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New-York tribune., 1900-09-29
THE WEATHER REPORT.

YESTERDAYS RECORD AND TO-DAY's FORECAST
Washington. Sept 2s-Althoush temperatures
slightly below the except from
the Ohio Valley southwark there been a general
rise except the Atlantic States where they have
fallen degrees There have been rains from the
eastern portion middle slope
Iantic and upper region and Upper Mis-
In the Pacific Coast plateau regions
been fair. with higher temperatures a rule. There
Will Saturday IN the Ohio valley the upper
lake region and western portion q lower
region. Sunday the eastern lower region
weather indicated Il will be Saturday
southern portion q Middle atlantic States
Central West and the Missouri and Upper Mississippi
valleys Atlantic Coast the winds viii be l.ght
TO fresh and mostly eastsry On the lower lakes light
fresh south, and the upper lakes light
fresh southerly.
FORECAST FOR TO-DAY AND SUNDAY.
For w-Euglaud-GeneraIly fair -o-day and sun
dav- light winds, mostly southeast
For Eastern New-York-Fai- today; Sunday partly
cloudy probably rain northern and portions:
light easrerly winds.
Generally today and Sunday ught easerIy winds
today sunday; warmer today Hight north
winds
Fer Western -York-Warrrer today. WITH fair n
eastern and rain portions sunday probably
rain with warmer in eastern portion; light east
southeast winds
For Western PennsyIvania-Rasn to-day ard probably
Sunday. today IN northern portion light
southeast winds.
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Gay September %. Dr.. Horace Bigelow. of Nsw-Xork
CITY 20 Anna Sophia daughter OF Mrs. Samuel James
Wells
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Then. too" Colonel Mutt went on. every
Bryanite denies that silver Is issue OF this
campaign. And this despite the
BRYAN fact that the Kansas City platform
TALKING Of 1890 reaf1rms the Chicago plat
HIMSELF forms silver plank OF 1885 This,
TO DEATH. too In the face Of Bryan's public
statement that his position on Sill
yer remains unchanged It won't do. I cannot be-
neve that the American people will be taken in BY
palpable attempt political legerde1ain-
They know that the idol OF the DemOpulistic party
has feet OF clay. When the people Coroners
jury bring in their verdict to the cause Of his
political death in November I would suggest that
he talked himself 10 death would about cover the
facts Of the case. Bryan and the silver question
remind me OF one Of the tales OF The Arabian
Nights Silver is Bryan's Old Man OF the Sea.
The legs Of silver tightly locked about Bryan
neck and Old Man Of the Sea Silver IS slowly
seeks relief, but Silver viii have none OF it. and
Bryan, unlike Sinbad will not be able 10 shake his
lively smash in his skull It's Silver that VIII do the
smashing and Bryan that Will supply the skull.
Besides. TO meet the issue fairly, BY what r1gnt
is imperialism charged? Is there public act
geston 10 warrant this absurd boyle being raised2
There IS neither law 70 this effect nor word on the
part Of any official, from the President down, 70
sustain this charge If you want 20 read a
mastery and manly statement on this subject
William Mckinley has written ii in his letter OF
ceptance In that, the effort OF his life he avoids
issue, but fairly and squGrely meets and over
comes them all. I cannot believe that my fellow
countrymen will withhold their support and in
short space OF four years have raised TO the
front rank OF the great Powers OF the world: who
have fought the most successful war IN the history
OF the world; under whose Administration have
enjoyed the most prosperous four years IN The
Nations history-four such successful years that
in our favor is upward Of 8 500o00 O0o Rather. I
believe, they viii declare for four years more OF
very nearly move the money centre from the Old
World TO the New"
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15
RICE CULTURE.

Recently the agricultural circles of
the United States have manifested
much interest in the commercial pos
sibilities of the cultivation of rice.
This interest has reached even North
Carolina, as recent articles by Mr..
Gerald Mccarthy in The Progressive
Farmer indicate. The worlds con-
sumption of rice is enormous. 1t
constitutes the principal foodstuf of
China and Japan, and one of the
principaFcerea1 foods of India, Egypt,
Siam and the Philippines. The COM
bined populatioD/of these countries
is more than half the total pOpula
ton of the globe. Many authorities
assert that the consumption Of rice
is greater than of any other cereal.
Here is a magnificent market and
SO far as the United States is con-
cerned practically an unentered field.
We now produce about 10000 tons
annually and consume twice that
amount Whether we can prOfitably
produce the whole domestic supply
necessary and force an entrance into
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15
PUMPKIN GROWING.

