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c.r.s.. c.sh,er Pleads Guilty

Henry J. Baker. who rs cashier in
City Treasurer Gerst's office. at Cuf-
faio. \. u. was short $1,000 In his &C.
counts. hes pleaded guilty to graEd
larceny In the first degree.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-03-26
t,.r.,s. In Trade With spain

Imports into Spain. and exports lroh
III. United States to that country III
;i,c last Year showed large Increase.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-03-26
reach Prospscts In MARYLAND.

Reports from all points on the Mary.
land Delaware peninsula show that the
Prospects for big peach cre t..
coming season are promising.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-03-26

President Signs Philippine Bill.
President Roosevelt has signed ihe
Philippines Tariff bill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-03-26
GENERAL caIesKI cAsHIEReo.

Russian Soldier Who Drove 1000 CHI
nese Into the Anur River.
London. - 4 dispatch from Berlin
saws that the Russian General Gribski.
who was responsible for the massacre
at BIagovestchensk. has been dismissed
from the army.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28
Yoakum, Texas.

We occasionally meet with people
who wonder if incubators are sue
cess. They cannot believe that they
will hatch chickens as we'll as hens
will, but they would be tempted to
try them if they could be convinced
they are even a tolerable substitute
for hens. These people can hardly
credit the statement that the incu-
bator will do the work better than
hens will. It will hatch more chicks
from q given number of eggs, and
while it is doing it, it will make no
more trouble for the person in charge
than one sitting hen, This is pre-
suming, of course, that the incubator
is a good one. All incubators are
not equally good, but we know Of
none whose advertisements are ac-
oepted by reputable journals which
are failure.
An incubator should be part of
the equipment Of every farm. The
idea prevails that inoubators are not
for farmers use, as it is supposed
that they require great deal Of at
tention, such as would make it in
convenient for farmer with all of
his other duties in the spring to give
them. The incubator will relieve
the farmers cares instead of increas-
ing them. If he assumes any portion
of the labor of looking after the
chickens he will save time and work
by the use of the incubator.
BrOody hens are always scarce in
March and April. If the flock has
not been laying steadily through the
winter, broody hens will become
plentiful just about the time that
half the crop of chicks should be out
of the shell. The consequence is
that the premises are overrun with
late hatch chicks which will not at
tain maturity until after snow flies
The incubator is always broody, and
will hatch the chicks when you want
them. 1t will pay for itself the first
season, and if we'll cared for, will
keep in good working order for
twenty years. The farmer needs an
incubator as much as anybody. He
will never understand how badly he
needs it until after he has owned one
and used it for a year or two.-Wal-
lace g Farmer.
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No.

that the profit derived is 15 per
cent. over the profits of the two pre-
ceding years. This Is per cent. is
attributed to the bone feed and the
other increase in profits was credited
to the source from which they came.
Now don't feed an overdose at
first, or at any time for that matter
feed regularly.
Don't expect the hens to lay two
eggs daily and the young chicks to
spring up in one night like mush-
rooms, when they are fed bone. Mix
we'll with the other food so that each
bird gets it's proportionate share.
Don't expect to feed bone only.
The bone is only an additional feed,
a sort of tonic.
Now am not going to go into de-
tail to explain how the bone assists
-oouldn't if I wanted to-only to
say that the component parts of all
meat bones are the same, and the
mineral part of bone may be- found
in egg shells. Bone and shells must
be supplied from what the fowl eats,
hence we feed it to them, directly in
the shape of out bone, instead of in
directly, in the shape of corn, oats,
etc., eto. W. f. ADAMS.
YOakuro TaxaS
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28

