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The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-23
IF they're Rich's Shoes
they're proper"

Ten-one F-COr. 10th.
Entire Building-'Phont "one-sfty."
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-23

at that point. The remains are being held
awaiting word from his relatives at Sails
bury, N C.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-23

Mrs. William. Cook, OF 21s North Pat
rick Street. while descending a stairway
to answer a call at the door, fell head
long down the stairs. and was badly in
jured about the head. A physician was
summoned, and several stitches were
taken. Her injuries are not serious.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-23

night with a banquet in their lodge
rooms. Senator Martin and Representa-
tive Swanson have been invited, and stated
their intention of being present. An in
vitation was extended to Admiral Schley
but owing to previous engagements he
found it impossible to be present. He
however, expressed re.,ret at his inability
to attend, telling the committee who
waited upon him that he would greatly
enjoy spending an evening with the
brothers in Alexandria.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-23
Referred to u Committee.

During an executive session on the 18th
of December, 1877, there was bitter
personal colloquy between Senators Cor
don of Georgia and Conlling of New York
but it was amicably settled by a commit
tee composed OF Senators Hamlin of
Maine Ransom of North Carolina, Howe
of Wisconsin. and Mcdonald of Indiana.
They reported that the offensive language
was due to misunderstanding and to a
Inisinterpretation of remarks of Senator
Gordon.
In that case it was made plain that
Senator Gordon did not propose to rest
under any imputation from Conkling or
to submit to an insult. Gordon had proved
his courage on a hundred battlefelds.
He finally consented to refer the mat
ter to a committee composed of friends
of the two senators. parties to the alter
cation and they settled it.
Several years ago Senators ingalls, of
Kansas and Voorhees, of Indiana mutual
ly expressed contempt for each other, but
il all ended in words.
Subsequently, Senator Money Of Missis-
sippi. in the course of debate, denounced
Senator Wellington of Maryland rs a liar,
but friends composed that quarrel with
out the shedding of gore.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-23

This morning the remains of the un-
known colored man killed at Clifton sta
ton, twenty miles southwest of here, by
fast passenger train No. SO. northbound,
We're identified as those of Cleveland
Hayes, of Salisbury, n. C. Hayes was
killed at $50 o'clock last night while
walking along the tracks Of the Southern
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-23

President Mckinley so intimately in re-
cent trying times of American statecraft.
Committee for the Exercises.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-23

1T is not my habit to indulge in per
sonalities. but | desire to say here to the
Senator that in intimating anything in
consistent as he has done, with perfect
good faith, l pronounce his statement a
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
DO NOT BURN GRASS.
Baltimore, Nd

It is a very common practice
among farmers to burn the grass,
corn stalks and other vegetable mat
ter on the farm They do this simply
to get rid of it. Some few perhaps
really think the ashes worth more to
the soil than rotting vegetetation.
But many burn because they think
the trash interferes with oultivating
the crop. If the growth is very
sound and plowing poorly done,
there is some risk of this, but if the
grass and suoh like is we'll buried
and mixed thoroughly with the soil
by narrowing, this will not be true.
We object to burning because of
the great loss and damage to the soil.
Our S Duthern soils need more humus.
This can be obtained only from rot
ting vegetation. Fertilizers do not
help to make it. They rather tend
to decrease it.
Rotiing grass or other trash will
contribute directly to the supply of
plant food in the soil. Nothing so
readily helps a plant to grow as that
which has already been plant once.
In addition to the plant food sup
piled the process of rotting starts
fermentation in the soil and helps to
make soluble ard available the ele
ments of plant life in the soil which
were insolubIe and therefore worth
nothing to the growing crop This
is done in several ways. The me
ohanioal condition of the soil is i'm
proved. It is made loose and warm.
Hence is can hold much more moist
ure thus it helps @ration to prepare
food for the growing crop and sup
plies water to dissolve and carry the
food. Burning is a great waste. We
would not need to buy so much
guano if we put all the vegetable
matter back into the soil that we
could.
Do not burn anything that will rot.
that will burn will rot, so
do no not burn NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Cultivator.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
FARM NOTES FROM PAsQUoTANK.

