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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-02

or two plants of some choice or extra
early variety and raise their own
plants.
Last year I planted ten acres with
my w plants. The cultivation cost
me $50 an acre. I sold nine hundred
crates at 50 to So each. Only the ear
Hest sold at So, although at the open
ing of the season $12 is sometimes
received for a single crate. My
whole crop sold for $4,000, leaving me
a profit of $1,000.
At the end of the season I ship a
few berries to local markets, but the
amount sold in this way is too small
to be reckoned. I depend on the
large markets to dispose of my fruit,
and [ grow for profit.
This region ships about five hun
dred cars-four million quarts-per
season.-M. F. Leonhart, Chadbourn,
n. c., in Country Life in America.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-02
Profitable Strawberries in North
Carolina.

I started in the berry business
seven years ago. I had some capital
to begin with and bought a farm of
seventy acres at $40 an acre. Land
at that time rented for So an acre.
I bought plants from parties on the
W. & W. Railroad. They gave me
information about how to grow the
plants, and the first crop was as sue
cessful as any later one. By watch
ing others and following the example
of experienced truckers a beginner
can do just as we'll as anybody.
At first I planted two and one-half
acres. The twenty-five thousand
plants necessary were bought at $3.50
a thousand. It took half a ton of
high-grade fertilizer, costing $26 a
ton, to each acre. Together with the
cost of mulching the plants, cultivat-
ing the soil and picking the berries,
this made the total cost of produc-
ton for my first crop about 800. Ny
W labor is included in this, esti-
mated at ordinary prices. [ look af-
ter my own crop closely, because the
more a man does this the more he
makes.
I consigned to the local agents who
represent commission houses in the
large cities in the North. My crop
was an average one of ninety crates
to the acre. Each crate contained
thirty-two quarts, and averaged me
net about 50 a crate. My two and
one-half acres produced 1926 the
first season. This gave me a clear
profit of $75. I have sometimes made
a gain of 1926 on each acre.
I grow my own plants, and since
the first year the cost of production
has not been so much. Other grow
ers sometimes purchase a thousand
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-02
COTTON FIGURES.
The Census Figures of 1902, and North
Cardinals Product.

The census Office to-day made pub
lie the final figures of cotton produc-
ton obtained from the reports of
cotton ginners. The quantity of
cotton ginned from the growth of
1902, exclusive Of l~inters, amounted
to 11,O78,882 running bales, as press
ed at the ginneries, equal to 1O,63O,-
945 bales of five hundred pounds
standard, or counting round bales as
half bales, 1O,588,2 5O.
During the four years covered by
the ginning reports of the census Of
flee the average crop, exclusive of
l~inters, has been 9,9O2,277 bales of
five hundred pounds. The crop of
'02 shows an increase of 728,668 bales
over this average, while the crops of
1899 and 1901 show Il decrease OF
556,668 and 392,532 bales, ~Tespaoti>o-
ly. For the crop Of 1902 there has
been a general increase In all the
States both east an west IF tho Mis-
slssippi with the eAcopUlon - Ala
bama and Texas. Drought in Ala
bama and drought and boil weevil in
Texas are responsible for the losses
in these States.
North Carolina ginned in 1902 a
total of 568,884 bales, of which $780,
176 we're square and 2,7O8 we're
round bales. The equivalent of this
total production in 500 pound bales
is 594,542 bales. The increase in
500 pound bales of North Carolina
cotton since 1899 is 1O9, 142 bales, or
24.8 per cent. The cotton crop
which North Carolina gins is SO per
cent of the total.
The total number of commercial
bales of cotton ginned by North
Carolina for the past four years is
as follows:
In 1902 there we're 568, 1884 bales;
in 1901, 451,441 bales; in 1900, 5O9,-
81 bales; in 1899, 473,153 bales. The
equivalent of these bales for 500
pound bales in 1902 was 549, 542; in
1901, it was 415,8O8; in 1900, it was
7 1869, and in 1899 was 100000.
The number of ginneries in North
is 1886. Of this number
2,76O are active and 225 are record
ed as idle. The average number of
oales ginned per active establish
nent is 2O6. October 10, 1902, the
per cent of the total crop ginned in
Carolina was 53.3, and Deem
Der 18th the per cent was 900.
The total value of the cotton crop
given in North Carolina in 1902 was
526, O2O ,846. The value of the cot
on itself was $21, 500, 1866, and of the
seed it was $4,511,6 $50. The
of the cotton was 262, 3O6, 9O7
pounds, while the cotton seed weigh
ID 262, 3O7 tons.-Washington Cor.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-02

