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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01
WON AGRICULTURAL PRIZES.
The Success Won BY Two A. & NJ
Cadets for Prizes.

The announcement of the award of two
prizes TO two A. and NJ. cadets has been
made by DR.. G. w. Bu'kett, of the
Chair of Agriculture, ut the y. ana II
College, these prizes being awarded for
the best live stock exhibits made by
agricultural students at the State aFir.
The exhibits have been highly compli-
meated.
Ooe Of the prizes was silver medal
OF beautiful design, and there was warn
contest in exhibits for it. This medal as
presented by the Zenner Manu-
Cru, arv Of Ohio, and Mr.. j. c.. Beavers
OF Morrisville, was the successful con-
testant.
TIE second rrize Of S. % was given =
tn North Carolina Agricultural Sociot'-
and was won by Mr.. William Kerr, o
Bryson City.
The judges were Editor Clarence Fl
Poe, of the Progressive Farmer; Seer
tsrv r. B. PARKER. of the State Alliarc'
and DIR. TAFT Butler. State Veterinarian
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01
GRANVILLE TOBACCO WILT.
Bulletin Issued Treating The Disease
From Every Standpoint.

A bulletin on the tobacco wilt in Gran
vile county (No. 1881 is being sent OUT
from tne Experiment Station. This dis
ease affects tobacco in the same way
that melons, cotton, cow-peas and toma-
toes are affected by the disease which
causes them to wilt. In this bulletin the
disease Is described and its effect on the
growing crop illustrated by number of
photographs. No definite remedy is
known for the trouble, though numbaf
OF precautionary measures are suggested
TO prevent the distribution OF the ge4 M,
as the disease is due to the clogging OF
the plant cells by large numbers OF germ;
which prevent the plant from getting IT'S
water and liant food from the SOL 1t is
dvised that old vi ted plants and their
roots be destroyed, the soil from wiited
field be prevented from being carried on
Flow tools, or by washing to non-affe Ted
fields and that crops be rotated.
Exrel iments are now in progress to de-
termine the exact germ which causes
the trouble, and filed experiments VIII
De conducted during the coming year to
scertain, if possible, q remedy Cor the
disease.
The following conclusion in the bnlle-
in are of interest:
THE tobi Geo wilt is very sc iol
-nemy which not on y Injuries the crop.
out also depreciates the value of the land
affected, inasmuch as it prohibits the
rowing of tobacco IN the affected sol S.
1T is contagious disease, spreading
rgely through infected soil.
There is lit e nope OF restoring land
hat is once affected. The utmost care
hould be taken therefore to prevent the
reading Of the germ by means of in
cted tools or by any means.
'The number of germs Should be d,mr-
she'd by cleaning up old fields and by
urning all diseased pl hts in slightly
ffected ields as soon as they arc dis
overed.
1.-THE greatest hope for the redemption
of land now affected lies in the develoT.
ment Of n variety of tobacco shat i
resist the disease"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01
DR.. DiCkERMAN HERE.
His Observations on the Educa ion;
Progress Noted in Recent Trip
in the South.

