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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

ley, But last year the American farmer
exported 2. $50, 331 bushels of barley,
while but 837, 3S4 bushels were i'm
ported. On corn Mr.. Dingley favors
a tariff of Is cents a bushel. How this
will swell the Golfers of the farmer is
shown by the fact that in 1896 339
bushels were imported, while we sent
out to the hungry world SO, 992, 1876
bushelsl And oats must be protected,
too, or the first thing we know we shall
be feeding our live stock on stuff grown
by those dreaded foreign paupers. Last
year we were overwhelmed with i'm
portations, amounting to AZ, sos bush
els, while we exported the insignificant
bagatelle of 1902 $50 bushele7 And
rye: we are menaced with q repetition
of last years awful experience, when
154 bushels of rye were shipped into
country while the unconscious victims
slept. But Mr.. Dingley hestens to the
rescue with a tariff of 10 cents bUshel
on rye, SO that the American farmer,
WIZ "a PO1gSO 700 3OO Dusu0iS, ulaS AOG
again be in danger of complete com
mercial annihilatioD
Nor is the dairy man forgotten.
There were exported 10 37S. .913 pounds
of butter last year, and foreigners sue.
ceeded in getting into this country 3d..
067 pounds of the product of their pau
per COWS. Hereafter 6 cents a pound
will serve to check this disastrous
food.
To summarize: the total value of i'm
ports for 1896 of barley, corn, oats,
wheat, rye, potatoes, -four and butter
aggregated 81, ,861, 553, while the exports
foot up the magnificent total of $139,
923. $50. With exports exceeding i'm,
ports by nearly 100 times, how can an
import duty help the farmer7 And if
this measure succeed in creating a
spirit of retaliation which will result in
lesseniDg the export trade. who may
estimate the injury it may do to our
agricultural interestsi-The Farmers
Vice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
GROWING FIELD PEAS.

Considering the ease and certainty
with which the pea crop may be grown,
it is surprising that it is not more sOwn
than it is. Field peas will yield 20 to
80 bushels per acre on good land. If
grown with oats, so as to keep the vines
from falling on the ground and mil
dewing, the forage makes valuable
feed for COWS, sheep or horses in win
ter. The pea straw is very rich in
qitrogeuous matter, thus making a
good and cheap supplementary Eood
with corn stalks, either cured and dried
or made into silage. The pea grain is
the bost early feed for hogs. II is the
best of all grains topromote growth of
frame, as the pea contains both lime
and nitrogenous or muscle forming
matter. The peas are often sown with
the expectation that they will be har.
vested by hogs. This may seem to be
wasteful, as more or less of the peas
will be trodden into the soft soil. But
if the hogs are left with their noses free
to root very few peas will escape their
search. The pea crop to be thus har
vested is especially adapted to growing
in orchards, as the nitrogenous fertility
will constantly increase under this
management. The soil will also be
kept loose so that it will fill with moist
ure, and the pea vines in summer will
shade the soil and prevent evaporation,
thus retaining water that the soil has
received in winter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
THREE SUCCESSFUL FARMERS

'Ihree Of the best farmers in Illinois"
says the Chicago Times, Herald, ''are
women, and they own three Of the
finest farms in the state. They are the
Misses Gillett-Nina, Amy, and Jesse
each Of whom owns and manages a
farm six times as large as Lincoln
Park, and their farms are said to be
the largest operated by unmarried
girls. For miles around Elkhart stretch
the lands which they manage, and al
though by their efforts the work has
been 80 well systematized that they
are able to spend a few months each
year in Europe, California, or Mexico,
nothing of any consequence is done
without their approval and advice.
''The fact that their farms are so
good is due in great part to the per
sonal attention which they give to their
lands. Each is practical agricultur
ist. and by their efforts they have
greatly increased the value Of their
lands since they first assumed personal
direction Of them. During the spring
and early summer they are on their
farms with no thought of Paris, think
ing only of their crops. Up and at
work, sometimes as searly as five o'clock
in the morning, few would recognize
the dashing bellies of London, Paris, or
Washington in the farmers who ride
thirty or forty miles day over their
farms inspecting the work of their
men and giving advice and direc
tions."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
AGRICULTURE.

