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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-26

Here are a few more August 1ancles:
Do you fancy fine SIS Blue guar
anteed Serge Suit for So.75?
Do YOU fancy an SIS Pure Worsted
Suit. in medium color, for So.75?
Do you fancy an SIS OF $50 Oxford
ChevIot, double or single breasted,
Suit for SOS?
We can suit your fancy:
You can buy trashy stuff at a good
many stores, but not here
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03
TENNESSEE NOTES.
Co., Ill.

W. B. Doak, of Maplehurst Poul-
try Farm, Russellville, Tenn, writes
to the Texas Stock and Farm Jour
nall During the twenty~ffth an
nual session of the East Tennessee
Farmers Institute, the Oldest in the
South, Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson advised our farmers to quit
raising wheat for the production of
''baby beef, :" butter or cheese, early
lambs, poultry or fancy horses of the
carriage or roadster type. His ad-
dress was practical, helpful and we'll
received Geo. F. Weston, Manager
of the noted Biltmore Farm at Ashe-
vile, made an excellent talk Oh
stock feeding. Perhaps your read
ers may not be aware of the fact
that George Vanderbilt is perhaps
spending more money than any one
man to bring into the South fine
stock, Jerseys, Berkshires and poul-
try from England, not to mention
other efforts toward improved agri-
culture and horticulture. Wheat in
places in this State is a failure, with
a few crops better for the years
average than so per cent. Thos. R.
Reed, C. V. Taylor and G. NJ. Kester-
son are each grazing lot of steers.
Maplehurst, with incubator, cellars
and complete poultry plants, carry
ing about 500 hens, besides ducks,
turkeys and peafowls, with nearly
1000 young steers, is bringing new
life and dignity to the poultry bust
ness in this section. Fruit prospects
here are excellent. Meadows have
been improved by late rains. Corn
growing well, but is late. J. R.
Forgey has taken two cars of good
mules and horses to South Carolina.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

May yielded 44.8 per cent. more
butter than Belle.
May yielded 4O.3 per cent. more
butter than Nellie.
Nellie yielded 3.2 per cent. more
butter than Belle.
To recapitulate May gave 1897
per cent. more milk which made 40.3
per cent. more butter than Nellie on
81 per cent. less hay when other
food and conditions were the same.
Compared with her mate Belle, she
gave 55.4 per cent. more butter for
80 per cent. less hay when hay was
fed freely and all other food and con-
ditiOns were alike.
A second trial was made on differ
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Will say for the readers of The
Progressive Farmer that the wheat
crop of this county is considered
good, or above the average. Corn
and cotton are growing finely since
the hot weather set in. We are hav-
ing heavy rains now, however, and
unless it ceases is likely to damage
much wheat in the shocks and corn
on the low lands.
The peach crop in this county is a
full one, but the apple crop is not so
good.
Farmers are we'll up with their
crops Gardens are doing we'll and
vegetables are coming in early con
sidering the late planting in the
spring. W. W. BIGGERsTAFF.
Lincoln Co., N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03
AUTOMATIC BRUSH eRUBBERs.

William L. Black, of Fort Nc
Kavitt, Texas, was at the yards the
other day with two doubledeck loads
of Angora goats billed through to
Iowa points. Judge Black is an en-
thusiast regarding the prospects for
the Angora goat breeders. He is a
director in the Americon Angora
Goat Breeders Association, recently
formed in this city. He says that as
brush cleaners, tree grubbers and
the like, the Angora goat can't be
beaten. And their Angora feeces,
or mohair-there is nothing like it.
There are about 100, 900 Angora goats
in Texas, and not that many eligible
to registry Breeders there may be
forced soon by the growing demand
to buy up Mexican goats and breed
them up with better blood until they
are eligible for registration. Judge
Black says the biggest trade he has
had has been with Iowa dealers, who
have been buying literally to help
clean out the brush lands. He has
shipped several Thousand to that
State, where they have been sold at
auction to farmers and dealers
City Telegram.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

