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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-24
Washington, D. G.

The State Veterinarian writes
from Raleigh that j. D. Whitaker,
of Wake County, N. c., made a
splendid exhibit of English Berk-
shire hogs at the State fair last
week, and that he had one dam that
brought a litter of seventeen pigs
and in the lot we're two with sixteen
udders each-something heretofore
unheard of in swine breeding. The
State Veterinarian says he has ex-
amined more than 5000 hogs IN
slaughter houses and elsewhere, and
this discovery in Mr.. Whitaker's herd
is ahead of anything he has ever seen
or heard of. (Not necessarily a good
feature, however. Country Gentle
man,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-24

MI. ID. M. DANIEL, OF hot Springs
Madison County, sends the following
letter to the Kentucky Home anC
Farm. 1t cannot be too widely reac
and we are glad to reprint it for the
benefit of our readers:
Now to come down to practica.
things. I notice directions-editori
ais, I believe-to some brother fol
pitting turnips for winter. / have
never tried your plan, but I know
you viii pardon a suggestion based
on experience. It makes my back
ache to think of digging hat pit.
four feet deep and wide. I am too
lazy for that. Then from my OBJ.
servation, when the ground becomes
thoroughly saturated with water, it
will rise In any excavation where
there is an air space, as there would
be among the roots in that pit. My
plan is to select a spot that drains
itself of surface water, level off the
ground, and cover it with a thin
layer of straw or crab grass; pile the
roots in a compact ridge, with a
breadth of about four feet, as high
as they can be made to lie, and as
long as necessary or convenient; set
drain tile or boxes four inches
square and twelve inches long, with
out bottom or top, directly on the
roots at intervals of four or five feet,
along the crest of the heap. Cover
heap with several inches of straw or
dry crab grass, then cover with earth
taken from around ridge; make COW
ering light at first, but heavier before
hard freezing. See that water can
drain out of depression made in COW
ering heap. Such pits are often left
without other covering, but a tenn
porary roof of clapboards laid on
each slope of ridge, or of Gull lum-
Der laid weatherboard fashion, or
even of crabgrass or stalk fodder
anything to keep the earth covering
dry will be a great help. Two inches
of straw and six of earth will pro-
tect roots perfectly in zero weather.
l expect to pit 800 bushels of Irish
potatoes this way next week.
Have used the plan many years,
both north and south of the Ohio
River, and never lost over 1 per
cent by either frost or decay. Stuff
a handful of straw in ventiIaters or
lay a scrap of board over-top in cold
snaps.
Now, brother farmers, let me re-
peat what many, wiser than I, are
saying nowadays Don't, I beg of you,
continue to farm "all over creation"
wearing your lives out to make hun
dreds of acres of cotton or corn or
wheat, and only getting about enough
from it to pay for the seed and labor.
If you own a big farm, sell part of
it, or rent 1T out or turn it out
if you cannot do better.
Let your gang of hands that eat
you up every year hustle for them
selves.
Get rid of the raft of plugs that
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-24

POUNDS OF ac1d phosphate anu OO
pounds of muriate of potash. This
mixture Analyses
Available phosphoric acid. Is
Potash 40
Nitrogen 30
GRASS AND GLOVER.
1. The yields of grass and clover
were greatly increased by applica-
tions of acid phosphate and nitrate
of soda. Acid phosphate used alone
affected the clover more than the
grass, while the mixture of acid
phosphate and nitrate of soda result
ed in a predominating growth of
grass.
2. Acid phosphate, 800 pounds to
the acre, used alone, greatly in
creased the yield of clover, and was
by far the most profitable fertilizer.
CowPEAs.
1. Acid phosphate used alone has
given the most returns. On very
poor lands good results have followed
the use of potash along with the phos-
plate.
q. foreground raw rock phosphate
did not produce any marked increase
of growth On a soil known to be poor
in phosphoric acid. A similar result
was obtained in pot experiments on
both cowpeas and turnips.
8. In pot experiments the phos-
phoric acid from foreground raw
bone was found to be about one-half
as efficient for both cowpeas and tur-
nips as the phosphoric acid from acid
phosphate.
APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS.
1. Better results followed the use
of $50 pounds of a complete fertilizer
for corn when applied in the row
than when applied broadcast and har-
rowed into the soil. Slightly better
yields came from the broadcast APP
plication of 500 to 1000 pounds to
the acre than from the same amounts
applied in the row, but the results
should not be considered conclusive.
2. Cottonseed meal was found to
retard seriously the termination
of seed with which it was applied
in direct contact, and it should not
therefore be drilled with wheat.
When applied in the row for crops
planted in rows it should be mixed
with the soil before the seed is drop
ped.
3. Cottonseed meal applied broad
cast in the fall for wheat gave
favorable returns as compared with
nitrate of soda furnishing the same
amount of nitrogen.
With pumpkins enough piled UP
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-24

