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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

counsel or agent shall confne themselves
to appearing before legislative commit
tees to doing work properly incident
thereto and to giving legal advice. The
legislature is to provide additional regu-
latons and may disbar for cause persons
acting as legislative agent or counsel. No
person who has once been disbarred can
serve again until a period of three years
has passed. There are other provisions of
a stringent character and the penalty for
violating any of them is not less than
SlOJ nor more than 81 900
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08
THAT Is VERY TRUE.

From the New York Sun,
In the matter of appropriations the
Republican party in the Fifty-tifth con-
gress will need q bride rather than a
spur, and 1t will be we'll for continued Re
publican supremacy if there a firm hand
on that bride during the next four years.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

gina ana Ohio, each four, Kentucky,
three; Georgia, two, Delaware, Tcnnps-
SEQ, South Carolina, Maine. Connecticut,
Missouri Oregon Arkansas. and Indiana,
one each
Iowa supplies for the first time @ secre-
tary of Agriculture. Missouri Wisconsin,
and Nebraska furnished the other three.
James \. Gary becomes Maryland s
third postmaster general For many
years the postmaster general was not con-
sidered u cabinet officer. However, reCk-
oning from the beginning, In l7SD, we find
Kentucky, Connecticut, New York, aud
Tennessee furnishing each four different
incumbents; Wisconsin, Ohio, and now
Maryland, three; Indiana, Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania, two; Georgia, Yer
mont, Maine, Virginia Michigan, Iowa,
and West Virginia, one each.
Massachusetts had the first secretary of
the navy, i'm 1893 and has now furnished
five others, Mr.. Long being the sixth
in all. The seaCoast states have always
supplied the secretaries of the navy, cN-
cept under Hayes, who brought forward
Thompson, of Indiana, sometimes known
as the Ancient Mariner, ana also his sue
ceSsor, Gof of West Virginia. Virginia
has furnished four different secretaries
North Carolina, and New York, also four
New Jersey ana Maryland three each
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and New
Hampshire, two each; Louisiana, South
Carolina, and Alabama. one each
1t Will be seen that California is thC
only state that now secures for the first
time a representation in the cabinet; but
of the original thirteen safes, Rhode Isl.
and has not yet been represented there al
all, nor have Florida and Texas, which
We're admitted a little more than half d
century ago Most of the states which
hished cabinet officers, Kansas, Nevada
the Daiotas, Montana, Washington, Ida.
no, Wyoming, and Utah being in this list
Massachusetts, leads Off If We do not
err with the highest number of aggrc.
gate cabinet appointments, including re.
appointments, while New York Is very
close second. and Pennsylvania third.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

If the government can get good ar
NOR plate for $500 ton Why has it
been paying nearly twice that price
for it? If it cannot, why does it want
to waste money on an inferior and
therefore not economical article?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

Speaker Reeds prediction Is that
the new tariff bill will have passed
the house by April /. We trust this
isn't bit of April fooling.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

Last year Alaska produced $4,67O,
GOO worth of gold. besides other valu-
ables worth nearly as much more.
Its possible annual gold product is es-
timated at from $50, 100000 to 0,O0O-
00O 1t is clear that interests so i'm
portant justify the granting to Alaska
of a delegate in congress.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

The way for the president to eX-
pedite the new tariff bill is to lock up
the pie counter till after it is signed.
That will bring the congressman to
time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

1t seems churlish to deny an eX
president any reasonable latitude; but
as matter of fact neither q president
nor an eX-president has any right to
use government vessels for private
jaunts.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

The Kansas solon who wants the
Grasshoper state assembly to enact the
Ten Commandments seems to have
strayed from the teachings of the i'm
mortal INGALLS,.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

The decision of the Republican wing
of the free silver representation in
congress to interDose no factious OBJ
structions in the way of new tariff
measure exhibits commendable COM
mon sense. If it had been reached
one year ago it would have spared
the country much intervening advers-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

