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A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolina., Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia.
Vol. XXII. No. 36.
RALEIGH, H. C, OCTOBER 17, 1ED7.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
what rou wiili m this week's How Much Land are You Renting. Out to Stumps?
Page. I This picture shows whe e a stump puller his been along y and the signs indicate that it has performed s tne.
Does Lint laln in V eight by Ripening ?c . S pretty powerfu1 dentistry on this piece of land You've heard cf the man who wanted to know why it is that
lugnteen reasons ior i ue uraming lightning seldom strikes twice in the sirne Mace : the answer is, that it seldom leaves anythtnr to strike Same
now iviucu - uuuu Are iuu rmuuug uui 10
wjv with the stumb
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Bailev . . ". . 2 m ine ri"re.
How to Underdrain Your Land. A. M. Worden, 2 &y ine zvay, now
Place for Breeding Leaders of Men : 14 1 uch land are you
Plow a Little Deeper Each Year, E. E. Miller. 2 renting out to stumps
Taking Your Cattle Through the Winter, A. L. . I now? And u hat rent-
French ......., i 10 al do they pay you?
The Big Cotton Conference in Atlanta, C. C. Stumps vou notice
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Waterworks and Other Conveniences. H. H; liient u a v J getting
Williamson ..'....... - 11 there first and having
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Virginia Apple Crop, Walter Whately . .v'. . . 4 the first whack at the
A'irginia News Notes, J. M. Bell. 4 new ground while it
is fresh and produc
THIS WEEK'S PAPER SOME RANDOM COM- llve- acn stump also
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Subsoiling. Question marks about it are be
ginning to congregate in ,the think-lof t -of -the
farmer who is progressive. Last week we printed
line articles on the subject by Prof. Massey and
Dr. Knapp. This week we print an article by; Mr.
E. E. Miller on the gradual deepening of the soil;
and on the same second page, -Mr. Worden writes
from experience on the allied topic of underdrain
ing, to which attention is being turned now by a
number of the best farmers, while the eighteen
reasons of Col. Waring for tile draining covers
pretty thoroughly the argument for under-drain-
age of the soil. Deepening the seed-bed and en
riching it clear down, filling it with vegetable
matter for retaining water and to prevent wash
ing, ventilating it and draining it all present
problems for the go-ahead farmer to tackle and
. Bolve for himself on his own lands. And this is
the time of year to commence the tackling.
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Does cotton lint gain in weight by being allow
ed to ripen in the seed? Some people may not
be convinced that it does, but Mr. G. M. Davis is
not among the number. He regards it as an un
questioned fact, and in an interesting article on
page 3 says he is anxious for the Government to
make a thorough test. We wish some of our Pro
gressive Farmer Family would make this test and
not wait for the "Government" to get all the
1 honors.
An unusual number of practical farm topics in
very brief form are handled in this week's issue,
and we hope no reader will overlook a single one
"of them. How to get a stand of bur clover fthe
subject of Mr. Bailey's letter on page 2, has a
heading in type large enough to catchthe eye, but
a numb.er of similar topics, are handled on page 5
under the questions answered by Mr," Parker. Is
it too late to sow rape? -When is the best time; to
sub-soil? -What are best early varieties of the
sweet potato? What is the best grass mixture
for a permanent pasture? these are some of the
topics which give to Mr, Parker's answers time
liness and value for a great many readers.
Along with other good things at hand-now, this
is sweet potato time; - It is a pity to lose any crop
. after It is made, and we will say that if you
haven't read Prof. Massey' s article on the harvest
ing and housing of this crop it will be a good idea
arrogates to itself a certain little p.tch of its own,, a long patch between the rows, sharp at both ends and wide in
the middle like the sign in iht. music book which shows you when to swell out louder 'and 'then taper off again,
And when old Bob sidles around the stump; and strikes it with the trace and singletree and tramples down the
growing crop, and your lifted plow gets caught onihe big root, and the plowhandle pastes you a good-one under.
the ribs,you swell out touder alt right, but do not always taper off again in strict accordance with the diminuen
do sign in the note book " YV , ;
As to the rent -stumps do raise a crop and pay rent after a fashion But the crop is mainly in the natuie of
ejaculations, like the one the Randolph-county man got after Mr Hobbs about-- and others nxt so mild; while
the rent is paid in relieving you of working a considerable percentage jof your land Y in broken plowst in keeping
improved machinery off your land, and in unsightly fields. Altogether Mr. Stump is a fine type of the undesir.
able rural citizen. ; . 4 , , , : ' ; . ;'
Hitherto, Mr, Farmer has depended on his partnership with the weather to rid his farm of Mr . Stump s
occupancy. But the weather is 'slow and uncertain especially slow. ,: It is mighty easy on the intruder and
allows him long years twotfivet ten, twelveof his dog-in-the-manger policy . Time and land and labor are
too precious to bother any longer with Mr. Stump. The wide-awake farmer quits waiting on the weather and
forms a partnership with a stump puller. The stump puller noses, over the field a white and then says ; ' Mr.
Farmery here s your land." And he finds that the"stump puller pays handsomely as a farm enlarger and pays
again by clearing the way for improved cultivating and harvesting machinery. ,
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"This Is the first of a series of Progressive Farmer articles about the different types of farm machinery. :
to turn back to our issue of October 3rd and read
it. That is; if you are raising only a hundred
bushels or so. But if yon have larger quantities
to carry through the "winter, you will certainly be
interested in the potato house described by Prof..
Massey on page 9 of this week's paper
We do not often mention them but the Home
Circle and Our Young People's pages are full wor
thy this week, we think, of the attention of those
who are fond of -these departments. Aunt Mary's
sensible opinion of this season's millinery fashions
is . something that you mustn't overlook.
Another thing Mr. Harrison's article on page
11. He just says that all those farm conveniences
are easy to have if you try. He has tried and
knows he has' them. Can't you go and do like
wise ? A progressive farmer must keep on mak
ing progress, you know. 1
HAVE YOU BEEN TO TOWN?
All your farm; neighbors, of coarse, ought to
take The Progressive Farmer; but have yon tried
your merchant, lawyer, and doctor? A great many
of these own farms, or are interested in farming,
and would be "tickled" to get a wide-awake,
thought-provoking farm paper. Every man who
owns a yard of farm dirt ought to .read The Pro
gressive. Farmer. ...
MR. Tv O. SANDY AND HIS WORK.
Mention was made in last-week's Progressive
Farmer, that Mr. T. O. Sandy, of Burkeville, has
charge of the Farmers Co-operative Demonstra
tion, Work in , Virginia. It should also be noted
that Mr. Sandy is a member in good standing of
The Progressive Farmer Family, and a man whose
experience in rebuilding a Virginia farm is, too in
spiring for-us to pass over ! without notice: - He
bought a Nottoway County farm about twelve
years ago which then produced about six bushels
of corn per acre, the lancf itself being valued at
about $4 per acrei By a proper system of rota
tion, stock-raising,! and tillage, he has brought his
corn yields to! nearly seventy bushels per acre,
and has refused an offer of $50 per acre for the
land which was I worth only one-twelfth that
amount when he took charge of it. Last year's
operations brought him $6,000. To have a man
of this type get In 5 touch with ; a hundred or more
of his brother ; farmers in any county, and show
how the thing can ! be done, is undoubtedly one of
the most effective, if not really the most effective,
of all plans for the upbuilding of Southern agri
culture. ; !
Going te mill or store or church meeting Satur
day? Don't foreret that club for The Progressive
Farmer. . .