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Saturday,' February ,14, -1920 v. (43 383 WITH PR OGRESSIVE FARMER BOYS AND GIRLS .-: ; AUUreSS All I.Ham TL -r ... . . . "c ongreopie 's Department," The Proereaaive Farmer The New George Washington (For the boys.) I AM six years old, . - And like - play and fun. - -j I mean to grow' up Like George Washington. So when mother said, "Who ate all the pie?" I spoke like , a man, And said, "It was I." But she didn't say She'd rather lose the pie, And know that her boy Would not tell c a lie. She ' just shut me. up Where I could not see, Then sent me to bed Without any tea. Anonymous. Something Better, (For a little girl.) I CANNOT be a Washington, 1 However hard I try, . But into something I must grow As fast as the days go by, The world' needs ' women good and true, I'm glad I can be one, ' - -For, that is even better, than To be a Washington. . ' -. Clara J. Denton. and on its back he wrote the words of "The tar-spangled Banner." The song soon became popular, everybody singing: "Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just; AndlhisJeour-:motto In-God is-our trust. And the star-spangled banner in triumph . shall wave O'er the land of the free, and the home f of the brave." ....,. . LUELLA DIPPEL. Needville, Texas. one else I was so sore next morning I could gci oui oi Dea. CLARA BRANTLEY. Seagate, N. C. Making Moneys Raisings Pigs "About My Pets" HAVE been reading the letters in your papers and enjoy them very much. I thought I would write one about my pets. I have three and I like them all fine, but I love my pony best. Her name is Dimple. She is of a sorrel color, with a white face, and her left foot is white. I drive her to a buggy and also ride her back. I like to ride her with or without a saddle. A few days ago I rode her to the pasture without the saddle, and she thought I was not going to get off, so she just dropped her head to. the ground and I tumbled off oyer her head. ; ' I love to see her beg for somethng toeat:. She begs with one front foot,- arid then I give her a biscuit or something good. She likes, apples, too. - I love my little dog next. We call him Spot, because he is 'white as snow with a brown spot on his back, and one on each ear. JAST spring I bought a small pig from my father for ten dollars. It was so small then that I kept it up for a while aad then I turned it out. My, how it grew when I turned it out. It grew so fast that I let it stay out until September and then I put it up and have kept it up until now. Now it has three little pigs and I have been offered seventy-five dollars for her and the pigs. Don't you think it is profitable rais ing pigs? I certainly do. AUBREY TAYLOR. Cameron, N. C I would rather the little towhee had an swered my whistle than to have -eaten a rab bit we had seen. I agreed that I had. Truly, the great out of doors is a wonderful place to the person who will but take time to learn ts many secrets. z - ALEXANDEErUNN Loachapoka, Ala. "My Home-made-Wagon" IN 1917 father made me a wagon. He used the hubs and tires of an old buggy, but the wood work and spokes he made of sea soned oak. The wheels are 18 and 22 inches high, width of wagon is 42 inches. The bed is 30x60. inches; He also made a spring seat He - put -two coats 'of . paint on . it. The wagon is painted red, and the bed blue. He stencilled "Boys' ; Express Highland Farm" in yellow on the bed. The;old buggy cost us $2, and the paint cost $1.60. I can easily work a small horse, to it, and it is lots of help on the farm. I hauled all our melons to the house last summer, and A Hustling Young Orchardist ' ,(Boys $1 , Prize Letter) I JOINED the calf club last winter when the county agent came to our school; I had a fine grade heifer calf, so I traded it to papa for a fine purebred Jersey bull calf that he had bought for $50. I fed him on wheat bran, cottonseed meal and all the soy bean hay he would eat; kept him in a lot where he could get plenty of cool, clear water all the time. J could ride him anywhere in a few months, and had my picture made riding him. I carried my calf to the community fair at White Plains, 'N. C, and he got the first prize. My calf is the only registered Jersey bull in Surry County. 'He is now a big fine fellow and the pride Of our "Turner's Moun- im.. x .lull . : ; - About four years ago a little peach tree 'came up in our back yard and papa said I could have it if I would spray and prune it. I pruned and sprayed it every spring until it was three 'years old, and although it was a seedling it -had a fine lot of good peaches on it the third year. I gathered every one of them and sold them for $1,150. I bought some nursery, trees with the money and am still adding to my " little orchard. I: have about '60 good trees now... Papa' has a large orchard and-; I help him - work in it, - so I . know how to care for mine. We sell our. peaches1 at Mt; Airy,'N. ' C., and 'get from $1.