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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-08-20
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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-08-20

this by giving it a fair trial Insist upon
Hoods and only Hoods. 81; six for IS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
g 1ORTICULTURE1
HORTICULTURAL HINTS.

Grapes and grape vines were found
" the Morse, when they landed in
early days on the eastern shore of the
western continent, long before Chris
topher Columbus and his party set
'helr feet on the Bahamas.
For cabbage worms of all kinds use
not water, 13O degrees Fahrenheit, or
pyrethrum powder California Bubach)
diluted with six or eight times its bulk
OF flour or airslaked lime, or dust the
plants thickly with corn meal, bran or
mill feed.
No one who Is at all posted, or who
has examined the statistics relating to
the timber area of our country, it's sup,
ply of the various kinds used, and the
enormous yearly consumption, will
deny the fact of the rapid decrease for
commercial purposes.-Farnaers' Voice
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
PRUNING TREES IN SUMMER.

If a tree be properly pruned during
the summer season there is really very
little for winter pruning to accomplish.
It is the strong, vigorous growth OF
trees that takes the nourishment away
from the weaker growth. In ordinary
garden language strong shoots or
sprouts on trees are robbers, and they
should be pinched back or pulled off ;
the vigor of the tree is then thrown
into the weaker shoots. In this way
anv part of a tree that is naturally
weak can be made strong.
This point can be illustrated by the
way in which street trees are trimmed.
They are usually cut in the winter
time, the chief reason being that at
that time there is little work for men
to do, and it is natural to recommend,
as the best time, that in which they
can find employment; but it must be
within the experience of every one that
the branches shoot out all the stronger
at the point where the tops are cut
away, by reason of the cutting away of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
FIG CULTURE.
eT8' Voice

We would say to an inquirer that fig
culture is possible in the South. The
fig produces fruit most satisfactorily
when it is planted in gravelly or sandy
soil In heavy, rich soils it produces
extra luxuUiant growths, and the young
fruit will drop prematurely, the wood
will be ripened imperfectly, and thus
diminish the number of matured fruit
buds. After the fruit makes it's ap-
pearance, and all during it's progress
toward ripening, the plant requires an
abundance of water. If the sOil becomes
very dry at any time during this period
the fruit will probably turn yellow or
shrivel and drop. but when the fruit
becomes soft, indicating approaching
ripeness, less supply of water will
improve it's flavor as well as hasten the
ripening of the young shoots, upon
which depends the future crop -
Farmers Voice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
FARMING IN FLORIDA.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
ENOs, FLA.
OF the numerous publications re
ceived by the Enos Free Library none
is more generally read by all classes
than The PROGRESSIVE FARMER. / have
thought perhaps few words from the
Indian River country, in Florida, might
be of interest to a portion of your more
northern readers,
This is the home of the orange,
lemon, pine apple and large class of
tropical and sub tropical fruits, many
of which do not find their way into the
distant markets.
The country south of 28e of latitude
is seldom visited by damaging frost,
and has given the most perfect fruits
of any portion of Florida to the mar
kets of the North.
The injury from cold the past winter
has shown our people the necessity of
more varied agriculture. Here, as
everywhere, all things possible should
be produced on the farm that is needed
for home consumption. A good vege
table garden here may, be made to
furnish one half the family needs, and
a cow and pig, with a few chickens
may go long way towards providing
for the other half. If all the waste
from house and stable was carefully
composted and returned to the land,
we would soon see more evidences of
thrift and fewer empty cans and fer
tiiz9r barrels marring the beauty of
our Southern homes.
The majority of our farmers are kept
poor by fertilizer and canned goods
bills. Nine-tenths of this expense can
and ought to be saved. The special
methods of doing this is not my pres
sent purpose to explain. The thought
full farmer can easily fnd the way to
accomplish it while the unthinking and
slothful will continue to get along with
rusty bacon and stale grits.
AS a people, we need more tidy
methods Of farming neatness
about house and barn and farm. Some
thing useful must take the place of
weeds. If tCo much land is occupied,
dispose of a portion and cultivate less.
Use noGnures instead of fertilizers and
the lands of the South will soon show
the effects of the change. Farming
will then pay. Learn to vote for your
own interests, brother farmers and our
country will soon come back to days
Of prosperity and happiness.
J. L. ENOs
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04

