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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-28
A WAGONS Oelivered)-

All wagons are furnished with boX Deu II
two sections, and one spring seat. II brake !.
wanted add $3.50. If bed and seat are not WantgAs
deduct for bed $3.50. for seat S1.O0.
N. G. Official Farmers Alliance Guano, q peg
cent. Phos. Ac., 2< per cent. AM, SpeF cent
POtashO
Progressive Farmer Guano. e per cent. Pies.
Ac., 2 per cent. Am, IL per cent: Pot&sh)
n. G. Official Farmers Alliance Acid Phosphate.
03 per cent. Av. PhosphOric Acid.D
Write for prices. - BUY NO OTHERl
MIL Stones best N. @. Grit. write for priOOs ,
The Agency handles the Genuine "Iron Age"
Cult1vatOrs and -HarrOws and can save yoU
money.
Brethren having anything to sell, IS WeQ 90
those wishing to buy will do well to consult the
Agency.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-28

vi WI u" OA4AOLAGN a.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
WHEREAS, off cial information has
been received at THIS DEPAR rMENr
that a certain person, or persons, I'm
known, did recently kill and murder
n Macon Bryan, at Vauceboro in
Craven county, North Carolina,
AND WHEREAS, it appears that the
said person or persons has or have fed
the State, or so conc aled himself OF
themselves that the ordinary process
of law cannot be served upon him OF
them:
NOW, THEREFORE, 1, Daniel L
Russell, Governor of the State OF North
Carolina, by virtue of authority in me
vested by law, do issue this my PROC
LAMATION, Offering a reward of
Two Hundred D Jllars for the appre.
hension and delivery of the said per
son or persons to the Sheriff of Craven
county at the Court house in New
Berne, and 1 do epjoin all off GERS of
the State and all good citizens to assist
in bringing said criminal or criminals
to Justice.
Done at our City of Raj
eigh, the fourteenth day of
March, in tne year of our
Lord one thousand eight
SEAL hundred and ninety nine,
and in the one hundred
and twenty third year of
our American Independ
ence.
DANIEL L RUSSELL,
GOVERNOR
By the Governor:
BAYLUS CADE,
Private Secretary.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-28
GROCERIES.

Prime Laguayra Coffee, 1Oc to lie per Id.
Prime Rio Coffee, 1c to lie per Id.
Good Rio Coffee 81 to l0c per Id.
Medium Rio Coffee. Sc TO sc per ID.
Low Grade Rio Coffee, TIC per 10.
Cheese
Picnic Cheese. per ID 10c.
Full Cream Cheese, 6O-lb boxes, per
pound, 1O1
Full Cream Cheese, 80 Id boxes, per
pound, 1O1,
Full Cream Twin Cheese. 2 80 ID. boxes,
per 1O4c; per case, So so.
Blair's best -four, per barrel, 1926.
Fancy -four, per barrel, 81 90.
Dandy -four, per barrel, So IS.
Winner -four, per barrel, So so
Princess -four, per barrel, So %.
Lard. IN tierces-about $50 lbs per ID
Pure Lard, in tierCes &c. per lb.
COmpOund Lard. In tierces ............ -
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-28
FARMERS ALLIANCE MEETINGS

D: Y. n. SeaweIl, State Lecturer Of
the North Carolina Farmers Alliance
viii meet the farmers, their sons
wIvessnd daughters and all others who
wish 10 attend, and tell them someth
ny Of the advantages of CO operation
With the politics left out. a full lIne
Of sample shoes will be on hand and
an opportunity for all to make their
Or ters direct from the factory.
TIME AND PLACE OF MEETING
Seven Springs, Wayne county
March % n. 3 . m
Mt. Olive, Wayne county, March
81 ~. 3 o n.
F4l-on, Wayne county, March @lst
3p ~
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PRICE LIST.
SUBJECT TO MARKET FLUCTUATIONS.

Make all Postomce Money Orders
payable T. B. PARKER, 8. B. A.,
Raleigh, N. O., but address all letters
to 7. B. Barker, 8. B. A., Hillsboro,
n. Q.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-28
A Proclamation by the Governor.
AmImImImimImImIHA
5000 REWARD.
MISUNDERSTANDING

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, /
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
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NOTICE.

