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The progressive farmer., 1900-05-22
IT DOESN'T PAY.
G. M. MEssMER

The editor of the Texas Truck
Farmer was shown the other day
case of Strawberries, shipped from a
point in Eastern Texas, which he
says was a disgrace to the man who
packed it. On top, he writes, there
was layer of as fine berries as ever
grew, but underneath the boxes were
filed with small, unripe berries not
fit to eat. The man who grew those
berries probably got q good price
from the man who shipped them, yet
the retail dealer, of course, kicked
and his kick will go back until it
reaches the guilty party. Further
more, the shipper will have lost his
confidence in the grower who will
watch his berries closely hereafter.
The berries referred to were almost
unstable. They had a card on them
Offering them for five cents box
and found few buyers at that. AS a
matter of fact they were almost alb
solutely worthless.
Nobody objects to putting layer
of the best berries on top, unless it
might be the Reverend Sheldon, who
would justly claim that that is not
the way Jesus would do. 1t makes
them more attractive and salable,
and does no real injury to the con
sumer but when one is foolish
enough to buy box like those re
ferred to above without examining
them, which is not often, he feels
that he has been swindled, and he is
right about it. It has been suggested
that there ought to be law com
pelling every packer of fruit of any
kind to put his name in legible let
ters ON each package which he sends
out. This seems to be a good idea
It ought to be hailed with approval
by every man who wants to send out
fruit that will give satisfaction and
good value alike to all who handle
it. Indeed, d grower who values his
E0puI6C4Ou duu WILLIS 10 reap Ou0
highest reward for his labor will not
need any law of this kind. He will
see at once that it is necessary for
him to do it in order to protect him
self from the dishonest grower and
keep up the prices Of his goods. This
is not, Of course, possible where the
product is shipped in bulk and not in
a receptacle of some kind, but it is
applicable to all small fruits.
The progressive farmer., 1900-05-22
HOW PEAS AND PROPER CROP ROTATION
HAVE BENEFITED ONE FARMER.

Correspondence Of The Progressive Farmer.
[ read Prof. Massey's article on the
COW pea in The Progressive Farmer
of May 8th with much interest. I
have been practicing the doctrine he
breaches for five or six years and
have so improved my soil that, with
out any Improvement in buildings,
the tax assessors have substantially
increased the valuation of my farm.
1 rotate in this way: cotton, then
corn and peas, followed by wheat
and peas. Twelve acres of land that
five years. ago wouldn't produce cot
ton knee high now average a bale
per acre, and land that did not make
two barrels of corn per acre now
produces to barrels. Try this
rotation. j. L. BANKS.
Wake Co., n. G..
The progressive farmer., 1900-05-22
GRAPE GROWING IN THE SOUTH.

Grape vines grow well in all parts
of the South, and, with reasonable
care, they never fail to produce
abundant crops. In Farmers Bulle-
tin No. 118, "Grape Growing in the
South" by S. M. Tracy, NJ. S., for
merly Director of the Mississippi
Experiment Station, now in press
and soon to be issued by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, are given
the methods which Southern grape
growers have found most satisfac-
tory, knowledge of which, lis hoped,
may prove useful to those who wish
to grow grapes in small way for
family use, or more largely for mar
ket or for wine making.
The bulletin truthfuIIy says there
is no part of the South where grapes
of fine quality cannot be grown in
sufficient quantity for home use, and
in many parts they are an exceed
ingly profitable market crop.
A gentle slope to the south and
east is to be preferred for vineyard,
and, if practicable, should be ar
ranged with the vines running north
The progressive farmer., 1900-05-22
EARLY TO THE FIELD.

