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A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolina, Virginia,
Vol. XXIII. No. 9.
RALEIGH, N. C, APRIL 9, 1908.
and Georgia.
Weekly: $1 a Tear
COCO 42070: A MAGNIFICENT TYPE OF THE DRAFT HORSE.
J-N last week's paper we
gave a beautiful type of the
French Coach horse ; this
week we.show one of the finest
Percheron stallions in Amer
ica Coco 42070 owned by
McLaughlin Bros., Colum
bus Ohio. We need more
Percherons in the South, An
article on page 2 emphasizes
their value. Says Dr. Tait
Butler: "For the breeding
of farm work stock, my first
choice for sire would be a
properly selected, medium
sized Percheron" As to how
the breed has been developed
McLaughlin Bros, say; "Re
liable authorities trace the
origin of the Percheron s tock
back beyond the crusades.
Since then, by subsidies and
prizes the French govern
ment has encouraged in eve
ry possible way the breeding
of Percheron horses. It has
done much to secure that
combination of strength, en
durance, activity and docil
ity for which the breed is so
noted, and which has placed
it in the front rank of excel
lence among draft breeds
of the world. The Percheron
is the king of draft horses, ,
and. par excellence the breed" Jor moving heavy weight with great activity." Mr. Sidney fohnson, who is writing a series of horse
articles jor us, cottiments on the strong points of Coco as follows : "Note () the head carried well tip; (2) the well arched top line
of the neck; (j) the 'straight 'underline of the neck ; (4) the powerful sloping shoulder ; 5) the short back; (6) the long underbody ;
(7) long croup ; (8) the flat cannon bones, and (p) the powerful hind quarters these are exquisite: the drive power of a horse is
located here. This should be a hard horse to beat in any show ring."
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WHAT .YOUAVILIi FIND 'IN THIS WEEK'S
PAPER.
Page.
April Needs of Your Live Stock, A. L. French 12
Bank Accounts Instead of Store Accounts for
Tobacco Farmers, P. B. Neal . . . . . . . . ... . . . 6
Rlemishes to Avoid When Buying a Horse,
Sidney Johnson 13
Dr. Freeman's Health Talks for Farmers. ... 2
Geese and Grass in the Orchard. . . . . . ... ... 16
How to Make Your Dirt Roads Better. ..... 15
H You Want Fruit, Spray, Dr. H. F. Freeman . 3
More Percherons Needed in the South, Chas.
' M. Scherer ........... ........... 2
Money in Poultry for Farmers' Wives and
- Daughters, Mrs. J. C, Deaton ........ 16
More About Scuppernongs. . . . . . . ..... . . . . . 17
Plant Cotton Early, and Shallow. . .......... 4
Peavine Hay as a Money Crop ............. 5
Mallow Planting Saves Millions in Texas, E.
Rosenbaum .. ........... .. 4
Suggestions for April Farm Work. . . . ... . . . 11
Three Years' Experience With Long Staple,
T- B. Pace .... ........ .......... 4
he Parcel Post and the Farmer, Hon. J. Bry-
an Grimes ..14
What Will the Weather Be in April? . 15
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MAKE YOUR DIRT
ROAD BETTER?
We are printing on page 15 of this issue an ar
ticle from the United States Office of Public Roads
giving some valuable suggestions about the best
ways of making your dirt roads better. A ma
cadam road is better, but do not neglect your
every-day dirt road because you haven't a better
kind. You can make a better kind without the
macadam.
Grade the roads you have. It is a great waste
of horsepower to lift your loads straight up the
hill and then down again, when a little grading
of the route would take you around the hill on a
good level road that is no longer than the up-and-down
one.
Then drain your road-bed. Water is an enemy
to your roads; and when they are too steep they
fall an easy prey to washing, and when level and
poorly drained, they fall an easy prey to the
mud-mixing narrow tires. Use the scraper and
grader and drag, give your road a route that has
some regard for your faithful horse, then drain
it and drag it with the cheap and handy split log
drag and you can certainly make your dirt road
a great deal better.
COTTON CROP OF 1007 11,261,1 63 BALCS.
The final census report of the cotton crou of
1907, issued March 20th, shows the total to be
11,261,163 bales, against 13,305,265 bales in
1906, and 10,725,602 in 1905.
By States the figures are as follows: Alabama,
1,126,028; Arkansas, 760,162; Florida, 57.016;
Georgia, 1,891,000; Kansas, 34; Kentucky, 4,205;
Louisiana, 676,823; Mississippi, 1,464,207; Mis
souri, 35,997; New Mexico. 447; North Carolina,
648,517; Oklahoma, 864,160; South Carolina. 1, -175,375;
Tennessee, 274,536; Texas, 2,271,724;
Virginia, 9,486. Kentucky's total includes linterg
of establishments in Illinois and in Virginia.
Hester's report of the market movements gfres
only 4,000,000 bales in sight at present against
5,000,000 bales at the same date last year.
Oh, yes, you got some money when you old
that bale or two of cotton but how much of it
was clear profit? Wouldn't the same outlay of
toil and money for plowing and planting, and fer
tilizing, and cultivating, and gathering, and mar
keting yielded you more clear profit if you-had
devoted them to some other crop?
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