that you are going to use to eat out
the growing crop to enrich your soil.
You do not need to go North to find
that you have the best manure that
you could find any place on earth
and that you can get cheaper than
anybody else can get it, and that is
your own cotton seed meal Let
your hogs or sheep put the fertilizer
on that field by first feeding the cot
ton seed meal to them and it will
bring your land up better than any
thing else. / wonder and marvel
that you Southern people ever per
NIT a pound of it to leave your farms
You will get more value from the II
to Is per cent. of that meal that the
animal will use and digest than you
will from the 100 pounds put in the
field. Let the animal first have it
and then use it.
Now with regard to your pastures.
That was discussed very intelligent
ly by the gentleman who was speak
ing when came in. Tt is a general
proposition that we either farm too
much land or we have not capital
enough to handle the acres we do
farm. We do not stock our farms
up fully. There is no more stock in
the South now than there was four
or five years ago, but the price has
gone up enormously.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

By Frank E. Emery, Farm Superintendent
New York Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion, Geneva, N. Y.

By Frank E. Emery, Farm superintendent
New York Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion, Geneva, N. Y.
In presenting the few thoughts I
have noted down here for this meet
ing, hope you will come to my aid
and see the points l wish to make,
although they may not be brought
out in the most lucid form.
We need to know more of what is
going on around us. would have
every family use the newspaper to
this end, that every member learn to
scan it's pages closely and rapidly,
and bring out of it the pithiest say
ings, the wisest craftsmanship, and
the best knowledge of changes in
the type setting department of the
market columns. Don t fill up with
the criminal trash and scandal rec
ord, but let the reading members of
the family take turns with succeed
ing issues to see which can extract
the most really good things in the
shortest space of time. Bring these
good things up at the full family
gatherings, dinner, and evening for
general discussion. We need to
count a loss of something out of that
day in which we have made no adj
vance in this direction.
This, gentlemen, may seem to some
like meddling in the family circle,
but it is practicable and practical
agricultural tactics. 1t is a plan
Worth trying. If it does not bring
back dollars for time spent reading
it will give you and your family
more and better knowledge of what
is read and for less time, if one reads
at a time, and the best things are
held up in discussion.
This sort of reading begets an OBJ
serving habit. That is what we
want. 1t also begets a desire to
know and not to guess at what is be-
ing done by and for our individual
as well as the general good.
The boys will now want Zone of
our common needs) some scales on
the farm, and unless you have tried
it you don't know how handy a good
spring balance or a small double
beam scale is around the house. The
small scale can be made as useful in
doors as out.
You can't go out to a Farmers In
stitute or any like meeting of farm
ers but that some one will lecture
you on a rational system of cattle
feeding, or tell just how to conduct
dairy operations. You are bound to
forget the essential details of the
whole thing, if you get any. That
is, if you are we'll stocked with the
real old human nature, as most of us
are, you will remember the incred-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03
Raleigh, N. c., July 8, 1900.

ible places and the funny incidents,
but you cannot repeat at home the
good work that made Brown the best
feeder, or Smiths field crops the
largest in town. But once you get
some scales and get well under way,
weighing things judiciously, the
scales of former practice will begin
to fall from before your eyes. You
will see avenues of profit and loss,
from field, and garden, and stable
where you were in blissful ignorance
before. Let me give.you an example
by way of illustrating a0b0t yOu can
do for yourselves in the several de-
partments of your own farms.
At the Experiment Station are two
4-year-old heifers. They were reared
together, and are of very nearly the
same size. They came into milk late
for Jersey heifers, but the time was
spent in growth and stamina and
may not have been lost, in one case
at least. These heifers are now in
milk with their second calves, which
were dropped II days apart last De-
cember. When the flow of milk was
we'll established seven milkings were
set apart for comparison. Their feed
was of the same articles, and they
consumed the same amounts of grain
and mangolds. The only difference
in ration was in the amount of hay
consumed. The hay was fed in ex-
cess of what they wanted. A mature
COW fresh in milk between the heif-
ers was compared with the two. Her
name is Nellie.
Here are the results of this COM
parisOn:
STABLE AVERAGES FOR DAYS--MILK
az
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

