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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-01

urday. and was signed by Rev. Herman
Hssse Of Wheeling.
Doty denied having ever been In
Wheeling. lie has been In the Bride
well several weeks Nearly n month
ago u was discovered that he was
wanted In Mllwaukee Tor higamy. An
investigation developed that at least
ten women claimed him as their hus-
band.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20

We are indebted to the Raleigh
News and Observer for Jim Young's
report of his inspection of the White
Bind Institution under orders of the
Democratic chairman Of board. It
reads as follows:
RALEIGH, N. O., June -, 1897.
To the Trustees for the Deaf, Dumb
and B ind, Raleigh, N. c.:
GENrLEMEN:-W your Committee
on Inspection Of Buildings ndGrounde,
attended to the duty assigned US on
Monday, May 245h, and beg leave to
make the following report: We in
spected both departments at the most
inopportune time that could possibly
have been selected. When we arrived
upon the grounds at both the white
and colored departments, We found
the employees busily engaged in get
ting the students ready to depart for
home. Everything was necessarily
stirred up, though we found both de,
partments in excellent condition, con.
sidering that the school was breaking
up for the summer vacation.
We should feel like reporting un-
favorably upon some of the sanitary
conditions of both departments, were
it not that new buildings are to be
erected and modern sanitary appli
ances provided, as soon as the appro.
priations mrde for the same are avail
able. We feel, however. that the best
has been done that can be under the
circQmsGaL C3s.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES H. Young,
CHAs r. MEsERvE,
Committee on Inspection.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20
REALTH AND COMFORT OF
BRRS. -.--

A hive that is painted white or of a
light color, placed in some cool and
shady place, is not only attractive in
itself, but it also tends to tighten the
labors of its inmates and has decided
influence upon their health, is the opin-
ion of Ambrose L Riley, in the Busy
Bee."
The hive should not be so compli
Gated that it will not admit of any easy
access to all it's parts by the bees. If
it is, all weak colonies, and seme OF the
strong ones, will be damaged if not
entirely ruined by those troublesome
worms, the moth.
The work in the apiary should be
done cleanly, neatly and orderly, for
by so doing, the temptation given to
the bees to mar and deface the COM
plexion of the apiarist will be PIE
vented to a great extent.
have frequently visited some bees
yards where the weeds, -sunfowers,
plum sprouts and other things too nu-
merous to mention, surrounded the
hives so thick that it was hard mat
ter to tell just where the mans bees
were, until you were in good kick
ing distance of them.
An apiary should not present such
desolate, dismal appearance, unin
viting and comfortless, deterring bees
rather than enticing them to it. The
weeds and graes should be cut down
before they ripen to seed, thus pre-
venting them from sprouting the next
season.
The hives should be repaired. and il
you have time, sawdust, coal cinders,
or much better, coarse gravel should
be placed near the entrance and around
the hive, which will save the trouble
of cutting the grass and weeds that
abound,
Always have an abundant supply of
water near your bees. This spring an
old fellow who claims to know it all
about bees came where I was sitting
up a watering trough in place and
said ''Well, I never knew before that
bees would GO thai close for water" I
suppose he thought they had to go
eight or nine miles after it.
Again, there are some meddlesome
ants that worry the life out of bees.
Does any one know what ants are
good for p A cloth wrung out OF coal
oil and applied to the outside Of the
hive where the ants travel will soon
stop the annoyance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20
POTATOES FOR PIGS.

