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- 596 (12) a I it 1 1 am Ton can fell hj a man's farm whether r : he reads U or not" ' The Progressive Farmer XTompany Cneorporated under the laws of North Carolina.) 119 W. Hargett St., Raleigh, N, G THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER Bickett of North. Carolina say's" that; the' average ty as a peachy had fixed a dinner that I won't for cost should not exceed $25..r A -judge to go- from get fer many: a dayvv couldn't tell you whaFalf ttfunty to county" and help - farmers get titles at a they had, but it every bit tasted good. We wnnn ,i standardized cost seems a necessity in o na sure widespread adoption and reasonable charges. : nercf made : , : - . . ' themselves, an 1 want to tell you-it tasted like TT fk ... r more. Riggie said Jini; done mighty well' consiri' Have a Farm Uean-Up Day erin? he'd Ead dinner before he left home, an' A. T ' o ' . ' ' , come back at him by t'ellin'-him he didn't bm,, -t LL over the South during April and May . f J- . cluniKnowit . .. . v . . - was possible for any human bein to eat a manv cities and towns . are having, clean-up . .. i. :l..eJLL.much CLARENCE POE. TATT BUTLER, -', DLL. MOSS, . . W. F. MAS?EY, JOHN a PEARSON, J. A. MARTIN,' . . President and Editor Vice-President and Editor ," . , .. Managing Editor : . Contributing Editof , , ; Secretary-Treasurer' . v Advertisinsr Manager J. L. Moarford, General Representative , - - , as Kiggie.put away. As fer me, I was too hm t days, when all litter and trash are disposed tl- , . , T ' . . - . V1; LUO Dusy to of and the premises,; front and back, are made " . ."7 -7 v-, .p ume to get . rrU v. ' v , - ,1 ' oa an invitation to .come back again next year An' presentable. The idea is a good one, and we see . - - r L Jcar An t. , ,i k 111 be there, too, said the old man, as he oicW no reason why its application should be confined .... - - , , picKea . ,,r , v r .1. . up his nat to go. ... . . - to the towns. Weve seen seyeral farms -that - . - , . - . wouldn t surfer at all from being "tidied" up a 'little. v - The Week on the Farm pHE great merit" of the North, Carolina credit X union . law is that it provides that the State Experiment Station and . the Agricultural ' De partment shall appoint and pay an official to pros ecute the organization of these unions. South Car olina has (as probably other states" have) a law telling how. credit unions may be organized, but the idea is so new that not many unions are likely As a matter of fact, we can see no reason why RIMS0N clover ' seed- are maturing all over man should persist m making ugly what.God has Q . nftw . - - . e uver V7 vv .. v-6ti." "igc upon our made beautiful. Trees and, green grass are lovely; add to them a sprawling woodpile, a broken-down wagon, a harrow that ought to-be in an imple ment shed, a few fails, some tin cans, plus a col lection of miscellaneous odds and ends, and the front lawn ceases to be sightly, and becomes to be organized unless somebody is definitely merely "a sight." charged with the. duty of giving assistance and ' counsel. A credit union law without a credit union director is very much like an engine without fuel. IN making second applications of fertilizers this year, care should be exercised not to make them too late. We don't approve of second applications of phosphoric acid and potash, as a rule, and much of the good of second applications of nitrogenous fertilizers is lost by withholding them too late. Ordinarily nitrate of soda is effective for sixty days after it is applied, and hence when it is used around corn when it is tasseling the crop matures and leaves a considerable part of the nitrogen unused. A safer time to apply it is when the corn is waist-high. Likewise, second applications of fer tilizers to cotton are made too late. Not later than when the first blooms begin to appear has been found to be a good rule with cotton. VEARS ago it was shown by life insurance sta tistics that of 100 total abstainers at' the age These things are easily remedied, and there is no better time than right now to tackle the job. We insist that the view from the front, at least, to' the roadway, is for mother and the girls,--their.s to make pretty, rather than to be the farm dumping-ground for everything