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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17

telligent farmer. He will find out
what his soil requires, and when he
buys his fertilizer he will see that
the elements Of plant food are pres
ent in the right proportions to bal
ance the plant food in his soil for the
crop he intends TO grow.
A few experiments with the differ
ent elements of plant food will cost
but little. Acid phosphate or ground
bone will furnish you with phos-
phorio acid. Cotton seed meal, dried
blood, tankage, and nitrate of soda,
will supply ammonia, and muriate of
potash and kainit will give you pot
ash. Try these materials separately
and together in different combina-
tions until you find what your soil
requires in a fertilizer. In using
these different materials remember
that the ''per cent. 1" is the number
of pounds of any given element of
plant food which they contain per
hundred pounds, and in applying
them figure on the pounds of actual
ammonia, phosphoric acid and potash
you use, and not on the total bulk.
To compute the analysis when
compounding a fertilizer, multiply
the number of pounds of ''carrier"
or body in which these elements are
contained, by the per centage of
plant food it contains and divide the
result by the total number of pounds
of fertilizer you are preparing after
the materials are mixed together.
The result will be the per cent. of
this element of plant food in your
fertilizer. For instance, in prepar-
ing a ton of fertilizer we should use
one thousand pounds of IA per cent.
acid phosphate, 800 pounds of 8 per
cent. cotton seed meal, and 200
pounds of muriate of potash. We
multiply the 1000 pounds of acid
phosphate by the IA per cent. of
plant food it contains, the result is
$4,000. We divide this by 1900 and
the result is z, or per cent. of phos-
phoric acid in our ton of fertilizer.
In the same manner we find that the
meal gives Us a fraction over per
cent. of ammonia, and the muriate
of potash gives us per cent. of pot
ash.
By little study of the above
method one can easily learn TO figure
the analysis of any fertilizer you
may wish to compound. When mix
ing be sure to see that it is done
thoroughly. The mass should be
shoveled over from one pile to an
other three or four times until the
whole is of an even color.
T. J. MERRIAM.
Fulton Co., Ga.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17
TO KEEP wEEVILs OUT OF CORN AND
PEAS
HARRY FARMER
Columbus Co, N. @.

An Important Problem, and Mr.. Barbrey Has
Simple Plan That Has so Far Proved Very
Successful.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Two years ago adopted plan for
keeping weev'ls and other bugs from
my corn and field peas that is so sue
oesFful, and hence so satisfactory,
that want all farmers to know it.
And as all farmers are presumed to
be readers of The Progressive Far
mer, take it as the proper medium
through which to give it.
It is this: A few days before you
are ready to put your corn in barn,
clean ont the barn thoroughly, and
put a few shovelfuls of dirt in the
center of the floor about two feet
wide AMI deep enough to prevent the
floor from burning; then make a
place in the center to hold a shovel
full of live GOALS from green, hard
wood place in the GOALS, throw on a
handful of pulverized sulphur, walk
ont and close the door. If the stables
are attached TO the barn, take stock
out, and when the burning is over,
haul up your corn and throw into
the barn about a foot deep and
sprinkle bi-carbonate of soda-com-
mon cooking soda-over the corn and
on sides of the wall put in another
layer and repeat the sprinkliDg and
continue until the barn is full.
Soda can be bought at 5 cents per
pound. and 4 pounds will do for about
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17
KEEPING BOYS OUT OF SCHOOL.

One of the greatest mistakes that
many farmers make is in keeping the
boys out of school in the fall to help
do up the fall work. My friend, if
your boy does not start when school
begins, the chances are that he will
start behind his classmates and re-
main behind the entire term. And
under this condition it cannot be ex
peoted that he will learn nearly as
we'll as if he had started at the be-
ginning of the term. What have
said may, and often does, apply to
the girls as we'll as the boys. Hav-
ing had experience In this matter l
know what it is TO be kept out of
school two or three months before
starting. Brother farmer, if you
are making a mistake in this direc-
ton this fall, trust you will con-
slider the matter we'll another fall
and make a special effort to get the
boys and girls star ted at the begin
ming of the term. Do give them as
good an education as possible so that
they may more fully and ably per
form the duties of after life. In
most of the States men can be hired
in the fall for SO to $50 per month
and it will pay to hire, if need be, in
order to get your boy and girl started
on the road to fortune in time
Glade Yeager, Sprankle Mills, Pa.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17
Raleigh, N. c., september II, 1901.

