The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., September 10, 1910, YOUNG FOLKS' SPECIAL., Page 628, Image 8

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Editorial Gleanings.
THE DIFFERENCE between $10 ahead and
$10 behind is the difference between happi
ness and misery,” said Dr. Geo. W. Lay in
our office the other day. It's one of the flnesL
texts we have heard lately for a little preachment
on thrift. And perhaps nowhere is there great
er need for such doctrine than in the South. Add
Dr. Lay’s remark to your list of proverbs.
It used to be considered a joke for a young man
to get drunk. It is now coming to be considered
a disgrace. The young men who will do the work
of the South ten or twenty years from now will
be men of almost absolute sobriety.
Any man can raise good fair crops on a rich
soil when weather conditions are favorable, but
it takes a good farmer to increase the fertility
of his farm while still making a support from it,
or to grow good crops in unfavorable seasons. It
is the had season that points out the good farmer.
You can sow Dwarf Essex rape seed this
month. Best way will be to drill the seed in
rows wide enough to cultivate a couple of times
at least. It will take 3 pounds of seed per acre.
By sowing two lots, the rape will keep the hogs
going most of the fall and winter. But it is not
Eood feed for horses?
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Along with the general reform In education
some attention should be given to revising the
curriculum of the normal and industrial schools
for girls in the South. The courses of study in
most of these schools were planned when the old
classical idea was still dominant, and there is
great need of reforming them.
r-very ooy wno expects to De a good farmer can
afford to do some pretty hard work between now
and next January getting ready to take one of the
short courses in agriculture at some Southern col
lege. Few investments will give bigger returns,
and there are few farm boys who could not get
the necessary money if they went to work at it in
earnest.
That the South is destined to be one of the rich
est agricultural sections of America, we firmly be
lieve. But it can never be until our Southern
farmers learn that commercial fertilizers will not
take the place of good soil management, and un
til they learn to buy what their crops need in
stead of certain prescribed formulas of whose
real value and real character they know nothing.
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' Mr. T. B. Parker, the North Carolina Director
of Farmers’ Institutes, wisely argues that one of
the great needs is to increase the pride of the
farmer and his family—make them feel proud of
beautiful homes and ashamed of ramshackle
dwellings. “Pride goeth before a fall, but It also
goeth before a rise,’’ is his new and revised prov
erb and it’s an improvement on Solomon.
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The boy or girl who does not enjoy reading
misses not only one of life's greatest pleasures,
but also one of the most effective means of self
development. The one requirement is that the
reading be of the right sort, not cheap, frothy,
sensational stuff, but the works of great thinkers,
great doers and great dreamers. We recently
published a list of good farm books, and we are
going to give a little later a list of the best maga
zines and also a list of good books of fiction and
poetry.
A greaf deal is being said about the boys who
win prizes in the Corn Clubs and In other work;
but it must be remembered that the boy who
does not win a prize has not failed if he has made
an earnest effort. Such a boy may get more real
good out of a hard struggle against circumstances
than some more fortunate boy who beats him all
to pieces in the results he obtains. To make a
good corn crop is a great thing; to make a de
termined effort to improve one’s condition is a
greater.
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Some girls seem to think that domestic science
means merely a knowledge of how to cook, and
that if they can make good bread and pies and
cake they are good housekeepers. Their idea is
a very wrong one. Cookery is, indeed, one of
the important branches of domestic economy, but
it is only one. More than this, there is many a
housekeeper who can make delicious dishes or get
up a delightful meal, but whose family is poorly
fed just because she knows so little of the food
value of these different dishes and the part each
should fill in the daily diet.
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Mr. M. N. Hales writes us that when all the
seedsmen asked him $10 a bushel for crimson
clover seed, his local merchant agreed to get seed
from Germany and deliver them for $5.50 a
bushel. There is little doubt that the high price
of American seed will cause heavy Importations,
and that the price is likely to go down rather
than up, though it is not likely to get very low.
Other farmers could club together and do as Mr.
Hales has done with profit. Hut what is needed
most of all is for a few thousand of our readers
to become producers of crimson clover seed and
share in the profits to be made growing it.
