DAIRYING SPECIAL NEXT WEEK.
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Title Registered In U. S. Patent Office.
A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolinas, Virginia, Ten nessee and Georgia.
Vol. XXII. No. 10.
RALEIGH, N. C, APRIL 18, 1907.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
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2 plans for '-making it and
8 explicit directions for
8 using it; though no
extended directions are
WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S
PAPER.
Architect's Plans for Cottage,, Geo. S. Kings- ' Last wefk we gave
ley ....... . . 7 progressive rarmer
A Few Things7 Well Done, A. L. French. . .... 4 readers a description of
Alliance in Martin and Edgecombe. ......... 12 (Jie King split-log road
Beautifying the Rural Schools, Miss W. L. rrncr nrifh worki'ticr
Gray .... . ... . . ... ... . .
Cheapest Feeds for Fattening Cattle, Harrow .
Eels That Are Not Eels, G. S. Brimley .
Good Carriage, Simple Rule to Insure. .... .
Pure-Bred Stock for the Small Farmer, W. J.
Webb ............ i o neCessary for so simple
Poor Boys Wrho Got Along in the Word .17 . irr j
Stray Feathers, A Bunch of , Uncle Jo ... . 12 " "
Thin Planting of Corn, J. F. Duggar. . . ...... 4 "g mcmuu.
Turkeys,. Some Points on Raising, S. B. Woods . 5 thoroughly tested by our
Vines for Beautifying the Farm Home, Mrs. readers; if they will
Walter Grimes . . . .......... 10 carry Qut the sugges-
THIS WEEK'S PAPER- SOME RANDOM COM lwnSr n that one issue.
MENTS. we believe they will ac-
. . , . . , complish wonders ulon
Healing the bruised ones, feeding the famished, r
A x xV' xv.' , the muddy roads of The
giving a cup of cold water to the thirsty rebuild- Jye .Farmer's
lllg me . Ui u&cu nans, icoiuiiua " t, .v i
TMiTTin tr to n 1 ?i 1 1. i ri r curse ui waui uciui c i , . .
" supervisor ordered a
shouting hosts of plenty, fllhng the desert w h hfmdr;d extra copies of
D W cc U Lie rv auu i ucco auu mo buuuv i"v,(u
com how the promise, of . such blessings stirred
to hope the fainting hearts of old and the stories
of their fulfillment refresh" "the hearts of men to-
day! Have you forgotten tne cnarmmg story oi
Mr. French a few weeks ago telling about tne
reclamation" of an old abandoned farm? We are
all rank partisans of the man who accomplishes
such things -who takes the bleak and desolate
old farm, heals up its scars, feeds its exhausted
soil, clothes its nakedness with the beauty of
The King Road Drag A Photograph of Results.
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week's paper and.
wtll distribute them ,
among the farmers who
live along his roads.
Results may be expected
to follow work oj this
sort.
Our illustrations hi
that issue were de iigned
to show the method oj
j By couitesy of Mr. U. Ward King, Maltland, Mo.
MUD SCENE, MACON.JmO., 2 O'CLOCK, P. M., MAY 17, 1905.
on ciotnes its ..na fe; in this
oi-cnards and wiae green neius, wuu unugs tu it v -
the joy of the herds upon the hillsides, the danc- weeks issue we follow
ing of the wind's feet over the waving grain, and them up by trying to
the song of the rustling corn yes, we are every- show, as well as can be
one partisans of a man like that; and as for our- snown wth jnfc an(i
selves we cannot rise from reading a stpry of hia , the actual results
triumph without a feeling that we ought to clap f t ' ,
our hands and hurrah for him as we sometimes do of dragging. 1 ne pic
for our party heroes at the joint debates. tures explain them-
But pardon us. We started out to give a hint selves. Between the
or two about this week's paper, and we were twQ conditions shown
moved to these reflections by the reading or one nothi has intervened
of this week's articles on this very subject of
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rebuilding a worn-out farm, " was exnausa, f ,1;, 4ih the same thirty minutes lIter. after using the king road drag.
abandoned, falling at last into that direst humilia- dnd a dragging with j
abandoned, railing at lasi xuto Luai. uii cot iii"xxxv- ' -iss -'5 ' I
tion of being sold for taxes. The new owner sow- the King split-log drag. Does not this photograph of results prove that you should at least
o.a fwr 'hnfahpia nf wheat and harvested three. He a-in th shJit-Jrcr rJmrr shn 9 ti, - -n '7tZc nitlv. hut
planted twenty acres in corn; it tasseled knee- . unouestionabiv the greatest of recent discoveries in road-mending.
high. The entire product oi tne twenty acres - s o -j --- -- ;,
nff in four loads of a two-horse wagon,
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fnriPr stalk, tassels and all. That same the topic of "Thin Planting of Corn." Prof. J
F.
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land is now producing two fine crops every year Duggar, of the Alabama Experiment Station, calls
COrn and ClOVer tne curu uum x. .. u.vt,vu.Avu woj. i.uuuiuuiia m iuc ouuiu wmuu nave
amounting last year to 2 50 bushels seven tons made it necessary to plant corn thin (but not so
of grain alone. The readable story of how this thin as it is generally planted, and then shows
was accomplished a chapter in the actual experi- how these conditions may be overcome,
ence of Mr. J. B. Norris, of Dinwiddie County, An article by Mr. S. B. Woods on page 5 assails
Va is one of the features of this week's paper some of the popular notions about raising turkeys,
that nobody should overlook. basing his contentions upon good reasoning and
Following this on page 4 are two articles, upon his own successful experience. He does not
brief and pointed, that will interest every prac- pretend that young turkeys can be raised without
tical farmer who reads them. In "A Few Things trouble, but he does claim that with the proper
Well Done " Mr A. L. French gives a strong note amount of intelligent care they may be "easily
nf "admonition' to those farmers who incline to- raised and, he says, there are few things that
ward- having ''two many irons in the fire," and pay better than turkeys.
Tpri for sDecialization of effort. In his own While speaking of poultry, we cannot omit di-firrnrnp-
Mr French is himself a fine exemplar of recting attention to Uncle Jo's "Bunch of Stray
the doctrines he sets forth and he succeeds. On Feathers" on page 12. By turns, he is. a gentle
counsellor showing you how, and then a sharp
shooter with his "don'ts" and searching internv
gationg, showing you how not to treat your chick
ens. And when he puts a whole sermon in two
sentences like these: "Don't be a 'chicken raiser.
Be a 'poultry breeder' " well, we feel like leav
ing you right there to think over the sermon.
A timely paper also is that of Mr. A. J. Webb
on page 6 on "Pure Bred Stock for the Small
Farmer."
On page 13 will be found the article we prom
ised last week- by Miss Will Lou Gray on School
House Improvement.. Mrs. Grimes has on page 16
one of! the finest papers she has yet given us. Be
sure to read what she says on the subject of vines.
Our cottage plans are resumed on page 7, and
our various departments as well-filled as usual
speak for themselves.