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Thursday, September 30, i0J .14 THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. VI -A $500 More a Year Fanning, (Continued from Pago 5.) new mattress. It will be more sani tary more healthful - and more comfortable. Open up the sleeping .rooms bo that light, sunshine and fresh air may freely enter at all times. These are our best disin fectants. Sunshine and night air are not harmful but their absence is. Pure water is a necessity and wa ter In abundance is of untold value in any home. Do not stop planning and improving until a bath tub and water works are obtained. They cost considerable but sufficient desire will bring them and when once obtained they would not be g!ven up for five times their cost. If they are now be yond your reach, they . need not be so for very long. The effort and the cost to obtain them is not so great as anticipated, and the benflts are far beyond your present conception. Don't Neglect the Yard and Home Grounds. r ALL MEANS have a grass covejed yard about the house and kep it neat and clean. Flowers are useful in character build ing in the home, but do not make the front yard a neglected flower garden. Bank or set the flowers together near the house, or against the fence or grow them in a separate plot outside the front yard. The proper growth for the front yard are grass and trees, and not too many of the latter, which should be planted some dis tance from the house. It is -beyond .the understanding of the writer why so many, especially in the rural sections of the South, possess such a mortal fear and bitter hatred of grass. If it by chance attempts to grow near the house, it is at once attacked, dug up, extermi nated, and a bare yard of sand or clay left, to be swept when conven ient a barren, desolate ugly sight, where nature would put a beautiful green sward, if permitted to do so. The grass can be cut with less labor than the bare earth can be kept cleanly swept. We hope no country doctor is responsible for the ridic ulous and false idea that the grass is unhealthful. Grass is nature's protec tion for the bare, ugly soil and a yard covered with growing grass that is regularly cut is a better con dition from the standpoint of beauty or health. Of course, the grass should be kept cut short, but as stated this can be done with less labor than the bare clay or sand can be kept clean. It is also a mistaken idea that mosquitoes and flies breed in tall grass. Mosquitoes breed only in stagnant water and house flies in horse stable manure. Remove these and do away with both, but by all means let the grass grow over the front yard and add at least one touch of Nature's beauty to the place. When boys and girls go away from home and find other homes more beautiful and attractive than their own, there will be less desire to return. To prevent the boys and girls leaving the farms we must re move the causes. Moreover, there will be more inspiration to work and more zest, life, and energy put into work wherever proper home conven iences are provided, and thus these things will not only add color and beauty to our lives, but will also help us toward the "$500 More a Year." But the greatest gain is in more com forts and richer lives. The Sort of Farm Homes We are Trying to Bring About. GREAT DEAL has been said of late about the hard lot of the farmer's wife. For our part, we believe that it is very much ! better in all cases to point out and emphasize the good rather than to dwell upon the bad, and we should rather have stories of contented wives who have the conveniences they need, or who realize that they are getting them as fast as their hus bands' means will permit, ; than stories emphasizing the darker side of the problem. In every case certainly the farmer should get improved equipment for the household and kitchen just as fast as he gets improved tools or machinery for the farm. If the farm er is poor, Just as he gets imprr ,ed cultivators, mowers, manure spn.-id-era, etc., for his own work! to he should get washing macbiu water works, ranges, etc., tor lis wife's work. - " :' ' ' - All of which reminds us that a Missouri woman reader of Uncle Remus' Magazine recently described the sort of farm homes she lives among, and they are the sort that The Prigressive Farmer is trying to bring about in evry part - of our territory, the sort of homes that go along with progressive farming, stock-raising, 1 oil-building and the other 'poircies that we are eternally advocating. All these things cannot come at once, of course, but the fol lowing letter from the Missouri farm woman to whom we have already al luded, illustrates the sort of farms and farm homes we shall eventually j nave in every part or tne uaronnas, Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee (at least wherever whiter peo ple predominate) and we should work