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At the tax sale herein provided for and after
Collector must make out in duplicate certifi-
cate dated on the day of the sale. stating (when
known) the name of the person assessed a des-
cription Of the property sold and the amount
paid therefor, that it was soli for taxes, giving
the amount and year of the assessment ard
specifying the time when the purchaser will be
entitled to . de.d. lhe certificate must be
.iiysred to the purchaser and the other be fled
in the office of the Village Recorder. The Tax
Collector must also in book kept for that pur-
pose enter description of the property cold,
corresponding with the description in the GER
tiicate, the date Of the sale, the name Of the
purchaser and the amount paid. and regularly
number the entry in such book so az to CORES.
pond with q like number in the certificate. Such
book shall be kept in the Office Of the Recorder
and open to inspection by the public. Such
certificate shall be assignable, and on assign.
ment thereof shall vest in the assignee OF his
legal representative all the right and title of
the original purchaser, and upon filing such
certificate with the Village Recorder the lien OF
the village shall vest in the purchaser and is
only divested by payment to the Village Treas
urer, for the use of the. purchaser. Of the pur-
chase price and 20 per cent penalty as aforesaid.
and such payment must be made before the ex-
pitation Of the time for the redemption Of such
property.
SECTION xI.
All ordinances or parts Of ordina noes IN con-
Hict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
SECTION XII. n.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
I, ON and after its passage. approval and publi-
cation for three successive weeks in the Mesa
Free Press, newspaper published in said village.
Passed by the Common Council Of the Village
OF Mesa City this oath day Of April, ID 1895.
Approved this gath day OF April. A D 1895
W LEBARoN,
Mayor.
Attest J H PcasRoy, Village Recorder,
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The Common Council of tho Village OF Mesa
City. Maricopa County. Arixona. does ordain as
follows, to-wit sF$,.f.t
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SECTION l.

municipal tax Of seventy-hvs cents o,f,eseh
one hundred dollars valuation Of property 10
hereby levied on all taxable property, real and
personal, within the limits Of the Village of
Mesa City, Marioopa County, Arizona, for tie
general current expenses of the government OF
said village for the fiscal year 1s95-lsss.
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Ordinance No.24:.

Regulating the levy and collection
of taxes of the Village Of Mesa City,
Naricopa County, Arizona, for the
fiscal year Of 1895-1896.
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SECTION TX.

No demand for taxes shall be necessary hut 1t
shall be the duty of every person subject to
taxation under this ordinance to attend IN
person or by agent or attorney at the office Of
said Tax Collector and pay his taxes before the
same become delinquent.
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general current expenses OF the government OF
said village for the fiscal year ls95-1s96.
SECTION II.
The village assessor shall make the assess
nent and prepare complete assessmen. roH OF
oil property, real and personal, within the limits
of said village, subject to taxation. The assess
ment roll shall be completed by the assessor and
placed on file in the Office Of the Village Re-
corder by the FIRST Monday in June, 1895, and
such assessment roll shall remain 80 filed and
subject to inspection until the second Monday
in June, 1895. In manner and form such as
ssssment shall conform as near as practicable
to the laws of this territory governing assess
msnts for county and territorial taxes. ~ III
sxoTIoN Ill. -,
When the assessor of said villags shall have
completed his assessment roll and valuation Of
property, real and personal, in said village he
shall give notice thereof by posting up notices
of the same IN at least three public places within
said village. stating the place where said roll is
left for inspection. and the time when and the
place where he will appear to hear the objec-
tions OF any person interestsd. to the valuation
SO made by him, and at the time and place so
appointed the assessor shall appear and ON the
application Of any person feeling himself ag-
srieved, may review and equalize such valuation
ON sufaoient cause shown to the satisfaction
said assessor, and any such person shall have
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per cent. of cotton not yet planted.
Strawberries are being shipped will be
an average crop from present indica-
tions; the heavy rains be at down vines
badly in some places. Tobacco plants
are ready to be set out as soon as soil
is ready; transplanting will begin about
May 9th. Green peas are being shipped.
Rice reported late. Outlook for fruit
still very good. The very wet weather
may cause some seeds to rot in the
ground, but the chief damage, perhaps,
is in the delay of farm work.
Central District. There was not
quite so much rain in the central por
tion of the State as III the east, but
there was enough to stop pIowing until
Saturday, and it could be done only on
highest lands then. Cotton planting
is very backward; planting will not be
finished before the Goth in some coun-
ties. Some cotton that was planted
early is up, with pretty good stand. A
large portion of corn still to be planted.
Notwithstanding the cloudy, wet
weather and low temperature wheat,
OATS, clover and grasses are all reported
as growing finely, except in a few
localities. Tobacco plants are plentiful
and ready to be set out. Irish potatoes
are doing we'll. Gardens late, but
growing off nicely.
Western District. Farmers were
able to work during the last three days
of the week in this district. In the.
treme west and northwe 81 the rain has
not been excessive, but rather favor
able to vegetation. Over most of the
district, however, there was too much
rain; but little plowing could be done
and planting is still behind. There is
still much corn to be planted, as well
as cotton. Tobacco plants are fine and
plentiful; large enough to set out.
Wheat, oats and clover all fine. Corn
that was planted early is up with good
stand. Irish potatoes coming up, but
are badly damaged by bugs in some
places.
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respectively in the rows is practiced.
Upon heavy soils, early spring is the
best time for planting. Care should be
taken when removing plants at this
time that the young sprouts do not get
broken. When the shoots have grown
eighteen or twenty inches they should
be nipped back. This summer pruning
causes the plants to thicken up and be-
come self supporting without stakes.
Numerous side branches will grow out
forming a plant at once bushy and
productive. These remarks apply par
ticularly to blackcaps.
After fruiting, the old wood should be
cut away and canes of last years
growth and all wood of the main stalks
above three feet, and the laterals trim
med back to within one and half or
two feet from the main stalk. When
field begins to fail, which it will do
after four or five crops, it is better to
plant new one and entirely destroy
the old.
Hill planting is often practiced with
red raspberries, and in this case the
hills should be five feet apart each way,
using two or three plants for each. But
two or three sprouts should be allowed
to the plant, and if grown in this way
summer pruning, as for blacks, may be
practiced.
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spect. It does not come into full bear
ing until nature has taken her own
good time to produce sufficient roots
and rootlets to sustain properly the
fruit crop which develops on the canes.
In the case of many of our best domes-
tic or cultivated grapes, the tendency
is to overbear, and to overbear espe-
cially in the tender ages. And hence
the necessity for the regular cutting
back for two or three years before al
lowing any fruit to grow. In some of
the varieties, the vine will die before its
fourth year if allowed to grow all the
fruit its unpruned branches will start.
The Scuppernong seldom produces a
good crop before it's fifth year. In the
meantime the roots have run far be-
vond the length of the topmost canes,
while the soil beneath is one mass OF
tinv and tough rootlets and suckers,
which absorb and feed on every kind
of fertilizer that can be reached by
them in their ramifications. By all
means give the Scuppernong liberal
allowance of plant food, and then let
the canes grow to their utmost extent
and limit-keeping a good and secure
trellis underneath Agri-
OF
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sALABLE TURKEYS.

