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BOOTS and SHOE
Without Regard to Cost!

Ladies Dress Goods from 81
25c. per yard.
Plain and Brocade Velveteas
and Colored IAces for DIR y
Trimmings, cheap. " ~
Dress Ginghams, Calicoes, Cal
ton and Flannels, at reduk !
prices.
Gents, Ladies and Chilre0s
Underwear, Hosiery, Silk
Linen handkerchief, Linen {
lars, Cuffs, Silk Ties, Scarfs j.
Bows, at very low prices.
Black and colored Jerse
Jersey Capes, Gents and b.
Knit Jackets and White Shjg
very cheap.
Calico shirts for 39c worth I
Boys white shirts for Al ce
worth 60c.
Splendid line of ladies CO
and listers will be
CLOSED OUT AT COST
All other goods in stock
prices TO suit tie times.
| j. FRANK KRAMER
nov4-tf Francis Sta
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31
AN ORCHARD FERTIL1zFp

The best fertilizer / have used g.
fruit trees is made of chip dirt from
the wood pile and old ashes. m;n
in the proportion of one bushel ns
ashes to three bushels of the chin
dirt, stirring we'll with the shovaE
About two bushels of this mixturei j.
to be spread around each tree givinn
large, well-grown trees more. Th9o
manure is applied at any season
Do not pile any litter or rubbish
around the trees that would harbor
mice. In summer keep the weeds
from around the trees. Experience
has taught me that this fertilizer
serves a very valuable purpose, not
only in supplying the trees with
suitable food but in mellowing the
soil, and helping on such crops as
may choose to plant in my orchard
1t is an excellent fertilizer for any
crop, annual or perennial, and the
ashes, from hard wood, supply the
trees with the elements they most
need, and the soil lacks, namely
potash.
1t is a pleasure to g how a young
orchard will thrive after an appIica,
ton of this fertilizer. Sometimes
burn logs to get ashes for this pur,
pose, and if | have no chip dirt, | 90
to a dead oak or hickory, and scrape
together the fallen bits of bark and
the rich dirt around the tree. 1t is
a very good substitute for chip dirt.
1t is obvious that this material is an
excellent manure rich in the ele.
ments Of food of trees [ believe in
keeping the fruit trees we'll fed, and
that a large space around each tree
should be given exclusively to the
tree from which it is to draw its
supplies.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31
MUCK AS A FERTILIZER.

Mr.. Lorrin Burnes, of Goshen,
writes to the Neu England Farmer
hat for fifteen years he has been a
close observer in the use of meadow
muck and the different modes of it's
application to the soil.
On all soils of newly cleared land
Dr. those receiving the wash of high
lands, and land of a swampy charac-
ter, Or that which is rich in vegeta-
BILE matter, the application Of clear
muck will have no visible benefit.
But use the muck as an absorbent
in barn-yards, pig-stys, for slops and
suds, and you have an article that
will make any land laugh and grow
fat. The greatest benefits, however,
are cen from it's use on sandy soils,
or soils that have been worn by
long 81 in tillage OF grass growing,
without returning an equivalent in
the shape of manure of some kind.
Four years ago, other parties and
myself purchased a peat and muck
swamp and commenced ditching.
We have since been using the muck
taken from the bitches in compost
ing and in various ways to test it's
value rs a f%ertilizing agent. The
first year n used it thrown under
the cattle in stables and in his pig
stys to the amount of one-half muck
and one-half manure, doubling the
amount of manure. The result of
all crops raised on land MANFRED
with. the same was a better show
through the season than the same
crops on the same soil, with clear
stable manure.
In fact, on one field of corn, a part
of which was planted with the muck
compost, and a part with an equal
quantity Of clear barn manure in
each hill, a difference in favor Of
the muck could be seen as far off as
you could see the field while grow
ing, and o n harvesting the corn, that
on the muck made much the most
show.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31
RAISING CALVES WITHOUT
MOTHER.

