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The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1900-10-12
LINCOLN.
Death of good mana Valued Heir.
loom Big Damage Suit

loom-Blg Damage Suit-ARow.
Lincolnton Journal. Oct. 5th.
Mrs. Dora Palmer, wife Of
Jack Palmer, the engineerkilled
in the Narrow Gauge wreck AZ
Lenoir last week, has brought
suit against the railroad for
$4,000 damages.
Deputy Sheriff Jno. B. Del
linger, of Iron Station, has an
heirloom which he prizes very
highly. It is a bloodstone
which was brought from Ger
many by his great-great-grand-
father, Captain Nicholas Fri
day, lao years ago. The blood
stone in olden times was sup
posed to possess the virtue Of
stopping the flow of blood. This
stone is a pretty specimen of
red oxide Of iron, and IS three
inches long and highly polish
ed.
VIII Campbell and Joe Null
; tanked up and took in the town
Saturday night. Null became
involved in a row with E. T.
Childs, who struck him in the
head with a swingletree, which
had the effect Of SOLDERING him.
Childs claims that Null was
advancing on him with a knife
and that he struck in self de
fence. Campbell and Null were
fined $500, each and the cost,
and Childs was required to give
a $50 bond for his appearance
at court.
Mr.. Frank II. Brown died at
his home in York county, S. c.,
nearTirzah, lastSaturdayafter-
noon. Mr.. Brown was born in
this county in 1927 and was the
son of Rev. Absalom Brown,
and a brother to the late DR..
M. l.. Brown. He moved to
York county in 1854, and by
splendid business ability and
industry, within IS years he
became one Of the wealthiest
men in York county, owning
over 5000 acres of fine cotton
land free Of incumbrance and
was one Of the largest cotton
planters in upper South Caro-
lima. He employed hundreds Of
hands both white and cOlOred,
and was never known to have
had trouble with one. He was a
man Of the strictest integrity,
a charming host, a kind neigh
Dor and one Of the best men We
ever knew. No one in need
: ever went to him for help with
=. out getting it. In him thr
widow and orphan, the helpless
and distressed found a gener
. Gus and faithful friend.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1900-10-12
RUTHERFORD.
Tent Meeting-A Relic The Veter-

ans.
Rutherfordton indicator, Oct. 4th.
The evangelists have carried
on their meetings day and night
and will continue until next
week, when they may move to
another field. Their zeal is to
be commended and their efforts
have not been without results,
fer their shots, maybe fired at
random, always find a target,
and their earnest appeals for
the better life have not allfallen
on stony ground.
Several Confederates Of the
old guard were in the city Mon
day, and it was touching to see
them grasp each others hands
as memory carried them back
to the days when they fought
and bled over every inch of
ground on the battle-felds of
Virginia with aheroism seldom
equaled and never surpassed.
They all carry honorable scars.
and not one of them but still
has the same grand old devo-
ton to the land Of their birth,
and will have till theypassove1
the river. May their last days
be gladdened with the love and
affection Of our people, and the
blessings Of Heaven.
While at Henrietta at Mr.. r.
r. Haynes store, we were shown
the original trip hammer useC
more than 60 years ago al
Achilles Durham's forge where
the Henrietta Mills stand to-
day. 1t has an interesting
story Of It's own, and could i
speak it might make wonderful,
revelations Of occurrences whe1
it was used to hammer out tn,
iron into shovel moulds an(
wagon tires for the people 0
all this mountaincountry, thel
widely scattered and each on,
a monarch in his home. OF,
George White was Hamme
man, the Durhams and Baxter
where the capitalists and thei
omp1OvppS wore thair clavoC
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1900-10-12
CLEVELAND
A Big Deal Closed Destroyed ty
Fire-A Murderer Arrested "A Hap
Nv Marriage Other News.

