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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-03-19
Tents for the Reunion at Dallas.

Washington, March l4.-The
House to-day adopted resolution
to authorize the Secctary OF War
to loan tents to the Texas Confed-
crate Reunion Association, which
meets at Dallas April 90.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-03-19
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COD LIVER Caa
M7HHIPGPHOSlSy7ES ofLIHES 6 SODA

will generally correct this
difficulty.
If you will put from one.
/ fourth to half a tesspoonsul
in baby's bottle three or sour
times a day you will soon see
a marked Improvements. For
larger children, from !2a.f to
a teasPoonful, according to
age, dissolved in their milk,
If you so desire, vii: very
soon show its great nourish-
ing power. If the mothers
milk does not nourish the
baby, she needs the emu!.
sion. IL will show AT effect
at once both upon mother
and child.
SOC. and $I,oo, all druggists
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-11-20
CLOTHING.

68 only left of those high grade tail
or made mems suits in assorted sizes
and patterns, j. ID. N. & Co.'s price
$1,000, $2l.00 and 5000,
our price to clean up now SIl.00
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
81 only, left of those High Art Sl4
and SIG suits from the j. ID. n. & Co.
stock, our price to clean up, $3.50
enSeosee1%esee<e>seaeeeS@ 80
SIG and SIS mems overcoats SITS
So and $l4 mems overcoats $3.50
s. and 81 mems ovcrcoats Sl.25
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
A MIsAPPREHENsION.

Occasionally somebody breaks the
silence by sneering at science as ap-
piled to farming, and declaring that
common sense, experience and work
are all n farmer needs. Men had
been cultivating the soil by common
sense and main strength for many
thousands of years before science was
brought to bear upon the subject, and
what was the result? The best pillow
was the "Cary" with an iron point and
land side, and a wooden mould-board,
with which the land was broken and
the crop cultivated. The grain was
cut with a scythe and threshed with
fails or trodden out by horses or cat
tie, just as the Egyptians did 1000
years before. The best harrows were
cut from a forked tree, and had wood
en- pegs for teeth. Cotton was picked
from the seed by hand at the rate of a
pound and a-quarter in ten hours.
Thousands of acres were planted in
grapes in New York and the New Eng
land States, and were abandoned be-
cause the fruit all rotted on the vines.
1t was thus also in Europe until
science developed the fact that a mix
ture of bluestone, lime and water
would prevent these diseases. 1t was
already known that bluestone would
destroy the spores of fungi, but it was
not known that these diseases of the
grape were fungus diseases until
science demonstrated their true char
acter and indicated the remedy. That
section now ships train loads of
grapes to all parts of the country.
Fifty years ago it required an average
of 80 minutes labor of a man to pro-
duce a bushel of wheat. Now, by the
use of scientific tools and methods
only % minutes are required. Then
cotton seed was a waste product.
Science has made the cotton seed crop
worth $50, OOO,O 900 to the farmers of the
South. The plain meat and bread and
potatoes, the almost universal diet of
American farmers fifty years ago are
now made into several hundred choice
foods, preserved indefinitely by purely
scientific processes unknown two gen
erations ago. The labor-saving i'm
plements that enable the farmer of
today to grow three times as much as
his father did, are constructed on
scientific principles or they would not
do the work. There is no class of
peOple-no industry that has received
so much benefit from applied science
as farmers and farming.-Farm and
Ranch.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
Farm Miscellany.
VELVET BEANS.

