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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09
pcbblelikc beans.

A curious case Of "mimicry" Ia.
been noticed on the coast near Manila,
III the Philippine islands. The seeds oi
bean fall ancng quartz pebbles, ard
so closely rest mble them IN shape, size,
color, lUster, hardness and STRAIT ficatiCu
as to be distiEguishablc from them only
by very close examination. The beans
range from a third of an inch to an inch
III size, and vary greatly in shape also,
some resembling well rounded beach
pebbles and others mimic pebbles ,Ea,
have been broken across. The cclcl
varies from dark to light dgab, some
with grcenish tinGe, while others re-
scmble pebbles Of chalcedony or crystal.
hzed quartz. Nearly all show series
OF dark bands, suggestive cf s,ra;iiica-
ton. All are hard, and cIink when
shaken Observation-Disclosures Demo, raj
and Chronicle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09

From letter written by Rev. j.
Gunderman, of Dimoudale. Mich. we
are permitted to make this extract:
81 have no hesitation in recommend
ing DIR. Kings New Discovery. as the
results are almost marvellous in the
case of my wife. While | was pastor
OF the Baptist church at Rives June
ton she was brought down with
pneumonia succeeding la grippe
Terrible paroAysms of coughing
would last hours with little Interrupt
ton. and it seemed as il she could
not survive them. 4 friend recon-
mended DR.. Kings New Discovery:
1t was quick in its work and highly
satisfactory in results" Trial bot
ties free at Hartz & Ullemeyer's drug
store. Regular size Soc and 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09
Bncklou's Arnica S0IvO

The best solve in the world for
cuts. bruises. srres, ulcers, salt
rbeum. fever sores. letter. chspped
hands. ch;lblains, corns and ali skin
eruptions. and positivei! cures
piles or no pay required. II 10 guas-
sntssd to give perfect satisfaction, OF
money refunded. Price 20 oeuts per
box Por sale by IIsg:H 4 Ciicmeyer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09
DON'T KICK.

She did not, but she enters a Wig.
orous protest and justly claims that
an insult written or printed is
equally as Objectionable as one
spoken. She thinks it about time
all possible steps were taken to wipe
out this growing nuisance, and APP
propos of this the St. Louis Star pro-
poses to give ST. Louis women an
opportunity to express their senti-
ments upon the novelty button.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09
Very Low hates.

Very low rates will be made BY the
Missouri. Kansas Il Texas railway.
for excursions OF August 1 aud Is,
September l. ID and 20, to the south,
for home seekers and barvesters.
For particulars. apply to the neares,
local sgent or address H. A. Cher.
rier. sic Marquette building, Chi
cago, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09
TIE Tri-City Championship.


The pleasant effect and perfect
safety with which ladies NAV use
Syrup of Figs under all conditions
makes it their favorite remedy. To
get the true and genuine article,
look for the name Of the California
Fig Syrup company. printed near the
bottom of the package. For sale by
all responsible druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09
Caught.

Bobby Cat the breakfast table)-
Maud, did Mr.. Jones take any Of the
umbrellas or hats from the hall last
night:
Maud-Why. Of course not Why
should he:
Bobby-That's just what I'd like to
know. thought h" did. because heard
him say when h Was going Out. I'm
going to steal j-.>t ore. and Why,
what's the matter, Maud:-Wontr,al
Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09
DON'T CHEW THE RAG.

With cheeks flushed with indigns-
tion. the woman accepted u seat CT
fered her by gentleman, and Just
as she sat down her eyes encoun-
tered on the lapel of the coat of the
individual who occupied the other
hall OF the seat the following lines OF
his novelty button:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09
l AN IN LOVE. ARE YOU.

Standing Immediately in front Of
her, where she could not fail be see.
was portly individual, who chung
desperately to a strap. From the
lapel OF his coat blazed out the fol-
lowing:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09

At NJ. F. Bahnsen's drug store, q
marvellous cure for sill kidney COM
plants, nervous exhaustion and fe-
male weakness. 1t is Foley's Kid
MY Cure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09
HOW IS YOUR LIVER:

Passing through the crowded car
her eyes next encountered, upon n
well-dressed man, the following sug-
gestive sentiment:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09

No family should be without Fo-
ley's Collie Cure for all bowel com.
plants. Sold by III. Z. Bahnsen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09

To cap the climax. just as the
woman was alightiug from the car.
her eyes met the following inscrip.
ton upon a novelty button:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09
To Cure u Cold in One Dav

Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tab.
let's. All druggists refund the
money II 1t fails to cure. Is cents
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09

will replace free all work that
have done during the past 10 years
that is not satisfactory.
G. NJ. BABCocK.
1875 Second avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-09

LET'S GET MARRIED. JUST FOR FUN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
HOG CHOLERA.

