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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-02
PASSING THRONG.

{ Memorial Day will be observed today at Haynevilie by the Ladies Memorial Association, and Capt. B. H. Screws will deliver the address. The exercises were postponed from the 26th of April on &C., count of the Dallas reunion. The audi ence at Hayneville today, 1t Is safe to say, will hear one of the most eloquent euio- gies on the valor and sacrifice of the Con- federate soldier ever delivered in Ala bama. Captain Screws's recent address at Tallassee called forth the highest praise from the audience that was for tunate enough to hear him.
 Hon. Thomas G. Jones. Judge of tn United States Court, has returned td Montgomery from Huntsville, where he has been holding court. The United States District Court will convene in Montgom- cry next Monday.
 Hon. Henry F. Reese of Selma was in Montgomery yesterday. Mfr. Reese is pleasantly remembered here as delegate to the Constitutional Convention which was in session in Montgomery last sum- mer.
 Hon. Massey Wilson of Clarke County, spent yesterday in Montgomery. He Is a prominent candidate for Attorney Gen. eral.
 Hon. William Hodges Sanford of Troy was in town yesterday and returned to his Pike County homo last night.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-02

Hon. William Hodges Sanford of Troy was in town yesterday and returned to his Pike County homo last night,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-02

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-16

Q of pocoson and savanna soils.
which viii require extensive inn
provement in the way of drainage
before they can be made at all pro-
ductive or safe for crops. There is
also a considerable area of Garner
stony loan, which consists of from
6 to Is inches of a sandy loan. CON
tanning from 40 to 80 per cent of
rock fragments and gravel, under
laid by a stiff red brick clay. The
everything soil material is firmly com
pacted and has the effect of macad-
am, rendering cultivation exceeding
ly difficult and making the soil adapt
ed only to forest growth. The Selma
silt loan is the most valuable soil
for bright tobacco, especially in it's
sandy phases on the ridges that ira
verse the area. In its sitter phases
it is one of the finest cotton soils of
the locality. Altogether, the soil
maps are full of detail, as the types
very often are in small areas, but as
their agricultural values are very
marked the possibilities are shown of
improvement through the adaptation
of crops particularly suited to each
type of SOIL"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-16
North Carolina Farming Notes.

Goldsboro Argus: Those who have
tried pecans hereabouts have found
them profitable. The pity is that
we have not more of them.
Duplin Journal: It is a very no.
ticeable fact that fewer chickens,
turkeys, eggs, etc., are being sold
this year than in many years.
Mr.. o. W. Sutton, n of Calyppso's
best farmers, reports sweet potatoes
at the rates of 900 bushels to the
acre.
Wadesboro Observation-Disclosures
Ger: This has been a good and pros
porous year in this section. Our
farmers have made excellent crops,
which have been sold at remunera-
tive prices, and, as a consequence,
everybody is happy and contented.
We have heard absolutely no grumb-
ling, but instead people now talk
about how well they are getting on
and of paying the debts brought
over from last year.
Clinton Democrat: A new indus
try has just sprung up in this sec
tion-that of shipping holly to the
northern cities. We have noticed
in some of our exchanges that peo-
pie r engaged in this work in sew
eral North Carolina sections, and
some v report shipments of a a
load a day. Only the branches are
shipped with the red berries on
them, and they are used for decora-
ton purposes during the Christmas
holidays.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-16

The final report of the statistieian
of the Department of Agriculture
shows the actual growth of cotton in
the United States in the year 1901
1902 to have been 9,966,478 CONNER
cial bales, of which 1850 bales
we're marketed before September 1,
1901, and 9,696,336 bales between
September 1, 1901, and August 81,
1902, 1852 bales being carried for
ward to the year 19G2-1903. The
commercial year amounted to TO-
663,224 bales, thus exceeding the.
amount actually grown by 500, 756
bales. This excess was due In the
main to the very extensive marketing
of cotton held over from previous
years,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-16

