Contents of Volume VIII. Number 1, January, 1909. Builders of an Agricultural Commonwealth, Bulgaria, Satisfied and Dissatisfied.... Edward G. Elliott.. PAGE Clarence H. Poe.. 12 Backward or Forward?. Edgar Gardner Murphy.. 19 Gullah: A Negro Patois, II.... John Bennett.. 39 4228 1 Carolina, I., The Passing of the Solid South....... Enoch Marvin Banks.... 101 The Tariff and the Revenue.... 107 117 The Essays of Samuel McChord Crothers, Edward K. Graham...... 150 The Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina, II., J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton 154 The Services of Commissary James Blair to the Colony of Working for the Common Good: Rural and City Improvement The American Spirit in Education..... S. C. Mitchell..... Number 4, October, 1909.* PAGE 255 260 267 284 291 Editorial Announcement.... Constructive Educational Leadership.. William P. Few.. 299 301 Ernest G. Dodge......... 311 A New Southern Poet, Stark Young of Mississippi, L. W. 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And what was he celebrating? A political victory? No. The discovery of a gold mine on his plantation? No. The consummation of some important financial transaction? Not at all. Mr. Williams was celebrating the fact that he had succeeded in his effort to get 70 bushels of corn per acre from land that not long ago was only a common poor clay-hillside. Yes, 70 bushels per acre, although the State's average yield per acre according to the last census was only a fifth of 70 bushels. Now, however, there are hundreds of farmers who are passing even the 70-bushelper-acre-mark, and Mr. Williams himself, not content with his last year's record, believes that he can double his yield once again. I hear much from 60, 70, and even 100 bushels per acre men (a farmer is as proud now of building up a worn out farm and of doubling his yield of corn or cotton as he used to be of getting a political office), and the best part of the whole story in most cases is not the yield per acre, but the spirit of progress indicated by contrast with the shamefully low yields of former years. There is Mr. J. A. Beal, of Nash County, for example, who made 621⁄2 bushels per acre last year on land that five years ago produced only 71⁄2 bushels. The difference, he says-a difference of 700 per cent. in total yield, and the difference between starvation and prosperity in the matter of net results-is due entirely to reading agricultural literature, scien |