The Michigan farmer. some years, is
at loss to know what to do with his
potatoes. Thousands of bushels are
thrown out to rot. This was the case
in 1892 and 1896. 1t may not happen
this way again for some years to come,
and it may happen so again this fall.
II it does, what can be done with the
potatoes to avoid total loss9 For a
man TO go to the expense and labor of
raising crop of potatoes and then find
absolutely no market for them S seri
Gus question, 10 say the least, says a
writer in Michigan Fruit Grower. II
enough could be got out of the crop to
pay the labor till it would certainly
help matters some. / have always
made it a practice to cook the unmar
ketable potatoes for the pigs, and in
like the above mentioned have fed the
entire crop to the pigs and COWS. I
was always satisfied that got the labor
cost out of the crop. In 1890 the Wis
consin Experiment Station made two
feeding trials with boiled potatoes and
corn meal compared with corn meal
alone, as food for hogs. In the two
trials it took 44O pounds Of corn meal
to make one hundred pounds gain. In
the first trial with potatoes it took 295
pounds Of meal anG $40 pounds of po-
tatoes to make one hundred pounds of
gain; and in the second, 234 pounds OF
meal and 7O2 pounds of potatoes to
make the one hundred pour ds' gain.
Now, averaging the trials and stating
the matter in another way, we find
that AL pounds of potatoes are equal
20 one hundred pounds Of corn meal as
pig feed, or one hundred pounds Of
corn meal are equal to about seven
bushels of potatoes, and il corn meal is
worth 80 cents a hundred pounds, then
the potatoes are worth from IL to 10
cents bushel to feed to pigs. Or, the
fact can be stated in this way: One
bushel of corn is worth four and one
half bushels of potatoes. OF course,
this is not high value for potatoes,
but it is better than throwing them
away.
The best Of cooking potatoes is indeed
very small. On almost every farm
there are waste rails and pieces of
| board, rubbish enough to cook the po-
tatoes, and the farm would look better
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20

In our winter rains. Makes q stiff
heavy soil loose and porous, thereby
draining the soil, and enabling the soil
to store up moisture in spring for use
in dry weather.
Craze until middle of April, and cut
in June for hay. Makes a fine combi
nation with Bermuda or wiregrass.
Vetch can be sowed in corn or cotton
field, just as crimson clover is sowed.
II is of course best to prepare the
land for any Of these crops. The vetch
is one of the best renovators-m8kes es
poor land rich and rich land richer.
Stores up nitrogen in the soil.
B. IEBY.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20
NEWLY CLEARED LAND.

If any one wanted to know what diff
fculties the early settlers in wooded
sections had to encounter, let him
make a clearing in some wood lot and
then try to grow a crop among the
stumps. He will break more plow
points and harrows working this land
than the crop will be worth when
grown. But the early settlers had at
least one advantage, and that wes that
their cleared land was free from weeds.
10 all the older settled parts of the
country there are many bad weeds
among trees in the woods, the seeds of
which have been carried there by birds
or other animals American CCltiva-
tor
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20

time-mRy throw some light upon the
matter. Gas, water and telephones
cost 500 the last six months; for
the next elk monts two hundred
dollars is appropriated, Print
ing paper cost $3. 6l7; $4,000 is appro
prlated. There is a special appro-
Drlation of SIC. 600; of this amount $5,-
90 Is for the experiment station work
and $500 for the museum, the balance
OF S., 700 is for labor, fuel, repairs and
such special appropriations as may be
ordered. You see it will be very easy
to carry out this understanding if il
exists"
Mr.. Bailey continues:
Il intended this paragraph for the
Governors information. By mistake
Of tbs type writer it got into some Of
the papers. l remember that Mr..
L Ramsey, Secretary OF the Board OF
Agriculture, prepared a statement in
answer to the foregoing, in which he
showed that under the D -mocratic ed
ministration the appropriations were
fully as large if not larger. But that
is no concern of mine. 7 undertook to
show that the Budget was so padded
that the plan of paying the Commis
sioner 50. 500 could easily be carried
out. The above figures show that be
yond question"
This is nice, very nice, but Mr.. Bailey
entirely overlooks the question at issue.
1t is not "Were appropriations padded2
1t is ''Is there any truth in the rumor 2"
Mr.. Bailey concludes follows:
II believe Mr.. Ramsey also alleged
that I should have looked after this
matter when was a member of the
Board. He is Recording Secretary of
the Board and he ought to know that
the Blu tget was approved while I was
examining it, and that as soon as the
vote was taken I asked for reconsidera-
tion, which was granted. That after.
noon I read the Budget item by item
and asked that the items above named
be explained. I had not heard at the
time of the salary arrangement alleged.
II had would not have accepted the
verbal explanations that were made. "
We are very glad to give Mr.. Bailey
hearing, even il he does persist in
drifting entirely away from his subject
in such a way as to convince us that
as a preacher he would be lament
able failure. Every one can see that
he has entirely failed to give the name
Of his informant, or give the slightest
proof that there is any foundation in
the rumor. And that's the one and
only important point.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20
No. SO

