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d, e, $3.50; F, $1.e5; 6, $1.75; II, 1920;
I. s2.70; K, $2.S5; NJ, 1926; N, $3.05; w.
g., $500: w. W., $40.
New York, Aug. 28.-Rosin steady;
strained, common to good, $2.05.
Turpentine easy, 57Q57hc.
wilmington, N. c., Aug. 2S.-Turpen-
tine. nothing doing; receipts, 45 casks.
Rosin, firm; $1.55@16O; receipts 2SS
barrels.
Crude turpentine, firm; .$1.75, $3.50 and
$3.50: receipts, &c barrels.
Tar, firm; $1.65; receipts, 11S barrels.
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A. q. BAXTER & CO, INC.

successors to Murphy & Co.,
Board OF Trade Building. Savannah
Private leased wires direct to New
1ork. Chicago and New Orleans.
COTTON. STOCKS AND GRAIN.
New York office, No. 81 Broadway.
On1ces IN principal cities throughout
Ine south: Write for our market man
va VA ana book containing instruction
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COTTON FUTURES.

New York, Aug. 2s.-The cotton mar
Aet opened firm at advances Of 346
POINTS on the higher cables. and ruled
Ihlrly active IN q gpasmOdic way, with
puees moving rather irregularly as the
market WAS nrst active then dull. Dur
nk the early trading the bulls sup
igfied the market aggressiyely and
liie there were frequent reactions Of
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DRY GOODS.

New York, Aug. 2S.-The demand for
dry goods has been more insistent Tor
quick deliveries of spot goods, but buy
ers are not Specializing on the future.
The possibilities of the next few weeks
are too great to admit of obligating
themselves for anything more than is
absolutely necessary. Predictions of
a scarcity Of goods are numerous, but
these do not brighten buyers out of
their conservatism.
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Ware and Lelahd as Cotton Letter.

New York, Aug. 2S.--The market this
week has been the most excited and
spectacular since May. Starting with
reports Of damage by boil weevil in the
Southwest, reports that were highly
colored by those whose interests would
be furthered by a general acceptance
of the same, and melted by two or
three large operators, the short inter-
est became somewhat nervous, and
when covering once began, it was a
comparatively simple matter to force
the market 40 or SO points. Prices re-
gained the high level touched during
the early part of the growing season,
and trading on several days aggre-
gated half million bales. On the ad-
vance, large portion of the short in
terest was eliminated, and during the
latter part of the week, prices develop
ed considerable irregularity. Had 1t
not been for the enormous buying of
September and October by the operator,
representing the New England spinning
interests in this market last spring,
there were evidences that selling would
have brought about decline, as large
blocks of cotton came on the market,
and holders who bought below 10 cents,
were inclined to sell early.
In the event of manipulation being
extended to September and October,
the situation will be OF a precarious
nature. so far as the short interest is
concerned, and this fear has restrain
ing influence on all operators. The
simple fact is. that without new cot
ton, manipulators can force prices up
or down as they see fit. While 1t may
be impossible to carry any advance
above certain figures, there is not like
ly to be very much opposition to efforts
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LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

Liverpool, Aug. 2S.ACotton: Spot,
moderate business done; prices,
points higher; American middling, fair,
7.S4d; good middling, 7.12d; middling,
6.S6d; low middling, 6.64d; good ordi-
nary, ,6SSd: ordinary, 6.1Sd.
The sales of the day were 1000 bales,
of which 500 were for speculation and
export, and included $500 American
Receipts, 1000 bales, including 1,4OO
American. 20
Futures opened steady and closed
very steady. American middling, good
ordinary clause: August 6.64d; Au-
gust-September, 6.54d; September, 6.54d;
September and October, 6O9d; October
November, $3.50; November December.
5.56@5.57d; December January, 5.51d:
January February, 5.49d; February
March, 5.4Sd; March-April, SAID; April
May, 5.46d.
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New York, Aug. 2S.-Spot cotton
closed quiet; middling uplands, IL. 75c;
mlddling gulf, 13c; sales, 1884.
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WEEKLY COTTON REpoRrs

