The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-19


that shoxld have been picked and marketed
months ago. With all the idle labor there has
been our farms during the winter and all the
pretty weather we have had, such wastefulness Is
inexcusable Some of the people who have failed
to pick this high-priced 15-cent cotton may live
through another period of hard times when they
will be forced to save the last locks of G. and s.
cent cotton.
s-e' Il 70 o'
1t is announced by Prof. P. P. Garner that the
member of the Boys Corn Club OF each county
making the largest yield OF corn In $40 will be
given diploma signed by the Governor the State
Superintendent of Education. and the Commits
sioner OF Agriculture Of Mississippi ste' a
Some OF our readers seem to expect the Mothers
Magazine which we have been clubbing with about
four times often as it is printed. 4 Please re-
member that 1t Is published only once a month
The Illustrations used in our Corn Special last
week were from More and Better Corn" only
one OF the many useful publications issued by our
advertisers and sent free of charge to readers
II you wish to get this free book on corn raising.
drop postal to Deere & Mansur Department Q.
Moline, I'll. The Illustrations on our front page
this week are reproduced by courtesy of the Indus
trial Department OF the Norfolk and Western
Railway.
A dispatch from vicksburg. Miss, says that
hotel there has been serving bread made from
cottonseed meal. and that 1t tastes as good as
graham bread. Whether or not It would be worth
while to boost cottonseed meal for human food
there Is no doubt about the shameful waste in
volved In using It as fertilizer without arsi
feeding it to live stock. II would be almost ss
foolish to use wheat bran a fertilizer This
year cottonseed meal is a more expensive source
OF nitrogen than any other fertilizer product and
we hope 1t will keep going up until nobody will
use 1t as fertilizer. When we get to feeding all
me meal to live stock our soils will become rich
er. and our farmers. too.
We have been saying that you can't AFFORD to
waste your time and sweat this year on scrub
seed. scrub stock. or out-of-date tools. Another
thing to remember Is. that you can't AFFORD 10
waste your time on scrub papers either This
thought from Walaces Farmer cannot be too
strongly emphasized:
1T is not the cost OF the paper 1.-THE high
est price is nothing). but II Ia the time wasted
In reading matter OF no value that determines
the actual price OF paper. Besides. these
papers, getting less than the cost OF the
white paper out OF their subscribers are
obliged to take almost any kind OF adyertis-
ing that Is offered. and hence lead the reader
II he reads them at ALL into foolish invest
ments 1t Is only the paper that charges a
good price and requires each subscriber To
pay his share that can AFFORD to turn down
fake, deceptive and immoral advertisements"
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Some people pretend to think that The Progress
sive Farmer and Gazette is not In sympathy with
the one-horse farmer simply because It is con.
tinually urging the advantage OF two-horge fmple-
ments and machinery. One might as well sav
that you are not in sympathy with sick person
when you urge him to get well. We want TO