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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
THE SOY BEAN.

Bulletin "a of the Kansas Expert
ment Station, gives the folio wing val
able information relative to the Soy
bean, which, as a drouth resisting
crop, might become valuable to some
Tar Heel farmers:
The K ansas Experiment Station has
been growing the Soy bean for the past
ten years, starting with small patch,
and increasing the area until last year
35 acres were grown. It is a good
drought resister, is not touched by
chinch bugs, and the beans are richer in
protein than linseed meal. With cuff
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
AGRICULTURE.
JUST A FRw HINTS.

Correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
l am at times disposed to give my
tests and observations of land prepare
tion for the various crops and also to
prevent land waste and failure to yield
bountiful supplies. The high filings
on our railroad bsds through son9 of
the poorest lands, are, to my observa
tion soon grown up in briars, poke,
rich weeds and the various grasses
Why this tertilityH It is not in all
cases caused by deposits of manure
along the line.
Land should not be turned deeper
than the soil, but you cannot cut the
under strata too deep with a long old
fashioned coulter made Of a strong bar
OF IRON with fattened point. Let it
down two feet if you wish and cut fine
below and your soil is on top, where it
should be. The land wants air below,
and such preparation gives air and
moisture. Cultivate shallow and open
after every rain or oftener. Let your
hillside bitches carry all the water and
prevent water from standing on any
place that is to be cultivated.
r r MOORE.
GreaDshoro NJ n
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

A thoroughly practical and useful
bulletin is about to be issued By the
Department Of Agriculture On diseases
b. potatoes and their treatment. 1t ls
short and to the point, being not over
10 pagts Of straightforward statements
which can be easily grasped by any
farmer, without requiring hours Of
time in searching through voluminous
chapters. Some five diseases are de-
so'ibsd, including Early Blight, Late
Blight or Rot, Brown Rot, Scab and
Leaf Burn or Scale.
Il you DEERE a copy of this work,
send postal to the Department Of
Agriculture. Washington, D Q" ask
lns for Fsrmers' Bulletin No, 81, and
q viii be mailed you free.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

Secretary Wilson states that the De
Fattm7nt Of Agriculture will likely
pend kI0 900 during the next two
years in buying date palms for the
Hou.hVeat. One of the expert vege-
taOie ~ologists of the Department,
Nv. 5Hingle, is now in Morocco
making a close study of the African
pate and selecting the very finest vari
eaes ard those supposed to be best
rlap'ei 70 this country. It has been
-olnd that date palms, under irriga
l2n, Vlll gvnw as well in Arizona as in
rEaola E2Tiy Nor mon settlers il the
r5ffisorles proved this many years
Pso; but the trees were not OF the best
'1,ie.27 and date growing never de
Paop2- a. Gn industry. The Depart
4eat, as Secretary Wilson indicates,
prepared TO push the experiment on
y ex.euslve scale. Each date palm
,u' De shipped in its own tub and
lS'll1 arrive at it's destination with
y material il any injury.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

New trusts which propose to prey
directly upon the farmer are now be
ing organized. Recent Chicago dis
patches say that a gigantic trust, to
include all the large farm machinery
factories of the United States, is In
process of formation. Articles Of in
corporation under the lave of New
jersey are expected to be filed within
a few days. The capital is to be $780,,
OOO, coo, of which SIS. .0OO,COO has al
ready been subscribed.
Il is the purpose Of the promoters to
consolidate under one management all
the factories for the production OF
reapers, harvesters, thresners, traction
engines and other important machines
sd IN the great agricultural industry.
The Deerlng, Mccormick, David
Bradley & 90, and Walter A. Wood
factories OF Chicago, ere said to be In
cIuded in the plans, and in Wisconsin
the j l Case plant at Racine, and the
W. A. Stevens plant at Mari tie.
The trust, 1t Is said, will maintain
pLic g, curtail the product ard will, as
far as possible, deal direct with the
consumer in order to put a stop to
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

A prominent agricultural writer
very truthfully says:
When one is very much rushed
with work it is good idea to adopt
the plan of one of the most successful
farmers ever knew. When he found
work crowding him he would j2t down
IN a small memorandum each task to
be done, then number them, beginning
with the most pressing. He kept two
hired meM, Gnd after his memoran
dunn was completed he would read it
to them, so that they would under
stand his plans, and when one job was
done they could pass to the next with.
out a moments delay. II any mate
ri8ls Of any sort were needed to enable
him to complete any job he would jot
them down and procure them the first
time he went to town. 1t seems that
everything on his farm moves as easily
and steadily as a clock. The hired
men know just what to do next, and a
vast amount Of work is accomplished
with no apparent hurry or worry"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
FARMERS AND POLITICS.