Receipts Ports Past Week. The fol-
lowing table shows receipts at all
United States ports for the past week
and the corresponding week last year:
Week Ending Friday, Aug. Is
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Galveston-Steady; middling, 12kc;
net receipts, 1852; gross, 1852; Sales 10;
stock, 1,017.
Norfolk-steady; middling, 12hc;
stock, 121
Baltimore-Nominal; middling, 13c;
net receipts, "a; gross, "a; stock, 2S4.
Boston-Quiet; middling, 12.75c; net
receipts, Is; gross, 1000.
mington-Nominal; net receipts,
100; gross. 1000; stock, S1S.
delphia-Quiet; middling, 13c;
net receipts go; gross, go; stock, $40.
Savannah-Firm; middling, 12Mc;
net receipts, q; gross, z; sales, 10;
stock. 2,67S.
New Orleans-Steady; middling,
Pee; net receipts, "a; gross, "a; sales,
225; stock, 1882. Exports-Coastwise,
1929.
Mobile-Nominal; middling, 12c; net
receipts, IS; gross, 1S; stock, AZ.
Memphis-Quiet middling, IL 9-16c;
net receipts. "a; gross, "a; stock, 1921.
*Augusta-Quiet; middling, 12Bc; net
receipts, p; gross, %; sales, 8; stock.
Charleston-Firm; middling, 12Ac;
net receipts, 8; gross, 8; stock, las.
MISUNDERSTANDING; middling, lie;
net receipts. II; stock, 5000.
TLouisville-Weekly, firm; middling,
- 81 net ISCSlpI5g G1S SIOoob SAy SdlCSS
q; stock, O.
'st Louis-Quiet; middling. 121zc;
stock, 1901.
Houston-Steady; middling, 12c;
net receipts, n; gross, n; sales, 8;
stock, LOSS.
New York-Steady; middling, 12.75c;
gross receipts, 2,S79; sales, 1884; stock,
1857 Exports-Coastwise, 1885.
Total To-day at All Seaports-Net
receipts, 519; Great Britain. 1885; stock,
16O,92O.
Consolidated, at All Seaports-Net
receipts, 1,438; Great Britain, S,4S6;
France, 59s.
Total Since Sept. 1, at All Seaports-
Net receipts, 7,7O5555; Great Britain,
2,796,SS7; France, 7S1, 25S; continent, O.
S23,950; Japan, 1856, 1873.
Not included in totals.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-29
SEA ISLAND COTTON.

Business during the week was upon
small scale. Attention is being
given to the new crop, which
it is thought will be coming to mar
ket freely in about ten days.
Prices q ho,,f ae foJInwa.
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LOCAL SHARE TRADING-The
market continues quiet with mod
crate demand and few stocks chang
ing hands. Central income bonds
show decided improvement since the
dividend of 5 per cent. on the firsts
was declared. Bank stocks steady and
i'm light demand. Industrial issues
quiet. -
weak. Commercial demand, sterling
s4.S5h; sixty days, $4.s3A ninety days
s4S2K. French, 5207s; SWISS sixty
days, 5.21ss: Belgian, 5.2l; marks. six
ty days. "a 1892 ninety days. 94M.
DOMESTIC ". Y. EXCHANGE
Buy al soc per $1,000 discount.
Sell: Up 70 $500, l0c; s2B 10 $50. Jsc:
sEO 10 300 zoe; 800 20 $500. 25c; 5000
10 1900. soc: $500 to $500, 35c; $500 10
500 zoe; $500 20 $500. f5e, over $500 at
the rate OF 75c per 1900 premium.
Bank stocks.
Bid. Asked
Citizens Bank ....,,...s..,,,f5Q i5s
Chatham Bunk .,.,.....,..,& SSh
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NAVAL STORES.
Friday, Aug. Is.

FRIDAY, Aug. 90
SPIRITS. The turpentine market
opened steady at 54654Ac; sales 80,
and closed firm .at 531sc, sales $50 casks.
While turpentine closed firm and lower,
nothing was to be- had after the closing
on a lower basis. Exporters seemed
willing to take the offerings at this
price, and the market was cleaned up
entirely when business came to a
close.
! Advices from the turpentine belt con-
tinue to indicate high temperatures
which it is thought later will improve
receipts. though there is no nervousness
whatever among the exporters as to the
possibility of any depression. Another
benefit of the more favorable weather
is that operators are able to get in full
time.
ROSINS.-In the arosln market the
tendency is good. and the closing
found the offerings all taken. All
grades were in apparent good demand
Some exporters wanted certain lines
while others wanted different ones, but
the demand seemed to be pretty gem
eral for all grades, in view of the read
mess with which the offerings we're
taken
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failure of cable adSices, statement of
the visible supply will not be issued
until tomorrow Saturday morning.
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1903.I 1Q02

Receipts Ports This Season.-The
following tables shows the receipts at
all United States ports since Sept. i,
1903, and for same time last year;
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HARRIS, GATES & co.


