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CnKJGt::.Q 7 ME COLLEGE TO THE FARMER, PAOE 12 1 .. 4' Vn r--f Si' CI :i m': ,, iiv , M W V ) A Farm and Home Weekly for North and South Carolina. Virginia. Tennessee, and (Ipnrmn Vol XXV. Ho. 28. ' RAU3CH, N. C, JULY 16, 1910. Weekly; $1 Year. t V . ' . , . . ' ' "" " " ' H6vi the Other Fell dp is Beating Vs. JT should be remembered that Mr. Poe 's recent tetters 11 What I Saw in the Middle West' referred only to the part of the West he saw referred only to his trip through the richer parts of Illinois' and Wisconsin, He has not pretended that there - are no poor farmers or poor farming in the West. But the cold statistical fact that the average income per farm worker in 1900 was only $189 for Alabama, Louisiana and Mississ ippi, and only $184 for North Car olina, South Carolina and Virginia as compared with $663 for, Iowa, Indiana and Illinois is enough to suggest to any man that, men t of common sense who) like to face facts as they are, may learn something of value from our Western brethren! And what they may learn cannot, .perhaps,- be better r or ptore tellingly ztti forth than the illustration herewith which shows, that the expla-; nation of why the farmer in Iowa, Indiana and Illinois makes over three times as much a year as the farmer) in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina is', because the Westerner ( 1) uses over four times as much horsepower, (2) fust five times' the value of improved implements, and ( 3) cultivates nearly three times as many acres; white ( 4) 'the Western farmers in these States not only keep nearly five times as many milk cows in proportion to number as our Southern farmers, but sell an average of $212 worth of live stock for , each farm worker, against only $23 for the average farm worker in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. We rejoice to say thaf conditions have improved greatly since 1900, but the essentiat principles remain the same now as then, and this illustration of statistical facts is convincing proof that the South's main agricultural - needs are : . ( 1) More and. better toots; u (2) More and better horses to work them with (3) More dairying.and stock raising. -':':,h-"')::1 v ' We can beat the Westerner farming when we once make up our minds to cfo it, and we believe we are fast coming to that frame of mind. These same Western letters brought us a letter Jane 10th from a Western agricultural editor rvho while : re gretting that alt the West is not so progressive as the section Mr, Poe visited, yet spoke frankly of a trip to one of our South' ern States last year : "I was very much surprised" he says, to. see how wasteful the farmers, are in that State, also the crude implements they were using. But I longed for the great climate that your Southland possesses, also the long growing season. Why, here we are the 10th of June and some qf our farmers have not finished planting corn, and frost may come before this is matured.' t),)- -.-f ;V : , - -U This paragraph from this editor's tetter tells the whole tory in a nutshell. " Wasteful methods," "crude implements," but a climate and growing season that make the Northern and Western farmer jealous with envy And as soon as our South ern farmers begin to combine the Western farmer's economy improved implements, better horses,, and stock raising with our MASSACHUSETTS VIRGINIA IOWA ALABAMA ; NEW YORK NORTH CAROLINA INDIANA LOUISIANA PENNSYLVANIA SOUTH CAROLINA ILLINOIS MISSISSIPPI AVERAGE ANNUAL INCOME PER FARMWORKER AVERAGE NUMBER ACRES CULTIVATED PER FARM WORKER AVERAGE. VALUE tttM 'IMPLEMENTS:- PER FARM WORKER .-. $150 (fun -5i -. $22. AVERAGE NUMBER , OFHORSESanoNULES PER FARM WORKER AVERAGE NUMBER MILK COWS PER FARM WORKER AVERAGE AMOUNT RECEIVED FROM SALE OF LIVE STOCK FOR FARMWORKER 1.38 .77 .56 :::jlt:::: i $iia ' $36. C "ji 2.56 .59 $68. $23, $13, SOMW FIGURES THAT TELL THE WHOLE STORY. own unrivaled advantages in climate and length of growing season then indeed will we be in sight of the time, 'as Mr. Walter Page says, when the farmer in the old slave States "will be' come the most prosperous tiller of the earth."' But the first step is to acknowledge that right now the other fellow is beating, us, then recognize these pays that en able him to do it and. then change our own methods. ; INDEX OF THIS ISSUE.. A Big Drainage Proposition That Pays 57Q Better Prices for Eggs and Batter. ' 578, 582 Breeds of Swine Tamworths, Hampshires and Mule-Foots. ..... 578 Clemson . College Extension Work 580 Get the Bulletins of Your State Health Department ........... . 576 Have You a System of Home Water-Works? ............... 575 Health Conditions in the Country School . . . . , .'. ..... . . ... . . 574 now Typhoid Fever is Spread. . ..... ......... . . v . . ... . . . . . . -581 Intercultural Fertilization i 570 Losses of Cattle From Death by Texas Fever , ............... 570 Mid-Summer Work in the Corn Field . ........ . ... . . . . .t... . . 573 Permanent Pastures for the South. n. .' ....... 572 ' Sorghum as a Hay Crop. i ........ . 571 "What's the News?". V. ......... 577 When Good Looks Are Worth Money 583 When You Go to the Farmers Institute i .... ..-. 570 Why Peas Fail to Bear 570 Winter Grazing and Cover , Crops. 571
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