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The colored American., 1900-04-07

Clarhsburg. w. Va. Special Rev.
Watson and Mr.. Pollock Lowery have
rsturned from the Baltimore Confer
ence The congregation of Rev. Wat
sons church is to be cOngI atulsted for
having secured him as pastor for an
other year.
A municipal election was held here
last Tuesday and the bribe- giver and
bribe taker were largely in evidence.
cannot find language strong enough
to condemn, in filling terms, the
methods pursued by some Of the candi-
dates Of both parties. The wholesale
and open buying Of votes was disgrace
ful 10 the eXtr5me; travesty on good
government Party leaders seem to
think that every Negro voter has his
price and they maze an honest election
an lmpOssbiity. The law m axes brIb-
cry striOus 0ffense, yet there was no
effort made to appTehend any OF the
offenders, That men can violate The
law wlth impunity and so prostitute an
election is a reflection on the entife
community. Keep money and whisky
out Of sight and do not tempt the
voter.
Mr. Albert Miles was dele2 ate to
the democratic city convention which
nominated candidates for local offices,
last Saturday night. He Is to be con-
gratulated for having the courage OF
his cOnYictiOns and those who assume
to criticise him for his course are hard
ly worthy of consideration. Their
opinions cannot carry much weight.
10 this age of enlightenment Negroes
should show as much liDeraltty OF
thought in politics as in religion.
There is no more reason for our being
all republicans than there is reason fol
our being all Methodists or Baptists.
That pOstOfice employee who was re-
ported to have insulted a colOred
citizen evidently knew his man. The
individual to whom he addressed his
offensive remark lost his nerve OF
course and refused to furnish the
League committee with the offenders
name. he will in all probability pick
Just such an "easy mark" next time
out will be careful not to offend mor'
manly and courageous Negro.
Ihe Equal Rights League met las
hon1ay night and UNANIMOUSLY de-
Cideo o support several of the candi
u1'es for municipal offices wlthou
regard to party affiliations. This is |
The colored American., 1900-04-07

District Commissioner John g. Wight
was probably the most talked of msn in
Washington last Sunday The 90 OsO
colored people OF the District haa the
Commissioner up for discussion. The
echoes Of mis- remark made before the
Senate Subcommittee on Appropris-
tioRs, CHASING the Negroes as criminals
with 10 regard for human life, and
verse than safecFaC kers, are still ring
lag in the ears OF the citizens OF the
District.
AT mass meeting at the Be cend Bap-
list Church, Mr. Wight vas the subject
OF bitter Remuneration. Resolutions
were adopted asking for the immediate
removal Cf the Commissioners, were
presented to President McKialey last
Wednesday.
The meeting set for the afternoon was
that the Second Baptist Lyeeum. 1t
was announced from most of the pui-
pits Sunday morning that the subjsst
60 be discussed at the meeting was the
status Of the public schools of Wash
iagtOD, with special reference To tbs
celored sc hools. In calling the meeting
to order the PRESIDENT of the lyeeum
said that the meeting was not called for
the purpose Of denouncing Commits
siOner Wight, nor was 1t in any sense
an indignation meeting. The Church
was filled to the doors.
NEEDS OF SCHOOL SYSTEM.
The first speaker was Hon. John P.
Green, of Ohio. He spoke at length
upon the education of the colore youth.
He said that he did not believe the
black 1oy should be taught that he is
different from the white boy. He said
the authorities had ne right to foist up.
on the colored people teachers not In
every way equal to the white youth. He
expressed a conviction that If the bill
now pending in Congress is enacted IN
to law, as 1t stands at present, it will
deprive the Negroes of their supsrin-
tendent of 81 hoOls. He gave number
OF reasons why there should be color
ed superintendent for the colorsd
schools, as well as colored supervisors.
:" II tbs white maL," said Mr.. Green,
"could come in closer touch with the
Negro he would think moro Of him.
There is no way made possible for the
I
The colored American., 1900-04-07

Messrs. Thomas Scott and Dale Dean
have returned from Washington and
Baltimore, and report an enjoyable
trip.
Rev. A. F. Tuck, of Parkersburg,
father of MIS-. Thomas Wellman, has
been critically i'll, but is convalescent.
The colored American., 1900-04-07
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ASK WIGHT'S RkkOVAL.

