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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30
THE NEW YEARS ANSWER.

VIII every eye he smiling.
And every heart be light,
And every household happy,
And every hearth.ilre bright?
Will grief no longer rankle.
And care no more annoy,
Nor friendships gold be mingled
With falsehood's base alloy,
"Alas, the New Year answered,
such was not Natures plau,
The wonders OF tho future
No mortal eye can sean:
Ent ihis let each remember,
Life cannot all he play;
And clouds must follow sunshine,
AS darkness follows day.
"For Joy would lose its SAVIOR
Urmiyed with grief or pain,
And hope would cease to cheer US
II dreams were never vain.
The cup Of honeyed sweetness
Cpon our taste would pail.
If with tho sweet WAS mingled
No bitter drop OF gall.
"No lot, however tranquil,
Can be misfortune-proof,
And life for each Is weaving
A varied warp and woof.
'Twould mar its wondrous pattern
by Natures hand prepared,
ii but ono tiny sprig OF rue
Or blighted bud were spared"
Helen Whitney Clark.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30

They may say what they like
against him, said the convicted ones
defender, 'but his heart is in the right
place
Yes assentod the other, "and 50
IS the rest of him for few Years.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30

UNCLE ISAAC'S SCHEME.
BY AMY DARCY WETMORE.


RTITUR LENNON
and his friend, Mr..
Grey, sat chatting at
the end of a family
dinner. "You know
I am rather a con
nolsseur in minia
tures," remarked
Mr.. Lennox, land |
must say that I have
never seen more del
icate coloring, or
finer expression, than
nre disOlayed i'm thot
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30

FOR 10 years many thought Duhhins' Elcc.
tric Soapat 10 cents Il bar too high for u,u.
Millions used it, Now sold ~ . cent old size
and quality. "5-ccnt books free for wrappers.
Everybody wants il. Do YOU
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30

Mohammedans to the number OF
$1,000 have deserted Crete The re-
naming 10000 are beginning TO feel
econciled to the new order OF things.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30

Seven hundred miles of railway
lines have been laid in the Soudan
during the last three years.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30

Arc"ln. Ill.,, is the richest town in tho
world III proportion to its population. 1t
mas 1000 inhabitants, and absolutely controls
the broom corn market NE52
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30
Over the 1fulls,

Wisconsin, paper reports an In.
dis remarkable escape from death.
II was one of a driving crew that
bt big jam above Sturgeon Falls.
attempted to cross the river on a
lc9nd, to the horror of the specta-
I'd was carried over the falls.
falls are forty. feet high, and
CO BIT of two pitches and the rapids.
u 1rse the man was given up for
dI aud the driving crew thought it
nj IS to search the river for his
I'D as tho logs were piling over the
fak t rapid rate.
next morning, however, the
Ill walked into camp for break
fall He had been swept down the
ivfr aud up against the bank, where
e Inanaged to crawl out. Finding
NJ Il few scratches and bruises, but
elng, as he remarked, rather tired"
u lay down and slept until day
sht, and was none the worse for his
venture.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30

'HT WY 4 VHHlNh EfeNStS.
If II woman has any style to her, she
is always dressed in such way that
she can't eat with any comfort. --Atrli.
son Globe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30

Greatness and tn" Average Man.
AS n rule, when man has Greatness
thrust upon him, il does not take him
very long to get rid OF il. 81 St. Louis
Advocate.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30

Ii,o IS Cure for Consumption relieve, tine
il"el obstinate coughs. - REV. H. Been.
MI EliEk, Lexington, Mo-, Feb. ~ 1884
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30

from dripping axle boxes and his foot
slipped wide rs he left the track. His
right hand, stretched blinllv ont be-
fore him, toucasl round iron bar,
bracing two parts Of the bridge. anl
with grip like that of II drowning
mau his fingers claspcl around it.
For moment he swung in empty air.
In another his lett hand had found u
place beside his right and his feet
touched the welcome edge of brace
below. With bleeding fingers clutch
ing the slender iron bar that vibrate
widely from side to side moments
seemed hours.
AT last the train passed, aud the
young mau was able to climb slowly
to the track above. Cnneryed by the
trying experience, he lay for mo-
ment stretched arioss the rails. and
then rising to his feet, with blancheI
face and unsteady limbs, made W
way to firm ground. ~
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30
u 10 Newspaper Men.

