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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-14
High Prices Surely Coming.

The farmers of the South have
presented to them by the disasters of
the Western floods an opportunity
that should by no means be neg
lected.
Four of the largest wheat and corn
producing States of the West have
been damaged in their crop pros
poets for the present year by one-half
or more, and it is plainly to be seen
that there must be a shortage of
food-stuffs in consequence. Sheep,
cattle and horses have been destroy
ed iii large numbers, and the effect
must be to reduce labor and other
productive returns from the farms.
Prices of food and their related in
terests In the beef, pork and mutton
markets are sure to be much higher
In the future than in the past season.
Corn is more likely to sell for over
than under a dollar per bushel. And
the Southern farmers who have be-
come accustomed to find their bread
and meat in Western markets will be
called upon to recoup present losses
to those peoples by higher prices for
food-stufs.
1t is not too late yet for Southern
farmers to fortify against that mani
fest State affairs. Every one of
thin can devote a part of his land
and labor to raising corn and peas
and thus supply himself with substi-
tutes for his usual Western supplies.
1t is yet possible anywhere in the
South to plant and raise crops of the
kind mentioned and those who are
wise will lose no time in taking this
warming to himself and preparing to
meet the general rise in the price of
provisions by having an ample home
raised stock of food in his own crib
and smoke-house.
These are the apparent facts that
confront us and the Constitution
feels it a duty to the farmers of
Georgia and the South to follow the
sensible course we have indicated.
A year of high prices for farm
products is coming and it will take
all the wisdom and industry of a
Joseph to prepare a store that will
defy inflated prices, short supplies
and produce manipulators of the peo-
pies bread.-Atlanta Constitution.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-14

In but one year during the last
two decades has cotton reached a
higher price than at present, and at
that time the cotton crop was insig-
niicant compared with the present
one.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-14
Clover in Corn.

Editor OF The Progressive Farmer:
How would clover do sowed the
last blowing of late corn for a win
ter and spring pasture for hogs?
What kind would be best? Land is
stiff and red. Please answer
through The Progressive Farmer.
N. p.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-14
EASY SCIENCE STUDIES FOR
M
xU.-soils Mechanical Varieties.

COMPOSITIONS SOLIS 1dhS0 1IOm gray
q where the particles are the
~coarsest, to gravelly loan, sandy,
fine sand, sandy loan, fine loan,
loan, shale loan, silt loan, clay
loan, clay, adobe, meadow, winding
I'D with the opposite extreme-muck
and swamp, where the particles are
finest and most compact.
From an agricultural viewpoint
the best varieties in this list are
found half way between the danger
Gus extremes, in the loan, which are
open and friable, yet contain sufici-
ent particles small enough to retain
moisture and to become Dissolved by
the root sap of plants, thus render
ing the soil food available. Food
can be taken up by the roots of
plants only when it is in solution, or
in a condition capable of being dis
solved by contact with the acid sap
of the root hairs. Matter which is
in neither of these conditions is use
less to the plant, though it may af-
forwards become available through
the chemical actions of the soil.
Most ingredients in average soils
are in an insoluble condition. This
idea of solubility is well illustrated
by dropping a pinch of salt in a
glass of water. The salt disappears
the water "dissolved" it, and only
when plant food is in this "watery"
condition can it be used by plants.
If the water in the glass evaporates,
the mineral salt is precipitated in it's
original white crystalline form.
Gravelly soil is very undesirable,
as the particles are so large, it will
moi hold water, and being large, air
clrcuIateS freely to a considerable
depth, thus drying out rapidly; and
while IN most gravelly soils there
may be a small quantity of material
fine enough for plant food, it is
usually too small to be of much ac-
count. Sandy soils have the same
drawbacks in a less degree. A clay
or muck soil is objectionable-fo
quite opposite reasons. The par
tIcIes are so fine that these soils do
not dry out readily and are heavy
and untillable. Muck, swamp and
meadow soils often contain large
quantities of plant food and only
need drainage to render them rich
and fertile.
\ mixture of the extremes is pro-
ouctIve Of good results, the obiec-
UonabIe features of each thus neu-
traIIzing each other. Indeed o1oam,"
winch IS the ideal soil for most farm
crops, means mixed clay and sand"
\ clay soil is a common type in the
Mississippi Valley, and is generally
considered poor. This is only be-
cause its riches are locked up. The
truth IS clay contributes the plant
Iood IN the partnership with sand,
while sand merely breaks up the pc
c"I'or cement which holds clay so
compactly.
In cultivating a sandy soil, humus
i'm the Sbo.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-14

