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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
TIE DOoDLFs OF CATAWBA.
One OF the Scheduled Speakers Tumbles Under
the Weight of "Old Corn"
(special to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer.)
Newton, N. c., Aug. 16.-At the Repub-
lican convention held here today Attor-
ney Joel Muser, an ex-Democrat was
made permanent chairman, Jos. Bandy,
storekeeper and gauger, and j. F. Miller,
editor of Hickory Press, permanent secre-
taries.
Revenue officeholders were out in full
force. Negroes were conspicuous by their
absence. Prof ]. J. Butt. of Asheville,
spoke, declaring repeatedly that the no
gro issue was dead. Attorney A. A.
Whitener, another ex-Democrat, address,
cd the convention and will canvass the
county this fall.
The United States consular agent to
uFrance, who was scheduled to speak,
staggered up the aisle and fell in heap.
He did not speak.
The speakers all declared the Repub-
hcan party was a white party. More
was said concerning the negro than has
been heard here since last election
Delegates to the State, Congressional
and Senatorial conventions were selected.
No nominations were made. There will
be mass meeting for fusion nominations
September 18th.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17

veterinary science, and through reading
the best books on the subject he has got
ten to be quite COW doctor. There
were other replies to the circular men
toned, and the gist of the whole is that
while elton seed meal and bulls NAV
be fed as part of we'll balanced ration
the notion that beeves can be fattenad
safely and dairy cows kept in health
and productiveness on a ration of meal
and hulls is an error. Beef cattle can
not be fed safely longer than 90 DAVIS
nthe meal and hull diet. BY that time
they will begin to show signs of uraemic
poisoning, and If the ration is not
changed will certainly die. The whole
state of the matter is just about what
we insisted upon years ago. That cot
ton seed meal is useful material for
adding protein to a well balanced ration
of good carbonaceous foods, and the
bulls make good absorbent bedding. but
cannot compare with silage and pea vine
hay as roughage.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
H. & B. BEERS MARKET LETTER.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer)
New Orleans, La, Aug. 16.-Liverpool
advices were more encouraging than
looked for consequently our market
opened unchanged to 2 points higher and
advanced slightly shortly after on fresh
buying. AS soon, however, as this de-
mand was filled values eased off and the
market remained quiet until the close,
when it became steady on shorts covering
advancing to points from the bot
tom, making the net gain to points
on the day. Good showers fell over the
entire eastern portion of the belt, but
generally fair weather prevailed else
where. The predictions are for rains in
Georgia, Tennessee and Eastern Ar
kansas tonight and Sunday, whereas gen.
orally fair weather will be prevalent
elsewhere. While weather conditions
continue favorable there are reports OF
deterioration being received from Ala
bama and portions of Georgia. Spots are
inactive as spinners show no disposition
to take hold on the present basis. Re-
ceipts of new cotton are being reported
from all sections and with any improve
ment demand for spots the movement will
increase rapidly. Operators feel satisfied
that the crop outlook is favorable for
a large yield, yet they are tim:d and
averse to selling shorts for the moment
owing to the discounts and fears of an
ticipated manipulation.
H. & B. BEER.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
More Fishing Pole Thieves.

Mr.. E. w. Porter, on West Jones street,
has again been visited by thieves; but
this time they got no money, only a
pair of pants which they fished through
window
The stolen pants were found under
Mr.. Andrew Johnsons house. where the
fishers of pants had doubtless cast their
catch. An old hat was also found on
the rear porch, occupying the place where
a god one had hung. A pantry had been
entered, too. but it was empty Here a
newspaper was found, partly burned.
This makes the third time that Mr.
Porter has been favored by thieves, who
last winter called on his with greater
profit, collecting on one occasion $40 and
on another 81.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
MOysrROsITY AT ROCKY MOUNT.
Ono Body, Two Heads, Pour Arms aud Four
Legs To Negro Child
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
ROCKY Mount, n. c, Aug ia mon
strosity of the Millie- Christine or
Siamese Twins was brought to Rocky
Mount today by DR.. w. P. Mercer, of
Edgecombe.
IL, or they was the dead body or bodies
OF baby or babies, the offspring of a
negro woman whose color is between
ginger cake and black, while her hus-
rand is mulatto. The infant had one
trunk, tow heads, four arms and four
legs. One pair of arms came from the
shoulders, the other pair behind them.
while the extra pair of legs we're to the
side of the ordinary position of the first
rair.
The faces were fully developed, and
each head was covered with hair. Ono
face was of the pronounced negro type.
while the other was a bright mulatto.
1t was examined with great interest
by the physicians, each of whom de-
clared that there was no other specimen
of human anatomy like it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17

