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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-03
GUILFORD NURSERIES

\ RE LOCATED ON THE CAPE
three miles south of Greensboro. n. c.,
where can be found a fine assortment of
Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs,
Vines, Plants, &C., consisting in part of
the following:
Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum, Cherry,
Apricot, Nectarine, Ounce, Fig, Null
berry, japanese Persimmon, Strawberry,
Raspberry, Gooseberry, Currant, &C., &c.
Speciahies.-Apple, Peach, Plum and
Cherry Trees. My stock of Peach con-
sists of 100000 trees of the best varieties
for market and home use; of Plum, Wild
Goose, Shropshire, Imperial Gage, Green
Gage, Washington, Peach Plum, Rich
land, Weaver, &C.; of Cherries, all the
leaders for market and home consump-
ton of Grapes, Concord, Ives, Champion,
Nortons, Martha, Delaware, Worden,
Niagara, and all the best Wine and Table
Grapes. | nave 10000 vines ready for
fall planting of the above varieties and can
give special prices to those who contem-
plate planting vineyards. Of Strawber-
rises, all the best and most profitable
kinds.
Send your orders e; r.y; they will be
carefully filled, and no pains spared to
please the purchaser.
Special prices given to large planters.
Correspondence solicited.
Catalogues mailed to applicants.
6. L. ANTHONY, Pror'r,
Vandalia P. O., NC.
Shipping point: Greensboro, N. c.
3O-3m.
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farm 4otes.
~BLANKETING HORSES.

BLANKETING HORSES.
Horses hard at work need blanket
ing while at rest at this season
nearly or quite as much as they do
in the winter, when cold weather
prevents much sweating. When
ever a horse is moist he is liable to-
serious illness if chilled by exposure
to winds. Always put a horse in
his stable to eat, yer if he has very
short time for that purpose.
FRUIT FOR
Fruit has a much greater food
value than is usually supposed.
Those engaged in light work requir-
ing thought rather than muscular
exertion can use much of it in the
displacement of heavier and less
digestible articles. Grapes and pears
are especially valuable; partly per-
haps, because their delicious flavor
promotes a free flow of saliva, which
is the important digestive fluid.
RINGBoNE IN HORSES.
The hoofs of young horses often
grow out too long. This gives a
leverage which on hard roads with
fast driving or heavy pulling strains
the msucles of the leg and causes
ringbone. 1t is especially liable to
attack young horses hard at work,
since they have not strength of mus
cles to resist extra strains. PAIRING
and shortening in front of the hOof
is the remedy. 1t will enable any
horse to work or travel with less
liability to injury.
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER.
The trade in commercial fertilizers
in this country amounts to S3O,OOO,-
900 yearly. 1t has shrunken ten to ff-
teen per cent. within a year or two,
though up to that time there had
been a large and rapid increase.
These fertilizers are a comparatively
new thing in Northern farming,
but have long been used in growing
cotton. They are still largely used
in the South, planters now selling
cotton seed for feeding and oil man
ufacture which they formerly rotted
down for manure. Low prices of
farm products have limited the use
of commercial fertilizers on many
Northern farms.
KEEP THE BEST FRUIT.
Economical habits are sometimes
carried too far, and this is frequently
illustrated by farmers who put in
cellars for their own use the poorer
class of fruits which will not sell
we'll. Fruit is healthful during
Winter, and with good fruit more
will be eaten, which will make a
saving in doctors bills. The waste
and extra labor in using poor fruit
more than offsets any supposed
advantage in it's use. Possibly the
poorer fruit may not beartransporta-
ton long distances to market, but it
will at least pay to save for feed
ing to stock as an aid to diges-
ton when dry feed is given during
the summer.
INEXPENSIVE SHELTER.
1t is possible for farmers who are
willing to work to provide very
comfortable Winter quarters for
stock with little or no money
expense. If hill side is available
dig a cellar in its side large enough
for several stables. Cover it with
any rough lumber. Good strong
poles from the woods are best and
then roof with straw. Even buck
wheat straw, worthless for almost
any other use, answers we'll enough
to keep out the cold and snow for a
single season. By putting on plenty
Of straw, even rains will not go
through, and the place can be made
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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER NOVEMBER 3, 1884,.

