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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-17
HARRY FARMERS TALKS.
IV
Fulton Co., Ga.


A reader of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER wishes us to give talk on
RAISING MULES AT HOME.
We suppose he refers TO North
Carolina, though The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER goes beyond this State in it's
circulation.
This is one part of farm work that
we have had no experience in, for
our youngest mule was three years
old when we commenced with him
We began our work with mules at
the early age of nine years and have
worked all kinds, both native and
Western. Some of our neIghbors
have raised mules and we have often
discussed the matter with them.
They we're unanimous in one opin-
ion, and that was that it does not
cost any more to raise mule than a
calf 80 far as the feeding is CON
cerned.
THE COST OF RAISING.
The figures are about thes9: Ser
vice fee, $40; extra feed for mare,
$5; feed for colt, first year, SO; !;
second year, mostly pasture, $15.
Total, $40. Ten years ago it was a
common thing to see mule colts any.
where in this county. But the low
price at which mules sold few years
ago stopped our farmers from rails
ing mules and horses. We have
seen mule colts sell for $40 to $50 at
five months and never sold for less
than $75 TO 800 at twoyears. Mules
raised here are
HARDER THAN THE WESTERN
stock. We worked one once which
was the toughest animal we ever
tried You had to put the plow in
deep and push TO get him to sweat,
even in hot weather, while his mate,
large Western mule, would be
worked down. Suoh a mule now
would bring 1925 at two years.
The mules raised here were nearly
all one color, red or dark bay. Oc
oasionally one was seen of a mouse
color with zebra stripes around the
legs.
FEED FOR THE YOUNG MULES.
II we were going TO raise mules, we
would like to have a fairly large
farm and have one and half acres
acres for each colt of Bermuda grass
for a pasture We would have the
mares served in the fall 80 that we
GOULD work them through the crop
season. If the colts came the last of
Sc ptember or early in October, they
could be weaned early in the spring
and the mares be hindered but
little from work. 1t would be best
to have some rye for the colts go
Craze on early in the spring before
other grass was ready. There Is no
feed that will be better for young
stock to give them bone and muscle
than oats and cow pea hay.
To raise large mules, it will he
TO have bO 5h the sire and
dam of good size. Mules should be
BROKEN OR TRAINED TO WORK
at one year old, not to do any hard
work, but taught to drive and lead.
The old-fashioned way or not train |
ing them to work until two or three |
years old was not calculated TO make |
them do their best. Of course, it |
would not do TO put thenDto work |
before they had developed sufficiently |
TO work. Exercise in moderation |
would develop the muscle and make
them strong.
We believe that raising mules
would be one of the most profita BILE
branches of farming open to US in
North Carolina or anywhere in the
South.
HARRY FARMER.
Columbus Co., N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-17
WHAT KIND OF EDUCATION DOES THE
FARMER NEED!
A. B. MARRIOTT
Washington, D. G.


Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
The farmer needs practical edu
cation in the arts and sciences that
pertain TO his industry. By prao-
tioal education is meant the training
of his hand to perform actual tasks
with celebrity and skill, as in a course
in dairying, mechanic arts or stock
judging. Here the student is set to
individual tasks which he must per-
form with his own hands often
enough to become fairly skilled in
the construction Of farm convenien
ces or in the art of butter and cheese
making. Aloag with this practical
education an effort should be made
to inculoate habits of study, reading
and research.
The effort of agricultural educa
tion should be directed to ground
ing che farmers boy in the firss prin-
ciples of his business. These have
been too long overlooked the miI d
has been loaded With too much
theory and not enough of practical,
common sense ideas. In the vain
search after something unique, the
simple basic principles, the common
truths of everyday lite, the lessons
that nature teaches have been too
often forgotten. The farmer must be
brought back to first principles and
taught to work in harmony and in
sympathy with nature.
The farmer needs to learn that
science is simply facts Systematically
arranged; that science is a friend
and not a foe; that the so called
scientist is not of necessity a man
without practical knowledge. He
does not appreciate that the simple
truths which he knows and appli5s
as result of long years of expert
ence in contact with nature are
scientific truths. If he had better
idea of what science really is and the
relation of its simple truths to his
business, he would have less fear
of it.
Finally, the farmer needs bust
ness education. He needs to be
taught that there are better ways OF
doing things that there are cheaper
ways of making butter and cheese
that there are cheaper ways of feed
ing cattle; that there are better ways
of tilling the soil, and thus eoono
mizing labor and reducing the cost
of crop production. All of these
things are possible, and once the
farmer appreciates that the agrioul-
tural college can do these things for
him, the abyss now existing between
them will quickly disappear.
The farmer needs business agri-
cultural education and not a com
education. Why the farmer
should send his boy TO school OF
shorthand and book keeping when
he intends him to farm is hard to |
Why should not the
la wyer go to theological school to
learn his business; the doctor TO q
law school to learn his protest. On?
These things would be regarded as
q absurd in the so-called professional
avocations, though the farmer per
sists in educating his boy along lines
which are of the least service in his
life work. He prefers to let him
1elve away, gathering from hard
knocks in the bitter school of expert
once the things which the agrioul-
5ural college can put within his
reach at but little cost in the short
sst period Of time and in the way in
which he can utilize them to the
greatest advantage.
ANDREW N SOULE.
University of tennessee, Knoxville.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-17
Raleigh, N. c., December II, 1901.
oulable beneft to the Southern
GROWING EGYPTIAN COTTON.


GROWING EGYPTIAN COTTON.
Prof. Weber also reports crafty
ing success with his experimental
plots of Egyptian cotton. He is con
Quoting experiments in Mississippi,
Florida, Georgia and Texas and,
while he is notyet prepared to speak
definitely, he believes that it will
be found practical and possible to
grow crops of from one half to three
quarters of bale of this cotton, per
acre, and that a market ranging
from six to ten cents per pound for
ordinary cotton will pay from fifteen
to twenty-five cents for the Egyptian
variety.
A. B MARRIOTT.
Washington, D. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-17

l believe it would be no mistake
for every farmer in the country 80
have his name neatly painted over
his barn door or on a board placed
near his driveway. This should be-
in large, plain letters, SO that when
we are driving through the country
we will know who lives there with
out inquiring. know of some whip
are having their barns marked thus.
Another good good idea is to have
the places named. For instance,
"The EIms," where a lot of noble
elm trees adorn the grounds "Cedar
Hedge" or "The Cedars, p" from trees
in the yard; "Hilltop" if the house
stands on hill, or pleasant Vale"
ii in a valley, etO. Let as hear from
others on this subject. In our rambleB
we often pass by friends and &C,
quaintances because we do not know
where they live, when if their names
were in plain sight over the door, We
might be tempted to stop for drink
of buttermilk or a look around tho
place that would serve as afounda-
ton for an item for the paper M.
A. Preston, Charlotte, Mich.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-17

One of the most prevalent errors
among the average farmers is tho
neglect of making and preserving
manure, and also it's improper appli-
cations to the ground. Collect all
the refuse material you can, use
your chip dirt from the wood pile,in
absorbing liquids. apply it TO the
fat lands at any time during winter,
It can then be thrown on broadcast
and plowed in as soon as the ground
opens. The necessity of returning
as much vegetable nutriment to the
gro ound as has been taken off by the
crop cannot be too strongly i'm
pressed upon the attention of farm,
ers.-J. L. Miller, Murphysboro, Ill.
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NAMING THE EARN.

CASTOR Co., N. G.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
Retribution.