~ W0A A06 ~ WV
Shelby Star, Oct. 3rd.
w. G. Corbett. Of Houston,
Texas, bought the Commercial
hotel property at a private
sale.
Yves. Curry, colored. was sen
fenced to 80 days on the chain
gang last Friday for selling
liquor. He was tried before
Mayor Jennings.
Mr.. T. G.. Horton, one Of
Casar's bright and promising
young men, and Miss Whey
Buff. the attractive daughter of
the genial and popular Peter
Buff, a staunch citizen of Casar,
were happily married Sunday.
Rev. j. A. Cook performing
the ceremony.
While working on a new
building for NJ. P. CAN'T &C.,,
at Belwood, Messrs. NJ. n. CAN'T
and Will Limerick sustained
painful injuries by a fall from
a scaffold. They were laid up
for several days, but are at
work again now. They fell a
distance Of Is feet.
News was received Sunday of
the illness of Mr.. Earl McFar-
land, a Shelby boy in Havana,
Cuba. He has yellow fever and
is in the hospital. The physi-
clan states that the case is a
mild one and he entertains no
fears about his recovery and
he is now convalescing.
Yhedwellingh house and house
hold effects Of Deputy Sheriff
w. II. Herndon, Of No. 4 town
ship, we're destroyed by fire
last Friday at noon. The fire
caught from a defective stove
fue, and nearly all the family
were away from home when the
house caught, and hence very
little Of the household goods
we're saved. The house was
nearly new and was a nice
residence. There was no in
surance and this loss falls very
heavily upon Mr.. Herndon.
A letter was received here b,
Sheriff Suite last Friday con
tanning a warrant for the arres
, Of Jim Hambright, colored
: who was wanted in Lexington
Ca, for the murder of anothe
negro IN a row at a gamblin.
2 table. Within half an hou
:. after the warrant was receive,
Chief Jones arrested the MAJ
at the livery stable and he wa
promptly jailed. Sheriff Gun
nlngham. Of Georgia, arrive,
Sunday and got his prisone
and returned in the afternoon
: 1t is said the murder grew GU
Of a dispute over ten cents
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05
Poultry and Bees.
THE GROWING GHTg 8.

Correspondence Of The Progressive Farmer.
The success one has with young
chickens in spring generally makes
beginners think that anyone can
raise them at this season of the year
but unless favorable weather and
good fortune attends the efforts the
beginner is very apt to lose one Aere
and there. A great many console
themselves with the idea that this
loss is small, and ON the whole does
not count. 1t may be, however, that
these few losses may represent all
the difference between success ana
failure. They would have been the
profits of the years work, but with
them dead and lost the receipts do
not much more than cover the actual
expenses. Consequently some win
say, chickens do not pay. They fail
to see that if they had been careful
enough to save the dead ones that
they would have been Just so many
more dollars ahead, and their mar
gin of profits would have been that
much larger.
How can we prevent diseases
among chickens that seem to be born
to inherit all the complaints known
to the poultryman2 That is not 3
fair question, because chickens are
not born with such hereditary dis
positions to become sick all the time.
Tt is the unsanitary surroundings
and the poor start in life they are
given that causes the trouble. Their
systems are in a weakened condition
from the first, and they naturally
take cold easily and other diseases
follow. Give them plenty of good
food of the right kind good yards,
free from unnecessary dampness and
bad odor, and let them have plenty
of sun and shade. The growing
chickens, to be healthy in the spring,
need sun part Of the day, and shade
during the rest of the time. We
must supply the shade artificially If
trees and bushes are not growing in
the yard Sun and shade in equal
proportions contribute to their hap
'piness and growth, and they also
combine to ward off diseases by MAX
ing their surroundings clean, sweet
and sanitary.
ANNIE G. WEBSTER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05
COTTON GROWERS ORGANIZING.
,iculture.

Two weeks ago The Progressive
Farmer referred to the great meet
ing of Georgia cotton growers at
Macon, May 18th. At a meeting, a
few days ago, of the executive and
business committees appointed by
this convention the President was
authorized to proceed by correspond
encc with officials in other States, to
secure the organization of the entire
cotton belt by the middle of August.
Other States will be asked to unite
with Georgia in the movement and
establish central bureau which will
exercise a general superintendent
over all the different State bureaus.
A committee of five members Of the
executive committee with President
Jordan as Chairman, was appointed
to confer with the Georgia Bankers
Association, which meets at Lithia
Springs, June 18th, to- secure the
formulation of plan on the part of
the State banks for meeting the de-
mand of the producers next season
in regard to loans on cotton in stor-
age. The movement of the cotton
growers to perfect plan by which
the cotton crop of the South can be
marketed during a longer period of
time, thereby forcing better price
for the raw material before the
staple leaves the farmers hands, is
creating great enthusiasm through
out Georgia and other portions OF
the cotton belt.
twill be remembered that North
Carolina Cotton Growers Associa-
ton was formed in this city during
the last State Fair. Major w. A.
Graham was elected President.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05

