The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., November 19, 1910, Page 800, Image 12

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IN THE LAND OF UPSIDE DOWN
(Continued from page 79 7.)
his castle, but it is certainly his nur
sery. Usually, too, in the towns ai
least, it is his store; the front pari
full of wares, with no hard and fast
dividing line between merchandise
rooms and the living rooms, children
being equally conspicuous and numer
ous in both compartments.
Patriarchal Ideas Still Dominant.
Japan is still governed largely on
patriarchal lines. The Emperors
themselves depend largely on the pa
triarchal spirit for their power, claim
ing direct descent in unbroken line
from the Sun-Goddess, while the peo
ple are supposed to be themselves de
scendants of Emperors or of minor
Gods. In family life the patriarchal
idea is still more prominent, the
father being the virtual ruler until
he abdicates in favor of the eldest
son. Ancestor worship is general, of
course, and a typical case is my
young Nikko friend, who tells me
that in his home are memorial tablets
to six of his most recently deceased
ancestors, and that hot rice is placed
before these each morning. Now the
teaching is that the spirits of the
dead need the odor of the rice for
nourishment, and also require wor
ship of other kinds. Consequently
the worst misfortune that can befall
a man is to die without heirs to
honor his memory (the mere dying
itself is not so bad), and if he be the
oldest son, this amounts almost to
treason to the family.
Moreover, if a man be without sons
(daughters don’t count), he may
adopt a son, and the cases of adop
tion are surprisingly frequent. Count
Okuma, ex-Prime Minister of the Em
pire, whom I visited last Sunday,
adopted his son-in-law as his legal
son; a distinguished banker I visited
is also an adopted son; and in a
comparatively brief list of ejninent
Japanese I notice perhaps twenty
cases of adoption.And
the willingness to give up one’s name
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Breeder’s Cards
AND
Farmers’ Exchange
insert ad*, for our Progressive Far
**** y*r.Aj*****a readers in this department
ud in thia style type at the rate of 4 cents a
weed far ana week: two weeks. 6 cents a word:
y _w—8 f°aT weeks. 10 cents:
tfcrae months 80 emits: six months, 60 cents;
80 cents. Each word number nr initial
(inrladlnx name and addreas) counted as a se
parats word. Send cash with order. If the
y —j— WfB. rentember it would cost 8620
for postagoalone to send your ad. by letter to
aaehtana to which we carry it at thia low
rata, Btampaaocaptad for amounts less than 8L
ok"o£?S£“nworth maIe pifr,‘ J-L- J°ne'
£h'?* Plsr‘ Fanciest breeding. W. G.
Calllcott. Coldwater Miss.
White Shallots. 81.60 per bushel. Seedling pecan
trees. A. J. Holmes. Tallulah, La.
from ?]loice »eed *1.26 per thouT
and. E. B. Anderson, Marion, Ala.
Wanted—Suffolk or Yorkshire Hog. Address
A. J, Sneed. Route 1, Canton. Miss
S.C. Brown Leghorns. Cockerels. *1.50; Eggs.
L26 par 16. Murray Rogers. Macon, Miss.
. Pedigreed English Setters for sale. No better
breed to be had in America. S. P. Hornsby. St.
JOMPlL Lift.
Twenty pairs Homers to exchange for Carneaux
Pir^J0*18—any breed- Albert Elmore!
ktoaby's Prolific Seed Corn for sale. Pure and
*2 00 per bushel. On cob *3.00.
L. T. Rhodes. Bay Minette, Ala.
_ Few Brown Leghorn and Barred Plymouth
Rock Cockerels from prize-winning strain, 8100
each. L. A. Htrria. Gloater. Misa.
'Dixie” White Plymouth Rock Cockerels at s
bargain, 81.00 each. Also eggs and pullets for
sale. Mr*. Alma Arnold. Eupora Miss.
Hotchkiss, Courtland, Ala., offers Mammoth
Bronze Turkeys, toms and hens; Duroc-Jersey
pigs; combination saddle and driving horse, bay
fifteen one-half hands, seven years old.
Imported registered German Coach Stallion for
or exchange for mules or road horses.
8lx years old. sure foaler. weighs over thirteen
hmndred pounds. Sound and gentle. Box 141.
Ifemopolis, Ala.
. in adoption, viewed in the light of
the excessive devotion to one’s own
ancestors and family name, is only
another illustration of Japanese in
explicability. It is a land of sur
prises.