The editor of the Southern Agri-
c~utturist, who witnessed the method
by which an Alabama farmer raises
his calves without the assistance of
the mother, describes it as follows:
GAS soon as the calf was dropped
it was taken out of the sight of the
COW by two men and rubbed per-
fectly dry, the mother not having a
chance to caress it once. Fresh
milk was taken from the COW and
a man inserted his hand in the milk
placing n finger in the little calf's
mouth and it began sucking, and in
three days the calf would drink the
fresh milk from a bucket. The COW
has never been restless, nor has
the calf plated after it's mother.
The little fellow drinks two quarts
OF milk per day and is as happy as
a sunfiower. The above is the cor
rect way to raise a calf without a
mother; never let them become ac-
quainted with each other, and there
will be no trouble.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31
IRISH POTATOES.

The following from the Peters
burg (Va.) Rural Messenger is quite
as applicable to North Carolina as
to Virginia: f. "'
Very few crops the farmer of
the State grows, yields more food
per acre than the Irish potato. 1t
may be that the sweet potato some
times exceeds it in yield, but then
the latter costs twice or three times
the trouble and labor that are usu-
ally bestowed on the white, or Irish
potato. Taking the amount Of
manure and labor required to grow
a crop Of this potato, nothing
upon the farm yields so large a re
turn as does the Irish potato. It is
the poor mans bread crop, yielding
more TODD at less cost than any
other known product of the Vir-
ginia field or garden.
And yet the Irish potato is not
largely cultivated here. Nearly
every farmer, it is true, has a patch
of them for summer eating, but it
is rare indeed that we find this food
upon VIC udDIoS Vi our 1dIIlcTS Ill
winter. Many farmers indeed buy
their seed potatoes every spring,
not having enough left over from
summer to plant the next crop, let
alone having any to eat during the
winter.
This may seem an astonishing
statement to some, but it is true.
That this potato is palatable and
nutritious, that it can be cooked
in many different forms, that it is
liked by almost every person, that
it is, like bread, always in season,
that it is easy to grow and easy
to keep, amounts to nothing. Farm
ers do not grow enough for their
own home use.
This is a mistake that our people
are making. They. should grow
this crop largely for home use. 1t
saves bread. 1t should be upon the
table in some form as food all the
days. 1t is good for the mich
cows, the pigs, the chickens.
Stable is not excelled by
anything as a fertilizer for this
crop Hog-pen n is excellent
also; cow-pen ANU not good.
Phosphate, with woods scrapings,
makes fine Irish potatoes-2OO
pounds per acre, and enough litter
to fill the trenches full.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31
Encourage by all means your sons

Encourage by all means your sons
and daughters to engage in the
keeping of bees. You are working
and laying up for your children, but
give them a chance to work and
lay up for themselves. Farmers
wives and daughters can engage in
this work just al we'll as, or better,
than their husbands and brothers.
Ladies are better fitted in several
respects for bee-keepers than men.
In the first place, bees are usually
kept near the dwelling, and the
wife or daughter a have a better
oversight, and be better able to at
tend to their wants, than the hus-
band or son, whose business takes
them to distant parts of the farm.
In the next place, ladies are heater
and not SO apt to be in a profuse
persplratlon as men, or to have the
odor of domestic animals about
them.-Southern GultiUator and Di.rie
Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31
THE FoRsAKEN

Against the wooded hills it stands,
Ghost of a dead home, staring through
It's broken lights on wasted lands
Where old-time harvests grew.
Unplowed, unsown, by scythe unshorn,
The poor forsaken farm. fields lie,
Once rich and rife with golden corn
And pale green breadths of rye.
OF heathful herb and flower bereft,
The garden plot no housewife keeps;
Through weeds and tangle only left
The snake, it's tenant creeps.
A lilac spray, once blossom clad,
Swaps bare before the empty rooms;
Beside the ~roofess porch a sad,
Pathetic red rose blooms.
His track, in mould and dust of drought,
On floor and hearth the squirrel leaves,
And in thy freless chimney's mouth
His web the spider weaves.
The leaning barn about to fall
Resounds no more on husking ewes;
No cattle low in yard or stall,
No tresher beats his sheaves.
So sad, SO drear! 1t seems almost
Some haunting presence makes its sign;
That down yon shadowy lane some ghost
Might drive his spectral kline!
John O.. Whittier.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31

A Missouri farmer claims to have
cured his hogs of cholera by the
use OF a prescription furnished him
by his family physician. He boiled
the roots of mayapple, pokeberry
and mullen in water, for several
hours, until he made a strong de-
coction. He gave a pint of this
tea in bran slop, three times a day
for a week. All his hogs recovered
but one that could not be induced
to eat the mixture.-Southern Cu-
tsUdtOr and Dirie Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.