444A IA WO0@S9S
from this section of North Carolina
"Sman areas of Durham sandy
loan were mapped, which is an ideal
bright tobacco soil, but this soil does
not occur in sufficiently large areas
to warrant the development of the
bright tobacco industry. It was all
the time apparent during the prog
ress of the survey that the agricul-
tural possibilities of both the Cecil
clay and the Cecil sandy loan have
never been realized. Land is so plen-
tiful and so cheap that when one
field is exhausted by injudicious cul-
tivation and by lack of sufficient fer
tilization it is abandoned to grow up
in pine and another area is cleared
to- be in turn exhausted and aban-
doned.
"There is a scarcity of good farm
labor. The majority of the farmers
have not the means to cultivate prop
erIy one-ffth of the land they own,
yet they attempt to cultivate it all,
with the result that not more than
one-fourth of a full yield is harvest
ed. In some sections of the area, as
about Mooresville, successful farm
ers have taken worn-out farms and
in three years made them pay for
themselves, besides greatly improv-
ing the productiveness of the soil.
This proves the possibilities of some
of the really fine areas of farm land
of the Statesville district, and should
be given considerable notice as an
example of what improved methods
of cultivation will accomplish"
Later on in his report, Mr. Whit
ney speaks as follows of the work in
the central and eastern sections of
the State:
"In the summer of 1900 a soil sur
vey was made from Raleigh to New
Bern, N. c., and an area of about
100 miles in length, averaging about
9 miles in width, comprising a total
of about 900 square miles, was sur
veyed. Sixteen distinct soil types
were recognized and their agricul-
tural value determined. This great
variety was due in large measure to
the proximity of the Neuse River,
which has considerably altered the
materials within a few miles of its
channel.
"The area surveyed extends from
the Piedmont plateau to the tide
water region. In the Piedmont pla-
teau the soils are derived from resid-
ual decay of metamorphic rocks,
and are adapted to cotton and
general agricultural purposes. On the
coastal-plain portion, which covers
the greater part of the area, sandy
and silly soils predominant, adapted
to cotton and to the production of a
fine quality of bright tobacco. In
the lower part of the area around
New Bern the trucking industry has
been largely developed on the light
sandy soils of that area. The rela-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-16
THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL-
AND THE SOIL SURVEY WORK.

Ing Account OF WHAT mas DSSu NJ
complished in North Carolina.
As we said last week, space would
not then permit us to comment on
Secretary Wilson's review of soil sur
vey work during the past season; we
now come to this feature of his re-
port.
The Soil Survey, he says, has been
greatly extended and the Division of
Soil Management started during the
year gives promise of highly impor-
ant results. The Bureau of Soils
now employs a force of over one hun
dred persons, seventy-fve of whom
have had scientific training. The
usefulness of this Bureau has been
greatly extended by cooperation
with State institutions, experiment
stations, boards of agriculture and
geological surveys, as well as with
other Bureaus and Divisions of this
Department of the Government. An
assistant has been furnished to the
War Department to organize a Soil
Survey in the Philippines. The area
surveyed and mapped during the ifs
cal year was over 1880 spare miles,
or not far from 100000 acres,
making a total surveyed to date of
over 14,5OO,0OO acres. This ares is
distributed in twenty-five States and
Territories and in Porto Rico. It
appears from the statistics given
that North Carolina easily leads all
the rest in area surveyed and mapped
to date-2,192,O 900 acres, Maryland
coming next with 1,395,2OOO acres.
The area in this State, it will be
seen, is more than one-seventh of
the total.
The total cost per square mile, in
Guiding preparation of reports, is
less than three dollars. The average
cost of the field work shows a reduc-
ton of over eight per cent per
square mile from the preceding year.
The organization of the field force
has been carried to a very high state
of efficiency. The work of each par
ty is thoroughly inspected, and this
inspection work becomes more and
more necessary and valuable. The
scale adopted for the soil maps ena-
bles tracts as small as ten acres to
be represented, and the reports de-
scribe in all necessary detail the
characteristics of the soils and their
important variations, together with
a great deal of important informa-
ton as to the history and agricul-
tural development of the area, the
climate, physiology, geology, etc.
The methods devised for the analy-
ses of soils in the field have been so
perfected that the amounts of nj
trates, phosphates, sulphates, and the
like can be determined to within four
or five pounds per acre one foot
deep.
As to the recent work in North
Carolina, the Secretary says:
During the past fiscal year a sur
vey has been made of the Alamance
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-16

