The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-04
HIS WEEKS PAPER-SOME RANDOM
COMMENTS.

week, and the last OF Lne Corn OroWlng 1alkS an
pears in this number. We have seldom published
two more valuable series of articles than these
and we hope that hundreds of our readers will
utilize their teachings in this years farming o.
~erations. In the report of these five year expert
ments we have the most striking illustration vet
furnished of the value of the Department of
Agriculture's Test Farms. And this leads rs to
saw that the mountain Test Farm is to begin on
cations this year, and that Wilmington and Fav-
etteville are contesting holly as to which town
shall have the farm proposed for that section.
DIR. Freeman's testimony to the value of spray
ing is no stronger than that which could be given
bv thousands and thousands of other farmers,
And should not the bald fact that an inexpensive
spraying apparatus enabled him to have more
fruit last year than for all the five previous years
combined-should not this set you to thinking?
Write Prof. Franklin Sherman, Raleigh, for his
free bulletins OH spraying. Also see the note on
spraying on page 2.
Mr.. Gerald McCarthy's paper on improving
rundown lands is full of good suggestions, and the
same is true of the Georgia Experiment Stations
report on "Fertilizers for Corn" On the same page
Mr.. ]. Washington Watts seems to give a fair and
full statement as to the effect of feeding sor-
ghum tc stock.
But all in all, the most valuable article in this
number is DR.. TAFT Buffers informing paper on
"The Value of Cottonseed in Feeding Cattle"
People are only beginning to appreciate the value
of this great Southern by-product which once
went almost utterly to waste, and is not yet
utilized to half the good advantage it might be.
DR.. Buffers article is worth filing away for fur
Their consideration next winter.
Mr.. T. B. Parker's additional suggestions on
alfalfa growing will be welcomed by many read
ers who have become interested in that crop.
Now IS the time to plant.
The rotation of crops doesn't yet get the atten-
ton from our farmers it should have, and the ar
ticle on this subject should cause some of them
to plan more wisely in deciding what crops to
Put on different fields this season.
We are glad that so many country teachers
are regular readers of The Progressive Farmer
and Cotton Plant. e Now when agriculture and
natuer study are beginning to find such a large
place in the school work, no teacher can do it
Justice without reading a good farm paper. But
what we started out to say is that if your teach
er is not one of these who read The Progressive
Farmer regularly, you should remind him or her
of DIR. Stevens's article on page 5. Every teacher
in the State should have the bulletin to which ref
erence is made in this article.
Edgar G.. Pinckney, whose "Serenade" we
print this week, belonged to the celebrated South
Carolina family of that name. His "a Health"
which we used in our last issue is one of the most
popular American poems.
The Raleigh Times gives good advice in the az
ticle, every Woman Should Learn to Cook" re-
printed on page 6. The girls are learning in
Raleigh, where sewing and cooking are regularly
taught in the public schools; and the same thing
is true of Durham. After awhile we shall have
central high schools throughout the country dis