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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-09
High School Notes.

Edith Covey entered school, last
week.
Jet Smallwood was absent the first
of the week.
In order to arrange the program to
better advantage, Miss Penny was
given the grammay class instead of
Miss Watson, ,and the beginning Eng
lish class will recite to Miss Watson.
Bernard Carpenter returned to
school last week after long siege of
typoid fever.
Tweve pupils passed up from the
ninth to the eighth A class in the
high school. They were Glen Baker,
Hugh Barry, Amelia Bliss, Pearl Dean
Agnes Elliot, Axel Ericsson, Martin
Ledene, Charlie Oxford, Blanch Sain
Mary Sullivan Leon Thompson, Leo
Wetherell. Two of them take up
a ninth grade study.
On account of there being SO many
pupils not taking regular courses,
there has been some difficulty in ar,
ranging tho program to accommodate
everyone, with the present arrange
ment there are a few conflicts, but
this condition will be changed as
soon as possible. e.
Five new classes wore begun last
week, the beginning of the new term
physiology, english, algebra, solid
geometry and english history.
The twelfth grade reading class is
we'll pleased to learn that Lowell's
works are to be taken up, now tha
they are through with the study oil
Dryden, for they had the same work
in connection with English, and the
review will be strictly ''snap."
It has been a very noticib]e fact
during the past two weeks that there
is tendency toward indifference tc
the music work. It seemed unfair
that the music work be forced upon
Those who could not sing, or that the
whole burden be borne by the few
who were willing to sing, while the
others did no work to take the place
Of music. So new plan was adodt
ed. Instead of music, those who pre-
fer may take up the study of the cor
stitution of the United States. It il
planned that the class shall learr
parts if not the whole article. The
plan worked we'll, in fact almost te
lwell, for the majority Of pupils, many
on account Of severe colds, some out
of mere preference, entered the con
stitution class. Among those were
all the leaders Of the singing as vel
as the pianists, 50 that the impression
/ produced on visitors in the musi.
l hour and opening exercises would b
decidedly unfavorable.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-09
Public Sale,

I will cell at public auction for
William Findlay on Friday, February
oath, 1899, Section 81, Elk township,
six miles northwest of Worthington,
Mimi. sale to commence at 10 O'Clock
a. m. sharp. Tho following describ-
SHEEP, HORSES and MA
CHINERY -250 ewes, 80 lambs, go fat
sheep, 4 Illinois bred Shropshire
bucks, I serel horse s yrs old, / black
mare 8 yrs old, one bay marc Is yrs
old. One Champion eft. binder, l
6.ft. fax harvester, l Champion 6-ft.
mower, l 10. it. hay rake. l Dain hay
stacker, Jones 6-ft. mower, 2 hay
gatherers, Monarch, gang plow, l
16-inch wheel plow, l 16-inch Clip
per plov, I 14-inch stubbls pillow, l
l4-inch breaking plow, 4.sec: drag,
| 3sec drag, / spring tooth drag, l
3-sec. log roller, / 6-ft. pulverizor, l
Hoosier eft. drill, l LIFT. sseder,: 1
lift seeder, ono wheelbarrow grass
seeder, l potato planter, two corn
cultivators, 2 lumber wagons,
two bob-sleds, s sets team
harness. Lot of sheep hay
racks and grain troughs, 2 largo feed
boxes. One XXI feed mill, l 2
horse power, / speed jack, 100 Ply
mouth Rock chickens, 40 Plymouth
Rock cockerels, $50 bushels Mans
bury seed barley, lot seed potatoes,
2O8 grain bags l Minnesota Cheif
tanning mill, l mustard separator l
No. L Clipper grain and and seed
clean er, 8 stacks Of sarly cut wild
hay, gas pipe stock md dies, 4 Star
fence machine lat private sale.)
Stoves, chairs, etc. Lots of articles
too numerous to mention.
TERMS OF SALE.-A1l stims of
SIS and under cash. Over that
amount time will be given until De-
cember LIST, 1899, with approved Sc
curity nots. s per cent. discount for
cash on all sums over $40 No re-
moval of property until satisfactor-
lily settled for. If day should prove
unreasonable stormy, sale will take
place on Saturday, 25th. Free lunch
at noon. ]. N. HOLBROOK, Auct.,
S. Kindlund, Clerk.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-09