these tops, and the lower branches that
we wish to strengthen become still
weaker.
This must be frequently experienced,
but if after a tree has been trimmed in
winter, in the mannec referred to. these
strong sprouts, which in summer fol-
low the cutting, were pulled out after
they had grown few inches, the sap
would then be thrown into the lower
branches. In this way the winter
pruning would not be so injurious; on
the contrary. it might in many cases
bring about what is so much desired,
namely, a strengthening of the lower
shoots.
This summer pruning is especially
effective with coniferous trees. In the
case of pines we know that in hespring
time three or four branches push out
at the end of last years shoots, looking
like gas burners. The central one is
very vigorous, and those on the sides
are weaker. If we pinch out the point
of the stronger one, the sap at once
flows into the weaker ones, and they
become strong, and new buds form at
the place where the strong one was
pinched eff, Next year this bud con
tinues the growth of the branch almost
as straight as if it had never been
pinched back. We can pinch off the
terminal bud of the main stem, new
bud forming leader without any bend.
One who understands this business
of summer pruning an evergreen can
so manage that the tree forms an abso-
lutely perfect specimen from the
ground to the top, no one branch being
any stronger than the other. The chief
thing to remember is that in summer
pruning the weak branches of the shoot
should not be touched; it is only the
stronger ones that require checking. -
MeehG1a'S Monthly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04

are doing considerable damage during
cool weather. Wheat and oats looking
we'll nearly everywhere; few reports OF
rust in wheat; wheat heads slowly.
Western trict-There is almost
general complaint of too much rain in
this district. The week was unfavor-
able. Several days of very cool weather
occurred. Everything grows slowly
but grass. Corn generally looks badly
from effects of the cold, wet weather
Hay needs cutting, but there has not
been enough sunshine to cure it. Glover
is fine. Cotton is dying in many places;
some cotton fields are being plowed up
and planted in corn. Grapes are said
to be damaged considerably by cold
and frost. Wheat generally good some
rust appearing. Fruit crop generally
promises well, but apples will be short
in some sections.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
CURRANTs AND GoosEBERR1Es

Since the advent of the currant worm
the foe fruits have been much neg
lected. No others are so highly relished.
They come early when there is no sub
stitute for them. For canning they
have no superior. They can be raised
easily and cheaply, are a sure crop,
will come into bearing the second year,
and always bring a good price on the
market.
came past a number of gardens to-
day. In all of these were currant and
gooseberry bushes, but not a single
hill that would produce even fair
berries. The grass and weeds were
abundant and some of the bushes had
think 300 canes in the hill. I never
saw currant or gooseberry bush thinned
enough unless grown by specialist.
Ny finest fruit is gathered from those
hills that have single stalk, and if
planted three feet apart will out yield
any other method of thinning.
raise from cuttings, roofing them
in beds and planting nothing but well
rooted plants, plant four feet apart
and plow them two years. No suckers
are allowed to grow. When the bush
is formed the new growth is well
clipped each year. l would as soon think
of leaving my hair unclipped as my
bushes. It will take but Is minutes to
clip enough for one family's us9. 1t
makes finer berries, easier picking,
and the bushes look so much neater.
Some pIow their bushes every year but
[ do not after the second. Yesterday
tried to dig into patch five years
old, and though the bushes are four
feet apart, to force up a spadeful of
dirt would break hundreds of roots. /
am sure plowing would injure them. 1
keep them heavily mulched, turning
the mulch over if it gets weedy. This
can be quickly done with fork For
worms use paris green or london pur
pie. I can save 20 bushels Of goose
berries in 90 minutes with a good
sprayer. 1 begin as soon as the worms
come.-W. L. Anderson, in american
AgricuIturist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
SUCCESS INPLANT GROWING.

