EDUCATIONAL NUMBER NEXT WEEK.
Title Registered In U. 8. Patent Office. t
A Farm arid Home Weekly for tlie Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee
and Georgia.
Vol. XXII. No. 20.
RALEIGH, N. C, JUNE 27, 1907.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S
PAPER. -
Page.
America's Timber Supply Giving Out. ....... 10
Alliance Building at Hillsboro What Shall be
Done With It? W. H. Tyler . . .11
Cotton Moore to Mrs. Farmer ............. 14
Does Sorghum Hurt the Land ? A. L. French. .
Fresh Air for Farm Girls, Dr. Henry Wallace. 10
How to Beat the Tobacco Trust, E. J. Ragsdale 13
Keep Out the Flies ....... .. ... . . . . .... - 8
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i -iow jnanuie j-aiis- iew jjeparinieiii . ...... i
Plans for Organizing Tobacco Growers 2
Raising 3Iules in the South, W. F. Massey. ... 3
Rural Carriers Program of State Meeting,
July 3rd and 4 th . . ......... 13
Shallow Corn Culture Again . 11
PROFESSOR MASSEY WILL WRITE FOR THI2
PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
It will be good news to thousands of our read
ers that Prof. W. F. Massey, who has recently
severed his connection with the Practical Farmer,
with which he has been so long and so success
fully identified, will hereafter contribute 'resular-1
Ty to The Progressive Farmer. " Certainly no man
in Southern agricultural work has made agreater
reputation than Professor Massey, and probably
no agricultural writer in the entire country has a
greater following.
. On page 3 we are printing the first of Professor
Massey 's regular contributions to The Progressive
Farmer, and from this time on we shall publish a
letter from him regularly each week.
Our readers will do well to let their neighbors
know that Professor Massey's writings hereafter
will be found regularly, in our paper.
WHAT ABOUT YOUR TIMBER CROP?
The facts in regard to our timber supply men
tioned elsewhere in this week's paper unmistak
ably indicate the coming of a lumber famine and
should cause every man who owns a foot of timber
land to do some serious thinking.
Thousands of our farmers have already sold
their timber at less thn half its potential value,
and many thousand others are wantonly wasting
their substance through carelessness in handling
their woodlands.
The timber is a crop just as surely as corn or
cotton or tobacco even if it does take a little
longer to mature and for twenty-five years to
come no other crop in America will increase in
value one-half so rapidly.
We must learn more about the proper manage
ment of our forests. We must adopt wiser meth
ods of growing and handling our Southern timber
crop.
PRESIDENT MOORE INTENDED TO SAY 500,-
4 000 BALES.
In the cotton reports printed last week Presi
dent C. C. Moore, through a typewritten error in
his office, was made to estimate North Carolina's
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to say 500,000. Mr. Moore-sends the following
letter of correction:
I did not intend to say 700,000 bales, for I do
because we have perfect crop weather and an ex
not see how it is possible for conditions now to
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Coming Ti mber Famine Means HigH-Priced Lumber.
The most astounding article in this week's Progressive Farmer .in fnr j n, f ih
most astounding that has appeared in any paper this year is the official declaration as
quoted on page io that the Country is now consuming lumber Hist, 'three time? n c fnct n c thr
forests grow at and that the consumption for ten years past has increased twice as fast as
wo rvjsMv uj mo wnrury. j-ur every jarmer wno owns a foot o Southern timber landy
these unquestioned facts mean mucK : a coming tim ber-famine with higher lumber trices
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inun ine country nu yet seen. , , .
bring about a result within 100,000 bales of last
year's crop. I intended to write 500,000 bales
for the 1907 crop, and if we make that it will be
tremely late fall. .
It is deplorable to ' hear of merchants in some
parts of the State contracting cotton for October
delivery for export j around twelve cents, when all
indications point to a fifteen cent market.