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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09
IMPROVED MAMMOTH WHITE
FRENCH ARTICHOKE.

The yield is so enormous that one
who has never seen them grow, can
scarcely believe the quantity that can
be grown on an acre. Those who have
given them a thorough trial the past
year report yield of from $50 to 1. 500
bushels to the acre.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09

Never allow a cross word or blow in
the stable or anywhere. The horse or
COW cannot be scolded or pounded
without losing value. If the children
or hired help have bad tempers and
a---eross to the animals, fire the hired
help, and if the children refuse to do
better, hire a kind man and put the
children to work they like.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09
THE FUTURE OF HAY FARMING

The desire to cultivate as much land
as possible in order to get the most
possible from it, has led to general neg.
lect Of meadow and pasture lands, says
American Cultivator. Only when it
was found that the soil had lost 80
much fertility that it would not pay
for cultivating was it seeded down or
left to grow up with such herbage, both
weeds and grass, as nature provided.
The result is that most of the lard
now in graes is by that very fact dis
credited as being presumably fit for
nothing else. Yet there is in all grass
land a constant tendency to increase
in fertility. It is so even when the
land is left to grow up with weeds and
bushes. These shelter the surface, hold
the leaves that fall on the land from
being blown away. The decomposition
of these leaves gradually builds up soil.
and to this must be added the excre-
ment from animals fed on the herbage
which the soil is still able to grow.
Usually when the improvement of
grass land is determined upon the sod
to be turned under and rot is regarded
as an important part Of the soil assets
Improving the land as meadow or pas
ture by manuring it and still keeping
it UnpIoWed is hardly ever thought Of.
Yet as in most cases this grass land is,
even with manure, not quite rich
enough for pre- fitsble cropping, the ex-
pertinent is worth trying of applying
to it such manure as can be had and
see what the Increased grass or hay
prodU ct will be worth.
This is done succe s3fully in England.
Why may it not be also in the older
parts Of this country9 The demand for
hay is generally good in all Eastern
cities. Will it pay to fertilize grass go
as to make the growing of hay profit
able. If it will not pay to maintain
fertility in grass land, the logical
sequence is that all hay or grass taken
from it helps to reduce fertility so that
the soil will be worth nothing for the
production of any kind of crop.
It is likely that in the future as in
the past, most of the hay crop in this
country will be produced in the years
when the rotation between cultivated
crops and grass requires that the land
| be seeded.
Our climate is not moist like that Of
England. Hence it cannot keep good
sod many years without blowing and
re seeding. This also is so much the
best for cultivated land that there need
be no fear that the profits Of cultivated
crops will so lessen the amount Of land
in grass that there will not be hay
enough to feed with grain and coarser
fodder, nor that it will fail to be sup
piled at reasonable prices.
Peas, in common with all plants OF
the leguminous order, have the power
to disintegrate air and utilize nitrogen
for their own growth, and also to en-
rich the soil. But they need some fer
G:1:G- &- o+o rt NTH oc II 10 oplu rrbov,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
JUDICIARY.
sosTs oARoLINA FARMERS STATE ALLI-
AEOE.

AECE.
President - DIR. Cyrus Thompson,
Richlands, ]. ..
Vice -Pregident-Jno. Graham, Ridge
way, N. Q,
8ecretary- -Treasurer-W. 8. Barnes,
Hilsboro, II. Q.
Lecturer. I. B. Hoover, Elm City,
n. o. r
now, N. O.
Cbapiain-Rev. P. H. Massey, Dur
''i Doior-keepor-Geo. T. Lane, Greens-
soro. N. @.
Assistant Door -keeper-Jas. E. Lyon,
Durham, II. Q.
Sergeant-at- t-Arms-A.D D. K: Wallace,
RutherforGton, n. Q.
State Business Agent-T. lVey, Hills
boro, n. Q.
A. Graham, Machpelah, n. -
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE or TIE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
AT. Hileman, Concord, N. G.; n.
o. English, Trinity, n. O.; James M
hewbOrne, Kins on, N. @.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY CoMMTrEE.
John Brady, Gatesville, n. O.; DR..
J.F, Harrell, Whiteville, N. O.; L: ).
Gambler. Acton. N. Q.
as-th Carolina Reform Press Association.
0mceTs-J. L. Ramsey, President !;
zzGFS07s Butler, Vice President; w. >.
gdrssS. Secretary,
PAPERS.
yvs4szsive Farmer, State Organ. Raleigh, =. Q.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF ROOTS.
Doruz Flesh Fat
A'"0A9' Formers Fol liners
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09