Despite te severe criticism made by
English Military experts about the
swarm off ewspaper correspondents
that accJlpanied our armies and
fleets in pc late war with Spain, in
the preset trouble i'll the T"ansvaal
the correspondents seem to he quite
as activsS they we're on this side Of
the waV. The story%of young Win
stop Ckrchill is we'll known, aud now
the 10 Jon Times tells Of the doughty
deeds1f another young man, tue
corte ,Fnlent for a paper unknown
here 10 East London Dispatch. On
Oct'F 10 lie crossed the Orange
Riy. lone and reconnoitred the Boer
CAT i'm way to win praise from the
mijyfy authorities. He swan the
riy IN bright moonlight and went to
eTcjp of y little hill, from where he
! $ple. to see plainly the Boer camp,
q. fken lie passed the sentry lines
.,Ywent within hundred yards of
" camp, and when lie hal found out
~ that he had desired, a patrol
'pied him and chased him back to
90 river, which he again swan in
afety.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30
Two PUSHES With Bridges,

-h'iiSN oNCN IllS ~
the strength OF the fabric of whiJI,'' l.. ~
coat is made. Pilkington is ten ~ >
ter employed in the Penr. ru ,,,;
Railroads repair departm n,s ''"r rI
was sent to do some work nv W,
bridge which spans the a tnu i.:n
River at Manayunk ''""''"'''
Late III the nlternoE
hammering away, with nn fs.r Cor III,
safety, IL shifting engi. haa,, 81 ran
.,' '' "oIn WV .."oH ""t started across
a io '" s"; WIN .s n" Ally any noise to
lngton saw it, but tad l,tn.i ,a,,a
hurried to gcttoil th, tronl !, s,r,al,
him glancing blow which lifted him
OIL his feet and seIt him toward thn
side of the bridge A hundred feet
below flowed the turbid waters. a fall
into which meant almost certain death.
On the engine was shifting crew,
anl rs soon rs possible the members
hurried back to pick up what they
supposed would be a dead body, for
the bridge is guarded by picket fence
on each side, and they never thought
OF the man being hurled over'it.
But he was. The engine had lifted
him over the fence, and he began to
fall, with one hundred feet Of space
between him and' the water. But
here strange thing saved his life.
His coat caught on q picket of the
fence, and There he hung suspended,
fearing to move lest the garment give
way AMI allow him to take The fatal
plunge
There the shifting crew found him
calmly iacing whatever might be in
store fo' him. They brought him
back to safety aud hurried him to st.
Tlmothy's Hospital. The physicians
found that the engine had bruised |
him, but thatfie was suffering more
from shock tlhn from anything else.
Pilkinston 1esiles at Norristown,
Penu., and ffhirty- eight years old.
Eighteen ny this ago he fell through
the Peuco' trestle bridge at West
Manayunki al was severely injured.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30
:" Gt.J" ~ TT; :iGy t., 'i..- :
Ascribes' lis Escape to Prayer.

Ascribes' Ills Escape to Prayer.
G. IL. Anibermali is suffering from 4
badly str ainel neck as the result Of
hanging in the .belfry; Of the Methods
Episcopal Church at Hampstead, Long
Island. Mr.. Ambermah, who is sex.
ton, went to the belfry to make som
Tepairs, and when he started to de-
send he slipped and would have fallen
tthe lower floor had not the trap
dor fallen with him and caught him
y the neck and wedsed him against
70 .hatchway:.. Amberman's hands
yre bplow the trapdoor, his feel
we dangling in the air aud his
bk,th was cut off. He prayed to
hi ven for help, and as he was about
tdive up in despair one of his feet
f4d q resting place and hope
Rived. He set his foot firmly, and
nj ged to summon strength enough
tJrce his head,up a little, and open
tllrapdoor again. He believed that
h1prayer was answered, and: he
bod his. head and gave thanks. tic
Gil for sparing his life, 49,.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30

