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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-04
Removal Notice.

DR.. l.. NJ. Gates has moved his resi-
dence to the corner of Madison avenue
and Mulberry street. ."
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-04

Miss Bessie Dean. teacher OF mando-
lin, banjo and guitar, Address Pow
ellis Music store. e.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-04
To the South via New Jersey Central.

The New Jersey Central railroad is
the only line Offering Pullman service
to winter resorts in the South and the
Charleston exposition, with but one
change of cars.
Lowest rates and quickest time. Pull
man reservations secured and baggage
checked through. Inquire of j. S.
Swisher. district passenger agent, 6Oo
West Lackawanna avenue, Scranton. -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-04
MEETING WAS
A LOVE FEAST
THE POOR BOARD REoRGANIZES
HARMoNIoUsLY.

All the Old Officers Reelected with
the Exception Of Collector Vernoy
Who Did Not want Another Term.
II. g. Dale Chosen in His Stead.
Excerpts from the Annual Report
of the irectors-Superintendent's
Report Shows That Insane Patients
Are Increasing in Number.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-04

DR.. Wardell OF the Scranton Bicycle
club team is undoubtedly the equal Of
any bowler in the league. His dellv-
cry Is faultless and ball most effective.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-04

The West End No. succeeded in
taking two out Of three from Green
Ridge No. 9 Thursday evening on the
latter's alleys. thereby tieing the Green
Ridge boys for first place in the club
league.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-04

Harry Pond of the Green Ridge
Wheelmen's No. team is an unusually
steady bowler. He seldom misses a
spaye
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-10
Everybody May 60 to California.

In order To stimulate California
travel, the Houston and Texas Cen
trail r. r. has decided To put on ex-
tremely low rates from all points
along it's line. The rate from Aus
tin, Dallas, TT. Worth and Denison
will be $500. Tickets will be one
way, second class passage and will
be accepted on payment of the
through Pullman tourist sleeping
car rate on all Pullman excursion
sleepers operated over the Sunset
Route Tickets will he sold daily
during March and April and are
limited To continuous passage. This
is the chance of life time to make
the trip To California. The through
excursion sleeping cars are the very
best of their kind, are personally
conducted and equipped with every
convenience of travel. For further
information address local agent, or
NJ. l.. Robbins, G.. p. d It. A., T. j
Anderson, A. q. P. A, Houston,
Texas.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-10
Ray.
AUNT CHARITY.

Frank King and wife visited In
Ennis Sunday.
Bob Meharg of Johnson county,
visited relatives here recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Youngblood
OF Avalon visited here Sunday.
Miss Carrie Wright of Howard,
has been visiting relatives here.
G. c. Wheatley visited relatives
at Bardwell Saturday night and
Sunday.
Mrs. Martin Of Golfers Chapel
neighborhood, visited Mrs. Bland
Saturday.
Mrs, X. b. King and children of
Ennis visited home folks here Sat
urday night.
The meeting at Antioch the Fifth
Saturday night and Sunday was
well attended.
Missed Lizzie Meharg and Bette
Kelley attended the singing at Five
Points apd report nice time.
Miss DuvalI Of Venus, who has
been visiting the family of her un-
Gle, Mr.. Tom Hartsfield, has re-
turned home.
Most of the farmers are through
planting cotton. Corn looks fine
since the rain, and III IL were not for
water hauling the farmers would
quit talking hard times so much
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-10
TIE CONFEDERATE REUNION


On Wednesday. April %, The Dial.
las Morning News will issue The
largest paper ever printed I'm Texas.
1t win be fully equal to the great
Confederate Reunion taking place
in Dallas at that time. -
III will contain Il magnificent his
toricM account OF the reunion, and
many special articles peculiarly APP
propriate will be printed.
There viii be hundreds of if1ustra-
tions In fine half tone, and to meet
the demand The News has just I'm
stalled its own photo-engraving
plant.
There will also be splendid illus
trated write-up of Dallas, besides
several articles exploiting the re-
sources and advantages of Texas In
general.
1t will be the aim to make 1t the
finest paper In all particulars, ever
printed In the Southwest.
The demand for 1t will be unpre-
cedented, and win tax the great ca
pacity of the press of The News to
the utmost in getting 1t out. are
. 1t is important that those who
wish copies of the paper should send
In their orders in advance so as to
be sure To get them.
Notwithstanding the magnitude of
the paper the price viii be only s
cents copy. Anyone wishing
copies should remit for them at
once, giving their address plainly
written. Address orders to Reun-
ion Department of The News, Dali
las, Texas. ~
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-10


