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

The harvest season is the time when
the I6zy man wishes he had hustled
more during spring and summer.
The early fall months are the best
time 10 dig wells, as water seldom fails
in a we'll dug when the earth is dry.
How to cooperate to a practical pur
pose is what farmers most need to
learn as a means Of general progress.
Some people are always able to con-
sole themselves for poor crops by talk
ing of the great yield they will get next
year.
The only time that e. perience is not
a high priced teacher is when one has
the sense to profit by some other mans
bunders.
The eff e of fiber investigation of
the United States Department Of Agri
culture is conducting experiments in
fax raising in the Puget Sound region.
The fax is said to be fine.
Barley is among the most ancient Of
cultivated plants. The common or
four rowed barley, as also the sjZ
rowed kind, probably originated from
the tworowed, which appears to have
been the kind earliest cultivated. 1t is
a native Of western Asia.
Remember when you think Of spray
ing that Paris green and London purple
are for the destruction of insects that
chew, while Bordeaux mixture is a
fungicide or a substance which de,
ssroys fungus disease, such as scab,
Leaf blight, ru7t, and the like.
On most farms where the hens have
a free range, they will do very well in
the summer without grain food, the
growing grasses and ripeniDg seeds and
the insects they pick up, supplying a
we'll balanced ration. OF course, If
they are confined, the case ls different.
A man is swindling farm 9rs in the
neighborhood of Ktttauning, Pa, by
means of a double end fountain pen,
one end of which he uses in drawing
up contracts for harvesting machinery,
and the other he presents for the farm
ers to use in putting their signatures to
the documents. The ink Of the contract
fades and a promissory note is written
In over the signature.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08
VALUE OF CULTIVATION.

Cultivation is to a considerable ex
tent the equivalent of manure. 1t in
PRODUCES air into the soil, ard thus
makes what fertility it has available,
saws the Southern Cultivator. Il was
the maxim of Jethro Tull, who wrote
many years ago that ''tillage is ma
Dure." But on poor soil, especially
that of sandy character, tillage can do
bat little good, for in such soils there
is little nitrogenous matter for the air
. deeCmpose. But wherever manure
is applied, cultivation greatly increases
it's effectiveness.
Every time the cultivator stirs the
surface soil it introduces more air into
it and hastens the decomposition Of the
manure. There IS therefore sound r5a-
son for the common practice of apply
ing manures literally to the crops that
require the greatest amount of cultiva
ton. There is another way also in
which the manure helps and that is by
increasing weeds so as to make fr' q1ent
cultivation necessary. If the soil could
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08


stations together with the actual
that there should be
Certainly advantages taking into
count sufficient everywhere
that the Of
will not build after
not posVV short one and the pron Of b P c9 vas cn g %
greatest
undoubtedly be doGe advantage calling
who adopts will willingly nfromit
we cannot probably 90 better this than enuerae OF the
ready columns from
rye oats other OF which be enslod with complete
When the
possible bleaching loss OF nutrition by the of fall the
given than the hay from the Hay it ordinarily placed
y G3o @e @ & "hP @ @ N the SG Ihen 6f M the d aAG @
same amount Of f H. r3 too % an acre Of co cn he ]
required
for this the Of fire. build
Of food would
Ilo VI enSSLas
will 9orp ind u in to @ ~ 8 t 'HF tG LOU - ~
stock NAV e tH nn of I'D b3 % h @ o tho % the 10 Sr; 1--we
when
damen country places
from the siage
dry feed Wen that of butter
winter is double " further
siage generally
uncture good
the SILVER Manufacturing Co., Of Salem Space obds
machine winch intended This machine
the machine.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08

