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of opium, or other narcotizing drug that checks your State Highway Commissioner, or your
THE rCfT! tjTFJnPn out the' little reserve strength and gives false Geologist, ana get hls advice before starting "
1 nilllf KltmUIVM ..m. to 9.IfyouwishtogetafarmersMnstitnroi:.. -
inRnh tWtTU n0Pe UnlU 1 6 " communlty write to your State Departs : "
'UmJJ-TSK tnose of us wh0 understand this great fraud, the AgrlcuUure, or your state Director of !
a! -A V Vfft?lflr iTJ 71 r T&rnfU relieious capers. that assist sucn iaKirs seem vo institutes, or . your State Agricultural n,,
ttMTl4l"l",' follow the disciple who sold' life for thirty pieces and when writing insist that there should ,
of silver, rather than Him who said. 'I am come mans lnsmule as wel1 as an Institute for uie
. t a i 41a4 vvfrrKf
Published Weekly by Agricultural Publishing .CMt-- . ZZ Z " th"e 13 an outbreak ' an' "u.-or
ruuiioiibu iibwmj " 6 d - have 11 more abundantly- " contagious disease among your horses caMle
RAliKlfiH, N. O. 8TARKVTLLB. MISS- -' ' j8 hogs, the State Department of Agriculture at y,Z
Entered as second-ciasB matter at the postoffice at Raieigh. N. C. Hoy about" your fair? Are you getting ready capital city,, or your State Veterinarian, wiir
CLARENCE POE. . President and Editor-omsief. attendto exhibit something, to profit by what. doubtless, mak? a free inspection.
TAIT BUTLER, . . VlCB-PliESIDENT AND ASBOCIATB EDITOR. ,4 1 ' 11- If yOU Wish tO improve your SClUJOls eithor
Prop. w. f. massey, . ... Absociatb Editor, you see there? If not, you are making a mistake. by local taction or consolidation of district
E.E. miller. . . . . . . .... AG f . , ' ' . : both, or if you wish to get a-pubUe high sd'nni
JOHN S. PEARSON. -. Skcretart-trraborer. q . or school library; write to your County and si
JS n - -? Pr Superintendent or Public Instruction or ScWoi
B&fnS Spr2SSvi . - , u Commissioner, as he may be called.
. " ; a MAN HAS just left our office who gave us Don't be content to live a shut-in life, bufget
We Guarantee Our Advertisers. V this interesting bit of experience: "There into touch with the great forward movements that
ttfEwiUpodmeiya are very few farmers," he said, "who real- are carrying civilization forward and do "your part
ILrth? fee the opportunities they have for getting help Jn their forward march. No matter what you wish
amnaon me pair ui uf jn .4n hAmna tf no. t.nerft nrA nn nlio-srnritprt mon on,
vrfnillnr This does not mean uu m wui w , , . ""ii w uiuen
SSSSbeiween reliable "fi from other sources. I make it a point In my waitlng to neip you, and all you need do is to call
ta,asB5eve traveling to try to get every farmer to subscribe on them. If you do n6t know whom else to a?k
te?4ertoitpeTopa for Toe Progressive Farmer and Gazette. I also simply write direct to The Progressive Farmer and .
