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A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia.
PROGRESSIVE FARMER VOL. XXI. NO. 25.
THE COTTON PLAN-VOL. XXIII. NO. 24.
RALEIGH, N. C, AUGUST 2, 1906.
Weekly $ I a Year.
SOUTH CAROLINA'S STATE FARMERS' INSTITUTE.
'Program of Mcetng to Be Held at Clemson Col
lege, S. C August 7 to 10, 1906 Lodging Free
and Meals Twenty-Five Cents Each Every Pal
metto State Fanner Should Attend.
-Address of
Tuesday, August 7th. 2.00 p. ni.
Vvelcome and Preliminary Exercises.
The1 Importance of the South's Producing Its
Own Meat Col. R. B. Watson, Ridge Springs,
S. C.
Experiences on this subject by farmers present.
Farmers' Unions J. C. Stribling, Pendleton,
S. C.
8.00 p. m. Agricultural Opportunities for the
Southern Farmer Hon. Harvie Jordan, Monti-
cello, Ga.
Wednesday, August 8th. 9.00 a. m. Sheep
.Raising in the' South T. L. Bulow, Ridgeway,
S. C.
Experiences on- this subject by farmers present.
Dairying in the South and Markets for South
ern Dairy Products Prof. John Michels, Clemson
College.
Experiences on this subject by farmers present.
2.00 p. m. Horse and Mule Breeding for
Profit.
Subject discussed by farmers present.
Dairying Adapted to the South B. Harris,
Pendleton, SC.
Experiences on this subject by farmers present.
Pv-Gper Treatment for Common Diseases of the
PIrse and Mule Dr. L. A. Klein, Clemson Col
lege.
S.00 p. m. The Cattle Industry in the South
Dr. c. A. Cary, State Veterinarian and Director
Alabama Farmers' Institute, Auburn, Ala.
Methods of Maintainting the Productive CaDac
ity of Soils Prof. J. N. Harper, Clemson College.
Thursday, August 9th. 9.00 a. m. A Talk
on the Honey Bee Col. M. L. Donaldson, Green
ville, S. C.
Experiences, on this subject by farmers present.
Marketing Crops E. D. Smith, Zirconia, N. C.
Care and Selection of Farm Seeds Prof. C. L.
Newman, Clemson College.
2.00 p, m. Cotton Raising-A. J. Tindal, Man
ning, s. C.
Experiences on this subject 'by farmers present,
The Diseases of Cotton and How to Prevent
Them Prof. H. D. House, Clemson College.
8.00 p. m. Increasing the Yield of Corn E
Mclver Williamson, Darlington, S. C.
Experiences on this subject by farmers present.
lriday, August 10th. 9.00 a. m. Orchard
Fruits, Their Care and Culture Prof. C. C. New
man, Clemson College.
Experiences on this subject by farmers present.
Our Common Insect Pests and How to Destroy
i hem Prot. C. E.Chambliss, Clemson College.
How to Make the Country Home and Farm Life
.More Attractive Capt. Chas. Petty, Spartanburg,
2.00 p. m. Demonstrations, judging cattle,
norses, sheep and swine.
Labor-saving machinery.
Notes.
Ample provision will be made bv the authorities
' t the College to assist the visitors in examining
ne college, Station and all the interests belonging
me Clemson Agricultural College.
Lodging will be furnished free to the capacity
me institution. Apply for tickets at the en
hance to the Barracks, where your name will be
' mistered and a bed furnished, if possible. Meal
kets can be secured, twenty-five cents each.
rof. J. N. Harper, Director of Farmers' Insti
"tes, will preside.
THOUGHTS FOR FARMERS.
Seeds for Planting.
The first seed catalogue for the fall season has
been received. It comes from Wisconsin. The
illustrations, showing wheat heads six to eight
inches long, with a promise of forty to eighty
bushels to the. acre, are very attractive. Then the
oats will make a wonderful yield if the state
ments- of the seedsmen are trustworthy. When
the professors of Clemson College held the Insti
tute here a few days ago, Mr. Newman, of the
Agricultural Departmentstated that they had
tried many varieties of corn and wheati selecting
highly commended seed from many States. Both
in corn and small grain they found that seed se
cured in the vicinity of the College, or where
climatic conditions were the same as they are at
Clemson, were most satisfactory. The lesson for
farmers in this: Do not send to New Eneland
for corn and oats to plant nor to the wheat fields
ot the Norwest for wheat. Get some of the best
varieties in your section and improve them
by careful selection. Corn and wheat can be im
proved as certainly as animals can. It would be
wise to use seed wheat raised in Eastern Virginia
North Carolina, south of the mountains and along
the Southern Railway to Atlanta, Ga. The Red
Rust Proof and Appier oats should be bought in
South CarolinaT Georgia or Alabama. Farmers
who are able may experiment with the promising-
varieties advertised in the North and Northwest.
