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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-13

From a neighboring exchange we
clip this: lone man after another
fell by the wayside last night, and
finally five men lay doubled up in
the police cells, helplessly drunk.
Four of them were speechlessly in
toxicated and as limp as rags; and
the one man who could talk at all
needn't have told his name, for he
is an old offender who farms his chill
dren to a cotton mill and debauches
as an old blackguard." Thus we
have another candidate for the SYM
pathy of those who say we need no
law regulating child labor in the
factories.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-13

one-lfth of that in 1895. Fin,n
as to Congress, the Republicans q
increased their majorities in lave
Senate and House. These gains b bo'n
not been confined to any one saott 1--we
East, West, and even South hug ~
tributing. While further ro ~
may change some of these detail u
is certain that the country has pino =
plenary power to the RepubIiool
party for at least two years moro
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-13

Other vocations are very deslr@Oo
for many people, but the farmer =
the most independent man IN 'nJ
world. However, he must be rug"'
and economical, keep bulldlnSp
fences, bitches, etc., in repair. Dont
mind wearing patched clothes aOo~,
the farm. If you see a board Oh -
and nail it on or see that it is don?'
Sell direct to the consumer II P0
BILE. Don't sell your live poultry
the grocer for SC. or &c. per pou
but kill and dress them yourseL
get 1Oc. to 12c.-Prof. H. H.
Indiana.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-13
RECENT MEETING OF GEORGIA DAIRY
MEN NEAR EXPERIMENT, GA.

MENr NEAh EAEEh1mEN1S ia
The Georgia Dairymen's Associa-
ton is. in it's eighth year. It is a
vigorous organization. The meet
ings are the best attended we have
e in the South and very few of
the leading associations of the great
dairy States bring out more people.
Certainly none exceed in the interest
and attention given.
The attendance is for business.
Meetings are called promptly at the
appointed time and the interest
seems never to flag. At this session
ex-Gov. w. d. Hoard, of Wisconsin,
has been here imparting of his knowl-
edge and enthusiasm to the interest
of the occasion. The Governors
itinerary has covered about a week
and he has visited in this time several
cities and places of interest in
Georgia.
The Georgia Experiment Station,
at Experiment, Ga, two miles away,
was open to visitors and many persons
took advantage of this opportunity
to see the Station buildings and stock
and to learn what they could of the
working of this fine institution for
Georgia farmers.
The Association adjourned to visit
the Station in a body, but the rain
on Thursday, 1st inst, lnterferred
with this visit materially. Other at
fractions in the vicinity were cotton
and cotton oil mills and The Dixie
Creamery.
The election of officers occurred
just before final adjournment. Elk
Gov. Northen and Mr.. Walker were
nominated for President, but after
discussion, and before d vote was
taken, u nov was made to re elect
Director Redding by reclamation,
and this was done. The Association
began with Col. Redding at it's
head and he has been its only
President. The Association offered
four cash prizes in each Of two classes
for best exhibit of butter from
creameries and private diaries.
These were for $15, $40, IS, and 50. so,
respectively. The following awards
we're made by the committee:
DAIRY GLASS.
1st. Crystal Lake Dairy, Cuthbert,
Ga, 81 points.
End. Mrs. J.. @. Graham, Talbot
ton, Ga, 81 points.
Bird. L. M. Orr, Greensboro, Ca,
Sc points.
4th. Leslie Bros, White Plains,
Ga, IS points.
g.. CREAMERY CLASS.
1st. Dixie Creamery Co., Griffin,
Ga, 90 points.
End. Harmony Grove Creamery,
Harmony Grove, Ga, 91% points.
3rd. La Grange Creamery Co., La
Grange, Ga, 81 points.
A feature of this part of the meet
ing was the return of the cash pre-
miums and the passage of resolves to
make the award and a ribbon or
medal the only prize to be competed
for in future. The competition is
for the purpose of raising the quality
of the butter and the scale with the
ribbon or medal to show the degree
of excellence is sufficient recognition
of quality and confers the honor of
procedure in these contests for best
quality.
The scale of points on which the
awards were made was: Flavor, so;
grain, 20; color, 10; salt, 10; style
and finish, 10. Total, 100.
The next meeting will be located
by the Executive Council.
F. E. E.
Mention The Progressive Farmer
when UTifinn oH uoI4;Co,1
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-13
WIN. MCKINLEY OUR NEXT PRESIDENT

The best brief summary Of election
results that has come to our notice
is that of the New York Outlook of
Nov. 10th, as follows:
In 1895 President Mckinley re-
ceived 271 electoral votes and Mr..
Bryan 176. In 1900 the vote stands
292 to 1856, as follows:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-13
LIKE AN INSANE ASYLUM.