The farmer does not need to be
work-slave. His calling demands
nothing akin to servility 1t does
demand persistent and close atten-
t1on and judicious management.
Working with team from 4 o'clock
IN the morning till S at night has
perhaps made some farmers welI-tO-
do, but the tax on their health gen
orally has counteracted the gains
thus made. To work sixteen hours
day is in most cases to save at the
splggOt and lose at the bung The
farmer who enters the field before
daylight usually neglects some little
duty at the house or barn. Neglected
little things soon become important
big things. No one advises against
early rising on the farm, yet good
Judgment certainly does not sanction
the custom of some farmers in this
regard. It is important that a good
days work be done in the fields
whenever weather conditions per-
NIT, but it is not needful that nearly
two days work be done in one. It
has been observed that those who
get to work at 6 o'clock in the morn
ing and quit at that time in the even
ing accomplish as much in the end as
those who use a lantern when har-
Messing their their teams for the
days work, says Farmers Voice.
1t is not the rush-and-run kind of
labor that shows results it is the
steady. constant, uniform and intel
igent industry of man that brings
reward. The intellectual man needs
cultivation and training in order
properly to direct the physical being.
Some efforts in this direction should
be made during the evenings unless
there is absolute necessity of very
early and very late work in the field,
as frequently is the case. Family
relations, to be pleasant, shOuld be
strengthened at evening by the
farmers presence in the home before
+he bed time. At z o'clock during
during the summer days the farmer
ought to be through with his days
work, feeding, milking and other
''chores" about the house and barn,
and be ready to enjoy two hours or
more with his family. This is one
way to make rural life pleasanter,
happier and brighter.
That it sometimes is imperative to
get to work very early and keep at
it until very late no one acquainted
with farm life will dispute. At GER
tain seasons when perhaps contin-
gencies arise, demanding prompt
work, sixteen hours a day may with
advantage be devoted to the work =;
but taking all things into account we
believe a safe and wise rule has been
laid down by an old friend who has
made a noble success on a small
farm and enjoyed good health, the
confidence and warm friendship of
his neighbOrs and the companion
ship of a happy, contented family.
His motto is: Work from sun to
sun"
The progressive farmer., 1900-05-22
Agri( Iture.
FARMINL FL CHINA.

correspondence Of The Progressive Farmer.
It will no doubt interest readers of
The Progressive Farmer to know
how the farmers on the other side of
the globe manage their business.
And to give your readers a glimpse
at their methods, I send herewith an
extract from report by Consul
Martin, of Chinkiang, China, just re
ceived at the Department of State
here. Very truly yours,
The progressive farmer., 1900-05-22
Horticulture.
FRUIT SHOULD BE Trimmed

correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
The average farmer pays little or
no attention to thinning fruit. If
the tree is overloaded, so that the
limbs bend almost to the breaking
point, some will set props under the
limbs to keep them from breaking
entirely down, while others more
careless will let the limbs break off. .
They may complain of the size and
quality of the fruit when it is har-
vested, but few think it necessary or
will take the trouble to thin out in
good season, and thereby not only
save the trees, but secure fruit of a
much better quality. In nearly all
cases a tree making thrifty growth
will, if left UnmOlested, set more
fruit than under ordinary conditions
it should be allowed to mature. In
fact, one cause, though not generally
the only one, of trees failing to bear
is on account of being allowed to
Overbear one year, lowering the
vitality to such an extent that the
tree is incapable of bearing the next
year.
Thinning can be done to an advan-
tage where fruit of good size and
quality is desired. But if anything
like satisfactory results are secured
it must be done in good season,
reasonably soon after the fruit SETS
The larger the fruit is allowed to
become before thinning the greater
the drain upon the tree and the less
good will result.
It of course seems troublesome to
go to fruit trees and take off from
one-fourth to One-half the specimens,
selecting those that are too close to
gether and that are the least promis-
ing, yet when there is a full crop and
uniform choice fruit is desired, thin
ming becomes necessary. And when
it is to be done advantage should be
taken of the first favorable oppor-
tunity for doing the work Peaches,
pears and grapes especially can be
thinned to an advantage, and in
many cases apples also.
n. j. SHEPHERD.
Our trucking and fruit-growing
The progressive farmer., 1900-05-22
TURKISH TOBACCO.

Rocky Mount, n. c., is now the
seat of little experiment in plant
ING Turkish tobacco on the farm of
Mr.. H. Griffin, superintended by Mr..
Macreary Karas, of Macedonia, who
represents New York firm. If he
is successful, Rocky Mount tobacco
will be worth dollar a pound, in
stead of 6 to s cents.
The plant and leaves of Turkish
tobacco are very small and differ in
shape from our tobaccOs. The seed
are drilled for transplanting Who
knows but what this or other soils
will produce the richest kind? If
the first years crop don't succeed
the second may. There is a settled
thing now that each plant kind car
ries a fungus with it that requires a
second years growth by which the
soil is inoculated, and then the plant
grows weTl.-Southern TobaccOnist.
1t is wonderfully. convenient to
have some one whose business 1T IS
to do odd jobs on the farm, and who
NAV be depended on to do everything
everywhere at the right time, and TO
he called on in cases where extra
help is needed. Such an one IS IN
valuable.
The progressive farmer., 1900-05-22

How's your subscription?
The progressive farmer., 1900-05-22
n. J. SHEPHERD.


