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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-07-14

Erskine Theological seminary, under
the same limitations as imposed in be-
quests to these institutions above. A
number of bequests are made to rela-
tives, friends and namesakes, only four
of them as much as 81 900, and most
of them $1OO. As it will require sew.
eral years to settle up the estate, bene-
fciaries are requested to exercise pa
thence with the executors. Messrs. L.
H. White, T. B. Woods, and Jno. G.
White are appointed executors, and j.
K. Henry, Esq, attorney: :.''''''''There
will be a picnic in Abell's grove at
Lowryville, July 2Sth. Game of base
ball in the afternoon between the
teams of Clover and Lowryville. The
public is invited.
CHEROKEE-The Gaffney Ledger,
July 10: This card is from Rev. F. G..
Hickson Idesire to say few things
though your columns to my friends in
Cherokee county concerning the issue
on the liquor question now being made
in South Carolina. 1t has been a very
great surprise to me to hear a number
of people (some of them Prohibitionist)
saying that the people of Cherokee
county are overwhelmingly in favor OF
liquor. While it is true that we have
our share of bad people in this county,
it is my deliberate opinion that we
have fair proportion of good people,
and want to defend Cherokee county
against the imputation that we are in
the power of the bad. It is claimed
that the last election for members of
the legislature proved our people to
be opposed to prohibition and in favor
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-08-14
Horticulture.
THINNING FRUIT TO KILL INSECTS.

A Successful Fruit Grower Tells of a Method
That He Has Found Profitable.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
In thinning out the fruit in the
orchard during summer growth the
foliage and fruit left on the trees are
not only benefited, but the general
health of the trees also. In my own
experience I have found that this
practice when judiciously followed
has a distinct benefit upon the health
of the trees, and hence enables them
to Withstand the ravages from in
sects. This is a point that has not
been emphasized much, but if you go
into any orchard where thinning out
is practiced you will find that insects
are less destructive than in another
where the l~et-alone method is
adopted. The insects are destroyed
by this process in two ways. When
you make trees grow vigorously and
thriftily you make them less suscept-
ible to disease. Thus the yellows
will rarely attack a peach tree in
good condition, nor the blight and
rot appear on apple and cherry trees
that have an iron-like constitution.
One way recommended for combat
ting fruit tree diseases is to fertilize
and cultivate the trees so they will
be strong and healthy. The more
important effect that thinning out
fruits has upon the tree diseases and
insects is in the destruction of the
larvOe of the insects in.the wormv
and immature fruit. Now the larvae
OF the cooling moth produces the
wormy fruit on apple trees, and if
these deformed apples are pulled off
IN the thinning out process scores of
would-be cOdling moths will be
killed. The plum curculio produces
the wormy plums and cherries, and
by destroying this immature fruit
we kill them. There T many other
injurious worms and insects that are
killed in this immature fruit, and
thus the seasons crop of destructive
insects is limited by just that mum
Der. Usually this immature fruit
never amounts to much, but even
tually drops on the ground and dries
up. The insects and. worms then
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-08-14

emerge forth and breed a new crop.
In thinning out the fruit from any
trees all the understood, worm-eaten,
deformed, and unshapely fruits
should first be selected when very
Young. They should all be destroyed
by fire or some other way so that the
larvae. of the insects will not escape.
Throwing them away or burying
them merely gives the insects an
other chance to grow and mature.
It is only after the poor fruit has
been destroyed that the thinning
process should be expended to the
better class. Usually it is better to
thin only a little at a time, for some
times the fruit with worms in them
do not show any defect until quite
large. If the thinning out is all done
one does not feel like pulling off
O fruit toward the end. By leav-
ing on the tree rather more fruit
than you intend to let mature you
have a chance to destroy those in
which defects appear very late in
the season. S. w. CHAMBERS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-08-14
ANTED SOMETHING MORE

A Western Congressman recently
received the following note from one
of his constituents to whom he had
a consignment of garden seed:
"Kind sir and esteemed friend: I
have the seeds. They came this
morning, and suit very we'll, espe-
cially the cabbage seed, which grows
we'll in this soil. Please send me
two loads of fertilizer and a new
harrer and if you could send me a
mar for a couple of days I would be
obliged. With this help I know the
garden stuff will turn out all right
and I will send some to you and the
President. Your grateful we'll wisher
and supporter ."-Ex.
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KEEPING MEAT.

