The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., January 22, 1910, Page 44, Image 8

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Under the Editorial and Business Management of
DR. TAIT BUTLER,
STARKVILLB, MISS.
CLARENCE H. POE. - - - Associate Editor and Manager.
Prof. W. F. MASSEY, .... Associate Editor.
E. E. MILLER, ...... Managing Editcr.
FISHER SPECIAL AGENCY, - - Eastern Representatives,
150 Nassau Street, New York City.
ALBERT H. HOPKINS, .... Western Representative.
1108-1110 Boyce Building. Chicago. 111.
S. M. GOLDBERG. St. Louis and Kansas City Representative.
422 Reliance Building, Kansas City. Mo.
OFFICES:
RALEIGH, N. O. STARKVILLE, MISS.
To either of which Communications regarding
Advertising or Subscriptions may be Addressed.
Entered as second class matter Oct. 16. 1907, at the postoffice Ral
eigh, N. C., under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879.
We Guarantee Our Advertisers.
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WE will positively make good the loss sustained by any subscriber
*T as a result of fraudulent misrepresentation made in our col
umns on the part of any advertiser who proves to be a deliberate
swindler. This does not mean that we will try to adjust trifling
disputes between reliable business houses and their patrons, but in
any case of actually fraudulent dealing, we will make good to the
subscriber as we have just indicated. The condition of this guaran
tee >» that the claim for loss shall be reported to us within one
month after the advertisement appears in our paper, and that the
subscriber must say when writing each advertiser: I am writing
you as an advertiser in The Progressive Farmer and Gasette, which
guarantees the reliability of all advertising that it came*.''
Average Weekly Circulation HMH>, 70,108.
The Greatest Agricultural Development
in History.
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HERE NEVER WAS a time when bo great
an interest was taken in agriculture by the
masses of the people as now. Neither watt
there ever a time when there were bo many agen
cies at work for the extension of agricultural
knowledge and the upbuilding of agriculture.
'$ Throughout the South there is scarcely a dally
paper that does not give much space to agricul
tural matter. Too frequently the matter is not
selected or written with the fullest knowledge or
the beat judgment, and bears the mark of its
academic or city origin, but on the whole, it is
useful matter and serves a good purpose. The
weekly and local papers—which In the past have
given little agricultural matter, even though their
readers were largely farmers—and that little
from Northern Bources and not fitted to our con
ditions, have of late been giving much more ai
tentlon to agriculture, and the quality of the
matter given has undergone a marked change for
the better. In fact, the press of the entire coun
try seems thoroughly alive to the importance of
an improved agriculture, and while the efforts
being made are often misguided and sometimes
amusing, they indicate a desire on the part of
the press to serve its readers in that line which
will do most good to all concerned.
Along with the activity of the presB, and prob
ably partially due to it, the Bchool teachers, and
those of the colleges and universities who have
been called educators, have at last begun to wake
up to the importance of agriculture as a subject
having educational value to the masses. The
thick shell of conservatism, which has too often
amounted almost to bigotry, with which those
who have had charge of educational matters have
in the past surrounded themselves, has at last
been penetrated, and now practically all educa
tional forces are vying with one another in an
effort to keep pace with public opinion regarding
the importance and need for a rural education
dealing with real and rural things. From this
is certainly destined to come a real rural educa
tion which in the very nature of things must be
an agricultural education.
In addition to State and National Governmental
efforts which are now being exerted as never be
fore, numerous and varied organizations are
springing up, all having as. the purpose of their
existence the extension of agricultural knowledge,
and through this the building of a greater ag
riculture. The multiplicity of the agencies now
working for the upbuilding of agriculture is
truly confusing to one who tries to keep In touch
with them all, and yet there is work for all to do.
and other fields without number awaiting still
other workers. There can only he one result of
all this activity along agricultural lines. No mat
ter what the mistakes made, or how futile and
ridiculous some of the efforts, the final results
are so certain and plain that all may read. The
next ten years, and the next twenty years, are to
see the greatest Improvement and development In
Southern agriculture that has ever been known
in the history of the world.
Help in the Fight Against Gambling
in Cotton Futures.
