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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08

bulls out in different sections. While
l have made some success in this line,
l find it hard to get tobacco farmers
to do much with grass and cattle. Yet
am sure they would do better than
they have, and are doing, if they
would devote more time to grass and
stock and less to tobacco.
Now, Mr.. Editor, let me make this
suggestion: If you will look into
the history of any tobacco-growing
section, town, or people, where they
have made tobacco a speciality, it has
in the end been disastrous to all, with
a few, very few, exceptions. East
ern North Carolina is taking her
first dose now, but not her last. If
the people there persist in raising
tobacco they will raise it at three
dollars per cwt. We in this old to-
bacco-growing section have done so,
and they will so the same. I have
been on the market at times when
it was hard to find a pile of tobacco
that brought as much as 3 cents a
pound, and nobody thought anything
strange about it, and the buyers said
then tobacco was too high in price
to buy. W. G. SMITH.
Caswe1 Co., n. O.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08
The Lesson of the Tobacco Panic.

The good business judgment of the
country is that the tobacco growing
belt will not suffer absolute bank
ruptcy because of the exactions of
the American Tobacco Company.
The public is coming to believe (and
what better tonic than a belief that
a brighter day is coming?) that to-
bacco will rise to a price above the
cost of production, so that when at
the close of the year our farmer
friends come to add up profit and
loss, they will find the former to
much exceed the latter on the whole
transaction. It is believed also that
some good and very valuable lessons
will be learned from the experiences
of this year. If we shall learn
enough from trust methods to dis
trust the support and aid they give,
to not. depend on Chicago meat pack
ers to furnish the meat, or raisers of
timothy, etc., in different parts of
the country to supply feed, along
with the great corn farms of the
West and Middle West for our teams,
in word, raise on the farm what is
needed there, we shall profit i'm
mensely by the severe scare we have
had this year. This is old doctrine
many times preached by the wise men
of the country, and those men who
have practiced it are in no fear of
the sheriff at this time, the poor to-
baccO crop, the trust and many other
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08

there, which as a general thing were
only a degree better than ours here.
So / thought the best thing for
me to do was to look around and post
myself. At that time there were no
beef cattle, or cattle men anywhere
in this part of this State or Virginia.
So l wrote my friend, Capt. J. III.
Wissler, of Wythe County, Va, and
asked him to tell me something about
the beef cattle, and if he could get
me some to bring here for breeding.
He wrote me that if I were going
to engage in raising beef cattle, to
come out there; it would pay me to
do so. / took this advice and went
to Wythe.
The first cattle I saw there were
one hundred head of North Carolina
cattle that had been wintered there,
and grazed in field set with orchard
grass. These cattle were perfectly
fat, and I thought as good beef as
any and would sell as we'll as any
but the people said not; said they
were no good / asked why. They
said they would weigh only 600 or
700 pounds, and would bring only
212 cents on the market. These cat
tie were from two to five years old
and very fat. Then | went to a field
that had ShorthOrn steers two years
old, coming three, to be sold that
fall. This was a revelation to me,
these tall, long, round-bodied cattle
weighing about 900 pounds and sell
ing then for AZ cents gross. Now
l could see the difference between
scrub and beef cattle. I came home
determined, to get some ShOrthorn
cattle, and after writing around
could hear of only one, and that was
owned by some member of the A. d
M. College at Raleigh, and L failed
to get that, but afterwards bought a
very fine one that had been brought
to Danville by butcher, and sold IN
the country to a farmer on Dan
River. Now I have some fine heifers
bred from scrub COWS by this bull.
These grade Shorthorn calves would
sell anywhere to stock men for
grazers at a good price, as they have
both the color and shape of the
Shorthorn.
Ihave recently been back to South
west Virginia, and find a greater
variety of beef cattle. They now
have both the Herefords and the
Angus, all very fine cattle, but the
Shorthorns are still holding their
own. and in some respects are better
to raise, especially to breed up a
herd of grades, than perhaps any of
the other breeds.
7 have tried to induce the farmers
to.breed up their cattle; have four
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08

