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A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia.
Vol. XXII. No. 31.
RALEIGH, N. C, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907.
Weekly: $1 a Year,
WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S
PAPER.
Page.
Crimson Clover in a Nutshell, J. F. Duggar. . . 13
Fixing Price of Cotton and Cottonseed . ; . . . 8
Growing Early Cabbages, W. F. Massey. 9
How Mr. Tindal Made 182 Bushels of Corn on
an Acre . . ... .... . . . . . .... . . . . 3
In Memory of William Baxter Poe. . . . ... ... 9
Place of Live Stock iri Southern Farming, A.i L.
French. . . ... . . . . . . . . . ............... 10
September Oats Do Best, N. Y. Gulley. . .... ....... 5
Timely Farm Questions Answered by Mr. Par
ker .... . .......................... . 4
Two Poultry Diseases to Guard Against, Un
cle Jo . . . .'. . ..... . ..... . ... ...... ... . .11
Training in Agriculture and Home-Making for
Our Country Youth, Hon. C. R. Davis . . . . . . 2
Work of the State Farmers' Convention, T..B.
-Parker . . . . . . . ..... .-. . . . ... ........... 14
THIS WEEK'S PAPER SOME RANDOM COM-
MENT. '
When the State of Georgia provided last year a
current expense fund of $66,000 with which to be
gin eleven agricultural high schools, the people of
the eleven Congressional Districts answered this
challenge of their faith by raising $800,000 to es
tablish and equip these schools! It was an em
phatic declaration of popular faith in agricultural
education. With this attitude of the public mind
manifest in every State of the South, the time
seems ripe for establishing schools of lower or
secondary grade to utilize, to bring to the masses
of the farming population, what Congressmen Da
vis, of Minnesota, calls the great body of new
knowledge which has been accumulating for forty
five years, as the result of the establishment of the
State Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
and the expenditure by different countries of an
aggregate of $100,000,000 in agricultural re
search. '
Following up Dr. Knapp's stirring article of last
week, and the resolution of the Farmers' Conven
tion endorsing the Davis bill, we are giving this
week on page 2 Congressman Davis's own exposi
tion of the scope and purposes of the measure he
introduced into the last Congress. Providing in
dustrial education for the youth of both city and
country, Mr. Davis's measure is a far-reaching one
- so much, so that its enactment into law may be
yet a long way off. But we give striking portions
of his speech because they afford fine arguments
for the establishment of agircultural high schools
for the country youth. What he says of the States
wiiiuu nave aireauy inea mese scnoois is valuable
and the example of Georgia is an inspiring one
showing that in the South at least there is no need
to wait for the Federal Government to get ready
? before our country youth can get the benefit of
the training they so much need. Speaking of these
secondary schools inMinneso1a and Nebraska, Mr
Davis says, 'The graduates of these schools nearly
all go back, to the farm" a most desirable and en
couraging result, showing that the agricultura
high school may yet contain the answer to the
question of how to "turn the tide back to the
country."
Can a farmer profitably raise more than 40 or
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C. B. Williams.
John Michels.
NEW LEADERS IN NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS.
We present herewith cuts of two new leaders in North Carolina agricultural progress Mr. C. B.
Williams, just elected Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Prof. John Michels, who '
leaves the same position in Clemson College to act as Professor of Animal Husbandry and Dairying
in the North Carolina A. & M. . College.
Mr. Williams has done most excellent work for several years past in the North Carolina Depart
ment of Agriculture, having especial direction of test farm work, and: is also well-known to many,;
of our readers as a Farmers' Institute worker. Laying especial f emphasis on the importance of
seed selection, the improvement our farmers have been led to make as; a result of his efforts has un
doubtedly been worth many thousand of dollars to the State. ; f If
Prof. Michels was reared on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, trained in a dairy school, and for four
years acted as Professor of Dairying in Wisconsin Agricultural College. He is the author of two
books, "Creamery Buttermaking" and "Dairy Farming," besides a number of excellent bulletins.
For two years past at Clemson College, he has done splendid work for the agricultural interests
of the Palmetto State, and in his new field there is no doubt that he will "make good" as he has done
elsewhere. ; - ; j;
50 bushels of corn to the acre? Profitably, mind
you. it ne gets more man mat, aoesn i u cost mm
more than it comes to to make it? These ques
tions are answered in the official report of the
methods by which Mr. A. J. Tindal, of Clarendon
County, S. C, won last year the National corn
prize of $100 for making a yield of 1.82 bushels to
the acre. True, he had mighty rich land to make
it on, but let it be remembered that there is no
law against making your land rich, toq; rich
enough to produce 182 bushels of. corn to the acre.
While the handsome profit indicated is figured on
the yield as seed corn at-$2 a bushel, it is shown
that there was a good profit even at current mar
ket rates. On page 3 we print the account of Mr.
Tindal's methods with this piece of prize corn, and
we feel sure that our tens of thousands of readers
will find it interesting and suggestive.
The report of the Farmers' Conventionby our
Mr. Parker, is completed on pages 14 and 15, and
is fully as entertaining as the first part we printed
last week. We hope to give some of these Conven
tion talks in full, and begin in this issue with the
address of Mr. French which appears on page 10.
Its subject matter is important enough and live
enough to interest not only an audience of hun
dreds, but an audience of the thousands to whom
it goes this week, j The place which live stock
should occupy in the farming of the Piedmont
South is convincingly set forth, and we shall look
for Mr. French's work to continue to bear fruit.
Truckers j and gardeners will be interested in
Professor Massey's helpful letter on page 9 about
the winter cabbage crop.
The Plowhandle Talks are fully as helpful as
usual in this issue. Indeed, we believe they are
growing upon our readers on account of their prac
tical helpfulness and familiar style. A very practi
cal article to which we want to call special atten
tion is the one on page 13. It is truly "crimson
clover in a nutshell;" it is' packed tight enough
with crimson clover facts to produce spontaneous
combustion, if that were possible. When you have
read it, you will j agree with .us that it certainly
contains a great dfeal in a very small space.
If you prepare ga dish of food carelessly you do
not expect Providence to make it palatable;
neither, if through years of folly you misguide
your own life; need you expect divine interfer
ence to bring round everything at last as If you
had done right.T-tfohn Ruskin.