$0 to $2 a bushel for them. ' . . : JOE BRINTLE (Age 10). White Plains, N. C. - . ' ' .:.- (6&&-: ' .' I fW AgZrtX - W,"! A Visit to the Packing-house CEVERAL years ago, when I was attending " the Stock Show at Fort Worth, my aunt and I visited the packing-house of Swift & Co. We were conducted through the building by a man employed for the purpose. It was to me very interesting, and although I did not see the entire process, I shall relate what I saw. The whole thing is managed by system. One man hooks the hogs to revolving con trivances that convey them through the building, and another sticks them. After this they are run through a pit of scalding water, and this is followed by the bristle, entrails,' etc., being removed. I did not get to see the cattle killed. r They are then taken to the cooling-rooms, the floors of which are covered with salt to assist in keeping the rooms cool. These cooling rooms, are very large, and contain an enormous quantity of meat. The carcasses . are suspended from the ceiling in rows lengthwise with the rooms. They are kept there until they can be cut up and sent out in the form of delicious bacon, hams and sausage. Everything is done in a very orderly and systematic way. LEO BUCKLY. Refugio, Texas. HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? The Star-spangled Banner9' CHILDREN OF MR. A. M. SIMS, TUPELO, MISS., RIDING THEIR L200-POUND JERSEY BULL - , He is a long-haired fice. He likes to go lots of stove wood, I worked an-ox to toy hunting, and when he sees a rabbit he does wagon last year. PRESTQN WILLIAMS, not bark, but can run almost as fast as the Maplesville, Ala. rabbit. When he sees me get ray gun ne is ready and keeps his eyes on me to see if I am going to the woods. Next . comes my kitty, she is solid grey, ana we can ner numc ucmuk a iikw 6" - , - - . t ' . . . who was named Annie gave her mother to 1 AST year I put up about eleven bird my brother when , he was quite small. houses for wrens, martins, and bluebirds. She catches lots of mice and one had bet- Four or five ' bluebirds built in my bird ter not show itself when she is around, for houses. A snake -.got: one blueb.rd . eggs, She will be sure to catch it. , but J got the snake m the bird house and v wa t . TAtTATCTrtTiT ir. im killed It. "My Success in Building Bird Houses" Rome, Ga. (Girls' $1 Prtxe Letter) ; . fjURING the War of .18x2 while the British were shelling Ft:, McHenry, a young American, Francis Scott Key, was aboard a! British jnan-of-war.- He. came aboard during; the day to see a friend who was , a pris I Our Safety League AM very mttch interested in our Safety I had .. a lot of trouble with English . sparrowsl They drove the wrens and blue birds out of any houses over ten teet. high until we began shooting them. Dad caught nineteen sparrows one night.' ' Two or three wrens' built in some of my 'l. Tt.A Jo nrh i,n,iaa I mit- nn two martin houses . League at xnc scuuui. f-- . vieu huudv.. - r . , ( . j i. At mitinara .u:u ,.i-tolpn imfflfdiatelT DT the soar vent . nres ana . acciucuta. i" . y"-o- . mnvn . . . oner, but he alsO was held prisoner on the we recite poems and sing. We also have, a rows. We soon drove the sparrows out, ana British ship. scrapbook committee that cuts items out a family of martins took possession of them. , of papers and magazines aooui: ui i maae ware Ir. :retstgrw them in b00ks to zzr ' The -club meets twice . month on Fridays onm The dues are from one cent to a quarter a shelter tor t p a . month. We save the money and.if we need like- that Kind oi n DAVID GREER.-. . a new stove pipe or mat, we buy them for Afk. ; : ;...:-, " .the, school. .. :-. ' .The" moist ' interesting program, we .have . V. About Fiction CONTINUING our quotations from Dr. Frank Crane's article in the American Magazine, we take up this week his ques tions on fiction. On this. subject he says: "The people of fiction live as surely as those of history. ' You ought to be acquain ted with the fictitious personages listed be sow. State the name of the author who created these characters: 1. Hamlet. 2. Jean Val Jean. - ' 3.- Becky Sharp. 4. Micawber. 5. Romola. 6. The Ancient Mariner. 7. Robinson Crusoe. 8. The Three Musketeers. 9. Ben Hur. 10. Tam o'Shanter. 11. Ivanhoe. 12. Sherlock Holmes. 13. Penrod. 