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, , . ,!. . HAYING TIME ;. ' - By courtesy of Ansco Co.
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NO PEOPLE can be what they ought to be unless they live amid
beautiful surroundings, and this haying scene reminds us to say
that there is no excuse for any farmer in the South not haying a
pretty farm and home. The Almighty will certainly make any farm ,,
beautiful wherever the farmer does his part wherever gullies; stumps
and sprouts are eliminated and fields-kept large, whole, and symmet
rical instead of being ragged and spotted with neglected hedgerows and
heartsickening patches of turned-out land.
Nor is there any excuse, no matter how poor the owner may be, for
"ijs une single ugly home anywhere in all
our Sunny South. Where we can't -have paint
we can have whitewash, and where we can't
spend money on handsome buildings, we can at
least have the glory of beautiful trees, shrubs,
vines, flowers, and. grassy lawns that the Al
gnty puts within, reach1 bf everybodyln our
Jeered section. Ai Southern home without
nowers ought to -be a disgrace .to the owner,
yen a cabin whitewashed, and made beautiful
I . blossoming morning-glories may be a
greater delight to the eyethan a showy mansion
0xillt without taste.
ore )USt here there comes to us a letter from
nf d ?m women readers, Mrs. W. I. Zachry,
c,. . J ' VJrt &u nappny exoressea ana so
the v n. Ur PPrtunities for adding to
from
beauty, that we cannot refrain
writes108 U emphasis on this page. She
DONT FAIL TO READ- Pm
Are Your Farm Implements Under
Shelter? .
Duties of Agricultural Departments,
Colleges and Papers . . .
Educating Grown-up Farmers . .
Garden Notes . . . .
Getting Ready for the Fairs . .
More About Cream Routes . .
More Than Half of North Corolina
Tick-free . . . . . .
Packing Plants in the South Are
Very Likely to Fail . . . . .
Read, and Then Put Your Know-
ledce to Work . .
The Farmer's Prayer ... . .
The Merchants' Crop Lien Agam . 14
Women Who Make Money Farming 11
"I am living at an old homestead that has belonged to several genera
tions of the same family. It has now passed into the hands of strangers;
the members of the old family are dispersed and gone far away. But
this place is a memorial to them, and especially to the first lady who
came here as a bride and lived here as wife and mother through a long
and useful life. Her impress is still upon everything, her spirit lives
anew in the recurrent blooming of her rose garden. I, a stranger, feel
a kinship with her as I breathe their dewy fragrance. Early in the
spring myriads of daffodils, jonquils and narcissus came up in great
haste. Some bore trumpets and were the trumpeters of the good tid
ings of spring, the eternal yellows of all the sunsets within the hearts of
tnem, tneir iragranceana iresnness almost ai
vine. At Easter time the white flags unfurled
in all their, purity, an emblem of the sweet spirit
of her whose pure thought and innate love of
the beautiful gave them, a perpetual gift of
loveliness, to those that came after her. Today
there is a flaming of crimson lilies and amarylhs
against the green shrubbery. Nor can we who
are the inheritors of , this loveliness forget that
the sweetness of one woman: made it all possi
ble. Though she is mingled with the dust, the
work of her hands lives on in the beauteous life
of the lilies; she is immortalized in the bloom
ing of her flowers.. " '
Who of us should not covet a like immortal
ity, and who-of us should not now strive to
make home and farm a little fairer, a little
more beautiful, not; only for our own fam
ilies, but for those who are to come after
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Let's make the South the beautiful land
it ought to be!