Allcommission merchants agree that
it is the medium-sized turkeys that sell
the most readily and are the mcst
profitable, says the Farmers Voice.
The birds should dress 8, 10 or IL
pounds, according to the proportion of
toms and hens, they say, and should
look plump and clean. These birds are
the first selected, and the others go off
more slowly. At over II pounds re-
duction in the price is demanded, " hile
birds at Is or 20 pounds are almost un-
salable at greatly rec uced rates,
OF course there is some demand for
large turkeys for hotels and boarding
houses, but the private family will
have none of them, for two excellent
reasons First, the oven in the aver
age city house is too small to accom-
modate such a lordly bird, and, Sec
ondlv. the size of the family not being
in proportion, it's members would rebeE
at the turkey g too frequent appearance
at meals 1t would be well for the
turkey raiser to keep both these points
in view and regulate the size of birds
accordingly. He will save in feed and
get better returns for his flock. The
day of the enormous gobbler is past.
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SALT FOR POULTRY.

It is a common error that salt is fatal
to poultry. This arose from the ill
effects of allowing poultry to get at salt
when they had not had it as part of
their rations, and once they got access
to it they ate enough to kill them. ALL
soft food given to poultry should be
salted about as much as the same.
amount would be for human use; and
if this is done they will never eat salt
to excess if they are allowed to run
where they can get at it. Salt is one
of the necessary elements of the blood,
and if it is not furnished in some shape
the health of the fowls will be impaired
and their productiveness lowered
American Farmer.
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WEEKLY WEATHER CROP Bull
LETIN
For the Week Ending Monday, May 6,
1906.
CENTRAL OFFICE, Raleigh, N. G.


