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The Dairy.


Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
In. taking a recent trip through the
dairy regions of the East, the writer
noticed that a vast number Of farm
ers were still clinging to the old bad
custom of milking their COWS in
filthy stables.
call a stable filthy that is perme-
ated by a stencil easily perceptible TO
the nostrils, when one passes into it
out of the open air.
Such a place is not fit in which to
milk COWS either winter or summer.
Probably during the winter season
the average dairy stable is kept
much cleaner than now, as it seems
to be the custom to pay but little at
tention to it during the rush of work
in summer.
Under such circumstances COWS
should never be MIXED in quarters
allowed to become foul, or, in other
words, in a neglected stable.
I also met several dairymen who,
in order to induce their COWS to come
up regularly from distant pastures
at milking time, allowed calves to
suckle a little the leaders of the herd.
They imagined this was a brilliant
l~abOr-saving device, and perhaps it
was, but did they count the cost e
sulting from decentralization of milk
yield in the animals thus slightly
sucked?
In passing through the extensive
dairy sections of our broad land, [
find hat the value Of forage crops for
mich cattle is more and more appre-
ciated, This is evidenced by the in
creased acreage of fodder-corn put
out, with an apparent full realiza-
ton of the Observation-Disclosures
sary part that it plays in milk pro-
duction.
In connection with this CROP can
not impress on farmers too strongly
the Importance of a thorough cult
walton of the growing canes. Re
member, that a crop of this charac-
ter is practically made by cultiva-
ton, SO be assiduous with the Guilt
vatOr and hoe. To butter makers,
do not forget to let me add that sui
try weather. will try your patience
and skill in the manufacture of your
product. Soft butter is never good
butter, nor will it fetch a good price.
a certain degree of low temperature
must be attained and maintained, in
order that desirable frmness to the
butter be secured.
am happy to find that "a much
greater proportion of dairy farmers
than formerly put up their own ice.
This proves that the dairy truths
constantly sown a few years ago are
bearing abundant fruit. Such being
the case, why should we be discour-
aged from continuing the sowing
nov? GRORGE E. NEWELL.
SharpleS Cream Separators-Proit-
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THE NATIONAL FARNFpo,~,~
ANCE AND TNDTTSTDT.21 AZ
UNION.

President-J.C .Wilborn Nan
S. G. '0l0 ION
Vice-President-P. H. RgB;n
Lake City, MINI. 1'"Il1g
Secretary-Treasurer-A P WI,
Victor, n. Y. "Vc
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horticulture.
THE PLUM CROP.

Correspondence of I h Progressive Farmer.
The annual crop of plums would,
according to a statistician, be nearly
double the regular yield if it were
not for the black knot. This disease
seems to destroy fully as much as
the trees succeed in ripening. The
warfare against it in some orchards
seems almost hopeless, and l have
e farmers fight it for a number of
years, and then go through their
orchards, cut down every plum tree,
burn them up, and plant peach, ap-
pie or pear trees in their place. 1
am not sure but they did the best
thing. They had demonstrated to
their own satisfaction their inability
to raise plums and to fight off the
worst disease that ever attacked any
fruit orchard. Yet it is possible to
raise good plum trees, and to pro-
duce fruit that pays we'll. Where
the black knot has become thorough
" established it is not an easy mat
ter to extermine it. One must keep
everlastingly fighting it, and when it
seems under the best of control it
breaks out with added viruIence if
the season happens to be very favor
able to its growth.
The good, old-fashioned Lombard
plum tree is particularly aggravat-
ing in the way it gets attacked II
the black knot, and it is so suscep-
tible to the disease that it is almost
a hopeless undertaking to carry an
orchard of them through a serious
attack. The Japanese varieties of
plums are not so susceptible to the
disease, and l have see orchards al
most redeemed from destruction by
grating these on infected trees after
all parts of the latter touched by the
fungus had been removed. A good
deal of damage to our plum trees is
done by not properly thinning out
the fruit, and we thereby weaken the
vitality of the trees. Nearly every
thrifty plum tree will set two or
three times as much fruit as it can
possibly mature, and if the full crop
is allowed to remain on the tree until
late the tree will suffer. The next
season the tree may develop unmis-
taxable symptoms of plum knot.
The only way is to protect the tree
in good seasons as we'll as in bad sea-
sons, and then when the fungus dis
eases are around they will be exempt
from their attacks. A little proven
ton is worth everything, and in the
end will save much money. Some
times when we have fought the plum
knot valiantly, and have nearly sue
ceeded in killing it, we spoil all by a
little greediness. A unexpected
healthy condition of the trees is fol
lowed by a large fruit crop, and
thinking to make amends for the
losses of the past few seasons we per
init too many plums to remain ON
the trees. The results are disastrous.
and all OF our good work is spoiled.
s, w. CHAMBERS.
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LECTURERS.

