TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY: 18861906. W 1 is v& irL Consolidated, 1904, witti The Cotton Riant, Greenville, S. C. PROGRESSIVE FARMER VOL. XXI NO. 1. THE COTTON PLANT VOL. XXI NO. 51. RALEIGH, N. C, FEBRUARY 15, 1906. Weekly-$ I a Year. The Progressive Farmer's Birthday comes just as Nature gives the world the first Prophecy of Spring -just at the tiine when the Vio let i the Sheltered Places, the Jonauils in the old Front Yard, and the Black Alder's Golden-dusted Catkins away dozvn in the Swami)s join iti the, Promise that the Time is near 7vhe?i Bud and Blossom will again make the IVoods glorious ; and such Shady Lanes as this one, with their bewitching beauty, will again entice the Early Ploughman to Rest and Respite from the too Passionate Kisses of Spring Sun shine on the Waking Fields. THIS WEEK'S FEA TURES : Twenty Years Ago and Twenty Years Hence in Southern Farming : Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Georgia G. W. KOINER. T. K. BRUNER. CHARLES PETTY. J. B. KILLEBREW. MARVIN V. CALVIN. Stock Food 99 or Flavored Wheat Bran ? at $1,000 a Ton. BY DR. TAIT BUTLER. Suggestions "to Them That Tends the Sile." AY BILDAD AKERS. The Boy That Had No Chance. BY REV. C. L. GREAVES. .