DR.. G. S. Dicl1erman, of New Haven,
Conn, General Field Agent of the South
ern Education Board, spent yesterday in
Raleigh, returning from a trip through
south Ca. DINA and Georgia in the line
u his Work. SPEAKING Oh the work beng
done by the southern Education Board IL
the South. DR.. Dickerman said:
There are everywhere Indications Of
steady and quiet progress in the public
SCHOOLS and growing interest n those
OF the rural districts, to which the al
tentlon OF the Southern Education Board
rs especially directed The idea of con
solidation of schools ana in the public
conveyance of children is making very
rapid progress. Three or TOUR years ago
this subject was hardy brought into the
held OF discussion. Now 1t is the sub
ject OF discussion in eve. eduoa;,on con-
terence and wherever the more progress
sive school surerinterdents and teachers
meet together for the study OF ways and
means. The question of the local tar
for the purpose of improving schools and
especially for lenghtening the terms $
also a subject of very WIDE discussion.
1T is well known that great progress
has been made here in North Carolna
Similar progress appears through the 9TH
or Southern States. Thee is also re-
markable inte4 est displayed everywhere
IN manual training and in industrial edu.
cation. This. was shown very conspicu
ous!y in the course pursued in the great
summer schools which were held In Char.
lottesyille, Knoxville, Rock Hill Athens
a., and in the other Southern States
1t is also shown IN the normal scnoo.s
was especially impressed with the Lead
ing place gwen to this phase Of educa.
tion IN the Normal School at Athens
President Branson, who will be recognized
AS q native of North Caro- inc, is strong
in the belief that the public school ,du-
cation should always have in mind az
plication to practical ends ard that teach
s should be trained with this in mind.
Under his administration students Of lie
normal school ere receiving lessons in
ranual II tanning, in domestic science. ia
Horticulture. in tilling the soil, and IN
that incentive discipline which prepares
for every kind of industrial activity
II have heard many expressions by
prominent Southern men of the conviction
that the best development Of the schools
Is to be reached through the active ex
ertions of the people themselves. To ap-
preeiate the value of the schools sac
rifices must be made for their maintenance
by those who are to reap the benefits If
them. Hence it is not wise to encourage
the spirit of dependence upon bencfac-
tons from abroad. A slower deye opment
by means Of home resources will rrovc
healthier and sounder in the ultimate re-
suit. In this opinion / fully agree. end 7
think the same may be said OF the gen
| tlemen in the North who are represented
" our board. Cur great faith is in IN
teligcnt and moral forces ard We d"srra
IN every way possible TO give much forces
| ;rcrased strength ard effectiveness"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01

The Maryland Life Insurance Company
# Baltimore has been successfully COW
'ucting conservative business for thirty
light wears.
Its payments to policy holders amount
20 $4,000 600. and every claim has been
promptly settled without delay or Itiga-
ton.
It's investments are OF the highest grade
The Company does not buy or own specu-
'aiive or doubtful securities OF any kind
The Company will establish District
agencies in North Carolina and each
District Agent will receive the full COM
oensation usually paid to State agents.
FOR particulars write Home office. Appli-
atoms are invited from reliable men.
No previous experience in business re-
ured
The Company will employ on salary a
reliable man who can furnish satisfactory
references as to his character energy and
BUSINESS ability, and who can demonstrate
that he can successfully perform the
work as superintendent for the State Of
North Carolina Nc attention paid to ap-
plications unless accompanied by refer
ences. Address Maryland Life Insurance
Company of Baltimore. B and 10 South
streets. Baltimore. Nd.
1l-2t-tues sun wks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01
NORTH CAROLINA BIBLI0GRRPHY.
Profs. D. H. Hill! and H. ]. Stockard TO
Make a Report on This.

President C. A,rhcnso Smith. of the
North Carolina Literary and Historical
Association. HIS announced that lie had
aproipted Prof D. H. Hill. OF the Il. and
NJ. College, the chairman of the Executive
Committee of the association, and Prot
Henry Jerome Stockard, of Peace insti-
tute. to make the annual report at tie
next meeting of the association on NORTH
Carolina photography. Mr.. Hill will treaf
OF the prose works of the year OF 1861
end Mr.. Stockard will hive rs his 'n'N
ioct the production of poetry during the
year.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01

THE greatest hope for the redemption
of land now affected lies in the deveior.
ment Of variety Of tobacco shat i
resist The disease"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01

Three North Carolina cotton men IN
New York make these guesses as to the
cotton crop: j. NJ. Aver, 10,75G,000; W.
d. Martin l0.735,0o0; Il. n. Springs, TO-
80 goo. The highest g1ess IS 11,500C0e b.
e. NJ. We'll, and the lowest is 9,S75 900
by Violet and Atwood.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01

