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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01
The Revolution by Farm Machinery.

Farm machinery may sometimes do
work for us that will be worth ST.
OOO,OOO,O0O a year. theoretically it
is already saving us nearly three
fourths that sum; for as far back
as 1899, if all the crops to which
machinery is adapted could have been
planted and gathered by hand, they
would have cost nearly $7OO,OOO,00O
more than if they had all been plant
ed and gathered by machinery. It
has not only added so much to
wealth, but it has made us the fore
most exporting nation, and it is
changing the character of the farmer
by freeing him from monotonous
hand-toil. More than that, it is fast
changing the immemorial conception
of agriculture and the pastoral and
idyllic associations that have gather
ed about it since the time of Abra-
ham. Wealth, industry, commence,
the character of men and even their
sentiment are all affected by it.
Yet so sudden have been these
changes that we have yet hardly
caught their meaning. The cradle
scythe is only a little more than a
century old, and the cast-iron pillow
was first used even later than the
cradle-scythe. In other words, a
century ago agricultural machinery
was almost as primitive asst was a
thousand years ago. Now we have
steam plows, combined harvesters and
threshers and auto-mowers. They
have come into use so recently that
only a small part of the population
have ever seen them at work. Yet
they are changing our life in all it's
wide reaches-from commerce to
poetry.-W. B. Thornton, in the Au-
gust Worlds Work.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01
EASY SCIENCE STUDIES FOR
FARMERS.
XXII.-PotOsh.

Potash is easy. It is the larger
part of the ash of vegetable sub
stances; I've is potash in liquid form.
It is a necessary constituent of all
plant growth.
1t is found in all good soils in vari-
able quantities; most of this is in
soluble and crops often show the
need for potash when there are tons
of it to every acre. The important
thing from a practical standpoint is
to render it available. Lime or gyp-
sum dissolves the potash and liber-
ates it so that plant roots may take
it up and use it to form woody fibre
and grains of fruits. Potash is the
base of the well known fruit acids.
Potash is a mineral, and when it
gets in the soil it is there to stay
until some plant takes it out; it
does not leach.
When the native potash of the soil
becomes exhausted, lime and gypsum
fail to act and these coaxers some
times get blamed when in fact more
potash should be applied.
The chief source of potash for
farm plants other than hat con-
tanned in yard manures, was wood
ashes, until an inexhaustible potash
mine was discovered in 1859 near
Stassfurt, Germany. This mine has
been worked since 1862, and the sup
ly is sufficient to meet all demands.
The price to the farmer is about
four cents a pound, but until the
soil supply is exhausted it is better
to use the cheaper lime and gypsum.
Potash is found in many forms,
that is, mixed with other substances.
Potassium, the chemical elements, is
lever found in a pure state. 1t Is
always combined with sulphur, ar
bon, common salt ct c~etera, and
then it is called sulphate of potash,
carbonate of potash or muriate of
potash. Kainit is a common form,
but is low in potash, containing
usually about 25 per cent of sui
plate of potash.
Potash is used in soap-mahng,
glass-making and in many drugs and
medicines as we'll as fertilizers
Coleman's Rural World.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01

Bermuda grass and burr clover
make a splendid pasture, the grass
affording fine grazing from early
spring until cool weather, when the
clover springs up and grows all win
ter afording very rich grazing. For
a little while cattle may not like to
eat the clover, but soon they become
very fond of it.-Farm and Ranch.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01
Michigan Methods in Bean Culture.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:

1t lSnG SO very many JOo10 SAAOO
baan growing in this region was con-
fined TO aPfew grown in the garden
for summer use while green. Rarely
. farmer would plant a few for dry
beans. Occasionally a "down east"
family of settlers would maintain
tho traditions of the home land and
GROW a "patch" of beans for home
nse. but, as a rule, beans didn't seem
to be a popular every day diet.
The little crop would be hand
nlanted with a hoe, hand hoed, hand
nuIIed and often hand stacked around
a short pole driven in the earth, a
little round stack six or seven feet
tall, roots to the pole and tops out
side. Here the beans would dry out
and. if matched on top with a little
hay or straw, keep nicely until win
ter. Some cold, dry day when the
pods would pop open at a touch, the
farmer would pound them out by
hand with a fail and have a possible
busheI or two for food and seed. Nc
market for beans in those days.
AS the country gained in i'm
provements came a new class, Sec
ondary pioneers so to speak, who had
some money with which to buy out
the heirs of those first pioneers who
fought the helpless giants of the
forests with ringing battle ax-and
died, even as those giants.
Among these later arrivals were
men from the bean-growing regions
of Central New York, who had made
money in beans in the days when
the uncivil war doomed bean eat
ing. For many a veteran of that in
a conflict will tell of weary
leagues marched on the strength of
this Yankee oyster. The bean is a
great muscle builder and our
Uncle Sam ought to build a monu
ment to beans.
These eastern men began cautious
ly to try Michigan soil and climate
as bean vineyards. The old varieties,
with their dreams of Jack-the-Giant-
Killer, were superseded by varieties
in which the desire to revert to vine
was destroyed or subdued-navy,
medium and pea beans. The latter
seems best adopted to our condi-
tions. Quick growth, few vines,
even ripening and good yield. First
an acre o. two, then a field; then a
home market where the pioneer grow
ers had to ship to commission
houses at first. Now this, Genesee
County, is one of the banner bean
growing centres Of the State, and
some says of the country.
Crops of twenty, forty and occa-
s~ionally of one hundred acres are
grown. The usual method is to pillow
and fit the ground about the first
OF June. The beans are drilled in
usually between the fifth and TWEEN
ueth of the month. Both the En-
pre- and the Superior grain drills are
common, and enough hoes are taken
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-01

OSpCOHOOA Gn0 C1OP Is ripe IOr pull
ing. The pioneers pulled by hand.
Then came loosening them with a
one-horse cultivator, rugged for the
purpose, after which followed men
with forks who forked out the beans
in small punches to wilt. In a day
or two these punches were turned
over and left in orderly rows. AS
the drying progressed, the punches
were made larger and the rows far
Their apart. When cured, the rows
were far enough apart for a two
horse wagon and rack to drive be-
tween. One or two men on a side
with forks pitched the beans on the
load in an orderly manner, loading
on the outside of rack only. The
driver merely trod them down.
Now, bean pulling machines are
in use, drawn by two horses, with
sharpened shares that cut two rows
of beans at the root and push them
together. Men with forks complete
the work as before. The side delivery
rake is being rapidly introduced.
This tool delivers the pulled beans
in a window from which the hay
loader lifts them onto the wagon.
Hand work is becoming a lost art
very rapidly. Farmers are riding at
nearly all kinds of work. The hired
man is being rapidly eliminated to
the cities and tender mercies of vast
corporations.
Almost as soon as the crop is safe
in the barn, the bean threshers swarm
the roads, traction engine and ten
der. with vast ]separators like wheat
threshers that whoop out three or
four crops in a day with four men
machine hands-and six or eight fur
nished by the farmer. A dreaded,
dirty job. And now, if beans are
lively, the roads are hot with the
rush of buyers who try to contract
the beans-thousands of bushels
where in the memory of men a man
couldn't sell a peck! Delivered at
the "beaneries" in town, improved
machines clean out the dirt, spell
and small beans. Often the crop of
a farmer is caught by rain before
it is secured, and more or less of
the beans stained by lying on the
earth. All these are removed by
hand. In buying, the buyer has a
scale and brass quart cup attached.
This, full of beans as a sample, is
weighed, picked over and the good
beans reweighed. From this the
"pick out" per bushel is estimated,
and the price regulated according to
market.
Girls, women and boys are en-
pIoyed to pick over the beans. 1t
makes a good winter job for many
shelter, warmth, a good place to gOs-
sip and some money. They are paid
so much per pound for what they
reject as bad. The beans are deliver
ed by a machine in a continuous
stream, regulated by the picker.
The Gull beans are marketed in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-12
CASCARA BARK.

The sudden advance and better of bark
which few years sold and that last year went
ga made transactions lively and interesting in
Corvallis which something of for the product Local
dealers ship the bark 1t
Francisco. The scramble for and
has brought buyers into the field from all parts
Early in the Salem druggist contracted for six tons
and turned check bind the bargain That
and he close any time
$3.50 per realizing from invest
only $3.50
A man on Big Elk west of Corvallis sold bark
and with the proceeds bought his neigbo
Charles Overander in the with his
slash the brush thereon for the chm bark the
In Toledo the other day they sold eight
bark little less than S2ooo which is accounted than the
worhand the bark sold only portion OF what they will
from the place.
Two small boys appeared Elk City the other day with
few sacks of chttm their boat They rowed back
with SOB in their pockets the proceeds of the sale OF
Jag hitm The cash looked almost big the
of chttim and that the fashionable yet
chittm rather than diamonds for jewery
than either OF the above the OF
Nestucca. He amateur in the
business experiment his motive He stocked
future prosperity wait for his profits One day the
him all his goats dead When other brush
they cttm bark overdoses and died
from the effects.
Various afoa the occasion for the sudden
that chttim brokers
agreed furnish Another that the native supply fast
nearing exhaustion the popularity of the bark for
medicinal purposes fast growing Once merely
Now tincures tablets and other forms
the shelves OF uPodate pharmacy and all
physicians extensively Observation-Disclosures Oregona
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-12
RETROCOGNITION.