In answer to a recent inquiry will
say it is possible to keep meat in dry
ashes, but don't do it. It takes about
a half hour to clean a piece before it
is fit to use, and even then you may
get a bite you may not like. 1 will
tell you how I have kept my meat
for the last twenty years and it
keeps sweet and clean the year round.
L first sugar cure and smoke the
meat. We then take three-fourths
of a yard of muslin for each piece of
meat and sew into a sack. We hang
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-08-14
A VALUABLE BOOK.

We really do not believe that the
average North Carolina farmer can
anywhere invest $1.25 to better ad-
vantage than by sending chat
amount to US for a copy of Prof. L.
II. Bailey's principles of Agricul-
ture." This is a work which tells
the "whys and wherefores"-the
principles-Of the business of
farming. It is written by a. man of
great ability who knows his subject
by long years of actual experience
and scientific study. The farmer
who secures a copy of this work
and studies it during his spare
moments this summer will not only
find much pleasure thereby, but will
lind greater interest in his work. a
broader view of his profession and
the probability of making many
o dollars as a result of his study
There are many books upon the
market, but not for many years, we
firmly believe, has n been issued
which the average reader of this
paper so badly needs. The work is
handsomely bound, well illustrated,
clearly printed and contains 800
pages. Send us 81 5 and geta copy.
We guarantee satisfaction.
A SPECIAL PRICE.
We have now decided to send a
copy of this valuable work and a
years subscription to The Progress
i've Farmer to any address for only
81. This offer is made at sacrifice
in the hope of placing the work in
the hands of more of the thousands
who need it. Order at once. Address
The Progressive Farmer Raleigh,
N. c.
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The Dairy.
HOT WEATHER DAIRYING,

correspondence OF The Progressive Farmer.
In no way will a dairyman's skill
be tried more than by hot dry
weather, and such a condition exists
at this time. Hot dry weather is in
imical to dairying in nearly all its
phases, and cautious skilled and
thorough must indeed be the COW
owner who can steer a clear and sue
cessfuI course at such a time.
First, the heat and lack of a nor
NAL amount of moisture in the soil,
dry up the pasturage, and. without
forage crops to help out, a shrinkage
in the milk yield results. Then,
when it comes to uniformly preserv-
ing milk quality under such condl-
tions one has their hands full.
I have often averred that the cru-
cial test to prove whether or not a
man is a real thorough and at the
same time successful dairyman, is to
have him in the midst of a sultry
spell always be able to show sweet
milk and faultless butter. There
are plenty of such dairymen and
there should be more. Do you know
how it is done?
First, such milk h~usbandmen, an
ticipated last spring that there would
be droughty hot weather during the
present summer, just as there gen
orally has been in past seasons; and
so they planted plenty of fodder corn
or other forage crops. Thus, the
brown dry pastures of August do not
stand as an omen of ill to their mich
herds.
Second, they wisely provide shade
for the COWS, either by trees or
sheds. They know that an over
heated COW carries IN udder of milk
that will faint or sour on the first
p~rovocation, while a cool animal can
transmit no such inherent tendency.
They do not want milk born into the
world infected.
Then again, more Gnan an Ord1-
nary shield is thrown about milk
Immediately it it's drawn from the
udder. 1t is aerated and transferred
to an atmosphere of artificial cool
ness. An ice house is always fash
ionable with an up-to-date modern
dairyman, for in these critical hot
weather periods it becomes a sheet
anchor to perfect milk and butter
quality.
You will note from the above that
a dairyman must SOW seed in Janu-
airy to reap good tactical products in
August. If all delinquent dairymen
will learn this lesson now, their
present losses will richly rebound to
ther gain. GEO. E. NEWELL.
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