CENTRAL OFFICE, Raleigh, N. @.
The reports of correspondents of the
Weekly Weather Crop Bulletin, issued
by the North Carolina State Weather
Service, for the week ending Monday,
May 6, 1895, indicate a generally un-
favorable week. The continuous rains
prevented any plowing or other out
door work until the last day or two of
the week, and the week closed with the
ground too wet for good work. The
heaviest rains occurred in the eastern
portion of the State and the least in the
west. There was large excess every
where, except in the extreme west and
northwest. Scarcely any sunshine at
all during the week. The temperature
was considerably below normal during
first three days. Vegetation made
good progress, however. The most
serious result OF the weeks bad weather
is the stopping of blowing and plant
ing. Farmers are very far behind
everywhere,
Eastern District.-On account of the
continued rainy weather scarcely any
work was done during the week. Too
wet to plow at all until Monday, the
9Th. Lands were badly washed in
some localities Lowlands on the Roam
cke and Cape Fear rivers and on many
of the creeks were overfowed. Corn
is not all planted yet; early planted is
up and the stand is generally good;
acreage of corn will be large. A large
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
LEVEL CULTURE FOR POTATOES

Almost everybody now agrees that
level culture produces the largest and
best crops of potatoes. But it is i'm
possible to have level culture unless the
seed potatoes are planted deeply enough
for the tubers to form under the soil
The constant tendency of the tubers is
to rise as they grow. This, if the seed
has been planted only one or two inches
deep, makes it necessary to draw dirt
around the hill, making mound which
sheds the water on either side. This
also cuts the potato roots in the middle
of the row. 1t requires dry and rich
ground to make successful deep plant
ing and level culture possible. But soil
without stagnant water near the SUR.
face is always necessary for the potato
crop. If the sub soil is filed with water
through winter and spring, it is impos,
sible to grow good potato crops on such
land the following season by any
method.
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AGRICULTURE.

1t is fact that fruit trees can be
greatly benefited by spraying the trees
with suitable emulsions. The quantity
and quality of fruit can be largely in
creased. The same is true of gelables,
etc.
The feet of foals very seldom receive
the care and the frequent inspection so
necessary to their future perfection of
form and soundness. Horses feet, from
this cause alone, frequently become de-
formed, defective and unhealthy.
1t requires good judgment to buy
horses successfully, and it requires just
aS good to sell them. Farmers should
seek to know what kind of horse is
wanted, and then if in their stock they
nave such one to spare they can sell
ataproft.
Inc easier way seems to be the bet
ef In strawberry culture. the matted
'OWsprove themselves bearers of larger
and more abundant berries than when
'ley are kept in stools. This is an un-
Expected result, but careful experiment
us shown it to be so.
Grooming removes dust and secre-
"ons, thereby soothing the animal and
suaollng the pores of the skin to per
'0tm their proper functions. Careful
'ua regular grooming has an import
:" Mhuence on the health of the horse,
'ssldes adding greatly to its appear
aace.
me seedman who makes the grow
ls OF seeds the business of his life en-
SUys such soil and such methods of
.U,'tVation as will tend continually not
-! 70 prevent revision, but develop
~ 70 fix higher type. IL is not to
s ~" ent We owe the discovery of the
os 'S' vegetables we now grow in our
sardenq.
~ pays to grow turkeys, although
require much care. With the
IL a'm days they love TO go foraging to
-: woodlands or the meadow, and
may be a case of disaster, because
49,; ~ may not return at night, and the
a. ~ days are hard upon the young
b.oS; but these tender turkey poultE
n. .'ue the hardest of birds when ma
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disk machines. For spraying potatoes
and tomatoes a nozzle is needed which
can be lowered between the rows, and
directed so as to force the spray up
through the vines. The agitator is
needed to keep the poisons in solution.
The best forms work up and down in
an upright tank, like the dash in the
old churn. Where the pump piston
has packing this should be often re
newed. For killing cabbage worms
and insects, no liquid has been found
equal to dry Paris green applied with
hand sitter. Powder guns are useful
for applying dry powdered poisons,
pyrethrum, tobacco dust and sulphur.
Bamboo extensions should be used in
spraying large trees. The spray pump
should be adapted to its work.
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SWEET POTATO CULTURE.
Correspondence of the Progres sive Farmer.
Rocky MOTTNT N g

Correspondence of the Progres sive Farmer.
ROCKY MOUNT, N. G.
will write my mode of sweet potato
culture and care. 1 see in Bulletin No
liz of the n. @. Experiment Station,
that sweet potatoes cured in a tobacco
barn would keep much better than in
the sun or air. This I did not know,
but I fully concur with the Experiment
Station in many points. Except for
very early crop, find it much better
not to draw the sprouts from the bed.
L bed my tubers about or 4 inches
apart and let stand until vines run 8 or
feet long, then cut vines up in pieces
with three joints or leaves and set two
in the ground and leave one leaf out
In cutting vines do not cut verv close
to the ground the first time, the second
cutting the vine may be pulled up and
cut all the vine up in short cuttings. I
find can set as much land from one
bushel of seed tubers in this way as I
can from two or three the old way of
drawing all the sprouts from the bed,
besides 1 get better potatoes and more
to the land and better stand IN dry
weather from cuttings than from
sprouts.
If the weather is very dry would
prefer my cuttings little longer and
coil around the hand and put the coil
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6ORTICUITURFI
PRUNING THE SCUPPRRN0NC
GRAPEVINE,

