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tfBFOGRESSIVE W FARMER. "Yon Can Tail by a Man's Farm Whether He Reads It or Not" Published Weekly by tha Agriculture! PiiSsKng Co. Under the Editorial and Business Management of CLARENCE H. POE. DR. TAIT BUTLER. ASSOUXATX EDITOR JJfD MAVAOIB. Pbot. W. F. MASSEY. B. E. MILLER, JOHN S. PEARSON. -aP.pOONCE,- - ASSOOXATS Editor. . . MAWAGuro Editor. S10BXTABT-TB1A8U&1B. - Fnu RxPBBsmrr ATTTI. FISHER SPECIAL AGENCY, EASTXBN RKFBKSXNTATIVES. 160 Nassau St, New York City. Entered as second class matter at the postofflce at Raleigh, N. C. under the Act of Concress of March S, 1879. We Guarantee Our Advertisers. WE vtii nositiveiT make rood the loss sustained by any nhuriber & a. result of fraudulent misrepresentations made In our columns on the part of any advertiser who proves to be a deliberate swmaier. mis aoes not mean mai we will try to adjust trlfllnt disputes between reliable busi ness houses and their patrons, but In any case of actually fraudulent dealing, we will make sood to the subscriber as we have Just Indicated. The condition of this guarantee Is that the claim for loss shall be reported to us within one month after the advertisement appears In our paper, and that the subscriber must say when writing each advertiser: '1 am writing you as an advertiser In The Progressive Far mer, which guarantees the reliability of all advertisers that It carrlea." Average Weekly Circulation First Half 1909, 44,520. ". The Editor's Letter to the Farmer Boy. I HAT ARE YOU going to be, Farmer Boy ? You are getting old enough now to decide what line of work you want to follow when you get to be a man, and it is none too soon to begin to fit and train yourself for that par ticular thing. No man ever makes a big success in anything, by accident. If somebody has stuffed your head with the idea that . men succeed in this world by luck, you may just put it down that that some body doesn't know what he is talking about. Whether you are going to be a farmer or a col lege president, you must fit yourself for what ever you are going to be. ' Jt No matter what sort of work you are doing, try to do it a little better than the other fellow. Emerson says somewhere that if a man can do anything supremely well, no matter if he live in a wilderness, the world will make a beaten path to his door. And this is very true. I rode the other day to see a farmer who lives not many miles from where I am writing and found that the Governor of the State had just been there to see his corn crop, and a great number of other men had come miles and miles to see this man's farm. And why? Simply because he had done more with an acre than any other man in the county. Jt - Next week we may have something to Bay about choosing an occupationbut the gist of it will be that unless you have some notable natu ral gift for something else you can't do better than to stay on the farm. If your brother wants to go to town to clerk in a store and measure calico as somebody else's hired man, let him go. You stay on the l arm where you can be independent, living under your own vine and fig tree, and where you can take part in all these great movements that are going to count for so much in human progress and in the world's development these next fifty years. We have had too many farmer boys already who have made second-rate merchants and clerks who - might have made prominent farmers and men of Influence in their counties. It is a -great deal better and more honorable to raise Southern meat than' It Is to sell Western meet. It is a great deal better and more useful to be a leader in showing how to make more cotton per acre than it Is to merely measure off a cer tain number of yards of cotton goods when a buyer wants It. Don't give up the independence of farm life. In the city shops and stores only a small propor tion of the workers own their own homes or have any chance to do work that counts for much in these great progressive movements we have been discussing. The boy who Is shut up in a factory in the South has only one chance of usefulness and Independence for twenty that you and other farmer boys have. And not only can you put your muscle and money and any ordinary degree of skill and In telligence to better use in the country than In the town, hut there are great opportunities for organization and business enterprise In the coun try to-day. Take the matter of stock breeding. As we get rid of the cattle ticks we are going to have more and more stock breeding in the South. And you or some other farm boy in every county in the South must become that county's leading stock farmer. The man who makes the reputation for breeding good animals can make a pile of money and do a lot of good besides. It is the same way with growing good seeds. There is a bigger and bigger demand every year for improved varieties of corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat, rye, oats, clover, and all kinds of field and garden seeds. So the farmer boy who is willing to give some time and thought to the task of growing the best seeds for other farmers is go ing to make not a little money. Trucking, too, offers great opportunities in many sections. I know of an old negro born in slavery who said to the Governor of his State: "I couldn't afford to be Governor: I can make more money raising strawberries." And , that old negro was right The profits on his strawberry crop that year amounted to more than the Gov ernor's salary. Don't say, then, that there is no chance on the farm. There are chances