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- . t LOOK rOR OUR ANNOUNCEMENTS ON page e. ; Title Registered in U. S. Patent omce.j ? A FARM AND HOME WEEKLY FOR THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, AND GEORGIA. Vol. XXIII. No. 46. RALEIGH, N. C, DECEMBER 24, 1908. Weekly : $1 a Year. I A Merry Christmas Party With The Progressive Farmer Family ! The Whole Family Joins in a Happy Christmas Celebration, Editor Poe Introduces Some New Members of the Staff, and " 50,000 Subscribers in 1909 " is the Watchword Given as the Party Breaks Up. rf? ELL, well, well! Now see who are here this ij fine crisp Christmas morning! ij Why, it's our whole great Pronessive Fanner Family, old men, young men, old ladies, young ladies, boys and girls, and the little tiny tots, all together mor6 than a hundred thousand strong; and they have come, some from beautiful mountain homes, and some from homes in the hills, and some from homes in our broad .and fer tile coast section, and some from within sight of the great Atlantic itself thousands of them from y . ability, splendid character, a vigorous, forceful writer, and best of all, a man whose whole heart and soul is in the work of helping the Southern farmer. A man of character, he commands con fidence: he is as straight as a shingle in every way. A man of force, he brings things to pass: "he can do anything he tries to do," is what those who know him best say about him. In every de partment of activity he has entered, his ability has quickly won him recognition as a leader: arid the fact that he was President of the combined Amer ican and Canadian Association of Farmers' Insti tute Workers, when it met in Washington City last month, is only one illustration of how his thorough-going industry, his. confidence-commanding character, his well-balanced judgment and his attractive personality, win friends for him wher ever he goes. Yes, I am glad to have you meet Dr. Butler. No DR. TAIT BUTLER Our New Associate Editor and Manager. old Virginia, most of them from North Carolina and South Carolina, and many others from Ten nessee, and Georgia, and more distant States! What a great, great holiday party we shall have and a merry, merry Christmas to you all! And , you -are 'welcome, heartily welcome, the last one of you, this Christmas day; for we have recently ridded a number of new men to our Progressive . Farmer staff and it will do you good to know all of them. Come right in therefore; file right into the great hall with the big, open, crackling wood fire and the shadpws dancing and scampering over the holly and pine and cedar with which the great room is decorated. (And don't worry me now, Mr. Critic, about the difficulty of getting 100,000 people into one great iiall. In a story like, this, it is just as easy to get a hundred thousand in as hundred.) ' & - - Ladies and Gentlemen Dr. Tait Butler, Our New Editor. N1) first of all now, I want you to meet Dr. Tait Butler. Henceforth he is to be the joint editor of The Progressive Farmer with me; arid I could not possibly bring any better news to you than this announcement that he is going to give his whole time and energy, from, now on, to mak ing The Progressive Farmer the greatest farm pa per ever printed in the Southern States. You will like Dr. Butler. He is a man of rare : ? '..vkw'i w Affile P V I a fi aged under his direction," and that every business matter you entrust to him will be handled with, promptness and accuracy and thorough-going common-sense. And now let me introduce Mr. E. E. Miller, our new Managing Editor. You doubtless know Mr. Miller by his writings; he has favored us with an occasional article for several years past, and he is known all over the country as a contributor to the leading farm papers of America. A farmer himself, having managed large plantations in Ten- MR. JOHN S. PEARSON Secretary- Treasurer of The Progressive Fa ' wer. other farm paper in the Southern States has an editor who takes such high rank in the agricul tural world, an ! there is no doubt but that he will speedily win recognition as one of the ablest writ ers who has ever given his life to helping our Southern farmers. Introducing Mr. Pearson and Mr. Miller. ERE is another man, too, you must not fail to meet Mr. John S. Pearson, the new Secretarv-Treasurer of our Company, and as splendid a fellow as you will ever find. Reared on a Harnett County farm, he, too, knows the farm er's life and needs from practical experience in doing every kind of farm work, and he enters fully into the spirit and aims of The Progressive Farm er. You will like him, too, because everybody else does. Modesty, unselfishness, thoroughness, common-sense these are John Pearson's distinguish ing qualities, and he is strong in every one of thpm You mav rest assured that the business end of The Progressive Farmer will be admirably man- f t -j "z - I .... . A ' . I - -?') S. ' ' tig MR. E. E. MILLER Who succeeds Mr. Marshall as Managing Editor. nessee, he not only has this practical knowledge of farming, but he has given years of study to the xientific side as well, both as a student of farm books and papers while doing actual farming, and as a student at the Agricultural College of Ten nessee. Mr. Miller is one' of the most wholesome, genial, ' efficient, and likable men we have ever had on The Progressive Farmer; and he has al ready made a place for himself as an indispensable part of the staff. Shake hands with him, all of you, for he is doing noteworthy work for the steady improvement of your paper; Enter Professor Massey and Mrs. Hutt. JIOME right in, Professor Prof. W. F. Mas sey it is, friends. He i not a new member of the staff, of course; for more than a year he has been our Associate Editor, and his friends who know him best do say that he is now doing for us the very best work of his singularly rich and useful life. I see that I do not need to introduce him, for you all know him; but the fact that this grand old man of Southern agricultural progress, is also to give his time and thought and energy to The Progressive Farmer during the coming twelve months this is indeed a fortunate thing for you, and I am not surprised at the ap plause with which you have greeted him. But now come, all of you: file right into the dining-room, with its tantalizing fragrance of a -4 J ff
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