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1 1 M 1 . t : t IT i; ; i . i I-.. w - f jjjj --- u - - y mid fer ccx- :.ll t .2 ...j, fcX -r- .uSsfi &SB2 rv. vi. fj v n : ; ( ,'; i L-l V -l-W A Farm andVSxWeeklfor-; -r . . - ax. RALEIGH, Vol. XXXI. ; No. 7. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1916. $1 a Year; 5c. a-Copy Keep This Issue In Your SOME books,' ' said Lord Bacon, "are to be tasted, others, to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested:" -This Reference Special' belongs with the publications that are to be "chewed and digested --and it will stand for a tremendous lot of both. Go over it now: in a general way therefore, study over the things that interest you most, and keep it handy .where you can chew on some favorite morsellat every spare moment during the coming three or four weeks, Then have a permanent place prepared for ita place where you can find it at any time of day or night during the coming twelve months. . , , . s , . - For there's no telling what you'll want it for-about a fertilizer Desk or Bureau Drawer formula with potash left but; or whether exchanging cotton seed for meal will pay; or find when to plant some vegetable, legume or forage, crop; how to spray and when; what some commercial term means; when the moon changes; what "time prices1 cost; a farm work;program for- the month; a suitable subject' for school debate; how to feed the baby and growing child; what to do for the sick child; which foods are most nutritious,. etc., etc. , . t, It doesn't matter what the subject is, if "it touches farming or farm j life, you are almost sure to find some light on it somewhere in this i issuei Be sure to save it. ' INDEX TO THIS ISSUE (Asterisk indicates that information Is contained in a note without a heading.). AGRICULTURE- Pas A Farm Work Program for Every - Week in. the Year. 3 A Soil-building Rotation . 34 Corn Yields in the Southern States .. . 31 Cost. of Tile Draining Per Acre 15 Cotton Crop of United States for Twenty Years t. ...... 4 Cotton Planting and Picking Dates . . . 4 Cotton Yields Per Acre by States. . . . . 4 farmers' Bulletins You Ought to 7 ; Have .. . .. ... V.:; Grass Mixtures for Pastures . . . .;V; . ; . Highest and Lowest Prices for Cotton How to Avoid Cotton Boll Rot........ How to Avoid Cotton Wilt. ....... . . Spread of the Cotton Boll Weevil. . . . Tobacco Crop in the Southern States. 10 30 4 4, 4 4 31. r What Crops Need Lime Most . . "v . 15 What It Costs to Make Cotton... ...." 4 What to Name Your Farm t ; . ; . , X . . 21 What to Plant and When . H 34 What You Ought to Know About Cot- Where to Write When You Want Help ; 3 AGRICULTURAL LEADERS IN THE Agents in Demonstration- Work'V. . ;;t 35 ' Dairy Experts Who Will Help You;;;: 35 Directors of Farmers' Institutes and ' . Agricultural Extension: Work. T. . .7. 35 Officers in Charge of Home Science . . Work ' " '-' r " Officials in Charge of Tick Eradica tion ;-..Work.:C: ;vr;Vvr,Vvf;'1:v President Southern Agricultural "5V Colleges Cr, 7t :,iJ'ii?i.ft'Xfri Southern Commissioners of Agri- , . ' culture .'. , ; . . . ,V, . . 1 . State Agents in Charge of Corn Club I and Canning Club Work.;;. State Veterinaries an,d Livestock Sanitary ; Officers ,.U 7.', . . , . . . . ; . . COTTON-l - '; : Cottdn Croo of the United Sta Twenty Years ; . ; v .7i .. . ....... , : Cotton Planting and Picking Dates . . . Cotton Yields Per Acre by States. . ... Highest and Lowest Prices for Cotton How to. Avoid Cotton Boll Rot or 1 35 : 35 35 35 35 AnthracnoA How to Avoid CottonYWilt;v:;7X Spread of the Cotton Boll Weevil..;,.. lotal -Area" Infested by the BolU 7 - Weevil in 1915 ' ' - ' V' -.- ' l What lTou Ought to Know About ; : Cotton" -""'' '-"' :-t '--s " A What It Costs to Make Cotton, .v; V 4 FERTILiZERS:r:V Composition of FertilizerMaterialsv;!" S Composition ofried or Water-free ' r Excrements; . .v ;; V : ' Page ; Computing Fertilized Values . . . . . . .-. .-. 8 Fertilizers Without . Potash 31 v ; Percentage ; of . Plant Food Constitu- . ents in Fresh Animal Excrements ... 9 What the Fertilizer Guarantee Means' & HORTICULTURE AND PLANT DISEASES An Acre in Fruit :6 A Planting Table for Vegetables. ..... . 6 Bichloride of Mercury Solution. . , . . , . . 