The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-12-08
OUR FARMERS CLUBS.
What our Farmers are Doing and How
the Work of Organizing is Progressing.
TRINITY CLUB.

Subject: Winter Work on the Farm.
A Parker. A matter of great i'm
portance in farm work, during suit
able weather is to plow the land you
intend to cultivate next season. 1t
makes the soil easier to work and
gives an earlier start when the push
of spring work comes. 1t enables
you to plant earlier, and thereby
avoid annoyance from the cut worm.
The land will also stand the drouth
better by being more retentive of
moisture and consequently produce
better
Another very important matter
that should be faithfully attended to
is the care and feeding of stock.
Now if you have not the necessary
shelter for their comfort 60 strai ght-
way and prepare such without delay
1t will abundantly pay in saving
feed; and the manure will be three
times more valuable, than when
exposed.
/ have an utter contempt for any
man who makes any moral or relig-
ious pretentions and then pretends
to feed his COW by throwing few
shucks in the jam of the fence in an
open lane after stripping the last
drop of milk from her, leaving her
to stand and shiver in the cold dur
ing the long cold winter nights while
he and his family are comfortably
housed with glowing fire to sit by
and warm beds to sleep in, and then
hurriedly rise in the morning and
throw a few more shucks to that
same cow, if she survives, and pro-
ceeds to milk her ere the icicles have
melted from her sides. To see such
man take a conspicuous seat in
the amen corner of the church with
his liquid eyes apparently enjoying
the sermon, and absolutely assist in
singing the doxology, and then have
the self complacency to invite the
preacher home with him to share
his hospitality and how he can do
all this is a mystery [ fail to COM
prehend, unless be has inherited
streak of barbarism from some
remote ancestry. ....
"The righteous man regardeth the.
life of his beast; but the tender
mercies of the wicked are cruel
DR. Parker Having gathered in
and securely housed all the crops,
now is good time to review the
past years work and if any mis-
takes have been made, and like
enough there are many glaring us
full in the face, think over the whole
field and see wherein we failed, and
let us resolve upon better methods
and better work for next year
Failures teach wholesome lessons
and will, if we heed their warning.
Fix and mature our plans for next
year. Before the weather gets too
bad get in an abundant supply Of
fire wood and cut it ready for the
stove and fire place and put it under
shelter. This no sensible, prudent
man will fail to do. For the want
of this precaution many a breakfast
has been spoiled, resulting i'm hard
words at the festive board, and these
in turn producing alienation and
connubial infelicity. Get in your
wood now while the weather and
roads are favorable.
1t would be we'll for some of us at
least while we are overhauling our
years blunders to look into our man
ner of buying and using fertilizers:
Did we do this .judiciously and
economically-has it paid US? |
regret to say that quite number in
this section have been seriously hurt
by the foolish buying and improper
application of commercial fertilizers
this year. But at the same time
there is no fact in all the curriculum
of the farmers philosophy any better
settled than that fertilizers pay,
when bought with judgment and
properly applied And it is equally
as we'll decided that when they are
applied to thin land devoid of humus
they do not pay. During open days
we ought to rake up all rich woods
mold ditch hanks and muck we DOS