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ruuit News for I TENANTS SHOULD AIM AT HOME OWNERSHIP The history of man and his efforts to maintain government shows conclusively that the home-owner is the rock upon which the structure of covernment rests. Decrease the percentage of these rocks, and the structure will totter and fall. More than 50 per cent of the tenants move every year. The tenant feels but a passing interest in his neighborhood; he is seldom a real part of it and for this reason is of little help in its enterprises. His children seldom go to school the entire session and church gets only a slight hold on him. Of all the inventions ever devised by the wit of man for making rich land poor and poor land poorer and keeping it poor, and for making both landlord and renter poor, nothing has ever been devised equal to the one-year renting system. For since a one year lease is the rule, the tenant will get out of the earth all he car>. mining it in fact, and, of course he should not be blamed if he fails to enrich the soil by growing legumes, keeping live stock and fertilizing for the benefit of his successor. Investigation shiws that landlord and tenants are begining to realize that it is the supreme duty of everyone to make every neighborhood a community of home-owners. Thousands of tenants realize that as land values go higher and higher it is going to be increasingly difficult to of wasting the profit from this year's work will use the money to make the first payment on a farm. Now is the time for thousands of tenants to give themselves a mighty boost toeconomic freedom. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR PROSPERITY? For two years we have had more universal prosperity than any of us living can recollent. Farmers have raised good crops and farm products have been a good price. Laboring men have had mon^y to spend for food, clothes and furniture; railroads have had more business; manufacturing war goods require cotton and wool; munitions require metals, and this stimulates mineral production. The average amount of money '* * * *- TMtA/1 liofc that win De spent iuf ?<anii {hvuuv^. in the next twelve months is estimated to be more than a thousand dollars for each farm in the country. What shall this money be spent for? To pay off mortgages, to put our men where they can pay cash. And then what? More land to lie idle? No. For plumbing, lighting and water system in the home and for a nice little trip off somewhere? We hope so. Let us plan for it.? The Progressive Farmer. HOW TO STORE COWPEAS. Under ordinary conditions, the best way to store cowpears is in the pod. The pods serve as a protection for the peas, says ^lemswn If you find some weevils already in them it will be well to fumigate with carbon disulphide for 24 hours vsing a pound of carbon disulphide to 1,000 cubic feet of store room. The store room, of course, must have tight walte, or have them made tight by pasting paper over the cracks. A very common way is to get barrels and fill them with peas, shaking them down thoroughly, but not tramping them enough to break the pods. If there are a good many weevils already in the peas, then it wou'd be advisable to thrash them now and '1 - *? ? av Knrriila preserve tnem in after they have been fumigated.? The Progressive Farmer. "LEST WE FORGET" Don't burn any leaves; save them all. The man who keeps a sagging gate is likely to keeping a sagging bank account. Are you reading "The Hoosier Schoolmaster" aloud one night each week? Sharp tools means easy work. Use the grindstoue, the file and the forge when they are needed. Every farmer ought to have a wheelborrow. Why not begin making one the next rainy day? If you did not grow any corn suitable for seed, maybe one of your neighbors can furnish it to you. Better pay a few cents extra per hundredweight for picking than let cotton get damaged by weather. ^ It's not safe to keep money in the house. v If you haven't started that bank acount, better do so at once. If you have rocks on your farm, fhA Farmpr biiu i ui liiui resolve now to make a "stone boat" or sled and haul them off this winter. It's a good rule never to let a buying anything you hadn't already i decided you needed. Has that rental contract been signed up yet? A 3-cent stamp i sent to The Progressive Farmer will i get you a sample form. In taking out life insurance, patronize only a strong, safe company. ; Consult your friends who have ini vestigated such matters. Now is a good time to begin think1 ing about the farm bookkkeeping. ij Plan to keep strict account of the receipts and expenditure in 1918. . | Keep plenty of leaves and litter in J the stables and barnyard. Comi merciul fertilizers are high-priced i and we should save all tne ierumy I we can, r Green fields in winter advertise the fact that a good farmer ownes the land. What sort of advertisement will you have out for passersby to read? Better get now those convenieni cos you have been so long promis; ;.ng yourself to get for your good . wife. It may never again be so easy to spare the money. Add to your rental contract that you will give your tenant $5 for each extra bale of cotton or extra 50 bushels of corn he makes in 1918 as compared with 1917.?The Progressive Farmer. FARM WORK FOR NOVEMBER The Progressive Farmer. 