Readable Letter Describing bis OWn
Experience.
Editor OF The Progressive Farmer:
Twill give a little experience that
7 have had in raising and handling
beef cattle in this part of the State.
About five years ago I began to
buy up and Craze cattle to sell to the
local butchers, and for the first year
bought such cattle as could be had
in the country around here, prin-
cipally dry milch COWS, steers, and
ANYTHING that the people had to sell.
After trying the grown cattle, found
that they did not pay. 1t took too
much time and pasture to get them
in shape to sell, and they we're too
cheap on the market at two and a
half and three cents, gross, and very
often the best of them would not
bring as much as I paid for them
before grazing them.
Then | bought up calves and year
Hngs and would keep them through
the winter and Craze them on our ma
tive grasses the next spring and
summer. / found no trouble to grow
from fifty to one hundred per cent
on these young animals, and by so
doing sold them at a fair profit the
following fall, either to the local
butcher or to some stock men to take
to the grazing sections of Virginia.
Now in selling these cattle to men
who were used to the cattle business
Is right where / began to have some
practical experience in beef cattle,
tor l could easily see that these peo-
pie knew what they we're doing. They
would give more for calf that suit
ed them than they would for a steer
that was about ready for the market
here. Say the calf was worth here
from three to five dollars and the
steer would sell on the market for ten
or fifteen dollars, Now I asked these
people why this great difference.
Ihey said the calf had some signs
OF ShorthOrn blood and they could
take them home and after feeding
Ihem through the winter and graz
ing them the next summer, the calf
would take on more flesh than the
steer would, and that it would sell
Ior higher price. This was five or
SA years ago and I, never having
gwen any attention to raising beef
cattle, did not know the marked diff
ference; in fact, had never seen any
Oee1 cattle except few Shorthorns,
%no these at fairs, though I had been
through Texas and seen the cattle
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08
Fertilizer for Crimson Clover.

Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
Please publish in your next issue
answers to these questions:
1. Will 1900 pounds acid phos-
phate and 400 pounds muriate of
potash make the best fertilizer for
crimson clover sown on sandy loam,
such as is good tobacco land?
2. How much should be applied per
acre?
3. When is the best time to apply
fertilizer to clover?
G. M. BEAVERS.
Wake Co., n. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08
(Answer by DIR. B. W. KiIgore, State
Chemist.)

In reply to the above questions re-
garding a fertilizer for crimson
clover, I would suggest the use of
about 225 pounds per acre of the fol-
lowing mixture:
Acid Phosphate 200 TBS.
Muriate of Potash ......... 25 TBS.
thoroughly mixed and broadcasted
just before or after sowing the seed.
The seed and fertilizer may be cul-
tivated in at the same time.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08

Chicago will be 100 years old Sep
tember 26, and plans are being made
for celebration which will be rec
ord breaker. One feature of the eel
ebration will be reproduction of
the great fire of 1871. All the build
ings now in the area covered by the
confagration will be ablaze with red
fire.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08
AGRICULTURE
RAISING BEEF CATTLE.

A cssweu Farmer Sends a Helpful and
Readable Letter Describing his Own
T-narianca
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-05
COMES BACK FROM JAPAN
SOUND ON TOURIST ISSUE

Mr. w H Rice of Lihue Kauai, of HawaHs
kamaana citizens returned the Korea from the Orient
While the East Mr.. Rice spent the Flowe
he back Hawaii than convinced
of the wash the shores of land good and
charming Paradise of the Pacific
belongs older class
Hawaiian citizens he much in his travels that convinced him
commercial valuable quantity and
enthusiastic supporter growing idea
Hawaii all world exceptionally interesting
country for travellers to visit.
Why" with reporter, Japan
and everywhere the cities
he finds with guests At Yokohama stood in
fairly good t"t the second
turned well the long line OF people
behind him.
at was the thick that the
wonder was where they all came American and
which
Portable of cleanliness OF course we had to remove our
beds consisted OF mats piled on
Pheasant
the finest foreign MOTEL
Re presence numbers of tourists everywhere I'M
compared with the few we IN Travail
bord he so GREAT further looked the more
ed became that ure-enough tourist attraction Haa
has the advantage every While Japan interesting there
everything; while IN lsis e
scenery is of such types the volcanoes live and extinct are
- such Grand proportions that furnish tlr-day continuous
Oerforrnance without any thought of monotony
inquiries OF OF the more prominent lo
sd that their knowledge Hawaii meager indeed ana
% IneT nothing atractvene of the Islands Tor tourists
% made search hotels and steamship Oces Tor
be found On the otner lai
on W rere anxious be supplied with literature descriptive OF
promised that should be sent iei
Korea VINO Wouiu N
r. stop over steamers in Honolulu Dut s9c a. az co.
SOP that ev gave up idea and proceeded on to the oas
or
orted to be booked, and possible that little e
might result securing quite number OF iayoefS iO ~ P
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-05