The proposition is made at Harris
burg to extend the period of
liquor licenses to three years,
so that the judges may be
spared two-thirds of their pres
ent humiliation during license court.
But if it be worth While to reduce
the evil of the present system two
thirds why not do away with it en-
tirely by the creation of license com
mlSSinn2
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08
AMERICAN CHARACTERISTICS

From the Washington Post.
There is a curious state of affairs in
this great United States. The American
people are lovers of peace; they do not
seek causes for war; large number of
them favor the arbitration treaty recently
negotiated with England, and they are
impressed with the idea that war is not
calculated to promote business interests
Yet on every occasion of a difference be-
tween this country and any other an en-
thusiastic war spirit is Immediately man
ifest in all parts of the country. Cities
towns, villages, and sparsely settled dis
tricts unite in assuming belligerent at
ttude, without waiting or stopping to
inquire into the causes which led to the
disagreement. When this country be-
came involved in controversy with Eng
land some months ago over the Nene-
Zuelan boundary, perfect storm of ap-
plause greeted the firm stand taken by
the administration in the matter. The
offer of volunteers, in case war should
ensue, came from North, South, East
and West. A million men, at least, stood
ready at a moments notice to plunge into
the fray, and no questions asked as to
who was right and who was wrong. The
same eagerness for conflict has been
shown on every occasion where a possi-
bility of war has arisen. Right now,
today, We're they permitted TO do so,
thousands of men would rush to the aid
of the Cubans.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

The country is waiting with a gold
medal for the man who can formu-
late a just and practicable law for the
regulation of trusts.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

Even in England the old anti
Mckinley feeling seems to have died
down perceptibly. They don't relish
his tariff, but they are forced to ad-
mre the man.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

We predict that an American warship
will drop anchor in Havana harbor
within sixty days.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

Not two men in a hundred will say
they are anxious for war, or that they
desire to fight, but the very men who pro-
fess to be peaceable and opposed to war
would be among the first to struggle for
place in the advance guard in the event
of war, This is not from pure love of
lighting. 1t is not usual for the Ameri-
can to seek a quarrel He is good-na-
tured as a rule, and disposed to set
along peaceably with his neighbors. AS
a matter of fact he will stand a great
deal of imposition rather than quarrel or
engage in dispute. But at the first mo-
tion OF the other party towards actually
donning war paint, he becomes ready,
willing, anxious for battle. He has I,
pronounced sympathy for the under dog
in the fight, and hates a bully. He is
more disposed to insist on the rights of
others than on his own He feels able
TO take care of himself without help, but
thinks it his boundeu duty to assist the
weak and needy.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

Courageous, self-relant, strong in the
knowledge of his own might, he contem-
plates with Indifference and serenity at
tacks upon himself hardly realizing the
temerity of the assalant. but quick to
resent infringement on the rights of otht-
ers less able to protect themselves. The
American is a strange compound. There
IS nothing like him on the face of the
globe. He has some failings, but his de-
sirable qualities so far outnumber them
that they need not be considered. He is
all right. good enough as he is, but i'm
proving. What will he be in another 100
years.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

believe that the responsibility for the
conduct of municinal affairs should be
placed upon one of the great parties or
the othcrand not upon lot of irrespon
sible partyess persons. }ut remember
that when you ally yourselves to the
party machine you must sacrifice some
thing, perhaps much of your individu-
allty and your own personal opinions.
Indeed, you must do this whenever you
are allied with two or three others in
any undertaking. There must be the
ever willing spirit of give and take;
each much must sacrifice something to
the other. If such sacrifice be not
made. then there will be useless biclt-
erings and petty strifes, resulting in no
good to yourselves, but in great harm
to the cause for which you are work.
ing"
Those persons who do not oppose "the
machine" simply with purpose OF SUBJ
stltuting another machine of their own
make are working simply for chaos
in political affairs when they decry ef-
fectivo party leadership with It's neccs-
sary concOmitant of party organization.
ana lament the existence of "bosses."
The language OF Mr. Roosevelt, as
quoted above, merits repeated study.
------ --------
A bill has been introduced in the
Illinois legislature requiring plaintiffs
in civil actions before justices of the
peace to file bonds for costs and dam
ages if they be non-residents Of the
Justices town, township or election
precinct. 1t would be interesting to
know why the requirement of a bond
is not made to apply to all plaintiffs
wherever they reside If petty court
costs keep on growing much longer
we may have to come to this.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-08

