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

We may make a fair money return on
each acre cultivated, but we utilize too
few acres. We grow mostly a crop re
quiring an immense amount OF human
labor, the most expensive factor that
enters into any business. The culture
of cotton, allo wing the land to remain
bare all the winter, has so facilitated
washing and teaching Of the soil during
our open winters, as to well nigh ruin
much of the best land God ever gave
any people. So infertiie has become
much Of the land and so low the price
of cotton on account of too exclusive
culture, that the land owners cannot
make the wages of day laborers for
themselves and families while engaged
in growing it. Necessity is moving
u people as never before to fnd new
crops and new products to divert some
of our labor and utilize our lands. We
need q better balanced system OF agri
culture; one that will include more
live stock 30 consume the products Of
the land and manure to Still further
enrich the soil. Such a system, if in
telIigently planned, will enable each
farmer to profiEably utilize three acres
where he now loses money on one
acre.
by a suitable rotation of cotton,
corn and peas, oats and peas, hay
grasses and pasture, every acre of our
run down farms might in a few years
have its producing capacity more than
doubled With plenty of stock, feed
sEuffs may be grown on the most desir
able parGs of the farm and fed on the
least desirable, and thus have the fer
moved in a measure where we
want IT.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

back to poultry raisers in the South,
and if the disease strikes a flock dur
ing June or July, nothing could do the
fowls mora damage, as it is extremely
contagious, apparent y well fowls one
day covered with sores on the head
the next.
"The cause OF sorehead yet remains
a mystery, though there seems to be a
prevailing opinion that it is caused by
impurities in the blood. That opinion
is sustained by the writer's experience,
as follows: Several years since, over
a hundred fowls, both old and young,
succumbed to the disease in his yards,
and neigh5ors also lost great numbers.
The next season, March 1, I began mix
ing powdered sulphur in morning food
for all fowls three times per week (half
pint to each halt gallon Of food) and
adding twice per week one fourth pint
EPSON salts to each gallon Of drinking
water continuing same until about o;
tober 1 Since that time Ihave had no
cases, yet neighbors who did not use
any precautions buried their fowls
daily.
"Sorehead in winter ia indeed a rare
occurrence, and that is another indica-
ton that stagnans blood is really the
prime cause OF the disease. Sulphur
and salts both act on the system Of the
fowl, cleansing it from almost any lin
gering disease germs"
Sorehead may be cured by cleansing
with warm soapsuds and applying
powdered bluestone mixed in vaseline.
The following facts are given as the
result o. a feeding experiment with
eighteen Pekin ducks: Average weight
when Matched, Q ounces each; at 1
week old, q ounce each; 8 weeks, st
ounces; 4 weeks, 155 ounces; 5 weeks,
81 ounces; 6 weeks, As ounces; z weeks,
81 ounces; s weeks. 795 ounces, or
nearly five pounds. During the eight
weeks they consumed LAP pounds corn.
meal, ISL pounds wheat bran, 81
pounds cut bones, SIS pounds grits, and
quite a quantity Of small clover. Charg
ing 2 cents each for the eggs from
which these eighteen ducks were
Matched, and the cost of feeding the
hens that raised them, as we'll as the
feed eaten by the ducks themselves, the
total cost Of the eighteen ducks at 8
weeks old was 81 As, or about % cents
each. They we're sold for so cents
each, yielding a profit of 100 per cent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
Ahh LJAIR II
BREED, FRKO AND CARE.