toward this end as rapidly as possible. And for this reason every farmer's wife as well as the farmer himself should Interest herself in better farm methods and try to bring them about. But here Is the letter from the Mis souri farm woman: "I was surprised and indignant on reading Caroline Burke's picture of the average farmer's home, with its unwholesome, disease-producimg sur roundings, and still more surprised that Mrs. Bryan, in her editorial comments on Caroline Burke's letter, agreed with her concerning the un sanitary conditions on most farm- homes, the unwholesome cooking, th pig pens, etc. Now, I earnestly wis these ladies could see the homes o our Missouri farmers the beautiful, well-kept grounds, the clean back yards. Such a thing as a pig sty is unknown with us. We have large bluegrass pastures in which our many hogs are kept and they stay at night and i cold weather In fine, roomy barns where they lie in clean strw upon cement floors that are kept constantly clean. The hog is natural ly a clean animal, and will not have perfect health if kept in filthy, close quarters. We raise prize-winners here. One of our neighbors received ten prizes for fine stock at our last fair. "In our neighborhood, there are only two homes where the old adage, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness is not acted upon. The ladies at the heads of these homes were city-bred girls. " I really think that- if Mrs. Bryan and Caroline Burke crititised city back yards they would,have been nearer Xhe mark. f:- " "As for unwholesome cofekery, fried meat, etc., our farmers' wives are excellent cooks; their kitchens are like parlors; they have sinks and all modern conveniences. All of lis have gas engines which pump the water, in to our homes, light up both houses and barns with electricity, saw the wood, run the washing maehine, turn the cream separator, . run the jchurn, and make all labor light and easy. "We have plenty of time to read and visit. We read standard J works -Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron and Scott in prefererioe to modern liter ature. We have good libraries, ex cellent schools, telephones, mail and grocery delivery, carriages and buggies- with the finest horses In the States. Missouri horses' are .widely famed, and the State is known 'as the horse and mule market of the jworld. When our boys plow, they ride a handsome red plow with ia while um brella attached to It to ward pit the sun, and they hold lines over the backs of an eight hundred or thous and dollar span of mules.! All pt our farmers have fine carriages and bug gies; some have automobiles. Thus you can see we have everything that city people have except 'dust, noise, smoke and im!pure air, and we can do without those. S "Best of all, we have health! Our girls and boys are splendid Ispeci imens of young womanhood and man hood. Of all the pretty, well-bred, well-dressed girls I ever I saw, 1 1 give the premium to those whom the, farm ers bring in to fairs and other county gatherings, in elegant carriages, be hind, high-spirited, glossy-coated horses, that seem proud to bear their burden of beauty.: Our people Jive to advanced age. , One of our neighbor men is ninety-two and he mounts his fine horse and canters to town ten miles and back in a! day. My mother, who is seventy-two and has a lovely pink amd white complexion, drove to our county seat 'and back twenty miles In all one 'zero day in winter, without complaint She is a college graduate. All our people are well educated. Many? are competent to teach in college and university if they wished to enter professional life. There is no need of an enter tainment hall in our community. Every home has a good piano and the i . 1 - children are well instructed in music Many of them are graduates in this art. All receive high school educa tion, and many of them graduate from colleges. Thus, with every sur rounding conducive to health, pros perity and pleasure,' our people are contented and happy. Can the same be said of most dwellers in the large and crowded cities?". EGGS, $1.50 FDR SITTING OF 15 S. C White and Brown Let hern White Wrandottes B. P. Hooka, Houdans. Black Minorca, Light Brahmai and G. L Games. L&rce Pekln Duck Ems. L25forl8. Send for folder : it's free. rrnVIIf POUITRY YARDS, it. F. D. 7, Cox 40, Charlotte, N. O. ROSE-COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS Esjts from exhibition stock. 12.00 for 15; fine utility, 1.00; trios $5.00. Pullets tl.50. PL f T nCXZ n A RT. - - Chanel Hill. N. r. Agent Prairie State Incubators and Brooders. CM I CAI F CF I. C. KB3BE ISUftD IEDS from HLU OMI.U prise Matlngs. Good, strong stock, from No. 1 eggs, S5.00 per trio. Cock erels Zl and up. Late January Pullets have been laying regularly since first of July. Mat ing list free. KSS. J. C. CEAICX, Lasdis, N. 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