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1t is reliable chronology Of
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Here sr, few o. the great men who have
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Secretary Wilson, on Agriculture
Sen. Chauncey NJ. Depew. on Politics
Russell sage, on Finance
Thomas Edison, " Electricity
Gen. Merritt, " Land Warfare
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al" Smith, Sports
You will enjoy reading it now.
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or ivory frish paper.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-30
The Hon. Geo, Starr Writes

n, No. IN n ELS PINF, NV I DIRK.
DIR RADwAY-Wt'h me your Relief has worked
wonders. For the last III: ee years I have had
frequent and severe n tacks OF sciatIca sometimes
extending from the lumbar regions to my ankle
and at timesto both lower limbs.
During the time have eer afflicted have tried
almost nll the rclnedie recommended b, wise men
and fools, hoping to find relief but all proved to
be failures.
have tried various kinds Of baths, ina ipuia-
tipns. outward application of niments 90 uiinCr-
Gus to n'ntion. and Prescriptions Of the mos,
relief - "
LIST september, al lie gent request 81 friend
twho had been afflicted myself I VAS induced
totry your remedy was then suffering fearfully
with one Of my old turns. 10 my surprise and de-
ight the FIRST application gave c ea,c aiter ba tn
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snort time the pain rassed entirely away. Al
though have sliaht periodical attacks approach
ing change Of weather, 1 know now how 10 cure
IN y sell; a.d feel quite master I the sit alton
RAILWAYS READY RELIEF is NV friend, I
never travel without bottle in my yalise.
Yours trlly,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

have grown pumpkins this way
Enough seed is mixed with the corn s.
that one will be dropped to every five
or six hills. The corn is in no way
damaged by the pumpkins-rather
benefited, as their umbegeous leaves
keep the sun from striking the ground,
and also, to large extent, shade out
weeds which, on river low grounds,
make considerable growth after the
corn has been cultivated the last time,
when the season is favorable. The
only cost is that Of drawing and stor
ing in the buildings.
The Virginia Mammoth does we'll
when planted on bottom lands with
corn. They are large, have thick,
firm flesh, and do not rot readily.
Last year we had over fifty tons,
which were stored in a building dur
ing the latter part of September be
fore frost touched them. They were
fed to COWS, calves and pigs, and
proved a valuable adjunct to the orGi-
nary foods. The COWS and pigs re
ceived them till the middle of Decem
Der and the calves till the 10th of Feb
ruarY. A few were set aside to see
how long they would keep, and only
rotted about the first of March. Those
stored until cold weather were we'll
covered with straw.
We have been advised often to let
pumpkins have one good frost on them
before storing away, but I am conf
dent they would not keep as well for
it. I noticed some that got touched
with frost during cold spell in Jauu
ary became soft very soon after they
thawed out.-Albert r BellWood, in
Southern Planter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16
No. IA

than by making it into ensilage. Many
have been deferred from attempting
to make ensiIage because they imagine
that very costly building is needed.
The only requisite in silo is that it
should be as near air tight as possible
at bottom and sides and freely open
above.
The corn is cut into the silo when in
the roasting ear state, and when the
silo is full cover of STRAW is put over
it or a layer of cotton seed hulls to
take the mold at the top and the whole
thing is done. The corn can be stored
dripping wet if need be or it can he
left to wilt in the fields day or so.
The weather never need interfere with
the work. Then too when the corn is
cut and stored the land is ready and
clear for the fall crop. Here at our
college last season we had a crop of
cats that were cut for hay. The land
was then plowed and corn planted for
easilage. This corn was cut and stored
and the land well prepared sgain and
seeded down to grass. and to day there
is not finer piece of grass around the
city on the land where a year ago the
oats were growing and corn was after
wards raised. The cutting of corn at
the ground is heavy work when done
by hand, but we now have machines
that cut and bind the stalks in bundles
so that the hauling and handling are
far easier. or course it is not worth
mans time to build a silo il he has
but COW or two, but we are aGvocst-
ing the feeding of more and more stock
as the very foundation of successful
farming with any crops. We can here
only give hints. But shall have out
from the press in a few days bulletin
on the improvement of our lands, and
any farmer in the State can get copy
by sending card for it, and can have
his name entered for all we publish
W. F. Massey, in Christian Advocate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16
RALEIGH, N. c., MAY 16, 1899.

is higher in the first, but the proper
ton of fat is decidedly greater in the
last.
When the milking periods are un
equal tho longer period will generally,
though not always, give the larger
yield Of milk, of fat, and of solids not
fat; but the difference in yield does not
correspond to the difference in time
that is, the secretion calculated perhour
is greater during the shorter period.
Neither day time nor night time is
shown to be superior as a milk pro
ducing period.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16
PRACTICAL FARm NOTES.