that is "useless and un sightly. Put, the woodpile in the rear, near the kitchen, where it belongs; 'fix that broken-down wagon or sell it for junk; clean up the trash and litter,. and burn what, can't be put to some better . use. Get it away from the front, at any rate, and then plant grass and flowers. -The change wrought will be .wonderful, and wilf afford new pride in an old farm. .Moreover, let's not forget the splendid object lesson that neatness affords for the farm boy and girl. Our observa tion has been that slovenliness in one thing usu ally means slovenliness in anothfcr : The man whose lawn is littered with all sorts oijunk usu- of thirty, f 55 wUl live to the age of seventy, ally has -a poorly kept farm, and his mental pro- cesses and ideas are often little less scat tered and disjointed. Neatness and a place for everything are examples that every child should best ways of furnishing such -examples. Uncle John Studies Domestic Science readers: the necessity for saying all the seed possible -Next fall there ' will probably again be r much complaint y. about high-priced clover seed. Instead of complaining .about high prices we ought to be in a position to rejoice because of having seed to sell instead -of to buy. Study the seed-saving suggestions in last week's Progressive Farmer and plan to be independent of high-priced seed next fall. ' . Every year evidence accumulates that in crim son clover we have-one .of the greatest crops the South has , ever known. It is suited to practically alt well drained soils from central Texas eastward and as far north as the Ohio River, furnishes splendid late winter m and early spring grazing, and is mature in time to plow under to fertilize a crop of corn or cotton following it. Xnd as a fertilizer it beats anything we ever saw in sacks. And while we are emphasizing the need for sav ing .the clover seed, let usx not. forget to save all -the bur clover seed, too- Just as we believe crim son clover should have a place in crop rotation on all cultivated fields so "should bur clover be in all our permanent pastures. Like crimson clover, bur clover grows during cool weather and matures seed and dies by. May. It furnishes grazing while the Bermuda is . dead, and thus with 'Bermuda is whereas of 100 drinking men aged thirty, only-44 will live to be seventy. What science has proved in recent years is the danger that not only in heavy drinking, but even in moderate. drinking, the figures showing that a man increasesThis death have before it, and a well kept farm is one of the the means of providing as nearly a year-round chances 35 per cent by so-called moderate drink ing." A famous English life insurance company ' which has kept records since 1848 publishes -the following statistics showipg its experience: . Xum&r of Deaths Total Moderate Ages- ' Abstainers Drinkers 20 to 4,221 4,677 SO to 40 4,201 -7,041 4Q to SO S.24S 10,861 50 to 60 13,056 18,52 a to 70....... 29.078 34,668 Excess Deaths Among Moderate Drinkers Number Per Cent 456 2,840 4,615 6,463 5,490 11 68 74 42 19 'YANT stay long," said Uncle John, as, he I. dropped in for his usual Saturday afternoon visit, "but I jest had to come by. an tell you MR. W. T. Bost, the Raleigh correspondent of the Greensboro News, reports that he has interviewed 83 office-holding politicians and that they are ' almost unanimously opposed to bring ing up the question of race segregation in land ed up out at ol Union. We've built a nice new ownersnip. inis is not surprising, because the schoolhouse. an' instead o one or two teachers visit, out I jest naa to come Dy.an teii you about our school closin yesterday an ome o the stunts they pulled off. You know since we con solidated our schools into one an' got three wag ons a-haulin kids out o every hollow from Cy press Creek to Eataboma, things shore have pick- pasture as is possible. t . ' :' .. . . Be sure to read this week's "$500 More a Year" article dealing with buying and using commercial fertilizers. We-are quite certain that commercial fertilizers rightly used pay, and pay well, but we are equally certain that each year many millions of dollars are wasted because of the injudicious use of fertilizers. The only safe way is to make a-careful study of vour soiland crop needs and then buy by analyses only. . A