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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13
AORTICULTURB
Do NOT BUY NURSERY FROM Urr.
RELIABLE PARTIES.

The legislature, which has just ad
journed, passed q very important
measure entitled An Act to Prevent
the Introduction and Dissemination Of
Dangerous Insects and Fungous Dis
eases Affecting Crops" a commission
of three was named by the act, consist
ingof the Commissioner of Agriculture,
Director of the Experiment Station,
and the President of the State Horti-
cultural Society.
Probably the most destructive insect
known has recently been discovered in
North Carolina Il is the San Jose
Scale, and eoon destroys orchards
whenever it once finds a foothoId, un-
less treated promptly and vigorously.
Millions of dollars of loss have already
resulted IN other States and rigorous
laws have been enacted to prevent its
spread. The commission above refer
red to, recognizing the need OF lmme
diate action, to prevent the destruction
Of the growing fruit intefests, met on
Saturday in the cffi2e of the Expert
ment Station. All the members were
present, consisting Of Hon. s. L Pat
terson, Commissioner Of Agriculture,
Mr. J. Van Lindley, Pomona, N. O.,
President of the State horticultural
Society, and Ell. B Battle, Director of
the Experiment Station. Plans were
considered for the prevention of the
spread Of the San Jose Scale, which has
already found foothold, as well as to
prevent it's introduction to other locali-
ties. An expert will be sent at once to
visit all the nurseries in the State, and
to locate any infected spots, if such
occur. Rigorous measures will be
adopted, and the Commission is clothed
with full power to enforce whatever
regulations they think necessary in
order to carry out the provisions Of the
law. One of the provisions which will
be enforced will be the registration of
all nurgeymen, dealers and agents, so
as to ensure that the nursery stock
that is sold will be free from such dread
infection.
The people of the State will doubtless
cordially CO operate with the Commis
sion in destroying these pests Their
interests demand that great careshould
be exercised, and that no nursery stock
should be bought from unreliable par
ties, and certainly not from parties
that cannot be able to show certificate
signed by the Commission. n.-The Bulle-
tin.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

By the way, poor COW cannot be
efforded on the farm of man of mod
crate means. Millionaire Vanderbilt,
who is opening up a large experimental
farm in North Carolina, is as careful
about this as though he we're dependent
on the income of the dairy to keep him.
If Vanderbilt cannot afford to keep a
poor COW, certainly one less 6ffllent
can lily Rfford it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

Odd jobs about the farm can be done
when the weather or circumstances do
not permit regular farm work. When
nothing can be done to advantage, even
a dollar a day is worth considering,
when saved by doing painting, carpen-
ter work, or general repairing. To be
sure, a tradesman would do more in a
given time, but in winter time is far
more plenty than money on the farm.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

The market gardeners of Boston are
taking lively interest in the agricul
tural schedule of the new tariff bill.
Petitions have been circulated and coz
siderable personal effort expend ed by
W. W. Rawson and others toward
securing the full rates of duty on vege.
tables imported from other countries
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13
POINTS IN POULTRY BREEDING.

Many attempts to improve flock Of
fowls have resulted disastrously. Quite
often farmer having fcck Of com
mon stock that is we'll acclimated and
free from disease, but not very profit
able, disposes of them and secures
pure bred fowls, which he gives no bet
ter care. Having been improved and
made more profitable partly by receiv-
ing excellent food and care, better than
the farmer is accustomed to give, the
improved fowls do not thrive. Possibly
they are from high scoring fancy stock
that has been weakened by being over.
shown and inbred. Under his manage
ment they may be no more profitable
than his common stock, while they are
more sensitive to exposure and suscept-
ible to disease. He has about es much
use for them as man without hot
house to put them IN has for hothouse
plants. This man may become preju-
diced against purebred fowls. Had he
secured suitable farm-reared purebred
birds from stock that had not been
bred for exhibition points for several
years, and at the same time had taken
more pains to keep the henhouse clean,
free from lice, and to provide better
food and enough of it, he would doubt
less have secured a greater profit and
have been gratified with the results.
Proper food has much to do with i'm
proving breed, and improved charac-
teristics cannot be retained unless sus-
taiped by it. Common scrubs endure
privati0n and exposure best, and it is
not therefore always wise to discard
them. It may be difficult to secure
really good birds for useful purposes.
In many cases it is best to sav3 some
OF the best shaped and most thrifty
looking Of the common hens on ac-
count of their extreme hardness, and
breed them with choice purebred males
Of the desired breed. By using pUres
| bred cocks of a certain breed for gen
| erRtions the flock may be ''grGded up"
and be almost a pure breed, even bet
ter for practical purposes, il the COM
mon stock used was Of the right sort.
These grades have the desirable quail
ties of the males ancestry and retain
much Of the hardness of the original
scrub females. The mixed males should
not be used for breeding Kill them as
soon as they are large enough to make
good broilers. Make it rule never to
breed from any male that is not choice
specimen of a pure breed. Samuel
Cushman, before the Plough Farmers
Meeting.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