She complains that she has had much
trouble in obtaining from the guardi-
an the SO month allowance for each
child which was ordered by the court
and that he is now three months in
arrears.
Samuel Kailimai of Puueo, Hilo, adj
ministrator of the estate of J. Pinao,
late of Aiea, Oahu, deceased, has filed
his final account with a petition for
discharge. He charges himself with
$1,S27 and asks to be allowed s1,590.55,
the balance in favor of the estate be-
ing $23645.
There is a fight over the fees claim
ed by w. G. Cooper, receiver, and
Smith & Lewis, attorneys, in the dis
continued Hind VS. Low cases. Yes
terday morning Judge Gear contin-
ued the hearing until Monday to allow
Mr.. Hind to come from Hawaii and
give evidence. Mr. Kinney said he
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-05
WHO ARE AMERICANS P

What is the proper name to use in
designating the people of the United
States? A citizen of France is called a
Frenchman; of Holland, a Dutchman;
of England, Britisher or Englishman,
and so on, but when a man from this
country goes abroad he usually des-
cribes himself by a phrase. This
method is unsatisfactory. 1t is too awk-
ward.
Europeans usually refer to us as
Americans. The honor which is at
tached to this designation impels us to
it. Pride is a powerful in
centive. But strong and indignant
protests are arising against US from
all the other nations in this hemisphere.
They oppose our exclusive use of the
term as arrogant presumption, and
claim it should be employed only in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-05

general sense, to describe the inhabi-
tants of the Western world, just as the
word European signifies any person
born and living on the Continent of
German or italian. Is not a Brazilian,
our sister republics ask, or a Mexican,
Canadian, Cuban, Bolivian, or Chilean
just as much American as we are? In
way, yes. To certain extent they
are. But in a greater sense, emphati-
cally they are not. Their habits,
characteristics and governments do not
harmonic at all with the general idea
as to what America should be.
Our nation is responsible for the pre-
valence of this general idea so deroga-
tory to the other countries of America,
We have characterized and dominated
the continent. Inasmuch as a differ
ence exists between our part and the
rest of it, corresponding distinction
should be made. No citizen of the
United States is willing to be mistaken
for Il Paraguayan, Argentinian or Terre
del Fuegian. And since we are in po-
pulation, in intelligence and in prowess
so much the superior of all other
countries in this hemisphere, the CALI
ing of ourselves American to the ex-
clusion of all other people should not
be looked upon as unreasonable arrog-
ance or an additional affront. 1t is not
intended as such
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-05

Drafts and cable transfers on Chi,
and japan through the Hongkong an
Shanghai Banking Corporation an
Chartered Bank Of India, Australia an
China
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-05

would send wireless message to him,
which Smith G. Lewis would have to
pay, or otherwise it would cost $40 to
serve a subpoena on Hind The offer
caused smiles in court.
Kala, Kahi and Kahaleuki have
sued Moses Keliihuluhulu and others
for cancellat ton of the lease on house
lot in Kakaako, alleging that the de-
PENDANTS have violated the terms of
the lease.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-05


Exchange bought and sold.
Commercial and Travezers' Letters q
Credit issued on the Bank Of CaIifornis
and n. NJ. Rothschiid & Sons, London
Correspondents: The Bank of CaIifor.
mia, Commercial Banking Co. OF sgd
ney, Ltd, London.
Drafts and cable transfers on CHI
and japan through the HongkonE ana
Shanghai Banking Corporation and
Chartered Bank Of India, Australia aa<
China
Interest allowed on term deposits a
the following rates per annum, viz:
Seven days notice, at per cent.
Three months, at per cent
Six months, at 31h per cent.
Twelve months, at 4 per cent.
Trust Department.
Act as trustees under mortgages
Manage estates, real and personal
Collect rents and dividendB.
Valuable. papers, wills, bonds, etc.
received for safe keeping.
Accountant Department..
Auditors for corporations and Drs
vate firms.
Books examined and reported q
Statements Of affairs prepared.
Trustees on bankrupt or insolVant -
tates-
Office. s24 Bethel street.
Savings Department.
Deposits received and interest allow
"a at Al per cent per annum, In as
cordance with rules and regulations
copies Of which may be obtained o.
application
Insurance Department
Agents for FIRE, MARINE, LIFE
ACCIDENT and EMPLOYERS Liza
BILITY INSURANCE COMPANIHk
Insurance office, ga Bethel street
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-05
COURT NOTES.