Every farmer should keep bees for
honey, for amusement, for instruc-
rtion, to cross -fertiIize his fruits. Most
farmers pay little or no attention TO
the bees. They do not understand
their value nor the Importance OF
keeping few hives on every farm
if for nothing else than ferdlizing
the flowers, says WaIlace's Farmer
First, Use nothing but movable
hives. This is essential to success
The Id-fashioned bee gums and box
hives are better than nothing, as the
bees win manage to do the farmer
some good if let alone, bat if y0u pay
any attention to your bees atan use
some form of hive with movable
combs. The Langstroth, the hive in
common use, is about as good any
Buy q movable comb hive from some
of your neighbors, then have the
frames ~ all your hives made exact
9y the same size SO that any frame
gvill fit any hive. This is the first
.pdint.
The second is TO get Italian bees
1If you have black bees get an Italian
queen from some of your neighbors
Why Italiaap Because they are
larger than the common black bees
Er4oErWT-rvTrrRw r4T % Aesra o
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05

and place this can in larger kettle
of boiling water
There are many chemical ''pre-
servatives" and "deodorizers
offered to dairymen, but where these
are not frauds they are dangerous.
The least dangerous of them is nitrate
of potash-a good thing to let alone.
The legs and coats of COWS running
on a garlic pasture are apt to be re-
dolent of the odor This gets into
the hands and clothes of the mixers
and so into the milk Therefore in
milking such COWS the attendants
should be careful to avoid touching
the sides of the animals and also, too,
to prevent the COWS breathing upon
upon the mixer or milk vessels. By
allowing the COWS to stand in the
barn yard for an hour or two before
milking time a good deal of the odor
on the cows coat will have been dis
sipated.
Garlic is one of the most difficult
of all weeds to subdue when once it
has obtained a foot-hold. 1t has
three different means of propagating
itself. 1t makes it's chief growth at
a season when the ground is bare of
othey vegetation and finally its odor
is 50 disagreeable that scarcely any
animal, bird, insect or fungus will
attack it. 1t must sherefore be
fought by hard work. Where the
pest gets into park or lawn it can
be eradicated by digging it out root
by root or by poisoning each indi-
vidual plant with a teaspoonful of
crude carbo1ic acid. This process
costs from SO to $25 per acre.
Pasture lands badly infested should
be plowed up, heavily limed-not
less than 1000 pounds of stone lime
per acre should be used-and planted
to some cleanly cultivated crop, such
as potatoes, cotton, tobacco or corn.
In the fall seed the land to crimson
clover. Cut this in the spring be-
fore the garlic comes into flower and
plant again in heed crop followed
by clover. It will take from three
to years to kill out the garlic. I'm
til the garlic is got rid of no small
grain should be sown on such land.
Persons purchasing young fruit
trees, especially apples and pears,
should examine carefully the soil
clinging to the roots. This often
contains the bulbs of garlic. The
straw used for packing such stock
may contain bulbs or bulblets of gar
lie. It should be burned. Baled
hay often acts as a carrier of this
pest. GERALD MCCARTHY,
Botanist, N. G. Department of Ag-
riculture.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05
ANNIE G. WEBBTER

The best esteemed of all flesh food
is the duck, says the Western Rural,
and yet there are hundred chickens
marketed to one duck. 1t may be
that most people have not had an
opportunity of experiensing the su-
.perb deIectation OF roast duck, OF
#oonsider the diet too high-toned for
|ordinary mortals and calculated TO
make them forget matters chat bind
them to earth and forego the ordi-
nary duties and privileges Of human
lity. Be this as it may, there is far
less duck consumed than there ought
to be, if the dressed carcasses were
more numerous In market stalls. OF
the undressed ON the farms. Ducks
are easily grown, eat enormously,
sgrow rapidly and sell readily. Why
mot grow more of them?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05
Raleigh, N. c., June 5, 1900.