Fertilizer Experiments at Tennessee
Station.
Recent fertilizer tests at the Ten
nessee Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton are outlined in a bulletin just
from the press. The experiments
point to the following conclusions:
SWEET POTATOES
1. Sweet potatoes gave greatly in
creased yields from a fertilizer mix
ture of cottonseed meal and acid
phosphate in the proportion of $50
pounds of meal to 800 pounds of
phosphate.
2. Potash was not found of much
value, and for all the soils tested has
been found the least needed of the
important elements of plant food.
3. The most profitable returns for
the two seasons came where the most
fertilizer had been used-1,52O
pounds to the acre. The mixture was
made up of 72O pounds of cotton
seed~meal, 600 pounds of acid phos-
plate, and 200 pounds of muriate of
potash, and would analyze-
Per Cent.
Available phosphoric acid. 49,. 7.3
LoCaSh 10
nitrogen 80
Judging from the other results,
however, the amount of potash could
have been reduced to advantage.
IRISH POTATOES.
Irish potatoes were found to re-
spond well to fertilizers, but on &C.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-24

count of their lack of hardness in
this climate, the use of large amounts
of fertilizer is attended with more
risk than is the case with sweet po-
tatoes. Five hundred to 1000 pounds
of the following mixture is recon-
mepded: Three hundred and sixty
pounds of cottonseed meal, 300
pounds of acid phosphate, and so
pounds of muriate of potash. This
mixture Analyses
Per Cent.
Available phosphoric acid.... IS
Potash 4.3
Nitrogen 3.5
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
VENEZUELA YIELDS TO FORCE
That Is the Way Caracas Telegram Puts
Her Agreement to Arbitrate
with the Allies.

Caracas, Jan 9.-After two stormy
meetings of the cabinet all the condi-
tons set forth in the replies Of the
powers to President Castro's last pro-
posa1s in the matter Of settling the
Venezuelan dispute through arbitration
have been accepted by the Venezuelan
government The government considers
these conditions to be unjust, but de-
clares it is obliged to yield to force
The Venezuelan answer was deliv-
cred at the United States legation here
at noon yesterday. The conditions of
the powers cover cash payments to the
allies and guarantees for the payment
of the balance of their claims. 1t can
be said on good authority that the
question of raising the existing block
AIDE will not he considered.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
CAUTION!

This is not gentle word but when
you think how liable you are not to pur-
chase the only remedy universally known
and remedy that has had the largest
sale of any medicine in the world since
1868 for the cure and treatment of Con-
sumption and Throat and Lung troubles
without losing it's great popularity all
these years, you will be thankful we
called your attention to Boschee's Ger
man Syrup. There are SO many ordinary
cough remedies made by druggists anil
others that are cheap and good for light
colds perhaps. but for severe Coughs,
Bronchitis, Group and especially for
Consumption, where there is difficult ex-
pectoration and coughing during the
nights and mornings, there is nothing
like German Syrup. The Is cent size
has just been introduced this year
Regular size IS cents. At all druggists
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
A Critical Moment.

A man may be as cool as an icicle
under extraordinary circumstances Of
danger or excitement. He may pre-
serve an even mind when a ghost
comes into his room at midnight. He
may assume command and act nObly
and we'll when the ship is sinking. But
let that man, let any man, upset his
inkstand, and he springs to his feet,
makes a desperate grasp for the ink
stand and knocks it half way across
the table, claws after his papers and
swoops them through the sable puddle
to save them, tears his white handker-
chief from his pocket and mops up the
ink with it and after he has smeared
the table, his hands and his trousers
with ink as far as it could be made to
go discovers that early in the engage
ment he knocked the inkstand clear off
the table and it has been draining its
life ink away all that time in the CEN
ter of the only light figure in the pat
tern of the carpet. Then he wonders
why man always makes Il fool of
himself when he upsets a bottle of ink.
He doesn't know why. Nobody knows
why. But every time it is so. II you
don't believe it, try it.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
THE RED BONES.
Peculiar class of People Who Live
In south Carolina.

