,?' :-',::::':::r.v;:: -'-THE PROCSESSIVE FARM.
.
- - : emphasize anew the need for
or hfeb-priced cotton if . that they wilt be unable to pay.biils and continue
course, receive the mcf
r
. - -7nihP? the ower 13 10 make arfy
s. production and a fair profit. -; " -'
cost of
it
5- " " - r" -Tt en tea ly a man'i brm whether
MeanGoodPricesforUiddlingandAbove the pricc th w of
- . . - - .V country were paid for tKeirdabor? at the ; same rates
Irs EVERAL factors, ha-ve recently operated to ; hat ?'??: "Haters; plumbers, bricklayers
l ferine about . a 'near-famine. in cotton ' grading" mechanics, and : other, industrial worker, '
published tviRY Saturday by k . , u-ttUtttri0nm the city dwellers would haveto oav shout u-
-v n : ttm. p.-.!,- Prtmninw middling and ahove, and the shortage is -one - , lu tdy aoout thirty
The Progressive Farmer Company, . . 6 ' - . cents a quart for milk, seventy-five cents nPr ,i
tJSLi m,th.i.nt North Carolina.) that cannot be relieved until the new crop begins : . ' . e cents Per dozen
. ' " i. " . r""iw.uwui and SO
he reau u or iov
.vrcini r . l President and Editor tO THOVe m V0Wme. - - v . . - ' . U S0 OQ. A
T; ' " - Mii Editor , . . i i- c ' . : t, At, sircara 01 lauarwiano qouDt continue i
u . . - r t JU- . tne nrsr ducc. vcrv eaiiv nuaia m tuc. mw . . . . ......... v.ave rnp
L1IOSSL . . ' Minfla Editor f - - . t : f Jt, ffiA r4tMT,
v. r. mas set, . ' contributing Editor , m portionsof the Cotton Belt caught an almost Tv-" lJ"c &arae returns that
KS3LW.fC.HUTT. .-. Bailor womu . . . , - . . -v. . .. ,
Jons a pkabson . . . . . . . seeretary-Treasartr unprecedentedly large proportion or the crop, witn
' a record crop of "bolUes" as the result. This "boltyl
industrial workers receive ia the cities.
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' natrons, but la eases of. actually- fraudulent dealings, we. will make
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only the purchase price of the article in question, nor aggregate
over $1,000 on any one advertiser; that our liability does not apply ,
when firm or Individual becomes bankrupt; and that the subscriber
must say when- writing each advertiser: "1 am writing you as an
advertiser in The Progressive Farmer, which guarantees the relia
bility of all advertising It carries." .'-
XKTim weeyirnow.in all the important
-yy.couon-gxowing states except North Caro-
r . ; -: '- y 't- -; K An tin or thn-: llnll VaavtIi . C ni
cottonginned from trosted and immature Dons, is 'v v ti vcvtii uume raises
practically alt off color, and some of it.so short and - , ; l q fllC Problem
weak-hbered that it is unspmnable. Then the gov--
ernment specifications calling for use by the -mills
iii filling contracts of middling cotton or aboye,
have served to accentuate the white cotton shortt JJma ..the": problem" of making cotton An
age.i ' 4 ' " : ' - this pest is one that demands the attention of rail-
Efforts are being-made to get the Government to lions of Southern farmers.. Moreover, since the
permit the use of lower grades, including strict low "weevil never permanently disappears from a sec
middling, low middling' and: strict good ordinary, tion once invaded, ..the problem will be an ever
including tinges arid stains, and it is reported that piesent one.
the Government has agreed to allow "the use of ,"-'';'.:" "
"THE most capable people on earth!" .Vhy the white cotton " shortage, though -theVe will two. In the old days,"we had until frost to make a
A shouldn't we so train and . educate the, l?oys . pEOtably .continue: - to be .a iicarcltyoi , thei better crop; now the 'crop must be made, if made at all
and girls right here around us in the South today v . . , . , .. k A;ie a iV a .
as to enable some Southern leader, and not the grades at least until welKinto next fall. ; , by August ! to August IS. Any squares put on after
German Kaiser, to make thatjioast twenty-five - . This situation serves to emphasize two facts th The problem,
years from now? ; . J cotton growers win ddVell to keep in
"" : " " set before the est gets sufficiently numerous to
DULLETIN No. 207, "Washing of Soils and Meth- demand for several months, and that holders heed- punctureand lay eggs ill aU squares,-that is, be-
not be; alarmed by temporary "breaks in prices; fore early August V- - .
and (2) that, because of the urgent need for white - - - . -' -
cotton, it will continue at a' considerable premium Rapid etting of fruit is alUlmportant. Every
over the inferior grades, and every-bale of new. stalk of cotton has only a half-season in which to
crop should be picked and ginned and kept in the work, '.and if it "is possible-it i-hould be made to
-ods of Prevention," by the Illinois Experiment
Station atUrbana, contains much valuable infor
mation on this very important subject. -The North
ern farmers have laughed at the Southern farmers'
circled rows and terraces for years, but sooner or
later all cultivated land in sections of heavy rain
fall will be terraced.
best possible condition.
