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CONSOLIDATED, 1909, WITH "MODERN FARMING." ip A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carol inas, Virginia, Tennessee, and. Georgia. P VeL XXIV. Ho. 21. RALEIGH, N. C, JULY 1, 1909. Weekly: $1 a Larger and Cleaner as a Guide Post to "$500 More a Year Farming." o i- . Courtesy International Harvester Co. DID YOU EVER run a mowing machine in a smooth, level meadow where the Horses could walk steadily from one end of the field to the other and the. mower clicked - merrily as the tall grass fell over in even swaths? There iVno finer work on the farm. Then did you ever try to guide a mowing machine over.a piece of land where stumps and bushes and other obstructions bobbed up every little bit, and you had to keep pulling on the lines and raising the cutter-bar and shifting your course, working hand and leg and eye and mind till the horses were wearied and fretted and you were hot and tired and out of hu mor? Then, perhaps, in spite of all your care, you would run into a stump or a bush and have to stop for repairs, losing time, injuring the machine and raising both -your bodily and mental temperature to the boiling point. There is nothing fine about such work as that It is the same way with any kind of farm tool. There is a vast difference in turning long, even furrows through a well cleared field, and in lifting the plow around or pulling it from against stumps or stones, jerking the team, straining the plow and wearing yourself out at what should be comparatively easy work. It doesn't pay to leave the fields full of obstructions or to have them broken up into little irregular patches. Improved machinery cannot be used to advantage in such .fields; and with nny. sort of implement there is constant loss loss of time from unnecessary turning and stop ping, loss in the greater wear and tear on the implements, loss in the increased strain upon the work stock, loss in the harder labor exacted from the workman, loss in the necessarily poorer work that is done, loss of the satisfaction which comes from good work, and loss of nerve force in the constant effort necessary to keep down bad temper and restrain bad language. Let us get down to businessclean up the fields we expect to tend and put them in shape for the doing of economical and satisfactory work. We can't do it all at once, of course, but V persistent effort we can soon make a wonderful improvement, and the work will repay us ndsomely, both in increased satisfaction while doing our work and in larger returns from it ter it is done. '. '.a!. Index to This Issue. A' Littlej Flock in Town, Mrs. S. Kirkpatrick. . 14 A Chance for the Farmer 'Boy ............. 8 Comments on Recent Features, W. F. Massey 3 (Crimson' Clover 5 Don't Look for a Cheap Bull, J. A. Conover. . 11 Farm and Garden Work for July, W. P. I Massey . . . 3 Prom 15 Bushels, to 62 Bushels per Acre, A. Cannon . . . 2 Flies and How to Get Rid of Them .......... 7 S500 Moire a Year Farming: By Getting Rid of Stumps and Other Obstacles to Economical Cultivation . . 2 Getting Rid. of Stumps by Burning. . ... . 4 How and When I Lay-by "My Corn, A. L. . I French . . ............. . 4 i - j - How the; Newspaper May Help Rural Develop- -h ment . . . 8 Horticultural Questions Answered, W. F. Mas- i i I sey . . . 15 Just a Bit of Eden, Mrs. J. Lindsay Patterson 6 Marketing Wheat ...... . . . 4 classes as Stock Food and Medicine.. 11 flints How to Treat Them. 10 "What's the News?" "i 9
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