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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04

e OR RICHMOND. PETERSBURG, OLD
L POINT. CLAREMoNT. NEWPORT
NEWS and James river landings direct hy
daylisht-Virsinia Navigator Company's
Clyde's Wharf. Norfolk. every TUES
DAY. THURSDAY and SATURDAY ut
a. M. touching st Portsmouth. Old
Point. Newport NeHs going and returning
arriving at Richmond about 6 ,. M, con.
Meeting with all evening trains. Fare TO
Richmond, $50: fare 70 Richmond and
return. $3.50; fare to Richrhond, second
class. 81. Tickets much cheaper thar
by any other route to Richmond, Peters
burg, Wayerly, Hicksford and stationa on
Atlantic and Danville railread and ali
points via Richmond. Tickets for sale OF
ticket agencies Of Wake & Son, III
Brandt and on board steamer.
Freight received daily. Sunday excepted.
for all above named points.
JAMES w. McCARRICK,
Agent.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04
baltimore Market.

Baltimore. Dec. 3.-Flour- ou,et
Western super, s2456266: do. extra,
S2.7593.00; do, family. s3.15@s3.50: win
ter wheat. patents, sS.55Gs3.S6; spring,
90. do, s3.5o@3.7O; do. do, straight,
$3.3563.50. 800
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04
Grnin.

Peas-Steady; Black-Eye Peas,s1.76
per bag; Black. 50@56c. per bushei.
o. Corn-Southern white. quiet, at $500
30932c.
Mill Feed-Market steady; Bran.
l5; shipstufr. or middllng, S17:
meal. white bottled. per SO lbs. &c.
Hay-Western No. l. Timothy, $3.50
PlS.00; Maryland and Virginia, No.
l Timothy, $3.50: No. 2, $3.50.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04
A rLANT1C AND DANVILLE RAIL
WAY.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOVEMBER

SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOVEMBER
II, 1895.
Leave Shippers Compress Wharf daily
$40 g.: m: West Norfolk. 9:i5 q. m. for:
Danville and all intermediate stations.
sNE GIyoIEE s g. panyile s;z5 p m Leave
m. Leave Lawrcnceville daily Except
sunday at 500 a. m. arriving at Dan
Connection made Mt Danvllic and JEFF
fress Junction with Southern Railway
system; at Dennfston Junction for Dur
ham, South Boston and Mi points on
the Durham Division OF the N. and W.
r. r. We
Pullman sleepcrs between Danvll,e.
Ashevllle. Atlanta, Augusta, Memphis,
Tickets on sale and baggage checked
at Wakes Agency, Company's Agency
at wharf Norfolk: w ". H. williams
Agency. Portsmouth.
w. II. TAYLOR.
General Passenger Agent:
c. o. EAINES
Superintendent.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04
LEAVE NORFOLK DAILY

LEAVE NORFOLK DAILY. 1S
TAO q. m. = The Chicago ExpressSFeRs
MM ynehbEErg. Ro q e z; Ra aS.9
Kenova, Columbus and Cha
cago. Sleeper RoanokeStol
4 Also for Pulaski, Brissoi,S
Knoxville, Chattanooga and
80, intermediate Points. Il s55sTFs
$3.50 p. m. For Petersburg. Kadfordsf
aIIso Tor. Rocky Monntl and /
Salem Division, Has Pulls
Roanoke. Connects at Roass
noke at CHS q. m:dlwithS
E 81 |l% sas # IS ii aSiis5s!Ss
sl!e,epers, Roaneke to Menu
ARR1vBL P5is ana S Ssiiy o5 a!ss
NoREoLk, 6 ,ANB s; R fSa NJ ii ~
arrive Richmond 1900 p: fIllE
SSs1s'9RSrf fRs stS4alas is sas
E N1sh%Snd ~ s;so M. a s,t,ss
only at suffolk. WaySfffsss:
class tickets not acceIfesis
for passage on these etrafnis
Other daily trains Iea kaS
Norfolk 7:46 a. nj, urriyftS
at Richmond II :05 am t4as
turning, leave Richmond s 3d.
p. M; arrive Norfolk 8 ;s9s
p. m. 80 Z, si5g ~
For fu:thsr information as to ticketsag u
rates. baggage, eheeks, eta, call ION. dss
Passenger Agent; G. II: BOSLEY. a iokass
Agent, 126 Main street. or C. E.SFifdfiss
Agent, depot Norfolk and Western i III IL
road. W. B3BEVIIIIa so sss Il
General Passenger a emit. 8 5Fs3
General Office. Ronnckey h sss5.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04
ROANOKE. NORFOLK AND S,s3
BALTIMORE sTEAh1BoArIGos

