The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., November 11, 1911, Image 1

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I A Farr^ > .d Home Weekly for
Mississippi, Alaba^*? Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
Patent Office. J FOUNB^ ^j«5, BY DE. TAIT BUTLER, AT STARKVILLE, MISS.
Voume XVI. No. 45.SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1911. ' Weekly; $1 a Year.
Three Things to Arrange For in November
ONE PROBABLY never really appreciates the many advantages
the country has over the city until he has lived in both. Let
one acquire in his youth a love of outdoors and of farm life, and
no matter how much he may find desirable in the ^ity, he will always
be fondly looking forward to the time when he can go “back to the
I tarm.
Those country-bred readers now living
in town and those farm-folk who have once
lived in the city will, we believe, agree
with us on this point. We believe, how
ever, that both these classes will also agree
with us when we say that in a great many
cases,—in most cases, perhaps,—country
life is far from being what it might be
simply because the proper attention is not
i given to beauty and comfort in and around
the farm home.
Many are the places where the city
dweller can see chances for improvement in
even well-kept country homes, but here we
wish to mention just two or three of the
most obvious.
First, there is the water supply. We
know that again and again we have urged
our readers to install home water-works
and to put in bath-tubs, kitchen sinks and
sanitary conveniences. Some readers may
have become just a little bit weary of our
repeated injunctions on this point, and we
fear that all too many look at the whole
matter with a sort of hopeless feeling that
“All this would be mighty nice, but it’s
more than I can afford.” Now, as to the
first point, we only become more firm in
our conviction that there is for probably a
majority or tarm homes no other improvement which, Tor equal out
lay, will add as much to the comfort, the health and the general sat
isfaction of the family as will a good system of home water-works;
and on the second point, while we admit that such a system of water
supply does cost something, yet it can be had anywhere from $50 to
according to conditions and surroundings, and in the saving of
labor alone, it will in every instance pay as big interest on the money
invested as will any farm implement that can be purchased for the
same money. Yes, a good supply of water in the house is in most
cases one of the greatest needs of the farm home, and it is one, too,
that can in most cases be readily supplied.
Another thing too common in the country—and utterly inexcus
able is the bare, uninviting, ugly yard about the home. There is
no farmer so poor that he can’t set out shade trees and make a good
an about his house. All that it requires is a little energy, and
Patience. With these, a very small outlay of cash will be sufficient.
* l< IV *s no good reason why every Southern farm home should not
*>e made beautiful with grass and shade and flowers, and it is little
*' * **lan shameful that so many farmhouses have about them only
s°il, rank weeds, and rickety fences through which the pigs and
ns make their way to spoil any attempt the wife or daughter
_ 1U'^ make at raising flowers.
Then there are so many farmers and fanners’ wives and farmers’
children who wade through mud,—sloppy, sticky, dirty, unwholesome
mud,—whenever they go to the barn or wood-pile—too often there is
no wood-shed—or garden or outbuildings in wet weather. Of course,
they.bring the mud into the house to add to the busy housekeeper’s
A BIT OF BEAUTY ABOUT A COUNTRY HOME.
Here is another view of "Chetola”,thehomeof Mr. W.W. Stringfellow,
an account of which we recently published. Notice how shade trees and
shrubbery, green sward and firm driveway unite to make it beautiful.
You may not be able to build such a house as this, but you can cer
tainly have trees and shrubs, a lawn and good walks, and with them
your place can not help being attractive.
already sulliclent duties and to make the
home a little less healthful and attrac
tive than it would otherwise be; and be
sides, we find it hard to believe that any
boy or girl with muddy feet can feel
quite as happy and as good as he or she
would be without the mud. We have even
seen yards where to step out the door was
to get in the mud—just as if grass wouldn’t
grow, or as if stone and gravel and planks
and concrete could not be had to make
paths. In many cases a little drainage,—
a ditch or two, a few wlieelbarrow-loads of
earth in the low places—would do much
to get rid of all this slop and mess.
It is only because country folks have
failed to appreciate the chances they have
to make country life beautiful and satisfy
ing that they permit such things as these,
and others which will at once occur to most
readers, to endure.
And reform at all three points may well
begin right now. Even if your crops per
haps did not sell for us much as you ex
pected, the chances are that you can install
the water-works supply if you really make
up your mind to it. Now, too, shrubs and
flowers may be planted for next year’s blos
soming period; and right now is the time
of times to make good walks.
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
A BETTER ARRANGEMENT WITH TENANTS—A Plan That May
Suggest Some Ideas for Your Own Case. 2
ELECTRIC LIGHTS FOR THE FARM HOME-Another Convenience
Possible Through Co-Operation . n
FARMERS’ UNION — Its Activities in Alabama, Mississippi and
Colorado. 20
FEEDING HOGS—If You Have No Growing Crops, Buy Tankage,
Kt«. 14
FIGS—Every Southern Farmer Can Grow Them. 19
HOW TO HAVE RAIN WHEN YOU WANT IT—You Can do it by
More Drainage, Humus and Better Cultivation. o
HOW TO USE THE BABCOCK TEST—Something No Man Who
Has Cows Can Afford Not to Know . 21
MAKE COTTON YOUR SERVANT, NOT YOUR KING. 12
PROPER BATHING AIDS HEALTH—Waterworks an Essential of
Every Home. 10
SLEEP WITH THE WINDOWS OPEN—Good Health Talk Advice 22
THE BOLL WEEVIL—Valuable Counsel for Sections Where He
Has Come or is Expected.3t 7
WHAT ONE COUNTY PAYS FOR FOOD STUFFS—$600,000 Sent
Out That Its Own Farmers Might Keep. 9
WHEAT-GROWING IN OUR TERRITORY—Varieties, Time to Sow
and How to Cultivate.. g