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A Farm and Home Weekly for
The Carolinas. Virginia. Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, nTC.
Vol. XXIX. No. 20
SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1914
$1 a Year; 5c. a Copy
LET'S HAVE AN ANNUAL CLEN-UP DAY
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N MANY towns and cities of the country
it is the custom to have an annual clean
up daya day on which all the old cans,
bottles, brickbats, newspapers and junk gen
erally are,-collecteds and carted away, no
longer to remain a source of mortification
to the citizens who take a pride in the beauty
of their surroundings. Such clean-up cam
paigns pay, too not alone in the added
pride and self-respect that come from having
things looking tneir best, but in improved
health conditions and in the attractiveness
of such a town to visitors. Who will say,
that a city of gjeen lawns and flowers, clean
streets, and sidewalks, does not exert a
powerful puN on the country boy or girl,
already dissatisfied with the farm ?
Our boys are going to town simply be
cause we have allowed the town, to become r
more attractive ar them more attractive
financially, more attractive socially, more
attractive in surroundings generally. To
counteract this dangerous tendency to desert
the farm there is only one remedy make the
country a better place than the city for the
country boy and girl. Not only make it better, but make it so clearly,
so plainly superior that its advantages will stand out so boldly that
every country child may see and know them.
The farm is a place for hard work, 'tis true; but it must be made a
place of joy and happiness if it is to compete with the city that is
greedily reaching out for our best blood and brain.
It is the busy season, we know, the season of long days, filled with
hard work; but it is also the season when nature is at her best and is
most enjoyable. Did you ever think, Mr. Farmer, that mother and the
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girls have a right to expect flowers, and cool, green lawns, instead of
the hard, bare ground, with wornout plows, harrows and cultivators,
broken wagon parts and numberless other pieces of junk scattered
pell-mell about the premises? The right to a bit of beauty is the her
itage of every human being; and nowhere may it be had more easily
and cheaply than on the farm. ,
Besides, it pays, if we care to take that view of iWpays in the ex
ample of neatness and order set the farm boy and girl; in the added
attractiveness it lends to farm life; in the satisfaction. and betterment
that come from association.
Some time ago we had an article on 'Fixing
Day on the Farm;' how about establishing a
regular "Clean-up Day," when everything
should be made tidy and ship-shape?
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Buy Fertilizers on Analysis Only . . 3
Combating Hog Cholera in Georgia 12
Crimson Clover and Oats for For
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Feeding Value of Green Crimson
Clover 3
Friendly Farm Talks 6
How Often Should Cotton and
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Making Good Butter .8
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Time Prices and the Credit System 14