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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
DIED AT ATLANTA.
News Received of the Death of Mrs
George f. Skinner.

News was received from Atlanta, Ca. yes
terday, Of the death at that place OF Mrs.
Elizabeth NJ. Skinner. relict Of George E.
Skinner, who died in ST. Paul in September,
two years ago. The remains will be brought
to st. Paul and the funeral take place from
Mrs. SINNERS late residence, 229 Summit
avenue Tuesday. The SINNERS came to St.
Paul from Faribauit.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
WILL FARM WITH SCIENCE.
Agricultural College Sends Out
TVventy-Six Graduates.


The eighth annual commencement of the
state school of agriculture will be held at the
state school Friday at p. m. The order Of
the exercises is as follows;
Music.
Prayer E. ........ 80. Rev. Edwin 5. Pressey
Salutatory -. ............ ..... MI MCGUIRE
FOREST Fires r.-..,.... 80. MI. AIluTe"s
"Minnesota's Dairy Industry -. Mr. Hacker
Music. "if
Graduating Weeds ............Mr. Sayers
Rotation of Crops ............ Mr. Thompson
"Class History ..................M MI Berkey
Music.
Hawks and Owls as Related to the
Farmer. ........... ........Mr Van Slyke
Meat Production" .............M Mr.. Whitaker
NalGdlctOTy ........................M MT. oITdHu
.r' Music.
Comforting the diplomas. President Northrop
Benedlcton. ........-... ........,
The graduates are: Charles Howard An
drews, Faribault Boyer Aune, Starbuck;
Oscar Frank Berkey, Pennington; Paul
Haney Burton, Minneapolis; Herman Haupt
Chapman, st. Paul Roy Rockwell Ferris,
Mortified; Knut CLAUS Finseth Kenyon
Thomas Geoghegan. Webster; Harry Clayton
Kenyon; Leigh Harrison Hopkins, Blooming
ton; Sam Randolph Houlton, St. Cloud; Otto
Bennett Krogstad, Pelican Rapids; Louis Law
renee, SHUTDOWN; Arthur MCGUIRE, Hegbert;
Philip Henry Norton Oakland; Carl Olstad,
Hanska: Albert Lea Savers, Lakeville; George
William Strand Taylor's Falls; Hedge Ludwig
Tasa, Holden; Porteous Thompson, Houston
Spencer Tuve. Minneapolis; Oscar Otto Uhl-
horn, St. James; Asa Weldon Van Slyke,
Castle Rock: Clarence Royal Whitaker Point
Douglas; John Frederick Ziemer, Waltham.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
CONGREGATIONAL CLUB.
Vext Meeting to BE Held at OIivet


Church.
The Minnesota Congregational club will
hold its next meeting on Monday evening at
o'clock in the Olivet church. Merriam Park.
Dinner at $50. Following is the programme:
Subject-"The Churches Represented in the
Club"
What Have They to Give to the Com
munity Which Is Specially Theirs Rev.
John A. Sternen.
Some Tendencies in Their Present Life, -
Rev. Watson B. Willard.
Evangelism and Education in the Work Of
These Churches, George r. Merrill, d. D.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
MongoIs Are Grateful.

pair arrived
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
POSTPONED A WEEK.
Grand Army Masquerade at Mrs.

B, Doran's. es~@ -
The masquerade party by the West side
ladies' committee of the Grand Army of II e
Republic advertised for Tuesday. evening.
March %, at the home of Mrs. F. B. Doran
has been postponed for9 one week, and will
occur Tuesday evening, March, 80. The change
sous illness of a friend.
The entertainment committee OF the AckeI.
post, G. A. R., has in preparation a pro-
gramme for one of the posts entertaining
and interesting camp fires to be held Satur-
day evening March "a All comrades and
their families are invited. '''
Your money is safer deposited a:
c,ur State Savings Bank than whei
id away, or carried on. your person
2 eposits made now entitled to :.
.los. interest July /.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
White Bear Lake improvements.