correspondence Of The Progressive Farmer.
The present winter has been the
coldest on record in this part of the
State.
This county generally plants a large
acreage in truck, but owing to high
price of peas, very few have been
planted. We have a canning factory
at Elizabeth City and many farmers
plant peas for the factory, which
pays so cents per bushel There will
be an increase in the Irish potato
acreage.
Some of our farmers have bought
a lesson at a very high price. They
depended on cotton for their money
crop; the price and crop both were
short, and we find them buying corn
at 70 cents and meat at 10 cents.
Cabbage plants have been killed
worse than usual. The ground has
been frozen so as to retard plowing
ever since February came in, but if
warm weather will come soon, and
stay by us, the farmers will soon
come to the front j. T. B.
Pasquotank Co., N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
WARREN COUNTY FARM NOTES.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Since the present cold snap, the
flaming people have not done much
farm work except get wood and make
fires. Very few have been able TO
burn plant land.
If all reports are true, there will
be a short crop Of cotton planted
this year in this community. Every
body, is seems, is turning his at
tention TO tobacco; hence we may
look for low prices for the weed next
fall.
The ourtailing of the cotton acre
age is caused partly by the uncer-
tainty of labor, which is getting
soarcer every year. Theyoung men,
both white and colored, as soon as
they grow up are looking elsewhere
for support and work, and in most
cases they are finding it. There are
at this day and time very little in
duoements TO hold the young men,
or even boys, on the farm. In some
instances whole families are leaving
and fooking TO the cities to work
their girls and boys in factories
Now this ought not to be, and a
remedy ought 10 be had.
And as soon as the farm work
opens or starts, the children, or a
large number of them, will be taken
away from school to work on the
farm and can be seen in the corn
fields, or cotton and tobacco patches.
RURALIsT.
Warren Co N c.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
No. 8

upon TO keep down an invasion of
insects. Though adult gparrOWs do
not consume much animal food, their
nestlings are entirely insectiverOuS
and as they raise each season from
two to three broods down whose
throats they cram countless numbers
of oaterpillars and grasshoppsrs,
they do in this way their greatest
service as insect destroyers 60
farmers.
CONCLUSION THE NATIVE SPARROW ID
HELPFUL AND DESERVES PROTRo-
TION.
Following up the previously men
toned division of food into elements
that would be of themselves bene-
f1cial or injurious to agriculture, we
find first, that the native sparrow
O c-nsumes very little fruit, grain or
other food that is beneficial on the
other hand, the amount consumed
that would be injurious in its effects
is very large and consists mainly OF
weed seeds, which form more than
four fifths of their food during the
greater part of the year. We may
safely conclude, therefore, that this
little bird is entirely beneficial in It's
effects and deserves protection.
CHAs W. MARTIN.
A. and NJ. College, West Raleigh,
NC.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
TEACH AGRICULTURE IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.

Certainly there is need of more
intelligent and practical farmers to
reel aim and rebuild the old homes
that have decayed and to feed and
improve the lands that have become
impoverished and unproductive in
the hands of renters who have no
incentive to improve land. To i'm
prove far ms men must own them,
live upon them and be directly inter
ested in their work. Class legisla-
tion, discrimination against the farm
ers for the past twenty years, has so
thor ougb1y fixed the disastrous ten
ant system in many sections that it
will take many years, even under
favorable conditions, TO eliminate it. =
The State can do more for agricul-
ture, do more to create an interest
in the farm-the home of virtue and
vigorous manhood and inteilect-by
requiring course of study of agri-
culture TO be taught in the public
schools. And while the boys are
prosecuting this study, the girls
might be taught with wonderful re-
suits something practical in every
day domestic work, that it takes
more than fancy hats and
dresses to make an accomplished
ady..-Marshville, N. c., Home,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
Raleigh, N. c., February 25, 1902.
anywhere on Uncle Sam g dominions.
There have been

