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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-10
Number 40.

show the characteristic yellowing or
blackening of the leaves, such plants
should be pulled up and burned. Do
not throw diseased cabbage leaves or
plants upon the manure pile The
germ can live an indefinite period in
the manure, and will be scattered
over the fields with the manure. In
cultivating field which contains dis
eased cabbage or other plants of this
family, before going into another
field clean all tools carefully and
thoroughly to avoid carrying the
germs into fields as yet free from
them. Wage a vigorous war against
shepherds purse, pepper grass, and
all other weeds of the cabbage fam
lily, as these may serve to propagate
the disease during years in which
other crops occupy the land.
Except as stated above, no particu-
lar variety of cabbage is exempted,
and no special brand of seed vii in
sure freedom from the pest.
GERALD MCCARTHY,
Biologist North Carolina Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-10
AGRICULTURE
HARRY FARMERS TALKS.
CXXVIII.

r1,tor NJ The Progressive Farmer:
Coming down the Atlantic Coast
Line from Weldon to Wilmington we
we're more impressed than ever with
the Importance of intensive farming.
We noticed before we reached the
berry section that most of the crops
of corn and cotton were poor. It
was rare thing to see, cotton that
would yield one-half bale per acre;
the average would not exceed mcre
than one-half that quantity.
But as soon as we reached the
berry region there was quite a diff
ference. You could see fields that
would yield a bale to the acre. The
heavy manuring required to make
large crop of fine strawberries en-
riched the land so that any crop
planted on the land when properly
worked would yield heavily. What a
contrast there is in the profits! One
bale Of cotton at present prices
would be $50. One-fourth Of a bale
would be only $3.50 to the acre.
.. S. Deputy Marshal Council
Aeares, of Cumberland County, gave
US the following bit of news along
the same line. He took one acre of
land and manured it some and bought
one bushel of improved cottonseed
for which he paid $1.4O. He planted
MS crop and gave it good atten-
ton and gathered two bales of cot
ton. Let us see if it paid.
Let US put down the cost of ma
nure, seed and extra work at $25.
Now two bales at $50 per bale would
be 800; deduct extra cost of $25,
which leaves $75. Compare that
amount with $3.50 per acre.
Now We want to ask a question
old you ever have much trouble in
getting cotton picked on land that
yielded from three-fourths of a bale
ana upward per acre? The picker
could always make satisfactory
wages, while on lands where the yield
was small, and you had to stoop down
and part the grass to get the cotton,
" Was almost impossible to get pick
ers.
Dome Of the readers of The Pro-
sFeSSlVe Farmer may be a little sur
p''Sed at our mentioning this mat
sst at this season of the year; but
IlendS' the man who waits till Feb
.uaFy or March to lay his plans will
DO' likely improve much. Now we
n pu' TO suggest that every farmer
suO has never tried it, take one acre
.Ot each staple crop that he plants
u improve it as much as he can,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-10
The Two Kinds of Tobacco Wit.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer ::

Editor OF The Progressive Farmer:
I see that some misapprehension
exists as to the nature of the Gran
vile tobacco wilt, regarding which I
sent you a communication some
weeks ago. Tobacco growers in some
parts of the State are confounding
this wilt, which is a highly contagi-
Gus disease, leading to the death of
the plant, and which, when it has
once gained a foot-hold in the field,
prohibits the culture of tobacco in
that field for several years, with a
more ordinary and comparatively
harmless fit due to local changes in
climate and moisture.
Every tobacco grower notes that
under certain conditions of climate,
the leaves of the tobacco will sud
denly droop, but this condition of
wilt is not maintained for long
time, and the plant rapidly RECEIVERS
when proper conditions are restored.
Another kind of wilt is caused by the
sore-skin, by bruises of the stalk near
the surface of the ground, and by the
attack of any animal which cuts off
the plant. In such cases the plant
dies. This, however, is local dis
ease, affecting single scattered plants
in the field. The Granville tobacco
wilt differs from any of these, in
that the disease remains in the soil
from year to year, growing worse
each year.
1t is not single isolated plants that
die, but it is great numbers of them;
from fifty to ninety or one hundred
per cent of the plants in the field.
It is not a temporary willing. A
plant once attacked very rarely re-
covers. 1t usually dies within few
days after the willing appears. Any
one who has visited the fields in
Granville County suffering from the
true Granville wilt, will never con-
found this disease with the local dis
eases mentioned above, or with the
wilt due to improper climatic or soil
conditions.
Very truly yours,
cyU11IVYENTC
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-10
F. L. STEVENS.