Hog cholera or swine plague is re
ported as carrying away several very
fine punches of pigs this fall, and some
complaint is being heard as to the dis
posal Of the carcasses. Some farmers
have been so careless as 10 permit them
to decay where the animals died. The
law in this State upon this point is very
strict and she uld be enforced. Some
of these careless swine breeders claim
the disease is not contagious. As an
instance of the manner in which swine
plague or cholera is carried from farm
to farm, q breeder informed the writer
that he had not had the cholera on his
farm but once in a long period, and
this time it killed a SOW and litter. She
had been permitted to farroW in the
woods. One day the owner went out
to where she was, and he found her
eating a piece of a hog that had Gied of
cholera or a neighboring farm, and the
piece had been carried into the woods
by a dog and buried. The hog scented
it and dug it up. She took cholera and
died, as likewise did the pigs. 1t is
best to burn the carcasses, or bury
them very deep.-Farmer's Guide.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08

one pounds is the number to each
superficial foot.
Again, suppose a pig or any small
animal should two feet in
girth and two feet along the back,
which multiplied together make four
square feet; that multiplied by eleven
the number of pounds allowed for
each Fq1are foot of cattle measuring
less than three feet in girth-makes
forty,four pounds. Again, suppose a
calf or sheep should measure four feet
six inches In girth and three feet nine
inches in length, multiplied together
make sixteen and one half square feet,
that multiplied by sixteen-the mum
Der of pounds allowed to all cattle
measuring less than five and more than
three feet in girth-makes 264 pounds.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
RAISE MUTTON e

The time was when ever in the East,
sheep could be probably kept for their
wool alone, says J.. s: Woodward, in
Practical Farming.
When the average annual receipt for
the fleece ran from 81 so to So, and
even more, there was money in sheep
merely as wool producers, but when it
comes to getting only from so to rs
cents per head for the wool, sheep
must be abandoned, or the owner must
look for the profit to come from some
other source.
A careful study of the meat market
to see what kinds of meat our people
now eat, will show a great change over
a Of years ago. Then but little
mutton comparatively was eaten.
Now the quantity is enormous, and is
becoming each year larger and larger,
and Notwithstanding the food of sheep
being crowded upon the market, the
price of mutton is higher than any
other kind Of meat, and it is all readily
taken. The fact is mutton is the best
and most healthy of all animal meat
foods, and u people are taking read
lily to mutton. With this demand con
stantly growing, flock owners should
not get discouraged. What they should
do is to study the markets and the
signs of the times and cater to them.
Once meat could not be made too fat
for the market. Our ancestors were
an out Of door working people, and as
such required fat meat, and had learned
to love such, and it takes a long time
to bring about a change in the habits
Of any people. It was a common sight
each holiday season to see animals so
loaded with fat they could hardly walk,
bedecked with gaudy ribbons, parading
the streets with bands of music, adver-
tising the folly of some man in wasting
time and valuable food in producing
those overloaded monsters, but that
meat when put upon the block sold al
extravagant prices. But that has be
come ancient history.
Now it is the lean, tender, medium
sized animals that command the high
est price and readiest sale. To day
steers not I'VE two years old, and
sheep or lambs one year old or under,
but plump and tender, are sought
after. 1t is lean meat, tender and
juicy, that is now wanted, and such
meat can always be sold, and at pay
ing prices, and if our flock owners will
raise this class of sheep, they need not
depend upon the wool market for
profit.
Nor need they have any fear for the
future of the sheep industry. What the
American farmer should strive to
know, is how to grow this class of
sheep SO as to put them in the market
at the earliest age and at the very least
cost
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
LIVE STOCK.
BRRTS o Fed.

No other kind of root is so greedily
eaten by pigs as the beet. 1t may not
have so much nutrition as the potato,
but what it has is sweet, and therefore
palatable. Even the fattening hogs
will eat some beets every day, and
should have them. But their best use
is as green feed for soWs that are Civ
ing milk, and which do not have the
run of alfalfa. 1t will increase the
quantity greatly, but it will need some
grain feed with it to keep the SOW thus
fed from losing fash too rapidly. It is
expected, of course, that the SOW will
grow poor while sucking her young,
but if this goes too far her value as a
breeder is lessened, and the next litter
of pigs will be deficient either in num-
Der or vigor and size = Field and Farm.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
,,NezTPRRsoNALLY CONDUCT
RDTOURIST EXCURSIONS TO
CALIFORNIA WITHOUT
CHANGE OF CARS.

