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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
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slices, and thus conserve the moisture
and encourage the termination of
weed seeds. If at all cloddy, roll and
then harrow again. Repeat this as
often as can be conveniently done, and
thus get rid of weeds and secure a fine
compact seed-bed. These are essen
tials to a good wheat crop.
Do not let weeds seed on your stub
BILE lands or on lands which were seed
ed with grass and clover in the fall or
spring. Run the mower over these
before the weeds are in bloom, and
leave the cut weeds for mulch.
Turnips should be sown this month.
They make the best bulbs grown in
rows two feet six inches apart, and
thinned out so as to stand eight or ten
inches apart in the rows. The land
should be made rich with farm-yard
manure and acid phosphate and be re-
duced by frequent cultivation to a
fine state of tilth. Two pounds of seed
will SOW an acre in drills. Three or
four pounds should be sown broad
cast. Keep free from weeds and cuI-
tivate frequently. We have grown
twenty tons to the acre, and ten ought
easily to be grown.
Rape may be seeded this month for
sheep and hog pasture. It is best
grown in rows like turnips and culti-
waited once or twice, but will make a
fine crop sown broadcast. Sow two
pounds of seed in rows, or three to
four pounds broadcast.
We see the advice given frequently
to sow turnips (cow-horn turnips) as
an improver of land. Do not listen
to this. It is fallacy. We have
grown hundreds of acres of turnips
but never yet were able to do so with
out first making the land rich with
manure and always finding that the
crop had largely exhausted this when
harvested. Turnips add nothing to the
land but what they take from it, and
are therefore not improvers.
|
Do not pull any fodder but cut the
corn up at the root as soon as the
ears are glazed and dented, and set in
shocks to cure. Fodder pulling in
jures the yield of grain and leads to
the wasting of large part of the
crop. Nearly one-half of the nutri-
tive value of the corn crop is in the
stalk, shuck and blades, and this ought
all to be saved and fed.-August
Southern Planter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
CABBAGE SNAKES"

Cor. of The Progressive Farmer.
Last year considerable was said in
the press of the State in regard to
cabbage snakes, especially in the cab
bage sections of the western part of
the State. Recently an item has been
going the round of the newspapers
concerning a supposed poisonous "cab-
bage snake" found in head of this
popular vegetable by a lady in Swain
County, North Carolina. The alleged
snake was sent to the North Carolina
Department of Agriculture for identi-
ication, and proved to be the common
and inoffensive "Hair Snake" or water
worm-gordius variabilis.
This is not a snake but a nematode
worm which during some part of its
life is an intestinal parasite of the
cabbage caterpillar, grasshopper and
some other insects. It is often found
in samples of water from shallow
wells, horse-troughs and ponds. It's
presence in water indicates that the
water is not fit to drink, but the worm
itself is not poisonous nor in any way
dangerous to human beings. The pop
ular name "Hair Snake" is given to
this worm on account of its great
slenderness, which has given rise to
the fanciful idea that a horse hair
has been transformed into a worm or
''snake." Though this worm is often
foot in length it is never as thick as
a knitting needle. It's color in water
is usually drab, but when it lives Sc
cluded from the light it is generally
white, hence the specific name, varia-
bills.
Snakes properly so-called, belong to
the backbone on vertebrate series OF
animals; whereas the true worms be,
long to the backboneless or inverte.
brate series. We have no snakes as
slender as a knitting needle, or in any
way resembling a slender worm. We
have no nematode worms which are
visible to the unaided eye that are
parasitic on human beings. Neither
are they venomous or poisonous. They
are, in fact, useful, in so far as they
destroy inoxious insects like cabbage
worms and grasshoppers. Even should
such worm be left in a cabbage
cooking would render it unnoticeable
and as it is not poison no one neec
be afraid to handle or eat cabbage or
account of the mythical cabbage
snake"
The Station will be pleased to iden
tify further specimens, and would be
glad to have any assistance or sug
gestions that will enable it to obtair
definite information regarding cases
of poisoning from Cabbage Snakes
GERALD MCCARTHY,
Biologist, N. @. Dept of Agr.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
LATEST NORTH CAROLINA CROP BUL.
LETIN.
Durham Co., n. @.

In some localities local rains came
too late to make a full crop of old
corn, which was too much injured by
drought to fully recover, but young
corn has greatly improved; in many
counties both early and late corn are
reported to be in very fine condition
still, and promise large yield, as the
ears are filling well. Saving fodder
on forward corn has begun. Cotton
has not been seriously injured by
drought and where showers fell, its
healthy appearance has been restored /;
cotton is forming bols rapidly; in the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
DELEGATES TO NATIONAL PARMRRS
CONGREss.