Among the old growers of the Soup
pornong grape the idea has long OBJ
C7lned that it is injurious to both fruit
anu vine to prune the branches, or to
plo" about the roots. Hence most of
Une vines have been allowed to grow
unrestralned and without soil cultiva-
lions Tor years. All that is regarded
as necessary is to keep a good high
trellls upon which the canes can freely
spread and offer ease and convenience
II the gathering of the grapes. Pning
muck and leaf mold about the main
vine at the root is also recommended
when the soil is naturally thin,
But recent experiments at the Ala
bama State Experiment Station at Au-
burn-as we'll as elsewhere-havs
shown conclusively that injurious re,
suits do not always follow close and
severe pruning of vines, nor from close
cultivation about the roots with the
plow. 1t may be said also that no de-
cIdedly good results have been obtained
in regular pruning of the vine. It was
thought for while that both size and
quality of the fruit were improved by
the close pruning; but while this belief
was questioned, or denied sharply, the
facts in the experiments show that the
great loss Occasioned by the removal
of many valuable fruit bearing canes
cut from the parent stem in the prun-
ings does not have adequate compensa-
tion in the increased size of the berry
nor in the supposed improvement of
flavor. Connoisseurs tell us that the
Scuppernong grape and its pure wines
are good enough even as products OF
the unpruned vine. This appears to
be one instance where it is we'll enough
to let nature have her way, only assist.
ing her in making a convenience for
yourself in gathering the fruttage.
Toe Scuppernong is unlike the ma
ioritv of grape vines in another re
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SPRAYING FOR FUNGI AND IN
SECTS.

That Paris green and kerosene emul
sions still remain the leading insecti-
cides, and that Bordeaux mixture is
the best remedy for plant diseases, is
the experience of the New York sta
tion at Geneva. The knapsack spray er
is generally used, though extensive
growers need a machine of greater
capacity. The suction pipe should
always enter the tank at the top, and
the pump should be made of brass or
brass lined. Hand pumps should allow
the weight of the body to be used on
the handle while at work. Vermorel
nozzles gives better spray than the
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RASPBERRY.

The best method is to open furrow
ak or eight inches deep, putting the
plants in the bottom.
The red kinds may have the turrow
entirely filed at once. Blackcaps
should not be covered deeply, two or
three inches being sufficient, and then
the soil should be drawn around the
plants as they grow. Six feet between
rows for the reds and seven for the
blacks is about right, and eighteen
inches and two feet between the plants
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No. ID
POULTRY Y ARD
POULTRY POINTS.

No food will make hers lay like
liberal supply of wheat in some shape,
and a regular ration of green cut bone.
Remember that milk in any form is
good for laying hene. 1t contains all
the elements of egg food, in almost the
proper proportions
We want our farmers to keep more
poultry and we want to hear from those
who are taking good care of their fowls.
Let US have your experience.
If the fowls have a free run, give
them a light feed of grain in the morn
ing and full feed at night, and they
will find the extras during the day.
Sometime hens are found dead under
the perches, while seemingly fat and
in good condition. Often the trouble
is that they are too fat and die of apo
plexy.
Every one who keeps hens knows of
one or two or more which are persist
ent layers. These should be bred from.
as they will transmit their good quail
ties to their progeny.
Don't fail to plant some sui flowers
this spring, for sunfower seeds are the
best single grain for laying hens that
can be given them, and it is surprising
what a quantity can be grown in cdd
corners. Form NeOOs, Springfield, o.
The American AgricuItoGrist says:
mo delusion has emptied the pockets
of greater number of victims in this
country than the poultry craze. More
money has been wasted, actually
thrown away, probably, for elaborate
and impractical poultry houses than
on any of the other buildings connec-
ted with a village or farm establish
ment. We are not in favor of making
new recruits to poultry culture by the
wholesale, but we do believe that help
full information should be fully given
to those already keeping poultry that,
they may keep it at a profit rather
than at a loss, or if successful that they,
may secure still greater success.
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THE CARE OF YOUNG CHICKENS

Millions of young chicks are born in,
May, and far too large proportion do
not live through the month. They
should have frequent but small rations.
of dry rather than moist food, partly
because they will thus eat more slowly.
The first feed should be boiled egg
cooked very hard, so that it will
crumble in fine pieces. When a week
old cracked wheat can be added to the
ration, and this can soon be superseded
with whole wheat. A very important
point Is to change the location of the
coop as often as every other day,
placing it on spot that has not had
coop on it the present year. This will
prevent the spread of disease among
the young chicks
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in the ground, though the potatoes will
not grow as large when there is too
much vine in the ground as with a
shorter cutting.
If this finds the waste basket, I will
not be discouraged, but will write again
soon. Hope 1 may be able to send some
subscribers and renewals soon. If this
gets in print and some one profits by
my experience, it's mission will be full
filed. J. A. THOMAS