"r.oh~h"ro Patriot: Major Joseph
w. N"ro1rad announces that a mon
r"''nt is to be erected at Guilford
r.'''e Ground as a memorial of
''.S Mountain, where n of the
sY''>''e battles for American indie
pS"'onoo was fought. The monu-
W. Nm; p WITH come as a present from
a NO. lIpmas N. Brady, who operates
" 5'-" quarry in Cherokee Coun-
bra. II "..i be unveiled at the cele-
JpIv' on the coming Fourth of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-02
EASY SCIENCE STUDIES FOR
FARMERS.
x1.-rhe Queen Bee's B1idaI Tour.

The queen is a fully developed fe-
male. The same egg or young grub
that develops into a worker is taken
Of an early age and placed in a larger
and especially prepared cell and fed
on roval Jelly to make a queen. She
remains in this cell in larval and pu-
nal state from 16 to IS days when
she energies a virgin queen.
In a few days after this if the
weather is fair she takes a bridal
fipbt and meets a male or drone in
the air and is fortified. She has
nothing to do with a male after this.
She returns to her hive then and is
ready for business-the laying of
eggs to propagate and continue the
life Of the colony. She does not be-
Gin to lay at once but after a week
or so after the bridal tour. She
never leaves the hive after this unless
to swarm. The old queen usually ac-
companies the first swarm of the sea-
son and abandOns her comfortable
home to a daughter and goes out into
the world to find another home.
When the bees take the swarming
impulse they start many of these
queen cells and about the eighth day
the cells are sealed. At this period
the first swarm leaves with the old
queen and eight or ten days after
ward, if they still have the swarming
impulse, one or more swarms will
leave accompanied by virgin queens.
If the impulse is satisfied after the
first swarm, the young queen hat
energies first from a cell is allowed
to pierce all the others in their cells
with her keen weapon. The queen
never uses this sting for any other
purpose except on another queen.
Queens can be handled with impun-
ity.
The queen lives four or five years
and then more often than otherwise
Is slain by her children, as her days
of usefulness are past. After the
third wear her p~rolifcacy diminishes.
she Is then superseded by a young
queen. The workers will not usually
>tng a queen to destroy her. Queens
suspend LAYING in the fall and begin
again nm the spring or late winter.
!'rono~ and worker eggs are laid in
Their appropriate cells and are hatch
eel "ut in y to "a days. If the queen
ifon amy cause be kept from mating
until she Is past q days old she will
Oo@m to lay but the eggs will hatch
nothing but drones. The colony will
soon become extinct under these con-
G'I"n~. \ fertile queen is worth
from - cents to 81 and is the only
''in@ thing allowed to pass through
TIE mails of the civilized world.-H.
\, Iialbvrt.
-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-02
COrn-Breeding.

