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A Farm arid Horxie Weekly for the Carolinae, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia.
Vol. XXII. Ho. 46.
RALEIGH, N. C, JANUARY 2, 1CE8.
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v VHAT YOU WTLIi FIND IN PHIS WEEK'S PAPER.
g $10 a Year to the Value of Every Acre, Chas.M. Scherer .
parator Again . . . . ".. ......
Farmers' Wives Should Get the Bulletins, Aunt Mary. ............
How the Tobacco Grower Should Change His Farming, A. L. French,
How to Handle Angoras, A. M. Worden . . . .
Last Year's Farming for This Year's Guidance ............. 2
Corn- 35 Bushels per Acre on 11 Acres, A. D. Atkinson. ....... , 2
Corn 62 Bushels per Acre, J. A. Beall . . ...... ..... . ... ... 2
Corn 72 Bushels per Acre, S. C. Peedin ...... . . . . . . 2
Corn IS. Bushels per Acre, J. T. Pulley . . .... . .f. ...... 2
One Man, Thirty Acres, $1,200, Uncle Jo . . . . , 2
Let's Farm Better in 1008, Prof. W.F. Massey . J . . . 9
Live Stock and Dairy . x( . . . . . .V. .... 11
More Live Stock Means Richer Lands, P. C. Henry. . . ....... . . . . .. 10
Parable of Peter Penny wise . . . . .... .... ... . . . . ......... . 5
Plow Handle Talks. . . .'. -y.v: 5
The Poultry Yard . , ; . ... ... . . .... . 14
Virginia News Notes . . . . . . . . .... . ... . . . , . . . ...... ... . . .12
With Our Advertisers ....... . . . . . . . ...... . ....... . ...... ... . . .16
What Will the Boys and Girls Do? . . . . .... . . .'. . . . ... . . . . , ; 15
Farmers' Meetings in January.
Sixteen Institutes in Eastern North Carolina for Farmers and the Wo-
, men From the Farm Homes. . ,
Under the direction of Dr. Tait
Butler, the State Department of Agri
culture will hold Farmers' Institutes
this month at the dates and places
given below. Make your plans to go
and get every progressive idea that
will presented. Institutes for the
women will be held at the same times
and places, except at Swan Quarter.
The appointments are as follows:
Richland, Onslow Co.; Jan. 14. 5 ,
Mayesville, Jones Co., Jan.; 1 5.
BayboroPaxalico ; Co.,v:' Ja.-16:: :
New, Bern, Craven Co., Jan. 17.
Williamston, Martin Co., Jan. 18,
Plymouth, Washington Co., Jan.2 0.
Cresswell, Washington Co. Jan. 21.
Columbia, Tyrrell Co., Jan. 22.
Edenton, Chowan Co., Jan. 24
Hertford, Perquimans, Co. Jan. 2 5.
Shiloh; Camden Co., Jan. 27.
Moyock, Currituck Co., Jan. 28. '
Elizabeth City, Jan. 28. ,
Aularider, Bertie Co., Jan. 30.
Windsor, Bertie Co., Jan. 31.
Swan Quarter, Hyde Co.; Jan. 31.
State Cotton Growers to Mbet in
Charlotte.
The Date is January 21-22 Invitations from Mecklenburg Cotton Asso
ciation and From the Greater Charlotte Club.
The 1908 Convention of the North
Carolina Division of the Southern
Cotton Association will be held in
Charlotte, beginning January 21st
and continuing for two days, closing
on the night of January -22 nd.
The invitation to meet in Charlotte
came from the County Association of
Mecklenburg and from the Greater
Charlotte Club. The County Com
missioners have tendered the use of
the court room to the Convention
and it . is likely that a similar tender
of its rooms will be made by Greater
Charlotte Club. At a meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Cotton
Association in Laurinburg, the Char
lotte invitations were unanimously
accepted.
Preparations have beei undertaken
ootn Dy tne officers or the Association
and by the representatives of the in
viting bodies .to make this 1908
meeting one iff signal interest and
importance. This being at the home
town of the president, C. C. Moore,
it need not be said that he will leave
nothing undone, to make this meet
ing one of the greatest possible bene
fit to his fellow-farmers.
The Firmer Who is Independent.
Messrs. Editors: Thw farmer who
grows his own supplies can live at
home these days while the panic
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storms pass by without even enter
ing his gate.
Cheer up, farmers, all you that are
feeling blue, just go and call on
some real good farmer who 4has plen
ty of home grown supplies at his
house and watch him go right along,
working, eating, feeding his animals
on home stuff, and attending, to his
own affairs just the same as if a
New York panic had not come to
pass. ' . : .
That is the kind of farmer that is
worthy of the name, "Independent
farnlefC'" 1 J. C. STRIBLING.
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Put Your Cotton Under Shelter.
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Are ,-you one of these foolish farmers .who think -that cotton buyers .
and cotton manufacturers have no more sense than to give as much for
weather-damaged cotton as they do for dry, well-kept, and neatly handled
lint? If so just read Charles Cotton! Moore's article in the last issue of
The Progressive Farmer and get your eyes open to the folly of your
course. ' , .'...'. . . , ' . '' '
Somebody not the farmer is coining gold out of this weather-dam-aged
cotton-getting rich out of the farmer's neglect. The weather ,
levies ;a- mold, mildew, and water, tax on the cotton of the Careless
farmer, and then the buyer comes along and v doubles the ' tax so as to
insure protection for himself. ' See how careful everybody is, except the
cotton grower, to protect his own Interests. Why, if the cotton farmer
were as good a financier as the cotton buyer he would rather put his f
cotton bales under two shelters than to be 'subjected to such a tax!
t When the weather-damaged cotton . is offered for sale, the buyer,
you know as related by Mr. Moore makes a guess at the damage,
always guessing so as to protect himself from loss. For instance, if
the buyer believes there is five pounds damage on a bale, he deducts
10 pounds or more; or if the damage is perhaps 20 pounds, he deducts
4 0 or; 5 0 pounds. When a single buyer in a single season makes $20,000
cnl the amounts thus deducted - for Weather-damage, it is easy to see what
: a I )feform. 'is neededex' VScbres ri"nd'; scores "6t thousands of our cotton
f armere are working' hard the whole year 'through to make their crop
and then lose millions of, profit by1 letting the bales He out on the wet
ground as if they were old "cast-away grind -
; Let's be done with such folly. ; . . ' . ... .
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