The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-10
Trucking, Fertinzer-Mixing, Farm Pride, and Other
Topics.
Editors Progressive Farmer:

IlnS WOrk well III ndnQ OOWn mere IN CfdV0u.
Cotton planting is nearly finished and corn is
coming up nicely. Some came up In time to be
cut back by the last frost. Perhaps the worst
loss to our truckers was in early peas and straw
berries. Peas have not blossomed well, and of the
first blooms, not one in five will make a pea.
Strawberries bloomed well but were badly killed
by the late frosts; perhaps not one bloom in five
will make a berry.
Cabbage plants were nearly all killed about here
last fall and some of us planted some seed in cold
frames the last of November and protected them
from the hardest cold. These were set in the field
in March and now are nearly IN with those that
were set in November. A number ran to seed in
our late planted seed while the early set ones are
running to seed considerably. Irish potatoes are
up, worked out, and looking well to have been
bitten so often by frost. Beans were not all
killed, and some fields had very few killed though
three frosts came on them after they were up.
Surely beans are tougher to resist cold now, than
the kind our mothers had so years ago. But they
don't taste any better.
We had a nice warm shower to-day, and nature
responded so beautifully that we could almost
see the corn, cabbage and potatoes grow.
I surely agree with my brother farmer, III. M.
Daniel, of Madison Couty, who says, II am hear
tily sorry for any man who is farming for money
merely" 1t is true that money when properly
used is a great lever power, but there are some en-
joyments on the farm which money, or the desire
for it cannot give. Nothing but love for the
work, a desire and constant aim to make a home
on the farm-not a mansion, but a home where
love for the beauties of nature predominant, a de-
sire to be in touch with nature-the home direct
ing the farm and the farm supplying the home
with the best of earth's products fresh each day
from the fountain of supplies, old mother earth.
Thus sunshine, shower, heat and cold, all join un-
der "Our Senior Partner" a kind Heavenly
Father, to make life on the farm the highest ideal
of life on earth.
/ am also sorry for the farmer who does not
feel his partners" close relation as he contem-
plates the part our kind Father takes in our
work. He does nearly all and gives us the means
for the little we do. Surely the farmer is the
junior partner in this the most important work
done by man. And when / say man, [ mean to
include, of course, mans better half (and often
three-fourths), in this grand work of making a
homeland more than three-fourths often in max
ing the home happy.
If we look at all our Father sends as blessings,
we soon learn to appreciate what at first seemed
a misfortune and no where else is this as true as
to the farmer, as he comes in closest contact with
the elements of nature.
Some of our fruit (peaches and pears) has been
cut off, but there is enough left on some trees, and
what is left will be better for the thinning. The
apple crop seems to set full. I have just put the
second spraying on my apple trees, and they are
looking well. May need some fruit pruning.
I use the Garfield Knapsack sprayer, a copper
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