Peas, in common with all plants Of
the leguminous order, have the power
to disintegrate air and utilize nitrogen
for their own growth, and also to en-
rich the soil. But they need some fer
tility to start with, as it is only when
the plants are grown large that the
nodules appear on their roots, by means
of which air in the soil is disintegrated.
There is probably nc better way of ap,
plying manure, unless it is to clover,
than to use it for peas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09

should not be applied to corn ground,
especially in damp soil, nor should
corn be planted too close to the source
of manure. It is thought that by proper
care in this respect, and by burning as
many Of the smut boils as possible, the
disease can probably be kept within
limits, which will not cause more than
2per cent. of damage. Itseemsscarcely
practicable to do more than this, as
the expense would be greater than the
saving. To this we would only add
ttat as as the early infection seems to
ccme from spores of the previous year,
which germinate on the ground, these
earlier infections furnishing the new
spores for the later and more severe
attack, 6 rotation which would prevent
corn from being grown On the same
soil two years in succession would
probably do much toward decreasing
the losses.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09
~zp NsrIoNAL FARMERS ALL
ANCR AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President-Mann Page, Brandon,
Vice Prssident-C. Vincent, Indian
Secretary Treasurer-W. P. Bricker,
Cogan Station, Pa
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
Mann Page, Brandon, Va R. A.
South worth, Denver, COL; John Bre
mig, W. Va A. B. Welch, New York ;
J. W. Stokes, S Q.
JUDICIARY.
3. 4. Southworth, Denver, Colo.
2. ". Beck, Alabama.
S. o. Davie, Kentucky.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09

The natural food for hogs in the
state is grass mast, roots and bulbs of
plants. They never forget their root
ing tendencies. Acting upon our
knowledge of their fondness for these
things we shall do we'll to now and
then give them rations of potatoes,
turnips, beets or artichokes during the
winter season.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09

seth Carolina Reform Press Association.
1mceTs-J. L. Ramsey, President
aSGFSos Butler, Vice President w. >.
sdTssS. Secretary,
PAPERS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09

STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
John Brady, Gatesville, n. c.; DIR.
J.F, Harrell, Whiteville, N. O.; I! }.
Gambler, Acton. N. Q.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-09

President Mann Page, Brandon,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-22
GENERAL NEWS.

A WILD negro, about 60 years old, was
captured ten miles north of Brewton,
Ala. by some farmers. He was bare
headed, barefooted and wore no other
garment than short pair of panta
looms. It was believed he escaped from
bondage before the war and had since
lived in the swamps like a wild ami
NAL.
WHILE two prisoners, arrested for
burglary at Cowles, Neb. were being
conveyed to Red Cloud by officers, they
slipped their handouts and escaped.
Bloodhounds were afterwards put on
the trail of the fugitives.
THE board of managers of the West
ern Baseball league held a business
session at Chicago on the 18th. Catcher
Lake, of the Kansas City team, was
fined 500 for striking Umpire Graves a
few days ago, expulsion from the
league to follow repetition of the of
tense.
SPOTTED fever has broken out in Nc
Cracker county, Ky. The appearance
of the fever has created great excite
ment.
REPRESENTATIVE riders from New
York and Chicago began siX-day re-
lay bicycle race at Chicago on the nth
the riders competing IL hours in the "a.
WILD dogs have been creating havoc
for some time with sheep, swine and
young cattle in Holt, Boyd and adjoin-
ing Nebraska counties.
a MOB of :. 900 men congregated about
the Jail at Deadwood, S. D., during the
night of the 18th with the avowed in
tention of lynching Brown, the negro
murderer of Mrs. Emma Stone
SECRETARY JOHN BLooR, of the Mon
tana senate, was sentenced to years
imprisonment for having secreted the
''salary bill' to prevent its passage on
the last night of the session.
THE Sidney Qll-) grange passed reso-
buttons declaring that the United
States should stop the inhuman war
fare raging in Cuba and appealing to
all farmers organizations to pass sim
liar resolutions.
THE baseball game between the Mil
waukee and Kansas City clubs of the
Western league. on the 14th at Kansas
City, Mo-, ended in a small riot and
had it not been for the police Umpire
Graves would have been roughly
handled. The game was won by the
Milwaukee club at the last minute and
a close decision by the umpire in Mil
waullee's favor was the cause of the
ytrouble. The umpire's decision was
acknowledged to be right afterwards
JOY the Kansas City club.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-22
wn, enc varehou.e BIN should pass.