says DIR. d. E. Salmon, Chief of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, in sub
mitting this report for publication.
''That the character of the animal
is indicated by it's visible and tan
gible qualities is general rule which
has comparatively few exceptions.
The Importance, therefore, of being
able TO judge cattle by sight and
touch is apparent. By means of the
diagram, descriptions and suitable
illustrations embodied in this paper,
there Is enough information neces-
sary, it is believed, TO enable the
stock feeder, she breeder, the farmer,
or the dairyman to become a compe-
tent judge"
The New Hampshire Experiment
Station has made some tests with
methods of
STARTING TOMATO PLANTS.
In one test, the plants were trans
planted into small boxes, so arranged
that the bottom could be easily re.
moved and the dirt allowed TO slip
out, and in the other, they were
transplanted into inch pots. When
the pots we're used, the plants ma
tured and bore fruit earlier than the
plants in the first experiment. The
Station notes that while the pot
system takes more time and occupies
more space, yet from the expert
ments made, it surely pays"
Another experiment. made showed
that the kind of soil in which the to-
matoes were planted seemed TO have
an effect on the amount of rot pro-
duced. Where the soil was inclined
TO dry out, the rot was more prevail
ent, while On q losmy, moist soil,
there was very little rot.
A SCOTCH VIEW.
A correspondent of the Dundee
(Sootland) Advertiser has recently
made q tour of this country and con-
oludes that the agricultural posi-
bilities of America are almost bound
less. He says in a recent issue of
his paper:
"But what of the hopes one some
times hears expressed by hard
pressed farmers at home Gin Scot-
land) that America will soon reach
that stage when the whole proQuce
of her acres will be required to feed
her own teeming population? One
short weeks railway travelling in
America would shatter the most
ardent of them"
GUY z. MITCHELL.
Washington, D. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28
The Poultry Yard.
300 PRIzE ARTICLE on aREEN BONE.

Correspondence OF The Progressive Farmer.
We enclose herewith proof of the
article on the value of fresh cut
bone as a poultry food, which in the
estimation of the three judges is en-
titled to the grand prize of 800.
This article was written by W. F.
Adam, of Yoakum, Texas, to the
Farmers Voice of this city.
Of course we are sorry the article
submitted by one of your readers
did not receive the prize, for it was
most excellent. In fact all Of the
articles we're of very high order,
and the judges tell us the task of
selecting the best one was not at ell
easy.
Kindly publish this prize article
in the earliest possible issue of your
paper, calling attention to the award
in suitable manner, and embracing
the opportunity to properly empha-
size the great value of fresh out
green bone as an article of poultry
food at this season of the year, and
urge your readers to correspond
with various manufacturer of these
bone cutter devices which may be
advertised in your columns.
F. B. WHITE.
Chicago, Ill.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28

There are indications that the in
crease in the tobacco acreage will be
considerable this year, as there is a
good deal of inquiry for seed and many
new barns are being built. The
truckers are getting their fields in
shape for planting whenever the
days permit working the ground. A
good many fields are now planted in
young oa6bages, but their growth is
slow at present, though the roots of
the plants are getting hold on the
soil. The growers of lettuce are
making daily shipments and good
part of the crop has gone North.
This is grown in frames under a can
vas covering. Radishes are being
shipped also. There is not day in
the year when some crop is not be-
ing grown in this seotion.-New-
bern Cor. Post.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28
THE xERr111z1He VALUE OF ASHES.
Washington, D. G.

Correspondence OF The Progressive Farmer.
have a quantity of ordinary wood
ashes, kept dry, unleaohed; burned
fl ON swamp woods, such as gum,
ash, oak. What is it worth pound
for fertilizer as compared with com.
mercial fertilizers? Compare it with
kainit and phosphates. Give figures
80 show comparative value. If kainit
is worth 80 ton, what is wood ashes
worth? What is the weight of
bushel of ashes2 R. L. D
New Hanover Co, N. @.
AnslOer 6y DR.. G. W. Burkett, Of the
". @. A. & NJ. College,:
The kind of wood ashes here men
toned contains per cent. potash
and per cent. phosphoric acid On
a basis of this ton of kainit, cost
ing ten dollars, and containing $50
pounds of potash, would be cents
per pound for potash. A ton of
wood ashes containing 100 pounds of
potash TO the ton, potash at cents,
would be $40. This would be the
relative price then as q source of
potash. but the ashes contain in
ton twenty pounds of phosphoric
aoid at 6 cents per pound, 81 20, be-
sides the lime; which is worth good
das1 b1aho1 Of ashas will weigh
near about fifty pounds, which
makes forty bushels TO the ton. Con
sidering the fertilizing value of
lime, phosphorio acid, and potash,
wood ashes are worth, we can say,
% cents per bushel, taken on a basis
of other sources of this element. You
can then see that if ashes can be
purchased for ten cents a bushel
they are a most valuable source of
fertilizer.
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Chicago, Ill.
The Prize Article.
f. B. WHITE.