Every carpenter who shaves with
a fore plane borrOws the genius of a
forgotten inventor.-Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-10
Black Rot Of the Cabbage.
Editor Of The Progressive Farmer:


Editor Of The Progressive Farmer:
For more than fifteen years there
has existed in North Carolina a very
serious disease of cabbage and other
crops of the cabbage family. The
annual damage in this State from
this disease is probably more than
$4,000. Besides cabbage uponTwhich
it most frequently operates, tbs dis
ease attacks turnips, kale, cauli-
flower, mustard, rape, and in fact,
all crops and weeds of the cabbage
tribe.
The disease in cabbage is char
acterized by the outermost leaves cf
the plants, near the edges, turning
first yellow, then brown and finally
black. The disease spreads down
ward into the main stem and through
this into the inner leaves of the
head. While no plant of the cabbage
kind is wholly exempt, those of a
loose or spreading habit like the col
lard are less damaged than those
which form close heads, like the fat
Dutch type. The disease is very con-
tagious, spreading from plant to
plant in the field. Frequently large
patches of cabbage apparently
healthy one day are found soft and
rotten the next. The disease is al
ways most virulent in hot, moist
weather.
CAUSE OF THE DISEASE.
Black rot of the cabbage and other
plants of the same family, is caused
by a germ or microbe bacillus cam
pestris). This germ lives from year
to year in the soil, attacking with
increasing virulence successive crops
of the cabbage kind, until at length
it becomes practically impossible to
grow these crops except upon fresh
or virgin soil. The germ increases
rapidly only during the warmer
months of the year, or while the tenn
perature is above 80 degrees F.
TREATMENT.
The treatment for black rot must
be preventive. Spraying is-of no
value in this case. Rotation of
crops so that no crop of the cabbage
family shall come upon the same field
oftener than once in three or four
years is the first and most essen
tial precaution. The seed-bed should
be made upon fresh ground each
year, or the bed should be burned
over as is done for tobacco< beds, to
kill possible germs in the soil. Cab
bage, turnip and all other crops of
this family should be grown only dur
ing the cooler months, or while the
temperature is below 80 degrees F.
If only a few scattered plants in field
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-10

"I am sending you by express a
small basket of japanese persim-
mons of the Hyakume variety"
writes Mr.. A. d. McNair, of South
ern Pines. "They are hard now,
and therefore not fit to eat, but will
soften within the next two or three
weeks. I am to leave this place
next week for Nacogdoches, Texas,
where I enter the employ of the
Angelina Orchard Company, and /
would be pleased to receive The
Progressive Farmer at my new adj
Dress" Mr.. McNair has made many
friends in North Carolina while act
ing as superintendent of the South
ern Pines Experimental Farm. We
regret that he is to leave the State,
but trust that we shall not lose him
as correspondent. The persimmons
are the finest we have ever seen.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-10

Danville, Va, dispatch: The farm
ers of Spring Garden and vicinity
Will sell no more tobacco until the
prevailing prices are greatly in
creased, and not more than so per
cent of the crop of 1903 will be plant
ed by them next season.
Such is the decision reached by the
planters who gathered at Spring
Garden recently and perfected an or
ganization, to be known as the Spring
Garden Tobacco Growers Club. The
farmers realize that the over-preduc-
lion should be decreased in order to
increase the price.
In addition to this the>club pledges
itself to encourage diversified farm
ing in order to render the growers
more independent IN the future.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-07
LETTERS OF AN OLD MAID.
XIII.
TO 4 YOUNG GIRL.