Do not expect to grow healthtul trees
= a long number of years on the same
OF of ground, without adding soma
rtility to the soil.
The superiority of beef breeds Of ami
ala appears to be largely due to their
ndency to mature early, and to pro
ice beef of high quality.
Quite as important as the farmers
lergy aud muscle are his Wife's brains
IA good sense. Many a stupid farmer
ls been pushed into success by a
nart, an ubitious wife.
Combine bee keeping with fruit
owing, and you can more easily pro
Ire two crops from the same land ;
ID this double cropping requires no
tditiOnal fertihzing, is not exhaustive,
mands no extra plowing or cultiva
IN. Few crops ask so little outlay as
e honey crop.
When the farmer has the product of
G corn field in his silo he holds the
ork Of feeding in the palm of his hand,
1t we're 1t certainly seems that the
advantages and impractica5le fea
res of the todder-feeding question on
large scale are by the siIo almost
holly overcome.
10 be effective mineral menures for
ring and summer crops must be ap-
led early. They need some Of the
ring rains to dissolve the fertilizer so
at the plant roots can make use of it.
3sides, as weather and soil become
arm and dry there is less need of the
rtllfzer, as the soil itself releases more
lts own fertility under such condi
)ns.
One million ~dozan eggs were i'm
rted into the United States last year.
rs would indicate that the American
is not doing her duty, or rather
at the owners of the American her
s.e not feeding her up to the point
lere she can do her duty. Hens
LIST have a variety of feed or they
BiIl not Law half as many eggs as they
I'M nnder proper conditiG;7s.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
IMPROVING THR SOIL.

A writer in an exchange speaks very
decidedly against buying poor land,
and this ia all right if good soil is in
reach of the mans pocketboCk; but
the satisfaction of owning the soil and
being out of debt will compensate
man for a good deal Of labor, patience
and study in improving poor soil,
There is no soil upon which anything
has ever grown, that cannot be made
again productive.
Much judgment must be used in
such cases. The man must throw
aside the idea that the farm on which
he was raised Or has worked for years
is the standard and that soil which will
not produce the same crops with the
same treatment is poor soil.
Any man should be able to tell
whether or not the soil needed drain
ing, and if it does the operation is very
simple and less expensive than clearing
the rocks from some fields. In sCme
cases soils that will produce nothing Of
value are fitted for almost any crop by
simply taking out the surplus water.
In direct contrast with these we find
dry, sandy arc as some of which have
been brought as near to ruin as human
ingenuity could place them, by deep
ploWing when that was believed to be
the cure for all deficiencies. What
such soils need is shallow blowing and
the soil below where the plow goes kept
as hard as can be. A dressing of clay,
fine loam or coal ashes would improve
the texture of such soil, but where this
is too expensive any kind OF manure
may be plowed in and turnips, clover,
rye or any other crop that will grow
there sown and fed off by sheep or
Young stock. This method will leave
the fertility on the field, pack the soil
down and fill it with vegetable matter.
The avidity with which laying hens
will eat crushed egg shells shows no"
necessary they are in the hens econ
omy for egg production. There is no
better way to supply lime required for
egg shells than this. The shells in the
gizzard also act as grit, enabling it to
digest food. The only care in feeding
is to crush the shell thoroughly, so that
it's likeness to the egg may not be seen.
Where egg shells are thrown out with
out being crushed, the fowls soon learn
the habit of picking at the shells on
eggs, and from this they quickly be-
come egg eaters, a habit which once
formed is never forgotten.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
DINGLRY AND THE FARMER

