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w t ! 1 1 if BE A BUSINESS FARMER IN 1916-Page 7 El oil i O J Ft ml ,0,jl IgN h wf w M vWSmm AND SOUTHED FAHHT uA US'. PatOffce JBTEB- - A Farm and Home Weekly for The Carolirias, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. FOUNDED 18 86, AT RALEIGH, N.;C; Vol XXXI. No. 1. SATURDAYr JANUARY 1, 1916. $1 a Year; 5c. a Copy ALL TOGETHER NOW FGikPROGRESS IN 1916 WITH the coming ol the New Year, every reader 01 ihe rrogres sive Farmer can find no better job than that of planning to make 1916 a banner year in substantial progress, and achieve ment. The old year is behind us, and the best that it can offer us now are the lessons from its experiences; the New Year, the. future, is ahead, with boundless opportunities or every clear-thinking, clean living, hard-hitting Southern man and boy. How can we realize on these opportunities? What can we, each ,and every one of us, do to essential. Neinbor must join with neighbor, and buy in large lots and at wholesale prices what hitherto has been bought in small lots at re tail prices; neighbor must join with neighbor and sell livestock, grain, hay, cotton and cotton seed by the carload and the trainload, rather than by the wagonload getting benefits, too, from scientific grading and good appearance rather than suffering losses from hodge-podge marketing without regard for grades or looks. Thus and thusonly can we obtain the fullest possible returns from the crops we have grown. IT Fe , ' & ' s ' f4L . . ' , t. , FAT CATTLE, FAT FIELDS AND PRETTY HOMES-IDEALS TO AIM AT DURING THE NEW YEAR Courtesy N. & W. Ry. make our farms, our homes, our communities a little better, a little happier, bring them a little nearer to that goodness and perfection at which all effort should aim? It seems to us that here are some of sthe ways:- 1. Our farms must be made to produce more per acre and per farm worker, and we must iearn for all time to keep at home, for our own enjoyment and enrichment, the products of our labor, rather than expend them as we,have in the past for .what we should have grown ourselves. In a word, we must make our. fields fat, mellow and fruitful, and we must inaugurate right now a live-at-home policy that will make us forever independent of the jgrain, hay and meat of the North and West.. This means a "carpet of green" on every acre in winter, crop rotation's, plenty of Jive stock for meat, milk and butter, and the production of cotton, ' tobacco, peanuts, etc., as" surplus xrops that, when sold, will be practically clear, net profit. This is step No. 1 on the road to independence and better living. 2. We nrust' pay more attention to the business side of farming io more ad vantageous buying and more profitable selling. To do this cooperative effort is DONT FAIL TO READ- Page Are You Selling Part of Your Farm Each Year? 3 About the Best New Year's Resolution . . 4 Flower Notes . .' . . . . . . ... 4 The Song of the Lazy Farmer ... . Farm Work forJanuary . . . . . . . What to Do in Orchard and Garden This Week and Next . ......... January Work on the Tobacco Farm . . . All Farmers Should Have Torrens Titles . A New Year Talk to Farm Boys ' . . . . . Progress of the Moonlight School Movement 17 January Suggestions for the Housewife . . 18 Get Busy on that Hard Job . . . ... 22 January Pouhry Ntes . ..... . 26 Does Beekeeping Pay? . . . 27 3. Finally as we pointed out last week, we must learn to know and love our neighborhoods, for only by so knowing them and loving them can we work unceasingly that they may be made better and . happier places to live in. The community must become a solidified unit, with definite plans for community betterment and upbuilding, rather than a helter-skelter df opposing, non-cooperative forces, without cohesion and without concerted effort. There are boys and girls to be trained for life's tasks, and the best of schools and the best of teachers are none too ood for them; there are communities waiting to be knit to gether by the common ties of united effort and purpose To help in this great work is a privilege; even more; it is a duty that we all owe. Are your efforts, Dear Reader, pledged' to the attainment of these ends? Are you resolved to. make yourself a better farmer individually ; to increase your profits through cooperative buying and selling ; to join heart and soul with your neigh bors in plans for community improvement? If so, then you may indeed expect 1916 to be a. banner year, a golden year indeed, when the record of rypui itffris made 6 8 9 11 17 17 up.
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