There is a concerted effort to induce St.
Paul people TO improve White Bear lake, and
for the past several months the White Bear
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
BOOK FARMING.
BRYAN TYSON

The prejudice against what is termed
''book farming is very strong, al
though based on unsubstantial grounds
Is la gratifying to know that this preju-
dice is gradually decreasing, and as
education becomes more general, will
be wholly eliminated. By book farm,
ing" the reading of agricultural papers
is implied. There are not few sue
cessful farmers who decry book farm
ing, and yet in their practice negative
their position. 1t will generally be
noted of them that they absorb readily,
but never give out information. With
great eagerness they gather up oral
hints and suggestions from their neigh
bors and are the closest observers of
what is going on their own farms
and the farms of others, says the
Southern Cultivator.
Will the mere fact of the publication
Of their own experience or what infor
nation they may have obtained from
others in an agricultural journal or in
book form invalidate the correctness
and value of that experience or infor
mation7 Does a reflector behind a
lamp destroy the brightness of the
light9 How can it demonstrate the
correctness of an experience by obtain
ing the detailso of it orally Why should
reading in print the same experience
demonstrate it's uncorrectness7
Books and agricultural journals, in
recording the experiences and observa
tions of others, and the conclusions
drawn therefrom, serve as the IT fector
behind the light to extend its focal
power and bring out more perfectly its
illuminating power.
1t may be said truthfully that every
observation written is not absolutely
correct. Neither would it be correct If
it was spoken instead of being written.
The real base of this prejudice is the
fact that readers do not always COM
prehend the re al mission and object of
an agricultural journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
AGRICULTURE.

Plant Irish potatoes just as soon as
possible now if you want to be on the
market first.
So far as it is possible to avoid, milk,
cream, or butter should never be
touched by the hands at any stage of
manufacture.
Crude petroleum is a good paint for
the iron work of wagons, machinery
and tools. 1t is almost as cheap by the
barrel as water.
Do unto me as you would have me
do unto you, if our positions were
changed, is the sentiment of every
brute on the farm.
At the Kansas Station, wheat in 70
tation with corn, roots and cats, gave
Eve and one half bushels per acre more
than wheat grown continuously every
year.
The Pennsy lviania State Experiment
ssation has issued bulletin on Com
putaei0n of Rations for Farm Animals,
that in its simplicity and practicability,
meets the requirements Of every
farmer.
The man who makes poultry pay a
large profit must have frying size
chickens on the market early and feed
go as to have eggs at the time of year
when price is high and others hens are
not laying.
Ensilsge and the winter dairy are al
most the complement of each other.
Do not get ready to run a winter dsiry
and expect to make it pay wholly upc n
dry food. That is not the newer and
better way.
The Wisconsin Experiment Station
in the past has declared that 100 pounds
of sweet whey is worth seven cents as
a promoter of flesh and health in
calves, while sour whey is not worth
anything, II true, it is pointer worth
something.
A farmer may not seem to be adding
to his bank account at all these hare
times, but so long as his farm is inn
proving he is all right. A man wht
starts with common farm and end
with q good one has made success
land q good farm will carry him safely
through the declining years of life.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16

Let readers learn that the mission of
agricultural journals is not to lay down
q fixed rule for the guidance Of farm
ers, but to enunciate principles which
farmers can study until they thor
oughly understand them and after
wards apply according to varying Cir
cumstances and conditions. The agri-
cultu al journal does not say to the
farmer, You press the button; we will
do the rest" The agricultural journal
elucidates and explains the general
principles underlying the practice and
constituting the science of agriculture
The agricultural journal should be
read for the purpose of learning the
why and the how, and more for learn
ing the principle than the actual prac
tice. 1t should be used by the farmer
as any other implement, intelligently
and for the purpose intended. Thus
used they are among the best invest
ments on the farm.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
cow PEAS.
G.. III. TURNER
Burgess, Miss.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
They should be cultivated in drills,
not sown broadcast, as a renovator of
land.
The objections to sowing peas are:
1. If sown among corn at the last
blowing, it is usually done too early to
permit the corn to receive the neces
sary cultivation, and too late for the
peas to mature properly before frost.
O. If sown after wheat or oats have
been harvested they are likewise toe
late. More than this, the time devoted
to sowing is usually needed on cult
waited crops.
The vines are dwarfed for lack of
proper cultivation. Consequently peas
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16

