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A FARM AND HOME WEEKLY FOR THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, AND GEORGIA.
Vol XXIII. No. 47.
RALEIGH, H. C, JANUARY 7, 1909.
Weekly : $1 a Yea ..
Index to This Week's Issue.
Demonstration Work in. Virginia, T. O. Sandy.
Drain Now . ........ .... ... .... . . . .
$500 More a Year Farming: How to Get It.
Farm Work for January, W. F. Massey.
How to Handle an Incubator, Mrs. J. C. Deaton 15
Ideais for the New Year. . . . . . . . . . .v. .......
January Trucking Notes, W. P. Massey. . : . . .
Keep Accounts 'in' 1909, A. L. Paschall , : . . .
Live Stock Diseases: Their Nature, Prevention
and Treatment No. 1. . . ..... ........ . . .
Notes on Our Last Issue, W. F. Massey . . . . . .
Our $500 More a Year Club. ... . . . .......
Shelter the Machinery, H. M. Bainer. .... .
Some Good New Year's Resolutions. . . . . . ....
The Highest Price for Eggs. . . . . . .... . . . .
The Two Essentials, R. B. Sullivan . . . . . ... .
To Our Housekeepers and Home-Makers, . Mrs.
w. N. Hutta: . : ....... . . ...... ...... . .
$25 Worth of Fertilizer Per Acre Free, W. F.
Massey . . . . .
Virginia's Great Agricultural Growth, G. W.
Koiner ... ....... ... . ... ... . . . ... .
We Guarantee Our Advertisers. .
What the Piedmont Country May Be, A. L.
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What's the Matter With North Carolina Far- r
ming? W. A. Withers ...... . . . ..... 5.13
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Read Page 2.
Wliatever else you may read or may not
read in this week's paper, you cannot afford
to miss a line of the official census showing
as to WHY WE ARE MAILING , $500 LESS
THAN THE AVERAGE NORTHERN FARM
ER AND THE WAY OUT as given pn page
2. Read it, and get your neighbors to read.
It. .'.',- .
IOWA, INDIANA AND ILLINOIS SHOW US THE WAY OUT
our
OT to discourage
our people by
showing how far
farming is behind
other sections, but to en
courage them by show
ing just why it is behind
and the way out this is
our object - in printing
herewith this notable
cartoon showing the
average annual income
of each farm worker in
Mississippi, Alabama
and Louisiana, as com
pared with IoWa, Indi
ana and Illinois, and in
North Carolina, South
Carolina and Virginia,
as compared with Mas
sachusetts, New York
and Pennsylvania and
this is also the object of
our more extended re
view of-this whole situ
ation oh page 2. It is a
hard and ugly' fact, for
example, that each farm
worker in North Caroli
na, South Carolina and
Virginia in 1 900 earned
MASSACHUSETTS
HEW YORK;
VIRGINIA
NORTH CAROLINA
PENNSYLVANIA SOUTH CAROLINA
IOWA
INDIANA
ILLINOIS
ALABAMA
LOUISIANA
MISSISSIPPI
AVERAGE ANNUAL
INCOME PER .
FARMWORKER
AVERAGE NUMBER
ACRES CULTIVATED
PER FARM WORKER
AVERAGE VALUE
FARM IMPLEMENTS
PER FARM WORKER
AVERAGE NUMBER
0FHQRSESMULES
PER FARM WORKER
AVERAGE NUMBER
MILK COWS
PER FARM WORKER 1
AVERAGE AMOUNT
RECEIVED FROM SALE
OF LIVESTOCK FOR
FARM WORKER
$150:
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1.38 f
341 .
$22.
.77
.56
2.56
$68.
$23.
.59
c
$13.
only $184 as compared with $663 for each farm worker in Iowa, Indiana and Illinois, but there
IS great nope anu, promise IOr US in iiuuuik mc icasuu wi.jr ucutusc nc uscu uuiic iuau wua
times as much horse 1 power, and exactly five times as much farm implements and ma
chinery as we did, and thereby cultivated nearly three times as many acres, and did it
better, and also because he made these acres richer, and doubled the profits on his raw mate
rial by feeding nine times as much stock and five times as many dairy cows as we did.
0) More implements and machinery; and (2) more horse power to run, them; and (3)
thereby more acres cultivated and better cultivated ; (4) more dairy cows and live stock of
all kinds to enrich the land and give two profits instead of one on our raw material these are
the four wheels on which you; can move your farm on to "$500 More a Year, and nothing
else will take you there.; i . .- V- ; ':'. ' ' 1
TEN WEEKS FOR 10 GENTS TO TRIAL SUBSCRIBERS!
P. o..
State.
Date.
1909.
Dear Friend: If this copy of The Progressive Farmer coneo to you marked ' Sample
Copy1 1 it is because you are NOT a subscriber but OUGHT TO BE. And we are readyfto
guarantee that two series of j articles alone will be worth to you ten titfes our 1909 bub
soription price. '$600 More a Year for the Average Southern Farmer and How to Get It, 11
is undoubtedly coing to prove the most notable series of articles ever printed in a
Southern farm paper, while r 'Live Stock Diseases and How
to Treat Then' ' will be hardly less useful to you, and
the ' Practical Talks on Everyday Hous ekeeping ' will in
terest every woman in the South
Artd to . g et you int ere s ted in these arti c 1 e s we have
now decided to offer you
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. ON TRIAL TEN WEEKS FOR, TEN CENTS !
WE NEE 0 NOT ARGUE THIS OFFER--10? IS jHALFPRICE--LESS
THAN COST. So Just f il out this blank, mail to us with ten
cents (at our risk) and join us in the great movement for i
"$500 More a Year Farming. '- Don1 1 delay, but; write to
day. Awaiting your reply, r i
1 Yours sincerely; f -
; the progressive Farmer. ;.
Publishers The Progressive Farmer, a ; I
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, Enclosed herewith find 10 cents (stamps or sil
ver) for which send me your paper ten weeks on
trial, beginning with the first issue containing the
series "$500 More a Year Farming and How to Get
It,", and "JAvt Stock Diseases and How to Treat
Them." Stop when time is out.
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