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HILLTOP FARM NOTES By Clarence Poe. In The Progres sive Fanner. “Aaron Finished Paying for His Land Last Winter.’’ “Aaron finished paying for his land last winter.” This was the re mark 1 heard about one of my young neighbors the other day, and the phrase kept coining back to my mind. 1 hadn’t known much about Aaron, built after this re mark, I felt that I knew a good deal about him. And I kept think ing about him. Aaron is evidently a young man of ambition, lie did not inherit land, but he did inherit—or deve lop—a wholesome desire to get ahead in the world. He was not content to remain a landles tenant. He had ambition, which is about the first essential for progress. In the second place, Aaron had industry. A man may have all the ambition on earth, but it will take him nowhere without industry. And in the third place, Aaron had thrift. That is to say, he knew how to take care of his money af ter he made it. Of these three things I feel con fident —namely, that Aaron has ambition, industry, thrift. If he had lacked any one of these three qualities, I should hardly have heard about his rising to the dign ity tff a freeholder. And 1 strongly suspect that Aaron has another as set equally as.valuable an any of the other three—namely, a good, sensible wife. While Aaron is “di ligent to know the state of his flocks and looks well to his herds,” his wife on the inside of the home no doubt helps as only a thrifty v/ife can do. She no doubt knovf.s how to avoid all waste, how to get the most service out of clothing, the best results from food, and by encouragement and advice has steadily helped Aaron on to the happier station they have now reached. Why Landlords and Agriculture Leaders Should Do Farm Work. All of these reflections eame to my mind as 1 worked*in my blos soming cotton field the other day. Which reminds me to say that 1 believe every demonstration agent every agricultural teacher, every agricultural college president, ev ery head of an agricultural organ ization, and every leader in any line of agricultural effort ought to be made to spend at least two weeks each year doing actual manual work on the farm. Such a plan-will do much, both actually and figuratively, to keep him “near the soil” and with a genu ine understanding of the farmer’s problems. 1 also believe that every import ant landowner, whether he lives in town or country, outfit tn spend at least two weks each year doing farm work. I once heard a great preacher explain the difference be tween mere belief and conviction by saying that a man may have all his life a belief that hornets have not tempers. Some day be acciden tally breaks up a hornet’s nest and ever after his belief is a con viction! Now in the same way, a landowner bay have a belief that be ought to get rid of rocks and stumps in his field, but when he actually gets behind the plow-han dles, the belief becomes a convic tion—and the conviction is likely to get results. And once a man makes up his mind that he is going to get rid of stumps or rocks, it is astonishing how last the work can be done. 1 proved that to my satis faction this spring. .Moreover, if a landlord works a day or so every now and then with wornout, anti quated, labor-wasting tools and machinery, the belief about the value of improved machinery will also become a gonvictiou. And so on. Turning to the broader aspects of the farm work question, I am also interested to see how many men of thought and leadership are turning to the idea expressed sometime ago by Mr. Arthur M. Judy • “Well may we question whether any .?i\ilization will permanently endure until one comes into exis tence which calls every man, wo man, and child, part of the day to physical toil in the open, part of the day to mental toil within doors. That only can be the com plete life of a human being, that only the perfect life of a nation.” Watch the Weather' Report. This rainy spell in May I have just mentioned taught me another lesson. This is as to the value of watching the Weather Bureau re port. And by this 1 mean not only the weather man’s daily or weekly prediction, but his “pionthly sum mary” as well. The flrst of each month, or oftener, ye* ;; J 1 remem ber, he issues a statement showing what is the year’s “excess” or “deficiency” in rainfall up to that date. That is what 1 have learned to watch. Whenever 1 notice that the “accumulated deficiency to date” is (i or 7 inches—that is to say, that up to date, we lack 6 or 7 inches of having had as much rain as tlie average for this period of the year—l look out. The Lord has a way of evening things up as Tie goes along, and w hile such a deficiency may be carried along for several months before the debt is .settled, the safest thing is to get ready for a sudden settlement at any time. It’s a good idea to watch the weather report. Making Farming a Fine Art. I took a Sunday dinner the other day with a farmer-acquain tance of whom one may well say, “May his tribe increase!” To this man farming is a fine art. lie bought most of his land land years ago when it was galled and gullied, almost “worn out” as most of the neighbors thought, lie has made it his life-work to nurse these acres back to health and fruitful comeliness. He has thought of himself as truustee for the Almighty, the responsible care-taker for a portion of God’s footstool. He lias had for his ideal the saying of Carlyle’s: “Oh, it is great and there is no other greatness, to make some nook of God’s creation more fruuitful, bet ter, more worthy of God!” And this truest greatness of our friend has most assuredly won. It was an inspiration to walk over his beautiful fields and find with what surgeon-like skill lie had healed a bleeding u" fly-wound at this point; how carefully he had laid off a land-saving terrace on this Hillside; how wisely he had brought yonder water-seeped bot tom into beauty and productive ness by means of tile drainage; how happily he had made straight a crooked stream and thereby made more shapely a promising field; how prudently he had con verted a tract unfit for tillage into a fruuitful pasture: and with what concern for the beautiful he had nurtured the giant oaks and the flowering vines and shrubbery which surrounded the fair home and gardens. As we walked and talked with this man, we found in him the same glorious, ennobling passion which dignifies the true artist, no matter in what work he may he engaged. No sculptor working out his dream in marble, no painter striving to put a God-given ideal on canvas, no great-hearted sur geon seeking to heal a broken hu man body and make it whole again, has more truly the artist soul than this farmer. For him life has a meaning, and this meaning has comforted him. The ancient prophet said. “Where there is no vision, the people perish;” and the same thing