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Vol. XXIIL No. 35.
RALEIGH, H. C, OCTOBER 8, 1908
Vce!dy: $1 a Year.
WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S
PAPER.
Are Your Hills Washing Away?. . . 12
Cotton Housing Problem. . . . .". ........... 6
Formalin Kills Oat Smut, Dr. F. L. Stevens. . 5
Farmers, Use Tour Warehouses, President H.
Q. Alexander . . ... . . : . .... . 4
How to Get Good Crops on Poor Hill Land. . 16
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes on Rfch Land. . 9
How to Make a Good Whitewash. 11
How to Raise Poultry, by Mark Twain. ....... 14
Husbands as Home Helpers, Aunt Mary .... 6
Now is the Time to Build. . . . .-. ........ 3
Rotation of Crops With Tobacco . ..... . 9
Saving the Fruit, W. F. Grabs ............. 15
Select Your Seed Corn Now, Dr. Henry Wal
lace ...... ? . . ... 3
Senator Vest's Tribute to the Dog. 1
Vix..j Maalo nf Ynnr Roil - . 9
Stop Your Gullies With Cattle Instead of
Brush, A. L. French. . . . .'. ... . 10
'?The Farmers' Union Against Night-Riders,
President H. Q. Alexander. . ............ 4
Using 1 x 4 Plank for Tile, M. F. Berry. . .... 3
Ventilation Without Draft. V. . . .v . . ', . v 7
What . Rome and Pompeii Can Teach Us, Clar-
IJ ' Drift- ' .i ' . . . . - . . . . . . . , 2
What to Do With a Horse That Has "Dry
Pants" ......... . . 11
What Breed Shall I Use for Beef and Milk ?. . 11
iin,-, vifiii Waow "Ra This Month?. ... 4
TxriVi nT TJuro P.nrrfflrS. ........... . .. ... 13
V f 1 VIA VUl
THIS WEEK'S PAPER.
If you have not already gone into your corn
fields to get next year's seed ears, there is no
time to lose. You can make $5 a day at this
work maybe much more. On page 3 Dr. Henry
Wallace tells you how. . 1
"H6w to Make Your Under drains at Home"
that is another subject well handled on page 3;
and there is a capital suggestion there, too,
about .taking advantage of present low prices to
build a house. And when you do build, for
Heaven's sake, don't be content with a mere
goods,box effect. Go to an architect, or else or
der some of the cheap architect's plans publish
ed in The Progressive Farmer a year or two ago.
A PRIZE-WINNING ENGLISH TAMWORTH.
Fine type of the bacon breed that is steadily growing more popular. Owned by J. F. Cook & Co.,
- - , . . Lexington, Ky. .
. V ; w in 'th'u ronnectionr let's : have a word " of encouragement and -gladness tbrr these -who r
took" TheTPr6gresive Farmer's advice last spring and arranged for plenty of hog and hominy -this
year which is at the same time, unfortunately, a word of rebuke and sadness for those who
ignored our advice and followed the ways of Mr. All-Cotton. At any, rate, here's the item we re
fer to, just clipped from one of our news exchanges and every Southern farmer ought to read Jt
along with his Bible lesson every night now for at least a week:
"Price of Hogs Up. For the first time in nine years the price of hogs rose even with that of
cattle in the Chicago stockyards last JMonday, the figure being 7 cents, or thereabout. Sacrcity
of live stock and high price of corn is given as the cause of the rise. The price of pork, lard, and
tallow has gone up at the same time." .
"Keep your cotton off the market thirty days."
This is the burden of a very thoughtful article
by President Alexander of the Farmers' Union
on page 4, and no cotton grower can afford'to ig
nore his counsel about the whole situation.
For the housewives there are some excellent
reci 9 Professor Massey
tells your neighbor about a lot of farming prob-
lems that you yourself are also interested in; ana
OD nairo 1 1 itmi wrtll f-n A iamD dips for a number
of horse and cattle troubles. It is worth far
more than our subscription price to be able to
call upon such authorities for help when you
heed it. - . , i .
That's a dandy Idea our Mr. French empha
sizes on page 10 "Stop your gullies with cattle
instead of brush." Read what he says and learn
how to do it.
Gathering apples is timely work now, and a
reading of Mr. Grab's letter (page 14) should
not be postponed.
And then a touch of humor we can't get
along without it, and this time it's on the Poultry
Page. When you finish the day's work, let some
body read Mark Twain's article aloud to the
whole family and you will laugh away the cares
of the hour, and sleep better for it.
NEXT WEEK'S PAPER.
Among the features already in sight for next
week's Progressive Farmer are the following
(1) Some general observations on European
conditions as contrasted with American, as they
appeared to ye Editor on our ' thirteen-day voyage
home. This will probably be the last of the
travel letters.
(2) A review of the cotton situation by Mr.
T. B. Parker who has macle a special study of
present conditions. Cotton growers will find this
article especially worthy of attention.
(3) "How to Succeed With Pecans" will be
treated in our Horticultural Department by Prof.
W. N. Hutt.
(4) "The Live Stock Exhibit at the Virginia
State Fair" will be described for our readers by
Dr. R. S. Curtis wno represents us mere. -
(5) 'An Old Time Corn Shucking" is a vivid
. i ,-
pen-picture of the happy harvest festival of ante
bellum days.
And there will be, of course, other articles of
imely interest that cannot now be announced.
HAVE YOU OATS OR WHEAT FOR SALE?
A hundred farmers who have improved seed
oats or wheat for sale should be advertising now
in The Progressive Farmer. In our Farmers Ex
change an advertisement will cost . only three
cents a word for each insertion, while display ad
vertising will cost only $1.68 per inch per week
a low rate when you consider that The Pro
gressive Farmer now has 24,000 average weekly
circulation, averaging twice as many copies per
week as any other weekly, daily or monthly be
tween Richmond ami Atlanta. Undoubtedly every
man who has improved stock or improved seed
for sale will find that an advertisement tn our
paper carrying the news like a town crier into
S 4,000 prosperous farm homes a week is the
best and cheapest salesman to be had.
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
For work done without conviction, for power
wasted on trivialities, for labor expended with
levity for the purpose of .winning the easy ap
plause of a fashion-driven public, there remains
but one end the oblivion that is preceded by
toleration and cenotaphed with contempt. Rud
yard Kipling in "The Light that Failed."
Not without design does God write the music
of our lives. Be it ours to learn the tune, and
not to be dismayed atrthe rests. They are not to
Wslurfed over, not to be omitted, not to destroy
the melody, not to change the key-note. Ruskin.