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South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Vol XXV. No. 31.
RALEIGH, N. C, AUGUST 6, 1910.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
A PERSONAL LETTER TO MR. SUBSCRIBER
Office of
regular price till January would be 45 cents, this
is nearly half-price and we'll give any man's
money back if not satisfied.
Now, such an offer just can't be, resisted, and
all-you'll -have to - do-is-to tell your -neighbor.
Even if he seems a little coy at first, his declin
ing will be like that of the Asiatic belle in those
eloquent lines:
"There was a young lady from Siam,
Who said to her lover named Priam,
To kiss me, of course, .
You'll have to use force; v
But the Lord knows you are stronger than
I am." "J
Withuan offer like this half-price and money
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND GAZETTE,
Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 4, 1910.
Dear Mr. Subscriber: .
This. Mr. Subscriber, is a personal letter, a
verypersonal "letter7:to "T0U" whose" name" ap
pears on the little label herewith.
I want your helpw ...
You see, I have long "said that I was going to
start around the world this fall.
I am going. ,
But I have also said that before starting I was
going to get 20,000 more subscribers than there
arq now on our books. '
I must get them. " t , . "
That much is settled; I have told you before back if not satisfied the Lord knows you are'
about Uncle Remus's story of Bre'r Rabbit climb
ing the tree. You ' remember Bre'r Wolf with
blood in his eye had chased Bre'r Rabbitt relent
lessly, closed right in on him, and in an another
minute would have his teeth, clamped right on
Bre'r Rabbit's back V
"And right then," said Uncle Remus, "Bre'r
Rabbit, h dumb a tree."
"Climbed a tree?" exclaimed the Little Boy.
"But you know rabbits can't climb trees."
"Mebbe dey can and mebbe'dey cain't." " said
Uncle Remus. "All I know is that Bre'r Rabbit.
was jest erbleeged to climb a tree jest erbleeged
to do it en' he dumb. it."--
I am "jest erbleeged" to get 20,000 more sub
scribers this month and I am Koine to get 'em.
stronger than any little indifference on your
neighbor's part, and you won't have to use much;
force to land his subscription, and if you do, we'll
pay the costs. ' "
And now to the work. You have some kins
folk, Mr. Subscriber, whom you can get under
this 25-cent offer; you have some neighbors who
are not kin to you; you have some tenants; you
have some town friends who own farms: all these
-should be captured, and again the watchword
should be: "Let no guilty man escape no man
guilty of trying to farm or keep house without
The Progressive Farmer and Gazette." v
I am enclosing a subscription blank with this
copy of The Progressive Farmer and Gazette, and
I hope you will put it in your pocket, and keep
your eyes peeled for every non-subscriber who
gets in sight of you these next few weeks. At
your neighbor's house, at the mill, at the store, at
the picnic, at the Farmers' Union meeting, at the
Saturday church meeting: be ready for every
guilty man and nab him.
You' remember the old Puritan of Indian days
who, when asked, why he always carried a rifle
believing, as he did, that when a man's time came
to die, he'd die anyhow, and that was all there
was to it, answered: "True enough, but what If
I should meet an Indian whose time had come,
iind me without a gun?" And . so as religiously
o qtt f nr rnn' in cat ' -. - i i i m. v, .
the thr t vv .ovw as the puritan carried ma nue, bo we.uuie yvu
ee, four, five, or six we are expectiig from fl.ra Anr cnWrintinn hianic? von tiavat can
tell when you may meet some non-subscriber
whose time has come not to die but to subscribe.
More than this, we are' going to pay you, and
early Ave months for only pay you handsomelyfor all the work you do for
ee&ta. TTnr avatv 2 K-cent subscriber you eet we'll
Anybody can give you a t uarter and as the , credit you two months on your label (unless you
-Take your own individual case. Mr. Subscriber.
I know you have a -number of neighbors and.
friends who ought to be taking the paper but are
t. It would not only help them to take the
Paper, but it would help the neighborhood.
And now that crops are laid by, I want you to
elp us get these folks into the fold,
But you may say that farmers have little money
iat this time of year. Very" well,' we have fore-
. , tnis objection and have headtd it off com
pletely. . , ,
You needn't ask any man for a dollar for
year's subscription. To insure these 20.000 sub--
ana to make It dead
6 three. our. five. oVsix w
you. rft i,n. . . . -
- ueciaea to make the following re
markable and fetching offer:
p any man not now getting The Progressive
armer we will send it every week from now till
, nearly ftv
40
choose some other premium), renew you a whole
year for six quarter-subscriptions, and in addition
to all this, we are going to give an extra cash
prize i of $1 for the largest list received each day
from any subscriber, while the subscriber from
whom we receive the largest list each week will
get $5 cash. For the very largest list sent in be
tween August 10 and September 10, moreover, we
shairgiyea 7 5 buggy; f or the next . largest list
sent by a woman, a first-class sewing machine,
and for the next largest list sent by a man, a pure
bred Poland China, Berkshire, or Duroc Jersey pig.
These prizes will not not be, open to persons
regularly employed as agents, but only to sub
scribers. Even if you get only orie or two sub
scribers, you get well paid in, credit on your la
bel; put yourself tb a very little trouble and you
may get . the daily prize besides, while a deter
mined effort any week may get you the weekly
prize i or the $75 buggy. But don't worry about
the big prizes: what we are most, anxious for is
to get eveiy subscriber to send us from one to six
25-cent subscribers.
Of course, you know the paper well enough to
talk it, and talk all its features, and you may al
ways tell a man that if he isn't satisfied he may
have his money back for the asking. And then,
as I said in the outset, I am going to start around
the world for The Progressive Farmer and Ga
zette the last of August and write up all my
travels and experiences for the benefit of our
great Progressive Farmer 1 and Gazette Family.
These letters will begin in September, and every
25-cent subscriber will be in time for them.
You will find the blank in this paper, and I
hope you will make use of it. Fill it, up and
send it back. : . . "
Hoping to have a big list from you, I am,
Yours cordially,
Editor-in-Chief.
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
Ten Things to Do in August. ............. 3
Pasture Questions Answered .3, 5
You Can Send Your Boy or Girl to College. O
Hut Clover and Its Uses 3
Management of the Boar '. ................ 10 .
Cost of Building a Silo 12
Preparation for Fall Garden".... 15
Farm and Garden in August. ............. 2
South Carolina Farmers Union Meeting. ... 12
Boys, Don't Pull Fodder. ................ 13
What Medical Authorities Teach About Drink
ing . I........ 15
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