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1298 (14) r 1 rSin (n rrinrs sirs un Bhonld .be In writing checks. We have Just: re ceived a check on subscription -written la. lead pencil.. No check should ever be written in pencil.. 11 must irequeaviy pass wruugu bci ci ai i,-umo before reaching, the bank, and if written ln'pericil, it is tjasy for.the amount to be raised. Ur . " THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER; No Excuse for North Carolina and - South Carolina ; tHeum Farm Gazette -Toa can tell by a man! farm whether he reads it or not." 0 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. BY . The Progressive Farmer Company (Incorporated under the law of North Carolina.) Home Office: 119 W. Hargett St;, Raleigh. CLARENCE POE, . . . . TAIT BUTLER, ... E. E. MILLER, . ... . W. F. MASSEY, .... JOHN S. PEARSON, . . ... . Secretary-Treasurer J. L. Mozford, General Representative. WE ARE glad to note that the North - Carolina State Board of Agriculture at its last session passed a resolution asKing iora sixmonins ierm. for every rural school in the State, and-also a res olution in favor of the Torrens system. H, WELL"; some reader -says "Of .course, f North Carolina; and South CaxolinVare giv ine their country bbvs and eirls a. Rhnri rpHE DIAGRAM on the first-page of the-issue . of . - o.-on,r mnety-three -and ninety-four days JL November 30, should have been entitled not . . .. - --- . u J "The Length of School Term -In the Various apiece,-;while some other States- are giving- 170 State's' but "The Length of Rural School -Terra - and 180 days;- but the explanation is that the oth In the Various States' The city schools in the er States are so thickly! populated. : We haven't so South have a term not much shorter than that of Imany people per square mile; and besides-we have city schools in other sections of the country. It to.aunnort 8cnoola for. President and Editor, is m me rnrai mstricis tnac tne naa snowing is. . ..." - iv-,;,.;,!f-;'Vv".. Vice-President and Editor, made; it is there that boys and girls are deprived - ': Bu this explanation will notdo, brethren; it . Manairinir Editor.- of a fair chance in life by the failure of the State' will not hold water.-; , ; . . Associate Editor, tn nrnvIdA 'artfiniiater ediiftationaV faisilitiea. " The Southern city schools are- very good.,; We-must make a fight now for the tountry boys and girls. A THE MAN who has to make a living from a small piece of land, is the very man who should not stick to one or two crops. He needs to combine hogs, or poultry, or truck, or fruit with his staple crops. He:will have a much better show with these crops than with-corn and cotton. IF YOU haven't been getting your State Health Bulletins regularly, send a postal card right away to the Secretary of your State Board of Health and ask for them, and ask also, for the Health Almanac for 1913, if your State issues one. These bulletins and almanacs are "free, being paid for with public taxes, and as a taxpayer you should get the benefit of them. . x ' . ' IT WOULD be worth a great many thousands of dollars to the South this year if every farmer heeded those two little articles on page 10 "Fools Burn Leaves," and "Don't Burn. Cornstalks." It will be worth money' to you; too, if you heed them. It is seldom, indeed, that anything which can be turned under or left on the land to decay should be .burned. Fire in the fields helps make poor land. Fifteen Cenjs for Rest of Cotton Crop. N ALABAMA banker sends us the following -note: " , . ' ' "Why not "write " a double-leaded, edito rial on 'Make the Remnant Bring Fifteen Cents?' 'The $300,000,000. Crime editorial was great the best one you ever published. - . . Our bank will help all farmers, to hold, who wish to.". v . , - T- .: We are glad, to see that the confidence in higher i prices that -.we expressed in former editorials hasx been more than justified. We can. now : say with equal confidence that we believe that fifteen cents ....... , ... ... . , ,.. , . ought to be obtained for all the rest, of the cotton crop. " - " ,v It is our definite conviction, in fact, that some body else is going to get about fifteen cents for. it. . It all depends on whether that somebody else- is to be the man who made the cotton; or the man' who sees the present opportunity to get It for less; than it Is worth. - "Bully for the Stokes Commissioners ": How About Yours?: THE North Carolina Drainage Association had' a good meeting . in Raleigh week before last. Perhaps the most progressive step proposed' was that of creating a department of drainage in the State Department of Agriculture. This ought to be done by all means, and we hope the matter will be arranged for. Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt was re elected President, and Mr. Geo. Boyd, of Wilson; Secretary. ''. Ft r ERETOFORE most of our Southern counties 'have been veryt ready; ta. vote. tax moneyrto v support poothouses; and' jails and criminal courts. But they have been mighty, slow to vote money to educata the people andl protect their health; and' so keep- them out of. poor ho uses, and hrja large measure out of. jails,, for it' i usually ignorant, untrained, man, neglected by the- com- AVE you noticed that the new farm papers' that . . T are trying to get patronage in the South; set penses. Fortunately, nowever,.a cnange is now out the very first thing to get articles from one coming.;' Progressive, . wide-awakei counties ' are H or mQre- old stand-by Progressive Fanner con tributors, and always feature these articles by our Progressive Farmer correspondents? We-appreciate the compliment our contemporaries pay us by doing this; but we wonder if a. little more orig inality on their part would be unbecoming? beginning., to give proper support to all formg: of education educating not only- thm young but the' oli as well 'r and everywhere there i& steadily in creasing interest in public health - work. "Bully for the Commissioners!" said the Banbury? (N. C.) Reporter, lately, referring to the action of its rpHERE is no reed for the man with small capital county authorltie3, and-we are glad to, give