The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., August 27, 1910, Page 596, Image 8

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Editorial Gleanings.
WE HAVE awarded the prize of $2.50 we of
fered for the best report of a system of
home water-works to Mr. C. H. Wolfe, of
Charlotte, N. C. We only wish that we could give
a prize to every reader w’ho contributed, for we
certainly had a splendid lot of reports. Some of
them came in late and have not yet been publish
ed, but we shall keep dropping in one now and
then, just to remind those who are doing without
water in their homes that they, too, can have this
greatest of all conveniences on the farm.
JC
Mr. J. T. Honeycut writes us warning against
the traveling agents who sell sewing machines,
hand organs, flashy books filled with poor reading
matter, patent churns, and so on, at two or three
times what they are worth. His warning is worth
heeding, too. We have said before, and we re
peat It, that you can get all these things cheaper
from your local merchant, or from the big mail
order houses, than from the traveling agent.
Then the merchant is reliable, and you can go
back to him if the goods are not as represented,
while you are not likely ever to hear of the
agent again. Let these smooth-tongued travelers
and their "cheap” goods alone.
Two farmers met the other day. Said Farmer
No. 1: “No, I am not going to the institute. I
went two years ago and they told me to cultivate
my corn shallow, and I tried it and didn’t make
half a crop.” “On the other hand,” replied Far
| mer No. 2, “I have been cultivating my corn shal
low and I can show you on my farm ridge-furrow
corn that won’t make twenty bushels to the acre
while level cultured will make sixty.” Farmer No.
1 was one who jumps at conclusions regardless
of peculiar circumstances that may or may not
make a first test a success, while Farmer No. 2
tries out a thing and learns to do it in the right
way.
The annual course in agriculture at the Mis
sissippi A. & M. College, which started August 8,
to run for two weeks, was this year almost a com
plete failure in point of attendance. Less than a
half-dozen were present at the opening, and at no
time during the first week was the attendance
above seven or eight; while last year the course
opened with between seventy-five and a hundred.
There is no less interest in agricultural education
among the farmers of the State, but the decreased
attendance is probably entirely due to a lack of
proper advertising. It is indeed a loss to the
State that the young men especially, but the old
ones also, should allow such a splendid opportun
ity to acquire useful information to go unheeded.
Not less than 2,000 farmers of Mississippi should
attend these short courses each summer. The
greatest need of our agriculture to-day is more
knowledge of the science and practice of farming
and at these schools, especially designed for teach
ing the men actually doing the work on the farms,
is the best place to get a start in the studying of
agricultural science along the right lines.
Says the Springfield (Mass.) Republican: “There
is no excuse for cholera except filth, and filth is
no credit to modern civilized country. Twenty
thousand cholera cases in Russia, reported within
a week, raise the question whether that country
is either modern or civilized.” Let us look at
it another way: In the United States over 10,000
people die of typhoid every year. There is no ex
cuse for typhoid except filth, and filth is no credit
to a modern civilized country. Are we so perfect
ly civilized ourselves that we have time to spend
criticising other countries?
Jl
"Corn shuckings" as a means to social ends aro
doomed. They were at one time in vogue from
Canada to the Gulf, but not even the sentiment
and romance which surround these old-time so
cial gatherings can save the practice of shucking
corn by hand from disuse. Hand labor is too ex
pensive, the machine must take its place, and as
conditions change customs must also change.
"Corn shuckings" with all the sentiment and ro
mance with which they can be surrounded are now
but blessed memories of a dead past.
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The Mississippi Land Development Association
is out in a circular combatting the notion that the
State is unhealthy. A good movement this; all
that is needed in any Southern State to make
health conditions as good as they are anywhere
is to get control of a few easily preventable dis
eases—typhoid, malaria, hookworm. The asso
ciation is right, too, in insisting that the State
should have a health department and that vital
statistics should be carefully collected.
Jl
The cattle ticks are disappearing wherever work
is being done to eradicate them—man’s brain is
larger than the tick’s, and consequently when man
uses his brain against the tlck’B the latter go. If
all men used their brains more, the tick question
would soon be solved.
Archibald Smith Goes to South Carolina.
PROF. ARICHIBALD SMITH, who was recent
ly dismissed from the faculty of the Missis
sippi A. & M. College because he stood In
the way of Governor Noel using the patronage of
the State Live Stock Sanitary Board for political
purposes, has accepted the Professorship of Ani
mal Husbandry at Clemson College, South Caro
lina.
Within two months of the time Mississippi gave
out that she did not need Professor Smith's ser
vices longer, his reputation brought him offers
from Massachusetts, North Carolina, Tennessee,
and South Carolina, some of the offers carrying
a larger salary than Mississippi paid him. It
seems a pity that Mississippi should at this time,
when there is a largely increased interest in the
raising of live stock, lose the services of a man
of Professor Smith’s efficiency, especially as Ms
services would have been wrorth more to MisMs
sippi during the next five years than those of he
men responsible for his dismissal ever have oi
ever will bo to the State,
We congratulate South Carolina.
Attend The Fairs.
NOW IS THE TIME to begin planning to at
tend the fairs this fall. A trip to the State
Fair, or to some other large fair nearer
home, if1 usually well worth the expense of time
and money. If the farmer goes for education or to
learn he will never fail to feel repaid, but if he
goes merely for entertainment or amusement the
time and money will be largely wasted. Better
amusements ran be found nearer home at less
expense. But the fair properly studied should be
a source of instruction. Too frequently the man
agers of our Southern fairs lose sight of the edu
cational features and go to extremes in supplying
in many cases, none too clean amusements. More
of an educational feature should be made of the
judging of agricultural exhibits and the live
stock. A good judge may make his work highly
instructive by stating his reasons for his awards.
By all means arrange to go to some good fair
this fall and use It as a means of obtaining more
Information.
Our Two Next Specials.
WK HAD planned to hare a "Young Folk*'
Special'' thl* week, but owing to the fact
that the whole editorial staff ha* been In
and out of the office, and busy much of the time
•with outside matters, for the last few weeks, w«
have decided to postpone this Special until Sep
tomber 10. This will give all the boys and girls
a chance to write to us—If they will do It st
once,—and we want to hear from every ons of
them who has something of interest to tell. The
boys who know how to handle the colt* and pigs,
or who can grow good crops of eorn and cotton;
tho girls who know how to cook and sew and help
their mothers with the house-work we want to
hear from them. We are Interested, too. In the
games you play, nnd the hooks you read. In the
things you would like to learn and see and do.
In what you do not know as well as what you
do write and tell us about all of them We
fchnll have for this Issue some fine articles by our
stnfT writers and special correspondents, but we
expect the young folks themselves to furnish the
most Interesting part of It So let us hear from
>ou right away. All letters should be In our
hands by Septomber 1,
Jhen September 2t we are ptannlnB for *
Hoads Special." and w© want to make this
1 >'• h. m road Issue we hav© ©v©r published. If
you can help make it so. let «« hear from you; j
»»<« every one who has helped to make better
roads can Influence others to mend their way,.
When to Cut and Shock the Corn.
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" cut and shock th* corn. Many of the*
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«ur statements correctly. For ln.ta„c*. we are
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