be purchased for $75; capacity of
5000 three-podnd cans per day, $125 f;
1000 three-pound can capacity per
day, S175; 10000 three-pound can
capacity per day, $3.50.
The kettles of this machinery can
be set in brickwork for fire, under,
or can be attached to steam boiler
If preferred; either way does the
same good work. Perhaps the great
est obstacle the beginner has had to
contend against heretofore has been
the dogged persistence with which
the knowing ones have struggled to
keep all knowledge of their mystic
r1ous art from the vulgar eyes of
those who see and learn. Besides
this, there has been, until recently,
no literature or printed information
on the subject, and those seeking
the desired information had to pick
it up here and there as best as they
could, and often from unreliable
sources. Tt is DO longer a mysterious
TART, a dark secret, but simple,
practical business venture, with a
very little venture in it. Anyone
who will can easily find out what
there is of mystery in it, and he will
be surprised to learn how very plain
and matter-of-fact it is. I will be
glad to give any further information
in reference to this industry that
can.
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throughout the year or for several
yeaFa.
2. AS q rule, all horses, mules, cat
tie and sheep, swine and poultry are
fond Of silage, if its material is such
as is ever eaten by them. Most farm
animals prefer it to the best forage,
and often prefer it to good roots.
8. The best time to cut any plant
to make good .silage is when the
plant approaches maturity, and is
beginning to decrease in it's percent
age of water content.
8. The cost of preserving a green
crop as si1age does not materially
differ from curing the same crop by
drying, in suitable season but
crops can be ensiloed and preserved
in seasons when they would be lost
if drying was attempted.
10. An acre Of corn as si1age will
weigh four times as much as the
same crop dried as fodder.
Il. An acre of corn which is field
cured, stored in the most compact
manner possible, will occupy a space
eight to ten times as great as if in
the form Of silage.
10. In feeding, the best results fol
low modarate ration of sihge rather
than it's entire substitution for dry,
coarse fodder.
13. Silage, and especially good corn
silage, when compared with dry corn
fodder or other feeding stuff, pro-
duces results so satisfactory as to
surprise the chemist, and which
chemistry cannot explain.
Il. A silo or two well built, but
not too large or too expensive, are
convenient and economical, On most
farms, to save crops which at times
might otherwise be lost, if NOT to
preserve some crops especially grown
for si1age.
6ilage is to be preferred to roots
for all stock, sheep only excepted,
and costs on our average farms not
more than sixty per cent, as much us
roots. The time for putting corn in
the si1o is correctly stated in Rule s,
and would be inclined to let the
growing process go as far as possible
without danger of the silage busi-
ness. do not believe in the addi-
ton of water while filing, except in
cases where the fodder is very badly
dried by being frosted The economy
of space is very important factor.
Silage should never be used as an ex-
elusive ration, but may be used for
at least one half Of the coarse food,
affording a material saving in hay.
In sweet corn growing districts for
the purpose Of preserving the fodder
and the wastes from the factories,
the silo is Indispensable.
The results obtained from feeding
ensilage as compared with dry fodder
have been surprising to many. We
are all willing to accept the teach
ings of the chemist that the value of
any fodder depends upon the amount
of digestible dry matter it contains
We are also ready to conclude with
him that the putting of any article
into a silo cannot add to it's food
values. Still, every farmer who has
fed ensilage and intel1igently OBJ
served results is willing to affirm that
there is a value to it that the chem
ist does not find. This conclusion
has also been reached by nearly, if
not quite, all of the experiment sta
tions where exhaustive feeding trials
have been made.
B. WALKER McKHAN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05

A plan has been adopted by the
Growers Association to control the
California raisin crop for the next
three years. The plan adopted in
wolves the formation of a CONNER
cial packers company to handle the
faisin crop, including the seeding of
faisins, coupled with an agreement
that they, as an organization, would
purchase and pay for the entire crop
by Jan. Is of each year. Prices of
raisins are to be forced by the grow
ers' associat ton.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05

North Carolina Baptist: IF you
don't live there you have no Concep-
ton of the magnitude of the berry
interest in Eastern North Carolina.
The season just closing has witnessed
the greatest shipping ever done. The
crop shipped has amounted to nore
than eleven million quarts and these
have sold at an average Of ten cents
per quart. This means more than
one million dollars from this one
crop i'm less than q month. Thus
from a very narrow strip along the
railroad there is received 1-10 as
much from the strawberry crop in a
month Is time as from the entire c0t-
ton crop of the State.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05
BUILDING AND FILLING s1Los.

