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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. Thursday November 4, 13 309. FARMER A Young Stockman With Flans for the Future, Dear Editors: I am a boy 18 years old and have been raised on the farm. I like to handle good stock. I have a heifer 2 years old. Her father is Baron Roseboy, brother of the $3,050 Gay Lad; her mother Queen Ida French belongs to the Queen Mother family, one of the best families of the breed. I hope to raise a good herd of cat tle from this heifer as she is a first class animal. She is as gentle as a dog and her mother is a great milker. We keep about 100 sheep on the farm. I help to take care of the lambs when they are little, and I like to watch them play when they are in the pasture. When they are large enough we ship them to the butchers in Danville. We keep from 100 to 150 hogs. I help feed these and take care of them when Papa is away in the summer. We graze them on clover and peas, then finish them in the fall with corn. We butcher them at home. I help about the butchering. Then we sell them to the butchers at Draper and Spray. I have a Poland China sow and she has eight nice pigs now. I run the mower, cultivator, rake and drive the horse to unload the hay. I like the farm and expect to be a farmer. I will have to have a farm of my own in a few years to keep my stock on as Papa has only 240 acres. GAYLORD H. FRENCH. Byrdville, Va. dropping it just 18 inches apart in the drill, my object being to make as much corn per acre as I .would had the rows been three feet .apart and corn three feet in the drill. , My corn came up and grew off nicely from the start I worked the dirt to my corn In cultivating, never from it When all was worked on a level and corn 12 Inches high, I planted Spanish peanuts between each com row by opening a drill with fertilizer dis tributor, putting in three hundred pounds of 5 10- 5 and planting 12 inches in the drill, covering with a five-foot drag. v An Ohio man said to me one day: "Walter, that is the finest corn patch I have seen since I left home; where did you get your idea about the plnders? You are go ing to make a hundred bushels of carry some out to the fields to fa ther. I almost forgot to tell you that we gathered cowpeas in the af ternoons. We gathered 33 bushels ripe cowpeas for seed off acre. BESSIE S. CLARK. Columbia, Va. A Little Scotch Lassie. Dear Editors: I am just 9 years old and cannot write as I would like to, but I feed the chickens and gath er the eggs for mother. -I help to keep the baby and dust the rooms after Bessie sweeps. We all came from Scotland two years ago. NETTIE CLARK. A Good Country School. Dear Editors: I am a little girl 9 years old and don't know much A Girl Who Likes Housework and Music. Dear Editors: I am 13 years eld. i 1 am going to school now ana am In the fifth grade. I have two broth ers, one is 16 and one 12 years old. Thcv made about 300 bushels of corn and 17 loads of peavlne hay. We keep a lot of Jersey cattle. We make some butter to sell. I help mamma with the milk and I help her to cook and wash dishes and clean up the house. I sweep the yards by myself. I take music twice a week. My teacher says I am learning fast I can play about twelve pieces. Papa bought me a piano last July. I am very proud of it. I practice some every day when my. work is done. ' I forgot to say we keep a lot of chickens. We have the Rose Comb Wyandottes. We like them very miti Vrtiii Hftlo friend. LUCY GROOME. Greensboro, N. C. AN UP-TO-DATE FARMER BOY. corn, a hundred bushels of peanuts, and the gracious only knows how much pea hay and corn stover." WALTER LIDDELL. Jefferson Co., Miss. A Boy's Farming. Messrs. Editors: I planted some land in turf oats, bur clover and Dwarf Essex rape for cover crop and winter pasture for my pigs. I spread broadcast twelve loads of manure from the ox-pen, and broke my land five inches deep. I planted oats and bur clover, cultivating them into the soil. Then with a fertilizer distribu tor I put three hundred pounds of a 10 5 5 goods In drills 18 inches apart. In this I drilled my rape, fin ishing with smoothing harrow. All came up and grew nicely and fur nished bountiful grazing for my pigs all winter. May 1st I turned under my stub ble six inches, going a little deeper this time, and again broadcasting twelve good loads of ox-lot manure, laying off my land In flat rows exact ly six feet aparjt. On June 1st I put five hundred pounds