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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
sTEEL-TRACKED ROADS.

A Promising Idea Advocated by Eastern
Political Leaders.
In the wreck of matter and the crush
of worlds, coronations, conventions.
boat races and things, it is just as well
not to forget that the farmer feeds US
all, when the mud doesn't prevent his
hauling stuff to market.
Farmer O'Donnell, of New York state,
distinctly understood that he, and not
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
PLANT PROTECTOR.

It Holds Dropping Branches of Plants Up
from the Ground.
A tile plant protector is just the
thing for holding the dropping branches
of some of the small fruits up from
the ground, especially the gooseberry.
whose habit of growth is low and
struggling. The special advantage
claimed for this method is that it keeps
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
A Fact and a Reminder.

In Holland, where they have the best
roads in the world, it is said that a
farmer will haul, with a team of large
dogs, as heavy load as can be drawn
over a bad road with team of horses.
This reminds US how dog-gone bad our
roads are.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
some Would Never Be Missed.

This country has 100000 miles of
common roads. This would encircle
the globe so times, or go TO the moon
more than five times. But If most of
them would go there just once and not
come back. earth would be just about
as happy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11

Some growers advocate muiching
with strong manure pear and peach
trees. the mulch to extend out as far as
the limbs extend.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11

the fruit and branches from the ground
and also gives better chance to hoe up
the weeds and stir the soil under the
branches. 1t will also hold the moist
ure about the roots of the bush to some
extent, and will make easier picking
of the fruit than when the branches
lie near the ground.-American Agri-
culturiSt
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11

We advise all of our butter makers
to make their business a science. just
now the market is stocked with poor
goods, for which there is little demand.
For the better grades there is always q
sale
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11

The Iowa creameries last year made
butter to the value Of more than S13,-
600, 600, according 10 the estimate OF
tie state dairy commissioner.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-15
Clinton, Iowa.
A NEW DAIRY BREED.

Jersey, Guernsey. and Holstein
breeders as weIlas the Ayrshir4, Brown
Swiss and SimmenChaler people will
have to look to their laurels, for a new
dairy light appears in the East, this
time IL the form OF the buffalo of India
The India buffalo, it will be understood.
is the genuine article, aud not the
American bison to which we are &C
customed in this country. According
to the sydney Stock and Station Jour
nal. these animals, while not rivaI,ng
other dairy breeds in milk production
greatly surpRss them in butter making
capacity and IN the total solids which
the milk contains. The dairy experts
of India declare that their buffalo ia
the best butter producing animal in the
world By actual experiment eleven
pounds of buffalo milk were required
to produce a pound of butter, while
seventeen pounds of COW milk were
necessary for the production of the
same amount. The buffalo In an India
test was in milk 459 devs, yielding
6 500 pounds of milk. English bred
cows were In milk All days, yielding
5 024 An analysis of the milk made
at Poona, India showed the English
cows milk to contain 81 per cent of
butter fat against z 9 for the buffalo.
The total solids we're IL 8 per cent for
the COW and II 95 for the buffalo. II
these analyses r q correct index to toe
normal production of the Indian buffalo
the breed will be an excellent one for
dairy crossing, and some enterprising
breeder in this country should import
q few good ones and see whether the
average COW in this country, which
produces 125 pounds a year, cannot be
graded up.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-15
F4R EGGS.