~s-EF
The Washington Post reports a
sharp saying by a newspapers wo-
man" of that city. $50
On the night. of the National cleo
ton she was out in search of news,
and started to enter a small hall, in
which, as it appears, the Congress
ional Committee of one of the great
parties had its quarters.
even from the vestibule she could
hear a deal of loud. and excited con
yersation, but as she was about en-
tering the hall door, an attendant
hustled up to her and said:
r. "You can't go in there, miss"
"Oh, pardon me, said she. II
didn't know that was the violent
ward" And with that she with
drew.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-13

The Edgeeombe County Cotton
Growers Association has been or
ganized. At the recent meeting, a
permanent organization was effected
by electing J. w. B. Battle, Presi-
dent DIR. r. h. Speight, Vice-Presi-
dent, and w. o. Howard, Secretary
and Treasurer. The Progressive
Farmer heartily welcomes any or
ganization Of the farmers, and we
wish the Edgecombe Association sue
cess.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-13

Meditation leads to conversation.
1t would be easier for US to talk of
doings" if we thought more
about theme. B. F. Hallock.
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Estimated majorities. 1850
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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
GOOD CROP TO RAISE.
The Demand for White Beans Is Great
and They Are Sure to Bring Good
Prices This Year.

Those who are in close touch with the
market are expecting white beans to
command high prices for number of
years to come. Stocks Oh hand are
very much depleted, owing to great
falling off in production during recent
years and an increased demand. For
example, the Michigan crop for 1896
was 3,O49,135 bushels, that of 1897 was
1,765,175 bushels, that of 1898 954,064
bushels and the 1899 crop was only 762,
600 bushels. In California and New
York, two states in which large areas
of beans are grown, less than one-half
of full crops were obtained last year,
while in Canada and Europe the crop is
light. With very light yields the world
over, the United States and English
governments have been buying very
heavily for the army and navy. 1t is
thus apparent that the supply must
be quite limited, and several good crops
must be secured before there is o nor
NAL surplus.
In view of these facts, it would seem
as though beans would be good crop
to plant this coming season if good
seed can be secured and one has suit
able soil.-Rural World.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
cRop.BouND BIRDS.
Unless q Hen II Valuable 1t Is Better
to Kill Her Than to Try and
Save Her.

When birds are troubled with what
is known as 'crop bound" various
methods may be applied. When it first
begins it is best to try gentle moving
of the mass from the outside. This
may break up it's compactness and
cause some of it to pass into the giz-
zard. In case the mass sours and be-
gins to ierment, it will have to be re-
moved. We have seen the advice given
to fill the crop of the bird with water
and hold it head down so that the food
would run out. The writer has never
been very successful in this mode of
treatment, but has had birds expire
under it. The cutting open method is
often recommended, but we cannot say
from experience how successful it gen.
orally is. The advice is generally
given to put small hole through the
skin and crop membrane, pulling the
skin over some, so that the cut in the
skin and the cut in the crop will not
naturally come opposite each other.
The cut in the crop should be only
large enough to permit the finger to
go in and bring out the food. After
the sack is thoroughly washed out, the
cut in the membrane may be sewed up
and like operation performed on the
cut in the skin. We do not believe this
will pay with any but very valuable
bird. Certainly it would not pay on
the bird that the farmer has to sell
for rs cents. A bird properly handled
will not become crop bound.-Farmers'
Review.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
Danger In Wire Fences,

In an article in the Journal of the
Royal Agricultural society on light
ming and it's effect on trees, Mr.. Brodie
calls the attention of English farm
ers to point of great practical i'm
portance. In Britain and America the
increasing adoption of wire fences has
given rise to considerable damage to
live stock from lightning. He quotes
on this MATTER the director of the
Iowa weather and crop service. "Un-
questionably, wire fences, as now con-
structed, serve as death-traps to live
stock, causing vast amount of loss
every year. And it is also quite evil
dent that considerable percentage
of danger may be avoided by the use of
ground wires at frequent intervals in
the construction of wire fences"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
Old Mannera.

A gentleman of the old school said
some years ago: ''When was young
two gentlemen meeting in the street
took off their hats to each other; a
few years later and the bow had
ceased; then came time when they
merely touched the brims of their hats;
and now jerk of the chin and little
grunt-.H'm, h'm'-is considered suf-
ficient salutation between two men OF
quality and fashion" The habit of re-
naming uncovered in the presence of
ladies died hard, but it is good many
years since the late Lord D. was
conspicuous as the only man who al
ways stood bareheaded in the crush of
the opera. "Mesdames," said an old
lady, some fifty years ago, in reply to
some complaints upon the changes in
mems manners, "vous etes descendues
de votre pedestal lie jour gu vous avez
permits aus messieurs de fumer devant
vous." She little thought that in the
days of the granddaughter of the
women whom she was upbraiding the
smoking-room would be common to
both sexes, and the very idea of stand
ing on a pedestal almost subject of
derision.-Cornhill Magazine.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
Quality of Seed Corn.

