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Vjatoti for Our " FcrtUlzor GpoGlQl" Noxt VJooti! WW V7 iM)' saw - (-. v i-s CO b S . , .. ... A Farm and Home Weekly for the Cri rlinas, Virginia, Tenrieeaee and Georgia. Vol XXII. Ho. 47. RALEIGH, W C, JANUARY 9, 108. 7csily: $1 a Year. WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER. Page, .v 7 Children's Corner Good Fences a Part of Good . Farming , Good Shed for the Milch Cows. Farmers Organizations ....... . . . . . Farm Questions Answered by Prof. Massey . How to Cure a Cold Letter to Rural Carriers ......... . . . . . . . . Lien Law on Its Last Legs in South Carolina, J. A. Hoyt . . ;:. :. . ........ ...... ... Living With a Man Who Never Fixes Up . . . Markets: Raleigh, Richmond, Charleston. . . . Parable' of Knox Knowitall. .... Plow Handle Talks, . . . . ... ... Poultry Yard ........ . . .......... ...... Suggestions for January Fanning. . . . . . .. . . . Two Big Evils of the Tenant System, A. L. French ....... . ... 10 Winter Plowing-and Other Garden Notes. . . . 15 With Our Advertisers. . . . . 16 2 11 4 9 7 13 12 6 13 5 5 14 3 "SPARE MOMENTS" , OFFER EX TENDED TILL JANUARY 20TH. We have decided to extend till January 2 0th our, special offer to de linquent subscribers, offering "Spare Moments" to all who renew promptly and promise to try to get one .new subscriber ; - : ;..:.. ..-';'.;;. We had not Intended to make the offer hold good so long, but delay, in getting our circulars V printed and mailed has made it necessary to ex tend the time limit. . Remember then: Our special offer on Spare Moments with The Progres sive Farmer holds good till January 20th.v Renew promptly and take ad vantage of it. V. ' Nent Wccll " Fertilizers and Manures Edition." POULTRY SPECIAL JANUARY 23. It has been found necessary to postpone bur special poultry number until January 23 rd, but its articles will keep well and lose nothing rom the postponement. We have gone far enough' with its making to promise our readers a number that will be as good as chicken pie. One good article tells how" to start now in order, to get eggs next winter, others deal with the superiority of pure bred stock, and two or 1 three will deal with that phase, of the poultry , business which, will par ticularly interest our readers, namely, eggs and poultry on the farm. ' - The farmer of the future will be as much in terested in making soil as he is making crops. of;-' : f ? . . THE SUREST WAY TO BUILD UP WORN-OUT LAND.,. . '" The oreat need of our Bouthern iollg is hnmnt'tTThe eowpea not onhrtaket -from th Ir, frw of tjhrg, the nitrogen yoa need- the most costly of all fertilizing Ingredients and one for which oar Southern farmers pay out millions every season but gives life and body td the soli as welL (t) More peas, (2) more stock and (3) more barnyard manure each one fits Into the, other will solve the question of our worn oat soils. The greatest lesson we of the South' need ' to learn is this:' - . ; : . . "' ,s ;;' : . - .' f- , : j We must stop land-robbing and start land building even if it means that we mast farm oil a smaller scale. It is better .to farm so as to make ten acres rich than to farm so as to make a hun dred acres poor. And if we. are to build up our soils, we must begin at the beginning and learn What our soils need and what our crops need, and what forms of fertilizers and manures will meet these needs. Itj Is to aid the farmer here that .The Progressive! Farmer will issue next week a 'Special Fertilizers' and Manures Edition." We are; safe in saying; that it alone wiH oe worth ten times the, cost ot a year's subscription to any farmer .who . will take! Its counsel to heart. Of course, we : cannot; no wj give a forecast of all the articles, but here is aj partial list of the good things to come: r; I Prof. B,' W. Kilgore, whose long .. connection with farming and Experiment ; Station - wprk in Mississippi, "and North Carolina have made, him; perhaps the best informed man in the South on! fertilizer subjects, will write on "Fertilizer Needs of Different Crops and Different Soil Types." Mr. T. B. Parker, a member of The Progressive Farmer staff and a f successful farmer and Farm ers Institute worker, will write on "The A B C's of Fertilizer" explaining just what you mean by muriate of potash, sulphate of potash, nitrate of soda, phosphoric- acid, filler, etc.; just what each wilt do; how to calculate the value of a fertilizer; what the formulas mean; how to make a formula of your own, etc. . 'Our 'Professor Massey 'will write on, "Getting Your Nitrogen, Free'VFrom the Air" instead of buying millions of dollars Worth in guano sacks. .Col. R. J. Redding, of the Georgia Experiment Station, will suggest formulas: for different crops and different soil crops. j- ::'r? Zr: vU- Mr. A. LFrench will tell'how in six years' time lie has' built upV so-called worn-out" lands on, his farm to a point where they fill corn-cribs to over flowing barn-yard manure being responsible. Prof. John-'Michels will tell just how to handle barn-yard manures so as to get the greatest value from them ' . ' . -Mr. Hw-A. Wing wilt tell, how a manure spread- er will pay for itself in a. single season In the bet terresults it will give you from your manure out put.' ' ... ' v' ..' - , - ' " ' . i And; there will be ; other articles we have net space at his time to mention among them an ar ticle showing how greatly keeping manure under cover increases its value and enough other mat ter to make good our promise that Our next week's "Fertilizer's and Manures Edl tiom" will be worth ten times a year's subscrip tion price. Watch for 1L A PERSOXAI LETTER MR.- TRIAL SUBSCRIBER! "Time Out! Your Last Copy Until We Hear From You!" This, Mr. Trial Subscriber, Is the danger, signal which greets your eye this week. - , If you have already sent your re newal, good arid well; don't worry; your paper will come; "and this talk is not for you. ' But if you haven't, then, my dear expiring reader, we mean just -what we say. Your subscription has ex plred; and this is positively the last we copy you will receive unless hear from you. But we expect to liear from you. ' You can't afford and your family can't afford, not 'to have The Pro gressive Farmer as a regular visitor to your home during the New. Year. In fact, we'll give you your dollar back and pay all the cost of sending the paper from our pockets, If you read It through 1908 arid say at the end of the year that you haven't had your 'money's worth. . Arid ' as if this were not enough, sir, we shall continue through Janu ary our special offer to, send "Spare Moments," free to your wife (or to any other, woman you may name) if you send us $1.00 for a year's sub scription, or 55 cents for six months. Now, Mr. r Trial ; Subscriber, we know you : do not want to get out. of The Progressive Farmer Family we know ; that you do not want your home to be without its weekly visits through the New Year-and we know that you do not want any fairer offer than we have made you. : So you want the paper; and the only trouble Is that you may wait a few days and then a few days more until you lose your membership In the Family, and fall from grace ut terly before you know it. You must not only accept our offer, but you must accept it AT ONCE. Remember TO-DAY; and don't miss a copy! v Jit i:
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