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TAKING CARE OF LITTLE CHILDREN Page 11. -B55- f A Farm andme Weekly For- the Carolinas, Virginia, QJV;:.- . ' orgia and Tennessee. m ' . " FOUI, -1886 AT RALEIGH, N7a Vol XXVII. No. 35. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1912. Weekly: $1 a Year. LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD . WE had occasion the other day to go back through our last year's volume of The T ' T " - . J H J A rrogressive rarmer ana au mouesiy aside we found some very interesting things in it. We, of course, found a lot of things which did not please us; it was easy to see how the paper could have been changed for the better" in many ways. In fact, we never turn out an issue without seeing, after it is , done, where it could have been improved. For all that, However; w'Migcided&j ust between ourselves that The Progressive Farmer last year was a pretty f practical helpful sort of paper, and that it had in it some things still worth remembering. For example, we found as a sub-head in an article by Mr. A. L. French this sentence: "The best boss is the man who can do the job him self." We should like to commend this idea to many of our friends who have trouble with their labor. We can abuse the Negro until we, too, get black in the face, and it will not make a good farm hand of him; but when the white farmers of the South themselves learn how to do well any sort of work on the farm, and get in the habit of doing it that way, they will find the Negro following right along and doing it pretty much as they do. We have no patience with the idea that the Negro connot be trained to handle machinery or to care for livestock, for he can. He does not know how now, as a rule, simply because he has not been taught. On another page we found a letter telling how the farmer who wrote it progressed from a Boy Dixie to the sulky plow and riding cultivators. He said that we helped him do it and that made us feel good, of course; but the special value of his letter is the answer it gives to those who think that when a farm paper tells about anything beyond the present reach of the very small farmer it is doing nothing to help him. Why, bless you, the first step toward improvement is to wish for something you don't have and can't get right now; the second step is to find out how you can get it. Another thing we found which is worth recalling and repeating was this sentence in a letter from Mr. R? B. Sullivan: "Take care of your soil, and your annual income will take care of itself." We might hunt all day and we couldn't find a terser expression of the one great, fundamental fact Southern farmers need constantly to keep in mind. ' If we could only get every Progressive Farmer reader thoroughly convinced of this fact, these old fields of ours would blossom like the rose within the next ten years. This sentence illustrates what we have said before that the very best things in the paper come from the men right out on the farm. A farm paper made up of letters from its readers and without any defi nite editorial policy to guide it in the selection of those letters, is bound to be a poor excuse for a real paper; but, on the other hand, the editor who imagines that he can dispense with the first-hand contri butions from the men in the furrows, will soon find himself getting out of touch with the soil and the people who till it. mlP f Mw &bo m sv-y ' a- tits L..sXS.J. 1 VIEW ON FARM OF MR. CLARENDON DAVIS. Read on page 5, the story of what Mr. Davis has done. , We are proud of our readers, but just between ourselves again we reached up and patted ourselves on the head when we read in one of the March issues that the only way to secure profitable prices for cotton and to insure satisfactory returns for the year's labor, would be to put cotton in its proper place as one of the crops in a care fully planned rotation and to get rid of the idea that any one crop could be the whole thing. What we predicted then about the excessive planting of cotton came true; and it will come true again unless, as we then advised, the farmers of the South get down to sure enough business farming and begin rotating their crops with an eye not only to present profits but also to the future welfare of the soil. And there will never be a better time for them to make a start in this line than this very fall. FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. 9 A HOME-MADE WHEEL-TRAY A Simple but Useful Device CLARENDON DAVIS AND HIS WORK An Alabama Farmer Who is Doing Things Worth While 5 COMMENTS ON RECENT ISSUES Thoughts Suggested to Pro fessor Massey by Recent Articles t' 4 HOW TO LAY OUT THE GROUNDS AND MAKE A LAWN The Second of Mr. Niven's Articles on Attractive Farm Homes .... 0 HOW TO SHOCK CORN Views of a Practical Farmer 17 PRACTICAL INFORMATION ABOUT OATS The First of a Series of Articles on This Crop 3 TAKING CARE OF LITTLE CHILDREN How England is Con serving the Future 11 TENANTS AND LANDLORDS A Page of Free Discussion 15 THE NEGRO IN .SOUTn AFRICA AND IN AMERICA By Booker T. Washington 18 UNCLE CORNPATCH ON THE STOVEWOOD QUESTION How the Wrife Can Get a Woodshed 8 WHY FARMERS NEED THE STOCK-LAW Letters From Our Readers , 13 WHO IS A PROGRESSIVE FARMER? The Farmer Who is Pro gressing, of Course 10
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