OCC1C bdI -AIGdSUIGr-A P W.,
Victor, N. Y. 'VR1
LECTURERS.
J. P.~SOssamOn, Charlotte y
J. @. Hanley, st. Paul, MINI y
NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS Ct ,r-
LTAECE. AZ
: President-W. A. Graham. ,r,,.
pelah, n. G.. --11-
Vice-President-J. S. Ni+a5sr
Winton, N. G.. "S-
Secretary-Treasurer and g..
Business Agent-T. B. Parker H 4;1s
borO, NC. Liz
Lecturer-Dr. V.N. SeawelL Fsis,
n. G.. "-'u
Chaplain-W. S. Mercer, Movog
N. G. N-''0A
Doorkeeper-Geo. T. Lane. Green.
boro, N. G.
Sergeant-at-Arms-D. w. Wgtso,
haywood, N. G.
Trustee Business Agency Frri-
w. A. Graham, Machpelah, NJ
-. Balm, Wade, n n
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF H yopu
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE
ALLIANCE.
j. w, Denmark, Chairman, RAJ
eigh, N. G.
W. A. Graham (Ex-offcio), Mad
pelah, N. @.
W. B. Fleming, Ridgeway, n.
John Graham, Warrenton, NC
DR.. j. E. Person, PikevilIe, NC
Thomas J. Oldham, Teer, Nc.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
j. T. B. Hoover, Hillsboro, NC
c.. G. Mcclellan, Goodwin, n. c..
H. T. Jones, Goldsboro, N. C.
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The Poultry Yard.
THE SITE FOR THE POULTRY HOUSE.

THE SITE FOR THE POULTRY HOUSE.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
1t may not be necessary to select
choice, expensive sites for the poul-
try house and the run for the chick
ems, but a little more attention given
to the question of location might
save many diseases and deaths.
There are several points to consider
in establishing a home for the chick
ems that might we'll occupy the at
tentiOn of all. The best soil for a
chicken house and poultry run is an
open, porous one, and often this is
best found where the land is prac-
tically no good for crops. A sandy,
open soil that is hardly capable of
producing a blade of grass can be
made all right for the poultry. The
open, porous nature of the soil en-
ables the water to drain off almost
as soon as it falls. In winter time
the sandy soil will dry up hours be-
fore the heavy, lOamy soil, and the
chickens will suffer less from cold
feet, Group and all other diseases in
cidental to bad weather. The i'm
puritieS of the poultry yard are more
easily washed away by every rain
storm or an open soil than on heavy
soil. This is sometimes quite i'm
portant from a sanitary point of
view.
Next to the character of the soil
the situation in reference to the cold.
winds of winter should be cOnsid-
cred. The house and the poultry
run should both face toward the
south, and if possible they should be
placed on the sheltered side of a hill,
woods or building. In summer this
location is not so important, but in
winter it will make a difference of
several degrees in the temperature
OF the house. With Il sunny location
the chickens in winter can find many
more hours of pleasant weather to
exercise in than when the house and
run faces north and with no protec-
ton. AS exercise and sun are essen
tial to the growth and happiness of
the poultry, they will prove import
ant factors in increasing the number
of eggs laid. If the sheltered place
has a slope so much the better for
the drainage and general healthful.
ness of the place.
For summer uses shade must be
provided. It is a good idea to plant
two or three young saplings around
the hen house Immediately, and the
shade received from these will be
very grateful to the birds. Then
set out rows of trees in the poultry
run, and e that they are protected.
lnclose their trunks so the chickens
cannot get at them, and drive stakes
a circle afoOt away from the base,
and cover over with wire netting.
The purpose of this is to keep the
chickens from digging up the dirt
and exposing the roots of the young
trees to the broiling sun. When the
trees have become thoroughly estab-
llshed in the soil this root protection
IS unnecessary, but until the trees
get a good start it is the only way to
save them from an early death or a
slow, stunted growth. We need
quick-growing trees, and strong
healthy specimens that will shade
the ground as soon as possible after
planting. ANNE G. WERsrrR
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J. P Sossamon, Charlotte, \ q
j. G. Hanley, st. Paul, MINI
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Dairying in southern Illinois has
enabled a great many of our farmers
to get their wornout lands in such a
state OF fertility that today thew are
prosperous, when with constant rails
ing of wheat they were making no
progress whatever.-R. G. Wexford
Red Bud, III.
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Sharples Cream Separators--Proft-
able Ddirying.
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-06-28