(Concluded next week.)
WINTER SHORT COURSES IN AG
RICULTURE.
We called attention a few weeks
ago to the great value of the short
courses in agriculture, now offered
by most of the agricultural colleges,
to the young farmer—or the older
one, for that matter—who wants to
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THE “BIG HOG” DELUSION.
With the coming of cold weather
will come the neighborhood gossip
that John Smith killed a hog that
dressed 4 50 pounds, or Sam Jones
killed one that dressed 475 pounds.
In the ordinary course of pork
making, with hogs that have not
been used for breeding purposes, hogs
of that size are no credit to the in
telligence of their owners. The last
hundred pounds made by such hogs
probably cost three times as much as
the first or second hundred pounds
and is almost invariably made at a
Short^Course Men Learning to Prune.
prepare himself for better work. In loss. If while the last 100 poundB Is
compliance with a promise made being made it 1b necessary to furnish
tliom Tiro o ro now rvltrini* » luil. <
feed to keep alive three or four hun
dred pounds it will certainly require
more feed than if only 100 pounds
had to be supported. No hog for
pork-making has any business or
right to live for more than 10 months
or a year, or to weigh more than 22 6
to 300 pounds.
Cheerful in Spite of the Boll Weevil.
Messrs. Editors: I am in the boll
weevil territory and must say that
they are an (un)holy terror. Warn
your eastern readers that they may
as well make preparations to receive
them, for they will sure get there,
and they are the most energetic little
bug in existence. They have cut the
cotton crop fully one-half in this sec
tion, and I guess will make nearly a
clean sweep in another year.
We are gathering a fine corn and
hay crop, and hogs—good ones at
that—are more plentiful than I have
ever seen before.
We have organized a grain grow
ers' association in t li is county; also
a dairymen's association. The thresh
ing machine has been running on our
front street all day on oats, some
yields being as high ns 40 bushels
per acre. The plows will start next
week for fall grain. A large acreage
will be planted to oats with small
areas of wheat on most farms. Sugar
cane is abundant, and generally very
fine.
Wishing continued success to the
best farm paper published.
S. P. OLIVER.
Brookhaven, Miss.
If overcome by a temptation of the
flesh, do not reckon it a single defeat,
but that you have also strengthened
your bad habits.—Epictetus.
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formation as to the courses offered
by the different schools in our terri
tory, and we wish to repeat that the
ambitious farmer or farmer’s boy can
make no better investment of time
and money than to take one of these
courses.
The Mississippi A. & M. College
has its short courses in the summer;
and we have had no information
from the Alabama Polytechnic, at
Auburn.
The University of Arkansas offers
a two week’s course beginning Jan
uary 2, 1911. The cost is very small
and there is a strong faculty. Dr.
Jno. L. Tillman, Fayetteville, Ark.,
will be glad to give full information.
The Louisiana State University, at
Baton Rogue, ofTers a course with
lectures on general farming, truck
ing, farm machinery, crop pests and
diseases, and judging demonstrations
with farm animals—lasting from
January 9 to January 22. Dr. W.
R. Dodson, the Dean of the Agricul
tural Faculty, can furnish full in
formation as to cost, etc.
The A. & M. College of Texas will
also have a two-weeks’ course begin
ning January 9th. Instructions will
be given in agriculture, horticulture,
animal husbandry, veterinary science,
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lege Station, Texas, for details.
The University of Tennessee, at
Knoxville, will have an eight-weeks'
course during January and February.
Full information can be had from
Prof. H. A. Morgan, Director of the
Agricultural Department. Five free
short courses for farmers will also
be given at the following times and
places:
Columbia, November 21-26; Jack
son, December 5-17; Carthage, De
cember 26-31; Clarksville, December
26-31; Johnson City, December 26
31. These courses will be of the most
practical nature and should be large
ly attended. In fact, there is no good
reason why several thousand young
farmers in the South should not
get at least a little Instruction in
scientific agriculture this winter.
PORE POWER
LESS COST
THERE’S all the difference
in the world between gaso
I line engines. One engine
will start easily—take the load
without a hitch—carry it right
along till the work is done and
do this indoors or outdoors,
under any conditions, year in
and year out.
Another starts hard or races
—begins to slack up the minute
the load is on—jumps or misses
fire when work is heavy—needs
watching and tinkering all the
time and is in the scrap heap
i before it has paid for itself.
There are few engines like
the first—there are many like the
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