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USE OUR FREE SERVICE BLANK FOR SUBSCRIBERS ON PAGE 25 -Farm.- OSOTfB A Farm aojl Home Weekly for The Carolinas, Virginia; Georgia, and Hondo. POUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1916. $1 a Year: 5c. a Copy Vl YYYI No. 8. Let's Make Use of Last Week's "Reference Special 1. Let's read Mrs. Mathis' program of farm work by weeks, (page 3) and see how far behind (or ahead) we are, and check up this way every week, seeing how often we men-farmers can get ahead of this not ed woman:farmer. 2. Let's figure out our commercial fertilizer plans from formulason page31, studying also tables on page 9 showing value of animal man ures and of various sources of commer cial fertilizer. 3. Let's order garden seed from varieties mentioned on page 6 and get ready for an all-the-year-round garden, getting our rota tions from page 34. 4. If your Legis lature is in session write your Senator " or Representative about the needed reforms mentioned on nflo-p 1Q i 5. Look ud soravin? dates and formulas on page 7 and get ready to spray fruits and vegetables. 6. Take a pencil and go brer the list of free farmers' bulletins on pages 10 and 11, checking those you want, and then order them. 7. Order fruit trees from lists on page 6 and set out promptly. 8. Resolve now on grazing crops to make cheap pork in 1916, work ing our rotations from pages 12 or 34. Use tonic formula on page 13 instead of fake hor medicines. ' ' 9. Select papers and farm books from page 14 and send order to The Progressive Farmer. Try also to get a neighborhood library according to plans on that page. 10. Study the acre values of corn,' hay, and oats (page 18), noting how low is necessary labor cost per acre as compared with cotton, and resolve on diversification. . . : Ask authorities mentioned on page 18 to help you with your marketing problems. 12. Memorize cost of 4 'time prices' ' in your state (page 19) and avoid as you would a plague. ; 7 . 13. Study "APlan of Organizing the Rural Community" (page 19) and decide what are. first steps to take in your neighborhood. Then talk over with your neighbors value of having an organization of farmers, farm women, a 'Community League", and a com munity fair, and start moving. "Somebody must lead; why not y6u?" ' 1 -t- g.-.'w - : " - .- " ! Tri . ". ' ' :v -"' . 1 ' ' ! - . - . . mTnf IT AT" Page 4 DON'T FAIL TO RE AD- Wna It That Boy Doing? . . . . Phosphorus: What It Is and How to Use It . . . .... . Why a Big Cotton Acreage Means Low Prices . . Soy Beans as a Cereal ...... Grades for Sweet Potatoes , . Big Profits From Scientific Grading and Marketing . . . . Will the New Rural Credits Bill Give Money at 5 or 6 per Cent? . The Wide-awake Girls Learn About Germ Life . . Teaching School as a Profession . . Programs for United Farm Women . 21 Three Educational Hints .... . 22 a " AJintof Children" (rwes 20-23) contain references to many 11. niuuviuiT", w -r c - . , - A-. rrtwn npnnlft also. Nearlv everv family can linu help here. 15 Every year we dig thousands of children s graves unnecessarily simply because these-little ones were ieu unwise. : lvcij wi auu t cTimtld read and reread paces 24 and 25. 16 If vour community has a cooperative organization of farmers of :c?c nnn observins: the "Twelve Fundamental Principles" any miiu, moioi pw- - fts. nn ntiorp 29. f-w - - ... . . , . ... . 17. If you need information aoout ame or ie ornmps nflfres 15 or 30 mav helo vou. 18. Resolve to have this year a home glorified by the beauty of flower, vine and shrub. Make iin vnur list of varieties from nacre 34. 19. Resolve to have beauty inside the house also, ordering pictures from lists on pages 14-15. 20. When you need help about any farming problem, consult the authority in your state as named on pace 35. 21 . Write to your Representative and Senator in Congress (page 31) and tell them your wishes about rural credits, a in ationai warenouse la w. and any other National legislation. 22 Finally, keen coooeratinff with The Pro gressive Farmer. Notice list of premiums of fprpd suhscrintion workers on nae 16. and our flHvertisinfr cruarantee on oaffe 34. If vou wish information about any farming subject, ask our .1 a i .i x . a. t e . . : u v...r euuoriai ueuarimem. ii yuu wisn iu uuy ui sell anytning, ast our aavertising aepanmeni. The blank we are printing on page 25 will also help you about some of these matters. Fill ' it out and send it back to us. 8 10 12 17 17 18 19
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