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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01
Sweet potatoes--New Points on Cutting Vines.

With three feet drills the plants can be
properly cultivated after each rain, thus
pushing them ahead. When the draws
attain a proper size pull of about three
fourths Of them and transplant in the usu-
al way. I am in favor of cuttins. off the
roots a little above the first bottom
leaves and transplanting the tops only
few plants with the roots on, may be
transplanted for early potatoes.
When the vines run or 1 Ieet cut OIL
6 to s inches of the top ends and trans
plant in the usual Wa>. Suckers Will
soon appear When these suckers attain
q leDgth of I to inches cut Off removing
with each sucker one Joint and one leaf.
Thus continue until all the suckers are
removed and transplanted.
If preferable the vines can be cut into
lengths Of two to three leaves each and
transDIanted at once. l. however, prefer
the sucker system, setting the cuttings
from two tC three inches deep To 90
this construct hole Of proper SIZE and
fiji with water. After the water has dis
aDreared eli again place the lower end
Of a plant in the water and fl with son
10 a proper depth; the water IN the hoie
Will rise as the soil Is added. Do not
press the soil; the water Will settle lt
sufficiently. Said watering Will save the
plants without further trouble and IS
more convenient than roofing them &C
cording to former plan Cut vines VIII
exceed draws in yield and will also keep
/ better.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01
War Against Boil WccyiI.
BY T. 3. Park er.


this destructive pest fhs tho mon
ey crop Of the south, wlica gives employ
meut to a large numter Of PEOPLE II all
sectors OF the Union and brings hundreds
Of millions OF dollars annually into this
country from foreign Lands.
20 That we invite the cooperation Of
the farmers of the cotton growing states.
III urging their members in Congrc,. to
assist IN Immediately passing such laws
a. il the power Of Congress to prevent tho
further spread Of this pest.
g That a copy of these resolutions tc
sent TO the Secretary of North Carolina
Farmers State Alliance. with request
that he send copies Of same to cur state
and National Departments Of Agriculture
and to our Congrcssnen at Washington,
entreating them 10 give this subject the
attention It's Importance demands"
There was also a resolution adopted by
the EGgecombe County Alliance in regard
to the price paid b. cotton oil mills for
seed which the members desire shall 20
made known all over the cotton growing
States. Tie farmers Of Edgccombe re-
cognize the fact that the price Of cotton
seed oil is a controlling factor in the price
Of seed; and they also think the price
of seed should be controlling factor IN
tie price Of meal and hull~. which does
not seem to be the case. The present
price of meal ana hull> were established
when seed We're at or near thirty cents a
bushel, and has been maintained since,
despite the fact that seed have dropped
to nineteen and hall cents a bu-Ecl.
The meal ard the huils arc the only pro
duets that the farnlers buv from the mills
and Our Edgecombe brethren claim that
i if they have to pay to the mills for meal
and hulls the price they lad 10 pay when
4 seed were thirty cents q bushcl, that they
should have at least twenty-five cents a
Continued on Third Pagel
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01
Cotton Producing Tree.
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01
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To the Editor: At the recent Martin
and Edgccombe county meetings OF the
Farmers Alliance there were resolutions
dopted in regard to the bell weevl that
are Of such Importance they deserve
widespread circulation Therefore l send
them to you for publication, with re-
uest that the press Of the cotton growing
States copy.
This pest that is causing the cotton far
mers Of Texas millions Of dollars annual
ly. and is rapidly covering the cotton
growing counties CT that State IS a men
ace to the industry in all the Southern
States, and deserves, at the hands Of our
government, prompt action to- prevent. if
possible its further spread. Unless some
such action is taken the weevil viii in
all probability, in few years infest
every cotton growing State in the Un-
ion, virtually destroying the principal
crop of the South and seriously cripphng
one Of the worlds largest industries.
4 year or two since a very dangerous
and contagious disease appeared among
the cattle in Massa chusetts The national
authorities very properly took the matter
in hand and with the assistance of the
State authorities soon stamped it out.
Now let the same prompt action and he
roc measures be applied to the boil wcvill
in stamping it out, and preventing ITS
further spread. that was to the cattle di-
sease in Massachusetts, and this coun-
try will be saved one of its principal
crops. and TO the world one Of its great
est necessities.
The resolution follows:
"Vhereas, The Mexican boll weevil is
rapidly spreading and is threatening the
destruction Of the cotton crop OF the
South, It's ravages in Texas this year be
ing estimated at about s6o,000,0o0; there
fore be it
Resolved, That we view with alarm
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01
EIGH. N. C.. TUESDAY. DECEMB'R /, 1903.

