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-v ship or profit-sharing brie, and it seems to us that . proved farm machinery and eett' " --
,v ' the share rental systenV;is best of all for encour-. Vure-bred livesrnVlr? .setting interested in
jL-rJ i-J i j aging mis relation. v ; - -
a- :Have the people discovered the nnTO
organization-so .that -each Jl,PWer
"xh f-LLJLi Southcni Fng: Scrioasly UndewEpita-;
farmers' 'club, a farm T, uy
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- . a ciud, a bov'
corn
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Ton can tell ky nan's faia w&e&ar
ae rests tt r aoLw
The Pxogrsive Fanner Company
GneorpoizSsd ender fhs laws cf Ka6 CuroEaiul r
lit WVHargett St; IUlelst N. C. ;
CLARENCE POE
TATT BUTLER. '
& L. MOSS, . .
wyf. uas?ey.
torn a PEARSON,
A S WE are pointing out on page 1 this week, 7, 7ud-M the . first, seven of these tests-it
the : South, compared with the North' and swere "yes", toeachand every. onDavidT"-
T central West, harrela'tively littiVof ite;tb&l';?t3r' 9??e found & a recent trip is enn
' area' in farms improved. Oaf most? intensively.- tlt1 t0, Recognized .as having a real case nf
developed states have SO .per ceSt or less of their." dt Progressiveness. We didnt see much J
, - ' . . . m'- th . dence bearincr'nn c-irnr,rt, t o
tarms improvea, wnne; states mikc unio, -Illinois, - - r;";r'i"wu u. o, Dut with all the
and Iowa have between 80 and 90 per cent. " her.&eve symptoms, well-developed, we know
"The heavy! burden that these unimproved. lands ' !.t tV? e,?1Jth-IS ound to show up soon,
impose upon the owners questionably has .done " P?vldS0.n. a, good county. Its farmers live at
much toward retarding our agricultural prosperity., -me aild the:have a lot of wheat to sell. And
Theifarm of eighty acres, -only 40, of which is im- ,yy usf m9der machinery, g)w untold acres of
proved and yielding returns to the owner, Pff'r e-?Jwt pulling f?dder and have become
seriously' handicapped, because "the idle 'forty ?a81?natcly interested-in Jersey, Guernsey, Hol
acres instead of paying, their. way,' are. burdening stm; .nd "Aberdeen-Angus cattle. The only re
the improved acres with charges for interest'and .retb)e thing. to note here is that they are not
taxes. Many a farmer who wonders why his net: , f0 n -??. dairy breed instead of scatter
income is hotjarger will find the re'al trouble right !ng wwmtercst among several breeds. At Lex-here-too
many acres that loaf instead of -work. .-, ,nKton.a:real cooperative creamery is at work, and
.These conditions prevalTin most sections simply
. President and Editof
Vite-President and Editor
. ' Manaarinjr Editof
; Contrtbutins Editof
1 . Secretafy-Treasurtf
. Advertiainff Manastf
J. L. Uosford. General fienreientathre
GOME to the great meeting of the State Farm
ers' Union, Raleigh, next week, Read the pro
gram on another, page and note Secretary Faires'
announcement as to railroad rates. -
IT'S too late now to sow clover, but rye may still
, be planted;: and should be wherever possible.
The, Abruzzi variety is best, and at least a seed
patch of it should be planted. However, seed of
this variety are scarce and high-priced, and in
case it is difficult to get, ordinary rye sowed as a because of a lack' of working , capital: Southern
cover.and grazing crop will pay well. JS.eep.your lands haVg een and are comoarativelv ctieao. and
.. ----- t . -r - v - fl ar ,
lands covered winter and summer.
A; NUMBER of readers have written us their
experiences in threshing or hulling velvet
beans, some of these letters appearing in this
issue. It appears that an ordinary grain thresher
will do the work very satisfactorily by having a
wider spacing of the cylinder teeth, thus giving
mnrp'snarp fnr tht hans. which 'are'lurcrer tlian
the small grains, to pass through and running the this same inability" to secure, -working capital at
cylinder at a lower speed.
