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634 (10) & '3 neaatiaiy above-mentioned wits, for a man not lining on his land to borrow from the Federal land banks. iitp HOPF. manvN Progressive Farmer ini " . THE rr ESSlVE FARMER how they work; if road? hare never been drag in the community,' drag- a short stretch for a f" months. -" - We" don't believe "in farmers trying to do th woric or our experiment stations, but ti, readers bare written tbeir United States Senators pro- testing against tne increased irora iw iu - - : . : mere arc i cent in newspaper postage and asking insteaa ior cozens or wajs ia wu-.wc .xmgnt do some very FUBUSXCn lYTXY MTVUOAT BY The Progressive Fanner Company, , gncoiWtmdcrtiiel of HortllCirolin-) - . ;. ;'". ofhcesj - ' ' ' Blnnlniham. M.. t7V2 TmrVb Aw.: - Ralelsli. N. C I la W. Hat Wtt 8tJ Maashla. TtaawZAri'r BJjXBiq; Callaa. Taou. 8anafttw Blrfa. coMMinncgnoa b-oabotnoi - adtcttist-o sctscsip- TtONS KAY B ADTRE88EI TO ETTHEB. OFFICE... KNTE rtira rosromcB at bibmikgham. auu ihtdeb. tub act q .CONGRESS OF MARCH I. v , . CLAKENCE PO , 7 AIT BXJTLEB, . B. L. MOSS. . W. P. MAS SET, . , MBS. W. N. KDTT. 'toa PEABSOS. J. A. MABTIX. .- . President ant Editor. . Vice-President sad, QZar . Kanaglnr BOtflt COBtrlbuUnr Editor Ediioe Woman.' Decartme nt IF YOU can't break the .stubble land as soon as the oats are off, disk ir thoroughly to prevent its getting hard. . " ... av a: "" ' ' : " ''5' . IF YOU haven't cowpea seed, buy them; As a food O.UU ICCfl UUP) llic l.uwyut ouyuA . wr& place on nearly every farm. . MR. CAMPFIELD'S article, "A Successful Co operative Creamery," in last week's Progres sive Farmer,, is one you should not only readjbut file away if you live in a. county where there is prospect of starting creamery soon. lravipr taxes on laree incomes , and on excess profits of targe corporations. It will cost you only , two cents to mail Such a protest to a Senator. It may . cost you a thousand times two" cents to pay the increased subscription, price of papers here after if you do not protest and the bill passes. Mr A. : M. Worden, 'a thoughtful- Tennessee ' farmer, sends us a copy of a letter he has written both his United States Senators, and one paragraph, in his letter deserves the attention of everybody at this -time. He says: , ; - "We are none of us , too wise, and - in the c South, whereilliteracy is fartoo common, it V strikes me forcibly that a tax on information : . should be the last resort for raising money, v especially a prohibitive tax on farm papers. A. raise in postage equal to 25 to 100 per cent of ! - the subscription price would cut off a very large share of the subscribers,, and the farmer. ' who would drop out first is just the one who needs the help of farm papers the most The men who farm poorly are the men hardest to induce to take and read the farm papers ; and bulletins, and they are the men who would cancel subscriptions first. The rich man would pay the price and needs the paper less." . . satisfactory demonstrating.. Try some of them on your farm this year.- " : - . . " Tlrrce V ays in VliicBusiness Men May AW1J l..a . 1A A. A til IkCX HI g 0NE: oftBeSwthV this year is going to be. to see to ; it that a fair price to , . the: farmer is, obtalnedrfor f every pound of food, and; feed he has : for , salc-J Failing in this future advice to raise a. surplus of food and feed will fall on deaf cars.' : What can be done? 1. " Provide cuurket for corn and bean. It wity be av crime if, next: fal!,;comrnunities, because of unorganized marketing facilities are compelled to sell corn at 60 and 70 cents a-bushel and velvet beans at $10 and.$12 a ton, as was. the case last fall. Of course the grower 'miist do. his part by seeing to it that hb product is sound and dry, but j it is the "duty of thei business men to provide power corn shelters anct- sacks;? and to help see to 1 Food and Feed First-Plant Plenty of th,e - , - ry Jff J C H .2. Save the .surplus of sweet potatoes. F THOSE farmers who are so fortunate as to be; using tespedeza for hay after oats are not both ered at this season by the heavy work incident to getting in a crop of peas or beans alter the smafl particularly during warm weather, they are more grain, aoum ot tne tnirty-tmra parallel anywnere wholesome - It is easy to raise a hig! crop pi sweet potatoes, but in OR the Southern farmer, peas and beans fur- iaii . s Ldir prices. nish'thebest of all substitutes for high-priced wnere sucn ,9:ine business men must help meat. Moreover, as a' steady article of diet, i east of east Texas lespedera may be depended upon to make a good cutting of hay on most 'soils of fair quality. 1 IF GUR farmers are to do their jart in the war VV fill 1 VUK .AAbUUOiaJUi) VAA-JT AAA Ltwl t, UUUVt d idltU VIA ' "fundamental issues involved. They must under stand just how a German victory would endanger human progress and the. world's peace. . Are you ableto tell your neighbors just why this is so? tention, and make' large quantities of fine food. Cowpeas particularly should be widely planted this year. N Successive plantings from now on until the latter part of July will mean a supply of green j ..... peas untiLfrost, and any surplus may be dried and -saved for winter use. 'OLima beans, both the bush and running varieties, grow nearly anywhere in the South with little atr If not, look for our article on this subject in next ween, a x luxcaaivc x'.uiiuci. . . .' pREAT Britain has fixed , minimum prices on: farm products and farm labor, and it is not unlikely that the United States will shortly do likewise. We doubt if anything will serve as a 1 greater stimulus to the farmer to grow big crops than the absolute assurance by the Government of fair prices.