The yield of corn is dependent in no
small degree on the quality of the seed,
which should be selected before the
corn is cut, having regard to the size
and character of the stalk as well as to
the ripeness and type of the ear. When
the season is especially favorable for
thoroughly maturing the ears, enough
seed to last at least two years should
be gathered, completely dried out be-
fore frost and stored in warm, dry
place. A difference of two per cent. in
he yield of dry matter on two adjacent
acres was noted in favor of the crop
grown from well-ripened seed over the
yield from seed grown in wet, cold
season.-Clinton D. Smith, in Farmers
Review.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
PUMPING WATER INTO THE BARN.

PUMPING WATER INTO THE BARN.
difficult job, and the results are often
worth great deal during single
winter even. The pump can be low
cred again for summer use if desired,
setting the elevated platform away
for use again the following winter.
Few realize what an immense amount
of animal heat (and therefore feed
and milky is wasted when cows are
turned out to watering place on q
cold day in winter. The animals come
in shivering, their backs rounded up
with the cold and every hair standing
on end. It takes an hour at least be-
fore they feel comfortable again. I'm
der such conditions the best results in
dairying cannot be secured. Where
water can be run into the barn in
the way suggested, it will, on stand
ing awhile, acquire the temperature
of the barn, being then much more
suitable for cows to drink, while the
latter will also be saved the exposure
to cold winds.-N. Y. Tribune.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
THE CAD FLY GRUB.
Should be Differentiated as
Quickly as Possible.

Many of our readers are doubtless at
loss to know what the Punches"
are that they find upon the backs Of
their cattle at this time of year. and
which contains large, disgusting grub.
The grub in question is the larva of the
CAD fly of the OK (hypodermis bovis)
and is deposited under the skin in the
shape of an egg at the time in summer
when the cattle are seen to dash about
the pasture in alright. The grubs are
the cause of an immense amount of ir-
ritation to the cattle and also cause a
serious damage to the hide for the pur-
poses of the tanner. The "warbles" as
the tumors are called may be prevented
witha fair amount of success by smear
ing the backs of the cattle with some
bad-smelling substance, as crude car
bolic acid one part, fish oil eight parts.
The backs of the cattle should be-
washed occasionally, during fly time
with strong salt water, as this has been
found to prove eficacious in destroy
ing at least portion of the eggs de-
posted by the fly.
The mature grub may be squeezed
out by applying nut-key over the
tumor, then press and pop goes the
MARBLE. The grub should be destroyed
as soon as it has been removed else it
will live to fight another day in the
shape of full-grown, egg-depositing
CAD fly. Where the grubs are not sufi-
GENTLY developed to allow of their be-
ing squeezed out they may be destroyed
by applying little mercurial ONT
ment over the tumor; but where this is
done care must be taken to keep the
cattle SO treated separate, as the ONT
ment would prove poisonous if licked
off.-Farmers' Review.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
The Onion Cure for Lice.

see some one is asking a remedy
for lice on cattle. About eight years
ago some one gave this: Take an
onion, cut in two and rub this on the
animal until it is all rubbed away
and in four or five days repeat. ]
have tried quassia chips, tobacco
lamp oil, lard and carbolic acid and
several other remedies. But the on.
ion remedy is the only success. Don't
fail to give this for lice extermi.
nator for cattle whenever anyone
asks for one, and you will certainly
get thanks for it. This may seem 50
simple that people may not try it.
but you urge them for single trial;
it is wonderful.-Cor Hoard's Dairy.
man.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
A. Fate Would Have 1t,

Many years ago an Arkansas youth, on
leaving the home of his sweetheart late at
night, received severe kick as he stepped
out Of the door. His beloved had not re-
sponded definitely to- his proposal of mar.
rage, but had assured him that she would
soon let him know what she could do for
him. He, unfortunately for two tender
hearts, took the kick for an answer and de.
parted for far and wild country. Here he
brooded over his wound and his broken
heart until his beard grew down to his
knees and his nose became Roman. As fate
would have it, as fate always has it, he
turned up late one sad, sad evening when
the straw-neck hens were quarreling on the
roost and the brindle cow was. lowing
mournfully for her hungry offspring, A
young man some six feet tall met the lone
" visitor. It was one of seven sons, born,
9 9n,t Time to a ms unto M hs old h oy Se s E
who kicked him 30 years before. Oh no! It
was her angry father. He. went out to the
horse lot, cut off his beard with. the sheep.
shears and kicked himself down the hill
Galveston News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
Feeding SITTING Hens.