as comfortable as the basement of a
thousand dollar barn. These are
times when farmers wish to econo-
mize in every way possible, and
those who cannot afford to build
extensively can still less afford to
have their stock suffer by neglect.
HOW TIMOTHY INJURIES LAND.
Timothy is hard on land especially
if the crop is sold from the farm.
This is the general verdict Of farm
ers of much experience. But analy-
sis shows that it takes less valuable
plant food from the soil than clover,
which is regarded as a renovating
crop. The small root which timo-
thy has as compared with clover
explains much of this different effect
OF the two crops. The timothy
root feeds mainly near the surface.
Glover roots strike into the subsoil.
Clover not only gets plant food mac
cesslble to most grain crops but
after it's removalit necessarily leaves
a great deal of fertilizing material
which a timothy stubble does not
have.
LOCATION OF ORCHARDS.
There are many aso why
orchards, even of the hardest trees,
should not be planted on bleak,
exposed hill sides. Every year
before the fruit has time to ripen
it is blown off by fierce winds. Only
the apples in valleys or other shell
tered places hold on until regularly
gathered. 1t is not a bad plan to
have two or three rows Of evergreen
trees on the windward side Of an
orchard for protection. If planted
at the same time with the fruit
trees, the evergreens will attain size
enough by the time the orchard
comes into bearing to afford an eff
cient windbreak. And their value
in retaining fallen leaves under the
orchard trees will increase as the
orchard grows older.
PICKING LIVE GEESE.
1t requires about six weeks after
picking geese to grow and ripen a
new crop Of feathers. The time
varies slightly and may be tested
by pulling a few. Those intended
to be killed at Christmas or New
Years may be picked six or even
weeks before that time, but they
will need heavier feeding to grow
a crop of feathers and fatten at the
same time. Thus managed there is
much less difficulty in picking after
they are killed. 1t is the fashion
with some to declaim against the
cruelty Of picking geese and ducks
while living. If not plucked the
feathers would gradually fall out
themselves and the birds would pre-
sent a %bedraggled appearance for a
longer time than if cared for in the
usual way.
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as comfortable as the basement of a
thousand dollar barn. These are
times when farmers wish to econo-
mize in every way possible, and
those who cannot afford to build
extensively can still less afford to
have their stock suffer by neglect.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-09

MARKS SUSPICIOUS INCREASE.


In the joyous excitement of meeting
Philip again Florence had almost for
gotten Herbert Arcber's proposal. and
the alarm and indignation it had occa-
stoned her. She had had neither time
nor opportunity to acquaint either her
aunt or uncle with what had occurred,
and the blow on her temple which
might, by being remarked, have led up
to it, was concealed by her hair.
When, therefore, in her own chamber
she recalled the events of the day, both
her alarm and indignation were mOdi-
fed. How could she feel alarm, with
Philip, now her acknowledged be-
trothed, near to protect her? And her
own exceeding happiness made her eX-
perience pity for the suffering of one
whose fault was loving her too ardently.
Rejecting upon it, she deemed it the
greatest kindness to her discarded lover
merely to state he had proposed and
been refused, without entering upon
the manner Of his proposal, which she
felt, by arOuSing her nnCle'S SCOTn, if
not anger. would shut the doors of
Shady Creek against him for ever. AS
to Philip Bathurst. when lie awoke the
next morning, he found il at first rather
difficult to believe that he was really
under the same roof as Florence; and,
what was more, her accepted lover with
her uncle's consent. There was only
one obstacle to be overcome before he
made her his wife-the getting enough
to keep wife upon.
But L don't despair of that" he ex-
claimed, as he sprang up. "What men
have done surely can |, and I'll not let
the grass grow beneath my feet either.
If once l can bag enough nuggets to
buy station and stock it, I'll work like
the shepherd kings Of old, and, with the
cOlonel's experience and advice, will
soon get sufficiently extensive sheep
run to make my sweet Flo mistress Of"
Charles Bathurst's anger against his
nephew had been so extreme that his
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-09
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER

