The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22
NEWS OF tn PARKING WORLD.

The Department of Agriculture
has now in press Farmers Bulletin
No. I49, which is devoted to sex.
pertinent Station Work.
In it are described various subjects
of interest so farmers, among them
being "The Value of Muck or Peat"
as fertilizer as tested by the New
Hampshire Experiment Station:
''Improved Culture of Potatoes" be-
ing experiments by the Cornell Ex-
pertinent Station: EThe Farmers
Vegetable Garden" in which is
given data showing the cost of a
vegetable garden which the farmer
might conduct to supply his own
table with fresh green truck the year
round "The Shrinkage of Farm
Products" experiments by various
stations in the United States
''Transplsnting and Manuring Musk
melons" from the Arkansas Station
the best "Soils for Strawberries"
shows the general conclusions ar
rived at by various stations as TO
what they consider the best soil and
fertilizers for largest yield and finest
quality of strawberries the Yer
mont, Kansas and Wisconsin Expert
ment Stations send in reports on
'tPlum Culture - Other subjects
treated are methods of Growing
Onions, " "The Digestibility of raw,
Pasteurized and Cooked Milk -
''The Dairy Cow and the Weather -
and ''Feed Mills and Windmills." The
bulletin is free TO farmers upon ap-
plication TO Members of Congress or
the Secretary of Agriculture, if you
do not like your Congressman.
ADVANCE IN PRICES OF BUTTER AND
BEEF
A story is going the rounds of the
Capitol which has caused more than
one statesman TO see double. Many
of them are now wondering whether
in falling over each other in their
endeavor to protect the cow, they
have not thrown boomerang which
will in the proverbial way come back
and thump them in the short ribs.
Since the passage of the Oleomar-
garine Bill, two very important and
necessary commodities have risen in
price considerably. Beef has sd-
vanoed all the way from $3.50 to $S
per hundred in the carcass, while
butter is five cents a pound dearer
than is was a week ago.
The theory Is advanced that the
beef men are going TO make the gen.
eral public pay the tax of 10 cents a
pound on oleomargerine oolored in
imitation of butter, and this they ao.
complish indirectly by raising the
price on beef
As for the cause of the advance in
price of butter, that too is explained
Since butter ia now protected from
competition with cheap oleomargar-
inc, the dairymen know that they
can get better price for putter. If
day for 25 cents pound is made TO
pay a tax of ten cents, then the re-
taller must charge at least 35 cents a
pound for the same margin of profit.
This is much more than was asked
for butter a week ago, but now the
price asked for butter is equal to
that amount and the purchaser will
always favor the pure article.
Congressmen who opposed the
Oleomargarine Bill no doubt will
have trouble when election time
comes, and now those who favored
it's passage may find themselves in
the same boat.
The House Committee on Agricul-
ture in order to expedite the
FINAL DISPOSITION OF THE OLEOMAR
GARINE BILL,
has decided to recommend the ac-
ceptance of the Senate amendments
which prevented any loop holes for
variation of the law.
Inasmuch as the Senate has made
some changes in the method of fixing
the tax, the opponents of the bill
claim that the new amendments
must be considered by the House of
Representatives in Committee of the
Whole, since under the Constitution
all appropriation measures must
originate in the House Of Represen-
tatives, unless a special rule is
adopted allowing the bill so be ao-
cepted as amended by the Senate
Thav claim that suoh a rule will not