The Governor appoints the follow
ing delegates to the Farmers Nation
al Congress at Macon, Ca, October
7th to 10th: State at large, W. r.
Cox; by districts, J. R. Cofeld, r. II.
Kicks, J. M. Wood, W. P. Batchelor,
J. S. Carr, S. Fl. Strange, W. L. Ever
ett, J. P. Allison, S. B. Alexander, g.
F. Weston, S. L. Patterson, G. T. Win
ston, B. W. Kilgore, A. D. McNair,
W. A. Graham, ]. A. Long, J. Van
Lindley, William Dunn, P. H. Hanes,
Henry Stewart, G.. III. Nimson, N. L.
Barnard, Benehan Cameron, S. II.
Webb, J. W. Norwood, J. III. Mott, r.
III. Speight, J. J. Laughlinhouse,
Frank Wood, W. II. Williams, III. G..
Chatham, TAFT Butler, W. G. Petty,
J. N. Holmes, Charles McNamee, W.
R. Capehart, T. B. Parker, Franklin
Sherman, L. Banks Holt, Garland
Webb, Arthur Williams, r. J. Bre-
ward, T. L. Emory, G. E. Foy, @. Fl.
Poe, W. F. Massey, Andrew Joyner.
These men are recommended by Bene-
han Cameron, vice president for this
State.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12

Grapes are coming in, the luscious
Delawares and the cool-looking Mag
aras. Time was, and not ten years
ago, when there were half a score of
vineyards literally in Raleigh's SUI
burbs. Of these only one remains.
One of the big vineyards contained
1875 acres and as an experiment there
were something like Is varieties of
grapes therein. All save one are cut
down, and crops now occupy the land.
Most of the grapes now vended here
come from Southern Pines, which also
furnishes the peaches. The latter are
superb. Elbertas are the variety now
chiefly on sale and basket brings 40
cents-say 90 cents a dozen.-Raleigh
Cor. Charlotte Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
RRMARKABLE SUCCESS WITH IRISH
POTATOES.

Cor. of the Progressive Farmer.
I planted one-third bushel Bliss
Triumph potatoes on one-thirteenth
of an acre, virgin soil. After getting
land clear of all runners, ETC., l then
gave a broadcast of stable manure,
laid off rows with shovel plow, drilled
20 pounds high-grade fertilizer in the
rows and ran a furrow in that so as
to mix fertilizer with the earth. Next
/ cut the twenty pounds of potatoes
to single eyes and planted them Il
inches apart and covered level with
two shovel plow burrows. Worked
them one time and covered with leaves
then sprayed with the Bordeaux mix
ture and paris green until matured
Planted 4th April and they matured
in ninety days. then dug them. Got
for my trouble sixteen bushels of fine
potatoes.
This is a yield of forty-eight bush,
els to one, or two hundred bushels tc
the acre. 1t pays to spray, not only
potatoes, but fruits.
J. H. TROLLINGER.
Catawba Co., n. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
AUGUST FARM NOTES.

Sand vetch, sometimes called hairy
vetch, can commence to be sown this
month, and may be sown up to the end
of October. This crop makes a more
certain stand than crimson clover
indeed, it rarely fails. Sow 20 pounds
of seed to the acre with half bushel
of wheat or winter oats. It makes
great crop for cutting for green feed
in the spring or for hay. In an ex-
pertinent made in Tennessee sand
vetch grown alone yielded 734 tons of
green forage to the acre and IA tons
of cured hay. It is valuable as an i'm
proven of the land, making an excel
lent green fallow to plow down for
the corn crop. An average crop will
supply as much nitrogen to the acre
as a ton of cotton-seed meal.
The work of preparing the land for
the wheat and winter oat crop should
receive attention. Although much too
early to think of sowing these crops it
is none to early to begin breaking and
preparing the land. Experiments
made in many different sections all
emphasize the fact that early plow-
ing and frequent and perfect cultiva
ton of the land for a period of six
weeks or two months before sowing
the seed has more influence on the
yield of the wheat and winter oat crop
than even the quantity of fertilizer
applied to the land. Set the plows to
work as soon as the land is in good
plowing order, and plow deeply. Fol-
low with heavy harrow as soon as
possible so as to break the furrow
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
THE PROPER WAY TO CULTIVATE CORN
Cor. The Progressive Farmer.

