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The Carolinas, Virginia. Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 18 86,
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SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1916
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TACKLING THE COMMUNITY SORE SPOT
VER near Trenton, South Carolina, along one of the main market
I I highways, there used to be a long stretch of deep sand that was
way to avoid it, farmers hauling cotton and fertilizers grumbled might-
had no place in the modern, progressive scheme of things;
Reader, do you get the moral of this little true story? It is this:
tfti terror of travelers. Automobilists went miles out of their Every neighborhood in the South has its community sore spot
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ly at it, and here young horses took their first lessons in'balking. For
years and years the sand had' remained, a community sore sppt. No
body did anything about it; everybody's business is nobody's business.
and isattended to accordingly. - . ":
Anrt then as one the progressive farmers -of the neighborhood de
cided that too Ipng had they been paying a bad road tax for the doubt-
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ui piivucgc ui uragging inrougn max sana Dea. . u S noi recoraea as
o who were the community leaders in the movement, but the upshot
something no one in the community is proud of, and that probably
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THE OIJ SAND ROAD
BREAKING WITH FOUR MULES
AFTER PLOWING UP
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most folks are ashamed of, and yet something that no one as yet has
tried to remedy. It may be a miserable stretch of road, such as this
one in South Carolina was before the neighborhood got tired of it and
expressed its disapproval by doing something; it may be a run
down, one-teacher school, with a poor building, poorly equipped, and
farmers sending their children away to get an education, or actually
.moving away, themselves to get better school facilities; or it may be
that, through lack of organized effort, such as was discussed in last
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MIXING THE" SAND AND CLAY
HAULING CLAY TO MIXNWITII THE SAND
THE FINISHED JOB
of it all was hat one bright morning men
and mules and wagons were on the scene,
na me job was under way. . . -Four
big mules to a big breaking plow
ore deep down thr6ugh the offending sand
, ou oeneatn. Then from a nearby
lUay hill wagon '&ft(r vecrnn hrnnl (tTono
f ; Ioads of red, sticky clay; and dumped it .
L . . 'wu, , nucic iuc uiiK. narrows
jt it in and thoroughly mixed it with the!,
ran.a- Thcn road was rolled and packed
C7ooinca. and. lo; instead of a stretch of
fwa that everybody hated there was as fine
!An i n 8hway as tfae county could boast.
W i U!causc a Pr6grcssivc neighborhood
! CIUscd t0 be satisfied' with road that
DON'T FAIL TO READ rii
Blind Staggers of Hogs 3
What's the Use o' Fightin' Weeds? 5
Cowpeas and Soy Beans: ,Thciir Place to
Southern Farming . . 6
North Carolina Farmers Convention, Aug
ustx 29-31 . .... r ... . . 7
Are You Educated in Country Things? . . 10
Rural Credits Law at Last . ... . . 11
Would These Marketing Plans Work In
. Your. Neighborhood? ... . . . 11
Learning to Wash Different Fabrics . 12
Women Should Know About Credit Unions 12
Planting Fall Potatoes. . . .V . 18
week's Marketing Special of The Pro
gressive Farmer, the community is each
year losing thousands of dollars in the
sale of its crops. Whatever .the sore spot
may be, the point is that there.is probably
no real reason for its continued existence.
Just a little community leadership and
community cooperation, and the evil is
cured.
Hundreds of Southern communities
have found their community sore spots
and eradicated them; hundreds more will
faclic the job in the immediate future.
Why' not take the lead in such a move in
your own neighborhood?
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