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utiaer me c.anonai ana business Management oj
DR. TAIT BUTLER,
STARKVITJ.S, MISS
CLARENCE H. POE, - - • Associate Editor aed Manager.
Pros. W. F. MASSEY. .... Associate Editor.
E. E. MILLER..Managing Editor.
FISHER SPECIAL AGENCY. - New York Representatives.
ALBERT H. HOPKINS, .... Chicago Representative.
S. M. GOLDBERG, St. Louis and Kansas City Representative.
OFFICES i
RALEIGH, N. O. STARK VILLI, MISS.
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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 8, 1879.
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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
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tee is that the claim for loss shall be reported to us within one
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subscriber must Bay when writing each advertiser: I am writing
you as an advertiser in The Progressive Farmer and Gazette, which
guarantees the reliability of all advertising that it carries."
Average Circulation (or Six Month* Ending
_ March 81, 1910, 90,531.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One year. $1.00; six months, 55 cents; three months. 30 cents.
To induce new eubeertptiona, one new nubeeriber and one old
ombocriber mag both pet the paper one pear for SI SO.
Editorial Gleanings.
10 OTHER Southern State has furnished for
-Dr. Knapp’s demonstration work so many
capable, enthusiatlc and efficient leaders as
Mississippi. We are proud of these young Mlasls
sippians. Most of them were educated at the
Mississippi Agricultural College, and the work
they are already doing is but an earnest of their
greater future. Keep your eye on them.
**
President Barrett, of the Farmers’ Union, Is
doing an immensely useful work in arousing the
farmers to the importance of writing letters to
their Congressmen in behalf of mea urea in which
farmers are interested. The trouble has often
been heretofore, not that the Congressmen did not
wish to give the farmer a square deal, but that the
farmer was silent, while the other inter.-.t- wore
bedeviling the Congressmen with unending letter?,
telegrams, and personal appeals. Here is one of
the best uses for that quarter’s worth of postals
which every wide-awake farmer should keep on
hand. Send one to your Congressman and tell
him to vote for the parcels post, extension of
rural free delivery, the establishment of a Depart
ment of Health, and for keeping the tax on colored
oleo.
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In our opinion those members of the Farmers’
Union who are trying to establish farm schools as
distinct from, or in competition with, the public
schools of their neighborhoods are making a great
mistake. We believe in the teaching of agricul
ture—that every boy and girl should learn the
fundamental laws underlying the ordinary pro
cesses of nature—but we believe that they can be
taught these things in the public school in connec
tion with their other studies. The boy must learn
other things besides farming if he is to develop
into a well-rounded man. As Prof. C. H. Mebano
says: Let us have culture and agriculture taught
side by side in the same school. Let every boy
have a chance to develop all the mental capacity
lie has.” Breadth of vision is essential to the
truest success in any line of endeavor, and the
great object of the rural school should not be to
train farmers, but to develop men. If the boy
wants to specialize in agriculture, let him, but do
not deny to him any thing that will make him a
mors cultured man.
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On sandy soils, during a wet year, two or more
applications of the fertilizer may pay best, espe
cially if highly soluble nitrogen compounds, like
nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia, are used
In making up the fertilizer. On stiff soils, ordi
nary or average years, when cottonseed meal,
tankage or fish scrap is used to supply the nitro
gen, one application will usually yield the largest
net profit.
You can not have a better motto on your walls
this crop-growing season than the sentiment from
Sidney Lanier’s poem: “Thar’s more In the man
than thar is In the land." A farmer la one- of
our sand-hill counties said to us the other day:
“I can take you right out here to the farm of a
man who makes one hundred bushels of corn to
the acre, and right adjoining him is another far
mer who makes only ten bushels per acre. The
land is the same, and it is only a difference In the
men."
if
Mr. J. M. Varner, Winona, Miss., is an cnthu.si
astic and grateful supporter of the Government
Farm Demonstration Work. Mr Varner, in ub
stance, made the following statement to a Pro
gressive Farmer and Gazette representative: "In
1907 I was heavily in debt and could get no
credit. I had two mustang ponies to work with
and made nine bales of cotton. In 1909, | nia !■
twenty-one hales of cotton on the same land and
paid $900 on my debt. I have three good large
mules to work, and can get what credit I need
I am certainly thankful to the Government D un
onstration Agents for what they have done for
irte. They deserve the credit for the improvement
In my condition."
The Tax of Idleness.
DHK DANBURY, N. C.. Reporter in a recent
issue estimates that in that county, Stoke
15,000 people are idle five months in the
year. "These people. If put to work at 75 cents a
day, would during their idle time after their crops
ore finished, earn $1,350,000, or one half of the
total wealth of the county."