For a number of years the tendency IN
prices of grain has been downward and the
intermediate charges on gram between ths
producer and the consumer IN the way OF
commissions have become OF more ana more
Importance to the producer The reduction
of such charges to minimum has become an
about naturally through active competition
by dealers in half dozen cities which are
reaching out for the grain business OF the
west. The public warehouses have been a
most important factor in furnishing to the
farmers of Illinois broad and active mar
ket. This has been done without interior
merchants. a system has been developed
which has proved entirely satisfactory to
the country at large, but apparently IS not
satisfactory to little coterie of dealers on
the Chicago Board OF Trade. This coterle
has attacked the proprietors of public ele-
vators on every possible ground and has de-
grain merchants to buy and sell grain. The
public warehouScmen for years have dealt
in grain and the competition stimulated by
their position In the trade has been most
beneficial to the interests of the farmer.
While the custom of warehousemen deal
ing in grain has been established by
rights and powers. The bill now in the leg
islature clearly defines their rights and
meets any objection which could be raised
to their acting N the capacity OF grain mer-
chants and warehousemen at the same tune.
The proposed legislation is in the interests
OF the producers of grain throughout the
ton comes from the Chicago Board of Trade
people who have been persistentlv fighting
The elevator interests for years. They have
raised the cry OF monopoly and arc attempt
ing to discrcdit the warehouse bills. They
have made the most reckless assertions as
to the prospective results under the pro-
posed law, while the fact IS that the law does
not contemplate any order of things,
but simply continuation of the system
which is familiar to the state at large. The
people leading the attack the bill are
sngularly inconsistent Their objection to
warehouseman dealing in grain is that he
is placed in position to discriminate be-
tween himself and other owners of grain
stored in his warehouse to the prejudice
of the other owners. This objection is fully
met by the section which provides for SUI
pervision of the warehouse business by the
state. The Chicago Board of Trade less
than two years ago made demand on the
warehousemen for just such supervision
be granted without change in the state
laws.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-22
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

HENRY SCOTT and a man named Cor
nell were shot to death in four-hand-
ed shooting ARRAY in Leslie county,
KY, during a primary election on the
18th and two other men We're seriously
wounded An old grudge was the cause.
The members of the Cuban junta in
New York regard President Mckin1ey's
message as an entering wedge for more
active measures.
THE city council of Galesburg, Ill,
has passed an ordinance prohi biting
the sale or giving away of cigarettes
under a penalty of 500 for each viola
ton.
THE 16-year-old daughter of Tom
Kanady, of Ridgeway, Ill. was burned
to death by her clothing catching fire
while she was cooking.
NEAR Polo, Ok, the wife of J. J.
Bowman was endeavoring to extin-
guish fire. when she fell through the
rafters and hung head downwards,
where she was literally roasted alive
before the eyes of her husband, who
was unable to help her.
The postmaster-generalh has made an
order to take effect at once for the pay
meat of all railway postal clerks twice
a month instead of once.
w. j. MCCONNELL, the noted temper
ance lecturer of Cleveland, o., became
suddenly deranged while speaking at
Whitesville, Ky, the other night.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has reopened
his claim to the city of Omaha, and in
tends to press it to the last. If he
wins he will be worth $50, 600, 600. The
claim grows out of the old Union Pa
cite litigation and subsequent proceed
ings in which he was legally declared
a 1unatic.
THE senate on the 18th listened to
arguments pro and con on the Morgan
Cuban resolution without coming to
any conclusion. Senator Stewart gave
notice of an amendment to the tariff
bill which he was going to offer pro-
viding for a reserve fund of $50, 600, 900
to be maintained at all times in the
treasury
On the 18th orders We're telegraphed
from ConStantiRople to Edhem PaSha
to cease hostilities and it was believed
that terms of peace would be now
negotiated directly between Turkey
and Greece.
TWELVE fremen were frightfully
burned by the explosion of a gasoline
tank in a grocery store at Chicago.
WILLIAM H. HAMILTON, his wife, and
a grown son and daughter We're found
murdered near Helena, Mont Robbery
was the motive, as their house had
been ranSacked.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-22
THE WORK OF CONGRESS.
Condensed Proceedings of the Senate and
House in Extra Session.

