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16, AT RALEIGH. N. Ci :'
Vol. XXIX No. 47
KNOW
YOUR
NEIGHBORHOOD
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WO weeks ago this page carried the timely message, "Know
Your Job. " This week we wish to urge every reader to know
his neighborhood, what it needs, and what opportunities it offers
for' impf ovement. The first thing a doctor wants to know when he;
comes to see you is what your conditions and symptoms are. So if
you and your people wish to improve your neighborhood, if you wish
to make it really progressive and wide-awake, the very first thing you
need to do is to make a diagnosis of it find out what its conditions
and symptoms are.
All over North
Carolina thorough -going
plans are urK
der way for making :
such a social diagno
sis. A "rural cen
sus' is to be taken in
every school, district
and reports made on
"School and Neigh
borhood Imp rove -ment
Day,!'. Friday;
Dec. 4. The head of
every household in
the district will be
asked to kindly ans
wer "yes" or "no"
to each of the follow
ing fifty questions.
Of course, no names
will be used at all,
but if the head of the
house answers "yes"
a mark will be put in
the yes column of the
blank the census tak
er uses; if he answers
no" a mark will be .
put in the no column, and then the yeas on each question will be added
together and all the noes together. Then with this done the people of
that district will know as never before just where they stand, and just
what improvements they need as to farming methods, educational con
ditions, marketing conditions, health conditions,
etc Here are the fifty questions asked:
1. Do all your children between six and eight
een attend schoolT
2. Is any boy or girl In your family attending
college?
3. Do any of your boys study the school books
on agriculture? ; v
4. Do your boys and girls study the health books f
5. Do your children read any library books? I.
6. Do you take a county paper!
. -7. Do you take a farm paper?
8. Do you get the agricultural department bul
letins? V
9. Do you own your farm? " Sft
10. Do you belong to a farmers' organization?
11. Does your tvtfe belong to a woman's club?y"
1 2. Do you attend the farmers ' Institute ?
13. Have you a boy belonging to a com club? v
14. Have you a girl belonging to a canning club?
15. Are you a church member?
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WOODCREST PEGGIE JEWEL, OWNED BY P. H. HANES, WINSTON-SALEM. N. C.
Good milk cows, either for milk and butter for home use or for the market are one of the means that will help solve the no-market-
for-cotton problem. (See article on pasre 5)
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DON'T FAIL TO READ Pae
A Farming Program for 1915
A Farmer Who Got Out of the
Rut . . . . . . .
Annual Address of President
Alexander
Foot and Mouth Disease
Jdle Teams and Retting Land
Nn Add to Gst of Farming.
Last Call for Sowing Oat .
More Reports from County
Farmers' Union Secretaries
OrfrstnSvntinn rf fVimmiinitv
P' Breeders' Associations
WaivTmeEconomies for Cot
tonFaVmers . ... . .
16. Do the children attend Sunday school? , - j
1 7. Do you own any farm machinery In cooperation with your neighbors?
18. Do you cooperate with your neighbors in buying fertilizers, feed-
stuffs, or other supplies? '.. 7
19. Do you cooperate with your neighbors In marketing your crops?
20. Do you have a garden all the year round?
21. Do you usually Have milk and butter all the year round? . .
22. Has the farm demonstration agent helped you this year?
23. Do you buy corn?
24. Do you buy meat?
25. Do you buy hay?
2 6. Do you raise corn
to sell?
27. If you sell corn,
are you able to
get a fair price
for It In cash?
28. Have you pure
bred cattle?
29. Have you pure
bred hogs?
30. Have you pure-
bred poultry?
31. Do you sell any
.r hogs, - Cattle,
. pork or beef?
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32. Is there competi
' tlon beween the
buyers of the
farm products
you sell?
33. Dp you keep in
formed con
cerning prices
in more than
one market?
34. Have. you helped
your local bank
by depositing
your savings In
It?
35. Has your bank
ever helped you
by lending you
: money:
36. Does the buyer alone determine the grade of your cotton, tobacco,
peanuts or other money crops?
37. Do you use patent medicines?
38. Is your house-screened?
39. Do you sleep with your windows open In
winter?
40. Do you get R. F. D. service?
41. Would you favor a reasonable tax for road
s Improvement?
42. Is there a telephone In the house?
43. Do you have to carry water over 1 00 yards?
44. Is your home Insured against fire?
45. Do the boys have Saturday afternoons off for
baseball or other recreations?
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46. Is your house painted?
47. Are the outbuildings whitewashed?
48. Would you favor larger school with more
children, more and better paid teachers.
larger and better house and grounds?
49. Would you favor Industrial, agricultural and
some high school subjects In your school?
50. Would you favor enlarging, the school dis
trict by consolidation, with transportation
where necessary, and voting reasonable
local tax to secure these results?
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