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& AS I if .! k') ! --? , 1 70S (12) 1 . tfcV,. J ;-.f. j JOTHim:lFAian TOTS), S 7to can tell by a man's farm whether be reau n n not. ' -The Progressive Fanner Company. Cacorporated tinder the laws of North Carolina-) 119 W. Hargett St, Raleigh, K C. CLARENCE POE, TATT BUTLER; E L, MOSS, . . W. F. MAS5EY. JOHN 3. PEARSON. J. A. MARTIN, . . President and Editor Vlea-President and Editor . Managing Editor Contributing Editof , . Secretary-Treasnrtr . Advertising Manager J. L Mosford. General Rtpreientativt SOUTHERN farmery ought, to save more seed oats than is now being done; Almost uniformly the home-grown seed yield better and are more rust-resistant than seed from a distance. Get the services of a threshing machine this year and save at least enough seed oats for your own use next fall scores of Indiana, Ohio and- Illinois folks, and persons from other states-west of the Ohio -river,, have settled in the vicinity of Washing tori, Belhaven and Pinetown . during the past; two or three years." ." . U'-V': ' : WE AGAIN urge every North; Carolina farmer, and" especially all Democratic farmers (there is no Republican, contest for state offices), to re solve now to go to the primary June 3 "and help nominate the best - men -for all- offices. There are many men in the state who wish, to kill the pri mary and, go back: to the old convention" system of nominating candidates, .with all its possibilities for manipulation by cliques and ringsand traders' If the vote in the primary is. small that fact will' be used by these men as an argument for taking away from the people the right to select their own leaders. See your neighbors and getVall voters to attend the primary. You may not ; feel so much interest in the contests this time, but you should go anyhow to show that the people "want the right to name their own candidates, and will use that right. " .. - .. Uncle John Talks About Fire, Foolishness, Fertility and Forestry FARMERS contemplating purchasing a tractor should write theUnited States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.,. for Farmers' Bul letin No. 719, "An Economic Study of the Farm Tractor in the Corn Belt." While this bulletin deals with the tractor under Corn Belt conditions, it nevertheless contains valuable information for farmers in any section who are about to buy a tractor. I INCREASING complaints indicate that wild onion is becoming an all too common pest in Southern fields and-pastures, and there is a constant de ; mand for information as to the best means of eradicating it. Progressive Farmer readers who are troubled with wild onions should write the United States Department of Agriculture, Wash ington, D. G, for Farmers' Bulletin No. 610, Wild Onion: Method of Eradication. ; v READERS who are interested in forestry and kindred subjects would do well to write the United States Department" of Agriculture, Wash ington, D. G, for the following free farmers' bulle tins: No. 173, A Primer of Forestry I; No. 358,. A Primer of Forestry II;. No. 476, Dying, of Pine in the Southern States ; No, 582, Uses for Chestnut Timber killed by the Bark Disease. Also write your state agricultural college and state depart- ment of .agriculture . for whatever information they may have available. HpHOMAS A. Edison, whose message to our Pro JL gressive Farmer boys appears on another page, will be seventy years old next February, and is still one of the hardest-working men in the United States as he always has been. On the oc casion of his last birthday he gave out an inter view advocating moderation in eating,, and warn'-' ing against alcohol and tobacco. He believespro- , hibition will become world-wide and says a law should be passed prohibiting any one under twenty-one from 'smoking cigarettes. . IN MANY sections, as is usually the case, spring oats are a failure, while fall oats are crenerallv making good yields. In two years out of three, we believe this will generally be found the case. Care- fully conducted tests extending over a number of. ' years have proved that fall-planted oats will aver age from 50 to 75 per. cent better yields than the spring-planted,; and this rule Will probably hold good anywhere in the Cotton Belt. We are wast ing far too much land, time and -money by not planting our oats when we should: FTER our-Farmers' Union page for this week xlL was made up, Mr. Daughtridge finally sent Secretary Faires the long expected answer to the Farmers' Union inquiries of April 12. The letter reaches us too late even for this, issue, wher,eas in order to have enlightened the public, it should have, reached us a month ago." There is general ".' regret that instead of telling promptly where he stood, Mr.' Daughtridge took over forty days to "answer these questions, when it would seem that ; forty minutes should have sufficed for an answer so largely non-committal as he has sent. .TOR generations North Carolinians have been jl' going West and paying two prices for land, no : better than they could have found right here in North Carolina- But at last the tide seems to , . have' turned. The following clipping from the Washington;. N. C, Dispatch is one sign of the :" iiejy dayr ;; ' . ; ; : Indicatfoii are that more homeseekers will "':::tnry;ectibn'- from the Middle West thin year;' than -in ; any previous year:' Many LIKED your Timber Crop Special, especially that man Akerman's plan for heading off fires," said Uncle John, as he dropped in for- his usual Saturday visit. : "Yes," we answered, "don't you ; think it's high time we folks down here in the South were think ing more about saving trees instead of killing them?"" . . "You bet," he replied.. "I'm right with you. Why,, I know fellers right in. our neighborhood who've actually killed a hundred dollars worth of timber to put a ten-dollar hillside in cultivation, an' then let the hillside wash off in three years. They sajr Nature's a great doctor fer sick lands, but when she lays her eyes on them ten-foot gullies I'm afraid she'll back off from the job. At