Commencing sunday, September 1sf5E
1895, the steamers of this line will slaayss
Bay Line wharf every w ednes sd AZ all aS
Saturday night for Baltimore, and leave
Baltimore pier every Tuesday and d rfdayi
Freight received only on sailing IdaysS.ss
Telephone g .:. w d. RANDhstIs5 ssss
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04
Sugar Market.

Market firm. Out Of town prices are
dependent on the delivery rates to the
dinerent points. Local sales are being
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04

Hoods SarsaparIlla. taken Mt this
season VIII make you feel strong and
vigorous and keep you from sickness
lafer on.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04

Our Lamp and Onyx Tables are 81.
perb. and our Cabinets are grand.
CHAPMAN g. JAKEA1Ac.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04
Cape
Charles.
Route
New York,
Philadelphia and
Norfolk B. R. Co
ECT ROUTE

SIX HOURS QUICKER THAN ANY
OTHER LINE.
THROUGH DAY AND NIGHT EXPRESS
EACH WAY
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY 6, 1885,
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04

.Daiiy except Sunday. Other time daily.
No. 1-.-For Cincinnati daily. Chair car
Old Point to Richmond and Pullman
do1sville to st. Louis. Meals served on
Dihlng, Cars west OF Gerdonsvllls.
No. 3.-For Cincinnati daily. Pullman
Sleepers Old Point to Hinton aud Cor
louisville to Cincinnati and Louisville.
louisville. ~ 90
STEINER Louise arrives at Norfolk daily
l2:05 noon and 700 D. m. $500
Fer further Information apply to
II. T. BROOKE, Passenger Agent,
c. ana o Ticket Onicc. CRANKY street,
Under Atlantic Hotel. So ~
JOHN D. POTTS,
Division Passenger Agent
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04
NJ NJ; : : " Hprfplk=Rsstsr | !. m.

EDULE IN EFFECT DEC. j. 1sas.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04

The new and powerful iron palace
steamers NEWPORT NEWS, WASH
iNGTON and NORFOLK will leave
aa''y AS follows
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-04
NORFOLK vlRC.
IN BERKELEY.

TIE ELECTIoN.-For'. !. the past
three weeks politics have been brew
Ing in storm in Berkeley, the fight be-
Ing between the Democrats, or the par
~ In control, and other Democrats
and Republicans that formed ticket
known as the Citizens ticket. Yester-
day morning. when the sun rose it
found the leaders OF both parties at the
polls ready to do oil In their power
to divert some voter who had not yet
made up his mind for whom to cast
his ballot AS the day rolled by the
political storm increased, and by night
1t had reached hurricane. When the
polls CLOSED at the first ward It looked
for awhile as IL q general row would
take place. The Democrats wished to
send In q man to see the ballot counted
and were refused. Some OF the wiser
heads Prevailed on their friends to be
quiet. and after q short while order
was restored. In the Second and Third
Wards all was quiet, each side bringing
out every voter they could find
The second ward was the first to re-
port Its vote, which Is as follows:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15
HORTICULTURE,
ONIONS IN THE SOUTH.

Oaions may be grown from seed,
sets or large onions; also from buttons,
or top sets. Plant during early fall, or
as soon as possible after Chris mas.
Two methods of planting are practiced
with us: Cd in 80 inch drills or rows,
(2) in beds Is to 20 feet wide and slight
ly elevated in the middle 80 as to drain
gently to both sides, Drills for receiv-
ing the seeds or onions are then placed
at right angle to the length of the beds
and Is inches apart. Whether in the
row method or in the bed method, the
seed is sOwn in the drills so as to have
three or four seeds to each inch in
length, and are covered with light soil,
about one half to three-fOurths inches
deep. Sets are placed about hands
breadth apart, large onions (multi
pliere) twice this width, and covered 80
as to hide the bulb. The onion requires
the richest, best prepared soil in the
field or garden, and success will always
be in proportion to the attention given.
Nothing short of thorough and clean
culture will do for this plant. Culture
should be fl 1t except for potato onions
and shallots. Varieties: Yellow Dan
vers, Wethersfeld, Pearl, Prizetaker,
Creole, Bermuda and others. Market
them green in early spring, or matured
in following summer and winter Prof.
A. B Mckay, Mississippi Agricultural
College,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15
TAR FOR POULTRY.

