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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-03
Number 4.

ing winter crops like rye, oats and
wheat, for grazing or cutting for
early hay or for seed. They cover
the land during the winter, take up
and use in their growth plant food
that would be washed out of the soil,
and make humus if turned under in
the spring.
Winter growing legumes, like Burr
clover and vetch, would be still bet
ter for improving the soil. Last July
we sowed burr clover broadcast in
our cotton on the Edgecombe County
Test Farm of the Department of Ag-
riculture, and continued the cult
vation till laying-by time. For more
than a month now this crop has al
most covered the ground. It will,
we think, mature seed in May, and
it is our purpose to plant corn after
the cotton, leaving a small unbroken
strip in the middle of the row, on
which we hope sufficient seed will be
matured to re-seed the land. If this
prove to be the case, which is true
further South, without further cost
in cultivation or for seed, this land
will be again covered with a green
crop next fall, winter and spring, and
will add to the soil the very best kind
Of l,,,,,,,,C +I04 -1oI oI
tanned without cost from the air, in
addition to furnishing grazing and
preventing the loss of soluble plant
food from the soil by the teaching
rains of winter.
This work is still in the experiment
tai stage, but success is indicated, in
which case the addition of this crop
to the rotation of O. w. SD
peas or rest, (2) corn, (3) cotton
would cause his land to be occupied
not less than 25 months out of 36,
with a soil-improving, nitrogen-gath
ing crop. Similar experiments and
rotations are in operation with hairy
vetch and other crops with corn,
cotton, peanuts, wheat, oats and 9th
er crops generally grown in the Sec
tions where the work is in progress.
At present, two Test Farms are in
operation in the Eastern part of the
State-in Edgecombe and Robson
Counties in the two ends of the sandy
soil section of the State-and one
is just being started in Iredell Coun-
ty on a good type of red clay soil of
the Piedmont section of the State
Work along this line is also being
conducted on the Experiment Station
Farm at Raleigh Soil improvement
by the growth of leguminous and
other green crops and rotations is
being given a prominent place in all
of this experimental work by the
Department of Agriculture and the
Station, and we shall be
in a better position from year to
year to say, on basis Of our tests,
what is the best procedures on the
different soils and sections of the
State. We shall be in a position to
give something more definite along
this line next summer.
B. W. KILGORE.
N. G. Department of Agriculture,
Do1oSo.I
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-03
GROWING CROPS THAT HELP THE
SOIL.


DR.. Kilgore Replies to a Correspondent
and Tells of Some North Carolina Ex-
periments-Leguminous Crops and
Crop Rotation.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
The inquiry in The Progressive
Farmer of February 10th, by 0. W.
S., whom / know to be one of the
best farmers in his section, regard
ing the growing of vegetation for the
addition of humus to the soil, is a
pertinent and important one.
No soil will produce we'll which is
devoid of or poor in vegetable mat
ter. On the lighter types of sandy
soils in the Eastern part of the State
there is a heavy loss, especially in
wet seasons, of the plant food added
in commercial fertilizers, by it's be-
ing leached out of reach of the roots
of the plants, or entirely away into
the branches and streams.
Vegetable matter, which on decom-
position, produces humus, contains
plant food itself. This plant food
only becomes in condition to feed
that plant, as we'll as subject to
loss from washing away, on the de-
composition of the humus, which
goes on slowly and feeds the plant
by degrees. In addition to furnish
ing the plant food itself, the humus
assists in holding the commercial
fertilizers added to the soil, and
maintains at the same time a better
supply of water in the soil and en-
ables a better cultivation of the
crops. Fertilizers can only do their
best work in producing the greatest
increased growth Of crops by the aid
of humus.
What then is the best way for the
Eastern farmer to get this material
into the soil? There is nothing bet
ter than our cow-pea for the time it
occupies the land. One ton of pea
vine hay per acre is only moderate
ly good crop. These vines if left on
the soil (but it is better to feed them
and carefully save and return the
manure) and turned under in the late
fall or early spring, will add to the
acre of land about ffty-four pounds
of ammonia, costing in commercial
fertilizers, at present prices, about
$500; and in addition, about twenty
pounds more ammonia - costing
about $3.OO-would be left in the
stubbIe and roots of the pea plant.
This growth is made from July first
till frost.
This is all well known and is being
largely practiced. The cow-pea can
and should be supplemented by grow
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-03
AGRICULTURE
HARRY FARMERS TALKS.
CIX.