Austin, Texas. Nov 29.-It IS expected
that the Mexican government viii soon
MADE public the results of the experiments
which it has been conducting during the
past three or four years in the cultivation
OF new species of tree which produces
large yields OF cotton of a superior quail
ty. While no official announcement on the
subject has yet been made it is known
that these experiments have been highly
successful The discovery that high
grade Of cotton IS produced BY this tree
and that II may be successfully grown in
many parts Of Mexico, and probably in
the Southern portions Of the United states
particularly IN the semi-arid region of
Southwest Texas. is looked upon as Of the
greatest Importance to the industrial and
agricultural interests of the two coun-
tries. The fact that it IS also claimed that
this cotton producing tree is immune to
the attacks of the cotton boil weevil
which at this time menaces the cotton
growing industry of the South and Mex
lCo Is of itself of sufficient significance
to attract wide attention
The experiments of the Mexican gov
eEnment IN the cultivation OF this tree
and in the manufacture of cotton goods
from its product We're undertaken upon
the suggestion of Senor Hilaro Cuevas,
a wealthy cotton planter OF the State OF
Jalisco, Of which the city Of Guadalajara
is the capital. Senor Cuevas discovered
this tree about five years ago, growing in
remote and unexplored part Of that
State. He obtained some of the seeds OF
the tree and planted them on his Dlanta
ton. The seeds seemed we'll adapted tc
their new soil. and the trees which they
brought forth had rapid growth and be
gan to bear when very young. Senor Cue
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01

are greatly mistaken, for you are in a far
more elevated and colder section than the
city OF Raleigh. Where the Mattamuskeet
apple IS grown the climate Is so mild that
lney can leave them on the ground under
che trees all winter, covered with leaves.
MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA LANDS
w. Stuart, Winchester. Kv.-'Have no.
ticed your speaking well of the soil and
Innate Of North Carolina Lands here il
he blue grass country are verv high
priced, and I can get 1925 per acre FOR
mlno. and have a notion to sell and buy
curther South, where the climate is more
mild. Would like to have your counsel
Is to the lands on the Eastern Shore Of
Maryland, the Roanoke Valley on the Sea
board Air Line Railroad, Piedmont North
Carolina and Northern Georgia. Have
been following general farming, with
small dairy and some tobacco About
the hardest task one has to do is to ad-
Else men in regard to a change of loca-
ton. IT seems to us that one coming
from the blue grass country of Kentucky
would naturally want something similar
if 1t could be had. There are some good
lands near where the Seaboard railroad
crosses the Roanoke. but it is largely
very undevel0ped country, and social ad-
vantages are rather deficient In the val
leys Of Southwest Virginia there is q
superb blue grass country along the Nor
folk and Western Railroad from Roanoke
to Bristol. with a climate generally no
warmer if as VAIN as Kentucky, because
OF its elevation. The upper counties Of
the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Cecil,
Kent Queen Annes and Talbot are hard
to excel for general farming and fruit
growing, and their nearness to the great
cities and abundant transportation facili-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01
A Very Successful Farmer.
From the Ro ckin CHAM Anglo s axon.

