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1 ft Ml A DOZEN JOBS TO FINISH UP AND BE DONE WITH Page 10 r x - , f ' - . fr V : M H. J JI --I !L1, . m . .A, ? r JLv. m "fc : W W EASTERN EDITION A Farm and Home Weekly for . " Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol. XXXII No. 52. SATAY, DECEMBER 2K 1917 A ;j ft Ml . . .w I v.: ,. $1 a Year ; 5c a Copy L 771 -.mj,-t- - - . . - . - i i . . Liiii ii i.imiii ttwdrnm iiiwiiwi jfe'iLif'iMirfiiiiMiimitimlilf'i ' -n ,i.im.H : ft it tT ' ii v 4 " - i ir Jt f'-- V vrf-tfr m ifi i ( mumim t tT hj ' . ' .;.' : . ANOTHER $5,000 SOUTHERN BULL -.. . , Royal' Stamp, Third in Senior Call Class at the Recent International. This Classy Shorthorn Is Owned by Meadow Brook Farm, W. L. Smith, Owner, Eutaw,' Alabama' IN MATERIAL ; things, the . year 1917 was perhaps thie greatest in .the history of the agricultural South. .We have made larger crops in past years, but high prices for almost everything have brought to us an unprecedented flood of gold and probably the greatest degree of material prosperity we have ever enjoyed. To the thinking, hustling farmer, 1918 holds out even greater promise. A world at war must be fed and clothed, and high pricesare practically certain for all the crops we .grow. It is our'Tiuty and our opportunity to do our.utmosti It is our duty, because without the bread, meat, fats and clothing we can furnish lour boys across the seas and our allies icnnot win the war and free the world from the menace of the Hum Itis our- opportunity, because of the certainty of high prices prices that DON'T FAIL TO READ- r Feeding Value of Cottonseed Hulls . . . .3 The South Should Raise More Sheep . . . The Garden in January . . . . . . Use and Care of Machinery in January . . Be a Business Farmer in 1918 . . . . Selecting a Feed for Beef Cattle . . ISelectioh and Care of the Boar . . . . Fertilizer Prices . . . . . ... . . Working WitK Other Folks: Suggestions for January . . . . . . . . . . . H Farewell to the Old Year . . . . Keystones in Success With fiabies ... Southern tittle Gardens Suggestions for January. . . . . . f. . . . . .13 An Acre to the Plow for the Country Church 16 3 4 5 6 8 8 10 12 12 will bring to us the wealth we have needed all these years . to build x homes, schools and roads and to give our child ren the opportunities" that are rightfully theirs; , . . : ' - ' ' . - That we may do our full duty, that we may grasp our opportunity, we must roll ! up our sleeves, mentally and physically; Mentally,, we. must arm ourselves with' every known fapt that will help us in our . business; on the physical side, we must aim to do a little more work than we have ! ever done before, and do it better than' ever before. Every acre must be made to do a little better than its previous best, and to this end the fullest possible use must "be made of fertilizers and labor saving machinery. Our duty and our opportunity do you grasp the meaning of these? It is the, Southern farmer's great day. . A ' f 4 -
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