erly this was an important bright
tobacco section, but the growth of
this industry in the eastern part of
the State has been the cause of a de-
cline in tobacco production in the
area, and the soils formerly adapted
to this special industry have depre-
ciated considerably in value. Various
suggestions of a practical nature in
the line of improved methods of Gull
tivation and the introduction of new
crops and new industries have been
made as a result of the soil survey.
"The work in the Craven area was
carried on particularly in the inter
est of the truck growers and in Or
der to outline the truck soils in this
area, which is not as yet very thickly
settled.
"The work in the Hickory area
was in the interest of general farm
ing and, in the mountainous portion,
of fruit growing. 1t is proposed to
extend this work during the present
field season to the Mount Mitchell
area in the interest of the fruit
growers.
"There is no more interesting de-
velopment at the present time in the
Atlantic Coast States than that of
the fruit interests in the mountains
of Virginia, North Carolina, Geor-
gia, and Alabama. From the work
so far done in these States it is
clearly apparent that the soil has an
important bearing on the different
fruit crops, and the apple and peach
soils can be identified and outlined
as a basis for the intelligent devel-
opment of these industries. Not on
ly are certain soils adapted to ap-
Piles, but certain varieties of apples
do better on some soils than on 9TH
ers, and the same is probably true of
other fruits.
"The North Carolina Department
of Agriculture has co-operated very
cordially and very helpfully in this
work, and it appears desirable to con.
tinue this cooperation, assigning a
party there for nine months during
the coming field season to extend the
soil survey"
We have also before us now the re-
port of Milton Whitney, Chief of the
Division of Soils, which contains
some references to the work in North
Carolina that we think will be of in
terest to Progressive Farmer read
ers. Speaking of the Dorsey divi-
sion of soil experts, he says:
"In the spring of 1901 the party
moved to Statesville, N. O., where a
training camp was established and
an area of 800 square miles surveyed.
The soils in the Statesville area are
residual soils, derived by the slow
process of subaerial decay from gran
ties, gneisses, schists, and other met
amorphic and igneous rocks. Large
bodies of Cecil clay and Cecil sandy
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08

Marshall, Tex, jan Mrs. N. r.
Lyttleton, wife of County Judge Lyttle-
ton, was fearfully burned at her, resi-
dence in this city Saturday morning,
dying at II O'Clock Saturday night.
Mrs. Lyttleton had cleaned silk. dress
with gasoline, afterwards sponging it
with water. While holding the dress
In front of an open fireplace to dry, her
clothing caught fire. In an instant her
clothing was ablaze. Her little daugh-
ter, Ray, who was in the room. ran out,
screaming for help. The negro cook
came to the rescue, and seeing Mrs.
Lyttleton rushing out of the house all
afire, grabbed a quilt and threw it
around her, smothcring the flames.
Mrs Iyttleton was fearfully burned
from head to foot. Physicians were
hurriedty called, but their efforts prov
ed HnaVailing.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08
BIG UNDERTAKING.
TranspIanting Seven Hundred Trees in
Forest Park at st. Louis.

St Louis, Jan. 7.-Probably the larg-
est contract ever let In this country
for the transportation of big trees is
that just entered into for the Worlds
Fair in this city. The site of the
Worlds Fair is Forest Park in which
there are many large trees. Actuated
by desire to preserve as many as pos
sible of the trees, and to have their
shade in the broad avenues Of the ex-
position. the director of works will
have 700 trees. each II to IS inches in
diameter. lifted and replanted where
they will remain permanently. Spe-
cial machines will be used and the
transplanting will be done while the
trees. are dormant and the ground is
deeply frozen, SO as to carry as much
earth with the roots as possible. Very
great care is required for a successful
operation, and the trees will be given
the best care and attention, in order
to assure their thrifty growth.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08
TIE NAVY DEFENDED.
Secretary Long Tells of Distribution
Of Prize Money.
RULING OF COURT.
He Says Sampson Was Awarded Prize
Money from the Santiago Battle
rs Commander.in.Ch Chief Of
the Squadron There.