Place your orders in time for your
Grass, Glover, Oats and Turnip Seed.
Fertilizer Turn Plows, one, two and
three horse. Yours truly,
T. B. BARKER,
s b A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-28

Farmers Alliance with full set
chm and automatic bObbin
Winder. All latest improvements, fine
" finished, frst-class in every part1cu-
lar. Warranted by manufacturers Tor
10 wears, carefully adjusted, ready for
immediate use Price, freight paid to
any railroad station in North Caro-
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@Our friends 10 @riting to any OF
our .0vertisers will favoraus by men
t.1nIng the fact that thew sa0 -
adver Isa-npnt in The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-28

Procure from nearest Agent who keeps the
Alliance Brands Of Fertilizers, or write for
prices. Reliable agents wanted in unOCcupied
territory.
Correspondence cheerfully answered.
T. B. PARKER S. 3. A.,
HILLSBORO. N. C.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
MUSIC EVERYWHERE.
II II Always to He Heard I'm Geneva.
the Home of the Music
BOX.

The chief industry of Geneva is tn,
manufacture of musical boxes. Thou
sands of men, women and children ar,
employed in the factories, one of which
was visited by traveller, who give.
some interesting particulars about hi.
visit.
An attendant invited him to take q
seat. He did so, and the strains of de
lightful music came from the chair
He hung his hat on a rack, and put
his stick in the stand. Music came from
both rack and stand. He wrote his
name in the visitors register. and, on
dipping his pen into the ink, music
burst forth from the inkstand.
The manager of the factory explained
the process of making musical boxes, a
business which requires patience and
nicely. The different parts are made
by men who are experts in those parts,
and who do nothing else, year in and
year out.
The music is marked on the cylinder
by man who has served several years
of apprenticeship. Another man in
serts in the marked places pegs which
have been filed to a uniform length
The cams, or set of teeth which strike
the pegs and make the sound, is ar
ranged by man who does nothing else.
The cylinder is then revolvec, to see
that every peg produces a proper tone.
The most delicate work of all is the
revising of each peg. 1t is done by
a workman who has good ear for
music. He sees that every peg is in its
proper place and is bent at the cor
rect angle. When the instrument is
in its case, an expert examines it to see
that the time is perfect.--Cincinnati
Enquirer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
PERcHEs FOR FOWLS.
itate the Application of Dixin-
fectnnts and Cleaning.

Fowls will jump from the lowest
perch to the next, and so on to the high
est, and then quarrel. All they want
is the highest place. 1t is preferable to
have the perches placed on a level, also
the platform to catch the droppings. 1t
may be just high enough to be handy in
cleaning. and the perches about one
foot above it. All perches should be
movable, SO as to facilitate the applica-
ton of kerosene, when necessary. to.
every part. The reason why fowls all
strive for the highest place in the roost
is because they possess an instinct
which teaches them that the higher
they get the safer they are; hence, when
perches are of unequal height the
strongest fowls occupy the highest
place. Probably the air is as pure three
feet from the floor as higher. Fowls,
when crowded into q small and close
apartment, by their respective respira-
tions give off considerable carbonic-acid
gas. This, being heavier than common
atmosphere, sinks to the floor when
cold, and may have deIeterious effect
on fowls roosting very low. and odors
are also evolved from decaying animal
and vegetable matter. The perches
should be at least two inches wide and
rest firmly in slot or mortise. Fowls
will cling to one edge of wide perch,
and the width will give opportunity to
rest the weight on the shanks. A very
narrow perch makes it necessary to
bear the weight on the breast-bone,
mainly in one spot, and thus it becomes
bent to one side. This deformity is
caused in many instances by roosting
ON the chine of a barrel or on the small
limbs Of trees. Old fowls have their
bones hardened. SO that they will stand
the pressure without bending. but all
should have wide perches.-Farm and
Fireside.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
FACTS FOR FARMERS

Don't expect first-class oats from
second-class seeds.
Keep the work on the farm well in
hand. Never let it get control of you.
Mix brains, common sense and muscle
in about equal parts and success is Ger
tain.
Corn is good for a night feed and for
sitting hens, as it maintains bodily
heat.
Debt makes the plow harder to hold
and causes the victuals to be less palata-
bic. Keep out of debt just as far as
possible.
Boiled potatoes and boiled peas.
mashed together, and fed with sour
milk, will,put flesh on hogs faster than
corn, it is said.
We grow on an average in this coun-
try 12 bushels of wheat to the acre. If
we grew 30 bushels we could make
wheat growing pay.
Set it down as fact that hay. corn,
oats and fodder of all kinds are worth
60 per cent more if fed out on the farm
than if sold to be fed elsewhere.
Where mixed farming is followed
some oats can nearly always be grown
to be used for feed; one advantage with
them is, that they come in early
Western Plowman.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
THE PROCESS OF BAKING.
When You Can Make Good Bread
Much Has neen Accom-
pllshed.

