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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08
A COW DIALOGUE.

Tod S4ot and Old Brin Discuss the Milking
Question
Old Spot: How do you like the new
man hat master has hired?'
Old Brin: i don't like to have him
milk me one bit. He's too rough.
When he sits down to milk me, he
grabs hold Of my teats and jerks and
yanks as though he were trying to pull
them eff. And then, too, his finger
nails are long and sharp, and they cut
into the sides of my Seats and hurt me. ="
Old Spot: What do you do when a
mixer hurts you9"
Old BIN: Il switch my tail nervous
ly awhile, and then stand around away
from him. l tried that with him; but
it was no use, and when he grabbed
hold SO roughly and hurt me again, I
just kicked him and the milk pailover."
O-d Spot: Good enough for him!
Served him right! What did he do
then7'
Old Brin: He jumped up and yelled
and swore at mo awfully, and kicked
me in the ribs with mis- heavy boots,
and pounded me over the back with
his big wooden stool. I am as sore and
lame as a be, and I know that I shall
not be able to give my regular mess of
milk for several daysI"
Old Spot: How different that is
from the way master does!'
Old Brin: Yes, to be sure it is
When master sits down to milk me, he
speaks kindly to me, and then takes
hold of my teats gently and handles
them over carefully before he begins to
squeeze the milk out. He brushes off
my udder, and Thea begins, gradually,
to draw the milk. Under such gentle
treatment, I can feel my milk running
toward the outlets, and my teats just
swell right out to almost bursting full.
ness. 1t is q pleasure to give down all
my milk to master. He doesn't work
his elbows up and down with a yank as
though he were pumping"
Old Spot: You speak of giving dowr
your milk readily and willingly to mas
teri Can you hold up your milk wher
you want top
Old Brin: Yes, indeed, I can! /
isn't very often that I want to, bu'
there are times when I want to hold VI
my milk, and then I can do it. Wher
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LIVE STOCK.
VALUE OF SHEEP.

It does not require a large farm to
keep a small fl ck of sheep, which
everything considered is the best, says
the Missouri Farmer. IL should be
we'll fenced go that they can be kept
where wanted. Many a rough, worn
out farm might be brought up and
made valuable by raising sheep. There
is no stock so we'll adapted to rugged
hillsides or rough pastures, or to pre-
vent the growth of weeds and bushes.
Where sheep have the range OF a field
very few weeds will go to seed, and
bushes will be so thoroughly cropped
that they will either die or be kept
back. When a farmer can thus easily
turn the weeds and bushes OF a farm
into excellent manure, and at the same
time have them converted into mutton
and wool, it is certainly a good thing.
Sheep will thrive in a pasture and get
fat where cattle would almost starve.
They also scatter their droppings over
the field and never fail to enrich lands,
where kept. Feed them extra, for this
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08

BUTTER AND CHEESE FACTOR
les,

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
AS in architecture, all structures to
be enduring must rest on solid founda
tions, so in the building up of any sys'
tenn of agriculture it must rest on a
broad, solid and thoroughly grounded
foundation. However, it many times
seems as though some persons and
communities start IN at the chimney,
so to speak, when building. This Is
sometimes the case in one matter relat
ing to dairying. We refer to the estab
fishing in some localities Of butter or
cheese factories.
The foundation for success in these
enterprises must include certain ele-
ments. First, the locality should pos
sess natural factors, such as good grass
and plenty Of pure water. Second, the
farmers should know something about
dairy matters, and have a liking for
the business Of dairying and confidence
in it. Third, there should be q goodly
number of COWS kept within q reason.
able distance of the points where the
butter or cheese factories are to be
located.
OF course after a factory has been in
successful operation for q season or
two there will naturally be an increase
in the number Of cows IL Its Immediate
and adjacent vicinity. But a certain
number must be had from the start,
else it will prove a failure Even when
all the above conditions are OF @ most
desirable character, failure many times
ensues because of bad management.
We know Of localities where the
farmers and others are interested end
anxious 10 have a butter or cheese fac
tory, yet are hesitating because OF lack
of COWS In some such cases agents
have been commissioned to purchase
COWS, the farmers each agreeing to
take and pay for a certain number.
This, however, is not q good way.
Tt W uld be better in such communi
ties for the farmers to increase their
number Of COWS gradually, and mainly
by raising their own heiter calves,
awaiting themselves in some way OF
the servic> s of a thorough bred male OF
one of the several dairy breeds.
Then let each farmer provide him
self with a good portable creamery
which will not only be of great value
to him while he makes his own butter,
but equally useful later when, if ever,
there should be a public creamery
started in his locality. It il now gen
orally conceded that public creameries
conducted on the cream gatheriDgpla
are better adapted to localities new il
dairying. Hence a portable creamery
would be just what each patron should
have. Whether a farmer continues &c
make his own butter or becomes the
patron Of 6 public creamery, the better
he is educated in dairy matters the
better the results.
T. W. MOSgLEY.
Clinton Iowa.
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SWINE NOTE s.