~ local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion. OF the car. There is onIv one
way to cure Deafness, and that is By constitu-
famed condition of the mucous IininS Of The
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets MA n9
ing, -and when 1t is entirely closed Deafness !.
the result, a3d unless the inflammation can be
taken 9ut ana t91S tube restored to its normal
nine cases OF? OF ten are caused bV cSt9rTb
which IS nothing but an ilfamed con6ifion u
the mucous surfaces. NN10ItOn Oh
we VI gsye One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF DeS5nesS lcaused by CatarrS1 TIT coHy
circulars, free. e' SEND tor
~soraL 10 Ed. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
aaH's Family Pills are the best
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-08-14
Miscellaneous.
DON'T PULL THAT FODDER.

|
We know the power of habit. You
have always pulled fodder, therefore
you wish to pull fodder again. You
have always fed fodder, therefore
you wish to feed fodder again. In
fact you do not exactly see how you
can get along withoutfodder. Well,
what other folks have done why
with patience, may not you? Others
have fed horses and mules on hay
and found them to do just as we'll as
when fed on fodder.
In fact, fodder is only one kind of
hay-a very convenient kind, too, to
handle to feed with. But it is a very
costly kind of hay. 1t is the most
costly kind of hay you can find. The
hay made from shredding the whole
corn stalk is just as good as the fod-
der, and very much cheaper.
Remember it costs money or hard
labor or both to pull and cure and
save fodder. 1t also Injuries the
corn to pull the fodder. The mo-
ment you strip off the fodder blades
all ~food-making processes for finish
ing the grain stops. Hence the corn
is made lighter.
This is not true when you cut the
stalk. The roots get through their
work sooner than the blades do. So
when you ,-ait eight or ten days
later than you would pull fodder and
then cut the whole stalk you do not
injure or stop the filling out of the
grain. This can and does continue
some days if the blades are on the
stalks.
Again, remember you do not lose
the fodder by not pulling it. 1t is
just as good for food cured on the
stalk. You gain the stalk and sew
eral blades of fodder and most of the
shuck by cutting and shredding your
corn. You save the expense of pull
ing the fodder and still get the fod-
~ " vi Ao VIC U1IOC Vi lOJII
times as much hay and just as good
hay. You cannot afford to lose so
much that you have already made.
We continue to repeat this advice
because we know many will hesitate
to quit pulling fodder. Many will
be slow to change because they have
no shredding machines.
So we urge our farmer friends to
begin in time to study over this ques-
ton and make arrangements for
shredding their corn.
We again repeat, if you do not
wish to buy a shredder for your W
use, then club with some of your
neighbors and buy one. If you fail
in this, get some one who has a
shredder to shred your corn. There
need be no hurry about this. Any
time this fall or winter will do
Southern Cultivator.
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the meat up and slip the sack up
around the meat and tie it around
the string that the meat hangs on,
tying it about two inches above the
meat. The bottom of the sack should
be two or three inches below the
meat.-Samuel Fryer, Woodbury.
Co., Iowa.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-08-14
The Poultry Yard.
DESIRABLE TURKEYS.


Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
The custom which makes turkey
meat popular only at certain seasons
of the year seems a little ~senseless,
but such being the case breeders and
raisers must conform more or less to
it. There is a certain trade in tur-
keys the year round, and those who
cater to this merely raise a few extra
fine turkeys for Thanksgiving and
Christmas, and sell the rest at any
time through the year when prices
are good. IF one waits for his op-
portunity, and watches the markets
closely, he is pretty sure to see the
day in the year when he car make a
handsome profit. OF curse when
one has fattened the choice birds for
a certain market he likes to sell them
at the time and not carry Them over.
In a good deal of my work 1 have
found it profitable to fatten the
choicest lot of birds for the Thanks
giving and Christmas season, and
distribute the balance through the
spring and summer season. 1t pays
to raise only fancy turkeys for the
holidays, and it is waste of time and
material to sell inferior grades. Bet
ter keep them and try to fatten them
later. If the prices are good at such
times, the competition is greater
than any other season, and most of
the choice turkeys of the country
come to market. At other seasons
only Indifferent turkeys as a rule al
ubtainable, and consequently the
owner of birds that would pass as
fair at Thanksgiving time would be
considered very good and even choice
in spring and summer. One year L
bought live turkeys between Thanks
giving and Christmas when there
was a big glut in the markets, and l
got them so cheap that I made money
in fattening them for the later mar
kets. They were a lean lot of birds
and must have Melted the original
owner an actual loss. A few weeks
of good feeding made their bodies
plump up wonderfully, and besides
weighing more when I sold them
they looked so much better that
higher prices per pound were paid for
them.
In selecting the turkeys for this
years market the hens that are to
be used for next seasons breeding
should be carefully marked and at
tended to. 1t is not wise to sell a
good layer and breeder even if the
price is tempting. We must have
some stock that will be of value to
US in reproducing their kind in
abundance. The breeding hens are
after all the most essential part of
the whole plant, and we cannot be
too careful in selecting these and
then holding on to them until their
days of usefulness are over Then
the sooner we car dispose of them
the better. ANNE G.. WEBSTER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-08-14