tive organs in good condition, prevent
ing constipation.
Ten years ago, or even later, cutting
corn was pretty hard work, and, ex
ceptlng threehiDg, the most disagreea.
bic job done on the farm. Now, thanks
to the American genius, the corn har-
vester works to perfection, and the
cutting OF corn has been reduced to q
matter of driving a team and setting
up the bundles.
Prof, Henry. in Feeds and Feeding"
gives the proportionate value Of the
corn crop, counting only the digestible
nutrients, as being divided into So per
cent in the grain, end 81 per cent. in
the stalks. In other words, corn
crop that yields sixty three bushels of
corn to the acre has in the stover or
stalks the value of thirty seven bush
els OF corn if it is properly cared for.
This is equivalent to saying that field
of corn yielding sixty three bushels to
the acre has the feeding value of 100
bushels Of corn il the stalks are used to
the best advantage. This showing,
which cannot be successfully disputed,
is enough to indicate any careful farm.
or to save his constalks.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20
SAVING THE CoRNsTALKs.

Some investigators think the grain
but half the value of the corn plant,
while others. more conservative, esti-
mate the value of the blades and stalks
at one third the total value of the
plant.
At the lowest estimate the value of
the blades and stalks is great enough
to make it an object to save them,
They are practically wasted if the
stalks are left to stand in the field,
says Farmers Voice When left
standing the blades become dry and
are blown away, being altogether lost,
and the sugar, gum and other valuable
constituents of the stalks and huske
are washed out by the rain and lost,
so standing cornstalks are Of very liz
tie value by the time stock is turned
on the fields. About the only use they
are in this condition is to furnish wad.
ding to prevent the grain ration from
packing in the stomach, and for this
purpose straw or swamp grass would
be of more value than weathered corn
stalks.
In the East, where such things are
more closely looked after, the selling
value of corn stover, we'll cured and
bound in bundles at the time of huak
ing, is about So per acre, when timo
thy hay is selling at s. per ton. In
other words, feeders willingly give
half the drice OF ton Of timothy hay
for en- acre of corn stover.
When stover is cured and fed on the
farm it's value is great enough to add d
materially to the amount that may be
realized rom the crop of corn. Cattle
and young horses may be kept through
the winter on it without other rough
feed, and they will come out in the
spring with round bodies and sleek
coats, for the stover keeps their diges-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20
RALEIGH, N. C., SEPTEMBER 20, 1893

If it was thus utilized. AS to the labor
of cooking, it is no greater than that
of hauling the potatoes out to be
rotted. do not want to be understood
as advocating thst it would be good
policy for the potato specialist" when
he finds himself loaded down with hun
dreds of bushels of potatoes for which
he can find absolutely no market, to
buy hogs enough to consume his pota
toes. But for the man who has hogs
it would be policy to feed them all the
potatoes he could, and thus make his
loss as light as possible. It seems to
me that this is an argument in favor
of growing few hogs with the pOta
toes, and then, If necessary, get the
labor cost of growing a portion of the
potatoes, at least, instead Of throwing
them away. Many a man knows from
hard, actual experience that it is ter
riole risky to put the eggs all in one
basket, q" for many a time he has stun
oiled and fallen with the basket and
lost his eggs. In one respect potatoes
are worth more than the experiments
would seem to indicate, and that is
they furnish variety. All stock will
De thrittier in long trial of feeding if
it is furnished variety of food than
if it were confined to one or even two
foods
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20

