1332 (20)
LET ME PLAN YOUR
Lighting Systei
It will only be a short tlmebefore every
nr...iir firmrr will be Interested la a
light plant for his home, such aa Mrs. "W. 8.
Mlddleton, of Meriwether, S. G, describes ia
The Progressive Farmer, under date of No
vember 33rd. I wili.be pleased to .furnish
anv information and estimates on plants lor
rnuntrv and suburban homes Machines
manufactured by the Davis Acetylene Co. -I
also want a live local dealer in the "fol
lowing counties of South Carolina: Lancas
ter. Chesterfield, Dillon, Horry, Marion. Ker
shaw. Lee. Darllnfirton, Sumter, " Clarendon,
Williamsburg, Georgetown I also want live
local dealers In the following ' counties of
North Carolina: Scotland, Bladen, Samp
on. Wayne. DuDlln. .Onslow. Pender. New
Hanover, Brunswick and Columbus.
B. J. BOSTICH
Rockingham, r. NarUi Carolina.
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS OF THE : TOBACCO . GROWER.
SSBBBBSBBSSSSSSSSBBSSSBSSSBBSBBBBBISBBBBBSB ; ' .
The Folly of Trying to Ute On Next Year Earnings- The Man
In Debt Cannot Hope to BeH In the Best Market.
I
FIND that for the year
the total pro auction "of; tobacco
In the United States was 1,113,-
450,000 pounds. How suppose , this
enormous quantity to have sold for
the very low price ' of five cents per
pound. ;. "Even tit that priee the to
bacco growers would "have received
that year for their crop $55,672,500.
Yet we often near a man eay that he
is not . making a living out of bis
farm.
there
DyJfc.IL Slate. Sooth Boston. Va.
the year " 1910. other reason, it is rather expsnsir three veterinarians of National ren.
. , Tire TROGnnssivi: FAitMEiu
. . . . ,
- American Veterinary Medical Asso
elation nt Us last annual meeting it
Jadlanapolis, Ind.f last -Augnst, ap
pointed ; a ; committee to serve "the
6ame" purpose regarding veterinary
modical ndrertlslns. ; V -
ajmb uumuiuiew is - comnnsprt .
WS
11 t rTwxmS (
J v has no second chance. A I
I S A good beginning is the 1 1
I Jn'y ae rnlej put your 1 1
I faith in the best seeds yon i
i can buy. 'Ferry's have had the il
I highest reputation . for, over 5tM 1
1 years. For sale everywhere. .'.; . 1 I
I 1913 Catalogue free am ree. ' 1 1 ...
I I 3.XL JESSY & CODdroU, IScLissa. 1 1
to live on borrowed money, anyhow,, atation, none.of -'wnoni .has been n
because to the other expenses must gaged n private practice, for .15 6r
be added the" interest on. the money.-.;. 20 years, as follows: Dr. If. S. Mayo
A- 'great many -people hold .the tffe. Virginia Agricultural College
'warehouses responsible for the farm- and Experiment Station, Blacksbnrg,
ers borrowing so much money, but Va I " S- B.', Nelson, -of the Wash
they are not at nil to be blamed. The ; mgton Agricultural College and "Ex
farmer - wants, the money; he gives PCTiment Station, . Pullman, .Wash.;
bis note for the amount;'. and! then -onT anil. ;Dr A: tJary, of the Alabama
account of . tbe poor state of his own -' Agricultural Collese and Exnieri mnt
wjaseqoenay we now , xnai - nnances, ne geis me warenouse man ;-oviontAUDnrn,-Aiat)ama.-.v-
Why, the tobacco growers get over do not lend out money nor nrelthey tmmittee is lto'ljft'publi8ndra-tb'TdlB:
ct: aai aaa -e-m : ' ' t.n4. 1 i. .',
fas,vvv,Dvv iui tutrii uup -uuu yet uconuua ui biimumg Becurily lor. ..vniuiuauj uetween- wuTiny ann nn-
XL. 1 j m . i i i a 1 m . . i
mey, living gn a iarm wnere tney
can raise almost nil of their neces
sities such t meat, bread, etc can
not make a livingl ' ;K
This sounds almost ridiculous, be
Irft sKr r sad
TDUR1DEAS
tiIM. Soofe HnnrStt OVfisill'tt SMMif1
"What to invent" sent tree. Send
rough sketch for fnsereprta s patent
ability. Patents advertised for cale at
ar expense ia MannfaotuterS' JoBrnols.
