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(16) r- . be re4s It w L first priie, and that Mrs. Williams won a rag. 25 mm a booby prize. Now, I papers ought td menUon gambling in nigh life, anyhow, and 1 submit that a bull calf may prove of more service to a community than a sachet bag or a rag doll.' Better Parcel Post Facilities PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY The Progressive Farmer Company (Incorporated under the Uw of North Carolina.) Home Office: 119 W. Hargett Si, Raleigh. , THE "PROGRESSIVE FAR21ER,' way. Space Ys freeand the Exposition" pays trav. eling expenses ot too men, includmsVailroad far both ways, with an allowance of $2.50 a day. for meals en route and $3 a day forexpenses while ia .Dallas. or the "lack of :the paltirF.-BumUhat the exhibit will cost them, the .people .of the 'South -cannot afford not to have, their educational insti- tutions , represented. . at yourj state, insntuuoa hasn't this amount; are there not enonghVpubl;ia-j-. spirited citizens within :Jour borders -who; have) enough state, pride to induce them ,to go down " into -their pockets ana raise uu& truung ..sum i Prealdent and Editor. Vice-Preaident and Editor. Managing Editor. ' . Contributing Editor. Secretary-Treaturer. Advertising Manager. CLARENCE POE, . . . TAIT BUTLER. . . R L. MOSS, . . . W. F. MASSEY. . . . JOHN S. PEARSON, . .T a MARTIN. . . , J Frank rooahe. General Representative, T' kHB .United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. .C, has recently issued a bulle tin on "The Management of Sheep on the Farm, which should be secured by every reader of The Progressive Farmer who is interested in sheep. fFFECTIVE January 1, 1914, new parcel post H regulations that should aid further in closing ma iran txtwen Droducer S? P en8lMe parce. post .ystem . business to f Something we have long needed and that is al- that cannot promise this h Mt; it so mak. ready enjoyed in European countries. The most it your nusiness to Bee thatUhe.oeans.are.Iorth. of the new regulations are as vuunuB. v , -.-.' YOU can't hope to get business cooperation start ed in your neighborhood unless yourneighbors read papers that tell them about cooperation and ; its advantages. 1 Education must precede) coopera tion, and if you "make your neighborhood a read- 1 lV,lnV.nnl" -arith tha rlfrht snrt Vlf reading it will also soon be a leading neighborhood. salient features follows: First and Second Zones the weight limit is increased f rom. twenty to fifty pounds, with charges of five cents a pound for the first pound and one cent for each additional pound; Third Zone six cents for the first - pound and two cents for each additional pound; Fourth Zone seven cents for the first pound and four cents for each additional pound; Fifth Zone eigjit cents for the first pound and six cents for each additional pound ; Sixth Zone nine cents for the first pound and eight cents for each" additional The Week on the Farm l OUR congratulations to the twelve progressive North Carolina counties which have employed a county health officer for his whole time. Their names deserve to be mentioned: Nash, Rowan, Columbus, Sampson, Johnston, Robeson, New Hanover, Durham, Guilford, Forsyth, Rocking ham, and Buncombe. Congratulations, too, to the North Carolina Board of Health for its leadership in putting its State at the head of the whole list of Southern; States in this important respect. A county with a progressive county school superin tendent, county farm demonstration agent, and county health officer, each employed for his whole time and each selected for his ability'and energy, apart from political consideration such a county is one that anyone may be proud to live in. Has your county one, two or three of these qualifications? pound. It is also announced that on and after March 16, 1914, regular parcel post rates shall apply to books. While much remains to be done to make HIS week we are carrying a rather remark able story of what husiness men may and should mean to a farming community. - It is a story with a moral the moral r that , only In so far as the whole, community is prosperous, can the individual prosper; and that only "in pTopottioii as the source from which the city's life is drawn is healthy and vigorous can the city6r town-ire- , main healthy and vigorous. 'AndmpleTsystemtor- guaranteeing market-prices 1 for tottotiT "J tree: rest room for Tanners' wives and families; gopd' roads;? and a dozen other good things that have come our parcel post system really effective in bridging through the broad spirit of cooperation between the gap that is now occupied by a horde of middle- husiness men- and farmers are established institun men, the progress that is being made under the tions in "A Town Run hy " Young Men.' Farmers present administration is a hopeful index. Let Us Be Up and Doing T THE truckers of Eastern Virginia have one Qf the most successful cooperative organizations in all America, but the sad fact is that its success Is probably better known in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts than in the rest of our own South ern States. Dr. Bruce Payne, of Peabody College, Nashville, in a letter now before the waiter refers effectively to this, as an example of the South's ag ricultural achievements which, through the Knapp School of Country Life, should be reported and carried back to farmers all other the South.- He iays: - "Time and time again, when my relatives were losing their potato crop because of the glutted market in Eastern Carolina, the man ager of the Eastern Shore Corporation was telling me of the lucrative prices they were .'. receiving for their potatoes. One of my friends got twenty-nine cents in stamps for a car- -load of strawberries, shipped from near .Goldsboro; the Eastern Shore people were - telling me of selling theirs for twice the cost -- of production." Editor Poe is this week investigating and study ing this Eastern Shore Produce Exchange and will -have one or more articles about it in early issues Of The Progressive Farmer. ' ) . . 