Mr. Newman was asked what he knew about
beardless barley, which was greatly praised by
some people. He stated that he could not report
favorably on.it and he had seen no one who had
succeeded with it.
The Winter Garden.
This is the time to begin preparation for a good
winter garden. The family that lives without
vegetables, or which depends on canned goods,
only half lives. Turnips demand attention now.
Kutaoagas should be planted at once. The other
varieties will be in time, if sown August 10th to
September 10th. If the large, curled mustard is
planted in August it will give fine salad in No
vember and December. Successive plantings of
spinach and lettuce should be made. At Clemson
College last October Prof. C. L. Newman planted
onion seed in rows. They came ud and stood the
winter and made fine onions. Beet seed, the earlv
varieties, may be planted in August. If a good
stand is secured fresh tender beets will come in
during the winter. The leek is a great favorite
with many. It is early and milder than the
onion. For turnin salad, eret the ntd-fashind
Seven-top, or some of turnips that grow deep in
the ground. They make good turnips as well as
excellent salad. Lettuce planted now will head
about the first of December. If planted in October
ind protected somewhat during the winter, it mav
be transplanted in February, and it will give fine
solid heads in April. It is understood' that deep
plowing or spading, with an abundance of manure,
is necessary to make best garden truck. Commer
cial fertilizer is very good, but if you have manure
trom a well-fed cow it is better.
Preparing Land for Small Grain.
On Virginia soil, which had an abundance of
plant food, our grandfathers made fine wheat,
crops with little preparation and no commercial
i i i i , A
ieniiizer.. Auout ist0 they began to learn. a
me son was growing thinner, that pea-vines and
cottonseed increased the yield of wheat. Now
that we have very little fresh land, the small 2-rain
crop will be very light unless there is thorough
preparation and judicious fertlizing. For small
grain, the sub-soil should be well broken and a
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PROF. J. N. HARPER,
Direptor of Farmers' Institute in South Carolina,
and President t)f the State FarmersMnstitute to
Be Held at Clemson College Next Week.
fine seed bed prepared by .harrowing. At least
two or three inches of the clay should be broken
and mixed with the top soil. That preparation
prevents winter killing and carries the water
down when excessive rains fall. It brings the
potash and phosphoric acid locked up in the clay
m cqntact with sun, air and frost, and by degrees
renders it available. It is said by chemists that
the first foot of Piedmont red clav contains enough
plant food, with the exception of ammonia, for
more than one hundr i crops. Between Nanles
and Rome fine wheat.fijlds may be seen and they
had fine wheat on the same land 2,500 years ago.
land is inexhaustible if we will only take
of it. In the Carolinas there are thousands
of acres of land that have nothing except weeds
and grass growing. Let all of it be thoroughly
broken and harrowed in August so as to be ready
for the small grain in September and October.
I CHARLES PETTY.
Spartanburg Co., S. C.
Our
care
Contentment.
Let us learn to be content with what we have.
Let us get rid of our false estimates. Set un all
the higher ideals a quiet home, vines of our
own planting; a few good books full of the in
spiration of a genius, a few friends worthy of be
ing loved, and able to love us in return; a hundred
innocent pleasures that bring no pain or re
morse, a devotion to the right that will never
swerve, a simple religion empty of all bigotry,
lull of trust and hope and love and to such a
philosophy this world will give up all the empty
joy it
Be
has. David Swing.
systematically heroic in little unnecessarv
l;Oints: everv dnv dr snmpthiri r for nr ntlioi. nn-
son than its difficulty so that if an hour of need
should come it may find you trained to stand the
test." The man who has daily inured himself
to habits of concentrated attention, energetic will.
and s61f-denial in unnecessary things, will stand
like a jtower when everything rocks around him.
William James.
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