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TERRACING WARM" LANDS Page 5. A Farm And Home Weeklv fnr , The Garolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N.C- Vol. XXVIII. No. 52. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1913. $1 a Year ; 5c. a Copy LITTLE SERMON ON TICK C&5 ON THIS page we are carrying a picture that is an almost unan swerable argument to the opponents of tick eradication work in the South. At the International Livestock Exposition recently held in Chicago the South perhaps attained for the first time - national recognition TV Tm A nnTrvivT Tt AV I I II .Pi I II I ll 'VJ. JLJL JL VX JL JL IV JL 1 Y..;-.V vp: America. We believe thiphecy is a true one, but we shall never see it fulfilled until tick eraAon is an accomplished fact. And tick eradication over the whole SVjlmust be preceded by the eradication oi an even more DUgnting ctt,Vthe curse of ignorance. ten w .fMfc , . - ,. , . :. . . , . . : ' . as a natural livestock re- gion. io pe gin with, in competion, with teams from all over the country, the boys from the A. and M. Col lege of Texas won first i)ce;inthe stock iudff-: ing contests; men the f am ism Lespe- ueza Farms, of Tennes see, came, to th:e vf rbrit with an ex-, h i bi t ; o f Shorthorns that was a feature of the exposi tion, winning second place in the international contest; and to cap the climax, the Mississippi Hereford bull here shown led all competitors and took first prize as the champion of his class in all the country. A few years ago the very counties from which these prize winners came were infested with ticks and with scrub cattle; but by the co-operation Of the farmers themselves with county, state and United States authorities the ticks have been cleaned up and the last obstacle to suc cessful, profitable stock raising has been removed. ,:, Gradually the quarantine line has been moving, southward. The State of Tennessee is now practically entirely free of ticks, and by next spring almost half of Mississippi will be released. The Carolinas, too, have made marked progress in ridding themselves of this pest. We take it that the fact that a man reads The Progressive Farmer is of itself evidence that he is a progressive that he does not need to be taught the truth that ticks. are costing us millions of dollars annual ly, and that they (can be exterminated at a nominal cost once we make up our minds to do it. But it is the other fellow, the man who doesn't read and doesn't believe, that stands in the way. Hence the speedy eradication of the tick is largely a matter of education of getting the Southern farmers as a whole to see the value of this great work and get solidly behind it, and we know of no more powerful agency to aid in this effort than our progressive army of Progressive Farmer read ers. We are quoting on another page from a leading Northern live stock journal a statement that the South is the coming meat house of POINT COMFORT XIV, 337,488. But this" handicap has been over come and the ticks eradi cated over an area of about 2 0 0,0 0 0 square miles, a territory equal in area to about four a v e r a g e S outhern states. We simply can't afford to allow our indifferent, i g n o ran t neighbors to stand in the way o a move me nt ' that) s fraught with so much of good to ourselves individually, to our neigh borhoods, and to the South. It is largely a matter of demonstration of showing them and you can best do this by putting in a dipping vat. The tick never fails to make scrub cattle scrubbier and scrubs out of pure-breds ; the dipping vat kills the tick. FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. A Great Meeting at ShelbyPresident Alexander's Address . . 20 A Message From a Southerner In the West Reasons forRacial m Segregation . 15 Carrying Livestock Through the Winter Good Feeci and Care . Are Essential . 16 Corn-and-Cob Meal Its Value In -a Ration . 3 Easy Farm Bookkeeping Why Farm Accounts Should Be Kept 10 Farm Profits and Farm Problems More Farm Wealth a Pre requisite to the Betterment of Conditions . . . . ...... 6 Fence Posts-Results Showing Which Are the Best . . . . . . 8 Orchard Spraying Demonstrations How To Get Them . . . 19 Purposes of the Farmers' Union To Aid in Marketing . . . . 20 Southern Cattlemen's Association An Interesting Meeting At Memphis 17 Why I Like The Progressive Farmer Features That Make It What It Is . . ' 23 r 1
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