The country will receive the YER
dict of the jury in the Czolgosz case
with profound sense of satisfaction.
There is no denying the fact that for
the moment we have to go back to the
Mosaic code, which required life for
life. And how poor is the compen-
Sation!
The trial of the assassin was con-
Quoted with becoming dignity, and he
was given eyeryopportunity for max
ing a defense. That the wretched
man could make no defense and knew
it, that he went into the work of as
sassination in the full knowledge of
the penalty that would attach to his
crime, is demonstrated in the manner
he has conducted himself since his ar
rest. The man is mental and moral
monster. He has expressed neither
sorrow nor fear, Borne up by the hor-
rible doctrines which nerved him for
the commission Of the crime, he has
steadily declined to take advantage
of any of the opportunities that the
law duOIu W U1On VIII tIG LlOU LlCIdI-
" responsible. He has steadfastly
refused to do OF say anything that his
attorneys could hang a case upon. The
men who defended him were convinc-
ed thar the plea of insanity could not
be sustained in the face of the con-
duct of their client. The jury could
do nothing to extenuate his guilt,
nothing in the story of his crime upon
which to base a doubt Of his sanity.
And he will go an outcast to an out
laws death.
The swift operation of the law will
do much to increase respect for it
it among the lawless men from whom
Czolgosz learned his horrible creed.
Yet there has been no unseemly haste.
Had the Erie caunty grand jury not
been in session it is probable that the
disposition of the case might been
delayed. But there was nothing to
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28

RustlerS and men of business ability
can built up a trade anywhere and
usually make a success of whatever
they undertake. Reynolds s. Read
are rustlers and their future success
is assured.
Taken as a whole the firm of Reyn-
Odds s. Read has done much good to-
ward the upbuilding of the present
city of Phillipsburg, and can now look
back with no uncertain degree of
pride over their career. Public-Spirit-
ed, benevolent, enterprising and en-
thuSiastic in everything pertaining to
the good of our town, they have re-
f1ected credit on the city of their ad-
aptiOn have done honor and justice to
their chosen vocation, and are respect
ed and hOnUred by all who know them
or who have had business transactions
with their honse.
An order left with Reynolds s.
Read for any article in the line of
hardware is sufficient guarantee that
it will be properly filed and to your
entire satisfaction, both in the mat
ter Of price and the quality OF the
goods sold.
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interfere with the proceedings, no ne
cesslty for calling an extraordinary
session of the court. By the inexor-
able process of the law Czolgosz defed
he has been convicted. His execution
will not long be delayed, and he will
have paid, so far as his pitible life can
pay, the debt he owes to the law.
Let US hope that the lesson will not
be lost upon the men who may be dis
posed to embrace the doctrines for
which he is condemned. 1t has been
made clear that such crime as he
committed makes the infiction of dire
punishment certain and swift. The
American people live by justice, not
by vengeance, and the condemnation
of Czolgosz is in sympathy with a gen
iuS of a people who hold to Justice as
being necessary to the welfare Of the
republic.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28

The ice man will have to quit bust
ness soon.
Pete Noel was over from Logan
Wednesday.
have received a carload of Clifton
-four, shorts and bran.-Carl LaRue.
Read the ad of Shimeall s. Co., in
this issue. 1t will be worth your
time.
Mccormick & Wells will have a
millinery opening on October 40.
Read their ad.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Lane have re-
turned from their trip to the exposi-
tion at Buffalo.
Miss Marie Larson and a lady friend
of Speed, were pleasant callers at this
office on Thursday.
The safe of Republican City bank
was cracked last week and 81, 900 was
secured by the "crackers."
George Weyer, of merry-go-round
fame, was in town Thursday looking
for house. He intends to live here
this winter.
If you have poultry to sell, don't
fail to see ]. D. Couch, east side of the
square in this city. He can beat
them all on prices.
Arthur Carpenter, who has been
employed as Waterman by the Rock
Island the past three months at Fair
bury, is home on visit.
G. E. Stearns and wife will go to
Denver on Sunday night to see the
festival of Mountain and Plain held
in that city October 1, 2, 3.
Theo. Lanman, one of the editors of
the Smith Center Messenger, was
married to Miss Ollie Myers of that
city last Sunday. We extend con-
CALCULATIONS.
Editor Turner, of the Colby Tribune,
the only editor in western Kansas
who drew a claim in the recent draw
ing in Oklahoma, is down picking him
out farm this week.
The quarterly meeting of the Phil
lipsburg circuit, will be held on Mon
day and Tuesday, October 7-8, at La
belle. Let all remember the dates.
The elder will be present.
D. e. FRENCH, Pastor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
LOCAL MENTION
seesoSeSsesesSeaeseessSe


