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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-01

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19

amid surroundings unfavorable to their
physical and moral development. Con
trast this picture with the man on the
farm, who, if he has family, is often
furnished house at little or no cost
is often permitted to raise his vege
tables, dairy products and meats, and
is paid wages besides. Or with the
single man who is kept, and if econom-
ical, has most of his wages at the end
of the year. The country laborer who
investigates the matter thoroughly
will be very slow to change his certain
employment and inexpensive living for
place where the reverse is unfortun.
etely too common. Mississippi Home
ana Farm.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
CORN, POTATOES AND SCOTLAND

Sod land is generally used for pota-
tUes, and for an early crop it should be
thoroughly rotten. Herein is one of
the chief advantages of fall plowing
for this crop. When the soil is very
fertile. it.has been found good practice
TO precede the potatoes with corn. The
sod is broken late in the spring, and
the preparation for corn and the Guilt
walton of the crop tears the sod into
pieces and causes it to rot thoroughly.
This fits the soil for feeding the potato
plants the next season. But in land of
ordinary fertility the corn crop makes
a too great drain upon the store of
plant food, and this rotation is not ad-
visable. The next best thing is to plow
sod land in the fall for potatoes, and
thus secure some decay during warm
weather in the winter and early spring.
Corn thrives on fermenting vegetable
matter, and it is a rank feeder, but po
tatoes do better when fertilized with
thoroughly rotten manure, whether it
be in form of a sod or barnyard fer
tilizer.-Rural World.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
AMERICAN CORN ABROAD.

The silver lining in the low price of
corn lies, in part at least, in the fact
that foreign markets are taking in
creasiI gly lerge amounts OF it, and are
becoming familiar with it's use. This
justifias the hope that as foreign coun-
tries become accustomed to it they will
be more considerable customers for it
in future SEASONS and at better prices.
Recent exports have been larger than
ever before. Three and four million
bushels week have recently bet not
unusual. In the firft ten months of
the present year $4,000, 900 bushels
have been taken for export, which is
about two and half times the guam
tity exported during the came period
in 1895. Great Britain has taken 45,
100000 bushels, which is double the
amount taken last year. Germany.
France and other countries on the con
Cinent are taking from three to five
times their last years purchases. The
fact that it is phenomt nally cheap
probably has a good deal to do with
the increased exports. The, Q is no sen
timent in business and it is price that
sells. We are this year giving a great
deal of good feed for little money,
but let US hope that use will teach our
new customers that they must have
the corn in larger quantities than here
tofore. Our corn growers will then it
is hoped, find the foreigner strength
ening a good market instead of merely
snatching up the grain when we are
almost giving it away.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
WAGES ON THE FARM.

Those who work by the month on the
farm are apt to regard their circum
stances with disfavor when they hear
of the wages which labor of no higher
grade commands in our large cities.
But they will find, if they investigate
the matter, that the farm laborer is
usually as we'll paid as his city brother,
and oftentimes a great deal better. In
the city of Pittsburg at present all the
carpenters and artisans of a similar
grade that are wanted can be had for
50 per day. Many cannot find work at
that, All over the Southern country
good common" labor can be had at
prices from 81 to 81 80 per day. Those
who have contracts for public works,
such as railroads, pipe lines, etc, are
overwhelmed with applications for
work.
Wages like 81. 80. 50 or 50 80 per day,
look pretty big to the man who tbR
year round makes but so cents in cash,
but they are not 50 big as they look
They are often inconsistent. A good
many skilled laborers can work only g.
part of the year, but rent and other
living expenses must be paid all the
time. The city laborer must pay cash
for everything, including many things
which the farm hand is either furnished
or permitted TO raise for himself free of
cost. Unless a workman of the 50
grade has constant employment in a
city like Pittsburg he is very likely to
find the balance on the wrong side at
the end of the year. If he has a family
tosupporthe must often live in cramped
quarters, and must raise his children
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
ABANDONED FARMS.