fJrds es beef breeds Even the horns
have been bred away from the Angus
and G llloway. The Merino sheep il
fro m the bottom, on which to place the
breed to excaI in prolificacy and the
Cotswold, Lincoln ard leicester yIel1
large feeces Of combing wool, the NUT
ton breeds being set off as downs"
including the Southdown, Hampshire,
Oxford and Shropshire. The 3rkshlre,
among swine, with its white spot on
the forehead and four white feet (badges
of purity excels for its hams with It's
black and spotted rivals Essex and
Poland China-possessing merits for
their side meats, the white breeds
Cheaters, Cheshires, Suffolks and York
shires- also being favOrites III the sec
tloI where they are best adapted.
The farmer has also produced NAM
moth geese and turkeys and CLASSIFIED
poultry into ornamental sitteTs, non
sitters, prolific layers and table fowls.
There are other breeds of animals that
could be named, but the above number
is sufficient, and demonstrates that
what has been accomplished is not the
result of mere chance, but of deliberate
purpose to secure special objects
sought.
1t would require much space to emu
merate what has been done IN fruits
and plants. The tomato has been one
of the grandest acquisitions Of the cen
tury, and the strawberry now nearly
rivals the plum and peach in size. New
varieties of all kinds of fruits is grown
for some special merit. The Bartlett
pear and Concord grape should not be
overlooked in mention, and the garden
vegetables are now almost entirely
changed from those Of even thirty
years ago. The Lima bean is being
taken away from poles las was done for
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08

the pears years ago and standard trees
are dwarfed by grating. When these
great changes are considered it will not
be difficult to make favorable com
parison of the work Of the breeder, the
scotsman and the horSiculturist with
the mechanic, but it may be claimed
that while the use of patents protected
Inventors, there has been no protect on
whatever for those who patiently and
persistently worked in the lines of i'm
provement on farms, though their
work has been fully as beneficial to the
world as has been the Efforts of those
who were inventors and discoverers,
and who real I'd therefrom large sums
as their rewards.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08
POULTRY YARD
SMALL FLOCKs AND IMPROVE
MENT.

There are a great many persons who
keep f)cks in the suburbs of towns,
and they nearly always make poultry
pay. 1t may be stated in connection
with suburban poultry raising that
nearly all the improvements effected
in breeds occur among this class.
When the townsman decides to have q
flock, he wishes something good and
useful. Beauty of pIumage and uni
formity receive the first consideration,
and prolificacy is essential. If the
breed selected does not prove satisfac-
tory, it ia discarded until series Of
experiments give better results Such
men soon get into the country. They
will not remain content with their sur
roundings, but determine to enlarge.
Tney are the ones who succeed with
large fl cks. They succeed because
they begin with small focks, watch
every detail, and know something of
the breeds and what the requirements
are for the kind of fowls used. They
teach lessen to the farmer, pointing
out where failures occur, and what can
be done with better methods and select
stock.
1t has been estimated that if farmersl
could be induced to discard scrubs, and
use only the pure breeds, the increasel
in value of poultry products would be
fully one hundred per cent. This can
be demonstrated by comparing the
fl )cks owned by farmers with those Of
the breeders who make a speciality of
keeping pure breeds. It is not to be
inferred that all farmers are negligent
of the advantages of good breeds, for
some of them are enterprising in ali
departments of their farms but as
class they do not attach that import
ance to poultry which they should, and
in that respect lose a profit every year,
which, though perhaps but small sum
with each, is quite large as a whole =
Farm and Fireside.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08
PROGRESS OF AGRICULTURE.

So accustomed have We become to
consider the progress of the mechani
cal arts, the development of electrical
science, and the work of the inventor,
that we have failed to observe the
wonderful advance the farmer has
made during the last half century. The
following appreciative editorial which
recently appeared in the Philadelphia
Record suggests something of the re-
suits of the intelligent agriculturist's
efforts, and will be read with interest
and pleasure by every lover of the
farm:
While inventors and scientists have
done much for agriculture, yet the
farm itself has been a source from
which has come much that is wonder
full. Looking over the work done dur
i. G the past century, it may safely be
asserted that the animals of the farm
have been entirely changed in appear
ance and characteristics. 1t seems as
though man can control even the liv-
ing creatures and adapt them to his
purposes. The horses have been di
vided and classified to that extent as
to ender them dissimilar in many re
s3ects The thorough bred Gunner,
heavy draught P0Icheron and Clydes
dale), and the pony are adapted to
special purposes. Placed side by side,
the mcst mex Qerienced can notice the
diversity of forms. On the race course
the Clydesdale could make no competi
tion with the thorough bred, and for
heavy hauling on the roads the trotter
cannot compare with the Percheron.
Yet nearly all these breeds trace in
their pedigrees back to the Arabian,
but lreful selection has carried them
into different channels, altering their
forms and endowing them with certain
desirable traits.
Among cattle are found the Holstein,
Guernsey and Jersey, which have been
bred as producers of butter, the former
also standing high as mixers, along
with the Ayrshires, with the Short
horns. the Angus, Galloways and Here
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08

