The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-12-20
THIS WEEKS PAPER-SOME RANDOM COM
MENT,
MENT.

tobacco growers are by no means standing idle.
We are glad to print this week letters from Presi
dent S. c. Adams and M. W. B. Veazey on this
topic. The article "To Probe Tobacco Trusts"
will be found of less interest to growers of the
week. On page 2, Mr.. W. G. Smith discusses the
advisability of rotation for tobacco farmers.
Mr.. Samuel Archer concludes in this number
his series of papers Irish potatoes, and exceed
ingly helpful papers they have been. We
glad to announce that Mr. Archer will now discuss
the possibilities of cooperation in farming.
"Winter Course Student" submits some reasons
why young farmers-and older ones too, for that
matter-ought to attend the winter courses in
agriculture and dairying at agricultural col
leges. There is certainly no better way for spend
ing the leisure season on the farm.
Entomologist Sherman, readers will be
pleased to see, has now resumed his "Talks on In
sect Pests" We especially commend his sugges-
tions as to spraying preparations for next year.
For the production of the best fruit, spraying
has now become almost absolute necessity, and
the work should be planned in time.
In his article on page 3, Dr. TAFT Butler pre-
sents in very vivid fashion the wasteful folly of
North Carolina farmers in blowing 100000
S3OOO,OOO worth of the best cattle feeds into the
ground every year Perhaps in no phase of
than right here Read what DR.. Battle says to
the feeding value of cottonseed meal and cowpea
hay And his article which will appear next week,
is quite strong this.
Two charming contributions lend timeliness to
this holiday number of The Progressive Farmer
and Cotton Plant-"C christmas" by our gifted new
South Carolina contributor, "Jeanie Deans" and
The Lesson of Christmas" by Mr.. 6. Ed. Kestler,
who wields no less facile pen. Excellent articles
of more practical sort are furnished by "Aunt
Jennie" and Mrs. Ransier. The poem. "The Little
Feller's Stockin'," is full of human nature and
therefore full Of human interest. We also
mend to our readers GA Christmas Came" on page
IA, though confess can't understand what
place "egotism" and "over-confdence" have in Mr..
Walkers table. In playing the game should
eliminate these and thus make the maximum score
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The flood of cotton matter last week, regret
to say made it necessary to delay the publication
of State Lecturer Cates's account of his recent
tour of Johnston County. What he has to say,
however is still interesting, and will be found in
full on page 5.
We again ask the attention of all country
teachers to the series of Nature Study Lessons
contributed by DR.. F. L. Stevens. And even where
teachers fail to take this matter, parents and
children should find it interesting to do so. But
every teacher should inaugurate Nature Study
teaching after the Christmas vacations. See
that yours does this. And we hope that every
reader whom this paper reaches before Tuesday
night, Goth, will look for the phenomenon de-
scribed by Prof. Lanneau on page 6.
About the best thing in last weeks Progressive
Farmer and Cotton Plant was DR.. Burketts edi-
torial on "Reading" If you missed it, look it up;
if you read it, put it's ideas into practice. The