There is a wonderful amount of truth
in the following statement: "Some
persons have a knack of making all
kinds of plants grow in the most un-
favorable circumstances. I think this
is partly owing to magnetic attrac-
tion existing between such persons and
their plants. The plants seem to know
they are loved, that they are household
treasures, that every new leaf and
flower is as welcome as the new words
and expanding thoughts of baby to
it's mother Apparently unconscious
of this, they do their utmost, and in
places least adapted for successful
house culture of plants, we often find
stands or individuals equal to the best
greenhouse specimens"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
LETTER FROM DAVIDSON CO.
of the Progressive Farmer,


LEXINGTON, N. O.
Many of the correspondents of THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER have written In,
formation that has done me much
good. I will try for others. notice
many are complaining of the bugs eat
ing their melon vines. lost all my
first planting. learned that phosphate
sprinkled on the hills near the plants
would drive them off. l tried it, and
found it just the thing. 1t must be
put on after each rain, at the rate of
about two tablespoonfuls to the hill.
A little on the leaves does not hurt
them, but it ought to be put close to
the roots; it need not be scattered in
the ground.
am using the Climax, but suppose
other kinds will do as well.
I think this plan will produce at the
ratio of 16 to 1, for Populists, any how,
if not for others.
1 think that if every farmer and
laborer in North Carolina would read
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER from now
until 1896, we would increase our vote
16 to by next election.
Feed charcoal every day to your hogs
and you will not have any sickness.
Live Goals out of the fire, dropped into
the slop and fed to the hogs will do if
charcoal cannot be got.
AOTTE HTNTER
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04

Every farmer who has neglected his
mis- will want to sell them in the lat
part of the autumn. Extra food
lift them for the sale before that
r le, and they will bring a better price,
the market is not then over stocke d
those who must sell.
iext to good grass, the essential
-ng is that sheep should have free
aess to salt. If not where they can
at it at will, give it every day.
y are inve5erate Iickers of it, and it
29nducive to their general health.
3cheap; do not stint them.
may be so just now, but it is a
ty good general rule that when
D. n people are inclined to run away
. n sheep is on general principles a
1time to go after them. At least
should not turn sheep himself and
just because the leader of the rest
le herd does.
ue grass grows very rapidly in
weather, and yet is very nuJlit Gus
nyOung, so that cattle fatten on iT
yin the season, when on a clover
timothy pasture of equal growth
could hardly make living 1t
sa fun months pasture before the
T grasses should be grazed.
AN from fields where smut has
VI Development should not be used
led, as it will contain smut spores.
another crop of smutty corn will
h, Such land should be put to
other crop the following year.
Is about the only practical and
ent way of killing the germ.
bs4id that when plows are put in
sned at the end of the seasons
! and while they are still bright,
zen coat Of whitewash they will
no securing when again taken
Do the same with cultivators,
els and all other bright tools, and
viii be we'll repaid for your pains.
parts of the corn plant contain
A0le food material, the dry matter
ag nearly the same composition as
rest. There are many things in
q the farmer can ec0nomize when
nee uses properly all his fodder
'uld sell all his hay, or could feeC
} the number of cattle that he diC
erly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
-GRANBE RRIES.

In answer to ir quiry made by a sub
sSriber, we would say that cranberries
ate generally planted on low, moist
meadows, which are prepared by thor
oughly taking out all aquatic or other
shrubs or trees, filling it with gravel
whore needing it, and plowiDg and har-
rowing. They are then set in drills by
slips and roots, Usually in the spring,
but sometimes in autumn, about 20
inches apart, and at distances of about
three inches. They require to have
the weeds kept cut and the ground
stirred with light cultivator or hoe,
and they will soon overrun and occupy
the whole ground. An occasional top
dressing of swamp muck is beneficial
Cultivators have in this way produced
at the rate of 800 bushels per acre,
which were worth in the market from
50 to 81 per bushel There should be
facilities for flooding the crop.-FGrna
eTS' Voice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
TEN scHooNRRs WILL Do1r.