Colorfd d CI izenS in Mass Meeting Take
Action Gathering Called to Discuss The
District Schools Chang to an Indigna.
tion-I ommttee Appointed 20 Present
SOner'S Sta emsnb.
The colored American., 1900-04-07

POLITICS IN WEST VIRGINIA

4 News Mirror Which Reflects the Whole
Doings Of the Race in Thriving Mn
ing CITY. Activity Among the Church
es and Much Lite in the Social Woria.
The colored American., 1900-04-07

CONTINUED on Ninth page.)
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29
ROTATION OF CROPS NECESSARY.

What Western Farmer Has Learned.
correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
More and more l find farmers com
ing to the conclusion that a rotation
of crops is necessary for good farm
ing, and even here in the West when
we failed to practice it at time that
Eastern farmers advocated it, the
most successful farmers are now
adopting it. Wheat, of course, is
one of the crops I'm the rotation in
many sections, and corn another,
while clover is a foregone conclusion.
It makes it bad, of course, if in the
rotation the wheat OF corn crop
proves bad Then we have to double
up with one or the other, and usually
we feel that we have not made as
much from the rotation as we should.
Yet there is a likelihood Of a failure
Of either Of these crops if the rota-
ton is followed carefully. The wheat
and corn failures are more empha-
sized on those farms where little or
no attention is given to systematic
rotation. When you omit grass or
clover and the land gets run down,
the wheat or corn is pretty sure to
make a poor stand in seasons that
are not very favorable The result
is that the man who keeps his soil in
fine condition through a good system
of rotation of crops is usually the Cne
who has the best crops in off years.
[ have found as a rule that the off
year crops are very often the most
disastrous or the most profitable
When there is a good crop every
body has plenty to sell and prices in
variably run down below the margin
of a decent profit. Nobody exactly
does well, although you hear a good
deal of the amount that is going to
the farmers. But it is not always
the full amount of returns for a crop
that counts, as it is the amount re
ceived per bushel, pound or barrel
In off years it costs no more to raise
the crop, while prices are so high
that the man who has anything to
sell is sure to make a good profit.
Now if he can produce a moderately
good crop when every one Of his
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29
Horticulture.
THIN YOUR FRUIT.

In view of the heavy fruit crop in
North Carolina and adjoining States,
The Progressive Farmer is just at
this time more interested in getting
farmers to thin their fruit than in
almost any other matter. We re
ferred to this last week.
In an address on this subject be-
fore the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society, Mr.. J. H Hale, the famous
peach grower, said: Il wonder how
many of you practice the thinning of
fruit on your apple trees. Now, APP
pie trees will do a good deal if you
do nothing for them. But the man
who wants good apples-apples that
will pay-in the future will practice
thinning his fruit. [ should take a
young tree which attempted to pro
duce one hundred apples and remove
at least fifty of them, leaving not
more than fifty to ripen. The next
year, if it attempted to produce two
hundred, I should leave one hundred
or less, and the next, if il had one
thousand apples, [ should leave three
or four hundred only. By this
method should get that tree into
the habit of annual bearing. The
man who will make fruit growing
profitable business will thin all his
fruit. A peach tree that will set
thousand peaches needs to have six
or seven hundred thinned Off The
commercial side of fruit growing de
mands thinning of nearly all your
fruit. You will get more bushels to
the tree within reasonable bounds;
the more you. throw away the more
pounds or bushels you will have left;
increased size more than make up
loss in number"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29
Raleigh, N. c., May 20, 1900.

become the great apple-growing sec
ton of the United States. In the
East we have unheard-Of possibilities
in trucking and gardening This in
dustry is yet in its Infancy It can
hardly be said that we have begun
gardening in frames and under cover,
yet in lettuce alone fortunes have
been made in a single year. Our
Strawberries are the finest in the
world, and with scientific agriculture
and the proper development, the
whole eastern part of the State can
be turned into one vast truck farm,
that would be a source of wealth to
the State unsurpassed by all its other
industries combined.
Wealth from these sources would
diversity our industries, develop our
institutions, and mean prosperity
and happiness to all the people in
every section of the State. On the
other hand, wealth from manufac-
turing alone, would mean prosperity
and power to a few, but toll and sub
lection to the many. Manufacturing
alone would mean stagnation to all
other industries, and corporate con-
troll of our public institutions. It
would mean the congestion Of the
great mass of labOring people into
large cities, thereby depriving them
in a large measure of health, happi-
ness and independence, and make
them the tool of the ward politician,
and the servants Of concentrated
wealth.
We cannot afford to sacrifice every
thing for the accumulation of wealth.
Let US then, in the name of human
ity, continue to develop our agricul-
ture, thus preserving the freedom of
our institutions, the purity of our
politics, the bravery and patriotism
of our men and the purity and love
illness Of our women.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29