are always in a condition to bear, and
a crop will rarely be missed. have
in mind a particular tree so pruned
that has not missed q crop a single
season, in fifteen years. Some times
the pruning brings too many young
shoots, and some Of them have to be
cut out.
In the small fruit line shortening
IN OF the canes of raspberries and black
berries should be made, the former TO
about four feet and the latter to five
feet. Ali old canes should be cut out.
Currants and gooseberries need little
pruning except to prevent them carry
ing too many shoots, and to keep up a
supply of young wood. The fruit is
the best on strong two year shoots, and
| the aim must be to keep up a supply
of these. The English type Of goose.
berry does not produce as much wood
as our native sorts; hence needs less
pruning. l have known old bushes
of currants and gooseberries to be the
better for being cut down completely
to the ground to give them an entirely
new start.
Grapes must be pruned in way to
have an abundance of young wood.
There are those who prefer to have
little else besides young canes from the
ground each year. At the same time,
if the last years fruiting cane be well
provided with side shoots, it will prove
satisfactory for another crop. Prune
the side shoots back to within two or
three eyes of the main tenn. This cut
ting back decreases the number of
punches, but adds to the size of what
are produced. Joseph Meehan, Ger
mantown, Pa, in Country Gentleman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
RALEIGH, N. c., FEBRUARY 16, 1897.
should never be sown, except on rich
land to be mown as hay.

should never be sown, except on rich
land to be mown as hay.
A pea crop to give good results,
should be properly stimulated. A per-
feet fertilizer contains three elements:
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash;
acid pho sphate and kainit contain re-
spectively the two last. Peas draw
the needed nitrogen from the air and
consequently do not need direct ap-
plication of nitrogenous manures, such
as stable, guano, etc. Hence by an
application of the two last elements
and by growing and turning a crop of
peas in connection Herewith, the first,
(nitrOger), which is by far more costly
than either of the other two, can vir
tually be grown. By noting this fact
and acting accordingly, farmers can
reap an immense advantage.
AS a proper stimulant for the peas, I
suggest an application of 800 pounds of
acid phosphate and 400 pounds of kaini5
per acre, sOwn broadcast and plowed
under about March 18th. Early in
April lay { IF in drills 8 feet apart, pref
erably in line with the sun at 2 o'clock
and drop corn to 10 inches apart, be
ing half the distance usually required
when the drills are 4 feet epart.
Corn requires perfect fertilizer and
consequently it will be necessary to
strew proper quantity of stable ma
nure, guano other heterogeneous manure,
in the drill. After a crop of pea vines
has been grown and turned under, no
further application of nitrogenous ma
nures will be needed. An occasional
pea crop should be turned under From
the 1st to the 10th of June, COW peas
should be planted in drills midway be
tween the corn rows. They should be
thinned to 1 vine 6 six inches apart.
The plants should be pulled up, not
cut off.
The Wonderful, or Unknown pea.
should be planted about May 2OGh and
the plants left one foot apart. Some
experiments as to distance, from to
feet in the drill, may be made with
both kinds of peas. If you wish to
grow peas, they should have distance;
it vines, they may be thicker. The
Clay and Wonderful are believed to be
best varieties for fall purposes.
Cultivate thoroughly until the vines
become zoo large to work.
Early in the fall, preferably before
frost, adopt necessary measures for
turning under the corn stalks and pea
vines. Then SOW from 1 to bushels
of wheat per acre. Seventy five bush
els of corn and from 80 to so bushels oi
peas can thus easily begrown per acre,
and from 25 to 40 bushels of wheat
Glover seed may be so wn on the wheat
about April 1st and narrowed in
Every farmer should try at least two
acres on the above plan.
! BRYAN TYSON
| RaleiPh. N O.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
THE DAIRY.
BUTTER PRICES.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
At, or little before the beginning
of the year of 1895, the writer and
many others were quite hopeful re-
garding the outlook for butter, and at
that time there did seem to be a
strengthe ming up of prices, but little
later il went the other way an by the
first of May the butter market was
pretty fat and was Disappointing the
balance of the year.
But low in price as butter was, it
paid as we'll or better than anything
else produced on the farm except eggs.
Even now utter is lower in price than
it usually is at this time Of the year.
But when we remember how very low
prices are for grain, it does seem that
it will bring more converted in TO but
ter-butter of good quality than any
other way of marketing would be like
ly to to return-if, as heretofore, ex-
cept production of eggs. This is espe-
cialIy true Of corn.
Doubtless many went out of the dairy
business during 1895 and many mere
reduced their number of COWS fully
fifty per cent, and others made even a
greater reduction of their herd. Those
that did either belong mainly to that
class of farmers who rushed into dairy
ing expecting to get suddenly rich. AS
a rule, the last ones to go into dairying
are the first ones to go out when de-
preston in prices comes. 1t is the old
dairymen thatas rule stay by through
the ups and downs of the business.
They are the ones that in the end win
success, as a rule.
There would be sense in a farmer dis.
posing of one half his herd if he would
get rid of the poorest COWS and by bet
ter methods of care and feeding increase
the butter production Of those retained.
This can many time be done. ALI the
money made in dairying has been made
with good COWS well fed and cared for.
If times improve so that the pUr-
chasing power of the people of
of this country proves greater during
this year than it was last, butter ought
to average higher in price during 1897
than it did during 1896. There are sone
ifs in the way, yet there are reasons
for being hopeful.
During the past year filed cheese
received black eye and that makes a
better market for good cheese, which
will naturally result in divertipg q
larger proportion of the milk product
to cheese making than has gone in that
direction for several years past. TAX
ing all these facts into consideration,
it seems there is really no need for any
one to abandon butter making who is
we'll established and who will do his
best to increase product per COW and
improve quality. The farmer that will
not do that better be OUT Of the busi-
ness, anyway.
r. W. MOsELEY.
| Clinton. Iowa
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
aORTICULTURE
HORTICULTURAL HINTS.