CIX.
E1itor of The Progressive Farmer:
The Legislature ought to give or
appropriate the $4,000 asked for to
put up a suitable building for the
teaching of agriculture at the A. &
NJ College. Farmers are so used to
asking nothing of the State that they
do not take the interest in such mat
tcrs that they should. "The Lord
helps those who helps themselves"
So write to your Representative and
Senator and let them know that you
want this building, and you will be
sure to get it.
DIvERsIFYING CROPS
Can we afford to make tobacco
and buy our home supplies? ? Farmers
who raise tobacco in this county often
have to buy corn and other feed.
Tobacco as managed by our farmers
consumes too much time at a season
when other crops need attention.
Il has been impressed on the farm
er> in the South by nearly all writer's
on agriculture that they never can
succeed when they have to buy near
i aIi their home supplies. All cot
ton, all tobacco, all strawberries or
all of amy other one crop is not best
fer the average farmer. The farm
cr Is told that he must specialize or
cultivate only one crop if he would
succeed.
",Il, there are some crops that
mc farmer in rare instances might
ra'~n and succeed in making enough
over ami above expenses to Justify
hH". but where you find one, you
VIII ind nmcty-nine that will fail.
y merchant works and tries to save
all hc can in order to increase his
'an.' account. have a plenty of capi-
Tall to buy when the market is in the
pest condition, and be able to buy in
"F-" quantities. This is his constant
ann Now the farmer must try to
,NErh his soil (his safest bank) a
'''Ir every wear so that his crops
WI" be- Iittle larger, for we all
ANoW that it is what we can make
over and above expenses that pays
lis best.
We'll, here comes the necessity for
rotation. You cannot plant corn
every year on the same land without
manure or fertilizer and make paw
my crops. You cannot do it with
commercial fertilizer. You are COM
PEELED to add some humus to the soil
o' else with a yearly increased
o'Dount Your crop will be smaller. A
1o'auon Of different crops on some
'0lu Will keep up the fertility without
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-03

DIR. Kilgore Replies to a Correspondent
and Tells of Some North Carolina Ex
periments-Leguminous Crops and
Crop Rotation.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Good Listening.

Good talking is largely dependent on
good hearing" The fact that a man
is able to do his mental powers the JUS
tice of brilliant expression may be due
to the presence Of some receptive mind
ready to invite and appreciate. Wits
may clash to the point of deafening
themselves. The sympathetic and 81
lent listener is the buffer between.
Ruskin is said to have been excellent
company. He spoke in tone of gen
tie and playful earnestness.' He had
floods of thought and knowledge to
pour forth, if only he could get the
right hearers. But there were the bar
rem occasions when listeners were alb
sent
One day a friend gave a little dinner
for him, DR.. Jowett and Dean Stanley.
But no sooner had the dinner begun
than the host realized his mistake. He
had provided no setting for his jewels,
no junior men as hearers. "They
wanted to meet one another" he said.
1T should have gone off brilliantly
but the soup came and the fish follow
ed and they simply would not talk. At
last I said some stupid thing to STAN
ley about the architecture of West
minister abbey, and that drew Ruskin
and started us all off. Then all went
we'll. But 1 shall never make the
same mistake again" = Youths Com
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23

Naturalists have decided that many
insects have senses which human be
ings lack That of location, shown by
the wasp, for instance, is remarkable.
One species builds it's nest in a sand
bank that is only part of several
acres of such soil, and when it leaves
in search of food it covers the nest
so carefully that no ordinary eye could
discover it's location-that is to say, it
is just like all the surrounding loca-
ton, and yet the wasp flies back to it
without hesitation and finds it without
making a mistake. There is another
wasp that unerringly locates the eggs
of the mason bee under a thick layer
of sun baked clay and deposits her
own eggs in the same cells that her
young may have food when they are
Matched.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
A Lost Island.