Ny experience with out bone as a
food for fowls extends over two
years only with flock of 100 hens.
Prior to that time I had not used cut
bone and my article is based on the
percentage of gain in the growth,
health and eggs of fowls over the
two years previous, when did not
use bone all other conditions for the
four years bsing about the same.
Ny attention being called to the
value of fresh cut green bone as a
food for poultry, I determined to ex-
pertinent. crushed some hog bones
as best could and fed to layers. The
result was so satisfactory I bought q
small bone Gutter and began to feed
green out bone to my poultry regu
larly twice a week. tried all sorts
of bones and have found the hog and
beef bones the best, being easier OBJ
tanned and containing more of the
nutrive value.
get a soup bone of the butcher,
shave off the meat "a little meat
won't hurt if you intend feeding as
soon as cut) and feed the same day
it is cut.
Some people make the mistake of
using bones that have been boiled or
lain out and sun bleached. Some of
the most essential feeding value of
the bone has thus been lost, espe-
oially as feed for growing chicks
The animal, as we'll as the mineral
qualities of the bone, is what makes
it valuable. I experimental with
out chicken bone a little and fancied
| saw an improvement over the other
bone, but am not sure, and even
though there be, it is not convenient
to get green chicken bone. Be sure
that the bones used are not those of
animals that have died of disease,
old age or starvation. The former
two are dangerous to the health of
fowls, the latter worthless. Bones
of young animals are best.
For growing chickens, after two
weeks old, mix the bone meal with
corn crops, dampened with curd
milk (water will do), 80 that each
bird gets from a half to one tea
spoonful of the bone meal, according
to age.
It an excellent bone food for the
fowl and general invigorator and
growth foroer.
Extra large and quick growth bone
in fowls means more meat, and more
meat means to 10 cents per pound.
For laying hens 1 feed mixed as
above, only that each hen gets one
tablespoonful twice or three times a
week, according as I think they may
need an extra allowance. They need
more when they are laying regularly
or moulting.
The results of the bone as a feed
is seen in a very few days in the re-
newed vigor, health and appetite,
and last, but not least, egg product.
Taking every advantage gained by
feeding bone-i. g., general health of
f1ock, quick growth of broilers, in
crease in amount of eggs, etc., over
the two years bone was not fed, l
figure it-and keep close accounts
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28

Sheriff Page, of Wake county, an
old and observant farmer, tells me
he has never seen oats so badly win
ter killed. One cause was the great
dryness last fall. On field of oats
sown as early as last September there
is not a vestige of any. Wheat is
also badly injured by the cold.-F.
A. Olds.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28
EDUCATING FARMERS IN TENNESSEE

correspondence Of The Progressive Farmer.
The short course in agriculture at
the University of Tennessee opened
up on January 3rd with good at
tendance apd bright prospects for
the ensuing term. As many students
found it impossible to secure all the
information they desired in one term
of ten weeks, a second years work
has been introduced The boys are
kept pretty busy, being engaged
from eight O'Clock in the morning
until six at night with an hour and
half for dinner. Each week during
the first year they receive instruc-
tion in the folio wing subjects:
Agricultural Chemistry two hours,
Horticulture six hours, Breeds,
Breeding and Feeding three hours,
Farm Crops and Farm Management
two hours, Mechanic Arts and Wood
Working four hours, Veterinary
Science six hours, DAirying 15 hours,
Stock Judging 10 hours, a total of 48
hours q week.
The boys who have entered the
course in the past have almost with
out exception returned to engage in
farm work and the demand for
trained men is much greater than
the supply. The short course in
agriculture is simply a school of
practical experience where all who
choose may gain useful informa'
ton relating to the best agricul-
tural practice. The need of
education on the farm is of course
apparent and especially is it true in
this age of competition when frauds
are so frequently practiced on the
farmer. Think of farmer paying
S25 to S28 a ton for fertilizer con-
tanning to per cent. of potash and
other ingredients in like proportion?
If he applied 100 pounds of this mix
ture TO the acre he would be putting
on from two to four pounds of pot
ash, an amount utterly inadequate
to supply the needs Of any farm
crop, and yet he is paying
high enough price to secure fer
tilizer containing Is TO 25 pounds OF
potash and the other food ingredi-
ents in the proper proportion if he
had only known how to buy and
mix it himself. Certainly it will pay
the farmer to learn through the
short course about these things.
ANDREW M. SOULE.
University of Tenn, Knoxville.
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University of Tenn, Knoxville.
Lumberton Cor. Charlotte Obser-

