Established 1840. THE Seventieth Year" Southern Planter A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO Practical and Progressive Agriculture, Horticulture, Trucking, Live Stock and the Fireside. OFFICE: 28 NORTH NINTH STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. THE SOUTHERN PLANTER PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. J. F. JACKSON, Editor. Vol. 70. SEPTEMBER, 1909. No. 9. CONTENTS. FARM MANAGEMENT— That Dual-Purpose Cow Again 854 Dairy Inspection and the Farmers 855 Editorial—Work for the Month 833 Angora Goats Farm Tenancy Agreement 837 856 Virginia Packers' Association Suggested by the August Number 837 856 Cost of Producing a Bushel of Corn 839 THE^POULTRY YAR The Waste of Cotton Seed 839 The Value of Clover 841 Poultry Notes 857 The Plow Question 842 THE HORSE— Crop Rotation 842 Notes 858 TRUCKING, GARDEN AND ORCHARD— Why Is It That We Do Not See More Mor- Editorial—Work for the Month 843 gan Horses in Virginia? 859 Selecting Seed Co»n 843 Improving Farm Horse Stock 859 A Few Remarks About Packing Apples ..... 844 The Suffolk Punch in Virginia—An Imported Do Not Ship Infested Fruit. 844 Sire . <. w .... 860 Apple Packing 844 The Nomination' of the Commissioner of Fruit Growers of Different States Unite in Agriculture 861 Co-operative Movement 845 MISCELLANEOUS— New. York Fruit Growers Organize 845 846 Destroying tb.e Cabbage Worm The Virginia State Farmers' Institute 862 Nursery 846 Control of Peach Yellows in the What Virginia Needs to Improve Her Agri- LIVE-STOCK AND DAIRY— cultural Conditions 862 Ground Limestone for the Farmers... 863 Score Card System of Dairy Inspection 847 Virginia State Fair—Richmond, October 4-9, Bleak Hill Dairy Farm 849 1909 i 864 Cattle Feeders' Problem 850 Enquirers Column (Detailed Index, p. 924)... 886 The Dual-Purpose Breeds 852 Publishers' Notes 865 The Dual-Purpose Cow 853 Advertisements S65 SUBSCRIPTION, 50c. PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE ; Our Greatest Merchandise Sale! Of all our Wonderful Sales of the past none on our goods. We are offering the most staple approaches the one we are advertising today. We merchandise at prices which In most Instance* do not represent the manu- propose to give the great buying pnblU the original cost of facture. If you fall to take advantage of this benefit of our wonderful operations. 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