The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., October 05, 1912, Image 1

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A Farm and Home Weekly for
Mississ/^ i, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee.
_____< BIRMINGHAM, ALA.,—MEMPHIS, TENN.
Vol. XXVII. No. 40. SATURDAY, OC'A BER 5, 1912. Weekly: SI a Year.
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Make Your Neighborhood a heading Neighborhood.
THE great need of our Southern farmers today is co-operation,
united effort—co-operation for better schools, better roads,
better farming, more economical marketing, more economical
purchase of fertilizers and feedstuffs, co-operation in securing
better breeding stock, etc., etc. .___
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yourself. No matter how big a
man you are, you can’t get the
right sort of progress in your
neighborhood pulling alone. You
must have team work. You must
have the whole neighborhood in
terested in the same sort of thing,
i | And here the words of the old
Apostle come to mind, “How can
they hear without a preacher?”
And for a preacher of everything
that makes for a better rural life,
what else is there equal to a
really reliable, wide-awake farm
paper whose first aim is not to
make advertising money but to
help the farmers forward?
Take any neighborhood where
all the farmers read The Progres
sive Farmer, for example, and you
will find the most determined,
hearty, thorough-going pulling-to
gether for every form of progress
—for better schools, better roads,
better marketing methods, co-op
erative buying, rural telephones,
rural free delivery, better health
I conditions and everything else that
| goes to help the individual or the
community. In short, you find
( a neighborhood where united ef
fort is at high tide.
In every -such neighborhood.
| too, you fmd individual effort at
high tide—the keenest rivalry as to who shall have the finest crops,
| the best kept fields, the prettiest homes, the most up-to-date farming
equipment and machinery, and the most labor-saving conveniences
for farm women. Every wide-awake, enterprising, reading farmer
helps every other enterprising, wide-awake farmer in the community,
and the more of them there are in a neighborhood the better it is for
everybody. You can’t" get good work out of any team if half the
mules pull and half don’t. So you can’t get good results out of any
scheme of co-operation in your neighborhood if half the farmers are
waked up and pulling together and the other half are not. We are
hoping to print the coming year a thorough-going study of agricul
tural co-operation, but you can’t get the good out of it for your
neighborhood unless everybody reads it
It is the same way with everything else. If everybody in your
neighborhood is interested in better stock, it is easy to join together
and get it. If everybody in your neighborhood is using better tools,
OLD AND YOUNG ALIKE MUST BE AWAKENED BY GOOD READING
This fine old farmer, now in his seventy-second year, is a regular reader of The
Progressive Farmer. To make the South what it ought to be, all our farmer folk, from
the oldest to the youngest, must catch the enthusiasm that comes only from study
of the best farm literature.
your local merchant will keep a better supply on hand. If everybody
gets interested in painting farmhouses, it will be easy to club together
and buy paints cheaper, If everybody gets interested in farm
ers institutes, you can have bigger meeetings and more enthusi
— .. ... ■asm. If everybody is interested
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get greater advantages in talking
with one another and exchanging
experiences and ideas. In short, if
everybody is trying to do his best,
you simply get more fire, enthusi
asm, *‘git-up-and git”—just as two
horses have a wild, keen joy in rac
ing with each other that they could
never feel in running alone.
Now, the best way to get every
last farmer in your neighborhood
working together along all these
lines is to get everyone of them
reading the best farm paper you
know. We don’t say The Progres
sive Farmer. If you know a paper
that will wake them up better, get
them to reading that paper.
But get them to reading the
best there is, and get them at it this
fall. What’s the use of our getting
old and dying here in the South be
fore getting it waked up as it ought
to be, before getting it lined up for
progress as it ought to be; before
making it the great, rich, progres
sive farming land it ought to be in
our own day and time?
And the very first step is to get
everybody to reading the best sort
of farm papers, books, and bulle
tins— and the time to do it is
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FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
A DISCOURAGED FARMER—Mr. Kreneh Gives Some Advice to a !
Young Man in Debt. 7
AWARDS AT THE TRI-STATE FAIR—A Grand Display of Live
stock at Memphis . 0
FACTS ABOUT TICK ERADICATION — No Reasonable Excuse
Left for Opposition to the Work . 10
HEDGES—Where They Are Useful, When to Plant, and How to
Care for Them. 21 j
JUST A BIT OF EDEN—By Mrs. Patterson . 12
LESSONS FROM ENGLAND—A Better Postal System and a Bet
ter System of Taxation. 15
OCTOBER FARM WORK—Things to Do in the Field, Garden and
Poultry Yard . 4, 18, 10
THE FALL ARMY WORM—Keep Up the Fight. 0
THE TENANT FARMER’S INCOME—Some Reasons Why It is Not
Larger .. 8