It is diffult for our readers in the
great Central States of the Union to
reeliz9 that anywhere in this country
farms are actually being abandoned by
their owners, left as unstable and not
worth holding longer. People here be.
lieve such stories are told for party
effect, and refuse to believe them. But
it is true that farms are being thus
abandoned, and in the New England
States where wealth is understood to
be constantly on the increase. Wealth
is on the increase in the East, but it is
not the wealth of the farmer or the
farm; it is the wealth of the money
changer and money and SO ecurities-the
wealth that impoverishes. Our fnan
cial system enhances the value of
money and securities, but it depresses
farm and product values until only the
more fertile farms are worth holding,
and the less fertile, even in the centers
of modern wealth, are being cast eff
and abandoned as an old garment may
NC SEtSv IL l. OB 1A1CSO nOChAOOACA 46I4uc
are not uppToductive Under other
conditions they would afford thousands
of people happy homes.
But meralizing is not our purpose in
writing this article; it is to give our
skeptical readers official proof that
farms are being abandoned in the East,
The Secretary of the Massachusetts
State Board of Agriculture, Mr.. Ses
sions, in his report just published, gives
some interesting information on the
subject of abandoned farms in that
State. When farms are abandoned
there is no means of collecting taxes
upon them. They may be offered al
tax sales. but without purchasers The
State, therefore, to save its own rev
enue, has gone into the real estate busi
ness, and has undertaken to dispose Of
these farms. Mr.. Sessions reports SOS
farms thus advertised for sale. Or the
farms thus advertised, 238 were sold
81 were reclaimed by their former
owners, 100 former owners requested
that their farms be continued in the
list, and upon 110 of them no claim
whatever could be found, and no pur
chasers secured.
Since 1890, Massachusetts has adver
tisad for sale $50 abandoned farms
with total of 70, 856 acres. And Mas
sachusetts is not alone. We have il
our possession a long list of abandoned
farms in New Hampshire, and similar
lists have been officially published BY
nearly all the New England States
We cannot appreciate a prosperity
which drives owners to the actua
abandonment of their farms.-Pro
gressive Home.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
A AGRICULTURE.

At Lancaster, Ky, one firm slaught
red 25. 600 turkeys in 1895, and in 1896
$4,000.
Turkeys are profitable, much more
90 than chickens il you have range,
are lucky in raising them and can raise
them in sufficient numbers to make it
pay.
THE sheep is in high favor now, and
q flock Of them will enable you to earn
more money from given amount OF
land than will any other stock requir-
ing the same labor.
Mahomet must go to the mountain.
When breeding you will find it more
profitable TO conform to the wants OF
the market than to try to make the
market conform to your ideas and
ianciee.
There has been too much plowing-
TOO much washing and waste OF tertil-
ity of hilly lands. Plans should be
formed which ultimately result In such
lands being seeded down oftener and
and past ured more.
Hogs are often grown up to fair
and marketable weight at a profit.
And then they are held and fed for a
areater weight or higher price until
he profit IS all fed up and they can't
az their corn bills.
As hog grows older and heavier it
requires not only more food to make a
bound of gain, but more to sustain the
weight that it already has. So If not
gaining, you want to get it eff your
hands pretty quickly.
Go around and examine the fences.
Lt any boards are getting loose nail
hem securely at once. See that no
ticks are lying about the stock yards.
Many good horse has been ruined by
stick flying up, or by the end of a
bose board.
The capabilities of the soil are best
shown by a succession Of the various
Drops to which 1t is adapted. In this
way green manuring can be procured
with regularity and without manuring
comparatively little farm land can be
made to pay at all. A good rotation
OF crops makes farming a much safer
b % than haphazard work.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
CURING TOBACCO.
,spondence of the Progressive Farmer.


FORK CHURCH, N. Q. Jan. 4, 81
nave been raising tobacco for SO
y So, and have been very attentive IN
studying the nature of the weed After
a course of 15 years decided, or rather
discovered that there were certain
times to cut tobacco in order that it
might have heavy body and cure up
with much facility and brightness. To
find out these dates, which then knew
not, it has taken years of experience
and careful study. There is sap in
tobacco as in a tree. 1t also contains
an oily substance. When the sap is up
in tobs eco it runs the oil out, and is
very sorry. When the sap is out OF
tobacco there is nothing in it but oil ;
it seems to be fat, and il then cut
would be very profitable. Tobacco
makes similar changes as it remains on
hill.
Those who desire to correspond with
me upon this.subject will enclose suff
cient postage for reply.
Respectfully,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
SUPERIORITY OF FARMYARD
MANURE.