Men can be cured privately and pos
itively at home of all weakness and
disease. Write for new free book.
DR.. j. N. Hathaway, 22% AC South
Broad st., Atlanta, Ga.
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SUCCESS IN RAISING TURKEYS.

In raising turkeys be sure to keep
a good breed. The Bronze are the
largest. 1 keep from three to five
hens and a tom, from which I raise
from seventy-fve to one hundred
turkeys, says a writer in the Prairie
Farmer. The last of March COM
mence looking for nests and bring in
the eggs so they will not get chilled.
When you have about eighteen eggs
set them under two chicken hens and
as soon as the turkey goes to sitting
give the eggs to her. AS soon as
Matched take the little turkeys from
the nest and put them in a pen or
coop, on the grass, being careful to
select a place where the water will
not run under the coop. Feed often
and keep them shut up for two or
three days, then if the weather is
fine they may be let out for a while,
taking care to shut them up at night.
Turkeys to do any good should have
the run of the farm. but should be
taught to come home to roost and to
be fed. In a short time they will
come home of their own accord. The
proper food for small turkeys is
bread and milk with some curd. Do
not feed corn meal until four or five
weeks old, then make corn bread
mixed with milk and feed them that.
Give some kind of grit. Ground
oyster shells are not very expensive,
but broken china will do. The best
time to market turkeys is a week or
two after Thanksgiving. Ship the
early toms and keep the hens until
the last of January Change toms
and keep young hens every year.
Dry pick and ship to the New York
market last year the prices ranged
from 10 to II cents per pound, and
fifty turkeys brought me nearly 500.
Men can be cured privately and pos
itively at home of all weakness and
disease. Write for new free book.
DIR. j. N. Hathaway, 22% AC South
Broad st., Atlanta, Ga.
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CLUB RATES.

