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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
The Poultry Yard.
MILK FOR CHICKENS.

correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Milk is not only almost a perfect
food for people, but it also supplies in
chickens nearly all the ingredients
hat require for good growing. The
fact that this food is more generally
neglected than any other in feeding
the chickens makes it quite neces-
sary to call attention to it at this
time of the year. There are places
where milk can be obtained at so
little cost that it will pay to raise
chickens in the vicinity for this
simple reason. Very often the sue
cess or failure of poultry raising is
decided by the cost of the food. If
one does not have the facilities for
raising it, and it cannot be purchased
cheap, there is little chance of MAX
ing much in raising chickens, espe-
cially if a favorable location near a
good market does not offset these
difficulties.
In most dairYing districts con-
tracts can be made to secure a sup
ply of milk at prices that will make
it the cheapest food for the chickens.
The feeding of this milk varies some
what according to the experiences of
the chicken owners. Some continue
to think that the best form in which
to feed it is to cook it up with the
food, mixing it with rolled oats or
pin head oat meal or other grain. In
preparing most of their grains and
cereals for the poultry they soften
and mix it with milk. They mix the
bread crumbs and scraps from the
kitchen with the milk, and in this
way the chickens daily take a good
deal of milk into their systems.
Others prefer to feed the milk
separately and even then mixing or
diluting it with one-half water. The
latter is brought to the boiling point
and then mixed with the milk. This
partly cooks it and makes it very
palatable for the chickens. But
some times the chickens tire of this
food, and it becomes necessary to
mix grain or other cereals with it,.
Certainly bread crumbs seasoned a
little with salt and even d little
pepper mixed in with the milk will
help to attract and stimulate the APP
petites of the chickens. Milk should
always be ted to the chickens before
they have their nightly supply Of
grain. Otherwise they will gorge
themselves with the latter, and then
refuse to touch the milk. Likewise
in the morning before they begin
their days forage in the fields and
on the ranges they can be given some
milk. This Will mOisten their tongues
and stOmachs so that they viii have
more heart to forage around for
worms, bugs, beetles and loose seeds
and grains.
ANNIE G. WEBSTER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
NORTH CAROLINA FARMING.

Tarboro SOutherer: Over the E.
G. Road have been shipped this sea-
son fifty or sixty crates of buckle
berries. This is simply a beginning.
Next year the shipments will proba-
bly, be very large. In the neighbor-
hoods of Turnage and Teddy these
berries are said to be very abundant
and remarkably large. If expecta,
tions are realized the profits on the
huckleberry crop of these sections
will exceed those on cotton and pea
nuts and tobacco.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
A HINT TO

Mr.. Boyd Russell, who has Il farm
on Roanoke river, was in town this
week with two large loads of baled
hay for sale. 1t is the first time we
ever saw Warren county hay put up
in bales and offered for sale in that
shape here. We are glad to see this
and most heartily commend Mr.. Rus
sells example to our people. 1t is
wrong for us to buy hay from abroad
when we can raise it here in great
abundance and furnish other mar
kets with it.-WarrentOn Record.
The Commonwealth believes much
in the great possibilities of Eastern
Carolina, and every such item as the
foregoing ought to be of special in,
terest to that class of citizens who
are really to be the grea~est factor
in the development OF this great Sec
ton of North Carolina.
To be sure, we all count much on
the development that is to come to
many parts of our State through
manufacturing industries of various
kinds bus after all, the farmers hold
the key to the unlocking of the great
store house of our future wealth.
Whenever we a see all our farm
ers Independent, we may expect a
general prosperity, and not before.
But some will say that such items
as Il bit of hay now and then have
little to do with it. Well, if hay
were all that there is to be consid-
cred, it might not mean so much.
But many a farmer in Eastern Caro-
lima would be much more independ-
ent than he is if he had now all the
money he has paid out for hay
simply.
What we wish to direct the atten-
ton of our farmers TO is the fact that
not only could they raise large guam
titles of hay from which it would
seem possible for them to realize
much profit, but they a raise al
most anything they wish.
We believe that there are great
things in the future for agriculture
in Eastern North Carolina. We
have few great rivers with great
fails which furnish natural power
for manufactures but our lands are
fertile and easily cultivated.
Let the farmers wake up to the
possibilities which stretch out be-
fore them in the great and honored
vocation which they are following.
Scotland Neck Common wealth.
True dignity is never gained by
place and never lost when honOrs are
Observation-Disclosures.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
E IN SUMMER.
Proper Attention Pays Now no Less Than at
Other Seasons.
lon, Mcdowell Co., N. G.

