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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-30

As yet no arrests of peddlcrs have been
made here for selling without license but
brought before the court and fined 81 and
costs for violating this law. The authori.
ties mean to prevent all violations if it is a
possible thing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-30

"A foggy day drives EN- said q South
port citizen - he cast m anxious eve at
some rapidly gathering clouds. Its going
to be nasty day" be added and lots of
the summer visitors will 60 home Still 4
few hot days will bring EN- all back again and
lots more besides. The season isn't quite ripe
yet but its pretty nigh the picking
color. and people are coming down here BY
the sea in ever increasing numbers. Yes. /
think we are going TO have . tolerably sue
cessful season, all things considered
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-30

The patronage was large and the really
wonderful features highly appreciated by the
audiences. 1t is worthy of mention tina, the
pretentions Of the advance advertisements Of
Walter l. Mains show were not so exagger-
ated as is usually the case with such shows.
for the reality was even better than expecta-
tons. In our judgment the best circus per.
formance ever shown in this town Rec9yd,
Sfonghfon. Mass Sept. II 1883.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-30

There is one thing that seaside sojourners
should be truly thankful for. The shining |
and frisky mackerel may not make his A. !
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-30

The new insurance firm of Noble 4
Blanchard has opened business in neat
office over J. +. Fuller's grocery store and
are doing quite a large business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-30

1.-The dog fish are spelling our fishing for
us. said Boothbay skipper AS we sat in the
cabin of his trim little yacht
The dog fish,"
YES they take our bait before it can get
anywhere near the bottom. The water about
the old fishing grounds seems to be fairly
alive with them. Its no use trying to catch
other fish when those fellows are around
took a party out near Pumpkin Rock
the other day, but all We could get were dog
fish. After We had caught fifteen or twenty
Of them We gave up in disgust and came
home. number Of other fishing parties
report the same experience"
THE porgy business hasn't been so good
for years" said 4 gentleman to me q. We
watched the long low steamers coming up
into the bay evidently heavily laden.
They are making large catches are
theyf" asked.
"Yes, they are doing finely. number
Of years ago porsies were very plentiful in
these waters and large business Vas done in
extracting the oil hereabouts The Ash final.
ly grew scarce and disappeared. and the
business died. Many of the old factories
with their expensive machinery we're sold
for . mere song, about what they were worth
for'old junk Most Of them we're DESTROYED.
gentleman not far from here, however,
who came into possession Of one of these fsc
tories in this manner, had the good sense
and foresight to maintain it intact and
in good condition. As result he is nov
receiving handsome rental for the property
and rushing bust -ess 10 being carried on
there. No doubt many other men feel dis
susted with themselves to mink they failed
to do likewise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-30

The sportsmen are now getting out their
guns and oiliug them up for the plover
shooting which will commence about the
first of August. Terrible destruction to the
trees may now be expected by the flying
shot
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-30

Nearly two-thirds of the cut stone for the
new State House addition has been finished
at the Waldoboro quarries aud Mr. White
will commence shipping it to this city in
about two weeks.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12
THE ACT ESTABLISHING THE
NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE.

The President has signed the follow
ing bill:
SEC. l. That the Department of
Agriculture, established at the seat of
government of the United States, shall
be an executive department, to be
known as the Department of Agri-
culture, under the supervision and con-
troll of a secretary agriculture, who
shall be appointed by the President,
by and with the advice of the Senate;
and section I58, of the Revised Stat
utes, is hereby amended to include
such department, and the provisions
of Title 4, of the Revised Statutes, in
Guiding all amendments thereto, are
hereby made applicable to said de-
partment.
SEC. 2. There shall be in said de-
partment an assistant secretary of
agriculture, to be appointed by the
President, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, who shall per-
form such duties as may be required
by law or prescribed by the secretary.
SEC. 3. That the secretary of agri-
culture shall receive the same salary
as is paid to the secretary of each of
the executive departments, and the
salary of the assistant secretary of
agriculture shall be the same as that
now paid to the first assistant secre-
tary of the department of the interior.
SEC. 4. That all laws and parts of
laws relating to the department of
agriculture now in existence, as far as
the same r applicable, and not in con
fict with this act, and only SO far, are
continued in full force and effect.
So, after an agitation of the subject
for many years, the Department of
Agriculture has at last been elevated
to an executive department under the
supervision and control of a member
of the Presidents Cabinet, and Com
missioner Colman has already been
promoted by President Cleveland, and
his appointment confirmed by the
Senate, as the first Secretary of Agri-
culture.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12
FATTENING FOWLS.

