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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-08-06
FOR. RENT.
BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE.
FOR RENT,

49, THE Store and Bakery No. 1913 Bradley
A:i street There is good oven with the store,
MAs.ssA land enterprising man can do good busl-
ness, the neighborhood warrants frst-rate ID an
a firSt-clasS custom.
MERwIN'S REAL ESTATE OFFICE,
mails rr
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17
THE OLD MILL.

Here from the brow of the hill I look
Through a lattice of bOughs and leaves
On the old gray mill, with its gambrel roof,
And the moss ON it's rOtting caves.
/ hear the clatter that jars it's walls,
And the rushing waters sound.
And 1 see the black floats rise and fall
AS the wheel goes slowly round.
/ rode there often when / was young,
With my grist or the horse before,
And talked to Nellie, the miller's girl,
AS I waited my TURF at the door.
mo while she tossed her ringlets brown,
And f1irted and chatted so free,
The wheel might stop, or the wheel might go
1t was all the same to me
'Tis twenty years since last / stood
On the spot where / stand today,
And Nellie is wed and the miller is dead,
And the mill and / are gray.
But both, till we fall into ruin and wreck,
To onr fortune of toll are bound,
And the man goes, and the stream flows,
And the wheel moves slowly round.
Thomas Dunn English.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17
)ullowing figures !:

In October last, DIR. Smith, OF
Calistoga, planted potatoes on his
lotin town, and they are now large
enough for use, the first of the new
crop being dug January 1st. People
in this vicinity might raise a great
many more potatoes than they do if
a little more time was devoted to
the work. At the asylum, near
Napa, ripe ~raspberries and straw
berries may be seen, and fresh to-
matoes are in the market in Napa.-
Pacific Rural Press, Jan. Is.
1t is curious to note how few of the ills
of which people complain are not self
inflicted. We nave bad laws, because
we elect bad men to legislative offices;
public moneys are ~wrongfully appro-
priated, because We elected scheming,
incompetent and dishonest men to
positions of trust taxes are made OPP
pressive and burdensome, because of the
extravaganza of public officials whom we
have placed in power. We know these
things, complain of them, and, indeed,
do almost everything but exercise be.
becoming prudence, caution and fore
sight when we go to the polls to vote.
The man who lays his hand on a stone
and %purposely hits it with q hammer
ought not to complain Of the pain, so
neither should people complain of bad
laws and the Misrepresentation of public
moneys when they knowingly and de-
l~iberately invest bad or incompetent men
with official power.-FaYmers' Friend.
Thousands of young men are to-day
drifting helplessly about on the ocean of
life, valnly hoping that ere long some
favorable breeze will. spring up and drive
their vessels into some safe harbor, but
where that harbor is they have no idea ;
because they have no object in view.
They have never decided upon any
course, but permit their actions to be
shaped and moulded by the circum-
stances of the hour. is it any wonder
that disasters follow each other in quick
succession? More men are ruined
through indecision han from a wrong de-
cision.-Farmers' Friend.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17
goetrs.
THE LAND OF THE AFTERNOON

An old man sits in his garden chair,
Watching the sunlit western sky.
What sees he in the blue depth there,
Where only the Isles of Memory lie?
There are princely towers and castles high,
There are gardens fairer than human ken,
There are happy children ~thronging by,
Radiant women and stately men,
Singing with voices of sweet attune
The songs of the Land of the Afternoon.
The old man watches a form of cloud
That floats where the azure islands are,
And he sees q homestead gray and loved,
And a hand that beckons him affair.
o, cheek of roses and hair of gold!
o, eyes of heavens divinest blue!
Long have we lain in the graveyard mould
But love is infinite, love is true;
He will find her-yes, it must be soon;
They will meet in the Land of the Afternoon
The sky has changed, and a wreck Of cloud
Is driving athwart its troubled face,
The golden mist is a trailing shroud;
1t is cold and bleak in the garden place.
The old man smiles and drOOps his head,
The thin hair blows from his wrinkled brow,
The sunset radiance has appeared .
Ger every wasted feature now;
One sigh exhales like a breath in June
He has found the Land of the Afternoon.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17

