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FARM FOR SALE.

rINHE homestead of the late George Manson, in
Il South Lmington, Maine, OF ZIG acres;
suitably divided into moving, tiage, pasture and
wood land very delightfully."- located stage pass
es the door daily to connect with trains ON Port
land & Rochester r. r.. large orchard OF apples
etc.. two wells and never failing spring; house
and barn and large wood shed; II is considered
one of the finest farms in York County; sold to
close the estate. Address p. M. HOPKINSON,
South Limington, Me-, or REV. EDWIN SMITH,
Bedford, Mass.
Bedford. Mass, May 10, 1888. my12d1m
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
PORTLAND WHOLESALE MARKET.
Grain.
a nA.-

PORTLAND, May II, 1888
Ehe following are to-oay's closing anoLarl i Of
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CDR. Hammond says death is not necessity"
Does he? Well, have just finished settling
up Harkins's estate, you know, and judging from
with him. It's a luxury --N =
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CONGRESS- ST. STATION.

a few minutes later where through tickets and
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11
A littlebov of our acquaintance has

A littleboy of our acquaintance has
an uncle who is a carpenter. jamie
delights to watch him at his work.
One day Uncle John was cutting out
a mortise, and he stopped to see how
deep it was, squirting his eye up in a q
funny way. 20 Uncle John," called
Jamie, "let me look in. My eyes are lit
tier than yours. p Youths Companion
There is hardly beast, or bird, or
insect, which has not been called to IL
lustrate some divine truth in the Bible
the ox's patience, the ants industry,
the spiders skill, the kinds surefoot-
edness, the eagles speed, the doves
gentlsness, and even the sparrow's in
Significance.
To strive to forget enemies, or to
throw out to them only friendly
thoughts is as much an act of self-pro-
lection as it is to put up your hands to
ward off the physical blow. The per-
sistent thought Of friendliness turns
aside thought Of ill-will, and renders
it harmless.
Notwithstanding that His love is Of
fersd to US universally, we really know
Him not, as Saviour and Redeem
er, but in proportion as we are saved
by Him from that evil which leads In
to transgression.
PEANUT CANDY.-Two cups of su-
gar, one and a half cups of water, half
. cup of molasses, small bit Of butter,
two cups of peanut meats added when
boiled sufficiently.
Every great and commanding move.
ment in the annals of the world is the
triumph Of enthusiasm.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11
The State Of South Carolina.
County of Abbeville.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Rosa P. Morrow, Clarance G. Cochran, Walter
Cochran, Cornelius j. Cochran. and Carrie
r. Cochran and Charles E. Cochran, mi.
nors by Samuel w. Cochran, their guar.
dian ad litem, plaintiffs,
against
James T. Barnes, Christian V. Barnes, Jane
Hammond, Zephiniah Barnes, and Dewitt
Barnes, and Arabella g. Pressly. Maggie
FAINT, Rosa R Cater, Mary L. Carlile, su.
san Smith, Joannie E. Black, Raphael A.
Presley, William C. Presley and James
w. Presley, Defendants.
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An Act,

HA14 AcC7
TO ALLOW UNIMPROvED LANDS WHICH
HAVE NOT BEEN ON THE TAX BOOKS
SINCE 1875 TO BE LISTED WITHOUT
PENALTY.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the SEN
ate and House Of Representatives of the
State of South Carolina, now met and sit
ting in General Assembly, and by au-
thority of the same, That in all cases
where unimproved land which has not
been on the tax books since the fiscal
year commencing November 1st, 1875,
and which are not on the forfeited list,
shall at any time before the 1st day of Oc-
tober, 1888, be returned to the County
Auditor for taxation, the said Auditor be,
and he is hereby, instructed to assess the
same and to enter it upon the duplicate
of the fiscal year commencing November
LIST, 1887, with the simple taxes of that
year.
SEC. 2. That all such lands as may be
rrturned to the Auditor for taxation be-
tween the first day of October, 1888, and
the first day of October, 1889, shall be as
sessed and charged with the simple taxes
of the two fiscal years commencing re-
spectively on the first day Of November,
1887, and the first day of November, 1888.
Sec. 8. That as soon as practicable af-
ter the passage of this Act the Comptrol-
ler General is directed to furnish copy
of the same to each Auditor in the State,
and the Auditors are required to publish
the same in each of their county papers
once week fer three months during the
year 1888, and for the same period Of time
during the year 1889; and the cost of
such publication shall be paid by the
County Treasurer, upon the order of the
County Commissioners, out of the ordi-
nary county tax last collected.
Approved December 10, 1887.
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COPY SUMMONS FOR RELIEF.
Complaint not Served.)
To the Defendants above named:

PERRIN & COTHRAN,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
To the Defendants Arabella G. Presley, Mag
gle FAINT, Rosa R. Cater, Matte Bogajski,
Lizzie Keaton, Belle Crawford, Mary L
Carlile, Susan Smith, jeanne E. Black, K.
A. Presley, VIM. G. Presley and James
w. PRESLEY, heirs at law Of w. A. Press
ley, deceased:
Please take notice that the object OF this &C
ton is the partition of a parcel of land located
in the town Of Lowndesvilie, in said State
and county, formerly belonging to the Rev.
Christian v. Barnes, which was decided to w.
A. Presley, now deceased, by the said c. V.
Barnes. in trust for the grantor and his wife,
during their joint lives or the survivor OF
them, with remainder to their children, to be
sold by said trustee and proceeds to be dis.
tributed among the heirs at law of the said
c. v. Barnes, Sr., deceased, and to ask the said
Court to assume the execution Of the said
trust by selling the land and distributing the
proceeds among the heirs Of c. V. Barnes, Sr.
That no personal claim is made against you
or either Of you, and If you or either Of you
unreasonably defend said action you will be
required to pay costs to the plaintiff.
PERRIN & COTHRAN,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
LL.S.] NJ. G. ZEIGLER, G. c.. P.
To the Absent Defendants Zephiniah Barnes,
Rosa R. Cater, Matte Bogajski and VIM.
A. Presley:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE That the summons
of which the above is a copy, and the COM
plaint herein has been filed in the Office OF
the Court Of Common Pleas for said county at
Abbeville Court House, on the % February,
1885. This q February, 1888.
PERRIN & COTHRAN,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
March 7, 1855, Ct
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-13
KICKING COWS.

A correspondent writing to the
American Cuhsvotor gives the follow
ing as the best treatment for kicking
cows: II send you my method, which
is to have a strap of convenient length,
and to wind the same once around the
leg above the gambrel joint, then cross
the strap and buckle on the other leg;
the strap is crossed to prevent the
COW from lifting her leg out of the
strap. BY this method there is no in
convenience to the COW, unless she at
tempts to kick; then she gets an idea
OF her owners strength, enabling the
latter to operate with the COW on the
same plan as the Rarey method with
the horse. I have managed a dairy
of thirty COWS nearly fifty years, and
have taught six to eight heifers to be
MIXED each year, and l can recon-
mend the above for safety to the COW
and to the mixer, and for convenience
under all conditions"
JONATHAN NoRTHRoP.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-13
HOW TO RAISE CORN.