Is to Stay in Business
T 7 T (-) t p4Hl1 -V f irA11l 4jtYlTtfi." orrx" in Innrr
xbeen a Progressive Farmer proverb, and in our
travels we are glad to see that an increasing num
ber of landowners are putting this -doctrine into
practice. As we have so of ten said, a farmer's tim-'
ber is just as truly a crop, as his corn or cotton, ho
matter if one does- take yar to mature and the
other month $ and any farmer ought to be as
much ashamed to destroy the stand of his timber
crop as the stand of his corn crop; We are glad to
see evidences that many farmers now refuse to
sell to lumbermen who violate this wisdom. .
TS?: !'ir!1 The Farmer' Must Get Fair: Prices If He
lids uctll piavnati) ivuiuuuuuvu uui 1115 1 iu
past five years, dueln large measure to the coming
of the boll weevil. As an illustration, from seven- ,
teen counties in that part of the state there were , V1V , ,.' v -; ' ' ' ' "' .
shipped m the year ending April. 1, 1918, 2,352 car- THE feeling on the part of ome townspeople
loads of hogs, whereas four years ago not a single J; that the farmer is receiving exorbitant prices
carload was shipped from all these seventeen , for his products is a mistaken one. The ten
counties. Peanuts,; velvet beans, corn, hogs and dency of the city man to place the farmer in a class
some cotton are bringing to this section a degree -.it ' r a u a
of prosperity it has never before enjoyed. : with munition, factories and other industries that
-' - ' ' have paid unheard - of dividends is lamentable.
The city man should get a new vantage point and
look at both: sides carefully and he will know
that the farmers as-;a class are, not receiving as
great a profit as some industries that are not even
remotely" connected with -the production of the
necessities of life. - ,
Some editors of daHy papers, some politicians
and some town and city men and women seem to
thrnk; that it is the sole duty of the farmer to grow
food and sell it to them for a song. The town and
city" people are in the majority, and they are now
bringing all kinds of pressure to bear on those in
authority to fix the price of farm-products at the
lowest passible price."- Many editors of daily news
papers, caterings to city consumers, some politi
cian's, catering to the towns and cities because
there are more: votes in the towns arrd cities and
city and town people, are now proposing to decide
THIS is the way the town ot Rock Hill, S. C,
conveys its timely warning:
SLACKERS, SLICKERS, V AG RANTS t
G to War Go to Work or Go t JaOt
work at double' speed while it does work. This
matter of setting a heavy crop of bolls at the earl
iest possible date is so , vitally important that here
we are going to discuss the two main essentials in
doing this. ;-
;. in
Plenty of plant food come first. Take two
pieces of land, one poor and the other majle rich by
the use of stable manure, legumes or fertilizers,
f plant cotton : on . them at the same time, and then
about August 15 count the mature bolls on a typical
stalk in each plat The stalk on the rich land will
average from two to five time3 as many bolls as
those on the poor lancL; "Not only this, but the bolls
on the rich land will average-much heavier than
those on the poof land, w
Too few farmers have grasped the vital import
ance of rich, warm land in beating the weevil. The
battle with this pest is simply a race. The farmer
'who reache3AugU3t 15 with ; a good crop of bolls has
won; if he does. not if he must depend on setting
his crop of bolls in August and. September,-then
the. weevil wins. ' No big crop of bolls has ever
been . or . ever will be set by August 15 on cotton
growing on poor land.
Space your cotton doaoly. Since under weevil
conditions the crop must be made-before August, it
should be clear that the more stalks we have set
. ting fruit on a given area" the more mature bolls
we will have. This -is" not mere theory; experf-
Our progressive and patriotic South Carolina
city -has no disposition tot copyright, either "the ""what prices the farmer shall receive for practically
method or language here indicated and we can- all the products grown on his farm.
S"SS 'f MHerebastcady9reamof (arm -inents at prac.ic every- exp.nment static ,
. bovs nowme to the towns and nriP5 whtti nffer ..4 ik.MMfficA manv iarni-
. " i i i . . : . shorter hours and much higher immediate rewards
4
ers all. show that under fweevil conditions close
spacing means bigger yields, On our average soils,
capable of making one-third to one-half bale per
j ; . " . . . 4f." fVirp and
acre, we suggest rows nor wiacr uu
. . . - .' ,:. :: - . . ..1 : Mil
CCORDING to a press dispatch, the followifig for their labor than they can hope to get on the
prices for ginning have been fixed by- theVarnu - Since the war began this flow has been
United States Food Administration, effective July " greatly . increased, and the large draft upon the
1.1918: for ordinary seed cotton thirty cents vtr trm hnv tn fill nn Qrm. u-- .".e . ! - - -nriAth in the
hundred pounds, plus cost to the ginner of bagging ' nMa rrsnAu:nnB nc uu 4t. ' r .-- . - y -
and ties ; for "snapped" or -pulled", seed cotton, ;?favorable conditions of labor on the farms ever drilL : v . . f, wee.
forty cents per hundred pounds, plus cost to thel nown:v - Every farmer who has to contend with the
ginner of bagging and ties; and for onies fi food, and the patriotic vil should -steadily hold in mind the overwhelm
cents per hundred pounds o but exceedingly anx- importance Of "rich land and close spacing in get'
fuel and materialswe da not believe these pricesi cnnot d so unless the prices paid for it are high plantinga good variety, and rapid cultivation
are unduly high; but they are two or three times enough to enable them to produce it without loss. - of course impoftant, but rich land and close spa
whatmany farmers have been paying, and seem to ' They cannot produce food at a loss, for the reason ing" come ahead of everything