Now watch the senate reverse it
,elf on the arbitration treaty.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
RATIoNs FOR sHERP.

Corn and oats in equal parts make
one of the very best grain rations for
sheep. Corn alone is TOO heating and
fattening Moreover, if sheep are fed
exclusively on corn for any consider
able length Of time they lose their
wool.
1t costs just as much to keep a sheep
of a certain weight right, says the St.
Louis Republic. But, if with good care
in selecting and breeding, and with
good feeding, the sheep can be made to
give eight or nine pounds OF wool inS
stead of four or five the extra weight
of wool will be that much addiEional
profit. When it barely pay to keep
sheep that shears only four or i've
pounds, one that shears seven or eight
will give good per cent. on the money
invested. In addition in nearly all
eases the heavier fleece will be Of q
better quality.
While it is always best to feed with
as little waste as possible, it is rarely
good economy to compel the sheep to
eat up the hay in their racks as clean
as with cattle and horses, unless it IS
unusually fine, Still, care must be
taken not to feed too much, as sheep
are inclined to waste their feed if over
fed. But considerable waste can be
avoided by having good racks. Tne
slats should be wide enough apart TO
allow the sheep to put their heads en-
tiyely in the racks and eat or they
should be so close as to only allow them
to insert their noses. If made in this
way, however, it is important that
they be made sianting, so that the hay
will gradually sink down and always
be within reach of the sheep
Every day that the weather will per-
nit the sheep should be turned out in
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
COST OF HOG RAISING IN THE
SOUTH,

am firm believer in our ability to
raise hog products on the bottom lands
at a good profit, even at the present
very low price Of bacon. believe the
man who sticks to hogs, year in and
year out, when bacon is high and when
it is low, when corn is abundant and
when it is scarce, when cholera or some
other fatality is raging and when it is
absent, will find that the hog business
will pay a larger per cent. than almost
any other venture, have never kept
books against my plantation herd. 80
that l cannot be definite as to cost of
my port, but can come pretty near it
by analysis. / have kept an accurate
account against my herd of bloOded
hogs, and find that they cost me on
an average . cents per head Of little
and big (none under 4months) per day,
and that with everything on full feed
OF bought feed, at the following prices
Oorr 40 cents per bushel, oats % cents,
shorts $14 per ton and linseed meal %.
THIS rate kept up until the pig is s
months old would make him cost Qeav-
ing out Of account the months suck.
lipg) IS 90. Such a pig, if he has done
we'll, ought to weigh 300 pounds (most
writer's say 24O TO 800 pound } and I
have had them to go 24O to 800 myself.
That weight at that price shows a cost
of 18c. per pound; all that it is worth
over that is profit. If hogs are worth
81 cents per pound, can't you figure q
good profit Last fall, neighbor and
my self made a contract with a city
butcher for 28, 600 pounds hogs at ST
cents per pound But claim that the
hog designed for pork at s to 10 months,
should not cost as much as my biooded
hogs. I feed them with q view the
first six months to bone and muscle de-
velopment, whereas the meat hog could
be pushed for fat at less expense and
with greater weight.-W. l.. Foster,
Caddo Co, La, in Farm and Home.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
LIVE STOCK.
WORTH TRYING.

l will say to those wanting remedy
to remove warts from cattle try hog's
lard Apply the lard to the warts
freely at intervals of three or four days
until you have made several applica
tions, or the warts disappear.
To those wanting a remedy to pre-
vent peaches being wormy, will say
rake away some of the top soil for 8
short distance around each tree, in the
spring, and take good wood ashes and
sprinkle over the roots near the body
of the trees, about two or three quarts
to each tree, according to size, then
rake back the soil on the ashes IN F.
Lisles, Negrohead, N. c., in Home and
Farm
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
9ORTICULTURR
NEWLY PLANTED TREES.

