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i - m IM ... 1 1 i' 1 ?1 5 'I S J ' ' " R mi ;! i :1: is- .Jiff if Si: I II: 14 '1 : I: t J ail m 1 . 1 ill :, mi. 904 (12) seas? l:lM "-r;'V : TH PROGRESSIVE FARMER. -.Cherokee, 'will be able to read and write. Get ' plan of effective action, the following suggests ready to help in fhis work. : -; ' 7 ' -'- ;.-Jased on .pastexperience, with, tke weevil w'n A LL over "North -Carolina October .9 isvto be ob- xx served as Relieve, "be of value to our readers : "Seed Selection Day." : 'Demonstra- aU territory infested this fall for the firs tion, agents and farmers working with tnem ana uiuc, wccu uduidgc next year will not be heaw lMHWFm wSSk QASSSm' corn, club bovs are especially-interested, Dirt it is . rarely Ai ever -more .than 25 per cent This rl lected seed corn and cotton will go into the-fields . t fi w . v f be' Snfdue October 9, and prepare for bigger, crops next-year - , , . - - . v- UCIwre are not suffi. 'Yon tan 1dl by a man's farm whether he reads it or not . ihe tTOSreSSlVe Jbarmer Company . by providing better seed.- Get .better seed and you -wciixiyuiucrous, torxnoroughly infestalLfields QuemmM under the'kwa of North Carolint- wln increase your 'pro'fitr without one livingttrouffh th ' - - 119 Hargett St., Raleigh,, N G. ' work or one -extra drop of :sw"eat-. ' ; " "u" " winter ts T ndt large. " .V- 1 - e President and Editor Vice-President and Editor large. 2. . sPatiic and -fright 'may do tnore damj "DVERV now and then we set a' letter from some ;. . - mDIt: Qamage than LL"U J farmer who is also a merchant, onlvlo find. tfte n weevil itself ihis is a point we wnM JutUUXlUUUUit Jw i;- tuv inn iv " . - j .... - ... - .... -. , .... ., , r .. - wi. m UC wl V 1n .-. .- . . . ' - .' 1 1 . . . . ........J . " . - .- ? . -... v..-' .."1J'.iU- ' CLARENCE PDE. . TATT Tf UTLKR B. L. MOSS, . . W P M1RSEV. . ' atit n nT5irnrtxT. Cwyf Artr.TreaeiirpV nti lilc etofintiprv Jn 1arcr tvn 'wVl1 tint a. Wfrd c -vay4f1' A-wJfwr H7 . lri. .1. r . . - J. A. MARTIN Advertising Manager is sadabout his farming interests. This is not bwn'tofhat virtually-amounted to Hi ?' J. L. Mosrford, General Representative right. Why not name your farm and jput the x. u? X ' u ' -i 1- , faster to :: name on the stationery .together Vith .the names con!e wlthe beyil, but where this has been 117 E HAVE never run a good roads article that 0f whatever brands of livestock you handle r'-th caseit has largely been due -to bright : banker 'VV attracted more attention than Mr. Page's let- cr0ps and seeds you specialize on? At the very '..supply merchants, landlords refused to confirm t' YOU know how bad roads will be next February if nothing is done. To keep them from being so bad, see your 'county road-authorities, and get them to start a system of-dragging, paying farm- ers to do the work. " r ter last week. It is bound to-wake up the South least be sure to list yourself as "Farmer and Mer- extend credit where credit had heen the 1 ;to the need for road maintenance as well as road chant" ' " " ' r'f , . ' and building. y , r in -other ays plainly showed .by their action that Fnur MnrP J-ris for Cnttnn Farmm : 7 UC1ICVCU "M-agricu turaiiy.-the jig was up". OUr MOre fuStS tor lOttOn farmers : . Quite true7 our credit Jsystem" is by no means ideal; XHE . question, now seems to he : no rlonger W tPlimitl.' '-or to -Substitute a better is , J whether w -shall .have' twelve -cent -cotton, something-that cannot U done v over-night. It is cotton-futures for next: springs having passed rtant. to tiderstatidMhe,; seriousness of the twelve cents early last week, but the question now- station, - but don't get stampeded, is whether fifteen-cent cotton is "not in sight.