After the small grain crops have
been harvested, and when not seeded
in grass or clover, run over the stub
bic with a disc harrow and SOW either
cow-peas or crimson clover or sap
ling clover or rape, with some wheat
or oats mixed with these, and thus
find the land something better to do
than grow a crop of weeds, which
only impoverish the land and make
no contribution towards carrying the
live stock of the farm or even furnish
more than the very smallest quantity
of vegetable matter for making
humus. It is Of vital Importance to
the maintenance and enhancement of
the fertility of land in the South
that some crop should be kept on the
land at all times. Naked land be-
comes reduced in fertility faster
than when growing a crop.-Ex-
change.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-14
The Mistake in Summer Feeding.

Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
The most economical summer fooc
is forage crops, but it is not possible
to obtain the best results from these
without adding to the daily ration
some food in the shape of grain
The mistake commonly made in sum.
mer feeding is to depend entirely
or too largely upon the forage crops
Even when good soiling crops are oh.
tanned to carry us over the season
of poor pasturage it does not pay
to depend entirely upon these. The
cows need also some grain, and this
should be fed daily and in proper
ratio to other foods. Cows fed most.
~ on the soiling crops do not pro
duce satisfactory amounts of milk
nor do they appear to gain or ever
hold their own in flesh. The result
is the blame in many cases is thrown
entirely upon the soiling crops, anc
they are pronounced a failure. These
crops were never intended to furnish
a complete ration. Not even though
we have a variety of common forage
crops, o fodder, timothy hay, mil
let and sorghum, should we expect
the COWS to do well on them without
their grain. We might just as vel
expect a man to thrive in summer or
fruits and vegetables, with no meat
milk or grains.
I speak of this mistake because-it
is so often responsible for the sue
cess of soiling crop feeding. There
are ingredients in grain food which
are lacking in all the forage crops
and the animals must suffer if they
do not have a good proportion OF
these food necessities. When we con
slider that the food of animals must
go to form flesh, fat, milk, hair
horns, tissues, ligaments and bones
we may well conclude that a great
variety of food must be essential to
their proper development. After all
the succulent summer food goes
largely to increase the milk flow. 1t
furnishes in the greatest abundance
those ingredients which can be quick
ly and easily converted into milk and
casein. But this food hardly supplies
any material for making bone, mus
Gle, ligaments and lean meat. These
must grow and mature in summer,
however, just as much as at any other
season of the year, and if their de-
velopment is checked the milk flow
must in time suffer. This indirect
action of food is sometimes more
disastrous than an immediate change,
for when the animal becomes weaken
ed and run down from lack of prop
er food it takes considerable time to
build her up again. We can withhold
grass and green fodder from the COW
and dry the milk up Immediately, but
this is only temporary in action.
Feed them again with a well balanced
ration, with plenty of succulent food,
and within a few days the milk yield
Will be restored. But run down a
COW physically by Withholding prop
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-14

It is said that a small green bug
has made its appearance in the Texas
cotton fields and the coming of this
bug has been followed by the de-
parture of the weevil. The bug does
not attack the cotton, but subsists
entirely on the boil weeVil and it
appears to have a healthy appetite,
clearing a field of the weevil in a
very short time. Where the bug
came from no one seems to know,
and this point is immaterial. Since
it has begun business the Govern
ment can give its special crops of
entomologists to solve the weevil
question in a thoroughly practical
manner and at no expense to the
country.-Charlotte Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-14

The future destiny of the child is
always the work of the mother.-Na-
poleon.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-14

Both man and womankind belle
their nature when they are not kind.
Bailey.
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21
ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO GRAFT.