A fresh" egg is c1o that reaches
the consumer il three days or less
after it is laid. OF course eggs are fit
for use when some cider, but are not
fresh" If more of cur Southern
farmers would manage to sell strictly
fresh eggs they could soon get custom
ers at better prices than the market"
prices for eggs. Same way with butter
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13
4s CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLI-
AEOE.

ag CAROLINA FARMERs' STATE ALLI,
AEOE.
resident DIR. Cyrus Thompson,
hieuds. Y. Q.
ice ice MPresident-Jno. Graham, Ridge
:, ,sretaTy es: n -Treasurer-W. s. Barnes,
,sgglSs sssarsr-J. =, 7. B. Hoover, Elm City,
S5 :Ss5vard-Dr. V. N. soawell, Villa
\ ib'apiasn-Rev. ri P. H. Massey, Dur
oor. o ci keeper-Geo. T. Lane, Greens
> \. Q.
q aas;staQt Door keeper-Jas. E. Lyon.
,L-,S9e.aIa3,ntt..at-Arms-A.D.K L,Se.I3, D. <. Wallace,
bsTforIton, n. Q.
ate Business Agent-T. Ivey, Hills
;, ,,,arae er: Business Agency Fund-W
;rahan. Machpelah, n. =.
r--T~Vr CoMgTTTEE Oh THE EoRTH
R9gTxa FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
T Hileman, Concord, N. c.; N.
inglish. Trinity, n. c.; James m.
7b0rne. Kins on, n. =.
X ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
2hn Brady, Gatesville, n. c.; DR.
Harreu, Whiteville, n. O.; L. )
der. Acton. n. e.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

Jumping from shallow to deep pIow-
ing all at once usually results in q de-
creased crop-yield at the succeeding
harvest. The coil should be gradually
deepened by letting the plow brir & up
LITTLE Of the subsol each year till the
desired depth is reached.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13
POULTRY ARD
GETTING THE HENS READY FOR
BREEDING.

It is coming to be more generally
understood that profitable poultry
keeping demands early Matched chick
ems. Unless the pullets can be got to
laying in the fall, any subsequent re.
turn from them during their first year
will b. seriously handicapped by the
expense Of keeping them through the
first winter without any production Of
eggs Then, too, it is necessary to set
the chicks out early in order to get the
cockerels OFF to market while prices
are good and before they have chance
to ''eat their heads eff I" In these days
Of incubators early Matching is very
simple matter, so far as the mechanical
part of the work goes; but when it
comes to sitting early chickens out of
early eggs-ah! there's the rub. The
early eggs have provoking way Of
fatty (and odorously) refusing to hatch.
the trouble is generally with the hens
that laid the eggs-they were out Of
condition. In our zeal to make the
hens lay well during the winter when
eggs are high we are likely to overfeed
them and to get them fat. Thea the
germs become weakened and fail to
hatch. Again winter layers are not
apt to take sufficient exercise to make
the germs of the eggs strong and fertile.
II well fed in the morning they set
huddled about the floor of the hen
house for half the day, every moment
of which should have been spent in
exercise. To have fertile eggs for early
Matching the winter layers must have
as near the conditions that prevail in
spring nd summer as possible. Then
she is On the go from morning till
night, If given free range, and her food
is in 40 small part Of e heterogeneous
natur 9-bugs, worms, etc.
Nov to approximate as closely as
pose bile to summer conditions during
the winter, let the hen house be made
warm and comfortable as possible.
Cover the floor six inches deep with
hay or straw, and scatter little wheat
and oats in it three times G day, with
cracked corn occasionally for a change.
Feed sparingly of soft food in the
morning, giving just little ''pipiDg
hot" to stimulate them and to Whet
their appetites for the grain that must
be dug out of the hay. At night, when
they can no longer exercise, they may
be given all they will eat, either Of soft
food Or grain. Wheat and oats should
provide the bulk of the latter, while
the former may we'll be made up from
bran, ground oats and corn meal,
mixed. To these articles add a little Of
the meat meal that is now offered by
numerous manufacturers and sold in
almost every village. If the hens have
plenty OF water and are kept free from
vermin they ought under these con-
ditions, to lay fertile eggs and lots of
them. See that they do not get chilled
in the nest and do not keep them tc0
long before putting under hens, or in
the incubator. With hens and eggs
cared for in this way it ought not to be
difficult to get out early chickens and
to make g success of them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