Written for The Progressive Farmer BY
the ditors, and Prof Guy z. Mitchell
The American golddnch or wild can
sry is as beautiful as it is useful, and
ss a weed destroyer has few equals. 1t
confines it's attention very largely to
one family of plants, the Compositae,
and is especially fond Of wild lettuce,
tbistles, wild sunfower and rag weed.
1t is so often seen gracefully poised
upon thistles that it is commonly
called the thistle bird. 1t is also very
fond Of cultivated sunfoWer seeds.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

In 1898, CO operative experiments
were made with velvet beans for the
Alabama Station by farmers in IA
Localities in that State. In reporting re
suits the great majority Of experiment.
ers repor ted a more luxuriant growth
made by velvet beans than by cowpeas.
Almost invariably the yield of hay as
judged by the eye was estimated as
much greater than the yield of COW pea
hay. However, it is easy to over esti
mate the yield of velvet bean hay, for
the growing vines present an imposing
appearance and the hay is loose and
bulky. Summing up, the Alabama
Station says:
"GiviDg due weight to these reports
of results based merely on appearance
and to our accurate expesiments at
Auburn, where the product of large
plots was weighed, it appears probable
that on good land the COW pea and
velvet bean Lfford practically equal
yields of hay, while on poor, deep
sandy land the velvet bean may afford
a larger yield"
At the station the yield of sorghum
I'D oats after a crop Of velvet beans
was larger than after a crop Of COW
peas. In oat straw, however, the re
verse was true.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

The Horticulturist of the Virginia
Experiment Station, VIM, B. Atwood,
states that from his experience it sp
pears to be simple matter for any in
teiligent farmer to grow forest trees
seedlings either for decorative planting
or for wind breaks and forest belts
All such seeds as silver maple and like
early ripening species, it is necessary
to SOW as soon as ripe. They can be
soWn in the same manner and will
grow as readily as peas. All late ripen
ing species should be sown in the fall.
Walnuts can be bulked down, several
bushels in heap, and then tax en- up
and planted in the spring with perfect
success. Also simple plan with these
species is to plant the nuts where the
trees are to stand. II no stock inter
feres they will grow with great GER
tainty, and in rich soil so rapidly as to
astonish one unfamiliar with the cul
ture OF for est trees. Most Of the forest
trees do best if set out at to feet
tall; hence many should stand but one
year in the nursery row.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

The Illinois Station has been record.
ing the variations of different COWS
and of the same COW at different times,
in the quantity and quality of the milk
produced, and these records demon
strate the following truths:
The yield of milk from different COWS
under the same conditions differs
greatly, and that from the same COW
varies widely from day to day.
The composition of milk is highly
variable; the ratio of fat to other solids,
and that of solids to water, are not
constant as between different COWS or
for the same COW on successive days.
The percentage Of fat, or of other
solids, is not always highest in the
smaller yields, but COWS that give milk
with high per cent. of solids gener
ally show a low total yield.
Fat is the most variable constituent
Of milk, and it's variations are depend
ent of those of the other solids; there
fore the yield of milk is better index
Of the other solids than it is of the fat.
As regards the first and last milk
drawn, the proportion Of solids not fat
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

One of the best bulletins yet issued
by the North Carolina Experiment
Station is Earning in North Caro-
lina," by Prof. W. F. Massey. A re
view Of the work is unr ecessary, as
any Of our readers can secure a copy
free by addressing a postal card REQUEST
for same to Agricultural Experiment
Station, Raleigh, N. c." We advise
every farmer reader Of this paper to
send for a copy. By the way, when
next you go to the postC flee, buy a
supply Of postal cards and do not let
the supply become exhausted. Then
when you see a reference to bulletin
or a manufacturers catalogue which
you need, send for it at once. Very
often an advertiser in The Progressive
Farmer offers a valuable catalogue
free to all who apply, and postal card
request for same would in many in
stances save the reader a snug little
sum.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