Remember, you have no right to trouble ub
with any complaint about your dealings with any
advertiser unless you say when making the pur
chase, “I am buying from you as a guaranteed
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zette,” or at least, "I Baw your ad. in The Progres
sive Farmer and Gazette.” We can not under
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unless you do thiB. We put ourselves to great
trouble and expense to see that every subscriber
gets absolutely honest treatment from every ad
vertiser. but you must live up to your part of
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up to our part. It will take only a few seconds
whenever you write to any advertiser to say,
I saw your ad. in The Progressive Farmer and
t-azette," and even if an advertiser were Inclined
to be careless, this would make him give you more
careful attention. He then knows that if he does
not give you satisfaction, he may bear from us.
Can You Match Mr. Roosevelt?
A MOST WONDERFULLY versatile man is Mr.
Theodore Roosevelt. In range of interests
and diversity of knowledge, probably no
great American (excepting possibly Thomas Jef
ferson) has exceeded him. Here in the last is
sue of the Outlook, for example, he has a charm
ing article on "English Song Birds," reporting a
day’s walk lie took in England with Sir Edward
Grey, giving the names of forty-one birds he saw
and the names of the twenty-three of these forty
one that he heard sing. Although toasted by
Kings and Emperors, the ex-Preaident says of this
walking trip: "Altogether I passed no pleasanter
twenty-four hours during my entire European
trip.” And as soon as he got back to America
when everybody supposed that he was wholly ab
sorbed in politics or the multitude of visitors and
messages that greeted him, Mr. Roosevelt found
time to see how many American song birds he
could hear in twenty-four hours ns compared with
the kinds and number heard in the twenty-four
hours during which his English observations were
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“On the evening of the first day I sat In my
rocking chair on the broad veranda, looking
across the sound towards the glory of the
sunset. The thickly-grassed hillside sloped
down In front of me to a belt of forest from
which rose the golden, leisurely chiming of
the wood thrushes, chanting their vespers;
through the still air came the warble of
vlreo and tanager; and after nightfall we
heard the flight song of an oven bird from
the same belt of timber. Overhead an oriole
sang in the weeping elm, now and then break
ing his song to scold like an overgrown
wren. Song sparrows and catbirds sang in
the shrubbery; one robin had built Its nest
over the front, and one over the back door,
and there was a chippy's nest in the wistaria
vine by the porch. During the next twenty
four hours I saw and heard, etther right
around tho house or while walking down to
bathe, through the woods, the following
forty-two birds:
"Little Green Heron. Quail, Hod-Tailed
Hawk. Yellow-Billed Cuckoo. Kingfisher,
Flicker. Hummingbird, Swift, Meadow Lark,
Hed-WInged Blackbird, Sharp-Tailed Finch,
Song Sparrow. Chipping Sparrow. Bush Spar
row. Purple Finch, Baltimore Oriole. Cow
bunting. Hobln, Wood Thrush. Trasher, Cat
Bird. Scarlet Tanager, Red-Eyed Vlreo, Yel
low Warbler. Black-Throated Green Warbler,
King Bird, Wood Peewee. Crow, Blue Jay.
i euar iiira, White-Breasted Swallow, Oven
lllrd, Thlstleflnch. Vesperflnch, Indigo Bunt
ing, lowhee. Grasshopper Sparrow, and
Screech Owl."
We are taking space to reprint this extract
from Mr. Roosevelt's article Bimply to commend
his example to our farm boys and girls—and our
older farming folk for that matter. How many
of our readers hearing the song birds every day
of their lives can name as many of them as town
bred Roosevelt? Because we do not open our
<•>«•« to, and make friends of, the common every
day glories of existence, most of us never half
learn the Joys of living. Every farm boy or girl
should count it a necessary part of his or her
education to learn the names and habits of all
our common song birds, and Insects, and the
names of our common wild flowers, stars and con
stellations, etc., etc. The trouble Is. of course,
that many parents do not know themselves and
so can not teach their children. Hence every
school library should contain nature books which
would enable children to identify any bird, flow
er, insect, or star about which they might be In
doubt, and the teacher should also be an author
ity on such matters.
A Thought for the Week.
WHAT 18 IT to be a gentleman? It Is to
have lofty alma; to lead a pure life; to
keep your honor virgin; to have the
esteem of your fellow-cltizeni, and the love of
your fireside; to suffer evil with constancy; and
trough good or evil to maintain truth always.
Show me the happy man whose life exhibits these
dualities and him we will salute as gentleman,
whatever bis rank may be—William Makejpeace
Thackeray. r