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A FARM AND HOME WEEKLY THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, AND GEORGIA.
VoL XXIV. Ho. 14.
RALEIGH, II. C, MAY 13, 1909.
YeeHy: $1 a Year.
Better reed
ing as a
Guide
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to
$500 More
a
Year Farming.
H
ID YOU ever think that there are two classes
of lazy folks those who have lazy .bodies and
those who have lazy minds ? Most farmers con
sider it a disgrace to be thought too indolent to
tend their crops or feed their stock; but is it any
less discreditable to be toolazy mentally to find out
how to do these things in the best and most eco
nomical way ? We have muscles to work with and
we should use them, we also have brains to work
with, and they, too, should be kept at work. We
Southern farmers have worked our legs too much and
our minds too little. We have not balanced our work
any more than we have our rations. The result is
that we have not had the profit from our work that
we should have, had, for head work invariably, pays
better than hand' work, and to get the most from bur
farms,. we must keep ourmjnds active as well as our
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On the next page there is a lesson in more profit
able feeding, the learning of which would mean in-:
creased profits to . every farmer who does not now
know how. It is not a difficult lesson to learn, either.
There is scarcely a reader of this paper who could
hot, if he would just buckle down to three or four hours of , hard study, gain enough knowledge of the composition of feeds and
the needs of his stock to enable him to feed a fairly well balanced and economical ration. Some we believe will do this; others
will not. The one class will put their brains to work and make that .work pay them; the others will let their poor tired brains rem tin
idle' and do extra work with their hands and feet trying to make up for it.
The mature animal at rest Is concerned chiefly with the keeping up of the bodily functions, and re
quires comparatively little protein.. The young animal, however, which must build up bone and blood
and muscle needs liberal supplies of protein. Yet some farmers think a colt can make a good frame on
a ration of corn and fodder or on feeds with a similarly low per cent, of protein. , .
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INDEX TO THIS ISSUE.
A Garden the Year Round, Alex Smith .
Composition and Nutritive Ratio of Various Foods
Farming Is a Business . . ' .' ' . .
Fre I Range Injures the Cattle Industry, Cooper.
Curtice 1 ' . . .;. t. . '
$500 More a Year Farming: How to Make It XIX
How to Protect Chickens from Hawks, Uncle Jo .
How to Make Your Home More Attractive, Wm.
A. Good . . . . , . .
Laminitis, or; "Founder" . . . . . i
North Carolina Apples, W. F. Massey
Notes and Comments, W. F. Massey . Y .
Preparation for Tobacco, W. F. Massey . . .
Some Hints About Plowing and Cultivation, W. F.
' Massey I .. ' . ' . . '. ' . ' '. '
Spurs for Poiiltrymen, J. S. Jeffrey .
Second Application of Fertilizers, R. B. Sullivan .
The Cowpea, E. E. Miller , . . .
The Dangerous Fly . . ... . . .
When Silence Is Unkind . .
"What's the News? " . . . . . .
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