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SAMPLE COPY. Subscribe To-day arid Read " $5O0 More a Year in Farming. Consolidated, 1904, witli The Cotton Plant, Greenville, S. C. PROGRESSIVE FARMER VOI. XX. NO. 45. THE COTTON PLANT VOL. XXII. NO. 44. RALEIQH, N. C, DECEMBER 21, 1905. Weekly $1 a Year. THIS WEEK'S FEATURES. LAW OF CONTRACT. Old law principles you never expected to understand, Judge Mont gomery makes so , plain that not even the way faring man need err therein. Page 2. . . DESTROYING WILD . ONIONS. A hard subject discussed by Gerald McCarthy. Page 2. SELECTING COWS. Mr. French tells what types are needed. Page 3. TWENTY-FIVE CENT STEAK. Prof. II. II. Williams believes meat is going even higher than now. There is money in stock-raising. Page 3. ORGANIZING TOBACCO FARMERS. An appeal by President John D. Shepperson, of Vir ginia. Page 4. NATURE STUDY ) OUTLINE. Mrs. F. L. Stevens writes on the, constellations every child should know. Page 5. CHRISTMAS. Jeanie Deans, our gifted South' Carolina correspondent, Aunt Jennie (whose picture appears this week), and others, write of the observance of the greatest of holi days. Pages. 6 and 7. IMPORTANCE OF GOOD STOCK. Some of your cows you are supporting; some are support- -r . t 1 . 1 1 . 1 t t ing you. it pays to nave only tne nest oiooa, says Dr. Burkett. Page 9. KILLING HORSES BY DRENCHING. Dr. Tait Butler says many a time the horse dies, not from the disease, but from the drenching given for the disease. He describes the right and wrong methods of. drenching. Page 10. BLACK ESSEX HOGS. Their points of su periority set forth by R. L. Abernethy. Page 11. . DON'T CROSS PURE BRED FOWLS "Uncle Jo" strongly disapproves the practice. Page 15. TRIAL SUBSCRIBERS. Mr. C. C. Moore wants a word with you and you ought to listen. Page 15. surely than the recipient. We are ready to guaran tee that a subscription will bring you $5 in in creased value of land, better care of the soil, not to mention increased value of products and the greater interest and pride the farmer will feel in his work. When you send The Progressive Farmer as a Christmas present, say so, and we will at once no tify the friend that it is sent with your compli ments. DEAR MR. TRIAL SUBSCRIBER. Dear Mr. Trial Subscriber, we do like you; we have really taken quite a fancy to you these last few weeks; and we hope that you like us, for the time of our wooing is now drawing to an end, and you must decide quickly whether or not you will cut our acquaintance or take us for better or for worse throughout 1906. Really, Mr. Trial Subscriber, we want you in our big Progressive Farmer Family a great big group of nearly twenty thousand of the most wide awake, enterprising fawners in North Carolina and the adjoining States, a Family that we are proud of, and you will be proud to join. So far, Mr. Trial Subscriber, you haven't been fully admitted into the Family, and that accounts for any irregularities or delays in getting your pa per -for we have had to give attention first to our regular subscribers and then to the trial list. Now join the Family and you will always get your paper regularly and on time. And if you have missed papers, just say how many, and we'll send you the paper that much longer absolutely free. You will get but one more paper unless you re new and you and your family cannot afford to be without The Progressive Farmer's good cheer and good counsel when less than two cents a week will make, it a regular visitor to your home. Send $1, if you can, for a full year; if not, send tit" v MR. A. L. FRENCH. Western-bred but fully in love with his adopted Southland, Mr. French is one of the best informed and most enterprising stockmen in our territory. His "Sunny Home Stock Talks" now running in The Progressive Farmer are full of practical ad vice, "simply and clearly set forth. His address is R. F. D. 2, Byrdville, Va. , to use them. (Of course, North Carolina has no such careless arid slouchy farmers.) ' Farm Contracts. In this State there was a sharp fight between a. landlord and a tenant, and a few days later a GIVE YOUR TENANT THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER NEXT YEAR. You cannot think of a more suitable Christmas present for any farmer or farm owner than a year's subscription to The Progressive Farmer. Try it and quit" worrying. Another thing : If you have a tenant or a farm manager you cannot do a better thing than to get him to reading a good farm paper, with its in iiumberarjle suggestions of improved farming methods. Some one article may bring about a forward step that will be worth many times the cost of a year's subscription to you as well as to him. Resolve now therefore to have The Progres sive Farmer and Cotton Plant in each tenant or' manager's home next year. Either have him sub scribe himself or give him a year's subscription as a Christmas present. Of course, selfishness should have no place in holiday giving; but it will not hurt you to rememTaer that in such a gift as we here suggest the giver would be blessed no less tenant killed his landlord, iust because they had 55 cents for six months; or if you are holding cot- a misunderstanding. Make contracts very plain, ton, or Christmas presents have left you hard up, vvhether written or verbal. Let the tenant under- just put in 30 cents in stamps for three months stand every requirement in it. Let fit be known and mail at once. Anyhow order to-day and don't miss a copy. You can certainly send 30 cents for three months and even that will make you a full fledged member of The Progressive Farmer Family. Let's have you with us for 1906. Your money back and an absolute divorce if we don't make you happy. - 1 : THOUGHTS FOR FARMERS. January Work. It is time that farmers were getting ready for 1906 crops. The old adage, "A good start is half the journey, is certainly trueas to farm work. Timely and thorough preparation before planting is half the labor of making a crop. The M - - first thing to look after is good and reliable horses or mules. Then see that suitable harness are on hand. Let the old harness be repaired and oiled. A box or two of rivets, a side of harness leather with a few buckles will enable a handy farmer eral years. It is evident that select seed front during: the wet days of this season to make all best varieties will make much more seed, much his harness good as new. Overhaul plowstocks J more seed-cotton, much larger bolls, and a much and see that heel-bolts, lap-links, singletrees, hoes, greater per cent of lint than, common seed from mattocks and all necessary tools are in good order, the gmners pile. There are some thoughtless farmers in South The figures ought to be studied by all cotton Carolina who cannot start three or four hands farmers, and more should learn to try unproved what he is to pay, where he is to deliver the rent, what will be required of him in preparing, and caring for land, and be sure to make the small details plain. Most quarrels between land lord and tenant result from not understanding little things apparently unimportant. Suppose a farmer rents for a part of the corn, hay, fodder, small grain and cotton. jThat covers the greater portion of the farm products. But let the tenant then plant an acre in melons, two acres in pota toes arid receive all the profit thereof, and he will have a considerable alvantage. So in making contracts, let them be plain and well understood. The Selection of Seed. This a very important and necessary work that should be done long before planting time. If put off till then just anything in reach will be planted. In this State we consider cotton the im portant crop. The Georgia Experiment Station has been trying, many varieties of cotton for sev- to plowing in the spring under two days, because last year's tools are scattered and no attention has been paid to them until the time has come varieties and improve their own seed by careful selection. CHARLES PETTY. Spartanburg Co., S. C. r
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