The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-29
HARRY FARMERS TALKS.
LXXIl.
R.. A. DIX.

Cor of The Progressive Farmer.
We wanted 20 write about a'heauti-
full farm this week but we must reply
to Jack Johnson's letter in. The Pro
gressive Farmer of July %.
Now, Jack, while we were too young
to serve in the army under Lee and
Jackson we had some uncles In it and
one of them never came back. We
love the old soldiers for fighting for
what they believed to be right and for
this same reason we propose to cross
swords with you. There are men and
women who have learned to read that
have passed through as many battles
as you have, and we are not going to
accept your excuse of not being able
to read because you marched under
Stonewal Jackson's flag.
We hope that you will point to the
article hat Jane pasted on the wall
every day and call the attention of
Brother Jones and every one else to it
so that it will impress upon TIE minds
of Bill, Joe and Malissa Ann that they
may not follow in the steps of dad
dy," but keep up with the van of pro-
gressive farmers and not have to work
so much with their hands, but be able
to live better than their Daddy" and
be more useful to the world.
Yes,you want the negroes to outstrip
your children in the race of life just
as far as he outruns you with his bicy-
Gle as you walk to town now. We do
not believe in taking the money that
belongs to the whites and giving it to
educate the negroes, but we want the
day to come when every man will be
forced to send his children to school
and have them educated, so that their
life will not be spent in slavery far
worse than that of the negroes before
the Civil War.
We have not lived in a stocklaw
community and cannot give any ex-
perience, but we think it would be far
better to tie the hogs and cattle to
CRAZE than for them to be tied down
in a bog in the spring because you
let them get so weak that they could
not break a little jasmine vine in two.
The cattle in the stocklaw communi-
ties do not have to wait till July be-
fore they get enough to eat to make
them shed off the winter coat of rough
hair, but are nice and sleek early in
March and turning out a pound of
butter a day, while the others do not
give more than a quart of milk a day
and the cream on that not thicker than
the blade of the knife got eat dinner
with.
Your hogs may "out run, out live
and out weigh" ours but we can as
sure you that your meat will out cost
ours too, twice over. 1t is not the
man who raises the largest hogs that
makes the most meat or the most
profit from hog farming. You might
expect, Jack, that fine stock treated
like you treat yours would come to
nothing. Improved stock will pay
well when taken care of, but cannot
be profitable when neglected. An i'm
proved corn shelter will shell more
corn in one hour than you can shell
by hand In a day but you must turn
the crank and put thescorn in the hop
per. So to get any good from fine
stock or good materials of any kind
you must give them attention.
Now, Jack, take two pigs, n of
your old breed and get two of some
improved breed; then give them all
they will eat this summer and fall, and
if the improved ones do not make
more meat than the others, we will
throw away our pen and go and work
for you.
HARRY FARMER.
Columbus Co., N. G.