When mentioning this crop as one
of the forage crops which can be sue
cessfuIy grown in the South, we re-
marked that it was, in our opinion,
better fitted to be grown as a soil-im-
proving crop than for feed, as it is
such a rampant grower that it is ex-
ceedingly difficult to cut and harvest.
In confirmation of this, we observe
that the crop was grown at the North
Carolina Test Farm at Tarboro last
year, and turned down as a prepare
ton for a corn crop. The result was
that the plot 80 treated produced the
heaviest yield of corn and stOver of all
the plots tested. The yield of corr on
this plot was $3.50 bushels per acre,
and of slower $3.50 TBS. The next best
yield was on a plot on which a com
plete fertilizer had been applied fol-
lowing a dressing of lime in 1900. On
this plot, the yield was 25.40 bushels
per acre, and 1900 lbs. of slower. The
next highest yield was made on a plot
Oh which Soy beans had been turned
down. This plot made a yield of 24.40
bushels per acre, and 1920 lbs. of
slower. The value of the increased
yield on the Velvet bean plot, over the
cost of fertilizer, taking the value of
corn at so cents per bushel and of
slower at So per ton, was $11.54, which
was nearly five times more than the
value of the increased yield on any
other plot. This great value as a fer
tilizer comes largely from the fact of
the wonderful power of the plant to
gather and store nitrogen from the at
mosphere. DR.. Stubs told US some
time ago that he had seen nitrogen
nodules on the roots of Velvet beans
nearly as large as pigeon eggs. Of
course the great mass of humus pro-
ducing matter provided by the plant
has also considerable infuence.-June
Southern Planter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01

lieving the overburdened farmers
wives of an immense amount of druid
gerry.
CONCLUSION.
With u most favorable natural
conditions and thrifty manhood, the
lively demand for dairy products and
~by-products and ample transportation
facilities therefor, the encouragement
given the livestock industry by our
State in fairs and schools, nucleus
of laws on the subject and our body
of legislators, men of our own choos-
ing, waiting to do our bidding, to pass
any measure we ask for the protection
of the home industry, there seems to
be no real obstacle in the way of the
highest development of dairy farming
in North Carolina.
A great harvest waits for somebody
and unless the people of our own State
soon take up the work, alien hands will
come in and bear away the sheaves.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
WILLIAM CONWAY.
Deafness Cannot be Cured

HR local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion Of the ear. There is only one
way to cure Deafness, and that is by constttuo
famed condition Of the mucous lining Of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube getsfnfamed
ing, n when it is entirely closed Deafness is
tie result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out Of ten are caused by eatarTh,
which IL nothing but an in1amed condition OF
Abe mucous surfaces.
we will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness (eaused by catarrh) that cam
not be cured By Halls Catarrh Cure. 9 for
circulars, free.
No1d 6V Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
HELPING OUT THE SUMMER PASTURES
Cor. of The Progressive Farmer.


The success of summer dairying de-
ponds upon the pasture first, and then
on the way the pasture is helped out
in the way of providing additional
summer food. We have passed the
age of dairying where a progressive
farmer depends entirely upon a pas
ture field, turning his cows loose there
all summer, and letting them scurry
for a living. Such COWS live in clover
the first half of the summer, and near
ly starve during the rest of the season.
They grow lean and weak, and their
milk supply gets smaller and thinner
every week, and by the time fall and
winter they are pretty speci-
mems. A farmer once told the writer
that he had tried summer dairying and
winter dairying, and there was money
in neither. Upon investigation it was
found that his system was to starve the
COWS in summer for winter dairying,
and vice versa for summer dairying.
The resultwas the animals never came
up to the mark because it took them
half the season to recover from the
starvation process.
Whether you intend to try winter
dairying Or depend simply upon sum-
mer dairying, it is necessary to have
good pasture through the summer, and
in the late summer and autumn it is
necessary to help the pasture out. This
is simpler than many imagine. Some
times it simply means fencing off a
portion of the field so the grass has a
chance to grow while the COWS are
feeding on the other part. Constant
daily cropping in hot, dry weather
kills the grass and keeps the plants
from ever getting any Roadway. If
the pasture field is sufficiently large,
fence part of it off in August, and in
this way keep it green and healthful.
Also be sure that the weeds and briers
are kept cut down. Do not let any of
these go-to seed. Their spread will
ruin a pasture lot quicker than any
thing. The COWS do not disturb the
weeds and briers, and consequently
they have the opportunity to grow and
thrive while the grass has not. At
least give the latter a fair chance in
the race.
Help the pasture out with ensilage
and corn stover crops. Do not be
sparing with these even in summer.
They may save a good deal for the
late fall pasture, which is oftentimes
more valuable to the dairyman than
the early spring and summer grass. A
little system like this will go a long
way toward keeping up the quality and
supply of milk and cream, and at the
same time preserving the health of
the animals for the fall and winter
work. p
William CONWAY
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
BUTTER N CHEESE