We clip the following useful sug-
gestions from the Petersburg Va.)
Rural Messenger:
Ground bone is an excellent
thing to keep by the hens, also
ground oyster shell.
Whitewash the stables, cellars and
poultry houses, and Oil the roOsts
with kerosene.
"Scaly leg" on fowls may be
cured by a few applications OF, ker,
osene; a little sulphur added will
improve it.
Fowls need a liberal supply Of
water and, although they will live
without it, yet they thrive and
fatten the best when pure water is
given them.
Early chickens pay the best;
prices are very much higher earlier
in the season than in the fall, and
even if the pullets n to be kept
for layers, early ones are the best.
Don't throw those horseshoes
aside because the heel calks are
worn off and the shoe is too short
to turn over again. Have the
smith weld toe calks on sidewise.
These will wear longer.
Give all the stock salt with sui
phur mixed in it at this season.
Also scatter dry sulphur about in
the beds where the stock lie. Give
sulphur to hens in meal; give them
mari also.
Clean and repair the harness,
paint the carts and wagons, oil with
kerosene the plows and harrows to
prevent. the timber from cracking
in the hot sun, and apply oil to the
rusty hoes and other implements
to be used during the summer.
Prepare poles and sticks for beans,
such as Lima and running snaps,
and the marrowfat garden peas
The poles should be six OF six and a
half feet long; the sticks for peas
four feet long. Both should have a
rough surface, to enable the plant
to cling better.
Scrape off the old bark from the
apple and pear trees, and wash the
bodies and larger limbs with white.
wash, or soft soap, sulphur and
strong ashes. It destroys the
moths, kills insects, prevents the
bark from getting dead and hide
bound, and makes the trees assume
a young and thrifty look.
Burn the old hog beds to destroy
vermin, make new beds on the ola
site-if' there were none sick-and
drop soft soap about, that the pigs
may get it on them when they
sleep. 1t cures mango, yellow
sweats, and security skin, and rlds
them of vermin.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31

The total sales of wool in Bos-
ton since Jan 1, 1886, have been 20.
1868 pounds, against 25,415,3N
pounds for the same time last year
This is a decrease of 4,976,723 lbs.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31

We clip the following useful sug
gestions from the Petersburg (Va)
Rural MESSENGER:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31

A hog dressing 1,155 pounds
was killed at Stockport, N. Y, re-
Gently.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31
SOME FEEDING FACTS.

Experiments on the Missouri Ag-
ricultural College Farm have given
facts for the following estimate OF
the value per hundred weight OF
certain grains and folders, based on
chemical composition and digesti-
bility, with corn at 20 cents per
hundred weight as the standard of
c0mnariSOn -- ---
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31
CANADA

A New York farmer describes
his method Of destroying Canada
thlstles. He once sowed a Spring
crop, which was about destroyed
by thistles. Early in September
he plowed the field, cut narrow and
very deep burrows and made sure
the roots were all cut off, prepar-
atory for the wheat crop. He be-
lieves in blowing them under as a
green manure crop. He also Sum-
mer-fallowed a field, the land being
full of thistles. He plowed around
the whole field, but left about an
acre in the centre not plowed. This
blowing was done in June. He did
not pillow deep nor close, as he
wished to get all the second growth
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31

Value of 100 pounds corn when
fed under variable conditions as to
shelter, manner of feeding, and kind
of stock fed. These figures are
mostly a summary Of the results Of
feeding experiments made at the
farm of the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College:
Fed to pigs without shelter (pOrk 81
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-31

