The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-20
HARRY FARMERS TALKS.
Ill.

Harry Farmer does not like to see
so many stumps in the fields. He
has been made happy sitting by the
fires in the old chimney filed with
old stumps taken out of the fields
during the previous winter, and thor
oughly dried. These same stumps
have warmed me, and others, too,
(but can't say we were happy
when cutting the grass, bushes and
weeds from around them and never
getting one cents worth of crops for
our labOrs for ten, or may be fifty,
years, not to say a word about the
plOw points, back bands and traces
! broken.
Gather all the COW peas you can.
They are worth 81 per bushel now.
That means nearly 50 next year when
you want seed.
Push the pigs. Give them a variety
of foods. They will eat more and
thrive better. Harry has had fair
success with pigs and always feeds
them on corn, COW peas, sweet pota-
toes, collards, etc, when fattening
them, finishing on the first named
article. We will have something to
say about pigs again.
Get ready for school as it will be-
! gin soon if not already open. Send
your children every day You think
your lot has been rather hard in the
battle of life, but it was not half as
hard as your boy and girl will see
| without an education.
Now is a good time to subscribe to
some good papers. You have some
money and the papers will give you
one or two months extra if you sub
scribe now. No farmer can succeed
without reading some good agricul-
tural papers. Every merchant has
his market reports brought to him
daily in his paper so that he can
know exactly what to do. Take The
Progressive Farmer and make farm
ing business.
You had better mark your seeds
with good label so that you will
know what to plant next season.
Corn, cotton and some garden seeds
look alike, but sometimes there is a
big difference in the yield. Harry
Farmer has had some. trouble along
this line. HARRY FARMER.
Columbus Co, N. G..
BETTER FARM IMPLEMENTS NEEDED.
We are always glad to receive a
letter from Prof. j. B. Hunnicutt,
and in addition to the articles he oc-
casionally cOntri butes to The Pro
gressive Farmer, we often quote
from his writings to other papers.
In the last issue of the Southern Cul-
tivator, he has a thoughtful letter
on farm implements. Southern ag-
riculture can make no material prog
ress without improved farm imple-
ments and farm machinery, and we
heartily endorse Mr.. Hunnicutt's s
suggestions. He says:
The Southern farmer has reached
the point where he must use more
machinery. He cannot compete sue
cessfully with other farmers if he
does not. Hand labor is too expen-
sive if he can get it. But he cannot
always command enough for it. 1t
is getting scarcer and less satisfac-
tory every year.
AS the old ante bellum labor passes
from the farm, we find it more and
more difficult to get the kind and
quality of workers we wish.
The new labor wants to work
fewer months and shorter hours, and
demands higher pay.
Then again, he is not reliable. You
cannot count on his carrying out his
contract He is expensive on ac-
count of the direct pay, and more
expensive when you consider the in
direct-the incidentals that you did
not agree to give, but which are
nevertheless gone from the farm.
IMPROVED IMPLEMENTS DO BETTER
WORK.
The time has come when we must
produce more per acre. The compe-
tition in prices grows heavier each
year Rapid transit makes it so
easy for distant points to send com
peting articles that we must be pre-
pared to price against any and every
competitor. The only way to cheaper
production is to produce more per
acre, and decrease the cost of cult