Of the various buildings which adorn-
Ell the island of Phila there remain to-
day above water only portion of the
colonnade, the top of the kiosk and a
part of the temple of Isis. The traveller
approaches the ruins in a small boat, in
which he may pass down the colonnade
and row about in the once sacred cham
bers. 1t is novel and interesting ex-
perience, but to those who were ia
miliar with the island in all its beauty
it. is full OF sadness. Of the columns
which formed the colonnade only the
capitals remain above water. Upon
these one sees, beautifully chiseled and
ornamented with delicate coloring, I'll
berius offering gifts to the gods or
Nero presenting two eyes to Isis. 4
short distance to the right the roof of
the kiosk is visible resting upon it's ex
Quisite columns, which are partly sub
merged. By it two unusually large
palm trees rear their heads above the
inundatiol, Century, ....e-&.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
A Sure Way of Saving.

An ingenious method of putting his
savings beyond his own reach has been
adopted by German writer who found
from dire experience that all his prof
it's melted away as soon as earned.
Having made $4,000 by a fortunate
literary speculation, he placed the
whole of the money, together with bis
will, in the Imperial Deposit bank at
Berlin and on receiving the receipt
from the cashier deliberately tore it
up. The cashier thought he was mad
and told him angrily that it would take
fully three years before he could ex-
pect to obtain duplicate receipt. 'That
is just why L have torn up the Origi-
nal" calmly remarked the depositor,
land now the money is safe for that
time. "-Golden Penny.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
SOMEBODY BLUNDERED
Result is That Ten Men Are Dead, Five
Seriously Hurt and a Bridge
Partly Wrecked.

Pittsburg, Oct 20.-By the improper
fastening of the ropes carrying five
beams to their position, letting. tons
beams to their position tons of iron
were let fall upon the movable crane at
the Pittsburg end Of the new Wabash
bridge being built over the Mononga-
hela river and almost dozen workmen
were hurled to death by fall of more
than 100 feet Five are seriously in
jured. The part of the bridge extend
ing out over the river from the Water
street side is a total wreck.
The casualties follow: Dead-W. J.
McCloud, George Wells, G. w. Keit-
linger, William Kempton, c. L. Elem
ing, Fred. Sallinger, Frank Daily, j.
Campbell, Edward Morris and James
Simmons. The most seriously hurt is
Frank Hoover, internally, and A. ".
Fowler will lose one foot All the men
lived here or in the vicinity.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
CLOSE OF THE CONFERENCE
Civic Federation Adopts No Resolutions
Relative to the Questions 1t
Discussed.

Chicago, Oct 19.-The conference of
the National Civic Fedora ton adj
jouned without expressing itself on
any of the questions discussed. The
closing session had for presiding Off
Ger Senator Hanna, who in speech
advised that the golden rule govern
in all relations between capital and
labor, and Samuel Gompers warned
capital that if wages were cut in case
Of a financial depression there would
be trouble
A banquet was the finish of the
gathering. Here speeches were made
by Gompers, Mitchell. Straus. Nc
Mahon and James H. Eckels, who
strongly insisted that the CLOSED shop"
principle was relic of the dark ages,
without a place in the twentieth CEN
fury which it could rightfully occupy.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Dies Rather Than Grow Old.

Kenosha, Wis, Oct. Potential A.
Hughes, wealthy pioneer farmer,
living at Somers, is dead as the result
of an attempt at suicide. Early in the
morning he took large dose of paris
green, but hid the fact until he dis
covered that he was dying, and then
told the physician of his rash act.
Hughes was IS years old, and was pos
sessed of horror of growing old. For
weeks he had brooded over the fact
that he had been asked to turn his
business over to his son, and this is
given out as his reason for taking his
own life.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23

Few Of those who talk about the
was ever anything more than mere
figure Of speech. Among the Babylo-
mans tying the knot was part of the
marriage ceremony. There the priest
took a thread OF the garment of the
bride and another from that Of the
bridegroom and tied them into a knot,
which he gave to the bride, thus SYM
bolizing the binding nature Of the un-
iOn
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Wife Shoots Husband for Burglar.