A private of the 18th Regiment
WAS shot in a saloon in Augusfa, Ga,
last week, and about fifty members
of the regiment arrested for brsakiDg
into the store house to secure amuni-
ton to avenge the murder with. The
fifty are now under arrest and the r.
suit may be a serious matter. From
reports it is not thought that any of
Co. 81 boys took any part. The 81
loon is good thing and there are
probably a number Of persons, inter
ested in those fifty fifty boys under
arrest and the one murdered, that
votes for saloon, because it never
heretofore interfered with their peacs
and happiness, and from this tragedy
lesson can be learned, that no Ev-
ing person can tell what hour whis-
ky's work will enter their presenes in
a disastrous manner In some form.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-09
Butler Wins the Race,

A short time ago we clipped a
piece from the dailies regarding a
race of Richard Butler. of Ellsworth,
for Dawson. The following is taken
from a daily announcing the result.
"The steamer City Of Seattle, Cap
tain Hunter, has returned from Ly-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-09

a rich Minneapolis Klondiker, that
the Seattle could not do the dis
tence to Skagusy in four days. The
vessel made the trip in seventy-fv
hours and twenty-five minutes. Ths
Seattle brings tho first news from the
famed Koyokuk district since winter
set in. The creek has yielded excsl-
lent returns. There are about 1,5OO
people in the dictrict and thirty odd
steam wheeler on the Koyokuk prop
or.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-09
Card Of Thanks,

We desire to extend to all kind
friends and neighbors who 80 kindly
assisted during the illnoss and death
of our beloved con, our most sincere
thanks. Mr. .ANp MRs. .THEo. OLSON
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-09
Resolutions.

At the last meeting of fraternity
Lodge No. 101 A. F. & A. NJ, the
following resolutions was adopted viz:
Whereas it has pleased the Grand
Master of the Supreme Lodge on
high to call from labor to refresh
ment our late lamented w. M. elect,
Bro. Abe L. johnson be it resolved
that we bow in submission to the
edict calling our late brother from
this life to tho life to como "appoint-
ed for all of us; and while We sincere
" mourn our loss in this earthly
lodge, we also offer our sincere and
heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved
wife and family, trusting that time,
the great healer: will soften the great
grief now felt by them and 30 heal
the wound inflicted, that they may be
able to see the mercy of the Supreme
Master of the universe, in issuing the
edict which removed the loving spirit
of our brother and fellow worker from
4 pain racked body to that mansion
where we are taught no pain enters.
And be It further resolved, that CO
nv of these resolutions be- spread on
tie minutes, a copy forwarded to his
widow and that they be published in
tho papers.
G. NJ CRANDALL Com.
| JAs g. DuRTEE
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-09

The XIX Century club will mest
with Mrs. Lear next Monday after
noon.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
THE DAIRY.
WORKING u TE R.

Much has been said and written on
the subj ct of working butter too
much, but we seldom hear anything
ABOUT the Ill effects of not thoroughly
working the salt through the butter.
Butter may be perfection when taken
from the Churn. All things pertain
ing to feed OF co We and hauling OF mlk
and cream may have been according
to most improved methods, but if the
salt is not thoroughly and evenly
worked through the butter it most
surely will not keep sweet and re tain
it's Il neh tvor but a short time. Streeked
butter will not keep sweet. To insure
against streaked butter it shoulded
stand, after washing and sailing,
at least twelve hours, and twenty four
hours is bet :er to allow the salt to die
solve, and then receive another work
ing, always working by pressing ard
turning the mass with the ladle, never
by dra wing the ladle ecr oss the butter,
as that destroys the grain The second
working adds 100 per cent. to the
keeping qualities of the butter.-Ex.
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rnoNCLupED FROM PAGE II