Corr espondence of The Progressive Farmer.
There are three important factors
that go to make up the dairy COW.
These are breed, feed and care I am
not sure which OF these is Of the great
est Importance in the make up OF a
succ essful dairy COW, but know from
experie nee that they must go together
for best results.
The breeder Of blooded stock will, as
a matter OF course, place great stress
on the blood Of his animals, but the
best breed or breeds must be developed,
whether for beef or dairy purposes.
Oae may take G. calf with a long line
OF great producers behind it, yet It's
good qualities must be brought out or
developed by proper care and feed. l
am sure that many a COW has been
ruined for dairy work before she was
a year old, by improper feeding up to
that time.
There are too many farmers that
will feed a calf hat is intended by ma
ture for the dairy as they would one
intended for the production Of beef. In
the beef animal one wants to develop
the power Of laying on fat, but in the
dairy animal one wants directly the
opposite. o. this point l am very
particular, as | have never had a heiter
get 60 be q paying COW that persisted
in laying on fat early in life. 1t is said
that the rich mans SOW always looked
the best, but the poor mans SOW al
ways raised the best liEters of pigs. So
with a calf; a Calf that is always ia
and sleek IS the incest t. lock at, but
in ninety nine casas out OF a hundred
the spare raw boncd, pot bellled calf
makes the best COW l do nog mean To
be undersgood a. saying that a calf
that has been starved into this condi
ton will make the best dairy COW.
But it will, where these conditions
have been developed by judlcious feed
ing and with proper ragions.
We have been reasonably successful
in raising dairy animals, have had but
few failures to record where we had
dairy blood to start with. In fact we
have never raised 0ut one calf, and that
q well bred one, that was not or did
not develop into q profitable dairy
COW. l attribute Jul success more to
care than anything else,
Our calves are taken from their
mothers at three days old, as a rule
We have some cows that make more
fuss over their calves than others.
From such COWS we take the calves
sooner than from less sfectionRte ones
We feed the calves On whole milk
until ten days old, when We begin add
ing a smail qu8nty of warm skim milk.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

| at the same time decreasing the amount
] of whole milk in like proportion, so
that by the time the calf il twenty
days old it's ration consists Of skim
milk. We now begin feeding a small
amount OF ground feed, generally corn
and oats, increasing the amount as the
calf gets older. We used to think we
could not raise q calf without oil meal,
but fad we can get just as good re-
suits from corr and O ts and at less
cost.
When our calves are three weeks old
we want them to have rough feed
where they can get it, and for this
nothing is better than good bright
corn fodder. They seem to relish it
and will eat it before anything else we
have ever fed. 1t is bulky, and that is
what we want, as it will develop the
digestive organs as well as the capacity
for storing an abundance of food to be
manufactured into tactical fluid, later
on in life. A calf raised in this way
will not look quite as neat, will more
likely be what is called pot bellied, will
not be so straight on the back, but she
will make the COW that will do to tie tn
ninety nine times out Of a hundred.
There is another thing just as i'm
portant as blood or feed, and that is
training Unless a calf has been so
brought up tina we not only have its
confidence but it's affection as well,
when it comes in to work, it will in.
variably be a failure. I want our
c alves where l can be with them every
day if possible, so I can handle and pet
them. Teach them that each one of
the family is their friend In this
we never have a heller to break
We have developed in them sfec ion
for US, which alone prompts them to
the maternal action Of celebrating and
Welding to US the material thaT nature
intended for their offspring. We must
all remember that q COW is prompted to
yield her milk only By maternal aft e.
ton for her young, this she is by ma
ture, and che Will only yield it to mar
to the extent Of her affection for him
So this love for him must be cultivated
and the sooner one begins the better
M E KING.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
LIVE STOCK AND FED PRoDUC-
TON.

Prot. W. @. Welborn of the Mlssis-
sippi Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege in a recent paper entitled Stock
and Food to Fed Jhem," contributed
to Cotton Planners Journal, says:
'Ot hogs, cattle and sheep, Missis-
sippl has $l2. 600, 600 worth; Iowa
$112 600 900 worth, or nearly nine and
one half times as many. Who can
wonder that Iowa's per capita wealth
is $1,000, while MississipDI's is but
$3.50, while the total wealth of n
state ia five times that of the ether.
We see it stated frequently by our
optimis tic friends that MIsslsslppians
owe but SIS 90 per capita public and
private Indebtedness, while Iowans
owe 800 each. Why not go on and
state that the people of Iowa can pay
their debts and then be three and one
third times as rich as we are9
81 verify believe that mixed hus-
bandry, diversified agriculture, in
which stock enough is kept to consume
most Of the products Of the farm, is
largely responsible for this excellent
showing made by Northern sister
states as compared with our own. We
follow a system Of i'll advised, badly
balanced, lop sided farming that en-
ables a hand to wear out about fifteen
acres at a time. lder a proper sys
tenn of diversificaEIon and rotation of
our cultivated crops with hay grasses
and p%as5uring, we might, like the
10 va farmers, util. "a three and a half
acres where we now utilize one acre.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE II