80 barrels of corn. put my large
corn up with shuck. Prior to the
use OF the soda it was difficult to get
seed corn as early as last days of
March, and after June it was hardly
fit for bread.
1now have in my barn old corn
enough to feed stock and for bread
until 18th of October, and the corn is
as nice and as free from bugs of all
kinds as it was in Juno. This has
been the case every time I used the
soda.
I clean out my peas and air them
a few days and leave chaff in them,
till I'm ready to plant. When they
are dry enough put in boxes in my
barn, and sprinkle among them soda,
and some times sulphur, first fumi-
eating the boxes as I do my barn.
The 18th of August took from an
eight bushel box the last half bushel
and not bug could be found. I put
a few early peas in bag and neg
lected to put in soda and sulphur and
they we're so badly eaten as to be
unfit for planting.
The soda will sift off in shucking
the corn and you will hardly discover
that it has been used.
VIM. A. BARBREY.
Sampson Co., N. G..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17
HARRY FARMERS TALKS.


Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Many farmers sell their cotton in
the seed. This some times is best.
We have known big money made
this way. We made contract with
a cotton buyer once when the mar
ket was uncertain TO deliver 10000
pounds of seed cotton at 21A cents
per pound. We agreed to divide the
loss if is exceeded cent per pound
for seed cotton, provided he (the
merchant) would share the profits
with us. Result we got 1896 for
the 10000 pounds seed cotton. Cot
ton went down as usual and we gained
by the transaction. The buyer held
the cotton and made his money back.
We always keep part of our seed. If
the price is high, we sell all we can
spare if very low, we buy some for
fertilizer. It is best to sell as early
as you can. The holding of cotton
by farmers nearly always results in
loss.
We want our cotton picked as fast
as it opens, at least once in ten days
if the weather is good. Not every
farmer can do this. Cotton is much
better if picked soon after opening.
We let the piokers go in early in the
morning, if they wish, and pick while
the dew is on the cotton, but always
with the understanding that few
pounds must be deducted. Cotton
can be gathered faster while it is
damp, and if it is thrown in a pile to
sweat, the lint will improve. It is
supposed that the lint absorbs some
oil from the seed. Gathering cotton
seems to be one kind Of work for
which machinery has failed
In the southern and eastern part
of the State bunch beans, cabbage
and peas and many other garden
crops can be planted to furnish the
table through the fall and winter
with nice vegetables. This kind of
work is too often neglected by our
farmers. A good garden will pay a
larger profit for the labor and fertii-
zer used than any other part of the
farm. Mary Jane showed us some
tomatoes she planted some time ago
from cuttings. If the weather is not
too dry we will have tomatoes until
nearly Christmas. Our crop last
year was a failure, but year before
last we had all we wanted. Toma-,
toes will grow as we'll from cuttings
as sweet potatoes. Where there are
nice hot houses or pits to keep flow
ers in, is will be easy to have all the
tomatoes you want until spring by
using cuttings and starting the plants
before very cold weather comes.
Tomatoes that are grown can be
kept for months by wrapping them
just as lemons are found in the stores
in summer. Tt will be best to expose
the tomatoes d few days to heat and
light to make them ripen.
HARRY FARMER
Columbus Co, N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17
WHY NOT STOP THIS LEAKq

