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Jk Title Registered In U. S. Patent Office. LUJN&UL1UA1ED, 09, WITH "M ODERN FARMING. v V A Farm and Home Weekly for the CaroUnas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. P Vol. XXIV. Ho. 28. RALEIGH, II. C, AUGUST 19, 1909. s - 7ccUy: $1 a Ycir. Winter Fruits and Vegetables as a Guide Post to "$500 More a Year Farming." .j -.. . i i is .. . v-.. .- J r '. J - ? ERE IS A GARDENER and some of hia fall crops celery, salsify, onions, and turnips. AH these and many other vegetables he can have all winter lbng The, celery will only need -storingrrand'the others can be left in the garden practically the whole winter, Over iinost of our territory lettuce and radishes may be had all through any ordinary winter by sowing in beds and covering with brush. Canvas is better, of course, and glass still better, but if neither is available, there is still the brush. Besides these hardy outdoor vegetables, most 6 the others can be put up in some form or other for winter use, and any one who has not tried it can have no idea how much they will add to the winter dietary. I As Professor Massey says on page 3, every farmer should have a home canning outfit, and the possibilities of putting up really first-class fruit and vegetable products for the fancy trade have just begun to be appreciated. J We have often advised the planting of fall gardens as well as the planting of a liberal: supply of small and orchard fruits as easily avgilable and remarkably effective means of increasing both the financial returns and the satisfaction to be derived from the farm. Let us once more urge every reader to put up for winter use all his surplus fruits and vegetables, to keep his garden going, and to set out if he has not already an abundant supply more berries and grapes, more fruit and nut trees. ' A liberal supply of fruit and veg etables in the winter is pretty good evidence of progressive farming; and it is so easy to have them that every farmer should be astamed to be without - - VI , - f f- fy This Week and Next. HE QUESTION OF feeding Is always one of importance whether it relates to the feed ing of the family, the live stock or the soilr and this week we treat all these phases of the suh ject. Our "$500 More a year", article is primarily concerned with a better dietary for the farmer iind his family in; the winter months; and on page H tliere are other suggestions along the same line. On page 11 the feeding of cottonseed meal to hogs and to horses is treated in an authorita tive manner and the conclusions there given can sa'i ly be taken as embodying the results of the fafost investigations along this line. On page 2 I.'iofessor Massey quotes with approval what Mr. Hoi)inson says about the value of silage: "If I had to give up the silo, I'd give up stock raising." -Wfor feeding the laud, the discussion on page !0 of when to haul out the manure is worth every farmer attention, as is also the article on 0( ulation on page 2. Oi her features of more than passing interest ar the editorial on saving the corn crop, the ac count of the recent Hillsboro, and the" Experiment Station Farmers' Alliance meeting at llustrations of the Tennessee hay-curing frame. Next week in our "$500 More a Year" series Dr. Butler will write on winter cover crops, a subject of vital importance to every man who owns an acre of land ; Mr. Jno. W. Robinson will tell of his experience in dairying; Professor Mas sey will discuss the selection of seed corn for next year's crop ; the poultry page will have the first of a little series of articles on preparing birds for exhibition! We shall try to find space for some practical talk on getting ready for the fall oat crop, as well as for a number of short letters direct from the farm. On the Home Circle i - pages Mrs. Stevens' ! charming letter this week will J be followed by one from Mrs. Patterson in her happiest style and it Is unnecessary to say more about it. ;The farmer who doesn't sow clover this fall is going to be badly out of fashion, and the same thing Is true of the man who doesn't select seed corn and seed cotton in the field. Better get. ready for both. . INDEX TO THIS ISSUE. A Hay-Curing Frame for 15 Cents, - -Cottonseed Meal for Horses, - - - -Feeding Cottonseed Meal to Hogs, - -$500 More a Year Farming: By Keeping Vegetables and Fruits for Winter, -Growing Cabbage Plants, W. F. Massey, How to Start the Flock, Cal Husselman, -Harvesting the Com Crop, - - - -Home-Made Hay Caps, A. M. Worden, -Inoculation and the Nitrogen Supply, W. F. Massey, - r ------ North Carolina State Farmers Allianee, -Naples the Bsautiful, Mrs. F. L. Stevens, . Notes and Comments, W. F. Massey, -Starting the Day Right, Mrs. C S. Everts, The Virginia State Farmers Institute, The Old-Time Garden, Thomas H. Daniel, What a Good Road is Worth, W.F. Massey, H What's the News ? " - - - - When to Haul Out Manure, - - . Why We N ed More Stock, W. F. Massey, Hi a : i'l ! 1 t Hi v. i 1 ' ' . 4 11 11 3 15 14 8 5 2 12 6 2 7 9 15 2 9 10 2 it :! n: t 'f f ...5
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