"Do you mean to tell me that that
man-eating lion of yours got loose and
wandered out into the streets ?" eyes"
answered the proprietor of the show:
"and lot of trouble he made u.s."
"Did you have difficulty in catching
him ?" 81 should say SO! 1t was hours
before we could get near enough to
lead him back to his cage. You see,
some of the bad boys of this town had
tied tin can to his tail."- Washington
Star.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-06-28
AS ORGANIZED TODAY
THEY ARE A MENACE
TO THE LABOR
ING MAN AND
TO SOCI-
Instead of Decreasing the
Price of Their Com
modities, An In
crease is the
Result.

Paper Read Before the Chauta,tqua Circle.
Pick up almost any newspaper or
magazine which comes to your hand at
the present time and you will be GER
tain to find some reference to trusts.
In recent paper written by that well
known gentleman, Mr.. Andrew Car
negie, he says: "The people are led by
political parties to believe that great
aggregations of capital are against the
. interests of the masses, while in reality
they are beneficial agencies of the peo-
ple." He then in a very lengthy arti-
Gle gives his reasons for saying trusts
are beneficial; but to sum up his whole
argument in few words, all there
seems to be is his claim that trusts
lower the cost of all articles to man,
and that it is this cheapening of arti-
cles, whether of luxury or necessity,
which insures their more general 5is.
tribution, and is potent factor in
refining the people.
There are of course two sides to all
questions, and not being convinced by
the great Carnegie that the trusts as
they are today are of any benefit to the
masses, will endeavor to show how
they are not only injurious to the peo-
pie, but menace to society and inde-
pendence.
First of all, what is a corporate
trust? Technically it is an organiza-
tion of several corporations under one
direction, by the device of transfer
by the stockholders in each corporation
of at least majority of the stock to a
central committee or board of trustees
who issue in return to each stock
holder, respectively, certificates show
ipg that although they have parted
with their stock and consequent voting
power, they are still entitled to divi-
dends or share in the profits.
The word "trust," 1 believe, origi-
mated with the Standard Oil Co. BY
the agreement in that combine a ma
jority of the certificates were placed in
the hands of trustees, who took full
charge of all the oil refining corpora
tions, partnerships and individual
properties which went into that COM
bination. Therefore it would appear
that the word "trust," as applied COM
mercially, means any pool, combina-
tion, or consolidation whereby COM
peting concerns become merged under
one management, or acquire partial or
complete monopoly of a certain COM
modify or territory.
Some years ago when trusts were
first beginning to come into promi-
nence, Chauncey M. Depew, at one of
the annual Board of Trade dinners in
New York City, said "What l call a
trust is a combination that controls the
necessaries of life and is powerful
enough to shut out all competition,
and this should be legislated out of
existence" The said Cheuncey De-
pew has for some time now been hon.
ored with the title of United States
Senator, but as yet has given no signs
of using his power to bring forth some
sort of legislation regarding the trusts.
Why has he not done so? Probably
for the same reason as many other sem
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WANTED.

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furnished. Man and wife. Address W. W.,
this of1ce.
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Telephone 21S is the business Office
OF the Robert Grieve Printing Com
pany and The Republican. Telephone
123 is the editorial department.
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|CHANBERLAINS COUGH REMEDY
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AssEssMENTNOT

Ssoekholden azs AGshy noe11s1 ~
the Filth Amsasmeot q s ~ ct g
Two and 01e-hAlf Dollars - GAago .
the Capital 6tpek 6 -
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what Hurts.