We recently had a leak in our
waterworks. We we're very anxious
to have it repaired, because it would
likely increase our monthly water
bill.
Travelling as we have recently,
over two thousand miles, among the
farmers of the South, we have been
greatly impressed with the leaks in
farm methods, and cannot help won
dering why our farmers do not stop
them, They certainly greatly in
crease the bill of expenses, or what
is much the same, decrease the in
come.
THE HAY LEAK.
This seems to be the most general
leak upon the farm. Scarcely a
farmer seems to fully appreciate the
value of the hay crops growing upon
his farm. Grasses, of many kinds
are permitted to grow to waste, die
and be burned up, as if it had no
market value.
Many of these very farmers are
buying Western hay to feed on.
Many of their neighbors are buying
Western hay to feed their sawmill
steers or mules or their livery stable
horses upon.
We saw one man, who was buying
hay at twenty-five dollars per ton,
and yet pulling fodder and losing all
the hay he might have made from
his corn stalks. We found one man
who had over six hundred tons of
corn stalks, enough to make over
six hundred tons of first class hay !;
but this man could not make up his
mind to buy shredder to make
them into hay, although he had an
engine ready to pull it.
Why not stop this 81, 200 leak?
Farmers are paying high prices
for bagging and ties, when they do
not need either.
Why not stop this leak?
Farmers are buying thousands of
tons of commercial fertilizers, when
good, deep plowing and rapid har-
rowing would do their lands perma-
nent good and make larger crops
than the fertilizers do.
Why not stop this leak?
Fo-~,oo~a ono o-&+in~ ~Oobu orS
stumps at great expense and loss.
They could easily remove both of
these.
Very many of them are still suffer
ing their lands to wash away. Deep
blowing and subsoiling would stop
this leak.
Many farmers are still growing
scrub COWS, when the same grass
would grow Shorthorns and Here
fords that would bring in four times
the money. Why not get Here
ford or Shorthorn bull and stop this
leak?
Many farmers have what they call
pastures, but bushes, briars, worth
less weeds and rocks occupy nearly
all the fields.
Real good grass can hardly get
hold. Why not clear out everything
except the grass and have a pasture?
Stop these leaks.-Sou6hern Guilt
vator.
When plan ting carrots do notmake
the soil very rich, as 1t is the cause
of the roots splitting ~. d. Cook.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17

Celery blight or rust may be kept
under complete control by spraying
either with ammoniacal carbonate
of copper or with Bordeaux mixture.
The spraying should be begun while
the plants are still in the seed bed,
and should be continued at intervals
of from one to two weeks after the
plants are >transplanted until the
cool weather drevents the further
development of the fungus.-Prof O..
o. Townsend, Nd, State Pathologist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17

When plan ting carrots do notmake
the soil very rich, as 1t is the cause
of the roots splitting ~. ID. Cook.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17

An Important Problem, and Mr.. Barbrey Has
Simple Plan That Has so Far Proved Very
Successful.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19

The Union Construction and Dry
Dock company. OF Norfolk, Va, has
been granted charter.
The condition of Mrs. Ada G. Den
mis-, of Washington. D. c., who was as
saulted last Tuesday. is trifie worse.
The executive committee OF the
Pennsylvania Democratic state COM
mittee will meet in Harrisburg next
Wednesday.
Monday, December is.
The worst earthquake shock since
1868 was felt at Manila, P. l., yes
terday.
Many delegates to the Federation
of Labor convention are storm-bound
at Scranton.
Right Rev. Thomas Matthias Leni-
han, d. d., Catholic bishop of Chey-
enne, Wyo., is dead.
The report that diplomatic relations
between Germany and Venezuela have
been broken off is denied.
Senator w. A. Clark, of Montana,
has purchased Gottfried Preyers col.
lection of pictures for $3C0,o0n
The New York University has con-
ferred the honorary degree of master
of letters on Miss Helen Gould.
Yesterday was the coolest day Chi.
cago Experienced for 80 years. the
thermometer registering 80 degrees
below zero.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19
No Clue to Dennis Assassin.

Washington, Dec. 16.-There was q
slight change for the worse last night
in the condition of Mrs. Ada Gilbert
Dennis the fashionable dressmaker,
who was so murderously ASSAULTED
last Monday night while in her bed
at her residence on X street. There
has been no improvement in her men.
tai condition, and the detectives have
not been able to obtain from her any.
thing that would lead to the discovery
of the identity of the assassin. Eff.
forts to obtain information regarding
the assailant from other sources have
been equally unsuccessful.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, December 10.