Keep the pigs growing from start to
finish on a good diet, ard give them
plenty OF exercise, and you will raise
some winners if the foundation of the
stock is all right.
When the clover pasture begins to
get tough so it is not readily eaten by
the hogs, change them to another lot
and run the mower over it. A new
and tender growth will soon take its
place.
One of the most common mistakes in
the management of pigs is to allow
some periods of slow development to
creep in between the seasons Of the
different foods. The grower cannot
afford these periods of partial stegna-
ton if the pigs are to be put upon the
early market in good form.
1t pays to push the animal for
slaughter, says a writer, for ii makes
the cheapest meat; extra TIM requires
extra food for support" there ID no
profit from the food which is required
to keep the animal alive or to repair
the waste of the system. This is also
true Of the extra labor in feeding.
With all an1m}ls, whether feeding
for growth Or to fatten, it is the Gm)unt
of food which is digested and assimi
lated which is a benefit. In feeding to
secure the best results this must be kept
in mind. Here comes in the advantage
Of grinding or cooking the food for the
hogs, Soaking the grain softens il;
grinding makes it easier to soften.
A Wisconsin farmer, who has been
breeding and marketing hogs for 80
years and keeping a record OF results,
says that the best market is found
about the middle of September, and
the most profitable hog is one that
weighs 200 pounds at six months old
Hence, have your pigs come the middle
of March, push them to 200 pounds
each by the middle Of September and
market them. The dam should be Il
months and the sire 10 If parents are
younger than this, the pigs will be
weak if older the pigs mature too late
for proft.-Oregon Agriculturist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08

Correspondence If The Progressive Farmer.
In pursuance Of the call Of Mr.. J
Stephenson, chairman Of the Executive
Committee Of the Peoples party OF
Northampton county, the convention
mt in the our house at jackson, on
Saturday the Angus, % h, at II o'clock.
Mr.. Stephenson called the house to
order and stated the oil j9ct of the meet
ing, after which q permanent organ
ization was tff3cted which resulted in
the election OF Mr.. 7. @. Parker for
chain man, and W. J Beale for secre
tary. A committee On credentials was
appointed consisting of Messrs Chas
Garner, Will Stephenson and W. J
Bciant. While the convention was
awaiting the reporS of the committee.
Mr.. Madison Early of BERTHE county
ENTERTAINED the audience with an inter
estiDg and inst uctive speech.
The following resolution, as suggeet
ed by the Executive Committee Was
Cf5rod and adopted:
ReSO!Ued, That this convention put
out @ skeleton ticket Of one candidate
for the Legislature IN the lower House
and two Candidates for county com
m~lssioner5, with the understanding
that we leave the remainder OF the
tickot open. If filled satisfactory to
use we propose to stand by it, il not
we leave it with our Executive C1m
mittee to fill ouC.
By motion the convention went into
the nomination of these candidates s,
which resulted in the nomination Of
Mr.. J, ] Purvis for representative and
Messrs w. E. Harris and J. r Beale
for county commissioners.
The following resolutions were offer
ed and unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, The Peoples party of
Northampton county, recognizing that
the question of finance is the supreme
issue now pending before the American
| people. Therefore we do
ResOIOe, That we do most heartily
endorse the platform as adopted by the
Peoples party in the National conven,
ton assembled at St. Louis on july
: 22nd 1896.
2 That we do most heartily pledge
u support to the nominees of that
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How Is Your County