Sometimes the wheat was repeated on
the same land and the land then planted
| to corn. and wheat crop followed this
corn to be apologized for as corn
ground" wheat Glover was sown with
this wheat crop to be treated as before.
The wonder is not that the corn land
wheat was poor, but that it was anything
at all The clover did very little good
| bv reason of the hard grazing where not
even a stubble was returned to the SOIL,
and the hard clay soil became closer and
closer by reason of lack of humus. While
with the summer following fairly good
crops of wheat were grown, the land evil
IDENTIFY was decreasing in productiveness
| in general and needed larger applications
| of commercial fertilizers. The corn land
wheat was poor by reason of the preYl-
Gus treatment of the land. The little
humus acquired from the clover roots
was all used up by the wheat and corn.
The still older three-field system was
corn followed by a weed pasture fallowed
for wheat in July and the land back to
corn after the wheat. This method was
so tructive that the older farmers
who remember it are apt to be shy OF a
three-year rotation. The wheat growing
section of the Middle States will never
increase in general productiveness until
something like tho thrce-field system is
practiced, and the farmers abandon for
ever the practice of pasturing their cul-
tivated fields Where wheat is the great
money crop, as in Eastern Maryland, the
clover should all be saved for hay or
seed and not hoof allowed on the field
BY feeding all the forage grown one
ha oh to a large
part of this sod with manure. This
should make good corn crop, and the
buried sod and manure will be brought
into fine condition for the wheat follow
ing. and in few rounds of this rotation
there will be no reason to apologize for
the corn land wheat, while the produc-
ton of corn and clover will be greatly
increased. In the climate of the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, it may be desirable
to lengthen the rotation in order to get
in the oats crop. In this case l would
SOW COW peas among the corn at the last
working, gather seed from them and let
the remainder lie on the ground till time
to prepare for oats. Then pillow them
down for the oats. As soon as the oats
are harvested pillow and sow in peas
again. Cut these for hay and then pre-
way for wheat This plan provides all
the advantages of summer fallow, the
land being plowed in the spring and at
mid summer and gotten into the same
condition as though summer fallowed,
with the advantage of having been shell
tered all summer by the peas, and reap
ing the benefit of the nitrogen trapping
which the peas have done. This method
removes all the objections to using the
clover sod for corn instead of wheat,
and gives all the advantage of a sum-
mer fallow without its exhausting eff
fects. But there is really no difficulty
in the three year rotation, for wheat
following corn that was planted on a
MANFRED clover sod which had not all
been pastured off, will have as good a
chance for success as anywhere in the
rotation we have named.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
TO DECIDE WHO sHALLBE
CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR
Hon. c. B. Watson Proposes, To Capt & 2.
Glenn That the Forsyth Convention be
Asked to Settle It.
(special to News and Observer