The Northwest breaker of the Tenn
pie Iron company, at VandlinG, Pa,
was destroyed by fire.
A special session of the Knights of
Golden Eagle Of Pennsylvania was
held in Reading last night.
The Wabash Screen Door company's
plant, at Rhinelander. Wis.,, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
Several fatalities and much damage
was done by severe gales and snow
storms ii, u )ut Great Britain.
Durins q ooting affray between
Italian in brooklyn. 9-year-old
school " vas nortally wounded.
Wednesday, December II.
Ex-Judge Robert W. Hughes, aged
81 years, died in Washington county.
Va.
shot and killed each other in duel
at Zolo, Fla
The chui ahes of Indiana will OBJ
serve the t ID 'unday of January as
mckinley day.
Alonzo P Dc glass, Philadelphia
lawyer, committed suicide by firing a
bullet through his brain.
The safe OF the Citizens State Bank
of Peckham, Okla, was blown open
by thieves and $4,000 stolen.
Rev. John Kinnunen, minister of the
Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church
at Copper Falls, Mich, killed his wife
and two children and then committed
suicide.
Thursday, December IL.
General Funston will sail from Ma
nila for the United States on Decem-
Der 16.
Railroad yards at Ell Paso, Tex.
are blocked with cars of eastbound
oranges.
DR.. l.. M. Sweetman, well-known
surveyor died in John Hopkins Hos
pital at Baltimore.
Harold H. Weeks was elected cap
tain of the Columbia University foot
ball team for 1902.
William K Potter was appointed
receiver for the Omaha Loan and
Trust company yesterday.
The submarine boat Fulton, which
sank at New Suffolk, l.. l., on Mon
day, was raised yesterday.
Frank Bundy, who shot and killed
his wife last August, was convicted OF
manslaughter at Johustown, Pa.
Friday, December 13.
The carpet house OF Lowery & Goe-
bel. in Cincinnati, was burned. Loss,
100000.
Roger O'Mara, ex-superintendent OF
detectives OF Pittsburg. declined re-
instatement.
The American Window Glass Trust
will close it's factory at Muncie, Ind,
because of scarcity of workmen.
The reports of the serious illness
of Count Won Waldersee, who COM
manded the allied troops in China, is
denied
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19

A man doesn't have to get his head
very far above the sea of mediocrity to
command wide attention. Nine cases in
ten, when man says that advertising
doesn't pay, he has arrived at this conclu-
sion because he has expected the news
paper to do it all.
If he were to neglect his show window
and his store front as he neglects his adj
vertising space he would have still other
complaints to make about business in gen
eral If the windows were never washed
and the display of goods never changed, he
would not expect many people to stop and
lose themselves in an ecstasy of admiration;
and yet he does seem to expect Just this
sort of thing for an old, moss covered adj
vertisement.
There is nothing magical about adver-
tising. 1t is one of the tools of trade,
Just as chisel is tool of carpentry. The
man who handles the chisel properly can
do many useful things with it. If he is
careless and awkward he is likely to cut
himself.
It's the same way with advertising
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19
sIeNALLED ACROSS OCEAN
Marconi Claims He Sent Wireless:
Message to England.

Message TO EnStahu'
st. Johns, N. F., Dec. 16.-Signor
Marconi announced on Saturday night
that he had received electric signals
acrosss the Atlantic ocean at his sta
ton here from Poldhu, near
Cornwall, England. Signor Marconi
said that before leaving England he
made plans to accomplish this result,
although his primary object was to
communicate with ocean liners. Sig
nor Marconi elevated kite with an
aerial wire, by means of which signals
were received. These signals consist
ed of repeating at intervals the letter
s." which in Marconi's code is made
by three dots or quick strokes. This
was repeated frequently to avoid the
possibility of mistake.
London Dec. 16.-Major Flood-Page
Page, of the Marconi Wireless Tele.
graph company, in an interview con.
firmed the report that Mr.. Marconi
at ST. Johns, N. F., had received sig.
nails from the experimental station at
Poldhu, Penzance. Major Flood-Page
said that the severe weather made
continuous tests very difficult, but
that there was no doubt that the wire
less signals had been successfully
transmitted across the Atlantic.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19
Eiaht Killed In Montana Wreck.

Helena, Mon, Dec. 16.-A wreck oc'
Cured on the Great Northern railway
near Essex, in the Rocky mountains,
yesterday morning The engine, mail
car and smoker remained on the
track, but all the other cars were de-
rallied. Some of the cars were over
turned and all were more or less
wrecked. The accident was due to
the rails spreading. Eight persons
were KILLED. but their names have not
been learned. Sixteen persons were
more or less seriously injured. The
train was going at rate OF 25 miles
an hour, when it broke in two, and
the air brakes were set Immediately,
preventing a more serious accident.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19
Jersey Veterans Elect officers.