The humorous element in the Ding
ley tariff bill now being considered by
the United States Senate is now related
perhaps more directly to the farmer
than to any other class for it is a pal
pable attempt to curry favor with the
agriculturiet without helping him or
taking away from any other portion of
the community, thing which cannot
be said of the bill in it's relation to the
manufacturer. Indeed, the Dingley
bill, in so far as it may affect the
American farmer helpfully is go much
cheap buncombe, and that the egricul
tural classes will be taken in by so pal
pable trick is not to be believed for q
moment. In view Of the plain and un
mistakable statement Of the oranges
OF the country to the fleet that an inn
port tariff, high or low, could not bene-
fit the farmer, Mr.. Dingley's insistance
upon his ill conceived measure is hardly
consistent with his professions.
A glance at the statement of exports
and imports Issued by the Treasury
Department indicates how one sided an
affair the high duty tariff is. Mr.. Ding
ley, with a great flourish of trumpets,
proclaiming his undYing loyalty to the
American farmer, puts a duty of 80
cents bushel on barley, to protect the
farmer from the cheap Europeon bar
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
FARMERS.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
We, members of the Border Alliance,
were so we'll pleased with the gentle
man who made US the speech of well
come In behalf of the citizens of OK
ford, that we voted him q judge.
Where is he noWR A paid attorney for
the DukeF; at least he resigned his
judgeship for that purpose.
A small crop of tobacco will be
planted in Alamance. But the destruc-
tion of the tobacco crops in Cuba and
the PHILIPPINE Islands may somewhat
stimulate the market and cause a larger
planting than is now intended, as plants
are plentiful.
The tobacco market now shows a
slight upward tendency, the weed
selling for double what it did few
weeks ago. Is there any other com
modify that varies SO much In priceY
Can any means be devised to make the
tobacco market more steady9 II any.
one knows of any plan, means or way,
let US hear from them through The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
The late cold spell has nearly de
stroyed the fruit crop in AIRmance.
Few cherries, peaches, pears or plums
are left. A few apples still remain,
but the shedding, or dropping in May
will be great. The grape crop is also
injured. Beans and early corn was
killed to the ground in many places.
Farmers are well advanced in corn
planting. A large crop of sorghum
will be planted and a greater effort
than usual made to raise all home sup
plies. The prospects for good crop
Of wheat and oats is unusually fine.
Chicken cholera in this section has
prevailed to some extent. It was caused
by neglecting the roosts, letting the
hens become infested with vermin dice
and red mitee). and feeding upon whole
corn. To prevent cholera, provide dry
roosts, keep them clean from the drop
pings, oil the roosting poles with kero
sene. Whitewash the hen houses, place a
leaf Of tobacco in the bottom OF each
nest. This will prevent lice. To cure
cholera, kill all the fowls, either chick
ems, turkeys or guinea fowls that will
not eat their food, and either burn their
dead bodies up or bury. them deeply in
the ground. Separate all the sick ones
from those that are we'll, Give them
variety of food, mixed with common
salts, and small quantity of carbolic
acid in their drinking water, and pro
vide plenty OF coarse sand or gravel
for their walks. Do this and some of
your chickens that are sick may get
well, and the disease by care may be
eliminated from your fowls. Ny read
ers will please excuse my again bring
ing to this notice the simple remedy of
using salts Gor claim the credit of
first bringing it to the notice of the
public through the columns of THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER several years
ago (some time prior to the expert
ments made at the Agricultural Sta
tioD). B. +. WHITE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
RESOLUTION.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. @.

April 80, 1897.
At a call meeting of the Moore
County Farmers Alliance, which met
on March 4th, the following resOlu-
tion was adopted, w:
WHEREAS, Tie shoe factory at Hills
boro, a project of the State Alliance,
is now idle for the want of the required
funds to carry on the bushes; and,
whereas, the sum OF $4,000 still re-
mains in the hands of our Trustee Of
the Business Agency fund. and we see
no disadvantage in using said fund for
running the shoe factory, therefore,
ReSOIUed. That we recommend that
our State Executive Committee draw
the necessary funds to start the fac
tory without delay. ]. H. TYSON,
[sEAL Secretary Treasurer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

Permanent Improvement of the farm
is half the profit. So long as the farm
is growing better, the owner need not
complain, even though his bank &C
count fails to grow. In the long run it
will pay better to neglect the bank &C
count than the farm. When farm and
stock are at their best, then it is soon
enough to invest the surplus elsewhere
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
No. IA
POULTRY YARD
THE VALUE OF GREEN FOOD.

Birds are now running out and the
close confinement OF the long winter
months is at an end. Unless precau-
tions were taken last fall to SOW your
yards with rye, they will look from
morning until night for what they
most need, and that is green food. Bare
yards are not inviting at any season,
and more especially is this true in these
early spring days.
Too much grain, too much meal and
too much of all fattening foods have
been given during the cold months. A
little extra green food is what your
layers need, and also what your males
need to make them more vigorous and
put them in better general health.
Search your cellars for what you may
have left over-potatoes, apples,
turnips, cabbage, anything that is
green will be most acceptable to your
feathered pets.-Country Gentleman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
MISSOURI FRUIT PRODUCTION.

