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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
ABBOTT SPRAYING.
Cor. of The Progressive Farmer.

Cor. OF The Progressive Farmer.
Ny attention has been called to a
clipping from the SmithfelG Herald,
with reference to the poisoning of a
girl by eating apples that had been
treated with Paris green. Answer be-
ing asked through The Progressive
Farmer, will say that I am of the opin-
ion that this could not be the cause
of such trouble, or if it was, then the
poison must have been used with rank
carelessness after the fruit was ripe,
when there could be nothing gained in
any case by its use. If the regular
spraying of trees with this poison were
fatal to the consumers of the apple,
what would become of the thousands
of us, who every year buy these spray
ed apples from New York, because
they are so far superior to our own
wormy, diseased and unwholesome
fruit?
Proper spraying with the Bordeaux
Mixture and Paris green, adds health
and vigor to the tree and fruit, and
apples from trees thus treated are su-
perior in every way, but no one advises
the indiscriminate poisoning of ap-
pies with strong solutions of the poi
son, when they are about to be eaten.
Trees properly treated are sprayed
three times, all before the fruit is half
grown, but another application may
be made if needed, only it is not usual
ly needed, but there is no danger
from it.
FRANKLIN SHERMAN, JR.
FntomOlopist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

Warsaw Cor Post: Our farmers
are waking up to the necessity of
Iabor-saving machinery, and as an eV-
idence of the fact three firms are
handling the Mccormick, Deering and
johnson machines and implements
and the sales justify the statement
that general farming with improved
methods along with the trucking in
terests, will make this section rich and
prosperous in a short time.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
AND VALUE OF THE cow PEA

An article on the above-named sub
ject in last weeks American Agricul-
turist, will be read with special inter
est in North Carolina, because it is a
good article and because it is from the
pen of DR.. Charles W. Burkett of the
North Carolina A. and M. College.
Says DR.. Burkett:
If we cannot possibly get clover to
grow, we want some other good legum-
inous crop that will act as a soil i'm
proven, to fix in the soil the atmos-
pheric nitrogen, and at the same time
furnish a forage crop rich in protein
and the muscle forming ingredients. I
believe we have this in the cow-pea.
The cowpea will take the place of the
clover plant, if for some reason the
latter will not grow. AS a soil i'm
proven the cowpea is superior to
clover, and this point is generally rec
ognized by all who have had anything
to do with the two plants. The cow
pea will grow on a much poorer soil.
I have tried these two crops side by
side for three years in New Hampshire
and on exceptionally poor soils where
clover would not grow at all, cowpeas
would produce from one to two tons
per acre. The cowpea will produce a
forage growth always equal if not
greater than clover yields. As to their
feeding value, the cowpea is superior,
as is shown in the following:
FEEDING VALUE OF CLOVER AND
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
Vance Co., n. @.

Statesville Landmark: The flock of
sheep of Messrs. Samuel Archer, W.
B. Gibson and W. III. Adderholt has
been moved from Mr.. Gibson's, at
Fancy Hill, to Mr.. Adderholt's farm,
in Bethany Township. Since the sheep
were bought about a month ago 1000
pounds of wool have been taken from
them and there are also 100 young
lambs.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
PREPARATION OF THE SOIL

Prepare the soil like you would for
any other crop. There is no hurry
for the cowpea must be planted late.
Have a good seedbed, well plowed
and narrowed, and mellow and fine.
On old worn-out soils the plow should
be run no deeper than four or five
inches. The rest of the preparation
may be similar to that done for corn:
The application of manure will show
it's effects on cowpeas; if this is not
practicable and the soil is very poor,
then use small application of chemi-
cal fertilizers. If you are intending
to follow the peas with winter wheat,
it is not bad time to use your wheat
fertilizer on the peas before sowing
them Their increased growth will
add more nitrogen to the soil. We are
inclined to think the best place and
time to add such fertilizers is for the
cowpea crop, rather than the crop
following. A fertilizer carrying nj
trogen, phosphoric acid and potash
on the majority of soils will be the
most satisfactory. suggest the fol-
lowing: nitrate of soda 100 pounds,
muriate of potash so pounds and acid
phosphate 100 pounds. This guam
tity will not be too heavy on very light
and poor soils that wheat follows. Bet
ter s6ils may be given a smaller ap-
plication or none at all. The ferti
lizer should be scattered broadcast
over the field and narrowed in.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
HARRY FARMERS TALKS.
LXXVII.
Cor. of The Progressive Farmer.