Indian summer is here.
Don't forget Dr. Orders dates?
Travelingman spencer was in town
Thursday.
Rudy Heth, of Walnut, was in town
Thursday.
III. Rogers has returned from his
eastern visit.
The rural mail delivery goes in eff
feet on October l.
Don't forget "Lost in New York;
at the opera house tonight.
A good 2nd-hand hoe drill for sale
cheap. Bridegroom & Marsh.
Now lookout for the book agent
with the life of President Mckinley.
Frank Freeland and son, of Green
wood township, was in the city Wed
nesday.
Link Nipps is up to Hoxie this week
doing the umpire act. He knows
how it is done.
County Clerk Rambo has purchased
an automatic counting machine which
he will use in the office.
Engineer G. E. Biddison, who was
hurt in the recent wreck near Jen-
ningS, is getting along nicely.
Charley Poe was at Belleville the
fore part of the week on bushes.
Floyd Shimeall, of Norton, accompan-
led him.
Joe Lees restaurant and short order
house is the place to go to get a first
class meal-give him trial. Fine
line Of confectionery, cigars, tobac
Goes etc.
David Laird will carry the mail on
the rural delivery route No. !, be-
tween PhillipSburg and Goode, at
salary of $500 a year. The mail will
will go each day except Sunday.
Fred Conquest, who has been work
ing for the Rock Island at this place
for some time, has secured a job of
braking down at Harrington, and left
for his new field of labor Wednesday
morning. We wish him success.
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| Mrs. Mallory and family will move
to Goodland next week.
J. D! Cheadle and family now &C.
cupy the Moncrief residence.
County Superintendent Thomas was
at Kirwin last Wednesday,.
Norton ii to have a county high
school building built this winter.
Mrs. j. Bridegroom, of Norton, is
visiting with her son, Fred and fami-
ly in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Close have moved
into the house recently vacated by
j. D. Cheadle.
Rev. Osman reports an interesting
ministerial convention the first of
the week at Goodland.
Misses Faith Wagner and Vfna
Washburn, Of Downs, are visiting
Miss Grace Wallace of this city.
Banker Culbertion, of Long Island,
was county seat visitor yesterday.
He was accompanied by his brother,
the dentist.
Lloyd Viers, who has held down a
chair in Charles Stearn's shop has
gone to Norton to work in the Nc
Cue barber shop.
This mornings dailies report that
Czolgosz broke down completely when
on his way to prison at Auburn, and
says he is sorry now.
Now is the time to subscribe for the
HERALD. The largest and best paper
n the county All the news all the
time. Try it and be convinced.
Protected meeting at the Metho-
dist church beginning Monday.night,
and continuing all the week. Ser
vices begins at 1880 each evening.
Rev, Lorenzo, of Norton, Will assist
in the meetings.
R. E. Weeks, the popular merchant
of Speed, was in the city yesterday,
and left new copy for his ad which
appears in this issue. Mr.. Weeks is
enjoying an excellent trade since he
moved to Speed.
Farmers who live on the rural mail
routes will be greatly benefited by
getting their mail each day. It will
save some of them good many miles
of travel each week in going to and
from the postofice.
The Kerkhoff-Locke company closes
their weeks stand in our city tonight.
This company has enjoyed good
houses and have proved to the people
of Phillipsburg that they are 0. k.
The play last night, 'Sapho" was in
every sense good one.
L. II. Thompson, of Norton, who
went down to the new country just
opened in Oklahoma for the purpose
of establishing law Office, has re-
turned to Norton and will be content
with western Kansas. Lafe has prac-
ticed law in Norton county about
twenty-five years.
There are several people who have
taken the HERALD for sometime,
and after having got from one to two
years in arrears they refuse to take it
from the postotf1ce. Now if these
people do not want the HERALD, they
should call and settle their account
with US and we will discontinue send
ing it, otherwise we will continue to
send it as we have in the past.
At the Presbyterian church Sabbath
morning, HOO O'Clock, Rev. J. H.
Lamb will preach on daniels Eulo-
gy of tht Law of the Lord"-psalm
XIX. In the evening at O'Clock
the regular Christian endeayor will be
held. The special attraction is the
reading of the first chapter from the
life Of John G. Porter, the world re-
nowned missionary. At o'clock the
Sunday school will give its annual
rallying day program. Things of in
terest are promised. Everyone is
cordially invited to all of the services.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28

