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."if .-" ; GET THE FUIX VALUE OF YOUR COTTON CROP Pages 5 and 12. - ;: V i J x 7, r ) , &9z -iH , I ...W-Viv.-i I i v 5 Reg'dU.S. Pat. Office. H J H Vol. XXVIIL No. 39. A Farm and Home .WeekFor the CaroUnas, . Virginia ! FOUNDED, 1886, ATALElGH, N. C. " ? ' l.'' . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1913. 5 TfSfc . Waated: A Race of Soil-Builders and Home-Makers. 70U must not fail to read that little article of Mr 1 . French's on Dasre 23. There is only a column of it ; ; but it tells a big story. And once you have read it it may be worth while for vbu i to so out on your farm, take a loot over lit, arid then try to recall what it looked I wo, ui - live. or . ten years ago. Such a yieW should crops and larger profits would make the farmer's work and life increasingly more pleasant and more useful to fthe world 7 v Mr. Reader, you can be a soii-buiidinff and a home-makinr Varmr ' if you will, and you can begin, this very fall. You may not be able to . . J 1 .. i uoi mucn just now i : ... '.' ..- . . ..' . 1 1 ." ,5. :" I frri 1 ' - - - v 5. -J W f r help you cto mine in your, own mind whether V pr not - you are;l the right sort of : farm erthat is asoii improving a n d-; a komemakWfann- er;' .i;!.. ftiier ? a i i iii e gt eafeoifclelwifhr jitete JBiavelbec merejeroppers h ;stea4'Kfarffi er s. W e Jh'a y thoughtb;;il. butolfenahls year,: and faftedltb look ahead to next year, ohetyear; afters ar:: ten pr twenty; years from now. ;It issqarcelr too much; to ; sayi that the: man who' worksa; farm; foi twenty years, lookv ing only .to,eacti l year's bpuheisesjwiil at the end of that time teYt z poor farm j and;that- the man who farms the same land for twenty year8,:keepin will at the end of. the period have a rich ''farm arid a good home. . We must get. this forwardrlookinsr smrit: and -we miist vet river hur old foplisti riptiori. that farming is merely a matter of buying fertilizers ini the-spring anoselling crops in.ealLC'e men whowill six j:o work, in amall way if necessary, but with afixed fFvjoc, iu maiLe xoeir iarming lanus sieauiiy more ieruie anu ineir homes and h the T farmers whq read Thq Progressive Farmer could be quickened by Sucn M purpose, their, work andltheir : exariiple would literally rema r .i?.Jr"vu, exi iweuiy years, unuer ineir care me. guinea hillsides woiTld;becbme green' pastures;.' the 'unsightly and 'unhealthy swamp.- would be transformed :bv drainage into the couhtrv'a most fertile fields! the old rickety, buildings and the untidy farmyards' i would give place to painted houses; whitewashed;: ferices, arid-smiling tawns framed and bordered with trees anil flowers -arid' dimbihi? vjrii ; the cultivated lands wbiild add! t& their :;fattiessyeat: byiycar.v anilarceir to insure better crops next yar; and the years after; but you can surely -; do a little. ; A gully stopped, a b t place drained, a bit p f d e e p plowiriff iouowea oy a cover ,6jp,fieldciearedi brstumps or bush es, a broken fence ....y.:T- jw i '- ;, ' .:.:,,.''. .v.fvv: -v'-v- Thif P,ctlirei hSmJ. MfttAIan K!diol8on,-Uniori.-S.a.' was' awinled first prize in our photoarraph contest which closed September 15. ; It is easy to find fault with. this, picture, but good photographs of. farm ffnimals. are hard to get -except from photographers who make a specialty of such work. On the whole; this is a good picture of a good animalthe sort of picture which really shows what toe subject is like;. The horse is Swartsburg, a pure-bred Percheron stallion owned by Mr. Nicholson. He was-two years old last April, and weighs at present over 1,600 pounds. - '.'Will be thoroughly broken snd put to light work this fall," writes Mr. Nicholson. s1fibs:planted;br?;;: trees .set out vmi -canMbsbmebrallbiv these things, ad In ; doing them, you arej putting your farm . itig upon a perman erit basis, and lay ing up for your; self prosperity arid satisfaction in the years to come. , - Why riot start this very year to be a constructive farm er? FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. Club Girls I Have Met-An Article for AU Girls to Read . . . . 9 Four Things Rural Schools NeedA Timely Article by the South . Caroluia Superintendent of Schools'". . : . . . . 7- Farrners, Union Notes-rThings Doing and to Be Done .... 18 ; How to Winter Bees The Last-Article of Mr. HallmanV Series .' 8 Letters on Race Segregation More Readers Express Their Views " '13' Loss of Plant Foods From the Soil How Washing and Leaching V , i Rob Us of Fertility . v . . .' . . . . . .. . . . 3 , 'Nof es oh Pecan Growing Of Value to All Who Raise Pecans 17 nans tor a. foultry House hull Information by rrot. ocoates . . lo Some Seed Corn Facts What Seed Selection Will arid Will Not Do 6 The Man Who Knows It All-He is Not Usually the Man Who is 5 -Making a Success of Farming ., .! v" i r vT.- . i ; ; ; 4 i Write Secretary Houston A Call to All Farm Women . . 10, 12 Whyj the Milk Gets BadUsuaDy useltjs Improperly'Han ;:14 I' iV ; t. 'r f . ' ft m . , .' -' " " . I - ' 1 i '4
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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