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THE PROGRESSIVE PARMER. Thursday,. April 9, 1908. T" ; ...... We Ought to Have More Percherons. They Salt the South, and it Is Cheap Labor and. Light Horsepower, Not the Southern Climate, That Makes Poor Farming. seriously contradicted by those who have had equal opportunity to make like observations. Messrs. Editors: Your enterprising inquirer did exactly right in bringing his Percheron mares down from the North. Seeing Northern men mov ing into this country with their big mares and observing their success with them, tempted me to go North in the winter of 1906 and buy some four and five-year-old grade Percheron mares weighing twelve to fourteen hundred pounds. They were put to work and have been kept at it. Not one has ever been sick or out of condi tion. They have stood the work as well as the mules, and are bringing me colts besides. One mare taken out of the plow. Wednesda at noon foaled a fine colt Sunday morning. Af ter two weeks of rest she will be put back to the plow. We have had considerable experience breeding and working horses on this place, and have never seen any ill effects of change of cli mate, in the trotting, the pacing, or .--the draft breeds of stock. I hope my experience will give lome comfort to your subscriber. CLARENDON DAVIS. Huntsville, Ala. PRACTICAL HEALTH TALKS TO FARMERS. Dr. H. F. Freeman is best known to our rca ti ers as a writer on farm subjects, but he ;3 good doctor as well as a good farmer as have had one or two excellent articles to prov? Consequently it gives us unusual pleasure to an nounce that Dr. Freeman has consented to vriia for us a . series of ''Practical Health Talks u Editorial Comment: Such testimony is valu able in helping to dispel some of the fog sur rounding commonly accepted theories of what can't be done in the South. If the other South ern States could have as many immigrants from the North in proportion to the population, as Texas has had, there is little doubt that ther would have resulted an exchange of ideas about many farm problems and that in the main the best ideas would have survived elsewhere as they have in Texas; and that the other Southern States would have profited as much by it. . ; . .:- Prudent Care- Needed by Big Horses. With the exceptions of a difference in soils and the best seasons for planting crops, harvesting them, etc., there is less difference between the North and the South from a farmer's standpoint than is generally believed. Of course some crops are suited to one section and unsuited to the other; but the way that field work should be done is rather similar all over the country, as large' as it is. It takes a big horse to pull a big load or a big plow in the South, for the same reason that it does elsewhere. With good treatment, the big horse will do In the South about what it would do elsewhere with good treatment. As a matter of fact, it gets hotter In Illinois than it does in Alabama, though this is contrary to the usual belief. The Gulf States have a longer pe riod of warm weather, but the thermometer does not go so high. The records of the weather bureau from year to year showvthis conclusively But no man with a heavy horse would expect it to go on the road and travel fast on a hot day, in any section, if the man had horse sense. In try ing to make a heavy horse do that in the South, a man can easily get convinced that a heavy ani mal is not suited to the South ; but that does not 'prove anything but that such a man attempted something foolish. A Good Habit the Northerner Has. While comparing the North and the South, we may go farther, and say that Northern workmen work harder than Southern workmen, because the Northerner' in his native section could not do anything else. There was no cheap labor to do work for him. It was work or starve. Work be came a habit. When the Northerner moves to the South he can still work hard, because he has such a habit fifixed on him. True, some of them get the idea that it Is cheaper to hire work. done than it is to do it themselves; but that kind does not last. After unusual opportunity to ob serve how these matters have worked out along a stretch of country that covers over half the Gulf coast, there is no hesitation in making the foregoing statements, without fear of their being More Faith Needed in Our Possibilities. Men can work in the South like men work In the North; and if an unusually kind nature and cheap labor had not spoiled them, they would be working in the South to-day as men work in the North. They would also be more Inclined to think that heavy horses in the South can be worked with success. What we are in the habit of doing and what we are used to seeing appeals to us as being the right thing, and sometimes as the only right thing. We are creatures of habit; and if the South had had some handicap like the North's being frozen up one-third of every year for generations, the