The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-08-18
OUR FARMERS CLUBS.
What our Farmers are Doing and How
the Work of Organizing is Progressing.
TRINITY CLUB.
AUGUST Z, 1886.
Subject: "C7edring up."

tOUUjcCf. ttttutNg up.
DR.. Parker.-Now that we are
pretty we'll through with the grow
ing crops, it is a good time to clear
off ditch banks, fence rows and road
sides. The front yard ought to be
trimmed and made tidy and inviting
and perhaps it would be we'll to
give the back yard a slight brush
too. Pick up the bones and put
them in a convenient place and put
the ashes upon them. Gather up
all the old tin cans, iron hoops,
broken glass and crockery and haul
them to some deep gully. Clean up
around the we'll and spring and keep
them neat. | know some farmers
who are raising ducks and hogs,
boys and girls, goats and dogs, feas
and trash, all in the same inclosure,
and they somehow or other expect
their boys to be in love with farm
life and their girls to be sweet tenn
pered like angels. You ask one of
these same fellows to subscribe for
the PROGRESSIVE FARMER, or buy
some book on farming, or come to
our club meeting, he says ooh, no.
I | know enough all | need is to do
as well as | already know" All
such men need ight and sympathy
/ 1t will take ages of evoluting to
make decent farmer out Of such
material. Clean up.
! DIR. Bird.-Cleaning up necessa-
riIy belongs to farming. five have
I grain or seed to sell they bring
more when clean. Cleaning up hedge
rows and ditch banks destroys har-
/ bOrs for vermin as we'll as it beauti-
ies. These tares smother out things
that are profitable. Keep them
mOwn Off and white clover and blue
grass will take their places.
?. HI. Joyner-I know of no other
work that attracts me more than
cleaning up and protecting a farm
and farm buildings. Idoubt whether
man can be strictly moral who
allows his farm to be overgrown
with briers. thistles and sprouts.
Our farms are our talents given
to improve; and when called to rem
der an account, we ought to be pre-
pared to offer a good one. To kill
sassafras cut them off at the top of
the ground about the middle of
August. / have tried it several
times and it was effectual every
time. Mode second by DR.. Parker.
Dig them up and give the ground
90 OF ln
Mode third by w. w. Andrews
Cut them off and pasture closely.
w. T. Ganaway.-All must admit
that cleanliness adds to the beauty
and value of our farms. When
fences are all covered with vines and
weeds they go to decay. Along the
fence rows, especially on the road
ways, occasionally leave an elm, oak
or other nice tree to shade grazing
stock and beautify the highway.
All this work will add money value
far beyond the outlay.
w. w. Andrews am pleased
with Prof. Ganaway's idea of adding
money value. have cause to doubt
the morals of the man who suffers
the plank to fall from his buildings,
and expose his family and his stock
to the inclemency of the weather; he
is anything else than a good man.
The bible doctrine is to do all things
decently and in order, Purchasers
in passing a farm out of fix are not
careful to make known their busi-
hess. You can measure man by Il
glance at his surroundings.
d. M. PAYNE, Sec'y.