,V THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. To Make Mother EartH Loose Big MARVELOUS REVTVAIj OF AGRI- 4 CULTURE IX THE SOUTH. Thursday, July 18 1907. s. That is the Business the Farmers' Institutes Want to Help You Out in Don't be Afraid of Them They Bring the Latest and Best Ideas in Farming "Right to Your Door. . Yes, it's Institute time. Let's knock off and go. We'll renew old friend ships with our neighbors, and with the lecturers who are coming a long ways to see us. And there will be some new lecturers along, and from both old and new speakers we will get new ideas and fresh faith.' in the great business of farming. And at many places the good women will ba there to hold conference with. our wives and daughters about the great business of keeping the home and making life richer in good things, brighter and better, and more worth living.' :K- Yes, arrange your work, so you can knock off Institute day. Say to your wife, "Get ready"; to your near neighbor, "Let's go," and to the farmer who follows afar off say, "Come, go with us, and it will do you good." But the rest of what we wanted to say is so well said by Editor John A. Oates, in the North Carolina Baptist that we are going to copy it now: - There is a sneering laugh among some folks whenever a Farmers' In stitute is named. They prefer the "good old way," as they are pleased to call it, and have no time for the "book farmer." They like to tell it, that they plant and plough and reap just as their daddies did, that they have inbred the same stock for fifty years, and followed in the way their fathers trod. Well, we like reverence and respect for ancestry, but China has shown to the .world that that thing can be carried a little too far until all the world moves on and leaves the crusty worshiper behind. . The world is moving on industrial ly at a rapid rate, and the farmer must utilize every invention, every discovery, every improvement he'can get hold of to help him make mother earth turn loose the biggest crops that . will pay the biggest profits. Well, .the agricultural colleges,;.'-the experiment stations and the institutes have helped the farmer along won derfully. "They don't turn out fool farmers, who don't" know how to. do anything but read bulletins and spend money. To be sure they cannot take a blockhead; and turn him into a captain of industry, but the advanced ideas in farming do give the farmer a chance" to get the most out of his work and that ;is what every man ought to do. - " 3 t ... . ' - - ' We are not afraid of true science. It is the good friend of man. Let us have it in air its thoroughness; in re ligion, jn medicine, in-agriculture. It unlocks "the secrets -of nature' and makes them the servants of man. He works then, in the light rather than in the dark. He learns through speedy experiment lessons what it would take a lifetime to learn through slow experience. The farm er thus ' becomes the beneficiary of the student who uses the money of the State for the upbuilding of the people. - -- Don't be afraid of these Institutes. There will be a number- of them this summer, held all over the State, for farmers and farmers' wives. Take a day or two off and go. It will pay you. You may be able by a little help from the scientific man to reclaim that wasting hillside; to utilize that thrown-put meadow, to build up your retrograding stock,, to beautify your home in fact" to make life more worth living. Yes, go to the Insti tute. You, the backbone of the land, are entitled to know all the latest and best things about agriculture, just as much as the doctor and preacher and teacher are to learn the best things in their work. - 1 And best of all, this information, this proffered . help, is brought right to your own door. Get it and. com bine it with your own common sense, using here and rejecting there as con ditions may demand. But be sure to take your wife. GOOD SCHOOLS ARE WORTH PLANNING FOR. Should Have as Much Zeal and Busi ness Judgment Back of Them as the Banks and Factories. Messrs. Editors: I believe that our people read and think , more than they used to. They certainly travel and observe more. All of this means good for our part of the country. It means that we are not, going to be satisfied with perfunctory support and -indifferent schools. It has been a mystery to me how our farmers could afford to neglect their schools when such a course meant not only ignorance and ineffi ciency. for their own children in the future, but present depreciation of property and scarcity of good people in the community. A good school will aid in the solution of the labor problem. It ought also to teach many young farmers more about improved machinery and better methods of farming. It has been a mystery to. me also why the people of a community-will not go about building a school with the same zeal and business judgment that they, manifest in building a warehouse, -a bank, or a factory. Surely there is not enough money in all these to purchase one child. And yet the child is frequently sent for several hours in the day to a school house better suited for devel oping pneumonia, and with ' furni ture seemingly designed for curv ing backbones and shoulders! A good school cannot be built in a day. It cannot be built in a year. It takes foresight and forethought to do this work. It alsD takes time. I have often thought that the leaders of a community ought to get together and make plans, not only for next year, but for ten years in the future. If they look forward twentv-five or fifty years, it will be all the better. If school patrons look more to the future there would not be so many differences among them, and the teachefs would not be so often changed. O. B. MARTIN, State Superintendent of Education of South Carolina. Columbia, S. C. (Continued from Page 2.) increased from 4,000 to. 8,000, that of the ; Baptist paper from! 5;0 00 to 11,00, and that of the farm