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Vol. XXVIIL No. 39.
A Farm and Home .WeekFor the CaroUnas, . Virginia !
FOUNDED, 1886, ATALElGH, N. C. " ?
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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