The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
THIS WEEKS PAPER-SOME RANDOM cow
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bean eve believe it is now more commonly snoLon
of as the sofa BEAM seems to have aroused consid
cradle interest among our readers, and we ara
glad to get the experience and opinion of Prof
J. M. johnson, formerly Connected with our OWN
Experiment Station and A. & NJ. COLLEGE, as 70
the value of the crop. In answer to a correspond-
ent as to where seed can be purchased, we have
to say that they are regularly offered for sale
by two of our advertisers, Messrs. 7. B. Parker
of Raleigh, and T. W. Wood & Sons, of Rich
mond. The same inquirer, by the way, speaks Of
his failure to get agricultural bulletins asked of
the Department of Agriculture, Raleigh. We
shouldn't be surprised if there is some confusion
here. Persons desiring the "Monthly Bulletin"
of the State Department of Agriculture can get
it free by applying to the Department of Agri-
culture, Raleigh" but applications for what are
known as "Farmers' Bulletins" should be adj
dressed to the department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. c."
We commend to every one who writes for the
press the advice, "Use Short, Familiar Words"
given on page G.. There is everything to gain
and nothing to lose by this course. The reader
will grasp your meaning more quickly, you will ex-
press yourself more easily, and your letter will
lack the labOred, unnatural style that is like moth
ing else so much as a country negro wearing a
city dudes fnery. Matter, not ~clatter, is what
the editor and the reader wants. "Be natural
and write what is in you" as the Alabama teach
er (see page y advised.
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Another article we'll worth attention is "Look-
ing at Pictures" on page I. It is hard to overestt
mate the educational and aesthetic value of good
1;o+,,roc -, +bo bo0,O oDJ yro hama +Io+ rODn Of
our readers who have money to use in adjoining
the house will invest it all in carpets and curtains
and furniture. Nor are good pictures hard to
obtain now. Effective reproductions of great
masterpieces can be bought at ridiculousIy low
prices.
"Of all the vagaries of women"-this is the
way or clipping on "Superstition" begins. But
everybody knows that this particular Vagary IS
by no means confined to women. The worst Of bad
luck that an unfavorable moon can bring you IS
to cause you to put off your work too long wait
ing for a favorable one. The worst of bad luck
that Friday or "13" can bring you is to make you
afraid to start or to do what you ought to start
or to do that day.
An article that may save you many hard-earned
dollars is that by DR.. Henry Wallace on page H.
Traps to Catch Farmers" The only safe rule
is to avoid all these get-rich-quick schemes, and
put your money where you can mix your own
brains with it. AS DR.. Wallace says: "Put your
money into better stock, into better fences, Imo
tile drains, into better buildings, into another
farm; put it anywhere, provided it is within your
control, and in the line of your general business
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The article on page "A might we'll be descrIIOeq
as a recipe for making Presidents, and as Sqc3 -
Will doubtless interest the several thousand ~
readers of The Progressive Farmer who have peer
told that they may some day sit in the seat %
Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln. Ana lo
reminds us of a boy we once knew-a schoohna"
of the Editor's-whose father would often try ~
spur his boys through a hard lesson by sugge'IIn69