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PMZE-VJINNEtiQ IN OUR BOYG' CORN CONTEST PAGE 2 A Farm and Home Weekly for North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. Vol XXV. No. SO. : RALEIGH, N. C, DECEMBER 17, 1910. Weekly; $1 a Yea . Primitive and Progressive Farming in Korea broken in this way. Poor farmers in Korea who do not own oxen, however, sometimes have to take turns pulling the plow' as shown in the second pho tograph,' and this was especially week's letter from Mr. Poe is mailed from Korea ( or X4 "Chosen", as the Japanese call it since annexation) and he sends homethe three photographs of Korean farming shown hen with. "The first picture," Mr. Poe writes, "shows breaking the land by a process such as J have never seen anywhere else a sort of spade with a rope attached on each side. The man in the cen tre rams the spade in the ground, . toomona hi grip, and the two men with the ropes jerk out the shovel full of dirt. I tried it this morn ing, and it is needless to say that it is" an invention I should greatly have prized when I used to have to do some spading on my father's farm In the style shown in the picture some men are spading a garden only a few feet from me as I write this, but I do not think that much actual farming land is :v:&;?:? HOW THREE MEN HANDLE ONE SPADE. true some ten years ago when a disastrous plague killed off the cattle by the thousands. The common sort of plow in use can be seen to better advantage in this second picture than in the less distinct No. 3: There is only one handle to the plow in either case and it is ofrovgh.wood like the rest of the plow a small tree or limb. Iam sending photo graph No. 3 as an illustration of the more progressive farming hire, for most farmers J have seen plow only one ox, and when they plow two, one ox usually follows the other, tandem fash ion, instead of being yoked to gether as in this picture. , , f ' WHERE MAN IS A BEAST OP BURDEN. . - - - 1 r . , , ' ' ' A PROGRESSIVE KOREAN FARMER. FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. A GLANCE BACKWARD - - BREEDS OP CATTLE XI., AYRSHIRE, DUTCH BELTED, ETC CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS BUYING LIVE STOCK ON MAIL ORDER II nOVV TO CURE MEAT. ;v. ' HOW TO GROW GRAPES ' i" HOW TO START WITH PURE-BRED POULTRY NORTH CAROLINA DRAINAGE ASSOCIATION 8 .12 0 10 7 17 10 18 PROFESSOR MASSEY'S COMMENTS 21 PRIZE WINNERS IN OUR BOYS' CORN-GROWING CONTEST ... 2 THE HOOKWORM DISEASE IV. 19 THINGS YOU SHOULD LEARN ABOUT FEEDING 3 TRI-STATE CORN EXPOSITION '. 0 TWO LEADERS OF MODERN JAPANESE THOUGHT 11 "WHAT I AM DOING FOR BETTER FARMING" 4 WHAT IS LOST BY BURNING ? COTTON STALKS 10
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