In South Carolina.
Have you ever heard of a class OF
people called red bones"" said a
South Carolina man to a reporter the
other evening. They are the most pc
cular people in the United States. No
one living absolutely knows the race
from which they sprang or from
whence the original settlers came. They
live very nearly on the boundary line
between South Carolina and Georgia,
in the northwestern part of the first
named state. They are very clannish
mix very little with people not of their
race and in manner are quite thrifty.
In slavery times they owned slaves,
visited the several summer resorts of
the southern mountains and in a way
put on quite q little style. While
have nothing but supposition to guide
me, | am of the opinion that they are
descendants of the Basques of southern
France. They do not lack courage, for
a company Of them served in Hamp-
toms legion during the civil war and
bore themselves bravely at the first
Manassas. Their skin is of q swarthy
red, resembling that of the Indian, but
at that point all resemblance ceases,
except it be that they are very hot Of
temper. / have often wondered why
the ethnologists of this country have
not studied these people. Surely q
monograph on them would be highly in
teresting. "-Washington Star.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
EDITOR AWARDED $4,000
Given Verdict for Damages for Libe1ous
Message Sent by Wire by Ex-
Senator Sullivan.

Vicksburg, Miss, Jan. PA jury
in the United States district court has
awarded $4,000 damages to John G.
Casleman, editor and owner of the
Vicksburg Post, for libel. The Post
published a telegram from it's Jackson
correspondent, Frederick A. Sullens,
which did not meet the approval of
eX-United States Senator Sullivan,
whereupon Sullivan sent a telegram
denouncing both Sullens, the sender Of
the special dispatch, and Casleman, the
editor of the Post, for publishing it.
Sullivan called them liars and used
other vile epithets. Judge Niles in his
charge held that the transmission by
the telegraph company of libelous
message showed negligence, want of
good faith, or careless Indifference.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
Ex-Governor Hastings Dead.

Bellefonte, Pa, Jan. 10. Former
Governor Daniel Hartman Hastings
is dead of pleuro- pneumonia, after an
illness Of four days. The improve
ment in his condition early in the night
gave the family renewed hope, but the
change for the better did not continue.
Toward midnight there was a fall in
his temperature and later the action Of
the heart grew weak. Oxygen was re-
sorted to, but all efforts to improve his
condition failed.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
SiIkYvorrns That Die.

The silkworm story is a twice told
tale. Everybody knows how the green,
wriggling creature, fed fat on mulber-
ry leaves, spins himself shin
ing shroud, out of which he will come
with wings-that is, if he comes out at
ALL For the most part he does not.
The cocoons meant for reeling are kiln
dried until the dormant life goes out
entirely. The largest and fairest are
saved for seed. Out of them come
the moths that lay eggs for new gen.
Grafton. From 800 to 600 is the usual
number.
The eggs, called grain, are subject to
a fungus that does not destroy their
vitality, but makes worms Matched
from them unhealthy. They toll not,
neither do%they spin. Instead they die,
weak and languid, to the disgust of the
growers and the depletion of their
pockets.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
WILSON Brothers
PHAR MACY.
Wax From Trees.

The wax palm of the Andes is veg
etable wonder. 1t grows to a height of
nearly 200 feet and thrives not only on
the plains, but the mountains The
wood is tough and durable and is en-
ployed in carpentry. The wax comes
from the pits between the trunk and
fronds. 1t is yellow or grayish white,
is as pure as beeswax and is used for
making candles. A peon climbing the
trees can gather from twenty to thirty
pounds from each.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
THE WORK OF CONGRESS
Synopsis of the Proceedings of the Nation-
al Lawmakers in the senate
and House.

