A Farm and Home Weekly for the States of Mississippi,
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
FOUNDED. 1895, BY DR. TAIT BUTLER. AT STARKVILLE. MISS.
Volume XV. No. 13_ SATURDAY. APRIL 2.1910. Weekly: $1 a Year.
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The True Test of Success—LoVe for One’s Work
WITH the coming of the first days of real spring weather
the true farmer again feels the lure of the soil and hears
the call of the fields. To one who has followed the plow on an
April morning when the whole world was pulsing with the thrill
of newly awakened life, and the reviving warmth of the sunshine
had in it the infinite promise of endless harvests, there remains
always something subtly inspiring and wonderfully satisfying in
the odor of the crumbling soil, the glint of the sunshine on the
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the rattle of the traces
as the team swings leis
ure l v aroond at the
corners.
Who that has once known
these things does not
find a great, wholesome
joy in the planting of the
seed in the expectant soil,
in watching the unsteady
steps of the young calves
and colts as they take
their first journey afield,
in the ministration to the
needs of tree and vine and
tender garden plant that
is called for with each
succeeding spring 7 The
man who has once caught
the spirit of the farm,
who has felt the deep,
elemental earth-thrill in
hts veins, will never out
grow the old love and the
old longings.
This feeling, too, is
peculiar to the best farm
ers— to those who love and
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a m nu i r m (unu unu urv
o/ their work, anti who get more than a living out of their farm
ing- to whom it is a life, full, satisfying, fruitful and joyful
No man can do his best at any work he does not love. The
farmer who does not love his farm—the very grjund he walks
on who does not love his stock, his crops, the blossoming of the
orchards, the rich hues of ripening grain fields and tasseling
corn, the snowy fruitage of the cotton lands and the long sweep
of the upland pastures, is not at all likely to make the same suc
cess of his farming as is the man who sees something more than
increased profits in the increasing richness of his fields and the
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crops.
To /eeZ the dignity of
the labor that calls from
the seeminglyliffles* s^il J
the food and clothing fat I
all mankind, to know the I
great creative joy that I
comes from helping to !
make this world of ours I
a fairer and a better I
place to live in, to walk |
hand in hand, as it were, I
with Nature’s self and I
realize one’s elemental I
kindship with all the uni- I
verse—these are theprivi- I
leges offered to the farm- I
er whose soul, as well as i
his muscle, is devoted to j
his work; and to him they I
bring a joy far more deep I
and abiding than can come 1
from any mere financial I
success. f
It is great to be a sue- I
cessful farmer, even I
when success is measured I
by dollars and cents; but I
tht» dreatest and truest I - t
success is the spirit that enables one to feel that his work is
good and to do it with gladness.
A 8TUDY IN NEGLECT
IIhi .* a farm Iwnw (hat should be and might be a thing of beauty ; but it la not. A few treea, a lawn,
twour three wall placed clump* of shrubbery, a vine or two. a few flowers about it, and how inviting it
woi.kl t« ' On |4f* tih Mr* K L. Stevens ha* an article on the planning and planting of the home grounds,
that w* hop* Mg) man. as well as every woman, who gets this issue will read. Then, after reading
it. w< hope everyone will begin planning to make hi* or her home beautiful. While the best effects can
tome m any case only a* the irsult of careful planning and minute attention to details, any planting of
trees or shrubs or flowers will help In a case like this.
Now is a good tune to begin I*ct us make the South a land of beautiful farm homes. "There is no
it«M« for an utiattractive home anywhere in the country."
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
A "KFFOKMFI*" IHFT Foil Hl'IUNCJ HAYS . 249
OOWI'FAH, HOY IIFANH AM* »*FAM'TS .. 353
FA KM AM* OAIIHFV WollK H*l( A I'll 11. 342
CJItorM» KOOK OK < Al'STIi’ L1MK? . 2113
HOW ’I II F OIIHAI’FHT OOTTOS is OltOWN .344
HOW TO l*orilLF THF OOltN YIKLO—I'LAVI'INO . 343
I.N’DFA TO JAMAKY. FFKIU AKY AM* MAIIOII ISSl FS. 251*
KFFIMNO l l» SOIL FFKTILITV . . 210
LETTERS TO THE FARM BOY. 247
PLANNING AND PLANTING THE HOME GROUNDS .248
PLANT A PEANUT PATCH THIS YEAR . 245
PREPARING FOR AND PLANTING THE COTTON CROP.244
SELECT BREEDING STOCK WITH CARE . .256
STARTING THE BREEDING OF BEEF CATTLE .• 252
THAT $1,000 WORTH OF PRIZES. . 250
THE COTTON-ROOT LOUSE. 254
“USE LESS FIRE AND MORE SENSE” ... 250
WHAT FARMERS EXPECT OF CONGRESS.251
TWELVE THINGS TO DO THIS MONTH .240