h 1196 . ' ' -JL IXHAT subjects would you like to hear discussed- riety or kind ofproduct andin for&e Wnt'ity.
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You can feU by a man's farm whether he regit it or not.
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The Progressive Farmer; Company,
(Incorporated unaer w iw w.
MRS W. N. HUTT (Jacksoa Spf. K. C).
JOHN S. PEARSON. . --
L. A. NIVEN. . ... .. .
J. L. MOOFORD, i V
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ice-President wd Editor
Editor Woman's Department
... -. Secretary-Treasarer.
- . . Adver tiding Manager
, - Subscription Manager .
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ter the following articles will appear in next weeks
Progressive Farmer: - v ' ;', "
Taking Vacations and Getting the Most from Them.
Breeds of Livestock-Spotted Poland-Chinas:-Description
and Characteristics. . -Early
Summer Work With Tobacco.
The World's News: A Monthly Review.
A Successful South Carolina Farmer L. . Guion
of Lugoff. " ' " y- " rv . :
crons. ' The fifty bales are -marketed together, hut
August 24-26 ? The officers are very : anxious to 0f :course each I balejsrsolddn, its own merits,
get suggestions from every? interested
oliha farmer or farm woman. Name any subjects . "Cl wuuia
you would like to-have discussed, name.any speaker i brmg , seventy-five. cents, or ,o dollar a' pound
you would. like -to hear at the-meeting and also others- that, would .bringthirty cents, forty .
"suggest any exhibits or demonstrations you would cents; and sixty cents a pound. r The man who
like to see.? Atcash'prize of $iaw
five cash prizes of $1 each for the.fiv best lists of; brought :seyenty:five cents.or one dollar a pound,
-' ideas. 1- under . these conditions, than if he sold his bale
" separately - for ' thirty . cents and heard that his
' tieitrhbor cot one- dollar Jai i poundr- He learns
VE;farmerwho::b;uy be-
certainly ought to mean every tarmeMs to sides its coior auu, t -" w" uu l anQ
be congratulated on the fact that steps have the length ani quality l-of staple play a part
Protection for Frfoe Biiya;s
The result is that he Is likely to try .the variety
which brings theucK better p
bor, and this cooperative or collective marketing
in a short time is likVly to lead to the community's
arriving at a conclusion as.tpwnat are tne best
at last been taken which . should , largely eliminate
the fraudulent I. fruit-tree agents who have here
tofore swindled so many people. : "
For years and yeaw the best nurserymen in
America nave rcaucu uwi ,vw , , . , - , . .
because untrustworthy and ;rreSpfli.Sible: nursery .varieties rWawtaod.ther sec
'men permitted or encouraged fraud on, the buying-tion. ,M?R'5; " .w"
public: Consequently, thes reputable and honor ;munity,or county grom&s,nUlar wnet.es of cot
able nurserymen have at last gotten togethervand .tony corn and , othervcrops. ra.smff the same breeds
have organized an association which will at once of livestock, and m puttmg their products on
protect both them andlthe public: -This associa- the market in unrform condttoo. Mid q ri
. -. . a ..niiiMi nf. in laree Quantities are simply . beyond belief to
, 4W1MUWI tlon IS Known as iwiinnw-"-"- - ... . ; ., , ...
iPi- - " .. . ". w,, It has adopted a trade-mark con- those who have not learned the lesson in the way
l , ASUGHT error wregar
' lAr- " crops, occurred in T. B. Parker s article lasr j st g ; , : ; t. Won of the value of uniformity, quality
week Mr rarker intended to rccouimcuu wonay iicnduunauw., .
-pounds nitrate of soda for Sudan grass and 500 . e members of this Association are determined and quantity in the products marketed a.re worth
pounds acid phosphate; for other hay crops recom- to ad -t n0 nurseryman as a member .unless he much more to the farmers of the South than any
mended. ' - . : r.- (W HPalimr. increase in price which tKey will receive through
, has a repuiatiun uuuwiji . ; - - - - . . - . , ..
. . . f . -. . ,e fri L,tvrirjt trees here- cooperative marketing, even though we admit the
THE United States Department of Agriculture Every re-i . -.il-..-' ' . ' that the direct increase jn price alone is suffi-
1 has reported the condition pt tne cotton crup after will do weu to maw; uic k"v
mari frntn whom he orders is a member oi tin
THE Georgia Fruit Exchange estimates th&t the
1920 peach crop of the state will, amount, to
10000 carloads which will bring not. less than
$10,000,000.
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on May 2S at 62.4 per cent of normal. The condi
tion of the crop is reported as poor to Daa jn n
the cotton states, and according to the Depart
ment the condition on May 25 represents the low-
est mark reached-in its. record or nity years.
fact that the direct increase in price alone is suffi-
cient to make suchr marketing desirable.
"American Association of Nurserymen" and proves
this by use of the official trade-mark.