The other side" observed the candi-
date In much apprehension. are put
ding some damaging reports In circula-
t1on-"
But no money 10 speak OF" rejoined
the chairman Of the campaign commit
bee complacentiy.-Defroit Journal
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ooop b destrcy the supplies whiaA
have been stored It Concord II IL
report b tue. there win be resistance.
md Il II COMES 70 that II VIII be re9y
serious business fog Us
Ny mother kept her fears to herself
and dsd her best 70 make ne feed that
Il would cone cut ali right. but those
hours wese the most anxious ever
spent 30 through the day We watch
ed and waited fo- newx
The nrst news that came to % from
the fight n Lexington snd the other
do:nss Of that day arrived about Q
O'Clock n the afternoon, when some
mfnutenen from another town stopped
ut the tavern On their way home They
told the story Of the day to the little
crowd Of anxious women who eagerly
questioned them for news OF some dear
one.
Ny father would not let me so down
10 the tavern. but went down himself
and brought as the news can see
him now hurryfng along the road
Something unusual has happened,
Mary exclaimed my mother. Il new
er saw your father look so excited"
I FASTENED down the path to meet
him.
bad news, ny child; bad newsP he
exclaimed There has been an en-
counter with the kings troops" And
then, reading the question In my eyes.
be continued, But they brought no
news Of our men"
The hour set for the wedding was 8
O'clock. but It began to look as II there
would be no wedding. for It was now
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BooKKBINpERL0is onoe.
wAuTED-BoARD.

MECHANIC and little girl want board with
plain private family where there are other
little girls--Addrees Board" this ONCE.
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.

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FOB SALE.

FOB SALE.
ONE handsome Grown Piano in perfect order
with Harp and Mandolin Accompaniment HAs
been used only i've times. Can be had az q
reeeonable price BY applying st the oRPHEUN
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LOST.

BIZ ACCIDENTAL gate opening. q larse Gay
co1ored Californian Mare, weight about 800 lbs. |;
faint star on forehead. fat coalition little
puupuu or irritation on face hus healing. Right
hind hoof g little white. Finder please notify
Police Station and reward WI BE- paid
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Platform of the Independent
Home Rule Party.
Adopted in Island Convention at Honolulu. d.
T., June Z, 19O0,)
P r e A II B L E

we believe all founded Independent
assured of freedom without oppression We
Heyei equal and freedom for ali the people
that every person the Of the law We believe
endowed with all the privileges OF NE hOer aa w
rght to choose his best advantage
against suppression We believe that
should strive secure equal rights for the people by the D
pie and OF the people
- Equal rights people adopted in the plat
form -
the independent party is that the successful successful
candidates legislature Territory OF Hawaii should
strive consent of the congress OF tne
Tr,a s,ates 10 make state Hawaii and
pledge ourselves TO support all good and equa p % ssss
may @ - " .. -...o, tina, DoitcaI party in
possible from the = =
privileges other
citizens will =
regardless the end
shall formulate the best laws for the
people
- Our legislators =
people of by the United
+ 4
They should also strive for +
burning of Chinatown and other
Of health in connection with the suppress
sion of bubonic plague in 1900
They education industrial
pursuits farming road making
- Try -
we stand opposed to monopolies any attempt
natives citizens who think as
r they attempted later We stand opposed to the
; heavy rights OF
other restriction Of the rights OF he
people
work mechanical industrial shall not exceed eight
hours day
Labor on government otherwise either direct
indirect performed citizens of the Territory of Hawaii
importation OF labor into the Terri
tory citizenship of the United States
we pledge urtherance of trusts in the
Territory of Hawaii
a. we are pledged to for
all those neons imprisoned 1895 and
by military commission of 1885 such financial re-
: = muheFao0h as " H'' 1' M D KALAUoKALANL
RoBT. W. WILCOX
wK KALEIHu1A Secretary. -~-~ JAS X. KAULIA
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REPUBLICAN DELEGATES,

The Republican Territorial
Convention will be held in
Honolulu on September
"a and 90.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
Per &. R. HENnRY,
Secretary.