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SUNNY HOME SUGGESTION
THE- PROGRESSIVE FARMER
section? If sn T
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have ntr. doubt
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field very thicklv ;
Improvements
Here is a big fad in the telephone progress of tlds country:
Original
Belt Telephone
1876
Standard
Bell Telephone
- To-day"
. Ill i , TJ 14-LL rzmTP.P.ILi it
Early
Telephone.
Exchange
Typical
Present-day,
Exchange .
Doing the Riglit Thing at the Ri&t.ryc and oats for, early spring grazing
Time; Why Sod Land Gets Richer; MayI urge upon you the wisdom nf
. tcaoinmj w 7 aoing,iuis, even ii ine; sowing cannot
DO YOU know that more than 75 be -accomplished before November 15.
tier cent of all farmers are always Ten acres seeded in this way will af-
o tutiA r a W Kehind with their farm ford grazing for a lot of animals dur.
work, and are always having disputes, ing. the last of March,' April, and early
with the weatner may. , - ' : ' - :
and condt 1 1 o n s u-l C;'-. :-vc:-i ; ;r.; -;i::i' ;
generally things s . .1 While; meat :is high Js the time to
being a little ' out weed out the "star -boarders" on the
of joint with them -farm.- tin ahisTclassI comes the cow
always ? y- I have that produces "only Vone -calf in two
found this condi- years; the old sow that considers her
tio'n to prevail ; duty done whenshev has Raised one
over much of the : old
territory ; that f: I blemished or balky, horse that retards
have visited. the : work' in a "rush' time because of
V mr. french-''-.;. . The trouble is lnabihty vr eccentrty. (Send the
that the majority of men ;have"not horse, to' Chicag; I Understand they
learned to make a specialty of the ab- work them, into sausage at that rnar-
solutely necesssary work on the farm ket.); It may not be possible: to make
such as plowing on time; harrow- palatable', meat ;of the, human "star"
ine- oil time : rdantiner ad time; har- on the, farm," but they anight if pro-
anAU rii nf few Tinr4rr1 vestine- on ''time : feeding: and selling per pressure was brought 'to bear-
subscribers. : Today; two or three on time ; buying for cash at the right be induced to talce on some profitable
girls will serve a greater, number time, etc -and push these matters to Pj : '"-SS while
4Kfo: tA tniir.k the exclusion of all else while the the hard times last. Drones are, a
without confusion and very much right time is on and then do the less serious menace .to-tnV home at all
taore promptly . essential things between times. Think times, and especially. ;.during close
A three-inch underground cable back over the pas t year and see how times
-" now carries as many aa eight hun- ume Jou nave v1""
r: If M failures or had your work cost you far
died wires. It strung in the old ... n
way, these would requirefour sets glecting t0 do the important thing at
of poles, each with twenty cross th proper time. At "Sunny Home'
" Hand in hand with inventions
and developments which have xm
' nroved the service many fold have
v come operating economies thai
i have greatly cut its cost ;
r ToT appreciate these betterments
J and their resulting economies, con
sider a few examples:
Your present telephone lnstru
ment had seventy-two ancestors;
it is better and cheaper than any
of them. .
" Time was when a switchboard
required a room fullbf- boys to
:a iishSS. satm
arms -a congestion utterly pro
hibitive in city streets. -
These are some of the familiar,
-improvements, s They have saved,
tens of millions of dollars.
proper
we have acquired the reputation of
'
In sections where legume hay crops
have been complete" failures; because
of extreme drouth,-provision should
be made early for ;he needed supply
of protein concentrates with which to
doing a lot of work at low cost, and balance the sorghums. andfat form
ing grains. Wheat brands too high
to be even considerftd in this connec
tion; linseed.. meat ''isVoQt 'of the ques
tion also for farmers in the far South,
but cottonseed meal Js ever present
one- ot tne main reasons is tnat we
always have in mind "essentials first."
: How many of us in the hill section
. .cut tnose wmcn nave nad tne "luwCu wu- with-tt is more vaiaabte thari wheat
most radical effect.resultmg in the tUslyJ?r ,?eeveraiuy?rrkm? bran and almost as valuable-all
largest economies and putting the I ITT Points oonsidered-as; linseed meal.
If City Wires .
Were Carried
Overhead -
,800 Wires -in
Underground
Cable
telephone within everyone's reach.'
are too technical to describe here.:
And their value rcan no more be
estimated than can the value of
the invention of the automobile.
en giving a larger crop of corn than
it did before the grass and clover was
sown? I have in mind now a field
that produced, in seven years around
12 tons of hay mostly timothy and
the land seemed actually to have im-
So let's use our own cottonseed meal
to balance up the cdrh'nleadow hay,
and corn fodder rations. :
V : A: L. FRENCH.
l This tjrosress in economy, aa well aa in service, has given the United proved under the robbery. Why?
States thevBell System with about ten times as many telephones, pro The main reason, to my mind, is that
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Pick AB the Peaches Ton Need Frooi the Trees In Your Garden.
practically no plant food or vegetable
matter was washed from the soil dur
ing the time the grass was growing;
second, nitrogen was gathered from
the air by the growth of Japan and
other clovers; and, third, that much
organic matter was supplied by the
grass and clover roots, and deposited
in, the very best way all through the
soil, and thus was the mechanical
condition of the soil much improved
and much dormant plant food made
available for succeeding crops. Con
trast the condition of sucfi fields with
that of other fields .having soils of
similar 'character, that - have grown
even two sod crops in ir9cession, and'
ask yourself if you -haven't found in
sod crops the secret of maintaining
soil fertility?