6, Jurisprudence Of The Progressive Farmer.
We are glad to see these old rules
revived by Secretary McKean, of the
Maine Board of Agriculture, and are
glad to publish them in The Pro-
gressive Farmer for the benefit of
wide-awake farmers interested in
the silo.
We have read Maj. Alvord S sound
article in the report of the Maine
Board of Agriculture and believe if
he were TO re-write it now he would
have little to revise. Secretary Nc
Kean has done we'll to start this ar
stiole out ON a new and larger sphere
of usefulness. We believe, as he
shows he does by this publication,
that it is better when something has
been we'll said and sufficiently boiled
down to repeat it, with credit, rather
than try to re-ten the story and put
a different name to it. F. E. e.
The well-built silo, properly filed
with corn or other fodder at the
right stage of growth, affords food
for stock which in my Judgment can
not be equalled by any other method.
These are certain facts relative to
the silo that have been SO we'll estab-
ished that they need no further
proof, and I believe Major Alvord
formulated them very fully in some
rules which he laid down in a lecture
delivered in 1884.
1. Silos may be made Of any of the
various building materials, and some
very crudely and cheaply constructed
have been found to do good service.
2. Silos may be above ground, or
underground, or partly both they
should be water-tight and air-tight,
and preferably frost-proof, although
the latter point is not essential.
8. The situation, form and con-
struction of the si1o, and the ar
rangement for filing, covering and
emptying, should be largely gov
erned by local conditions.
4. Several small silos, preferably
connecting, are better than one large
one, and the depth should be con-
siderably greater than the length,
width or diameter.
5. Silos may be filed slowly cr
quickly, in all weathers, and heavily
weighted or not weighted at all ; the
silage produced win vary in oondi-
tion and quality, but these variations
in management do not very mate
rally affect the result.
6. Any plant or vegetable product
good for cattle food when green or
fresh may be preserved as silage Ia
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05

One of the best and most economi-
cal forms of farm insurance is to
keep chimneys, fues, freplaces, etc.,
in a safe condition.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05

like your paper better than ever.
The agricultural department is more
practical than that of any other
paper I SEED. N. Arrowood, Gas
ton Co. N. G.
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Give your stable plenty OF air and
light.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-14
HONESDALE.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Honesdale, June 13.-Miss Rebecca
Thompson is home from Ithaca, n.
Y, where she has been a student the
past winter.
Mrs. Charlesworth, OF Scranton, is II
guest of her son, Edward, on Dyberry
avenue.
Miss Lulu McGarry is at Scranton.
attending the Cawley- Horan wedding
Mr.. and Mrs. George II. Birdsall, of
Scranton, spent Sunday with Homes
dale friends.
Northampton, Mass, attending the
commencement exercises of Smith col
lege.
Mrs. Reed Burns, of Scranton, is
the guest of her son, DR.. Edward
Burns, on Tenth street.
Robert r. Menner is visiting at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II.
T. Menner.
Miss Blanche Wood and Miss Irene
Tibbitts are spending the week as the
guests of Mrs. John Gale, in Bingham
ton.
q, The Baptist and Methodist Sunday
schools will hold their Children's day
exercises on Sunday evening.
The new water company are pushing
the work of cleaning Cajaw pond ex-
pecting to have pipes laid and furnish
Honesdale people with water the COM
ing fall. The elevation of the reser-
voir will be sufficient to furnish to
people on Union hill and Bunnell hill.
On Friday a party of young ladies
will occupy cottage near Beech grove
for a week In the party will be the
Misses Verna Steinman, Helen Fow-
Ter, Kate Brady, Katharine Gaylord.
of Honesdale; Alice Sims, of Falls
Church, Va; Carrie Stevens, of Beech
grove.
Saturday, June 16, the Erie will run
an excursion to New York via boat
from Newburgh and return by rail on
Monday. Fare for round trip, SO.