T. B. Terry thinks the Ozark region
of Southern Missouri is to become the
fruit garden of the world.
The largest peach tree on record is at
Greenfield, Mo. It is five feet around
the largest part of the trunk, and when
in it's prime had a spread of 80 feet.
The fruit grower must attend to
business. He cannot at the same time
be banker, grocer, or dry goods mer-
chant. Personal experience is needed.
Every fruit grower should have some
specially for a leader and also a mum
Der of auxiliary crops to protect against
danger of total failure any one year
Massachusetts Plowman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
Clinton, Iowa.

Love your wife and children, your
farm and live stock, and you will feel
better and be able to face adverse con-
ditions. Pet your horses and COWS and
they will love you and be more profit
able and obedient
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
rsR NATIONAL FARMERS ALL
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President Mann Page, Brandon,
VSiice-President-H. Q. snavely, Leb-
anon, Pa.
Secretary Treasurer A. South
worth, Denver, Col.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
HI. Loucks, Huron, 8. D.; w. P.
Bricker, Cogan Station, Pa. ; J. +. VII,
let's, Kansas; W. L. Peeke, Ga.
JUDICIARY.
r. A. Southworth, Denver, Colo.
3. W. Beck, Alabama.
Nd. Davie, Kentucky.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
JUDICIARY.
snnra oARoL1NA FARMERS STATE ALLI-

AEOE.
President DR.. Cyrus Thompson,
3ichlands, @.
Vice President Graham, Ridge
Se1rstary-T -Treasurer-W. 8. Barnes,
Hillsboro, n. O.. C,..
T1soturer-J. T. B. Hoover, Elm City,
~ istteward-Dr. Re- V. N. seawell, Villa
Ti Chiapiain-Rev. P. H. Massey, Dur
DO Door or-koeper-Geo. T. Lane, Green's
ooro, n. =. rT,
Assistant Door keeper-Jas. (. Lyon,
Durham, N. Q. w-uo
-Arms-A. D. <. wallace,
Rutherfor iton, N. O. TIN,
State Business Agent-T. IVey, Hills
OGTT' TT1stee 4te Business Agency Fund-W.
A. Graham, Machpelah, n. =.
uxEcrFTvg COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
AT. Hneman, concord, N. c.; n.
O. English, Trinity, n. y; James H.
Mewborne. Kins on, n. Z.
srATa ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
John Brady, Gatesville, N. c.; DR..
IF Harreu, Whiteville, N. O.; Z. J.
Gambler. Acton. n, Z.
aarth Carolina Reform Press Association
Cgce-s-J L. Ramsey, Preside'at }
lsyTTSogS Butler, Vice President; ". D.
Barnes, Secretary,
PAPERS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16

EGThe Progress
sive Farmer 10 q
good pRper---far
above the aver
age--and possibly
the best advertis-
luq medium in M.
CT Printers Ink.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16

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good paper--faa
above the aver%
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ing medium in No
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-27

100 per cent was the highest
percentage attainable in points
on WhiSllics exhibited at the
Worlds Columbian Exposition.
Chester III. Graves AZ Sons of
Boston, indirectly exhibited
Guckcnhcimcr Pure Rye Whis-
key, distilled May, 1850.
This brand was awarded first
prize over all competitors.
\ few dozen bottles of this
Whiskcy are still owned by the
McSSTs. Graves AZ Sons and the
attention of News readers il
called to the fact that once sold
no more can bc obtained.
COnnoisSeurs all over the coun-
try VOuch for the reliability and
responsibility of representations
made by 4. ~. Graves - sons
whose address j. BOX 1850, Bos-
ton. II you want fine Whiskcy.
write them.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-27
MR.. RICH RE MEMBERED.
Presented With a French Clock by His
Bible Class.

