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it i K . Title Registered In U. 8. Patent Office ! - A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. Vol. XXII. No. 8. RALEIGH, N. C, APRIL 4, 1907. Weekly: $1 a Year. A Campaign for More Beautiful Country Homes. Earnestly as The Progres sive Farmer believes in more bountiful J arm crops, it believes no less earnestly in more beau tiful farm homes. No one, in fact, should ever wish to make money merely for money s sake; and we should strive to make larger profits simply that we may make larger lives. Well planned, well furnished and well-painted houses, with their beauty brightened by the witch ery of grove and lawn and shrub and vine and flower, ought to be, one of the most im ?nediate results of the greater prosperity that our Southern farmers are iiozv enjoying. In her excellent series of articles, 1 ' The Farm Home Beautiful, ' ' which Mrs. Grimes has been furnishing The Progressive Farmer we have a wealth of counsel and suggestion bear- 4ng on this subject, which we hope is finding flower and fruitage in many .a touch of added grate to each of the ?nore than 20,000 homes now representee! in The Progressive Farmer s family. And both men and women should join in this work. 4- "T" .. . ; I . !: 1 Courtesy American Fruit and Nut Journal, Petersburg, V a. Ail Attractive Country Home. I THIS WEEK'S PAPER SOME RANDOM COM-j - MEXTS. This is no special crop number of The Progres sive Farmer, yet the large number of important things clamoring for print compel us to wear our twenty-page costume right on. To begin with, here is the picture on this page which so eloquently supplements Mrs. Grimes's "Farm Home Beautiful" papers a picture about which hangs enough of the spell of modern coun try life to make us pause and admire and resolve to beautify our own homes more and more in the future. A little effort in this direction will work wonders toward keeping the boys and girls on the farm. On page 2 wevask the attention of our readers to nature's demand for the preservative of our mountain forests a matter of tremendous import ance, upon which action cannot be taken too soon. Other timely articles, brief and pointed, on this page also, will reward attentive perusal. . Another of Mr. French's perennally sunny Stock Talks is a feature of page 3. While com plaint is rife about the scarcity of farm labor, it is no small thing to find a good substitute. On this same page Mr. J. H. Parker claims that twenty geese are equal to one hoe-hand in the cotton field and that they yield a good profit besides. And you will notice that he wasn't satisfied to leave' the subject without giving a book-keeper's statement showing the actual dollars and cents of it. ' ' On page 4 the "Jottings" of Mr: A. J. Moye have the flavor of the Ben Franklin sort of common- sense in every pragraph. Very sensible and time lv. too. is the article by W. W. H. telling so con vincingly why pure-bred costs and ought to bring more than erade stock. The reader win ao wen to look forward to another article of like tenor soon to appear from the pen of Mr. H. F. Cole man, of Tennessee. Did you have "any idea that you could raise on nnnr snndv nnland a Hce crop four times as pront in Sampson County, and on page 5 tells a most in teresting story of his work. Note, also, that he says the rice he grew was far better that is, sweeter and more nutritious than the store- bought article with which we are all so well ac quainted. On this page also is another story of the kind that never fails to interest the story by Mr. H. M. Daniel of his "Last Year's Farming" how he planned his farming campaign and how near he came to winning out with it. Those readers for whom a query column has a charm will find "Uncle Jo's" poultry talk on page 6 just the thing they like, for it is taken up by practical answers to some practical poultry questions. Onlage 7 Mr. Franklin Sherman, Jr., our State Entomologist, calls the attention of fruit-growers and bee-keepers to some particulars in which he and they may prove mutually helpful by co-operating. The matter of fighting pests is of constantly increasing importance to these two classes of our readers. In the Home Circle, page 8, a new feature will be noted "Two Minute Health Talks for Progres sive Farmer Readers." We urge our readers to read and heed every one of this series which will contain about a dozen talks. They are short, practical, straight to the point, and will guide you away from many ailments. Being the first number of the month, this issue contains, on page 11, "Suggestions for April Farm Work," by our Dr. Butler and Mr. Parker. With out-of-door work now going on in dead-earnest, these suggestions are unusually full, and helpful. If you must skip anything in this issue, skip some thing else, but study these suggestions for April work. A unique challenge is thrown at his fellow farmers, on page 12, by Mr. T. H. Raney, an en thusiast on the subject of raising tomatoes. Read his interesting article it is not long and if you are a cotton farmer, decide for yourself whether you can stand and "take a dare" like Mr. Raney's. On page 12 and 13 are some strong and fervent papers by Messrs. B. N. Sykes, E. J. Ragsdale, and J. O. W. Gravely on tobacco and the tremendous importance oforganization: to tobacco growers. Although these could not be squeezed into our Tobacco Special, they were far too important to be omitted altogether. In harmony with this glorious season, the Farm Home Beautiful article deals this Week with flowers- the out-ojf-doors kind. It will be followed by two or three others. Mrs. Grimes is at her best in these; (lower talks, which blossom like a garden with fine suggestions. All our regular departments are up to their usual; standard and whiTe as we said at the out-j set, this is notja special number, we have tried to make it "just as good." WHAT YOXli WILL FIND IX THIS WEEK'S PAPER. Page. Aprilj Farm Work, Suggestions for, T. B. Par- keif and Dr.l Tait Butler. Brightening it he Farm Home With Flowers, Mrjs. Walter ' Grimes Champion of; the Tomato, T. H. Ilaney . Fruit Growing and Bee-keeping, Franklin Sherman, Jr. Forest Reserve, Nature's Argument for a. . Feeding Cattle for Market in the Piedmont, A. L. French Geese as Hoe?hands in the Cotton Field, J. H. Parker Hawks and Owls, a Plea for, Rustic ........ Jottings of a Year, A. J. Moye. My Last Year's Farming, H. M. Daniel. . . . . . Poultry Questions Answered, Uncle Jo ..... . Profit is in Good Tobacco, B. N. Sykes . ...... Rice, $50 an Acre From, H. B. Howard. Storage Warehouse Plan, E. J. Ragsdale.... TwO-Minute Health Talk, F. L. Vincent . . .... Tobacco Farmer's Hope, J. O. W. Gravely. . . , Why Pure Bred Costs More Than Grade Stock, W. W. H. : . . . 11 16 12 4 li t 8 1 5 12 5 i:s H 13 If n i V able as cotton? Mr. H. B. Howard has done this
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