1.?Put the Waste Land to Work Its time to do away for all time v. Ith the patch-work firming that is r reproach in s*) many sections, * l - _ !i.L I 1 replace n wiui uruau, uptu, v?cn ordered fields. When we see a farm with fence rows overgrown witn infers and bushes, wet hollows that ?row nothing bnt a croo of weeds, l>h?m thickets and brier patches that alternate with gullied and galled 1 !'rides, we know at once we've ! ;onnd a slovenly, unbusinesslike, unru: poet that his menfai workings are like his fields?slovenly, patchy, 1 illordered, with no system or method, Such a man on such a farm is get ting an example that is bad for his children and' his community. Bei coming accustomed to such things, i they will become content "with them. There is no better time than the fall and winter months for putting i these things to rights. There's many a wet hollow, worthless in its present shape, that aline of tile or a good open ditch will make one of the most productive pieces of land ; on the farm, patches of bushes and ; briers, too, must go. They lok bad, in the first place, and they occupy i land that ought to be at work. Let's clean them up, beginning right away 1 and sticking to the job until we are farming fields instead of patches. Good farming demands, first of all, that we get ready for it, and no field filled with stumps is ready. All over the South these hindrances to the use of improved machinery and ? methods are still in evidence, and no better fall and winter job can be found them getting them out. Of methods there are many with merit. The kind of stumps to be removed, the nature of the soil and subsoil, and the individual farmer's facilities for doing the job are nil factors that must be considered. Several years ago Prof. Ferris, at the Mississippi Branch Experiment Station at McNeal, tested a number ; of methods for removing long leaf pine stumps, and found what is known as, the Day boring-and-burning method to be the cheapest. This r-nncictc psspnt.inllv of an inch-and a-quarterauger hole bored diagonally through the stump, startingg at the surface of the ground on one side of the stump and coming out some 18 to 24 inches below the surface on the other side The dirt is then dug away from the lower end of the au' i i /? - J i._ J !? i.1 j. ger noie ana a nre starceu in me sui u of furnace thus made. The auger hole upward through the stump to the other side serves as a sort of flue, and by keeping the fire going at the lower end of the hole the draft created serves to soon burn th stump off. Another method, known as the "Pope Method," is popular in some sections wherepine stumps are numerous. Where this method is used, a hole 18 to 24 inches deep straight .1 i :J? i.i a - ...Ul. uuwn uesiue me siump is uuj; wivu a post-hole dipper, using care in selecting a side of the stump free from roots or projections that might be in the way. Then, starting about two feet away from the hole first dug and in the opposite direction from the stump, a hole one to two inches in diameter is driven from the surface of the ground diagonally to connect with the bottom of the hole beside the stump. This hole furnishes air to r?~ Like Fa They both li Heater. It mi how cold it is the Perfection J/ comfortable. ;| or down, wh I needed. Econ MM durable and tr< <lj ' Now used in c ||| ; Aladdin Secu | j results?eight gallon. , STAND. i- /iy the fire that is to be built in the bottom of the large hole by the taproot of the stump, and to be effective it must not be too iarge,?two inches will be ample, and often a smaller size will be better. A crowbar or a smooth round stick may be used in driving it. A fire is then started at the bottom of the hole beside the stump, clay then being banked up around the top of the hole about half-way up the stump to. serve as a chimney to improve the draft. A joint of stove pipe with clay banked around the base is sometimes used for the same purpose. Where this method is used, the air entering through the diagonal draft hole drives the flame against the taproot of the stump, and it is soon burned out. With hardwood stumps and also with many pine stumps, pulling is a very effective method. Where a good puller is used ana mere is j sufficient power, pulling is a very; rapid method, and on sandy soils no great difficutly will be .experinced because of soil adhering to the | roots. Dynamite, too, is very rapid and effective, especially with very large stumps that are hard to pull or burn. Good work is also often done with dynamite in bursting large pine stumps and then finishing the | job by burning. The user of dynamite should never for one moment i forget that it is dangerous, and] handle it accordingly. The same is J true of the detonating caps that are used to explode the charge of dynamite. Digging and burning by keeping fuel piled around the stumps are methods that are also used effectively. We would here stress the importance of getting rid of the stumps, rather than the value' of any particular method of doing it. Different methods may be necessary I for different men and different conditions. But settle on the method j that best fits your particular case,! and then put it into operation. The! aLUIUJJD 11IUOW ftv/. About the biggest tax Southern farmers are having to pay is the i soil erosion tax. With our heavy rainfall and rolling lands, every! year millions and millions of tons of j our best soils go down our creeks1 and rivers, a total loss. Fertilizers | and trying to build up soils that! are allowed to wash away is very J much like pouring water through a1 sieve. We believe every farmer from! Virginia to Texas who farms roll-j ing land should give his very best] thought to this problem, and now is' the time to do it, when other jobs' are not pressing. 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