The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-25
Notes on Recent Issues.

TN VIRGINIA last week l saw them barring
off" corn. and like Mr. French l would like to
- know why they do 1t. / suppose because
everybody else does and their fathers did, for |
saw them going through with the little pows
where there little grass Looking from
the train, wished that could stop and tell these
men how much needless labor they using.
for the land light and level and weeder
would have enabled them to run over rapidly.
And then. just as l was plying the men who were
harrington, the train passed a field where / saw
man going over his corn with a weeder and anoth-
er using weeder across the sweet potato rows,
and thanked Heaven that the leaven is taking.
The men who were using weeders know not
going to use turning pillow in their fields, and
ere long their neighbors will learn the advantage
of the weeder. Then l three hands thinning
cotton where weeder had evidently been used
across the rows. and again / felt thankful that
some are finding out the better way and do not
have to hoe of the crust around the cotton on
high beds
SOY BEANS OR COWPEAS-Mr Zeno Moore
think that the soy bean beats the cowpea. Well.
l have nothing to say against the soys and am
only too glad that men are taking more interest
In legume 10 age. But can get more feed an
acre from peas than from soys. IL you leave out
the hard stalks that are not eaten But either
peas or soys followed by crimson clover Will en-
able farmer to get rich, and make his land rich
IL properly used.
SAVE PEAS FOR SEED.-The farmers who
have grown no peas for seed and who think they
can not afford to buy the seed should study what
DR.. Butler says The Southern farmer can not
anord not to SOW peas and feed them, and no
Southern farmer need have TO buy the
seed, but should have them to sell regularly to
the people northward who find II hard to mature
them and to those down on the Gulf Coast where
they do not seed well. The sugar planters of
Louisiana always buy them and never fall to use
them.
'REFLECTION ON THE SOUTH"-Nr poe
is right in what he replies the one who objected
TO what he thought was reflection on the South
We need OF all things to know wherein we are
lacking and tagging behind other sections The
stan OF The Progressive Farmer and Gazette are
nearly all Southern-born, and even Dr. Butler.
thougn not born In the South, has been so identi-
fled with Southern interests for SO MANY wears
that he is real Southerner and as anxious as are
we VINO are native to the soil to help the Southern
farmers to better and more profitable practices
Personally, have given my life to the work of
Southern farm improvement and am fully ac
quainted with the farming OF other sections and
know that we need much in the South TO nut the
farming where 1t should be- Let us get tho
southern lands where there be no reflection"
10 tell what other folks are doing. 1t Is no reaac
ton on the South to say that we are behindba
In many respects The North never was desolatod
by armies nor robbed by carpet -baggers and The
south has had hard road to travel but she 10
getting there" and only wish that | could live
to see her lead the whole country In farmino 90
she should e' ~
But last year. want to say. | saw gullies and