Poultry raisers seem to have failed
to learn the value of ter 1t is valua
BILE in many ways, says G. W. Norris
in the Epitomist. am led to believe
that to tar the fence around the poul-
try house, instead of whitewashing,
will be much better. It will contribute
largely to the durability Of the wood,
protecting it from storm and time. 1t
is in the poultry house that the value
of tar is the greatest, for it conduces
greatly toward heal5hfulness.
When cholera makes it's appearance,
we would advise, first, a thorough
cleaning of the house. Next, an appli-
ance of tar on all the joints, cracks and
crevic of the inside of the building,
and then plenty OF whitewash properly
applied. The tar abs orbs or drives
away the taint Of disease and makes
the premises wholesome. The smell Is
not offensive-in fact, many people
like it, and it is directly opposite to
unhealthy. To vermiD, lice, etc, the
smell of tar is very repulsive, and but
few will remain after you have tarred
the house. A neighbor of ours was
once troubled with chicken cholera,
and by adopting the above, in connec
tion with removing affected fowls, be
soon put a stop to its ravages. A
small lump of tar in the drinking
water supplied to the fowls will be
found beneficial. Farmers Voice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15

hens were allowed to go anywhere on
the farm in winter; but they remained
near the cattle, seeking food wherever
they could find a morsel. Some times
Cne farmers wife, with her sympathy
Tor helpless creatures, would laborious.
~ Wend her way through the snow to
give her pets a mess of corn; but so
Tar as the farmer himself was concerned.
he did not consider them worthy of
notice. The farmer however, never
overlooked the returns. He would
naturally wonder why the hens did not
lay, but though he really had no right
to expect something from nothing, yet
he would lay the fault to the refusal of
the hens TO produce eggs rather than
to their inability to do so. AS the pure
breeds began to be developed, the
farmer took some interest in poultry.
and gradually the hens have been given
better treatment.
At the present day, Gays the Farm
and Fireside, the farmer is more prone
to make his mistakes in OVERRIDING the
work and in using but little judgment
in feeding, He feeds literally, but de-
pends too much on grain. A slight
change in the food will some times &C
complish much When the hens have
been given corn exclusively they re-
quire something that is radically differ
ent. Lean meat Or ration composed
OF bran and linseed meal may start the
hens to laying, simply because such
foods are jus5 what they require
Grain is deficient in mineral matter,
and a aso abounds largely in starch.
Foods that contain less starch and
more mineral matter and nitrogen will
be change that will cheaper the cost
of the food, because more eggs will be
the result.
Corn is not favored as summer food,
because it is too heating and too fatten-
ing; but there is an advantage IN feed
ing corn to fowls that are intended for
market d. not attempt to fatten fowls
on nothing but corn, as they may
suffer from indigestion. Let the fowls
receive three meals day, and of
variety of any ything that they will eat,
allowing a mess of chopped gres5 Or
clover, and give the corn at night, as
much as the hens will eat. Every other
day give a mess OF equal parts of bran
and ground oats, with gill of linseed
meal in the mixture for dozen hens.
Keep the poultry house clean, and the
fowls will fat5en rapidly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15
HOW TO PACK APPLES.

There's promise of a good apple crop.
A large trade is expected and in order
to have the outcome satisfactory it will
be necessary to give strict attention to
sorting and packing. With this end in
view the following suggestions are sub
mitted by the Trade Bulletin and it Is
earnestly hoped that they will be care
fully followed:
Country shippers and packers of
apples should make it a point to pack
their fruit honestly; that is, to have
the fruit run alike all through the bar
rel. Do not endeavOr to cause decep-
ton by placing good, sound, large
fruit on the top and bottom of the bar,
rel, and fill in the middle with lot OF
gnarly, wormy and decayed fruit. Ii
does not pay. The deception is easily
detected upon investigation, and mer-
chants do not care to have fraud prac'
ticed upon them, neither do they care
to practice it upon their customers.
Full regulation-sized barrels should
be used. Take the barrel, one head
out, nail the hoops, and break off the
ends of the nails at the inside; place a
layer or tier of apples, good and uni
form size, smooth, bright, healthy, as
closely as possible, stems downward,
on the lower end, then fill up basket
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15