cid Douglas i visiting e Rio
Vista
What has bseoms'of Gregory and
CeunIrymans
This section was visited by q fine
rain Sunday night.
we are glad 10 note that Miss
Nettie Couch who has been very
low is Improving.
r. &c. Orr visited his aged mother
la Ferris Sunday and reported her
in fairly good health.
ED. Henry Rawlifss OF Dallas
county viii preach at Sylvana Sum
day. Hope he may have good
hearing.
The thanks Of everybody are due
the Enterprise corps for the splen-
did paper they are giving the people
of the county.
Mrs. H. G.. Orr and daughter Miss
Nora went to Galveston last week
where the latter was successfully
operated upon for appendicitis.
The old veterans here were pre-
vented from attending the meeting
of Winnie Davis Camp Monday on
account of the mud, but they were
willing to be denied this pleasure
for the rain was indeed q blessing.
Several doctors came out from
Waxahacliie Friday TO. operate on
John Harris, but his condition
would not admit of 1t. His father
and mother came down from Chill
dress and are nursing him very
closely and hopes of his recovery
are now entertained.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-10

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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-10
Have your Saws Sharpened

D. J. Kennedy, at It. r. Andersens@
machine shop, is prepared and wiIE
place will be promptly attended to-
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-10
BRADFIELD'S
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
PREVENTING OAT SMUT.

OursspOndence OF The Progressive Farmer.
lilies within the power of every
farmer to prevent much of the dam.
sge suffered by his crops through
heyearly inroads of plant disease.
Oat smut is the one that demands
Particular attention just now.
Vsryfew farmers realize just how
much damage they suffer yearly
through this pest. The smut dwarfs
many Of the affected plants so chat
they usually escape the eye of the
farmer as he surveys his field; and
What may appear to him TO be merely
IlOss Of one or two per cent. Is In
reality very rarely less than eight
Per cent, and very frequently runs
apinto the thirties and forties. This
Is an absolute loss, as it costs as
much in the way of land, seed, till
age and harvesting to raise these
mutted stalks as it does to raise full
Fain.
The smut is caused by a fungus
That invades the tissue of the very
7ouns cat plant. Ie is in the seed
When s0wn. The seed may be
Feated so as to kill the fungus with
o1t harm 20 the oat and the crop be
oo'respondingly benefited.
10 treat seed for smut place the
'eed On d barn floor and thoroughly
vet vi h a solution made by mixing
0ae pound of formalin with As TO 30
gallons IF wafer. FOrmalin may be
O01ght at the drug store at from rs
" W cents per quart, and the wet
"ng Of She oats may be readily ac
''npHshed either by a spray pump
VI " oy throwing the solution on and
'1en saoveling the heap over till
o'sTy seed is saturated. Then ooYer
'~5 pile with blankets and allow it
" stand 10 or II hours.
The seed may be dried with lime
. Suu running through the tanning
:, MI VIII remove extra lime, leaving
'~o seed ready for the drill.
Inc cost is less than ID cents per !
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
Ag Couture.
AUX JE TRUCK FARM;