If your stove chances to have a cook
ing-thermometer attached, which many
of the best new stoves do have now. il
should register 400 degrees when you
put your loaves in the oven to bake.
Bake the bread from 10 to 60 minutes;
see that it browns properly, lovely
golden color, but don't let it scorch ;
turn it and move it as you see that it
needs, and when it has hollow sound
when you thump it sharply with your
knuckles you may feel quite sure it is
done.
You may have a failure or two in
baking. or it may not rise to suit you.
but don't be discouraged; keep on try
ing, and you'll come out all right. You
will gain experience from your very
failures. and you will find also that you
are gaining Judgment which l be-
lieve l have once defined for you as
knowledge born out of experience"
You may fly the American flag over
your kitchen when you can make good
bread, for you are independent of cir
cumstances and ready to face almost
any household emergency.
In the next lesson we will take up
cake-making in its simplest forms. Yes,
l know that is what you have been wait
ing for. and it has come all in its own
good time, just as other things will
if you work patiently on until you
reach them.-Sallie Joy White, in Wom-
ans Home Companion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
P0vERTY-sTRIcKEN GEN1UsEs
How the Nerfd Has Treated Aspir-
ants for Literary Fame for
Centuries,

Homer was beggar; Plautus turned
mill; Terence was slave; Boetius
died in Jail; Paul Borghesse had Il
trades, and yet starved with them all
Tasso was often distressed for five
shillings; Bentivoglio was refused adj
mittance into hospital he had him.
self erected; Cervantes died of hunger,
and Vagelas left his body to the sur
geons to pay his debts as far as the
money would go; Bacon lived a life of
meanness and distress: Sir Walter Ra-
leigh died on the scaffold; Spenser, the
charming. died in want; the death of
Collins was through neglect, first caus-
ing mental arrangement.
Milton sold his copyright Of Para
disc Lost" for & 10 at three payments,
and finished his life in obscurity; Dry
den lived in poverty and distress: OF
way died prematurely and through
hunger; Lee died in the street; Steele
lived life of perfect warfare with
bailiffs; Goldsmith's ''Vicar of Wake
field" was sold for trifle to save him
from the grip of the law: Fielding lies
in the burying ground of the English
factory at Lisbon, without a stone to
mark the spot: Savage died in prison at
Bristol, where he was confined for a
debt of fS: Butler lived a life of pcnury
and died poor; Ctatterton, the child of
genius and misfortune, DESTROYED, him.
Review.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

suits is the kubanka wheat from the
kuban territory, in the Volga region.
While this is a spring wheat in Russia.
it is believed it can be changed to a
winter wheat here. 1t is harder than
any of our wheats, and is the great
bread wheat of the Volga region. This
wheat needs warm climate and is
expected to give good results in Texas,
No-Man' 's-Land, western Kansas and
eastern Colorado. 1t does best in Rus
sia, where the annual rainfall is only
Is inches. In western Kansas the an
nual rainfall is is inches.
A variety called Polish wheat, which
was obtained, has the largest grain of
all wheat in the world. the average
length of the kernels being about FIVE
sixteenths of an inch. Like the Ku-
banka. it is exceedingly hard, but is
not bread wheat. Its use is in pastry
and as macaroni wheat. The Polish
wheat needs a warm climate.
Several varieties Of broom millet are
to come. These are for cold, dry cli-
mates. They are grown in Russia for
the seeds principally and are used for
food in the way of soups and gruels.
1t is possible that we may thus add
something desirable to our dietary.
Two varieties of oats, the Swedish and
TObolsk, are expected to be the thing
needful in the dry, cold regions of the
west. The government Importation is
from this selected seed. The other va
riety is from TobOlsk, in the northern
part of Siberia. where it is dry and
cold.
The total importations amount to
about 30 varieties of cereals and for
age plants, besides vegetable seeds and
melons.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
w. G. KENTZEL, Editor.
you AND l.