Cor. of The Progressive Farmer.
We took trip with The Progressive
Farmer to Fruit Town. Our appetite
being in excellent shape, we could eat
any kind of fruit with a relish. But
we must not tarry too long for fear
we will neglect some important part
of the work which we have undertaken.
We enter Mr.. Smiths house where he
is very busy looking over his mails. He
takes up The Progressive Farmer and
scans each page. At last he finds
something that touches along on the
line in which he is engaged.
A BUSINESS FARMER.
That he is progressive is apparent,
as we look about his fields of berries
and other fruit. His fields are nicely
laid out. The drains are all in good
shape, so that excessive rains will not
damage his crops. The rows are uni
form. There seems to be some sys-
tenn about all his work. His rule is
ga place for every thing, and every
thing in its place" All the necessary
sheds and utensils for handling the
large crops of fruit are nicely ar
ranged. 1t took years of hard study
and work to get all these things fixed
and every year he makes changes.
IMPROVEMENT ALL THE TIME.
He sees in The Progressive Farmer
and other agricultural journals many
items which he studies and whereby he
learns new methods which he puts into
practice thus gaining all the time.
Like everything else, there are many
ways by which one can improve on his
old plans in farm work.
This man takes an interest in his
work. He wants to make money and
live well so that his children can be
educated and he have something to
support him in his declining years.
He gives employment to many people,
thus helping all around him. The
merchants, doctors, lawyers, preachers,
and men of every calling are benefited
by his farm.
FERTILIZERS AND SEEDS.
As one crop after another is gath
cred, it shows that he does not expect
to draw money out of bank in which
he never deposits any. We mean that
he uses manure, fertilizers and works
on the land so that he may expect
heavy crops. 1t is a fact you can not
gather where you do not plant.
Only the best seeds and plants are
used. Those that have been we'll test
ed and proved meritorious are used.
He keeps a sharp look for the new
ones and tries some of the most prom
ising, not always with success. Not
every new plant advertised possesses
merit; sometimes they are pure hum
bugs.
FOLLOW THIS MANS EXAMPLE.
Many a young man would like to
have this farm, but did you know there
are thousands just as good, and some
better, that can be built up with less
work than this one? All you have to
do is to go and conquer it.
Having enough fruit we will go to
a different Mace
HARRY FARMER.
Columbus Co.. n. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

Wilkesboro Chronicle: The largest
crops of corn have been planted ever
known in the county. The wheat crop
is very light except in a few favored
spots.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
FEEDING VALUE OF CLOVER AND
COWPEAs

This table shows that cowpeas not
only contain the largest quantity of
digestible nutrients in 100 pounds,
but they contain 81 per cent more di-
gestible protein. This is Of very great
Importance in feeding farm animals
in the north, no matter to what class
they belong. We are feeding cowpea
hay as a substitute for bran and are
getting as god results. Thus far we
have considered this forage crop as
equal and even superior to clover.
Glover will fail often; cowpeas sell
dom. On soils that are very wet and
cold, cOwpeas will not prove satisfac-
tory. But if they are reasonably
warm and not saturated with water,
during July and August, they will
grow luxuriantly, even on poor ground.
Their ability to fully mature is not
yet wholly established. Doubtless
the seed used at the present time is
too much from the South to have
adapted itself to full maturity. Sc
lection will, however, soon remedy
this. And it is not a matter of vital
Importance, either, to grow your own
seed so long as it can be obtained at
reasonable prices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
CSsmopOlitanism in Fiction.