Chicago, Oct. 16.-While searching
for burglars Herbert L. Butler. Of
Austin. was shot and seriously wound
ed by his wife. The couple had armed
themselves, Butler with revolver ard
his wife with shotgun, and gone into
different parts of the Butler residence.
Later upon discerning the outlines of
person in the darkness the wife
opened fire. and her husband dropped
to the floor in agony. 1t developed
that there were no burglars in the
house
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
TILLMAN GOES ACQUIT
Jury Decides That He Had a Right to
Shoot to Death Editor
Gonzales

Lexington, S. c., Oct. 16.-James H.
Tillman, who just nine months ago
slew n. G. Gonzales, editor of The
State, On the street at Columbia, will
receive no punishment for his deed
After long deliberatiOn, in which there
was danger that the twelve men would
fail to agree, verdict of not guilty
was announced, and the former lieuten-
ant governor was released amid a
demonstration of approval by his
friends.
Counsel for the defense moved the
defendants discharge from the sheriff's
custody. No objections being made
by the state, the court entered the or
der. The defendant shook hands with
the judge and members of the jury
and left the court room accompanied
by his friends and counsel
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Train HOId-UD in Russia.

st. Petersburg, Oct. 19.-Ten men
successfully held up a passenger train
between Duanbourg and Pleskov, 1852
miles from this city, during the night
The men jumped on the conductors
car, over-powered and bound both con-
ductors, robbed the safe and baggage
and escaped with the booty to an ad-
Joining forest
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Approves Naval Estimates.

Washington. Oct 19.-Secretary
Moody has approved the estimates for
the support of the navy for the next
fiscal year, as recommended by the
chiefs of bureaus. onounting to $1O2,-
S66449 as against $79.S16.791. ap-
propriated for the last fiscal year
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
, Bank at ChatswOrth, Ills, Fails.

Pontiac, Ill, Oct. 2O.-The private
bank of J. E. Brown & Co. at Chats
worth has closed it's doors. Mr..
Brown made formal assignment Of
all his property for the benefit Of his
creditors, to Stephen Herr of Char
1otte. The failure came as a surprise,
especially to the depositors, as Mr..
Browns was well to do. The assets are
$2S,426.14 and liabilities $33, 177.O7.
The assets include many notes and ac-
counts which are considered almost
worthless. and it is thought the cred
itors will not receive over so cents on
the dollar.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Elliott Declared Insane.

Washington, Oct. 19.-Peter Elliott,
or Minnesota, who was arrested at the
White House, Oct ), and who made
n violent attack upon the officers who
had him in custody, has been officially
adjudged insane and recommitted TO
ST. EliZabeth's insane asylum.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Cattle Show at Kansas CITY.

Kansas City, Oct. 20.-The fifth an
nual American royal cattle show has
opened here with nearly 5000 cattle,
go sheep. 300 swine and 300 thor
ouahbred Angora goats on exhibit. The
show is the greatest ever held here.
Of the cattle 1000 are made up of
choice specimens from the four leading
breeds
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Negro No. SIS Convicted.

Evansville. Ind, Oct 20.-Levi Mey-
er, colored, has been found guilty of
having taken part in riots in this city
last July. His trial lasted about twelve
hours and sentence will be passed on
him today.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
DefauIter Herman Cantnred.

Manila, Oct. 16.-George Herman
the defaulting constabulary officer, has
been captured and taken to Bayauan,
Eight hundred dollars was recovered
from him.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Six Men Seriously Hurt.

Butler, Pa, Oct. 19.-By the blow
ing out of the metal gate of a natural
gas well near Worthington. Pa, six
ume of gas and hurled through the
air like chaff. All were seriously in
jured and Frank r. Patterson, con-
tractor. will probably die. The others
will recover.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
SnYLOCk

Shylock was the man who
wanted a pound of human
flesh. There are many
Shylocks now, the GONZALES
cent, the consumptive, the
sickly child, the pale young
woman, all want human flesh
and they can get it-take
SCOTS Emulsion.
SCOTS Emulsion is hesf
and blood, bone and muse
Itfeeds the nerves, strength
the digestive organs and t.
ed the whole body.
For nearly thirty yer
5oott's Emulsion has been Ii.
great giver Of human flesh.
We will send you a couple Of
ounces free.
SCOTT g. BOVINE. Chemists.
AOo-415 Pearl Street, New York.
soc. and ss.oo; all druggists,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Gives the Reporters Advice.