80, Old ier Did With an Eighth Of
Acre Bent Buggy Spring.
,.--.spondenc The Progressive Farmer.
There isl exhibition at the Char
,,.ton Exposition a large picture in
Ter colors of the peas grown last
~..r bv Mr.. Lewis Grady, of Kinston,
TC The picture is the property Of
-. Department OF Agriculture of
v,,tb Carolina and was made from
photograph taken while the peas
rsrs in the garden.
Mr. Grady is an old Confederate
,,I5ier and for many years has
mad a fruit and confectionery
,..nd a half block from the court
,o1se On Queen Street, the principal
,rsinsss street in KinstOn. Last
,asr he put in his spare moments
,sisirg peas and beans in his garden
of an eichth of an acre in area. He
laid off the rows four feet apart, used
one sack of the HYco fertilizer on
ordinary gray loan, and on January
22d Dlanted the Melting Sugar, Mar
row Fat and Champion of England
Dsss. The tool used TO cultivate the
meas was an old piece of a buggy
uring bent into shape and bolt5d TO
IhOe helve.
The peas grew TO a height of eight
Or an feet, and some of the Mar
row Fat variety TO a height of f1f
ten feet. People from far and near
cane to see Mr.. Grady's pea crop. 1
sw is and it was we'll worth q long
Zip to see. After supplying his
family of five and giving away quite
quantity, he sold $50 worth of
peas.
On the same piece of land on June
d he planted some Ford's Mammoth
P1dded Lima Beans and some Shot
wells Improved Thick Pole Lima
Beans. The former have pods seven
L sfgzs inohes long with six beans
% the pod; the latter are shorter,
uore compact and have six beans TO
the pod. This bean crop Mr.. Grady
readily sold for $35.
How is that for an old wounded
Confederate soldier with few spare
minutes each day, q bent buggy
spring, one sack of fertilizer and an
eighth of an acre of groundP
Mr.. Grady this year has about one
scre of land stAked with $50 posts
with Stats nailed on them and his
peas are pushing upward with amaz
ing rapidity. b. w. SPILNAN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25

Mr.. Whitener's letter in The Pro-
GREssIvE FARMER reminds me of my
own experience. In 1882, when be-
gan plowing, the plows used to turn
land were the old fashioned steel
twisters. Then my father bought a
two-horse cast plow we thought it a
grand improvement We sowed
wheat by hand, plowed or narrowed
it in, and cut with soythe and cradle.
Then came the chilled .plows and the
drill. Now am living on one third
of the same land and make more
grain omit than we made on all of it.
/ use disc plows and disc harrow and
disc drill and out wheat with reaper
and binder. The farming has greatly
in this period of time,
though some use old fashioned tools
yet and only scratch deep enough so
that the hot sun and heavy rains get
the benefit of it rather than the crop.
r. L Wagner, Burke Co., N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
College

Am often talking PROGRESSIVE
FARMER to our tiuers of the soil in
this section. The truth is we have
not come up to the mark in growing
crops as cheap as may be done.
When we learn to grow our field
crops at less cost by bringing them
up TO higher state of perfection on
a cheaper basis, then we may find
moro TO follow. Show your skill in
the thoroughbred stock, preparation
and care of such things as you pre-
tend to grow.-R. r. Moore, Gull
ford Co., N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25

just as the buds open in the spring
from the spores which have wintered
on the branches around the buds.
On account of this fact, as has Just
been stated, we are enabled to pre.
scribe treatment.
TREATMENT.
The curl was first successfully
treated in California during the
period from 1880 to 1885, the success
depending upon the application of
fungicides to the dormant trees. The
disease was not successfully treated
in Europe for ten years after it's pre-.
vention in the United States.
The treatment consists in SPRAYING
the trees while yet in the dormant
condition before the buds open in
spring. At first sulphur and other
sprays were used, but lately copper
sprays are found to be much the
best. Of the various copper sprays
Bordeaux mixture in the proportion
of five pounds of copper sulphate
"a 500 to five pounds of lime in
forty five gallons of water has been
found to give the best results. By
treating peach leaf curl in this way,
from 95 to SO per cent. of the spring
foliage may easily be saved.
According to experiments made at
Santa Anna, California, Bordeaux
mixture when applied to the dor
mant tree increased the weight and
starch producing power of the leaves,
and the sprayed trees showed great
gain over the unsprayed in the num-
Der and quality of the fruit buds
they produced The gain in the
number of fruits per buds was over
100 per cent. in some cases.
The. lower limbs of sprayed trees
marked gain over those Of
unsprayed ones as compared with
the upper limbs in both the number
of fruit buds and lateral shoots pro-
duced. The average value of the
fruit per tree in rows treated with
the most effective Bordeaux mixture
ranged as high as Sc, 30 above that
per tree in the adjoining untreated
rows, or the equivalent of net gain
of 1927 80 per cent. where trees are
planted 25x25 feet. Over 1000 per
cent. net gain in the fruit has re.
suited in the use of some of the most
effective sprays.
DIRECTIONS FOR SPRAYING.
The trees should be sprayed each
season, as experiments prove that
treatment one season will not pre-.
vent the disease from appearing the
following year.
The proper time to apply sprays
for the prevention of curl is in dry,
calm weather, and in the middle of
the day, about three weeks before
the trees blossom in spring.
Some of the very choicest varieties,
as the Elberta and Lowell are seri-
ously affected, and it has been dem.
Onstrated that q single winter treat
ment will prevent the disease on
even these varieties.
It may thus be fairly claimed that
the spraying methods recommended
will save to the peach industry some
Of it's finest varieties, as we'll as re-
suit in the saving of foliage and
crops already spoken of.
J. e. MILLER, Cor. seo'y.
A. & NJ College, West Raleigh, N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25