Especial to News and ODSerVer.)
Winston Salem, N. c., Aug. 16.-Hon.
c. B. Watson, one of Forsyth's Demo-
cratic candidates for the United States
Senate writes the following open letter
to his opponent, Capt. r. B. Glenn. the
same appearing in this afternoons Sen
tinel:
Hon. R. B. Glenn, Winston Salem, n. e.
Dear Sir: 1 desire to be candidate
before the next General Assembly for
election to the honorable and responsible
position Of United States Senator to sue
coed Senator Pritchard. l understand
that you also desire and expect to be a
candidate. Should we both be candt-
dates neither of us would be able to
command the united and hearty support
of our many mutual friends in Forsyth
county, and their efforts in behalf of
either of us would be seriously lacking
in that strength which comes from
unioa. recognize your right to seek
the honors of the Democratic party, and
presume that you recognize my right to
do the samoa just appreciation of the
friendship of the people of our county
and their interests demands that only one
of rs shall be a candidate before the
General Assembly for this position. /,
therefore, hereby notify you that my
friends expect to make metior before
the county convention, soon to be held,
that said convention express its senti-
mcnts as to which one of US shall re-
Coive the united support of the Demo-
cratic party in Forsyth county, and
respectfully request, for the SAKE OF
harmony, that you and your friends unite
with me in asking the convention to
settle this matter.
Very respectfully,
&c. B. WATSON"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
Wheat After Corn.
(W. +. Massey.)

(W. +. Massey)
In some sections of the wheat growing
region in the East it is hard to get
farmers to realize the great advantage
in the Improvement of the land by the
use of the three year rotation in which
wheat comes in after corn. We remem-
Der in our boyhood in Maryland time
and again hearing farmers apologize for
the poor appearance of a field of wheat
by saying that it was corn ground wheat
and could no the expected to be as good
as that of we'll fallowed land, and there
is no doubt that so far as the immediate
wheat crop was concerned they were
right. The practice was to Craze right
into the ground a second year clover
field, and break it in July or early Au-
gust in preparation for the wheat crop.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
FEEDING COTTON SEED MEAL AMI
HULLS

When the editor of the Practical Far
mer stated as the result of his observa-
lions a few years ago, that the practice
that was growing up in the South of
making cotton seed meal and hulls an
exclusive diet for cows and beef cattle
was a dangerous practice and resulted
in poor beef and poor butter, he was
roundly scored by the enthusiasts who
thought that stock feeding inthe South
was completely settled by the practice.
That small amount of cotton seed
meal may be safely used in supplying
protein in ration is doubtless true.
but no domestic animals can long exist
safely on ration of meal and bulls alone
Lately manufacturer of cotton and cot
ton seed machinery addressed a circular
letter to sundry dairymen near Charlotte
~ c.. asking their opinion in regard to
the feeding of cotton seed meal and
hulls One dairyman who feeds an aver
age of 100 cows stated that he uses the
meal and bulls to feed while the cows
are at pasture, and during the winter
feeds them with other forage. He fur
Their states that the meal and hulls
should by all means be discontinued
three months before calving, because it
will certainly produce abortion or puny
calves, nor will the COWS do we'll after
the Salves go. Young cattle are
often killed with it, Another large
dairman writes that years ago he con-
Guided that cotton seed meal and bulls
were the cheapest and best feed to be
had and he fed them largely He dis
carded all other forage and grain and
fed daily ration of 20 to % pounds of
hulls and to pounds of meal per
COW. THE milk yield was all l could
desire during the winter. The following
May | lost one COW after another until
p or "a had died. Impaction of the
manifold was all l could see to be wrong.
When cows got to grass they ate less
| of the ration at the barn, and no more
died. He fed again the following win
| ter and in May again the cows died.
| Since that he has used ensilage and hay
and BRAN and still feeds some cotton
seed meal. but no. more as an exclusive
protein food. The high price of bulls, ne
| finds, has stimulated the production of
forage and dairymen prefer ensilage to
hulls, since it can be placed before the
cows at cost of less than$2 per ton
and is cheaper and better than hulls at
| ". This gentleman, who is a Practical
| Farmer reader, says that the.}oSs CT $SG0
| worth of cows made him a student OF
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
BROKE INTO BOX CAR.
Two Negroes Steel Cask of of whiskey From
Southern Depot

Crockett Moss, of Franklinton, and
Charles Alexander, of Portsmouth, ne
groes, were arrested yesterday morning
for breaking into box car at the South
ern Railway depot and stealing a cask
of whiskey, consigned to the dispensary
at Clayton. Mayor Powell sent them both
to Jail in default of bonds for $50. The
whiskey was found in Sally Hawkins
house.
Henry Switzerland got thirty days on
the roads for firing a pistol on South
Bloodworth street.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17

