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A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolina, Virginia, lfennesaee and Georgia.
PROGRESSIVE FARMER VOL. XXII. NO. 4.
THE COTTON PLANT VOL.. XXIV. NO. 3.
RALEIGH, N. C, MARCH 7, 1907.
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Weekly: $1 a Year.
WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S
PAPER.
. Page.
Alfalfa, How Any One Can Grow It, J. B.
Davis .' 3
Devonshire Cream, Recipe For, J. C. Kendall, 5
Early Broilers, John A. Cree ........ . 12
Garden Ideals in Charleston. . . . . ... . . .... 8
Little Chicks in Winter Weather, Uncle Jo.. 12
March Farm W&rk, T. B. Parker and Tait
Butler . ......... . . . . . . . . 11
Onions and $100 an Acre From Them, W.
L. Kivett . ... ... ............... ... ... 3
Range Bred Horses, A. L. French. 5
Spraying Apples and Peaches, Plain Directions
for, Franklin Sherman..... 4
To Tobacco Growers: An Imperative Mes
sage, J. O. W. Gravely . . 2
Walls of the House, How to Finish, Mrs.
Walter Grimes . . 16
Warehouses and Holding Companies, C. C.
Moore . . .v'i ... . ... 6
Williamson Plan, N. Y. Gulley. ....... .... 6
Woodpecker Family, The; C. S., Brimley. . . . 17
THIS WEEK'S PAPER.
This week's Progressive Farmer is not the
Cotton Special, as we had intended to make it.
Useful as our Specials are, we know that our
readers must have variety, and in this week's
paper are a number of pressing articles which
could not be postponed for two weeks, as would
have been the . case according to our original
plans. The; Cotton Special, therefore goes over
until March 14th.
- An article which could not wait, for example,
Is Mr. J. O. W. Gravely's striking message to
tobacco growers on page 2. It is a convincing
and forceful argument that he makes against
increasing the tobacco acreage this year, and it
ought to be taken to heart by every tobacco
farmer who is not already hopelessly committed
to a bigger crop for 1907. The only effective
way of keeping the acreage within bounds, as
Mr. Gravely points out, is by thorough organiza
tion of the tobacco growers, and we are glad
that he will discuss this matter in other letters
soon to appear in The Progressive Farmer.
Again, the interest excited by our Alfalfa Spe
cial is still keen, and more than one reader has
inquired for the methods by which Mr. J. B.
Davis won" his conspicuous success in growing
the crop. It will be seen from his letter on
page 3 that Mr. Davis began by making failures
as signal as was his final success. And there
is inspiration in the conclusion which he draws,
that with proper effort and perseverance, "anyone
can grow alfalfa."
Mr. Kivett's letter on onion growing is another
which has been delayed on account of our
Specials,, and which deserves immediate attention.
On page 4, State Entomologist Sherman tells
in the briefest and most practical fashion just
what the wayfaring farmer needs to know about
spraying apples and peaches. With these simple
and explicit directions it should be easy for any
of our readers to get for themselves the great
benefits that are to be had from this method of
protection against disease and insect pests.
Two other noteworthy features lately missed
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from our columns appear in this number. In
the first place, we have again. made arrangements
for our weekly review of the markets by a Nor
folk authority, a man whose everyday business
it is to keep up with the prices of vegetables,
truck and other farm products, and therefore
who is admirably equipped for handling this de
partment of our paper. On page 17, another one
of Mr. Brimley's delightful wild life series finds
a place, and what he has to. say about "The
Woodpecker Family" cannot fail to interest both
young and old. Charles Cotton Moore, too, is
with us again, although he gives his time and
attention this time to the old man, instead of
writing to Mrs. Farmer.
In our regular departments, Mr. French writes
of range-bred horses, Uncle Jo tells how to man
age the tiny biddies in cold, wet weather, Mrs.
briifies givers some useful suggestions about finish
ing Ithe walls of the house, and in the "March
jFarhi WorikH contributed by our Mr. Parker and
Dr. 1 ButleavUve have the usual array of sugges
tion's combining timeliness with practicability in
a degree (rarely equaled by farm writers. Mr.
Oreo's letter on "Early Broilers," delayed from
burjPoultrjfiSpecial, is no less useful at this time,
land! we hope to number him among our regular
Icorfespondehts.
And nextiiweek the Cotton Special! Although
postponed all week, it will be well worth waiting
forJ All the articles promised for it last week
hav? been freceived, and in addition to these,
rii npr h i i 1 1 n v n uccu ii-v
thefmost progressive eotton farmers in the Caro
lini Big -as was the hit made by our beautiful
r.nrn Srprial we think we can promise that our
Cotton Special will be equally good.