In order to be an up to date politician
one must oppose everything the op
posite party does, whether it be wrong
or right, writes Fred Grundy, in Farm
ers' Voice.
If one be a Democrat and Ropubi
can administration finds it necessary
to thrash the FIipinos into submission
he must denounce it in unmeasured
terms. If the administration declares
that Aguinaldo is a patriot. for reve
nue. only, he must be upheld as dar
ing hero who has sacrificed his all to
lead his little army against the op
pressor and spoiler. That he sold cut
his former insurrection to Spain for
800 600, and now has raised his fig
ures into the milliC MS for the same sort
of deal with the United States should
not be mentioned.
To be an up TO- date politician one
must never positively state matters as
facts. He must say: ut is reported,
and the report is generally believed"
or, The statement has been made;"
or, "There is a rumor current, and it
is not denied" Then follow this with
the narrowing details of what might
have occurred. or may occur.
If such rumor or report is emphatic
ally denied by the injured party, that
fact must not be mentioned. Simply
drop it and proceed to distract him
with something else Of the same sort.
The up to date politician does not care
for facts; he deals in dolorous rumore,
woefuI hearsays, scandalous gossip
and calamitous suppositions. If he be
a Democrat he must bewail the disap
pearance of true Jeffersonian simpli
city and constitution loving patriotism
If a Republican he must denounce
everything the Democratic party does
as being disastrous to the best inter
eets of the people and wholly bad.
Whichever party he belongs to he
must labor without ceselng and talk
everlasting gly to discredit his political
opponents.
Before me lies a county paper. In
recent issue it said: Eve aim to pub
lish the brightest, cleanest, newsiest
paper in the county, and people are
learning that fact and our subscription
list is increasing rapidly" In it's latest
issue it says: This is a straight
Democratic paper. If we have ever
published anything that Republicans
can find any comfort in we would like
to have somebody point it out"
This paper, like thousands of others,
is not ne wspaper for the whole peo
pie, but lopsided, partisan sheet that
makes it a rule to publish only abuse
OF one party and praise of the other.
Does it represent the plain people9
Not bit of it. It represents only the
and cffce seekers Of one
party; yet large numbers of people
read it only, and thereby become lop
sided partisans, instead Of broad
minded patriotic citizens. There are
lots of Republican papers engaged in
the same business creating bigoted,
narrow minded partisans, instead of
candid, impartial citizens.
Isn't it about time that the farmer
learned that this partisan twaddle is
all in the interest of officeholders and
office seekers7 That the leading par
ties, as at present constituted, are
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

1oe arms best crop is its crop of
9s en1 glEls-the future men and 40
- o. the 3 ate, aud some one has
0l sa'i that anything which dWarfs
''' ives or teaches them bad hRbi s
gives -hem wrong views Of life or
.'UDs habits of business or which
=. -lS 'A any way to dwarf their man
\, ~ OF womanhood is very bad farm
n because it detea q the very end of
a'mmg. The man who makes
49, les teaching his boy dishonesty or
r~pufity or in any other way either
writing or dwRrfing their natures
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

IS : an. sgandEng note just behind the
ssiair. and EF5 fall gLOtU Of the coming
.,,st Behind me are the shGdOtUs on
4. Nm frqck. before me lies the dGTE UdtLey
he -fpsr. When I HIt7lgle tCtth sta
80 ,g1teTs I tCGFst to cast one LS1IgeT-
~ Ioos upon q country tChose gOCeT1'-
Ssrt % Of the people, for the people,
'sd by the peG1le. .h-E. L. Polk, Jt11g
IA 1890
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

Has the arges5s
ne sSs Oldest, Lug-,
US Us and only all
sSome- sss, Trint Farm
5soer in that Rich
EFsFming. g..t;06 and
Tfuckir G seetIGn Stn1a
Betw e q FlCn,
DDopd, ? Va, and
Savannah, Ca
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