To the Editors Of the Cotton Plant:
AS the "voice of the turtle will soon
be heard in the land" which is the
signal with many farmers to begin the
planting of corn, albeit some of the
s~tricter sort will not begin until the
poplars bud, whether the dove hollers
or not. Any how, it is high time to
prepare for a full crop of corn. Big
crops of cotton, big talk about Jersey
cattle, fancy hogs and poultry may
look well on paper, and pay well too,
sometimes, but I am sure I am on
solid ground when I say, if the aver
age farmer wants things easy, and
greasy around him, he must have
plenty of corn; yes, old-fashioned corr
There is a temptation to sound the
praises of this staid old friend of man
and beast, and to show that it's position
among other crops is like that of the
farmer among other classes of society,
but we forego the temptation, and
address ourself to the simple question
of how to raise corn successfully. No
more than any other crop can corn be
grown, on poor land in paying guam
titles. The land should be in "good
heart" After breaking the soil thor
oughly and deep, lay off the rows
seven feet apart, running twice in
each row with large twister or turn
pillow. Put rough manure, corn stalks,
cotton seed, or any other fertilizer, in
the furrow thus made, and bed on the
same. The earlier this is done in the
spring the better. All the corn stalks
of the previous crop may be thus used
to great advantage as a reservoir of
moisture, and if whitened with lime
and covered up early, is a valuable
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-13

goose be filled with fat when the
yolks begin to grow large they are
crowded for room until they are put
out of shape, (such is sometimes the
case with overfat hens, as has been
eel by laying eggs of irregular
shape) and rs laying time approaches
the large ones frequently burst, and
remaining in the interior of the goose,
cause disease and sometimes death.
Should the goose escape this latter
danger and lay her eggs all right, the
most of them will be unfertile, and
those that do hatch produce feeble,
sickly goslings. If you want your
geese to lay we'll and to produce a
large percentage of strong, healthy
goslings, you must prepare for it now
by shutting off the grain and reducing
them on vegetable food or bran diet
until they are very thin, but not so
thin as to cause weakness. Keep
them in this condition until about
laying time, then increase the food a
little always avoiding grain) and they
will lay, continue to feed slightly un-
til they begin to show signs of hatch
ing and then increase the feed still
more, for as the geese will then be
pretty well emptied of eggs, the fat
can do no harm. Young geese re-
quire much better feed than old ones
and should be kept and fed separate
Go by the above directions and you
will have lots of good fertile eggs.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-13
SOME MORE GOOD FARMING.

Some years ago Mr.. G. G. Barrier,
of Chambersburg township, got some
cotton seed from Texas, and one boil
from it was so large and find that he
hung it up in his house. After a
couple Of years the seeds were taken
out of it and he planted them, three
years ago, in his garden, with good
results. He has continued to cultivate
the seeds from this one boil, and last
year he planted them on 2 IL acres
of land and picked three bales of cot
ton from the IL acres. His whole
crop of 13 bales was raised on less
than II aces of land, some of it very
poor, with the aid of compost and 1913
worth of acid. He has used no guano
for five years and never expects to use
any more. His three boys and a
negro man we're the force which made
his crop. His labor cost him only
$50, but counting the wages of the
boys the same as those of the man. he
still raised his cotton crop at a cost
not exceeding &c. per pound, and sold
at an average of 9l-2. The same
help that made the cotton crop raised
600 bushels of corn, $50 bushels Of
wheat, &c. Mr.. Barrier made money
farming last year, and has meat and
other supplies ahead for this year. He
never sells corn at less than 6Oc. per
bushel nor wheat at less than ST.. He
holds that every farmer should raise
these supplies for himself, but that
our people cannot make wheat and
corn for market in competition with
the West; and that after making what
they need for their own use they had
better give their attention to cotton
and tobacco.-StotesvaM Landmark.
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fertilizer as well. When ready to
plant, open a furrow with small shovel
one foot on each side of bed, drop the
corn in these burrows two grains every
three Observation-Disclosures that no
two stalks will be opposite each other.
This is for upland. Ii bottom land,
the corn must be dropped according
to fertility of soil.
This is the method upon which DR..
Norwood made yer n hundred
bushels per acre, some twenty years
ago, on poor upland at C~okesbury in
Abbeville county. Its advantages are
very apparent, and are as follows:
The rough manure, stalks, etc., used
to fill the main furrow get saturated
with water from early rains, and sup
plies moisture to the plants during
droughts; and in excessively wet sea-.
sons serves as efficient surface drains.
The narrow rows can only be worked
with hoes, and are therefore secure
from the breaking of roots by inju-
dicious blowing. Much less labor is
necessary to make the crop as only the
wide alleys are to be plowed.
IA word to the wise is sufficient"
Let those who catch on to this idea
try it; and L would take it as a special
favor if those who try the plan would
drop M a line next fall, giving re-
suits. Very respectfully,
M. l.. DONALDSON.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-13