Trees just planted will require some
care during summer. Their forces
have not yet become active like those
that have been long established. Spring
drouths are often fatal to them and
with even the best of care in the spring
they are still weak and i'll lprepared to
Withstand the summer heat. They
really need a good rain every week or
or ten days TO carry them along. When
considerable tracts have been planted
it will often pay to haul water ON
wagons, and go through the orchard
and apply some to each tree Some Of
the earth should be first removed, and
after watering the dry soil should be
repleced upon that which has been wet.
When valuable trees are planted on
homo grounds regular and heavy
watering should be the rule, but the
watered soil should always be mulched.
either by dry soil or straw. Even when
the growth of the tree is apparently
good. it is we'll to assist it by frequent.
~ stirring up the soil around the stem
until as late as the middle Of August.
taking care, however, not to iDjure the
trees by tools. listens receive injury
from singletrees, lawn mowers, or
otherwise, cover the wound with graft
ing wax, because as yet the circulation
is feeble and such injuries may be fatal,
the trees not having sufficient sep fow
to repair the damage before the Gloss
of the growing season The wounds
also open up the vital fluids to the dan.
ger of infection from injurious fungi in
the air.
The forenoon sun and light are bene-
fetal TO the trees, but the sun and light
of the afternoon are too drying and too
penetrating for the welfare of the trees
during their first stseason. Several stakes
or boards on the south and west sides
of valuable tree during it's first sum.
roer will often save it. Bands of prairie
hay firmly twisted and wound around
the trunks we'll up into the limbs will
frequently be OF material advantage,
especially If they be wet occasionally.
The watering should be thorough and
in the cool Of the evening Farm and
| Home.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
FARM EXPERIMENTS.

AS long as improvement is possible,
must be made to determ
inc the value of new seeds or new
methods of doing work. The farmer
who neglects experiments is depriving
himself of great deal Of pleasure and
much knowledge that will be Of great
value to him, whether his experiments
result in success or failure. No one
should carry experiments to the ex
treme that loss will be disastrous. but
should try them on a small ecale to de-
termine the probable effect Of larger
operations,
In the case Of seeds it is always safe
to hold to old and we'll tried Val ieties
until others have proven themselves
better, for no variety should be replaced
by one that is not better. A new vari
ETY. that seems just as good as the old
one may fail another year even when
it succeeds the first time Of trial. Many
times seedemen are interested in in
ducing patrons to purchase novelties
because they are sold at a very high
price. Quite often seeds of novelties
at ten times the price for ordinary
seeds of the same sort arecheap because
OF their great improvement, and it is
not bad practice to buy packet Of
each of the principal novelties in gar
den seeds and give them a trial. Very
often seedsmen recommend a certain
new variety very highly, butpupon
trial they prove no improvement, or
not as good as old varieties, and the
scotsman is blamed, when the fact is
that the d ference in climate, soil or
cultivation may have made all the diff.
ference between great improvement
and absolute failure in this respect.
The experiment. stations in the differ
ent States are doing a good work in de
termining the quantity of seed to be
sown on a given area of land, but they
cannot determine, except in a general
way, what is beet for individual farm
ers to adopt in the way of varieties A
new crop that would yield well OF
poorly at the experiment station might
/; , 1rfcduce results exactly the reverse in
a part of the State remote from the
station
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
CLOVER AND COWPEAs.