One of the reasons why it is hard
to make hens sit regularly in winter
is found in feeding them too often.
A hen called off from her nest three
or four times a day is likely to make
some ventures of her own to get food
or drink. Until the hen. is thorough
ly set on sitting, she should be fed
only once a day, and that early in
the morning. If it is in close room,
where she cannot get out, the hen
will go back to the nest again and
sit contentedly. She takes no exer-
else and needs only food enough to
sustain life and heat.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
LITTLE Boss,

tVerses written by Rudyard Kipling !
honor Of Lord Roberts, known as Eighth
Bobs, and published in the Pail Mall Ga
zette in 1881
There's little red-faced man,
Which is Bobs!
Rides the |tallest 'orse e can
Our Bobs!
If it bucks or kicks or rears,
e can sit for twenty years,
With smile round both is ears.
Can't yer. .Bobs?
III II limber's slipped trace.
'Ook on Bobs;
II markers lost is place,
Dress by Bobs.
For 'e's eyes all up is coat,
An bugle in is throat.
An you will not play the goat
Under Bobs.
. 'E's little down on drink,
Chaplain Bobs;
But it keeps us outer Clink-
Don't it, Bobs?
!, So we will not complain,
Tho e's water on the brain.
II e leads us straight again
Blue-light Bobs.
II you stood him on is 'ead,
Father Bobs.
You could spill quart O. lead
Outer Bobs;
Els been at it thirty years,
An ANA ssing souveneers
In the way O. slugs an spears
Amt yer, Bobs?
What e don't know o. war,
Central Bobs,
You can arst the shop next door
a4a8 Cant thew RobS -
Oh, 'es little, but 'e's wise;
Els terror for lis size,
An Observation-Disclosures
Do yer, BobS?
Now they've made bloomin' lord
Outer Bobs?
Which was but is fair reward
Weren't it, Bobs?
An he'll wear coronet
Where is elmet used to set;
But we know you won't forget
Will yer, Bobs?
Then 'ere's to Bobs Bahadur-
Little Bobs, Bobs, Bobs!
Pocket-Wellin'to ton an arder-
Fightin' Bobs, Bobs, Bobs!
This amt no bloomin ode
But you've 'elped the soldiers load,
An for benefit bestowed.
Bless yer, Bobs!
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03
oop?" said the man, looking down at

oop?" said the man, looking down at
his boots.
.'Give Patrick oop? Whatever foer?'
said Cousin Sarah. with an excess OF
innocence, and the man still stared at
his boots as he answered.:
"Why, to marry me, of coorse. A
shall want somebody ia fend an to do
for me when Soosan's goan."
Cousin Sarah put down the knife
again to stare across at him.
"Dost ia mean it, John Emanuel"'
"a d." said he.
"Then all goa and tell Patrick that
a CANT keap company vim any long
err" she said, briskly, and she opened
the. cottage door to put her plan into
execution as she spoke.
John Emanuel looked meditatively
into the fire when she was gone. The
kettle was beginning to sing. The
cheap American clock seemed to tick
more cheerfully.
"a wonder what Patrick'll saa." he
remarked to himself aloud, and then he
stared into the fire again.
Cousin Sarah came back just as the
kettle was beginning to boil, and she
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-05-03


In 1888 we expended in England 49,
100000 on wheat, 6 Sc, 1000 900 on meat,
e31,O0O,0O0 on tea and sugar, making a
total of 100000, or ga IS. per in
habitant. In 1897 we expended 1884,
100000 on food out of total of 6 4S1,-
100000, showing an increase over 1883
(ten years earlier) of 6 81, ZOO, 10000,
which sum is far in excess of the re-
quirements of the increased population
during that period. Value of food i'm
ports, common necessaries of life. such
as wheat, sugar, meat, butter, cheese,
tea, coffee, rice, eggs and potatoes,
fresh fruits, spirits, and wine was in
1860 10000, 10000; 1870, e91,0OO,O0o,
1880, e16oDooOoo; 1889, & 153, 1000, 900:
1897, e1S9,OO0,o00. In tons. total
amount of food for year from 1860 was
100000 tons, rising to 1O.910.OO0 in
1889, or GAO ponds of food per inhabit.
ant, and allowing for corresponding
rise from 1889 to 1899, we should have
something like 100000 tons of food
for which we are depending on the for.
eigners!-Westmin Review.