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A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia.
Vol. XXII. No. 23.
RALEIGH, N. C, JULY 18, 1907.
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Weekly: $1 a Year.
THIS WEEK'S PAPER SOME RAN
DOM COMMENT.
One of the most thrilling chapters
in the history of America is that which
deals with the amazing advancement
of the South during the past twenty
years advancement in manufactur
ing, in trade, 'in internal improve
ments, in population, in agriculture,
in education, and in wealth. And in
this story of the South s advance
ment which was so splendily told in
the June number of the World's
Work, in a collection of special ar
ticles, there was nothing more strik
ing than the marvelous revival of it3
agricultural" potency. The germ
thought, the core around which
the story-fabric is wrapped, is found
in the wonderful fact that the in
crease of the South's agricultural
productiveness has been five times as
rapid as the increase in population!
How great a revival indeed thishas
been may be more clearly apprehend
ed by a reading of the article on sec
ond page by Mr. Poe, which we have
printed while he is absent on an ex
tended Southern trip. No reader of
The Progressive Farmer should fail
to get the brighter and larger out
look which a reading of this article
will be sure to give him.
And now as to pulling fodder. Too
soon to worry about that, ypu say?
Mr if - isn't T'cs o lrwoinaf Vinclnacc!
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, how you may save it in some more
profitable manner than the expensive
old-fashioned way of "pulling" it.
There's a better way which will be
told next week, but for this week
your attention is directed to the ar
tide on page 9, by Dr. Tait Butler,
entitled Does Fodder Pulling Pay?
On the same page Prof. Massey
gives his second article and a most
interesting one it is on the sub
ject of Rotation for a Cotton Farm,
There is not a farm in the
Piedmont section of North
or South Carolinathat can
not, by) proper farming witH
a good rotation of crops, be
made to produce 50 bushels
of corn per acre, one bale
of cotton per acre, and. two
tons per acre of peavine
hay.
(See Prof. Massey's arti
cle on page 9.)
dealing with our past bad habits in
the treatment that has sapped the
strength from both our highlands and
lowlands.
Tne Institute appointments ana
notes about farmers' organizations
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'Mid the Murmuring Firs! and Pines.
is time now for the farmer to plan a little vacation after the crops are laid by. It will "add
years to his life and life to his years A fishing and camping trip beside one of Dr. Van Dyke s
"little rivers" appeals to many. And the farmer's wife if no one else gets a vacation, let the whole
family work together for the purpose of giving her one. She needs it most of all.
WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER.
Page.
Attend Your aFrmers' Institute.'. . ..... ... ... 8
Cotton Moore to Mrs. Farmer ... ................ 13
Does Fodder Pulling Pay, Dr. Tait Butler . . 9
Farmers' Organizations ............... ... ... . . . 4
Georgia Collard -How to Grow It, F. J. Merriam ............... 10
How to Treat Your Poultry hrSummer, Uncle Jo. . . . . . ; 11
How to Make Your School More Efficient . 14
Let the East Take Action on Tobacco, S. B. Adams. . . ......... . . 5
Marvelous Revival of Southern Agriculture, Clarence H. Poe, in
World's Work . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . ... 2
Making the Earth' Turn Loose Big Crops, John A. Oates i 3
Plow-Handle Talks . . ... . . . . . ....... ........... . . . . . ..... ... 5
Rotation for a Cotton Farm, Prof. W. F. Massey ........ . . ........ e 9
Rural Letter Carriers. . ................. . . .... : 13
Splendid Argument for Local Taxation . . 15
Vetch
as a Forage Crop
11
with items fresh from the field you
will find on page 4, and under Plow
Handle Talks on page 5. And you
will not skip, if you please, a piece
we copied on page 3 from a valued
exchange about the business of get
ting mother earth to "come across"
with her biggest crops -if we may
use a bit of slang.
Ever see a Geprgia collard? You'll
not soon forget the sight if you ever
see a patch of Georgia collards in all
their glory. Who would have thought
that they were coming to be now a
much-sought after money crop? Mr.
Merriam tells about them on : page
10 the whole simple and easy story
of how to grow them. !
How you should treat your poultry
in hot weather is a subject upon
which Uncle Jo writes this week with
his accustomed fondness for clean,
strong, healthy, and good-laying
hens. Heed his teachings and get
more eggs, money, and satisfaction
from your flock. This is, followed
on page 11 by an article on Vetch
in which hundreds of progressive
farmers are now becoming interested.
The Rural Letter Carriers' meet
ing at Durham is reported on page
13, and an urgent call by, Mr. S. B.
Adams to the tobacco growers to or
ganize, at once, also finds a place on
this page.
i The school interests? Haven't
forgot them either. It is school
planning time right now. Hence we
have printed for you on pages 14 and
15 two splendid articles on how to
The Western farmers feed
their corn stalks with the
fodder to their stock and
ship hay to Southern farm
ers who throw away their
corn stalks.- J. M. Beatty,
in Smithfield Herald.
(Does pulling fodder pay?
See Page 9.)
make, your school more efficient and
an argument for local taxation for
better schools.
And there are many shorter arti
cles, iclear and straight to the point,
that' are just as good, so far as they
go, as the larger ones, if not better.