Southern people would have had to dig so hard to make a living that the habit of working Industriously in per son not bv nroxv would be firmly fixed. From very necessity, the work would have been done in a more economical way. Work stock weighing more than a yearling steer would have become a part of the forces involved in doing work rnort economically. If Southerners would believe more In the South and in what can be done in the South, they would accomplish more; the South would take the high position nature prepared her to hold. A happy change is in progress; and . - it Is due mostly to a change of mind, to a con- v v DR. H. F. FREEMAN, Farmers," which we have no doubt will form viction that better things are possible and to a one of the most useful and popular features ever firm determination to do them. . CHAS. M. SCHERER. "SOUTHERN CHUNKS" BUT THEY ARE IM PROVING. "That a happy change is in progress" in the carried In The Progressive Farmer. Among the subjects discilssed will be the following: Consumption: The great white plague and how to deal with it. Pneumonia and Colds: How to avoid them this winter. Digging Your Grave With Your Teeth: Some South, as Editor Scherer says in concluding his Suggestions as to what ought and what ought not article on this Daee. Is an encouraeine observa- M- De eaten. I Tinges Mrrarttta Tl-rfn Irfnar TTn y-t Vnn9 LTlic tiIoU 40 Buwui,ibu uy Wxx, vcxjr yuSaBiuB trutn about temperance. i i w -j i awi ii'j ui it t w rn ur mriii rri -rw-m i i -. -w-v mm r . . nois. Bulletin No. 122 of the Illinois Experiment fallacies about health and medicine and the harm Station, just issued, is devoted to "Horses" of tney do- market classes, and in describing the various The Family Medicine Chest: The remedies I . A. - ., x. ' , , . would have In it and the use I would make or types ana me aemana ior mem maKes ine ioiiow- unem mg interesting commem: An Ounce of Prevention: Some rules for keep "Southern Chunks, or as they are termed in inS health while you have it. some markets 'Southern horses,' or 'Southerns.' Infectious and Contagious Diseases: How far are small horses that are bought by dealers for one may go in safety, and the rules for prevent the Southern markets, many of them eoinsr to ms their spread. Memphis, Tenn.. Jacksonville. Fla.. Atlanta. Ga.J Where Death Lurks: In the water supply, bad Richmond, and Norfolk, and other larce South- drainage, etc. ern towns. Thev ar used hv Smith nbntoro I Babies and Children: Some common mistakes ' mt M - AM&A VV A for tilling their lands and for driving" and riding. The Southern farmer does not cultivate deeply and the soils are light, consequently he does not require very large horses; however, each year the trend of the market is for larger horses for this trade." in their management. Patent Medicines: The great American fraud. WE TAKE NONE BUT RELIABLE ADVERTIS ERS. Messrs. Editors: I wish to order a vehicle from This is one of the signs of the times which in- Tne Spptless Company, Richmond, Va., and wish dlcates that th rAvmnt! in sww oii lu uow " yu inm-K " penectiy sale to sena casa asttvur. Qrder Pleage answer on Gnciosed card. I ture is acquiring some speed. The Southern write you because I saw advertisement in your pa- larmer may not "cultivate deeply," for he is try- per. - A.J.SUTTON. ing to learn shallow cultivationbut he is learn ing to Dlow deeD and to ua mnro fm-m mor.,J Tne fact that Mr. Sutton saw the advertisement I In mil TnY-mm In A4 ..v 11.-1 M 1 f oa ery facts which explain in part, we are sure t 1S uuu6u lum we Biu - ,lt. are Sure, Inhsnlntplv auto tr con! qoi with nrnr Tt is al- . ctlwu :?r lue irena OI in market is . for ways a waste of time to write us to ask if we re- larger horses" instead of "chunks" for the sard a Progressive Farmer advertiser as reliable Southern trade. We reject thousands of dollars worth of business every year that other popular papers take just be- hmugo lira n r i-i at sntr M MMtrTAithv nnn tiii otnve 10 set a gooa stand. All your careful firm can be renresented in our columns if any preparing, and good cultivation, and heavy fer- well-grounded complaint against it has ever been tilizing, and all the sunshine and showers and brougnt our attention. gently distilling dews Cannot mnlro enrn QTirl rt ton erow nn ctaiira . u Mr. Average Farmer, you are paying more mud ton grow on stalks that are not there. Pre- tax. on account of noor ' rnada than the other pare your seed-faeri ho any . I uj . . , . m i w ? 4 Bvu i aAuu v. lua jrwu vumyictiii aj xxiucxi auuui. io' - are pure, sound and strong, and .then plant them over with your neighbors and try to get better the proper distance and denth. In this wav vm, roads along the highway you have to travel regu- will at least hft trvin- tn "" nl De Mo-umia to go wun u wm .w e,W MUici B pail V1inu hnetnoeo If rrlc Affi 1 , . I " s uoi.llo Ih AO IU -SCC Ilia b fcUv
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