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A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolina., Virginia, Tenhessee and Georgia.
Vol. XXII. No. 37.
RALEIGH, N. C, OCTOBER 24, 1907.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
,, WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER.
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Concrete Water Trough, A. L. French ......................... 10
Deep Plowing and Terracing, O. W. Blacknall 14
How My Farm Paper Has Helped Me, T. J. W. Broom. ........... 2
How. the Lien" Law Affects Labor, H. C. Coleman. ............... . 13
Immensity of Poultry Business, Uncle Jo 11
In Memory of John Charles McNeill . . ............ . . . . . . . .-. . S
Judge Bennett on Winter Farming... 3
Notes on Recent Issues, W. F. Massey . . 9
Planting Peas for Hay, H. M. Johnson 3
Reading as a Factor in Good Farming, E. S. Millsaps. ........... 2
Virginia News Notes, J. M. Bell. ................. ... ....... 4
What to Do With Loose Rock, A. L. French . ................ 10
THIS WEEK'S PAPER-SOME RAN
DOM COMMENT.
The long evenings by. the fireside
are at hand and it is time to pick up
the thread of reading that has
grown slack during the open-air
months of summer. And we want to
make prominent the importance of
keeping up the reading that helps
you in your farm work and farm
life. Two good articles on this sub
ject stand out on page 2 of this
issue; one Is by Mr T. J. W. Broom,
the other by Mr. E. S. Millsaps -both
successful farmers who have
profited by - reading - agricultural
books, bulletins, and papers, includ
ing The Progressive Farmer. Such
a course of reading is bound to raise
the standard of farming and living
in any communityif long observed,
and what it has done for Mr.
Broom's community is told eloquent
ly in a paragraph which we have
copied from the Monroe Journal and
printed in a little box in the middle
of the page.
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This little paragraph speaks a
great truth when it says that The
Progressive Farmer is "made for this
We are glad this week to number
in our articles a letter from the al
together piquant and delightful pen
of Judge Risden Tyler Bennett, of
Wadesboro. You will hot overlook
this article upon winter farming and
other topics on the third page.
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A series of experiments, made by
Mr. ,H. M. Johnson to ascertain - the
proper amount of seed peas to plant
in order to get the greatest yield
of pea hay will be found-interesting,
and on the same page are some
practical shorter articles on terrac
ing rotation; - and ginning damp cot
ton. The matter of terracing" and
deep plowing is also touched again
by Prof. Massey, on. page 9, and Mr.
Blacknall, on page. 14, showing that
there is no wide difference between
them.
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And Aunt Mary she has the
Home Circle page all in a flutter this
week with a big autumn wedding.
Nobody's wedding in particular, but
it is a model affair nevertheless, . and
you are invited. If you are a candi
date for such beautiful honors or
if you are interested in any candi-
HELPING EDITOR, NEIGHBOR, AND SELF. .
When you seek to extend the circulation1 of your farm paper,
you not only help the editors and your neighbors, but you are'
bringing nearer the day dawn of -the realization-of your own
ideals. (From Mr. Broom's letter on next page.)
HOW CAN ALL THE PEOPLE BE REACHED?
- In my opinion no better service could be done the agricultural
interests of the State or country generally than the discovery
of some plan by which all the people can be reached by the
agricultural press. (See article by Mr. Millsaps on next page.)
section" for the territory covered
by its circulation. How well "it fills
the bill," we ought to let others say,
and they do say. But we may be
allowed to reiterate the fact that He
try to make The Progressive Farmer
the ., best farm paper in the world
for the people in, Its particular terri
tory. These things, in connection
with the fact that reading time-'o-year
is at hand, account for the mes
sages we send out on the second
page, in the hope that a new club
or two from you may cause your
mail man also to carry "a big sack
of Progressive Farmers."
dates, there is no need that we. sug
gest that you give attention, to the
Home Circle page this week.
"How Farm Girls Can Make Money."
This will be the subject of an
article In next week's Progressive
Farmer. Our Mr. Parker and Dr.
Butler ;will contribute the usual
"Suggestions for November Farm
ing." Prof..; Massey will discuss a
variety of topics of immediate Inter
est, and ;Mr. French, of course, will
be as sunny as ever in his Sunny
Home Stock Talks. .
October.
By, JOHN CHARLES McNEILL.
DIED OCTOBER 17. 1907; AGE, 33 YEARS.
The thought of old, dear things is in thine eyes,
O , month of memories !
Musing on days thine heart hath sorrow of,
Old joy, dead hope, dear love,
see thee stand where all thy sisters meet
71? cast down at thy feet
The garnered largess of the fruitful year,
And on thy cheek a tear. 1
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Thy glory flames in every blade and leaf
To blind the eyes of grief ;
Thy vineyardrand thine orchards' bend with fruit
That sorrow may be mute ;
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A hectic splendor lights thy days to sleep,
Ere the gray dusk may creep r
Sober and sad along thy dusty ways,
Like a lone nun, who prays ;
High and faint-heard thy passing migrant calls
Thy lazy lizard sprawls i
On his gray stone, and many slow winds creep
About thy hedge, asleep ; -
The sun swings farther toward his love, the South,
To kiss her glowing mouth, ; ,
And Death, who steals'amdng thy purpling bowers,
Is deeply htd in flowers.
Would that thy streams were Lethe, and might flow
Where lotus blossoms blow, '
And all the sweets wherewith thy riches bless
Might hold no bitterness ! j - ; '
Would, in thy beauty, we might all forget
Dead days and old regret,
And through thy realm might fare us forth to roam,
Having no thought for home !
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And yet I feel, beneath ithyl queen's attire,
Woven of blood and fire, . ,
Beneath the golden glory of thy charm
Thy mother heart beats warm,
'And if, mayhap, a wandering child of thee,
Weary of tana and sea, ' ;
Should turn him homeward from his dreamer's quest
To sob upon thy breast, i
Thine arm would fold him tenderly, to prove i
How thine eyes brimmed with love,
And thy dear hand, with all a mother's care,
Would rest upon his hair.
Wants to See Lint Tested.
Messrs. Editors: ' Bought knowl
edge is the best of knowledge, if it
does not come too dear; even then
it stays" with you. I have been a
farmer all my life, bora on the farm,
reared on the farm, and; am still on
the farm. I love the farm, and I
have experimented a great deal,
which I think every " farmer should
do. Although we have State Experi
ment Stations to do our experiment
ing, they cannot .think of all our
wants. But there is one experiment
that I wish them- to make that will
suit the whole cotton belt: that Is,
to test cotton-lint, to see if is does
not grow after the cotton is picked
from the patch. From my own ob
servation, I say it does,
i Nowj I am testing the lint on a
small scale, to see If it does not
grow, taking a lock . of cotton from
each boll, and pulling the lint from
the seed and measuring it, and stor
ing the remainder away in the seed,
I expect to test the lint next Feb
ruary. J. A. W.
We would suggest that Mr. W.
weigh as well as measure the lint,
and report results from both tests.
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