is true of an indivi dual. Where there is no vision, the man perishes. This farmer has had u vision. Years ago lie caught a vision of whet his farm ought to i>c. and year by year, bp prudence and economy—not by any waste ful expenditure, for he has never been wealthy—he has worked to ward the realization of this vision. Training Sons to Carry on One’s Work. And as this man sat under great oaks and talked with his sons, another illustration of the fine spirit of the true artist spoke itself out. This man, wishes his work to live on after him. It will, of course, live in some fashion, but he wishes it to live worthily. Do you remember that wonderful “prayer of Moses, the man of God,” in the tK)th Psalm —how in his ripe old age the burden of Moses’ heart utters itself in the un forgettable petition, “And estab lish Thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands, establish Thou it!” In like fashion our farmer friend spoke of his work. He wish es his sons to take up the task where he must sometime drop it, and carry it on. And it gladdens his age to feel that they will do so. Jn this man’s love for the soil, in his genuine appreciation for the very earth of which lie has been God’s caretaker, and his earnest wish to have his sons carry it on after him, one finds the spirit back of the ancient estates and country homes of England; tlie spirit, too, which reveals itself among the ancient nobility of Ja pan who have a hitter work of re proach for which there is no ac tual equivalent in English, but which means “a seller of the an cestral land.” In the philosophy of Old Japan, the love and labor which one’s father and mother, and their fathers and mothers be fore them, have put on a piece of land have hallowed that land. It, has become too personal, too sa cred, to be regarded as a mere commodity to be sold for gain. We need more of tLis spirit in Amer ica. V YOUR COUNTY HOARD OF HEALTH. Every county in Georgia has a County Board of Health. Some do not seem to know it. Yet it is true. If we were to judge by the reports on Venereal Diseases that are received at the State Board of Health, we might not make the statement so emphatic. Yet it is true. Under the Ellis Health Law the Chairman of the Commission of Roads and Revenue and the County School Commission are made the Board of Health for their county. This is a legal board for the transaction of business. It is enjoined upon the Grand Jury to select a physician, who completes this board of three members. So ycu see you have a Board of Health. You should use them. These Boards of Health should organize, and be active. They are supposed to receive reports from the physicians of their county and trans mit them to the State Board of Health. In epidemics they have active charge and shonld be ready to func tion. A copy of this law will be sent to any one asking for it. GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. Clean Army Perhaps the cleanest body of men ever assembled was General Per shing’s army when ready to go over the top. The life of continence is es sential to the athlete, the soldier and under all conditions where manhood in its fullest sense is demanded. Is that demand any more urgent to the army than to every day life? The boys who went “over the top” have taugh'; the lesson; will you heed it? Packing the Soil. It has been estimated" by authorities that a man weighing 170 pounds, wear lng No. 8 shoes, creates a pressure of 14 pounds to the square inch of surface where he steps. A horse weighing 1,- 400 pounds creates a pressure of ap proximately 18 to 33 pounds per square Inch under his hoofs while pull ing an average load. A tractor weigh ing in the neighborhood of 1,800 pounds exerts a pressure only about ten pounds to the square Inch. Famous Old English Castle. Warwick castle is said to have been hullt by the Saxons before the first William landed on Albion’s shores. One of its old towers has seen a thousand sutnmers come and go. while the other portions of the structure belong to the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. It Is one of the mo* romantic and picturesque edifices In England and is associated with the memory of the great “kingmaker” of the wars of the roses. Count Ouy and other heroes who have clanged in heavy artwn through the spacious rooms and in the banquet hall drank the health of the beauteous ladles of their line. HEROES OF GRAY TO HOLD REUNION MERE, OCT.-! ? Atlantans Will Be Asked to Open Their Homes to Vetrans of Six ties During Four Da;’’; Meeting. October 7,8, !) and 10 was set as the date Friday afternoon by a special organization committee on which Atlanta will extend her warmest hospitality to the Confed erate vetrans of the south in an nual reunion. Atlanta’s great body of citizens w ill he asked to open their homes to these gray-dad heroes of the sixties during their four days’ of sojourn in the city. Plans are to be made for their entertainment on a scale which could not he ex ceeded if this were her last oppor tunity to honor the south’s glori ous old warriors, as indeed it will be for many of them. More than 8,000 vets, survivors of the Confederate army, will come to Atlanta, and in addition sons and daughters of the Confed eracy and Hie Confederate Mem orial association, making a grand total of something more than 50,- 000 aside t’mn other visitors who will be entertained by Atlanta on the occasion of the reunion. Will Care for Overflow. Should the number of private homes prove inadequate to care for the veterans while here provi sion will be made for the overflow by the erection of a tented city, probably in Piedmont park. Those in charge of •entertainment plans realize that being host for four days to so large an assemblage is a big undertaking and they are planing accordingly. To aid the comitee in this re spect the services of General Na than 11. Forest, of Biloxi, Miss., which lmvc 1 e n of .••.•cat assis tance to committees in other cities where annual reunions have been held, will be sought. He will be asked to come to Atlanta and ad vise with the committees in per fecting arrangements for the event. For Weak Women In use for over 40 years! Thousands of voluntary letters from women, tell ing of the good Cardui has done them. This is the best proof of the value of Cardui. It proves that Cardui is a good medicine for women. There are no harmful or habit-forming drugs In Cardui. It is composed only of mild, medicinai ingredients, with no bad after-efiects. TAKE CARDUI The Woman’s Tonic You can rely on Cardui. Surely it will do for you what it has done for so many thousands of other women! It should help. “I was taken sick, seemed to be . . . writes Mrs. Mary E.Veste, of Madison Heights, Va. “I got down so weak, could hardly walk . . . just staggered around. . . . 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