The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-03-28
NAME YOUR FARM.

"Name your farm"-this is one of The Progress
sive Farmers hobbies along with good roads,
good schools, school libraries, rural mail delivery,
ETC.. etc. Our "Aunt Jennie" has also joined the
Editor in advocacy of this p~raiseworthy move
ment, and her appeal has called forth the follow
ing letter from a correspondent:
"Some time ago I read a letter of yours urging
farmers to name their farms. The people of our
reighborhood have been discussing the idea, and
are pleased with tin fact, are ready to take it
uL-but the greatest difficulty is to decide on ap-
propriate names. Will it be asking too much of
you to send us a list of names9 We will greatly
appreciate the kindness.
"Our homes are in the Tobacco Belt of the PIED
mont section. We had planned to name our farm
FOakdale,' the house being surrounded by a grove
of large oak trees of which we have always been
proud; they are so majestic in appearance, and we
also enjoy the shade afforded by them. But some
one told us there would probably be some confu-
sion about our mail, as there Is a postottce of
that name in the State. Do you consider this a
probable difhculty2 Our name would be 'Oakdalc
Farm. of course, with the name of our p~ostofice
and rural route on the mail"
This letter has now been referred to the Editor
for reply. 1t is enough for us to say now that we
are glad that people are becoming interested in
this matter of naming the farms; the arguments
in its favor have been too often set forth In our
paper to require repetition. The fact that some
~Postofice has the name you wish for your farm is
not a serious difficulty, if you are only careful to
put your full address-name of farm, name of
p~ostofice and rural mail route-on each letter.
As to the list of suitable names, we count our
selves fortunate in having recently put aside just
such a list, and We hope that its publication here
with will cause many moro readers to become in
terested in this one of The Progressive Farmers
hobbies. The list follows:
Alta Vista, Apple Grove, Ashland, Brookside,
Burroaks, Big Rock, Beech Grove, Broadmoor,
Beechland, Briar Ranch, Brightwood, Bayside,
CIoverdale, Cool Greek, Cedar Hill, Cherry Hill,
C%iaymont, Crystal Springs, Creekside, Clear View,
Charter Oak, Cool Spring, Crystal Lake, Deep
Spring, Dearfoot, Elm View, Englewood, Edge
wood, Elmwood, East View, Echo Farm, Fair
Dale, Fernwood, Fern Cottage, Forest Grove,
Paramount, Fair Lawn, Fern Hill, Fair Oaks,
Grcendale, Glendale, Golden Gate, Grassmere,
Greenfield, Greenwood, Greendell, HOPE Farm,
hillside Home, Hickory Grove, Hedge Lane, Ha-
ze!hurst, Hillcrest, Hill View, Hill Top, Heart
s1ease, Home Farm, Ingleside, Idlewild, Indian
spring, Lone Tree, Lake View, Linden, Locust
Hill, Linden Hall, Lake Home, Underwood, Lo-
Gust Lane, Mound Hill, Mt. Pleasant, Maple Glen,
Meadow Brook, Mt. Hope, Mt. Prospect. May
wood, Milldale, Mount Rose, Mirror Lake, Maple
Wood, Maple Hill, Maplehurst, North View, Oak
land, Oak View, Oak Ridge, Oakdale, Oak Lawn,
UWIwood, Orchard Knot, Pine Tree, Pleasant
valley, Pleasant Grove, Pinewood, Plainfeld,
T%lnehurst, Pine Bluff, Pine Ridge, Riverside
Earm, Rose Cottage, Roadside, Rosedale, Rocky