- - 3, - A live-a.t-home policy is the first step in beat Meanwhile let us "reiterate just a'few points: - - ing the bo11 w?evi1 We;believe the majority of -1. Look out ior scab farmers. Farmers, who - onr; readers ;wrfl contmue rto'yrow some cotton don't know.the facts as "to the cotton situation' are' dltJ the weevil, but .they can never do this on store-bought supplies. . The policy of living at prevent twelve or fteen-cent prices by oVt ced- ' hQm an,d hmldmS 19 SOttnd he wor over, but ing a ten-cent market. The New Yorlc Times says' the commg oi e bo11 weevil serves t0 accentuate the only cotton hears now ire the Southern cotton :Jts ndous importance, ' farmers themselves, and it is right Don't prevent -: " ; t Jt x n twelvcents.by,jumpingatten...x . ; , f 8CtS: f Or. Oat GfOWerS '2 Help the men wh? grew the jcrpp get' the -; jyo'w'-long will it tike to get it info our THERE were 131,000 white illiterates in North Carolina over-ten years of age in 1910. That means that on an average there -were 1,310 to the, county. Resolve now that you are going to help our brothers and sisters who "never had a chance". Or if they had one and missed it, let's' be generous liable, to think ten cents a good fair price and so enough to give them a second chance.' IT IS gratifying to find so many subscribers writ ing for information as tohow to organize coop erative marketing associations, needed forms of by-laws, constitutions,- rules,- etc. It "is impossible, of course, for. us to give full information in a let ter, but full and detailed directions as to how to1 organize and conduct all such organizations- are Qi -u- ci given in Editor Clarence Poe's new book, "How' - , , ' . t . , - 'that on an 'average fall seedings yield twice Farmers Cooperate and Double Profits". " , wucu -uum . a well? For '.the truth .of-this, we refer you to - - , - borrowing-on the-cottonand paying him "or -hy r. . . . .1 r ; 7- " . - . - . - practically any experiment station m the Cotton NOW that the boll weevil in its eastward march is nearing the Atlantic Coast, farmers and business men iri the eastern portions of the Cotton Belt will be anxious to learn-all they can about this pest. For the seeker of information ;n regard to the weevil and what may be expected from it, . w.w. y " Belt. Undoubtedly thenimc 6f seeding, more than demand that the grower. have the -privilege- of ' . 1 f ' - a . 1. j. . , . , any other single, factor greatly affects yields; yet - saying when it shall be sold. " : - - ' . , ; . . , - - - , eveiy spring .we see thousands ;of acres of spring- - J. Beware of the banks that refuse to advance r t - i.u . -'" . .t t . sown oats yDlding little 'or actually nothing. In- money on cotton. If yotrr local bants will not - - 0' 1 Jt. 1, f . . sure your crop hy planting it at the right time. make reasonable loans, at least $35. a bale, report . ' - . our hook, "The Boll Weevil Problem," by B. L. Moss, Managinig Editor of The Progressive Farm- .the exact facts to your Congressman as basis for; er, is based on experience and is dependable. The variety of oats '-planted should be, as a gen OUR issue of next week ;will be a "More Fruit Special", dealing particularly with the problem, of more and hetter orchards for the South, . Note worthy articles on "Home Orchards for the Gulf Coast Country," "Home Orchards . for the Middle and Northern Portions of 1 the 1 tCotton . Belt," "Strawberries for Home Use'," "Fighting Diseases and Insect Pests," and "How to Prune" will be spe cial features, with some unusually good experience letters from our readers. Don't miss this issue. ;' demanding thorough-going rural credits ; legisla- eral rule," the Red Rust-proof or one of the selec tion. . - . ' tions;'from''dt.;T!iis.Tvariety-vTsenerally rast-re- : 4.- .Don't sell cotton seedret. . Conditions -almost sistant, andTias proved one -of our best yielders. surely warrant : the highest 'prices -ever paid for ' ' seed in the hisory:of the South. 0n our average, grades of ,iand fairly heavy - - Let's' manage 'this, crop wisely anH recover all eedine wiu probably.' be ' found tnost profitable, last year's -losses. : ':- " s C ' : .; " At the Mississippi iExperrment Station in 1912, ' - ' ; : seed sown at the rate'pf six pecks per acre made Boll Weevil Makes a Remarkable Advance tw"y- bushels - eight pecks, thirty-four bush- V ; v ; ' ' k els; ten pecksv" ahirty-fiv hushels; and twelve A CCORDING to theJstateand United States pecks, thirty-eight" bushels i' 11 . . .. 