Proper Attention Pays Now no Less Than at
Other Seasons.
correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Some farmers expect almost too
much of sheep. They turn them out
in the summer on a pasture of null
lens and thistles, and expect them in
the fall to yield good mutton and
wool. Sheep will do their share in
increasing the profits of the farmer,
but they demand in return some lit
tie intelligent care and attention.
The mutton breeds require better
attention, probably, than the wool
in summer, for their diet must
largely determine the actual weight
and quality of the mutton. If they
do not get good pasture they cannot
produce good mutton, nOr can they
lay on sufficient fat and bone to in
crease their weight to a respectable
standard. A little more attention TO
the sheep just now may return more
than so much are and worry for the
corn and wheat crop. Have the sheep
good pasture and good drinking
water and comfortable shelters from
the heavy storms that may come up
and from the heat?
In this series of questions are en-
bodied about all that a farmer need
answer If he can give an affirmative
reply he need not worry about the
sheep. They will take care of the
profits. The pasture field for sheep
should be cultivated and handled
with about as much care as the grass
field intended for dairy COWS. On a
sheep farm or wherever many sheep
are kept, let good grass be the first
consideration, and then, in their or
der, let corn, wheat, rye and oats
follow. But we need first to get good
grass farm, where pasture can always
be depended upon for the sheep or
dairy cows. Grass has done more to
farmers and cattle and sheep owners
than any other crop. Some have an
idea that when the first grass has
been destroyed on a range or field
that it will no longer pay to raise
farm animals. 1t requires a few
years of farming to find out that the
most successful cattle ~raisers are
those who systematically cultivate
and raise grass. They are not squat
tiers nor robbers of the soil, willing
to pasture their cattle until the grass
roots are killed, and then move on to
new pastures. On the contrary, they
are good agriculturists, who realize
that grass pasture is at the founda-
ton of their whole business, and
recognizing that they put all their
best energies into raising abundant
grass crops. Then they know that
cattle and sheep raising is compare
lively easy. Let the pasture be good
for sheep in summer, and there will
be few ailments and sickness, and
when fall comes the wool and mutton
will be all right.
Hon. Chas. Fl. Mebane is not only
a good State Superintendent of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
A POUND OF PORK.

1. 1t requires 1880 pounds of skim
milk to produce mi pound of pork
when fed with corn meal, ration
1 :14.7 to fattening hogs.
2. Skim milk could not be ecOnOm-
ically fed to ~fattening hogs unless it
was a product which could not be
otherwise utilized.
3. 1t required on an average ~
pounds of shelled corn to produce
one pound of pork during an average
period of four weeks, o It n bushel
produced 1917 pounds.
4. 1t required ~ pounds of corn
meal to produce one pound of pork,
or one bushel of corn made into meal
and fed will produce 1871 pounds of
pork.
5. When dry, shelled corn is more
economical than corn meal to feed
fattening hogs.
6. 1t required II pounds or n
bushel of ground oats to produce
pound of pork when fed with equal
parts by weight of corn meal.
Z. One bushel of corn meal is
worth nearly three bushels of oats
as food for ~fattening hogs.
s. Corn-fed pigs gained ~ pounds
per week and ate about p pounds of
corn per 100 pounds of live weight.
9. Pork was produced during the
cold weather, with corn at % cents
per bushel, for less than 3 cents per
pound.
10. Indian corn is the most eco
nomical producing material during
the winter months in regions where
extensively grown.-B. L. Myers, in
Market Basket,
Every farmer should plan to i'm
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16

Winston Republican Mr.. VIM.
Doty, of Clemmonsville township,
this county, has a cow 2 years old
that gives from u to 9 gallons of
milk per day and from 8 to 9 pounds
of butter per week. This is certainly
a valuable animal and as the saying
goes, sis worth her weight in gold"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
Grasses and E9'sg':59 Plants d The 'aa
Ry J. 8. MLLEBREW,
Of The University OF Tennessee.