- Once let the grower feel certain of $1.50 wheat, $1 corn and prices of other pro ducts in proportion, and he will do his part. The trouble with the present high prices is that the producer is not getting them, he in most cases having sold at much lower prices several months ago. .':;!'' ' V'V Back-yard -fences, back porches and even front porches may well be . covered with the climbing limas. v Surplus beans canned or dried will save grocers' bills.1 - Finally, the snap beans, bush and pole, should be grown in abundance. They will help to feed us until, fall, and canned they .will also be of great value next winter anil spring These three legumes have a high human food value and, with plenty of corn, will largely make the South independent of the North and West Let us grow them all to the utmost of our ability. by providing sweet potato curing houses sufficient to hold the crop for :better prices. These houses are entirely practicable. ' See your county demon stration agent, or 1 write, your state experiment station or the United; States Department of Agri culture. Washington, DC for plans. 3L Help market hos ami- cattle in- car lots. Selling livestock on the local market is out of the question carlo t ' shipments direct to packing houses must be made. ' "Rarely can individuals make carlot shipments - and cdmmunities must put their livestock together. ' Scores of counties in the South are already following this plan, and hundreds of others must fall in line. The business man should actively help in this.' THE annual "Educational SpeciaP of The Pro A gressive Farmer will be issued June 30. " For this issue send us short, pointed experience letters , telling how schools have been improved in your community, how , the agricultural or farm life ' schools are doing their job, send any interesting Where a Little Experimen&g Helps the FEW days ago we were in an oat field on which the owner had used nijrate of soda in Maxell. Ibrough the center a strio somp ten A t . . , 4 .. . ': - iuiuuku iuc vcuicr a strip some ten facts bearing: on consolidation, local taxation, f - ' , . , fJ. ... , , , transportation of pupils, school farms,- school . ;cct Wldc been left whout any of the fertil- libraries, schoolhouse meetings, reducing expenses l2er an thc contrast was a most -striking one. of pupils in boarding schools, or about any other 1 r :.ii , - .. - . pjiaac ui agncmiurat eoucation or better public schools. A cash prize 'of $5 will begiveh for the best letter received from a Progressive Farmer reader,;$3 for. the "second. best, and reguiar rates for all other letters published. The field as a whole, despite the poor land and a bad season for oatsi was making a fair crop -cer-tainly a profitable one-atpresent prices for feed. But the oats on the strip that got none of the fer- .' tuizer were not over a foot high actually hardly Our Duty Today '"IT THAT is your idea as to the probable price YY of tobacco the coming season?" asks a ' friend. ' . We believe that tne day of low prices for farm products is past,, and that for years to come the farmer will; .geHVo''ipccs' fprall. he can grow.- But just now the duty of every farmer is to contribute with' ail his power to the production of food. . Soldiers T will betaken out of productive industry, and they.'-must ' fe.'iei-.and fed well, for an army fights on its stomac -Terefore no mat ter what thejpricejof : tobacco may' be, it will be . better to shorten ; rather; than ' increase the area . planted to tobacco and Jncreaser the area devoted to food and feed for man and beast y Europe is looking to this country to save it from starvation. cait easily 'ieed our own people, out to aia in Drmging'tne, war to a viciunuu v. we will have to helt, feed our Allies, whose own . crops willbe shortened by lack;ot laDor. The:; enouirn to raice naa thfY rn mniirH t . . v-. . " r A RUUN(Tbr the Federal Farm fi MBr,.. U "lI Vf"- " tegdmg of. miUions of men and.at the same j-a . . - w. w vjv Mfc w. iiikj. Ait yaiu. ai iae rate 01 about loard l mtn-m,n k. - . . " . teedine the'home foncs is. coine to tax tms cuu person, cuUivatini opting te taS T T . t0 utmost, , Hen Avehoul4 make every . u, v udiukuidi -uiicrcsi io our rpanwi ' it law - - - r ""n., provides that "No loan shall be made to any per- effort to. increase the food crops and cut out the ;ine same man tscsmg nitrate of soda as a sourrV - " - Tki- war has 5f? T to becom,. '.of nitr. for b!s cotton and corn, and . p,an- ZZZn vuKKcu m me cultivation ot the tarra mortgaged' ning to leave an occasional row w,Kn tU j v - b'w"v" '?f.uv.v c i, nn In order td "cultivate" a1 farm, the Board "has": 11 , without the soda which has ever occurred, Soldier's io not figh 011 ruled that .it shall be worked (a) by the owner' vIm, ' f I fairly ccrtain that whiskey and tobacco,ut on fioo4:soUd Yiutrit.ous personally; (b) by a hired' manacrr w t wiU pay, but knows that theres nathlno n,,;.- t s ' :uiv-: - i,- , - - - . - .. o1 w .fj s , . ' o IUUU. : ' v "J icuui3 or croppers; in tne sscmg wnn one s own eyes cr case me aoard requires that the contract . We believe farmers wnraliv c,.m . " 'vuau WilUUWfc The' doctrine of autocratic ; force is to be de- stf oved or th wot M will not be safe for our coun- ittle tests. For instance, trv nor anv mbioTinmof tlie people by about the value of inocu- : the! people. We are enlisted In' the-" crusade, and. t-tit:n . laung ior clover, lnrtrtilaf e -t.. r., . ... . ..' -. v . . or fM .u ..1 , . r ' -v- Fa w me neia evenrone tnmt do hi he either iniwo" it and leave.another part uninoculated: if broad W f best in one ot th6 three races have m Un s.a i , . ; 0"IU rtv V""" : ; - "vv".".vu'. ,ua "w ana see-.tmless the workers do thcTrs.v : ' . ; .
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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