The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-28
Tu1s WEEKS PAPER-SOME RANDOM COM
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IL week. The rain guage suggested by Harry
r,rmcr is so very simple and serviceable that we
bono TO see a large number of our readers adopt
49, idea It would have saved much inconveni-
oroo during the rainy weather this spring and
nil he needed more or less throughout the plow-
mo season. When the ground is too wet, it is
cleaner to pay a man to twirl his fingers than to
plow.
Orr correspondent, Mr.. Taylor, a native of
North Carolina, but just now in Louisiana, makes
somc serious suggestions for fathers of farm
bovs We notice that Mr.. Taylor's idea is also
bronoht out in an article in the current number
Of Farm and Fireside, which we hope to reprint
noxc week.
One Icscs nothing by stopping a minute now and
then to see in what direction he is travelling and
what speed he is making. Mr.. Calvin's review
Of recent agricultural progress in North Caro-
lima contains much to encourage us. He is a
tbonghtfuI writer and knows how to make stats
tics interesting.
Our Easy Science Study" this week is from the
pn of DR.. Burkett, of the A. & M. College. The
remaining articles in Mr.. Bereman's series will be
taken up later, but just now there are three are
four especially seasonable articles from other
writer's that we wish to include.
The Charge of the Light Brigade" referred to
in Tennyson's famous poem, on page 6, occurred
in the battle of BalakIava in the Crimean War,
October 25. 1854. Through a misconception of
orders" is is said, "the Lord Lucan, commander
of the English cavalry, ordered Lord Cardigan,
with the Light Brigade, to charge the Russian
artillery. With a battery in front and one on
each side, the Light Brigade hewed its way past
the gun III front and routed the enemies cavalry.
Of go horsemen engaged, 1913 returned" But it
Is established, we believe, that in the battle of
Gettysburg the Twenty-sixth North Carolina
Regiment sustained a heavier loss than did the
Light Brigade at Balaklava, and there was no
misconccption of orders in the terrible charge of
the Twenty-sixth. Eighty-fve per cent of it's men
We're killed or wounded. The founder of The Pro
grcssivc Farmer, by the way, was a member of
that regiment.
What Mrs. Allen says on page 6 about the ma
fre and effects of patent medicines will doubtless
surprise not many of our readers, but we do not
doubt that she is right. "Americans," says DR..
Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University" are
or!ou~Iy subject to medical decisions; because
ary easily fall victims to that commonest of
llaces:-this preceded that, therefore this
preceded that, therefore this caused that; or
" >'f''r phrase, what preceded caused. For eX-
ample; was sick; I took such and such a medi-
N"7 and afterward got we'll; Therefore the medi-
.' cured me- When, the fact is, the man who
rr,> a glowing testimonial for Smiths Pills very
I'~ got we'll in spite of them, not because of
""" In thousands Of cases the medicine itself
very little good but the hygienic rules which
" De observed while the medicine is taken do
a recovery. a man who takes plenty of ex
N'"r~ IN good humor and sleeps eight hours
'-"' VIII need very little medicine. Solomon
d I'' d long time ago that "a merry heart
good like medicine" and Longfellow has
rrr r = a wise though homely Dutch proverb