There is nothing palmer than that
you cannot afford to cultivate wheat
for an average crop. The only wise
rhipg to do, evidently, is to fit your
land to produce en- exceptional crop.
This will certainly pay, and it can be
done.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13
EXECUTIVE BOARD.

[ann Page, Brandon, Va; r. a.
Ithworth, Denver, Col. ; John Bre
W. Va A. B. Welch, New York /;
", Stokes, s O.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

The Chicago Tribune states that IN
1895 gifts to benevolent institutions
amounted to $29, 900, 600, being an in
crease of 100000 over the gifts Of
1894.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13
TuDTCIARY.

, &. Southworth, Denver, Colo.
. ". Beck, Alabama.
/. ,. Davie, Kentucky.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

xgh o. the G6OUs-fGE5eG pGpeTs are
seted 10 BeeD the list attending en-
Srgt page G5l2 add others, pTOO:d6d
are duly elected. Any paper Jot!-
70 advocate the OcGJd platform tCtSt
sgyped from the Ii8t promptly. Oar
- can rg0tg e3s tgh0t papers are
zsEed ga thci- igateTest.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

/ Carolina Reform Press Association.
Eosrs-,J. L. RGT28ey, Prestde'st ;
ION Butler, Vice President; ~. :.
res. Secretary,
PAPERS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13
> vATIONAL FARMERS ALI
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

RESIDENT Mann Page, Brandon,
ice President-C. Vincent, Indian
lis, Ind.
ecretary Treasurer-W. P. Bricker,
yan Station, Pa.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

Work a little more by plan and sys-
tenn this spring. 1t is the only way
out Of trouble. The conditions which
confront the farmer of to day make
discretion, careful calculation and q
keen sense of business management
absolutely esential to any marked de-
gree of SUCCESS. The sooner we come
to a realizing sense of this, the better.
Poultry and dairying are probably
the most profitable branches of farm
ing now. There is still room for many
to engage in either, or both.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

WThe Progress
ave Farmer Is q
Sood paper---fRr
sbove the aver
.oe--and possibly
ne best advertis-
i1g medium in N.
ch Printers Ink.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

"The Progress
siye Farmer ia q
good paper---far
above the aver
and possibly
the best advertia.
ing medium in ~.
c." Printers Ink.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-19
Steamer Cumberland.

The Cumberland fresh from the hands
of the painters, has gone on her first trip
for the summer. The steamer is newly
coppered, and has had a modern electric
apparatus installed by the Belknap Motor
company, including a powerful search
light, and system of lighting through
out, also will furnish power for the con-
veyor which is now being put on the
slip. The officers of the boat are the same
as last season. In placing the search
light in position, the eagle that for 45
years has graced the pilot house of steam
ers plying on the coast, first the New York
and then the Cumberland, was moved
back few feet; although it was the in
tention to remove the bird altogether, the
efforts Of Captain Thompson prevailed
and it is still there with outstretched
wings and craned neck las if keeping vigil
for the safety of the vessel.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-19
FOR THE BIG CELEBRATION.
How the Lynn Naval Battalion Will Come
to Portland.

