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Title Registered in U. S. Patent Office.) A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. Vol. XXIII. No. 11. RALEIGH, N. C, APRIL 23, 1908. Weekly : $1 a Year. WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER. Page. A Log Cabin That Was the Pride of the Neigh- 0 borhood, W. Paddock 9 Asparagus, for' the Home Garden, Mrs. C. S. Everts . . . ... . ... ..... 17 Comment Suggested by Recent Issues. ...... 11 Dairymen Should Lead in the Fight Against . Tuberculosis .............. . . 13 Destroying Garden Pests . . ................ 17 Does Moderate Drinking Hurt You? Dr. H. F. Freeman ............... . .... . . ....... 5' Ginseng and How to Grow It, W. N. Hutt. ... lb Hints on Horseback Riding, Sidney Johnson . . 4 How. to Rid Your Cattle of Lice, A. L. French. 13 How and What to Feed Your Chickens, Un cle Jo ,. 16 How John Cracker Lived .... ............ 12 How to Improve-Your Home Grounds, E. L. i Garner . . . . . . . ..... 2 Fercheron Horses How to Buy Them, W. D. Nun ...... ..... . . . . . ... 3 Use the Harrow and Weeder in Your Young " Com and Cotton, TV B. Parker . . ..... . . 6 Working Your Way Into the Live Stock Busi ness, A. L. French . .... ... ..... . . .... . 12 Tour Health is Your Greatest Wealth . . ... . . 8 IT IS NOT YET TOO LATE. It is too late now to get the general mass of Southern farmers to make the 3 0 per cent cut in cotton acreage which Mr. Harvie Jordan says must be made in order to keep up prices. But it is not too late, Mr. Farmer, for you in dividually to avoid on your farm the excess in acreage against which farmers are warned. It is not too late even now to take some of the land you have bedded and ridged for cotton and put it to corn instead. It will be too late in a few days, but it is not now. too late. And we most sincerely believe that this is the thing to do. Even with last year's cotton acre age it will be very hard to keep prices on the ysunny side of the ten-cent mark. But the natural tendency is to increase acreage. Labor is more plentiful than it has been foi years, , and from many sections we have, the om inous news that more cotton is being planted than heretofore. Yet a cotton manufacturer in whom we have implicit confidence tells us that the trade outlook is the worst he has ever known. Few mills are running on full time, and a general shut down for sixty days is contemplated. "At prices now offered for our class of goods," he says, "we should have to get cotton at seven cents a pound in order to make 10 per cent profit." It is not yet too late,-, we repeat, to take some of your cotton land and put it to corn. Better1 5o it. ,'-vu- ' --X- fc- 'V- " ' M H r h . V !? 'r M :;V (" V t V-' f .- v IF YOU WANT TO If you want to know where, when and how to buy money-making Percheron horses, read Mr. Null's article on page 3. 'If: you want to get some good new ideas about Quaking your home grounds attractive, read Page 2. If yu want to find some good reasons why you should banish whiskey from your drinks, your medicines, and your thoughts, read Dr. Freeman 011 page 5, . If you want to read a good talk on Horseback Riding by a lover of horses and riding, turn to Page 4 and read Mr. Sidney Johnson. V If you want to know how the harrow and Part of a $6,000 Apple Crop Result of Wise Spraying, Your apple trees are blooming now. Wide-awake jarmers are spraying; in other words , 'hey are taking out "crop insurance" for there is no other way to insure a" good crop of good fruit except by spraying. A cost of ten cents a tree will do the work, as Mr. Cdtes recently pointed out. If you have not already done so it is too late now for you to get your outfit and save your fruit crop this year, but we can at least remind you now so that another year you will be tn iime. If you are tired of small yields of scrawny worm-eaten fruit, do as an increasing number of wide-awake farmers are doing every year: Itivest 10 cents a tree in spraying and have fruit like you had "in old times." weeder can help you in the working of your young corn and cotton, read Mr. Parker's article on page 6. If you want to know what your best capital, your greatest wealth, is, turn to page 8. If you want to know why you should have on your farm none but tuberculin-tested cattle, read page 13. If you want to know how to work your way into the sheep business, read Mr. French on page 12. . If you want to learn many other helpful and useful things, read the numerous shorter articles to be found in this, week's paper. NEXT WEEK'S PAPER. There will be a number of features in next week's paper to make it an issue of unusual in terest. "Who Hath Believed Our Report?" is the title of a stirring agricultural sermon by our Professor Massey. An article on the corn contest plans which are doing so much in South Carolina to stimulate the growing of big corn yields will be given by Mr. Jas. A. Hoyt. Continuing his fine live stock articles, Mr. A. L. French will tell how the average farmer can work himself into the hog and cattle business. The fine article of this week on Horseback Rid ing, by Mr. Sidney Johnson, will be followed In next week's paper by one equally as good on Driving. How consumption, one of the worst plagues that afflict the human family, is spread by milk and butter from tuberculous cows and what ought to be done about it, will be discussed in a timely article. What a surpassing glory belongs to the starry heavens these clear evenings! "How to Recog nize the Principal Stars" will be the subject of a fascinating astronomical article in the Home Cir cle by Prof. L. IX Watson of the. Baptist Univer sity for Women, Raleigh. An article on better roads is always timely, so we are glad to say that in next week's paper Professor Massey will write on "Roads and Road Making." And to our North darolina readers, who ar so deeply interested in the issue of prohibition to be voted on May 26th, an article by Editor Foe presenting "The Case for State Prohibition" should have special interest. . n at- i : ah
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