Probably, also, because of the ex-
pense of transportation we never can
compete in the milk trade of our large
American cities. Nevertheless, there
remain two other dairy products, but
ter and cheese, for which there is an
enormous demand at home and abroad,
the excess of which over home con-
sumption can be conveniently put up
ON the worlds market. Of the i'm
mense annual total of butter con-
sumed in North Carolina by far the
greater part is shipped in from other
States, and of the thousands of pounds
of cheese bought, not ten per cent is
manufactured at home. Besides this,
not less than half a hundred agents
traverse our State in the interest of
butter substitutes, inducing our peo-
pie to buy at smaller cost what is rep
resented to be as good as butter" My
brethren, these things ought not so to
be. So much the more to our dis
credit when we have every advantage
for production, such that we're a Chi
nese wall built around our State cut
ting us off entirely from the worlds
supply, we still might feast on the
products of the dairy forever and for
ever.
We believe that if our people knew
how to take hold of this work they
would do it; and they can know if they
will.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
PRACTICAL DAIRY TRAINING.

The subject of butter-making in
cludes the study of the composition
of milk, it's value as a food, and the
care which should be given it as such,
practical work in the use of cream
s~eparators, and Babcock test for but
terfat, in determining acidity of
cream, churning, working and finish
ing off butter, care of utensils and de-
tails of dairy work generally.
Instruction is given also in method
of keeping records of expenses and
products of cows, so that the farmer
may weed out of herd the improbable
individuals and carry on his work ac-
cording to business principles, instead
of guess-wOrk, upon which he has de-
pended for such a long time and with
such poor results.
Factory systems of manufacturing
butter are considered and advocated
as a means of providing a better fin
ished product at smaller cost, and re-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
Giant Towering GaIadium

Grandest foliage and towering plant yet introduced.
LeavesS to feet long bye or as feet broadi perfectly
immense, and make g plant which fortrOpfcal luXur1ance
has no equal. Added TO this wonderful foliage effect are
the mammoth Iily-like blossoms, IL to 15inches long, snow
white with q rich and exquisite fragrance. Plants bloom
round in pots. Not only is il the grandest garden or lawn
plant but as o pot plant. Tor large windows. verenoeesS
halls, or Conservatives, it rivals the choicest palms In
foliage, to ynothing Of its ma Cnifcent flowers. ThTtyes
in any soil or situation, and grows and blooms all the
year, and will astonish every one with its magnthcence-
so novel, ehectye, Tree growing and fragrant a..
Fine plants, which will soon bloom and reach ulper-
lection, S6cs eachS 8 for 0OcsS 8 for 91.OO bY
mail, postpaid, guaranteed to arrive In good condition.
OUR GREAT CATALOGUE OF Flower and
fusely Illustrated; Large Colored Platesi 1876 pages FREE
70 any who expect 70 order. Many greatnoVeldes.
JOHN LEWIS CHlLDS, Floral Park. N. u
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
Additional SIeepers
Go into Service From Various Points
to Principal Resorts, thus afording
GREATLY IMPROVED FACUI-
TIES

For heacnlng Ihose Points.
Particular attention is directed to the
elegant Dining Car Service on
Principal Through Trains.
The Southern Railway has Just is
sued its handsome Resort Folder, de-
scriptive of the many delightful re-
sorts along the line of its road. This
folder also gives the names of proprie-
tors of hotels and boarding houses and
number of guests they can accommO-
date. Copy can be had upon applica-
ton to any Southern Railway Ticket
Agent.
For detailed information as to rates,
etc., call on nearest ticket agent Or
address, T. @. STURGIS, @. T. A.,
Raleigh, NO.
S. H. HARDWICK, G. P. A.,
Washington, D. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
DAIRY EDUCATION.