Nothing delights wome who loves ma
ture so much as gathering wild flowers
ard grasses for the purpose of dyeing
thelr
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01

Wonderfully economical and very de-
hcious, + de Ribbon Vanilla extract. At
all fancy grocers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01

woman soon begins to complain that he
ISM bit like the man she married.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01

To solve the extract problem get Blue
Ribbon lemon and vanilla extracts. Best
ever made.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-01

Remember il Il kes less o. Blue Ribbon
lemon and vanilla extracts. They are so
rure and strong that every drop counts.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-01
FIRST ESSENTIAL IN DAIRY.

The first essential to success in
dairying is a COW which will yield
enough with proper feed and care to
make a margin of profit above the
cost of feed and care, and the second
is to give her the proper feed and
care which involves a careful study
of feeding problems with view to
the use of the feeds which will give
the best results in proportion to cost.
The Investigations of experiment sta
tions. dairy farmers, creamery opera
tors and others show concluSively that
at least one-half of the COWS kept in
the United States for dairy purposes
do not even pay for the food they
eat estimating the cost of the food at
it's market value in the localities in
which such COWS are kept. A great
advance has been made in the average
quality of dairy COWS since the Bah
cock test was invented, and the i'm
provement will be more marked in the
future. This improvement will tend
to lower the cost of dairy production
and the man who fails to keep up with
the procession in the matter of test
ing and culling his dairy herd and
raising it's average productiveness will
find it steadily growing harder to
make a living.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-01
THE MAN in ARMOR

Was no match for the microbe. Giants
he might STAY but this microscopic Or
ganisin defed him, and in many a CAM
paign more men were destroyed by camp
diseases than by the enemy's sword.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-01
PROTEIN REQUIREMENTS.

The thorough experimental work
which has been carried on in the dairy
herd of the Minnesota Experiment
station has furnished great amount
of valuable data for students of dairy
problems. Every dairy bulletin from
that station contains information of
great practical benefit to dairyman.
In bulletin just issued Prof. Hacker
shows what has been learned at that
station with reference to the protein
requirements of dairy COW. One
very important result has been the
demonstration of the fact that the
recognized standards for dairy rations
call for larger proportion of protein
than is necessary. The bulletin sum-
marizes the results obtained as fol-
lows:
The rations having nutritive ra-
tic f 1:7.7 and 1917, respectively
We as effective in the production
of milk, butter fat and milk solids
as was the one having a nutritive ra-
ito of 1853.
"The protein required in milk pro-
duction depends upon the quality and
quantity of milk yielded
"In the production of butter fat,
actually more but relatively less pro-
TEN and other nutrients were required
to a pound of butter fat with cows
giving milk containing high per cent.
of fat than with those giving milk
containing a low per cent. of fat.
"In the production of milk solids
less nutrients were required to a
pound with cows giving milk having
low per cent of butter fat than with
cows giving milk having high per
cent. of fat.
at is not held that the decrease in
the average daily yield and increased
nutriment required to given product
was caused by the increase in pro-
tein supply, or that the increase in
daily yield and decrease in nutriment
required to given product was caus-
ed by decrease in protein supply, but
that maximum yield is secured at a
minimum cost of food by proper ad-
justment of the amount of nutriment
in the ration to the animals needs for
maintenance and for product yielded,
and the bulk of the ration to its feed
ing capacity. An excess of nutriment
in a ration does not seem to increase
materially the flow of milk or yield
of butter fat, but results in an in
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-03-05