Chicago Post.
The paradoxical position of translated fic-
ton before the Anglo-Saxon reading pub
lie begins to attract attention and to pro-
woke comment. Does it sell or does it not
sell? And is its influence in substantial
correspondence or not with the amount of
stir 1t makes-or sometimes fails to make?
A writer in the latest issue of the Review
of Reviews boldly declares that translated
fiction rarely sells. He is not unmindful of
quo Nadis, and he acknowledges that
Maeterlinck, for example, has not improb-
ably had far larger circulation in transla-
ton in England than in his own country
in the original. Yet of some five hundred
foreign novels that have been done into
English within the past five years only one
of them-owing, perhaps, to happy blend
of Christian aspiration and pagan hardi-
hood-has paralleled the resounding success
achieved by dozens OF our local products.
One shining triumph eclipses scores of in
conspicuous failures.
Zola's books are prodigious'y talked about
the same authority. 1t seems possible
enough, then, to question the position taken
by another commentator in the last num-
Der of The Dial, who looks upon Literary
cosmopolitan" as one of the great and
growing movements of the time. Yet, after
all, the important consideration is not that
these foreign books are read in translation
by a large number of the general public,
but that they should be written, and, being
written, should then be read by no matter
how small a number of foreign readers
provided these readers be intelligent and
influential.
The author and thinker who is great and
significant enough to cross frontiers and
TO break the barriers of language is not the
man who can hope to reach the general
cosmopolitan public by means of primary
impact No; this impact must often enough
be secondary, and he will communicate his
shock TO an alien public through that
public's own writers and by means of his
influence upon them. An Ibsen, Tolstoi
NietZsche could scarcely hope TO make a
direct impression upon the Partisan public;
he must bring his PROSECUTING force to bear
upon the most advanced and open-minded
of the citys own "intellects."
1t is the idea-the real idea-that counts
not the selling power of the pseudo-idea
or of the nonidea. The cosmopolitan adj
vance will continue, and in another gener-
alton a substantial community will knit
the western world into firm accord for
the general conquest of the world outside.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
The Egotistic Novelist.

Atlantic Monthly.
1 wonder if other readers find the auto
Geographic novel as unsatisfactory as 1 do.
Probably but few, if any, to judge by the
enormous currency which many books writ
ten in that form attain. When 1 have fin
ished reading one such, however entertain
ing and engrossing, lay it by with GER
tain sense of having been disappointed and
half defrauded of the interest and excite
ment which felt L had right to expect.
To enjoy story thoroughly one should
be always uncertain, not only as to what
he will find on the next page, but also as to
what the last chapter will contain for him.
The true playwright understands this. and
resorts to every device he can contrive to
elude both reason and suspicion and to in
crease as much as possible the element of
uneXpectedness in the denouement Con-
slider the splendid illustration given in
Much Ado About Nothing" Follow the
action as closely as we may, estimate every
probability at its full value, and give all
weight to Beatr;ce's virtual betrothal of
herself to Benedick in the chapel scene
yet we shall have come to within about
thirty lines of the last curtain ere Shak-
speare consents to settle the question final
ly and shows us the lady actually accepting
her sutton in the presence of the assembled
company-so that the satisfaction of the
long-perplexed spectator may well range
with the joy of the much-tantaliZed wooer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

Kent, on Sept. q, 1866. His father was
professional cricketer, and the son was
bound apprentice to a draper. Graduating
thence, he took a junior mastership and,
having become scholar of the Royal Col
lege of Science, began to coach others for
similar honors. He then embraced jour-
nalism, whence in a few years he escaped
to the realms of novel writing. THE Time
Machine" is his best-known work.
"A good library" says Talleyrand. in his
memoirs of his own life, "offers aid to
every bent of the SOUL His truly useful
had the freedom of large library. LAS
was always tete-a-tete with the author l
held in my hand, my ideas re-
and never enslaved me. l never questioned
whether this or that was good or bad, but
where / was with regard to it,
Rudyard Kipling's schoolboy story, enti-
tied ''Stalky & Co.," received so little ap-
probation at the time of its appearance
to make notice particularly the Spec
tator in recently pointing out one chapter
in il as almost uneQualed in its way:
IF for no other sentence that he wrote
Mr.. Kipling proved his knowledge of boy
hood by that wonderful sentence in the
chapter entitled The Flag of Their Coun-
try The reserve of boy is tenfold
deeper than the reserve of maid The
Flag of Their Country indeed. stands al
most alone-perhaps with the best passages
in Tom Brown'-as an analysis Of the emo
lions of boyhood. With the exception of
that chapter and Tom Brown there has
been very little written about schoolboys
that is really worth reading"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
COAL, COKE AND WOOD.
". III. LOCKWOOD
PATENT AND TRADEMARK LiWfs,
E5. as Lemcke Bldg. indianapolis. Ind.