INSPIRED by Mrs. Patterson's reports last week,
Mrs. Charles Rankin, Fayetteville, N. C, writes
i that as late as November 2 her garden was fur
nishing twenty-three vegetableseggplant, spin
ach, English peas, corn, peas, okra, lima beans,
. beets, turnips; lettuce, snap beans, Irish potatoes,
ccaTots, pumpkins, salsify; tomatoes, onions, Swiss
; chard; winter squash, green pepper, mustard, col
lards and kale. Who can beat it?
making money" for the farmers.
' There are fourteen three-teacher schools-some
of the fourteen schools having four teachers-and
this fact has been a great temptation to'overload "'8"." '? aer way to get
on land, leaving too little capital for development. "Pt'o-Wte schools to.. supplant the one-
and equipment. However.ith the generally high. teacherPev matter of roads, what pleased
interest rates prevailing and the difficulty-ln se-: '"S-was thte wgent interest in dragging. One
curing long-time-loans -at any rate, the-average armr Jhose fa we Passed attended a "good
farmer 'has felt it unwise to attempt' tomorrow ,road' ?h" e State University, and is
- t " . " ..j, , " jT t i ' noted as the,best road dragger in the countv.
and at the county fair the exhibit of the Delco
r lighting system for, farm homes was one of the
most. popular features. With a little extra equip-
UOLLOWING are the officers of the State Farm- :
ers Union meeting in Raleigh next week : Pres
. ident, Dr. H. Q. Alexander, Matthews ; Vice-Presi-
dent, Dr. J. M. Templeton, Cary; Secretary-Treasurer,
E. C. Faires, Aberdeen ; State Organizer, J..
Z. Green, Marshville ; Executive Committee W.
B. Gibson, Chairman, Statesville; W H. Moore;
Bruce; C C. Wright, Hunting Creek; C T. Weath
erly, Greensboro ; Clarence Poe, Raleigh.
TTHE farmer who doesn't save some mone now
' : when prices are high is going to regret it as long
V as he lives. Ad whatever amount you. can save
uugui io gU'iuio a creait union, 11 your neignoor-
a reasonable interest rate has kept hundreds of
thousands of farmers from investing in better,
livestock, better, implements) and better buildings.:
If the new rural credits law proves the, boon
that we hope and believe it will, it will in a large
measure supply our -present r embarrassing" defi
ciency in working capital. With this ; deficiency
supplied, with money at 4 to 6 per" cent: and five
to forty years in which to repay the loan; there
should come. to - the South an ; era -of continued
prosperity.- Vv
ment.one-may use this system "not only to light
all the farm buildings, but also to pump water, run
the cream separator, the churn, sewing machine,
and 'Vacuum cleaner and even an electric fan in
:'summer ' - r .
-The Souths "Place in the Sun"
Progressive Davidson
tebood will start one; and if not, then inyoumear-; ing plans for maintaining .them after they ?are
! .. est bank. No city businessman keeps his money built? - , " ' ' ,
idle at home, and no farmer. who professes to be
; business-like ought to. It is as wrong now as it
was in the days of Christ to hide monev in a nab-
Kin, as tne unprohtable servant did, when it might scnooisr
THE-South this Cyear, wjll produce 11,000,000
I - bales 'of - cotton, worth," with the seed, at
ileast $100 a bale, or a total of one billion, one
f " " . , - hundred million r dollars. Texas, with 4,000,000
IF WE were called on to diagnose the condition . bales' wnilCash in to the tune of four hundred
of a county to find out whether or not it really'" miUions fof cotton alone; Georgia's crop will
-had a genuine case of progressivenessthe first . bng hundred millions; the crops of South
eight-questions ; we should ask would probably be - caroiina;: Okiahom and Arkansas will bring
as'follows: ; . , around a hundred .millions to each of these states.
1. Are three-teacher schools taking the place of AU the South, -except the storm and boll weevil
the old one-teacher schools? v " fc - -ridden areas of Mississippi and Alabama, are shar-
- 2. Is the county building good roads and mak-
0w. (
Can we stand such unprecedented prosperity."
fir will if turn our heads and lead us back into our
:9ld-time follies when cotton was king and shared
3. Has the county. a live demonstration agent?
L A - whole-time county superintendent of his thr0ne.with none other?
be put into a bank and made useful.