The LIGHT is authorized to announce PETER
JOAAs as candidate for commissioner of
precinct No. 3.
We are autho lied TO announced HENRY
FEST as candidate for County Commissioner
Of Precinct No. at the November election.
We are authorized to announce HENRY L..
ID GNOwITY as candidate for County Com
missioner, Precinct No. 3, at the ensuing No
vcmbeT election.
The LIGHT is authorized to announce MR.
WILLIAM HOEFLING, SR., IS II Candidate for
re- election TO the Office of County Commits
siOner for Precinct No. 3, at the election i'm No
yember.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-09

We are authorized to announce as candidate
Rafael X. Martinez for the Office OF constable
for precinct No. | at the election in NOvem
Der, who solicits the support of all citizens
The LIGHT is authorized to announce Nix.
JOHN a. FERRIS as a candidate for the Office
Of Constable for Precinct No. |, at the ensuing
election in November
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-09

THE LIGHT is authorized to announce Chas
NJ. Barnes as u candidate for one OF the two
Justices of the Peace, Precinct No. |, OF Bexar
county, at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce 5. w Nc
ALLISTER as a candidate for the Office of Jus
ticc of the Peace, Precinct No. |, BeXar
county, ut the ensuing election in November
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Practitioners Of the progressive medl-
cine and surgery. Special attention 10
di eases Of women and children. States
at Nettte's drugstore. Private Office 273
Commerce st. Office hours 10 to II n.
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FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR.

We are authorized to announce w. VI. LOCKE
as u candidate for reelection to the Office of
County Surveyor at the November election.
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We are authorized to announce Tho p
MCCALL as a candidate for Sheriff of Bexar
county at the ensuing November election.
We are authorized to announce NAT LEWIS
as candidate for the office of Sheriff of Bexar
county al the election in Nouember.
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To the Voters ofBexar County.

hereby announce myself as a candl-
date for reelection to the office OF dis
trict attorney for the Thirty-seventh ju-
dicial district. GEORGE PAsCHAI.
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FOR DISTRICT CLERK.

The LIGHT is authorized TO annouce Mr.
GEORGE II. DAsHIELL as a candidate for ret'
election TO the Office of District Clerk of Bexar
county.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For District Attorney.


We are authorized to announce Oscar Berg
strOm rs candidate for District Attorney at
the ensuing election i'm November.
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FOR COUNTY, TREhsuRkR.

We are authorized 10 announce Mr.. ED.
FROBOEsE as candidate for reelection to the
oihce of County Treasurer of Bexar county at
the November election.
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TO Ihe NOters OF BeKar County:
thereby announce myself as candidate for
the position of Assessor OF Bexar county a,
the November election. j. L. LABATT,
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The LIGHT is authorized to announce THAD.
W: SMITH as a candidate for re election to the
Oin0e of County Clerk.
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For County Judge.

The LIGHT is authorized to announce G. l..
NurZbach as Il candidate for reelection to the
)fice Of county Judge OF BeXar county.
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THE LIGHT is authorized to announce CAPT
ID. NJ. Poor as a candidate for reelection to
the office of Assessor of BeXar county, at the
November election.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-09

The LIGHT is authorized to announce JOHN
Z. CRAWFORD as candidate for Assessor of
BeXar county at the November election.
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ARRIVALS
From It. Louis, Missouri Pacific. zee. 1850 ppm
From St. Louis, via Iron Mountain 1850 ppm
From St Louis via Missouri Pacific II 20 u. IN
From Laredo ..................... ..... 3:l5 p. IN
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ghc 9ailg Eight.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

l. g. G. ". hailrOad.
DEPARTURES.
st. Louis, via Mo. Pa. route. .. 400 p. IN
st. Louis, via Iron Mountain. G:D a. IN
st. Louis, via Missouri Pacific. G:;D p. IN
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-23
NEWS OF THE moRsiNe.