for the new a We have grain con-
stantly accessible to all, inaselt feeder,
and it is surprising how little Is used
from it 90 long as the rye and sorghum
afford good pasture. Our self feeder Is
generally supplied with corn, sorghum
or Kafir corn seed, or chopin fact,
the least expensive mixture available.
Salt and ashes also are kept in troughs
near by.
In U herd Of hogs we let u COWS
and shotes run together, and probably
the sows get rather fatter than desir-
able, but they do we'll and rear excel
lent pigs; and then again lee wing them
all &C sessIble to feed saves so much
labor that We do not think it pays TO
bother with more painstsking meth
DDS. Nothing we have ever tried gives
as large profits as hogs raised thus.
Our sorghum crop is certain and heavy,
and we use it every day in the year
IL, cuttirg we always begin early, when
the cane is juicy and the seed in the
dough, and do not in any case let 1t
get too ripe for fodder. Sorghum is
u main reliance, but this year we in
tend adding srtichokes and pumpkins,
as an experiment..
Have never had q case Of hog chol
era; never lost any hogs from sickness,
except some hat had eaten the car
casses Of animals that had died OF
blackleg.
Toe water for the hogs is pumped
from a well in the orchard by a wind
mill, and they have the river to wal
low in.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14

nine tenths of the plant food-the fer
tility-that would have been lost to
the farm il the crops had been sold in
the market.
Here is where the real profits of
dairying come in. The COWS pay for
the feed they consume. return to the
land most of the fertilizing value of
the feed and besides this pay 81 each
clear profit above the cost Of the feed
and the labor of caring for them.
Labor is proatably employed ell the
year and crops sold at a big price in
a certain market. TIE farmer who sat
in the audience that day did not think
far enough before condemnipg dairy
iDg.-Voica.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
A NEW FORAGE CROP.

Hon. Marvin V. Calvin, Of Rich
mond county, Ga, has hit upon a new
forage plant, and what he says about
it will be of much interest to the farm
ers. He writes: Last spring, at
tracted by an advertisement, 1 pur-
chased a small quantity of what were
called forage BEANS but the true
name Of which is velvet beans"
''The soil, a sandy loan, having
been thoroughly plowed and narrowed
and treated to early trucker at the
rate Of 400 pounds per acre, 1 planted
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
THe FERTILIZER BUSINESS.

What a change there has been going
few years. Farmers twenty years ago
knew no more about the nature and
the real value of the fertilizers which
manufacturers we're Offering them, or
about the effects that might be expected
from them, than they did about what
is going on on the moon. And the only
thing they could buy in the line of fer
tiIz3rs were the ready mixed goods of
the manufacturers, and these they
had to take on faith, for there was no
guarantee, and perhaps not even a
notice of their constituents. Now,
thanks to the teachings of the agricul,
tural press, and Of the agricultural ex-
pertinent stations in their bulletining,
and of the lecturers at the farmers in
stitutes almost every fertilizer user
knows about the ingredients that are
available for feeding our crops, and
about the value and market prices Of
these things. Then, too, a large mum
Der Of those who buy and use fertilizers
have learned that they can do their
own mixing; that they can get their
plant foods much cheaper in the form
of standard chemicals, unmixed, than
in that Of ready mixrures, and that in
many cases these standard chemicals
can be applied as they are, without be.
ing mixed. Fertilizer manufacturers
have looked with general disfavor upon
these changes in the business. They
discouraged the purchase, and in many
cases refused the sale Of unmixed goods.
They begin to see, however, that they
must move with the ~proce ssion or be
left behind. l was glad to note a big
step in advance in the new catalogue
of a certain Fertilizer Co. 1t is in
deed a new departure in the fertilizer
business, and the firm deserves credit
for it. In the first place the company
offers pure chemicals and raw mate
rails for home mixing" Several other
firms have done this also; but the n
named stands entirely alone, so far as 1
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14

am aware of, in giving analyses in G
definite form. 1t used to be the way
with them, as it is still with others, tt
give the guaranteed analysis about as
follows:
Ammonia ........... to 5 per cent.
Available phos. acid. IS 1910
Potash to s " d"
Now the catalogue (and the gUaran,
tee printed on the bags in che sam
way) gives it as follows:
Ammonia. ...,....... 8 per cent.
Available p~hosphOric acid 10 " I"
Potash, K2 ............ 5
In this way the purchaser knows ex,
acsly what be is getting, and he can
figure out the value of the article for
himself, and on q sound basis. Our
leading experiment stations have de
manded this new departure" for some
time, and now that this n firm has
set the ball in motion, let US hope all
others will fall in line. 1t is a most
c~ommendable innovation. The only
thing 1 have yet to criticise is that the
fertilizer men insist in quoting am
monia, when it would better be re.
dUced to nitrogen.-T. Greiner, in
Farm and Preside.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
I1CLUB RATES.Nz