and grasses, what plant can flourish?
What farmer, for an instant, would think
of raisinga crop of Indian corn in the
thick and tall grass of a meadow? Such
an idea, he would at once say, would be
preposterous. / will say that it is not
more impossible than the idea of raising
a thrifty orchard under the same treat
ment.
Do not pillow too deeply under the
branches OF the tree after it has come
into bearing. The best treatment for a
bearing orchard is to pillow the soil during
the winter and then pasture with hogs
and poultry. Every year the insect dep
relations are more formidable, and from
this source fruit-growers have more to
fear than in the spring frosts- When
your orchard begins to bear, make it
your hog pasture, and by eating the
faulty fruit they will be benefited, and
they will destroy the insects and thus
break up or keep down the worms, &c. If
you do not believe this, look around you
and see some tree thus exposed, and you
will at once see the truth of this asser-
ton.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17
Correspondence.
Fruit Trees.
For the PROGRESSIVE FARMER.I

For the PROGRESSIVE FARMER.l
The season for planting is October,
November and December, in the fall,
and February, March and April in the
spring, or at any time after the growth
stops in the fall until it begins in the
spring. Autumn is preferred, as the
ground becomes more firmly settled to
the cot during winter, young ~rootlets
are thrown out at once, so that the trees
will start off at the first impulse of
growth in the spring. The ground
should be well prepared by blowing
both ways, to the depth of six or eight
inches. If the land is not in good con-
dition, it should be made so by the ap-
plication of well rotted anure Where
the ground is prepared, dig holes sufi-
GENTLY large and deep to admit the roots
without %cramping them. Use the sur
face soil for filling in, first pulverizing it.
Cut off all bruised and broken roots
before planting. Then drop them in
mud, so that they may be protected
from air. Avoid deep planting. Plant
a tree no deeper than it stood in the
nursery. Press the soil firmly around
the tree with the foot, and cover the
surface two feet around, three inches
NSNP IL OoAAc A1AIA VI 1ltlCls
sHoRTENING-IN THE BRANCHES.
All trees, however carefully taken up,
will lose a portion of their roots, and if
the whole top is let remain, the demand
on the roots will be so great that in most
cases it will prove fatal to the tree, and
always to its serious disadvantage i'm form
N beauty. To overcome this, a part of
the branches should be removed.
If it be a young one-year tree it should
be cut off about three feet above the
ground in apples, and from one to two
feet in peaches.
The top buds are allowed to grow, and
all the others should be rubbed off as
they commence to grow out, thus pre-
venting suckers, which will greatly dis
figure if not totally destroy the SYM
metry of the tree. This size is undoubt-
edly the best for planting in this eli
mate.
When larger, or two years old trees,
are to be planted, the branches should
be cut back to within one or taoo buds,
thus leaving the stubs of the limbs only,
To the inexperienced this may seem to
be cutting away too much of the tree.
but | say most emphaticaly, follow these
directions and you will have an orchard
in a short time that will be envied.
Trees treated in this ner are not near
so much subject to injury by storms and
drought.
When transplanting is finished, many
persons are under the impression that
their work is done, and that they can do
nothing more for the tree. But this is
a mistaken idea. 1t is an important
matter to have them well planted, but
doubly important to have them well Gull
tivated afterwards. Enveloped in weeds
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17

The Broadway and Seventh avenue
Railway Company of New York city
has a stable at Fiftieth street which
will v the largest number Of
horses under one roof in this coun-
try, or 2,4O0. The feed of this regi-
ment OF horses consists Of hay, oats
and corn. A supply of rock salt is
also furnished. Each horse receives
about eight pounds of hay a day,
which with 2,4OO horses means about
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17