NEw YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE.
NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE
cHIcAGO STOCK EXCHANGE.
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE.
s.u-tv YORK COFFEE EXCHANGE.
c0TTON DEPARTMENT 10 Wall ST.,
New York ,,--,--
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No Visible From Hester
New Orleans, Aug. 2s'-becretaIy
Hester announces that o"lnB 70 Hs
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SPOT COTTON AT NEW york.

Futures opened firm; closed steady.
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Southern
Railway.

Trains arrive and depart Savannah
by S0th meridian time-one hour slow
| er than city time.
Schedule effective June 81. 1908.
TO THE NORTH AND EAST,
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Receipts since Sept, gross76,933 55.2sl
Charleston, S. c., Aug. 2S.--Sea is
land cotton: Receipts none; sales
none; exports none; stock, 40 bags
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Savannah Bank
and Trust Go.

JOSEPH d. WEED, President.
JOHN c. ROWLAND, Vice President.
WIN. F. McCAULEY, Cashier.
SAML. l. CLAY, Assistant Cashier.
A general banking and exchange
business transacted.
Savings Department., Interest
computed quarterly.
Accounts of merchants, banks
ana corporations solicited.
American xpress COmpRny's let
tiers of credit issued available In all
parts OF the world.
Collections carefully made and
promptly accounted for.
Safety Deposit Boxes and Storage
Vaults for rent.
Correspondence invited.
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Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.

EFFECTIVE o.
Trains Operated
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BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND TY-
Trains arrive at and depart from
President.
Standard Goth meridlan) time. one
hour slower than Savannah city time.
LEAVE SAVANNAH.
week Days-5;45 am, 800 am, 2:3O .
IN, 4;l6 pm, 500 pm, 7:40 pm.
q. sSundays-7:25 am, 900 am, HOO am.
<'SV pln' 4:10 pm, 500 pm, 7:4O pm.
LEAVE TYBEE.
week Days-5:0G am, 700 am, $3.50
IN. o.OO pm, $50 pm, 800 pm.
oundays-5:00 am, Bis am, 9:5S am
44:0O am. 800 pm, ESQ pm. $40 pm.
DAILY. tExcept Sunday. ISunday
Connections made at terminal points
with all trains Northwest, West and
Southwest
"A" Trains leaving Savannah at $40
a. m. and arriving Savannah 6:1O p. m.
do not make connection for or from
Augusta on Sundays.
Sleeping cars on Eight trains between
savannah and Augusta, Macon, At
lanta, Columbus, Ga, and Birming-
ham, Ala.
Parlor cars on day trains between
Savannah. Macon and Atlanta.
For complete information, schedules.
rates and connections, apply to
w. @. BREWER, City Ticket and
Passenger Agent, 1917 Bull street, or
w. r. MCINTYRE Depot Ticket
Agent.
]. C. HALLE, Gen. Pass. Agent.
F. ]. ROBINSON. Asst. Gen'l Pass
Agent. ee.- t,~s
w. A. wINBURN. Vice President
and Traffic Manager.
THEo. d. KLINE, General supt.
Savannah. Ga.
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FINANCIAL.