When the pullets are fed for egg
production, two extremes in feeding
are TO be guarded against too much
and too lutte. Too much produces fat,
and a fat hen will not lay-too little
gives Insufficient n~Ourishment, and a
weakly hen will do little lay ing. The
amount fed is not the only thing to be
consIdered-the quality, as we'll, has
something TO do with the laying, and
the cOndiUIOn Of the hen when through.
The draft on her system is not slight,
and the amount the hen eats to supply
this draft is great The digestive organs
are Gaxed TO their utmost to take care
of the extra feed, and the wise feeder
will provide the ration that can be
easily digesJed. so as to use all the sur
plus energy of the hen in producing
eggs; not In taking are Of the whole
corn es an entire ration. Give some
corn, especially at night, but let the
food be varied. Cooked or scalded
meal and mlddlIngs, cooked and raw
vegetables-grass or hay steamed.
Provide lime In some shape. Give
ground bone; crushed oyster shells; a
piece OF lime daily in the drinking
water; burned bone; refuse from NOR
tar beds. All these will furnish lime,
which, with that in the wheat that
ought co be fed, will provide enough.
If egg shells are fed they must be fine
ly pulverIzed or the hens may form the
egg-eatIng habit, says the Western
Rural
Considering egg production for con
SUMPTION (aoJ hatcnlng) only, the hens
may be stimulated somewhat by the
use of cayenne pepper or other warm
ing condiments. Some good feeders do
not use condiments of any sort, unless
salt may De clRssed as 1t is not a
bad rule, if condiments are used, to
season the food Rs you would for your
own taste. Tastes differ, but the long,
er one uses condiments, the stronger or
thicker he wishes them-folloW the
same plan with the fowls. Always
season with a little salt whether you
believe L condiments or not.
Rock salt, or salt that contains large
crystals, should not be exposed sc
fowls can help themselves, as they
WOULD be apt to help themselves to il
Ior grit, and 1t would not take long fol
an injurious, If not fatal, amount to be
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-15
WHY GREEN FOOD is RRLIsHED.

That which cannot be derived from
one source may b. taken from another.
The mineral elements of many foods
are but in small ratio compared with
the whole, while water is sometimes
the largest portions of any substance.
Nor can the mineral elements be 81
cured to the best advantage from con-
centrated foods. The Em3 for the shells,
the nitrogen, and the phOsphates of
the bones, are taken from the foods
that most largely abound In those sub
stances. IT takes over a thousand
pounds of wheat to provide only one
pound Of lime, but IN white clover hay
we can secure nearly thirty four pounds
of lime in every thousand. When a
hen eats green food, she does not only
seek it for its ~succulence and bulk, but
also for the elements contained that
may be found in grains or meat. Toe
hen is herself composed of many ele-
ments which demand renewal, as waste
is constantly occurring in the body,
and eliminated; and she is also com
PEELED to provide all the materials of
the eggs Some hens perform such work
very rapidly when in good lay ing Con
ditlon Green food is an essential
portion of her diet, for the reason that
she can obtain a lare er proportion of
mineral matter in that form. Many
green foods are rich in nitrogen, also
The grains abound largely in starch,
and provide che heat and fat, which
at times are unnecessary Poultry
Keeper.
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FOUR METHODS OF FEEDING
CORN.

The Vermont Experiment Station
has reported their test OF feeding the
corn crop to mich COWS to determine
the best method Of preserving the CORN
plant for winter use.
Four methods were tried: Fret,
the whole plant was run through the
cutter into the silo- S. c } nd, the ears
were husked, cribbed, dried and ground,
cob and ell, and fed with the stalks
that had been made into silage Third,
the corn was cut and cured in large
shocks, and before feeding was run
through g cutter, ear and all. Fourth,
the corn was husked from the fodder,
ground with the cob, and fed with the
slower that was cu5 as needed.
Analysis showed that the loss from
each method was practically the same,
except where the shocks were left ex
posed 8 the winter progressed the loes
increased. In the silage the ears | st
more OF their value than in the ehH k
Or crib. Time and money ep 1T husk
ing and grinding the ears was wasted,
as better results were obtained when
the ears we're left on the stalks and all
run through the cutter before feeding.
The silage forms we're most rellshed by
the COWS and the dairy product great
est.
The experiments confirm the com
mon opinion that, for DAIRY COWS, the
corn crop IN the form of sllage is more
valua ole than in dry fodder and meal.
For steer feeding, there is some ev
dence going to show that steers fed on
shock corn run through the cutter
ears and stalk, make better growth
than where the corn is husked and he
fodder and BAR or meal fed separately.
One of the most successful steer feeders
within knowled e feeds the shock
corn after it is run through a cutting
box, ears and all, cut to inch lengths
The steers in this case have water and
bright straw under cover as thew de-
sire it, Two pigs to each steer were
ready for market with the steers-
Breeders Gezette
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LETTRr FROM MISSOURI.
Reformers Must Get Together.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
GRANGER NO N ". "a, 1895.
Enclosed find 81 which place to my
credit on subscription for The PROGRESS
! SIvE FARMER a welcome Visitor to us
from the cotton fields, and accept
congratulations for Congressman from
North Carolina to keep company with
the balance of the POpulis5s in Han
mas house. I think the POpulists of
the Ualted States should meet some
where and locate themselves and find
out where they are. The campaign of
1900 cannot be fought on free silver
and fusion with the Democrats. The
Republican voters will not be led into
the old party that has promised every.
thing and done nothing. 1t was q
great misfoT tune to the Popuiist party
that fusion was had at S. Louis. We
are divided al d dlstrusttul. We must
get together and straignCen the lines or
we will scatter and accomplish moth
ing more as a party organ z alton. In
the Democrat party there Is the same
old element ready to stand Ia the party
and name It's candidates end make its
platform, and, If not satisfied, vote for
the r publican nominees and defeat
pretended reform with fusion.
R8organiz9 Is the slogan.
Respectfully,
JOSEPH MILLER
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-15