It would appear from the recent ex
periments carried on by Messrs. Sut-
ton, of Reading, in respect to potato
growing, and further by Sir J. B.
Lawes, in regard to wheat, that scarce
ly any kind of artificial manure is
found to excel that from the farmyard.
The last named practical egriculturist,
in the course Of his recently published
annual report on the experiments car
ried on at Rothamsted, remarks: THE
permanently unmanured plot gives a
yield of 163 bushels per acre, which is
very much over the average yield of
ten years, thirty four, or forty four
years. The farmyard dung and the
three artIficlally manured plots all
give high yield. 1t is in regard to
the quality of the wheat as shown by
the weight per bushel, that this crop
gives such favorable results. In two
instances the weight of the bushel
reaches "a pounds, and on referring
back to our results since they began in
1874 find no record of a weight of 81
pounds in any one of these five expert
ments. The crop gathered from the
plot dressed with farmyard manure
reached the rate of A bushels per acre,
being exceeded in one instance only On
an artlfically manured plot which
reached AT bushels; while the weight
of grain per bushel was 81 pounds and
64b pounds. and the weight of Straw
444 and 45b cwts per acre respectively.
The two instances quoted clearly show
that nothing excels the old fashioned
method of culture, SO far at least as
manure is concerned.-Dairyman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
LIVE STOCK.
COTTON SEED HULLS AND MEAL
FOR BEEF PRODUCTION.

The question Of cotton seed hulls and
meal for stock feeding has received at
tention from the North Carolina Ex.
pertinent Staten since 1883, when it
was proved that cotton seed hulls and
meal without any other food were a
profitable ration for fattening beef for
market. A recent bulletin published
NO. 119 upon this subject includes
digestlbility of several rations with
different proportions Of bulls and meal
even as close as ! of hulls and one of
meal. The longest time that beef should
be fed would be from 40 to go days, as
it was determined that alter this limit
the feeding was mainly lost. The di-
gestibility of these rations was care
fully studied and determined by accu-
rate and Cetailed examination and
analysis. The manure recovered from
the food given was carefully determ-
ined, and in every case the total value,
in respect to fertilizing ingredients,
was greater than the cost Of the food
given. 1t cannot be expected in prac-
tice that this result would be obtained,
because there will necessarily be loss
in management and handling of the
manure.
As is the custom Of the Experiment
Station, summary of the results writ
ten in plain, untechnical language is
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
SHADE FOR THR DWELLING.

Shade trees are essential, only don't
let them shade the house. Farmers, to
enjoy life, must have their surround
ings pleasant, commodious, convenient
and healthy. These conditions can
only be obtained by attention to de-
tails, by having place for everything
and every thing in it's place. Once get
started along these lines, and improved
methods follow, and if we persevere we
shall have our reward.-N. Y. Farmer
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19

The best profits are procured by hav
ing good crops in poor seasons. He
who by thorough culture puts his land
in such shape that it will etand the bad
effects of severe rains or of unusual
drouths, and has it rich enough to re,
sist epidemics of insect enemies and
disease, is sure to avoid many of the
misfortunes of his neighbors; even
when crops are good universally his
larger crops put him in the lead,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19

There is not one farmer in existence
but may feed dozen sheep without
ever feeling the loss of the feed. There
are lots of deadhead COWS that are al
ways in debt to the feeder, which
might best be killed off and replaced
by seven or eight sheep, which may be
well kept on the food of one scrub,
really useless, COW.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
1000 lbs.

Apply from 400 to 600 lbs. per acre.
If the land is rich in nitrogen from
previous crops would prefer to inves'
in little more potash. On rich lands
this is nearly always best, and on sandy
leachy lands the kainit absorbs moist
ure, and prevents blight in cotton, two
very important benefits. Thus the
proportions can be varied to suit the
soil. The kainit and phosphate mixed
with the meal does not get caked, al d
can be used when desired.
B. IRBY,
N Q, Agricultural College. Raleigh,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
No. 49

given, in which only the detailed
methods and actual results are given.
SO that anyone can study the progress
of the experiments in the detailed
methods used to secure the resul
Only the portion containing general
summary of 8 pages is sent to the gen
eral mailing list of the Station.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
D V. DAVIS

Make the farm work as light and
pleasant as possible to the young folks,
remembering that they cannot see from
the,~eame point as do their olders.
Routine work is tiresome to young or
old in any calling. In many ways Can
the monotony be avoided.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
THE HOG.