The Progressive Farmer heartily
endorses every word of the follow
ing from the Southern Planter. And
there's one matter to which the
Planter fails to refer: that many
varieties are excellent for human
consumption and every farmer should
grow some of these also. We quote:
= We have repeatedly in the past
urged that farmers should should
grow pumpkins for stock feed. Our
advice has not been largely followed.
We desire again to urge the matter.
Those who have grown pumpkins
are more than satisfied with the
crop. We have several friends who
last year made large crops. One
made over so tons, many
of the pumpkins weighing over 80
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15
NORMAN ROBINSON
Moore Co., N. c..

Tell us about your experience in
growing rape or any other forage
crop not generally grown in North
Carolina or adjoining States. Your
knowledge might help others-and
that should be the aim of all farm
ers. We are all brothers, and need
and deserve the help of our fellows.
Do your part, and others will follow.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15
CULTIVATING CROPS.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
The cultivator has today largely
supplanted the hoe, and the farmer
can as a result accomplish nearly
twice as much work in working the
soil around his garden and field crops.
The hoe is too slow and antiquated
an implement for modern farming,
and while it has its place in small
gardens and for plants that cannot
be reached with the cultivatOr, it is
not as useful an implement as for
merly. There is one good practice
caused by the general use of the cul-
tivatOr. We now SOW our seeds and
set out the plants in rows wide
enough apart to enable the CultivatOr
to pass easily between them, When
the hoe was the chief implement for
cUltivating the tendency was to rob
the soil too much. The rows were
planted close together and the plants
never did 50 we'll. Now we aremore
generous with our soil and we plant
the crops farther apart, and they do
much better We raise probably
less numbers to the acre, but they
are better in quality, and the profits
are better.
We cannot afford to be stingy with
our land anymore than we can afford
to bother with the hoe where the
cultivator will take its place. Rows
for nearly all crops should be wide
enough for the cultivator to pass be
tween them, and in some instances
far enough apart to permit Il wagon
load Of straw or manure to drive be-
tween them. All this lessons labor,
which today is the prime cOnsidera-
ton on any farm. More money is
spent in labor hire than for manure
and seeds put together, and anything
that tends to lessen the amount of
labor required is Il distinct advan-
tage. Farming is gradually moving
toward the same end that all manu-
featuring has been going for years.
More and improved farm machinery
is being invented to save time and
labor, and each invention helps to
make the cost of raising a bushel Of
produce less expensive.
But there are many ways to save
time and labor which farmers could
adopt themselves without making
further expense for new machinery.
One of these is to have such road
ways through the farm that will per
NIT wagons to pass without encroach-
ing upon the growing plants. By
being able to reach every part of the
field during the growing as we'll as
the harvesting season we may save
many dollars. OvercrOwding not
only has it's disadvantages in making
the plants less healthy and vigorous,
but it prevents good work in the
field through the summer and au-
tr1mn. S. w. CHAMBERS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15

country is found. It could not we'll
go lower, and it is a hopeful sign
that the "cotton belt" is at last
awakening to its own imperative
needs.
OF course, this all means concan-
iration, less ''spread out work, .
more fertilizers, heavier crops, an
improving soil, diversified industries
and all the attendant prosperity
that comes in their train. Some Of
these changes will hereafter be more
specifically considered.
NORMAN ROBINSON.
Moore 90 N q
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15