Atlantic City, N. j.. Dec. 14.-The
annual meeting or the Second Bat.
talicn. Twenty-fifth New Jersey Civil
War Volunteers, held here, yesterday
elected the following officers: Presi.
dent, Major j. Kelly Brown, of Cam
den; recording secretary. James NJ.
Trenchard, of Bridgeton; finance Sec
retary, William +. Smith. Of Cold
Spring; treasurer Simon l.. Westcott,
of Atlantic City. Cape May was Sc.
Iected as the next place of meeting.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19
Minority Report.

In the opinion Of the undersigned,
the passage from Key West to Cien-
fuegos was made by the flying squad
ron with all possible dispatch, Commo-
dore Schley having in view the i'm
portance Of arriving off Cienfuegos
with as much coal as possible in the
ships bunkers.
The blockade of Cienfuegos was eff
fective.
Commander Schley in permitting the
steamer Adula to enter the port of
Cienfuegos expected to obtain informa-
ton concerning the Spanish squadron
from her when she came out.
The passage from Cienfuegos to a
point about 90 miles south of Santiago
was made with as much dispatch as
was possible while keeping the squad
ron a unit.
The blockade of Santiago was effec-
tive.
Commodore Schley was the senior
officer of our squadron off Santiago
when the Spanish squadron attempted
to escape on the morning of July 8,
1000. IlO Wdo III dDSOIutc
and is entitled to the credit due to such
commanding officer for the glorious
victory which resulted in the total de-
Btruction of the Spanish ships.
GEORGE DEWEY,
SAMUEL c. LEMLY,
Recommendation view of the
length of time which has elapsed since
of Of = hn
Santiago campaign, the court recon-
mends no further proceedings be had
in the premises.
GEORGE DEWEY.
SAMUEL G. LEMLY.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19

EIGHT KILLED IN CoILlSioN.
Illinois Central Trains Running a
Full Speed Wrecked.

Full SpecS- WTcCkcos
Rockford, ILL.,, Dec. 16.-Failure on
the part of conductor to obey orders
is supposed to have been the cause of
a head-end collision on the Illinois
Central railroad between Irene and
Perryville yesterday morning. The
two trains were the eastbound passen-
ger train and through freight from
Chicago going west. As result, elg t
people are dead or missing and eleven
injured.
The trains met in slight bend in
the track, both running at full speed.
An oil tank car in the freight train
exploded, throwing burning oilover the
wreck. and in an instant the wreckage
was in flames. The smoking, express
and baggage cars were piled on the
locomotives, penning In the occupants
of the smoker. Only three OF the half
dozen passengers In that car escaped.
The others were penned in. and II
not instantly killed were roasted to
death. All efforts of the survivors to
reach the victims were unavailing.
The temperature was 20 degrees be-
low zero. and an Icy wind was blow
ing the point where the wreck oc-
Cured being in a shallow cut, afford
ing no protection. The injured were
without hats and wraps and suffered
terribly. By the united efforts OF the
survivors, one car was pushed back
from the wreckage to escape the
flames and the wounded were placed
on the hunks inside. Two hours
elapsed before any relief was at hand
Then an engine arrived from the east
and pulled the car to Irene. three miles
distant.
A relief train was started from
Rockford with medical aid. 1t arrived
at the scene of the wreck 20 minutes
later. In the meantime the injured
had been brought back from Irene and
were transferred to the relief train
and brought to Rockford. Six bodies
were recovered from the debris. but
were charred beyond recognition.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19
csrneuie Speaks Of Gift.

New York, &c. 16.-Andrew Carne-
gle, on being asked about the 100000
900 gift which he has offered to the
government for national university.
said "That Washington matter will
come out all right. If l had to sell
those bonds myself l would have no
trouble in getting the money for them.
There will be no trouble about that
Washington matter, mark my words 80
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19
Bio Barn Burned.

Lancaster Pa, Dec. IA big barn,
tobacco shed and carriage house OF
the farm OF John II. Miller, in Manor
township. were destroyed by fire yes
terday, together with 1000 bushels Of
wheat 1900 bushels Of corn, six acres
of tobacco, two mules, eight hogs and
farming implements. The FIRE was
incendiary. Loss, 5000.