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Bad Roado Coot North Carolina 174 O. r. D. Routoo Loot Yoar.Parro 2 fnl it? P ffi W W - Title Reelatered tn rr. r. va ton rkffiAA 1 A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolines, Virginia. Ten nesaee and Georgia. Vol. XXII. No. 25. RALEIGH, N. C, AUGUST 1, 1907. Weekly: $1 a Tear . : : THIS . AVEEK'S PAPER SOME RANDOM COMMENT. February is a mighty bad month for making good roads. The cir cumstances of the season are usually engaged in making them as bad a's possible. But roads made thorough ly good now will stand much more traffic and with the help of the road drag can be kept in order much easier than if left to the mercy of wheels and winter weather. It is the time of year when the overseers are tninkmg of working their roads. It is a good time also to plan the mak ing of new roads. A little grading would wonderfully improve some roads that now run almost straight up the hill and then down again. The fact is, if a road is properly graded and properly drained it will be amazing how seldom there is ac tu'al need for macadam on it, unless the traffic is of almost city-like pro portions. A country road well graded and well drained makes a good road almost the whole year round. Just think of it! There were 1 7 4 Rural Free Delivery routes denied to the farmers of North Carolina last year because of the poor condition of the roads the farmers lived on Now, the Government does not re quire that these roads shall be ideal that is, of standard grade and heavily macadamized, but it does require mat they shall be in such condition that the mail carrier can make his regular schedules over them. And 174 applications for mail routes were refused last year because the roads over which the mails were to be car ried would not admit of a reasonable belief that regular schedules could be made over them by Uncle Sam V, V: ' i f " " - : 3 s ( 3 (7 i ' 4 ,S5' ' A Good Road in Durham County, Now that crops are laid by and it is an 'offwarAn:nHtir.x..Jj.t. ( great campaign ' .month to pet. better mads: hetter vrhnnU farmers clubs, in every school district in the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee. If the . - y J" repmenieu zn 1 ne xrpgresswe farmer family should set themselves for just one month to this task. 7i)hat n rpnnhiJintf the, h t,,. t J ww A- 1 wibii ww ! u'l w 11 m mi . 'I'll iu nr i.i i.iTfio -r. . i i ; wA" illl i4.w Xllli HBfjli O IrAJfJiilt. ; I' Page. 2 In North Carolina last year 174 adverse reports were made on applications for R. F. 1). routes on ac count of the bad condition of the roads. (See article on page 2.) Your good wife -remember her in lots of little pleasant ways the?e trying August days. 'Twill help to coax the roses back into your sweetheart's cheeks. (See article on page 15.) Bad Roads and Rural Mail Delivery. P. V' Cotton Bagging: for Cotton Bales. . ...... . . . . current insect Pests, . Franklin Sherman, Jr. . . . .... . Expert's Opinion of the Road Drag, Joseph Hyde Pratt . Farmers' Organizations . . ... . . Farmers Clubs in Michigan.' ' How to Tile-Drain Your Farm, A. L. French Flow Handle Talks. .;. ... . : . . New Kerosene Emulsion Put Those Roses Back on Your Sweetheart's Cheek, W. D. Troutman, 15 iwwuuu iur a toiion rarm No. 4. w F Mnscov Some Points on Growing Red Clover, Recluse . . . YW. '. Y. 'A ' 14 nn " " 6B Auafc i,eea 10 D one in August, J. M. Beatty. ... 1 , . . . 12 To Rid Your Poultry of Fleas, Uncle Jo ... . . . . r 1 1 2 3 2 4 3 10 5 11 letter carriers. Let's devote some of these August days to ways and means ror fixing up better roads. The poor roads we have in many sections stand between us and lots of good and use ful things. That is why we wish you would pay particular attention to the road articles on this page and the next. . The cotton bagging question is not yet settled either. Why should not cotton bales be covered with cotton bagging? Such a reform, besides making a neater and more market able package, would demand conon ana more cotton mills, and, uy consuming more of the lowest graaes, would wrest this low irraila ' AA - A, " ouo tuuuu irom tne nands of the specu lators who have been hammering uuwu prices 01 good cotton with it. wish you would read that article about the subject it, too, is waitine for you on the next page. Oh, the bugs and things! The poultry, the fruit trees, the vegeta bles, and the crops are beset by in sect pests, and it is becoming an es sential part of a good farmer's equip ment to know how to whip his ene mies when they come to forage on his crops. - Uncle Jo tells how to keep the fleas from your poultry, while Mr. Franklin Sherman (on page 3 ) discusses, in answer to inquiries, sev eral current crop pests, such as cot ton root louse, the bud worm, and some diseases of fruit trees which season of interesting may be detected at this the year. There are not two more pages in The Progressive Farmer, as ruie, man tnose (4 and 5) which are devoted to the Farmers' Organi zations, and to Plow Handle Talks and this week they are not less inter esting man usual. There are two other articles which will not be overlooked, we are sure, xur mey are printed in response to some inquiries from our rooro The subject of tile-draining1 your land is clearly explained by Mr. A. L. French on page 10, and on page 14 we have a fine article from Recluse on growing red clover. These two practical articles by practical men should be carefully read by practical farmers who make it a point also to be progressive. 1 The rotation for cotton lands in the coastal section is helpfully dis cussed by Prof. Massey, on page 9, Cotton bagging and cot j ton bags for commercial fertilizers would solve the i problem of profitably dis posing of the very low : grades each season and keep r such cotton from being j used as a hammer to de press the cotton market. (See article on page 2.) this being the fourth and last of his very excellent articles on this topic. 1- . . .. .. ) And last, but far from least, is that little vacation for Mrs. Farmer. July and August, are hot months, taxing very heavily the strength and enerev of the strongest. Mr. Farmer, read xne piece (on page 15) that Mr. Troutman wrote something about getting the peaches ' back into your sweetheart's cheeks, or maybe it was roses instead of peaches, anyhow, read it and see if you don't t,hlnk It would be better to get your good wife to hold off from her tasks a little while. Yea. makft Tier An ' as she pleases for a spell with "sweet nothing to do." as Mr. Trnnlnmn nnto it. Of course it will come odd to her, but she can afAnd it if - - uvru h believe it, try It. V.
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