savannnh's Bank ClenrinEs.
The bank clearings for the week end
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Total .......,........7,70 5, 991 7,633,61
New York. Aug. 2S.-The following
statistics on the movement of cotton
for the week ending Friday, Aug. 2S,
were compiled by the New York Cot
ton Exchange
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Brought into sight
thus far for sea-
son .... 10, 779, 1856 1874, 1893
Comparative Cotton Statement.
New York, Aug. 2S.-Comparative
cotton statement for the week ending
Aug. %:
Net receipts at all U. S. ports
during week Neutrality-suspicious.. 1,43S
Net receipts at all U. S. ports
same week last year .......... 6O,OO4
Total receipts since Sept. ....7, 1905, 500
Total receipts to same date last
year ............''....' ''''.f' oo4'o<o
Exports for the week .... 1854
Exnorts for same week last year 27,35S
Total exports since Sept. .6,537,22S
Total exports same date last
year =. ................. .....sso, oV4,ooi
Stock at all U. S. ports ...... 16O.92O
Stock at all u. S. ports same
time last year .................. 1888
Stock at ali interior towns 5,6ST
0 time last wear .................. 5s,s4S
Stock at Liverpool same time
last year ..................,... 45o,uUV
o' p same time last year ...... $4,000
Stock of cotton at all ports, Friday,
Aug. 2S, 1908, and on the same day OF
the week last year:
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Char, Col and Aug. LIST e.
lsVt .,...s.s.s..s..s.s...s. 1le
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Market firm: sales, Is.
ID oooi,,te sI,,r,,.,,+z - GILL
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For Additional Market. see Page 5.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-24

cotton money; hence very naturally
the average crop largely exceeded
that of the South. Now that South
ern farmers are turning their atten-
ton to feeding live stock and making
it profitable, more attention should
be given to growing corn, not at an
average of thirteen bushels per acre,
but that figure should be multiplied
by four. Remember that something
more than a corn-growing country
is necessary for heavy yields. Corn
growing farmers are that something.
Texas Farm and Ranch.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-24
BusinesS-Hke Farming.

Farmers of the county have al
ready deposited 100000 in n bank
at Monroe" said a business man the
other day. This is another evidence
of prosperity among the agricultural
classes of this county. It also shows
a better idea of business. It is a very
unwise man who will store away
money about his premises instead of
depositing with some good bank for
safe-keping. Many farmers of Union
County have already applied business
methods and deposit their money in
bank subject to check, just as other
business men do. Some deposit to
savings bank account. These meth
DDS encourage economy, and to an
extent relieve men of the temptation
to spend surplus money that is not
needed for immediate use.-Marsh-
vile Home.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-24
Cows That Are Thieves.

off the man behind the cow in
Kansas would do his part, no unprof-
table animal would masquerade I'M
der the fictitious appellation of
Fmilch cow and she would either go
to the butchers block or be made to
return a profit by more intelligent
care and management" says Secre-
tary Coburn in the last quarterly
report of the Kansas Board of Agri-
culture, a copy of which has just
reached The Progressive Farmer.
'It passeth understanding why theft
by a COW should be tolerated more
than theft by a human. In effect,
the result to the loser in either case
is the same. Our government has
found it wisdom to study and estab-
lish far-reaching methods for the de-
lection and the repression of the lat
ter; and by the same token why
should our farmers and dairymen
be less vigilant in regard to this pos
sible p~roclivity in their cows-beasts
described as dumb, yet outwitting
their owners2 So long as cows of
this class are permitted in the dairy
herd, so long will there be dissatis-
faction and failure. Improvement is
the route to success, whether by
breeding, better management, or 9TH
er way, and intelligence in our cow
men is the power that will force adj
vancement in the right direction.
clarifying has come to be n of
the most important factors in Kan
sas agriculture, and, rightly con-
Quoted, is one of the surest money
makers of u varied industries. 1t
is incomparably more rational than
any one-crop system, or even general
farming, as its practice tends to ro-
tation of crops, maintains or in
creases the fertility of land, and af-
fords steady employment with e
turns ~renumerative according to the
brains mixed with the business"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-24
protect THE INsEcT-EATING
BIRDS.
Secretary Pearson Talks of Their Value
to Our Farming Interests.