s. Athens,
through al 'i'S 's0'
To for this strange hypothesis
advanced The main explanations The Renaissance
depending past waking experience
true and probably large proportion of these
simple source The Renaissance but depending on
dream which similarity circumstances recalls memory
1t obviously possible that suddenly evoked Renaissance of
dream give the feeling of already seen-of having
messed the actual indefinite before
cnce usoy depending kind OF malady of perception
enon affecting the whole personality and giving
location of the object perceived hypothesis
worked out in various ways ali of which seem nnre1 hyn1etca
any explain sgter and momenary forms OF retro
those where the sensation of memory becomes
definite enough TO attract the percen full
ton The Renaissance alusory depending
splitting OF the personality for instance asyncrosm of
br hensph lack OF precise concordance between the perceptions
OF the cerebral hemisphes But this explanation although
where the subject believes knowledge
not instantly impending such knowledge place.
unued enables him to oesa them by speech ) Tee
paty There however many the
reocogn1on which tepathy would
other mind apparently involved and simply though
subject either enjoyed the wider ordinary percpene
had already visited supernon way the scene which he
feels he remembers Hereditary memory, that say phe
retrocognton extensions of organic eocaon
daylight inpns made in this lie or in an
cesa lives physical being This hypothesis
its favor because other explanation
of facts pictures from past and in view of the
doctrine generally admitted psychology
however striking or insignificant whether they be received
in the earliest childhood in mature consciously unconsco
recorded to last permanently and conditions
may be revived recalled and recognized experience
We know OF course that there is difference
much ap memory which suppose potential
FORM at least imprinted We
organic memory may not nhere single cell neuon
cannot be prolonged backward before M M assert a oc eG
in countless lines OF ancestry If find imprinted the cd
organism conspicuous of perhaps emotion
OF the mothers surely organism NAV contain
also some Unborn memories less purely cerebral
than such gross phenomenon mark the finger
Nor can we absolutely limit such influence organ
ism alone For alght know the germ paswhatever
the continuous link OF all reacn
psyc suggestions sensitvey embryo spirit already
modified by experiences dating back innv
body already modified by experiences dating back to the first
appearance of life planet.
But this most probable hypothesis the ancestral
cannot be applied
all of Renaissance In the first place. that descendant
recall picture he confronted with the reality
what had impressed itself upon his Now left OF the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-12

the circumstances discouses
all things have vanished with again
Hence only those be verified that have been and
still existence On the other hand hereditary does
necessarily take place every Only the strong persistent
capable of What generally transmitted
habits tendencies dispositions.
According the special of Renaissance either of these
plantations may be applicable but general solution of this difficult
problem covering all still wantng-N Y Tribune
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-12

THE PIONEER JAPANESE PRINT
ing office. The publisher OF HAWAII
Shinpo, the only daily Japanese paper
published in the Territory Of Hawaii.
c. SHIOZAWA, Proprietor.
z. SOGA, Editor.
Editorial and Printing Office-1050
Smith ST., above King. P. o. Box 907.
Telephone Main IS.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-12
AN ELECTRIC TORPEDO FISH.

dav or two ago of St Ives fishermen were hauling
their fishing tackle when they pulled in large hs One OF the
caught hold such shock that he i'll
The other also received slight shocks touch
ing the fish, and they decided wait until died before unlocking
four feet long and three feet and had
white undebody 1t stated be electric
torpedo ish-London Express.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-12
BISHOP CO., BANKER.
ESTABLISHED IN 1855
Banking Department