In this day when nearly every country
ence OF S. w. Watkins, Of Wolf Pit town
ship, teaches a wholesome lesson. It shows
that all it takes to make money farming
is work, intelligent methods, and paying
as you go.
Mr.. Watkins says he started out sixteen
years ago with an old mule, bride and
a wife It is not to his discredt that he
could neither read nor write. Having
been an orphan he was without the op-
portunity of even the commonest OF COM
mon school educations At q he was set
adrift upon the word with his mule and
bride. While those were his visible assets
he had, in addition, right good will and
a strong body. So, when the world said
to him, Mr.. Watkins, here you are; its
up to you now to root hog, or die" he
said, I'LL root
The first thing he did-and the world
said he was foolish in it because he was
too poor-was to get him a wife. But Mr..
Watkins said he knew what he was DONG
and that a man as poor as he was needed
wife to sympathize with him and help
him along So he won and married Miss
SaIle Grant.
The next thing he did was to rent q
one-horse farm from MI II. G. Dockery.
He was to pay one-fourth OF his crop a>
rent. The first year he cleared some mon
ev He remained at the same old stand.
The next wear he made som money. He
didn't go to buying red buggles and fine
clothes. He laid by a little Of what he
made With the rest he bought the little
npcessaries for a simple home hike his
and paid the doctor, for he had sickness
like every one else. A boy visitor came
TO gladden. his home. The years rolled by
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01

A Philadelphia Photographer tells this
as having actually happened A woman
entered his studio
Are you the photographer
Yes, madam"
'SDo you take children's pictures?'
eyes. certainly
How much do you charge?"
''Three dollars a Dozen
We'll" said the woman. sorrowfully.
I'll have to see you again. I've only got
eleven. .''-Philadelphi Ledger.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01

some men think j + NJ 10 them TO -
a little slow 10 keep from getting too far
ahead Of the times.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01

ties with fine social cond ..1- -.,cfe them
very desirable Ii we were looking for a
Place to settle we do not know anv that
we would prefer to the bayside section of
these counties Then Piedmont North
Carolina IS broad exoanse Of country
generally rolling to hilly, with the usual
red upland OF the South and fine bottom
lands along the rivers and smaller streams.
The lands have. a rule, never been
1arned as they should have been. but they
are easily brought up to a high state Of
productlveness, and as an investment at
the low prices at which lands can be
had II most Of this region. they can be
maze 70 pay we'll for intelligent improve
ment. They can be had for a great deal
less money than the Maryland lands. while
the climate IS all that need be desired.
In Georgia, so far as we have observed.
We would prefer the middle section about
Macon, or Athens on the east But no one
should bay land anywhere without care
fully examining not only the soil. but
the surroundings of every sort 1t is al
ways better IN any section to buy well
improved lands, near transportation, and
with pleasant social conditions than to get
land chat is low in price because of its
| location and lack Of improvement.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03

The Senatorial campaign is now
over, but it is still interesting to
know how it was conducted. The
following glimpse of the methods in
vogue was given early last week by
the Raleigh correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer:
There are thousands of side-lights
on this Senatorial business, some
funny, some otherwise. It has no
doubt cost the ~aspirants and their
missionaries thousands of dollars so
far, and goodness only knows how
long the play will continue. Every
section of North Carolina has been
and is being ransacked for influence
for this, that or the other of the can
didates. A train pulls in. Keen
eyed observers who are on the watch
see Colonel Bank get off. He is at
once recognized as a missionary for
the honorable blank. The worker
who sees him hustles to his principal
headquarters and gives out the news
hat Colonel Blank has arrived and
is for one of the opponents. A tele-
gram is Immediately sent to another
colonel in that section of the State
to lose no time in moving on Raleigh.
In a few hours the trusty and we'll
beloved shows up, and at once begins
missionary work upon the suspected
wobbly member or members from his
and previously arrived colonePs sec
ton. This is the adaptation of the
endless chain system to North Caro-
lima politics, and is an entirely
though costly system of bringing in
fuence to bear to get the lamb into
the fold or to keep him from straying
into dangerous pastures.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03