A full and up-to-date line of harness
is carried with the general stock, and
those in need of anything in that line
can find it here, Naturally this de-
partment will contain goods from the
workshops Of the best manufacturers
of harness, and the purchaser is safe
as regards price and quality of goods
when he trades here.
They also carried an immense stock
of binders and headers the past sum-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-28
REYNOLDS & READS HARDWARE.
Brief Sketch Of Their Business and Management They
Have Buat up an Enormous Trade the Past Season.

One of the most successful business
enterprises in our city is the hard
ware and implement business of Reyn-
olds & Read. w. w. Reynolds sue
ceeded j. N. Wood 6 Company on
6, 1900. L. A. Read pur-
chased a partnership in the business
last March. Mr.. Reed had been a
clerk in this store for number years
He spent his youth at Long Island,
Kansas, and is an enterprising young
man Mr.. Reynolds is an old settler
here, now holds the Office of register
of deeds in this county and is trust
worthy officer. AS men familiar with
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every branch of the hardware bust
ness they have an enviable reputation.
Their record in PhillipSburg is clean
and unblemiShed and stands forth as
a shining example for any young man
if he will but take fidelity and integ-
rity for his motto in all matters Of
life. Their every transaction has
been foStered and guided by truth and
Justice, and as a natural consequence
their reward is in rapldly-grOWing
trade. A brief description of the
store is all that we can hope to give
in this article. The line of hardware
is full and complete-and when we
say complete, we mean that not an az
ticle of any kind supposed to be kept in
a first-claSS hardware store is missing.
Stove, tinware, cutlery, locks, keys,
staples, nails, bolts and the thousands
of other articles are here in endless
prOfusiOn. In the building back of
the store is an array of finely-fnished,
beautifully-designed and substantially
built wagons, buggies, phaetonS, sur
reys, and the various other kinds of
vehicles. Intending purchasers of
anything in this line should not fail
to inspect this stock, as the prices are
way down and the vehicles are of
standard manufacture.
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Bradley Rents the BIsseI

VIM. Bradley, who has had charge
of the Commercial hotel the past few
months has leased the BiSsell house
and run a dollar a day house. Mr..
Bradley is a good hotel man and we
wish him success.
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mer and enjoyed a very large trade
This fall they are selling large num-
Der of wheat drills and one of the
standard make-the Richmond being
their leader. Last spring they intro
duced the "Little Injun" lister and
supplied a large number of farmers
with them.
The hardware business, more than
any other line of trade. requires a
constant watch to see that the stock
is kept complete, for there are so
many little articles being sold each
day, and the wise dealer will see to it
that these are replaced and in order
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for the next customer. And when
you take into consideration the mag
nitude of this stock and store, you
can easily understand why Reynolds
& Read are such busy men. During
our experience in PhillipSburg we
have never yet passed this store and
seen them idle; they are always at
tending to some little detail or wait
ing upon their many customers, and
altogether the store presents busy
aspect.