paper from 5,000 to 24,000. i f : ' - - i f - .: Schools and Farms Make! Love to Each Other, j i For the first time, too, the: school is beginning to lay hold on i farm life -no longer a mere parasite, but a living, vital thing rooted in the soil. Agriculture and Nature Study now! have a place in the curriculum. Un der the old system the farmer boy learned about the wonders of Asia and Switzerland, but nothing about the wonders of plant and ; animal life: he was taught the metric system of wei ghts' and measures, but not how to calculate a feeding; ration,; foreign exchange had a place in the school books . but there was not a word about the elements of soil fer tility. . .Teaching a. hundred ways of applying education in the1 office or the store, but utterly ignoring agri culture, small wonder that hundreds of boys who might have been farm successes became town failures, and hundreds of others quit school as soon as they decided to become farm ers, ana t a wanea ineir-souis uecauue of a school system that belonged to the middle ages. ' j -Ten years ago, State-aided rural school libraries for North Carolina were not even talked of; while every day for five years now some new store-house of the world's intellectual wealth has been put within reach of the country children. I sometimes wonder if any other money the State has ever spent has produced! better results. Only a few weeks ago young business man told me a vivid story of a country boy's squl-hunger his unsatisfied hunger for food intel lectual, in the days when the country school supplied nothing beyond the monotonous drill of the text-books Each volume he had borrowed from his neighbors' scanty book-shelves. here a life of Lincoln; there a copy of Tennyson's Poems, from another Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales" al these he recalled as a Sahara traveler might remember each oasis found in crossing the desert. Even a poem he had picked up on a scrap of paper in the road had come like a cool draught to ; a thirsty man. Calling the Town Man Back to the Country. I ! Yet another noteworthy! factor in the enrichment of country ilif e is the rural telephone farmers in more than one country setting up their own poles, stringing their own wire, and operating extensive co-operative lines and the trolley is also beginning to penetrate the farming! districts. With all these improvements, and the betterment of the public schools which we are now to consider, it is not strange that with us the drift to the cities has been largely checked, and that the high price of ! cotton of late years in many sections has actu ally turned the tide back toward the country. " ' f Prom "The Rebound of the Ftiland South." by Clarence H. Poe, Edttor of the Progressive Farmer, in June number of the World's Work. By permission of Doubleday, Page & Co. -. . , ' I - : - .. i I want to congratulate you upon the rapid strides which The Progres sive Farmer is making, not only in the increase of its subscription list, but also in the tone and value of its contents. It is growing in grace and usefulness as well as in circulation. J. L. Chambers, . The Liddell Co., Charlotte, N. C. At the meeting of the district com mittee of the Burley Tobacco Society at Winchester, Ky., there wag con siderable talk of establishing inde pendent factories in various placesi The Commercial Club of Winchester is securing stock for a factory in that place. The Burley Society neither encourages nor discourages: these fac tories. Their business is to sell their tobacco, and it is .immaterial who is the purchaser. ' (f i.icans uooa Living The hoz trousrh is no olaceto rmt butter. Wide awake farmers want the cream seoarator that skims the clean est. It means -more profit better .1 living, x ii a i separiuur is me oiiarpies Dairy Tubular the separator that's different. Sharpies Dairy Tobulars have 1 twice the skimming torce ot any other V separators skim twice as clean. Prof. J. L. Thomas, instructor fa dairying at the agricultural college of one of the greateft states in the Union, says: "I have just completed a test of your separator. The skimming is the closest I have ever seen just a trace of fat. I believe the loss to be no great er than one thousandth of one per cent." - , That is one reason why you should insist udoh havinar the Tubular. Tub- ulars are different, in everyway, from other separators, and every difference is to your advantage, write lor cat alog S- 2s3 and valuable free book. .Business Dairying. , - The Sharpies Separator Co., West Chester, Pa. Toronto Can. . Chicago III. QIN MACHINERY. riiri tn a o Vi 1 n crr cUmtlA Ytf hnncrVif in June, or sooner. ' The Pneumatic Elevator for hand ing cotton is the best thing there is for that purpose. Your cottoa should be cleaned of leaf, trash and dirt which lowers, the price of it. : - -,v ' It should be put up in neat bales. The machinery should be the simplest and easiest to operate. We funrsh the Pneumatic Elevator under; the Murray patents, the Murray Cleaning Feeder and a Double bcrew Press. The outfit does all" these things and it's the simplest made. , We build the engine that goes with it and are responsible for the whole. Write right now. UDDELIv CO., GET THE ROYAL PEA HULLER It costs less than any other and gives better satisfac tion. It does faster work and better work and never gets outof order. The Auto matic Fan insures a steady breeze. The extra-heavy fly wheel makes it the easiest running machine ever pat ented. Send for prices and booklet If you write NOW we have a specially attrac tive offer to make - you. CHATTAX0QSA IMPLEMENT MFQ. CO., DopLY Chattanooga, Two. WE ARE BOOKING ORDERS for future shipment of the following varieties of seed: . Fulcaster and Red Chaff seed wheat; Virginia Turf, Appier and Red Rust Proof seed oats; Crimson Clover seed; North Carolina seed rye. - j Send us your orders. 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