Fowls, like hogs, should be confined
to be fattened. They should be
placed where they will have plenty OF
sunshine and fresh air and a perfectly
dry and wind-proof house in which to
retreat from inclement weather, and
to roost in at night.
They should be given all the soft,
fat-producing food, such as scalded
meal, grits, etc., of a morning and
through the day occasionally that they
will eat, and corn at night.
If in good ordinary condition when
first put up, they will take on fat for
about three weeks and remain healthy,
at the end of which time they are in
prime condition for the table and
should be killed, as they are likely to
become ~listless and inactive, if not
diseased, if kept longer confined and
fed SO h1ghly.-Er.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12
AIRY R U TREES.

If any person were to chain an ami
NAL to a stake in the field and leave
it to shift for itself until it gets thin
and decrepit from loss of flesh and
strength the humane society would be
after him with properly deserved
punishment. Yet this is precisely
what thousands of farmers do with
their orchards, Of purse barring the
difference between the insensate tree
and the living animal. And yet even
for a tree there must be something
akin to pain in the PROCESS of slow star
vation-the seeking by exhausted
rootlets of food that cannot be found.
1t takes an enormous amount of
various manures to form fruit and
seeds.-TemmeSSee Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12

patronage that warehouse which will
give the public the amount of such
sales in pounds.
Sd. That we have heard with regret
some manufacturers have been brand
ing their goods with devices as if they
were authorized to use the name OF
the Alliance, and we warn them that
we view this as a departure from that
high moral and correct dealing which
should characterize every manufac-
turer.
4th. That we do not believe this to
have been corruptly done, but with
out thought of any improperly.
5. That the Secretary be instructed
to send a copy of these resolutions to
the leading newspapers for publica-
ton. F. A. PIERsoN,
Sec'y Caswell Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12
BIRDS AND BUGS.

In Farm and FEreside, January 18th,
1889, Mr.. D. B. Wier writes about
birds and white grubs, and states that
in an observation of thirty years, he
has known of but one instance where
a truly injurious insect vas being fed
upon by a bird. | don't think that
MIR. W. has eve lived where our
beautiful and sweet-noted medow-lark
makes its home. If he has, he Ger
tainly has not observed the method
by which this bird makes its living. l
cannot say as to its feeding upon the
white grub, but lido know that in this
climate it makes its living almost n
tirely upon the much-dreaded and de-
spised cut-worm during the part of
the year when said worm preys upon
the farmer, and that is almost the IN
tire year here. Ihave frequently no.
ticed from fifteen to twenty of these
birds at n time walking e my
garden, yard or field, and turning
over chips, bark and other debries to
find cut-worms; and | have seen them
dig holes, with their bills, from two to
three inches deep, and pull out worms
close by cabbage, onions or other
plants. l have seer a single bird take
out as many as six of these worms in
less than ten minutes.
They are very useful birds to the
farmer, and l do not permit any one
to shoot OF modest them on or about
my premises. My boys never throw
at or scare them. They are so tame
that we can walk close by them and
they will not fly up. Often I have
e flock of from thirty to fifty fly
from the woods into my garden and
grove, and welcome friends they are.
This bird is truly a friend and help to
the farmer, and then to think that
many farmers kill them! But I think
this is done o through ignorance
than otherwise. The meadow-lark is
with us all the year, and busy from
early morn until shutdown, occasion
ally taking a rest on some stump or
tree, and sounding her sweet note
f. W. o., an Farm and Fgresade.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12
COMPOSING COTTON SEED
MEAL.
By B. w. Hawkins, Mona, Ga


1 have a great many inquiries as to
my formula for composing, and for
using cotton seed meal. If you will
allow me space in your columns, will
givs it to the public for all it is worth,
so that all who wish can try it on a
small scale. l give it as my formula.
Say take 80 bushels each of stable
manure and cotton seed in layers;
take 100 pounds acid, SO pounds kai-
nit, sprinkle on stable manure and
cotton seed, and so build up the heap
in this way four feet high; let stand
six weeks or more; apply from 80 to
60 bushels per acre, or more, accord
ing to the capacity Of the soil.
My formula for mixing cotton seed
meal: Take 100 pounds cotton seed
meal, so pounds acid, so pounds kai-
nit, mix together, applying from 200
to 800 pounds per acre. have made
many experiments with compost and
guano in many different ways, which
[ will give to the public some future
day, as soon as my experiments are
fully satisfactory to my mind.
The above named compost and
homemade fertilizer, I look upon as
being a good one and the most per-
feet made, and one that I shall settle
down upon if I meet again with the
same success this year as I did last
year, 1888.
My experiments have been such
with guano and compost that I am
forced to believe that phosphoric acid
and ammonia and potash must abound
in equal quantities in compost heap
and guano, not trusting to land too
much. It has it's chemicals, and will
in due time tuan to food.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12