Has the largest
circulation Of any
family RgFicultu'
raj OF political
paper published
between Rich.
mond and Atlanta
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

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NONE order Please don't send stamps.
--, s1re 10 give both old and new addresses In
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

~ PROGRESSIVE FARMER is the Official
-, ~ the North Carolina Farmers State
Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
oIIRIJSHED WEEKLY

5a,a on your label tells you when your
The Gla.1lo1 expires. Receipts for money on
5 566p9 be ySRR eRaRsad I'M SaansT n t%o vi qRs Res& GR
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01

a gooi deal has beeo said about the
falling eff OF cos.on receipts this year
at the ports Of Savannah and Charles.
ton. sod it is to be accounted for not
alone by the short crop, but by toe In
creased consumption of sou:hern mills
No better thing could occur for the
farmers than for the uiil demand to
consume all the cotton raised 10 aoy io-
ca!ity. It meaus quick sales and be-.
ter prices. and it means the fixing of
prices at home, aud DOT in Liverpool.
A correspondent Of the Atlanta Con
stitution writes
The showing made by the south Car.
olina mills is very gratifying, but
many. DO doubt, will be surprised to
learn that the local mills of North
Georgia and Alabama will spin this
year all the cotton grown 10 this Sec
tioo.
Rome hiss been the shipping poiat for
section 10 Georgia and Alabama en-
bfaciog some twenty counties Most Of
this cotton heretofore has been export.
ed Rome so far this season has ship
ped DO cotton. but the local buyers have
paid from l to 1.2 cent above New
York prices, and all the cotton has reen
taken by the local mills.
Parties who have investigated it aod
are we'll qualified TO judge. state that
the mills at Gadsdeo. Piedmont, An-
piston, Cedartoun, Rockmars, Rome.
L'ndale. Trioo, Raccoon. Lafayette
aud Dalton THE year spin all the cotton
raised porth OF these pcioss to the Ter
cessee lioe-some 225. 900 bags.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01

Brumby is splendid fellow-a
fine officer, :: staunch sailor, and a
good fighter All this is not surpris-
ing in view of the fact that be comes
from good old South Carolina stock
Mr. Joel E B1unson, Of Sumter, S
c.. writes as follows to Tie News
and Courier
"While popular enthusiasm is run
ming high over Dewey. Brumhy aud
Mehr:ens. it may be pleasing to
South Carolirians to know that Brum.
by-the man who raised the United
States flag over Maniia-is almost
one of US If am not mistaken, he
is son of Arnoldus Vincent Brumby,
and nephew of Richard Trapier Brum
by, who was for time professor in
our South Carolina College. The
roiginal Brumby family, now of
Georgia, belongs properly to the old
Game Cock District of this State !"
We hope that our Georgia friends
and contemporaries will remember
that "the original Brumby family"
belongs to South Carolina, and that
South Carolina is in the present
Brumoy demonstration by priority
of Brumbys, as it we're We were
sure that somehow the Admirai's flag
lieutenant had very good streak in
hin News and Courier
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01
The Cotton in Sight.

New Orleaus. Oct. 27.-Secretary
Hester's weekly New Orleans cotton
exchange statement shows decrease 10
the movement into sight compared with
the eeyen days ending this date last
year. 10 round figures, of 163. 600; a
decrease under the same days year
before last of 167 900 For the 81
days Of the season toat have elapsed
the aggregate is behind the 81 days of
last year 346, 900, and behind the same
days year before las. 10000. The
total movement for the 81 dsys from
Sept. l to date, 2,612,441. against
2,95S, ,382 last year and 2,758, 748
year before last.
The movement since Seps. ! shows
receipts at all Uoited States ports
2.770,156. against 2. l77,621 last year.
Interior stocks 10 excess of those held
at the close of the commercial. year
33l.S15 against 399, ,76S last year and
3l7 ,346 year before last. Southern
mill takiugs 351 GIL, against 22S. Sl5
last year.
FoTeigo exports for the wees have
bseo POI, ,344, against 304. .45l last
year, making the total thus far for the
season 1,15S,0l9, against l.22l. 0S2
last year.
The total takings of American mills.
north aud south and Canada, thus far
for the season have been 639, ,972,
agaius, 493;639 last year Stocks at
the seaboard aud the 90 leading south
ern interior centres have Increased dur
ing the week 40.87l bales. egaiust an
increase during the corresponding Pc
riod last season of l44, 800.
Including stocks left over at ports
and interior towns frcm the last crop
aud the number Of bales brought ioto
sigat thus far for the new crop, the
supply to date is 3. .23l. .239, against
s, 225, 948 for the same period last
year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01

