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READ OUR NEW SERIAL STORY Page 5. - . t; v . V j US' 4 I 1 1 aJ n r?4 Djl l cW !pi V I -fe -" A" Sim&" Weekly 'For tiie CaroJinas, Virginia, F0Ui 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol. XXVIII No. 2. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1913. Weekly : $1 a Year. . : . , ... . What Kind of Mind-Food Are You Giving Your Family? ftf is NW' a ONE big fact our Southern farth ers are waking -up to, but they are : not waking up to it half as fast as they ought. This f act is that if there is any thing in the world you can't afford to be "cheap" about, it is your intellec tual food. Every sensible man knows nowa days that the mind counts for more -than the body1, the brain more than the , belly; and yet nine ty farmers in every hundred who wouldn't think of starving themselves of body-food, stom-; ach-food, muscle-' food, are neverthe less starving them selves of brain-; food mind-food, intellectual food. Manjr a fond fath er and mother who would work their finger-nails off rather than see their boy feed his body on bones and crumbs and scraps, will nevertheless feed that same boy's mind on the mustiest, ; rankest, rottenest bran-and-chaff sort of mind-food that they can find in the shape of a newspaper. "But I gotthis paper so cheap!"they will tell you: Three whole years for a dollar and a fountain pen free!" How can a man so slander his own brain, his own mind! How can lie insinuate that it is worth so little as to deserve no better foot than some cheap journal thrown in with a free fountain pen or buggy whip! Suppose some agent should come to you and say, "I understand you have been eating good wheat flour costing $5 a barrel, and feeding your children the same high-priced stuff. Why, sir, that's too ex pensive. You can't afford it. Wny here's a mixture of bran and spoiled corn meal, and I'll sell you three barrels for $5 and throw in a fountain pen free!" You wouldn't take two minutes, we suspect, to show that man the door: And yet, altho food for the mind is just as important as food for the body, there are farmers in every neighborhood in the South who refuse to use there own heads in selecting their reading matter but let some slick-tongued agent palm off on them whatever cheap, spoiled, un wholesome, unhelpful bran-and-chaiff mixture of intellectual food he chooses to throw in with some fake premium that, in most cases, isn't much better than the paper it goes with. Here is what we need to say to farmer all over the South: You are SQL 3r jea : I . W ill i ( .;i'jvfc.',-.JW(ftR BP Jm, , ft v SOWS AND PIGS IN A DANISH PASTURyGROWING INTO LOW-COST PORK OF GOOD QUALITY. not a pauper in dealing with your body; don't be a pauper in dealing with your mind. You don't buy the cheapest stuff you can find to feed your body with; then don't buy the cheapest stuff you can find to feed your mind with. If you are buying mind-food for yourself, you insult your own brain by intimatingthat it deserves no better food; while in the case of one's boys and girls doesn't a man de serve prison stripes just as much if he deliberately starves his children's minds as he would if he deliberately starved their bodies? FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. COMPOSITION OF SOILS Plant Foods in Rich and Poor Lands. . 6 COTTONSEED MEAL QUESTIONS Answered by .Dr. Butler 3 COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS The Kind of Man Needed for This Place 23 CREDIT FOR FARMERS Mr. French's Views 25 DOG-LAW AND STOCK-LAW Why. Both Are Needed. 22 DON'T FORGET ESSENTIALS Things We-Must Keep in Mind. . 14 GOOD TOBACCO "SEED Worth Many Times Its Cost 8 HOW TO WORK POOR TENANTS Two Views 10 HOW HOG CHOLERA IS SPREAD The Germs Are Carried by Men, Animals and Birds , ., 10 MAKE EACH DAY WORTH WHILE-How You Can Do It 12 MARKETING PROBLEMS Letters and Editorial Comment. 7 ONE HORSE OR TWO? What Harrow's Friends Say 21 PRUNE GRAPE VINES Plain Directions by Mr. Latham 19 TIMELY POULTRY NOTES Things to Do Now...... 18 . .i M ti( i . t 1
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