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Vol. X)lV. No. 22
The Sort of Horses and Tools
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Q UR readers will recall Mr.
Poe's recent letter on the
kingly farm horses of the
Middle Westhowhe traveled
hundreds of miles without see
ing a one-horse plow and how
the beauty of the farm horses
in Wisconsin he set out
to get for Progressive Farmer
and Gazette readers some pic
tures of these beautiful plow
teams at work and from the John Deere Co., Motine, III.,
he secured the typical photographs given herewith. In this
connection we also reprint a paragraph from Mr. Poe's
letter about these horses:
"I had never seen outside the pictures such beautiful
horses plowing as I saw on the way from Chicago 'here yes
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
Farm Work for June. 470
How We Could Improve Our Bad Roads 476
Improper Feeding Makes Inferior Horses 472
Infant Diseases and Infant Mortality 474 '
Keep Down the Weeds on the Farm 473
More Corn Necessitates More Live Stock , 480
Ten Things to Do This Month ...... 473
The Best Crops to Sow After Oats 472
The Open Door for the Farm Boy 481
Timely Garden Notes 470
What Farmers Want to Know About Horses 471
What I Saw in the Middle West ; 477
Why . We Need Drafw Stallions 478
Why We Need More Horses 470
Would You Like to Drive Six Tons of Horseflesh? 470
HORDE AND r.lULE GPECIAL
RALEIGH, N. C,
JUNE 4, 1910.
That HaVe Made
terdaybig, splendid, beautiful Percherons sweeping along
almost rhythmically, the rich, mellow soil crumbling swiftly
behind them in long, deep, straight furrows. Usually the
horses were two abreast, but very frequently there were
three or four great, gentle, well-kept fellows that it would
be a privilege for anybody to sit behind I shouldn't have
much respect for the farmer boy who wouldn't be prouder to
plow a couple of these beautiful animals than to be some
body else's hired man in town or to measure calico at some
cross-roads store. And when we get more of them down
South, every grown-up farmer, too, will feel more pride in
his business. Incidentally, let me say, we must begin-to
v breed more for farm work
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this cannot be while the average Southern farmer drives one
little mule. The mule may remain the great work animal in the
South; but the mule of the future will be much larger than the
average mule of the present, and when he goes across the fields
it will be in company with one or more of his mates.
Better work stock and more of it is essential if farming
in the South is ever to pay as it should.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
the West Rich
horses instead of coach and
trotting types."
When such outfits as those
shown here are the rule on
Southern farms when the in
efficient one-horse plow has
given way to modern imple
ments drawn by three or four
big mares or heavy mules,
then the farmers of the South
will rival in wealth and achiev
ment those of the West, but