Spinach likes a rich sandy loan and
is a rank feeder. Good crops can be
grown on medium sandy land by using
such fertilizers as blood and bone, fish
or Peruvian guano,
The fret thing to be learned in the
live stock busint So is that it cCs.s just
as much to raise and keep a poor ami
nal as 1t does a good one. When farm
ers are convinced of this fact it is not
long until his place is stocked with
pure bred animals of some kind.
In the early fall is the best time to
apply manure to fruit trees, that it
may get the benefit OF the fall rains,
which w8sh its soluble parts into the
soil. This starts an early growth in
the spring 1t is not best that the most
luxuriant growth be made while the
fruit is maturi g.
1t is batter farming to grow pigs on
grass than on grain. Roots ard clover
hay in the winter will greatly reduce
the cost Of keeping them, and they
must be kept growing through that
season if we would have them in con-
dition to quickly tatten for the spring
market; not fat, but growing.
There is hardly a cheaper way of
growing pork than to allow the pigs
the run of a good clover field, giving E
good daily slop feed IN addition. 4
good breed farrowed in April, unde
good treatment, will maintain a growth
which will fit them for market in gooC
season in the fall or early winter.
Experiment with cotton seed AM
cotton seed meal shows that by soaking
It in water until fermented, and th
fermentation over, hogs have 10 troubl
resulting from eating it. 1t is rich il
nUtriment and fattening qualities, bu
feeders have been discouraged by tn
attendant dangers. Hogs eatit heartily
Pruning is something deferred uDt
trees are in leaf, to avoid bleeding.
Harm seldom follows this practice, bu
IL Is well to remember that it is alway
d check to vitality and vigor. Their
are various varieties of young apple
winch are better for being prune
"hhe IN leaf. Wood growth render
'nem slow IN bearing, on good soil.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15
POULTRY YARD
Dirty EGGS WILL NOT KEEP.

In laying down eggs for winter use
care should be taken to see that they
are perfectly clean. The shell is porous
and the CdOrs of any filth attached to
it quickly penetrates to the interior
and begins the process of de>ompoei-
tion. 1t Itisimpossiole to keep eggs many
months and have them exactly like
fresh eggs. The evaporation from the
egg rObs it of moisture, though this is
largely prevented by immersing the
egg in lime water. But all water, ex-
cept that which has been just boiled,
contains some air. Packing eggs in
salt will keep them for a short time.
and is the easiest ard cheapest way of
keeping for home use
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15
FEEDING ON FARMS.

The slightest change in the food may.
be the turning point to laying. 1t is
certainly gratifying to know that farm
ers who raise poultry at the present
day have changed the methods in vogue
a quarter Of a century ago. The time
has been when poultry was not consid-
cred deserving of any attention at all
from the farmer. It was as much out
of his line as baking bread or sweeping
the rooms of the dwelling-house. II g
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15
ADVANTAGES OF sILAGE.

Practical experience, coupled with
careful experimental study, has now
abundantly proved that, for dairy
man there is no way of harvesting,
storing and feeding corn to cows with
so little labor and 50 small loss as
that afforded by the silo. 1t is not to
be understood, however, that the silo
is destined to supplant the haymow,
for some dry fodder should be used
with silage in with rations; but the silo
has come to stay, and as its merits
come to be better known and it's con
struction better understood, it must
come into general use. A properly
constructed and filed clio makes it
possible for a dairyman not to lose
more than to II per cent. of the dry
matter put into the silo, whereas corn
cured and fed dry under the verv best
! possible condition must sustain q loss
oL ory matter amounting to from 20 to
% per cent of the whole product. And
Prot. Cook has proved through two
years work that even in the arid oil
mate OF Colorado the necessary losses
Of dry matter in feeding corn as d.
corn fodder are just as large as he hoJ
found them to be in Vermont.-F Fl
King, Wisconsin Experiment Station
in American Agriculturist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15
WINTERING POTATOES.