mar 1fssze. You want 10 know ell about my
other friends and why call them including you
nv chosen five" have used that EXPRESSION IN
several letters Of late It's rather neat but con-
fass that chosen five sounds prosaic and unro-
mantle as substitute Tor chosen one. Inc
latter would be infinitely prettler.
wrote a long letter recently, all ABOUT lrlehu-
shin and IN II I held up as my ideal or the eN-
uression OF friendship that saying Of the prophet
csr7ral .-The soul Of Jonathan was knit unto the
sorI OF David" etc. That looked as II believed
mat perfect friendship could only be given 70 one
r,arson In the same letter. however, remarked
that friendship would never conine itself 10 one
So Won see didn't trouble myself TO be consistent
T2u+ was writing to a friend who doesn't expect
consistency II l had said it TO you, you would
have tripped me up wouldn't you? That's your
youth Consistency is the last and hardest fought
for level that life and time wrest from Us
Every one who has the talent for friendship has
a Iirr1a circle of beloved friends who fit into the
different planes Of his Cor herr being. TO be sure,
+bara e always the one who is Just little dearer
than all the rest Now, If I tell you al about
nv other friends. do you suppose you can guess
who is dearest? Let me see; all is a large word.
What YOU probably wish IS to know why chose
those particular persons-leaving out the element
OF chance Cor what we call chance(-which always
has something to do with II III tell you what
I
Faith was nv school friend Together We fed our
youtbf1I appetite for knowledge; read together.
and together went through a thousand thrills OF
4ov and sorrow over those dear old characters Of
sone and drama and fiction that are new friends
~ every Young life in the succeeding generations.
Hamlet and Romeo, King Arthur and Sir Calahad-
all the beloved heroes, down to Colonel Newcone.
were real 70 US. We went to plays and operas to-
pether and held each others hands. And we
MANNED to be old maids together, and Of course,
shed rivers OF tears when she married. Yes, I.
with all my sage philosophy VIII you ever be-
Ieve in me again? u one thing, you see, to
compare notes over love affairs, and discuss the
men We knew; it was another thing 10 have g
real live bandit in the form Of q man come and
carry off my alter ego. All, weli We survive
these things and friendship even survives mar
Rage 1t did in this II that is enough about
Edith I'll pass on TO Grace. my unmarried friend
with whom I discuss the affairs Of the universe
nolitics business. literature, art and life She Is
detached from all private interests except her
work and sharpen our minds upon each other
And shrewd she NAV be in those matters, she
IL blind in love. old maid should be, and
believes in me utterly When want nice kind
warming unreasoning compliment I go straight 70
Grace and get it. know she means il all. and it
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ma kes me hold my head up and forget my sins.
Besides we agree on politics, and that's such
comfort, II isn't enough 70 found friendship
but disagreement politics has often been
enough to break one. But that is beyond you:
political opinions are for middle age and worldly
minds.
As to men: there's Vernon You wonder why we
didn't marry. Well. there were barriers when we
were young. and now we are too old 70 change.
In youth he was somewhat my inferior IN culture
and mentality: men are often OF slow growth in
such matters And now that he has caught Up. and
gone far ahead Of me. are so comfortably set
tied In our Old groove OF friendship that neither OF
might ind each other OUT Each OF US would lose
an ideal, and substitute vital risk for a blessed
certainry We know each others weaknesses and
oddities enough 70 dread them at close range and
fancies we might suddenly develop Jealousy Ny
dear when you're as old as you viii rea ltze
how horrible It would be TO fall IN love with
dear friend . 49,. -. 49,,
s.irf on john Well-JOhn-hes little different.
John ISL want you TO know John He Is young.
ZOO he Is q sort Of cousin, you know, and he was
nv child friend haven't quite lost the sense OF
little hand in mine, and pair OF innocent IN
o,1irfug brown eyes An old maid can have a
good deal OF the maternal passion II her. al the
6cuIrfes Of motherhood think have II for Jonn
Has very big, and I am absurdy little, ne cou-d
rv-ir~ me- around IN a circle with one hand And
he used TO sit on my lap and hear stories want
nav and let you Judge for yourself Some people
sfv he's very nice looking. and quite a good TEL
low too but I don't think l can get far enough
avrav from him TO recommend him
Us easy enough TO tel why like you You are
ronest simple and unaffected without a trace OF
that auteur that IS 50 disconcerung and yet 50
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-07
THE womeNs MUNICIPAL LEAGUE

