Thursday, July 23, 1908.
THE PROGRESSIVE , FARMER.
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Attend Your Farmers' Institute.
' Institute time is at hand. Farmers of North Carolina, if you are
not perfect in your farming these institutes spell opportunity for you
in big letters. Opportunity has taken a long journey in order to come
near you and stand by your door for a whole day. Go out and see and
hear; ask questions and learn. Your children go to school; in these In
stitues the school comes to you. The distilled essence of the b est farm
ing knowledge that the colleges and experiment stations and the best
practical farmers have discovered is brought to your very doors by the
lecturers who come, to speak at your institutes.
If you are not perfect in your farming, go hear them; if you think
you have graduated in farming, go to your Institute and take a post
graduate course. Young farmer, old farmer, big farmer, and small
farmer, attend your Institute.
There is no more hopeful sign of the State's geneuine progress in the
business of farming than the increased attendance at the Institutes.
Five years ago the average attendance was 50; last year it was 150.
Farmers, readers of The Progressive Farmer, make the average attend
ance 300 or 500 this year! Go and carry your neighbor who has not
been in the habit of going. It would mean millions for the State in
improved farms and farming. Yes, crowd the Institutes. Show to the
world that you intend to do yoiir part in learning how to make farming
profitable and in, raising the standard of Southern farm life until it is
the best in the world. In this" issue you will read about a model farm
for every county. The idea is coming. You have been hearing and
thinking about agricultural instruction in your rural high schools. That,
too, is coming. But men, mark this : they are coming first to those
who want them most, and you will show your interest in agricultural
progress and register your desire for these agricultural schools and
model farms by the large or small attendance you give to the Insti
tutes. Go in larger numbers than you have ever gone before. There
is no other way in which you and your neighbors can make so much
money in a single day as by going out and learning better methods to
farm by next year.
Southern Farms, and the Reasons for
Their Differences Prof. W. F. Mas
sey, with the First Party to July 3rd,
then with the Fifth Party.
We failed to get the subjects of
Dr. C..B." Williams, who will i)e with
the Fifth Party until August 1st.
Farmers Ixiotitutes for the Week,
Keep Up With the Dates and Places and Make Your Plans to Attend
Don't Forget the Women's Intitutes for the Wives and: Daughters.
The dates and places for holding
Institutes have already been publish
ed, but those for the week are given
again, black type indicating that
there will be Institutes for women
as well as foremen at those places:
FIRST PARTY,
(in charge of Dr. Tait Butler.
TT-i oi-o fxHll Viq o ononl n 1 a err! pnl tn ml
train at these places, and Prof. W.
F. Massey wiU be among the speak
ers.) Wednesday 2 2 Iiowell. -Thursday,
23 Pineville.
Friday, 24 Newell.
Saturday, 2 5 Thomasville, '
Monday, 2 7 Jamestown. '
Tuesday, 28 Pelham.
Wednesday, 2 9 Reidsville.
Thursday, 30- Brown Summit.
Friday, 31 Kernersville.
SECOND PARTY.
Wednesday, 22 Oxford.
Thursday, 23 Roxboro.
Friday, 2 4 Leasburg.
Saturday, 25 Yanceyville.
Monday, 27 New Bethel Acade
my, Rockingham County.
Tuesday, 28 Stoneville.
Wednesday, 29 Sandy Ridge.
Thursday, 30 Locust Hill Farm,
near Walnut Cove.
Friday, 3 1 Mount Airy.
Wednesday, 29 Ellerbe Springs,
Richmond County.
Thursday, 30 Waxhaw.
Friday, 31 Dixie. -
FIFTH PARTY.
Thursday, 2 3 Supply.
Saturday, 25 Whiteville.
Monday, 27--White Oak.
Wednesday, 29 Rowland.
Thursday, 30 Rockingham.
Friday, 3 1 Unionville.
THRD PARTY.
Thursday, 23 Snow Hill.
Friday, 24 Wilson.
Saturday, 2 5 Nashville.
