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Vol. XXXVII. No. 9
Carolinas -Viiinia Edition
A Farm and Home Vfeekly for
North Carolina, South Carolina r Virginia
Established, 1888, at kaleigh, N. C
SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1922 $i a Year; 3 Years, $2.
Eight Live Subjects in This Issue
LIVESTOCK Suggestions for March. If you
expect to get best service out of your work
stock this year, you will find this article ex
ceedingly interesting and helpful. How to
bring the work stock into condition, how to
j feed, and how to provide the needed mineral
! matter are among the important phases dis-
cussed . . Page 3
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I Keeping Well in March. Good health is more to
be prized than riches. Our everyday living
has much to do with our keeping well. Con
trolling house flies and safeguarding the
drinking water are two of the good things we
can do towards keeping ourselves and our
families well. Read Dr. Washburn's Health
Talk . Page 2
"From Seven to Seventeen." This is the new
name for our boys' and girls' department
meaning that it is made especially for boys
and girls from seven to seventeen years of
age. But we are sorry for anybody who isn't
interested in what our great crowd of bright,
lively, eager - minded Progressive Farmer
youngsters say and do. Consequently, while
this development is made especially for boys
and girls from seven to seventeen, it will also
interest all healthy-minded folks from seven
teen to seventy . Page 18
South Carolina : Progressive and Unafraid.
Farmers and their friends in South Carolina
have no intention of giving up. They know
they can win. Therefore, they are laying
their plans to give the boll weevil the stiffest
fight he has ever had. You can't down the
folks down in South Carolina ; . Page 14
March Hints for Piedmont and Mountain Farm
ers. Prof. T.,B. Hutcheson of Virginia is
generally recognized as one of the leading
agronomists of the South. Not only does he
stand high with leaders in other states, but
the folks back home consider him to be one
of the ablest men in Virginia. Farmers of the
Piedmont and mountain sections of the Caro
linas and Virginia should study his recom-"
mendations closely . Page 20
The Boll Weevil Problem. Yes, the weevils
are coming through the winter meaner than
ever this year, and it is probable this is also
true in the Carolinas. But that needn't scare
anybody. It just means we shall have to
work all the harder to beat them. And who
said Carolina folks can't do that? Page 13
The Cooperative Marketing Movement Grows.
Yes, sweet potatoes are getting in line for a
fair crack at the market. North Carolina
growers are getting ready to sell their sweet
potatoes in an efficient, organized way. The
Arkansas growers are now selling over 300,
000 bushels of the 1921 crop that they have
signed up under contract. It is being done
and.North Carolina can do it Page 12
fertilizers for Cotton and Tobacco in 1922.
How well you make your fertilizers match the
combined needs of soils and crops will de
termine how greajt a profit you derive from
their use. Make a constant study of your
fertilizer problem k . Page 8
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A PRETTY SjARM HOME IN A BEAUTIFUL SETTING
The Progressive Farmer wants to hefp Southern farmers-maike more jaoaej that there may be more
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