To the Editor Of The Tribune:
Sir: Women'S work IN the recent municipal
contest supplied a noteworthy feature Of the
campaign and TO the Women's Municipal League
the thankful sentiment Of all lovers Of honest
government is due The time will come when
the Wonens Municipal League will be a power
dare ignore. The work OF the league, however
is not based politics II is solely in the direc-
tion OF municipal reform. and the league pur-
poses TO reach the voters by campaign Of eduCa-
ton that will eventually impress all sslf re-
specting people the absolute necessity of eeCting
70 the Mayors chair a wholly opposed to
Tammany Hall and its methods. Two years ago
the Wonen's Municipal League had only hand
ful OF active workers. This year there were one
hundred earnest women working for q great
cause and Miss Chanler the president OF the
league. hopes TO have eighty thousand women
enrolled before many years 90 by
There is reason why woman snoulo not
take an active interest in city campaigns, the
outcome OF which means so much 10 the nome
Indeed. an honest woman ought 10 night cor
honest man fghts il for woman gains as much
as il more than, man gains rom honesty ana
purity IN the c!ty's government II Is 70 pc ear
nesty hoped that the efforts OF tns !" oiI,-n ;
IN New-Yo-k the need OF enerseu &c Hork
against political element representa- py LaI-
many Hall an element whose past trIiOI Il4llC1s
entitle one 20 say that il Is wholly iHInune Iro1
-1orsli+T The enlightenment % the woman OF
the great East Side is an object Ls y omen :
Mllnictpal League hopes TO ac-OInplLSIl tAlo
through the influence OF these women, WIZ tEeir
husbands big Tamn1any nsjorTluess VIZ VI, -
mated or. at least, heavily ie1uSe- - - ~
work and II ought 70 prosper ~
NeU-Ynrk- Nov. 8. lsB-
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LAST DAY OF THE DOG SHOW.
Best Exhibit Ever Held by the Ladies Ken
mel Association

Yesterday was the last day Of the dog show,
which has been in progress this week at the
Madison Square Garden, under the auspices OF
the Ladies Kennel Association, and the attendance
larger than any previous day. The show
has been the most successful ever given by the
association. The exhibits have been larger and
better than before and the health Of the dogs
has been excellent. Veterinary surgeons have in
spected them every day, but there has been no
for their services.
It was reported yesterday afternoon that an
epidemic had broken out among the dogs. the
disease being carried from one to another by the
visitors out this enphatically denied
at the Garden.
They are the healthiest lot Of dogs that ever
struck New-York," said Mr.. Oldham. Il haven't
seen even shiver."
Nevertheless. one little prize winner was obvious
" Ill This was His Too Woo prize toy spaniel
owned by Thomas ". Lawson. His pathetic
woe begone expression and shivering little body
attracted the attention Of all who passed his cage
and the owners of the defeated dogs were heard
10 express the opinion that the illness had begun
at the time the award made
1T is a disgrace 10 have q dog n such con-
dition on exhibition, one woman said He will
Mr.. Oldham said that the dog had been inspected
usual by the veterinary surgeon and pronounced
The exhibit has, been ascomPanted by the usual
regarded being quite insignificant by the manage
! am perfectly satisfied" said Mrs L. c Ray
rnond Mu0ck whose Ashton Butterfly II was over
looked in the award OF the toy spaniel puppy prize
The special prize for the best toy spaniel puppy
was awarded to my deg to-day. and that practi-
caIly places ner over nj larson y 5 dog VINO Won
proud of my dog. and consider that she has re-
ceived ample recognition. I certainly shall not
enter protest. I never have done such thing n
all the years I have been exhibiting, and I shall
not do so. now that going to sell out my dogs
as am obliged 10 do. because am going abroad"
Mrs. MullOCk also specials yesterday for the
best brace and the best team Of toy spanieIs.
Among the most coveted OF the special prizes
awarded Yesterday was the Clifton Challenge Cup
the best bulldog. This went 10 Crossroads
Romsey Penfold owned by Mrs. Richard Harding
Davis.
Among the visitors at the dog show yesterday
were Mrs. Burke Roche Miss X. @. Cameron. Mrs
Jackson GOuraud. Mrs. H c Folsom. Miss Ger
trude A. Freeman Mrs. @. Grace, Mrs. Jules Nata-
Bile Mrs. Edward S. Woodward. Mrs. Gouverneur
Kernochan. Miss H. c. Benedict, Mrs. George c.
BoldC Mr.. and Mrs. ". lie Cato Mrs. o. H. p
Belmont, Mrs. Dillon Ripley, Mrs. A. Drexel. Mrs.
c. a. Newbold OF PHILADELPHIA; Mrs. J. B. Van
dergr1ft. Of Philadelphia: Miss c. +. Hewitt and
Mrs and Miss @. A Groy. OF Philadelphia
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LOYAL FRIENDS FOR SUNSHINE.

One gift that came TO the Office recently and
mentioned in the list with all the other con-
tributions shows such willing spirit in the gfver
to work for her r s s. friends that IL deserves
special consideration. II was the box sent by Mrs
c '. Ditmas, of Manhattan. containing eight pairs
Of mittens fifteen worsted balls. two hoods and
forty pairs Of bed slippers. Many hours must have
been spent in making these articles, which will
go to cheer dozens Of little ones and grOvuups at
Christmas time.
contribution that represents the wish of
many children to make happy Christmas for
others is the box from the Newborn Junior
Branch, Of which Miss Britten is president It
is to be sent to Mrs. Mostyn president Ct the
Bahama Branch. for the children there This
box is filed with bright toys clothes, scrap
books and many dainty little remembrances.
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A CENTURY OF NETWORK.