The Charlotte Observer is a daisy.
1t made an uncalled for attack on THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER, recently; bit off
more than it could chew, put its foot
in its own mouth, got hot in the collar,
and the other day declared by all the
cuckoosin in the kingdom ofGreat Grover
that THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER is the
best agent the devil ever had in North
Carolina" We suggest that editor
Caldwell take a schooner of Ct. Cleve-
lands Buffalo book beer and cool Off
Hickory Mercury.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
ADILE HUNTER

Give the crops the best of intelligent
care from start to finish, and there are
nine chances out of ten that we shall
get a good crop for our pains. That
man has the best prospect for a sue
cessful season on the farm who has his
work we'll in hand, and no inclination
to overreach himself in his desire to
cover too much ground.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
NO. II
CREAM OF THE PRESS.

Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
One of the issues that is sure to come
to the front at an early day in this
country is, shall Americans OF English
men rule9- Southern Mercury.
The part poor men have in this gov
ernment is doing most of the voting;
the rich see to it that the IegisIating is
for themselves. Midland Mechanic.
There is no such thing as interna-
tlonaI money, never was and never will
be. United States money ''good in
Yurrup" is humbug. CaIliOpe.
The same dollars that were legal
tender when debts were contracted are
sound dollars to pay said debts not
withstanding Shylock's denial
n1ers' Tribune.
The money lender wants a high
priced dollar; the borrower don't. The
lender gets the high priced dollar; so
does the borrower-on giltedged secu-.
| Ivy OONOtICO CSILCITCSCs
The bankers and boards of trade as
sumo to dictate a financial policy for
the country. How much wealth do
the bankers and boards of trade pro-
duce9- Southern Mercury.
Go operation among. farmers is not
practiced as much as it should be.
Cooperative buying and selling, CO.
operative insurance, ETC., are practical
and profiEable.-FaTnpers Voice.
How is it that one man can have g.
hundred million while another man
never has hundred dollars, and yet.
he works the harder of the two and at.
more productive labor9 3 Saturday
Critic.
''Or if ever the silver cord be loo9-
ened," or the golden basis be broken,
then shall prosperity return to the peo-
pie and the money power go to the,
devil that gave it birth. BrOcktOE
Diamond
Smithers precinct and Fourthward
methods have so tainted the ring Dem
ocrats of this State that all the prin-
ters' ink of all the papers of that party
can't hide the infamy that begrimes it.
-NorfoLk Pilot.
Logan Carlisle, son of the Secretary
of the Treasury, is going over to Europe
to deliver batch of bonds (the new
Grovers). Nice trip for Logan, but
rather tough on most of the other boys
of the nation. Missouri World.
That ''wave of returning prosperity"
is knocking over a few banks as it
comes along. It is like that rain
prayed for by Evangelist Moody in
Texas-does more harm than good and
kills more than it cures.-An1ericG7
NonconfOrn1ist.
Remember that education alone will
never make your boy good man.
It is possible that education may aid
in making a man a greater william.
Moral training is just as necessary as
mental training, and that must be
given most in the home. Farmers,
Voice.
We should greatly like to see the
public school system so improved that
it would give a free, practical educa-
tion to every boy and girl. The State
should maintain such a school in every
district. Wealth should be taxed to
enlarge the school facilities of the
sparsely settled rural districts -FGT-
nlerS' Voice.
LITTLE LEVITY.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
WEEKLY WEATHER CROP Bull
LETIN
For the Week Ending Monday, May ~,
1905,

