Progressive Farmer also invited adults to write about country things they love. Here are two letters from North Carolinians printed in the magazine’s March 1943 issue.
Best of all I love to see lambs dotting the green hillside above the barn, bleating plaintively as they nibble the short, tender grass, and chasing each other with stiffened legs but exuberant spirits.
--Mrs. Charles M. Fortune Jr., Buncombe County
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Of all our living nature, I love most to see green, health tobacco plants on long beds covered with white canvas. Seen in distant woods on a raw, cold day in March, they seem to be stretches of snow. And then some balmy spring day you take off the white canvas and carefully pick the venomous weeds from among the precious plants and so come into closer communion with God and nature. Tobacco plants may not seem poetical to you, but I assure you they are true poetry to a really progressive tobacco farmer.
--Mrs. E. Sharpe Newton, Wilson County
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