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If your county wants such a pap+L'.
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For further information, adore ale. n
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convention for President and Vic8-
President of the Uoited States.
8 That we do endorse the platform
as settorUh by the Peoples party Of
North Carolina in the State convention
held at Raleigh on August - b 1895,
and that we do most earnestly pledge
ourselves to use every honorable means
for the election of the nominees Of that
convention.
4. That we do endorse the course
of the Hon. Marion Butler in the
U oited States Senate, and we do there
fore pledge ourselves TO stand by him
so long aa ne stands by the Cypress ed
people and against the gold coDspira-
tors Of this country and Of England.
There being no further business, the
convention ad >urned.
w. J. BEALE Secretary.
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| that new man kicked me on the under
| side with his hard toed boots, and
pounded me over the beck with his
heavy wooden stool. I just held up my
milk of my own will. I was determ,
ined that he should not get another
drop out of me at that milking; and ne
didn't, either, though he had not got
half my regular mess"
Old Spot: II overheard some men
say, the other day, that we COWS can
not hold up our milk when we please"
Old Brin: THAT is all theory and
nonsense! UGder cruel, rough treat
ment, I always draw up the muscles
and Iigaments all along my under side,
| especially around my udder- This pre-
vents any inf)w of milk into the regu
lar channels, and so none comes out.
Under kind aud gentle treatment, |
can let il down in a little while. But
if 1 hold it up a long time. it will stay
up in spite of me-"
Old Spot: Il wish that all men IN
derstood how to milk as well as master
does"
Old Brin: Il do, too! If all mixers
understood how to milk a COW as well
as MASTER does, there would be more
milk and less kicking IL they would
speak kindly when they approach US,
and sit down and carefully brush off
the udder, and work the teats with
gentle pressure b fore try ing to start
the milk, it would be as we COWS would
like TO have it. Under such kindly
touches, the milk is readily responsive,
and runs readily in it's channels to the
proper outlet. And then, if they would
remember not to jerk and yank so
hard as though they were trying topull
something out by the roots, it would
be much more agreeable. / dent like
to be yelled at, either, every time I
switch my tai! And if every dairy
man would do as master does during
the troublesome fly season-put us in
the stable a0ou5 20 minutes before
milking time, and close the doors and
darken the windows-there would be
less switching Of tails to annoy the
mixer, and more milk, beside=!"
Old spot: Yes, it does seem so good
In the darkened stable, the flies soon
settle away from us, and go into the
hooks and crannies of the walls. Then,
when master comes out and opens the
doors and hghtens the stable, the flies
do not return to annoy Us both. l
wish that all mixers were like our kind
master"
Old Briu: Yes, yes! Master is very
kind, and I know that, under such
treatment as he always gives me, 1 can
and do give down from a pint to a
| quart more milk than I do when
treated roughly or spoken to harshly.
"A. r. Phillips, in Rural New Yorker.
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BRABsTER VESTS LETTER.
The Political Situation Unchanged~-
Grover to Re a Candidate Love and
Ebasement for 4 Hung Chang,

