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LAYING BY THE CROPS-Page 5 : ; . . , : v . A Farm and Home Weekly for The Carolinas, Virginia. Georgia, andrida. RALEIGH, VoL XXX. No. 27. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1915. $1 a YeSi V a Copy PLAN NOW FOR THAT VACATION AND HOW about a few days off for yourself and your family this sum mer, Mr. Progressive Farmer? In short, how about a real vaca tion for you, your wife, your boys and girls? "Oh, we can't afford it," we hear you say. The truth is, you can't afford not to afford it. You can't afford, however fine your farm may be, to stick by it day in and day out for 365 days in the year. If you do you're going to dry up the wells of good will and human fellowship in your heart; Mrs. Progressive Farmer is going to feel, and rightly so, that something is lacking in her life; and the boys and girls, as soon as 1 . ,; ncMcl neighborhood that you. have long wanted to visit but somehow never found the time. Hitch up and go! Take as much time as may be necessary camping or spending the nights with friends and. get a line on how other folks do things. Or you might go on a trip to see some kinsfolk of your own or your wife's or some loved old neighbors who have moved to a distant section friends you know really want to see you. Or if you find it simply impossible to go on a several days' outing, why not make it a rule during .the next two months to have Saturdays " " ' '' .nu,...., rey m.mmmmmm; - p , , 'myw?''m'm''l,"m " ' ' I ; , ; ' " : i - - ,2- ; i 1- THE JOYS OF THE OLD SWIMMING HOLE Photo by Birmingham View Co. Go on a vacation this summer break away from things for a few days and you will come back ready for some of the best work you have ever done. they get old enough, will likely voice their protests by leaving the farm, forever. ' Hard work with a liberal amount of thought behind it is unquestion ably the first essential to success; but if one farmer clears two thousand dollars a year by driving himself and his family mbnth after month and year after year, with never a Saturday off for a game of ball, a picnic ra fishinff trin. whilp. his npifrhhnr. thnuo-h making less perhaps financially, joins with his family in their games and outings as well as iiTtheir work, instilling in them an Joying love for the open country and for farm life, we should call the latter far the more successful and richer man. , So it's settled, and we're going on that outing! Where? Oh, anywhere, just so we travel over new roads, see new scenes, breathe fresh air, and take it all with a spirit !f fun play that will bring us back ftome feeling twenty years younger. - Maybe there's a cool brook back in the fins where the iish bite and the cool air ute a tonic; wh lirvno f. ' Tuo lun you can lie and look up at the tarsnd make plans for the old farm, for t V. r.. J. nave come amid your every-day sur -unuings. or maybe off in another corner count6 Countor even in an adjoining y' there is a particularly enterprising s and fifirls. for mntripr that wnnlH DONT FAIL TO READ Develop Social Features of Your Union Now Don't Forget That Neglect Is Certain to Make Scrubs of Your Pure-bred Live Stock . . . . . . Give Us Your Clover-Vetch Experiences . Gbdd Enjglish for Farmer Folk . . . How Lack of-Rural Credits Legislation Per petuates Tenancy and Shiftlessness . Livestock Suggestions for July ... Need for a More Practical Form of Educa tion . V ' Poultry Suggestions for July . . The Garden in July .... The Negro and Southern Farm Life . . . The Rural Credits Problem ... Twelve Things to Do in July . . . . . as vacation days, the whole family to break away and go fishing, on a picnic, or . to a neighborhood ball-game? Whatever form your vacation takes, be sure that you and your family do not deny yourselves the joys of a few days off. However fine our work may be, however we may love it, if our minds are to be kept keen and clear and our bodies fit, it is good to get away from it a few days in the year. It is well not to forget that only as we make our lives well rounded and balanced, giving due emphasis to play and recreation as well as to work, can we make farm life permanent and sat isfying. "Keep the boys on the farm by letting them off the farm occasional ly," very 'truly says the Dakota Farmer, and the same truth applies as well to the rest of the family. - Make the joy of play, of social intercourse, a part of our farm life. By so doing we will plant in the heart of every child a love for the country' that will never be forgotten; we will create a tie that will hold through all the after years against the city's call. Right now is the time to plan for that vacation, after crops are laid by, and don't make a single plan that doesn't include every one in the family, from Mother and Dad down to the tiniest lit- , tie tot. Paee 14 10 10 10 11 8 11 18 4 7 6 4 'u.i-:.- 1 Vic I: I U:1 n . -J i;1 : j 3 , ' t'V. I J - i! 1 1 if i ' .in k i: 1 f v I t ! 1 i ' . . . M . H ; i in
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