The Roanoke Chowan Times thinks
that the Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Company is treating stock farmers
of the Rich Square sections badly
Some year or two ago the farmers
there commenced to raise stock for
market and shipped considerable
quantities to Norfolk. They could
ship in quantities less than a carload !;
but recently the railroad company
has doubled freight on stock to Nor,
folk in less than carloads, says the
Times, and so the farmers cannot
afford to ship their calves and lambs
in small mum bers any more.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

sciences and fitted to interpret and
apply to their own advantage the
laws governing the operations by
which their daily bread is assured to
them. The movement to supply this
pressing need has been inaugurated
and the farmers boy who don t wake
up to it, and ''catch on is more than
likely to get left behind in the race
of life.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

The farmer about here is looking
for that wave of prosperity that was
sweeping over our great country,
but he seems to be looking in vain,
so far as selling truck is concerned.
Those people North are not as hungry
as our farmers thought they were
when they planted potatoes, &c.
Evidently the potato crop has been
too great for the demand. Trucker,
Craven Co., N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03
No. 18
Live Stock.
EARLY BREEDING EWES.

/
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer
Success often depends on early
breeding, and therefore some select
their sheep with this single idea in
view. The Dorsets and Merinos are
both early breeders, and many select
them chiefly for this quality, but I
have found that the Shropshires,
which generally have the reputation
of being late in this respect, will
breed fully as early as the Dorsets
or Merinos if properly handled.
They require conditions suitable to
their natures to make them breed
early, and if we provide these tits
not difficult to make them produce
lambs as early as other breeds. In
fact, if you give good management
to the Shropshires they will breed
even earlier than the Dorsets or
MerinOs, but if poor management is
accorded them they will be much
later. They respond to good treat
ment better than most breeds. Like
everything else connected with cat
tie and sheep raising, the key to the
whole question is good feeding and
comfortable quarters. If these two
conditions are provided, and the
ewes are kept growing steadily, they
can be depended upon coming around
in time. If you want sheep that will
come around all right without proper
attention, it is not well to select
Shropshires.
Good treatment has of course
much to do with the earlier breeding
of all sheep, IF they are poor and
thin they will not show much desire
for mating, and sometimes it is i'm
possible to bring them around with
any kind of success. Ewes intended
for early breeding should not be
made to live out in the hot sun with
out any shelter from it in the middle
of the day except such as they can
find on the shady side of a fence.
Provide them with sufficient shade,
good pasture and plenty of clean
water through the summer, and
then before you want to breed them
feed them literally on oats: This
will often help to bring them around
and give the desired results. AL
ways have a thoroughbred buck at
the head of the flock, but the flock
itself should consist of grades. AS
they have better constitutions they
will rustic better and prove more
profitable. It is the early flock of
lambs that pay the best, and early
breeding is quite necessary for sue
cess. The ewes must be fed literally
and intelligently until the lambs are
born and ready for market. We
cannot afford to be niggardly in this
respect. The little lambs relish
roots in the fall and winter, and it
pays to have a stock of these on
hand. On the whole the roots seem
to do them good, and they require
less of more expensive food. The
roots also help to keep the ewes in
good condition, but otherwise cannot
say they are of any particular value.
J. G. ARMSTRONG.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

Farmers in this vicinity tried
shredded corn fodder for the first
time last fall. Also corn fodder, cut
by harvesting machinery, and from
what I can learn all are highly
pleased with it. I think by another
year or two it will be all the go.
Labor saving machinery is what the
farmer needs nowadays, for one can
depend upon them, and will not be
left alone when work is pushing
worst-so often the case with hired
help Would like to hear from some
brother farmer concerning fish cul-
ture. Also if bull frogs will destroy
fish eggs.-Wm. G. Stehfest, Monroe
Co TIL
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

That is May ate 81 per cent. and
Belle 6.8 per cent. more hay than
Nellie; May was 20 pounds per 1000
heavier and Belle 13 lighter than
Nellie; May gave nearly II per cent.
more milk than Nellie, while Belle s
milk was only 1921 per cent. of Mel
lies.
May gave 55.4 per cent. more milk
than Belle, the other heifer
Taken Immediately to the dairy,
strained into a can to set, May milk
had al average temperature of 90.8
degrees Fahr., Nellie's 87.6 degrees
Fahr. Bellies 85.7 degrees Fahr.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

