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& A FARM AND HOME WEEKLY FOR THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, AND GEORGIA.
Vol. XXIII. No. 45.
RALEIGH, N. C, DECEMBER 17, 1908.
Weekly: $1 a Year
Index to This Week's Issue.
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A Cheap Corn Crop, G. L. Allen,
A Prize Corn Crop, O. P. Hill . . .
Corn for 20 Cents a Bushel, J.
E. Gilbert ... ..... . . . . . ... .
Edison's Clean Greatness . . . . . .
Five Hundred Dollars More a
Year, Clarence H. Poe. . . ... .
Have a Competent Horse-Shoer,
Jno. D. Fitzgerald . . . . .... . .
How to Handle Black Swamp
Land, W. F. Massey . . . . . . . . . 5
Miracles Worked ' in Georgia, E.
Gentry ................... 2
Maintain New Ground Condi
tions, W. F. Massey. . . ...... 5
North Carolina Demonstration
Work, C. R. Hudson . . . . . . . . .
Ohio Lettuce Growers, W. F.
Massey ............ . . . . . .
Our "Best Crop" Reports, W. F.
Massey .......... . . . . . . . . . 9
Raise Your Own Meat, W. F.
Massey . . . . . .......... . ; . . . 9
Some Christmas Fruit Cakes,
Aunt Mary . . 3
Some Christmas Recipes . 7
Socije Features of Last Issue, -W.
F. Massey ........... .W. ; 9
Sow Rye and Protect. Your Land, 12
State Co-operation Vlth Dr. '
Knapp, T. B. Parker . . . . . . . . 2
To Get Winter Eggs . . . .. . . . . . 14
Two Good Sweet Potato Crops,
D. Lane and J. M. Hayes . .... 3
What South Carolina Has Done,
Geo. W. Williams . . ....... . 2
What a Telephone Xine Costs, J.
With Our Rural Letter Carriers . .
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This picture, re
produced by cour
tesy of Modern
Farming, sho w s
the winning herd
of Guernseys at the
Virginia State Fair.
Guernseys are first
cousins to the Jer
seys, having been
bred on a neighbor
ing island with the
same skill and care
as t h e i r better
k h own relatives.
They are just a lit
tle larger than the
Jerseys, and - their
admirers claim a
little bit hardier,
though the Jersey
breeders do not
admit th is . At
any rate they are
dairy, cattle of the
finest tvoef
Note the fine heads, the deep, wide bodies and the typical dairy conformation of the cows, and ;
see how the bull, despite his. splendid masculinity, shows up the same characteristics of the dairy
bred animal. Anyone might be proud to own or to have bred such' animals as this and they are
not only beautiful but profitable; "
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This Week Features.
HE remarkable results of the co-operative
demonstration work of the United States
Department of Agriculture are strikingly
set forth in our second page symposium. Perhaps
no other line of effort holds so much, promise for
the future agriculture of the South. Such reports
as that of Mr. Gentry, that the increased earnings
of the demonstration acres has enabled the farm
ers to add new barns, painted houses, improved
tools, better stock, more convenient' kitchen ar
rangements, and to educate their children; as
that of Mr. Hudson, that tells of corn crops mak
ing 43 to 93 bushels to the acre; as that of Mr.
Williams, that ten times as many farmers are se
lecting good seed, making fall preparation of the
soil and sowing cover crops as before; as that of
Mr. Dofin, that crops in some cases have been in
creased 300 per cent such reports cannot but
fire us all with higher purposes and gladden us
with new zeal for greater things.
Our good crops reports continue, and grow
more interesting, it seems to us, as tkey go on.
Professor Massey's account of the greenhouse in
dustry in Ohio is, at once an indictment of, and a
promise to, the gardeners of the South. Mr.
Green!s second telephone article shows just how
cheaply a telephone system can be built, and
should induce many to take advantage of the op
portunities the 'phone offers for enjoyment and
profit.
The speech of our 'Editor-in-Chief on "$500
More a Year for Each Southern Farmer" is an in
spiring message on a subject of vital importance.
Think what 500 more a year would mean to
you personally what $500 a year more from the
average farm would mean to your community,
what it would mean to the South. And then think
that it can be had. The only reason that the av
erage South Atlantic States farm does not now
produce the extra $500 a year the North Atlantic
farmer gets is that it is improperly handled. This
may not be a pleasant thing to hear it certainly
is not pleasant to say but it is the truth. Why
not get this $500 next year ? The special mission
of all our Progressive Farmer staff is to help
Southern farmers do this. If the Yankee farmers
can make $984 a year on a 96-acre average farm,
we are going .to show them that we can make at
least $984 on a 108-acre average farm.
Next Week's Menu.
OTHING in next week's Progressive Farmer
our Christmas issue though it will be
, and throbbing rwith the joyous Christmas
spirit nothing else in this issue, we say, will be
of half so much interest to our great Progressive
Farmer Family as the announcements we shall
make concerning our new staff, our new features,
and our new plans for making The Progressive
Farmer in 1909 the very greatest agricultural pa
per ever printed in the Southern States. If you
think, now that this statement is made in the. fire
of excessive enthusiasm, you will not think so af
ter you read our next week's announcements. We
have the greatest team that ever set itself to
serve the Southrn farmer in this way, and if our
25,000 subscribers now in the Family will only do
their part we shall have at least 25,000 more
farmers in the fold . before another Christmas
tide. Look out for our announcements next week.
Then, too, we shall publish in this issue the sec
ond installment of Editor Poe's speech; our "best
crop" reports will be continued, with more illumi
nating comments by Professor Massey; Mr. French
will write on "Profitable Jobs for Idle Days In
Winter"; there will be some good advice about
setting the Incubators and enough general Christ
mas articles ; to give something of the holiday
charm to the entire contents of the issue.
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A Thought for the Week.
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HERE is a time in every man's education
when he arrives at tne conviction that
envy is ignorance; that imitation is sui
cide ;" that he must take himself for better or for
worse as his portion; that though the wide unf
verse is full of good, no kernel of nourishing con
can come to him but through hte toil bestowed
on that plot of ground which is given to him to
till. Ralph Waldo Emerson. "
Since work gives forgetfulness of self, it can
be, and Is, an antidote to pain of heart. The very
routine and drudgery of daily work have often
saved a life from despair. Adherence to duty Is a(
way to attain some measure of peace. Hug
juiacK. . .