indicate that he is becoming an advO-
debt and to believe in the English doc
trine, "a public debt is a public bless
ing" Everybody knows that the pres
ent national banking system was de-
vised primarily to furnish market for
our bonds issued during the civil war,
on the bonds. The law authorizing
and compelling that performance, TAX
en- in connection with the law taxing
notes issued by state banks 10 per cent,
turned the whole financial system over
to the national banks, giving them a
monopoly on the paper money system
of the country. a monopoly which they
are loath to relinquish. Speaking on
this subject. Secretary Shaw says:
The frequent purchase and retirement
of bonds render the amount available for
circulation gradually less, while rapidly
growing population, additional banking
facilities and expanding trade suggest the
need of an ever increasing circulation 1
therefore believe the time has arrived
when 1t will be necessary to adopt one of
two policies-ether the government debt
must be perpetuated as basis for ma
tional bank circulation and additional
bonds issued as occasion may require or
some other system must be provided.
OF course 1.-The other system" limited
at is the asset currency scheme advo-
Gated by Mr.. Fowler in the Fowler
bill
Pretty Much the Same.
Republicans up north have a great
deal to say about the wrongs inflicted
on the negroes by the southern people.
The following extract from the Times
of Bowling Green, Mo-, goes to show
that human nature is very much the
same up north as down south:
A bill was introduced in the Wisconsin
legislature last week which, if adopted as
a law. will prevent marriages between ne
groes and white persons in that state.
The author of the bill is Republican,
but he made the following comments upon
the bill and the intermarriage of negroes
and white people: Every one of sound
judgment knows that white persons and
negroes should not be allowed to inter-
marry. The results of such violations of
natural laws are deplorable from every
point of view. Experience has shown that
stance to debase and degrade the natures
of both parties to the contract and result
in a hybrid progeny that usually has no
social standing with either whites or ne
groes In my opinion. the greatest mis-
fortune arising from such marriages falls
on the children, who, when they reach
years of understanding and find they
have no social standing with either race,
frequently plunge from respectability to
degradation of the lowest character. 1t
seems to me we owe it to both races to
prevent such marriages. I do not blame
the negro SO much as do the white per-
son involved in such marriages. 1t is i'm
possible for me to conceive how a high
minded, intelligent white woman can be-
come a party to such a marriage, and 1t is
usually a white woman, not white man,
who contracts such an alliance. A white
man may be ever SO degraded, but the
thought of marriage with a negress is
most revolving to him. 1t seems to me
that it is right and proper for the law to
step in and prevent white women from
committing these irreparable mistakes"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-03-05
Time In Lanan.

The japanese divide the twenty-four
hours into twelve periods. of which six
belong to the night and six to the day,
their day beginning at sunrise and end
ing at sunset
Whether the day or night be long or
short, there are always six periods in
each To attain this the characters or
numerals on the scale are adjustable.
Two of them are set, one to agree
with the sunrise, the other with sunset,
and the four characters between them
divide the space into equal portions.
Thus when the period of daylight is
longer than the night the day hours
will be proportionately longer than
those at night.
Another popularity in their scale is
that they use only six characters. those
from four to nine. and these read back
ward.-LoBdon Express.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-03-05
The Planet Mercury.

Though Mercury is one of the small
est of the planets. it is perhaps the
most troublesome to the astronomer.
1t lies so close to the sun that it is
seen but seldom in comparison with
the other great planets. Its orbit is
very eccentric, and it experiences dis
turbances by the attraction of other
bodies in a way not yet fully under
stood A special difficulty has also
been found in the attempt to place
Mercury in the weighing scales. We
can weigh the whole earth, we can
weigh the sun, the moon and even
Jupiter and other planets, but Mercury
presents difficulties of a peculiar char
acter. LIE Verrier. however, succeeded
in devising a method of weighing it.
He demonstrated that our earth is
attracted by this planet, and he showed
how the amount of attraction may be
disclosed by observations of the sun,
so that from an examination of the OBJ
servations he made an approximate
determination of the mass of Mercury.
lie Verrier's result indicated that the
weight of the planet was about the fif-
teenth part of the weight of the earth.
Ia other words. if our earth was placed
in a balance and fifteen globes, each
equal to Mercury. were laid in the 9TH
er the scales would hang eyenly.-"Sto-
ry of the Heavens"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-03-05