Mr.. Bailey has written Us a card in
reply to q paragraph in our last issue.
He says:
IN the first place am not respon
sible for what use others make of my
utterances. I am responsible for the
truth of statements make"
Good. And he ought also to have
some evidence of the truth Of rumors
that he circulates. Mkt:
In my letter of resignation stated
that HAD HEARD that it had been ar
ranged that Mr.. John r Smith should
receive 50 500 yearly salary as Com
missioner of Agriculture instead OF
81 800, which is the legal salary. did
not say had heard that appropria
tions of the Beard of Agriculture were
padded, as you have It."
Again Mr.. B4iley it in error. We
said the rumor was that appropria-
tions were padded in order to in crease
Smiths salary" That's the statement
in full. We agree with him that ap.
propriations are padded there is no
doubt about that matter. He quoted
figures in his letter to show it. Here is
what he says:
II have been in orrned, and give
you the information for what it may
be worth, since l will no longer be in
position to watch, that while the sal
arv of Mr.. Smith ss Superintendent of
the States prison 81 500, whereas it is
nov as Commissioner only $500,
there exists and understanding that he
shall Illegally and immorally get 81 800
per annum from the Beard OF Agricul-
ture; that Mr.. Smith would not egree
upon the exchange until this under
standing was reached. The padding
of some iter1s of the budget at the
June meeting of the Board-to which l
called the attention of the Board at the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20
The DANGER OF RUNNING
DOWN.

Virgin soil contains many elements
of fertility and mechanical conditions
that are difficult to replace after they
have once been exhausted through an
ignorant system Of farming. Science
can do much toward renovating worn
out soils, but it is doubtful if they can
ever be returned to the same condi
tions they were in when man first
started to till them. At least it would
take many years and generations of
farming after the most approved meth
DDS to restore run down piece of land
to its early primitive condition. We
may add manure, green crops, mineral
fertilizers, and all the artificial manu-
rial mixtures ever invented, and, val
uatl9 as these substances are, it is not
likely that the soil will be made just
right
Virgin soil OF great fertility is the
product of many thousands of years Of
building up by natures slow but sure
method. Vegetation of season after
season has rotted and decayed in the
soil, and this has been buried out Of
sight by succeeding generations of
plants. The roots of these millions of
plants drew from beneath rich stores
of potash and phosphorus acid, and the
leaves and branches gathered nitrogen
from the air. The animals helped to
enrich the primative soil with their
excrements and decaying bones. The
burrowing animals brought up from
the subsoil mineral fertilizers and new
earth, which became mixed with the
to soil
During this slow process of soil build
ing and enriching' the fertility in
creased steadily and gradually. 1t
was not the work Of a day or year
The food that was added to it wes di
gested slowly. The plant food was as
simulated by the soil, aud was ready
for absorbsion by other plants. ALI it
needed was the stirring of the soil to
make the stored up fertility ready for
use.
We build up our soils after this same
process as nearly as we can initiate it,
but we never duplicate it entirely. II
it is not always possible to add Just
what Nature intended should be put
in the soil. Moreover, our methods
have to be quick. We cannot wait
ages for the soil to digest and assirni,
late the food given to it. Herein is the
danger of permitting any soil to run
down., It make take only few years
of steady dropping to exhaust the fer
tility of the best virgin soil, but it will
take generations to restore it. 1t is
easier to maintain the natural primi
tive fertility and mechanical conditions g
of the soil than to restore them after
they have once been lost. We should
practice preventive measures, and
then curative remedies will seldom be
required.-C N. Walters en- American
CuLtiUGtOr.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20
THE POULTRY YARD.
SKIM MILK FOR HENS AND
CHICKENS
,rrespondence of the Progressive Farmer.

