Thursday, June 6, 1907.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
THIS WEEK'S PAPER SOME RAN
DOM COMMENTS.
ports from Virginia will be printed
next week.
There is not a progressive farmer lwo recent articles on tne rencn
in our whole family of readers who coach and Percheron horses are fit
will not be interested in the contents tingly followed by Dr. Tait Butler's
of this week's paper. It is almost article ipage iuj on me intelligent
a silo number, to begin with. On care ol a stallion, written in reply
page 2 Mr. French gives arguments t0 an iWiry on tnis important ques
showing need of a silo, and how to tion. Every owner of such a horse
hniiri it aro r.lMriv PYnhino in who takes The Progressive Farmer
illustrated article on page 2. While should read this article
on page 4 our Dr. Butler tells just The matter of rest and recreation
how much your silo will cost you, for the farmer and his family, if neg-
how many acres you should plant lected, will sooner or later find them
to fill it, and how many head of cat- "chained to the farm" and it is not
tie the several sizes wiir maintain, good for one s health to be in chains
With the help of some such booklet anywhere. The Two Minute Health
as the Silver Manufacturing Com- Talk on page 10, therefore, is well
pany, Salem, O., will gladly send free worth ah attentive reading.
of charge, no farmer should have I Another goooy cnapter irom Mrs.
any serious trouble in constructing Grimes tells what pictures to hang
his silo. There must be more and I in the different rooms of the home,
more stock on the farm, and the and Uncle Jo helps another corre
orroQtPr the nnmhsr nf rnttip thf I spondent whose chickens are af
greater the need for just what the! nlcted.
silo provides, "What You Ought to Do With
Something to fill the silo with is Your County" promised last week
an allied Question, and in this con-1 is the subject of a fine article
nection the corn article on the first in this issue on the development of
page, and others in this issue touch-1 farm life in Union County. It is writ
ing the forage question, will have a ten by Mr. Rowland F. Beasley, of
timely interest. Our first page arti- the Monroe Journal, who has been
cle is, in fact, one of the most im- himself some part of the things he
portant of the year. Don't overlook I describes and has seen them all as
it. I they came to pass. It is not mere
Important, too, is the question of 1 enthusiasm, it is just expression of
what is to be done about peas andl a plain truth, to call these achieve-
peavine hay this year. An article by I ments a glorious chapter in recon
Dr. W. B. Crawford on another page I struction a reconstruction in rural
discusses on a basis of an actual ex-1 life and conditions wrought out by
perience what is the cheapest way to the hands of the people themselves.
grow peavine hay. It is especially This latter fact is what makes the
timely in view of the scarcity of peas chapter an inspiring one; for what
for planting. Union County has done others may
Our tobacco growers will be inter- do, and they may set themselves to
ested in Dr. Freeman's letter on page the task with greater courage, having
4. We should like to have his experi-1 before them this fresh demonstration
ence as to level culture discussed by) that there is no help like self-help.
other tobacco growers. I Taken through and through; our
The decision of Judge Brawleyl sixteen pages this week are packed
which nullifies the labor contract law as tight as a silo with timely articles
of South Carolina and kindred laws I as crisp, juicy, and palatable as we
in other States is of great import- and our contributors could make
ance and will have wide reading. The 1 them
decision and its effects are set forth
by our South Carolina correspondent,
Mr. Hoyt, on page 13.
Our South Carolina crop outlook
is given on page 16 in a number of
short letters from correspondents of
several counties of that State
A Foreword to
the Public
Concerning
Our Flour.
IT'S !
TIME
TO BUY
GLIMflX
FLOUR;
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1 T . ;
OFFICE OF
The CarrSlina Mills,
Durham, N. C, June 3, 1907.
To the Farmers of the Carolinas
I and Virginia:
. I We take pleasure in stating that
we have placed on the market our
best patent family flour
CLIMAX.
Being HOME FOL,KS, we ask the
patronage of the South's wide
awake farmers on our CLylMAX
brand. Every sack is sold with a
guarantee Just as good in quality
and lower in price or money back
Remember, we are putting out a
pure UNADUITERADED flour.
V. You know us, and we are sure
pur record bears out our guarantee.
1 EAT HOME MADE BREAD
1 FROM HOME MADE FLrOUR.
Carrolina Roller Mills,
j J. S. CARR, Jr. Pres..
i
i . - . -
I DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA.
1 ' ' ' .
J If your srrocer dosen't keep Climax flour.
drop us a postal and get our prices. We'll
thank you.
I l 1
WEATHER EFFECTS ON COTTON
AND WHEAT.
our own fields, and wheat now, stands
below rather than above the dollar
The fine exclamation of Henry
Re. Grady about the cotton plant, that
the world waits in attendance on
its growth," now finds daily veriflca-
mark,
caught
though flour and bran: have
the contagion and maintain
an average of about 33 1-3 per cent
in thirty days. 1
THa MilitflrVnnrt Naval nisnlflVS tion. The conditions proclaimed last
- - ..r ' week, in the reports of Latham, ABOUT THE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE.
ai jamesiOvn Expusmun arc Alexander & Co. and Theo. H. Price,
Attracting Large trOWdS. which gave a bullish tone to the
1 You probably do not realize that market have grown no better. In
the Naval and Military Displays deed the reports of floods in the
which can be seen at the Jamestown
Exposition, far exceed anything of
the kind ever seen before. No one
cHrMiirJ fail to visit -the' "Rxnosition
1 V VA V- V-V . W .w w - XT I ' - , - , m
ago, while tne
seen except the Naval and Military
displays; but, as a matter of fact,
there are a great many other inter
esting features to be seen. .
In the southeast end of I the Manu
heart of the cotton belt have sent
prices hounding again so that at this
writing October cotton is higher by
$2,50 a bale than it was two days
local prices are
cracking up the 14-cent surface as if
they meant to come through; Bad
floods are reported in the . sections
around New Orleans and Lake
Charles. La., and Beaumont and
facturers' and Liberal Arts Building Houston, Texas, while from Texas
also comes tne report mat laDorers
for chopping cotton have increased
their demand from 51.25 to z a
you will find something which is of
especial interest to all Southern peo
ple. HRADDOCK-TERRY CO.. of
Lvnchburg. Va., the largest Shoe
Mnniifartiirera in the South, have re- The whole world is almost literally
nroduced an "Old Virginia Shoe "waiting in attendance" upon the
Shon ' iust as it stood in 1857. The growth of the plant, and watching the
old negro shoemaker who has work- daily weather reports from the cot-
r,i Bi,nn cinf.0 iiQt fitttes ran ton belt. In this connection the
CU A li. OUlJJ s"kv v"v v v. .
hfi sPfin makinz shoes "in the same June weather record for the 4 past 20
old wav " years becomes one of interest. The
tt, ctriirin mntrast. with this ex- warmest June in twenty years aver-
hihit win hfi seen iust across the aged only 79 degrees; the coldest 72
aisle an up-to-date shoe factory, degrees; the normal temperature, is
showine iust how shoes are made to- 76 degrees. The average June rain-
hr, r.mrMnrk-Tftrrv Co.. in fall for this period was 4.59 inches,
thfiir factories in Lynchburg. Exhib- the greatest was over 10 inches in
its nf this kind not only are inter- 1889, the least 1.72 inches in 1905.
potin? . hnt vprv instructive, and all These are records not a forecast.
Smith npnnlfi are interested in The unfavorable reports from
seeing the progress of the "New wfieat conditions in Europe did not
Smith" in manufacturing. offset the improving conditions iu
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