w ashington, Jan 0-Yesterday the
senate again discussed the Vest resolu-
ton requesting the finance committee
to report bill removing the duty on
anthracite coal and Aldrich replied to
some of the criticisms of Vest last
Tuesday. The resolution went over
and the statehood bill was discussed.
A lot Of bills of local importance We're
passed. An executive session was held
and adjournment taken to Monday.
The house passed the Philippine con-
stabulary bill. During the debate Mad
dox Of Georgia suggested that General
Funston would make an elegant chief
of police.
Washington. Jan. 10. Yesterday
was private pension day in the house
and IA bills were passed, none OF
especial Importance. Adjourned to
Monday.
Senate was not in session.
Washington. Jan. 13.-A lively de-
bate occurred in the senate yesterday
between Aldrich, Vest and Carmack,
when the first named endeavored to Sc
cure a postponement of the Vest reso-
luton requiring the committee on fl
nance to report a bill removing the
duty on coal Nelson continued his re-
marks in opposition to the omnibus
statehood bill. and a large number of
private pension bills was passed. The
senate adjourned out of respect to the
memory. of the late Representative
Tongue, of Oregon.
The house, after adopting resolu-
| ton to authorize the merchant marine
| and fisheries committee to investigate
| the coal situation, at once adjourned
| out Of respect to the memory of the
| late Representative Tongue of Oregon.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
Vice Consul MacLeen Dead.

Paris, Jan. 9.-Vice Consul General
Edward P. MacLean is dead of pneu-
monia Mr.. MacLean's illness began
a week ago, with light attack of the
grip. Deputy Consul General J. Alli-
son Bowen is in the United States,
leaving Consul General Gowdy with
out any Important officials to assist
him at the most trying period of the
wear
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
PronhotiC.

Henry W. Grady less than month
before his death at the early age OF
thirty-nine remarked to friend: I'm
agine me as an old man. Picture me
baldheaded, half blind, toothless and
leaning on ca..c! 1t can never be. 1t
is too ridiculous A man with my riot
Gus blood elrndous energy and rest
less activity III st die young
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16

1t is one of the appointed conditions
of the labor of men that in proper
ton to the time between the seed SOW
ing and the harvest is the fullness of
the fruit, and that generally, therefore,
the farther off we place our aim and
the less we desire to be ourselves the
witnesses of what we have labored for,
the more wide and rich will be the
measure of our success.-JOhn Ruskin.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
Facts about Medicine.

eff your Vinol is such won
derful stuff, what's the need of
harping about it so much in the
paper? There are twenty medi-
cines advertised in every sheet,
and | don't believe what they
say about any Of them" Such
was a remark heard in the
store.
We answer: We advertise
Vinol because we have found
it a good thing for cough, lung
trou bles, insomnia, weak
women and children, old
people and rundown folks.
We advertise Vinol under our
own name, and with our own
guarantee because it is different
from the twenty medicines our
friend alluded to. For instance,
it is not a secret preparation.
1t is endorsed by physicians.
1t has a surprising record of
cures right here in town. It
has our absolute guarantee Of
money back if you are not
helped.
We advertise Vinol to in
crease its usefulness.
It's pleasant to take.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
Needed Them All.

A we'll known authoreSS was once
talking with a dilapidated bachelor,
who retained little but his conceit.
ut is time now" he said pompously,
"for me to settle down as a married
man, but I want SO much. | want
youth, health, wealth. of course: beau
ty, grace
Eyes" said his fair listener sympa-
thetically, ''you poor man. you do want
them ALL"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
Shirt sleeves to Shirt sleeves.

Oliver Wendell Holmes counted only
three generations between shirt sleeves
and shirt sleeves. A daughter of Toll
stoi in an interview with Henry Nor
man expressed the same idea in these
words: mo Russian ever Pounds a
family as you say. A man makes his
fortune; his son lavishes it; his son
disperses it,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
Minister'S Son Frozen to Death.

Remington, n. J., Jan. 13.-Gilbert
Decker, 40 years old, son of the Rev.
S. d. Decker, pastor of the Quaker
town Methodist Episcopal church, was
frozen to death, short distance from
his home. He left Clinton, where he
had been visiting, for QuakertoWn,
and his body was found on the road.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16

Nodd-Your baby isn't three months
old yet, is he?
Todd-Oh, yes. TO be exact, have
been awake now just ninety-six nights.
Life
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16

Apostle Refuses to Resign from the Nor
mon Church to Secure the
Utah Senatorship.

