,V THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
To Make Mother EartH
Loose Big
MARVELOUS REVTVAIj OF AGRI-
4 CULTURE IX THE SOUTH.
Thursday, July 18 1907.
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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. - "
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' 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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WE ARE BOOKING ORDERS
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Fulcaster and Red Chaff seed
wheat; Virginia Turf, Appier and
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- j Send us your orders. '
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