II You the moon were and I were the sea.
Ia yeara to you whenever We should
meet:
And when the storm-clouds hid your face
from me-
In wrath against my rocky bounds I'd
beat;
buf when you smiled again and heaven
were free,
Ia build shining pathway for your feet.
II you the moon were and were the sea.
N you a mortal were and I were bird,
sing to you within a summer dell:
Ia tell YOU things that never human word
Nitn such thrilling ecstasy could tell:
Ia sing the sweetest music ever heard
ontii your soul were caught within its
spell:
IL you mortal were ard bird.
III You the sun were / a violet,
ope my eyes TO see you every morn:
MY chalice with a dewdrop would wet,
so that your glory on my heart were
worn;
q dow to You all day until you set.
Ihen sleep and dream of you till day were
born;
III You the sun were. a violet
-. A Edgerton, in Boston Budget
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
HINTS TO SHEARERS


will offer the following suggestion
for the guidance OF amateur shearers:
professionals may smile, but this is
not intended for them), writes w. b.
Vestal in an exchange. First you want
q smooth table about four feet wide
and three feet high. The planks must
be planed so that the wool will not
cling to them. Lay the sheep up with
belly to the front strap, head down with
bell collar, then with '.jocky stick"
about four and half feet long, with
soft lace leather strings at each end;
tie the hind feet to one end and the
lower front to the other; commence
shearing at the fore arm; cut a line
from the front flank to the rear flank
and down the ham. Keep the fleece roll
ing back until you are past the line of
the backbone; by pulling the front
leg backward you will have smooth
sailing over the shoulder and half way
up the neck. Shear the belly to point
opposite the place of beginning. This
can be done by raising the stick and
gently leaning against it to keep the
shear downward, dividing the fleece at
the throat SO the fleece when off will
be all in one piece like pelt. By Lean
ing against the table, with the head
under your left arm, you will shear the
neck, breast and most of the shoulder
before turning over. To turn pull well
forward, tuck fleece close to back, then
steady the head with left hand and with
the right grasp the stick midway and
gently raise the feet and roll him over
the fleece "a good soft bed), strap down
head, turn the fleece back and you will
have clear sailing to the finish, with
fleece unbroken, sheep unhurt from
struggling and the boy having good
time fishing at the brook. And now let
me say word to you about that boy
of yours. If you wish him to be good
shepherd, if you wish him to love sheep,
and love the farm, then don't compel
him to hold sheep" while you shear
them. have some ''fond recollections"
of holding sheep some 40 years since
which are still fresh and green.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
HUMOROUS

"Capt. Blithers' face is so SCARED. and
yet he says he was never in an engage
ment." NO; they eloped the very irst
day they met."-Judy.
Dyer think Bunker's reached the
age of discretion yet?" "Well, hardly!
He's getting married for the third
time."-Halfpcnny Comic.
Mamma-"Robby, Robby! Is this an
inkspot on the library carpet?" Rob-
by (hastily)-"An ink spot? No. in
deed! Not if got it there Judge.
First klondiker (shivering like a
corn popper)-"I wish l was half
froze!" Second Klondiker-''T Thunder!
What for?" Because I'm nine-tenths
froze now."-Life.
"Yes." sighed the man off the Ger
manic, 1--WE had an awful cold voyage
two-thirds of the way" What did you
do then?" inquired the sympathetic
listener? swell, about that time we
got q boat stove in and that helped a
lot."-Yale Record.
Lady (engaging servant)-"As there
are several children, 1 hope you are very
guarded in your conduct" Bridget
''Shure, mum, I've two swatehcarts-
ones policeman and the other is a
soldier. Could / be better guarded,
now?"-World's Comic.
Doctor-"Troubled with insomnia,
eh? Eat something before going to
bed" Husband-"Why, doctor, you
once told her never to eat anything be-
fore going to bed Doctor with dig
nity)-"That. my dear sir. was in 1895.
Science has made great strides since
then" Bits.
'Oh, Georgia! Who opened the ca
nary's cage?" Il did. You told me
little bird was a-whispering to you
when was naughty, so knew il must
be him, as there was no other little bird
about. So l opened the cage and the
cats eaten him. That's wot he's got for
telling on me. STRAY Stories.
1t wasn't fresh quarrel. 1t was the
same old row. She said: 81 don't be-
lievc all those tales about business keep
ing you in the city all night. believe
you are living double life" Then he
retorted: II wish it was single oner
And all hopes of reconciliation are
once more.-Pick-Me-Up.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
WOODEN GUNS AND DYNAMITE
The Philippine Insurgents Ars
Driven to Sorry Straits In
Their Warfare.