TtU 10 IHSo VItIIVut ITCItOI NP0IN y
cwt.) .65
Fed to pigs we'll sheltered-very
cold weather............... 81
Fed to pigs without shelter-very
cold weather 81
Fed to pigs in warm pens (pork39
cwt.) II
FED to DIG (ScruDS) .0i
I'll IL -. /,,,,o I,oI,N 20
L cu 10 pigs tpuIo UIeuS ............. 10
Fed to pigs in thin f1esh......... 81
Fed to fat .35
Fed to steers corn meal (beef ) cwt.) .6S
Fed to steers ground corn and cob
(beef 5 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. SO
SO. CHI. and Dare Farmer.
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Heat Estate Transfers.

Recorded by the County Clork
for the week ending February "a;
Gilbert McGregor ct al. to Au.
gust Warnasch, 90 acres, S. M.
Williams league, s1704.
John Smith and wife TO August
Warnasch, 6 acres S. NJ. Williams
league, sl06 80.
A. StelzIg to Mrs. Mary Grioscn-
beck, lot in Brennan. $1,000.
r. J. Allcorn TO Laura Cole
lot in Rrenham, $3.50.
Jno. A. Randlo TO o. n. Corni
tIus, lot in Bronham, $500.
Andrew Herring to Eli Random,
"a 81 acres John Hodge league;
SSH 25.
Frank Wills and wife to R. Hoff.
man. 80 acres p. Coo league
$1447 SO.
R. Hoffman TO Frank Wills, Sc
acres Z. Coo league, S154T.
r. Hoffman to Eli Random, 135
acres John Hodge league, S2625.
Eli Random to X. Hoffman, I3G
acres John Hodge league, S2625.
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STATE NEWS.
Hampstead has a saloon called
the Boycott.

Hampstead has q saloon Gale
the Boycott.
The Seguin butchers had
war OF prices and reduced beef /
4 cents pound.
-Ex-Rabbi Schulz of Dalla
made quite an inflamatory spee:l
at Tyler the other night.
Reynolds, safe drummer, ar
rived at Hampstead and handcC
his grip to strange young coon
Grip and coon are both missing.
Tho editors OF the Hampstead
Courier announce that neither oil
them are candidates for any county
office, but if they conclude to run
they will announce themselves.
&C. NJ. Lamborn, of the Fort
Worth National bank, was fatally
injured by his horse falling on him
while engaged in jack rabbit
chase.
The case of Kyle Terry charg-
ed with tho murder OF Policeman
Williams at Houston, last week,
has been continued to the April
term on affidavit of the defendant.
Rev. Jacob Mathews n minis;
ter of the gospel for sixty years
a citizen OF Washington county,
for twcnty-six year died at Chap
pell Hill on Saturday last.
The Bollville Times says that
nlne-teuths of the people of Austin
county are more than willing that
a new court house should be built
A new court house is certainly
needed.
Tho Cotter planning mill on Nc
chanlc street, Galveston, was total
Iy destroyed by fire on Monday
night. The loss Is about $4,000;
a new lot of machinery had Just
been put in the mill.
Tho town of San Angelo is csti-
mated to contain $500 inhabitants
and is rapidly increasing. The
courthouse cost $4,000 and tho
Jail $4,000; a $4,000 public
school house is in course of cree
ton and when the railroad reaches
there, which will be in the near
future San Angelo will boom.
DIR. Salm, the seduccr, is a
man, his wife being in
Atlanta, Ga. An Austin special to
the Houston Post says Salm's
dwelling was lately burned under
such suspicious circumstance that
the insurance companies have not
paid the losses, and that his repu-
tation heretofore has not been
savory.
The Fort Worth Gazette of
Monday asserts most positively
hat there is no cause for alarm on
recount of small pox at Fort
Worth. The points where the dis
case exists seem to be under good
and with anything like
ordinary prudence cd the part of
outsiders the danger of extension
s reduced to tho minimum. Vac
,ination is almost universal.
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What We Are Indebted to the
South For,