Within the limits OF our aplCaI City
stands the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College, the property of the State.
It's faculty list includes men who are
consecrated to the idea of industrial
development. In the Department of
Agriculture are instructors who are
familiar with the details of farming
from actual subject, but not, as preju-
dice has so often charged, simply book
farmers. This Department offers
three different courses-a f~our-year,
which equips broadly, a two-year edu-
eating in general principles and appli-
cation, but not so much in detail, and
a ten-weeks course beginning in Jan
uary of each year, and arranged espe-
cialiy for those who by reason of age
or home surroundings or finances can
not remain longer, and which may nat
urally be expected to reach a far great
er number of our people than the other
two. Suffice it to say that the promi-
hence given in the short course to the
study of dairy farming augurs well
for our future in that industry.
TBE KIND OF INSTRUCTION GIVEN.
An outline of the instruction bear
ing directly upon that subject may not
be out of place in this paper-soil inn
provement, cattle-raising and butter
making.
Under soil improvement lectures are
given in regard to different types of
soil, physiology of plant life, the
proper rotation of food crops in con-
nection with r~enovating crops, COM
position of commercial fertilizers and
the intelligent use of them, the value
and care of refuse animal products
and their application to the land,
proper drainage and preparation of
soil, the cultivation, harvesting and
profitable disposition of various crops.
and the use of l~abor-saving machinery
employed throughout.
In connection with cattle-raising,
different breeds are discussed, from
the distinct dairy type to the opposite
or beef type. There is instruction as
to keeping up and improving herds,
both by breeding and selection, and in
stock judging and veterinary science.
Lessons in rational feeding, explain
ing the physical need of animals for
various purposes, functions of food in
body, digestibility of various feeding
stuffs, dry and succulent, their rela-
tive food values and proper combina-
tions, the comparative cost and sue
cess of dry, soiling and ~silo-feeding,
and the management of cattle in gen
eral.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01

Texas has had some rain recently,
but the corn crop, it is said, will be a
failure.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
Grow Grasses and Raise Cattle

Examine agricultural statistics and see the
high rank North Carolina takes In yield PEI
acre Of grasses and forage crops. Con
pare her advantages for stock-raising with
those OF other States. Profit by these .H8CtA
Grow grasses; raise stock. n whether yOU
nave few animals or many, you cannot anOrO
not to read
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
Live Stock and Dairy.
DAIRY TARM1Ne IN North CAROLINA
Prize Essay by Miss Eula Dixon, Winter
Course, North Carolina A. & n.
College.

1t is the purpose of this paper to
present for the consideration of the
farming constituency of North Caro-
lima one branch of agricultural work,
which offers large returns, both In
money and soil improvement, viz, dairy
farming.
1t is natures plan that the vegetable
and animal worlds be always interde-
pendent. "They rise or fall together"
And this very fact demonstrates the
necessity of live stock in the ~restora-
ton of our depleted soil. 1t is not for
us to say that any branch of live stock
can not be kept with profit within u
borders, but only to emphasize dairy
farming as a work which combines
both immediate and future returns.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
Grasses and Forage Plants d t' SsuA,
~ J. 3. EDLLCBRCW,
81 tie uaIVsPsltY q tennessee.

It is a complete manual of the cuI-
ture of grasses and forage plants OF
the South. It contains about lao
pages, and is written in a style TO be
understood by everyone.
The book discusses the character
istics of the principal PRAISES, the
maintenance of pastures and mead.
ows, leguminous forage plants, wild
pastures, etc. It is fully illustrated
with original analytical englavings
by Scribner, our greatest grass 81.
pert, and embellished with a large
number of half tone cuts of field
operations.
KSLLe6TetO's former tOork on grGsses
is mOW entirely oWt of print and
brings So a copy. This near book con-
t06ns all the Information in the for
DaeT WOTk, Te-t0rtttem, and embOdte'
the results of tSOenty gears additional
experience of the t0riter and all the
Information G6t0ined By the expert
mert stations and the United StGte'
Department Of Agriculture.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
WHAT OUR SMALL TOWNS NEED.

North Carolina seems destined to
include in her list numerous small
towns and but few cities. From the
fact that in these towns a large per-
centage of homes bordering streets
have in the rear gardens and barns,
guaranteeing the support of the one
great family necessity, a mich COW,
it is probable that the sale of milk
in our State may neve be compare
lively great; still there is, in conse-
quence of our ever-increasing town
population, a growing need to be sup
piled, and from our cities, though few,
a steady demand. For the vender of
good, clean, honest milk there will al
ways be dimes in the pockets of u
urban population.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01

To Bats ssus pa, use snarpIes Cream separa
tors. Book Cuisines Dairying" q Cat. 25 free
wv. Chester, Pa.
Douglas Island news., 1902-07-30

SILK and FANCY RIBBONS cents yard BRocA sold from s to per yard now 9c marked cents all shades marked price sl0 g9 cents cents marked price 1OO w. cents SILKS all shades marked price a and @ and S t cents
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Douglas Island news., 1902-07-30

ANNFT, marked and w dprce edprS dprce MENY BOOTS
 
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Douglas Island news., 1902-07-30

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Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-06-25
PARTIALLY AGREED UPON.
Amendment to the Surdry Civil APP.
preparation Bill.