ADD assumes an irregular figure as i,
drifts aloas upder toe ioaueDce of the
w,cd currents in she upper region of
the atmosphere. 'i'hess st7eaks or trails
are of various cola.s. owing partly to
tae composition OF their elementary
substances sod pa.tiy &c their attitude.
SoDs are OF q delicate green.sh hue,
uhlie others light up the skies with a
gudd3 glow s;:eaks of oraoge, red
aud wbite, With bla!sh wai:e. comain
gle {, :orm a most remarkable and
beautiful spectacle Occasionally so
oraoge co'oIed meteor may oe ooserv-
ed, leavipg 10 Its waSe a stseas of
g.eeu.
''Mauy valuable results will 40 doubt
be gained from this years observations.
This will be the first time 10 their
history that the Leouias will be the
ceotre Of systematic observa'ioo
throughout the world"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01
Man Found IN Chicago With
Forty.TWo Wives

Ca:cago. co, y -Forts-,vo wives
scattered tirougbo:it toe world, fouE Of
abom are 10 C2icsgo. vas toe coufes-
sien uaee today o7 Waiser L-Fasos
vcr.a. Chicago candy comu'ssion
:.:ap. $50 was arrested yesterday
charged w:lh o;gany. Farus ao7tn
also admitted taa, he vas = mso Of
msa7 aliases :soa.c Of lhcse are
Charles Bratford. 4 a;;;is. s. J.
,flcm.s, \. i h'etcr AID Bral~aev
81 csnao: ,s;i exactly aaw t,@ag
gseu.ea h.ge n.-5sieJ. sai,! be- /
i.Dew Q; e:c7eo % Eu:aoe ;aa: 10
China, ;arce "a Pera. one ~ i1e.''sad
as.sl 7s@r t"euty o;.aess d clf:51eo;
parts of tie vofil. b;.c to save ay sasi
eou?a uor ;elI how mauy carried
,acc 81 Gtfe.eat reasons aid 30.
=l;ca l..as ws;h them They vii al! tell
you was coed to thee, !"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01
A.Thousand Tongues

Could not express the rapture of Annie E
Springer, of 1925 Howard St, Philadelphia,
Pa, when she found that Or. Kings New Dis
covsry for Consumption had completely cured
her Of a hacking cough that for many years
had made life a burden. All other remedies
and doctors could give her no he:p, but she
says of this Royal Cure-''it soon removed
the pain in my chest ard | can now sleep
soundly. something i can scarcely remember
doing before. feel like sounding It's praises
throughou, the Universe" So viii every one
VINO tries Dr. Kiog's New Discovery for any
trouble of ,ae Throat, ches, or lungs. Price
SOC an;; 81. Ir:;il bottles free "a; J. F. W.
DeLorme's Drug Store; every bottle gue7an-
teej
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01

"And it would have only taken a
short time for such men as Oazts to
sink it Qbe dispenssry financially
and forever. Shipping Clerk Black.
Well theo it would be blessing
in disguise if they had kept QUITS
and thus let the dispensary sink
where it should have been long ago.
We hope to see toe rotten political
thing "busted" to pieces aud the
quicker the better Pee Dee Advo
cate.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01

|: is said thai ex.President Harri-
son fee as chief counsel for the Re-
public of Venezuela 10 the arbitration
proceedings Just concluded is to be
$3.50 600 Romo. has It saat he re
fused to make any charge until be
had carefully examined in.o he case
and wheu he communicated to the
Venezuelan republic that England
was 7rong in her coaten'ion be re-
ceived Immediately an ctler CT q fee
Of $3.50 900 to undertake the case
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01
About Wheat Growing.
az EXPERIENCED Farmer
Gives Some Valuable
Pointers.