FoREIGN.-By the. burning of a steamer
on the river Volga. Russia, 200 lives were
itJst..... ne report tifai the steamer nber-
deem had foundered is not correct.....
Prince Alexander of Bulgaria has been
forced to abdicate Silver in London, AZ
2-16d consols, 10i; Is Of 1907, 1875; Ais
1121.
EAsTERH-The Mayhower won the first
trial race of the yachts. Colonel Glider
has started for the North Pole......Three
men were drowned by the upsetting of a
boat on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Frank Deman murdered his wife and COM
mitted suicide at Chicago. ..... Large fire at
Earlyille, n. California fruit is selling
at low prices at Chicago.....The damage by
the gale at Galveston amounts to $780, 900
WhitelaY Reid has advanced the price
of composition on the New York Tribune
to so cents .....Government bonds are
quoted in New York at 1851 for As of 1907;
1l0l for AIS; 1901 for IS; sterling, 81 922 /;
silver bars, 9l4.
PACIFIC CoAsr.-It is now reported that
Geronimo wants to surrender to the Amer
lean Government Patrick Mulligan was
shot and killed in Nevada county Satur-
day.. Henry L. Deming was run over by
the cars near Blue Canyon, and killed..
The citizens of Dutch Flat have formed
Safety Committee, on account of the too
frequent occurrence of fires. The Post
office at Redwood City was broken into
Saturday night and robbed. Miss Mamie
Conlon was killed by runaway near Fort
Ross, Sonoma county. IA great fire oc-
cured in San Francisco last Saturday, and
100000 worth of property was de
stroved
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-23
CORRECTING THE RIVER.

The San Francisco Cal has twice within
four days editorially directed attention to
the fact that the water in the Sacramento.
Feather, Yuba and American rivers is be-
coming very clear. and that this gratifying
fact is due to the shutting down of by
draulie mines. Ii is pointed out, also, that
the run of salmon and other food fishes has
greatly increased in the main rivers All
this is true. The river water at Sacra-
mento is now scarcely at all discolored. 1t
is almost as clear. indeed, at this point as
above the mouth of the Feather, where it
is uncontaminated by hydraulic mining
wash. Of course this breaches a lesson,
the force OF which cannot be denied. The
waters are now clear; few weeks ago
they were not. Most hydraulic mining is
now suspended few weeks ago several
hydraulic streams were playing upon and
dislodging sand, clay and cement. Herein
lies, IN nutshell of logic, the whole ques-
tion of the hydraulic mining evil, happily
now about ended. But when the season of
high waters comes we cannot expect the
streams to remain clear. The floods will
wash down much of the deposits now in
canyons and river reaches just below the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-23
Railroad Topics-A Cut in Rates.

An unexpected reduction in passenger
rates from San Francisco to Chicago went
into effect Saturday. The Southern Pa
cific issued 1ate-sheet, supplemental to
the rate-sheet of July 18th, giving a differ
entail or lower rate of So 90 on limited
first-class and emigrant tickets, reading via
Kansas City or via FL Paso and st. Louis,
Memphis and New Orleans. The Chicago
rates are therefore, $50 first-class and S44
emigrant. This reduction does not arise
from any trouble in San Francisco, but is
due to war Of rates between the Kansas
City lines and Iowa roads from Chicago to
the Missouri river. The local rate between
those points is $12 so, emigrant rates being
the same. The Kansas City lines reduced
the fare to 50, and requested the Southern
Pacific to issue the sheet in question.
While the Iowa lines have not formally
met the cut, it is taken for granted that
they are so doing. In the meantime the
Burlington and Quincy is selling via Kan
sas City tickets, while the Union Pacific is
giving the same rate via Omaha, which is
an open cut on its part. Rates to New
York are also reduced from 81 so to 81.
Railroad people say that the present fight
will lead to new pool among all the lines
west of Chicago, including the Pacific
coast.
On Monday passengers and freight will
be carried as far as Dunsmuir, nine miles
from Mount Shasta, on the Oregon Division
of the Central Pacific.
w. G. Curtiss, of the Southern Pacific,
and Mr.. Thompson, Secretary of United
States Railroad Commissioner Joseph E.
Johnston, have left Deming to meet United
States Engineer Hazard.
The rate on sugar to Pueblo, Col, has
haa,, oAuarnad from, q 10 S1 100
pounds.
General Traffic Manager Odds, of the Ca
madam Pacific, has appointed NJ. III. Stern
as local passenger and freight agent at San
Francisco. An Office will be opened on
Montgomery street on September 1st. 1t
is understood that general Western agent
will be located at Victoria.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-23
PATRIOTIC EDUCATION.