A SUCCESSFUL YOUNG DAIRY
MAN.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
AS promised in q previous letter, will
mention successful daIryman, and
in later letters may refer TO others.
Charles L. Mallary, a young farmer
about five miles from this city, keeps
about fifteen COWS. He has comfortable
stables and gives his COWS good care
and plenty of the right kind of feed.
He has a dairy house, siz9, 1Ox12,
height of posts s feet. Building paper
was placed on the studding outside and
covered with drop siding. The stud
ding is papered on the inside and COW
cred with ceiling. This building has
a chimney, and is provided with two
windows, one on each side.
He has a portable creamery with
four II gallon cans, three Of which he
uses for cream raising and the fourth
storage for cream until time for it's de-
livery.
MIR. Mallary fluids a market in this
city at a restaurant kept by J. N. Han
cock, who is also engaged in the manu-
facture Of ice cream. For keeping his
cream in good order, Mr.. Hancock is
also provided with a portable cream
cry. Therefore, with the exception of
the time that the cream is in transDor,
tation from the Mallary Farm-Maple
VieW-to the Hancock restaurant. it is
ice cold, and even during the time it is
being transported it is SO protected
that it's temperature is kept we'll down.
As a result the ice cream turned out by
Hancock has a great reputation and
many of his customers are b, ginning
to understand the causes laying back
of such reputation.
Before milking the COWS at Maple
View Farm, their udders and teRts are
thoroughly brushed and wiped clean,
so that scarcely a particle of dirt or
dust can get from them into the milk
The milk is then strained through two
strainers, the first one is coarse, being
made of perforated tin; the fine one is
pyramidal in form and is made of wire
cloth of threads to the inch, or 6 400
meshes to the square inch. Common
wire cloth, such as is used on the ordl
nary milk strainer or strainer pail, has
40 threads to the inch. A strainer with
80 threads to the inch, if fat, would
soon fill up; but being in pyramidal
form the foreign matter is washed off
instead of being driven in as it would
be in a fiat stranger.
The mix is strained directly into the
ans Of the portable creamery and as
ice is used and the Swedish system of
cream raising practsced, all the cream
is as a rule up inside of five hours; III
uGIPss the cream is wanted sooner the
milk and cream are allowed to stand
till next milking, when the milk is
drawn off from under the cream and
then the latter is drawn through the
same faucet. There is no skimmlng Of
milk Or lift of cans.
While milking but fifteen COWS this
season, Mr.. Mallary has five more of
the COW kind, and next season expects
to milk twenty COWS. He is making
haste slowly-doing everything right
as he goss along and is making dairy
ing pay. He receives for his cream go
cents per gallon.
This is IN object lesson that others
can profit by if they will.
f. w. MOsELEY
Clinton, Iowa.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-15
LIVE STOCK.
AMERICAN sHRRP IN ENGLAND.