UCHH SeHaCOrSnIp.
Salt Lake. Utah, Jan. 13.-Reed
Smoot was asked if he would resign
his apostleship in the Mormon church,
as had been suggested, to remove one
of the principal objections to his sena-
torial candidacy. In reply he made the
following statement:
II shall not resign my apostleship on
account of my senatorial candidacy.
am in this race and intend to stay.
My friends lave signifed their inten-
tons of standing by me, and as long
MS they are with me shall not desert
them. AS | have said before, l do not
believe that President Roosevelt in
tends to take a hand in local fight"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
A Breach of Etiquette.

Gam / to understand that you were
discharged from the army for mere
breach of etiquette? queried the inter
ested friend.
Eyes, SIR boldly asserted Colone
Blupher.
"What was it?''
Turning my back to the enemy
Philadelphia Record.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
A Symphony of CoIors.

Gray was asked why he had written
the ''Elegy In a Country Churchyard."
Because" he returned, II thought it
was the best place to make the ghost
walk"
And indeed this seemed reasonable
when it was remembered in addition
to being Gray he had both duns and
blues.-NeW York Tribune.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-30
.CHURCHMEN OF MINI
The Episcopal Diocesan Council Will
Meet Next Week at St.
Paul's Church.
The Change Of Church Name Will
Be Among Matters Con-
sidered.

The annual diocesan council of the Prot.
estant Episcopal church will be held next
wednesday, and Thursday at st. Panis
church, Bryant and Franklin avenues.
The proceedings will begin at 10 o'clock
Wednesday morning, with a picturesque
procession of ninety rectors in their robes.
Bishop Edsall will deliver his annual adj
dress This comm unication. affording a
basis for the work Of the council, Will re-
view, as usual, the activities Of the dio-
cese In the year just closed. A point Of
special interest will be the bishops opin-
ion as to the proposed change in the name
of the Protestant Episcopal denominations.
The same problem will be discussed by
the council Wednesday afternoon or Thurs
day morning. The matter was referred to
the diocesan councils by the last general
convention Of the church and the action
| OF the lesser bodies will be likely to de-
termtne that Of the next general conven-
ton to be held in Boston a year from next
October. ,
Luncheon. for the delegates will be served
at st. Paul's ats1 o'clock Wednesday after
noon. Wednesday evening the delegates
and their wives will be received by B1sh-
OPP Edsall at his home 2642 Portland
avenue.
Thursday morning the council will elect
its officers and will choose members OF
\ the standing committees. The delegates
will probably adjourn Thursday afternoon
i The women's auxiliary Of the diocese
4 will attend the opening session OF the
4 council Wednesday morning, and Will hole
|a separate meeting Wednesday afternoon
4 The auxiliary will gather for that pur'
nose at the Lowry Hill Congregations
i church. Franklin and Dupont avenues
4 Addresses will be made by several male
missionaries and by women prominent II
missionary work.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-30
WILL TRY Il AGAIN
Aldermen Will Make Another At
tempt to Sell Those 31s
Per Cent Bonds.
The Proposition to Reduce Width
Of Park Avenue Paving
Is Endorsed.


Another attempt is to made to sell the
the 1915, 900 Of municipal bonds for which
no bids have as yet been received. There
will be no increase In interest for the
aldermen are generally agreed that Min
neapolis bonds drawing 3As per cent inter
est ought to sell at a premium. When
the bond matter was under consideration
by the council last evening various prop
ositions to sell revolving fund bonds and
bridge bonds at per cent were submitted,
but Alderman Merrill suggested as a sub
stitute that the committee on ways and
| means be directed to re-advertise under
the former conditions, which motion pre-
vailed.
Thad S. Dickey, who was employed by
the council to check up the revolving fund
presented a communication stating that
he had been ready to make a report since
i May O..
An ordinance reducing the width Of the
driveway on Park avenue from Sc to b
feet was passed, and a resolution wa:
adopted authorizing the paving of Parl
avenue from Tenth street ITO Twenty
Ieighth with asphalt
James Duffy was granted a franchise t.
conduct a wood, hay and live stock mar
ket at Eighth avenue N and Fifth street