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The St. Louis Republic., 1903-10-13

N~v YORK oct 2.-EGttrr-Escsirts fTS2
rE=s.. fru. Creamery TEsr-Tc- State dairy 80
Ise. F.Ezz-iJses.uts s-il usss steady. west
rrn la. CkaFse-Rsrsipfs l.s-s Tkgs. tIls
S-a'e fun cream fancy small col1rsd and
white Isr: large coiursf and white nee
g11F-a-o. oct Ig.-Isut-Hr steady. c~ea-urriea
fEf-n-l.. dairles lffsrsr. ClFcrr steady. daisies
lIf-r- twins lie. Young Americas Ii-c.
THilaIainhia. Oct. l2-Buffer firm. eN'-n
creamery glc. nearby prints 2-c- Chsess Quiet
but ateaIy. Nsw YORK fun GRAMS fancy l-'--s
choice L2t.c. fair 90 rUCI llas 1l-r
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-10-13

Savuun1h- Oct. 1--Turpe1tire steady a. &c
E7s7NfsaIf p rs a'l.E y: n r t3-.. q x
ilfU. 81. st-5. y. $50: ". C. sac. vs. W
50
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-10-13
EIEIn Rutter MARKET.
Turpentine and RosIn.

ETzIn Ill Oct I.-Butter ruled firm on fN~
rd1.rf % Trade. selling ~ z1i4c a lh- SalFH .u
tr- district for the week were s5s,s51 lbs. one
hundred tubs sold today for &c
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-10-13
Chicnrn Stock MnrErt.
Domestic Exchange
STOCKS AND BONDS IN BOSTON.

goS-on Mas. OFT I2-C1osins quotations to-
Cay o. money. bonds, stocks and mining shares;
MONEY
Call leans Sst Per cent: tire loans ssf per
BONDS.
Atrnlson .aaa-s-sT y =
-
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-10-13

Reported b. C. r. Walker L Co. VI.
North Fourth street
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-10-13

Price rs- 10 lhsl
q e. ~ - Ir l-- s5s H. lis.'' -
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
Sofa Beans VS.. Corn.

One of the largest sofa beans
growers in Virginia gives the fol-
lowing strong reasons as to why he
plants a larger acreage in sofa beans
than in corn:
"Soja beans are far better for pro-
ducing milk and butter than corn"
"Soja beans make a larger yield
and cost less per acre to grow than
corn"
"Soja beans are nothing like so
hard on land and will make a good
crop where corn will be almost a fail
are"
"Soja beans are very rich in oily
matter and are far superior in feed
ing qualities to cotton seed meal for
stock"
"There has never been a year yet
when sofa beans have not been read
lily salable at much higher prices
than corn"
The above experience is fully con-
frmed by letters from large SOFA
bean growers, on page IS of our
Seed Book for 1908, and by every
Southern farmer who has had any
extended experience with u yellow
sofa beans.
Plant sofa beans between the mid
die of April and middle of May for
best results.-T. W. Wood, Rich
mond, Va.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
Good Times for Farmers

"I am getting from 45 to so cents
for the hens that I bring to town
these days." said a Hopewelt farmer
to an Observer reporter yesterday,
"and DANCED if I ever knew the like
of that, not even in war times. It
is a fact" he continued, "that the
farmers are getting higher prices
now for their products, except in a
a few instances, than they have
known since the war. If we all had
plenty of cotton, plenty of poultry,
hogs and cattle to send to the mar
ket, we would be as happy as a, bee in
clover"
What this farmer says is true.
The farmers are getting good money
for their products, but the only trou-
bic is that they are not o~verstocked.
However, it is a poor farmer who
cannot send a wagon load of truck
to market every few days, and the
prosperity on the farms is but a
replex of the general of the country.
Charlotte Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
The Possibilities of Irrigation.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:

Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
If it is possible to put a sufficient
supply of water on to a garden spot
it would be an experiment well
worthy any farmers trial, even if it
involves considerable labor and some
expenditure in arranging to get the
water on the land. A rich garden
spot with ample water will produce
enormous yields. The production of
some of the Western farms, under
irrigation, is simply fabulous. IF
it is concluded to try the expert
ment of watering a one-fourth or
one-half acr patch, a little different
treatment may be accorded the soil
than where the natural rainfall is to
be depended upon. In the first
place the ground should be made as
rich as possible, for if the water
supply is good there will be no dan
ger of burning the crops. In con-
nection with the application of fer
t~ilizers and manures, the ground
should be plowed to an extreme
depth. 1t would be a good idea
to subsoil the land; if a subsoil pillow
is not available, follow an 8 or 10
inch furrow with a heavy bull
tongue; l~oosening up the ground to
a depth of from - to 16 inches. It
will take some little experimentation
and experience to become a success
full ~irrigator, even on the scale Of
one-half an acre, but the yield
which can be produced will more
than pay for all the work and trou-
BILE. The only question should be, is
there an aviable water supply? 1t
can be depended upon that an acre
will require IS inches and probably
2 feet of water-two acre feet
that is the land will have to be COW
cred over two feet deep with water,
during the growing season. M.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21

damp winds begin to fan it's faces
1T has four-and it was soon discov-
cred that the surface of this hard
stone was crumbling and that in a
few years the chisel marks of old
Pharaoh would disappear. They
gave the tall stone a coat of paraf-
fine, and since then the oxygen can
not get at it.
Parafine is made from petroleum,
but if you will scrape lightly the
surface of an apple with a sharp
knife, the white fuzzy stuff that APP
pears is wax, very much like para
fine, and is put there by Mother Ma
ture to protect the fruit from decay.
just as the Central Park people COW
cred their famous Egyptian treas
ure.
Well, we seem to have strayed a
long distance from the text, but this
preamble will give you a clearer no
ton of how the bare, virgin, rocky
surface of the earth, ages ago, was
attacked by the oxygen in the air
and crumbled into dust. Oxygen is
only n of the agencies. Alternate
heat and cold, the action of frost,
erosion caused by rain and rivers,
the winds and finally in certain parts
the grinding of the glaciers, all did
their part.
Many of soils contain vegeta-
bic matter. The first grasses grew
to maturity, cast their seed and fell
back upon the soil, and that contin-
uation Of this process caused great
quantities of humus to become in
~corporated with the soil. Now hui
mus means decaying vegetable mat
ter. After the first forms of growth
had added their contributions to
the soil and had decayed, they ceased
to be humus. but their remains made
rich plant food.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
Truck Farming in North Carolina and
Elsewhere in the South.

A writer on truck farming says
that from this source of revenue the
Virginia farmers. receive about 49,
100000 annually; those of North
Carolina, nearly $2,OOO,OOO; South
Carolina, $1,25O,OOO; Georgia, ST.
100000, and Florida about the anne
One-ffth of the vegetable farms, as
they. are called, in America, are To-
Gated in this portion of the country.
The people in nine counties III
North Carolina depend principally
upon vegetables for their revenue.
In the vicinity Of Norfolk the fields
which are devoted to this purpose
stretch away as far as the eye can
reach and the scenes during plant
ing time remind one of the great
farms in the West, some of the
growers employing a force of from
100 to 200 hands. The Norfolk and
Southern Railroad, extending a dis
lance of $50 miles through Virginia
and North Carolina, was built prin-
cipally on account of the freight
traffic in vegetables, which requires
500 freight ears to haul. The COM
pany also owns twelve steamers and
twenty other vessels which collect
vegetables at the various landings
and carry them to it's railroad termi-
nails. During the season two steam
ship companies have service between
New York, Virginia and North Car
Dina ports employ a fleet of nearly
fifty vessels largely on account of
this business and the long continued
prosperity of the country, which has
enabled so large a percentage of the
people to afford the luxury of green
vegetables in midwinter, has made
truck growing a thriving business.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
The Man Who Found Himself and His
Work.