House In Extra Session.
THE senate proceedings on the 18th were de-
void OF interest, most of the short session be-
ing devoted to passing unimportant bills on the
calendar. The Morgan Cuban resolution wen.
being ready to report Senator Gallinger On.
H) presented amendment which he pro-
poses to offer to the tariff bill prohibiting the
importation Of goods which are the product of
convict labor The house was not in session.
IN the senate on the 18TH during the debate
on the resolution to bring Elverton R Chap
man, the recalcitrant witness in the sugar case,
before the bar of the senate, Senator Tillman
Is c. caused sensation by saying that the
senate was not after Chapman. but wanted to
discover whether any senator had been using
his position to get rich by specializing in sussar
stocks He said newspaper correspondents
had sent broadcast over their signatures the
charge that three senators had recently specu-
lated in sugar stock and that if the senate
wanted to investigate it had better do so or
hush up The resolution was finally referred
TO the judiciary committee Senator Aldrich
Or l. stated that the tariff bill would be taken
up for certain on the Gath. The senate then
adjourned until the 18th The house disposed
cept1on of the proposition for opening the Utah
gi1sonite lands which postponed Mr..
Simpson endeavored to renew his attack the
speaker for not naming the committees, but
was called to order. The house afterwards ad-
iourned until the nth
IN the senate the 18th, Immediately fol-
lowing the reading of the presidents message
asking for an appropriation to assist destitute
American citizens in Cuba. Senator Davis,
chairman of the committee on foreign relations
presented a favorable report joint resolu-
ton appropriating $50, 900 for relieving Amer
lean citizens in Cuba and it was passed A de-
bate then ensued on the resolution of Senator
Morgan (Ala.) for recognizing the Cuban insur-
gents as belligerents without any action being
taken In the house Mr.. Cochran (NIo) intro
duced a resolution submitting to the legiSla-
lures of the states an amendment to the consti-
tuition enabling congress TO collect an income
tax. The house failed to pass an appropriation
for destitute Americans in Cuba, because Mr..
Bailey (Tex-) wanted an Observation-Disclosures
for the recognition of Cuban Insurgents as
belligerents and Mr.. Dingley (Ie.) objected
and forced a motion to adjourn until the Goth
by a strict party vote
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-22
The a. p A. Constitution.

WASHINGTON, May IA number of
alterations were made in the constitu-
ton of the a. p. A. in session here Sat
urday. The presidents salary was in
creased to S., 600 and that of the secre-
tary to $1,000. 1t was decided to or
ganize an insurance feature of the
order and the work of putting it into
practical operation was left to the ex-
ecutive board. After listening to a
number of addresses on the work of the
order, the council adjourned to meet
in this city again next wear.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-22
FOR HIDING a BILL.

Secretary of the Montana Senate Sent to
the Penitentiary for Year.
HELENA, Mont, May 16.-Secretary
of the Senate John Bloor was convicted
by a jury of having secreted the sal
airy bill'' to prevent its passage the last
night of the session, and the punish
ment fixed at one years imprisonment.
The bill in question had passed both
houses the last day but was never
signed by the speaker of the house. 1t
would have cut down the salaries of
the county officers and the mum Der and
salaries of the deputies 50 per cent.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-22
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