On all crops, on which the premiums
offered are for the largest yield, which
are gathered in time to do so, the above
statements and certificates must be fur.
nished at the time of making the entry !;
and the premiums will be awarded dur.
ing the Fair.
On crops not gathered in time, the
award will be made on the 10th of De-
cember following.
Zone bale weighing not less than $50
pounds to be exhibited in each case.
For the largest yield per acre from
five 90 30 90
For largest yield per acre from one
% W
For best bale of cotton........"..... so 90
TOBACCO
Twenty-Five pounds to be exhibited in
each case when not otherwise specified.
For the best % TBS. Bright Lemon
Wrappers 90 30 90
For the best rs Tbs. Mahogany
W 81 w
For the best % TBS. Cutters 25 90
For the best 25 lbs. Shipping 20 90
For the best 25 Tbs. Filters 20 90
For the largest yield of Wheat
(ive) 5 acres, one bushel to be
exhibited in a box of the re-
quired dimensions, and the re-
quired statements and %certii-
cate to be furnished. .... $50 90 25 90
For the best Wheat, one bushel to
be exhibited in a box of the
required dimensions. ......... 10 90
For the largest yield of Corn from
5 acres, one bushel to be exhib-
tied in box of the required di-
mansions, and the required
statements and certificate to be
furnished ........-.........$50 90 25 90
Best bushel White Corn.......... 5 90
Best bushel Stock Corn........... 5 90
OATS.
For the largest yield from 5 acres,
one bushel to be exhibited, and
the required statements and
certificates to be furnished.....
$50 90 25 90
Fol the best Winter Oats.......... 5 90
RYE.
For the largest yield from 5 acres,
one bushel to be exhibited, and
the required statements and
certificates to be furnished......
$40 90 10 90
Fol best bushel Rye.............. 5 90
RICE.
Fol- the largest yield of cleaned
Rice from n acre.. $50 90 10 90
For the best bushel cleaned Rice 5 90
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17
State Agricultural Society for Field
and Garden Crops.

FORM OF CERTIFICATE.
| hereby certify that | raised a crop of
............ this year upon the land e
ured by and that the
accompanying statements and certificate
has reference to said and and the crop
raised thereon and non other, and are
correct. That the land yielded ..."-......
bushels Tor pounds).
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17
THE CARE OF BARN-YARDS.

If all the Summer-made has
not been got out from barn-yards to
fields where it will be doing good, no
time should be lost in removing it.
After this the next Job in order is to COW
Ell, the barnyard to the depth of one or
two feet with straw or other litter, so as
to hold the liquid as we'll as the solid ex-
cremen of stock. If straw cannot be
answer a good purpose as an absorbent.
FEEDING wEANED COLTS.
When colts are weaned in the Spring
they should be weaned long enough be-
fore cold weather so as to become used
to eating other food. A few oats given
every day through the Winter will add
fifty per cent to the value of the colt in
any year up to FIVE or six. 1t is a great
mistake to starve young colts with a
should not be pampered, but in our cold
climate few farmers are in danger of this
error during the colts first Winter.
SALT FOR COWS.
A little salt is essential to the well-be-
ing of COWS and all other domestic AMI
mails. 1t is more often given in excess
to cows to make them drink heartily,
and thus increase the flow of milk. But
this attempt to make milk from water,
even through the COW, defeats it's own
end. In the effort to get ria of the ex-
cess of salt the animal scours, it's diges-
ton is interfered with and the flow of
milk is decreased. But a due proportion
of water, especially if warm, mixed with
nutritious food, will increase the flow of
milk without reaction.
BURNED EARTH AS A FERTILIZER.
When a stump is burned piling around
it some sods which will become heated
throughout changes them to a valuable
manure. In some parts of England it is
a common practice to gather sods from
waste places, which after thoroughly
drying are burned and the ashes and
charred earth spread on cultivated fields,
1t is suspected that the burning over of
newly cleared lands in the early settle.
ment OF our country was one chief cause
of their great productiveness. Certainly
newly cleared lands now, when the wood
is carefully taken away and sold are not
so productive as virgin soil used to be.
FORCING BUTTER YIELDS.
1t seem to be a fact that the good
COWS, like good people, die young. The
extra high feeding which such cows usu-
ally receive is probably in part response
BILE for this. The usual method of Sc
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17