z OF the week EuQ1LS NAOuQayS May III
1895.
CENTRAL OFFICE, Raleigh, N. 9.
The reports of correspondents of the
Weekly Weather Crop Bulletin, issued
by the North Carolina State Weather
Service, for the week ending Monday,
May 9th, indicate hut little progress
either in farm work or the growth of
crops, on account of the continued cool,
rainy weather. The rainfall for the
week was apparently not generally ex-
cessive, but the spring has been so wet
that small amount of rain makes the
ground too wet to plow. But few cor
respondents report the week a good
one for work, while all report slow
growth of crops. The temperature was
decidedly below normal. Light frost
occurred over a large portion Of the
State on the 23d, but did very slight
damage. Showers occurred nearly
everywhere on four days of the week.
Entire fields of cotton are being plowed
up on some farms and corn or cotton
planted again. Corn is slow to recover
from the effects Of recent frost. Melon
vines seem to be the special prey of in
sects and they are ling ruined in many
places. The cool weather is very favor
able for the work of cut worms and
potato bugs. Transplantingo of tobacco
went on fairly well during the week,
and most of the crop is set out. The
week closed fair but cool.
Eastern District. ct.-Transplanting is
about finished; the plants are doing
we'll, but damaged in some places by
cut worms. The replanting of corn
and cotton is going on in all parts of
the district. A considerable portion of
young cotton died from effects of cold
weather. Corn is reported by some to
be slowly improving. Irish potatoes
will not average good crop; the pros.
pect for them is good in some localities
but very poor in others; few being
marketed. Stand of peanuts is gener
ally poor; many seeds rotted in the
ground. Cut-worms are very bad in
many sections; they attack corn, pota-
toes and tobacco especially. Crops are
getting grassy on account of the diff
Guilty of working them in wet weather.
Cotton is being chopped.
Central District TIN some of the
counties of this district the weather is
reported favorable for farm work, ex
cept one or two days, and also favor
able for growing crops, though the
temperature was low for the season;
but perhaps half the number of CORE
spondents report the week very un-
favorable, the ground being still too
wet to plow during most of the week,
and temperature too low and too little
sunshine for growth. Farmers are still
plowingup cotton where it has died and
are planting again Firstplanted cotton
is being chopped. Last planted corn
is coming up nicely. Tobacco growers
have been busy setting out plants;
transplanting nearly finished. Gut
worms, drill worms and potato-Ougs
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04

Four and a half million acres were.
in 1898, under cereal cultivation in
Argentine, while the entire area fit for
growing grains approximates 2O4 mil
lion acres throughout that Republic.
Their methods OF tillage and handling
grain are crude and wastefuI and it
does not seem possible that they can
continue to raise and ship wheat while
present low prices continue.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04

Issuance of government bulletins has
added interest to the question of feed
ing wheat to live stock. This says that
when wheat and corn are at the same
price it is the part of wisdom to feed
wheat and sell corn. This innovation
in the grain growing business is inter
esting in more ways than one; the ship
ping and speculative markets are won
dering to what extent this feeding
will go.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04

1t is time all deferred repairs were
made upon machinery; much of this
the farmer can do himself, but it will
not pay to botch it. Perhaps a me-
chanic can be hired for a few days
cheaper than carting all to the repair
shops. Tlen give a good coat of paint,
for beauty and for preserving pur-
poses; ready mixed paints of any color
can be had very cheapIy.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04

Senator PETER estimates that in Da
kota, where the best methods are en-
ployed and large areas worked, it costs
35 cents to raise bushel of wheat; in
California, % cents; in India the low
wages reduce this to 13 cents, while
official advices from Argentine show
that it can there be grown for about
the same figures. The differences in
silver prices give them further ad-
vantage.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
SIDE SHOW WIT.

Fat Woman 20 the living skeleton)-
'Tf you are ever invited to masqu@-
rade ball, just don a rubber cap and go
as a lead pencil"
Living skeleton-"If you should
ever be the happy recipient of such an
invitation, tie basket to your feet and
90 as balloon"
Tattooed Man (aside)- -"They might.
90 together as a medical advertise
ment-' before and after taking"