Washington, Jan. 7.-Secretary Long
has addressed to Senator Knute Nelson
OF Minnesota long letter defending
the navy department against what Is
declared to be an uufriendly criticism
In connection with the distribution
Of prize money and bounty. The letter
is called forth by one from the SEN
ator. asking for information on this
point for use Of western newspapers.
The secretary declares the criticism
that the department has Disseminated
in favor Of Admiral Sampson and
against Admiral Schley In the distribu-
ton Of prize money and bounty is un-
Just, because the department has no
control over this matter, the money
being distributed from the treasury,
and all questions Of law and fact rela-
tive to prize bounty having been de-
termined by the courts.
The secretary calls attention to laws
touching prize and and bounty as they
existed at the beginning Of the Span
ish war, and says that, though advised
by the encouragement that it might
make the distribution, the navy de-
partment preferred to place the matter
in the court of claims, and so far from
displaying favoritism. adopted the
most effective means in Its power to
secure Just determination by the courts
Of law Of the rights OF all concerned
Touching the claim OF Admiral
Sa,,fi 10 Oh q
secretary says distribution was made
under decree Of the court OF Claims
which he cites, and from which no ap-
peal was t. zen. He further points out
that, unde- the prize laws, the COM
mander-in-chief of the fleet is entitled
to his "one-twentieth" of bounty by
virtue of lis position as commander
in-chief, whether he is personally pres
emit during the engagement or not.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08
Dlow Cures Insanity.

Indianapolis, Jan. 7.-lndiauapolis
physicians are investigating the
strange phenomenon presented in the
case of George Brumemer, SO years of
age, a resident of this city A blow
on his head seems to have cured him of
insanity. Brumemer was paroled from
the Central hospital for the insane
some time ago. Last Saturday symp-
toms of violent insanity reappeared
and papers We're made out for his re-
committal Before the time set Gor
conveying him to the hospital the az
flicted man got into an alteration
with a hack-driver and was struck
over the head with the heavy end OF
a whip. A deep cash was cut above
the right temple. This was at once
sewed up, and since then Brumemer,
to all appearances, has been entirely
cured. He will not be sent to the hos
pital
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08
DEAD NOT YET KNOWN,
There Are Between 81 AND AZ Persons
from the Wallm Malla Missing.

There Are Between 81 anG AZ Persons
from tho WalIa walla Missing.
San Francisco, Jan. THE French
bark Max, which collided with the
steamship Walla Walia early Thurs
day morning, has reached this city in
badly crippled condition. The
steamer Geo. w. Elder from Portland
came in ahead and reported that she
passed the Max in tow of the steamer
Acme and the United States revenue
cutter Is miles northwest of Point
Reyes. The Max's bowsprit was car
rfed away and her bow was stove in
both above and below the water line
Her water-tight compartments alone
kept her afioat.
Ninety-two survivors of the Wal1a
Walla have arrived here from Eureka
on the steamer Pomona. There is still
some discrepancy in the lists of the
dead and missing. The number ranges
from 81 to AZ.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08
Tho Finest Yacht Bar.

New York, Jan. Tt is now an
nounced that the largest and finest
yacht bar in the world will be located
on Gravesend Bay. L. 1. In addition
to the BARN, which will be 30 acres
in extent. there will be q ship yard
and yacht building plant. equipped
with every modern appliance, where
first-class yachts can be speedily con-
structed and launched. More than
$3.50 900 will be spent on buildings
alone The work of dredging and
building will begin the middle of
March
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08
.NeE COUNTY SEAT.

