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PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND GAZETTE.
-(Continued from page 692.)
chased, Hr. Cobb is planning to put
up some thoroughly modern barns
and take up hog-raising and cattle-raising.-
He is . too long-headed . not
to realize that there is no permanent
ly profitable farming without some
stock-raising. In , addition ' .to his
ample supply , of work stock and
milk cows. - '
m. ;
It was a treat to go . over Mr.
Cobb's 200 acres in watermelons and
200 in cantaloupes. ' The very sight
of a growing watermelon is a joy
to me.' We raised them only for
home use, and, as a boy, the sight
of each one oh our farm meant a red,
juicy-meated treat in which I would
personally share; , there is still for
me the same joyous suggestiveness
about the sight of a growing melon,
calculated to produce what Charles
Lamb describes as "a premonitory
moistening of the nether lip." I
like cantaloupes, too, but the can
taloupe seems to represent a certain
dignified" culture, while the water
melon stands : for a certain reckless,
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half-barbaric delight The canta
loupe should be eaten 'with salt,
pepper and- decorum at. the family
table, in a fashion such as might a
college professor; while a watermelon
is eaten out in the open- with more
or less disregard of the effects on
your, face or on the proprieties of ta
ble etiquette. But at any rate Mr.
Cobb has 260 acres in canteloupes
nnd another 200 in watermelons.
The watermelon he grows ;is the
Eden, originated I understand by
Luther Burbank, who has combined
in it the shipping qualities or the
Kolb Gem with the sweetness of the
Georgia" Rattlesnake. '
iv. ; ' '
I don't know how many thousand
dollars a year Mr. Cobb clears on his
500-acre farm (his gross 1909 re
ceipts on it and 300 rented acres
were $33,000), , but It is a good
found sum, and it results not only
from the" most modern and progress
ive methods of farming but also from
business-like methods of managing
labor and selling his products. "The
Jersey melon crop is ten days late,"
he said to me as we rode past his
cantaloupe field, this being only an
illustration of how he keeps himself
informed as to the general crop con
ditions in. order to handle his own
shipments wisely. Nearly every acre
of his land grows two crops a year,
The flourishing young corn and cot
ton which I saw were on 'land from
which 1 crops of potatoes, peas; and
beans had already s' been harvested.
Some of his corn land had grown no
- -'
other crop, this year, but we may
say that he will set two crops on
this land also because he will get
cood crop of peas along with the
corn, and he is making j two crops
year on some land which, his father
thought would not grow a crop at
ail. : And all this as a result of bet-
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Fine farming lands, house and store for sale.
Write for particolass. Graded school. C. V.
Batts, WiUard.N. q. n.;:y V;',;
600 "thoroughbred Hens and Pallets for sale;
Bock Reds, Dotts. Minorcas and 25 other breeds.
Clarence Shenk, Luray, Va. ; .' v a.
Bargain Twenty acre Dairy Farm Silo, on edge
of twelve thousand inhabitant Eastern city. " Y,"
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Fot elght or ten thousand pounds clover seed in
the chaff, apply to J. A. Holloway, Postoffice,
Gorman. N. Cy Price 41 cents per pound. tf ;
Am In the real estate business, making f arming
lands a specialty; if you wish to buy, sell, or lease
a farm, write me. A. a. Deans, wiiaon, a. m.-
phia In TtarUtered Duroc PiflTS and Gil tS.
ThA kind that f arrow 12 and 16 pigs. Berkshire
Gilts. 6 mos. old. $16. Clarence Shenk. Luray, Va.
vrtw Plant Cabbaire. Lettuce. Celery.
RfrAwherrv. twrw readv. - All other plants and
rooti in thier season. Price list free. Geo. M.
Todd. Greensboro, N.C. . , '
in other days. Mr. Cobb is making
efforts ; to get his whole farm thor
oughly' drained; He showed me a
field which he drained by putting
down three poles - with straw above
hem. You could tell by the Im-
01 a capable ahd progressive- execu
tive. " Consequently '" there are and
will always be great " oppoftunities
in the South for men wiio undertake
the business-like ; management ot
farm labor anX run plantations such
proved appearance of the crops right , as Mr. Cobb has In charge. By wise-
where the system .of draining end- ly directing them he ean pay them as
ed. A cypress ; swamp which he: is- mmch as they would make for them-
planning to clear up will be first selves, and at the same time earn1 a
cleared and he will then let the weeds ' good profit on his own account. We
grow up and the undergrowth rot 'need, therefore, more rather than
before taking it In for. cultivation, fewer men who will do such work
Most farmers would' burn off this '.as Mr. Cobb is doing. It is the ab-
weedy, trashy growth, but Mr. Cobb
knows the value of humus. . Of
course, he also knows the value of
improved implements and machin
ery and has maintained the pace he
started when he was the first farmer overseers and
to begin with a two-horse plow. -His Mr. Cobb is
sentee landlords who are doing most
to hold back progress in . Southern
farming- men who do not' live on
their farms, as Mr. Cobb does, but
leave them' to the management of
tenants.
not only a good farm-
. To- bnv Eastern Carolina Rye: Appier. Rust
Pioaf and Winter' Turf Oats: White Peas, vfe:
Yellow Eve. Black Eye, Rice and Lady. Z. M. L.
Jeffreys. Goldsboro. N. C. A '
North Carolina Herd Registered Duroc Jersey
' Swine. : : Descriptive, circular gladly furnished.
Allpigson hand sold. Orders booked future de-
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Pedigrees ftee. W. A. Thigpen, Conetoe, Edge
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farms: easy terms or cash; fertility of soil unsur
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farming' equipment now r Includes er, but he is interested In everything
gasoline ; engines, shredder, : hay that makes for the improvement of
press; manure spreaaer.; gram emu, farm life or the development of his
reaper and mower, hay rake, hay community. - He is . president of the
oader, disk ana drag harrows, cui- Robeson, County Farmers' Union.
ivators, etc., etc. . The water-works and he has- had not a little, to do
and electric lights for his beautiful with- making this organization per
home are furnished by a $180 gaso- najps the most useful county Union in
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Surchasing plants in quantities In Youngs Island,
. C. territory. Let me send you my plan where
by I grow your plants for you, for delivery, fall,
winter, and spring, without risk to yourself. W.
R. Hart. Plant Grower. Enterprise, S. C
Recleaned, sound, well-tasked Early variety
Peas at two twenty-five a bushel, on cars here.
Slaughter Pigs, also Thoroughbred Essex Pigs:
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Salesmen and Saleswomen wanted. Hundreds
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these conveniences for
terested- in agricultural education.
both in getting agriculture into the
country schools and also In establish
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" All in all, the story of Mr. Cobb's
17 years of farming experience since
he took hold of the farm at the age
of 18, ought to prove Inspiring to
many other farm boys. And may .we
remind all our young men on the
farm that what Mr. Cobb has done
and advantages for physical develop- 1&rge me? alfdo?
ment there is no comparison between the language of John Ploughman,
Mr. Cobb's laborers and , those who. "Said I to myself, here's ajesson for
are cooped up at monotonous work me, , : "
in the cotton factory. , The Ideal com-: For this man Is 1 a picture
In short, Mr. Cobb Is a captain of
Industry. . During, the busiest season
over one hundred hands are employ-'
ed all being paid; cash. Mr. Cobb
being, at no time in debt to them,
nor they to him, when Saturday sun
down comes. 1 He is as surely a cap
tain of Industry, as Is the cotton man
ufacturer, while as to healthfulness
munlty. Is one in which every family
owns its own home, but many labor
ers do not care to 'run farms of their
own ; or have not sufficient tnoney or
of
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