Ii his talk to the newspaper men
DOWie said: Il have not come to New
York as the representative of a power
full ecclesiastical body, but in my
prophetic capacity. l care not for your
smiles | am as Indifferent to ridicule
as to any other wrong. Your facile
pens should never be harnesSed to rid
icule. There is a place for ridicule and
satire, but | say your pens should new
believes he has a s0lmen message to
humanity. 1t never pays to fight
against God. | am not going to dodge
anything. [ am very open man and
have no cOncealmentS.'
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Has Phenomenal Photograph.

DR.. Dowie has brought to New York
the largest photograph ever taken, it
being a view of Zion City % feet by
feet. 1t gives a correct idea of what
has been done At Zion City in the way
Of building up town and will be used
for that purpose on the exterior of
Madison Square Garden.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
First Public Meeting,

New York, Oct 19.-Five thousand
persons were turned away from Madi-
son Square garden after all the seats
in the building had been filled with a
great crowd curious to see John Alex
ander DOwie on his first appearance
before a New York audience. Fully
$4,000 persons were in the garden at
2:30 p. m. when the services began
with the professional in which the
Zion white-robed choir. to the number
of 900, aud the capped and gowned
ordained officers of the Christian Cath
Ollie church in Zion took part.
Much Confusion by People Leaving.
The service of prayer opened with
the invocation by DR.. Dowie, followed
by the singing of hymn, during
which the crowd continued to pour
into the Garden. This was followed
by the recital of the creed and COM
mandments and the reading of Scrip
ture, during which hundreds of per-
sons started to leave the hall. causing
much confusion. The exodus continued.
in spite of repeated orders to close the
doors, until nearly third of the au-
dience had departed. many of the va
cant seats being filled with the wait
ing crowd outside.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
HOST OF RESTORATION
Dowie's Armyof "Christian Cath
oIics" Now AssaiIing Sin
at It's Headquarters.
DEVIL DOES THE FIRST WORK
RObs Mrs. DOWie of Jewels Worth
ST, 5OO-Skirmishing Prompt
ly Begins with the Enemy.

New York, Oct. 1.-THE ''reStora-
tion host" 5000 strong, under the lead
ership of John Alexander Dowie has
garrisoned Madison Square garden and
completed preparations to sally on the
works of the enemy" The first de-
tachment, numbering about 400, ar
rived early in the morning and the
remaining trains followed during the
day and evening. Leaving the ferry
boat the crusaders boarded special
cars which were in waiting and pro-
ceeded direct to the garden to the mu-
sic of their bands and the singing of
HYMNS
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Thief RObS Mrs. DOwie.

The general OVerSeer himself, accom-
panied by his family and staff, arrived
in his special train at the Grand Cen
trail station where, owing to misun-
Outstanding, his private carriage failed
to meet him and he was compelled
to go to the Plaza hotel in a hack.
During the confusion of leaving the
train Il thief slipped into Mrs. Dowie's
reception room or the car and stole a
$1,000 diamond and pearl brooch.
General Oyerscer Restores Order.
From the Plaza DIR. Dowie went to
the garden, where he restored order
out of the general confusion that pre-
vailed, and outlined his plans in an
interview with the newspaper men.
He denied that he intended to raise a
fund of $5OOOO,OOO while here and
declined to say whether he was 60
ing to found another Zion City here
1t is intended to begin the house-to-
house visitations today, and the first
public service will be held in the gar
den tomorrow. The ''Skirmishers"
who will make the house-to-hOuse can
vass will go in parties of various num-
bers and distribute literature. They
will visit the BOWery and Chinatown,
but will not pass by the homes of the
TlilliOnaireS.