Cor. The Progressive Farmer.
As I have been travelling in North
Carolina this year and have watched
with interest the way in which the
farmers raise or try to raise corn, I
now wish, in your valuable paper, to
make some criticisms; these will, of
course, not be in harmony with all
farmers views.
In the first place, the majority of
farmers do not break their land deep
enough in the spring before planting.
Next, they plant about one-third too
much corn to the acre. The rows for
the average land should be at least
four feet apart and the corn three feet
apart in the drill and only one stalk
in a place.
The first time it is plowed, it should
be done with long plow next to the
corn. In some sections this plow is
called "calf tongue" Let this plow
run deep. The other plow or plows
should be wider and should run shall
lower.
The second blowing should be done
with shorter plows and should not run
as close to corn as first blowing. The
third plowing should be done with still
larger plows, which should be run
shallower still than the second plow-
1
ing, and should be run far enough
away from corn as not to break any
of the little corn roots, which by this
time have spread ont six or eight
inches from the stalk.
The fourth blowing should be done
with a turning plow of some kind in
order that you may run far enough
from the corn as to not cut the roots
and still be able to cover up the large
roots around the stalk, so that the hot
suns of July and August will not cook
them and turn the corn yellow or burn
it up.
If you have time after this plowing,
before the corn tassels, take a long
shovel plow and run it through the
center of each corn middle as deep as
one horse can pull it. This plow
should not be over five or six inches
wide.
I know that my idea of raising corn
is different from a great many theoret-
ical farmers, but it is not theory that
we want if it does not put the corn
in the crib. / was reared on a farm,
and know from actual experience that
this way of cultivating corn is all
right, no matter what kind of land
you may be cultivating. I have also
travelled over several Of the Southern
! States, and have observed that farmers
who cultivate their corn in this way
always have plenty of corn to do them.
I wish could impress on the farmer
() how very important it is not to
plant their corn too thick on poor
land; (2) that they should never run
close enough to the corn with a plow
to break the small roots of the corn;
! 60 that the last plowing should be
done with a turning plow in order that
the large roots around the corn could
be covered up without running close
enough to the stalks to break those
roots.
I am satisfied that there has been
at least $4,000 bushels of corn destroy
ed in North Carolina this year by the
farmers laying their corn by with that
old-fashioned double shovel plow, or
some similar cultivator.
The above description as to culti-
waiting corn does not apply where the
corn is planted on a ridge or bed or in
the water furrow, but only when
planted on a level, as most farmers
plant it.
T. J. WEAR.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12

A healthy toad would take care of
the insects in one hot bed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12

Late growth in raspberries is all
right. Try it.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-09-13

Before buying, selling or rent
ing, it will pay you to see r. =
Carter, the real estate agent.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-09-13
The Army Wolm.

The army worm has appeared in
this county and everything green is
being attacked. The presence OF
the pest was net noted until the
early part of the week, but it is
spreading over the face of the earth
IN countless millions, the number
| apparently increasing every day.
The pastures are especially objects
OF attack and in some instances
they have the appearance of having
been swept by fire. Grass, Irish
potato tops, turnlp tops, peanut
ylnes, sweet potato vines, sorghum
cane and even corn is being attack
ed and on some farms the latter
crop is suffering very much from
its ravages. So far we have heard
of no injury to the cotton crop.
The first we heard or saw of the
ravages of the pest was it's attack
upon the Winthrop lawn, where it
destroyed plot of grass in one
day. Since then, we have heard
OF it in every direction, but more
SO on the clay lands than on sandy
soil. A prairie fire could not
nave been more destructive of
vegetation than has this pest been
on the pastures of Mr.. Sam Fried
hem and iu number less other
places the destruction that is 90
ing on is equally as great.
We know nothing whatever of
the insect, but one who claims to
know tells us that 1T will not stav
with us long and will disappear as
suddenly as it came. Let US hone
that ne may hasten his departure.
We understand that this worm
appeared in this section in count
less millions in 1860, but has not
since been seen here in numbers
great enough to cause destruction
OF any consequence. Rock Hill
Herald.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-09-13
A'BOY'S WILD RIDE FOR
LlFE,

With family around expecting
him to die, and a son riding fnr
life, Is miles, to get DR.. Kings
New Discovery for CONSUMPTION.
Coughs and Colds, w. H. Brown
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HOW'S TiIISl

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case Of Catarrh that cam
not be cured by Halls Cata, rh Cure.
81 CHENEY & o., Props. To-
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We tho undersiy neu. Lave kn,wn
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by their firm.
WEST q rRUAx, Wholesale Druggis,,
Toledo, o.
WALDING. kINNAN Il MARVIN
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O.
Haii's Catarrh Cure is taken in
t'rna'!y, acting dire .tly upon the blood
ana mucous surfaces of the system.
prire, Toe per bottle Sold by ali
Druggists, Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Mont Pelee Again Active.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-09-13
where cut over are valuable for

where cut over are valuable for
general far nthg purpose, with
sufficient timber remaining for
farm uses, the stock grower
would probably prefer to be his
own landlord. He can then at
small cost supplement where
needed with improved grasses.
"Ihe actual expense is less to
equipa ranch for beginning in
the southeastern pine lands than
on the western plains. The pecu-
liar advantage of the pine land
country Is in the fact that more
grass is found in a less area,
bringing the herds closer to a
given point, which facilitates bus
mess. The absence of the har-
asslng coyote, the sleepless thief
of the night that eats away the
ranchman's dividend, is also a
cumulative argument in behalf of
the inviting forest along the South
Atlantic. The high prices of cat
tie and rheapness of the land war
rant an inflowing verdict
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-09-13
Killed With q Rock.