The Progressive Farmer seems to
make some improvement with every
issue.-J. M. Long, Caswell Co.,
N. c..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

Conscience is our private secre-
tary.-Josh Billings.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

Belle May Nellie
Lbs. Lbs Lbs.
Wight of COW. T.. 98O25 1O1325 993H
q mangolds eat 40 40 40
g grain eaten. 6 6 6
" hay ad lib. g 2217 21.52 2O.75
{" milk yield. 1886 27.45 23.46
In order to make comparison of
hay eaten, weight of COW, and milk
produced, on a uniform basis, have
taken Nellie as the standard and
changed the heifers by proportion.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-12-20
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Proceedings of the Annual Session of tn,
state Grange,

Proceedings of the Annual Session of the
state Grange,
Special Correspondence OF Gazette and Journal.
Dover, Dec. l3.:-The State Grange,
Patrons of Husbaudry, adopted the
following resolutions yesterday:
Whereas, Certain matters OF great
public Importance have recently come
to the attention af the mem bere of the
grange, as veil as to the notice of all
other citizens throughout the State, by
means OF an article treating upon the
three following important facts:
First-T That a large sum of money
derived from the sale OF Farmers Bank
stock, paid into the hands of the State
treast rer, has renamed for long time
uninyested.
Second. That the tax imposed by
statute NJ on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Co. has not been paid to the
State in full for number Of years.
Third That the Delaware railroad
div ision, which comprises all the rail.
roads in the State south of Wilmington
under the control of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co., only pays to the State
an annual tax OF 1876
Therefore be it resolved.
FiIst-That the money derived from
the sale OF assets of the State should
be used to pay the debt Of the State.
Secnnd-Ihat we earnestly advocate
the collection Of the full amount of tax
due from the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road Co., and that We urge all the
members of the Legislature to vote
against any bill that may be offered
with view of committing any part Of
said tax.
Third--That our Legislature be asked
TO appoint special committee for the
purpose of drafting a bill which shall
have the following objects in view,
VIZ: An increased revenue to the State
by placing upon the Delaware railroad
division tax more in proportion to
that already imposed by law upon the
Philadelphia. Wilmington Il Baltimore
Railroad Co. and the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Co., said tax to be used fol
the gradual liquidation of the State
debt.
The Grout bill was discussed, and o
telegram waa sent 10 Washington, ask,
ing Senator keptey to vote against thu
bill
The resolution concerning the in
heritance tax was adopted, as was alst
the resolution recommending tina
students from the surrounding country
be admitted to the Wilmington High
School. Resolutions recommending tn,
election of United States Senators b,
popular vote and opposing government
appropriations for the irrigation o
land in the West and tho resolution
concerning local option were ais
adopted.
The following officers were elected
Master, S. Ii. Derby; Overseer, Her
vey Walker; Lecturer. DR.. A. I
Neale; Steward, W. g. Burton; Assist
ant Steward, j. G. Brown; Chaplain
Il. G. Lewis; Treasurer, Thomas H
R,ggan; Secretary, W. W. Seeders
Gatekeerer, j. j. Simpler; Ceres
Joanna Walker; Pomona, Mrs. M. A
Webb: Flora, Emma M. Derby; Lad
Steward, Mrs. v. g. Burton.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-12-20

No man is the great individual his
worshipping son thinks him; yet 1T is
good that the little chaps conception
of that paternal myth should be left
undisturbed, and he who would drag
down that ideal 10 the level of the
actual facts would be doing wrong
to the child, and at the same time
would take away from the father one
of the great incentives to correct and
upright living, and the final fuliilment
of all his powers. No normal boy was
ever harmed by thinking his poor
miserable father the finest thing That
ever was or ever could be; equally true
is it that no properly constituted little
one ever gained aught that was detri
mental by contemplation of the
virtues and faith in the reality Of
the ideal figure that symbolizes the
spirit of the yule-tide. Give us back
our Santa Claus before il is too late
and spare the children at least that
"higher criticism which destroys
ideals and lays bare all the material
facts OF life without giving us any
thing in return TO relieve or soften
their ugliness, Harper's Weekly.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-12-20

Good Cookery
ta4S9 l45 4T@S
Copyrighted.