acre for the treatment, labor included,
and the gain ranges from TO 40 per
cent. of the value of the crop.
The sinking smut of wheat may
be prevented in the same way, also
the barley smut. Corn smut cannot,
nor can the loose smut of wheat.
Do not use blue stone on oats, as is
Injuries them T. L. STEVENS,
Professor of Biology, N. G. A. & NJ.
College.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25

Good butter cannot be made by
pouring hot water into the churn TO
get the right temperature. This
makes the butter puffy and pale.
The cream should be warmed before
it goes to the churn by placing the
vessel containing it in another vessel
of warm water and stirring until the
proper temperature is secured -
Farm and Ranch.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
HoME-MIxED FERTILIZERS.

HOME-MlAED FERTILIZERS,
Mr.. J. B. Oliver, of Wayne County,
an occasional contri ibutor so The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER, reports in the cur
rent issue of the Practical Farmer
the following interesting experience
with home-mixed fertilizers:
I have been mixing my fertilizers
at home for 20 years or more. My
first attempt on this line was mixing
my oottonseed and stable manure
with aoid phosphate and kainit,
using 200 pounds acid and 100 pounds
kainit per acre, and mixing all the
oottonseed and stable manure had
to spare with this amount per acre.
This gave me the best results of any
fertilizer I ever used, but was costly
TO mix and handle. About ID years
ago I commenced exchanging my
cottonEeed for cottonseed meal. /
run a custom gin and buy up seed
cotton and cottonseed enough TO
procure an ample supply of cotton
seed meal. My formula for cotton
and corn is $50 pounds cottonseed
meal, 200 pounds Il per cent. acid,
and 25 pounds mUriate of potash. 1
use an 8.foot square tight box, dump
these amounts into it and mix thor
oughly with shovels. 1 use 400 to
800 pounds per acre Of this for cot.
ton and 200 to 800 pounds per acre
for corn. This will run about 8 10
81 per cent. ammonia, 8 TO 9 phos-
phorio acid and per cent. potash,
and costs at present prices of mate.
rials, about $50 per ton. A mixed
fertilizer that will analyze the same
cannot be bought for less than $25
per ton. For oats I use 100 pounds
oottonseed meal, 200 pounds acid
100 pounds kainit, or 25 pounds
muriate of potash this for one acre.
For Irish potatoes, 700 pounds cot
tonseed meal, 200 pounds nitrate of
soda, 700 pounds acid phosphate, 400
pounds sulphate of potash; use 1900
TO 1,5OO pounds per acre. For straw
berries, 800 pounds cottonseed meal,
800 pounds acid phosphate, 400 pounds
sulphate of potash use 1900 pounds
per acre, applying 500 pounds late in
August Or September and 800pounds
in December or January, burning
off and applying by side of plants.
The foregoing are the formulas I
have found TO pay best on my soil.
For cotton, if the land is in good CON-
dition and following any crop that
leaves plenty of vegetable matter in
the soil, less cottonseed meal can be
used. If the land is bare of vege-
table matter more oottonseed meal
can be used with profit. Some times
when cottonseed meal is lacking l
substitute fsh scrap for it, but do
not think get as good results from
il as from the cottonseed meal. 1
doubt very much if it pays TO mix
nitrate of soda in any fertilizer un-
less il is used as q top dressing. Last
yaar I left out the nitrate of soda In
my potato manure and applied it
alongside of the plants after they
we're up, and had better results than
if applied at planting. l am fully
convinced after many years or ex-
oerimenting, that can get muoh
better results from mixing my own
fertilizers, and at much less cost,
5han by purchasing them ready
mixed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
Raleigh, N. c., March 25, 1902.