About elgnIy species u hdC1Vo
mild birds are known to be perma-
mont residents in North Carolina.
Seventy-fve other varieties come to
nc in the spring to spend the sum-
mer months in our yards, fields and
woodlands. Thus about one hundred
and ffty-fve birds are known to nest
within the borders of the State. Add
to this sixty-fve species which pass
in the autumn on their long trip
southwark to spend the cold months
in a tropical climate; seventy spe-
cies at least which come from the
frozen north to pass the winter with
us, and fifteen or twenty birds which
have been recorded in the State as
~stragglers from the usual range, and
a total of three hundred and fifteen
species of North Carolina birds is
reached.
If we are to believe what many
toiling scientists have revealed, what
many agricultural departments will
tell us, what the United States gov
eminent publications declare, and
what we can all see with u own
eyes if we stop to observe, one great
incalculable value of our birds lies
in the tremendous number of harm
full insects which they destroy, and
the vast quantities of harmful weed
seeds wich they consume. It is no
small service that a pair of robins
render when they honor you by liv-
ing a summer in your garden, and
each day eating more than their own
weight of worms and insects. 1t is
no little thing to have a pair of
pewees nest in a tree near your
house, and every day for weeks and
weeks rid the air of hundreds of
harmful insects which seek to destroy
the foliage or to sting the fruit of
your trees. I once watched a pewee
capture sixteen insects during a pc
Rod of ten minutes, and in company
with twenty-five witnesses / saw a
chipping sparrow this summer seize
thirty insects in one minute.
Many persons have failed to appre-
clate what a tremendous force the
wild birds are for doing good to the
agricultural interests of the country,
simply from a failure to observe them
closely. Many people rarely see wild
birds except when the frightened
creatures are wildly endeavoring to
escape from the real or imaginary
enemy who has intruded upon their
solitude. But hide in a quiet place
almost anywhere in the fields or
woods, and soon the birds come back
TO their accustomed activities. /
nave known men who did this to be
utterly astounded at what they saw.
While we often fail to give birds
credit for the good they do, but few
men neglect to condemn them most
heartily for any act which may be re-
garded as detrimental to mans inter
eStS, no matter how superficial the
uata may be upon which the charge
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-24

crows away from the poultry yard.
Professor Beal, of the Agricultural
Department at Washington, d. c.,
examined the contents of 218 king
birds stomachs and found that only
fourteen contained remains of bees,
most of these being drones, while 68
per cent of the kingbirds' food was
found to consist of injurious insects.
Again it is not an unheard of oc-
Currence for men to order that all the
robins, catbirds and mocking-birds on
their places should be shot, because
these-birds were seen eating some of
the fruit. But did not the birds per-
form a great part in helping raise
that fruit? Why not do as some men
In the land who plant a few more
trees or vines in order that there
may be enough fruit for both the
planter and the birds?
Whenever man interiors with the
laws of nature he is liable to suffer
for it. It is one of the divine and
absolutely Interchangeable laws of ma
ture that the birds are set apart to
@erve as a great natural check upon
the hordes of insects which, like a
scourge, are ever falling upon the
plant life with undated fury. To
lul the birds is to allow these pests
TO increase. So thoughtlessly and so
increasingly have we killed our birds
that every year in many sections the
problem of how to raise crops sue
Gessfully is becoming a most serious
0ne. A few months ago thousands
Of farmers In Texas gathered to dis
Guss the question of what could pos
sibly be done to check the onslaught
Of the cotton boil weevil. One thing
uf immense Importance which they
did was to request the Legislature to
pass a law at once to stop the killing
of in~sect-eating birds in the State.
Some of our Government experts
who have made a close study of the
subject of bird destruction and the
results, tell US that one-tenth of the
entire agricultural products of east
ern United States is annually a total
loss from the ravages of insects.
The early inhabitants of New Eng
land felt that they had a grievance
against the blackbirds for eating the
corn in the fields; so laws were. pass
ed offering ga bounty of three pence
a dozen for dead maize thieves DR..
Benjaminin Franklin is quoted by
Peter Kahn, a Swedish naturalist, as
saying that the blackbirds we're thus
almost exterminated, "but as, in the
summer of the year 1749 an immense
quantity of worms appeared in the
meadows, which devoured the grass
and did great damage, the people
abated their enmity, for they had OBJ
! served that those birds lived chiefly
ON these worms before the maize is
ripe, and consequently extirpated
them"
In conclusion it may not be amlss
to mention the fact that the laws of
North Carolina already protect absO-
lutely every wild bird and it's nest in
the State, except game birds in their
season, and the following exceptions,
English sparrows, hawks, owls, crows,
~blackbirds, jackdaws and riceblrds.
A publication which every farmer
should have is Farmers Bulletin
No. "a, Some Common Birds in their
| Relation to Agriculture" A request
on a postal card, directed to "Secre-
-nT01TI41Trn