7 . - j Bluestone Solution . . . . . . . . . . . c Bordeaux Mixtures . ..... ....... .. .... X-K ). Formaldehyde Solution. ............... -; Formulas for Grafting Wax. . . .'. . Fungicides : " How to Make and Use 't?: Tliom t - m $ - r - How to Have Flowers AIL the Year - Round - v Plant Diseases and Remedies for , ; Them . . ; ; . ......... . ... S Self -boiled Lime'-sulphur. . . . . , ... . Suggested Rotations in Garden "" . V . Planting . Trees arid Shrubs for ' the South. . . Varieties of Fruits . . . . ; . 7 7 7 6 7 34 7 7 - 34 34 6 34 What to Plant for Beauty... HOUSEHOLD AND HEALTH Abbreviations in Weights and v-:?-Measures' VR V i Ailments of Children! ; . . . . i M A Table of Food Values Every -Woman Should $tu,6:y. ....... . ' Diet for the Sick. i V; Diet of Children From Babyhood" to Facts and Figures for Progressive I , Farm Women r; iv Housewives' Table of Weights and Measures, ... .. ............. Proper Weight, Height, etc, of the Baby at Different Ages. . ':'."' School - Lunches The Nutritive Ratios of Our Break-": : fast, Dinner and Supper. .....I:, ..." The Wide-awake Girls Learn Good - ' Housekeeping . Time Required for Digesting Some Important Foods ,,,.,.... LIVESTOCK AND DAIRY ;k sAn 'All-the-year Grazing Program. . . . .15 Color, Marking, Characteristics, etc., of Principal Breeds of Cattle and Hogs 12 " .Cream Separators, When Profitable... 18 v Digestible Nutrients in One Hundred ' Pounds of Feeding Material..'... 13 v ! Driving the Tick'.Southward. ;; . . .. V.r 12 'J: Facts About Livestock, Feeds and ' ' ';,. Feeding v . V . ... ' f ? - Feeds and Feeding Figures.;...'.. f13 ; ; Grazing Crops for Hogs .. . . .'.. . -,I2 How, Many Animals Should Be Kept . ; :v.v ; Per Farm: . i' ' .- : : How to Register an Animal . . '. .y. . yi -12 23 20 20 25 20 24 23 23 25 . 27 27 23 Page Rotation of Crops for Hog Pasture.... 34 Silos, When Profitable 18 To Keep Hogs Healthy. 13 When to Exchange Cotton Seed for Meal 12 MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL- A Calendar for 1916 3 A Legislative Program for. Farmers . . 19 A Library of Farm Books.'.........,.. 14 A Plan of Organization for the Rural Community . Beautiful Pictures for Home and School Beekeeping, Book on . . . . . . . .......... Binder .for The Progressive Farmer. . . Cooperation: Twelve Fundamental Principles ' Commercial .Terms.. Debate Subjects ............. ... Draft o( Plows ... , . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . Fairs and Meetings in 1916. . : . . . ... . . . Farmers' Bulletins You Ought to Hcve 19 14 18 18 29 15 30 30 15 10 Farmers' Union Directory...; . . . ... ... -29 19 4 15 4 29 29 18 Good School Pictures... How to Make Whitewash ... ... . V. .... How to Measure Land. .. . . . , 7; How to Mix Paints for Tints. v. . . . . . How Your State Ranks in Illiteracy.;. Increase of Tenancy in the' South.. . . . Marketing Bureaus . . . ....;.....' Order of Business for Local Union Meetings . .... . . ; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . , Parcels Post Rules.'. ........ . .... . . . . . . Premiums for Subscription Workers. Prizes for Young Folks . :. ; . . . ......... ; Race Segregation : and Land Owner ship ... ....... ............ ......... , R. F. D. Route How to Get One...... Rural Teachers' Reading Course.. . . .f Senators and Representatives in Con gress ... ...... .... .... . ;vr.r... Simple. Rules to Be Observed in Send ing in Your Subscription. ; . . . . . . . Some Papers We Recommend..:....'.. Southern Corn Hay and OatsJ.Wbrth More Per Acre Than American Av erage ;. . . i '. v. . :. v ;;. The Fifty Best Books for Boys and - - Girls ;,; w;;. :::j;.:7.;.::r:..r: The Torrens System Explained..... .. The Twenty Best Novels We Are Going to Move the Corn Belt South .. . ...... i... ...... Weather Rules V;.V. .; ; . ; . . . . i . What May Be, Expected of Farm Im- plements . . . . ... . . . . ... ... .. . . . ; 30 What the South. Spends for Wheat, ' Oats, Corn and Hay ....... '" 18 What "Time Prices Cost.... 19 What to Name .Your. Farm. ... . . ; . . 3 Where the Rural Sections Are Getting . Blacker '-V:r. .'... . ' .'.'' "."- White and Negro Tenancy. . . . . . . . 29 29 4 16 18 19 31 19 31 34 14 18 14 34 14 18 15 5 I i! "1 s "i.f 'i ' f :!' -1 '4 - 1 M 1 1 I ! 1 V " 4 I ' 1 ' ' 'I, i; J ' -1 . I' M 1'' i - f ' 1 1 j: 1 4 i ! i XoprrisM,; me; . , . t .
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