ISScriber must say when writing each adTertiaeri 1 am writoif try to get every one to send for the bulletins of the Gazette, and it will either tell you or tell you who
iteTr Department, State Experiment can tell you. That quarter's worth of postal cards
- Station, and the United. States Department of Ag- will do more than anything else to put you into
Weekly Circulation First Half of 1010. . . .07,230 riculture. I also call attention to the helpful pub- real touch with the great forward movements of
- lications about corn, cotton, tobacco, grain crops, the time if you will only make proper use of them.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: fertilizers, stock raising, fruit growing, etc., that And the influence of the farmers as a" class wili;
One year, $1.00 : BIX moninB, do cents , uucc iuuuuid, w iucj a.n. 6ci num muw kua,. a.utwi.ou xu luv j. j.,v . : giuY;-, juat in piupuinuu na lucjt icl iiib OUl3l(u
To induce hew subscription, one neu subscribe and one out gressive Farmer and Gazette bulletins and pam- world hear from them and make the leaders of
subscriber may both pet the paper one year tor $t so. phlets. as valuable as. those of the State Depart- progress feel that the farmers 6t the South are
TEN WEEK'S TRIAL ONLY TEN CENTS. ment of Agriculture. It is amazing the number or thoroughly aroused and anxious to go forward
To new subscribers only. rhe Progrre eive Farmer and Gazette farmers who tell me that they did not know that along all progressive lines,
i.ibesen ten wepks .n tiai for t-n cents -Sample copy free, they could get these things free. Some farmers I
Tell yoai frieds who need it but do not read it. ' . 6 . I
' knw write for them, sit up till midnight reading F Feature nf This Tiip
'in rfc these bulletins, pamphlets, etc., and then get up at - f our rtdiurei ui liiib JSbUt.
Editorial Viieanii.gS. 4 o'clock in the morning and begin reading
again." X"T"E HAVE little space to call attention to ,
THE EXTREME lateness of the cotton crop this Every reader of The Progressive Farmer should VV the various features of this issue; but
year is strikingly shown in. the. following be aware of his opportunities for getting this valu- T 1 there are, three or four that we just must
: . . . , v, iuA TTr,itzri QtatoQ na- able literature for the asking, and yet we have mention.
figures just issued by. the United States De nQ.d feut th percentage of our readers Tne article on "How to Get Rid of the Cattle
partment of Agriculture: who avail thprnspivps of thes nnnnrtunltlps is Tick' is one of them. Every man who has any j
Comparative statistics by States of cotton comparatively small. We are continually urging doubt as to the practicability of doing this work
o-innort tr cjantprnhpr I ery subscriber to keep a quarter's worth of pos- b the methods we have outlined should study
ginned to beptemoer iv this article". If he does this and then reflects that
lyiu. iua. vn .u u- 80.000 sauare miles of territory has been cleared
- uuucLiii, taiaiug, yauiyiiict, ui jJiiuc iisl mai iu-
Alabama 4,505 13,535 terests him. and we are glad to knowthat the pos- of ticks by these saiTle methods, we do not --think
Arkansas . . . . 27 0 ff? tal card habit is taking root. But as we have be will doubt longer.
Florida . ,. . . 71, . . . . 604 3,542 said the average reader is by no means living up The stories of how three farmers have installed
Georgia .2,819 . 106,301 to his opportunities. lighting systems of their own is worth your atten-
Louisiana. .1.106 3,450 1 n QngU nQt tQ be necessary to say that you tion, too. Such outfits are going to become much
Mississippi 535 1,670 can gend a pogtal tQ United gtateg DepaPtment more common in the near future.
North Carolina ........ 4 1,070 Qf Agriculture) Washington, D. C., and get a free A11 of our readers wno Iive in the Appalachian
Oklahoma ...... K 397 1,370- farmer.s bulletin on almost any subject you are Iff.J1 be lnterested "we believe- in the ar'
South Carolina .&:... . 198 18,949 interested in. and that your State Department of ticle' Some Problems of the Hill Country." This
Tennessee .... . J Agriculture and your State Agricultural Experi- great sectioil with its own particular problems to
Texas 328,625 237,901 ment Station will send you their bulletins regular- wr is not interested, we -realize, in many
All other States. 5 1 ly without cnarge if you send a postal askIng for of the things that appeal to our readers in the
7 oTTTT; them. And not only can you get the bulletins we cotton untry; but we never forget the special
Total ..v.,.....--356,824 388.242 mention from the State Departments of Agricul-""needs-of outhill-cuntry readers, and mai;y ok
It will be noticed that every State except Texas ture and State Experiment Stations as well as tnem h?ve ben good enough, to say that no other
shows a decrease and that in the northern part of numerous pamphlets and catalogs from agricul- so well"0 shalltry1 in the
, 1 v oo Crt an,an tural advertisers, but there is hardly any line of aitlons wel1- we shall try in the futuu,
the Cotton Belt the amount ginned was so small about whicn yQU need nelp tna some public make this increasingly true.
as to count practically nothing. . offlcial employed Dy State or National Govern- 4 Irsl Stevens takes up again this week the sub-
' ment, is not ready to serve you. 3ect of feeding children: What she says on thi.