There is no more gratifying sign Of edu-
cational progress than that shown in the
action of numerous Boards of Education at
the East, requiring certain number OF
days in each term to be set apart that the
pupils in the public schools may be in
structed in the principles of free govern
ment and the system of the federation Of
States in this Union, the rights and the
duties of citizens and the powers of the
government. 1t was made by Gov Stan
ford one of the conditions of his great edu-
cational endowment, that thestudents in the
new university he POUNDS shall be taught
concerning the theory and practice of gov
eminent and the principles Of republican
control of free people; a pure democracy;
personal rights and personal obligations !;
the duties and obligations attaching to citi-
zenship, and the inalienable rights with
which each member of the Republic is in.
vested. 1t is probable that this specifca-
ton on his part has had something to do
with the more recent action referred to.
But however this may be, it is certain that
public thought is more and more crystalliz-
ing about the truth that if we are to be
preserved a nation of free people, we must
incuIcate in the youth of the land correct
knowledge of the principles of free gov
eminent, and stimulate in them and direct
all natural patriotic impulses, and where
they are fragile and feeble, strengthen
and expand them
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-23
" ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE 7-

points of original deposition in the tribu-
taries. This fact presents the ques-
ton whether, when hydraulic min
ing shall have been wholly checked,
these deposits shall be carried
on down to the bays, or checked before en-
tering TIL Sacramento river. That ques-
ton will be one for the Federal Govern
ment to settle, and it will probably inter-
est San francisco as much as any other
place. 80 long as the rivers cut out their
channels with steadily deepening results,
and the xater remains clear in summer,
the people of river sections will not so
greatly concern themselves about the up
river deposits of sands and slickens, or
where the. excavated matter from the river
bed goes When winters rains on these
deposits begin to send them down TO us,
our interest in them will revive. The
matter HIS got past the stage of the desire
of hydraulic miners for dams to be built
by Government to restrain deposits, and
at the same time permit the continuance
of the practice of adding to them. Any
hope of possible aid to the miners of
this character must be abandoned; We
long since pointed out that it
should never have been entertained.
What remains, is an engineering question,
simply and wholly, and will present itselfas
part and parcel of the great question of
river restoration and the correction of the
present banks of the river according to a
comprehensive system. 1t viii be simply
the question of how best to clear and re-
store the Sacramento river, or aid the ma
tural process of clearance; and how best
to prevent new damage to it. This is a
grave and intricate question, and we must
expect it to involve good deal of time for
consideration after government shall have
directed inquiry into it. And then, when
it resolves upon comprehensive system of
river protection, we must expect it to cost
great sums, which will be wrung from Con-
gress with much difficulty.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-23
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Over 500 blank forms of application have
been issued by the Postoffice Department
to woGld-be candidates for the next civil
service examination. Not more than
three-fourths, however, have been returned.
John Robertson, II years of age, en-
ployed at the Union Iron Works, fell over
board from the new dry dock in South
San Francisco yesterday afternoon and
was drowned. The body was recovered
shortly afterwards and removed to the
Morgue.
Hereafter the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company will carry mails regularly from
San Francisco to China, Mexico, Central
and South American ports. Heretofore
the service has been of rather sporadic,
and, to the business man, infinitely exas-
perating nature.
A German mutual aid society, organized
under the name of Norddeutcher Verein,
filed articles of incorporation in the County
Clerks office yesterday The directors for
the first year are e. ]. Baruth, Henry
Stirling, Carl Moller. Henry Pilster, Otto
Schinkel, H. Thode, Henry Hillberg, C. F.
Baker, NJ. Eden, C. Lindemann, l.. Siebe.
The Bank Commissioners have Just is
sued their semi-annual tabular statement,
showing the financial condition of the saw
ings banks of California on the LIST day of
July, 1886. This statement is to be en-
bodied in the annual report, which will
appear in few months. The report shows
that there are % savings, 60 commercial,
and foreign commercial banks in Cali
fornia