tree is situated i'm the rear of the cottages
on Chestnut street, and almost in straight
line out into the woods at the back Of the
cottage owned by l.. A. Weeks. grocer,
Worcester.
"A small company Of men went out dig
ging about 1870 o'clock i'm the afternoon.
and in addition to those already mentioned
were l. w. Pond, George Paul. Porter
Davis, GeoLge Austin, Mr.. Stratton and
others. Father Taylor said TO the party.
Let's go and take hive which was
familiar way of speaking in those days.
They reached the spot mentioned. saw the
three little striplings OF oak, and Father
Taylor. speaking 10 his friends, said: This
is the Father, this Is the Son and this Is
the Holy Ghost"
This was followed by good. oId-fash-
toned Methodist meeting. one that rivaled
the larger meeting which in the af-
ternoon at the auditorium. Between the
singing and praying and preaching and
reading the Scriptures, loud shouts OF
hallelnjah and amens which announced
the coming of thirty sinners into Christ's
kingdom the meeting lasted from 1870 TIL
4 o'clock, when an adjournment was
taken.
Thirty persons were converted at the
Trinity tree and they all adjourned TO
the meeting at the auditorium. When
they got near the platform Phineas Gram
dali said to Father Taylor: Where have
you been, Father Taylor? To which the
devoted Methodist replied: Brother, I
have been TO take up a hive. and l have
secured thirty chickens" This news was
received with much rejoicing. for thirty
people had repented their sins, and Father
Taylor's absence from the meetings was
fully pardoned.
The tree is now between forty and fifty
feet high, strong and sturdy, and gives
promise OF being able TO weather the
storms from Mt. Wachusett for fifty
years more.
After looking over the trees with a good
deal of reverence, he has done every
year for fifty years. Mr.. Wallis left with
the reporter TO attend another meeting in
the afternoon. When he got out OF the
woods he confded that he had spoken TO
Bishop Mallalieu about the Trinity tree.
and that he was going TO get a reporter
TO write something about IL.
The bishop said: when you get the re-
porter uD on that sacred spot, you get
him TO go down on his knees and confess
Christ and don't let him leave the spot
until he does it, And anyone who knows
Truckman Wallis might easily imagine
he could accomplish the desire OF the
bishop II he wanted TO by sheer force. for
he is a man Of over six feet high and
powerfully built, and he could make any
one say prayer by sheer strength. even
IL he never meant IL. But Mr.. Wallis
was considerable of the reporters feelings.
and never said a word to him about what
Bishop Mallalieu told him TO do until he
was long way out of the wood and about
to say goodbye TO him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