nelghbors mas a poor showing he is
going to make a good thing out of it.
His profits per acre will be larger
than during the season Of abundance.
So have been trying to farm for the
oil years as we'll as for the abundant
years. With proper attention the
crops can be made fairly good even
when the season is against you, but
it takes care, attention and intelli-
gent work. One of the great advan-
tages that any farmer can obtain
over the common lot is to keep his
land in such good tilth and mechani-
cal condition that fair crops are
bound to grow A a good rotation
of crops is as essential for this as ex-
pensive and continuous fertilizing.
With best wishes for The Progress
i've Farmer. w. G..
Indiana.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29
A NOVEL INDUSTRY.
Growing of Tube-Roses Reaches a Great
Magnitude.


There is an industry in Nerth
Carolina of which very little is
known to the general public. l am
very sure many will be surprised to
find the magnitude which it has
reached This is the tube-rOse in
dustry, under the management of
Mr.. Fl. E. Newberry, of Magnolia,
Duplin county, writes a correspond
ent Of the Raleigh Post. He was born
in East Hadden, Conn, in 1889, and
came to North Carolina when he was
20 years old. He settled i'll Duplin
county. He was poor boy. By his
diligence and economy he has made
an independent fortune. Mr.. F. A.
Newberry, the brother OF H. E.
Newberry, was the first one to un-
dertake the tube-rOse industry, but
he gave over the business to his
present proportions. For the last
several seasons he has shipped over
two million tube-rOse bulbs each
season. He has also engaged largely
in the production of caladiums, can
mas and dahlias, and last year he sold
the product Of 25 acres. Rare varie-
ties Of cannas and dahlias are being
developed For the coming season
he has ten acres Of these two bulbs.
MIA Newberry has recently sent to
Trinity College a large collection of
choice flowers. They have been
bedded in beautiful plot on the
college park, which has been named
for him on account Of his generous
donation.
In addition to the bulb-growing,
Mr.. Newberry does a very large busi-
ness in the vanilla leaf. 1t grows
wild. 1t is dried, packed in 500
pound bales like cotton and is used
in favoring smoking tobacco. Mr.
Newberry was the first man to intro
duce this industry into North Caro-
lima. He ships now many carloads
each year
The first huckleberries ever shipped
out Of the State were shipped by Mr.
Newberry. Over three thousand
bushels are now shipped by him each
year. He also conducts a large truck
farm and manufactures on an ex-
tensive scale strawberry crates and
cups. He also conducts a wholesale
and retail mercantile establishment.
The facts in connection with these
industries were given the writer by
Rev. J. w. Wallace, Magnolia, N. G.
A long pull, a strong pull, and a
pull altogether, will hasten the time
when mud streaks called roads shall
have passed away.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29

The free homes bill has passed the
Senate. 1t makes the following
Oklahoma Indian lands subject to
homestead entry; Cherokee outlet,
5,364, no acres Pawnee reservation,
169, ,32O acres Sac and Fox reserva-
ton, 364, $50 acres Iowa reservation,
2O762S acres POttawatomie reserva-
ton, 256,696 acres; Cheyene and
Arapahoe reservation, $500, 562
acres Kickapoo reservation, 5000
acres.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29

There is undoubtedly, after little
experience is acquired, a good big
profit in the growing of ginseng, 1t
is estimated by government experts
that China will take from American
growers at least $4,000, 600 worth
every year, and as the wild ginseng
is nearly extinct the supply must
come largely from the cultivated
garden. The dried roots bring in
the New York market 81 per pound.
A valuable book on the subject Civ
ing full particulars of the culture
and marketing of the roots is issued
by the American Ginseng Gardens
Cncorporated) Rose Hill, n. Y,
which will be sent any of our read
ers upon request. It outlines plans
eff investment of from s. to 81, 900.
The figures given are very attractive,
and doubtless will encourage many
of our readers to start at least a small
bed of this money maker. Send for
the book and mention this paper.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29