Statement showing the number of
acres in apple and peach orchards, and
estimated production of fruit for the
year 1897, in the great fruit growing
district of South Missouri, on the line
of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Memphis Railroad, Springfield to
Thayer, inclusive:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

We once knew good farmer who
when he found toad on any part Of
his farm, took pains to catch it and re-
move it to his garden. He said that in
this way his garden became so stocked
with toads that they destroyed thou
sands of insects with no cost or trouble
to himself. It is a very interesting
sight to see the toad helping himself to
insects. Sluggish as he appears when.
ever an insect comes within reach OF
his long tongue, it is darted out and
that insect is seen no more. They will
eat potato bug larva, but we never saw
them attack the malodorous bugs that
attack melons, equashes and cucum'
bers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

The February report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, makes the num-
Der of mich COWS 13, 942, 900, valued at
$23 Is, and Of other cattle, 80, 5G9 600,
of average value of SIG 81. The total
is less. By more than five million, than
was reported in the census made six
years ago.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

The COWS, pigs, and hens should
clothe the family and pay taxes and
grocery bills; also, in this way man
may begin on a run, down farm, and by
a wise and careful use of the barn
manure, helped out by little fertilizer,
can keep the farm continually improv-
ing. Let him be sure his stock is good
stock
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
JUDICIARY.
,p4s7 .lARoLINA FARMERS STATE ALI
ANCE.

yRTs ,EARoLIEA FARMERS STATE ALI
ANCE.
President - DR.. Cyrus Thompson,
ichlands, Y. Q.
Vice President-Jno. Graham, Ridge
ssscretsTy- g.: ret II -Treasurer-w. 8. Barnes,
TtsgTIT5 TsctarerIJ. 7. B. Hoover, Elm City,
sseward-Dr. Y. N. seawell, Villa
jS' jCb'agiain-Rev. P. Fl. Massey, Dur
Do Door,keeper-Geo. T. Lane, Greens
ro, \. Q.
Assistant DOR keeper-Jas. E. Lyon,
Urban, y. Q.
Sargean -Arms-A. D. z. Wallace,
utherfor ton, n. O.
State Business Agent-T. 1vey, Hills
-lro, n. Q.
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W.
3, Graham, Machpelah, n. =.
1eCUTTvE COMMITTEE or THE NORTH
AB0LIEA FARMERS STATE ALLAAECE.
AT. Hileman, Concord. N. c.; n.
English, Trinity, N. c.; James M.
ewbOrne, Kins on, n. ..
ATE AbllAHCE JUDICIARY CoMMTTTEE.
John Brady, Gatesville, N. g.; DR..
T. Harrell, Whiteville, n. O.; I. j.
Gndler. Acton. n. Q.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

Greene..... sUB 600 1900 500 500 37.esO
Webster -. 7OCO 500 1900 100 6OOOO 1900
wright...... 1000 1890 900 800 10000 1880
Texas ...... $500 1000 900 1000 80 600 112 500
Howen.... 5000 5000 5000 2.OOO 100 600 $4,000
Oregon. ...... lCOO / eco 73O 500 1900 81. 500
Totals, 81 $50 500 O25O 5000 4O5 600 4125OO
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
A MAMMOUTH INCUBATOR.

On the duck farm of Mr.. VIM. 81.
Truslow, at Stroudsburg, Pa, there is
in operation an incubator that has a
capacity of $4,000 hen eggs, or O,OOO
duck eggs. Mr.. Truslow runs duck
farm, and therefore this incubator is
exclusively devoted to Matching ducks.
It is arranged to maintain the tempera.
ture at about 101 deg. f. and this is
done with greater certainty and regu.
larity than has ever before been at.
tanned. This mammoth incubator is
patented by Mr.. Oyphers and is in
tended to enable the production Of
enormous quantities Of poultry with
degree of expense smaller than has
hitherto been possible.
Very few persons have any idea Of
the enormous possibilities that lie in
the direction of poultry production in
the United States, and especially in
these Southern States. We shall get to
it after a while, when we begin to
think a little less Of cotton, cane and
rice little more of the good things to
eat that we can produce on our own
farms. The people of the other States
are already apprecisting this and are
very willing to take the proceeds of
our cotton crops and Of our cane crops
for the canned goods that they are
shipping in to US, by the car load and
by the train load, every day.-South-
ern Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

