The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-04
AN INVESTMENT THAT PAYS FARMERS
HANDSOMELY.
Something Of the Benefits Of Good Farm
Paper-One Little Item That Saved q
Thinking Farmer Many Times the Sub
scription Price.

Paper-One Little Item That Saved a
Thinking Farmer Many Times the Sub
scription Price.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
| wish everybody would read The
Progressive Farmer. get so much
benefit from it over and above the
subscription price that would part
with almost anything have rather
than do without it.
Did you ever think of it in this
way, Mr.. Editor? It is similar to the
five loaves and three fishes with
which the Saviour fed the multitude.
You can let everybody have some
and still have some left, and no one
need stint at that. Suppose a man
hasn't the money to pay for it: he
could sell a few chickens and get
more than the worth of his chickens
from the poultry columns, to say
nothing of the other good features of
the paper.
Another could sell bushel of corn,
peas, wheat, oats, rye, or few cab
bage or melons and learn enough
from the agricultural department. of
the paper to more than repay him
for those articles.
Still another could sell a sheep, a
goat, pig or calf and feel after
reading the stock column that he is
still indebted to the paper, and more
information at hand which he can
read ''free, gratis, without pay"
often hear of the profits in some
business enterprise, and some of
these are enormous but they don t
pay like The Progressive Farmer.
You see, Mr.. Editor, it's something
that lasts so long, and no one can
take it from you! can leave the
doors wide open these hot nights and
not even put it under my pillow, and
when morning comes it's there. No
thief can get it, yet everybody needs
it.
I tried to figure up the profits I get
from it, but the thing was too big /;
it busted the multiplication table and
had to stop. 1t matters not what
want to know about progressive
farming, can get it from it's col
Umns; and it is so strange that so
many of our farmers will not read.
The politicians keep posted on cur
rent news the doctors read the
medical journals; the lawyers, the
law book; the merchants the trades
journals and prices current but the
farmer, whose business is the most
intricate and beset with the most
hindrances, is the only one that feels
that he needs no information except
what he can discover within his own
small realm.
1 can ride twenty miles from my
home, in any direction I may choose,
and stop at every farm within two
miles of the road and not find dozen
agricultural papers And some Of
these would very likely be sample
copies sent out by some editor in the
hope of inducing them to subscribe.
Still every farmer imagines he
knows as much about farming as
any one else. have neighbor who
claims that he can make ''des as good
craps sidin twice as he can sidin
three times or four times, and use a
turn p1ow at that And his broth
ers think they are grade better
than he and as for one old cOlored
man, on agricultural science, he can
knock out Professors Massey, Emery
and Irby the first round, and not
start out till 10 o'clock, either.
These men cannot read and are to
be pitied but there are nearly as
many who can as who cannot read
that do not take any paper giving in
formation about their own occupa-
tion. If these would study and
adopt new methods, those who can
not read would be benefited Iby OBJ
servation, thus spreading the useful
ness of the paper.
am aware that money is hard to
get under our present financial sys-
tenn of robbery and destitution, and
when a farmer gets a dollar he needs
it in so many places that he often
finds it difficult to know where to
put it to do the greatest good but if
1 were called on to decide the case, I
should feel safe in saying put it
where it viii bring information that
will enable you to build up the waste
places cheaply and quickly and make
heavier crops at the same expense