A Richmond, Va, dispatch says {:
The impression prevails in tobacco
circles here that the International
Tobacco Company, reported soon to
be formed, will not be competitor
Of the American Tobacco Company,
but that these two corporations and
the Continental will all work in per
feet harmony.
There is a strong belief, indeed,
that the three great corporations
will be practically branches of one
immense combination, each looking
after it's own peculiar field. The
fact that Mr. Arents, and others
largely interested in the American,
are also interested in the Interna-
tional is thought to give color to this
theory.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIXING FEEDS

Perhaps instead Of talking somuch
about balanced ratiOns and nutritive
ratios, it might be we'll to talk a lit
tie about mixing feeds First, few
facts: It is a fact that you yourself,
while fond of bread and fond of but
ter, like them a good deal better to-
&c. her than separate. You could
live on bread without butter if you
had to, you could live for a little while
on butter without bread, but you
can live better by spreading the but
ter on the bread. YOn are fond of
beans and you could eat them with
out pork, you are fond of pork and
could eat it without beans, but long
experience has taught you aud your
grandmother that pork and beans to-
gether are better than either pork
or beans separate. You are fond
Of potatoes; you are also fond of
beef You could make a meal on
brown potatoes without roast beef,
or you could make a meal on roast
beef without brown potatoes, but
your grandmother taught you long
ago that roast beef and brown pOta-
toes are a very good mix for a sub
stantial dinner. We might state
facts like this much more fully, but
the above will convince you that you
like your food mixed.
Observation has taught you long
ago that oats are good for pigs, and
so is corn, but if you have kept your
eyes open and noticed closely, you
have observed that pigs make better
gains on oats and corn mixed. than
they do on either separate. On the
same line we might give you a few
similar facts from the stock yard.
With potatoes at ten cents per
bushel, the digestible nutrients or
food will cost you ninety cents per
hundred pounds. With corn at
thirty-five cents, the digestible
nutrients will cost you seventy eight
cents per hundred pounds. With
middlings at $14 per ton, the digesti-
BILE nutrients, or that part which the
animal actually utilizes, will cost you
ninety-seven cents per hundred
pounds, and with skim milk at ten
cents per hundred pounds, the digesti-
BILE nutrients will cost you S1.12 per
hundred pounds.
This makes potatoes with corn at
thirty-fve cents worth for feeding
purposes between eight cents and
nine cents per bushel as compared
with corn, and it makes one hundred
pounds of corn worth about nine
times as much as one hundred pounds
of skim milk. Now let US try little
mixing. 1t has been found by the
experiment stations, in actual feed
ing, that six hundred pounds Of milk
fed alone will make about as much
gain as one hundred pounds Of corn,
but that if you mix the milk and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29

hundred pounds Of skim milk will
equal one hundred pounds of corn
meal. Potatoes fed alone to hogs
are worth very little unless they are
boiled, but mix them with middlings
or shorts or oil meal and note the
high appreciation that the hog has
for that kind Of a mixture. His ap-
probation is scientific as we'll as prac-
tical. He believes in mixed feeds. If
you offer him a mixture of corn and
potatoes, he might probably turn up
his nose, that is, if he had been fed
like a millionaire He does not know
anything about science of balanced
ratiOns, but he distinguishes very
quickly between mixes and mikes.
He will take his corn with skim milk
or buttermilk, if you please he will
take his potatoes with middIings, or
he will take corn with middlings
While he will take middlings and
skim milk, his internal conscious
ness would indicate after a little
while that the mix was not quite
right. The little pig might think
differently because he is different.
Experience has taught the farmer
that clover hay with corn fodder or
timothy, or straw, or corn, is a most
excellent mixture, that clover and
corn will do better together than
separately, and that corn fodder
gains in value very rapidly by being
fed INTERCHANGEABLE with clover hay.
In other words, that you get not
only the value of each, but you get
an additional value as a result of the
mix.
But after all, this is only the old
doctrine of balanced ratiOns and
nutritive ratios statde in a different
way. The skim milk has a nUtritive
ratio of one to two, and potatoes one
to 11.5; that is, one Of flesh formers
to the amount stated Of fuel or heat
makers. What the growing pig, calf
or lamb requires is about one to five,
or about the ratio Of oats or mid
d1ings; hence, the Importance Of
mixing. The reason why you like
bread and butter mixed is because
butter is almost entirely pure heat
maker; the bread, especially brown
bread, is largely muscle making.
You want them mixed, and when the
weather is very cold and the demand
for heat greater, you would not OBJ
ject to some side-meat with it.
The doctrine of balanced ratiOns is
founded on natures laws. You can
not avoid them except at your own
loss. Mixing feeds intelligently is
simply balancing rations, and you
will mix with larger intelligence and
greater profit if you will take time
to study nutritive ratios. It is all
right to call it mixing feeds, and the
science of mixing feeds, but it is just
as we'll to master that word nutritive
ratio and get down to scientific prin-
ciples. It is not after all any bigger
or harder word than telegraphy or
telephone, or any other of the new
words that science. is continually
forcing upon us.-Wallace s Farmer.
The condition of the road is the
price tag that tells the value of the
farm.
H. .l=-o..4;ron,nn,,4r 4r oe +Enn r.n--r,a
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29