Without calling for bids, the city council of Nome on October 13 let six months contract for city printing at thirty-fve cents line to the Nome News THE NUGGET made no bid for the printing, because it knew that the proposed act of the city council
 illegal THE NUGGET has been the "cty official paper" since June l. last, and its contract does not expire until December 1, next The printing of city ordinances and other official notices is being done for twelve and half cents line and the anxiety of the city council to let contract weeks before the present contract has expired, at rate three times greater, is somewhat remarkable. Some light may be thrown the matter when it is stated that the majority of the city council propose to reprint all the city ordinances that have been enacted since the n corporation of the city. The act of the city council
 in letting contract for city printing, without adver- Using for bids, called out comment by the grand jury. But the end is not yet
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21

Where in the world can you find
 a mining camp, except Nome, where a thousand or more men can make money enough in four months to live in comfort the balance of the year? This is true of large num- Der of men, miners not strictly in cluded. There are business men" who come to Nome in the early spring, open place of business, and depart with the last steamers late in the fall with well-filled pokes, only to repeat the expert. ment year after year. These, of course, are the fortunate ones. but still we say, there are few countries where the average man can do this.
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21
THE RESOLUTION" STILL STANDS,

In his instructions to the jury in the of the United States versus Councilman Hill, charged with blackmal Judge Moore stated in no uncertain terms that the resolution passed by the city council on June 2S "utterly illegal" That resolution per mitted, nay authorized the grating of unfortunate women. It still stands a monument to the impu- dence and unparalleled effrontery of alleged city council. Notwithstanding the finding of a jury in the district court which says that Councilman Hill is not guilty of the charge laid at his door, there is for the foul blot in the shape of that reso- lution to remain unrepealed in the city's official records. It is dead it is imperative, and it has been since the month of September last. But the "cty council" of Nome as at present constituted would have the audacity, believe, to attempt to perpetrate almost any form of injustice upon the people who make up the community. Their efront- cry is embazoned upon the scroll of their dshonored acts. Utterly irresponsible the majority of the city council are, what do they for public opinion With the coolness of Vanderbilt they say, openly and defantly, The people be damned" The pre- servation of law and order to them thing apart from the discharge of duties. The public is a big orange for lot of worthless worthies to suck until nothing but the rind remains.
 The resolution of June 2S, originated by Council man Hill and seconded by his puppet, Councilman Stevens and voted for by Bard and Calvin is a thing of which these men should be ashamed, if the word had place in their vocabulary The dis trct court states that the resolution is utterly ie- gal ;" but what care the who constitute the ma jority of an alleged city council? ? Nothing Why should they? They have nothing to lose.
 One comfort remains however One species of ntoerable, unutteraby nasty graft has been effectu- ally estopped. It will be time before either this or any other city council essays to bleed any portion of the community that private individuals may profit by it.
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21
AS TO POPULAR GOVERNMENT.' 2

