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ISouth A Farm and Home Weekly for North and , Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. Vol XXV. Ho. 13. RALEIGH, N. C. APRIL 2, 1910. Weddy: $1 a Year. The True Test of Success LoVe for One's Work ITiif the coming of the first days of real spring weather No man can do his best at any work he does not love. The the true farmer again feels the lure of the soil and hears farmer who does not love his farm the very ground he walks tfie caH of the fields. To one who has followed the plow on an April morning when the whole world was pulsing with the thrill of newly awakened life, and the reviving warmth of the sunshine had in it the infinite promise of endless harvests, there remains always something subtly inspiring and wonderfully satisfying in the odor of the crumbling soil, the glint of the sunshine on the fresh-turned furrows, and the rattle of the traces as the team swings leis ure ly aro u n d at the -corners. v, Who that has once known these things does not find a great, wholesome joy in the planting of the seed in the expectant soil, in watching the unsteady steps of the young calves and colts as they take their first journey afield, in the ministration to the needs of tree and vine and tender garden plant that is called for -with each- succeeding spring ? The man who has once caught the spirit of the farm, who has felt the deep, elemental earth-thrill in his veins, will never out grow the old love and the old longings. This feeling, too, is peculiar to the best farm-ers-to those who love and understand and are glad . j nil i n e - y, -w, .v- , , j. 4l "' 1 A STUDY IN NEGLECT Here is a farm heme that should be and might be a thing of beauty ; but It fa not. A few treea. alawn, two or three well placed clumps of shrubbery, a vine or two, a few flowers about it, and how inviting it would be! On page 248, Mrs. F. L. Stevens has an article on the planning and planting ofthe home grounds, that we hope every man, as well as every woman, who gets this issue will read. Then, after reading it, we hope everyone will begin planning to make his or her home beautiful. While the best effects can come in any case only as the result of careful planning and minute attention to details, any planting of trees or shrubs or flowers will help in a case like this. , . Now is a good time to begin. Let us make the South a. land of beautiful farm homes. There 1s no reason for an unattractive home anywhere in the country." on who does not love his stock, his crops, the blossoming of the orchards, the rich hues of ripening grain fields and tasseling corn, the snowy fruitage of the cotton lands" arid the lolig sweep of the upland pastures, is not at all likely to make the same suc cess of his farming as is the man who sees something more than increased profits in the increasing richness of his fields and the increasing bounty of his crops. To feel the dignity of the labor that calls from the seemingly lifeless soil the food and clothing for all mankind, to know the great creative joy that comes from helping, to make this world of ours a fairer and a better place to live in, to walk hand in hand, as it were, with Nature's self and realize one's elemental kindship with all the uni verse these are the privi JLegesofferedjtoth efarm--er whose soul, as well as his muscle, is devoted to his work; and to him they bring a joy far more deep and abiding than can come from any mere financial success, 'j is great to be a suc cessful farmer, even when success is measured by dollars and cents; but the greatest and truest of their work, and who get more than a living out of their farm- success is the spirit that enables one to feel that his work is ingto whom it is a life; full, satisfying, fruitful and joyful, good and to do it with gladness. FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE OARINQ FOR THE SWEET TOTATO BED . 311 OATJSTIO LIME OR GROUND LIMESTONE 294 0ID3APEST WORK DONE BY MACHINERY . . 290 DDjJT FOR SPRING DAYS 303 EARMAND GARDEN WORK FOR APRIL ... 294 HOW TO DOUBLE THE CORN YIELD PLANTING - 295 WDEX FOR JANUARY, FEBRUARY AND MARCH . . . . ... . . 315 KEEPING UP SODL FERTILITY 297 LETTERS TO THE FARMER BOY' TI. 308 MAKING SURE OF A STAND...... 298 PLANNING AND PLANTING THE HOME GROUNDS 302 SELECT GOOD POULTRY FOR BREEDING STOCK. . . 310 STARTING THE BREEDING OF BEEF CATTLE 300 THE COTTON ROOT-LOUSE. 300 THE PROBLEM OF OUR TIME. 307 TOBACCO PRICES REALLY LOW. 299 TWELVE THINGS TO DO HIIS MONTH 301 "USE LESS FIRE AND MORE SENSE" 304 WHAT FARMERS WANT FROM'CO NGRESS .... 305
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