Recent copies of The American" one
of the enterprising newspapers pub
lished at Manila, contain details of the
fighting that has been going on in the
islands for two months. Here is an item
that shows that the insurgents are uI
to anything if it will help them to win
the day:
The insurgents have used almost
every kind of weapon in fighting our
boys, from old sixteenth century can
non to modern rifles. Had the Kansas
boys pursued the insurgents a little
closer in attacking Caloocan, they would
have been met by shower of dynamite.
On entering the insurgent trenches
near the railway depot, Sergt Freeman.
of the engineers, found 20 hand
grenades of this violent explosive in
two boxes, each containing ten sticks,
He was ordered to bury the stuff by
the commanding officer.
Here. too, is an odd statement, which.
The American says, was made by an old
Spanish officer:
Many relic hunters have trampcd the
over in search of war tro-
phies in the shape of knives and guns
but have been surprised to find only
dummy guns made completely of wood
with barrel of polished cocoanut
They suggest that the war is more of q
child's play than stern reality.
4 Spaniard who had served two years
as a captain of volunteers in the Span
ish army makes the following statement
in regard to the use of these guns:
The insurgents have always been very
short of arms. Years ago when we used |
the Remington rifles they had nothing
but knives, but when we discarded the |
for MaNsers large num- |
ber of the former fell into the hands |
Of the insurgents. As they still pos.
sess very limited supply every precau-
ton is used to prevent the loss of gun
to the enemy, and this is where the wood |
IN guns come in handy. A regiment is
lined up with two men out of each set OF |
fours armed with rifles and the other |
two armed with dummies. In an en-.
yagement the unarmed men hug the
trenches, while the armed ones raise
md fire. As soon as one of the men is /
his mate throws away his
wooden gun and takes that of his COM
'ade. Thus after a days heavy fight
ng. though the number of killed may be
immense. the firing line is just as strong
IS before the battle. - Detroit Free
Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10

Last time was in Florence searched
diligently for nearly a month before
discovering a genuinely wild primrose,
although myriads were daily thrust into
my hands in more or less dead and fac
cid condition. Suddenly the sight of a
bit of nnmistakably English-looking
oak scrub on the road to the Certosa
brought the conviction to my mind that
here if anywhere. primroses must be
to be found. Communicating the con-
viction to the friend who sat beside me.
we stopped our vehicle. and at the end
OF five-minutes' scramble found our
selves in copse which might well have
been imported just as il was from Sus-
sex or Surrey. only that under its still
adhering russet leaves were to be seen.
not primroses only. or primroses and
anemones only, but nearly every spring
flower which we cherish assiduously
in our gardens. and can rarely persuade
to flower satisfactorily with us even
many weeks later.-Hon. Emily Law.
less, in Nineteenth Century.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
Bohem,a.. str.nSe M,,.,.,,

Not far from Trebitsch. in Bohemia,
are found many glassy-looking objects.
of bottle-green color. and tending,
when unbroken. to an egg-shape. to
which the name moldavites has been
given. DIR. Suess. of Vienna, from a
recent study of these curious minerals,
concludes that they are really meteor
ties, and should be added to the list of
foreign bodies that have found their
way to the earth's surface by falling
from space.-Youth's Companion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
Different Papas.

\ North Omaha lad of seven winter:
recently committed an otrense agains,
the parental rule and was called to ae
count. The little fellow prevaricated
about it.
You should not tell me a story
son., said the fond papa. THAT only
makes the matter worse. George Wash
ington would not tell lie. and when
he confessed to his papa that he had
done wrong his papa forgave him and
did not punish him.
THAT was all right for George said
the youngster. "but they amt making
no papas now like he had"
The offender was let of with a rep
rinand.-Omaha World.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
Manurinx In the Hiii.

No coarse manure should ever be put
in the hill in contact with or under the
seed. 1t will dry out the soil and do
more harm than good. All that is need
cd in the hill is either some concen-
trated mineral fertilizer, or a very lit
tie well-rotted stable manure. made as
fine as possible and mixed well with the
soil. 1t needs very little to give the
plants vigorous start, when if the
land around the hill is made as rich az
Il should be. the roots will forage for
themselves till the end of the season
of growth. In all plants that branch
much the rainfall after they have made
a growth of a foot or more is away
from the hill into the middle of the
row. and where the most water goes in
midsummer there most of the feeding
roots will be found also.