The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-10


The International American ConorasS
will meet at Washington, d. O.. October
I'd. After the Congress adionrns ! frir
will be taken through the Sonth and
Richmond, Norfolk, Charleston. Atlanta
and other Southern cities visited The
original plan was to take the party THROUGH
the Southern States from Cincinnati and
Louisville to New Orleans. bv wav of
Nashville, Memphis and Vicksburo and
to return to Washington by wav Of Rir-
mingham, Atlanta, Charleston and Rich2
mond, and 1t may yet be decidedt to do 90.
out IN order that more time may be de-
voted to the South, it has been suggested
bJ leading Southern men that the excur-
sion through that section be deferred un-
I'll later IN the season, when the winter
notes are open and the famous resorts
can be seen at their best.
An excessive amount OF fruit, or. If
eaten either In the unripe or over ripe
state, produces various disturbances in
the system, chiefly so because of its e n
dency to ferment and decompose within
the digestive tract, and to produce stom-
ach and bowel disorders. If these dis
~turbances are not too great, or too pro-
longed, they need occasion no special
anxiety. A dose of castor oil, to which
a few drops of laudanum have been
added, is usually sufficient to clean out
the irritating debris" and in a day or
two the natural equilibrium is restored.
Ii there is much gripping and pain with
the movements, and these become too
numerous TO be comfortable, the dose of
oil should be followed by .eurtailing &C
tivity-by quiet and repose-by a diet Of
meat broths, containing rice, barley or
,sago; by rice and milk, milk toast ETC.
] Medicdl. Classics.
: The National Agricultural Society Of
France has awarded gold medal to Ar
thur Brandin.sof Seine ct Marne andst
NJ. Tetard, of Saint ct Disc, for the excel
lent management and cultivation of their
farms The Brandin farm has been in
athe family for upwards of 200 years, and
its records since 1920 were produced.
Just 100 years ago it grew an average Of
twenty, n bushels of wheat, or oats per
aacre, which rose to 26 bushels in 1850.
Shortly after, commercial manure was for
the first time employed, and the yield of
wheat went up to 321 bushels per acre
and of oats to Al bushels. Subsequently,
the land was drained, guano was applied
and artificial grasses were grown and fed
down, but the average of the wheat crop
dropped to 80 bushels, though the quail
.ity was better. This system was
followed until 1870 without inn
provement in yield, when the soil
was analysed and found to be rich
In potash but deficient in phosphoric
acid and lime. These elements were
then supplied, tests were made to secure
the varieties best adapted to the land, and
the yield per acre for the last seven years
has risen to 961 bushels Of wheat and 81
bushels of oats. M. Tetard's farm of 8l2
acres, half way between Paris and Chan
tiHy, has 80 acres in sugar beets, the
yield per acre of which, as well as their
sugar content, has steadily increased.
The average yield Of wheat on $50 acres
in 1887 was 35 bushels per acre. A
large herd of cattle is kept during the
winter to eonsume the beet pulp, in addi-
stion TO which the cattle get some cotton
seed meal or cake, with about six pounds
per head of wheat straw, chaf or corn
fodder.-AmeracGn Agricuhurist