outing off the flower stem crop close
TO the upper leaf of the main stalks.
1t is not at all easy for one of linn
tied experience to determine when
the leaf is ready to pick. The signs
of ripeness can be in general de-
soribed, but not detected certainly
without long experience. The leaf
is likely to be lighter green than the
unripe, it shows a yellowish cast on
the tip and the edges near the tip,
and small spots of darker green ap-
pear on it's surface. The whole plant
at this time takes on a yellowish
green shade.
A part of the tobacco, from 1900
square feet or a little less than one
fifth of an acre, was picked or primed
from the stalks in the field, and
hung on strings Three primings
we're made, about seven leaves at
each priming, and all were made
within three or four days, beginning
August %. Four fifths of the crop
was harvested on the stalk three or
four days later. To do this, each
stalk was cut in two and hung on
hook lath, the tops with ten
hooks, the bottoms with eight hooks
to the lath, the usual way.
The cost of picking the leaves,
bringing them to the barn and hang
ing them after stringing, is proba-
bly, hardly greater than that of out
ting, spading, teaming and hanging
the plants harvested in the usual
way. Where there is a considerable
acreage of tobacco and the harvest
ing lasts over a period of five or six
weeks, two lots of tobacco can be
cured in the same barn, the, first
harvesting being cured and taken
down by the time the last harvest
ing is ready TO go in. When the
primed leaves sra cured the string
can be cut at each end, wound around
the butts, thus making hand OF it,
and put in bundles, or the leaves can
be drawn from the string and
bundled loose.
The extra cost of growing, har
vesting and curing Sumatra wrapper
leaf under shade: Cost per acre of
lumber 1852 S5, cost per acre of wire
O.96, cost per acre of construction
$36 total $299.31 Assuming that
the frame will last for five years,
there should be charged to each crop
one. fifth of this sum, or $59. SO. Lath
for fastening the cloth $13.17, cost
of oheeseoloth 1852 94, labor of put
ting on cloth $12 As, repairs $12,
twine for stringing leaves $5 66,
stringing the picked leaves $49.6O,
extra lath for stringing $27 SO, of
which 40 per cent. is charged to the
crop $11; total 1925 SO. The actual
extra outlay of the first year for
shading and harvesting was $83.63
per acre These figures show very
closely the actual extra cost of rails
ing and curing an acre of shaded
Sumatra to obaoco, although other ex.
perimenters have spent very oonsid-
erably less The chief economies are
in getting out the needed posts from
the owners wood lot, in setting them
further apart and in using farm
labor putting up the frame, when
other work is not pressing.-E. 81.
Jenkins, Connections Experiment
Station.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25

Mount Airy News: Wheat is i'm
proving rapidly and the outlook is
growing brighter for a fair sized
Drop in some sections. We get this
information from some of the farm
ers who tell us that the late snow
saved the wheat crop.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25

Imust say that your paper is con-
stantly improving and that you are
done a great work for North Caro-
una.-W. B. Rodman, Beaufort Co.,
N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
KENTUCKY TOBACCO GROWERS ORaaN1zE

Tobacco growers in Kentucky are
attempting TO organize an associa.
tion TO handle and market the prod.
not of their farms. Kentucky to-
bacco is used largely in the manu-
facture of plug and twist; and oon.
solidation in this branch of the trade
has approached almost TO the point
of monopoly. The Kentucky tobacco
growers, feeling the pressure of
lowered prices, now propose TO meet
combination with com mbination.-
Philadelphia Record.
The first "creamery" in the United
States was built in 1851 at Waikiki,
Orange county, New York. This
esta ablishment utilized the milk from
375 COWS daily.