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A Farm and-Home Weekly for the Carolin and Georgia.
Vol. XXII. No. 22.
RALEIGH, N. C, JULY 11, 1S07.
Weekly: $1 a Yeai.
WHAT VOU WILE 'FIND IN THIS WEEK'S
PAPER. , .;: : f,
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Cotton Bale Reform, Harvie Jordan.'. . . . . 2
Dieting Lars 2r Poultry-Breeds, Uncle Jo. . . .All.
Deep Cultivation of Corn , . 11
Farmers' Organizations ... . . . . . . . . .
-Fortifying Crops Against Drought. . . . . . . , : 8
Getting Together on Tobacco, J." Moye . . . ." 10
How to Get a Rural Higli School, Hon!; Jr Y.
Joyner v -. ". . . T ,1 4
How to Grow Rutabagas, F, J. Merriam . . . 13
Hydraulic Kam as a Cheap Water "Carrier., . ,5
Of Interest to Our Women Readers. : . ; . I -.S
Oiienings for ; the ' Trained Farmer Boy prftr
, P. L. Stevens ; .V i : . 15
Plow-Handle Talk? .V. .r: . - 5
Raising Our Own Mules, Harrow. . . .w.v .-9
notation for a CotUm Farm, W.F Massey. . 9
Sow Grass and Clover at Last Plowing, H. T.
Patterson . . ...... ... .... . . . . . . . 3
The Cotton Bagging Question, W. C. Moore.'. 3
Will a Hog Farm Pay? A. L. French. . ... ... 10
THIS WEEK'S PAPER SOME RANDOM COM-
MENT. ;
This page's feature, an illustrated object les
son of what is taking place in the rural districts
throughout The Progressive Farmer's territory,
speaks for itself. Turn the leaf, and there is the
great big subject of reform in -baling" American
. cotton. Another article on this - same - prob
Jem which is pressing harder and harder for solu
tion and pressing upon the cotton farmer's
pocket-book at that you will find on page 3 from
the pen of Mr. W. C. Moore of South Carolina
On this same page 3 is another article so laden
with -importance and timeliness that we have men
tioned it to you on the tip-top of the first page
Mr. Patterson is a progressive Virginia farmer who
has fattened his acres, his cattle and his pocket
book by the methods he describes of sowing grass
and clover at the last cultivation of his corn.
Rotation for the cotton farmer is a live subject
of which Professor Massey begins to treat in this
issue. " . . . -
Will a hog farm pay? Mr. French, whose lei
ter we put back again this week under its Sunny
Home heading, thinks It would that there's
If the growers and handlers of -American
cotton do not reform the
present methods' of delivering our
cotton abroad, it will only tend to in
tensify tie determination of foreign
spinners to induce a larger produc
tion of cotton in other countries
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No other cotton shipped from any
other part of the world carries a loss
for "country damage."
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- We. should make the American
bale of cotton as attractive from
every standpoint as any other bale
of cotton grown on any other land
in the world. This should be so not
only from a matter of pride, but from
the economic demands of the present
time in good business methods.
(See full articles, pages 2 and 3.)
money in a hog farm. Still he wouldn't go it tha
! iWay, hogs exclusively.
Keeping a promise made in last week's, paper
we are giving also Mr. Av J. Moye's yiews on the
Before and After Tallin.
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'The cuts above show the old -school puilti
jricts, Randolph County y N. C, before taking consolidation and local tax. ?
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- The two cuts below, show the new buildings in these same Cedar Falls and Franklins-
ville districts - after taking consolidation and thelocal tax. ; . '
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"GO, AND DO THOU LIKEWISE?'
necessity for co-operation of the warehousemen
and farmers. . r
If you knew a hard spell of dry weather was
on the program just ahead, how , would :you pre
pare your crops to stand it to the best advantage?
Perhaps the editorial on page 8 will help you. -On
page 9 you will find announcements' of -The Pro
gressive Farmer's Field Marshals for the summer
subscription campaign,, and also a most -interesting
article by Harrow;-ull of horse-sense on the
mule-raising business. - ; , ' ; - . -.
--Visions of winter egg baskets filled with -the
fruit of the hen already flit before Uncle Jo's eyes,
and so he is giving on page 11 some useful hints
on present dieting of your larger hens that may
greatly help the egg supply next winter.
And don't forget that the plan for getting a
rural high school is explained by Supt. Joyner
(page 14).. And when you reach this there's a
splendid stimulant in Dr. Stevens's article on the
next. page telling of the opportunities that await
the trained farmer boy. , . -
u- We came near overlooking the turnips on page
1 3 rutabaga turnips -one .of - the freshest and
best articles in this week's paper. You will find
Mr. Merriam's letter more than worth reading.
And then there are the Plow-Handle Talks, the
Fai-mers' Organizations, the combination of the
Home Circle and Social Chat with Mrs. Grimes in
charge. Well, we've tried, in short, to spread a
good picnic dinner for the mental appetite of the
I have never failed to get a satis
factory stand f of grass and clover
when i sewn in corn. , , '
; Brother farmers, I want to see yon
do the profitable thing. : Try sowing
grass. - . i 1 ,
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If the readers of this article could
only see the stands of clover and or
chard grass that I have gotten on
Very thin rolling land the past seven
fyears, they would not hesitate to do
f likewise and profit by my experience.
' These results have been obtained
without one ounce of fertiliser.
( See Mr. Patterson's complete ar-
No Institutes in Virginia.
.Messrs. Editors: I have your postal. No Farm
ers' institutes have been held in this State this
summer on account of the Jamestown Exposition.
There may be a few later, on however, but they
have not been arranged
J ; Yours truly, G. W. KOINER.