The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18
THIS WEEKS PAPER-sOME RANDOM
COMMFNT.

spondent, will doubtless interest
many of our readers. Ga page 8
we publish another notice of Prof.
Soule's new bulletin, which we re-
gard as one of the most important
recently issued by the government
Get a package of % or so postal cards
from your postmaster, and whenever
you Q a notice of a bulletin or a
manufacturers catalogue that you
wish, take out a postal and write for
a copy.
Harry Farmer furnishes some use
full hints on Irish potato growing
Next week he will tell of a few COM
mon mistakes in farm fertilizing
Mr.. Warren's letter, "Our Friends
in Feathers" directs attention to
the value of birds to agriculture,
upon which subject we had another
article last week. We shall also
give in our next issue an essay by an
A. and M. College student on the re
lation of sparrows to agriculture
We hope these articles will bring
some of the unthinking to realize
the folly of wholesale bird destruo-
ton.
Within a few years we expect to
see cheese making rather extensively
carried on in North Carolina. Prof.
Connell, on page l., describes how the
work is done on a small scale.
Director Redding's paper on the
home-mixing of fertilizers is plain
and practical.
The next article, "Dairying Pays"
is short, but it contains material
enough TO keep one thinking for a
week.
"The Elegy in a Country Church
yard" is universally recognized as
one of the very greatest poems of the
English language, and we make no
apology for giving it two columns of
our space. AS Bacon tells Us in his
oft quoted sentence, some pieces of
literature ''are TO be tasted, others
to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and d~igested." Gray's Elegy
unquestionably belongs to the last
named GLASS and the ''chewing and
digesting'' of it will be worth more
to the average man than the reading
of any hundred new poems that will
appear this year.
Last week the leading article On
page 4 was of special interest TO wo-
men this weeks is addressed espe
cislly TO young men, though all ages
and both sexes, it seems to US, would
find Ian Maolaren's article delightful
and helpful reading. 1t crowds out
"Our Social Chat" we + sorry TO
say, but that department will be the
fuller next week.
making Impressions on a Child"
reminds Us of what a well-equipped
teacher said TO US last week: 81
am almost afraid to teach, when l
think of the responsibility of i'm
planting my views and ideals in the
minds of children-when l think of
what a wrong impression, or the
failure TO give a right impression,
on these plastic minds, may mean in
the years to come" The thought
deserves the attention of our teach.
ers, many of whom, we are glad to
know, read THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
We suppose hat our good lady
friends will say that a MAINLAND of
all men, a young men-should not
have anything to say regarding wo.
mans affairs nevertheless, il seems
TO Us that no other poem that we
have published for years ought to
set a woman to thinking so hard az
that one on Fashion" on page S.
Isn't it worth bordering over that
while every year on the frills and
PROVINCES of fashion enough time
and money and worry are wasted to
build a pyramid or move a mountain,
the flowers keep only a few beautiful,
becoming patterns, yet never look
odd or old-fashioned? Is there no
lesson here?
We r about ready to agree with
the old doctor whose striking rebuke
to one of the most foolish of habits
is recorded in the article, Reckless
Drug Taking" We believe that
hundreds of our readers will do we'll
o take it's teachings TO heart.
The new cabinet position, men
toned in the Outlook's article, NAV
suit the commercial Glasses, but as a
Labor DeDartmenk il il q nnuardln