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HOW TO BUILD UP A MARKET FOR FARM PRODUCE Page 16. J r K V ' ' Cc !L$k J f v U u ( iSklS 7 31 A Farm and Home Weekly For the Carolinas Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee. FOUNDED, 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol. XXVII. No. 48. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1912. bi weekly: $1 a Year. Demand a Six Months' School Term For All Farm Boys and Girls. Rhode Island 190.2 days; 2. Connecticut 181.2 days. 3. Maryland 179.8 days. 4. New York 178.6 days. &:Califomia 178.0 days. 6. New Jersey 176.7 days. J. Wisconsin 173.0 days. i Nebraska 170.5 d ays. 9. Iowa 168.6 days. 10. Washington 164.0 days. 11. South Dakota 163.8 days. 12. Michigan 161.6 days. 13. Massachusetts 160.7 days. 14. Kansas 160.0 days. -"- 15. Utah 157.0 days. 16. Delaware 157.0 days. 17, "Ohio 155.0 days. 18. Illinois 154.8 davs. 19. New Hampshire 149.7 days. 2). Pennsylvania 149.4 days. 21. Vermont 147.0 days. 22; North Dakota 143.2 days. 23. Maine 142.5 days. 24. Georgia 141.5 days. 25. Montana 138.5 days. 26. Missouri 137.7 davs. 27. Wyoming 136.0 days. 28. Minnesota 132.5 days. 29. 'Nevada 131.8 days. 30. Mississippi 131.0 days. 31. Virginia 130.5 days. 32. Indiana 130.3 days. 33. Oklahoma 128.5 days. 34. West Virginia 127.5 days. 35. Louisiana 124.1 days. 36. Colorado 123.8 days. 37. Tennessee 122.0 days. 38. Texas 3 19.2 days. 39. Oregon 118.7 days. 40. Idaho 112.5 days. 41. KentuckyH0.6 days. 42. Alabama 108.5 days. 43. Arizona 105.0 days. 44. Florida 100.1 days. 45. Arkansas 98.0 days. 46. South Carolina 94.5 days. 47. North Carolina 93.3 days. 48. New Mexico 90.1 days. Length of School Term in the Various States. THE GREATEST question outside the realm of morals, that can be asked of any people today, is this: Are your boys and girls being fitted for the fierce, keen competition of trained minds, fiercer and keener than the world has ever before known, that is to mark the industrial battle of the next fifty years? Farmers of North Carolina, farmers of South Carolina, your boys and girls are not being ; so trained the farm boys and girls, rrool ot this, proof that is nothing less than alarming, is furnished by an official diagram just published by the United States Government and reproduced herewith. ..JDJt$ city schools, the schools for -city boys and girls intte Carolinas, are about up to the American average; but for' our country boys and girls, as this startling official table shows, the average school term n North and South Carolina is yet the lowest in the American Union with the single exception of wild and woolly New Mexico. Only New Mexico, the land of Indians and Mexican "greasers," saves us from being at the foot of the whole list. What shall we do about it? There is but one' thing to do. Our Legislatures meet in a few weeks now, and to them our farmers, and farmers' wives, and farmers' boys and girls, must all join in this one overwhelming, imperious demand: " You shall not adjourn until you make arrangements for at least an average six months' school term for all the farm boys and girls in the State." The task is not too bis. if we make up. our minds to it. Let inheritance and income taxes be levied until the rich pay as large a share of taxes as they do in England ; and then make whatever added increase in the general fax levy is needed to provide the six months' school term for country children. We must have it. Get behind your member of the Legislature. Write to him; talk to him, camp on his trail. Get your Farmers' Union behind him ; get y'our teacher, your preacher, your doctor, to join with you, and makeit plain to him that if he comes back home without making a fight, and a dead- earnest, genuine fight, for a six months' school term for the country, boys and girls, he will never again hold an office of trust or profit. ' Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee are doing better, and we can only urge them to keen un their fiffht: but to our North Carolina and South Carolina readers the call is imperative. They must wake up and getHisy at once. FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. A GOSPEL FOR PROSPERITY A Thanksgiving Sermon 5 COTTON MARKETING PROBLEMS How Co-operative Ginning and Selling Would Help 0 COWS AND CO-OPERATION IN DENMARK . How They Have Made the Farmers Rich 13 EASY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING A Symposium 10 FIGHT THE SAN JOSE SCALE Now is the Time to Begin. ...... 17 LEFT OVER CRIMSON CLOVER SEED Don't Try to Save It I THAT PURE-BRED PIG What to Do With Him When You Get Him 14 HIE FARM FENCES How to Build and Keep Them in Order 7 THE "LACK OF LIME" SUPERSTI TION Southern Feeds Are Not Deficient in Lime. . 3 WHERE CREAMERIES ARE NOT NEEDED In No Locality Where 400 Cows Are Not Available 14
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