The Political Situation Unchanged~-
Grover to Re a Candidate Love and
Ebasement for / i Hung Chang.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
Last week I wrote Gu that the Pee
pies party did net intend to allow itself
to be swallowed by the Democratic
party. So far as that statement is c)n
cerned the situation in Washington is
unchanged. The three national com
mittees, Democratic, Peoples and Sill
yer are under one roof in Wormley' 3
Hotel. The Democrats had pert of the
hotel first, and, as soon as the Popu
lists and Silverites moved in they put
up a fence in the corridor to shut eff
u people. We have retaliated by
putting up fences which shut them off
Senator Butler assures me that it is
the earnest wish Of his committee to
effect fusion in every State with any
party which favors the election of
Bryan. Secretary D ff9nderfer, of the
Silver party, say s the same, but neither
VI uA4CA4 PAOpN1SS w CAlOW uL0 OkO 4AIO
Democrats, who would be gold men to
day if the Democratic party had de
clared for gold. 20 absorb the reformers
who have made this campaign of the
masses against the classes a possibll
ity.
Your Democratic readers know, If
the producers, and not professional pol
iCiciana, that the election of Bryan and
q House Of Representatives pledged to
SUP port him will mean their salvation,
but the old professional off eeholders,
who would vote the Democratic ticket
if Satan was the nominee and the plat
form we're the Ten Commandments
with the word mot" left out of each
commandment, do not care for the cleo
ton of Bryan unless it will help them to
hold offices. Such are the men who
are conducting the Democratic cam
paign from the city of Washington,
and they seem to have an idea that the
Populist party is a corpse and that
they are the firm of undertakers who
have the job of %interring the cadaver.
This reminds me of the story of the
furniture dealer in a Western town
who thought to augment his profits by
undertaking, He undertook the Job o.
planting n remains of a hard citi
zen who had been shot in a brawI. The
fuss was over, the hard citizen, boots
and all, had been carried over to the
shop OF the enterprising furniture deal
er' who put the hard citizen away in 6
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CO fiji. The crowd had dispersed to
| drink the health of the deceased, and
the would-b be undertaken placed the
lid upon the coffin. AS he did SO, the
corpse rose up and hit that enterpris-
ing furniture dealer a blow which
banished from his mind any idea of
doing any more undertaking businl So.
Similar with the Peoples party and
the Democratic party to day. The
Peoples party is no corpse. 1t may
have been riddled with abuse, but it
is not as dead as soma people wish it
were.
do not wish my friends to think
that I advocate any split this year
in the reform forces, but what the Pop
ulist, so far as [ know their sentiments,
insist upon, and what they are deter
mined to have, is this, a fair share of
the electoral vote. The Peoples party
has created this movement and will
not be engulfed by the wave of popu-
lar sentiment which it has created.
The gold Democrats are going to
nominate a separate ticket. That is es
sured. Around the clubs of Washing
ton it is whispered that Grover Cleve-
land will DO the nominee. think not,
for Grover, although q pig headed fool,
has sense enough to know that q gold
bug Democrat has no chance Of cleo
ton this year. Should he be nomina
ted, we will have some fun and we
won't do a thing to Grover.
The daily goldbug press Of the United
States, including that fawning sheet
tho Washington Times, is falling all
over itself in abasement to Ii Hung
Chang, the Chinese envoy who will
pass through this country next week
They love titles SO that they call him
Earl Chang, when q school boy is
we'll aware that there is no such title
IN China. 1t is astonishing how these
golQbug organs love titles, and l be-
Ileve that their adulatiOn Of every ii
tied foreigner is a proof Of the asser-
ton ia my BOOB, Grover Cleveland
on a tramp" that the ]plutocracy of
America is scheming for the establish
ment of a monarchy and the subsid-
larry titles which pertain to a monar
chial form Of government. I could
write much more, but your space is
limited. Isimply wish, as your Wash
ing representative, to say TO your re, d
ers that money is going TO be used III
this campaign by the Hanna crowd
without stint, and that if any OF them
are offered money that they ere per
fectly justified IN taking it. l do not
mean That they should vote for NJ Kin
ley, but | mean this: That even the
r )thschild Hanna campaign fund has
q limit, and every dollar which u
people get OF il is one dollar lees for
Hanna t use in corrupting che Amer
lean elt ctorate. If your readers get
any money from that fund, they can
either use it in hiring halls and speak
ers or in buying free silver literature /;
but whatever they do, If they value
their indepeL dence, they should vote
this year for William Jennings Bryan.
BRABSTER Y EST
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-22
HOKE SMITH
HAS RESIGNED.
The Secretary Has Laid Down
His Portfolio.
His Resignation Has Been Ac-
cepted By Cleveland.
WILL SOON GET OUT.
His Successor Will Be Named
In a Short Time.
Smith Will Probably Continue
In This Month.

Washington, Aug. 22-The Associated
Press is in a position to state definitely
and certainly that Secretary Hoke
Smith has resigned his cabinet port
folio and that the resignation has been
accepted by President Cleveland.
For some time rumors have appeared
in print of the probability of the early
resignation of Secretary Hoke Smith.
There can be no doubt that he has re-
signed and that his resignation has
been accepted.
For some days past shipments have
been made to Atlanta of his books and
papers, and it is learned that he has
declined to set any departmental busi-
ness to be heard by him for a date
later than this month. 1t can safely
be assumed that a successor will be in
charge in a very short time.
After the nomination of Bryan and
SeWan 1t became known that Secretary
Smith was the only member of the cab
met who announced the purpose to sup
port that ticket and that this action on
his part, while not in any way affect
ing his personal relations with the other
members of the cabinet, seemed so ma
teriaI to him that he felt constrained
to tender his resignation.
The secretary declines to discuss the
subject in any way.
Ever since the rumor of the proba-
bic resignation of Secretary Smith
there has been more or less gossip con-
cerning his probable successor at the
interior department and the name of
John M. Reynolds, the assistant Sec
retary of the department has been
mentioned frequently for the place.
Mr.. Reynolds has made an excellent
officer. He has had charge of the diff
cult work of review of pension decis-
ions of the pension bureau and has
given general satisfaction. He is a ma
tive of Pennsylvania.
The new cabinet officer will have
only a little more than six months to
serve and it is regarded as probable
that Mr.. Cleveland will prefer to fill
the vacancy from the department
rather than fill the place by appoint
ing some one who would be new to the
work which involves acquaintance with
a great variety of matters affecting
directly the public welfare.