The Charlotte Observer says the
facts about smallpox in Charlotte
are much exaggerated. It adds:
GA conversation on the general sub
ject was had last night with DR.. F.O.
Hawley, the city physician, who has
had the smallpox situation in charge
for four years and who has handled
it, upon the whole, tactfully and jul
d~iciously. Within this period he has
treated between 1900 and 1900 cases.
Not more than a dozen white patti
ents have died-not one who had
been successfully vaccinated. With
in the past twelve months but three
white persons have died of smallpox
in Charlotte and not more than six
at the pest-house. There is but n
case of smallpox in Charlotte now,
among the white population, and
there are two cases of varioloid, the
patients being in the convalescent
stage. There is one white smallpox
patient at the pest-house at this time
and five colored, the colored patients
having come from the country. This
is the exact truth as to the smallpox
situation, past and present, in Char
lOtte."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03

Davidson College dispatch, 3Oth:
Richard Oscar Mcleod, a medical
student, died of septacaemia this
morning. Formalin and every other
known remedy was tried, but failed.
Mcleod made a desperate struggle
for life, lingering two weeks. Boyce
who was similarly infected at the
same moment, is improving slowly,
and is believed to be out of danger.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03

Chatham Observer: Colonel John
r. Lane got two complimentary votes
for United States Senator last Fri
day night. If fighting qualities and
war records we're a test he would
be a superior to most of, them and
would likely do us as much good as
any we could send. So long as poets,
orators, historians shall write and
speak of heroes, the name of Colonel
John r. Lane and the 26th North
Carolina Regiment will ever be
famous.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03

islator of large experience; and is
well equipped for the great Office of
United States Senator.
Personally, Mr.. Overman is a gen.
tleman of high character, a popular
and afable gentleman, and enjoys
the confidence and esteem of the
people of the whole State. He was
married in his early manhood to Miss
Mary Merrimon, daughter of the late
United States Senator and Chief
Justice Augustus S. Merrimon.-
News and Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03
A Working Commonwealth.

Your true North Carolinian is a
man not afraid to work. What he's
gotten-certainly what he's gotten
since 1865-he has obtained at the
price of steady toll; and one of the
greatest reasons why he is today
forging ahead in all parts of the
dear old State is not so much be-
cause of the vast natural resources,
to be mad for the asking, but because
from the Blue Ridge to Hatteras he
has a way-especially latterly-of
rolling up his sleeves and getting
down to genuine hard work.
One of the places where this sturdy
characteristic is strikingly manifest
ed is the University of North Caro-
lima. President VenabIe, in his last
report to the Board of Trustees,
makes the following really remark
able statement:
"The larger portion of the students
at the University have either Dor
rowed the money needed for their
expenses or have worked to earn it.
About .one-fourth of them defray
their expenses in whole or in part
by working while at the University.
More than one hundred of them have
usually taught in public Of private
schools. A large number have agen-
cies for clothing, stationery, books,
etc. About thirty are walters at
Commons or the various boarding
houses; eight or ten r printers
and work at the University Press;
some secure positions as book-keep-
ers, typewriters, ste~nographers, etc."
Surely this ought to silence for
ever that troublesome old claim
which, by constant r]eiteration, came
in the course of time to be accepted
as though it were true, that higher
education in North Carolina was
within reach of those only who had
at least a fairly plentiful supply of
money at their command.-Winson
Sentinel.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03

,Tammas walked home with the
minister after service last Sunday
and the latter complained of exhaus-
ton. "Tired out, ehY said Tammas.
eyes," sighed the reverend, "com-
pletely done up, mentally and phys
ically. I actually strained my back
getting up this mornin's sermon"
-"Oh," said Tammas, musingly, "yOu
must be vepv near the bottom of the
barrel !"-Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03
RANDOM NOTES ABOUT THE
LEGISLATURE.