American sheep during the year 1896
have been landed in Liverpool in greater
numbers than during any preceding
year. They have consisted largely OF
corn. fattened muttOns, and nine tenths
have been of superior quality, says
Secretary Morton in his annual report.
The profitable market for mutton in
England appears to have encouraged
sheep growing and ~fattening in many
of the Western States. Although
prices fuctuate considerably, being
regulated By the supply and prices of
native English mutton, there is, as a
rule, only a difference of about 3 cents
per pound between the best English
and the best United States mutton.
This is no because of English prejudice
against the American article, but be-
cause many of the sheep from the
United States, having been rapidly
fattened on orr prior to shipment,
show some times 80 per cent. of their
added weight to be tallow, while the
flesh (Engliehmen declare) is favored
by the corn feed.
American yearlings and two year
olds command practically the same
price as English sheep Of the same age
and quality, and have sold during the
present year at from IA to Is cents per
pound.
1t was, however, the misfortune of
American shippers, nOtw outstanding
the increased vigilance and rigor Of
the inspection O animal. for export, to
have landed during the year 1886 a
few lots of sheep in Liverpool and Lon
don affected with the scab. 1t Is quite
possible that this disease was generated
Oy infected ships upon which diseased
sheep had been sent from Argentina
and other countries, and then without
proper disinfe ction, had been put into
the carrying trade between the United
States end Europe. It is, however,
believed that if sheep are wet and
crowded during a voyage scab may be
generated by those conditions.
The Glasgow market finds fault with
American sheep, and also with Cana
dian, by declaring them too big and
too fat. The Scotch want medium
weights, and for them will pay high
prices Foreign markets demand some
other breed of sheep for mutton than
the Merino and its crosses, and those
looking to profitable ventures in this
line should secure the beet mutton
breeds of sheep, which, when they are
landed in as good condition as Ameri-
can cattle, will soon have as high a
reputation and bring as remunerative
figures.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-15
YARD
POULTRY QUAR-

Burn old nests and make new ones
often.
Preserve the fallen leaves for the
scratch pen in winter.
Crowded roosting quarters are to be
avoided above all things
Dust is natures lice exterminator,
therefore give fowls plenty of busting
places.
The perches need not be over two
feet from the ground and should all be
on a level.
Put the poultry house on a little
mound of earth and it will be easily
kept dry inside.
Allow the. decomposing Vegetable
matter, no filth or dirt of any kind to
lie around the poultry quarters.
Don't fail to have gravel and road
dust IN good quantities put away for
use about poultry quarters during
winter.
A filthy drinking fountain will breed
disease sooner than anything else and
easily becomts foul when a large num-
Der Of fowls drink from it.
A man who is not on sufficiently in.
innate terms with his chickens to OBJ
serve the fact the moment anything
begins to go wrong with them is not
ant to succeed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-15
RAISING WORTHLESS HORSES

There is a kind OF horse breeding
common in the country in recent years
that ought to be stopped. Reference
is made to the breeding of farm work
mares to trotting stations.
The trotting horse is almost a product
of American enterprise and no breed of
domestic animals has ever reached 50
rapidly a high degree of excellence. In
him the troCUingg gait has been developed
to near it's probable limit and the later
results were possible only by a strong
infusion Of the racing instinct.
Now this racing instinct is q kind of
mixture Of courage, endurance and
self will, which, with speed, are essen
tial to success upon the track, and the
American trotter is to day as truly a
racer as was the thoroughbred and the
| fox hound in the hunting days of Eng
land.
Now the common mistake lies in con
sidering such an animal az g carriage
horse at all. His speed is too great and
has action too high for the easy gait re
CURED for the carriage, and h1s will too
strong and his nervous organic alton
too restless and erratic for the tractable
nature that ranks highest for a safe,
pleasant and easy driver. 1t is no
more a dieparagement of the trotter to
say that he is 0 q good carriage horse
either by speed Or instinct than it is to
say that he is not a good draft horse.
The gentlemen's driver is a horse of
it's own kind, with gait, action, form
and mental qualities peculiarly adopted
to the work expected, and he is not to
be confused with the draft horse upon
the n extreme nor the speed horse,
whether trotter or runner, upon the
other.
Tt ere is a natural limit to the de-
mand fer racing horses, and the full
supply a and ought to be produced
from individuals with records. In
fact, the day is here when no man can
reasonably hope to succeed with a part
bred racing horse.
In my experience, when a farmer
breeds his work mare to q trOttlng
s stallion he is liable to give as bis reason,
ito raise a driver for the boy" but
back of all on the part of the farmer or
the boy is the lingering hope that he
may get something that will take the
stake at the local fair at least. The
chances are vastly that he will fail and
that in making the attempt to see how
much speed is in the nondescript thing
he will arouse the lurking self viii
which in an animal Of mixed breeding
is liable to appear, a kind of crazy
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-15

