The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., April 23, 1910, Image 1

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a Farm and Home Weekly for the States of Mississippi,
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
FOUNDED, 1895, BY DR. TAIT BUTLER, AT STARKVILLE, MISS.
' »lome XV No 16_SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1910. Weekly: $1 a Year
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The Land of Opportunity—Who Shall Possess It?
Ktc, OGM / ION of the fact that the South is a land of won- <
dirful opportunity-.-indeed, to the farmer THE land of j
opportunity---is becoming general. About a year ago Secretary 1
of Agriculture James Wilson fold the Editor of The Progres- j
sive barmer and Gazette, that with good farming average
Southern lands would be worth $100 an acre in six or seven
years. We have printed, too, the conviction of a leading Iowa
stockman that the South is the live stock country of the future.
It has not been long since Collier's Weekly spoke of the South
as The next West. ' /letter still, Southern farmers are them
selves coming to realize undreamed-of possibilities in the land
which they own. Pig corn crops have become so common as
to attract little attention, unless they are very big. Indeed,
when $00 boys in one county average 70 buihels of corn to the
acre, it is eviilvnt that the S nth is, as we have said, the real
corn belt. Two-bales of cotton to the acre is now recognized
as an attainable ideal, and some men make more. Men are
"'(iking hogs in the S tuth for three or four cents a pound and sell
ing them for JO cents or more.
Yes, the South is the land of opportunity for the alert, in
tt tligcnt, progressive farmer. All over it there are waiting
golden opportunities for such farmers to acquire wealth and to
do their part in making this land of ours what it should be—
the fairest anil most fruitful farming section in America.
The one great question of today is: " Who is going to prof
it by these opportunities ?" Who should profit by them, ad
mit* of no question. They rightfully belong to the farmers who
are now tending Southern soils, and to their sons. If these farm
ers and farm boy* neglect their rightful heritage, and do not
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thk proof of good farming is good crops year after year.
brino to thi ir farm work the trained mind and the earnest purpose
which are necessury to success in uny work, we may depend up
on it thut people from other sections will come and projit by tht
opportunities, which they neglect. Now, we are glad to see peo
ole coming from other sections, because the South needs them. But
vhat we wish to see, above all else, is an awakening of the
rarmers who belong in the South to the possibilities that lie
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AS.TdS PREPARATION IS SO WILL THE HARVEST BE.
latent in their soils---to see them set about studying the science
of agriculture, improving their methods, taking a deeper inter
est in their work, and so getting their rightful share of the
wealth that good farming in the South is sure to produce. So to
every reader we would make this appeal: Begin right now to
do better farming, to get better stock and' tools, to make each
day’s labor count for more, to plant better seeds, to prepare the
soil better and cultivate the crops more thoroughly, above all,
to build up your soil and keep it fertile.
For those who will do these things there are waiting splen
did opportunities and wonderful rewards
Men and boys of the South today, will you improve these
|<opportunities and get your share of these rewards, or will you
g) on in hatf-hearted fashion and leave them to others?
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
CARE OF MARE AND COLT. 315
FERTILIZER FACTS TO HEMEMISEK. 304
JELLIES AND PRESERVES. 300
NEED OF MOISTURE FOR THE CORN CROP. 305
THE REST IMPLEMENTS FOR CULTIVATION . 303
THE JOY OF MAKING A GARDEN. 303
THE ONE-HORSE FARMER. 308
2 THE TAX OF IDLENESS. 308
. THE VALUE OF A GOOD STALLION OH JACK. 314
, USE OF HARROW AND WEEDED. 313
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