f.
Transact business In all departmsnf|
OF banking.
Collections carefully attended TO.
| Exchange bought and sold.
Commercial and Travellers Letters 6
Credit issued on the Bank OF California
and n. NJ. Rothschild g. Sons, LondorS
Correspondents: The Bank of Cain
| fornia, Commercial Banking Co. q
Sydney, Ltd, London.
Drafts and cable transfers on Chin
and Japan through the Hongkong ans&
Shanghai Banking Corporation an&
Chartered Bank OF India, Australia an&
China.
Interest allowed on term depoaits a
the following rates per annum, viz:
Seven days notice, at 2 per cent.
Three months, at 8 per cent.
Six months, at S1a per cent.
Twelve months, at per cent.
Trust Department.
Act as trustees under mortgages.
Manage estates, real and personal.
Collect rents and dividends.
Valuable papers, wills, bonds, etc.
received for safe keeping.
Accountant Department..
Auditors for corporations and pril
vate firms.
Books examined and reported on
Statements of affairs prepared.
Trustees on bankrupt or insolvent
estates.
Office, 92t Bethel street.
Savings Department.
Deposits received and interest allow
ed at Az per cent per annum, in ac-3
cordance with rules and regulationsl
copies of which may be obtained on
application.
Insurance Department.
Agents for FIRE, MARINE, LIFEa
| ACCIDENT, and EMPLOYEES LA
BILITY INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Insurance office, 924 Bethel street.
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oceanic Steamship Company
OF San Francisco, Cal.

OF San Francisco, Cal.
AGENTS FOR THE
Scottish Union & National Insurance.
Company of Edinburgh.
Wilhelma Of Magdeburg General In
surance Company.
Associated Assurance Company Of
Munich & Berlin.
Alliance Marine & General Assurances
Co., Ltd, of London.
Royal Insurance Company Of Liver
pool, Alliance Assurance Company or
Lon |on.
Rochester German Insurance Ccrn-
pany Of ". 7.
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Insurance Department.

Agents for FIRE, MARINE, LIFEa
and EMPLOYEES LA
BILITY INSURANCE COMPANIES1
Insurance office, 924 Bethel street.
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WIN. C. IRWIN & co. Ltd.

VIM. G. Irwin. President and Manager
Claus Spreckels.. First Vice-President
w. M. Giffard. -. Second Vice-President
II. NJ. Whitney, Jr. Treasurer and Sec.
George W. Ross. Auditor
Sugar Factors and Commission Agents
AGENTS FOR THE
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-12

Transact business In all departures
OF banking.
Collections carefully attended TO.
Exchange bought and sold.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-12-24
Star Want Ad Agencies.

p. y. Mullen, asi Ballard ave, ops.
City HALL.
Frsrsent Drug Co. Ewing street
and Fremont avenue.
W. A. Mansfield q Co, Druggist.
I'D and jackson.
Grahas,'s asass Bakery, afcs lat
avenue.
C N Lohndreit. cigar store, siels
Second
Thoa Harris. al Pestefies. Rsnten.
Littie's Pharmacy. lat ave. north
and Harrison street J. n. Little,
proprietor.
Carlton a Co. Druggist. cor. sth
80. and Pse. street, South Seattle
Y. A, Moore. pes,stfiee. SO. rart.
univsrsi,y Drug Store. University
Staten
newell ST. Pharmacy. Toe, Howell
street.
Rainier Pharmacy, Me-. Clark, pro.
pr,stsr, eoes e. Madison.
Columbia Drug store. W. >. stud.
'sy, prep. Columbia. Wash.
Broadway Pharmacy. p. 6. Fisher.
prop- els Broadway and James
Quaker Drug Co. 1918 lat ave.
hssrpss Pharmacy. 23s N. Broad
"syi phone, Union %.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-12-24

the only passengers. besides Young
Cheuk Hin and myself. who visited
Macao last Sunday They were only
the most noticeable ON account OF
their noise and loud talk.
The Portuguese OF them
pure blood-perslsted In playing
poker-and noisy poker at that
which showed they were trying TO
show off.
The four drunken Englishmen
were equally as persistent on the re-
turn trip Ia their efforts 60 attract
attention. Hut. that's what you can
count ON when you make a sunday
trip to Mscao-"The Monte Carlo Of
the orient"
Macao is four hours voyage from
HonRkonR island. ana IL the oldest
foreign concession OF land in China.
having been coded 90 the Portuguese
many, many years ago. The Portu-
gueee stiil formally control u, For
mRlly. that's all. Like Hongkong.
which is British. II ~ I'm the hands
Of the Chinese. AZ least, u II In
their commercial grasp.
The Portuguese government main
taina nerfunctory police force and
garrison. The Chinese control the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-12-24
a STORY OF pAssApor cHoAre

dinner recently London to NJ barrie
h which examine In
ri honorable wineaaas
foolish with what they DO
should
would Il from huekmon
=
intelligent honeHtlooknR farmer undergoing
thought
from the that he murderer ef
a
How the tfnchT
-Four Yards. feet inches said the farmer
-Four yafas two feet chr Humphf The lawyer
shook hts
al
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-12-24
Marriage License.