Work.
The son of an immensely wealthy
American, having graduated from
college, went to Paris to study art.
He worked hard in the Paris studios
for three years. One day he made
up his mind that he would never be
a great artist, and that he would
rather be a successful farmer than
a fairly successful painter. Now
although still a young mamie has
a model farm covering 10000 acres
in Illinois. He knows every foot of
it, what it should produce, and he
sees that it produces everything it
should. He has built a magnificent
house, in which not an ornament jars
the finest taste. He goes to Europe
every winter and studies European
methods of scientific farming and
cattle-raising. He is developing
the land as his fathers did before
him. He employs scores of men; he
helps the smaller farmers about him;
he is likely to be a great factor in
the development of the State during
the next few years. And this is the
story of a young American who
works for the love of it and who is
a great success because, anxious to
do things, he knew when he had not
"found his work."-The Worlds
Work for April.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
r.ey SCIENCE STUDIES FOR
FARMERS.

Farmer by peILll
7o.+ week we mentioned the effect
.bo GREAT glaciers in the making of
Sa;Is Long before the glacial epoch,
1,r;np which the world came near
f.oozing to death, soil was made and
tbo nrocess is going on to-day in less
degree.
Every reader is familiar with the
,bomonenon of iron rust. You
know that if you leave exposed to the
or q piece of bright iron or even
steel which is very hard, that soon
+ will be covered with rust. Now,
the rust did not come out of the air
all of it. 1t has not been placed
IN the iron-it is made out of the
iron-as you well know, for you have
all seen old pieces of stove pipes
literally crumble to rust; it has burn
ed I'D. Rust is caused by the chemi-
cal union of iron and the oxygen in
the air or water. Oxygen is a terri
BE fellow. He is a devOurer and
few things in this world are proof
against the sharpness of his teeth.
The rotting Of posts, the burning of
wood. coal or any other cOmbustible,
the decay Of vegetables and meat.
the heating of compost heaps, the
heating of the contents of a silO, are
all caused by the peculiar attraction,
affinity, or we might call it friendship
Except that he loves only to de-
stroy that oxygen has for all these
substances.
To carry out this whimsical idea
We may say that the oxygen likes iron
better than silver, although the
furnished, blackened appearance of
dsused silver is a silver oxide Just
as rust is known as ferric-oxide.
GoId Is largely valuable because it
remains bright; it does not tarnish
easily. Oxygen, however, unlike
most people, does not care for gold.
They will not mix. Oxygen likes
pine and oak and good old hickory,
out does not care so much for black
locust, catalpa and Usage orange.
mat l. why these latter make such
good fence posts. Oxygen does not
care To associate with tar, alcohol,
oI>' parattinc, etc, except they give
MN a warm reception. At certain
"sn temperatures they fly together
most ardcntIy.
lou have been told before that the
alt consists Of four volumes of nitro
gen and onc of oxygen. Water is
"'aao up Of two volumes of hydrogen
",' on" Of oxygen. Thus you see
WY aampn"Ss helps to rust and de-
cay things.
DIX thousand years ago an old
ns'pUan king put up a big granite
4oDIlnent to his own memory and it
on Y'U IN that dry atmosphere with
NJ 'nange until a few years ago,
' 1t Was shipped to America and
o., up IN Central Park, New York
%T. NIoopatra's Needle" as this
p,oa 'sA or monolith was called, was
c.n.. admired by all behoIders, be-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21

Raleigh dispatch: State Chemist
Kilgore has just returned from a Wis
it to the States test farm in Iredell.
This is the first season this farm has
been owned by the State. DR.. Kill
gore says special attention will be
paid to cereals and various varieties
of grasses there. The people in Ire
dell are taking a great interest in the
work. The farms in Robson and
Edgecombe are also in good condi-
ton.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21

Hope springs eternal in the bald
headed man.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21

Tomorrow is all-fools' day.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-25
ANOTHER CONCERN FOR HARVEY,
R. H. Russell Associated with Harper &
Bros.

