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Thursday, December 23,1909. - THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, . ' . The German Kali Works have talked Potash and its benefits for twenty-five They have never sold a pound direct to local agents or farmers. You know how hard it was to buy and get Potash. Things have changed, mines are now producing enough tP enable us to offer TheL ': . : . I in carload lots of twenty toils; to local dealers without interfering with the requirements of those to whom we hav sold Potash to be used in mixed goods. We have, therefore, established a Selling ' TiAlSirfiiw ' '(m:kmiiM ' Agency in Baltimore, Md. , and in 1910 will sell all potash salts in carload lots for cash, OeilVery Udl dlllOSUl direct from the mines to the buyers in original sealed bags, or kainit in bulk, at lower rates than were ever before quoted-. Potash IPaiVS You can buy the real potash salts plant food without fillers or make-weights you save all tbfc I Uicwu & yo money you have been spending for interest, freight, excessive profits on fillers and mixing charge. For particulars and prices write to GERMAN KAM ' WORKS, Continental Building, Baltimore . , ; - , ..j. , . , . r ; - .... I . w Just a Little Better. By Edgar L.r Vincent. HE BEAUTY of all farm life is in doing just a little better next year than we did this. Someone has figured it up how much it would mean to the farmers ef thist country if they could grow corn for just one year ' that would have only one kernel more on each ar than they have been growing in the past. So many more bushels, these mathematicians tell us, worth to many thousands of dollars. While this is, of course, more or less speculation, stop and think what ft would amount to if we all could Faise just a little better crops this year than we did last year or any previous year. One more potato to the hill, one more ear of corn on the stalk, one more Joad of hay to the awe, one more pod of peas or beans n a vine. What a wonderful addi tion that w5uld make to the farm rutput for the year! How many dol lars it would mean in the home. How ft would help us to fix up the old Mouse and build better barns! Now, the grand thing about this i that we can do it if we will. Do you know a farmer anywhere vrho has reached the limit of his power to grow crops?- Sometimes men think they 'have come to such a place. Then along comes a man who shows them how.- mistaken they are and by pointing out new methods helps them to surpass anything they ver dreamed of before. ."". The secret of itall lies in doing a Mttle better work. In thinking a lit tle more carefully, about our way of doing things, in the strong will to be the very best farmers we possibly can, in planning great things and then in working hard to carry these plans out here is the secret o all true success. And who of us can say thinking, planning and executing? The man who would add the one more thing , to his farm operation must turn every furrow right. Look ing back where he has been, he must ask himself the question, "Have I done that the very4best I can?" And if not, back he must pull the plow and make the balk right. Turn ev ery furrow right. And the same way with the harrowing and the planting and all the rest. Not a thing done in a weak, slipshod way. Not a place left till it is as nearly perfect as man can do it. There are great things in store for the farmers of this country. Never were" the prospects brighter than to day; and the prizes will be won by those who are determined to get that one thing . more out of everything they do. Will you foe one of them? Salt Your Corn to Keep Out Weevils. Messrs. Editors: InP a recent issue you discuss ;the corn weevil, and wish to know some way to prevent its de structive ravages. This is as simple as it is effective. f No weevils, or . worms, or mice, or rats are ever seen 'in my barn, and my. barn is not tight, either. I This is my way and it is inexpensive I put my corn up in the slip-shuck, and in storing it away in my barn. I The Jeffersonian Magazine, At lanta, Ga., says of "A Southerner in Europe": '' '.'It was time for a new book of travels in Europe. All of the works of that kind are on our book shelves are out of date. What we wanted was a volume which would picture to us the condition of things now. Without waste of a page, Mr. Poe has supplied this demand." While the supply lasts we will send The Progressive Farmer and pne eppy of "A Southerner in Europe" (hand some paper binding) for $1.40; regu lar price $1.60. Order to-day. sprinkle over every layer of ten bar rels 3-4 of a bushel of salt. This keeps the shucks moist, making them more palatable for stock, and is an absolute protection from mice, rats, and weevils. Before I adopted this method, mice and rats built their nests, and destroyed barrels of corn, and -weevils and bugs were innumer able. I have tried every remedy without avail till I tried common salt. J. W. SANDERS, M. I. Ocean, N. C. - . "One great, strong unselfish soul in any community would actually re deem the world." North Carolina Education, . Rat-. says of "A Southerner in Europe":' "A beautiful and handy little ume of 162 gl awing pages;- -thought-provoking, . stimulating, tatr spiring. . . . So easily and appro priately is profitable discussion fate woven with entertaining diseoors. that there is "not a heavy line fa ttk whole fourteen chapters." ' While the supply lasts we will'senA The Progressive Farmer ncTTn- copy of "A Southerner in -.Europe" (hand some paper binding) for $1.40; reset lar price $1.60. Order to-day CJ Repeated tests at experiment -stations have shown -conclusively . "that Thomas Phosphate produces' bfeeir crops at less expense. I It contains 35 to 50 Line ' It contatns 15 to 19& Phosphoric Acid.-, If your soil is light and sandy, it will bind itlogetheiv;. Q If it is hard clay soil, it will loosen -it up. . . ' VA VA VA THOMAS phosehate: . (BASIC SLAG) has two. great, advantages over other Phosphates. The phosphoric acid cannot be washed away by heavy rains, no will it revert to insoluble compounds. J Write for our, booklet "Thomas Phosphate ( Basic Slag ) and Its Uses' and ;"Home Mixing COE-MORTIMER COMPANY, CHARLESTON, S. C. TTD: DARLINGTON. Hanasrer Southern Department. - 'Fertilizer Materials for Home Mixing.1 VA mi VA 1 1 - VA: m. MA VA VA VA VA
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