Littleton Female College is being COM
pletely renovated, including inside paint
ing, rewhitening walls, etc. preparatory
to the largest opening in it's history.
This institution has made notable re-
cord among North Carolina schools and
its patronage is rapidly extending to sec
tions beyond the borders of the State.
Concerning the institution DR.. A. ID.
Belts says: 81 have seen something of
schools for long time, / have looked
into some that / call ideal schools. l
have never seen a better place for girls
than Littleton Female College"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
CROP NOTES.
(By w. F. Massey, in Practical Farmer.

nv w F. Massey, In Practical Farmer)
A PENNSYLVANIA subscriber writes:
"About thirty years ago, when my rather
came upon a much Impoverished farm he
was unable to cut much hay, even with
good sets of grass. But oneheld; caIIeo
an orchard because it had about forty
scabby apple trees in it, and wnich was
not pastured, was an exception 10 the
general rule There the aftermath grew
very rank. and made winter bed through
which the mice cut lanes until it seemed
that the grass would be permanently IN
iured. But the unpastured timothy came
out all right in the spring. Finally the
apple trees were all gone. An appllca-
ton of 100 bushels of Stacked lime Ialled
to restore the productiveness OF the lana.
The yield now that the cattle Craze the
aftermath is no better than that from
the other fields. The field receives us
fair quota of manure in the rotation Oh
crops, but it is not the ideal meadow IL
was when stock were not allowed TO pas
ture on it in autumn" All or winch
goes to prove the truth of what we nave
time and again insisted upon, that graz
ing of any of the cultivated fields is
mistake The hard fall grazing in West
ern Pennsylvania and in Ohio is doing
more harm to the lands there than all
the cropping did. One has but to ride
along the railroads there in the late fall
to see the havoc that has been made by
close pasturing. Grass that goes into
winter entirely denuded of any growth
above ground. cannot be expected to
make a crop of hay tho next season! The
remedy on Eastern farms is permane
pasture and the abandonment of any
pasturage on the cultivated fields on the
farm.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
Mr.. Hunt Doing Well.

Mr.. Jas. r. Young received a message
yesterday from Mr. w. A. Hunt, saying
that he was getting along very well, and
expected to return home soon. Mr.. Hunt,
who is cashier of the Bank of Henderson,
was so Injured in boarding a Norfolk
street car last Thursday that it was nee
essary tc amputate his foot.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
Wage Scale Agreed On.
(By the Associated Press !

Knoxville, Tenn, August 16.-The
wage scale committee of the district
mine workers and the Coal Creek and
Jcllico operators reached an agreement
today An advance of one and half
sents per ton on screened coal and cent
per ton on run of mine was granted by
the operators. Nine hours remains a
days labor, monthly pay day is un-
changed and day laborers get an advance
OF between onc-third and one-half cents
an hour.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
THE FARMER AND HIS ADVISERS.