There appears in our columns to-day the
Acknowledgement of t. c well-known land
universally used in the southern States) Sim
mons Liver Regulator. Years ago it won it.
way into every household ofthe South by
pure, sterling merit. It there takes the place
of n doctor and costly prescriptions. The
medicine is becoming widely known in the
North, and wherever used the demand for
it has steadily increased. 1t is family
medicine, containing no dangerous and de-
letori us qualities, but purely vegetable, and
so gentle in its action that it can be safely
given to any person, no matter what ago
the centenarian or the growing youngster.
Working people are often in that miserable
state of health which really renders them
unfit for labor; but they havn't time to take
medicine and be sick. Simmons Liver Reg
uiator can be taken without any loss of
time, and the system will be built up and in
vigoraled by it. The Regulator promotes
digestion, dissipates nasty sick headache, and
gives strong, full tone to the system. In
malarious climates it is invaluable, both pro-
tecting attack from the disease and expelling
the poison after it has entered the system.
1t has no equal as a preparatory medicine,
and can be safely used when doctor can
not be called in. Persons of the very high
est character and eminence have given Sim
mons Liver Regulator their cordial and
hearty endorsement
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GRAssHoPPERs. - Mr.. C. f.
Horbst, district clerk, who Is some,
what OF an ontomoIogist himself,
hands us the following clipping
from a California paper:
"The vineyard commissions OF
the state of California published 4
recipe for the destruction OF
grasshoppers which has proved
very effective. Commissioner
West, of San Joaquin district, re-
ports as follows: 1t has caused US
little trouble and but little ex-
pense to prevent The destruction
by grasshoppers of a 5O-acre vim
yard. We used for that pur-
pose a mixture of So
pounds of bran, 20 pounds
of arsenic and one gallon of cheap
molasses. This mixture we spread
on boards, distributed them in diff
ferent parts of the vineyard and
but q short while afterward the
whole ground was covered with
dead grasshoppers. The expenses
amounted to but % cents an acre."
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LuNAcY.-HarrY Morgan. q

LUNACY.-Harry Morgan, . ne
gro about 45 years of age, from
the Gay Hill settlement, was tried
before County Judge Kirk, IN
chambers, on Wedn csday, and
convicted of lunacy.
NEXT Friday afternoon will be
public at tho Public Free Schools.
A cordial invitation is extended
to all to be present ana see the
work of the pupils.
The weather continues showery
and the streets and roads are get
ting muddy.
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AT Ottawa; Ont, on Sunday all
tho Roman Catholic churches de-
nopnced the Knights of Labor and
The Telegraph Operators union.
the Catholic church does not toll
crate any secret society whatever.
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G. A. POTTER.

THE council of Mont Rose Rap-
fist church sustained tho action of
the church for expoIIing certain
members for their action in forci-
bly, closing the doors of the church
on the 14th of June, 1855.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-25

Just received full assortment
of white and red wine-best quail.
ty-in quantities to suit purchas,
ers, Just the thing for tho holi,
days. Also. Eli delioacics, sausage,
and canned goods. Low prices. A
good 10 cent cigar for cents,
Large stock on hand, call and try
them. SAM MUERv.
o. K. SaloOE
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-25

Just received a car load of Ger
man Millet Seed, about which ship
per writes us as follows:
"The millct seed are guaranteed in writ
ling 10 be Large German and you need not
"dOuht in the least. We think they are
"lrom the best section of the state for plant
"inG around Brenham."
We can, therefore, CONSCIENTIOUS
ly recommend them to our Gus
tomors, and solicit your orders.
Resptfully,
HUNT & Co.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-25

TUE annexation Of Eurmah to
India was confirmed in the house
OF lords and house Of commons on
Tuesday evening. 1t was voted
that the cost OF the capture of Bur
nah be charged to the Indian revc-
nuc.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-25

THE San Antonio Express OF last
Sunday was a beautifully illustrat-
ed paper containing engravIngs of
Che Alamo and surroundings in
1886 and 1886. Also q eondensa-
ton of all the happenings in San
Antonio in 1885.