livestock breeding, and follows the
same general laws and principles. 1t
is the application of principles of
plant and animal breeding to the
compliant. The per cent of sugar in
the sugar-beet has been increased
from three per cent to sixteen per
cent. The ordinary beet was i'm
proved by seed-selection, SO that an
enormous industry has been built up
and a new source of sugar given to
the world. This has been done with
a plant which seeds once in two
years. Corn produces a crop every
year, a single seed producing a re-
turn of over a thousand fold. From
this great number of'ofspring, vary
ing in size, shape, color and compost
ton, a selection can be made which
will develop any feature of the seed
or plant. By continued selection,
these valuable attributes can be fixed
in the characteristics of the plant,
and the usefulness and Importance of
the crop increased. To illustrate the
point: We have been able, by select
ing ears having long shanks, to in
crease the length of the shank nearly
two feet in five years selection. By
selecting ears with tall stalks, we
have been able to increase the height
of the stalk almost three feet in five
years. By selecting ears from plants
having wide leaves, we have been
able-to increase the average width of
the leaf, and by selecting ears from
stalks having narrow leaves, we have
been able to decrease the width of
the leaf.
In breeding corn, a small field
Casually an acre in size) is used. The
land is prepared and the seed-bed
treated as for the ordinary field.
They are usually about one hundred
and twenty hills long and thirty rows
wide. Each row is planted from a
separate ear. The barren stalks,
poor stalks and all undesirable stalks,
such as suckers, are removed before
the tassel appears. The field is pro-
tected or isolated, so that no mixture
can take place from other varieties
or from any source. In the fall,
these row are husked separately, and
the seed for the next years crop is
selected from the rows giving the
highest yields per acre, of best com
position, with the least barren stalks,
and of the best type. In this way,
the yield per acre of the variety is
increased, the quality improved and
the type preserved and developed. By
this PLAN. we are able to give per-
sonal attention and direct selection
to the individual stalk and ear, which
would be impossible in a large field.
Thousands of practical instances
could be given to show the value of
improved varieties of corn. For in
stance, one southern Illinois farmer,
more progressive than the rest, was
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-02

Thousands of practical instances
could be given to show the value of
improved varieties of corn. For in
stance, one southern Illinois farmer,
more progressive than the rest, was
induced to secure enough improved
seed to plant three hundred acres as
a result of his study of corn in the
Illinois College of Agriculture. These
three hundred acres outyielded all of
the other fields on his farm more
than thirty bushels per acre; and, so
far as could be determined, the fields
of that entire section yielded about
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

W. 7. Currie, prominent young
busin ess man of McHenry, was in the
city short while yesterday. Mr..
Currie states that while the loss &C.
casioned by the big fire of several
days ago has proven a serious blow to
the business of that place, it will no
doubt result in the towns betterment
in the end, as work has begun on the
removal of the ruins and material be-
ing placed for the immediate rebuild
ing of large part of the burned sec
ton, and as the buildings which were
destroyed were old and dilapidated
frame structures, their replacement by
new and substantial business houses
will result in the towns material i'm
provement.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
Caught on the Fly.

g. 1t is strange thing said q
Sunday school teacher who has charge
of a class of little folks in one of oul
Hattiesburg Sunday schools, how
the youthful mind sometimes gets
facts jumbled and mixed, and the
humorous results that come from this.
A few Sundays ago the question OF
how Samspon slew the Philistines
came up, and little miss whose turn
to naswer had come. could hardly re-
strain herself for me to finish the
question, she was so eager to display
her biblical knowledge. When the
answer came. however. shock came
with it, for the little girl said:
He slew them with the axe of the
Apostles.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

S. & III. Katz. our Jewish clothing
merchants. have gained for themselves
the reputation of attracting trade un-
der any and all circumstances, and
this mode of soliciting custom is we'll
calculated to accomplish this. The
following littei story is told of an
effort in this direction: A fine line
of trunks and valises had been receiv-
ed, and an Irishman who came in to
purchase pocket handkerchief was
asked to look at the line. MY
friend,'' said the salesman. 'Let me
sell you one OF those trunks. For
WHAT" asked Pat. Why. to put
your clothes in. replied the sales
man. What, and me go naked ~
was the unexpected rejoinder.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

The article yesterday telling OF
Hattiesburg's resources for "a pros
porous commerce. for a reason, did
not show TIN, G institutions ''for fear
that the public might think it was
paid for' by them and thus they
would have been injured y 1t would
not be out of place, however, to state
that some of these immaculate insti-
tutions are advertising in out-of-town
property.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
Opening of Millinery