Washington. June 2;.-The confer
ees for the two houses of congress Fri
day reached a partial agreement o..
the amendment to the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill made by the senate.
Among the more important amend
ments agreed TO were the following:
The provisions for a rebate on to-
bacco amounting 20 81 ZOO 900: the ma
rine hospital at New York. $3.50 900:
on account Of the revenue cutter sorv-
ice. $4,000; on account OF the geo
Logical survey. 100000: on account OF
printing and binding 100000.
The reductions in conference
amounted in the aggregate TO 1920.
2s5. including $500 900 for improve
men.s at Governors Island. y Y:
s250.O00 for the purchase or the cen
sus building at Washington: s21S.3s6
for engraving and printing: tloo.0 900
on the survey OF the boundary between
the United States and Canada and
100000 for a revenue cutter for Ha-
wall. The total appropriation carried
by the items OF the bill which were
disagree ed 10 and on which there will
be further conference amounts TO
81 .2S3.e50. The point o. their disput
ed provisions are an increase OF $780,
$50 on account OF light houses; $500
600 on account OF military posts and
500. 900 on account OF the proposed
memorial bridge across the Potomac
at Washington, d. c.
Under the instructions OF a special
resolution the conferees considered
subject Of immediate appropriation for
the new public buildings authorized
by the omnibus building bill and added
S5.34S.591 on that account. The pro-
visions for the Improvement Of the
white house amounts to $475 .445. while
$4,000 is added for the construction
of building to be devoted to offices
for the white house force.
Following are the principal appro-
pria-ions for public buildings at places
made by the conferees: Atlanta. Ga.
$4,000; Hartford, CT, $4,000; Min
neapolis. Mimi. s25 600; Memphis.
Tenn. $4,000; Philadelphia. $25 900
additional for mint building; Portland.
Ore. $4,000; Richmond. Va, S75 900:
Rochester. N. Y. $4,000; Sau Fran
cisco. $4,000; Colorado Springs, Col,
100000; Elizabeth, n. j.. $50 900; Ham
mon1. Ind, 100000; Holyoke. Mass.
100000; Laredo, Tex, $35, 200; Meri-
den. CT, $4,000; Waterbury. CT. s45..
600; Spokane. Wash, 100000; Taco
ma. Wash. 100000; Des Moines. Ia.
$4,000; Los Angeles, Cal. 5000 900;
New Orleans, La, 100000; New York.
$4,000; Providence. r. l.. $4,000 st.
Louis, $4,000 Toledo, O.. $4,000:
Washington. D. c., 100000; Wheeling,
w. Va, $4,000.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-06-25
GOV. TAFT's PROPOSITIONS.
The Vatican Consents to the Sale Of
the Friars' Lands.

Rome, June 21.-The papal secre-
tary OF state, Cardinal Rampolla. as
sured Rt. Rev. Thomas O'Gorman.
bishop OF Sioux Falls, S. D.. that the
vatican accepts the proposition Of
Judge Taft. governor of the Philip.
pines. regarding the disposition of the
friar lands on all the main points. but
dissents on minor points.
The principal propositions presented
by Gov. Taft to the vatican are as
follows:
First-The purchase OF land of the
friars. the price to be fixed by arbi.
tration.
Second-The arbitrators to decide
the indemnity which the Americans
will pay for occupation of the ecclesi-
astical buildings.
Third-The above propositions alb.
solutely conditional on the withdrawal
Of The friars.
Fourth-If the other propositions
are accepted the Americans propose
to give deed or by law to grant n
patent TO the ecclesiastical buildings
on public land.
Fifth-To settle by compromise or
arbitration the several trusts for
schools. hospitals. etc. claimed on the
one hand by the civil, on the other by
the church authorities.