fMent Obtolacd ar See Steti
CHAldEE & CHAmig, fatal Atfyg
XtsbUibed 16 Yau
mi P. Street. WwhiagW. IX C
SjmmmhBJBSbA
i IiiimIiiH nilia SmC
1 rwir A Mia 1miiIMi1i ouidk. . .hit
SPECIAL
HOLIDAY OFFER
raised on a farm are dear - to a farm
er at any price, because lie is not sup
posed to buy., them. When the to
bacco jgrower .''makes his farm sus-
really need 'is for the farmers to' fl-
UV U D iL i ui nance their own Industry ;just as the
l iciu-i dill diiu lllguwdjr. railroad owners and manufacturers
. m , i ', are doing. Things . which can be
is uie uue ui a Jitue uuuk. ui
country stories and sketches,
by Mr. E. E. Miller, Managing
Editor of The Progressive
Farmer.
nHERE are ten of these stories, two
A of which "When the Circus Came
to Town," and "An Autumn Ride"
have been printed in The Progressive
Farmer.
A number-of people wrote to say that
a penniless farmer, nut custom makes worthy advertising Of course, it s
law.,,- This has become a " custom, purely optional? with nny publisher
Theywant to:; sell the maifs crop whether; he" cepfe the service "?pf
therefore tbey endorse bis note 'lor ,v tMs' :trommlttee :ihl ' it is not prob
nlm. and "by doiner so. lilnd hm 'hv' able that"1 many iibllaheips ; win
cause outside of what they can raise, law, and by a sense of honor to AeQl so; ;but If any "publisher avails "Mm,
there: is not much to buy. It noes; nis tdbacco at their house. r; - - self ; of the expert knowledge nrm
look rather bad for the tobacco grow-r Npw, ;ls
ers, -because they ought- to cmakeij a; eratlve 7 selling? How on earth - can -ertnaTians ahdthe MlseraTfnliswi
good living on their faTms; but I am in rmer nold nis tobacco J6r letter :tranriuleni Is now
grieved to say they spend their - prices "wben "be Ib note nl will
money, , unnecessarily. ; - That being be due" In inort wbJle? - How Wan , is to any extent lessen ed, the results
the -caBc. ctfcouTBe, they do not nc-ne sell JAJne lest' Tra
cumulate a fortune. 1 bas'lbonnd nlmself tn
I do not like to accuse the tobacco poorest? Hei The Troirressive Parmer has suh-
grower of being lazy, but circnm- and swear atthe Vebcwwemen -wlieninttted two lines of -advertising, 'which
stantial evidence tends; to prove it to; Ms tobacco v noes not bring as much is now being 1 extenslyely carried by
be a fact I nave always thought him as he expected to, but to tell Voo the the agricultural press, tor the oninion
to be an energetic, n committee. We have not been
man, and even now I attribute Ms cnmijtant have expet any xflTe. carrying this advertising, "but If the
condition to other causes, bnt don't Co-operative seHins will never be a -committee approvesi of it we may
you know that Instead of raiising Ms success as long as; fids state nl af- do so. ,
meat, nread, horse feed, etc., tie buys fairs exists. : '
This, together ;with : the necessity
for ,iwjrit) wins m used
by some as "reasons for the 3overn
ment control nf the tobacco; indostry,
but If olnev m mpufl 1m nr hov
Now, speakang of hard - times and can speedily he" berihrn wn. beean sft-
panics, we do not ne ithe the ae:
ment to finance the iohaofjptw EOTerns -
mnnsrry. n our Government does ieitner : ta price or the qiumtity. At
this, it will some day have to finance present, prices control the amount of
corn, cotton, hay, manufacturing tobacco grown each- year, but if the :
plants, and the railroads. What we Government handles bur tobacco -for
us, it must control the amount rais
ed. JNo one cares to ha.ve some of
Jial dictate as to the ' number, of
acres which he shall put into tobacco.