Monday, 27 Woodland.
Tuesday, 28 Scotland Neck.
Wednesday, 29 State Test Farm,
Edgecombe County. -
Thursday, 30 Pinkney.
Friday, 31 Casey's Chapel Wayne
County.
FOURTH P.ARTY.
Wednesday, 22 Chadbourn.
Thursday, 23 Clarkton.
Friday 24 bethel.
Saturday, 2 5 Polkton.
Monday, 27 Carthage.
Tuesday, 28 Raeford.
Subjects for Discussion.
Here are some of them. But they
are your Institutes and you can have
such subjects discussed as you are
most interested in. Think and talk
over in advance the subjects you
want to hear and the questions you
want to ask.
A number of subjects are given in
the Home Circle this week. Others
are
Care and Feeding of Work Stock;
Harvesting the Corn Crop Dr. Tait
Butler, with the First Party.
Preparation of the Land; Commer
cial Fertilizers; Legumes; Farm Ma
chinery T. B. Parker, with the
Third Party.
Insect Pests and Measures for
Their Control; How to Improve the
Farm Home Franklin Sherman,
Jr., with the Second Party.
Increasing Crop Production; Win
ter Farm Crops; Winter Gardening;
Hog Crops; Hog 'and Forage; Pre
venting Surface Washing; Corn
Breeding; Cotton Breeding; Fertil
izers prof. C. L. Newman, Second
Party.
Plant Diseases and. Spraying; Ag
ricultural Education, at night with
lantern views Dr. F. L. Stevens,
with the Fourth Party.
The Losses to Gardeners and Far
mers From Poor Seed; The Educa
tion Needed To-day; The Use and
Misuse of Legume Crops; Planting,
Pruning and Cultivation of Fruit
Trees; How the Plants That Make
Our Crops Grow, and Feed; Two
Oregon Vetch- What a Louisiana
Planter Thinks of It.
"Messrs. Editors: I am'a merchant-
planter and have been postmaster
here, for twenty-five years; have
thousands of acres of land, so have
no axe to grind, but write this arti
cle for the good it will do.
The boll weevil and low-class labor
at a high price got me to raising
things at home, and experimenting
with things to improve the worn-out
cotton farms and for something of
meHt for a winter pasture. For two
years I have planted the Oregon
Winter vetch, in my mind the great
est plant ever introduced here. There
are , about forty kinds of vetch, all
imported, but easily grown in this
country, as it is a winter "pea and
perfectly hardy anywhere; but there
is one variety that excels all others,
and that is the kind s known as Ore
gon Winter, but since it has become
so popular, many of the firms sell
ing the old kinds have named theirs
Oregon, and I wish to tell the differ
ence. Hairy or sand vetch and sev
eral of the old varieties are good,
but the pods are short and the yield
of green or dry feed is nothing like
the Oregon.
I planted the Oregon on land that
had been in cultivation for seventy
years; some" of it covered wtih the
worst kind , of Bermuda sod. The
vetch planted in the late summer
grew fine ail fall, winter, and spring,
and when the other feed was avail
able in the spring, the stock were
taken off "the vetch and in plenty
time to plant the corn, cotton, or
any ordinary crop. The finest and
best hay ever fed was mowed, and
the yield was simply immense, and
enough seed popped out when the
hay was curing to re-seed the land,
and the following fall it again ger
minated, and the grandest sight ever
seen in this section was in April,
when the vetch was Several feet deep
all over the land, and when cut made
more hay to the acre than anything
I ever saw.
Oregon Winter vetch is the best
of the legumes, and stores more of
the free nitrogen than anything in
the order of cowpeas, clovers, etc.
It is very inexpensive. It makes a
fine winter pasture for all kinds of
stock. It will improve the soil, make
winter pasture, and the best known
early hay, and still leave the land
ready for ordinary crops, and seed
popped out to come up In the fall,
when nothing else will grow.
JOHN T. PRUDE.
De Soto Co., La.
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