anywhere on Uncle Sam 9 dom1n1ons.
There have been
FAILURES OF CANNING HOUSES
in the South. These have not been
brought on by natural circumstances.
They have been brought on by lack
of economy and painstaking care
and GO operation.
IT PAYS THE FARMER.
There are Indispensable elements
of success in any business. The
farmer is slow to plant for these
factories, even when the Gamer tells
him he can realize more for the
product in one season than the land
it is grown on would sell for. Let
the Gamer go ahead and demonstrate
to the farmer by actual test that the
growing of these products is not any
harder than to cultivate an acre of
six cent cotton, and that the same
land that makes him in good seasons
one half bale of cotton to the acre,
will grow him on an average of two
hundred bushels of tomatoes at %
cents per bushel; or rs bushels of
ueas at so cents per bushel, or 100
bushels of beans at so cents per
bushel, and so on, and not impover-
ish his land to the extent that cotton
does.
One farmer related to me in Indi
ana some years ago when he reoeived
check for eighty odd dollars for
tomatoes grown on less than an acre
of land, thBt "it was 80 easy it was
just like picking it up in the road"
Once get the farmers to know the
good of the thing, and the balance is
easy.
There is another feature of the
business that deserves special men
ton, and that is the
EMPLOYMENT IT FURNISHES,
at good wages, to every class of peo-
pie. Male and female find it pleas
ant and profitable work. An outfit
for canning costing two hundred
dollars would give employment so at
least forty people directly, and as
many more indirectly. It is pecu
liarly adapted to the smaller towns
and cities.
Yes, canning will pay in the South.
You have those things which with
good management and perseverance,
will make canning factories pay in
the South, as they are paying in
grand way in so many other States.
R. A. STEWART.
Baltimore, Nd.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25

Representative Burlison, of Texas,
stated to the House Committee on
Agriculture last week that 24O, 900
bales of Texas cotton valued at $10,-
900, 900 were destroyed last year by
the Mexican weevil. The committee
inserted a $4,000 item in the agri-
cultural appropriation bill to be i'm
mediately available to eradicate the
pest.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25

AS 60 home-mixing, the following
paragraph from Farmers Voice 10
interesting:
"The question is often asked, rs it
more economical to mix ones own
fertilizers or buy them ready mixed2'
Like most questions, direct and IN
qualified answer to this one might
be misleading, but it is safe that un-
der proper conditions home mixing
of fertilizers will prove decidedly
more economical than the use of the
ready mixed article And the first
condition is cooperation among
farmers in the purchase of the in
gradients. In cases where this was
done in New Jersey, representing in
the aggregate purchase of over 1,OOo
tons, showed that these mixtures
cost on an average $28 62 per ton,
while the fertilizing ingredients
which they contained at the New
Jersey Experiment Station valUa-
tions, we're worth $31 SO, and in the
average factory mixed fertilizer
would have cost $43 ia saving OF
$I4, 500 on the entire quantity"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
Columbus Co., N. g.

Farmers agree that the fall oats
have about all been killed in the
ground by the severity of this win
5sr's wea her. The fall sown oats
ara she principal dependence, 80 far
as this crop is concerned, the spring
oats rarely ever amounting to much.
Coming on the heels of the failure
Of the corn crop last year, this loss
Of the Oh is crop will prove serious.
And wheat is looking none too we'll.
Charlotte Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25

Our farmers are hard at work get
ting ready to make crop. There
VIII be per cent. more tobacco
planted this year than last, and we
ape tt make a better crop; if we
aon t, Think we had better stop try
Ing to make tobacco at all The cot
5sn crop will be cut short rs per cent
D1t there will be more home supplies
Planted than usual, such as corn,
peanuts and potatoes.-D. MCCAIN,
Carteret Co, N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
Agriculture.
HARRY FARMERS TALKS.
LXIL