potatoes or rocking the cradle, We
have no patience with the man who
can find nothing to do at home, He
is a failure, a miserable failure. He
brings suffering to all connected with
him, and everything alive around him
suffers from neglect. You may visit
him at his home and you will find his
pig sly six inches deep in mud, with
no bedding or shelter for bis pigs; his
roofs leaky and buildings out of re-
pair generally. You will see his
horses (the noblest animals that man
has the blessed privilege of owning)
shivering with cold as the cold, bleak
winds of winter whistle through the
large openings in the sides of their
stable, which perhaps are filed up
with rails are poles to keep them from
coming out.
You will see his fences broken
and shackled down until they are not
worthy of the name. The briars and
bushes have ~undisputed possession of
the fence lows for ten feet into the
fields. His crops are half cultivated;
his barns comparatively empty and
his Preside cherries and desolate.
He will fail and ought to fail.
The intelligent and competent far
mel never goes to town unless he has
business there, and when his business
is done he goes home and finds some
thing to do. Such a one will succeed,
and such a one will leave the world
in a better condition than he found it.
Bon Silence an Tennessee Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12
THE CITY OF DANVILLE AND
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.

WHrRrAs, We, the Farmers ALI
ance of Caswell county, N. c., have
agreed with the other Alliances of the
State and nation to work for the
moral and material good Of the work
ingmen of the country; and, whereas,
they intend to antagonize no interest
in business, but simply wish to protect
themselves from combinations and
frauds and to insist upon a full recog-
milton of their rights. And in order
to do this we will use every effort to
secure an agent for the sale of our
produce for a less per cent. than at
present; and, whereas, the Business
Agent of this County Alliance was in
sstructed to see the warehousemen in
Danville, Va, (which may be regarded
as our natural market) and urge them
to make some deduction from the
charges for selling tobacco, and was
informed that all the warehouse
men had bound themselves in a
penal bond to make no concessions;
therefore
RESOLVED, That. we greatly regret
this action by our friends in Danville;
that it is a recognized fact in political
economy that buyers at wholesale buy
at less price than those at retail; there
fore those selling large quantities of
any product through the same agent
is entitled to and does get a reduction
If the large seller insists.
I'd. That we ask most respectfully
of the warehousemen everywhere that
in the publication of the pounds of
tobacco sold on their respective floors
they give SO far as possible the amount
of ~re-sales, to the end that a true state
ment of the crop sold on any market
may be reached; then giving the
farmer ga free ballot and a far count
That other things being equal, we
pledge ourselvest to support with our
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12
BAGGING FACTORY.
From the Meridian (Miss.) News.]


Messrs. Patty, of Noxubee, Beemar
of Scott, and Rylee, of Marshall, the
committee appointed by the State Ali
ance for the purpose of investigating
the feasibility of manufacturing a GOV.
ering for cotton from other material
than jute bagging, met, by invitation.
the members of the Board of Trade
at the Cotton Exchange Monday
night.
Nh. Patty read to the meeting the
following memoranda for the estab'
lishment of a bagging factory"
L. Corporation-To be chartered
under the general laws of the State of
Mississippi.
2. Object-The manufacture of bag
cling from low grade cotton or other
material if more advantageous.
8. Capital Stock-To be FIVE hun
dred thousand dollars, divided into
shares of five dollars each, but opera
tons may begin when the sum of
$50, 900 have been subscribed and paid
in as hereinafter provided.
4. Subscription-To be first selected
County and Sub-Alliances and indi-
vidual members to be paid into treas
uries of the respective County ALI
ances subject to order, and if the sum
sc realized shall be inadequate, then
subscriptions may be received from
other sources.
5. Locality-The factory to be
located at such place (all other things
being equaD as may offer the greatest
inducements of site or money or both,
it being understood that more than
one factory shall be erected if the
same shall be found necessary and ex-
pedient.
6. Operations-The enterprise to be
upon the cooperative plan,
expenses, including repairs and in
terest on capital, stocks and improve
ments, to be deducted from the gross
earnings and the remainder returned
to shareholders, dividends to be de-
clared annually.
Nora detailed plan upon the
basis to be prepared and
to the County Alliances for
action at meetings in October next,
and if the response shall be favorable,
advertisement to be made for thirty
days, inviting sealed proposals for do
nation for sites for location, etc. :
The President of the State Alliance
hereafter to call a meeting of the
stockholders Ito be represented by one
delegate from each county, to effect
permanent organization and take such
other organization as may be deemed
advisable. In case of subscriptions
outside of the Alliance such subscrip-
tions shall be represented in said meet
ing in such manner as they may elect.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12
FIGHTING THE PLUM APH1s.