Our trucking and fruit-growing
friends, now that returns are COM
ing in, will please remember The
Progressive Farmer. Renewals and
new subscriptions are always accept
able, but especially so in the dull
summer months.
The progressive farmer., 1900-05-22

ICONTINUED ON PAGE 8.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
srnrsorHESrNa THEMSELVES.

The trusts are strengthening them.
selves, evidently in the hope and be-.
lief that Mckinley will be reelected.
A Pittsburg dispatch says that the
American Sheet Steel company and the
Republican Iron and Steel company
have entered an arrangement whereby
the former wlthdraws from the mel :.
chant bar trade and the latter FROM
sheet production. In this deal, the
sheet company has secured the sheet
mills OF the Republic at Toledo; Iron
ton, Hazleton and Youngstown, Ohio,
and Alexandria, Ind. and will disman-
tie them along with three sheet mills
at Sharon. Pa. The The Republic gets
the big bar mill of the Reaves plant at
Canal Dover, Ohio, and will remove
the machinery to its other mills. This
means higher prices to consumers and
eventually lower wages to working
men, adding to their burdens. The
safe thing to do Is overthrow tha
trusts by defeating Mckinley.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
THE pER1su1ss REpupL,o.


The people of the Transvaal have held
out long against the tremendous force
sent against them by Great Britain
but the situation has become so dcs-
perate that now there is a good deal
of speculation as to what country can
give asylum to President Paul Kruger
without incurring British enmity. Mo-
body seems to have suggested the
United States as the place of Kruger $
future residence. Probably he would
not look upon 1t as safe to come here
while the present administration is IN
power. President Mckinley and Sec
retary Hay would probably insist on
giving him up at the demand of Lord
Salisbury. One of the patriot generals
Of the Transvaal is now immured on
the island of st. Helena, where Napo-
leon passed his last days. 1t is prob.
ably the British purpose to send Krn-
ger there. Will the civilized world in
terfere with this inhuman design
Especially can the government Of the
United States afford to withhold its
earnest protest? 1t has no tears tn
shed, as Mr.. Bryan says, over the
death of two republics, and it must bs
confessed that there is little hope 70,
Kruger In this direction.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
WORDS OF WARNING.

What timely words of warning are
from the Lips of Abraham Lincoln the
great commoner:
mo man Is good enough to govern
another man without that others con-
sent"
Those who deny freedom to others.
deserve 1t not themselves, and, under
a just God, cannot long retain It,"
Those arguments that are made,
that the inferior races are to be treat
ed with as much allowance as they
are capable of enjoying; that as much
Is to be done for them as their condi-
tior will allow. What are these ar
guments? They are the arguments
that kings have made for the enslav'
ing of the people in all the ages Of the
world. You will find that all the ar
guments OF kingcraft were always OF
this class; they always bestode the
necks of the people, not that they
wanted to do 1t, but because the peo-
pie were better Off for being ridden
Turn 1t, whatever way
you wlll-whether it comes from the
mouth Of a king, as an excuse for en-
Shaving the people of his country, or
from the mouth of men of one race as
a reason for enslaving the men of an
other race, ii is all the same old SER
pent."
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
sINIsrER pREpAnArIoNs.

Upon the demand of Mark Hanna
and General Dick, Pension Agent
Jones. of Columbus, has delivered a
copy Of the Ohio pension rolls to the
Republican state executive committee
for political and coercion purposes.
The law and the orders of the in
terror department forbid the giving out
of these rolls and the information they
contain. But Hanna and the Republi-
can leaders care nothing for the law
when 1t interferes with their schemes.
In 1893 the Ohio pension rolls were
furnished to- the Ohio Republican ex-
ecutive committee, and all pensioners
who were not inclined to vote the Re-
publican ticket were bulldozed and
threatened with loss Of their PEN
sions.
Two sleek fellows connected with
the committee used the rolls to line
their pockets and succeeded in bunco-
ing the pensioners out OF from $4,000
to $4,000 before they were exposed
and their game blocked.
The unlawful giving out of the PEN
sion rolls Is the first step in prepara-
tions for again raiding the pensioners.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
"rHAr DINNER rA,n~