correspondence OF The Progressive Farmer.
We were travelling on the train q
few days ago and noticed what was
being done on the farms along the
railroad.
We noticed on large farm piece
of land which had no crop on it last
year. The owner is a good business
man and looks after his money very
carefully, but this spring he will buy
fertilizer at high price, and haul
ditch bank and woods mould TO try TO
make a crop on that land. If he had
planted COW peas he could have
added nitrogen and humus in that
soil besides getting hog feed enough
70 nav all the expense of the crop of
peas.
This same farmer complains that
he cannot raise as many pounds of
cotton TO the acre as he did few
vesrs ago with the same amount of
fsrtilizer. HIS land is what we
vould call the ideal soil TO hold ma
nure, it b ing nearly level with
olsv subsOil. This same land has
produced as high as 1900 pounds of
seed cotton to the acre with the ap-
DIioation of 200 pounds of Peruvian
guano per acre. The fertilizer used
lust stimulated the crop and caused
it to use up all the humus in the
soil. Heavy applications of nitro
gen have the same effect on land when
applied in d concentrated form like
nitrate of soda, sulphate Of am
monia, fsh scrap, slaughter house
refuse, tankage, dried blood, cotton
seed meal and Peruvian guano that
whiskey has on a man : it stimulates
for a short time only TO leave the
victim weaker than before using.
Were fowl house or stable ma
nure il used year after year none of
these bad effects are seen. Now in
order TO keep up the fertility of the
soil you must get something in the
soil as nearly like stable manure as
you can and there is nothing that
will do this with as little cost as cow
peas. This is not the only man that
complains of this condition, for you
will find them sea stered all over the
country.
On another farm we saw two large
horses, each one hitched TO a single
plow, with two men blowing. They
were not blowing more than five or
six inches deep. The cotton and
corn stalks had to be knocked down,
which took the labor of several
others. Now this man is often short
of help and tries TO look after bis
business with the eye of an eagle and
stops every leak, yet he does not
know that a outaway harrow would
DO all this work and do it better,
thus saving more than one-half the
costs.
Trim or prune the grape vines be
fore the sap starts up.
Do not be in a hurry TO plow the
cotton and corn land unless it is dry.
Too early blowing may make insects
more troublesome. Crops in this
section grow better on late ploWed
land.
HARRY FARMER.
Columbus Co., N g.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
TOMATOES MORE PROFITABLE THAN ;
COTTON.

The Apex Canning Company has
made arrangements to run on full
time this season and will pay more
for tomatoes than ever before. This
concern is q home enterprise and
should receive the support of all the
farmers in this and adjoining sec
tions. At twenty five cents per
bushel for tomatoes the farmer can
clear more on one acre in tomatoes
than he can on the same land with
the same amount of labor and ma
nure in cotton at ten cents per
pound, and the money comes in at q
time when the farmer most needs il.
1t is now time that the seeds for
early tomatoes should be sown.-
Apex News.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
Brunswick Co N. G.

(AnSUe red 6y Harry FGrnaer.)
l. Lay off rows with a plow or drag (;
j1st mark the land so you can drill
the manure, then SOW the potash and
phosphate on the manure separately
Do not mix the potash and phosphate,
as they would undergo a chemical
change which would injure them
for fertilizers.
2. See Talk No. 81 for Irish pota-
toes. The same potash would do but
you need more phosphate and am
monia for this crop. Sweet potatoes
growing during the hottest part of
the summer when nitrogen is most
active do not require, as much quick
acting nitrogenous manure as the
Irish potato crop, but needs more
humus or vegetable matter in the
soil. Hence the large application of
manure recommended for sweet po
tatoes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
AN INQUIRY ANSWERED BY HARRY
FARMER.

correspondence OF The Progressive Farmer.
1. How does Harry Farmer use sui
phate of potash, etoP Does he SOW
it in drill after being mixed? Have
rows feet apart and plant my
sweet pota toes IA to Is inches in the
row.
2. Is there any difference in the
chemicals, etc., for Irish potatoes?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25
AS TO INSECT PESTS

It can hardly be expected that
such weed destroyers as sparrows
are should consume as many insect
pests as birds that are wholly in
sectivorous. AS a matter of fact,
insect pests form only about 25 per
cent. of the food of the adult native
sparrow and they cannot be depended
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25

They Should be Established all Over the
sOuth-NO Section Better Adapted to Them
b. 1t Up by Home Capital.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25

FAILURES OF CANNING HOUSES
in the South. These have not been
brought on by natural circumstances.
They have been brought on by lack
of economy and painstaking care
and cooperation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-25

A. and NJ. College, West Raleigh,
N. c..
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1902-07-07

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, 7 lipca. :
Sekretarz ;, United Mine Workers,
Wilson, przybyf tu West Virgi-
ginia. Opowiada on, re wszystkie
tamtejsze niezalezne kompanie ko-
palniane spragnione So pokoju i
gotowe So przyjac warunki organi-
zacyj, jezeli W to trust sic ME
wmiesza.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1902-07-07
Kronika MiejScoWa.
Sprawy robotnikow.