Eastern markets, depends upon the
possibility of employing machinery
and Western methods of production
to a degree sufficient to offset the
lower cost of labor in the Orient.
Towards the end of the last century
this was done for cotton cloth, the
first quarter of the next century
may see it done for rice It is be-
cause there seems some possibility of
doing this that interest in the sub
ject is being aroused.
In the United States labor costs
more than in the East, but it is also
more productive.
American labor is more productive
because it works with American ma
chinery. Instead of a sickle, the
farmer frequently cuts the grain
with a reaping machine; instead of
failing or treading it out, he thrashes
it with a steam thrasher instead of
pounding it in a mortar with a pestle,
he hu1ls and cleans it in a modern
mill, where a few men and a few ma
chimes clean and polish as much rice
in a day as 5000 men could do with
the primitive tub and FOUNDER still
used in the East.
Rice is peculiarly susceptible to
cultivation on a large scale. To
raise low land rice successfully the
farmer must have at his command
an adequate supply of water of uni
form temperature, and under such
control that it can be used in the
right quantities at the right times.
It looks as if rice straw will become
a very valuable commercial product.
The price Of paper, particularly of
the grade used by newspapers, has of
late been steadily rising. To meet
the immense demand for cheap paper,
extensive experiments have been
conducted, with the object of invent
inga cheaper method of manufacture
experiments are said to promise sue
cess. If the report is true, rice cul-
ture in the near future will be more
profitable The North Carolina De
partment of Agriculture is in CORE
spOndence with manufacturers of
machinery for making paper from
rice straw. If the crop is grown in
sufficient quantity, there will be no
trouble in securing factories to use
the straw.
All these facts point to a cheaper
and larger production in the South.
From 1879 to 1889, the yield per acre
in the United States increased 26
per cent. In recent years a number
of farmers have undertaken the cul-
tivatiOn of rice with modern machin-
cry in Louisiana, and their success
has stimulated the industry in Texas
and elsewhere. Our natural advan-
tages for rice are being utilized. But
plenty of land remains quite as we'll
adapted to the crop as that now SO
used.
The twelfth census will attempt to
collect reliable statistics concerning
acreage, quantity and value of prod
uct, cost of fertilizers and labor,
value of building and machinery,
etc., for this crop in connection with
it's agricultural returns.
With the view of obtaining accu-
rate information upon these points,
circulars are now being prepared in
the census office and will be sent to
every rice-growing district in the
United States, asking for the names
and addresses of all persons therein
who artifcially irrigate rice fields.
If the returns are full and accurate,
they will be Of much value and in
terest to those concerned with our
agricultural and commercial pros
perity.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15
Raleigh, N. c., May Is 1900.

COIcA IL CIC G10 SECOND year, the same
as the cabbage and rutabaga Bird
seed rape does not become a pest like
Wild mustard, but since the leaves
are small like mustard leaves, there
IS little or no feeding value to the
crop. In ordering seed, be sure to
specify the Dwarf Essex forage rape.
The seed is imported from England,
or grown in the Northwestern United
States, nor Puget Sound. It costs
from five to Is cents per pound, ac-
cOrding to the quantity ordered. It
can be obtained from any reliable
scotsman.
Rape is not harvested or cured
like hay or other forage plants, but
should be fed off in the green state.
1t can be cut and carried to the stock ;
in this case the amount the animals
receive can be limited, and there is
no danger of bloat, which is prac-
tically the only source of trouble in
its use. Generally stockmen turn
their animals directly into the rape
field, allowing them to feed at will.
Where the greatest returns are
sought, portable fences are used to
limit the animals to a given area.
Where lands are cheap there is no
need of taking so much trouble, the
stock being allowed to roam over the
field at will. The only danger in the
use of rape, as stated above, is from
blOating, which trouble is not always
easily avoided.
Animals should not be turned into
the rape field for the first time until
they have been we'll filed up on other
feeds. Experience and experiments
have shown that it is greatly to the
advantage of stock to have pasture
field Of grass adjacent to the rape
field, SO that the animals can feed on
one or the other as appetite and con-
ditiOrS dictate. When pasture is
available, blOating will rarely occur,
the animals wisely protecting them
selves by mixing their feed Of grass
and rape instead Of consuming too
much rape.
The rape plant has long been used
by the farmers of Great Britain and
the Continent, and it has been made
use of for a long time past by some
farmers on this continent, especially
in Canada. It's prominent intrOduc-
ton to the public, however, was
brought about by our agricultural
colleges and experiment stations, the
leader in this being the Ontario Ag-
ricultural College at Guelph. IF our
colleges had done no other work than
bring this one plant to the attention
of our farmers generally, they would
have paid for themselves. Stock
men, especially sheep and swine
growers, are urged to use rape in a
small way at first, enlarging the area
sown as their experience in using it
and their appreciation of it's merits
grow.
Members of the staff Of The Pro
gressive Farmer have grown and
fed rape successfully and heartily
recommend it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15