"He looked like that kind OF a man
well fed and we'll kept. His clothes
were strong and warm and fitted him
we'll. He was in a we'll made wagon,
which ran smoothly and easily and
had been taken good care of. He drove
q horse which he said is thirty years
old and can do as much work as any
animal In the country-a fat, sleek,
dark bay, with evidences Of good feed
ing, currycomb, brush and rubbing on
every inch of his shining skin. The
harness was good originally, it fitted
like a tailor. made gown and every
buckle was in place. There vas not a
piece Of string or grass rope or hickory
Wythe anywhere about the outfit. 1t
is safe to bet that the nan did not have
a pin anywhere doing a buttons duty,
either. He looked as il he had left q
wife Rt home who is the same kind OF
woman he is q man, and who watches
her husband and children and house
just as he watches his barn and stables,
live stock, tools and running gear. He
has a horse thirty years old and ap
parently good for FIVE years work yet,
and many a man loses his horse at
twelve OF fifteen years and must buy
another at a cost of 800 or more,
from failure to take good care
af him
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
W. A. Gardner, Chairman, Andrews
Settlement. Pa. JChn Breinig, juno
ton, ". Va; D P. Duncan, CoIurq.
hie, 8. G.; @. w. Crawl, Mandana,
N. Y,
NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALrI-
ANCE.
PresidenS-John Graham, Warren.
ton, N. Q,
vicezPresident-D. G. Bryan, Jones
boro, N. G.
Secretary-T reasurer-J.T B. Hoover,
6illsboro, N. @.
State Business Agent-T. B. Parker,
Lecturer-Dr. V. N. seawell, Villa
row., N. 9.
WILLIAMSBURG. N. Q.
N. @.
oooE,keeper-Geo. 7. Lane, Greens,
assistant D or-keeper-Jas. e. Lyon.
D 7rham, N. @.
Sergeant-at Arms-D. W. Watson,
haywood, N. Q.
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W.
A. Earaham, Machpelah, N. Q.
Steward-A. J. Moye, Farmville,
N. Q.
EXECUTIVE COMBITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
J; W. Denmark, Chairman, Raleigh,
N. @.
John Graham, W~arrenton, N. @.
". B. Fleming, Ridgeway, N. Q.
Q. G. Mcclellan, Goodwin. N. Q.
DR.. j. E. Person, Plkeville, N. Q.
Thomas j Oldham, Teer, N. Q.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMdITENa
DR.. J. 3. Person, Pikeville, n. Q.
W. s. Barnes, Raleigh, n. Q.
7. Ivey, Gary, N. O.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
TRE NATIONAL FARMERS ALI.
ANCB AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President-J @. Wilborr, Old Point,
8 @
Vice President-P. b. Rahilley, Lake
City, Mimi.
secretary Treasurer-A. B. WEIGH,
Victor, N. Y,
LECTURERS.
). P. Sossamon, Charlotte, N. O.
J. Q. aanley, st. Paul, MINI.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
CONFEDERATE VRTE RAMS RE-
UNION.
Charleston S c, May 10 -, 1899

Otacc0unt of the Confederate Vet
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will sell tickets Co Charleston and re-
turn at very low rates, bosed on one
cent per mile, travelled. Tickets on
sale May 9Th 9-h ard 10Th, good to re
tu"n ur til Man 217t
FIR it.fOrm4iIon in regard to rates,
schedules. g., apply tt Ticket Agents
or address
L s ALLEN GENT. Pesa'r Agent.
Portsmouth, Va.
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure Deafness, and that is by COlstitu-
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining Of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube getsiinhaueG
you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is
the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
which is nothing but an inflamed condition G.
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send fol
circulars, free.
"a Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

