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PRETTY HOME SPECIAL.
A Farm d Home Weekly For the Carolinas, Virginia,
i Georgia and Tennessee.
UNDED, 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
, 1912.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
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THESE two beautiful English views illustrate Mr. Poe's contention
that the South has woefully neglected two of its main resources
of beauty, hedges and avenues of trees. The upper picture shows
a typical hedge such as line most country roadways in England, and
the lower picture shows an avenue of trees whose beauty would make
famous any Southern town or plantation.
Why not plant an avenue leading to your residence an avenue
which, even if less pretentious than this, will nevertheless give a
peculiar dignity and charm to your home.jand whose beauty will in
crease with every passing year until your children's children revere
the loving foresight you exhibited ?
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
A ROTATION FOR PEANUT LANDS By Professor Massey 4
HOW TO MAKE A SEPTIC TANK The Practical Way to Dispose
of Sewage in the Country 18
MAKING THE FARM HOME ATTRACTIVE The First of a Series
of Articles by Professor Nivcn . . '. 6
PRETTY nOME-PICTURES AND DESCRIPTIONS Sent in by Pro
gressive Farmer Readers . . m-.n 4, 5, 7, 9, 16
SHORTER HOURS AND LIGHTER WORK Unnecessary Labor the
Housekeeper Does 9
THE SPIRIT OF THE HOME An Unusually Interesting Letter
With Some Comment by Mrs. Stevens 9
WHY A PRETTY HOME SPECIAL? We Cannot Afford to Leave
Reauty Out of Our Lives 10
WILL IT PAY TO FEED BEEF CATTLE? When It Will and
When It Will Not Pay 12
WHY RURAL ENGLAND IS AN EDEN OF BEAUTYLessons the
'Old Country" Teaches Southern IIome-Makers 11
WHY WE SHOULD GROW COVER CROPS now They Save and
Enrich the Soil 3