Ex-Gov. Nathaniel S. Berry, of
New Hampshire, who is nearly ninety
two years old, writes from his home at
Bristol as follows: my general health
is quite good. [ go out but little in
winter, as bronchitis troubles me
when [ take cold. In my cosey
chamber [ spend much time in read
ing the Book of Books, which I was
early led to believe was the Word of
God, written by inspiration, which
says, DO right and enjoy life; do
wrong and suffer- [ pencil letters to
my friends Ct have no
known personal enemy. I enjoy life,
willing to live and willing to put off
the mortal, confidently trusting
through grace to put OF Immortality
at the call of the Master"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-13
o26 POUNDS OF LINT COTTON
ON ONE ACRE.

Mr.. J. w. Jones of Forestville
Wake County, is the man who did it,
and was awarded the premium Of
fifty dollars in gold by the Raleigh Oil
Mill and Fertilizer Co., at our last
State Fair. He tells how he did it:
"The soil course, gravelly, with yell
low clay subsoil, part wet and spongy.
Land in cotton in 1887, with Dunn
No. 2. turning pillow, following in fur
row with No. 2 pillow without wing,
putting both in ground as deep as I
could get them. In February made
compost with dirt from fence corners,
cotton seed and hog-pen manure, in
layers about two inches of dirt and
manure, then dirt and sprinkle of cot
ton seed, and SO on until heap was
completed. Let is stand until April
18th, then hauled it on land, and
spread broadcast-95 cart loads, max
ing 700 to 500 bushels. Laid off
rows 4 feet wide. Put about $50
pounds Raleigh Standard Guanno in
the drill, listing on it with small pillow;
then about 100 pounds on each side
of the list, covering it with Dunn No.
2 pillow with second wings. Then
about IS pounds in next two burrows,
covering with same pillow, which COM
pleted the bed. Planted April 10th
with Cox planter l IL bushels i'm
proved Spain cotton seed. When cot
ton was well up sided by Holloway
harrow, mule going one time on a row.
About the time third leaf formed
chopped to stand, one stalk to a place
II to Is inches apart. Followed
chopping:with Dunn cotton polw with
fresh point. Continued to plow after
every rain, when the ground was in
proper order, until it was too large to
plough. First and second ploughing
done with first cotton point, afterwards
with sweep, very shallow Had weeds
and grass chopped out whenever they
appeared. Amount of guano used 500
pounds.
COST OF CROP OF COTTO ON ACRE.
Cost of making, hauling and spreading COM
Is bushels cotton seed q
Cost of preparing and cultivation. 495
5OO pounds guano.. ............ go. 875
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MANURE.