-oreme Court Settles Dis
Nebraska's ST. Twenty Years.
pute Oh Tan. Tin it's rul-
creighton Neb', Of Knox coun-
ing that county officials - the farm
ty must move their Offices - from
of William Wishendoff, IL mile .,rt
the nearest town, the supreme co.
of Nebraska has ended the most re-
markable county seat fight in the en-
tire west, fight which has been per-
sistently waged for more than 20 years
and has cost the taxpayers $4,000.
Accordingly. on April I, the date
fixed by the supreme court, a remark
able exodus will take place. Business
men OF Niobrara, where the county
seat Of Knox county has been main
tanned since the beginning Of the his
tory Of Nebraska, and of Verdigris and
Creighton, IL miles away from Wish
endorff's farm, and which last named
/. two towns will supply the largest part
OF the population Of the new county
seat, are already preparing this whole
sale removal.
Many Of the owners of buildings will
FOLLOW the example of the three towns
In Charles Mix county. across the Mis-
souri,, in South Dakota, where horses
We're hitched to the buildings and the
entire towns moved bodily from old to
new sites.
The new county seat of Knox county
will be called Center Today there IS
nothing to be seen on the site but the
farmhouse and outbuildings of the
Wishendorffs. The change from Mo
brara was made because that place is
on the border of the county. and the
voters decided to locate the county
seat in the geographical center Of the
county.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08
FOR n1AlARIA,
CHllIlLLS AND fever.
The Best Prescription Is Groves
TasteIess Chill Tonic.
The Formula Is Plainly Printed ON Every Bottle.
So That the People May Know Just
What They Are Taking.

Imirators do advertise their formula
knowing that you would not buy their medi-
cine if you knew what it contained. Groves
contains iron and Quinine put up in correct
proportions and is in Tasteless form. The
Iron acts tonic while the Quinine drives
the malaria of the system. Any reliable
druggist will tell you that Groves is the
original and that all other so-called "Taste-
less chill toncs are limitations. An analysis
~ other chill tonics shows that Groves is
suPerior to all others in every respect You are
not experimenting when you take Grove's-its
superiority and excellence having long been
established. Groves IS the only Chill Cure sold
throughout the entire malarial sections of the
United 4Ia;@s. no l.ure, No Pay. Price, soc,
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08

Syracuse, Jan. 7.-William Barry. q
dollar a day laborer. from the age OF
13 to "a, is now heir to property val
ued at from a quarter to tHird of a
million dollars. Two months ago Mr.
Barry read in the newspapers of the
death of his fathers brother, Charles
NJ Barry, in South Africa. and now he
has been notified that he is one Of the
heirs to this uncle's estate, which is
valued at a million dollars.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08
Bandits Resort Destroyed.

Cheyenne, Wyo. Jan. 6.-The cele-
brated Hole in the Wall viii in a short
time be only a remem brance. The Hole
has been the refuge Of outlaws from
Arizona, Utah, Montana, Colorado ana
Wyoming, and was practically inacces-
sible. 1t lies In the southwestern part
of Johnson county and directly in the
line of county road which IS soon to
be built, destroying the cave.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08

philadelphia, Jan. 1.-THE old Lfber-
~ bell, accompanied by Mayor Ash
Sridrs and official escort of city coun-
xs,mer and city department heads,
started or the journey to the Charles
ton exposition at o'clock this morn
ing. AS thu special train left here
salute al 81 guns were fired at the navy
vaYd
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08
Three TraiulneH Killed.

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 7.-As the result
Of a head-end collision between two
freight trains of the Southern railway
near Rex, Ga, thrse Of the trains
crew were killed and 4 rlfs}aer 0G
freight cars were destroyed by fire
The two trains met on Il sharp cnryc.
the derailed cars catching fire 1t IS:
said the collision was caused By . dis
regard of signals.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08

New York, Jan. Miss Nannah R.
Phillips. the educator and physician,
having requested it upon her deathbed,
her body has been cremated and next
Sunday, after simple service on the
decks of on Of the Staten Island ferry
boats, the ashes will be scattered upon
the waters of New York bay. Miss
Phillips, who was "a years OF age, was
born in the west.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08
Ice Bridge Across n ngarn.

New York, Jan. THE ice bridge
now in the gorge below the falls APP
pears a substantial structure in every
way and there are good prospects that
It will remain several weeks. The
first crossing was made by William
Uhlrig and Robert Phillips, who picked
tt cir way most carefully from the
rican to the Canadian shore.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-08
Rtp Contract for Americana

New York, Jan. THE DeBeers
Consolidated Diamond mines, Ltd, OF
Kimberley, South Africa, have Just
awarded contracts to American con-
Germs for structural material and COM
nIete electrical equipment for large
slant. which will be utilized for gem
ersl power purposes. The value Of the
combined contracts is about 100000.