Nos. 400 and 4O3.-- s ;;PRS At! solis
VesttbUle Train of Pullman Sleepers and
Coaches between Washington and Atlanta.
also Pullman Sleepers between Portsmouth
and Chester, S. @.
Nos. 81 and a. n rIRe & so "a + Fra e.
Coaches n Pullman SIeepers between Ports
mouth and Atlanta Company SleeDers be
tween Columbia and Atlanta.
Both trains make immediate connections 3,
Atlanta for Montgomery. Mobile. New Or
laans,T Texas, California, Mexico, ChattanooGA
Nashville, Memphis, Macon, Florida
For Tickets. Sleepers, etc., apply to
Raleigh, n. c.
z. P. SMITH. G.. T. A
E. ST. JOHN, d. w. B. GLOVER
Vtce-President and GenI Mgr. Traffic MGg
" e. MCBEE, s L ALIEN
Genl Superintendent. GenI Pass. AS
General Offices
PORTSMOUTH. VA.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-26
THIS STATE TO HAVE A
SPECIAL WHEAT SERVICE
WEATHER BUREAU TO ESTAB-
LISH IT IMMEDIATELY.
Local Forecast Official Wilson Now
Equipping Stations on the Line
of the Valley Road.

The Weather Bureau began work on a
special wheat service in this State yester-
day. Local Forecaster John H. Wilson
is now in the San Joaquin Valley estab-
fishing twelve stations along the line of
the Valley road. He will equip the fol-
lowing places with rain gauges and maxi
mum thermometers: Elmwood, Merced
lie Grand, Lankershim, Fresno, Reedley,
Hanford, Visalia, Tulare, Angola, Dewey
and Bakersfield.
The Valley road is actively cooperating
with the bureau in the Inauguration of
this important branch of the service and
has placed it's train agents at the places
named at the disposal of the Department
of Agriculture. Special wheat bulletins
will be issued daily from June to July 15
Telegraphic reports will be received at the
local office concerning the conditions
before harvesting, and it will be of in
calculable benefit to the community to
know the maximum and minimum tenn
perature and the rainfall each day.
Head Weather Official McAdie in dis
cussing the project yesterday, said:
1.-The inauguration of a special wheat
service in the valley is part of a plan
formulated some time ago by the depart
ment to obtain information from the
wheat growing centers of California. In
the East the cotton, rice and wheat belts
are provided with special services known
as the cotton, rice or wheat region serv-
ices. The exchanges are chiefly inter-
ested in knowing what the conditions are
day by day throughout these belts.
'It is the intention to operate the serv-
ice during the month of June in particular
when the wheat is ripening, though it
may ultimately be run through the ger
minating period also. We are constantly
besieged for information regarding the
prevailing daily conditions, and the spe-
cial service will make it possible to give
it intelligently. The thanks of the de-
partment are due to the Valley road for
it's aid in the proposed Improvement
1--WE have added a new symbol to our
weather map, called the thunderstorm.
and yesterday used it for the first time in
noting two thunderstorms at Kalispel,
Mont, and Baker City, Idaho. There is
considerable rivalry among the bureaus
at Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Min
neapolis and San Francisco for improve
ments on the map service, and we regard
this as one of much Importance"
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-26
INDOOR GAMES IN
THE OLYMPIC CLUB
SPIRITED CONTESTS BETWEEN
CLEVER ATHLETES.
The Association Boys Scored the
Greater Number of Points and
Won the Championship.