Thought for the Week people always have to do , the thinking for the omce-holders so far as constructive legislation is concerned. Three years before the state-wide pro hibition act was passed we 'have no doubt but that the same 83 politicians would have declared we've got four,' an' every one o' them is busy. "But it's what they call their domestic science business that I wanted to tell you about. I 'didn't take much stock in if at first, an' me and Riggie W HY do so many good men break down in the midst of the years? One reason is that the temptations, of middle life are themselves opposed to bringing in the issue of Jefcoat an' Jim Welch had a lot o fun laughin at awic-wuic -pruuiuiuun-ana wouia nave aeciarea ;t. Howsomever. s nee mv hov mnr! . Vmnrlr deadlier than those of earlv manhood. The sins of the younger days grow out of ihe impulses of the flesh. They are born of hot blood and of im mature judgment. The. perils of middle life are of the spirit. They-cre less gross, but more rcp- Kh.e&.fc ! bke o' corn on an acre an' made me 6ut an ol- " tUian and Imidiok TheseNre' the years of trembled in .the knees whenever compulsory edu cation was, mentioned, declaring that the farmers would never stand, for it, until the Farmer's Un ion in 1912 unanimously endorsed the idea and the next-Legislature gave us the law. People talk about the timidity- of capital, but it is nothing as compared with the timidity of the office-holder. -"V ' , ... WE ARE becoming pretty thoroughly convinc ed that before the Torrens system of regis tering land titles is made a success, some official mossback, I have been sorter slow about jumpin waning enthusiasm. Youth is generous ana ar- on these new-fangled ideas with all four feet like dcnt' aitiofus of achievement. Young men arc t -a c t uiA t a' a u t. susceptible of moral appeal By middle life one I used to So I laid low an didnt say much, has learned how mighty is the pressure to brins though I knowed m my own mind that the whole one's jdeals down to the dead level of character, thing was time an money throwed away. . He finds that to follow his highest" conceptions of "Well, last week that good lookin young lady and honor involves constant .misunderstand- that teaches the tr rls in that dnniMt r r?nrr aim saennce. ine price ne is s stuff dropped me an' Riggie an' Jim an a few others a note, askin us to some out Friday an' must be .charged with the duty of helping land- enjoy a dinner her girls had cooked. We talked owners get these Torrens deeds. North Carolina, jt over together an' agreed that we'd go, but so South Carolina, Virginia- and Mississippi now . . Jf ,v.. ,.,.., xnm . n . Art . . t t. t v i ; . ' v . lerstnioyin it was concerned, we had our doubts, have the law, and that is gratifying as showing T. H. 4tM. . v ' t " the profess of public sentiment. But the actual 'lowed that hed be on tbc safe side an' cat a use of the measure, has not been great. When Good dinner before he left home. Riggie said he'd the land-owner goes to get a deed, the lawyer eat what they had if it killed him. As fer me, I for righteousness appalls him, and he concludes to aim lower and be more comfortable. Moreover, the years have revealed his limitations. It is ,a serious moment wh;n a man realizes that he is only an atom. Then he confronts the temptation to give up lofty endeavor and to look first after his own interests. It is a critical moment in the race of life when one loses his first wind.' He 15 apt .also .to lose his-enthusiasm" and: drop out ot V mnnlnr, T).. If t, ...st..t1., nntlnUCS. hi insists neon or prefers the old. form. Sometimes tnM Vm 1M nrcsSCS the lawyer does this honestlir simply because he i:.j it .t. mii a ,...t. velth vitro, n.r. mart crucial ..... . . knows the old way, and hasn t taken pains to learn thc.new way. But in not a few cases we hnr rtf lawyers tellincr farmers a Torrens deed will cost $100 to $150 whereas Attorney-General white caps an wfutc aprons, an every one as prct- Charles Allen Dinsmore. anvinmi? once mau mv wiiuu uvu wuv. vti , ,... f$-4 ... ti.- ! .,l thusnsms area spent force, and one is learning WcIU sir they fooled os. Them girls, with f.w ,4.- ' sii in r t.-
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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