LEON " chick. n Lynn. Mass M4rv
n, walker - Everrtt Wash
hsnt =. Cake. Renton. Mash N.ry
y Fraser. Rcntea. Wash.
. Wv kecsa Seattle. Martha Meissth.
:, Lyle Il. Mcconnell =. Seattle. Den
r. Cunningham. -. Seattle.
Henry NJ. 1ehnson. - fszaouah
" RSh Clara A. tarspa. Issa9aah.
Archie W. Kline. n. Seattle. Marins
t Leighton. -. seattle
Richard A. Calender seattle. Helen
nougias. SEATTLE
Frank W. Fisher. Everett Wash.
Gertrude A. NcwArtson. seattle.
Otto W Ia "a Seattle. fnea g
Axiom. =, SEATTLE
George GregofY. 4 SAITH. Affhaa
Salisbury, 1 Seattle
Peter A. Frestaa. ~ Oak fiartor
Wash. Marrtct r. Tpmrcn "a oak
HSrtsar wash
OLAF Ie4st. a. Cliatan Wash Rachel
Holland - Whaiand Wash
Geo. @ Russell 81 SEATTLE Little
haNwtll ~ Maple Valley. Wash.
Jas. r AIKEN. y seattle Mari. A
Fiannsry, =. Seattle.
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Don't fat t. see un before hu0Inr We
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-12-24

A TO DANCE

n j. Journeymen Butchers OF Sc
atilt will give their annual bali at
Chi stenaen'H hall. I'm the Arcade
bhi ing. tomorrow night. under the
apsl iceH Of Local No. ~ 81 the In
trrdtatloual union. The floor will
be b charge Of George Huxley and
All Woolmnn. The following IL
tha committee on arrangements.
Hdjy RrOdhun. A. q. Woolman,
Hf(ty 1lroadbsut. J. l. Carlisle. Geo.
Hui eanEer and Charles Enix Mu.
sac swli be furnished by WaGner's
wcFstra- Refreshments will be
scr1cd.
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MIL VISIT
IRELAND

DUBLIN. Dee. 2i.--The Daily FIX
press today publishes a letter from
King Edwards secretary, announc-
ing that the king and queen expect
20 pay another visit TO Ireland next
summer.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-12-24
TELLS TWO
S TORIES
CASE OF MRS. FAIRS HEIRS IS
HURT BY CONFLICTING TEs-
TlmoNY OF THEIR WITNESS

PARIS. Dec. 24.-At a special sit
ting In the Fair will case. at Fs.ry-
surer, today, Dr. Perriqua. who tes-
titled at Paris that Mrs. Fair sur
ViVed her husband. was severely
cross examined. The witness gcner-
allied. lie hesitated and finally con-
iradicted himself, thus seriously
damaging his previous evidence.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-12-24

Especial correspondence by DICK
Wool. Who u studying home life IN
China for the Newspaper Enterprise
ANaoeiationl
H0NgKoNG There were three
drinking Portuguese going cut
There wcrr four drunken English .
men coming back These were not
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-12-24
BRYAN WILL
MEET THE
KAISER

BERLIN. Dec. william J.
Bryan arrived here today. He will
have an audience with the kaiser
tomorrow.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-12-24

Are you hungry II is past noon,
you must be. let us. then, take
'riokshawR'' 20 the restaurant.
Id hate TO be a "rickshaw man"
this hot Sunday afternoon In Macao.
II must be CALLING. climbing these
steep hills. Juggling and straining
with their load all the while. See
how they bend 90 Il. MY mans chin
IL almost touching his knees. this
hill is so steep.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-12-24

wEsTPORT. Conn. Dec. "A
report reached here that the SIX
missing persons from the steamer
Corning wreck were picked zap this
afternoon. All are alive. but are
suffering from the exposure.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-12-24

Born 70 Mr. and Mrs oryis Jcsegh
A hoy.
Born 10 afr ard Mrs Nicola Asprca.
n boy
Bern 70 Mr. and Mrs J. A croae
a Aoy
Born q Mrs. and Mrs A. Brob.ek
q hoy.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. HIM Fra~t.
= boy.