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A Farm and HoT V Weekly for
The Carolinas,Virginief beorgia,and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, j RALEIGH, N. C.
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Vol. XXIX. No. 1.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1914.
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1914 LET'S MAKE IT OUR BEST YEAR.
ANOTHER year has passed, and a new year has begun. We express
the hope that to all our Progressive Farmer readers it will really
be a new year a year of new hopes and aspirations, of higher
ideals and ambitions, a year of such progress and achievement that at
its close we
may look
bafck upon it
as the best so
far inbur
lives.
That we
may do this
it is necessa
ry at once
that we take
stock of our
S h or t - com
ings and de
ficiencies
make a real,
heart-search-
i n g i nven -
tory of those
things we
have done
and are do
ing and those
we have left
undone and
resolve that
the new year
shall be one
of better things. New Year's resolutions are commonly supposed to
be made only to be broken ; but without resolutions no effort can be
successful and no true progress may be made. So let's make our 1914
resolutions of unbreakable material, adhering to them and steadily
striving for their attainment, until in the end the things we set our
hearts upon are ours. Successful men men who have achieved great
purposes have first hoped, then resolved, and then worked unceas
ingly until their hopes and aims became realities. In all human lives
and activities this law holds good that whatever man hopes for and
unceasingly strives for he finally gains. So let us at the beginning of
this, our best year, set our hearts upon a few of the good things that
will go to make ours and the lives of those for whom we live better
and happier and then let's never turn aside, never falter, , until we
have made oi tnem realities.
What can we hope and work for? What are some of the possibili
ties some of the things that make for better lives and better living,
that we may attain ?
First of all. it must always be true that material, external things, in
a large measure, affect our welfare; and as a consequence our first
duty must lie in the direction of making our material surroundings
more pleasant and habitable. This takes a certain amount of wealth
wealth created by the application of better methods in crop produc
tion. We believe that our Southern people have the knowledge to
expend wisely at least double their present annual outlay for schools,
roads, better livestock, better implements and better homes. These
elements of happier living must be bought with increased wealth, so
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CAREFULLY SELECTED SEED MATERIALLY INCREASE FARM PROFITS. Scene on Farm of D. R. Coker, Hartsville, S. C.
the problem fundamentally is one of more money not money for
money's sake, but that our country boys and girls and men and women
may get out of life the happiness and joy that are rightly theirs.
So, Progressive Farmer readers, let us resolve, once for all, that
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1914 shall
mark the
year we for
ever rose
above the
class of the
average
farmer the
farmer who
makes 18
bushels of
corn and less
than ZpO
pounds o f
Cotton to the
acre. This
is truly our
only hope
for econom
ic inde
pendence the only
means by
which .our
children may
be brought
up as edu
cated, clear-
brained, clean-hearted, right-thinking American citizens. '
How this increased wealth shall be achieved is one of the problems
of oureconomic regeneration, The means lie all about us, ours for
the asking. Let us harness them to our purposes and bear steadjlv
toward better things. And with our hopes and ambitions, our failures
and successes, let us not forget to cultivate that mental spirit which,
whether we have riches or poverty fits us to meet the days work with
smiling face and dauntless courage the spirit that points unswervingly
toward its goal, the spirit of cheery good will and eagerness to bear
our share of the world's burdens.
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
A Successful Poultry Farm Points on Housing .19
Easy Farm Bookkeeping Keeping An Account of the Farm Business 1 0
Field Crops Fundamentals in Growing Them at a Profit . . . . 5
Good Cooking How to Do It, and Its Effect Upon the Body . . .12
Larger Yields Still a Problem Why Economical Production Must
Be Studied. 3
Plowing Under Vegetable Matter When It Should Be Done
and Why 7
. Profitable Gardening What thev Grower Must Do ..... 4
Profitable Livestock Production Some of the Essentials. ... 16
The Meeting at Shelby Plans for Future Work ...... 22
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