In response to the urgent request of
the director-general of the Nashville
exposition, the secretary of the treas
ury has decided to admit for eXpoSi-
ton purposes the eel Cinnamon recent
1y arrived at San Francisco and the GA
at Tacoma but under no circumstances
will any additional permits to enter be
granted
THE movement to secure the adop-
ton of a universal postage stamp by
the postal congress at Washington has
collapsed There were too many diff
culties (the chief being that of cur
rency fluctuations in the way of adopt
ing such a stamp, and the general com
mittee, after considering the subject,
abandoned it as impracticable.
THE supreme council of the American
Protective association elected at Wash
ington on the 18th the following Off
GERS for the ensuing year: President,
John w. Echols, of Atlanta, Ga; secre-
tary of state, Harry c. Sawyer, Penn
sylvania; supreme secretary. William
j. Palmer, Colorado; supreme treasurer,
c. J. Stockman, Maryland.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has under ear
nest consideration the ACCESSIBILITY of
sending message to congress the
Cuban question, but has not yet come
to a decision in the matter. The mes
sage, II IL goes IN, Will De enUlfelV pa
cific in terms, and it can be stated Oh
good authority will not be of a war
like or sensational tenor.
THE returns received by the immi
grafton bureau during the last few
months show marked falling off in
the number of immigrant arrivals in
this country. Commissioner-Gener
Stump estimates that the decrease for
the entire country during the fiscal
year ending June 80 next will not be
less than 90, 600, of which New York
will show 200.
THE first report of Judge Calhoun,
who was sent to Cuba by President
Mckinley, has been given out and he
says that the reports about affairs
the island being in a deplorable state
and that many American citizens were
dying of starvation were by no means
exaggerated.
THE agricultural department at
Washington has exhausted its supply
of beet sugar seed, about 10, 600 pounds
having been sent out to farmers in
four-ffths of the states.
THE president on the 18th nominated
Brighten. Zenas R. Bliss to be major
Illinois, to be assistant secretary of
the treasury.
THE president sent a special message
to congress on the 18th asking for an
appropria ton of not less than $50, 600
for the relief of destitute American
citizens in Cuba.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-22

PETITIONS are being circulated among
the business men of New York, Phila-
| delphia and other cities asking for tho
! interference of the United States to
bring the Cuban war to conclusion.
1t was said to be the intention to start
the movement in all the large cities of
the country and when the petitions
are all filed to present them to Presi-
dent Mckinley.
ABOUT $4,000 tailors, men and wom-
en-, in New York and vicinity refused
to work on the nth account of the
contractors failing to live up to the
agreement they had made year ago.
OWEN ZEIGLER outpointed Kid La
vigne at Philadelphia on the 18th in g
six-round go.
MARTIN WICKs and wife, who live
near Gresham, Wis, left their home to
look after some stock that had strayed
away. During their absence forest fires
destroyed their house and three small
children who had been left alone per-
ished.
LARGE delegations of Baptist women
from various sections of the country
arrived at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th
to attend the Goth anniversary of the
Baptist Women's Home Mission society.
A STEAM launch, in which We're Is
persons seeking view of the dedica-
ton ceremonies of the Washington
monument at Philadelphia on the 18th,
became unmanageable,w was swept over
the dam at Paramount and capsized.
Three women were drowned. The
others were saved.
HE monument in memory of George
Washington was unveiled at Philadel-
phia on the 18th by President McKin-
ley with the national salute of 81
guns. An address was made by the
w he
rade. At night parade of wheelmen
took place, 20, 900 being in line.
A PoUGRKEEPsIE. n. Y, dispatch said
that Miss Rowena Reed, of Kansas, car
ried off most of the athletic honors at
the Vassar games, making records in
the hurdle, the running high jump, the
baseball throw, the fence vault and
the broad jump.
THE porte replied to the note of the
powers on the 10th and declined to
agree to an armistice with Greece until
certain conditions We're agreed to
which the powers considered exorbi-
tant. Turkey demanded the annexa-
ton of Thessa1y. an indemnity of $780,
600, 900 and the abolition of the capitu-
lations- 1t was believed in official
circles that the matter would be set
tied by European conference. 1t
was rumored that King George would
abdicate the throne of Greece and re-
tire to an estate in Austria.
FRED HOLMAN was hanged at Pax
ton, Ill, on the 14th for the murder of
Mrs. Weibl1e Geddes.
FIRE broke out in the courthouse at
Lexington, KY, on the 14th and in an
hour nothing remained but walls.
Harris beautiful statue, Woman Tri-
umphant," bought by Lexington wom-
en- for SIS, 600. was in the rotunda and
was destroyed. The records were
saved. The courthouse was built ten
years ago at cost of $40, 900.
STELLA, Neb., was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. The loss
was about $50, 900.