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HOW TO BUILD WIRE FENCES Page 5. ' " A S . V ' . I: : - - - ' , '" ." -., o y pr-T-i s v r- 'V ym rn v fe J F u II u i M I J fl&4 'I"" fe.VW S JM ' J c J. : ! c "" -- ' '4' . --r'- A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolinas, Virginia, . jfJa'' ' - Georgia and Tennessee. ' , ' FOUNDED, 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol.XXVlI. No. 26. SATURdA XjUNE 29, 1912. Weekly : $1 a Year. BE A YEAR- ROUND FARMER FARMERS, even those who cling to the old ideas and methods, are more and more coming to realize that farming is a business to keep one busy twelve months m the year, and that it is a reflec tion on the farmer's business management if he, his teams and his land have not some work to perform practically all the year. We do not mean by this that the farmer should not have rest days and vacations, for we believe that every man should plan for his recreation along' with his work. What we mean is that there should be no long spells of idleness " be tween crops," no lands left idle, half the year, no period when the farmer is not earning something. It is quite possible, too, for far mers in nearlylaU of our territory . to do this. Instead of one, plants ing time and one harye the goddjarmer 'stfe fimeand harvest but otermokt of the year. ' ' " ' T : '. "" ' ' " 1 Right now at the close of the winter-grain harvest '. the best farmers are busy sowing peas, planting soy beans, sorghum and other feed crops and getting ready for the fall seeding of wheat and oats and winter cover crops. The livestock farmer especially will be planting crops for his stock on up to December in most of our territory, and until late fall in even the coolest portions of it. And all this time he will be getting some re turns from his fields, and will find plenty of work to keep himself and His work stock busy. Farming is not a matter of raising a crop every year; it is a matter of taking a piece of land and caring for it and building it up so as to get the best returns from it. The farmer who thinks his work is limited to the planting and cultivation and harvesting of his crops has the wrong ideal. There is always other work to be done such work as Mr. French writes about this week, the reclamation of waste lands, drainage and fence-building and the care of the woodlands, always on the well-managed farm the care of the livestock, the repair and im provement of buildings and grounds, and numberless other tasks which often multiply so as to make the farmer's days seem all too short. Much of the poor farming in the South has been due to this wrong idea that the crop was the farmer's first consideration. It is not if he is a good farmer. Always the land, the capital stock, must be given first thought. When the soil is made fertile and properly cared for the returns from it, the crops, will be sure. Nor does the care of a farm end with the care of the cultivated lands. It. is as profitable both from the monetary standpoint and from the standpoint of personal satisfaction, for the farmer to look after conveniences and comfort and beauty about and in the home as for him to look after the fields. The farm is a place to live as well as .to make money. .w-l ,,r ;fM T- z-"! , : SY-i - f-ffi&;.-fa HOLSTEIN COW RAMONA WAYNE DeKOL 113809. , ' - , ; " .. At four years of age she gave 512.8 pounds of milk, which made 21.5 pounds of butter, in seven days. She was sold by T. H. Russell, of Geneva, Ohio, at his May 30 sale. Every farmer cannot be a dairyman, of course, but the dairyman Is one of the best ex amples of the year-round farmer, and most farmers need to follow his example to the extent of having cows which will give milk enough to keep them well supplied all the year. . ; Most readers of The Progressive Farmer are farmers who are measurably independent and who aspire to better things, but most of them are farmers who have no money to waste and who feel the need of many things they are not yet able to supply. To these readers, the men who are the real foundation of the country's welfare, we would appeal and urge them to fix firm ly in their minds this idea of year round farming, of constant effort to improve their farms, of lands kept busy all the year, of enough livestock of some, kind to give them some income every month in the year. In short, we would have them forever free themselves of the delusion that the planting of corn and cotton in the spring, arid of little patches of grain in the fall, while the tenants ' idle away; the winters,' work stock ?have a five-months' vacation, and alL'work on the farm aside from crop production : is regarded as unprofitable, is real farming. In a real farming country, on a real farm there will be constant attention to all the little things which go to make the farm more productive and more attractive, and the whole system of farm management will be planned so as , to give in every season plenty of work and some time for rest. The farmer who is "rushed to death" in midsummer and who has "nothing to do" in winter is not doing the right kind of farming, and is not realizing on the full capacities of his land. Growing crops and developing livestock the year round that is the idea. FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. A FALL GARDEN FOB THE SOUTH What to Plant and When 15 FARM MANAGEMENTA Great Study Sadly Neglected 3 FOR A STATE-WIDE STOCK LAW Good Livestock Impossible While All Run at Large 10 HOG WALLOWS The Only Safe, Kind . .............. 13 "HOW I PAID MY WAY TO COLLEGE" A Symposium 6 HOW TO BUILD A SWEET POTATO HOUSE Directions by Pro- fessor Massey ..... 4 HOW TO KEEP WELL THIS SUMMEB A Health Talk of Inter est to All . : -.- 17 KILL THE WEEDS How Mr. French Does It 5 NEW WORK .'FOR 'THE COUNTRY CHURCH Why Not Make Your Church the Center of the Community Life? 18 THE SIZE OF FERTILIZER BAGS Do You Want Smaller Ones? 10 THE SMALL DEALER INDISPENSABLE Wrong Ideas About the Parcels Post 10 THE TUBEBCULIN TEST Why Dairymen Should Favor Its Use 12 THE WOMAN WHO WOBKS She Has a Right to Be Proud of the Fact 8 WHAT ONE "GOOD PLOWING" COST A Story With a Moral. . 4 WIRE FENCE BUILDING Directions for the Beginner 5
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