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FIGHTING WEEDS: PREVENTION AND ERADICATION-Pa 5 lUTMERM FAIR EAXSf TQ A Farm AnH Hnm Weelclv for " Carol inas .Virginia. Georgia, alorido. FOUNDED 18 86, AT RALEIGH; Vol XXX. No. 23. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1915. JlaK r4'i; 5c, a Copy Three Timely Sermons That "Mean Busmess" whole forest of young trees worth just as much as any building on the place. Moral : Every reader should find out what is the penalty his state law provides for carelessly" starting a forest ; fire and then help enforce the law and make an example of somebody. Or if his state lacks adequate laws to punish such offenders, let him see that his next Legislature pro vides them. L Better Start That Marketing Association Now : HERE is a good example of the need for cooperative marketing., reported to us the other day. Said a farmer: "About two or three months ago I was in town arid saw one of my farmer neighbors sell some hay at a store. I asked . him what he was get ting for it and he told me $12 a ton. This week I was at that same store and saw another farmer buying some of that same hay. I was curious 7 ; 1 -. 1 I I i . i - ' . ' , l, 'f : . r - - ' ' - K ' " .V-fj BJft!? ' " w- 1 . A COVER CROP OF ABRUZZI RYE. AND-CLOVER, FARM OF JAS. S. WHITE. ROCK HILL, S. C. to know what he was paying and when I asked him he said $25 a tori.' ' Moral: Isn't it time for farmers tp learn more about buying and, selling? And isn't it time for farmers in your countyto begin organiz jnga "Marketing Association" as farmers in many progressive counties: nave done or are doing ? See. your neighbors. : r y . : u. rut Stripes on the Men AVho : . x Start Forest Fires- : VTEVER a spring comes but we grow sick 4 i at heart in our travels -through the South to 'see the wanton; wasteful, wide-spread destruction of trees by forest wesshameful, blighting ruin that our peo- seem to take as a matter of course. And ' t s never going to be stopped until we begin make some people wear stripes for their cnminal carelessness. . : The marvpi ic u4. t ' 7. l 1. i0 lurti sensioie umDer-owners ITT W ft The UCM?ucuon with suchdndifference. uVgt farmer would move heaven and rri destruction with stirhindiffprpn: enrtV. ,-i . . . and I F a man who would wantonly ' Coefrburn;up his house or barn or ly , i0, And yet 'this same farmer f requent- thronS .nthing about it when somebody trough lnexcnsahi 1: t. 1 DON'T FAIL TO READ Pm Are Lawyers Discouraging, Farmers From Using the Torrens System ? v 14 Are You a Freeman or a Bondman. - Serving Time tor'ay a More Account; iu . . 11 lot. Wii climcrtnn as Dictator Cooperative Buying Is Good-But Co ; operative JWerchandising May Not Be" . . Fighting Weeds-Five Suggestion . . How to Know the Common Weeds . Livestock Suggestions for June . . . Nut Grass-a Problem for Our South ern Experiment Stations . ' . . Our Monthly Economy-Sermon . :. . Poultry Notes for June The Garden in June . . . . Twelve Things to Do This Month . III, Your Wife's Cooking and Your Plowing HAT sort of a housekeeper would you call your wife if she were .regularly to offer you bread from half-worked dough, with clods of flour and salt, raw and indigestible, all along through the J bread? You'd certainly thmkshe wasn't doing her duty as a house keeper, wouldnt you? 7 ' Well, she has just the same right to say you are not doing your duty asa farmer if you are preparing your land with like shiftlessness. There's not much more excuse for a good farm er's having big, unbroken, indigestible clods mix ed with the good plant food in his fields every year than there is for a - good housekeeper's having big, unbroken, indigestible lumps mixed with the properly prepared family food on her table. Good, complete thoroughgoing harrow ing genuine pulverization of thet fields is just as necessary as good, complete, thoroughgoing kneading of the dough in the breadtray. JVioraYour part is to feed the crops. Your u 10 19 8 10 6 18 4 4 wife's part is to feed the family. Do your part as well as she does hers, and you'll prosper more and have less feed and food to buy. , .. - . ' ' : 1 -' ; nDdfi El jffilf !3L---3&-u - ;. . . ;.. 101) N DEO 188 6, AT RALEIGn Q . C. : - - t4 sl. f ! 7i ;.' t !- . ' i ; m I 'r is ' , f- ! I. it .-'f' ,.;c ?ll 1! ill : :i c f i -t t - : if 7 i I "cgugeuce uurns up a it 7"
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