A joinder in demurrer has been filed
in the suit of Antonio Joaquin Da Es
treIIa VS.. Charles NJ LIE Blond. This
is an action for damages by a client
against his attorney for neglecting his
interests in court.
A motion to set for hearing has been
filed by plaintiff in the partition suit
of Keahi VS.. Niau Iaukea ct al. There
are five law firms engaged in this case.
Malta Perry petitions to have c. ].
Holt, guardian of her two minor chill
should not be compelled to render a
full and true account of his doings.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-05
Throws Out Ap.
peal On jury
Trial Refusal.
Mother Cites Guardian
Of Two Minor
Children.
Clients Damage Suit Against At
torney-Administrator Renders
His Final Accounts.

By unanimous opinion, written by
Chief Justice Frear, the Supreme Court
overrules the exceptions of defendant
in the case of All Hing VS.. All On.
Kinney, McCIanahan & Bigelow ap-
peared for plaintiff, and Geo. A. Davis
for defendant. 1t was an action for
false imprisonment in which judg-
ment was rendered for the plaintiff in
the sum of 800. Defendant entered
exceptions. relying on only two of the
points raised when the appeal came to
be heard. Upon the disallowance of
his motion to open the default. the
court holds that, aside from the ques-
ton whether the trial judge rightly
denied this motion on the ground that
another judge had previously denied
it, there do not appear to have been
any merits in the motion. The sec
ond material point related to waiver
of trial by jury, and is decided as
stated in the following syllabus
1.-The right of trial by jury may be
waived in civil cases by actions or
conduct as well as by words, and is
held to have been waived by a defen-
dant in default, if he had such right
at all, by not claiming the right un-
til after the hearing on the assessment
of damages was nearly completed"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-05
BISHOP 3 CO., BANKERS
ESTABLISHED IN 1855.

Banking Department.
Transact business In all Department.
Of banking.
Collections carefully attended to.
Exchange bought and sold.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-23
STORY OF KING EDWARD.
Little Daughter of Ita1y's Queen Els
capeS from Nursery to See the
British Crown,

An amusing story comes from
Rome apropos of the kings recent
visit.
king Edward" writes the Rome
correspondent of the Westminster
Gazette, has come, seen, and con-
quered with one exception, the Prin-
cess Yolands. She is the eldest
daughter of King Victor Emmanuel
and had imagined that King Edward
was coming especially for her ben
fit. So her disillusionment easily can
be imagined, when not only did he
prove to be old, but she was shut in
her nursery and not allowed to come
out without special permission.
"The princess, however, decided
not to endure any such injustice, but
the nurses were vigilant. However,
one morning, while papa and mamma
were much occupied she found the
door open and slipped out quite un-
seen. But mammals eyes were sharp
She discovered her daughter hiding
behind a huge chair. 'Yolanda. why
did you run away?' asked the queen.
81 didn't she replied. L only
wanted to see King Edwards crown
and Miss Dickens kept me in the nur-
sery. The nasty man hasn't got a
crown after ALL"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-23
HIRES MESSENGER AS ESCORT,
New York Girl Engages His Services
When She Makes Trip to Boston
to See Sweetheart

When Miss Maude Wayne, aged 20
decided to 60 to Boston from Harlem
and had obtained her fathers permits
sion to do so she called a messenger
boy to be her escort.
For just "a hours Frank Torres, 1e
years old, an American District Tele-
graph messenger. boy, saw that the
young woman did not get lost in the
labyrinths of the Hub, and brought
her home safe.
Miss Wayne made the trip for the
purpose of meeting her sweetheart
who is an officer on the Olympia, Ad
miral Dewey's former flagship. The
ship had left Hampton Roads, she had
been informed, headed for Boston
Inquiry at the Charleston navy yard
elected the information. that the war.
ship had been recalled.
The afternoon was spent in driving
about the city, and then the messen-
ger and Miss Wayne boarded train
for New York. For her young escort
Miss Wayne paid $7.2o to the com
pany and gave him a liberal tip.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-23
NEW SUBMARINE BOAT.
Swiss Chemist Invents Improved
Craft and Explains Details to
French Official.