be entirely freed of weed seeds the
crops would not get cultivation enough
to secure their best growth.
It is thus that the benz fcence of ma
ture is vindicated in matter where,
on superficial thought, the farmer is
most apt to think that this feature of
natures operation is agaiL s. him. The
rain which makes the crops grow
makes weeds grow also. II the farmer
has been forehanded and killed all the
weeds as fast as they germinate, the
more weed seeds in his soil, the better
the crop will be,
Beans ID not require rich land, but
as the bean is lime crop, it demands
a soil which abounds in that material.
The idea that rich land produces beans
with all haulm but no pods Or grain
comes from planting the beans on
mucky loan, which is deficient in
phosphate of lime. O1 such land
dres sing Of 100 to $50 pounds of phos
phate per acre, drilled with the seed or
dropped in the hill, will prodIc9 an
enormous increase of the bean crop,
filing the vines with pods and the pods
with hagn7
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08
WEEKLY WEATHER CROP Bull
LETIN
For the Week Ending Saturday, Aug 20,
1906.
CENTRAL OFFICE, Raleigh, N. @.

CENTRAL OFFICE, Raleigh, N. @.
This week ending Saturday, August
%, 1896, produced no material change
IN the crop conditions. The weather
continued quite warm the first few
days, but following the rain on the
"a h, cooler weather set in, and Satur-
day was the coolest day of August
TIE rain fall was poorly distributed
more occurred on the "a h than any
other date; but ever large portions of
the State the drought really continues
unabated.
EASTERN DISTRICT. occurred
at good many points on the 24sh, and
III south portion also On the 25ta and
27ch, which benefited potatoes, peas,
rice and pea nuts. TIE northern por
ton is dry, and rain is needed at many
other points A cool waved prevailed
the latter part of the week. Old corn
Is fine and will soon be ready to gather
Cotton practically past improvement,
is about half open and being picked
rapidly. Where rains occurred many
turnips were planted. Much flooded
ground on R )anoke has been planted
IN peas for hay. Haying is progress
ing with favorable weather.
CENTRAL DISTRICT. Good rains &C
Cured at many points Oh the 24 b, but
large portions Of the district are still
81 If 9ring from drought. Cooler weather
last Of week very agreeable. The rain
and wind storm did some damage to
cotton in portions Of Richmond, Rock
ingham and Anson counties. Where
rain occurred late corn revived scm9
what, and potatoes and peas improved,
and some farmers were enabled to plant
turnip seed. Little or no improvement
II cotton, which looks dry and is no
longer growing. Picking is progress
ing il earnest. Fodder is nearly all
pulled, earliest ever known. Tobacco
cures thin, and what is left of that crop
seems very poor. Pea vine hay being
cut. Ground too dry for fall plowing.
WESTERN DISTRICT The Weat her
continued warm until the latter part Of
the week; drought still prevails, though
some favorable showers occurred on
the 245h, benefting late corn in the
west. Cotton picking has progressed
uuinteriuptedly; much shrinking in
s.z9 OF bolls as well as shedding occur
red, but some late cotton is reported as
blooming nicely. Fodder pulling is
still going on, and hay-making under
way. Considerable tobacco is still to
be cured. Sweet potatoes and field
peas fairly good; poor stand Of turnips.
Ground to dry at present to do fall
plowing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08
FARMS AND FARMERS

Milk stations are found at various
places in the cities of Chill. A cow is
tethered on q platform, and when
person wants drink of milk the cow
is MIXED to order. The cost is a TT. fl9,
and brandy is at hand if he prefers a
milk punch.
A Des Moines county farmer, who
shot several quail and had his wife cook
them, says their craws were stuffed
with chinch bugs, over 400 in the craw
of one quail. He put up and his gun
and don't shoot any more Of the bug
and worm destroyers.
A farmer from Pennsylvania tells
how easily he put his potatoes to good
use last winter. He was in Buffalo in
the fall and caught the sheep market
when it was down, and bought 400 good
Canada sheep at 65 cents a head. He
had 900 bushels of potatoes, which he
fed to the sheep, and they came out in
fine shape in the spring. He sent 211
to Pittsburg and they netted him 81 26
per head, clear Of all expense of freight,
commission, etc.
Last week TIE Farmers Voice pub
Iished a description of the smallest
horse in the world-Ruth, which weighs
thirty five pounds. Now New Y )rk
exchange says that the smallest living
equine in the world was born in Canaan
daigua last week. The colt weighed
only eight and one-halt pounds. The
Hgtle animal stands only eleven inches
high and measured eighteen inches
from tip Of nose to the end of it's tail
The mother of the colt is an Iceland
pony and belongs to Walter L. Mains
circus.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08