1$ ADDRESSING the last session of the North i. Carolina Press Association, Judge Thomas A'. Jones made an excellent noint when h said that HERE can be no doubt that one of the most important annual events from an agricultur al standpoint, and that necessarily means o ' V from a standpoint of prosperity, not only for the South, but for the whole country as well, is the Na tional Corn Exposition, to be held during the com ing February in the city of Dallas, Texas. The hold ing of this exposition in the South is particularly : of interest to our Southern states, as during the past few years we have shown a decided tendency towards wresting from the Middle West its here-, tofore undisputed claim to being the corn belt of the country. Therefore the holding of this ;expo4 sition in the South should he seized .upon hy . every state as an opportunity unexcelled for proving that claim. At the same ; time, while showing our capabilities as corn producers,' there is no event of this character that attracts such widespread in terest in everything of an educational nature, and nowhere can our Southern Btates find a better or more appropriate medium for the exhibition to the world of their resources. Since the National Corn Exposition is really a great educational institution, it naturally follows that every Southern, state should be represented by an exhibit from its" leading educational institu tions, both agricultural and otherwise. For the "Southern states not to have exhibits at this show is like having the invited guests sit down to the . banquet without the host; and yet, from present appearances, there is grave danger of. this very thing happening. Of the thirty-seven, states that have indicated their intention to have exhibits and business men alike may read the story :. with i profit. , . , V"'; - - C January is not usually a busy, month in South- -era. fields. The feeling is too prevalent that It is - the half-way station between 'the old crop antJ .tne new a . sort of take-things-easy period ; hut ;the . ininKing iarmer is coming to see inai every aay must he 'busy day"- if the maximum profits are, to? o rpa1l7:rt Fnrnia arer 11lro -fnPtnTion snnnts with. capital tied up in 'them and to. run them effik. ciently.six days in the week is the secret for piling.' , up a profit , for the -end -6l the year. .There are ;." ditches to dig and to clean out; terraces to build; ;; clearing to-be done; machinery. to he put in shape;, thegarden to get ready;' and, countless other little things the thorough-going "farmer ..will . heed. In this ' issue Professor Duggarand Mr. Parker, dis cuss a; tew of the things to be "done now.- Read what they say. " - 4 -. " k 1 ' ' That "is an illuminating article by Mr.' French in tnis issue on xne soutn's cattle-raising possibili ties. Mr. French. rightly does not take the posi- tion that the average Southern farmer should pn; gage in the livestock business exclusively; but : mj jkso Diiu vv ij ir. ex iiw i.ii n ( i ill i ii ii iiur uu u u rTua r t . untilled, unproductive land should be put to work.i livestock is the means bv which this mnv ho done not livestock exclusively by any means" "but n four "hoorl f n aonli imnll f x x a i. .. . .uiiu vw cav Vila . w ttBLT graze on the lands that are now idle,' and to fur nisn a large part of our food supply in wholesome ' meat, milk and butter. " '.. '."".. city papers often think it remarkable for a couutry paper to .record that a farmer'has bought a new mowing machine, wheraa t.h ritv same issue will record at length and with great trom thelr e(3ucational institutions at-the coming gravity how "Willie Brown, son of Col. Brown, has exhibition, but three are Southern. Never before una. l.r.inin niru 11 im hi ri n nirTnnov rr n a ,i . t. . . wmy, iu was me proverDial novprtv nf which all his little friends were invited; and tnere were four tiny red wax candles on the cake." As Judge Jones continued: ' y: "I somehow think that a mowing machine . Us as valuable an asset to a community as Wil- ,; 'lie's .beautiful cake with the four beautiful ' ?red candles It is true that the country paper rt may also tell us that Bill Simmons has Just V purchased a bull calf, whereupon a city paper - .rwill deride it, but in the same issue will tell an eager and expectant world, that Mrs Pot- .ter has given an auction bridge cart y at which mD. Junes naa nno ninir r - mm u, ern educational sachet bag as the poverty of our South- institutions so ereatlv pm. phasized as in this, instance, as the almost uni-. versal reason for not promising an exhibit is a lack of funds. At best fifty dollars will cover the cost of any exhibit from any "of our Southern states. This, of course, will not Include the cost of collecting, but it is a poor institution indeed that has not already within its walls enough material to make a more than creditable exhibit of its work and of the resources of the state. Then the total expense is simply the freighUon this exhibit one . We feel that to be of the greatest service to our readers it is necessary that we devote considerable' Dac caul ween 10 a discussion of our business problems buyine and p1U n p - Qr Vila 'VAsV are carrying an article on marketing the peanut. up in me soutn Atlantic States -why low, .prices auu iue remeay, inis article Is wnrthv of oucuuuu wnemer we sell peanuts, tpbacco. cotton. V . -J-,? or We are rather fond of runnlnp' fttnttocs- 'conn.: A mJ W J m. 1V7L7 t UUU clally when they, carry, a moral, and that is why we call attention to ,'A in this issue. The moral Is that we can't afford to put up a shoddy product, whatever our fcusl-' ness. Read the story hy Mr,, Blackburn, of :the man who was greedy. .C-'.-:-'.;,.. ...-:. mti v v 1'
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