That we may be more enlightened as
to what is going on in the different
parts of our greaT country, we ought to
diversity our reading. More Western
and Northern papers ought to be read
in the South and more Southern papers
should be read in the West and North.
Believing this the best thing to do to
everlastingly obliterate the prejudices
of the past, we have arranged a list of
papers to offer with THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER. The price in the parenthesis
is the regular subscription price of the
paper and the other figures are what
we charge for the paper with THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER for n year. Re
newals for the other papers cannot be
taken at the club rates, but all neU
subscribers can. You car renew for
our paper and get the club rates:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
THE REAL PROFIT OF DA1RY1NG

At the recent meeting of the Illinois
Dairymen's Association at Galesburg,
W. R Hostetter read a paper in which
he said the average annual profit from
a COW in his township ia gil. In the
audience sat two farmers and enc of
them said in an audible tone to his
neighb0r: II don't want to run q dairy
on that kind of a profit" Thus are
such matters often looked at from the
wrong viewpoint. Mr. Hostetter has
made money keeping COWS at a profit
of 81 a year from each one. Not alone
from the profit N the COWS does
he make money. That is the smallest
end of the profit be looks for. He
feeds his grain and hay to his COWS and
gets the market prica for it on his own
farm. He saves to his farm the plant
food the grain farmer sends to market
in the form Of grain. At the end of
the year Mr.. Hostetter has sold his
crops to his COWS, charging them full
market value for what they consumed,
and they have paid him 81 each more
than he could have got for the crops if
he had hauled them to market at Mt.
Carroll. Not only has he been saved
tho labor of hauling the crops to mar
ket, but the COWS have returned to him
in the fertilizer they made more than
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14

the beans three feet by three feet, drop
ping two TO three beans in each check.
A full stand was secured, and cultiva'
tion as for corn proceeded until the
plants manifested a disposition to run.
They grow rapidly and l~uxuriantly.
Betimes clusters of beautiful purp pie
bICs 'oms appeared on the vines, which
later shielded every inch Of ground on
the plat set apart for them. Later
bean pods, fifteen Or twenty per clus
| ter, appeared. / intended to have had
the vines cut when In blossom, but alb
sence from home and forgetfulness on
the part OF the hired man prevented
this. When the vines we're cut the
beans were rapidly approaching ma
turity. lite a number in each clus-
ter did asu The yield, in carefully
cured forage, was at the rate of three
tons per acre.
II have fed the vince, with bean
pods on, to COWS and horses with most
satisfactory results. 1 have ground
the beans and fed to poultry with sim
liar results Delighted with this new
forage crop, l Immediately cast about
to gather all the information obtain
able as to it's history, the experiment
of others, etc.
"As a soil renovetor, the velvet bean
is believed to be superior TO the COW
pea. It supplies, gresn or cured, an
extraordinary quantity of the very
best forage from the poorest and light
est soils.
DE-. B E Stockbridge, of the Flori
da Experiment Station, writss me that
he regards the velvet bean as one of
the strongest nitrogen gatherers among
all Ieguminous plants. The beans con
tain quite as much nitrogen as cotton
seed meal. Boiled, as we sometimes
do COW peas, the velvet bean will prove
to be a highly nutritious food for COWS,
mules or horses. One must, of course,
exercise care in the beginning In feed
ing stock with the hay or the beans.
IAN analysis of the velvet bean, as
compared with the COW pea, made at
the Florida station, showed that Of
protein the former contained 81 Sc per
cent. and the latter IA 80 per cent.
while of nitrogen, the velvet bean con.
timed go 5 per cent, the cow pea
AZ 80 per cent
The yield in beans per acre on the
poorest soil is eighteen to twenty
bushels.
the velvet bean has been success.
fully planted as a fertilizer for orange
groves near O lsndo, Fla, by Mr.. A,
P. Newheart. They would perform
the same service in peach orchards,
care being taken as soon as the vines
begin to throw them back from the
trees. They are then left till frost,
when the beans can be picked. The
ground will Ue covered deeply with a
most valuable mulch
If one should desire to get the best
and largest q 2antity Of forage, ore
should cut the vines when in blossom.
II AN satisfied hat the velvet bean
is an Invaluable addition to the forage
crops of the South. l have written
this letter, giving the experiments
made with the observations Of this
new plant, in the hope that they may
induce many of people to test the
velvet b. IN this year,
II have no seed for sale"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
CARING FOR FARM TOOLS.