When popular government" is administered by irresponsible men it is always failure. The history of not only republics but monarchies for centuries past proves this to be the When European monarchs entrusted the reins of government to weak lings and worthless favorites anarchy riot because of the expressions and exactons placed upon the common people. When fakirs, harequins and msfts obtained through the laxity of the people, place and power in the ancient republics, of msrule, followed by decay, at began. But, though empires tottered and fell under so-called popular form of government, which at best tinc tured with absoutism, and republics grew rotten be- heath the burden of the msrule of imbeciles and in competents, still the genius of true popular govern ment has survived through the ages.
 "Grafting" is not modern disease; it was known and it fourshed anterior to the time of the Caesars With it was allied the very germ of what constituted popular government in those days. Men in official place were then corrupt as they sometimes found to he corrupt in our day. The greater the remote ness from the central seat of authority the rupt they became. The lust of power, the freedom from active and intelligent surveillance afforded un heard of opportunities for spoil and gradually 'the peopie"-an anomalous term with grafters-became sodden and besotted in their abect misery Then all semblance of popular government" ceased and an iron despotsm held sway until the people, reused once more from the lethargy into which they had sunk rose against their oppressors and freed them- selves, only to sink time and again to their former depths of disgrace and despair.
 There has ever been constant fight to preserve the essence, sometimes the semblanc even of popular government, but this has only been the case when the people themselves grew negligent of their duties as citizens.
 Nome has been, is being misgoverned, misman- aged and disgraced by men whom the people them selves elected to them Of course their servants have proved unworthy, but primarily the people themselves are to blame. Whenever the people of state take active intelligent interest in the affairs
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21
LET US HAVE NO DIFFERENCES.

THE NUGGET does not believe in raising foment- ing sectional strife in Alaska The hest endeavors of each citizen should be bent in the direction which will secure the best results for the entire territory Faconal strife too, is to be deprecated. It is rather early to begin such nternecne warfare. Broad gauged men who have at heart the best interests of the territory will not engage in it. That spirit which has for its end and aim the benefit of the whole dis district should be forsered and in every way aged.
 Alaska is very young, and most of her people are merely probationers. They should be given a chance to make good' their assertions as to their Alaskan status and their expressed fervor in promoting the territory's welfare. But apart from this we cannot help noticing disposition the part of the people of Southeastern Alaska to imagine that they them selves, constitute the whole of the common wealth. Perhaps this disposition on their part is not intended Neverthefess, Alaska was "mere y on the map" until -afswsEort years ago. and "all Alaska" centered in and about Juneau But the population since that time has expanded this section of the territory has been peopled; extensive mining interests have been developed, and permanent population is being secured Already there is rivalry between two re- mote sections as to which shall wield the dominant influence.
 In reference to this phase of the question we wish pOpt tO IaCt the leSsIallOn Tn cent years due to the untring efforts of men ' from Northwestern Alaska, who spent their time, energy and money in securing the enactment of laws by which the whole of Alaska has benettted The law which provides for the incorporation of towns in Alaska, and the amendments which give all the reve- derived from license and occupation taxes to in- corporated communities, fathered and promoted by men who were residents of Seward peninsula. Their work directed in way that has proved to be of great benefit to all the people, Yet there to be little disposition the part of Southeastern Alaska congeners to give the credit due. Up here we do not seem to be accounted as being a part of Alaska, and herein lies the burden of our com plant. We "new," to be sure, but we are still part-an important part-of the territory. Our friends and compatriots of Southeastern Alaska should get into line and work in the nterestsof the whole territory and not conne their entire efforts to their own peninsula. AS matter of fact, while Northwestern Alaskans have done the work that has told for Alaska, the Southeastern part has received the direct benefits They have had the appropri- atons while we have held the sack The spirit of sefshness should be eminated no sectional differ ences should be known if Alaska is to be pushed steadily to the front.
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21
NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE.
UNITED STATES or AMERICA, ss

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, lss END. DIV, DISTRICT OF ALASKA ""'
 Public notice is hereby given that by virtue of a writ Of Fieri Facias for executionl dated Sep tember 18th. l903 issued out of the District Court of the United States for the Second Diyi- siou, District of Alaska on q judgment rendered in said Court, on the 29th day Of November, 1902, in favor of A. E. Southward, J. B. Kittelson and N. c. Torrison, defendants. and against Hugh McDougal, w. w. Sales and Alexander Watson. plaintiffs, have on the 16th and 24th days Of September, 1903. respectively, levied upon the following described real estate, to-wit:
 That certain lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Nome, Cape Nome Recording Dis trict Alaska, upon which is situated the house on the south side of Third Street, immediately in the rear of the Golden Gate hotel in said city, now occupied by F. H. Ames, being part of Lot [7l Seven in Block [l49l One Hundred Forty nlne in said City of Nome, together with the building situated thereon {; and
 That certain placer mining claim known as Claim No. 20 above Discovery on Ophir creek situated on said Ophir creek. in the Council City Recording District, District of Alaska; and that will accordingly, offer all the right title and interest Of said w. w. Sales in and to said real estate for sale, public vendue to the high est and best bidder, for cash on the 3rd day of November 19O3 at ? o'clock pm, in front of the United States District Court House at Nome Alaska.
 Dated October 2nd 1903.
 FRANK H. RICHARDS,
 U. s. Marshal, Second Div,
 -.-. District of Alaska.
 First publication October 3, 1903. IO-3-4w
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21
IT IS NOT NEEDED.

