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The Southern Planter.
DEVOTED TO
PRACTICAL AND PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE,
TRUCKING, LIVE STOCK AND THE FIRESIDE.
Agriculture is the nursing mother of the Arts.—XENOPHON.
TiJlage and pasturage are the two breasts of the State.—SULLY.
69th Year. Richmond, Va., January, 1908. No. 1
Once again it becomes our pleasure to present to our
readers the Annual Holiday issue of The Southern
Planter. We hope and believe that it will receive as
warm a greeting as any previous issue, and more than
this we cannot ask for it. We have striven to make it
a fair sample of what we shall continue to send out to
our subscribers each month of the year, except as to the
cover. We are issuing a large edition of this number in
excess of the requirements of our subscription list, and
shall mail the extra copies to lists of farmers which we
have secured from all over the territory covered by the
regular subscribers to the Journal. We trust that the
result of this may be a large addition to our subscription
list. Each person to whom a sample copy is sent Is
requested to examine the same carefully and to see
whether such a journal would not likely prove of great
help to him In the pursuit of his calling, and further,
he is desired to bring the same to the notice of his friends!
and neighbors and get them to join with him in sub-
scribing for the paper. In this way he can secure the
regular visits of the Journal each month for much less
than the regular price of the same. Though the regular
subscription price is only fifty cents per year—a price
which no farmer can truthfully say he cannot afford
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1908.
yet for $1.00 he can obtain the Journal for three years,
or he can obtain it for himself and two friends for a
year each for $1.00. We are anxious to increase our
regular subscription list to 30,000 and, with the help of
our regular subscribers and the wide circulation of this
issue, we have every reason to hope that we shall accomplish
this within the next three months. If only each
of our regular subscribers would make it his business
to send us in the name of one new subscriber—and many
of them could readily send us a score with a few hours'
work—the 30,000 list would be nearly doubled. We earn-
estly beg of them to take this opportunity of helping ,us.
In this issue will be found all the regular Departments
which it has been our custom to conduct for many years
past. These deal with Farm Management, Garden and
Orchard, Live Stock, Poultry, The Horse, and Miscellaneous
topics of interest to farmers and, in addition, The
Enquirers' Column. It is our purpose to continue these
Departments in the future and, under the respective heads,
to keep prominently before the farmers of the South
Atlantic States every point essential to the profitable con-
duct of a farm in this section of the country. We do not
aim to cover the whole United State with seasonable
and pertinent advice for the conduct of farming operations.
We do aim to give such advice and help as can
be availed of by all farmers in the South Atlantic States
and those immediately adjoining on the West. We are
especially careful to so select the matter we publish that
no farmer in the section named can fail to receive advice
and help upon which he can confidently act. Whilst
much of what we publish can be of service to farmers
everywhere, as is evidenced by the fact that we have subscribers
in every State of the Union and nearly every
civilized country of the world who regularly renew their
subscriptions and write highly complimentary letters as
to the benefit derived, yet we base our claim to the sup-
port of Southern farmers on the fact that we especially
cater to their conditions and deal with the crops peculiar
to this section of the country. With such a purpose, and
one so carefully observed, we do feel that we have an
especial claim upon Southern farmers for their continued
and extended support. In doing this work we have the
constant help of such recognized authorities as Professor
W. F. Massey, perhaps the most widely recognized
authority on Southern agricultural problems, and who is,
from a life-long experience, most closely familiar with
all the problems confronting the Southern farmer, and Is
regarded by Southern farmers generally as one of the
best friends they have ever had; and of Professor Sbule,
formerly Director of the Virginia Experiment Station,