swallowed. Experiment has shown
that a quarter of a pound of salt may
be fed to 100 hens each day without
Injurious IF ,cts, after they have been
fed a smaller amount for some days
previous. 1t is probable that an ounce
a day for 100 mature fowls is about
right for health and best results
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-15
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Having this dag qualified as A6mtnistrator on
the es;aJr OF Jon Hare. deceased late of Wake
county nOri 9 is here y given to ali parties h i'd
ing claims agat st sid d. cedent 10 present the
same to rme or my attorney IN OF before the Atm
day Of vemre 1897 or this n tjce Will be
pl AGED in bar of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said decd Mt ale Otifieu that
PROMPT ayme t * reQurod. This 4th day of
November, 1896
J.. NJ. HARE, Administrator,
H. E. Norris, Attorney. (243,
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Ri NJ A eide

Is curing a larg r per cent of asses han any
other remedy Il is a thorough Bloc purifier
ard laxative. 1t is a constitution al cure. and
effect IFS work 10y neut,4lIzl gthe acids IN the
blood and driving them out of the system. Be-
gin il time as delays are dangerous.
EB" For SAFE by druggist. generally. Price 81
per bottle; six for So.
90 If YOUR nearest druggist has not got
RHEUM ACIDE il stock, order it from the
manufacturers
The Ba33ITT DRUG CO., Raleigh, n {.
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headed h~eedlessness not FAR olHefen"
from insanity.
THESE horses have been produced by
the thousands They are Of all sizes.
peirs and conformations. I have seen
them with one end like that OF thor
oughbred and the other like that or a
Clvdesdale. One team particularly IN
mind YVES the product OF a part Clydes-
dale work mare and of a trOttlng stall
lion. One of the pair had Clydesdale
head, neck and shoulders, with trot-
ting rump, quarters and leg, and the
other was reversed in his make up and
both were worthless for any purpose.
Every time a work mare is bred to
aucn a stallion we r deprived OF a
good work horse in the land, or what
may be and has been worse, we bring
into the world a worthless thing The
country has been greatly stocked with
these horses and they may be seen
everywhere about us eating their heads
off, not literally, unfortunately, but
even more ef3ctually so far as the
owner is Concerned.
OF racing horses there is already a
super abundance that can go only fast
enough to be beaten, but of really good
scarcity. I fully believe that we have
or can produce on our farms
q t. pc of medium work horse whose
mares can with the proper stallion
produce this class Of horse. And it
will be one always in demand at q good
figure. But the business would be dis
tiuct from that of breeding for the
track. and the sooner we stop this most
violent of all breeding the better for all
concerned, except perhaps the country
owners Of cheap stations Of more or
less certain trottlng ancestry.
There is an active and growing de.
mand for a horse that few men are
breeding, viz One fitted by gait for
the carriage and of such mental make
up as to be teachable. We need an in
telligent, handsome, free moving horse
with a twelve mile gait and n
the desire to go faster. No gentleman
when driving for pleasure desires to
work his passage by holding as if for
life to a pair of ribbons hitched to what
are little short Of wild animals strug
Cling by instinct to strike a 2 20 gait.
The public will repay him who will
produce the right animal, but let us
not deceive ourselves by supposing that
when we breed the work horse to the
trotting stallion we are producing car
horses. E DAVENPORT.
University of Illinois.
Late in the fall is a good time to
clear meadows Of stones that are likely
to injdre next years moving More
less of these are thrown out at every
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-15

1t costs a great deal of money to run
a paper like The Progressive Farmer,
u y0~ 0'Ce anything. send the mones
today. Don't UGit until tomorrow.