right under your nose far bigger chances both for money and honor and for service, as I have said, than there is in your going off to be somebody else's clerk or somebody else's hired man im the store or factory. And unless you have a special gift for the work there is a much bigger chance for you on the farm than there 4is in the ministry, or in the law, or in medicine. There is big money in fruit raising, too; and good money in dairying: and good money also in managing a large plantation, if you look after the tenants wisely and get them to use improved methods of farming. Another thing you don't want to forget is that these chances are right here in the South. Don't think that you must go West or North, or that you must leave your home State. The chance is right here at your own door, and very soon the boys from the North and West are going to begin coming South. Land is cheaper here than any where else in America and the opportunities are greater. J These are some of the things that the Editor has felt that he must say to you, Farmer Boy. He was a farmer boy himself, and knows how you feel about things, and we have tried to give you the counsel we think you need. All together, don't you think you had better stay on the farm? And if you do think so, then as we said at the outset, it is high time to begin fitting yourself to be a good farmer. Read the farm papers every week. Get you a text-book on agriculture and study it at school. Join the. boys club if there Is one near you. Go with your father to the farmers institute the next time it is hear you. Ask your father questions about anything you wish to know on the farm. And more than this; write to us, The Progres sive Farmer. We shall be glad to hear from you, and we shall be glad to help you In any way we can. . If you are going to bo a farmer, wo want you to be one of the best farmers in the whole State, and if you set out to be, why, you coin be. ' Let's try It "For If They Do These Things hi a Green Tree. OTTON IS STILL going up up and those who took The Progressive Farmer's ativice a mvntfi arm nnrl li 1 rl fKnln w! profited enough, if the money came to us, to i ,ep The Progressive Farmer running a generation And even now, in spite of the great floiv of November "distressed cotton, the price U a-. vancing rather than declining. All the evidence indicates that the shuutag down of cotton mills is a shrewd game. Justified perhaps by the low price of goods, it is none h less the shrewdest of all moves for this most . cell ent reason: ttttc rmrvp ts so short that many mit t a - 7 ""JUiJ WILL HAVE TO CURTAIL PRODUCTION BE FORE THE NEXT CROP IS MADE ANYHOW, SO IT IS BETTER TO CURTAIL NOW AND PULL DOWN PRICES SO AS TO BUY LINT BEFORE IT REACHES THE RECORD-BREAKING FIG. URES IT MAY SOON ATTAIN. " If 15 cents is in sight now with distressed cot ton coming in and the mills shutting down, what may wo expect with mills on full time and the farmer marketing slowly? Editorial Notes. m HAT SUGGESTION of Mrs. Barron's on page 7 Is worth the heed of every boy and girl. If you would get the most out of Ufa you simply must learn to read and to love to read. The best thought of all the ages is treasured in books, and the love of reading is the key which unlocks this wonderful store-house of knowledge Our campaign against fraudulent and indecent advertising seems to be bringing results already. We shall have something else to say on the sub ject next week; and in the meantime, if any of your papers are guilty, let them hear from you. North Carolina Is pushing right ahead in the matter of investigating the Torrens System of reg istering land titles. The committee appointed by the last Legislature held its first session last week, and the matter will doubtless be prominently be fore the public when members of the next Legis lature are chosen. Some exhaustive articles on the subject will appear In early issues of The Progressive Farmer. When it comes to reading for boys and girls, there Is probably no other publication in the world at once so delightful and so helpful as The Youth's Companion, Boston, Mass. Send a postal at once to the above address and get free sample copies, saying you read this notice in The Pro gressive Farmer, and when you subscribe do not fail also to use the coupon in our last issue, or at least mention The Progressive Farmer. ' & Our series of reports last fall on "My Best Crop and How I Made It" was one of decided interest and, we believe, of great value. We are going to ask for similar reports again this fall, and trust that every one of our readers who has made a good crop of any kind will write and tell us Just how he did it, how much he made, what It cost, etc. We shall give a prize of five dollars for the best article and four prizes of $2.50 each for the four next best. The best letters will be those that tell plainly, briefly, and clearly of the makius of a good crop of some kind- the sort of letter? tLat will at once Inspire other farmers to raise better crops and help them to do it- All letters must be in our hands by December 15th, and we w'ill glad to have a hundred short, clear, concise state ments of good crops and how they were matfe. Let us hear from you. A Thought For the Week. T IS RIGHT TO BE ambitious to excel in whatever you do. Slighted work ac-half-done tasks are sins. "I am as gocu as they are"; "I do my tasks as well as they : are cowardly maxims. Not what others hav done, but perfection. Is the only true aim From "The True Citlsen."
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