The International Harvester Company has eh- 2. If you wish to get the boys' corn club subject t00' is wortb the thoughtful attention o
tered on a line of work that will be watched with work in your county, for example, write your lilt ho hhe Te of11Child;reVl;'' "
much interest It is in brief the establishment County Superintendent of Public -Instruction, the ff wn0 "e 8ure1.ey knosw f 11 about hefca
much interest. It is, in brier, tne estaonsnmenx Department of Agriculture or Hon O B children- . Many children die from wrong -fee 'ling,
of a.bureau of farm information which will answer ofSfgrLuure dP manf raore live to maturitf t0 In
. ' j.! ' l v. a e f. o.V. A ' trmi nlofl with etnionli n-rwl .llffrvrrlnt'S all
iiuestiuiis uu any uiaucu uj. iiiiu wuin., iuiuibu Washington DC' Diuuiotu anu iiHcoiuioi uiju'"'"
illustrations of farming and farm machinery to the 3. If you 'wish to get demonstration work start- their liVeS No sublect is of more importance
data, supply lecturers and illustrations for lectures ' yur state Demonstration Agent and to Dr. S. A. A Thought for the Week.
, , u, . -j-, T Wor Knapp, United States-Department of Agriculture, 1
to societies wishing them, etc. Prof. J. E. Wag- Wasnlngton D. c. HAMMERS and polishes its denizens
goner, lately with the Mississippi A. & M. College 4. If you Wish to start the important work of A into a refined model: it woJsnips a stan-
will have charge of the work. tick extermination in your community, the Bureau XJL dardization . hut tha rnn'ntrv encourage15
J . of Animal Industry, United States Department of differentiation, it loves new types. Thus it is tht .
There is probably no more efficient or consci-
Agriculture, Washington, D. C, will put you Into 60 many great and original men have lived. tiie'r
entfous State Health Officer in the South than Dr. ""n lS t a newmalTee deliver 5'0Uth UP'n th6 'and- " WU"1 be 'TW
W. S. Rankin, of North Carolina, and his recent r0uie, write to your Congressman, and. to the rt'teMm" WaiTe tomV 1.W
utterance, on religious, papers advertising patent Potofflce Department, Washington, D. C. educative there is more discipline for a boy 111
'medicine "consumption cures" is in line with his 6- If yu wisb to start stock raising, dairying, the continuous care of a cow or a hore than in
policy of plain speaking about vital matters. He or fruit Rowing, the State Department of Agricul- many a term of school. Industry, patience,
says: "It is probably safe to say that thousands JUPOvr l?' SExperiment Station will doubt- severance are qualities inherent in the very at-
of 1 1 n 1 L n V ,,B less be able t0 a man to help you-begin right, mosphere of country life. The so-called ma..u
of the 150,000 that die annually of tuberculosis 7. The United States Departments Agriculture, training of city schools is only a poor makesi""
in the United States would not die but for the Dairy Division, Washington, D. C, has men em- for developing in the city boy those habits whn
postponement of proper treatment on account of to visit farmers and give personal instruc- the country boy acquires naturally in bi (1,.n;
their misplaced confidence in vicious patent med- "0n about 8llos creamerles or erecting dairy life. . An honest, hard-working country training
Hues. As is well.known, most of these remedies ted Wrlte t0 the address. Just given if inter- is the best Inheritance a ther can leave I.-
coutain a iar.ro nf i i.i . estea. son." Prom David Grayson's "Advcntiut
contain a large per cent of alcohol, or some form 8. Ifyou wish to improve your roads, write to Contentment."