The advertisements of the round
bale cotton trust, printed as news
matter, are again making their ap-
pearance in many newspapers. The
Progressive Farmer exposed this
scheme last year.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29

The condition of the road is the
price tag that tells the value Of the
farm.
The sun., 1900-05-17
GOVERNOR May BE HERR.
His ExcelIency Invited to Of
ficiate at the Elks Carnival.
Members of City Council and Board
of Trade Endorse the Application
Made to the Railroad COM
panies For Special Rates
During Week June 1S.

Governor Ebe W. Tunnel may be
present on the opening day of the Street
Fair and Elks Carnival on June Is. His
excellency and staff have been invited to
ofiiciate at the opening exercises and
Secretary Hunter Grubb says be has
ever reason to believe that Governor
Tunnel will accept the invitation.
At tae headquarters of the Elks'
Carnival committee, Nos, $40 and SD
Market street yesterday many per.
sons applied for space in the Industrial
Exposition and several contracts for
booth space were closed.
Contractor Fahey yesterday signed the
contract to build the fence enclosing the
entire Street Fair and Carnival.
Several members Of City Council and
Of the Board OF Trade have agreed to Ell
dorse the application to be made to the
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 4 Reading
aud Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroads fol
special rates during carnival week. The
committee on transportation will meei
the president and clerk OF Council to
night and get the official signatures t.
the applications.
The sun., 1900-05-17
sHREwD AS "A LAWYER.
Harry Moran Was Satisfied to Have
Jury Stay Out All Night.

Harry Moran, colored, created some
amusement in the county court yester-
day afternoon. lie was charged with
the larceny OF a pocketbook and So BY
Margaret Dixon. He acted as his own
attorney and is possessed of considerable
shrewdness.
He cross-examinad the witnesses.
Margaret Dixon testified that she saw
him take the pocketbook from her dress
pocket. He spoke in his own behalf,
| denying the charge. The jpry remained
out for about an hour. The court was
ready to adjourn and word was sent to
the jury.
The jury desired additional instruc-
tions and received them. 1t was still,
however, unable to agree. Finally Moran
was told that the Jury could not agree
and if he was satisfied it would be dis
charged but the attorney general coulc
try him again should he desire to. j
he Moran objected the jury would b(
locked up for the night. He said he We
satisfied with the jury and preferred Il
have it stay out. The attorney genera
however, decided to drop the case
Moran's shrewdness was much admired
He thanked judge and jury for discharg
ing him.
The sun., 1900-05-17
Made His wires Guardian

Otpla ans Gonrt was held by judge
Sjifauvr Yesterday. Jay T. Davis was,
"a ia5acatu,a u Wilaam 5 Hiies, ap-
ap a.ge~, gnadian ot his vie, Estella
Datl,. Mh@ i uuder a!p Harry En-
70 ~. administrator, IN .de 'etnrn Of the
s.le pi ~. t4a estate u James II Sim
y +. u Christia"a hNudred, which was
conf m,a i!.nr, y Conrad made re-
ii3 -ae u tnt Jpsiai, i.t"don
prop ~ ana rtrriv-d an order oi re-
'..n.t. Anhie ], 0'ponneli, admnis-
tratr,A OF Maiv NJ. Canning, received an
ord = - sell real estate for the payment
Il debts.