14. Rip Van Winkle. ,15. The Wandering Jew. 16. Tom Sawyer. 17. Consuelo. 18. Lady Teazle. 20. Leather Stocking. Answers to the book questions printed in last week's Progressive Farmer are as fol lows: 1, Stevenson; 2, Dumas; 3, Hugo; 4, Goethe; 5, Dickens; 6, Thackeray; 7, Hawthorne; 8, Dante; 9, Drummond; 10, Goldsmith; 11, Scott; 12, Byron; 13, Cervantes; 14, Longfel low; IS, Stowe; 16, Tennyson; 17, Homer; 18, Virgil; 19, Ibsen; 20, Bunyan. ; They sailed on to Baltimore to capture the tort. The;, fighting was tnostly done by night. The British, shot rockets and bombs, at the. fort .which burst and .revealed the fort, and oUr f flag" still' flying over it. t Scqtt witnessed thev battle and that scene inspired the words: i "And the rockets red glare, the bombs ; bursting in; air . - . - ' Gave proof through. the night that our ilag was still there After many hours of fighting the British became discouraged; they found they could wt capture the city, and almost ceased fir ing. , Key did not know if the fort was shot down, or whether the flag was still flying f not. He thought the Americans had given up and he wrote the words: , "Oh I. say, does that star-spanglecT banner yet wave O'er the land Of the free, and the home of the brave?" When the break of day came, Key looked toward the fort, and it was still standing. , There was the flag still waving o'er it. His feelings are told in these few words : , : ("Tis the. star-spangled banner; oh long yj ' O'er the land of thV free and the home of the brave!" Key was full of joy. He had an old letter, I have been an appreciative reader of your paper for about eight years, and' I give you credit ' for having mastered the art of not becoming tiresome I receive each new number . with ; the same interest , with which I received the first number. With best wishes for -your continued success, I remain, George W. Bohue, County Agent, Oberlin, La. . . j . -n.n.mtf 10. There were sev- eral recitations and songs. This was Aycock Memorial Day. We also planted tulips and cleaned uo our school grounds. cleanea up DELMA BROADWELL. Durham, N. C. - Fighting Fire Better than Eating RaUit ; t fNE Sunday afternoon not long ' agoi my. . v brother and ;I weref down in a swamp near home and I, being a. nature enthusiast, became absorbed . in .watching the birds. . I had been watching a mockingbird chasing a thrush and a. merrytime 'they . were having, too. when I looked up . ahd saw it was get THE baseball diamond at my school was in& late. . ' 4 . . " ',: 'm erown up in grass knee-high which had ,-1 started home but just : as I .reached the BofbS mowed his fall.-My teacher was edge of the . swamp a joree flew up mtoj Sosed to burning it off, but the children tangle of .uscadme vines only a few. feet Sted ad she finally gave her consent, away. ;I stopped and began We selected a fine, ealm day, and the boys . jo-ree,M He tat there a , few 8lli ; set fire in two places: One we succeeded in still and silent as he could be, but all at ;uttinr'out,-buPt the other jumped a ditch oncehe flew .to a WftJ? ... . . r u-a t whistled back in his loudest tone , jo-ree. and f;rome to save the fchoo continued my whistling and every few times our lives for some time to save ine scnooi . in.rt " house..A crowd of. darkies gathered to help he; would reply in a cheery .tone,-.. J-fee;. us but. instead of helping they, simply stood Finally, I guess he must have . grown tired and looked on. With one' man to help us it . of the sport, for he flew. own,inta thebrush took from 12 o'clock until 2:30 to get it under pile and began a busy, gamble JtJ controlAnd though Tiid as little as, any As I. turned to go my brother asked me if FEBRUARY CLUB PR0GRAL1S FOR YOUNG PEOPLE : . .. w: - z h y-.-j- v ' FEBRUARY Et WASHINGTON'S .v BIRTHDAY v Song by the 'boys: 'TheStar-Spangled Banner, r ;r - v : ' Have the meeting at night, 'if possible. Have the bovs dress as George Washing ton and the girls as Martha Washington. ' Gamei: -Virginia Reel " ( to draw oart- ners, let the boys and girls match red hatchets that nave been cut in two;. "Washington Crossine the .Delaware" . fhave minr obstacles nlaced around the room,- such as boxes, chairs, pieces ; of oaoer. etc.. then, have each oerson pick up a peanut on a silver knife and make a .trip around the Toom, going over an tnc obstacles. The one wno can me we entire trip, without dropping the peanut is the conquererj. - 'Refreshments: Hot chocolate ' with marshmallows, and little cakes with white frosting in .which small nags nave oecu stuck. -' ' - f ' ' '-'Tr. v" '
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