PAINT. LIGHTS AND WATERWORKS SPECIAL
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EASTERN EDITION
A Farm and Home Weekly for
The Carolihasr Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N, C
Vol. XXXII No. 41.
SATURDAY, OCTQBER 13, 1917
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Install Lights and Waterworks and Do Painting Now
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OU want to paint your house,
X put in waterworks and install
a "modern lighting system,
and you should not delay because
prices have advanced. They have
probably advanced less than prices
of cotton and tobacco, and by
waiting you may have less surplus
money than now, ' pay more
pounds of cotton or tobacco than
you would now have to pay, and
cheat yourself and your family
out of the happiness these com
forts would give you in the mean
time. -
Of the three improvements, we
would let paint come first.. With
record prices for cotton and to-"
bacco and the greatest material
prosperity the South has ever en .
joyed, now is the time to make
ours "a land of painted farm
houses." Paint is cheap, and its
use adds immeasurably to the looks of a farm. Moreover, it is a
splendid form of insurance against decay, which, in the long run, is
actually responsible for greater losses than is fire.
With the house painted, the next step
is the installation of waterworks. Run
ning water .in every farm home in the
South is a Progressive Farmer ideal, and
it is one we expect to keep striving ior
until it is attained . There are waterworks
systems varying in completeness, from a
hand pump and a barrel for a tank with
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running water in the kitchen only to a
gasoline engine and pneumatic pressure
tank, with hot and cold water, bath-room
and sewage disposal system. These of
course vary correspondingly in cost,
from $25 or $30 for the simplest to several
hundred dollars for the most complete.
These different systems are discussed at
length elsewhere in this issue, and our
vice is to study the plans and then put
n such a system as best fits your needs
anl your purse.
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A WILSON COUNTY, N. C. FAIIM HOME WITH PAINT, LIGHTS AND WATERWORKS RESIDENCE OP L. P. WOOD ARD ( SEE PAGE 22)
Finally, there are tens of thousands of Southern farm homes
whose owners are well able to equip them with better lights than
they now have. And, after paint and waterworks, we know of
nothing that is a greater convenience, no
material thing that promises a greater
measure of solid comfort and happiness,
than an up-to-date lighting System.
DON'T FAIL TO READ
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Planting Wheat on Lespedeza Sod . . . .
Every Good Garden Should Have Cojd
Frame . . 4
Water Systems for Farm Homes ..... 6
A Home-made Septic Tank . 8
How to Paint Wisely and Cheaply ... 9
How to Select and Apply Paint . ... . . . 10
Lighting Systems for Farm Homes ....ll
Wanted : A Market for Velvet Beans ... 14
Sell Cotton Slowly .......... 14
A Story in Which Paint Plays a Part . N .
Registration Day for Women . . . . .
A Cooperative ..Waterworks System . .
Cotton Seems Headed for Thirty Cents ..
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So let us right now, before the money
is spent for something perhaps less need
ed, paint our homes and other buildings,
and install waterworks and lights if we
can possibly do so. Equipping the farm
home with such conveniences adds as few
things can to the creation of a real home
a place where mother and the boys and
girls will be satisfied and happy. Money
spent for these things is one of the best
investments we can make, and there may
never be a better time than right now for
making, it. r