At the close of the morning devotion
in Trinity Nj. +. church yesterday the
"Rich Bible Class. numbering over
hundred ladies and gentlemen, went to
the class room and as the doors were
olossd Nioe- President j. Albert Porter
stepped forward and remarked TO the
teacher that the class desired him To say
"A faw words before the lesson. He said:
"This class has adopted the adage that
Actions speak louder than words, aud
therefore we desire as an expression of
our regard for you, 20 present these ac-
tiOns tD you" at the same time uncover
ing IA beautiful Mexican onyx clock with
the finest French movements, surmounted
by bronze lion. MIR. Rich was COM
pletely surprised, but replied in one of
his happy speeches. Mr.. Rich who is the
principal Of Messer Street Grammar
school, Is deservedly popular In this
church and school. He is a local Preacher
of the New England Southern Conference
anu assisted the pastor, Rev. James
Tabor, In the morning services. He Of
ten SUI plies pupits in this vicinity and
last summer spent almost his entire va
cation In preaching at Falmouth. The
class Ia q mixed one ard its sessions are
held at 1910 each Sunday afternoon in
one of the large front rooms connected
with the church, and strangers are "a
ways welcomed TO its lecture talks.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-27
l,yFElEgH H2nR
W0RkD

At the regular meeting Of Providence
Typographical Union, No 83 held yester-
day in JCurLa hail, tho following Cflicors
were elected for the ensuing year: Presl-
dent, William j. Meegan; vice president
Rudolph DeLeeuw; recording secretary
and treas urcr, y. w. R,es; financial seq
retary, William Abel; sergeant alarms.
d. L. pike; for executive committee,
franklin Il. Eddy. William Palmer
Clarence Burtwell William Abell Il w.
RoxburRh auditing coirmittee, William
Lewis. T.. i. PIKE, II. w. RoX burgh.
Owing to the fact that the last
meeting of he Rhode Island Con-
trail Labor Union occurred on Christmas
Eve, "A very slim attendance Of delegates
was The consequence.
Richard j. Srhoield OF the Atlantic
Coast Seamen's Union presided
Credentials were received from two
delegates of Machinists Union. No. liz,
and they were obligated
4 communication was received from
the Building Trades Council inviting tie
Central Labor Uniun "a meet them in
Joint session on Nondav, Dec. -, at 5
o'clock. In husio hall for the purpose Of
arriving az an ainicsble settlement OF the
auinla0mAtiun project
The nDmlnatlo of officers and all other
business was laid nvcr until the next
meotiIg. after which The session ad 4.
iuurncd TO meet In Music hall tonight at
5 o'clock.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-27
Accident to Trolley Car
On 0lney Street.
DASHED DOWN THE HILL.
Struck a House on North Main
Street With Great Force.
TWO PERSONS SERIOUSLY HURT

Slippery rails were the cause Of ono of
the most serious electric car accidents
that have occurred in this city for a long
time.
1he accident took place yesterday just
before Il o'clock at the junction of Olney
ana North Main streets. There were
about dozen passengers on the car at the
time besides the conductor and motor
man. But, strange to say, only two per-
sons were seriously injured, though every
body On the car was sell shaken up.
Mrs. Sarah Malufsky was crushed and
bruised about the abdomen ana her head
was cut. Conductor Irving h. Mott had
his shoulder dislocated and was bruised
about the upper part Of his body.
Charles III. Holmes was also soInew hat
bruised.
Cars had been running oil right on the
tracks during the forenoon, but when tho
snow turned TO sleet the rails became
coated with ice, and men were sent out
TO keep the tracks sprinkled with sand,
and each motorman hau pail of sand.
IL was thought that this would give the
car grip enough on the rails to make it
comfortable This was the condition of
affairs on the hill when Prairie avenue
car sll, run by Motorman Marrow. turned
into Olney street from Camp street The
grade Is not very steep here and at Pros
pect street the car was easily stopped to
take on two passengers. From here down
the grade is sleeper but the car was again
easily stopped at Pratt street, whore Mrs.
Malufsky and her little girl boarded IL.