any rate, few folks o' this generational live to see her finish it. Sometimes I wonder why she don't get sick of her job an' quit altogether, any way;, seein' how she's got to contend with fellers a-burnin! an' a killin' faster'n she c'n patch up their mischief. Old. Dr. Knapp wuz, to my way o' thinkin', one o' the wisest men I ever read after, an' he said that one trouble with our country wuz that we used too much fire an' too little sense. "An' did you ever think," he fnquired, "what a pile o' money we've lost right here in the South by not knowin' the worth of a tree? Twenty-five years agp, the biggest ' part of pur hills wuz cover ed with big tail pine trees millions an! millions o' them, an' all people thought they wuz. fit fer wuz to deaden or sell fer 'a little o' nothin'. After the timber in the North wuz about all gone, them buy ers . come South an' bought every, acre of timber they could lay 'their hands on. They knowed what it wuz worth, but we didn't, an' they got it fer a song, an' sometimes they even made us sing the song. I know thousands of acres that went fer a dollar an acre, an' you couldn't touch it today fer less'n sixty-dollars. It's jest another case of a few makin' all the money because we didn't know what we had nor what it wuz worth. -u f ; p?ogssive farmer schools telling thr farm boy ht)w to compute th value of fertilizer lormulashe old sslem of bu pass, away entirely. ' The Fer Who Vas Too Late 0O-YOU know hlmthe;man who is always t0Q Jate VVe daresay he lives in your neighbor. .wiiuuu, . duu. inayu nis iarm - actually-adjoin your owrx. He's usually not hard to find, this man lsnt; in iact you can usually tell his farm the mo- ment you. come in" sight of it," - It is likely the-.first sight tcr oflfend your order wv..w.lfcv- urn we ,i uuKea tence row briers bor der mg: itthat fe-S of getting behind with his worki: has found it inconvenient to cleaff up. Then this time of the year there'll prob ably. be a ; patcP of r something with a greenish, bilious cast thatxloser inspection will show to be , oat heading out at an average, height of exactly ten inches, ' You. see,, hegot behind with the cot ton picking last fall arid for this reason it was im possible for hrm to insureis oat crop by planting ir iri September or October7 Farther on there's a field that looks just- like a great mass of hard clods, and, in fact, that's about what it is. You see, he, didn't have time to harrow the land right after he plowed it, and now. about the only way the clods can be -broken is with a sledge hammer. tii irii v jumuivi lu nviu wiii UC ttUUniCU Wit 11 the variety of cotton known as "bumble-bee" an other of the fruits of being behind time. Of course, we don't suppose there's anything that can-be done for such a fellow--his ways are "sot"; but it does" seem a pity for him to set such an example to our boys and girlsthe farmers and farm women to be, doesn't it? The Week on the Farm Buying Fertilizers by Name A GREAT change has come over the farmers in. all the fertilizer-using sections of the South. A few years ago farmers bought fertilizer by name. No,w they have found but that names, never yet" made cotton or tobacco grow, and fertilizers are bought by ingredients instead, of names. "A Louisa County Hayseed",, writing a yirginia exchange, describes the-change that has occur ed in riiany sections: . "We used to haul just plam 'guano', without stopping to ask what per. cent of plant food it parried. You did it over in your county; too. Just so it was Eureka, it didn't make any differ ence whether it was Eureka 10-2; or Eureka 4-8-4 just so it was Eureka. In Louisa and , Fluvanna today '90 per cent of our farmers do , not care one toot of a gnat's Horn whether it has a name- or not,, so the- plant food is there in the right - mechanical condition,': properly t. mixed and derived from the right sources."" ' ::J Wheir we once get a series of- arithmetics; in BE SURE to read elsewhere in this issue Con gressman Lever's statement in regard to the status, of National rural credits legislation. Of course time alone can shdw how nearly perfect this legislation is, butwhatever its defects may be, we do feel sure that the country is nearer than ever before to a solution of the problem of pro viding an adequate rural -credits system. The great thing was to make a start, and this has been done; now as whatever defects there may be in the leg islation become apparent, the law can be amended to remedy them. Just as soon as the conference report on the matter has been adopted, we expect to give considerable space to a; discussion of its provisions, and just what farmers must do to ob tain loans';-'"'-;.: 'V'v We continue to get reports of the great value of Abruzzi rye as a winter' cover and grazing crop. One reader says that as a producer of milk in mid winter he has not seen' its equal. Of course, as a means "of making pigs pretty and hens happy it is equally valuable. Better try at least an acre next fall. A bushel, of seed will' sow it. V To our readert -who have never planted velvet beans, we would say that this is not a good hay crop,, the vines being too long and difficult to handle,,and we would prefer soy beans or cowpea?. However, for fall and winter grazing and as a soil builder the velvet . bean stands right at the top. 4 ' Be sure to read what is said about humus in this week's article In .our "$500 More a Year" series. Humus is really a' wonderful key that unlocks great stores of plant Joods,' and thus it also opens the door t6 wealth for the farmer.; If you are trying to farm without humus,, just try it once, and its great value will make you decide-never to be without it again. V' A Thought for the Week TVTE.VER' lose an opportunity of seeing anyth V that is beautiful; for Beauty is Gods hana v A J writings Wayside sacrament. .Welcome" in every fair face, in every fair sky, m every i flower and thank Godl for it tfs a :;aff.of wssm' i Ralph Wato Emersbn1. .
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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