IF you want a bunch of sample
copies Of The Progressive Farmer,
don't hesitate to drop US card,
stating the number desired. We be-
lieve you could use a dozen copies or
more very advantageously in your
community. Write us tomorrow if
you haven t time today.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15
No. IA.

pounds each. This crop was made in
the corn crop, and without any addi-
tlOnal expense except for the seed.
and the grower says that he believes
his corn crop was benefited by the
growth, as the pumpkin vines shaded
the land and kept it moist, and thus
kept the corn growing and feeding
through a hot, dry. season. We be
lieve it will pay to grow the crop
alone as the yield produced is very
heavy, but it will certainly pay to
grow in the corn field. Plant in May
and June, dropping the seeds s or, 10
feet apart each way. Pumpkins
make a most wholesome feed for cat
tie and hogs. Like roots whilst they
have not by analysis a high nutritive
value, yet they are cooling and whole
some, and keep the stock in health,
and with a capacity for eating and
more food, and thereby
a quicker and more profit
able return in a shorter time. They
may be stored in a dry shed or bran,
and if protected from frost, will
keep until spring. We have one
weighing about rs pounds, which has
been on our Office table since last Oc-
tober, and is now perfectly sound
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15

The peanut crop of 1899 is nearly
1000, 900 bushels heavier than the
crop of the preceding year. The total
crop will, it is thought, reach nearly
1. 500, 900 bushels Of % pounds each.
The bulk of the crop is produced in
Tennessee, Virginia and North Caro-
lima. 1t is not generally known that
the American yield constitutes but
small proportion of the peanut crop
of the world. The expectation from
Africa and India to Europe is nearly
400, 900, 600 pounds annually, half of
which goes to Marseilles to be made
into oil.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-15


been on our Office table since last Oc-
tober, and is now perfectly sound
-a~-. b-
THE FARMERS DEsPISED FRIENDS.
We sometimes are disposed Ito
think rather disparaging1y of those
who after all may be our best friends,
but not nearly so likely to make Il
mistake with our human friends as
with friends of the lower orders Of
creation. For some reason farmers
generally dislike toads. They have
no good looks to commend them, and
Shakespeare gave the toad a bad
name by describing it as ugly and
venOmOus," yet "with a precious
jewel in it's head" Ugly it is be
yOnd question venOmOus it never
was; the jewel of the toad is not in
it's head but in it's stomach, and it is
one Of the very best friends that the
farmer has on his farm. The expert
ment stations, which are Investigate
ing in every direction to discover
the friends and foes Of the farmer,
are among other things investigating
toads and bats, and furnish the
strongest kind of testimony as to
the value Of these despised friends
of the farmer. The toad has an ap-
petite to which the appetite of u hog
is as that of sick man to q hungry
thrasher or harvest hand. It eats
incessantly, and eighty per cent. of
it's food consists of harmful insects
It is estimated that in three months
a single toad will consume 10, 600 in
sects, such as army worms, gypsy
moths, cutworms, ants, weevils, wire
worms everything, in fact, in sight.
One of the professors in the in Massa-
chusetts Station established some
toad colonies near his home and
found them the best fly catchers ever
yet discovered. Therefore, toads
should never be killed. A family Of
them colonized in the garden with Il
basin of water in which the female
can lay her eggs will soon rid the
whole neighborhood Of the worst in
sect enemies Of the garden, to say
nothing of the comfort of getting
rid of the flies about the house.
In making his investigations in
the orchards, the professor discOv-
cred one orchard entirely free from
codIing moths, due to a colony Of
bats that were located in the barn
The codling moth is a night flyer
and only night flying enemies can de
stroy them. He colonized a few bats
in his parlOr (we do not ask our
ladies to submit to that) and intro
duced into the parlor netful after
netful of night flying insects and
found that not a single one would be
left in the morning. The value Of
the bat as a night fly catcher had
never occurred to us before, and it
may be that after all it offers the
best solution of the vexed problem of
how to get rid of the codling moth,
the worst of all enemies of the
orchard.
We speak of these despised friends
in order to impress our young people
with the Importance of studying ma
ture and in fighting pests of the
field, the orchard, and the garden, to
use the natural enemies which the
Creator has furnished in order to
prevent the excess production of any
living thing. Nature will cut down