Answer to "Daisy":-If you will fol-
low these directions for making sponge
cake you will have no trouble, as this
recipe has been used in my family for
twenty years and never have had poor
luck with it. Beat three eggs until light
and foamy, add one and one-half cups
of graduated sugar. beat again well lit
beating with fork or spoon beat five
minutes-an egg beater Is better and
does the work quicker dissolve one-half
a teaspoonfu of soda in one-half cup
of cold water; sift one teaspoonful OF
cream tartar into two cups of sifted
-four. and stir all together, stirring and
beating the mass at least two minutes:
now turn into creased sheet tin and
bake twenty minutes in a moderately
hot oven. IL favoring is liked in sponge
cake add any desired, the last thing be-
fore turning into the tin, a scant tea
spoonful usually being enough. If Daisy
will try this she will have no more poor
cake to trouble her, her favorite cake
will be all right Don't get discouraged.
child ask through these columns for the
help you need, some of us will surely
help you il we can.
"A WILLING FRIEND"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-12-20
WHERE PLAYTHINGS ARE MADE.
The Wave of Progress Has Swept Over
Toyland.

WHERE PLAFTHINGs ARE MADE.
The Wave of Progress Has Swept Over
Toyland.
Philadelphia Record,
u The irresistible wave of progress has
at last swept over Toylard. Time was
when the only toys the child ever saw
or cared for were rag dolls, jacks in
the boxes and Noah's arks, with the
funny little maids and men and the
stiff. legged animals aud the red
spotted cows.
In spite OF the vast influx of the
mechanical toys, of ingenious French
mechanism, and of the electrical novel
ties, there IS still warm spot in the
heart of every child for tho more print.
tive toys. The Noah's ark has
never really been supplanted in the
cbild's affet tions, and the demand still
continues for them. For centurifs the
odd shapes Of these toy inhabitants nj
the Noah's ark have been the same, and
II any of the peasants of Germany who
make these queer figures be asked why
they are so made, his only reply is that
they are always made in this manner;
that, his father before him made th IN
the same, aud his father's father.
sonneherg, about an hours ride H. nj
Coburg, is the great centre of the toy
trade, and it has been so for neatly
century. As early AS 1920, according
to one writer, Sonneberg dealt in papier-
Inache elephants and giratles, and in
dolls dressed in swadding clothes.
From those times down to the n esent
day tho trade has steadily increased,
until this year over $1,000, 600 from
England and this country alone has
| D. 10
| fill little English and A american stock
| ings On Christmas morning.
In fact, the doll trade with this tswu
has increased so that where 70 years
| ago there we're but 5000 inhabilan
there are now twice that many, d
there are 30 distinct branches of the
toy manufacture carried on. Fite big
factories have been built to SUPPLY tho
world with porcelain dolls heads. Std
the demands are eadily growing (
the odd animals and inrn for Noah
arks. And the peasant folk aoul d
S0nneberg are exact counterparis of
thu SO strange people of childhood's ao-
| quaintance. One bore meats an old man
carrying a stick and dressed in urg
brown great. OF the familiar brown
shade; the goatherd, too, whom ne
Easses on the road wears short petit
coat that hangs in straight folds
All around this little German town
for miles the peasants are engaged in
the making OF toys; even the youngest
tots have their knives, ard they whttle
out the quaint little figures in their
crude way. cutting their chubby little
fingers now and then, but all the while
acquiring that experience which at ths
age of 8 or makes adopts Of the
youngsters. Some of the young folk
paint or sandpaper the toys that the
older folk have made. They all work
and they are always at work.
No sooner is Christmas past than
they get to work again t. mako ready
for the next joyous Christmastide.