$500 tons a year. This is chopped
up fneIby cutters run by an S-horse
power engine. The store-room for
feed contains 1900 bushels of grain.
and is filed up every three months,
In mixing, about 10000 bushels of
oats are put with II bushels of corn,
In a room where the prepared feed
is put a horizontal section shows a
mass of feed ten feet deep, consist
ing of layers of chopped hay, ground
corn and oats, which are taken in
the proportion desired and are placed
upon the floor, where a constant
spray of water mingles with it to
enable its ready mixture. About
10000 pounds of rock salt in the
lump are purchased four times a
year. Jumps are placed in the
horses managers, where they can
lick i as they wish. Their w
taste for salt is considered the best
guide
Those Farmers Institutes are
growing in favor. The Legisla-
ture Of Wisconsin appropriated S.
600 towards defraying the expenses
Of a series that are being held this
winter in all parts of the State. The
Institutes, like many other good
things, originated in the Grange,
and are always most successful in
counties where the Grange is active.
Farmers Friend.
THE BOOMING SOUTH.
The New York Mail. and Erpress
saws "HOw few Northern men re-
alize, for instance, that in the first
six months of this year $40, 600, 900
wereEexpended in the erection and
extension Of Southern factories? Yet
this is the undoubted, verified, a
velols fact. How few in this region
II prepared to learn that the asses
s~ibleIvalues of the South have in
creased 500, 600, 900 in the past four
years? Yet these are trustworthy
figures. How many of our people
dreamed that the South had 3O7 cot
ton factories, with 100000 new
spindles? How many knew that in
Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and West Virginia
the output of coal was increased from
900, 0D0 tons in 1870 to $780, 600
tons I'm 1880? How many knew that
in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia the output
of irea-ore rose from 10000 tons~in
187O1to 575,0 600 tons in 1880?
CALIFORNIA WINES
A considerable interest is being
manifested by our people in regard
to the oncoming citrus fair to be
held in Sacramento. Napa county
can mako a very creditable display
if the matter is properly attended to.
The wine product Of Napa county
and the number Of cellars for the
past six years are represented by
the fullowing figures:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17
farm 9ons.
BETTER THAN NOTHING.

Don't fail to use commercial fertilizers
on your wheat because you believe barn
yard manure is as good or better, unless
YOU have the barn-yard manure to apply.
Many farmers do this only to find that
good commercial fertilizers used are far
better for crops than talk about barn
ylrd that never comes Crops
are not deceived. Mere talk about ma
nure never makes them grow.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17

The Executive Committee appeal to
the farmers of North Carolina for tlei
united efforts in making the Fair of 1S> 6
the most successful ever held in tie
State. 1t can be done, and with their
united efforts, it shall be done.
WILLIAM &. UPCHUCH,
President.
JOHN NICHOLS, Sec. and Treas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17

Very respectfully,
S. OHIO WILSON,
Sec. State horticultural Society.
Vineyard, ". c., Feb. lst, 1886.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-17
FIELD PEAS, &c.

FIELD fEAo, NC'
For the largest yield of Field Peas
from one acre, one bushel to be
exhibited in the required box,
the required statements and
certificates to be furnished. ....$25 w
Best bushel Peas. D w
GROUND PEAS.
For the largest yield Of Ground
Peas from one acre, half bushe1
to be exhibited in the required
|. box, and the required state
ments and certificates to be
furnished .............$25 w 10 w
Best half bushel Ground Peas. D w
Best bushel Glover Seed grown in
North Carolina. 5O
Best bushel Orchard Grass Seed. 80
Best bushel Timothy Seed......... so
Best bushel Blue Grass Seed...... so
Best bushel German Millet Seed. so
Best bushel Herds Grass Seed. I so
For the largest yield from acre
of either Orchard Grass, Herds
Grass, Timothy, or Clover Hay,
or any of the above mixed, n
bale to be exhibited and state
ments. &C.. furnished...........$5O 90
For best bale, any of above....... 3 W
For best bale Pea-Fine OF MOngo-
liam Bean NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5 W
Best bale Meadow Grass Hay...... 5 90
Best bale Golden Millet, (Hunga-
rian D w
ROOT CROPS.
Sweet Potatoes. one bushe1 in re-
CURED box..................... So 90
Irish Potatoes, one bushel in re-
uuired D w
Beets for stock. one bushel in re-
Qulred D W.
Turnips. one buslel in required
MISCELLANEOUS.
Broom Corn, one dozen stalks...... 81 90
Hemp, dressed, 10 pounds"......- : 90
Flax, dressed, 10 pounds...."". , 90
Jute, dressed, 10 pounds....-.... 5 90
For the best one barrel of Ensilage Is 90
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-01

A Burglar, Possibly a Sedalian,
Fatally Wounded While
Burglarizing.
KohImeyer, a Former Sedalian,
Wounded also in the
Scuffie.