1t is a general rule in farming that
the same crop should never be grown
on land two years In succession. With
most crops exhaustion of the kinds Of
plant food required by the crop makes
this rule imperative. The second crop
is 80 far inferior that it does not yield
a profit. But corn derives it's nutrition
80 largely from the air that it can be
grown in succession go far as the sup
ply of plant food is concerned. But it
ia found in the West where this policy
has been mostly practiced that the
smut on stalks and ears is 80 greatly
increased as in some cases to take one.
fifth more of the crop. The smut spores
live in the soil through the winter, and
are ready to attack the corn very early
If planted on the ground where corn
was grown the year before.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

&0c3 Of the G6CDe-T1Gn9eG pdperS are
easst9G to keep the list standing on
{ frst page and add others, proCtded
y ere d1tIy elected. Any paper Ja6k-
G 80 advocate the OcGLG platform ;gSA
dropped from the list promptly. Our
GD5e cG5g 7lOtC see lghGt papers are
:os5shed Sa their isateTe8t.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
az RATIONAL FARMERS ALI.
ANCR AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

PEesident-Mann Page, Brandon,
g.
Vice President-C. Vincent, Indian
polls, Ind.
Secretary Treasurer-W. P. Bricker,
ogan Station, Pa.
LECTURERS.
J. P. Sossamon, Charlotte, n. @.
HamIin V. Poore, Bird Island, MINI.
F. II. Peirsol, Parkersburg, W. Va.
NATIONAL EXECUTTVE COMMITTEE.
Mann Page. Brandon, Va /; R. A.
outh worth, Denver, Col. John Bre
ig. ". Va A. B. Welch, New York !;
Y. a. Gardner, Andrews Settlement,
q.
JUDICIARY.
4. 3. 5outhworth, Denver, Colo.
3. ". Beck, Alabama.
Z. D. Davie, Kentucky.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

srts Carolina Reform Press Association.
8eIcers-J. L. Ramsey, President ;
zrso1 Butler, Vice-PTestde1t; ". s.
9rses, Secretary,
PAPERS.
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, 1897-09-03
LINKS AND PINS.

The Oregon Short Line on September
l commenced on the masonry and false
work for the new bridge across the We
Der at Ogden.
r. 4. Eaton, for many years railroad
reporter on the Omaha World-Herald
has accepted a position on the St. Louis
Republic. Before his departure from
Omaha he was presented with a gold
watch by a number o. his friends. Mr.,
Eaton is a brother OF Mrs. R. E. Fitch
Of this city and has many friends in Lar
annie.
A handsome private car is being n
structed for General Manager Bancroft
o. the Oregon Short Line at the shops in
Salt Lake City.
A dispatch from Ogden says that 1000
head OF beef cattle are to be shipped
from Winnemucca. New, east between
September l and Is.
, 1897-09-03
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
Night Passenger Director Tom Coop
er was advised about II o'clock last
nignt by one OF the men employed in
the Union Pacific yards that a drunken
man was lying under a car in the yards
opposite the freight house. Accompani-
ed by Night Watchman John Nolan. Mr..
Cooper went in search OF the stranger.
After a long hunt he was found, lying
with his head against a car wheel and
ais right arm extended across the rail
and under the wheel. The fellow was
dressed in a new suit OF gray clothes,
new hat and new shoes and looked as
though ne had recently been working in
d hay field.
The man was aroused, but vas un-
able to answer the questions asked him
and seemed I be under the influence
OF a drug. From his mumblings his
rescuers inferred that he imagined ne
was II on a ranch. as ne frequently
referred TO the Boss" He was started
up Ferguson street and was oon lost to
view and at this time is probably sleep
ing off the effects OF the dope" admin
istered him by some kind CD friend
who no doubt relieved the poor chap OF
his money.
People at the depot last night and
this morning shuddered as they were
told OF the Strangers narrow escape
from death. The yard man who first
saw The sleeper states that his head and
shoulders were lying on the rails and
thai he pulled the fellow away while he
summoned Mr.. Cooper. About five min
utues had elapsed AFTER Messrs. Cooper
and Nolan found the man when a switch
engine coupled onto the string OF cars
and moved it. Had not the stranger
been found the wheels would have cut
off his arm and possibly killed the fell
low outright.-Cheyenne Tribune.