w North Side Turner Hall
odby1o sic onegdaj wieczorem
wielkie zgromadzenie konduk-
tor6w i motorowych kolei ulicz-
nych W dzielnicy zachodniej i
p6fnocnej (Union Traction i
Consolidated). Pc dlugich deba-
tach postanowiono obstawac
przy zadaniach, CO moze dopro-
wadzi do strajku. Zadaja oni po
80 ,cent6w "a godzine ola moto-
royJych i konduktorow ma kole-
jach linowych, po 2S centow ma
kolejach elelStrycznych, po 80
cehtow dls tych, ktorzy obsiu-
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1902-07-07
Rome wiadomoscl
telegraficZne.

w regacie kilohskiej zwycie.
zyfy statki amerykanskie. Gazety
berlinskie zaznaczaja, re Ameryka
ma wielu polach pokonuje Niemcy.
- Cesarz Wilhelm W przeciqgu
dw6ch dni trzykrotnie rozmawiaf z
milionerem amerykanskim Pier
pontem Morgan, przyznawaf mu,
re Niemcy pod wzgledem przemy-
sfowym DUO cd Ameryki uczyt
sic powinny.
II Tien Tsin W Chinach dono-
szq, 2e ksiaze Tuan, ktory cd czasu
rozruch6w bokserow jest zhiegiem
politycznym, prowadzi zywq kore-
spondencya dworem chinskim
re syn jego zostaf mianowany ge-
nerallejtnantem wojsk W Pekinie.
- Kr6l szwedzki Oskar zatwier-
d2it cabinet utworzony przez Fri
ka Gustava Bostrom.
W Kopenhadze W Danii 20
staia uroczy5cie otwarta wspania&a
swigtynia mormonska. 300 Nor
mon6w Ameryki byfo obecnych.
- Wiedenskie gazety szydza z
cesarza Wilhelma, il okazaf czolo.
bitnosc nczekowej ksiazeczce"
Morgana.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz zostat
mianowany honorowym obywate-
lem miasta Lwowa.
= Lekarze kr6!a Edwarda o.
awiadczyli, re kr6l wyszedt z ME-
bezpieczenstwa.
W tureckiem mieScie Saloni-
XII zrzadzio trzesienie ziemi, polq-
czone wytryskami wulkaniczny-
mi, ogromne szkody. Dwadziescia
kilka dom6w zostalo zburzonych,
statki W przystani rozbijaly sic,
DUO ludzi potonefo.
Francya zagroziIa Turcyi
wreczeniem ultimatum powodu,
re rad turecki ME chcia} dac sa-
tysfakcyi "a to, il tureccy poll
cyanci W Smyrnie ma pewnym o.
krecie aresztowali szpiega, ktory
tam szukaf schronienia.
- w Benton Harbor, Mich, u
toneli rzece st. Joseph kapiqc
sic Rudolph Steffk, jego iona i
jego siostra Chicago.
= Okret amerykanski rzqdowy
Mohican, wyplynqwszy Yokoha-
my do Honolulu pred 81 duiami,
ME przybyE ieszcze do Honolulu
zachodzi Ottawa, re wydarzylo mu
sic nieszczescie.
: Synek prezydenta, Theodor
Roosevelt, skaleczyf sic W czolo
bawiac sic ogniami sztucznemi W
dniu 4 lipca.
= w Manili,i i ma prowincyi cd
czasu wybuchu zarazy, zachorowa-
10 ma ch olere 1882 os6b, a 7,7l3
umarlo.
W Clinton, N. O., pozar obr6-
Gil W perzyne AZ dom6w mieszkal-
nych handlowych.
z Lorenzo Marques W polu-
dniowej Afryce donosza, ze pozar,
kt6ry tam wybucht 3 lipca, zrza.
dill juz szkode ma S2,5o0,oO0 je.
szcze ciagle sic srozy.
= w Janesville, Wis, W czasie
bury piorun uderzyt W kosciof sw.
Patryka i obr6cif go W perzyne.