them m- auu mcngci xaiiu equiyuieuL uu utJ UiBCUUi ag ed. He will have to work hard, of course, and ' think hard, but the experience letters in this is sue prove that the Southern farmer wittr grit and gumption can succeed. Really, it is a fine bunch -of encouraging letters we have, and there are many more we couldn't get in, and, as usual, a number that came after most of the paper was made up. ; LINED up-alongside the fence in a Tennessee farmer's barnyard we saw the other day a .bihder, a hay loader, two mowing machines, a grain drill, with some cultivators - and plows thrown in for good measure. It was a rainy day, too, and all these implements were , getting, a thoro soaking.. If the farmer leaves them there all winter, the probabilities are that the depre ciation in their value will amotint to enough to build a good implement shed, which would last for ten to twenty years. WE HOPE many of our farmers are starting bank accounts now that that money for the year's crops is coming in. A man is more likely to save his money if he has started mittinK his surplus in a bank; and it is a great convenience to the same hurrah of approval. Read.the . following statement, and then find out what your county is doing, along; similar lines: ; , : The acUonVbl the Stokes County Commis sioners, last Monday in . appropriating; $2 50 for the eradication? of hookwormu disease in , Stokes County;; an?300 ;fpr the promotion. of co-operative demonstration; farming, v will be - almost unanimously commended and, ap plauded! by our" people Hookworm is ravaging-at a fearful: rate. . The-State physician . who recently took up. the. work, of . combating, the' disease in . Yadkin County; ,f oupd; 52 per ; cent of population examined afflicted with It : In that county.; Possibly the same condition . ' may be: met with in: Stokes. 5 " ; C ;' - : "Now - that: an: appropriation, has been- se cured, the work of scientific farming, : under .the capable direction of Mr. L G. Ross, will be further spread. . The value In: dollars and V cents of co-operative demonstration farming" cannot be overestimated. . It teaches us-how . to grow more than two ears ot corn where one grew before." Of the- fifteen States in; the Union 5 providing the longest school term of all for their country boys and," girls, 1 57 v days or morenine , are States , which have a smaller papulation: per square mile than: either ninetyrthree-day North. Carolina - or ninety-four-day Soutli Carolina. : Both: Calif ornia and ; Nebraska,, with .an. average s population per square mile of only ; 15, less than onethirdv that of North Carolina or South Carolinaare giving their country boys, and "girls over 170-days school term while North Carolina,, with an average, population per square mile- three times' as great; are giving pnly; ninety-four days school, term.: . In t other words, our white population, alone, to . say ,. nothing of tha Negro - population; is twice as great peV:quare?" mile as the' average population per square mile of either Nebraska or California and yetT we seek to excuse buselves: for giving .our; farm boys and girla not onry a poorer chance "than their children have, but a poorer chance than farm children get anywhere else in the whole American Union; with the single exception of New Mexico.. ' , Andi even .New Mexico has the right, to point the finger of scorn at us; for altho her population is only three per square mile, while the population of the Carolinasis fifteen times a-great -4 5 'per square mile for North' Carolina., and 4 9 for South Carolina yet' New Mexico -furnishes-her widely scattered country, boys . and girls a school term ''onlriou&'dayB'shortertbanthatDrteprou-old' original . States of North , and South Carolina .. C Or there is. Washington with ? less than haif as many people per square mile as either North or South Carolina which nevertheless furnishes her country children 164 days against our ninety-four days. . - ' " ' : Moreover, Utah, -with only one-fifths as manjr peoplevper square, mile as there ara white people alone per square mile in the Carollnas, has a 157-rural- terrn against our ninety-three days and yet we- think ourselves sp much; better,' and so much better civilized than those "heathen Mor mons! ',. ' ' . ." - -V."".'v :.;V; ' No, brethren, there is no excuse for us.' There is nothing to do except, first to confess that we have sinned against, our own flesh and blood; and then proceed to bring forth fruits meets for re pentance. " . We A must ill join 'together in demanding, that tha Legislature of neither North, nor South Caro lina shall adjourn next; spring until it has made absoluta and unqualified provision to-'furnish .at least a! six-months' ' school term for every farm boy and girl in our States.: - - v : r : w ' A Thought for the Week? " ' ', .' " - ' "-:;v.:: ' THE fatal taint of artificiality is often ob servable in the courtesies and ! refinements of urban social life. Individuality is sup pressed and manners are constrained in the" en- deavor to - conform -to the recognized- standard) Frankness and simplicity of speech arp the marks of the boor.. We are "charmed" with the music which has tortured every nerve. We' have been "longing for weeks" for the-visit which we hoped' would never be made. We are-'so pleased" to meet me gentleman from whom we turn, in dls- KUSt. Wfi ar 'Mo1lir1it'v v.A v-.'-j 10 " tu j viivJDw uciuyu., receptions and teas. From our hysterical-speech Its payments but a returned check : ith th ' marketlnS and-business, co-operation. The man ln homespun , are , rigidly excluded r only the l who wakes up the people to better methods of B",eriave appears in good society; .No reserve farming win ioon wake themup on these things I Jt T T r Brartertl1 Bnce," no calm : candor - 1. . .- . ' , - " b Of emotions: hnh onTv rnnnrn on1 AMflf AntH - r payment dui a reiurnea check with the payee's endorsement on the back constitutes a. good receipt ; Not all farmers who have started fcank "accounts Jhowever, are as careful as they also. emotions: bub only the weakness! O the pity 1 Dr. W, L. Poteatf
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