Every year as the threshing or gin
ming seas IN begins we hear Of engines
exploding or of other accidents. show
ing lack of care on the part of the en-
gineer. Too much care cannot be taken
to secure m9n who are thoroughly com
petent, men who will understand when
the engine becomes too old to be longer
sefe, which more often than anything
else is the cause of explosions. Many
steam engines rust out rather than
wear out, but are even more dangerous
ON that account.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08

After thorough investigation, Mr.. w.
B Snow, formerly assistant statistician
of the Department of Agriculture, est1-
mates the total number of sheep now
in the country at about $4,000, 900. If
this estimate is correct, the number of
sheep has declined over Is, ,27O, 900 in
three years. Il is not strange that the
value Of the wool and woolens imported
into the country increased $50, 900, 600
from 1894 to 1895 This implies the
Importance of more attention being
given to sheep raising.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08
HORTICULTURE

In bulletin No. of the West Vir-
ginia Experiment Station, which ia de-
voted to spraying, the reasons whv
spraying should be done are epitonaiz d
as follows:
Il is claimed that fruits formerly
needed none of the docCoring that
seems to be necessary now a days, vet
no one contends that wormy apples are
OF recent origin; epple scab, too, has
been marring these fruits for many
years.
While these enemies have existed for
years, remedies for them are compare
lively recent. AS long as there were
no means OF preventing their ravagee,
the fruit grower was compelled to
div d his profits with them, but now
that cheap and efficient remedies are
atour command, why should we longer
have the profits reduced? Spray them
AID increase the income from the fruit
plantation.
Besides the increase in the quantity
Of a crop IS a result of the use of the
spray, the quality of the product is
also enhanced. Even if the quantity
was not materially increased, more of
it will go in as number one, and conse-
queptIy a greater return will be real
ized.
A third and important consideration
to be kept in mind when spraying, is
the degree to which future depreda-
tions are being reduced. Each insect
killed might, If left alive, produce
many hundred descendants in the
course OF the season. The rate of in
crease Of some Of these destructive in
sects is almost beyond comprehension.
By preventing the growth and devel-
opment of this myriad of hungry in
sects the plant is relieved of a heavy
draught upon it's vital powers, The
energy which would have been used up
in maintaining itself against these enc
mics can Ee used to extend it's own or
ganism and to prepare itself mora per-
fectly to carry profitable crop of fruit.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-08
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
JUDICIARY.
g0RTE CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALL
ANCE.

President - DR.. Cyrus Thompson,
aichlaDds, '. Q.
Vice Prosident-Jno. Graham, Ridge
way, \. Q,
Sseretary-Treasuror-W. 8. Barnes,
HIlsboro, n. Q.
Lecturer. T. B. Hoover, Elm City,
n. Q.
s5eward-Dr. V. N. Seawen, Villa
Chapiain-Rev. P. Il. Massey, Dur
ham, II. @.
Door or-keeper-Geo. 7. Zane, Green's
bCrO, II. Q.
Assistant Door keeper-Jas. E. Lyon,
Durham, n. @.
Sergeant at -Arms-A. D. Z. Wallace,
RutherforIton, n. O.
State Business Agent-T. Ivey, Hills
boro, n. Q.
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W
{. Graham, Machpelah, n. 9.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE EORTE
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
a. +. Hileman, Concord, n. c.; n
Q. English, Trinity, n. O.; Jeues M.
MewbOrne, Kins on, n. G.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY OoMhITTEE
John Brady, Gatesville, n. c.; DR..
J.F. Harrell, Whiteville, II. O.; I. j.
Gambler. Acton. n. 9.
segkn Carolina Reform Press Association.
OnceTs-J L. Ramsey, President i;
zgt7Ttofg Butler, Vice. President; ". 8.
Barnes, Secretary,
PAPERS.
-ysz-as-5va Farmer. State OrzAn, Raleigh, N. Q.
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Small beginnings make better end
ings in the poultry business.
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rsK NATIONAL FARMERS ALL
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President - Mann Page, Brandon,
Va.
Vico-President-H. Q. snavely, Leb
anon, Pa.
Secretary -Treasurer-R. A. South
worth, Denver, Col.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
HI. Loucks, Huron, s. D.; W. P.
Bricker, Cogan Station, Pa. J. f. VIII.
let's, Kansas; W. L. Peeke, Ga.
JUDICIARY.
Z. &. Southworth, Denver, Colo.
z, ". Beck, Alabama.
s.. .. Davie, Kentucky.
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ssEEn Carolina Reform Press Association.
ORceTs-J. L. Ramsey, President;
sG8~tofg Butler, Vice President ". 8.
Barnes, Secretary,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-24
A Transformation.