--s Nev-Tc-f Le1E1e ~ Unitarian " omen 77el
yesterday rror-lr- f1 7he church - The Messiah
The general subject - the year. A Century ~
N-7--Ecrk aroused great interest and there we're
many strangers present. The president Miss
1saael Chapman ~ Brooklyn. welcomed The mem
be-s and visitors after which reports from various
committees were read srd approved
E-s Do-s Lyon. president ~ The Eclectic CUB
Eross Cor che phllarthrCr5c committee on the IS
rz-lishn,e-t u trade school for girls. She told
- what has beer G11e by the New-Kork state
Fe1era don 70 further tkls object. snd announced
tha- re annual meeting. A. Utica, 20 be helc
n=xr week. u Is be HnzIy decided whether the
federation shall take over TIE school already e.
ca5-ishec ~ Amsterdam y. I.
CITY History and Government q New-Hork
,ro-- 1s17 - 90 tLe- discussed BY Mrs Edwin
Eldisc1 Greeley. who bv che aid % large map
O The city traced us Development and groWtl- aLo
noted TIE CHEF events C- ce1r-r3"s CITY -lsLcrg
radical departure from he traditions q tls
League mace 81 t1ls meeting. when. FtltleTlora
y TcHrer was presented as the speaker o.
-Lt-er1-Ure- Heretofore al speakers al The meet
1rRs have been uC11en. Ar Towners pape- was
a condensed description OF the writers and writ
4rEs TIC l1Er Ivy. and PAID nigh tribute 70
The irfueuce for goo1 eZerted - many wei known
IA n
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amusing. in most young girls. When them
with their little chins In the air. I don't know
whether / want most % laugh OF scOld II e
trresiStlby conical after all. 70 be despised for
ones gray hairs! boy Is Ike a 0lunderfng.
froHcsoue puppy. who falls over his own big paws;
but q girl haS too much pOfse for her weight. 7
don't exactly know what that phrase msans but
1 know what mean But you Just a little
woman. whom would choose out OF a thousand
! really would Ike % introduce you 70 John.
/ suppose you viii say ] have told you hardly
anything about my friends But. nv dear. it's
such big subject Have you guessed. By the
true answer Is that I don't know rnyself2 You
may let II go at that; its apt TO BE true. Yours
very lovingly. PRISCILLA
p s have number OF friends besides ths
Five They are very good people; you know sons
OF them II you want 70 hear about them. can
describe them quite eIOquentIv for IN their cases
can tel you precisely why Ike then rrucn.
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Oal you tel NE now 70 prepare ana DOtLe cider
that It will retain its sweetness for winter use?
Clarence E CrOfOot. Connecticut
an extremely interested in the department.
Housewives Exchange. VIII not some OF the sue
cessful housekeepers tell how 20 systematic
my homework each day. so il can be done rapidly?
I Young hOusekeeper with nc help, and be-
fore my marriage had not been taught 20 work
This badly handicaps me--CYoung Wife.
Thanks are due TO 'COoperstown" and TO Mrs.
G. H Lyon. OF Golden Bridge y. 7. FOR recipes
FOR old fashioned baked Indian pudding. Mrs
LYONS recipe differs chiefly rom those printed IN
the Housewives Exchange OF October "a IN calling
for three eggs in addition TO quart OF milk. This
rule demands one cupful OF nOlasses, and only two
heaping tablespoonfuls OF cornmeal- The "CoOpers-
town recipe calls fo- half cupful OF Indian meal
An Indian pudding will not De the with
out the brick ovens in which grandmOthers
baked II, often all night In Sew-England this
budding was often served for Sunday morning
breakfast" Her recipe permits OF the addition OF
half dozen sweet apples chopped. or half CUpful
of raisins. II desired And she goes on 20 ask:
from nickel. and white spots caused By heat from
polished furniture
VIII some one kindly tell me IN the Housewives
ven can wear mink furs2 Reader OF The Tribune.
Some one gives an economical recipe for molasses
cake I should ike 10 add one which is more than
fine as well as most economical:
1IoLASsES CAKE
Take one tablespoonful OF rich drippings butter
and melt it: half pint (or cup Of molasses.
one teaspoonful OF soda dissolved In one cup Of