What is true of Stokes County is true, as wo
nil know, of nearly every enttnn nr .
iy in the South; and this appalling waste of tim<*
nnd energy—for Idleness dissipates energy faster
than work does—accounts to a very large extent
for the poverty of the South, when compared
with other sections. Can nny class of men waste
five months of their time and expect to keep up
with the procession—to get their share of the
general prosperity? Can any man expect to earn
i year’s wages for seven months’ work? And If
i man does not earn a year’s wages In a year
must he not expect to do without some of the
lungs which the man who works the whole year
will have?
I ritil this condition Is remedied, a high stand
in! of general prosperity is Impossible. The rem
edy, too, if obvious It consists simply |n the
adoption of a system of farming that will furnish
employment for men and teams the year round
a well-ordered farm there should bo son,.
thing to do every day In the year something
>00. that would contribute directly to Increasing
1 farmer s income. This means simply diversi
fied farming, a rotation of crops, due attention
o live stock and to the minor Industries which
add so much to farm profits.
1 0 Ket 11 year’s pay, we must do a year’s work
and no one-crop system will furnish profitable
work the year round.
Shall we stay poor, or shall we change our sys
U‘m of farm,nK? Each farmer must answer the
question for himself and, as far at tl ir goes
answer it at once.
How Stock Raising Will Help.
i
HE INCREASE of slock raising In the
South means the coining of ho many ad
vantages that it is hard to enumerate them
all at once.
It means that we are to get two profits froi*
lour crops Instead of one one profit from growing
I them and another from feeding them.
1 It means that we are to begin building up our
I lands instead of running them down.
| It means that we are to use fertilizers more
economically and get better re. alts from their ap.
plication.
It means fhat we are to become more business
like farmers, keeping In closer touch with mar
kets and the business world.
And still another advantage which has been
little thought of, !: that It will make for a greater
stability and efficiency in farm labor. Stock rais
ing will demand the service* of laborers all the
year round, and by affording constant employ
men t,-and at better wages than are now paid. w«
1
shall get a more Intelligent and more profitable
class of farm labor.
It Is t< hi hoped, moreover, 'hit this result will
' give yet another blow to the old false Me* that
!'lv !>. unintelligent labor Is a help to tiny com
munity A laborer who 1 worth 12 a day will
make you a bigger profit than a laborer who U
| worth only SO cents a day, jus' as surely as a |2
j investment will bring more interest than a SO
I cent Investment.
The One-Horse Farmer.
I -
j [7jT,'l " Tl:: F\‘I» of The J*-, jarm.
■ HaB tr *,,d f'rro,?'* »ho ays he only has one
hor.o with which to do farming. write*
i king if « can not gi»o more help t0 the one*
He *•>* that all of our Improved
! ’.’roved Implements are for two-or
three hor . farmer*.
The d. ire uf many of the small one burM farm
1 rs f>-r help is genuine. And we are anxious to
, :»« p Mum. but we are not anxious to help them
a* continue as <»nr h.-rse farmers W« are anxious
:o help thorn to change from a one horse to a two
or three hor ,■ farmer, for. ns we have stated be
■ f»CU ty farming ran be
done, on the most of our lands, with one horse
he one-horse farmer who wants help must want
to. as M>on an pueblo, provide himself with two
j1 "u> nnd “ horse implements it i« true, that
j many can dn *»th only one hor*« than they
j ir- now doing; but the aim and final accomplish
(.. '' twoborjie farming and not
: otio-lior e farming
I W,th lh,a wndemtanJing ihal *ny .noropl lo
Jo farming with one horre | only to bw con«lder
,t<! a« temporary, and to be abandoned at the flmt
a fav *uc
"i' J ' (tnacn in Hm rrogrta
fclve Farmer Family.
J • UK <oni.necd that one home can not break
l .ml -»ll»facl„r||y or acmomlc.lly. ,„J ,h,l i«o
will «>.M. lb. r.rm.r ... i,.,i
',r ,U,d '“"r<! •’MOomlcwllr, >e want to Itiqulrw
lf 11 8y8tora wf co-operation can not be put Into
‘'r'U " Uy ,be one h‘»rHe farmer* of any neighbor
ed *hlch "111 virtually make them two- and
•l*n- borne farmer* in the breaking and preparing
°f th° la'",• Kurw,y »'»»' Kood two-home plow will
1,1 l‘a*t two one-home plow*. Two
^u,', 0,10 - plow will break a* much
and do it butter, than two home* and two
Oim reremible disk harrow aid
n.r.„ home* will bed more land, pulverize more
i'1'"1 morw toward* preparing the land for plant
i '11 ‘i|r< bor.-e* and three one homo plow*.
In these compurlBou* any difference In the quantity
°r t)T work Ih on the *lde of the two home
11 " ‘, ?f J If Having of man lubor will more