1t Is a complete manual of the CuI-
ture Of grasses and forage plants o.
the South. It contains about lA
pages, and is written in a style to b
understood by everyone,
The book discusses the character
istics of the principal praises, tn
maintenance of pastures and mead.
Ows, leguminOus forage plants, WIG
pastures, etc. It is fully ILLUSTRATED
with original analytical engraving
by Scribner, our greatest grass OK,
pert, and embe1lished with a LargS3
number Of half tone cuts Of noIo
operations.
KiUobrew's former 1cork On groSss,
IS "ow entirely cut u print a"0I
brings So q copy. THIS ner book con-
t0i7& 0I5 the injoyn0Lioa In the toI
n7or C0rE, re-writte1t, md e~a11oasi
the results Of tace;2ty gears o@'[IoaS
experience Of the Wrjter and G" "a
information ashamed by til" erPsl
meI1t stations and the Un1,ed Nfa'|
Department Of Agriculture.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16

W. F. Massey, who for years has
been Horticulturist at the Expert
ment Station here, and also Pro
lessor of Botany and Biology at the
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
resigns as Professor to take effect
September 1, but will continue to be
Horticulturist of the Station. He
also becomes on that date the re-
sponsible or sole editor of Practical
Farmer, published at Philadelphia,
of which for a number of years he
has been Associate Editor and special
contributor. He will no longer
teach in the college.-Col. Odds.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16

Nashville Graphic: Reports from
the country show that the peanut
crop, which has been materially in
creased in this county this year, is
not so good as was expected, and in
many sections the stand is very bad.
"A bunch of turf oats, grown by
Mr.. w. T. Rose, has been sent to
this office. The specimen is indeed
fine. 1t shows that from one seed
one hundred and fifteen heads were
grown, all of which cluster from one
root. The average number of heads
grown on this peculiar variety is
about eighty-fve to ninety.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
g. T. PLUME.

Hon. ChGs. Fl. Mebane is not only
a good State Superintendent of
schools and college president, but is
also a model farmer. He has just
threshed 321 bushels of wheat, not
raised by troopers, but most Of the
work was done with his own hands.
Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
Grow Grasses and Raise Cattle

Examine agricultural statistics and see tn!
high ran North Carolina takes in yield PEI
acre Of grasses and forage crops. Con
pare her advantages for stock-raising witt
those of other States Profit by these facts
Grow grasses: raise stock. And whether yT
few animals or many, you cannot afO,'
to read
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16

Every farmer should plan to i'm
prove his stock the coming season
by using only pure blooded sires the
best is none too gOod.-M. NJ. Smell,
Venango Co., Pa.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16

True dignity is never gained by
place and never lost when honors are
Observation-Disclosures.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16

Principles of Agriculture. By Prof.
L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University.
Handsomely illustrated. 800 pages.
Price, Sips.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16

ANNIE Q. WEBSTER.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
CHE Boy II ~ Ljom>
EQUAL TO EVERY EMERGENCY.

EQUAL TO EVERY EMERGENCY.
'S'posing," said little Clyde, that
great big, big lion should get after me
when was out in the woods, n I clum'
up tree, and-threw club down and
run away pretty fast then wouldn't he?"
answered. you wouldn't be able to
throw the club hard enough to hurt the
lion very much"
''Well, you know, I might break off a
great, great-awful big limb and let 1t
fall right down on the lions back.
guess that would make him get out of
there pretty fast, wouldn't it?'
ut might, but how could you break OF
break off branch even as thick as one
of my fingers"
''Well, but I might stay up there till I
would grow big and strong, you see. And
then 1 bet you could do it!''
mo, you wouldn't be able to do 1t, even
then. I couldn't break off a limb that
would be heavy enough to hurt lion if
it fell on him.
Couldn't I. even II got to be as big
as a giant?"
at don't know-hardly"
We'll. giants can master lions, can't
they?''
mot when the lions have a fair show,
or happen to be angry
Clyde thought tho matter over for n
moment and then resumed:
would the lion be sitting under the
tree with his mouth wide open ell this
time. waiting for me to fall into it?"
VERY likely
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
How the Son
Kept the Father
Busy Answer
ing Questions.

And could he swallow me with lust
one gulp?"
He might make two or three mouth
rus OF you, unless he happened to be an
extra large lion
Yes. but I'd walt up there for a whole
year, till he got so hungry he'd have
edS away somewhere else or get starry
And don't you suppose that you would
get pretty hungry and perhaps Erarve
whole year?'
Well, but you sec they might be Il
lot OF blackberry bushes grow ur around
the tree. m I could eat the blacknerrIcs.
on! You might get sleepy, too 'rnac
would be dangerous. If you eyer crossed
your eyes and got to noddine- down you
would goi'
It looked for q moment as If this might
end the argument, but Clyde was not 10
be caught mapping by any ordinary Old
! lion IN chat way, and, after hrief con-.
sideration OF the matter. said:
Yes. but you see before I elurl'd up
that tree some other little boy might OF
been out there flying his kite and rne
string might of got fast on the limbs
and broke, so 1 could take Il and tie
myself to the tree, and then wouIGn't
fall when / went to sleepi''
His papa had to admit then that CLYDE
would be too much for the lion: the light
was put out, and ir about s1xty-three
| seconds q little boy was CAST asleep,
while g. little boys papa was being scoid-
| ed by a little boys mamma for permit
| ting "a child to so to bed with his head
full Of such horrible trash.~
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
"0en. Washington Is Known
to Us, and President Washing
ton, But George Washington
Is an Unknown Man.
John Bach McMaster.