This is always of great value, and
often vitality essential, and every
means is to be used at all seasons Tor
saving it from waste. And equally
important is applying it in a manner
to produce the greatest effect, among
which is autumn and winter spreading
for top-dressing, or else intermixlnglt
thoroughly with the soil by plow1ng
and narrowing, instead OF wasting 1t
in unbroken Jumps.
There are several other operations
of greater or less Importance, which
the watchful and vigilant farmer will
not omit, and which will frequently
occur in the course of his yearly work,
such for example as top-dressing with
fine n his newly sown wheat
thinly dressing, with straw, winter
grain in exposed places-harrowing
winter wheat in spring-giving a rich
mellow bed of soil to newly sown
grass seed-providing impregnable
fences between animals and growing
crops-saving cornstalks from rain
clearing fields of stones, brush and
other rubbish-and many other opera
tons which will suggest themselves to
the wide-awake observer.
SHALL FARMERS USE FERTILIZERS? IF
so, WHAT soR
The time is at hand when these
questions are pressing for an answer.
H.- fo-~,> foolo ~ tho Norfh on6
West make a difference in terms IN
designating the sources from which
material for enriching the soil is
drawn. The use of material from the
horse stable, COW lot and the home
premises generally they call manuring.
The use of guano and various ingredi-
ents of a mineral sort, generally drawn
from abroad, they call fertilizing.
Both, however, have the same end in
view, the making of large crops,
through the enrichment Of the soil,
whether this enrichment be temporary
or permanent. But they are strict in
the observance of this difference in
terms. Now many farmers have de-
termined on combining themselves
strictly to manures; others will use
fertilizers, or these and manures COM
bined. "Let every man be persuaded
in his own mind" We simply wish
to say here that it is very important
that those who are going to use guanos
or chemical materials for composing
should make up their minds promptly
as to what sort and how much they
are going to use and place their orders
Immediately. This for two reasons:
lst. In composing with mineral ele-
ments it is desirable they should be in
the heap for some time before used, in
order that certain chemical combina-
tons may be brought about with the
rough material in the heap which are
needful for the best results. And
End, by ordering soon you will be
more sur to get your order filed in
time for your purposes, as later along
the railroad companies are crowded
with freight and delivery at any given
time is by no means certain. We
hope to be of some service in writing
on this question of manuring and fer
tilizing next week.-G. ". s, IN
Kanston Free Press.
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Is There any Money in It?

When a person contemplates engag-
ing in a new enterprise, the first ques-
ton he naturally asks is "is there any
money in it 2" 1t is difficult to say
how often this question is asked of a
poultryman. When I hear a person
say his hens do not pay their keeping,
1 conclude they receive very little if
any attention, and feel like telling him
to give his COWS or horses the same
care he does his hens and they would
die on his hands in less than three
months. Poultry not cared for will
not pay, and if any n can give in
formation of a business that does not
require care and attention to make it
successful, we, like many others,
would give a good sum for the infor-
nation. Industry is rewarded in
nearly every business, and in none
more abundantly than in poultry rails
ing. Any animal that will pay it's
keeping and buy itself in two months,
is good property. A common hen
can be bought for 80 cents, and it
would be a very poor Or inferior one
that would not lay three dozen eggs
in May and June, which sold at 20
cents per dozen, would pay her keep
ing and buy another. But I do not
advise anyone intending to make a
business of poultry raising to keep
common fowls; look at the various
breeds, learn their qualities and habits,
select that variety best calculated to
meet your wants, whether for egg
producing or table use; then take great
pains to keep your breed pure, and if
possible improve it by selecting from
year to year the very best of your flock
to breed from. Then you will have
no trouble or difficulty in selling all
the fowls or eggs you can spare at
double the price you CAL obtain for
common fowls or eggs.
Demand for Good Poultry.
The demand for good poultry is
constantly on the increase, whether
among the fancy varieties or for gen.
eral consumption. For the first men
toned purpose, amateurs and begin
ners in every portion of the country
are constantly. coming forward to take
up the higher-bred fowls produced
from season to season, to experiment
with in their way. Through the other
means the demand for chickens and
eggs everywhere in our markets or
for family uses around us, has been
enormously enlarged within the past
few years.
Keep Them Tame.
Hens that are constantly kept quiet
and tame will make better mothers
and care for their chicks better than
the wild and uncomfortable ones.
The component parts Of an egg con-
sists of oil and albumen, with lesser
proportions of phosphates, sulphur,
iron, lime and soda. The white is
chiefly albumen, and the shells mostly
carbonate of lime.
To Feed Geese for Eggs.
The yolks of the eggs are formed
and commence to grow about four
weeks before the geese begin to lay.
If the goose has been kept thin in
flesh for five or six weeks previous to.
the laying season, the cavity in which
the ova is formed will be large and
give room to a great number of
healthy, fertile eggs, which will pro-
duce vigorous goslings; but if the