|
From a Rock-ribbed Republican Dis
trict-Unnecessary Employees.
The following list of important
bills introduced last week has been
clipped and condensed from the Raj
eigh dailies:
One bill of considerable interest
was a measure to prevent the inter
marriage of first cousins. This
amends section 1910 of The Code to
make it read: "Al marriages be-
tween x 4 \ any two persons
nearer kin than second cousins <
shall be void" MI. Foy is the author
of this bill.
A bill by Mr.. Fuller, Of Durham,
makes it unlawful for any person to
sell liquor to an idiot or lunatic, as
we'll as a minor. It is amendatory
of section 1917 of The Code, which
prohibits liquor dealers to sell to per-
sons under 81 years of age. MI.
Fuller's bill would prohibit anyone,
dealers or not, to sell to minors,
idiots and lunatics.
Another bill to provide the school
fund between the races according
to taxes, was introduced. This one
was by Mr.. Stubs, of Martin.
Senator Norris introduced an i'm
portant measure. It's purpose is to
protect landlords against unlawful
abandonment by tenants, providing
that where this is done and the crops
are not cultivated, or a person
knowingly harbor, entice or detain
such tenant, then such person and
tenant may be sued singly or jointly
and the Judgment shall be double the
actual value of the damages assessed,
besides which the offender shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined
not exceeding $1OO and a like sum
shall be paid by the person or tenant
to any person suing for the same.
A bill to prohibit the kissing of
the Bible, in taking oaths in courts is
now being considered.
Mr.. Webb proposes that the judge
of each court shall bride the lawyers
tongues and allow only a given time
for argument. The schedule he pre-
sents is this: Time unlimited in
capital cases; in misdemeanors not
less than one hour to each side; in
all other cases not less than three
hours to a side. What the Judiciary
Committee-all lawyers-wiIl say to
this bill is a story for another day.
Senator Woodland, of Wilson, has
introduced a bill to amend the pres
ent local option act so as to permit
"the establishment of local dispen-
saries wherever desired by a majority
of the qualified voters in the locality
to be affected" The bill begins with
a preamble reciting that much legis-
Iative time is now harmfully con
sumed with local questions and the
Democratic policy is to let the peo-
pie decide their local matters, hence
this bill provides that upon a petit
ton of one-third of the qualified
voters of a town, township or county
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03

license shall be issued IN such terri
tory.
One of the Republican members,
Mr.. Dobson, of Surry, introduced a
bill to prevent bribery at elections,
making it a felony to bride a voter,
instead of a misdemeanor, as section
5 of the election law makes it.
An act to legalize the Senatorial
primary was introduced by Represen-
tative Gilman, of Randolph. It pro-
vides that at every general election
prior to the time to elect a United
States Senator, the judges shall pro-
vide a box for the ballots for Sena-
torial candidates. The votes thus
cast shall be counted in the same
as other votes.
Senator Lamb is after the violators
of the Sabbath. There is now a law
on the books which puts a fine of 81
on people who engage in their usual
labor OF Sunday, n have sports, but
Senator Lamb is of the opinion that
this is too little. His bill proposes
to increase the penalty to $40 for
each ofense.
Mr.. J. E. Erwin, of Burke, intro
duced in the House Friday a much
needed bill. Its object is to protect
shippers from the very prevalent evil
of overcharges on freight by rail
road companies.
The bill provides that it shall be a
misdemeanor for railroad companies,
express companies, telephone and
telegraph companies to charge more
than their printed rates, or than
agreed upon, or than allowed by law
or the Corporation Commission, I'M
less the company shall restore the
surplus within ten days.
This gives the shipper redress at
the hands of any Justice of the
Peace, and it is provided moreover
that one-half Of the fine imposed for
noncompliance with the law shall
be paid to the party giving informa-
ton of the infraction of the statute.
Thus all the red tape and waiting
that are so familiar to all who have
ever had a claim against a railroad,
are done away with, and the custom
er is not at the mercy of the corpora
ton.
Griffith, Democrat, has been elected
to the Senate from the Both Sena-
torial district by about 100 majority.
This is one of the most remarkable
things that has happened in North
Carolina politics. Zeb. Wilson, Re
publican, was elected Senator from
this district by nearly 1000 major
ity. The district was considered
hoplessly Republican. Wilson was
killed by his brother before the Leg
islature convened. A special cleo
ton was held January Goth. The Re
publicans put out a candidate and ex-
pected him to walk in without a
fight. The Democrats pretended to
make a nomination, but just before
the day of election they secretly sent
out tickets bearing the name of Grit
fifth, of Yancey, and instructed Demo
Gratis not to vote until after three
o'clock in the afternoon. The scheme
worked, and when the votes were
counted in Madison the 1,4OO Repub-