lice and maybe private detective agency
on your heels wishing to know why you're
in at all.
But you do get in. Now, imagine a big
house five stories high and cat In II and
dark as pitch. Do you think it's going TO
cry and vicious and thinking the whole
world an enemy? You hear him screech,
and you hurry to where you think he is,
and he isn't there.
You see him jump now and then by the
dim light you carry, but you can't get him,
and finally you get him shut up in one
room, and then, perhaps, he'll roll in ball
as big as your hand and hide away. But
finally you do get him. It's orders, sir.
and there's no getting around them. You've
got to get that cat because you have TO.
i've seen some very handsome carriages
drive up here in the last few days and
some very handsome women in them. VINO
bring their cats to us when they can't take
care. of them or when they are going away.
And it often happens, too, that these same
women will stop their carriages on the
street and pick up the sick things and bring
them here. Some of the dirtiest and sick
Hest looking creatures you ever saw Will
come riding here to their grave. you might
say, cnug on the fine silk skirt OF some
great dame.
There's no putting an end of cats, of
course. This time of year they can take
care of themselves pretty we'll as long as
their health is good, but when they get
sick they might as well come here Of their
own accord because they will surely be
brought by some one of the good angels
the society has Interested
I'm the fall there are lots of homes for
cats because then they are needed. You
see, when the big houses are reopened the
cats are wanted to keep out the mice, and
so they find a home for the winter, but
when summer comes up go the boards and
out go the cats again."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
How to Write Fiction.

New York Evening Post.
Persons intending to write novels, his
torical or otherwise should not fail, before
beginning. to get copy of a recent issue of
the Baltimore Sun, which contains an in
terview with popular woman novelist set
ting forth the methods TO be followed. Even
detected and unappreciated souls whose
manuscripts are frayed and soiled with
many reflections, may now cheer up and
begin over again under more hopeful aus
pices. Those who have supposed that nov
els can be written simply by bringing to-
gether paper and ink, and running the fin
gers through the hair will now realize their
mistake. The essence of the new method is
realism. not realism in the finished product
of the pen but realism in the opening of it.
MY dramatic scenes L write in red ink, "
she says. These things always seem so SIM
pie when they are explained. "And pastoral
scenes 1 write in green. Music
often starts my emotions, and l write under
its influence. / have a red and
black study in New York and a green and
gold one at my home in Kentucky And
she is not standoffish with her 'charac-
ters, as some authors seem to be. Il some
times imagine that my characters are at a
large house party, she says, land there L
have them where their traits can be fully
delineated. Thus, in writing the famous
scene with Patrick Henry in Independence
Hall, Philadelphia, | went TO the hall, and
sitting there, followed Henry 1 imagined
he spoke. and this scene is especially COM
mended by historical critics for its faith
fulness, vigor and graphic tone Again, in
painting Lord Fairfax 1 would often cry
over this character as / went in my minds
eye from Winchester Va, to his estate at
Greenway Court. One method of assistance
in following the characters was TO have
life-size portraits of them, which I exc
cuted myself, hung upon the walls of my
study. Any one can see how easy 1t is to
produce fiction under such circumstances.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

asked the manager Of popular retail gro
Gerry. This condition of things has been
led up to by the successful advertising
campaigns carried on during the last five
years by the manufacturers of the numer-
Gus cereal foods and substitutes for bread.
There have been some attempts to prove
that these cereal foods are worthless, that
many of their supposed virtues find their
origin in the fertile brain Of the shrewd ad-
vertising writer and that the manufacture
ers are forcing their cereal preparations on
a gullible public at enormous profits. But
the public evidently places more faith in
the cereals themselves than in their ira
ducers, for there isn't a doubt in the
world that the grocers in Indianapolis-and
everywhere else, / suppose-are selling
more and more of these much-advertised
foods every day."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
The French Book Market.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The French book market is in a very bad
state. The output of literature has never
been so large, and there has been no cor
responding increase in the market. There
are critics who aver that fine theories are
not needed to explain this state of affairs.
Men like CASTOR Deschamps say that if the
output is larger than ever its mediocrity is
more noticeable. Everybody is writing
novels, and the aggregate sum that is paid
by authors for puffs and pretty notices is
very large. According to printed notices of
books. which are inspired by the author or
sent out by the publisher, all books are
worth buying. To fight against this grow
ing evil a union of literary critics has been
formed under the craftsmanship of NJ. Des-
champs to revive the prestige and influence
of French literature. Their aims are high.
They hope to re-establish independent
criticism, and again to make the press an
intermediary between the author and the
publisher, with these additional purposes
1.-The publication of fiction from lewdness
and the exclusion from the republic of
letters of pirates and amateurs who regard
literature as a means of advancement in a
career of intrigue. charlatanism and false
hood"