In report of the Kansas State Board
OF Agriculture it is said that if buried,
potatoes must be covered lightly at
first, and the covering added from time
to time, but only enough to protect the
tubeTs from frost. This is the most
unsatisfactory and expensive way of
storing potatoes. The next worst way
is cellar under building. The most
satisfactory and cheapest way is to
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15
WEEKLY WEATHER CROP Bull
LETIN
For the Week Ending Monday, Get S,
1905.
CENTRAL OFFICE, Raleigh, N. @.


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 Saturday,
Oct. 5, 1895, indicate very unfavor
able week. The temperature was con
siderably below the normal, with trcsss
on thr, mornings, damaging tobacco
and other crops considerably. Drought
continues to prevail; practically no
rain having fallen anywhere. Cotton
is a very poor crop, Is nearly all open,
and Will be all gathered much earlier
than usual. All late crops have been
iniurs d by the drought, and turuips
are nearly ruined. Gathering C 'rn Is
under way. but fall piowIng continues
at a standstill.
Eastern District The past week
has Deen very cool and dry, With more
than usual amount Of sunshine. FrOsts
occurred on the mornings of the Is
and 2nd. the drought continues una
bated, injuring peas, potatoes and tur
nips, and killing young berry plants.
Wells and streaus are low, and some
mills have stopped running. Cotton
which has opened very rapidly ard is
a poor crop, will probably all be out by
7 the end of October Corn was beyond
possibility of injury and is being
| housed. Peanuts being stacked. R ce
crop is fair. Second crop of Irish po
tatOes poor. Very little planting and
no fall blowing has been done.
Central District "A dry and very
cool week, with frosts on several days,
which damaged immature pea vint S
and killed considerable tobacco which
was uncut and some late corn. High
north to northeast winds prevailed :;
weather clear and dusty. Cotton will
be picked out very rapidly. the yield
of sweet potatoes is not good. Gather
ing corn and making molassC are the
chief work of the farmers at present, as
long as fall plowing is impossible. No
rain fell anywhere during the week;
mills on small streams have stopped
and some wells are going dry.
Western District Frost occurred
on three mornings, which damaged to-
bacco considerably, as there was more
uncut in this d,sUrict than in others.
Pea vines we're also injured and some
late corn. Drought continues unabated,
and turnips are practically ruined.
Gathering corn and digging potatoes
ere progressing The cotton crop ap
p ars TO be nearly all open. More than
the usual amount of feed for stock has
been put up, Some farmers are trying
to SOW wheat.
Where winters are severe a slight
covering with litter or evergreen
branches will be Of great service to the
straw berries Do not place this until
November or Dectm Der, or after the
ground is frozen. Il is a common mis-
take to put on too much or too early
and to leave until too late in the spring
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15

Iul! at time, throwing out small.
"ormy, gnarly and windfaII anDles
ana shaking the barrel we'll after each
deposit until it is full two inche 8 ahovo
the rim; place the head suuarelv on
the apples and with a screw or lever
press force it into place and nail secure
ly. Turn over the barrel and mark
name OF apple with red or black lead,
or pencil. Bear in mind that, to be
shipped safely, fruit must be packed
tight to prevent rattling or bruising.
In shipping apples the first of the
seasoc-2arly varieties--shippers should
see that openings are cut on the side
OF the barrel and also in both ends, to
admit of free circulation of air, which
Will greatly help to bring apples through
IN good condition during warm weather.
The quiet disposition of the Poland
China hog, which enables him to lie
down and grow fat after eating, is
much in his favor, and then observe
his broad, deep shoulders, we'll sprung
ribs, making bread back and Ioin,
the broad, deep sides, and the long,
thick, meaty ham. IL all respects ne
is typical porker
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15
THE CAUSE oE SMALL EGGS.

The Farmers Voice says the steady
improvement in the grade of poultry
kept by farmers has resulted in the in
creased size of eggs. This difference
is so marked that the eggs produced
in the North always command in the
markets a higher price than those
from the South, where the improved
breeds have been more slowly intro
duced In that section the unders re of
poultry and egg is doubtless due chief
ly to the lack of new blood. The de-
bilitating effect of the heat is some
times given as the explanation, but the
true one is rather the lack of care and
proper attention to breeding, the indi-
rect result of the climate, which, by per
mittirg the birds to forage all the year
round relieves the owner of much
trouble, but at the same time checks
his interest in their b. st development