Lieutenant M. Won Loesecke of the
Lynn Naval Battalion, was in the city
yesterday to make final arrangements
for bringing this organization here July
9Th. The company will leave Boston
at s o'clock on the extra boat which is
to be run to Portland for the big cele-
bration here. On their arrival they will
proceed directly to the armory. After
a breakfast they will participate in the
big parade as artillery with four guns.
In the afternoon the company will parade
through the streets and give an exhibit
ion drill at some suitable spot. Lieut..
Won Loesecke was driven about the city
yesterday by Mr.. L. A. Goudy and he
examined several places which have been
mentioned as suitable for the exhibition
drill.
The citizens committee is finding the
merchants and some of the business
houses very liberal. The newspapers OF
Portland subscribed $50 yesterday towards
bringing the Mardi Gras floats to Port
land Tor the big celebration.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-19

One of the most important closing-out
sales by public auction that has taken
place in Maine for a number of years will
be the absolute dispersal to the highest
bidders of all the horses, carriages,
sleighs, harnesses, robes and blankets of
Mr.. D. E. Fiske, at the Union Street
Stables, Waterville, Maine. There are
fifteen exceptional horses, including fam
lily horses, gentlemen's road horses, a
matched pair, a trotter, 234 IA, PAGER
2.32 IA, several splendid livery horses,
and number of excellent business ami
mails. The carriages number twenty
seven, are right up to date in style, finish
and quality; are new or nearly new
comprise Goddard, piano box nd Corn
ing buggies; Bangor buggies and punts;
| road and speed wagons; fancy traps,
surries, an English Park Surry, and
many others of attractive designs. The
sleighs are in perfect condition and offer
both single, double and trotting patterns,
also several pungs. The harnesses are a
prime lot, are new and suitable for both
single and double bitches. There's a
Concord coach with perfect running gear.
The sale takes place rain or shine; will
begin promptly at eleven O'Clock in the
forenoon, Thursday, June 9th. J E.
Conant & Co., of Lowell Mass, will be
the Auctioneers. You can examine the
property at any time; it will be sold
without limit or reserve of any kind
whatsoever; cash or satisfactorily in
dorsed notes are the terms, and the
weather will not stop it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-19
Farmer Mclaughlin at Mystic Han.

Farmer Mclaughlin, of Scarboro, will
train his rhetorical batteries tomorrow
morning at Mystic hall upon no less
parsonage than the president of the
United States.
1t is understood that the farmer, in
common with his Populist brethren, is
greatly exercised because the prosperity
which Mckinley promised last fall has
not more abundantly materialized. The
farmer was in town last Wednesday in
terviewing our business men in reference
to present conditions, and the next day
was circulating among the oppressed and
downtrodden tillers of the soil in his own
town and it is expected that he will re-
gale the faithful tomorrow morning with
a tale of woe that will draw tears from the
eyes of even the minions of the plutocratic
press
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-19
In the Times,

The whole world just now is interested
in the Queens jubilee, and Portland peo-
pie will consequently take interest in the
article on that subject to be printed in
the Sunday Times tomorrow. The list
includes a history Of the Queens reign,
giving briefly the chief events of those
sixty eventful years. There are also
articles on the jubilee celebration itself.
OF especial local interest is the account
of the visit paid by the Prince Of Wales
to this city in 1860. A wonderful piece
Of mechanism which measures the sun
shine and the rain shed upon Portland
and the direction and velocity of the
winds which blow over it is the subject
of an illustrated article. Bab's letter this
week is one of unusual interest and
forms part of woman's page of rare
excellence. The Times has recently con-
cluded arrangement whereby many of
its illustrations will be the work of Mr..
J. W. Trowbridge, one of the leading
newspaper illustrators of the country.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-19
PORTLAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
The Initial Meeting Held at City Building
Last Evening.