When the pigs have been born the
mother needs the most care. Stir hard
tul OF middlings in water and let her
eat when she feels like it. Soon there
after she should have all the milk pro
ducing food she wants. See that her
swill is sweet, lest scours follow tne
eating of it.
Early maturity is prime necessity
for pig raising, an6 it is folly to wait
more than six months for an animal 90
show it's points. If not exhibited by
that time they are too slow in dev elop.
ment for future use in breeding. EarlV
marketable animals are demanded,
and it is saving to the grower also to
feed well and literally and sell while
young.
Thumps in pigs is caused principally
by overfeeding and poor protection
from the weatt er, says the National
Stockman. If taken in hand when
first noticed it can, in most cases, be
cured. The young pig must be corr
PEELED to take exercise; the shoat given
something to cool the system and clean
out the bowels. 1t is nice point "a
feeding to reach the greatest limit of
pushing and escape this trouble We.
have cured bad cases and had them
DO we'll afterward.
No other kind Of root is so greedily
eaten by pigs as the beet. It may not
have so much nutrition as the potato,
but what it has is sweet and thereforo
palatable. Even the Eattening hogs
will eat some beets every day, and
should have them. But their best use
is as green feed for sows that are giving
milk. It will increase the quantity
greatly, but it will need some grain
feed with it to keep the SOW thus fed
from losing flesh too rapidly. 1t is ex-
pected of course that the SOW will grow
poor while sucking her Young, but e
this goes too far her value :. q breeder
is lessened, and the next litter of pigs
will be deficient either in number or
vigor and size.
There is no room for doubt that b.
better quality of pork is made by feed
ing the pigs balanced ration during
their growing period. But this is uot
all that is to be gained by following
out a more rational policy in the feed
lot. By, proper methods of feeding
when the pig is in the formative stages
of his development the constitution is
strengthened rather than weakened.
We believe in a good bit of shorts,
roots, milk and clover or lueerne for
the growing pig. A reasonable amount
of corn along with any or all these
things is a good thing always, too.
Feed the pig plenty, give him variety
Of food when you can, observe a rigid
regularity in all that you do for him,
give him clean and dry quarters, with
sunshine and room for exercise and
you are on the road to success with
him. Few men attempt to do this.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19

and your crop starve." That Is true If
you apply small amounts to crops
planted on the san land year after
year, for a crop cannot live by fertili
Ger. It reminds me of what the old
woman said of mulberries for chick
ems, Says she: They are, rank pisin
to chickens" My conclusions were
that her chickens died not from the
eating of mulberries, but from the lack
of them, and other things, as she had
but one tree. anda large flock Of chick
els, and there they sat all day waiting
for mulberries to fall. Now these COM
mercial fertilizers will not do it all as
some seem to think they should if they
possess any virtue. Some are so un
reasonable as to think the work con
nected with the crop ought to be half
done when the fertilizer is applied 1t
is an aid aud only does its part. From
observation and experience I have
found that cotton on rich land needs
pie nty of acid phosphate and potash,
especially when nitrogenous renovat
ing crops preceded the cotton. On
poor thin lands, and especially sandy
lands, the addition Of nitrogen was
very beneficial. Not that the nitrogen
did harm on the rich lands, but the
same money invested in potash and
phosphorus did more good My prefer
ence is a mixture made at home. !
buy the ingredients, cotton seed meal,
acid phosphate and kaInit and mix
the m to suit the land and crop. A gen.
eral formula is as follows:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19

Boston Herald's Mexico City CORE
spondence: There. is one thing Mexico
will not permit, and that is the growth
and entrenchment in power of huge
monopolies. The contemplated new
banking law is a measure designed TO
give the country free banking outside
of the federal districts, where the big
banks are located. General Diaz ID
opposed to exclusive privileges, and
has said so in public address. He has
put out one railway against another,
one bank in rivalry with another, and
encouraged the growth of industries Of
a competitive character, but has not
given his consent to what might be
called destructive activity. His policy
{ the closing term of the century will
be to foster Mexican manufactures, so
as to give varied employment to the
masses, and to open up new regions by
rail ways, such as the big road recently
projected by Mr.. Frederick Bartletts
Chicago, for which q liberal charter
has been negotiated, carrying with i6
about S., 600, 900 subsidy. Public schools
are receiving the special care OF the
President, and the schools here IN the
federal district are to have the most
modern school furniture, manufactured
in Mexico Of native iron an wood.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-19
SaR RATIONAL FARMERS ALI
ANCR AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President-M Mann Page, Brandon,
Va.
Vice-President-H. Q. Snavely, Leb-
anon, Pa.
Secretary Treasurer. A. South
worth, Denver, Col.