This is to notify the ladies and the
public generally that we are now
opened up with new and large
stock of elegant fall millinery. EN-
bracing all tire latest "crazes, .
s'fadsn and ssfancies.'
Our place of business is in the Ross
building, near Dozier's drug store,
on the street leading to the North
eastern depot and opposite Carter &
Kennedy's.
Our prices are such as will enable
you to buy as we bought, at the iJw-
est prices, with discounts of, go we
invite you to call. feeling sure of our
being able to please yon.
Respectfully,
0-20-9t. J. ID. end J. N. BIZ
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

Mr.. W. f. Gray, editor of the State
Journal of Meridian, is in the city.
Mr.. Gray is perhaps the best writer
in the state along industrial lines and
it would be n-strike for Hatties-
burg if he could be induced to remove
his paper here. For many years Mr..
Gray was editor and proprietor of the
Daily News, of Meridian, he having
established the paper.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
City Council Meets

This morning call meeting of the
mayor and board of aldermen was held
Tor the purpose of Inducing into office
the newly elected city marshal, o. E
Bufkin, and approving his bond. The
board then elected the following po
licemen: Charley Pool, sergeant pc
lice: c. J. Mcbride, Steward Bay
gent, and Thomas P. Moore.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
Commercial Hotel Arrivals

j. o. Paliver, Atlanta; J. T. viii
kins. St. Louis: ". NJ. Stone. W. F
Gray, Meridian; H. G. Bah ock
Memphis; r. ". Simmons, and wife
Mobile; Miss Stringer, Prentiss; S
II. Howell. Crystal Springs; W. "
Curtis, New York; r. P Mimms
Jackson; + S. Smith. Peruchi Bel
deni Company B. ". Sloan, Little
Rock; John A. Jones. Lynchburg
Va. Geo ". Townsend, Chicago.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
Married

Last night at the home of the bride
were married Mr.. Ollie Patterson and
Miss Gertrude Kirby. Mr.. Patterson
is we'll known young man of this
city, being engineer on the log road
of the McInnis Lumber Company, and
Miss Kirby is charming and attrac-
tive young lady.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
Don't forget A. K McInnis whel

Don't forget A. K. McInnis when
you want clothing in which you
would feel at home in the SWEETEST
gatherings And then you'll need n
hat and the Knox Is what you
want ii you want to be in style.
There is nothing to surpass "Schloss
Bros clothing and nothing to equal
the Knox hat.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
CASTOR, FIRE INSURANCE.
CASTOR, FIRE INSURANCE.
CASTOR, FIRE INSURANCE.


The Methodist ladies will give al
oyster and ice cream supper at the
court house Friday evening, October
2, from 4 O'Clock until after the opera.
Everybody invited to come. The sup
per is for new Methodist church on
Buchanan street.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

There viii be found some mighty
good reading in our special correspon-
dence from White Sand. which APP
pears in today's issue of The Progress.
White Sand seems destined to be one
of the important centers of south Mis-
sissippi. The signs all look that way
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

Ed NARROW says that he has adorted
new rule in reading The Progress
start at the bottom of the articles
and real up" 1t Is needless to give
the reason as all see where Ed is
right
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
CASTOR. FIRE INSURANCE.
CASTOR. FIRE INSURANCE.
CASTOR, FIRE INSURANCE.

Logan & Magruder, the furniture
dealers, say that many feel a de'icacy
i'll asking credit and to all such they
extend the invitation to leone
along" as the credit of any Ole is
good at their place.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

P. E. Lewis one of the city's most
popular young men, left this morning
for his home in Jasper county, and
will go from that place to Nashville,
Tenn, where he goes to enter the
state University for a course I'D
dentistry. Pink has numbers of
friends here who wish him all sue
cess.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

The pretty job of painting that is
being done on the little annex to the
Klondyke Hotel, is the work of Mr.
Ed MARROW, who is known as a skill
ed artist in his line Ed" is all
right
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

Mrs. James Elyward and little Miss
Schamber, who live at the CONNER
cial Hotel, in this city, were over to
see the workings of a printing Office
yesterday, it being the first time they
had ever witnessed the printing of a
PAPER
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

From W hat can be leaDred, T. A..
Ferguson S sale of lots at White Sand
Yesterday was big success. Eur,
then, Tom never does things any 9TH
er way.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
CASTOR, FIRE INSURANCE.
CASTOR, FIRE INSURANCE.
CASTOR. FIRE INSURANCE.