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L MEXT week we issue our Town and ' Country' agcn
Special, with-a. remarkably interesting lot of ' 7
wniuunuH 01J.V t uuvy pcuyic in low u auu -
- country may ; work" together to their mutual
'U benefit. These letters and articles will interest
both farmers and business men, and we hope none
ofour readers will miss them. Other features of "
4 theV same issue will be' "A ; Success Talk," by Dr.
Lyman Abbott, ' Editor, of the Outlook ; "How to
Terrace :Land,Hy B: Li Moss; and "A Lesson in
;,:;Heniming and Gathering" by Mrs. Hutt. '
5 A whole-time county heajtli, officer? -6.
A home demonstration : and tannine club
nt? . ' r r - "
Are-the farmers growing legumes; using in-
- THE more we study the problem the more we are
: y i ' inclined to ; the belief that the share system of
: renting is the best of all systems for conserving soil
; Zf.;; fertility and the bestv interests of tenant and
:; ; ; fi j landlorni. As an illustration, in'parts of Alabama and
: J Mississippi nearly all crops were practically ruined
; this: year by storms, ; floods,- and the boll weevil.
5JjyfMd of course
; - VsuHered did not
; 5ik(5jjehpugk to paylhe rent, while share tenants
y l Slitter least because they were obliged to pay
'.only a share of whatever was produced, regardless
r ' "ot th&ield. otfier iections where the cotton
crop isj jairiy.; gopu auu prices excellent, the land
;V lord renting for -cash is getting no benefit, all the
;:extra profits going to the tenant, v The only right
; relation between'lahdlord and tenant is a partner-
THE MOST POPULAR GIRL IN
THEWORLD
TTTHO is she? Well, we think she must
yl be Miss PoUyanna WhiUier. CWe asked .
' our readers which of our serials, they
liked best an3l- which story they wanted next,
and it seemed as if the whole earth' rote up to
holler MPoIlyanna" in answer to the first ques
tion and Tollyanna Grows Up" in answer to
the second. "Pollyanna has set everybody
playing : 'the glad game at our ; house, : the ''
whole family is in love with her, and we want '
to know more about her, is the cry every
where. : "I have never read a more inspiring ,
story for children or grown-ups outside the 'f
Bible," one man. writes. " " 'J v .
And so in -obedience to a; command all but '
unanimous and universal, we start next' week
the first chapters of Pollyanna , Grows ; Up.w ,
. and that story alone " will be worth the price :
of a year's subscription to . The Progressive ;.
Farmer. Don't miss the opening chapters.'- '
Tn making our nlans "for 1917 let us never forget
' that while cotton, is high, everything, else is also
"high; : With Hour at $10 to $12 a barrel and still
- going up, with corn next spring at $1.50 a bushel,
.with fertilizer prices soaring,.what will it avail us
' if werraise a big crop of, cotton and it all goes to
pay debts for; things we should have grown at
home? ' " - ' r
; Lef us repeat, with atf the emphasis we can, tn
.for the averageSouthern farmer there is only one
roadtdindependence,andhereitis: plenty of com
for bread and feed for livestock; a field of oats t
supplement the 'core crop in case of. sho'tage'
good- pastureto f urnish grazing for cattle,
- and "horses milk eowS enough to furnish plen 7
f.-milkand butter .the year- round; a
- flock of -hens to supply the, table and help , p y
grocery; b'illsT i first-class 'jZi
home-raised syrup vind potatoes in plenty
; enough tosupply .theplace with plenty of e
and a Jegume ciopcn every acre every year,
:to "reduce fertilizer frills to "a minirnum.
:;?When ttiese'poinfs-have been looked to,
r;eady fo grow 'all' the cotton we can, and
sfstem of farming generally; followed will
find for the South -its "place in the sun.
. 'Whichoa4 will you take, Brother Farmer.
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