The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-24

| genoa OF it's farm labor very low; it
not q mere sentiment, bat a sad realit!
with US that the white mans burden
il hung ab7ut our necks. The negrr
es a farmer has not progressed. T.
| learn ne m9thods, the us3 OF improved
implements, or the value Of time, ar
problems that are very knotty for him
What education he has received hat
not taught him how best to work, bu'
no to keep from work. Booker T
Washington Understands fully the
true condition OF his people; he js the
greatest and graudest product Of his
! race, and every Southern cisiz u bids
hin godspeed in his noble work. Cot
ton can be produced with less capital
and with more ignorant labor than any
other crop, and with our soil and eli
mate as we'll, and our capital and labor
better adapted to cotton than any other
crop, we have been loth to give it up,
buG tue low price of cotton is forcing
ue insO new aud bet er methods.
Our agricultural and mechanical
colleges are turning out a number of
young men annually with improved
ideas. Here and there 10 u midst
ara settling the thrifty German. Eng
l,shman and the 'd~owneaster" with
wheels in bis head. And while their
new and novel operations are viewed
with contempt by the darkey and the
Cd time planter, yet nc man has a
keener eye for improved methods than
che average Southern farmer. Texas
has probably the most cosmopolitan
rural population Of any State in the
Union. She has filed and ia still ill
ing up with citiz ns, not only from
every State, but from every country
in the world. They all bring along
with them the ideas and methods of
their various sections, which are ex
cha ged, and the man with eyes and
ear npen enjoys perpetual institute
WORK the year round. AS a result, the
average Texas farmer is progressive;
ha can't III in a ruE long if ne wants
u. G We him a piece OF wire rope and
r Wilde and he can accomplish almost
anything.
AS evidences Of improved farming 10
the South, she is building here and
there, siIos, p8ckeries, sugar r~efineries,
canneries, Touring mills. wool and cot
and oil mills S re is organizing
farmers State and c9unty Institutes,
horticultural, dairy, cattle, sheep and
swine breeders and truck growers as.
sooiations. She is agitating the qIes
ton OF teaching agriculture IN her pub
lie schools. Sue is learning TO irrigate
.ar aid lands, how TO c2nserve soil
mois ure by frequent and shallow cui
tiva5iou. She ID learning the use of
the best improved implements Dallas,
Texas, ia the second largest farm i'm
Dlement and vehicle market in the
and by the way, il you were at
tho graz Texas State F ar al Dallas
TO day you would egr6e with me that
there are d flss en- the Texas farmer.
The South ls learning to grow early
vegetables, fruits, potatoes and lambs
TO sell to ter less favored brethren Of
the North. She has learned tina there
il no country on earth that can gro
more or better forage per acre than
her sorghum or alfalfa with it's three
and four cuttings per season. That a
dollars worth of her cotton seed meal
will make more beet than any other
dry food. No species of clover will
more food for stock or more
to soil than her native peas
5he Ia feed stock o1 green pasturage
the year round. When these natural
advantages are once combined with
O3tter blood and the "know how" that
comes with experience, no country can
equal her il cheap meat production.
Ia M %jIlgrnent there is no section o.
this cJuiiaent SO we'll adapted to tie
production of beet, pork and mutton as
5he black land region of Texas. Though
her infancy. Tsxas to day is first in
, ton aud cattle, third in hogs, and
second in railway mileage. Her mast
ted hogs, like all mast hogs, are a de-
.usion and a snare, but her farm-grown
1ogs r the tops in any market. Her
range sheep, like all range sheep, are
inferior, but her farm raised lambs are
models in shape, f9eca and weight.
However, it is a we'll known fact
hat our average s luehern cattle are
poor in quality as compared to North
,rn cattle; the reason OF this is because
have been debarred fro m the use of
improved breeds, owing 10 the fact |