The effect of European clothing upon
japanese women is quite remarkable,
for whenever it is adopted modern man
ners and customs usually go with it.
The educated Japanese say that when a
native woman adopts modern dress she
insists upon the same treatment and
courtesies that her sisters III Europe re-
ceive. 1t is curious fact that when a
woman is dressed in the Japanese cos
tune her husband always precedes her
when entering a room or in walking the
streets and treats her as Japanese hus-
bands generally treat their wives-that
is, like servants. But when the Same
woman puts on modern dress the condi-
tons are reversed. Her husband pays
her the same Difference that European
and American husbands show their
wives and recognizes her as an equal
Therefore dress reform has had power
full influence in the advancement of
Japanese women, and those who have
embraced Christianity and are laborins
for the emancipation Of their sex arc all
working quietly, zealously and effective
~ to promote the reform that is going
Oh in the home and the wardrobe. Chi
cagO Record.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-24
New Point In Court Etiquette.

Miss Mary Philbrook, New Jerseys
first woman lawyer, was in the chancery
chambers in Jersey City few days ago
to make a motion concerning the fore
closure of a mortgage. Ali the other
lawyers present had their hats off, and
Miss Philbrook was in doubt as to
whether she ought to take hers off, too,
out Of respect to the court.
To settle the point she walked up
close to the bench and asked Chancellor
McGill in a stage whisper if she was
obliged to remove her hat. The chan
cellor looked amused and with a smile
said:
"Oh, no, it is not necessary. Proceed
with your notion
Miss Philbrook made her motion
tersely and with the utmost self posses
sion. The chancellor reserved decision.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-24
Special Taxation Notice.

Notice il hereby gwen to all persons inter-
est d, that the City council OF the CITY Of Hock
Island having ordered that sidewalks be con.
structed in the city OF kock Island, Illinois, in
the -ixth ward thereof.
Said ordnance for sid improvement is
on file IN the Office OF the city clerk Of
said city. ard said city hiss applied TO
the county court of kock Island county.
Illirois. for assessment and levy OF the
costs OF said improvement upOn and from the lots
and parts OF lots and tracts o! Ian contiguous
he line Of said Improvement in said ordinance
'rdered to be constructed. in proportion to The
feuu iagc of such lots parts Of lott and tracts of
land upon the improvement so tered to be con-
strucicd a. aforesaid: and an assessment thereof
having been made and returned to SAID court. the
final hearing thereon will be had at the February
term Of said c urt, 90 nmercing on the 3 l
day Of February, a. d., 1886.
All persons des'iug may then and there appear
and make their defense.
Dated at Rock Island this go day Of January
A. d., 1856. LEO j. DfIsrNBoTa,
JoHS It. STAFFORD,
NJ II. MccARTHY.
Commits oncrs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-24
Mary A. Liyeruore.

Mrs. Mary A. Livermore celebrated
her seventy fifth birthday very quietly
at Melrose Oh Dec. 10. She had a bad
cold and was confined to her room most
of the day. She received many congratu-
lations by letter and telegraph and
many presents. In the evening she made
an address in the First Universalist
church at Lynn, "a Dream of Tomor-
row." AT the close of the lecture sho
held brief reception and received
the congratulations of many friends. A
formal celebration took place at Salem
on Dec. %, when Mrs. Livermore was
the guest ut the Thought and Work club.
Mrs. Livermore at IS is fuller Of power
than any young woman in Massachu-
sets. May she see many happy returns
OF the day Boston Woman's Journal.