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EASTERN EDITION
A Farmland Home Weekly for ' . -
The Carolines, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida
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FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N.C
Vol. XXXIL No. 44.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1917
$1 a Year; 5c a Copy
Buy a Jtome: The Tenant Farmer's Golden Opportunity
THE present high prices afford the tenant farmer an
opportunity that may never come again an oppor
tunity to buy and own a, farm and a home. Cotton,
tobacco and peanuts, the South's principal money crops,
are bringing record prices, and tenant farmers all over the
South have more money ahead than they have ever had
before. The use tovhich i this surplus is put is going to
determine manyja man's future whether he is to remain
a tenant-farmer or become a home-owner, working his i
own land and living in the shadow of his own vine and
fig tree. -" ' ' : '.
Right now is the time of all times to $?ake the supreme,
effort. , pneyas mprep
it; andcef jMhlywe will never see Southern farm lands
any; cheaper Jhan they now are. In fact, put of our,yery
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ine mcreaseu uemanu ior tnem. : Aireaay in ine 4Norxn
and West lands at $100, $200 and $300 an acre are practi
cally out of the reach of the poor man. He has not the
cash to buy them, and if he buys on .credit it is almost im
possible for him to keep up the interest payments, let alone
paying therprincipal.' - " .
Just so surely as day follows night, similar conditions
are coming here in the South. Already Southern farm
lands in some sections have gone up to $75 and $100 an acre,
and it isour firm belief that the present generation will
see most of our lands at these figures and even higher.
This being the case, now is the tenant's golden opportunity
to become a home-owner And the privilege of feeling
one's own soil under foot is worth the effort worth all
the saving and privation that may be necessary; for, as'
old Dr, Knapp used to say, "the home-owning American
farmer is a king in his own right. "
Let us not let the1 golden opportunity pass.
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DON'T FAIL TO READ
Why Southern Farmers Should Raise More
Hogs . . . . .
Saying Farm Manures .
Farm Work for November
Southern Little Gardens in November .
Fighting Insect Pests in November
November Livestock Suggestions .
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Advertising the Best Form of Salesmanship 14
State Union Dates Changed to November 14-15 14
November Suggestions for the Housewife . 18
The Country School in November .... 22
The South Carolina State Fair ..... 24
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