10 propor:ioo to the labor expanaed
there is more prc6s IN wheat ,haa N
auy Other crop of wbica | bave any
lkncwiease Less tban two days l2bor
will te sufficient fer an acre Of wheat
from start to 6oish. and cushei or
wheat in farmers barn IS worth q
dollar to hin. /! leave it to any farmer
who doubts this proposition TO take the
market report aud make his cwo calcu.
iasions.
Again. wheat is strictly ard truly a
surplus crop. for it does not interfere 10
the least with the cultivation Of other
crops. SOW about four acres of wheat
&c the plow. and I make about as much
corn aud cotton as do my peigbbors
who SOW no wheat at all have OBJ
served that this rule applies to all who
make their Own bread Invariably
they make as much corns saud cottoo as
do their neighbors who depend upon
converting their receipts from Gotten
into bread Also they have the satls-
faction Of knowing that they have pure
food 90 their tables
One of the reasons wby go many
people fail 70 make wheat is because Of
seeding too heavily, Il is my expert
enoe that ooe balf busbel to tho acre :s
enough fer any laod in this region. if
properly pat 10. By being properly
gut iu. nean tha: the land should be
thoroughly plowed and pulverlzed, the
raauure spread on the s.aio, aud the
grain covered to de2'a Of no more
,haa ooe inch Wheat covered 70 too
greas a dspth will Devsr s'oop we'll
aad, therefore, i, cauooc make a good
crop.
Auo;her cause of failure is too late
eo~ing All varieties that ripeo the
10Th of Jure should 5e put io between
the 25:h of October snd :ae 9th of
November. Later varieties shoaId oe
gotteo 10 earlier.
Afer selecting good land aad put
ting il in good By sowiog peas apd
turning them uoder, toe uexs thing the
farmer should look to is the seed, for
~hiob be ought no; go out of bic own
latitude. NorsherD w5eas5 have to be
accliustized before good yields can be
expected from thea, This fact has
beer settled by the experiment stations.
After 2 or 3 years sowing porstcrn
~bes,s viii give better yield BY swo
or three Bushels to the acre
an sowing a variety OF wheat that
| ordered from Baltimore in 1862, and
nave baco rsiog i; for 81 years | sm
sure il has nos de,criora'ed, OUT oa the
contrary an OF :be cpicion that It hss
improved cousideraoiy.-D. T. L 10
YorkVi!le Enquirer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01
BOARDING..

HAyING TAKEN the f'ouse en- Msip
Street second door soCth Of the Nixon
House, am prepared TO accommodate ie"
regular boarders. and also lodging and meals
to transient customers.
Terms reasonae!e.
Ms n. B. SMITH.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01

New York, Oc, y Among shc
passengers who arrived tonight 90 ,ae
Ward Line steamer Habapa iron, Cub,
was Gen. Fi'zhugh Lee.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01

New subscribers to the 81 ATcHMAN
AND SourHRoN, or old subscribers not
in arrears, who pay for one year in
advance, will be presented with any
book they may select from the above
list. The book will be delivered
postage paid to any address in the
United States, Canada or Mexico.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01

is aa omirous sound to the man who
isn't insured. wbeo be sees bis home
disappearing in flames ADD smoke.
We cap hardly have any compassion
90 bin. when it is SO easy ADD at suca
small outlay to provide against such
loss A policy 10 ;be Hartford 1psur-
ance Go. costs yor but small sum
when we draw it for you, and gives
you security as safe aa the Bank Of
England.
A. C. PHELPS CO.,
Gen'Insuraoce Agerts, Sumter, s. c..
Mch l5-o
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01
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;,:c;.:i-,lo:y:. While he edition lasts Will send
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-01
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Nearly everyone docs, and if SO you
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eithes. baking soda or baking powder.
J e e ~

IS the latest advance il. oaising prepara.
ions and if YOU don use Z. ycu should,
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every tine. No more vei;ow sposs o.
SODA taste.
:: Is Better Than Baking Powde-
because it is half as strong again and
one teaping teaspoorfu, will do the
work o. two rounded teaspoonfuls OF
the .oes. baking powdsr ever made.
It Do::'t Spoil
:,,.. $50 prepared that with ordinary
care it viii retain its full strength for
wears We do not have to pack it in
tin c,-ls like baking powder, and this
sa.ins enables us 20 give you better
ave fer Your money than You ever
mad D5fcre.
II ii>f.e !ca;en laosnstA TIE z,liols Aum1."
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