on the farms, and bring about a better ieeling and prosperous conditon to all directly or in directly connected in the growing of tobacco. Brother tobacco srrower. why is it we are reap ing nothing on an average for our investment? I say it is our fault. We should have organized immediatelv after the organization of the A. T. Company and controlled the price of the rightful part of the raw material or stop the production. This is a day in the progress of time that or ganized capital should be met by a similar organ ization, and rights and equity demanded in a bus iness way by our competent and business farm ers. Farmers in other branches of industry are or ganized and organizing, commanding the price, succeeding comparatively well, with a bright fu ture -fnr -fnrthpr nrosrress. and why not the to bacco farmers learn by the experience of other branches of organization in agriculture and hor- 11 in line with the Tobacco Grow ers' Protective Association, and let us unitedly work for better prices ? The proceeds will be dis tributed over a larger area, and reach more needy destitute persons. m , tv. nf .pntMnnfi into the Tobacco (jrrowers Protective Association stands ajar, for all grow ers of tobacco to enter in, and why not help vour brother farmer in preference to the A. T. Com- . i,;v. ia i-inh rind srrowinsr richer? It will inrpnsft as loner as we iarmers will make tobacco below cost ot production, and act the humble part of a slave to a rich monopoly that does not care for our welfare only when we come in contact or cripple their interest. -rru -p tho "RnVht. Tobacco Belt of Virginia and North Carolina, take the case. You are the a:a whih sirlft vou will work on for the A. T. Company, their wives and children, of 1 Rtnp.kholders are worth thou- sand3, even millions of dollars, you have helped to make up to date, by tne oiuyuuj ixux- i u t,q nnVo nf vour tobacco that you so iustly ought to have, or will you come out like an J r.ii x D1- nnrl demand your rights through the Tobacco Growers' Protective Asso ciation, fight and work for the betterment of 1.1. A -mm - your brotner tobacco iarmer, who is oppresesd and have to work in slavedom to live to make ends meet each succeeding year ? This Association is well organized and equip ped with good officers, State and county, in good shape for business, plans thoughtfully considered, that to be -efficient must have at least eighty per cent of the farmers in the Bright Belt, and you, reader of this article, we need your help ; will you longer put off a known duty to help the needy and oppressed? If you can write, and your county is not organized, write at once for our Inter-State President, S. A. Adams, Bed Oak, Va. Call a mass-meeting and Brother Adams will make you a speech that will convince you and all that hear him of the importance of the farmers organizing. Yours to serve, M. W. B. VEAZEY. Granville Co.. N. C. Dr. Freeman's Talks. Messrs. Editors : The farmer who is now activelv engaged in farming, if he learns much nlore about his business as a farmer he must learn by obser vation. He must learn not only from his own experience, but he must see what others are do-; ing. This seeing and the-how, as to other farmers actions, should engage the attention of every farmer. When you read about or hear about what Mr. A has done, you generally say : " I don't be lieve it!" And the reason you don't believe it is because you haven't been able to do so by. your manner or way of doing things. The thing for you to do my friend, is to go and -see for yourself if these things are so, and if so. find out how it was done. Compare Mr. A.'s way of doing things with your way, and you will more than likely find your way a poor one. Have more confidence in your neighbor, and go and see what he is doing and ask how he does things. Those of you who attended the farmers meeting at the A. & M. College last year know how much better it is to learn by observation than by any other way. I took the ground ta that meeting that it would be better to have small experimental stations at each county seat, than to have only one in the State, and farmers institutes in different parts of the State each year. As I have said, our farmers will learn by observation, but not from lectures. Kow if our agricultural department could estab lish small stations at each county seat in the State, our farmers could see at these "Stations in practical use what has been developed at the A. & M. College. By this arrangement all our farm ers would p-et the benefits of the operation of the State College at once, and the agricultural inter est of the State would be wonderfully benefited at once. I hone to see the State establish these prac-, tical small stations in reach of every farmer in the near future, but at present we must use the present arrangements and get the most out of them possible. Let every farmer begin now to ar range to go to the A. & M. College' for a few days this summer. One day spent there will do you more good than a whole year on your farm at home. Go, see, and learn the how, and then tell it to every one you see for a year, and you will help to fill the barnes and smoke houses of your neighbors, which means prosperity and happy, homes. H. F. FREEMAN. A little fresh-air child saw a herd of cows for the first time, and, after watching them chewing their cuds, in amazement, he said deprecatmgly to the farmer: "Oh, mister, do you have to buy gum for all those cows to chew ?" Chautauqua Assembly Herald. 4 i f 5i ' ;, mi,
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 20, 1905, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75