1t is a rule we have always found
true that the successful farmer always
takes the best care of his tools, He
has sheds for his nower, rake, binder,
pillow and cultivators, drill, planter,
harrow, etc. They are never left out
exposed to the weather, to decay or
rust, but are housed as soon as done
using them for the season. When the
season for a piece of machinery is past,
it is run into shelter until a rainy day
when it is carefully gone ever, bolts
frightened, parts we'll oiled where it
might otherwise rust, and the wood
work and as much of the iron as pos
sible, repainted, should it need it. And
then, but not until then, store the ma,
chine away until wanted next season.
If it has been properly cared for, it will
be in as good condition as the previous
year. The plows and cultivators can
be taken apart as can other pieces OF
machinery, SO that less space will be
occupied.
Few farmers have a place where
they can store their machinery. The
first cost of putting up a building large
enough, is one that many farmers do
not feel that they can sfford, though
the saving in machinery in the fret
ten years would more than pay for the
building. He cannot always see that
it would pay ne counts only the Co.'S
of the buIlc ing, not the money paid out
in repairs and new machinery. BIT
nearly every farmer has unused, shell
tered hooks in barns, sheds, stable or
crib. where a part OF a machine might
be left, or where the harrow might
stand Perhaps he has more shed
room than is utilized. He q partition
off q few yards Of itsnd run the mower,
binder, etc., in cut Of the storms and
snow of winter. Perhaps there ia room
for a cultivator between the corn and
roof of the corn crib. By storing the.
machinery in these old hooks one can
keep nearly all his tools out of the
Weather's harm.
A sure sign of a shittless farmer is to
see a binder, dIsmantled and alone, in
the fence corner of a stub0le field, a
mower where left in the meadow
with the rake for a neighbor, the cul
tiVators at the end Of the last row
of corn plowed, with the plows and
planter near by, and no doubt the bar.
row close at hand, only the weeds hid
ing it from sight the wagon out in the
sun and rain, and carriage, if he has
one, also sitting in the shade Of atree,
etc. We have all seen this sort of
farmer, and know what the result OF
his Tecklessness has been or will be.
He cannot stand the strain, and sooner
or later must sink. 1t may not be the
cost of machinery that does it, but it is
the same shittless disposition that
causes the neglect of this great leak,
that causes the overlooking of the rest.
There are many leaks which if left to
run, will sink the farmers craft. Farm
machinery is one OF the greatest. Buy
only what you must have, and take
the bssE care Of that.-Jim L Irwin,
In Epitomist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14

1t is our aim not to admit into our
advertising columns any but reliable
advertisers, and we believe that all the
advertisements in this paper are from
responsible people. II Subscribers fnd
any of them to be otherwise, we will
esteem it a favor if they will advise US
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14

Since organization the bank has paid
dividends of 6 per cent. per annum,
purchased out of it's profits a banking
house and furniture SO 600, stored up
a surplus of $40 600 and reports undi
vided profits $I8 448 This shows that
this capital has more than doubled it
self ig SIX years by $18 448 after pay
ing ali expenses and taxes. See
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14

Earnings exceed capital stock, S IS 844
To this may be added difference be
tween par and market value OF $95 900
of United States bonds owned by the
banks, say go 600 to $12 600.