On all the Republican banners is to
be seen the inscription: Give us four
years more" of the Mckinley Hanna
dinner pail.
The size OF the dinner pail and its
capacity to catch the good things Of
the world has everything to do with
the case.
The dinner pail of the trust mag
nate whose income, ground out Of the
worklngman, reaches thousands per
day, is an enormous affair. The din
ner pail of the workingman and day
laborer is a modest thing TO behold.
Case in point: John d. Rockefeller
is the chief triist magnate. with An
drew Carnegie a close second. For the
year ending June 30, 1900, his share
Of the Standard Oil Trust dividend
was s3s,000.000. That means s121,-
784.s7h day for each of the 3i2
working days in a year. Mr.. Rookie
feller's best paid day laborer gets $1.50
q day or $46S year.
Here Is the comparative size of the
mouths of their respective dinner
pals!
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31

The Republican leaders. who set up
the claim that the laboring men OF
the country depend upon them for
their daily bread. call on them to vote
for -four years moro of a full dinner
pail"
There are dinner pals and dinner
pals and they vary in size. The trust
magnates have one size, and the work
dngman another. Let US compare a
few Of them:
In 1895. John d. Rockefeller's
Standard Oil dividends were s16,00o,-
600. In 1900. year ending July /, $685.
100000. The "flling" Of his pail In
creased s23,000.000.
Rockefellers average clerk received
$720 in 1896. and the same in 1900,
while the cost OF his food and clothes
was increased 20 per cent and over.
In 1896 andrew Oarnegie's profits
were $780,. 900. In 1900. $S2,0oo,0o..
He can staAd four years more OF thai
kind of a dinner bucket.
In 1896 the average daily wage oi
Andrew Carnegie's employees was 81
or s6S4 for full years work. In
1900. it was s1.5b, or s4S3. The work
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
M,KINLEYs slLENOE.

McKinleys letter OF acceptance con-
tains 10000 words. but not one word
Of them all indorses the constitution,
the Declaration of Independence or the
doctrine that governments derive
their just powers from the consent ol
the governed"
He is also silent as the grave as Ia
the question OF the status of the Filipi.
nos. whether they are to be treated al
citizens or as subjects of vassal col.
ony.
He can talk glibly on other less i'm
portant subjects and all around the
Philippine question, but dares not opei
his mouth on the question of imperial
ism or state which he favors-the re-
public or the empire.
His silence establishes the fact tina
he Is In favor of the latter.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
HANNA SETTLES IT

In his speech at Youngstown, Sena-
tor Hanna used the following lam
guage ,s
1 saw a moment ago among the
trees-ra full dinner pail. You may
talk about expansion, antitrust, sill
yer, government by injunction, the
constitution following the flag and all
the rest of it, but fellow citizens, |
want to tell you that this whole issue
boiled down is. in that dinner pail
M. A. Hanna is the spokesman and
the conscience keeper of the Republi-
can party, and any working man
who, after reading these words, and
fully comprehending the real senti-
ment they contain, votes the Repuhli-
can ticket deserves only to be slave.
This same Senator Hanna, when
called on by the committee of one of
his coal mines and asked for an in
crease in wages on the ground that
the wages paid were insufficient to
get more than one full meal day for
family or i've or more persons, ex-
claimed.
What do you expect anyhow ?
Three full meals day?"
Workingmap once again Hanna ad-
dresses you. Keep your minds on the
dinner pail to the exclusion of all
other matters and Mr.. Hanna and his
crowd will kindly absorb your politi-
cal rights.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
WHAT LIBERTY Is.

Daniel Webster was opposed to i'm
perialistic ideas, and in speaking on
the Importance of preserving the re-
public In its purity and vigor, in the
United States senate on the 23d of
March. lS4s. said:
Arbitrary governments may have
territories and distant possessions, be-
cause arbitrary governments may rule
them by different laws and different
systems. We can do no such thing.
They must be Of lis, part of us. or else
strangers. l think see course
adopted which is likely to turn the
constitution of the land into a deform-
cd monster. into a curse rather than
q blessing; in fact, frame of an un.
equal government not founded on
popular representation. not founded
on equality, but on the grossest in
equality; and | think that this process
will go on. or that there is danger that
1t will go on. until this Union shall
fall to pieces. resist 1t, today and
alwaysl Whoever falters or whoever
dies, continue the contest"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31

