The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-26

| 'O JUOBo VI d LaEn6E Dy MS L6EIn,
and OF farm by what We see in pass-
ing it, says contemporary. II all is
neat and tidy, fences and outbuildings
as we'll as dwelling house in good re
pair; il tools, wagons and machinery
are housed and painted, and animals
sleek and contented, we are satisfied
that the owner is a good farmer and is
prosperous.
A farmer writing in an exchange
says that a prevalent error is the care
less habit of throwing fodder, hay, etc,
upon the ground for the stock to Gull
over and trample in the dirt. Such
waste should be prevented by the use
OF troughs or rocks. These troughs
and rocks may be used for any kind of
stock if made of the right height. They
should be placed in a sheltered spot.
Some one asked Geo. T. Angel, the
famous editor of the organ Of the 80
ciety toC the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Animals" this question: "Is it cruel to
keep a horse locked up in stable with
out exercise9" His answer is as fol
lows: Just as cruel as it would be to
keep boy, or girl, or man, or woman
in the same condition. If to this is
added solitary confinement without the
company of other animals then the
cruelty is still greater"
An agricultural exchange says that
a mixture of grasses will almost alway 8
give better results than any single one
sown. If there be any exception it is
in good crop of pure timothy; but for
pasture there should always be such
variety as will make the crop contin
uous through a long season. The more
sorts which enter into it the better. As
this is considered the best time of year
for grass seeding, it may be we'll to
bear these facts in mind.
DIR. J. P. L. Withrow, of Hollis,
Rutherford county, last week phipped
5. III pounds of peach seed to Richmond
for which he paid thirty cents bushel.
Upon which the Elleuboro Enterprise
aptly remarks: IF our people would
save the little things that 90 to waste
about the farm, there would be no talk
of hard times" The little things We
allow to go to waste would, it saved,
largely increase the wealth of the
country in a few years -Ex.
An Iowa farmer says: I'VE are firm
believers in the effiacy of charcoal for
all kinds of farm animals. It purifies
the blood and corrects disordered
stomach and bowels. In place of the
powdered charcoal, corn well charred
in the stove oven will answer the pur
pose. Hogs fed on slops are apt to be
troubled with acidity of the stomach,
the food ferments and produces too
much acid. Well charred rn is an
eff 3ient remedy to neutralize the acid.
Il is a wonder, as we look at the
whole subject, that there is a dollar
left in the Southern States. The North
and Europe send to US for cotton and
tobacco. Against these, we buy every
thing else away from home. The rem
edy for this condition is the establish
ment in the South, as far as possible
of manufactures which will make the
things we buy. We have all the while
been an agricultural people. We will
never become rich and great until We
add to agriculture manufacturing, anC
that not in one line alone, but in all the
diversified lines of human eEdeavor.-
Statesville IN. O. Landmark.
Every boy on the farm should bC
given a young animal to raise for him
self, he to attend to it and be inc uceC
to take an interest in it's progress. HI
will thus early become fond of auimal
3 and of farming, and will be more recon
{ ciled to farm life when he is grown
, The boy who leaves the farm for TIT
3 city is the one who has never had any
opportunities and looks upon farming
as drudgery. Labor becomes a pleas
ure when there is something to strivt
for, and the early education of the boy
on the farm should be by giving hin
{ an interest in something. All children
+ love young stock and pet them
E Farmers Voice.
3 Q. W. Blanchard, writing in Kinstor
t Free Press, gives the following remedy
for hog and chicken cholera: The
8 writer is constrained to offer the public
|. a remedy for cholera in hogs and fowls
0 which his personal experience har
/. proven the value of. Take equal quan
2 tity of pulverized sulphur, alum ant
s copperas and powder together, thor
4 oughly mixing the parts. Give ont