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Our Big 15-Cont OfTorWe arc Valtlng for Your Club. Title Registered In U. 8. Patent Office. I A Farm a d Home Weekly for the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. o, - - Vol. XXII. No. o5. RALEIGH, N. C, OCTOBER 10, 1907. Weekly: $1 a Year, .1 - ! ' . , - " l- - - t: " ' : "" - i ' : " ! 1 1 n WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER. Page. Adulteration of Cottonseed Meal, B. W. Kilgore 5 Better Seed-Bed for Your Field Crops, S A. Knapp ......... i . Cotton and Its Power for Good ...... . . . . . . Fall Plowing and Subsoiling, W. F. Massey. . . How Live Stock Improves the Land, A. M. - Worden . . ........ ... ...... ... . ,.. ... . . . How the Gambler Robs the Cotton Grower . . . How Sonife Local Newspapers are Helping the Farmer . . . . . . . . . .............. ... . . . . Mistakes of Fifty Years to Be Remedied, J. K. Goodman ..... ... ....... . . . . . . . . . . . October in the Poultry Yard, Uncle Jo. . . . ", . Protect Your Cotton by Organizing. . . ... Preparing the Soil for Cotton, S. H. Hobbs. . . Pure-Bred Beef Cattle for the Southeast, A. L. French . . . ... ... . . . ........... . . ...... Speculators or Cotton Growers Which : Shall Win? .... . . . . . . ... ... . ... . . .... . . tlrfrtniQ "Ma-nrc "WV f o T "M" Pol 1 . xl liiia iigna a.w vvj , j uvii 13 2 11 2 3 10 THIS WEEK'S PAPER SOME RANDOM COM- ' TVIFiVT1 There's a good deal in this issue about cotton, hut not a line too much, we hone. To make cot ton, begin the year before, says Mr. Hobbs, in his article on third page. Deep breaking of your soil in the fall as a beginning point for a bigger yield to tne acre next year is clearly and neipiuiiy dis cussed by Prof. W. F. Massey and Dr. S. A. Knapp. Our readers are certainly fortunate to have before them in a single issue articles from two such au thorities as these. Along with these articles should be read those by Messrs. Goodman and French (page 14) on conserving the hilly lands. After your cotton is made shall the mastery of it pass from the producer the moment the gin- ner clamps the iron hoops around it? The farmer may break his land well and fertilize it and plant good seed and cultivate faithfully and gather wise ly, and at each step add to1 the increase of his fields; but why has he been powerless over his product from the moment when the finished bale tumbled out of the cotton press? The lack of or ganization. That is whv we are devbtine the whole of page 2 to this topic. We hope the calls -fn that nasrp will fall linnn mnnv lictpnino' iinH ready ears. The ever live topic of live stock is not over looked. Mr. A. M. Worden, a large stockman of Tennessee, sets forth on page 3 the value of live stock for improving the land, while Mr. French, of Sunny Home, tells why the time is ripe to ban ish the scrub from your herd for once and all. Add to these Uncle Jo's "October Work in thi Poultry Yard" and you have, we feel sure, the ful worth of your money in to-day's Progressive Far mer, to say nothing of .numerous other, excellent features that we haven't even mentioned. "Hold your cotton in the seed. - The lint will gain in weight and quality. A few years ago I picked 3,200 pounds of cotton October 1st, not ginning till March 1st. After paying 1-15 for toll I got two bales weighing 545 and 575 pounds, and sold for one cent a pound above the market." J. A. W. In Charge of Virginia and Nortnl Carolina Demonstra tion Work. V X' ft- MR. T. B. PARKER, Raleigh, XrC. I- 1! . ! I MR. T. O. SANDY, Burkeville, Va. Our farmers have heard much of the Farmers Co-operative Demonstration Work so successfully prosecuted during the past two or three years by the National Department of Agriculture and allied organizations un doubtedly the most successful plan ever inaugurated for the immediate uplift of farming conditions. The general 'movement is under the direction of Dr. Seaman A. Knapp y whose magnificent address in The Progressive Far mer a month ago is still stirring thousands of our readers to thought and action. In Virginia a year ago wofk was begun under the efficient direction of Mr. T. O. Sandy, andlnow North Carolina slat Is with Mr. T. B. Parker in control. Two better men for their duties could not be found in our territory They are practical, wide-awake, successful farmers, men of long experience in varied lines of fanning ; they are men dis tinguished alike for agricultural knowledge and for robust common sense, and for sterling and unquestioned character no less than for intellectual ability. Under their management the Farmers Co-operative Demonstra tion Work in North Carolina and Virginia cannot fail to be of lasting and immeasurable benefit to the entire farming population of each Commonwealth, and we congratulate our readers upon its auspicious beginning. TO THE MAN WHO HASN'T HELPED US. Dear Mr. Subscriber: Have YOU ever sent us any new subscribers at all? If you haven't you are exactly the man we are after this week. We have appealed to our old friends time and again, they always rally to us, and we are hearing from them now by every mail, night or day, and in numbers good to see and we have a letter going to many of them right now. In this article it is our desire to stir up those readers who have never helped us at all. If you are one of these, may we not count on you for a club this time one subscriber, two, three, or four, or a dozen? They are easy to get, and the work, as we have so often pointed out, will help your neighbors and your neighborhood, will mean a" community you will be prouder of living in and all for a few minutes' time in getting easy new subscribers for us. Try. it. .. . We most earnestly request that each and every member of The Progressive Farmer Family will try. to send us at least one new trial subscriber. It will be a far better and more gratifying proof of loyalty than if we getjtwice as many subscribers from only one-tenth of our list. Our appeal now is especially to the man who hasn't helped us.; I Will you do your part? IF YOU ARE NOIT A SUBSCRIBER. To the man who is , not a subscriber, but into whose hands this copy of The Progressive Farmer has fallen, we would only say: To any man not now !a subscriber we will send TJie Progressive Farmer every week from now till January 1 1908, for 15 jcents and stop the paper promptly then if the paper is not renewed. This is a special half price sacrifice offer made solely to induce new readers to give our paper a trial and here's a blank. "There is inure io say. nothing P. O. . . . State. Publishers Progressive Farmer: unciosea nna 15 cents for which send me The Progressive Far mer every week till January 1, 1908. Yours truly, .
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