Captain G.. +. Durrow, the sooth-
ern representative, with headquarters
at Hattiesburg. of the Southern PsO-
duce Company, of indianapolis. Ind 3,
has gone to that city on business.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

An endless variety of all the latest
styles in jewelry. watches and clocks
and handsome collection diamonds
and diamond set goods at the Hatties
burg Jewelry Company pace.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
Our travelling Agent

Mr.. r.. +. Collins is a regularly au
thorized agent of this paper. local and
otherwise, and has authority to act IN
any matter where the paper is party.
III. HAYNiE. Editor and Publisher.
..gs, 6-28i5
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

Holman & Co., Mobile, want you to
write them for their printed price list
OF liquors. They will send you prices
that will surprise you. They own their
own still and can undersell people who
dln't sept IS ct
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

Hawkins & Co. keep our front page
enlivened with their rapidly-ch ing-
ing advertisements. See the change
to-day
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
SPECIAL BARGAINS.

/ will sell for fifteen days Fix lots
f00x300 feet. They are high, nice lots
less than one-h half mile from Main
street at Hawkins & Co.. situated on
principal street. Terms easy. Call to
see me and | will show the property.
Sold as block or by lots.
$50 At ]. f. MOORE, Agent.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
Fresh Oysters.

Remember the reliable oyster honse,
50 cents per hundred Mobile Street,
between East Front and East Pine.
r. w. THOMPSON, Manager.
9-2S-6t
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
For Sale Cheap.

A fine work mule. Apply to S. Pelle
GRIM e. Co., Battiesburg, Miss.
29-et
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

See local notice and display adver-
tisement of Mr.. J. F. Moore, the real
estate man, in this issue of The Prog
rpsS.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

See the recent changes of wording
and the seasonable illustrations in the
O'Ferrall Bros. advertisement.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
WANTED.

From fifty to one hundred thousand
acres Yellow Pine timber lands, Give
full particulars. T. M. Bradley & Co.,
Birmingham, Ala. sep26lw
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
Music Studio.

The Hattiesburg Music Studio, with
Miss M. E. Monteastle, director, will
open for pupils Oct. /. post
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

Mrs. o. S. Willet, professional nurse
Hattiesburg, Miss, Phone 23l-sl92n
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
For Sale.

A complete beautiful home. See J
Frank Smith, at Dozier's Drug Store.
62S-6t
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
WANTED

At Watkins Machine and Foundry
Company 100 SawmIll hands and sever
al Locomotive Engineers and Saw Filters
DENT 25 at
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01
Bring Northern People Down Octo-
Der 20.

If you have property for sale or want
to entertain friends from the north,
write them of this. On October %
round trip tickets will he sold via the
Mobile ane Ohio ra,lro I'd 10 New Or
leans, Mobile, Montgomery aud other
southern points, from Chicago ard
vicinity at rate of SIG; from St Louis
Cairo and intermediate points. 81.
Liberal l;c'lts and stop-overs. For
further particulars. write John Nj.
Beali, A q. Z. A, NJ. q O. K R., s.,
Louis, Mo. sep29
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

= Johnston s Sarsapartlla Is the uaosu pewerfu
blood parrser known. Use II and Keep ysai
blood pure; Onart b 1Iea.v
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-01

= Jonnston's e.. saparsIIa, Quart Bottles. a
.aD0d cleanser, Eeah builder asa.- saltt resfost
. - - eU,1ks