Kansas City, May 20 About 5 o'cloc
this morning the occupants Of Christophe
Kohlmeyer's houfe on Westport read near
Union cemetery, were aroused by two bur-
glars In the house. kohlmeyer keeps i
saloon and resides in the same building.
The burglars entering the room where he
and his wife were sleeping, aroused them
and both sprang up. Mn. Kohlmeyer was
knocked senselese BY the invaders and her
hu.bapd engaged in sharp
scufie with them, during wh ch he
was shot in The neck and on
of the burglsrs wounded in the breast
The burglars then escaped, carrying of a
pockei-book. The neighbors were aroused
and at daylight search was made, result
ing in the discovery OF the wounded burg
lar lying in a thicket near the house. He
has a bullet ole through his breast and
will probably die. He Is now lying in the
city hospital and refuses 10 reveal his
identity On his person was found an or
der for salary drawn at Sedalia, by David
Sahler on VI. 4. Dahoney, payable to Z j.
Davis. The prisoner is young man. 1t
is thought in the scuffle he was shot by his
comrade. Kohlmeyer's wound is not dan
gerous.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-01

Americans from fishing within the
limits of the three-mile limit. They
clam the right under that convention
to interrupt the commercial relations
of the two countries. While their
own fishermen are in undisputed pos
session of their own waters, and there
is no disposition on the part of their
Yankee rivals to compete with them
there, they undertake TO say that
there shall be no buying or selling of
herring or bait in their ports or YES
sells flying the American flag. They
interdict these reciprocal commercial
privileges which are guaranteed by
British and American law. They
maintain that 8 treaty concluded In
1918 with the object of giving them
the run of their inshOre fisheries an
nuls the commercial arrangements
made ten or twelve years afierward
for opening Colonial trade with the
United States on equal terms. Such
a construction Of the treaty Of 1918
cannot be expected to receive the
sanction of the Imperial Government.
The ruling of the British Foreign
Office must be in accordance with the
broad principles on which the COM
mercial relations of the two countries
are regulated.-New York Tribune.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-01
AS to Congressman O'Neill.

Congressman John j. O'Neill Of
Missouri, in an interview printed, in
the Philadelphia Record, says of the
anarchists:
These men may have been lawless
and their leaders may have used in
cendiary language, but still it is ques-
tionable how far the police are justlfi-
ed in dispensing them while enjoying
the constitutional right of public as
sembly. Such dispersion must GER
tainly irritate them. The outbreak is
lamentable and inexcusable one, but
there are two sides to be considered,
nevertheless.
What kind of a congressman is this
dirty demagogue from Missouri any
way? Why does he question that the
police have the right to disperse a
crowd of assassins and incendiaries, IN
citing their follows to murder. arson
and bomb throwing? Is thus his idea
of free speech? Does he think it is bet
ter to allow these scoundrels to inaugur-
ate their mission of fire and blood
than to irritate them by dispensing
them? If he does, he had better
sign his position in congress and
and join Herr Most and his cut-th I'm
rabble. The Chicago anarchists have
not only been "irritated" by being
dispersed, but they have been still
further irritated by being arrested.
and if the juries do their duty they
will be irritated into the penitentiary
if not on to the gallows. If the views
of this demagogue, ONeill, do not II
ritate the people of St. Louis so that
hereafter they will allow him to stay
at home, it is only because nothing
can irritate them into the perfor-
nance of their duty. The people are
not only going to irritate the Mosts,
Spieses, and Parsonses doctrines
They will have to keep quiet bereaf
er and their sympathizers also, among
them this O'Neill, who misrepresenk
ST. Louis in congress.-Chicag
Tribune.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-01
The Dominion,s Attitude.

The Dominion authorities are refus-
ing to allow American fisherman to
have commercial transactions in their
ports. Besides seizing two vessels
for the offense of bying bait, they
have given warning that similar pur-
chases openly conducted under per-
mits from American collectors of Gus
toms and proper clearance papers
from the Dominion customs service
will involve a penalty. The master
of a schooner arriving at Digby, N.
s., and reporting at the Custom
House there in compliance with the
regulations, has been officially IN
formed that he cannot buy herring for
any purpose and that his vessel will
be Immediately seized if he does so.
This is equivalent to prohibition OF
! the right to trade in a British port.
Does any Dominion Minister. in his
sober senses suppose that Great
| Britain will sanction this policy o.
non-intercourse?
| The Dominion authorities TAX
their stand upon the treaty Of 1878
the object of which was to proven