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Reliable Cotton Crop r? oporto From Virginia to Texas. Geo Pago 2m
Title Registered in U. 8. Patent Office.
A. Farm an Home Weekly for the Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia.
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Vol. XXII. No. 39.
RALEIGH, N. C, NOVEMBER 7, 1907.
Weekly: $1 a Yea.
WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER.
Page.
Fifty Dollars a WTeek From Eggs, Uncle Jo . . . 11
Getting Three Crops a Year, E. J. Faulkner ................. 10
How the Lien System Hurts Day Labor, Dr. W. B, Crawford. . . .... 5
Has Your Home a Pretty Lawn? Aunt Mary . . . 6
Is Agriculture Taught in Your Public School? Dr. F. L. Stevens. . . . . 14
Latest News from 1907 Cotton Crop ................... ....... . 2
Our $50,000,000 Fertilizer Bill and Some Fertilizer Follies, W. F.
Massey . .- . .". . . . ...... . 9
President Adams to the Tobacco Growers . . . . '". . . 5
State Fair Should Reform Live Stock Premium List, R. S. urtis. . . 4
Virginia News Notes, J. M. Bell ............... 1 16
What's the Matter With The Progressive Farmer?. ............... 9
Water-works for the Farm Home, A. L. French. 10
Why T6bacco Should Bring More, R. K. . Simmons ................ 3
. Yuccas as Hedge Plants, Mrs. Lindsay Patterson. ...... ;.. . . . ... . . 7
TEXAS COTTON CROP NEARLY 50 PER CENT SHORT OF
; ' USUAL YIELD.
Fort Worth, Texas, November 2, 1907,
Clarence H. Poe, Editor Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C.
Dear Sir and Bro.: The cotton crop of Texas will be between
45 and 50 per cent of the usual yield. This estimate is based
upon reports from 4,800 Jo cal Unions of the State, and is not
a car-window guess. Farmers' Union members are holding at
least 70 per cent of their cotton. We should be glad that you
would favor us with a copy of your paper containing the esti
mate that you are seeking.
Yours fraternally, . D. J. NEILIr,
State President Texas Farmers' Union.
(First-hand reports for Progressive Farmer readers froni
nearly evegy other cotton-growing State on page 2.)
YOUR PART OF THE $50,000,000 WAS IT WISELY SPENT?
The fertilizer bill of our farmers in The Progressive Farmers terri
toryNorth Carolina and the adjoining States is more than $50,000,
000 a year. '
The final instalments on this enormous bill big enough for a king's
ransom, and twenty-five times the size of the total collections of an
average American State are now due and as the hard-earned mony is
counted, out from the pockets of the farmer, it's a mighty good time to
pause a moment and see whether or not his part of this enormous bill
has been wisely spent.
Understand we are not attacking the use. of fertilizers. Our farmers
can wisely spend $50,000,000 a year in this way possibly more.
The only question is, Are they spending it wisely? Or are they
merely paying out the fifty millions a season somewhat as a matter of
habit without serious regard to whether each individual farmer is get
ting just the ingredients needed for his peculiar crop and soil conditions?
Prof. Massey's letter on page 9 deserves the careful consideration of
all our people who share our opinion that a $50,000,000 disbursement
is an item big enough to call for full investigation.
"WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE PROQRESSIVE FARMER?" -WE
WANT YOUR OPINION.
We hope every man into whose hands this copy of The Progressive
Farmer falls, subscriber or not, will read the article on page 9, en
titled, "What's the Matter With The Progressive Farmer?"
The Progressive Farmer is a good paper, we know, but unquestion
ably it could be better.
The question is, "How Can We Make It Better?" And we'll give
you $10 in cash if you send us the best suggestion in answer.
You may not think your opinion worth anything, and yet that opin
ion may be the very one worth most to us. And when you write you
needn't waste any time in compliments. This time we should rather
have brickbats: Tell us our faults. Let us hear from you.
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Evening.
BY ARCHIBALD LilAMPMAN.
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From upland slopes I see the cows file by
1owingy great-chested down the homeward trails
By dusking fields ana meadows shining pale
With moon-tipped dandelions 'fiickervng high,
A peevish nighthawk in the western sky. -,:y
Beats up into the lucent solitudes y
Or drops with girding wing ; the stilly woods
Grow dark and deep, and gloom mysteriously.
Cool night winds creep and whisper in mine ear ;
The homely cricket gossips at my feet ;
From far-off pools and wastes of reeds I hear
With ebb and change
In Full Pandean chorust one by one
the chanting frogs break sweet
Shine out the stars, and
the great night comes on
COL. BENNEHAN CAMERON PR
IDENT.
At the recent meeting of the Na
timial Farmers' Congress held in
Oklahoma City, Okla., Col. Bering
han Cameron, of North Carolina, was
elected President for the ensuing
year. Col. Cameron is one of the
best known farmers in The Proges
sive Farmer' etrritory and will
make an efficient and energetic Pres
ident of the great organization of
which he is how the head. i j
We congratulate Col. Cameron ind
also the National Farmers' Oon-i
gress.
Tobacco Growers of Wake and Chat
ham Meet Nov. 15th. I j
The tobacco growers of Wake and
Chatham Counties are called to meet
at Apex on Friday, November 15th
at 11 o'clock. Business of vital
portance. A. T. OLIVE,
President
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If The Progressive Farmer is no
the best paper, it is certainly equal
to the best, for I have never seen
a better one. W. H. SutcliW.
Berkely Co., S. C.
Sending the Paper to Five Neighbors.
Messrs. Editors: Enclosed please
find money order for $1.75, which
puts the field of my subscription in
good tilth again for -another year's
seeding, and also gives five of my
neighbors an opportunity to learn
how much they are missing by not
reaping the harvest of golden grain
in the different fields of progressive
agriculture, as is gathered by the al
ready numerous readers of your ex
cellent paper every week.
I feel that I am sowing good seed,
that will, spring up and bring forth
an abundant harvest. The Good
Book says, "It is more blessed to give
than to receive," (and we believe
this, even in our profession, for we
take little physic), and in giving this
mite to these friends, I am sure 1
will be blessed with the giving, and
they, with receiving, making the
blessing two-fold. W. B. C.
Wayne Co., N. C.
There is more than four times the
amount of moisture and fertilizer, re
taining power in land plowed twelve
inches deep than in land plowed only
three inches deep. J. C. Stribling.
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