Leaving Washington, D. G., satur
dav. November 14th, and every Satur
dav thereafter, the Southern Railway
Piedmont Air Line) and Sunset Route
will operate Personally Conducted
Tourist Excursions to San Francisco,
Cal, without change of cars, conduct
ors or porters. The route is through
Atlanta, Montgomery, New Orleans.
Houston, San Antonio. New Mexico,
Arizona and Southern California. The
cars are the very latest pattern OF Pull
man Tourist Sleeper, beds equal to
those of any standard sleeper, lunch,
Iavatory (private apartment for ladies'
and toilet facilities of the most approved
style. Three and one-half days to New
Mexico and Arizona, four days to Los
Angeles and Southern California, and
five days to San Francisco Portland,
Oregon, through the semi tropical gar
den of the South, and via picturesque
Mt. Shasta in seven days, with only
one change of cars. Tacoma and
Seattle, Washington, the afternoon of
the seventh day. Such service end
facilities for transcontinental travel
have never before been offered. The
tourist car fare, So, to San Francisco
and intermediate points, and railroad
fare the same as any other line, effect
ing a saving of $25 to $50. For further
information and reservation inquire of
any Southern Railway Agent or A. J.
Poston, General Agent, 511 Pennsyl
vania Avenue, Washington, D. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
TWO LITTERS OF PIGS EACH
YEAR,

In the handling of brood sows the
farmer should look upon them as the
manufacturer looks upon his machin-
cry; that unless it is in motion it is
losing him money constantly. If the
brood SOW is not at work she is even
more costly than idle machinery, for
besides the capital invested she is con
stantly consuming food without giving
a return. When but one litter is grown
each year the SOW is a losing expense
six months of the year. There is six
months keeping that must be charged
against her for which the farmer
never gets an adequate return. Under
this management the one litter pro
two should cost, when the farmer first
counts them. It has not yet appeared
that the single litter at narrowing time
or in their after development is worth
as much as two. SO far as our expert
ence goes, we expect nothing better in
quality by the single litter plan than
We expect from two litters There is
so much against the single litter plan
that we are very much in doubt
whether the farmer can practice it
with profit. 1t happens some times
with any grower that from some cause
or other a SOW will lose her litter. In
this case she must be kept two years
for me litter, and when the keeping of
the SOW Is charged against that litter,
N the present low price of pork is
considered, it will be found to have
cost too much.
The demand is for a small hog a,,cb
as can be produced by the two litter a.
year plan; and the growing Of n litter
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
ESTIMATING WEIGHT OF STOCK

The following rules may be applied
to estimate the weight of live animals.
In measuring a beef steer take a string,
says Montana Stockman, put it around
the animal, standing square, just be-
hind the shoulder blade Measure on
q foot rule the feet and inches the ami
NAL is in circumference. This is called
the girth. Then with the string meas
ure from the bones of the tail which
plumbs the line with the hinder part
of the bullock; direct the line along
the back to the fore part of the shout
der blade. Take the dimensions on the
foot rule as before, which is the length.
Work the figures in the following
manner: Girth of the bullock, six feet
four inches; length, five feet three
inches, which multiplied together
make thirty one square superficial feet,
that multiplied by twenty -three-the
number of pounds allowed to each
superficial foot Of cattle measuring
less than seven and more than five FEEL
in girth-makes 713 pounds. Whert
the animal measures less than nine ant
more than seven feet in girth, thirty
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
SHEEP FOR EXPORT.

The expectation of sheep from the
farm or ranch where they are fed is
nov a common occurrence, and a large
number have been sent to English
markets by feedersIthis winter and last.
The sheep exported by feeders are
mainly fed Westerns, and an account
of a recent shipment will give some
idea Of the business. The sheep, 30, 900
head, were bought in Idaho and shipped
by rail to Nebraska, billed through to
Chicago with the privilege of stopof to
~tatten, which privilege costs $40 per
car. They cost weighed off the cars at
feeding station 81 rs per 100 pounds,
including freight paid to Chicago, and
averaged 100 pounds. Here they were
fed a mixture of corn and oats with
upland prairie hay, corn costing 16
cents, oats Is cents and hay 50 SO.
They are now being exported in lots of
1000 head to London via Chicago and
Baltimore.
The total cost from Chicago, to which
point freight had been paid IN advance,
to the London buyer is 50 Is per head,
including 81 A ocean freight, remain
der for feed, attention, insurance, com
mission and other expenses. On ar
rival at London, where sheep must be
slaughtered within 10 days after ar
rival, they are sold on the basis of esti
mated dressed weight, and bring from
S. to IS per head, according to the
state of the market. The loss in tran
sit is usually not heavy, a recent ship
ment of 1000 head showing a loss of
only one sheep from Nebraska to Lon
don, but this was below the average.
The English market Of late has not
been in a very satisfactory condition,
and the export business has not been
as brisk as was anticipated earlier.
The home market has also been disap
pointing to feeders, prices for fat sheep
being too close to the prices which
feeders had to pay for their stock to
make feeding a very profitable bust
ness. -National Stockmsn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
RHBUM ACIDB