The first indoor championship field and
track tournament of the Pacific Athletic
Association of the Amateur Athletic
Union was held last evening in the gym
nasium of the Olympic Club in the pres
ence of a large and select gathering of
members and their lady friends. Accord
ing to the points scored by the different
clubs the Olympic came out on top with a
score of %, the Reliance was second with
13, the Academic League third with s,
Stanford score was 6, Young Mems Chris
tian Association score was ), Ariel Row
ing Club g. Grammar High School 1 and
unattached l.
The first event on the programme was
a 25-yard dash, which was run in heats.
The first heat was won by d. Woodrum,
with j. Jacobs second; time, 3 1-5 sec
onds. The second heat was won by l..
Buthlert, G. II. Burgers second; time,
j. w. Burgers, A. q. Dondero second:
time, 2-5 seconds. The final heat was
won by Woodrum, Jacob second and Buh-
left third; time, 10 seconds
Twenty-Five yard hurdle race-First
heat was won by B. Hendrickson, A. G.
Dondero second; time, seconds. Second
heat b. Moulder first, A S. PackScher
second; time, 1-5 seconds. Final heat,
Henderson first, Dondero second, Moulder
third; time, 4 seconds.
The 600-yard race was won by George
Klarman, with +. w. Burgers second.
from a field of twelve starters; time, 1
minute 20 1-5 seconds.
1U00-ydrd run-Won by W.. Lamont, i
Brennan second, G.. t. Shaw third Time,
2:44.
The obstacle race was the most anus
ing feature of the evening. 1t was won
by F. Burgers, with G. Burgers a close
second. No time was taken.
The field events We're as follows:
Pole vault was won by Donald Wood
rum, c. S. Dole second. Height, 10 feet.
Putting 16-pound shot-First, r. Edgren;
second, ID. Woodrum. Distance, 40 feet l
inch.
High jump-First, D. ]. Grant; second,
c. S. Dole Height, feet 10 inches.
Owing to the lateness of the hour the
broad Jump was not held
The officials of the evening were: Ref
cree w. r. Berry, r. A. c.; starter, Phil
Wand, o. c.; clerk of course, H. A.
! Keller. A. A L.. field marshal, II. l..
Clark, o. c.; judges at tinish-George
Gross, r. A. c.; j. r. Bockman, A. r. c.,
and George James, o. c.; timers-George
Wetmore, B; c.; F, w, Butt, o. c.; A. ?.
Rothkopf D. r. c.; S. j. Pembroke, A.
B. c.. and II. Hadenfeldt. o. c. field
judges. Hammersmith, o. c.; j. Gen
dotti A A. L., and Matt ]. Breen, S. E.
R. c.: measurers-S. S. Peixotto, c. P.
A c.; A. d. LaMotte, A. A. L., and b.
Townsend, A. A. L.; scorer, H. A. Wide
man, l.. S. c.; announcer, II. Monaghan,
O C.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-26
TWO CYCLERS
COLLIDE IN
THE PARK

Albert Dean, who lives at 2o0s Larkin
street. may die of injuries sustained in
a bicycle collision last night While rid
ing in Golden Gate Park he lost control
of his machine and he crashed into A. l..
Reilly, who was coming in an opposite
direction, with the result that both eye
lists were sent to the Park Receiving Hos
pital.
The accident occurred shortly after 9
o'clock. Dean was on his way to the Cliff
House and near the end of the speed track
he was unable to manage his silent steed
on the down grade Reilly was diligently
pedaling up the hill and when he saw
Dean flying to meet him he yelled to him
and moved to the right. Dean became
excited and also yelled and in his excite
ment turned to the left, the result being
that he collided with great force with
Reilly. Both riders were thrown from
their wheels.
Reilly managed to rise and limp off. but
not before he notified a park policeman.
Dean was hurriedly removed to the Park
Hospital, and for nearly an hour Drs.
Niemeyer and Simon worked over the in
jured man. Shortly after Dean was placed
on the operating table he became uncon-
scious. The doctors found that their
patient had sustained a hemorrhage of
the ear and probably a fracture of the
skull. His family were notified and a
brother removed him to his home in a
carriage 1t is feared he may die.
Reilly escaped with few decorations of
the hand and face. Both wheels were
ruined in the collision.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-26
CoRINTHIAN REGATTA.
The Yachts Will All Be Out on Decor
alton Dav

The fourteenth annual regatta of the
Corinthian Yacht Club will be held on
Decoration day. There will be five
classes and thirty-eight yachts compet-
ing Two prize flags will be given in each
class. The classes are divided as fol-
lows:
Class One (all over SO feet racing length)
Mike, Ella, Clara, Speedwell, Rover,
Lois, Pride.
Thirty-six Foot Glass mot over SO feet
and over go feet racing length)-Harpoon,
Thelma,. Emma, Freda. Queen, Edna,
Thirty Foot Class mot over 80 feet and
over % feet racing lengthl-Aeolus. Tru-
ant. Amigo Mignon, Emelie, Halcyon
Twenty-Five Foot Class mot over 25 feet
and over 20 feet racing lengthl-May,
Phoenicia, Mistral, Merope Cupid, Lap
twenty Foot Glass 90 feet racing
length and all under)-Venture, Dart,
Witch. Dreadnaught, Kittiwake, Phyllis,
Doris
The start will. be. made from off Tay-
lor street wharf, the 20-foot class start
Ing at 11:45 and the other classes each at
ifteen-minute intervals until 12:45 The
course is all in the north basin and the
race must be run in at most five hours.