G C1rresDondence of the Progressive Farmer.
On our farm we set high value upon
skim milk for feeding hens and chick
ems. The only trouble is that we do
not begin to have enough milk to spare
a great deal for this purpose.
If any one doubts that it is a kind of
food which chickens greatly er j ~, let
him try putting few quarts INTO an
old pan or kettle and setting it where
the fowls may have access to it. The
amount of milk consumed in this way
by flock of fifty hens and chickens is
simply astonishing They seem per.
fectly wild to get it, and will troop
after the person who supplies them this
delicious drink in great swarm. Care
must be taken not to have the milk too
deep in the pan, or some of the chicks
may get drowned. A shallow vessel is
best for this purpose.
A little meal or middlings mixed
with the sour milk will add to its value.
1t may be clearly demonstrated that
this milk has just the elements chick
eus and hens need to produce good re.
suits Let one flock Of hens b kept
supplied with sour milk and another
be deprived of it and the supply Of
eggs will soon convince the most skep.
tical that the milk possesses a high
value for feeding purposes. In the
same way. let fl )ck OF chickens, five
or six weeks old be fed literally on SOUR
milk and another be given none. At
the end of few weeks weigh the chick
ems and note the result in favor of
thoee fed with milk.
Sour milk has lost only the butter fat
it once contained. It still contains all
the flesh and muscle producing ele-
ments it ever did. On some farms
know of, no store is set upon this
waste milk product" as they call it,
and it is thrown away when not need
ed for the calves and pigs. Here is a
serious loss, and I am convinced that
gCxOH1wT1JTTurr 0zy pAcw
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20
The BEST WINTER PASTURE.
Committee on Inspection

Prof Irby Talks of Hairy Vetch.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Hairy .vetch sowed with rye, bar
ley, or white turf oats, makes the best
winter pasture for the Southern
farmer.
Time of sowing, August to Novem
ber. Sow broadcast. Grows on any
land that will grow peas. Grows in
the winter, when the land would other
wise be uncultivated. Comes eff in
time to make almost any crop. Keeps
the land from washing and teaching
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20
CUES rION ANSWERED.
Correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
~ G Experiment Station, Raleigh

Jorre spondence OF the Progressive Farmer.
~ G Experiment Station, Raleigh.
N c.:
GENTHEMEN:-T have a bottom that
is subject TO overflow, and is most too
wet for corn. I wish to make a
meadow of it. I want, to SOW grass
that will give me no trouble to be rid
of it in case / should want 60 Wo,k k the
land later, and one that will not
spread all over the place. Please ad
wise me as to what to SOW.
Yours truly, P. s. B
Answer by Frank E Emery, Agri
culturist to N. Q. Agricultural Expert
ment Station
You will do we'll and save your hay
when it is grown, by giving immedi-
ate attention to Strengthening your
stream where overflow occurs, and
raising banks little at the low Places
go water may ay in it's channel and
dredge some for itself. Try straight
ening on your own land, and see if
your next down stream neighbor will
ler you help him on his portion, end
have a sort Of lily time doing it with
treat along with you for him and the
boys.
This done prepare the land we'll for
seed, and SOW the following per acre:
Red Top Grass, ID lbs.
Fowl Meadow Grass. II los.
Timothy, 5 5 lbs.
II you wish you can add thsee
pounds OF peavine clover and one
pound OF white clover. The latter
may save your timothy after haying,
if it starts to growing again then. You
need not have fears about these
grasses, and in your locality, if your
locality, it your land is in good order,
they should yield abundantly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20

When the Hypocratic leaders who
have howled themselves hoarse over
the Jim Young Inspection" scandal
found their hypocrisy exposed in last
weeks PROGRESSIVE FARMER
They spake not word
But like dumb statues or breathless
stones,
Stared on each other and looked deadly
pale"
They suddenly became as 'ilent as
the tomb as to this question. 1t was q
great scandal as long as they could
make people believe it fusion" work !;
and these most righteous advocates ~
of good government could never sup
port party guilty OF such things.
BIT as soon as we proved it to be the
work of the Hypocrats they concluded
to swallow 'nigg and au' for the
sake of "white supremacy" Ask the
News and Observer, Raleigh Post, and
your county Hypocratic sheet if this
is not correct. They CAN'T deny it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-09-20

We have never said that Democrat
hired the negro editor to write the ia
nous and infamous editorial In the
Wilmington Record, but such language
as the Morehead City Herald Dispatch
uses in speaking of the editor in-chiet
of this paper convinces us that there
are animals claiming to be Democrats
who are not io) good to hire negroes
to write sucn rot.