ington, and built many houses. He also
built houses in Alexandria.
AS a farmer Washington early drifted
from the exclusive cultivation of tobacco
to other crops, and later introduced a
system of rotation by which the soil did
not become exhausted. In time Mount
Vernon became the manufacturing center
for the population of 500 people who lived
on the plantation. Everything that could
be made on thesplantation was produced
and the necessity of buying from the OUT
side was reduced to the lowest limit. He
had looms, blacksmith shops, wagon
shops, -four nlills-in short, every va
riety Of industry where slave labor could
be utilized to- advantage. He became de-
voted to improving the breed OF sheep
and Of Stock generally He was interest,
ed in a couple Of banks which paid good
dividends and put money into several
canal companies All in all, he was a
business man, on a large scale and while
he suffered heavy losses from the de-
probation of currency during the revolu-
tionary struggle, they were more than
recouped by his successful ventures in
land speculation Had Washington been
bern 100 years later he would have been
undoubtedly one of the captains Of in,
dustry'' of the present era
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
Gbe NmknoQpo1
Washington.
AS A BUSINESS MAN


AS man Of business washington was
extremely methodical. Everything Was
Inquired down to the penny, and there was
no guess work about the returns from
any Of his properties. He was eminentlv
successful, and his property outside OF
Mount Vernon, and not including his
Wlfes estate, amounted to $3.50, COO He
was probably the largest owner of land
in America, his holdings exceeding 50, COO
acres. The Mount Vernon estate came
into the possession Of the Washington
family in 1914. 1t originally consisted of
5000 acres, but when it was inherited Dy
Washington from his brother Lawrence
the property was just half that size
Washington was in the market for all the
available land adjoining, and at tile time
Of his death he owned 5000 acres in the
immediate vicinity of his residence He
made wise selections of lands which We're
rendered to officers Of the French and
Indian war, and by buying out the pat
ents of other officers he secured owner
ship OF more than 10000 acres of land in
the western part of the colony. He made
large sales from this domain, but what
was left was valued at over $500, 600 In
the inventory of his property.
Just after the Revolutionary war Wash
ington and Governor Clinton of New
York obtained 5000 acres in the Mohawk
valley. Two-thirds Of it was sold at big
profit and the remainder he held at mis-
death.
In the location of the new capital on the
Potomac, Washington invested heavily in
the vicinity of the present City of WASH
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
Miss Yomge.
~~~~~~-~~-~ ~~~~0~-o~-~4
Death of Once Famous Author.
THE FUTIL1rY OF FAME.

Tt1E F'OIlLEIY OE' FAME
Some warning Of the fate awaiting
many Of the prominent authors of today
was contained in the death in England,
April 1, of Charlotte M. Yonge. In her
younger days she enjoyed a literary
eminence which few Of our present well
known novelists have, and yet a few
years before her death hardly any one
gave her single thought or would have
paid much attention to any news item In
regard to her. She began writing before
some Of our grandfathers were born, in
1914, and abandoned her labors in 1900,
after f1fty-six years Of work, and the
publication Of about one book for every
year.
Such was her popularity that her first
novel, 1.-THE Heir of Redclyffe," in 1853,
Melted her sufficient for her to fit out
missionary schooner for use in New Zea-
land, and another book, published in
1885, brought enough for the erection of a
college in Auckland. Later years saw
TRANSACTIONS made in her works into sew
eral foreign languages. Not many of
those writing today can boast that the
English, French and German-speaking
world has been reading his works Fur
thermore, she was an editor for thirty
years and more, the periodical being the
Monthly Packet So that her literary ac-
tivity was almost prodigious.
Miss Yonge's stories were of the moral
kind. Every one of them had some ethical
purpose, generally of religious influence
upon young women and girls, and as such
fiction always does among certain classes
Of readers, they won wide popularity IN
England and on the continent, too, and In
America. The authoress was a very con-
sentative member Of the Church of Eng
land, and with more or less earnestness
l+N4 u, L.
nation in her works Several Of these
were purely religious writings Therein,
perhaps, lies the secret of the passing of
her fame.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21

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