11 THREE highly important meetings are'to U itcwnolostswho invcatigatiiiflr . its 1 held in Charleston, S. C, December'IMfr It" - "spread, the boll weevil this fall has already was decided sometime ago that the annual session made a longer eastward movement than has been of the Southern Commercial Congress' should be the-case since 1909, when .the pest advanced 120 held there and then and now President E. J; Wat- miles in outh Mississippi. With about a month son has called the Southern Cotton Congress and - , f - e . . , . National Drainage Congress to meet at the(.same .before frost kft m whichto. migrate, the move time and place. : We hope many of our readers in- ment so far includes parts or-all of 4 twenty-two te rested in, the big questions of Southern progress counties in southwest Ceorgia and a broad area ft-:. . v ill res olve to he on hand; - TN ADDITION ,-to next 1 ' - ..... Fruit in Florida and central, east and northeast Ala bama, as well as some new areas InTexas. v This year'-s movement, while unusually : extensive' is 'not unprecedented. Last year the new area in fested was very 'small, while this year it will likely week's "More Special", packed with useful articles ahout all the common orchard -fruits, we wish in our issue oi October 30 to publish all the most helpful, prac tical arid inspiring experiences sent in by readers . prove to he about - double - what experience ;has ' regarmng xne Browing ui nut irecs, grapes, oer- taucrht 11s to exnect Th ih ,vpr,fl-,,fa r .... :: ...... -.W.7. " , ---w. - . V' "(SV Ui r"ries,'and flowers, shrubs, vines and shade trees ' ; that Tequire fall planting. We offer a priz? of $5 ' for the "best le'tter receivedand regular rates for -all other letters printed. Mail your articles before - October, 16. about;fifty miles a year is being maintained. ' If smut has "given yon .trouble, why not guard against it another year ?v "The iormalin treatment described in a re'cent.isstie will'do the work effec tively,' and it is not expetrstre." Drill your oats in 'if practicable. "We advise this because, practically without exception, drilled oats -have butyielded those sown "broadcast. On ten acres or more tne increased yields from drilling will verysoon pay for- a drill. - : A Thought If or Ihe Week y rWHE ' better' we - uVderstand lif e the more we ' I come to the realization of the. fact that nap- -minpec 'i'e.n Mm Tt -cirmif, that "We &re j liuvunr"ij.i: uuilt Jkl ,.tfsv"- . . . . . ' .. . . . ,w .... 1 . ' I. n 1 rf 'C'-i'i Upon -Progressive Farmer' readers everywhere- W0!kmS harmony ,vith;the laws oi om - o ; tiA '1 ' j. It-is one-of the -concomitants of righteousness, in , newly, infested boil . weevil territory, we' Righteousness in Jts last, analysis will be found to would impress the fact that there is no. occasion be-liying in. right relations with Jhe5 laws of our ?u' aiai " pauic. 1 1 uc, inc cominsr ot the uciuk aim w.itn tne laws oi tne thuvcxju -7- VTOVEMBER is to he'Moonlight School Month" J.N all over'.NTorth Carolina: That is to say, No : vember will he .the month marking the state-wide 1 , i - mm ' . ',.... 111 1 11 r w ill '11 anu wuuramu iCau - wuu- buccessruiiY met and. solved hv fr mnt rt tv.ca nKni t AVr.A rkr in iu weevn to any cotton country, particularly south . diiuuuc,. xms nauuoi jiaypuicao. f ti!i.:j:.- f ti..1 :. .1 r . benefit to othprs: - As. rfipprfnln ess induces cnee me idinuue ui Dirnungnam and Atlanta, is a- 1 - nfi in- .7.,:'-. , - .,..j-,i. t J . ties, the -schools rmu oegm in momn. in some aii2ation. Thp nnVnm;.. V.4 ' . frrtm tlm -Ae rr.i. ntres anger others they w 11 probably not begin until the mid- L ' r ouu bCUiuic cuuree-is r; "s". - cvnloathy c , - id... u t,-.. ... first to learn what s tiprPQ rfu i-A 6 ove and sympathy inspire love and sympaw tQie OI, JNOVemoer.- -4u. juva vii lu udvc 11 . '- "ui ngdiusit - -4.t,. " r i. Jj -Vo that' by. Christmas-time every white man and the weevil, and-then thoroughly apply what has i-'mr ' woman of 'good common .sene, from Currituck to been found most effective. In aiming at the" best To Trine ' in -others, - each" "of - its kind, 'socheerfulness ana Tame in o.tner wit -
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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