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DOUOLE THE LIFE OF FAOCJ rJACHMEnY-PAGE 0. I ' A t arm and Home W eekly tor INorth tonal I South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. Vol XXV. Ho. 33. RALEIGH, N. C, AUGUST 20. 1910. Weekly: $1 a Yar T!h&. $ Day Dawning. 7T has been but a Utile while since we. ran across , the story of how farmers around Shreve port, La., last interor fhe first time found themselves with corn to sell instead of. tojbuypJing : the railroads had never even con- ; templated with the result that freight rates had to be read justed, as they were, and "hundreds of j cars of 1909 corn were shipped out of Shreveporti'white from the- depot at Belcher Station 'alone fourteen car ofhoks tyhre shipr& Straws Ifhbw Mckay 'ytfe'ffX wind blows-and, also s which i av I mm i P'yj i' ; , ' . i-f . josujw f"Fr' ? i-j, T. , - JLLr r - '.v . ?r , if 4 ' . . 1 -e cfc f tows, and ' straws like this show how the tide is turning in the South, ; Another straw, and a big one, which shows how the tide is turning and the new day dawning in the South, is this let ter just received from Dr. Li S. Rogers, of West, Miss. What the farmers of this little Mississippi town are doing, farmers around many and many another once sleepy Southern hamlei or village are now getfing ready to do and why not the farmers in your neigh borhood; Mr. 'Subscriber P fce quote Dr. Rogers' letter as Jo lows : i t rr- 4 w. :,! i f i 4. ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE MARKETED AT THE CHICAGO STOCK YARDS. "From what I see In jour paper, I think you are $ping a great work for the fanners of Mississippi. There is no.uesUQng1 tjitp fact that there is a great revolution going on t ge$lo " 'There were more sulky riding pUs, disi pJows, rjidipg cultivators smoothing harrpwsi etc., '.'ip hens t)i, year thaVv In the ten preceding years, people 'mfiujinis . herBe drlUsi threshers:' More bats were sown and ttireshed than ever petore jfcore hog wire sold. More im proved 1 bogs anld' cattle being bought than ever before. ' 'This : being true, any cue cau s that there is a gieat change being worked out by our farmers. That it will be for tbe ' good of tfifo whoe country, no one denies. Our Board of Supervisors, at last meeting, pass- n oruinance to unUectake to eradicate the cattle uck. xns ip jfrc tep forward for oiihes Oountyl 7t ls hspfd that the adjobiin counties Poultry beef cattle are shp frw -re rlfWShe hoi ;jSf4aW'ie;bo4yyiip me,, hj tle ajeot. January 1st to August 1st, 11,073 pounds of butter,'515 cases, of eggs, J'0 pounds of poultry; M carloads of cattle in last 12 months. .TJdt at same rate balance df ycar, an4 at 99c per pound for bu(tter, 29c. 'per dozen for eggs, ,i2c. per' pound for poujitryi WOP per car for cattjfv foots up about f tb.OOQ that 'this brings to our Uttle town per year. t very little effort Zom bie dreaded boil weevil it ' could be Increafeed ten y- '. '. :i;.:v;',-r;-;,.,iai!". j: ' ' " Therearemany good points in this letter in fact, it is cs full of good points as a pin cushion but the best one of all is that which tells of He fine shipments of cattle and dairy prod ucts. There's no" getting away from the fact that the only way to get a profitable agriculture in the Cotton States, or anywhere else under Heaven., is to raise stock along with our field crops. We might as well try to fight against the stars in their courses as fight against the fundamental law. As we say on page 10: " The plant feeds on the soil, the animal feeds on the plan, and the frtinfy goes back to the soil. This is the Almighty's trinity the pla,nt, the animal, the soil over and over again in unending cycles, if the earth is to be kept fruitful Any sort of farming that tries to exist with only two of the three-rthe soil an.d the plants-files in the face of Nature and of Providence and nan only end in failure and in poverty." FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. pETTEJR CAJU5 OF ' AgiWf the Life of the Average Farm irppl Might Ue doubled . 0 THE RIGHT tyAY TO fyyi tvTOJAT AJCI) OATS Why it Pays to ' .Prepare the oil WeJU and put the Seed in WJth a Drill WHAT PlipESSOK jlAEY THINKS Corn and Cotton Prob- Ie.m's' Prrnijnent Pastures, Winter Cover Crops, Silos HOW TO SAVE CORN STOVER A Symposium WH AT THE BOYS AND GIRLS SHOUD PO 8 WflY TnE QTJfTH MU9T HAVE PASTURES 7 HOW TO GET Rip OF THE CATTLE TICK 12 POULTRY, BEES, AND HIE GARDEN 16 and 17 SOJU3 BOOKS FOR THE FARM HOME II SYMPTOMS OF TICK FEVER. 13 THE TORRENS SYSTEM 11 3 2 4
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