Lumberton Cor Charlotte Obser-
YER: Mr.. G. G.. French is succeed
ing nicely with his trucking opera
tions. He has at present %, 200 cab
bage and $4,000 lettuce plants under
cover and his planting will cover
about eight acres. Mr.. John n.
Stitte, of Maryland, is in charge and
saws that the land here is as fine for
such crops as. can be found.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28

Mount Olive Advertiser Every
farmer who had a tobacco crop last
year made money, and nearly every
one who depended upon cotton as
their money crop are now in the
low ground of sorrow.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28
Agriculture
6Vs OF THE FARMING Rid.

V.,hingtOn Correspondent els what
" .,,,, is Being Made IN . Various
.',;,n, Of the Country
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28

Now, both these fertilizers are
very good, but while No. I is excel
lent for grain, it is nearly valueless
for tobacco. 1t is all right in its
proper place ; the planter must study
out these points for himself.
J. M. SHELTON.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28
FERTILIZERS FOR TOBACCO.

Correspondence OfThe Progressive Farmer.
Few plants show suoh wide varia-
tion of quality and still stay on the
market, as tobacco.
Cigar tobacco, pipe tobacco, and
that used for chewing, are three
marked types of quality, the cigar
tobacco leading so far as price is
concerned. While cigar tobacco is
much higher priced than chewing TO-
baooo, at the same time the latter is
of a much ranker growth, and acre
yields are higher. The aim, how
ever, in growing all types of TO-
baooo is to increase the quantity
without lessening the quality. The
preparation of the soil is simple
enough, but it must be done thor
oughly. The main point is to main.
tain a mellow and deep soil, kept
free of weeds, thoroughly and fre-
quently tilleu, and we'll drained.
All these points attended to, we can
then consider the usefulness of mod
ern fertilizing. The tobacco plant
has rather thick f1eshy roots, COM
paratively free of root hairs that is,
the little feeding roots distributed
over the root area of all plants. On
account of the deficient root hairs,
as compared with other plants, TO-
bacoo has a narrow foraging power {;
it cannot to any considerable extent
at least, make available the stores
of insoIuble fertilizers existing in
many soils. In other words, the to.
bacco plant needs highly availa BILE
plant food.
There is another point of perhaps
equal importance-then nature of the
plant food used. Green manuring
or farm yard manure, or cotton seed
meal, when used alone, tend TO de-
velop a coarse rank growth of to-
bacco which natures badly, and
cures very badly. The reason of
this is that the plants are given
abundant supplies Of nitrogen plant
food, but very little potash or phos-
phate. 1t is quite true that green
manure, stable manure and cotton
seed meal all contain potash and
phosphate; but, it is equally true
that these elements of plant food are
not liberated as rapidly as the nitro
gen by the forces at work in the soil.
It is not important to enter into the
reasons of this here; experience has
proved the fact.
However, if the potash and phos-
phate in these manures were as
freely available TO the uses of the
plant4 as the nitrogen, the plant
feeding would still be badly devised.
Nitrogen is the disturbing element
in tobacco growing. Now chemical
analysis shows that so every 100
pounds of nitrogen in these manures,
the potash and phosphorio aoid are
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28

A friend may be reckoned the
masterpiece of Nature.-Emerson.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28
Raleigh, N. c., January %, 1902.