There was number of ladies and
gentlemen prominent in the town,
gathered at the Council Chamber, last
evening, to hear Mr.. W. R. Chapman of
New York describe his views in regard
to the proposed Musical Festival to be
held in this city this fall, and to consider
ways and means to make the festival a
great success.
Mayor Randall presided, and Mr.. Chap
man made a statement similar to what
has been published several times in the
PRESS. This is the gist of it, and we
repeat it because one or two of the ladies
seemed to think that the Portland pa
pers had been remiss i'll not letting the
public know what great musical affair
this festival is to be. There are to be five
entertainments in the festival (Which
will be given at the Auditoriuln), three
evening and two matinee performances.
There will be a chorus of one thousand
voices, thirty-five of the most celebrated
singers in the country, including Mime.
Nordica, and the great Seidel New York
orchestra of 90 pieces. Season tickets
will be five dollars, and it is desirable
to secure $50 patrons who will each take
a season ticket and agree to sell SIX tick
cts to their friends SO that the sum OF
nearly $4,000 will be virtually guaranteed.
A short time before the festival is given
and it is proposed to give it right here
in Portland, Maine, as we have said
there will be an auction sale of choice
seats, just as Mr.. Ira Stockbridge has al
ways arranged for the sale of seats at his
entertainment courses. There will be a
general executive committee, then there
will be committee of reception to receive
foreign guests. Mr.. Chapman has 800
New York friends who want to come,
want to come. Then there will be a
decoration committee and an entertain
ment committee. The Haydns will be
responsible for $50 of the visiting chorus
expenses, $50 will want to pay their own
bills, and the Mayor thinks citizens
committee will look after the remainder.
Then several of the ladies and gentle
agreed that to make the affair success
lots of missionary work must be done.
Portland has always been awake to the sit
uation and never failed. Messrs. E. A.
Noyes, j. B. Coyle, Geo. +. Duncan and
Joseph A. MCGOWAN, Hermann Kotzsch-
mar, President Boothby of the Board Of
Trade, Mrs. Fellows, Mrs. Philip H.
Geo. Franklin French, besides others,
spoke strongly and agreed to work hearth
" for the object. The ladies and gentle
men present all agreed to become a So
Letting committee and it was decided to
have Messrs. Chapman and Chase pre-
pare regular prospectus of the festival
to be presented at a meeting to be called
a list of names of citizens will be ready
and divided among the soliciting COM
mittee, SO that the citizens attention
shall be called Immediately to the en-
terprise.
It is determined to make the Portland,
Maine, Musical Festival one of the great
est successes of the century.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-19
PERSONAL.

Mr.. James P. Coombs, who recently
graduated from Brown University, is
spending few weeks at his home at
Pleasantdale. His .manyIfriends in the
city will have an opportunity sof hearing
him sing two selections at the First Free
Baptist church Sunday morning.
Mrs. Nellie F. Littlefeld, of Bridgton
who has been visiting friends in Portland
or the past fortnight, is now at the Eye
and Ear Infirmary undergoing surgical
operation.
Hon. Albion Little, of Portland; Hon.
S. M. Bird, of Rockland; Hon. S. N.
Campbell, of Cherryfield; and John
Calvin Stevens, of Portland, architect
members of the Eastern Maine insane
hospital commission, were in Bangor
Thursday at the Bangor House.
The friends of Mr. John M. S. Hunter
of the Pennington Chronicle, will be
panied to learn of his critical illness.
1t is not a return of the appolectic attacks,
to which he has been subject.
President Seth Low of Columbia uni
VcfSiuy, has WflbtcH dSucr1l L 1SSeuSeI
Agent Boothby that he will soon go to
Mount Desert via the Maine Central,
Judge Symonds was at Bangor Tues
day and Wednesday as counsel for the pc
titioners in hearing before the SUI
preme Court for an injunction restrain
ing the city from proceeding any further
in the matter of building new city
building in that city.
Mr.. D. W. Heseltlne, the druggist, is
confined to his home by illness.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-19


TNHIS is Parasol weather and the Parasos are
i here whenever you ready for them.
There's wisdom in buying a Parasol
early in the season. there's nothing to be gained by
waiting and much comfort may be lost. Parasos
for the outing season, for the country, for driving.
for children for men; and parasols of silk and lace
and ribbon to match the most elaborate costume.
1t is the top of the season for shirtwaists, and
shirtwasts are at the top of the fashion, beyond
doubt There's reason for it too. Shrtwaists are
the most sensible servceable things for warm
weather, they picturesque, they becoming to
everybody and they don't cost much Our great
stock has been replenished every day, we haven't
allowed assortments to get broken SO you who have
delayed buying until now will find splendid variety
to select from and complete line of sizes.