The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-12-22

key costs you more than whole
years subscription to first class
agricultural paper. The results are
as different as is Hades and Para
disc. The person who claims the
ability and liberty to purchase the
former and the inability to purchase
the latter is a-well what is he? |
would like for some one to classify
him. He certainly claims for himself
the right to spend more money for
nothing than he is able to spend for
something clearly beneficial to him
self and family. It is evidently plain
that we do not intend to advise the
purchase of whiskey or any of it's
kindred, instead Of farm literature.
They are as irreconcilable as truth
and error. One, if persisted in leads
to destruction, the other does
not ....
Agricultural literature consists of
all such as have relation to that
business. There are many phases
to this subject To know achen and
hoac to do everything on a farm
requires study-immense study. We
should know how to destroy as we'll
as how to grow. We must know
| how to build and how to tear down
We should learn how to destroy the
lives Of pests and propagate such
others as are adapted for food, cloth
ing and labor. We need and use
power, and therefore ought to be
able to comprehend its sources,
as the lever, the pully, the screw
and the incline plane. Farriery
should be studied sufficient to enable
| one to treat the common ailments
of stock. There is a multitude of
| literature that would be of benefit
to the husbandman, and invites
his perusaI. They are all proper sub
jects for the man who engineers a
farm. .
He who bosses farm should
know something of the food prop
critics OF farm products, and the
most saleable in order to select a
leading crop. The labor and pains
taking in these studies should not
be considered burden, for the
enjoyment arising from it, aside
from the profit, is ample satisfaction
for the time and expenditure. To
accomplish all this does not require
an expensive library, though some
books are necessary. The most Of
it can be had through periodicals.
They come fresh and in the proper
season, and generally we'll up with
all the late improvements. Read the
late ones Don't depend on old files
of them bought by father or grand
father. At the same time preserve
them for occasional perusal. To
destroy the file is as wrong as to
neglect to purchase them. There
are hundreds Of periodicals that are
good and wholesome reading. The
Progressive FARMER is one of which
and not the least at that.
How a farmer can do without
something to read on agriculture is
phenomenal Without reading pro
gress would be reduced to snairs
gait, and gullies instead Of rich
fields would be the attraction. The
result would be as plain as these
yawning caverns Gullies are great
eye-sores to a good farmer. Moth
ing so contemplate. If ] were
asked for the most disgusting sight
on farm, l would answer without
the least fractional part Of
moments hesitation, gult,es. | have
such profund dislike for them that
| am almost ready to brand those
who have them on their farms as
towards, too trifing to defend them
selves, but then consider that
they inherited or purchased them
and are in some degree excusable.
In such cases they have an elephant
on their hands-an enormous eater
and no use for him. With such
consumers and short crops it does
not require prophetic skill to divine
the result. After the creation this
great fiat was sent out: ''Till and
keep" 1t looks as if the greater
portion failed to notice that last
word keep. In general practice it
appears as if it were understood
"till and waste Keep or preserve
is as binding as tillage. It's neglect
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