Slowly but surely the farmers are
beginning to realize the advantages of
mixing their own fertilizers. OF course
not all farmers are prepared to do this,
but any intelligent farmer who will
carefully read Voorhees, Fertilizers"
will promptly see the reason for home
mixing, the way to do it, and the profit
there is in it. The farmer who knows
nothing Of the ingredients Of fertilizers
is not better prepared to mix q fertili
z3r for weak and impoverished land
than the man who knows nothing of
pharmacy is to compound a medicine
for sick man. But where the pharma
cist must learn Of scores Of ingredients
before being prepared to compound a
mt dicine for sick man, the farmer
who wishes to compound fertilizer
for sick soil needs to know the char
acter and nature OF but three elements
potash, phosphorus, and nitrogen.
Thus his task is q very easy one.
1t requires no, college training, but
merely the ability to read intelligently.
This being the case, brother farmer,
why not mix your own fertilizers and
keep at home the tribute money you
have been paying to enrich fertilizer
compounders and their agents9 Re
ferring to this matter Of home mixing,
the bulletin, Farming in North Caro-
lina," to which we have just alluded,
says:
''Fertilizing matters being a neces
sity in the recuperation of the soil,
their making is matter of much i'm
portance, and the farmer should know
just what he is using and no longer
buy his fertilizers on ''the patent medi-
cine plan" By buying the materials
and mixing them at home in the pro
portions he needs, he can al ways be
sure of having what he wants and of
getting it at much lower rate than
the same value could be had from the
manufacturers. Some shortsighted
fertilizer manufacturers are trying to
prevent the farmers from getting the
chemicals and doing their own mixing.
But they are working against their
own interest in this, for the home mix
ing of fertilizers is going to be the rule
in the future, and the sooner the fertil
izer men realize it and put all the facil,
tiles in the way of the farmers getting
what he wants the more they can make
by sales of these things. 1t has been
abundantly proved at more than one
station that home mixed fertilizers
give just as good results as the same
grade of factory. mixed goods and cost
far less"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

A French economic ornithologist
states it as his belief, resulting from his
Investigations, that If the world we're
to become birdless, man could not in
habit it after nine years time, in spite
Of all the sprays and poisons that could
be manufactured for the destruction Of
insects. He shows that birds eat hun
dFeds Of millions of insects daily, which
cannot be doubted when stomach ex
aminations show that all the insect
eating birds are continually destroying
large numbers Of insects, most Of them
harmful to agriculture Birds are more
the farmers friend than he realizes
Impress this fact upon your boy.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16
PLANT PUMPKINS.

For mich COWS, whilst they are un
dergoing the change from pasture to
dry feed, there aye few, if any, kinds
of food that will keep them to their
milk as we'll as pumpkins. They are
splendid for calves going into winter
quarters, and make an excellent and
healthful food to give with corn to fat
ten pigs. In moist situations, such as
river low grounds, great abundance
of pumpkins can be grown along with
the corn. For quite a few years we
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

Another report to Congress is about
to be made from the Agricultural De
partment upon the development of the
beet sugar industry in the United
States for the year. Mr.. Charles f.
SaylOr, the author of similar report
for last year, has been preparing it,
and has incorporated into it an inter
esting account of sugar growing in
Puerto Rico and other notes on the
agriculture of the island. Mr.. Saylor
describes the methods of the natives as
the most primitive imaginable, with
conse quently a minimum of results
All field work is performed by oxen,
though ponies are used for riding. In
stead Of the OK yoke resting against
the shoulder, it is fastened on the front
of the head and attached to the horns
and the OK propels the load by pushing
it with his head. Mr.. Saylor states
that the native workman does not &C
complish in a day more than one third
as much work as a laborer in the
United States. A great proportion of
the natives, however, he finds living
or cents a day. In many cases they
live entirely upon such simple diet
as raw sugar cane. Pure sugar is not
an uncommon ration in many tropical
countries. He figures in detail that
sugar can be laid down in New York
duty free) at less than cents a pound.