VERY INTELLIGENT and honest farmer In
the South should not only wish President
Barrett well In his aggressive tight against
the methods of the New York Cotton Exchange.but
should give him the active support which is neces
sary to show the law makers that the voters of
the country mean business in their fight on the
gambling in farm products. Many good business
men who are neither gamblers nor enemies of the
farmer believe that "future" dealing is necessary
to the maintenance of a satisfactory cotton mar
ket. Whether this be so or not may be debatable,
but there is no question that the methods of the
New York Cotton Exchange are against an honest
cotton market. If the dealing in cotton futures
Is to be continued. It should be under such re
strictions as will prevent New York gamblers de
pressing the cotton market for their gain and to
the loss of the producers of cotton. Many, how
ever, will doubt the necessity of gambling in cot,
ton. or public trading in futures in any form, to
the maintenance of a market for cotton and other
farm products. When requested to take part in
this fight by President Barrett, or by prominent
farmer leaders in your own State, no reader of
this paper should fail to do so. It is numbers
that count with the politicians numbers of
lotes.
Let Farmers Settle Their Differences
Among Themselves.
lh "* 11K DIFFERENCES between members of th«
[j| I-armors l nlon in Texas are unfortunate,
especially at this time,and should be settled
inside the Union and not In the public press If
this he done, and we have confidence In the wis
dom of the Texas farmers In this matter, no great
harm will result. Honest differences are certain
to occur among the members of all large organiza
tions. Patience and liberality are all that Is need
ed to settle the differences between men actuated
by a sincere and patriotic purpose to do right
Those who are dissatisfied with some things that
have been done can get redress, or at least Jus
tice, If they will have patience and go about the
matter In the right way. There may be those
outside the Union who would rejoice at its dis
ruption, but all those within have the one pur
pose In view, and no serious quarrels should be
permitted to arise regarding the methods which
the leaders may adopt to obtain the results all de
sire. Farmers have already learned much of the
necessity of burying personal desires In order to
accomplish the most from organized effort. Our
Texas friends must also learn this lesson. Let
those differences be adjusted with Justice and llb
eralty, and then all having the Interests of the
Union at heart will submit to the will of the ma
jority.
Our Farm Equipment Special.
crTTj? E WANT reports from 500 farmer readers
ns to what improved tools, implements and
machinery have paid them best and what
they have learned that should be of use to other
farmers in buying, using, managing, and repair
ing them. Write us your experience* before Feb
ruary 1st. One prize o! $5 and five of $1 each
will be given for the best six article* sent In by
our reader*.
Editorial Notes.
j* HE EDITOR of The Progressive Farmer and
Gazette ha* expressed hi* view* on the cot
ton bagging question—the justice of a 6
per cent tare to leading dallies, cotton manufac
turing Journal*, and to cotton manufacturer*
theniMive*. and not by one of them ha* our peti
tion been controverted. The Farmer*' Union
should make a vigorous stand In (his matter and
refuse to sell to any buyer who will not allow the
righteous 6 per cent
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This Is the time of year when every farmer
should be getting catalogs, price lists, and full In
formation about every kind of Improved farm Im
plements and machinery and every sort of Im
proved live stock or poultry that he Intends using
this year. Don't wall until the last minute when
you will not have time to consider the arguments
of the different sides, when there may not be sv«a
time to make the railroad shipments More than
this, the stock may be picked over Get out that
quarter's worth of postals, look over our list of
advertisers, and write them for catalogs and price
lists of everything you are interested In The ad
vertiser is perfectly willing to stand the small ei
pens® In order to get hts arguments before you,
and you may save many dollars by some wise
1 lannlng before you buy.
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It wrould be hard to say whether we lose most
In health, enjoyment or money by our failure to
have good gardens all the year round here In the
South. Many and many a Northern and Western
farmer would pay a hundred dollars a year for
the opportunities for gardening which every one
has In the South and which most of us neglect.
The one supreme thing to doclde on about this
.'••nr* garden In lo have a *urre«*|on of crop* of
«w?ry vegetable, a* *oon a* one planting of bean*,
pea*, tomatoes, cucumber*. »ciua*he*. potnloe*. or
beet* ha* run out. have another planting coming
on. and If you filed our laat week * Harden Bpe
clal. you will find information worth turning back
to for frequent re-reading
Don't* forget the farmer*’ Institutes if there
la one anywhere In your county make arrange
rnenta to gel to It. and be aure and take your wife
to any women's Institute. If there are no women'*
institutes In your State, you cannot put one of
:hai quarter'* worth of po«tala to butter u*e than
by sending U to your Commissioner of Agricul
ture to ask the reason why.
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As the lid Is pushed further and further off.
and more facts come to light, the «tenrh of the
patent medic Ins fraud become* more overpower
ing. Ws noticed that some of our agricultural pa
^ *r* beginning to bring forth fruit* meet for
repentance, Farm Life being the late*t to Join the
ranks. It now make* this auuouncemuut: "In