In Bulletin No 81, of the Missouri
Agricultural Experiment Station, q full
discussion Of the value of clover and
cowpess is given, and practical sugges-
tions are made as to the best methods
OF securing a stand growing these crops
These plants have power not pos
sessed by the other common farm crops,
euch as corn, wheat, timothy and blue
grass-that of gathering nitrogen from
the air. 1t is supposed that with ju-
dicious care and management the
nitrogen supply in reasonably good
soils may be maintained almosG indef
nitely by the proper use of those crops
for green manuring,
The cowpea is recommended for very
poor soils in all sections of tho State,
and for all soils in the southern half of
Missouri THY should not be sowed
too early in the spring. Last season
the station secured q crop of one and
one half tons of field cured cowpea hay
per acre, seeding on wheat stubble,
without blowing, after the wheat had
been harvested July 1. The peas were
removed, and the land again s0wed In
wheat without being broken, Septem
Der 80. In other words, the crop Of
cowpeas was grown On the land during
the season which, in ordinary practice,
would have remained entirely idle.
It is generally believed by the farm
ers that green manure crops should be
turned under when very green, in order
10 produce valuable manure, ard that
If allowed to mature or become dry,
much of the valuable fertiliElng mate
rial will be lost. This is entirely incOr
rect a larger yield will be obtained
by allowing the crops to become ma
ture. Experiments show that clover,
when plowed under in the blossom, had
little more than one third as much fer
tiEsing value as when mstured.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
GIANT NoTWEED OR sACHALINE
PolygOnum lSachalinense.

This Is hardy herbacecus perennial,
Six to twelve feet high, with strong,
extensively creeping rootstocks. The
plant Is a native of an island eff the
Siberian Coast, where it grows along
moist river banks. 1t was introduced
into England about 1870 and has been
quite generally guilty ated in the botani-
cal gardens of Europe at time of
great drought in France in 1893, it was
discovered that cattle would eat the
leaves and tender branches of this
plant and a member of the French
Academy presented a paper suggesting
that it might prove q valuable addition
to the list of fodder plants. This seems
to be the first intimation that sachaline
had any forage value, but the idea was
at once taken up by others and the
hardness, the rapid and vigorous
growth and othar qualities of the plant
were exIOlled and enlarged upon by
interested parties. Within the past
year or 20 most exsravagan6 accounts
of the value OF sachaline for forage
have appeared in American papers and
seed catalogues.
All who have had experience with
the plant advise caution IL itS introduc
ton because of its very strong, spread
ing and persistent rootstocks A writer
in the Rural New Yorker who has had
some experience with the plant, says:
IF the land will grow anything else,
do not plant it. Plant corn for feed,
not Polygonum Sachalinense unless
you want trouble" A writer in Bur
pee's Farm Annual says that the farm
ers in this country will be terribly dis
appointed if they expect to realize the
hopes that the glowing descriptions
from Europe would seem to warrant.
This plant is described in Circular
No Of the Division of Botany of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture. 1t is advertised in some of the
1897 seed catalogues. The advice of
the Experiment Station to intending
purchasers is, don't.
CRAs d, WOODS Director.
State College, April 8 1897.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
/ IME.

Lime is a much used and very often
at the same time a much abused ma
terial on the farm. 1t has very i'm
portant role 80 play, and il handled in
the proper manner is valuable aid to
the farmer. There are many who use
this material again al d again with
mistaken notion as to it's true functions
in the soil. In time, however, their ex
perience teaches them the true place of
lime in agriculture, but often their
lands have been almost exhausted be
fore they gain their wisdom, says the
Western Rural.
While lime has value as plant
food, it's greatest worth on the farm is
due TO its physical tff1ct on the soil it
self. 1t is very seldom that soil does
not contain sufficient quantity of
lime to furnish this Ingredient as plant
food pure and simple
Briefly described, the actions of lime
are as follows: II applied on a sandy
soil, it fills up the openings, makes the
particles adhere closer, causes them to
retain moisture better, to absorb less
heat and retain more at night On
clay soils it separates the particles,
making the soil more porous, thus
easier for the passage of water and air,