John B. Cough. the famous temper
ance writer was once in New Eng
land town lecturing and after painting
the tavern as place of contamination
even for the abstainer asked:
Don't you all agree with me, friends,
that there is no place a man should go
and of which he should tell his mother
and sisters unless he might take them
too there? Should there be any such
placer"
"Oh, y-e-sw came drawlingly from a
rear seat.
The audience was aroused from its
spell of admiration for the orator and
turned to look at the voice in the rear.
Cough smiled as though he thought no
discussion possible and blandly asked:
Where, friend, would you go telling
mother and sisters, but refusing to take
them?"
''The barber's," was the laconic re.
ply.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-03-05
A FEW WHY'S.

Why do many employers say their
clerks are stupid lot and unworthy of
their consideration?
Why do many clerks look with envy
on their employers and rage over every
correction or sharp word?
Why Go many persons behave more
courteously and kindly to outsiders
than they do to the ones they really
love the best of all?
Why do many men laugh at women's
lack of business ability and yet sneer
and rather look down on the woman
who shows she has some?
Why do many children resent any
thing their parents say and look on
them as bores and long to be grown up
so as to escape from them?
Why do many rich folk look on their
poor relatives as being always on the
lookout for favors and so prevent the
poor relatives from giving them little
presents or being natural with them?
Why do many husbands work hard
for their wives and family, but never
think how the wife would appreciate
an invitation to the theater, little din
ner at a restaurant, a box of candy or
some flowers brought home unasked?--
Chicago Record-Herald.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-03-05
FlNIcKY TURKISH LADIES.

Ahey Are Very Careful About What
They Take In Their Hands.
Our Constantinople correspondent
writes: 1t is not generally known that
there exists among Turkish ladies Of
high class a kind of caste feeling SINH
lar to that prevailing among Hindoos.
1t takes the form of fear of contami-
nation from the outer world and is only
observed, as far as l know, by those
who cannot afford to keep servants in
sufficient numbers. Before meals ladies
always wash their hands at tap from
which the water runs into a marble
basin. They will turn on the tap when
they are just going to wash. but when
they have finished they let the water
run till somebody shuts it off, as to do
it themselves would make them un-
clean. They cannot open or shut door,
as the handle would be unclean, so a
slave is generally kept handy for the
purpose.
One of these fastidious ladies was
talking to small niece the other day
who had just received a present of a
beautiful doll from Paris. The child
presently laid the doll on the lady's
lap, who was Mortified and ordered the
child to take it away. AS the little girl
would not move it and no servant was
near, and the lady would be defiled by
touching doll that was brought from
abroad, the only thing she could think
of was to jump up and let the doll fall,
which broke to pieces. The same lady
will not open letter coming by post,
but a servant opens it and holds it
near her for her to read. If her hand
kerchief falls to the ground, it is imme-
diately destroyed or given away, so
that she should not use it again. This
curious state of exclusiveness or fanati-
cism exists, am told, in many of the
large harems. Among men it is not
practieed.--London Telegraph.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-03-05

The Threat That worked.

The slender woman faced the burly
burglars deadly revolver without a
tremor of terror, for, as is we'll known,
the weakest are often the bravest.
"Tell me where the money is hid" he
Kissed most truculehtly, 'or I'll fire!"
'Neverr' she answered determinedly
and with a marked accent on the ST. :"
xiii me, if you will, but l will never
reveal the hiding place of my husbands
hard earned hoard! Villain, do your
worst"
81 will!' snarled the scoundrel, baf-
fled for the moment. but not beaten.
Tell me instantly or I'll drop this big,
woolly caterpillar down your neck!'
In three minutes more he had bagged
the Doodle and was splitting the mid
night darkness i'll a northeasterly direc-
tion.-Smart Set