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Title Registered In U. 8. Patent Office. i ' - A Farmjand Home Weekly for tine Carolines, Virginia, Teiirieesee and Georgia. Vol. XXII. No. 12. RALEIGH, N. C, MAY 2, 1907. Weekly: $1 a Year. WHY DAIRYING FREQUENTLY DONT PAY- ; SITU ATI ON (WITHIN I ..T MAM I. (i ItJjt THE USE OF THE SCALE AND TEST INEVITABLY LEAD TO THE SELECTION OF HIGH PRODUCING COWS - BETTER HOUSES, EDUCATION, MORE COMFORTS. OEPV Oairy MUSBM40AV university or iuinois HE'S TIFn TO THE PROFITLESS COW By courtesy of Trl-State Farmer and Gardner, Chattanooga, Term. Look at this cartooti a moment. A cow that yields less than joo pounds of butter a year is unprofitable to the dairy. Experience has repeatedly demonstrated this fact to dairymen. If you are bound by lock and chain to the unprofitable kind there is a key with in easy reach that will release you. It is the Babcock test 'and a pair of scales. With this test you can in a few minutes .determine the butter value of the milk given Iy any cow in your herd. The test will register the cash that is in your .milk it will enable you to tell what your products are worth; it will show you now, without waiting a yearf which of your cows are unprofitable -and ought to be elim inated; and it will show you which cows are most profitable and thereforebest tousled for breeding pmrposes in building up your herd. A Babcock tester, as Prof Kendall explained last week, may be bought for rr, and where one man doesnH care to goto this expense on his own account, several neighbors might club together a sub Alliance, Farmers' Union, Cotton Association, Tobacco Association, etc. Use the test and scales. For giving a correct commercial rating to your cows they ihave Dun's or Br adstreefs beat a mile. WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER. PAGE Agricultural Education in Public Schools,, Arousing Interest in 11 Bank Account, Why You Should Have One, Joseph G. Brown . . 3 Diet Cure for Chicken Troubles, Uncle Jo . . . 10 Dairying for the Southern Farmer, I. C. Wade 14 Farm Work for May, Dr. Tait Butler and T. B. Parker ....... ... 9 Furniture Fashions for the Country Home, Mrs. Walter Grimes. C Golden Health Nuggets, Dr. W. T. Marrs. ... 4 How to Shear a Sheep, A. L. French ....... 4 Lessons From a Fourteen Years' Course in Dairying, R. L. Shuford ... ... ... ....... 2 Letters From County Alliances. .......... 13 Mrs. Farmer and Cotton Moore . 13 Notice to R. F. D. Carriers . . ....... 9 "What's the News?" . ... 5 o " ; ' ; V ' " -- THIS WEEK'S PAPER SOME RANDOM COM- . MENTS. . . Again we have come to know what a tight fit feels like it is about all we can do to get into our 16-page clothes this week. However, we have tried not to slight our reading matter columns, our policy being that The Progressive Farmer read ers must always have a square deal. And next week there will be twenty pages again. There are two dairy articles this week good enough to go in a dairy special, which we were unable to print last week. One is by Mr. R. L. Shuford, who writes to Progressive Farmer read ers out of the fullness of a fourteen years' experi ence in dairying. ' The other is by Col. I. C. Wade, of Georgia, who tells on page 14 some of the rea sons why the South should become the dairyman's paradise. 1 J The value of a bank account how it helps the man who owns the money, helps the bank,! arid helps the community, is splendidly told on page 13 by Mr. Joseph G. Brown; President of the Citizens National Bank of Raleigh. This article dealing with the business side of the farmer's life is one no reader certainly no reader who hasn't a bank account can afford to miss. i J How to shear a sheep -after reading the sci ence and common-sense in Mr. French's article one is almost made to feel that he possesses the art already and that the caption should have 1 been "Sheep-shearing made easy." Following j Mr. French's directions causes the sheep to lose fewer scalps and the fleeces to be in better condition. One captivating thing about this article is! that you don't have to be a sheep-owner in order to appreciate it; Mr. French's happy style attends to that. . - 1 1 1 State Lecturer Cates one 'of the most captivat ing and effective speakers in North Carolina keeps up his work for the State Farmers' Alliance as will be seen from page 13, while on the samejpage are a number of other reports of County Alliance meetings. - . - I J A letter from Mr. Cotton Moore to Mrs. Farmer goes straight at the marrow in several important topics. iNote the comparison in which Mr. Moore uses the illustration of the city of hungry spindles. And being the first number in the month, this week's issue contains an exceptionally full, specific and helpful treatment of the subject of farm work for the mbnth by our Mr. Parker and Dr. Butler. Mrs. Walter Grimes is still adding beauty to the farm home. From the subject of flowers her pen glides gracefully to that of furniture and furniture fashions for the country home, in which her ideas and suggestions are fresh, bright, and helpful. And the Two-Minute Health Talk is composed of goldeni health nuggets there is the gold of helpful, bjygienic common-sense in every one of them. In fact, every department contains some-i thing witi pith and point to it. If we are short on pages, only sixteen, we have tried our level best to mike them a "sweet sixteen." - i ANNOUNCEMENT TO RURAL CARRIERS. Mr. Max D: Miller, of Candler, N. C, has been elected by the Executive Board to succeed Mr. S., R. Dunn las President of the North Carolina Rural Letter Carriers' Association, Mr. Dunn having re-j signed both as carrier and as executive head of the Association. Let us give Brother Miller our heartiest support! as president of our State organization. J J. McD. BALLARD, Sec. and Treas. Newton, N. C. . i
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