| THE FARMER AND HIS ADVISERS.
There is no lack of advisers for the
tiller of the soil, men who are qualified
| to advise The old time theorists who
| formerly aired their bodies in the agri-
| cultural press are no more, for the agrl-
cultural press has been compelled by the
| increasing intelligence \of the farmers
themselves to present better matter to
their patrons. But there has grown up
another class of advisers of the farmer.
These do not give any advice in regard
to farm matters, for they do not know
anything about these things. But they
Jump to the conclusion that it looks
smart to try to ridicule what other men
are doing In a paper published down
in North Carolina one of these smart
"Alecs" airs himself thus: cit is all very
well for a man with a billed shirt to sit
in the shade and tell the farmers how
it ought to be done, but it is about
sensible as it would be for him to write
an article on how an engineer should
run his engine or a sawmill man his
business" If he knew more about these
things than the engineer or the sawmill
man did it would be all right for him to
advise. These people imagine that the
of stuff, and that their little papers will
be helped by their ridiculing the efforts
of the men who have for years been labor
ing for the elevation and improvement
of agriculture. It does not seem to have
occurred to this little cross roads editor
that the man with the billed shirt may
know something that would be to the in
terest of the farmer to learn. He has
yet to learn that the wearing of decent
clothes does not make a man poorer
farmer and the billed" shirt may itself
be an evidence that the wearer has sue
ceeded at his farming better than the
man who does not wear one. There is
too much of this f1ippant sort of writing
by country editors who know nothing of
farming themselves, and think thus to
cater to the more ignorant or their
patrons. The writer's for the agricul-
tural press today are, as a rule, the best
farmers in the country, men who have
done what they advise others to do, and
who are fully qualified to help their fell
low tillers of the soil There is nothing
the farmer in the South needs more than
good advice. He is ANXIOUS to learn i'm
proved ways of tilling the soil and rota-
ton of crops, and it would better fit the
editors of country papers to hold up the
hands of those striving to help than to
try to ridicule what they do not COM
prehend.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17

I.ittleton Female College, Littleton, N.
c.. has the reputation of being one of
the most thorough and progressive
schools in North Carolina A postal card
would bring you a copy of the large, il
Illustrated catalogue, which is very
handsome booklet.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
General Lees Telegrapher Dead
NV tho Associated Press

(By the Associated Press.)
Cumberland, Md, August 16.-George
w. PointZ, who was chief telegraph OPP
orator at the headquarters of General
Robert e. Lee during the Civil War.
died at Beverly, w. Va, today, aged
sixty-two years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17

SPECIAL OF F E R.--NEWSPAPER
outfit complete; ample material for
seven column paper to be sold at once
at a mere sacrifice. Be quick. Ad
dress Attorney" Rutherford College,
N. c..
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
CINCHO WILL RELIEVE THAT
tired feeling. At all fSJntains.

Children are instinctively delicate
about not wondering as TO their fathers
brains.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-04-03

Ii might be said that the civilization
1T country is measured by It's CON
sumption OF sulphuric acid, chemical
product which is al the bottom or al
most every industry. Chemistry is re-
sponsible for the existence of all explo-
sives. In this last respect. so far as
usefulness for war is concerned, II
might be deemed destructive, but in It's
production OF fertilizers 1t is creative,
and In its manufacture OF medicines II
is preseryative Of human life. Chemis-
try has made II practicable TO produce
a pure quality of gas for Illuminating
purposes. There would be no good inks
il il were not for chemical science.
Where would photography be but for
chemistry. upon which the whole art
depends?
The whole leather industry depends
upon chemistry for tanning Is chem
ical process Mineral oils. such as kerc
sene. are purified by chemical means,
and the same may be said OF vegetable
oils and OF all the pigments employed
for painting. Many kinds of foods are
preserved by the help Of salicylic acid
and other chemicals. which are not
harmful when used in very small guam
titles Saturday Evening Post.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-04-03
Recreative "Imprisonment

The sentence of two and a quarter
years Imprisonment in fortress
which has been passed on the German
officer Lieutenant Theme. who lately
shot dead student of Jena In a duel.
is by no means so severe as ii looks.
"Festungs-arrest" in Germany is a
comparatively pleasant affair. The of
tenders have an agreeable barrack
room placed at their disposal, from
which they can emerge ut stated hours
and enjoy a pensive walk about the
confines Of the fortress, and they may
have a servant to wait upon them.
There are few officers thus 'incarcer-
ated" who do not relish the change
from the disciplinary rigor OF the bar
rack yard TO the delightful promenade
afforded them within the precincts OF
such picturesquely situated fortresses
as Konigstein on the Elbe. or Ehren
breitstein on the Rhine, where they
are deprived of almost no privileges
save the empty one of wearing their
swords. And then, too, in most cases
about five-sevenths of their nomin;
''time" is always RENTED them. espe-
cially in cases Of dueling when they
resume their career in new garrison.
London Chronicle.