The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-05
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Farmers excellent suggestions for ascertaining
the value of commercial fertilizers: The ingre-
dents of the commercial fertilizer often make
available some of the elements of natural fertility
cause the plant to use more of the plant food
in the soil than it would use without the hberating
influence of the guano. This is an unknown guam
tity, but it must always be reckoned with in esti-
mating the value of fertilizer.
We are glad to welcome Entomologist Sherman
to our columns again, and we commend to our
readers his offer to assist and advise in the fight
on any insect pest that appears in the State. He
has accomplished much good by his work, and our
readers will find him prompt, courteous and eff
cient.
ulysses" is not so well known as are many of
Temyson's other poems, but in our opinion it is
one of his best. As the expression of a bold, adj
venturous, t~ireless spirit-"strong in will to strive,
to seek, to find, and not to yield,"-it has never
been excelled.
. "The Hygiene of the Farmhouse" we regard as
one of the most practical and helpful articles that
has appeared in The Progressive Farmer this year
and we trust that it's length will not deter the
reader from giving it a careful perusal. Some
people seek success; some seek pleasure; but
health is the cornerstone of both success and
pleasure, and should be therefore a primary con-
sideration of both classes. DR.. Sternberg's aticle
is one that deserves to be read a second time and
then filed away for further reference.
The note regarding the American emigration
to Canada calls attention to one of the most sig
%pifcant of recent developments regarding the
movement of population. An acquaintance of
ours was telling us the other day of a friend of his
who bought land in Manitoba a few years ago and
can now sell it for three times it's original price.
Hon. J. Weston, writing in the English magazine,
the Nineteenth Century, maintains that "what the
United States was to the nineteenth century, Can
ada will be to the twentieth" This is doubtless
claiming too much, but Canada's future is unde-
niably one of remarkable promise.
We look for the rural telephone to go forward
almost as rapidly during the next ten years as
rural mail delivery has done in the last decade.
What Union County farmers have done at small
cost and with little labor, as several times set
forth in these columns, shows that this is no idle
dream. The article on page II names only a few
of the many advantages of the system. The Pro-
gressive Farmer will be glad to hear at any time
from any of it's readers who are interested.
We are printing on page 5 Col. .Cuningham's
call for a State meeting of the Farmers Pro-
tective Association, and ON page II a report of
the progress made by Special Organizer GraveIy.
The Progressive Farmer welcomes all movements
looking to a closer union of the farmers, and we
shall be glad ~to-have our Farmers Association
friends advertise their meetings in our columns
and send us reports for publication.
DR.. Freman's letter on sofa beans brings a dis
cordant note into the chorus of praise. DR.. Free
man probably should not have judged the crop by
one test, but we are glad to publish his letter as a
caution to those who are prone to experiment
with new crops on. too large a scale. Try the sofa
bean, but try it on a small scale at first. By the
way, DR.. Robert G. Morris, of Olney, Ill, who
wrote the first of our present series of letters on