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GOOD HO ADC GPEGIAL. !A . . IS1 rk 1M 1MI IsS IRLd Vol. XXIII. iNo. 29 Title Registered in U.r S. Patent Office.; RALEIGH, N. C, AUGUST 27, 1908. WeeUy: $1 a Year. i . Mill - II r - .... . j , ; i I. - T - ijjn- . - ".., ill . i . . ' - vV:?r v - VfSv ?r- r : z , - . V' rS - :Tt y -, - - - - , ; y.zx l-ruvlv - v r- r-Xr-.j. . --'- iv---' -..- , w-mkF mz;A' :mm Si" am From S. C. HaDdbook. ROAD IN MECKLENBURG COyNTY, N. C., WHERE TWO BALES OF COTTON USED, TO BE A LOAD FOR TWO MULES. Freight Rates Should be Reduced on the Country Roads. The transportation problem for the Southern farmer is not solved by the opening of new lines of railway in his territory. It will not be solved by deepening rivers and harbors, nor by inland water ways, nor by the Panama Ganal. Nor will it be solved by the establishment of lower freight and passenger rates on our great railway lines. Helpful as all these things are or will be to the South ern farmer, they serve only to accentuate his real problem by laying an incalculable increase of traffic upon his own already over-burdened lines of transportation, namely : the country roads. These are the farmer's own lines and it is upon these that he needs a reduction of freight and passenger rates. If the amount of freight hauled every year by steamship and rail way were computed and stated in pounds, the total would stagger our powers of belief. Yet of this vast tonnage, it is estimated that 90 per cent must be carried by wagons over a highway. To carry a ton one mile by sea costs one-tenth of a cent; by railroad one cent. A ton may be hauled over good roads Jor seven cents a mile; over ordinary country roads 25 cents a mile. Mud tax and hill-climbing tolls, therefore, amount to 18 cents a mile. It is appalling to contem plate ! Progressive Farmer readers, don't pay it ! Demand a reduc tion of freight and passenger rates on your own lines. Grade, drag, drain, macadamize abolish the mud tax and reduce your freight It is a business proposition. Can you think of one that is more important to y ou? An improved system of country roads means mil lions saved annually to Southern agriculture. Good Roads Mean Good Farms and Good Towns. With her magnificent roads, there is no trouble for the farmers of Mecklenburg to get out at the Institutes, and the fact, that they turned out by the thousands at the five Institutes held in that county shows how the spirit of improvement is abroad. And their crops this year show the ef fects of past reading, hearing, and study, for in n part of the State did I find finer crops and cot ton. More than this, we found a warm-hearted, generous people. A county where the people have maie a net work of fine macadamized roads all ver the county and are still making more, will never lag behind in farming, and there is a won erful future for Mecklenburg with her fertile ls aad whole-souled farmers. Sharing in the advance, and largely by reason the proved condition of the farmers the towns and cities of North Carolina have gone ahead more remarkably. Towns like High Point and Kinston that were villages jvhen I went to North Carolina nineteen years ago, are cities with finely paved and wide streets. North Carolina is no longer a country between two. States, but is leading the whole South in manufacturing and will soon be in the advance in agriculture. WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER. Farm and Garden Work for September ...... 9 Feeds That Are Good for Chickens, Uncle Jo. . 14 Fertilizer Tax for Roads, J. L. Reynolds. ... 12 Four Thousand Dollars Worth of Crops. From ; One Acre 15 Grade Your Roads for Your Horses' Sake. ... 10 How to Make and Use the King Drag. . . . . . . . 4 How to Start With Poultry 14 Pickles and Citron ...... 7 Reduce Freights on .the Country Roads. ..... 1 Sankey and His Songs ............... . . . . 6 To Advance Road-Building in the State, Hon. Clem. G. Wright . ... .... ........ ...... 3 The Farmers' Biggest Handicap, J. S. Kuy- kendall ............. . . ......... .... . . 12 The King Drag Kept the Road Good, J. M. Allred . . . . ...... ... . . . . . . . . ; ... ..... 16 The Pleasant Land of France, Clarence H. Poe 2 The Terrible Toll Levied by Hills, T. C. Smith 3 Three Tasks for. Every Farm Community. . . . 8 To Control the Peach Borer . . . ....... . . . ..15 Trees by the Roadside. . . . . .... . . ....... . . 6 Two Vital Needs in North Carolina Farming, A. L. French .......... ... . . . ...... . . . 10 Using Hogs as Harvest Hands . .... . . . . . 11 Where Rural Highways Compete With the Railroads .. . . , . . . .............. ... .... 2 Will the Cattle Gain as Indicated by Mr. French? W. C. Hoover . . . . . . . . . ........ 11 With Our Rural Carriers ... . . .... 13 You Pay for Good Roads, Why Not Have Them? F. A. Marsh. . 5
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