The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01
THIS WEEKS P

The article on watermelon grow
ing, printed on page 1, contains
many useful suggestions and pos
sesses also the merit of timeliness.
Prof. Irby, il will be remembered, is
now engaged in business in Beau
mont, Texas.
The reports of farm conditions in
Beaufort and Carteret Counties are
good, but we should have at least a
half dozen such letters each week.
Nor is it hard now TO get up an in
teresting batch of farm news items.
We should like TO have reports from
every county as to change in acreage
of different crops, quantity of fer.
tilizer purchased, outlook for fruit
and trucking crops, general oondi-
ton of the farmers, etc., etc.
The boys on the farm will thank
Harry Farmer for his defence of
fishing. Many a farmer, too, would
do we'll to consider the statement,
ga day off from home will do any
farmer good" Nor should 1t be for
gotten that this statement applies
with equal force to the farmers
wife. The farmer gets the needed
change of cen by trips TO town for
supplies or to the p~ostofice for the
mail; the wife remains at home.
When she does get an opportunity to
stake a day off, therefore, the fam
lily should urge her to do so-even if
her departure means cold viotuals
for one or two meals.
We again direct attention TO DIR.
Kilgore's exposure of the Lipps fer
tilizer scheme, and we also repeat
the request that all interested read
ers apply to the Department of Agri-
culture, Raleigh, for a copy of the
February Bulletin containing a oom-
plete copy of the '~'prooess" as filed in
the Patent Office, with it's every
feature explained by DR.. Kilgore.
The fourth installment of DIR. But
ler's "Beef Production in the South"
appears on page 8. Every one who
feeds stock will find this chapter
worth reading. A moments con-
SiderRtion of the enormous sum
spent in every State every year in
feeding cattle alone, will show the
Importance of rational and economi-
cal feeding. 1t is unfortunately
true, as DR.. Butler suggests, that
talk of balanced rations appalls the
average farmer-a condition of affairs
the mor regrettable since any man
of ordinary Intelligence can with
very little study get such an under
standing of the subject as will en-
able him, in every day feeding, to
save money that is worth the saving.
DIR. Bur kett, whose letter arrived
too late to appear on page 1 or 8,
makes a suggestion (and it deserves
attention right now as TO the plant
ing of a corn patch for summer feed
for dairy COWS.
Mr.. Keith speaks very briefly of
the Importance of industrial train.
ing in the public schools. We should
like for him and others to discuss
the matter at greater length.
"Ruralist" furnishes some remi-
~nisoenoes that will interest many
readers. Will not some of our other
subscribers who can tell something
of times unlike those in which we
are now living, follow Ruralist's ex-
ample, and write Us about the "good
old days of long ago.?
In our series of poetioal selections,
we are quoting chiefly from authors
of worldwide fame. An exception
is made in the case of Archibald
Lampman, but we make no apology
for this. Except Kipling's "Reces-
sional" and Markham's oman With
she Hoe" we know of no short poem
that has appeared in English within
the last decade chat we regard as
nobler than THE Largest Life" 1t
is a poem that should live. Written
for the Atlantic Monthly, it appeared
in that magazine three years ago.
Some sound advice as to the
"Duties of Husbands and Wives" is
given in the article with this title on
page 5, also in the one entitled
"Partners''; but the editor, for oh
vious reasons, refrains from further
discussion of the subject.
Aunt Jennie has a practical letter
on flowers for the country home ;
and we do hope that the men on the
farms will 90 operate with the wo.