Greenwood, Sept. 9.-Satur-
day, near Verdory, Lem Bishop
IN an alteration with John Heard
killed the latter by hitting him in
the head with u rock. The two
negroes were both drunk, it is
said, and got into the fight in the
public road. According to LENS
tale John first threw the rock ut
him and that he then picke,l up
the same rock aud hurled it back
Mt John. The rock entered his
head, causing death. The State.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-09-13
The Governments Report.

Washington, Sept. The agri-
cultural departments weekly sum
mary of crop conditions saws:
"Although the week was cool
In the central valleys and lake re-
glon with more than the average
rainfall in portions of the upper
mississippi valley, maturing crops
have made generally favorable,
though not rapid advancement.
I"e greater part of Texas, in
which State severe drought pre-,
vailed at the close of the previous
week, has received abundant rain
fall, and drought conditions in. the
middle Atlantic coast districts
have ais been largely relieved.
Notwithstanding the preva-
lence of low temperatures through
ont the corn belt, and copious
rainfall in portions of tho upper
Mississippi valley, the corn crop
has made very satisfactory .d-
Vancement toward maturity, and
wholly escaped in States eastward
OF the Mississippi river from
frosts occurring on the 4th and
9th' with but slight injury in the
States to the westward.
"texas and u large part of the
central and eastern districts of the
cotton belt have received abun.
dant rainfall during the week, but
1t Is roustful whether the benefi-
cia! effects Of these rains 20 late
cotton will Offset the injury done
10 the open staple. Cotton has
opened more rapidly than it could
be picked. In portions of the
central and eastern district many
fields are already nearly cleaned,
ana the reports generally indicate
that the crop will be gathered
much earlier than usual.
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She Frustrated the Plan.

New York, Sept. 9.-Mrs.
Charles C'Neil, discovering her
husbands plan to kill her aud
himself because of jealousy, frus-
trated the plan by killing him and
then herself this morning. O'Neil
was superintendent of the New
York Fruit Exchange building,
where the couple lived.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-09-13
In jail For Smoking Cigarettes
Editor Saunders, of Elizabeth
City, Refuses to Pay u Fine
or Give Bond and Will
Contest the Law.
Special to The Observer.

Special to The Observer.
Elizabeth City, Sept. Ed
itor Saunders, of The Elizabeth
City Tarheel, was this mornino
arrested and thrown into prison
for smoking a cigarette within the
corporate limits of Elizabeth City
Recently the board of aldermen
of this city passed an ordnance
making it an offense, subject TO
a fine, for any minor to smoke
cigarettes upon the streets of Eli
zabeth City. This morning Mr.
w. .. Saunders violated that law.
and was arrested. He plead guilty.
Mayor Wilson imposed the stipu,
lated fine. Young Saunders re-
fused to pay the fine or give bond.
He said: "The law is uncon.
stitutional and ar sitrary for a free
born American" Saunders is in
the lookup. He refuses all Of
fers of many friends to 60 ON his
bond. The result of this unioue
case promises to be interesting.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-09-13
Three Ages of Man.

The first age of man is when he
thinks about all the wicked thinps
which he is going to do. This is
called "lnnocence." The second
age is when he does all the wicked
things he has thought of in child
hood. This is called "the Prime
OF Life.' The third age is when
he repents of all the wicked
things he has done. This is call.
ed "Dotage."
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FOATUNE EAVORS
TEX AN

"Having distressing pains in
head, back and stomach, and be-.
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writes w. T. Whitehead, of Ken
nedale, Tex, "and soon felt like
new man." Infallible in stom
ach and liver troubles. Onlv 2bc
at Crawford Bros and j. F..
Mackey & Co.'S drug store.
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Prolific Tomato Vine.

Anderson, Sept. 9.-Mr. s. j.
Davis, the county jailer, has
growing in the Jail yard a tomato
vine which is curiosity. There
are now on it Is tomatoes, nearly
ripe, and any one of which will
weigh more than q pound. Sever
al have already been pulled from
it, 50 that this vine has produced
more than rs pounds of tomatoes
this year.-The State.
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A PARSONS NOBLE ACT
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Tor their wonderful work in Liver.
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Don't fail to try them. Only so
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