Financially the tobacco grower is
one year behind. His "money gives
out at the wrong end of the year. !ln
the spring: when he -goes to' buy his
them. He will even borrow the
frfflifflliiS; I I seems to find it easier to buy his
necessities witn ;v norroweu money
than to Taise them.
HARROWmGS.
tain itself, instead of expecting the seed and fertilizer, : he finds that all
tobacco to r supply money . for his of his money has been oaid out. to his
every need; he wilLttien have no need creditors, therefore he must begin
io oorraw money, msieaa, ne wm anotner year oy going into debt.
then, be able to start a bank account, The old .adage. "Where there is a
and will find himself the most pros- will there is a way" may well be ap-
perous of farmers. -
And now I want to show vou some
of the disadvantages of running on
borrowed capital. I fully realize that
plied here. If you try, by practicing
economy and saving your money you
can catch up. It is going to be a
Hard struggle, I know; but It is well
HARROW'S comment-on Professor
Massey's advice : to iarmers to
experiment and find out for. them
selves the fertUizers. needed, was not
Intended to con vey tlie idea Profes
sor Massey has -evidently; taken
from it. . l
Harrow knows the "average' far
mer is not a good farmer, hut lie did
ot in any, way intimate that they
were "all careless ignoramuses,'' and
no such insinuations are; Justified.
To make it clear, let me say that not
one-half ot the fertilizer experiments
conducted by the trained, experiment
ers in past years are worth the paper
they are written on, "much less the
money it cost to conduct them. It
stakes " more than a ood farmer to
conduct fertilizer experiments.' This
; does not mean that the farmer Is an
"ignoramus." He may be and often
is, an educated man of brilliant in
tellectual attainments, and still not
be trained or educated to this work
of making, fertilizer experiments, and
if he is not, in nine cases out of ten
they liked these sketches,"andthe others every business must be financed, but worth the effort. Start a savings ac- ?, cases out of ten
are iust as readable. - . shouldn1 the. men who ar mdm- r.oimt. at. vnnV -hji-nv Wwi-. " . nis expeTiments ( ? h so-called, are
1 : . .- - - USJ J ldrl D- 111 1 i . ' . . " . . .
The book is tastefully printed on'iood ing this business supply a part, if not ful how you ;ilrw money, and how At zl y misieaa.tnan aireci.
x xi i j -l oii nt v.q .onifni o v, 4 irm.i .. . Moreover, rt tjosts the ; farmer too
a.nc . vnvu i jluwv unc is vwir ducuu it.. - .mix lnrfiypr nPTTiP in
where many farmers make a mistake, debt-is almost equal to heing in pTis- jopdurt fertilizer experl-
mi.,.. -u ii.. i i A . x,. , & " v ments such -a "wiW rfv Tilm very
iucjf wiu lue uauiu w uaaoce weir -on., uon z oe a Slave. The Consti
buslness, consequently the banks get . tutton' of ; this country gives every
a share of the profits. '- man perfect freedom and if we do not
The evils arising from this tin- .enjoy It, the cause lies within us. and
limited borrowine of - monev are not jothers - It. a fil Hmo
" . : . -. - "0" .-- vuwv J IU n Bi-n4. ' i m 1L.