acre about 100 pounds nitrogen, 1O8
pounds potash and 38 pounds phos-
phOric acid. From this data, the
quantity of plant food best to use,
can very easily be figured out.
Chlorine is injurious to the quality
of tobacco, therefore, the potash in
the fertilizer should not contain any
chlorine. High grade sulphate of
potash should be insisted upon by
planters, in the commercial mixtures
offered them. If fertilizer manufac-
turers once know what their GUS
toners want, there will be no diff
GUILTY in having properly made goods
offered. In fact, the planter must
do thinking for himself in growing
tobacco, all along the line, and there
is no more important point than the
balancing of plant food. For example,
two fertilizers are given herewith
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-28


Cotton seed meal. 81 lbs. 80 lbs.
Tobacco. ..... 1853 lbs. 80 lbs.
In every instance the tobacco crop
needs more potash in proportion to
the nitrogen than is furnished by the
manures; in other words, there is
with all these manures, an excess of
nitrogen, which means more or less
of a failure in the quality of the
crop grown with same. All soils
contain more or less plant food as a
natural condition of the soil, but of
the three elements of plant food,
nitrogen most readily becomes avail
able when used in a crude and in
soluble form. Therefore, the aver
age tobacco crop gets more nitrogen
plant food than potash and phos-
phoric acid to properly accompany
same to insure a well-ripened crop
Chemical fertilizers are prepared TO
exactly suit the conditions, and are,
unquestionably the most satisfactory
means of fertilizing tobacco.
AS a result of careful study of
many field experiments, the best all
around formula for tobacco is as fol
lows
Ammonia. ..........4t to per cent.
Postash (actuaD 49,. g to 9 per cent.
Phos. acid (available) to per cent
How much to use is a matter of
individual Judgment, or experience
also, upon the quantity of crops ex-
peoted. Connecticut produces !, 400
pounds leaf per acre as against 400
mounds in North Carolina. 1t is
evident that more FERTILIZER should
he used in Connecticut than in North
Carolina. AS a matter of fact, a
fairly good crop of tobacco uses per
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All Stores Sell Them!
PARNELL MEMORIAL FUND.
John Redmond Issues Statement Re-
garding His Connection Herewith.

New York Oct. 21.-John f. Red
mond of the Irish Parliamentary
party, made a statement, today. con-
corning the funds collected first to
buy the Parnell estate, and. when that
plan fell through, to erect a Parnell
monument. In letter to the Irish
Times. Mrs. Dickinson. Il sister of
Charles Stewart Parnell demanded an
accounting from Redmond. A London
dispatch of Saturday last. said that
Mrs. Dickinson had made public all the
correspondence she had with Mr..
Redmond on the subject. Mr.. Red
mond's statement. today. is as fol-
lows:
The funds collected by Lord Mayor
Talon and myself never at any time
passed through my hands. They went
to the Parnell monument committee in
Dublin and subsequently invested in
government stock for the treasurer of
that committee by the most eminent
/ stockbrOker in Dublin. James Mclean.
AS far as | know. the only actual ex-
penditure has been in the purchase of
bronze bust of Parnell, which was
required by the sculptor who is max
ing the monument. and in the pur-
chase of the Avondale library.
These funds We're collected for the
purpose of creating Il memorial to Par
nell. This memorial was to consist of
monument in the streets in Dublin
and if possible the purchase of the
Mansion house of AvOndale to be held
for the nation. much as WashingtOn's
birthplace is at Mount Vernon. At the
sale of the estate, two years ago, the
committee bid for the house, but We're
outbid by a Dublin butcher who bid for
! the whole estate, including the house.
/ II afterwards transpired that he was
! acting in unison with John Parnell and
! that he paid the latter $4,000 in adj
/ dition to the $4,000 paid as the price
of the estate.
1T being no longer possible to pur-
! chase the house, the committee made
contract with Augustine st. Gau
I dens to build a monument. There has
been some regrettable delay. but the
model is now complete and Mr.. St
J Gaudens is coming here tomorrow. to
show il to me. l hope the work will
now proceed rapidly and that the
monument will soon be in its place
/ The funds ut hand are not enough to
complete the payment for the mOnu
ment. but there will be no difficulty in
obtaining the necessary balance when
! required.