W - Local Farmers' Mu
AO X J X JJ.A v i--r- ,
tnal Fife Insurance Companies" is the name
Co-operative Marketing Means Better
Watcfc the Tohacco Markets This Year
THIS year we believe, "our - tobacco farmers
should watch the opening of the markets and
the trend of prices with more than usual cau
tion and concern. - As one North Carolina tarmer
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nf a new Department Bulletin, No. 840. This bul- , i1-.iflf. nr returns rr;f there seems to be a "disposition on the
iAf. mii hn nf interest tn everv officer oi a mu ' I - - . ..or ..j ::..1:l.:.-:-Vvm?.o trusts to
uu n..v.w..--,w..,..7 a rnv mav hp from the cooperative marketing or iarm prou- part or various wuduu ml..va ...
tual fire insurance association. A copy m y be tromtne coop 'Kft .u, nr:M of tobacco in North Car-
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doubt better prices have been received and these 0lina this year, as was done in South Carolina last
may have been and probably were amply sufficient year when the crop was b6ught for .less than
to make the efforts profitable,. but the indirect;re- cents average". ' ' ; " .. : .
suits are evert more valuable. . Farmers must not only be on guard against the
- Better marketing and especially cooperative mar- market's opening too low, but must also be on
keting is the greatest aid. to better production, guard against selling any part of their crop before
When a product from several farms is pooled or they know just what the range of prices is like '
marketed collectively, the quality of the individual to be.- One season. several years ago when the
.farmer's product and the specific defects .which it South Carolina tobacco markets opened at a con-
'...u Krmitrht tn the attention of the oro- iiderable advance over the price of the previous
NO MATTER how pressing farm work may bc ducer in the most forceful way possible. He suffers a season, a number, of pin-hookers traveled over our
. Sunday school leaders should give some atten- nrire.and the fact that his neighbors eastern counties and bought - tobacco from our
receive a better price on the same market and under farmers ahead of time at shamefully less than to
.Mnnvnt 1itfrinc drives home the lesson that bacco was then bringing on So-dth Carolina ma
quciuiy WUW wvv,u?v -i " . L iutiua. wv -
excuse will not hold good in summer, it is i tne quality and condition of a product determme kets. : '
season when farm folk most easily get about wheh hh connectiQn we call attention to the fact
Sat they1 are product separately, he may excuse or explain a that the URited State' government "P
y lower price on the ground that 'the market was off siderably smaller quantity of bnghtyelw
NORTH Carolina wool growers , who have , not tne day he sold, or that some prejudice or combin- bacco Virginia sun-cured, and Virginia dar a
already engaged their wool "should write Chas. ati wag responsible for his failure to geta as the hands'of growers .on April 1 this year than Q
S. Jones, State Livestock. Marketing Agent, aai- . received by a neighbor, but if his product Aoril 1 last year.. The total quantity oi
had from the Division of Publications,. United
States Department of Agriculture, .Washington,
: D. C, for five cents. ,
II IS gratifying to find our literary colleges and;
universities giving increased recognition to
leaders in. agricultural work. A noteworthy ex
ample was the action of Davidson College at its
7 recent commencement' in conferring the degree of
Doctor of Science upon Prof. B. W. Kilgore, Direc
tor of our North Carolina Experiment Station and
Extension 'Service.
tion to helping along the summer social life of .
their neighborhood. In winter, bad roads fre
quently offer excuse for social stagnation, but this
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lM&ZJ marketed along with'that of his neighbor by the " Ucco in hands ."
tnti- A nnctal card will eet anv iarmer iuny i- same pcrsuii-iu uuva w.- r ucaicia r re
formed and may save him considerable money. ' tions and brings sl lower price, and; this is re- was divided as follows:
The North Carolina Board of Agriculture ' at its peate(f a f ew "times, the : lesson is ; surely driven
'SS SatTwVhTvw 3 home W the quality n oi
5m,rW advantageous terms for -our farmers in is responsible for. the difference m price received.
the exchange of wool for blankets and cloth. - This effect surely comeVand is driven home with
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TTHE Weather Bureau in Raleigh reports less ' t tWe marketing is the onq sure and effective Virginia, North ' Carolina, South aroima, .
1 than;one-fourth-as much rain in May as we securing the production- oibetter prod- Georgia farmers-the quantity of acf s0 f.ft
usually have during that month. The total precip- means pi securing mc v - v . compared with, the
itatidn for May, 1920, at Raleigh was only 1.03 ucts and the putting of them m.the bes$ condi- hand April 1 of this f f"? "QWS.
.inches against a normal rainiaii oi h.o incnes. tion to meet mancet aemanas. quaniuy uu Hau ' , il919
The average Winier uay mis was nuuui t- ut-
' ;-wijrai-'4!av 'dtiringi' the - :last 34 years. Altogether which it exerts toward securing uniformity: in va Virginia r Dark ' -
tI-May,.& was fhe coolest an 1 dryes t May since riety and Uind of products. . s- ' gtS $2 ?J&. m&
- aj.j- t , . Weather bureau in Ral- - Maryland 1rX7n,oaA' s 574,624
thff jWtabl shment ot te from other parts of The, statement. is often made that it is of great- EaVtVm Ohio Export ............y M296 5,5 V
iVh and. SUUllar reporvs w', . . . . . ' .t ' , 4 - . -All other domestic, including Penquc-. n,px)2 450,031
Nortu Carolina. ' - value to any coinmunity to produce the,same va- -Louisiana J:....v.....i,-: . tv . '