of a 10 5 5 goods in the middle or furrow, ran a cultivator over this and planted my com with a double-heel planter. Believes in Farm Life. Dear Editors: My idea of a nice country home is an 8-room house, with smooth grassy yard, a flower gardeht and nice, lively people, with nice harmless games for boys and girls. Ill am a country girl and like to see tcrops grow. The farmers are the only people who have no boss. They can take pleasure when they want to. They can hold their produce until they get. a good price. They have nice schools and nice roads to travel. One of our neighbors made 14 barrels of corn on an acre and a half, although the seasons were un favorable. Some of our boys are in the corn test; it is a great thing to encourage our boys on the farm. The farmers are sowing clover and peas, bringing up their land and do ing away with gullies. Yours truly, . EMILY B. MILAM. Macon, N. C. A Willing Helper on the Farm. Dear Editors: Our first duty in the morning is milking. My brother, who is older than I, he is 14 and I am 13 years and I milk the cows. Then we all have breakfast When that is over I go for vegetables. Sometimes my .little Bister comes with her wagon and the baby in it After we bring the vegetables for mother I draw water and carry in wood for mother so she gets to cooking dinner. I then clean up two bedrooms, my brother's and our own. When we have dinner and wash the dishes we have time to sew while we rest Then we make afternoon tea and about farming,, but I can tell you some of the things the farmers have been doing. They've been mowing hay, picking cotton and peas, dig ging potatoes and plowing. I help mamma around the house, such as feeding the chickens and tur keys, helping to milk the cows and tending to the flowers, as we have a great many. I don't like to work in the field, and don't have to much, only to pick cotton. I think it a disgrace for women and girls to have to leave their work around and in the house and go to the field and do the men's hard work. Well, I've told you a little some thing about farming, so I will tell you a little something about school. I think the. girls and boys in the country ought to have an education as well as the children in the cities. We certainly have a large school at the Yoder Schoolhouse, and a good one, too; or that is what the people tell us. CLAIRE K. YODER. Hickory, N. C. How Farmers Could Work Together. Dear Editors: Last spring I de cided to do as ' nearly as you said with my corn as possible. Am glad to say that that corn is the best on the farm. I think the farmers might work together more to an advantage; for instance, there are not many farm ers able to furnish a shredder and the power to run it, so I think they might go in together and buy one say six men, then the expense would not be heavy. And they could handle the harvest to so much more advantage. L. L. BOWMAN. Liberty, N. C. One or Two Car Loads of rood mil cowi wanted. Also a good dairy hand to milk ami make but'er. KKNftlNQTON FARMS, Kensington, Oa. What One Boy ! Did. The following clipping i3 froiIl old issue of The Progressive runucr but it is worth re-printing: ' Billie Moore, who is a mere scran of a boy and an orphan at thai, haa shown what a boy can do wheli he has pluck and grit. Last spring he traded a game rooster for an old plug of a.mule that nobody thought would live two weeks,1 payiug cents to boot. BilUe's friends vfcfe sure that he had gotten the worst of the trade. But Billie himself stcT, ed to know better, He bt-sjan feeding up that bid plug and rtmed a small farm. As a result he v m make two bales of cotton, 100 bush els of corn and 1,250 bundles of fod der. He did all the plowing with the mule in question, and now holds the animal at $25, and refuses to take less. Charlotte Observer. You must think as well as work. It takes more than hard work to win. It takes hard, intelligent work, where the thinking brain guides the hand, work done according; to a well defined purpose. My father used to say to me, "Henry, if you don't think, it makes very little difference whether you work or not." That was sound advice 50 years ago; it is sounder advice to-day than it was -then.- Dr. Henry Wallace. 7 Per Cent Interest on Your Money. 1 is guaranteed to Progressive Far mer readers ia Korih Carolina and adjoining- states by a thoroughly gilt-edged iuvestment of which we snail bs glad to turnUh particulars. 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