Is curing g, larger per cent of asses than anv
otler remedy. Il is a thorough blood purifier
aGd laxative. It is a constitutional cure. and
effects its work by neutraIizinq the acids IN the
oiood and driving them out of the system. Be-
gig IN time as delays are dangerous.
~ For sale by druggist. genersIIv. prica s1
per bottle; six for SIS. "o~
p 81 Il y99nFF nearest druggist has not got
manufacturers, 4"0 =" AiOm UHe
The s0ss!!T DRUG CO., Raleigh, NC,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
HORTICULTURE
WHO SHOULD GROW BRRRIRs7

That is the question asked by NJ A.
Thayer, the famous berry raiser of
Sparta, Wis and by him answered as
follows:
First of all, farmers everywhere, for
family use. Farmers must Der
ries or do without. No one can grow
them so cheaply as he. They may be
produced ready for picking. at two
cents per quart. The farmer saves
cost of picking, packing, boxing, crat
ing, freight, express and profits of
growers. He gets them at first cost,
fresh from the vines, and to the extent
of his W family, has the best market
in the world-a home market. He
can select the best land and location on
his own farm, and is sure of a profit
with half a crop.
Farmers can never have ideal homes
without the fruit garden. 1t teaches
the lessons of intensified farming, and
results in better tillage, larger crops
better stock and improved methods in
every way. Good gardens and poor
farms never keep company long.
The growing of berries for family
use is easily done. The growing of
berries largely, and selling them in
good market, requires considerable
skill and a special business tact. Only
those who have g~oodbocation, goodman
ket and a taste for the business should
attempt it. Many small farmers so
situated are making a success by COM
mencing moderately and Increasing
acreage from season to season as expe-
rience warrants.
Berries should be grown by owners
of all village homes, and acreage prop
erty in city and village may be profit
ably used for that purpose.
The market gardener selling his own
products can often make an acre Ct
two of berries very profitable. They
are suitable companions for their veget-
able friends, and sell we'll together.
The business or professional man,
almost broken with care, may recover
health and strength in the pleasant
walk of horticulture. It is restful to
both mind and body.
Many women dependent on their
own Efforts are securing substantial
aid from their garden; berries and
flowers thrive best under the gentle
touch Of women.
Many a bright boy may receive hia
first incentive to business and earn his
first money by growing berries OF
vegetables Give them q patch OF
ground and encourage them in this
! work.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08

to greater weight will not justify the
adoption of the single litter plan, but
rather the increased cost of the large
animal. and the discount in price on
account of his size should condemn the
practice. Growers talk of two litters
a year.. Yet but few of them a make
the average. It requires that the pigs
be weaned younger than most farmers
care to take the pains to accomplish
successfully. The average al be made
80 close that it is the accepted terms.
When soWs are bred for but one litter
each year they r often hard to con
troll when in heat, and some times be-
come breachy and ungovernable. And
when they come to this, quality will
not save them from being condemned
to be fattened for market. And, again,
there al hardly be a doubt but that
sows producing only n litter each
year are neglected much of the time
and not kept in condition to produce
that single litter in best form. It is
our practice when we. select a herd of
brood sows to keep them till they are
six or seven years old. At this age
their teeth fail them, and they must be
marketed. We have them as nearly
as possible produce two filters each
year. If they produced but one litter
they would not be valuable at a much
greater age. Nor do we think that the
average number of pigs saved per litter
would be any greater if they only pre-
duced a single litter per year.
We find that soWs past two years old
give the largest average number of
pigs. We have not been able to get as
large an average from a lot of young
sows as we have from the old ones;
and, besides this, the old sows are
much more easily handled. It is the
practice when growing two filters a
year, if a SOW loses a litter, to defer
breeding again till time to bring the
next in regular course. This RI quires
that the SOW be kept half a year with
out return. Would it not be more
profitable for the farmer to arrange to
care for a litter or two out of the regu
lar time, whether winter or summer,
and keep the sows at work. Instead
of selling two crops of hogs each year,
why not sell three Dr. more, yet at the
same time putting the main depend.
ence in the two filters a year9 1t is
claimed some times by the single-litter
advocates that young sows should be
used each time, and as they are con
stantly growing toward market at Is
to Is months old, tho one litter of pigs
they produce costs comparatively
nothing. Considering the misfortunes
that come to young sows with their
first litter, the claim we believe to be a
very expensive one to those who put it
in practice. -Prairie Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
FINE O%VERCOA7ST.


~ You are free-liberated from
the thraldom of exorbitant prices
emancipated from your dependence
upon merchant tailors. Persistent
perseverance has brought US to the
perfection that knows no peer. No
form, 60 taste, no fashion can exact
beyond the ability of our stock of
winter weight O~Vercoats to satisfy.
We have grown gray in the school
of experience. Graduated masters
of the art, leaders of the profession,
pioneers in the new field OF ready-to-