Z ,V ?C pSH v i P' 41 W numerous. First, the farm and ome- were avoiding the risk incurred by Jl 1 enuung totj vum
baatoTlieProjreMiTeFamerior af . . wrw,wnii i tKk 1- oy selves; but for them to start whete
sj s. lu u. - ss uui. ua auuj .s.s. c ri s n. i -s. i. i i sss, uuii .n xr 1111 snu - nvrrsi nv ' ' .
same time the .foo(L. ctothing. : and .pense of buying your bwnbr
meat; be free to hold your tohacco XZ bl' uwmp, uu.CB
for desirable trices or. at W -H1? ove 'otaro:-value Harrow
paper and neatly bound in green cloth,
with gold title. A good book to give
your friends and a good hook to hate
on your shelves.
Price, 55 Cents, postpaid,
or sent prepaid witn one yearly ribscrip
tion to Tne Progreiure Farmer Jor
THE .PROGRESSIVE FARMER;
RALEIGH, N. C
ments such : as will rfva nim very
definite inf ormatlon4 fWhen our farm
ers have'learned the ' results .of the
experiments at therr experiment sta
tions, then they may be in a position
to start experimenting for them-
GREATLY REDUCED RATES
Between Points on
Norfolk Southern Railroad and
Raleigh, Charlotte
and Southern Railway
Round-trip tickets will be sold Decern
ber 13. 14. 17. (and J8 trom Ualelith
only) 19, 10, 21. 22, 2IT 14, '25, IL, and
January 1st. Limited to return until
midnight of January 6th. .' '
The holiday excursion fares atDlv be
tween points on - ths ITorfsllc Southern
Railroad and TtA.llrh. Charlotts and
Southern Railway, as -well as to -or from
Vwtt4sa jaa tMAMlsar Hmsm
For further , particulars. . apply to any
"W. Vt. CROXTON. ; '
Ocneral Passctiter Aioflt. "Norfolk, . Va.
. -. , ,
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other necessities -of ;the-, family "are
placed in danger. Suppose the. crop
should be a failure. What is to be
come of the family when the farm is
gone, and there is no. money .with
whlch'to procure food? Think of
the risk that is incurred before you
sign that note. . r ; -
The second evil comes in from the
fact that it Is much" easier, to spend
for -desirable prices or. at least, be
free to choose the. ' warehouse at
which you will-Bell; '
thinks the sood farmer, should' make
tests of 'Tertlllzerff, but if : hetakes
the results he gets as his. sole' guide,
or If he does not take Tntoyconsider
ntion the experiments of the stations, :
i ii z i ri ir nvor rnn- aet.Tn.TDAi'g n o i m
"wn iTimimc5TTT .1' HKeiy to he misled "more often than:-
. lean Medical Association has a he ym directed . by his expert-
' ' . . 1 J.'.;-.
Committee to Expose Fake
Advertising.
someone else's rhonev than it In Vhtir .' cnmtriHtftA wMrli will
ments, unless hB s
nwn nn fAi. i.A.An thA AnaA. ,...M(.i,nuH . .ii . time and tnondit nn Tia wnrk than
does not .seem tbbejio well guarded Mng submitted to it. , This !sa Vain- ; averaSft farmer or; even.the best
wiiovt vawa.j t.ii - .-t a in .. . farmers can airnrrl. - " : "'
wnen borrowed money la belnir spent, able heln to those ouhlisTr
as It is when the money comes direct wish to carry no fake" medlcal ad-
irom me DUyer'fl Tiorlret : irnrtJipr- tm4 htv hirf-1oo
more, men will often camhl iinrin .at' ' iTiffmn mrHv-':v.
- t. r v . uv.u.wv'w, uivuivai IVllUWieaKB
vue UrOBTlGPfjl ftf a rrnn Msn ' 4 ' . '....til. .. - i -
DOTrow more tnnnov tlifin 4. mii.i.ium . . 6 .
U lutPiv r,-on CU' " vo"' ; iuo .umuiuyr ui aaveniBing offered.
HAltROW
To Break pojr From SnrTdnr Ew.
To stop a dog trom juck!n .r. rut one
tapomral of .tartar emetic In' atl f.ecff "..
' y llCCC88Ty'-. Of11!11 JfOT n0 v Following" along, this inline thS yer.he-an set .It-Oaa-W- tw jr.wm,-7A-.
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