There seems to be considerable opposition to the perpetraton of proposed outrage on the people of Nome by the present "city council" Councilman Hoxse, pointed out in these columns a couple of weeks ago. proposes to sell parcel of land to the city for municipal purposes" And we have small doubt that he will do it, unless the aid of the law is invoked to prevent the purchase Hoxsie bend the little willows who make up the majority of the city coun- ci at his pleasure. They the cay he is the pot ter, and he fashions from that poor clay any image that he desires.
 number of the business men of Nome have pro- tested against the proposed purchase but it cannot be expected that mere protest will count for much unless, perhaps it were accompanied by number of gatling guns. Protests, with city council majority like the one in the saddle. are brushed aside with more ease and facility of action than is pestif erous mosquito But another piece of ground is off,
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21

fered the city council-not the city-for $750. Neither, submit, should be bought at this time. The city cannot afford to buy land and erect city buildings at the present time. The condition of its finances will not permit it. Any number of build ings, suitable to the present needs of the city be rented at moderate figure until such time the city has relieved itself of part at least of the debt that the wanton mismanagement and utter reckless
 ness of successive city councils have placed upon it..
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21
THE ANOTHER LODE"

TIE NUGGET has ever striven to keep before the public the value of this section of Alaska from a min ing standpoint. Its efforts have been unselfish and sincere. First, because it has an unbounded faith in the mining future of Seward pe- ninsula, and, secondly, because the development of the mining resour- ces means prosperity for the people who inhabit it. For more than two years past THE NUGGET has been referring from time to time to the quartz possibilities to be found here. The predictions it has made in the past are being verified all most daily. Already one quartz mill is in actual operation, and it has met with abundant success. Quartz discoveries are being report ed almost daily, and finds made this year lead one to believe that Humboldts theory that the great gold mother lode would be found in this far northland, is about to be demonstrated. This entire sec- tion of Alaska is just in it's infancy. The era of placer mining has just begun, and it's vast quartz possi- bilities are just dawning upon the minds of men.
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21

When District Attorney Grig-by referred to Chief of Police Walling- ford as a Sherlock Holmes" he did Conan Doyle's great character grave injustice. The original Sherlock Holmes was an honest, high-minded, intelligent man. Sherlock Holmes was never a pur- veyor of "indulgences."
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21
Notice to Creditors.

In the Probate Court of the District of Alaska, Second Division, Nome Precinct. Before Hon. T. M. Reed, U. s. commissioner and ex-officio probate judge.
 In the matter of the estate of Edward Weston deceased.
 Notice is hereby given by the undersigned aving claims against. the said deceased, to ex- hibit them, with the necessary vouchers, within six months after the first publication of this notice, to the said administrator, at the Weston Hotel, Solomon City, Alaska.
 Date of first publication of this notice, August 22, A. D. i90:
 RoxEY REBER, s Adm inistrator
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21

of the state. little fault will be found with popular government" l." When the people are apathetic and indifferent, misrule will always show its brazen front. The moral will be obvious to most.
The Nome nugget., 1903-10-21

In looking for a place in which to colonize the negroes Senator Carmack and John Temple Graves have their eyes on the depopulated sections of Macedonia.