The small, brown insects infesting
the leaves of the wild goose plum are
the wingless form of the plum tree
aphis (apris pruni, Kock). Individ-
uals of this species vary in color, as
also do the different stages, being
sometimes partially of a green color.
They infest the under side of the
leaves, usually near the ends of the
twigs, ~puncturing the former and
causing them to- become wrinkled and
twisted. The species reproduces with
astonishing rapidity, and were it not
for the attacks of their natural enc
mics, they would soon overrun the
entire tree. They are, however, de-
stroyed by several species of lady
beetles, the larvae of lace-winged flies,
and a small green and brown maggot,
which may be found among them in
great numbers. Of the life-history
of the species very little is known.
The most effective remedy is to
spray the infested trees with kerosene
emulsion, which is made by mixing
two parts of kerosene with one part
of milk and agitating the mixture
until it forms a butter-like substance.
which is further diluted with water
until the mixture contains about 5
per cent. Of kerosene. Another
method is to dissolve half a pound of
soap in one gallon of hot water and
substitute the mixture for milk; or a
third formula is to substitute eggs for
milk, using the eggs at the rate of
eight to a gallon of kerosene, diluting
to the proper strength, as in the first
formula. Powdered pyrethrum, if
pure and fresh, mixed one ounce to
one gallon of water, and used in tbe
form of spray, is also effective. Eth
OF these mixtures will have a mo. :
thorough effect if the infested twigs
are plunged into them and drenched.
This requires more time, but it is
more effective, and usually requires
but one application.-F B. We6ste.
Indiana Experiment Station, IN Ie,
see Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12
POOR FARMERS.
Those who Have to Go to Town to
Find Something to Do.

i nose VINO Rave TO Go to Iown to
Find Something to Do.
GAS there is nothing for me to do
at home, / will go down town and see
what is going on" says the poor far
mer. No other ever uses such Ian
guage. 1t is a poor farmer, indeed,
who cannot always find something to
do at home. Such an one will never
find that farming pays. He mad
rather sit on a dry goods box at the
store, Or "bottom chairs" at some
hotel or saloon than remain at home
and look after his business. He is
naturally INDECENT, mentally and phys
ically. Besides, he is mentally blind,
or he would always be able to see
something to be done at home. no
matter what the weather may be, and
he would also e that loafng and sit
ting around in the village could never
make a successful farmer. If there
is nothing to do at the barn, in the
corn house or in the stable, he can
generally find something to do in the
house. Probably the cellar, or the
stuff stored in it, demand his atten.
ton; and there is his wife, drudging
from daylight until bedtime, and per
haps past the time, when she ought
to be in bed. He can always do some
thing to help her out, and she will be
very grateful for a little aid, if i is
nothing more than peeling a me- ..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-12

A majority of people, in examining
the eyes of a horse turn them to the
light. Very little can be told by such
a view unless the eye is very defective.
First look at the eye in a stable not
very light. Then bring the horse out
of doors, and if the pupil of the eye is
much contracted it indicates good
eye-sight. If the pupil is nearly the
same size. in dim and bright light the
eye is poor and the horse is likely to
go blind. The windows in a stable
should be in the rear, never in front.
They should be SO arranged as to
throw light on the eye obliquely.-
Nebraska Farmer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
NAIL AND STAGE LINES.

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rriyes At washington spg's :" II 80 4 n
ssit IsGes washington Springs, 200 n
frlfes at WOonsocket $50 NJ
saatngton Springs and Crow Lake,
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s!ss ss' belRe4S g. Bs4tprd Vs. w. sat- 1SS n
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w essington S@rings and Miller,
rSiHs SNes washington Sp's. Mon. Fri. at 100 A N
sayes Miller Tie. sat. :: TOO A N
ives al WessinSss nSp's.. :. = 500 r d
Ao' n. PRICE, Proprietor.
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
Free Methodist Seminary

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