Nowadays papers are so cheap tnas
nearly everybody can afford to taA'
two or more We have arrangeua
list of some of the best in the land anu
can furnish them in connection VIII
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ly. Here is the list. The price u
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DR.. T. Kochibe, Director of the
Imperial Geological Survey of Japan,
is in Tennessee, Investigating the
phosphate fields, says the Nashville
American. He is astonished at the
extent of the rock in the Mt. Pleas
ant district, while in quality it is the
finest he has seen. The best rock
in Japan will run only from 3 to 10
per cent, the latter being considered
very fine, while in Tennessee he finds
rock thrown away that does not
average I'VE 60 per cent. Much of
the phosphate now used in Japan
comes from South Carolina and
Florida, but Tennessee is likely to
furnish large quantities in future.
Japanese farmers are poor, and
struggling for an existence. The
use of phosphate rock by them dates
back only five years. Fish and other
bones are imported from China.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-08-14
THE NATIONAL FARMERS ALL
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President-J.C. Wilborn, Old Point
S. G.
Vice-President-P. H. Rahillev,
Lake City, Mimi.
Secretary-Treasurer-A. B. WeIch,
Victor, N. Y.
LECTURES,
J..P. SOsSamOn, Charlotte, n. G.
J.C. Hanley, ST. Paul, Mimi.
NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE AL
LANCE.
President-W. A. Graham, Mach,
pelah, N. c..
Vice-President-J. S. Mitchell,
Winton, N. c..
Secretary-Treasurer and State
Business Agent-T. B.. Parker, Hills
boro, N. G.
Lecturer-Dr. V,N. Seawel, Faison
N. c.
Chaplain-w. s. Mercer, Moyock,
N. G..
Doorkeeper-Geo. T. Lane, Greens
boro, N. G..
Sergeant-at-Arms-D. W. Watson,
haywood, n. G.
Trustee Business Agency Fund
W. A. Graham, Machpelah, N. Z,
Steward. @. Balm, Wade, N. I.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE
ALLIANCE.
J. w. Denmark, Chairman, RAJ
eigh, N. @.
w, A. Graham Fx-OficiO). Mach
pelah, N. G.
W. B, Fleming, Ridgeway, n. T.
John Graham, Warrenton, NJ.
DIR. j. e. Person, Pikeville, n. Z,
Thomas J. Oldham, Teer, n. Z.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMIIIEE
j. T. B. Hoover, HillsbOrO, n, t.
G. @. Mcclellan, Goodwin, N. Z.
FL. T. Jones, GoldsbOro, N. G.
~ - SPECIAL Prices s 81
w @EAH Trial. Guaranteed. R Bslm
~H-It~7 ard Combination 20 90
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-21
Intcrstntc Commercc.

Whereas, The commercial conditions
throughout the United States demand the
effective regulation of commerce between
the SJatei and
Whereas, The act TO regulate commerce
appgoSd February 4. 1887 and amended
from time to time, has failed to accom-
plish the purposes for which it was en-
acted, by reason OF its inadequacy; and,
Whereas Senate bill No. 1889 now pend
ing in congress. provides for amendments
10 the present law that are necessary to
the protection OF the public and the car
riers but omits several important pro-
visions; therefore, be it
Resolved, That senate bill No 1879
should DO Immediately amended so as to
include the following provisions:
To change the language OF paragraph
of the proposed section 6 to read: But
the commission shall within five DAYS af-
ter good cause has been shown allow
changes upon less than sixty Gays no
tice"
To require the commission to render
decisions within reasonable period after
taking testimony
To empower the commission Oh II has
not that power already to establish CO.
operative agencies in different parts OF the
country for the purpose of a better en-
forcemsnt of the provisions OF the law;
TO enable the commission TO co-ooerate
with and be represented In associations
which the railroads may form and to act
with such associations in carrying out the
provisions OF the law.
Resolved, further. That the enactment OF
such amended bill is an immediate neces-
sity. and we do hereby urgently and re-
spctfully petition the congress OF the
United States to pass senate bill No. 1929
with the above mentioned amendments. AT
the present session.
Mr.. Thomas l.. Cannon OF Missouri said
that he represented the st. Louis Manu-
facturers' association; he was opposed n
the Cullom bill and II the Congress woula
but delay action he would see that each
member was supplied with an argument
showing reasons for opposing the bill.
Mr.. Stanard spoke In favor of ADOPTING
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-21
Irrigntion.

Whereas, There are vast tracts of irri-
gable yet unreclaimed arid lands in the
Transmississippi States and Territories
reaenea by systems OF irrigation that can
easily be rendered unusually productive Of
the very highest grade and guilty OF the
various agricultural crops. ana In areas
sunleleht crops ana In areas sufficient 70
furnish homes and farms for more than
20 Goo GOO people; and,
Whereas, These arid lands can only he
eomprehensiyely reclaimed by far-reaehing,
thorough and scientific systems OF irrigs,
ton that recognize the contour IL tao
lands In relation 10 the water Supply for
me great water sheds OF these Western
regions; and.
whereas, Such systems OF irrigation can
condnct the water supply upon said lands
az Tar greater economy In the use and as
uibution OF the water supply and a, Tar
Tess expense In proportion to the arel cos
ereo in the matter OF construction as well
OF irrigation; and,
whereas, The said areas Of most produce