M. Raoul Pictet, celebrated Swiss
chemist, has forwarded to M Camille
Pelletan, minister of marine of France,
full details of new submarine boat
of his invention, accompanied by plans
and sections. These documents, he
said, represent twenty years of work
and experiments, which M. Pictet Of
fers to the country of his adoption. He
points out that certain section of the
press has done everything for months
past by its attacks to turn him from
his project. When recently he handed
the details of his boat to Marquis
De Noailies, French ambassador to
Germany, for transmission to the
ministry of marine, the officials of the
ministry refused to receive them. He
was therefore forced to send them to
the minister personally.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-23
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BY Julio IruM Bishop.
TT OWARD MARSH author and Jour

TT ONWARD MARSH, author and jour
nalist, acknowledged that he
was about to undertake a foolish
quest, and that most of his friends
would accuse him of having some
thing lacking in his mental machin-
cry if they should happen to hear of
it. He acknowledged it to Trask, the
city editor, who was silent and
phlegmatic and rather a dull fellow
on the whole, to his way of think
ing, though he rather liked to talk
to him at times because'he listened SO
well. He acknowledged it again to lit
tie Miss Barbara Scott, who had passed
the hey-day of young girlhood, one
would say, and whom Marsh found to
be nice little old maid enough, and
quiet, as old maids ought to be.
Trask had gone on smoking very
calmly, after his disclosure, and it was
only after a long pause that he had re-
marked dryly:
$50 you are going down into the
backwoods to find genius! And she.
doesn't want to be found! How will
you know her when you find her?"
But it was to Miss Barbara that he
said, without reserve:
'Y on know, Miss Barbara-you won't
mind my sitting here in the gallery
will you?-well, 1 am quite sure would
know her the very minute saw her or
heard her voice. Absurd, isn't TITO
have fallen in love with-with mind
one might say. But from the time I
read The Cross of Fire I knew that I
must find the author. And everything
she has written since has appealed to
me in such a way-thereiss such tender
ness, such misunderstanding SO elu-
sive, as though one had caught a
glimpse of Dryad in the woods and L
simply am going to find her, you know
1t was beastly mean in the publisher
not to give me her name, but did find
out that she lived in this part of the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-23

son Moko, sire of Fereno 2:07A, cham
pion 3-year- old of 1900; Mabel 2:10 IA.
The Baron Wilkes family has now
more futurities and great races to its
credit than any family of horses living.
These facts are not owing to favorable
conditions or combination Of cir
cumstances, but is a natural result OF
speed producing qualities transmitted
from sire to sons for generations. Red
Baron's dam. Lady Wilkes 2:29A by
Red Wilkes, the champion living sire
of 2:3O performers, having 162 in 2:30.
His sons have sired 524 from 2:0o19
to 2:30. His daughters have produced
1876; both of these are more than any
other stallion living.
Baron Nitron's dam Regina ", dam
of Bessie Allerton 2:24A by Nitrogen,
sire of Hydrogen 2:O74, Kid Shea 2:l4,
etc. Robt. McGregor 2:17 IA, sire OF
the worlds champion trotter Cres-
ceus, 2:02 Ia
| also have the imported Percheron
stallion, Brilliant XIV, (201S9) 1878,
got by Coco 5754, dam Rosette 17540,
grand specimen of the draft type,
weighing close to 1000. This horse
will make the season Of 1908 at my
farm q of mile southeast of Lancas-
ter.
My thoroughbred stallion TeutOnic
will make short season at home after
July 4th. Will furnish pasture for
few mares from distance at reason
able rates. Will not be responsible
for accidents or escapes. When par
ties dispose of mares, service is due.
Terms: Baron Nitron $12. Brilliant
$40. Will insure living colt.