angman's dinner pail was not growing.
In 1895 Mark Hanua, from his coal
mines and mill stock and the like,
netted s735,000. In 1890, after they
bad been pl.ced in the trusts his pro-
fits were s3,2s5,5o0
In 1896 the average annual earnings
of Mark Hannas coal miners were
1884; In 1890 they we're s29s. How
about that dinner bucket?
Thus we find that the wealth OF
these three Republican trust magnates
who want four years more OF it,
swelled immensely, while the earnings
of their employees stood still or de.
creased.
Rockefeller's profits increase S23,-
100000 In four years, or at the rate of
over s5,0O0,O00. His s720 year en-
ploye got no increase at all.
Carnegie's profits, during the same
time. increased s24,5OO 900, while the
average wage of his employees fell
from 1894 to $4S3.
Hannas profits increased $2,560,000,
while the average annual earnings OF
his miners decreased from 1884 to
s29s.
OF course. the Republican trust mag
mates want four years more" of it
But what say the workingmen whose
wages are lean that the profits Of the
magnates may be fat?
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
WORK OF TRUsTS.

Before the reign of trusts began but
few colossal fortunes were amassed.
Strikes were exceedingly rare, and
soup houses for idle working men were
unnecessary and unknown.
While the fortunes of manufactur-
ers were small, they were generally
distributed, labor was not oppressed
and real prosperity was established
which accounts for the wonderful
growth of our country and the man
hood and dignity of our citizenship.
Men of industry and small means
were able to establish business for
themselves and get their share Of the
general prosperity.
The greatness and the strength Of
the republic was in the tens of thous-
ands and hundreds of thousands of it's
Independent proprietors.
But today these independent pro-
prietors are being crushed beneath the
wheels of the trust of juggernaut. The
election of Mckinley means that with
In the next four years the trusts will
control all the industries and all tho
commerce of the land, and the masses
Of the people will be the serfs of the
trust magnates.
Do you propose to vote for your own
enslavement?
Can you not prevail on your Repub-
lican neighbor to vote for your mutual
interests?
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
SILENCE Is SINISTER.

The people of this country who be-
lieve in the republic and free govern
ment, have demanded through VIM. ].
Bryan, the great tribune of the com
monalty, that the administration of
VIM. Mckinley declare it's intention
with regard to the Filipinos, and an
swer these questions:
l. Do you intend that they shall be
citizens of the, United States with all
the rights Of all other citizens? or
2. Do you intend that they shall be
a free and independent people of them
selves, under the friendship of this
great republic? or
g. Do you intend them to be subjects
and residents of a vassal colony,
with none of the rights and liberty of
American citizens?
President Mckinley is politically
and morally bound to answer these
questions categorically-"yes" OF
mo" and his refusal, and the refusal
OF the leaders of'the Republican party
to do so, is proof positive that 1t Is
their policy to reduce the Filipinos to
O condition of slavery.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
ANCIENT nUNCo GAME.

Candidate Roosevelt is going about
the country making wordy speeches
and exhibiting squad of soldiers, ex-
claiming: Behold your tyrants!" as
an answer to the argument against
imperialism.
1t is said that the Republicans laugh
and applaud at this "clincher." Some
people are easily convinced.
Centuries ago. Caesar took one of
his veteran cohorts into the forum to
answer, by their presence, the eloquent
appeals of the Roman Democracy
against imperialism and tyranny.
Behold your tyrants who carried
the Roman eagles to the ends Of the
earth,' said the original author of
Roosevelt's speech.
The multitude and Caesars retainers
laughed and hooted at the "traitorous
Democracy"
That day he was Caesar Consul. The
next day he was Caesar Imperator.
Since then poets and historians praise
most the traitors who opposed impo-
rialism.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31
WHAT IMPERIALISM MEANS

The cost of Imperialism is essen
TALLY the same everywhere, and the
biggest item is the cost Of keeping up
the army for the purpose OF keepih.s
down the people.
Up to year or so ago the standing
army of this country did not exceed
25,OO0 1t is now 65.Oc0. The indorse-
ment of imperialism and the election
of Mckinley will raise II to 100000 or
100000 within two years,
The cost of maintaining soldier In
time OF peace. :n;;aiing all expenses