If the calves were sired by a pre-
There fs n reason why ytro hould bur Peaches
. wfcea you can grw all yon need. A dozsa of Und
ley'a trees, planted around the house or In the gar
deal will civ (Utce or twenty kvahels ot hisdons
Peach after the third, or fourth year. You can eas
ily sell what you don't need, at a dollar er more a
busheL If you have room plant a peach orchard-
can put a hundred trees or mere en aa acre ot .
land and get mora money .than the acre ever. pro.
ducedbefure, with less work for you. ' ' - ' ;
xPpoducc Best Results w&y-?
- We know how to rrow Peach treesbeen at it a t : of Georgia. Elberta,-Victor, Camellia, Mwison, SaW
Kod many years. We know the good Tarielies for- I . way, and other profit-making sorts. Send for our ;
a Bianttng; and the kinds to ptnnt In a big or- I Det ef Peaches, Apples, Cherries, Pearr and other
chard. Oar list Includes only the kinds we know I . fruits, make up your list and take advantage ot oar
ars right Mayflower .Cam in, Hiiey, Llndiey, BB I ;,- ,- -V - ' N -
If yeu aend. your orflera soon. We will give a special discount. , We will Bhlp 'ai te
rlht times but yoa can eave money by. ordering; now. Write today for .the Met of
; trees" unol' our prices.-' 7 ,; f , 'A.' -'.- . ."- 'f
J. Van Lbdlcy Huncry G)mpany, Boi 106-B, ' -Pcmona,
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to Cay
fmy (art ttnttU NNvvSvi
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TSm KITS a VSt AESUT-buUt eapadany to atw lumber IrtUt tnd quldm
' fhae anv elker bCL and to last Imm. ft I. ttim V.nhf tiinninn l..t
Knl U! y tvtr w--eity ta handle, durable and saHalaclonr.. Has the fameus
manor ssnauie doh rou wona, tne pest ever loveoted. k cable drive, steel .
tna4 Blocks, steel dogs, sutomatlo eMseT of It log srfiea olaoed back, sarinfl
ytnston-Salem M. and Columbia, S.C
;V: " ;"'; V Address Nrest Point ''. .:v.f'.-.OJ '-. "
; When ' wrltlne to ndvertUers, say, "I yr your advertisement In . The
Lwinj Caws,
V7f.l3 fpCst tsr Catalog.
And Don't Jut Take a Cheap Sheet
Thrown in With a : Fountain Pen or
Spectacles "V. ; "v.v,V;
MR. R. E. Grabel, a Demonstration
Agent, gives farmers mighty good
advice in the following article in the
Charlotte Observer;
"Do you take a farm paper? If not
you should "subscribe Jf br some good
paper. There are ta'riumber of good
farm : papers published ""in. the South
that will be worthi ; far" more than
their price to any f farmer -who will
read them. !;,; .C.r
"We -desire .fejsuggestliat you re
member this when' subscribing, that
you are subscrjbirigror a farm paper.
That it is a farm paper that-you want ,
and - not a :pair; of glasses, fountain
pen or some other articled
"Our J advice .is' that-if vdu need a
potent polled bull they will need no pair of glasses 'you. can't risk just any
t rrvs i re tVi Atr 4V1 A ... a. ii 1 , ' ... A f 1 . -. "T . .
uwiviniag vii .tjr v,uuic up iu inc muu ui guiss suning.your eyes-
sheds. for the winter. JBut if they are eyes ; are too valuable n to ; take any
carrying horns these should be re- risk on, so if youf need glasses go to
moved as soon as flies have gone,' lis- some reliable ..optician and -let him
ing for- doing the work a gauge, de-' fit your, eyes and give' you. glasses
hornmg clipper, or saw. "And whatever that will improve as' well as aid your
tool is used be sure the cut is made eyes.': ": r-f&&rtfZ
close up to the head, taking off a lit- "If you ;need fountain- pen you
tie circle of skin with the horn; then can find one in most any drug store
all the shell of the. horn will be re- in your town and if it does' not' prove
moved' and no unsightly growth or satisfactory you can have it replaced,
stub follows. A man came to our "If you want a UarmS'paper we
place not. long ago to get me to; tell would suggest that you subscribe for
him how to treat a case of "hollow tbe ; paper. ; We have tseen-: offers
horn." I told him; how to saw1 the where if vmi wnM hnv nme article
horn off close, in the way he described the paper would ' be sent tfree etc.
above then bathe the wound in a 1 We would rather - a manthink: more
to 100 solution of good disinfectant, of the paper he is putting out than to
Then give the cow a pint of raw iin- be willing just to give it away. There
seed oil, .after which she would'need are very few free things in the( world
liberal feeding on soy bean hay and arid the man looking for something
corn fodders the grass in the pas-. ; free .usually" finds himself paying
turc being all burned up, The, cow very dear. for what he geti:.' -
recovered from the attack all right. , "Don't forget that you need a good
tt r '",,. ' farm paper in your . horned vm ... A
Have, you the fact marked down in , . " ' " , ;' " '- .
your mind that - feed J. will be tOO $1.60 pays for your own renewal one year
hiirh 1' ta -rarrt rir rf . ans The ProgTeselre Parmer cue year for a
ftew subscriber.