TIL. announcement was made yesterday that
George Harvey president of Harper & Bros mas
acquired the publishing and syndicate business OF
r. H Russell and that Mr.. Russell Is to become
associated with the house OF Harper & Bros Nhen
seen Nj Russell said:
The report that I have transferred my t ehtss
business TO Colonel Harvey and am to be assocldteG
with the Harper house IS correct MY reasons @ IOI
doing simple enough and TO my MINI ~ az
prosperous that have ever experienced as d pun
Usher but the tendency Of modern business nus
convinced that 1t is only quesIlon ot nm @
when publisher, doing limited business WIN an
organization necessarily small. ano without IuS Au-
vantage of periodicals under his d1rection. VIII pe
una he TO compete successfully with a larger mouse
establishment of the house OF Harper q bIos.
Colonel Harvey is in position TO make terms
with authors that are rrohtable 10 Doln Ilie! TIo
him because of the greater distributing and selling
efHCiency of his organizaton that would be lnpos-
sibie for any publisher lacking his exceptional
facilities Having the largest manufacturing plant
Class s neriod,caIs as .'rhe North American Review
fTIarner's Magaziue" "HarperS Weekly, harp
er's Bazar'' and The Metropolitan. more than was
ever before controlled by one lnoIpl4uaI % SoaOIiea
the entire American reading public ana MS en'an- @
tg&e over any publisher who ts Obliged TO pay
cash in large amounts to accomplish tno sdnS pur
nose is such that successful competition VIII Ger
ieinlv soon become If indeed II has not already
become. practically impossible. 49,. ,-,.,.
Under one arrangement, my puDlShlng pusness
to g syndicate company which ColoneI harvey ls
about TO form. In this way following the pohcy py
which he obtained the exclusive rights TO tne Work
OF such Mark Twain: Nj HoWells Jonn
Kendrick Bangs and Edward g. Martin. ne &C.
ouires the exclusive Of the literary product on
r P. Dune George Ade and several others of the
Guiding the publication of the books OF Charles
Dana Gibson.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-25
THE MILKY OCEAN.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Cir: The reference to ocean milk or the milky
sea, in The Tribune to-day, as suggested in a re-
port from the English Meteorological Office recalls
to me a phenomenon of this character on one night
in the Indian Ocean in September, 1861 was
1unor officer on the United States warship Iro-
uuois, then cruise around the world for the
purpose Of showing to the various parts OF both
continents that in spite of the Civil War the United
States yet in existence and that tts flag was
still afoat. The vessel was in command of Captain
Oater AdmraD Earl English. and her executive Off
Ger was Captain Alfred T. Mahan, the naval writer
We were just about to enter the Straits OF Malac-
c6, and the island OF Sumatra was in sight In
those days cruises were made under sail. rather
than by the expenditure of COAL and the ship had
into dead calm-or. as sailors are wont to
term It, an Irish hurricane" the only WIND being
up and down with the mast-the sails hanging nat
and Mapping back and forth with the motion Of the
of the deck. who probably wondered whether ne
had become color blind. and was more than a little
unnerved by the sight. sent word to the captain
curious and weird appearance ike milk Captain
Enalish had witnessed similar phenomenon about
Twenty-Five years before in about the same latitude
hIed on deck 10 witness IT, Even the non super
stitious had a strange feeling. and some admitted
that they were In cold sweat Tith the - ave %to
inspiring all about the snip as far toward the
horizon as the eye could reach The sea was as
ouiet as il 1t made Of cotton or OF light snow
and il resembled either. The captain explained his
vas Concluded among the oicers Of the 1roquois,
If had beer in Captain Englsh's previous expert
ence that this condition Of the ocean was due 10
the nyriads of animalcule IN tn4I paTL O. fns lno
ian Ocean. hENHt q ~, nEO1AOsos>
Lieutenant United States Navy GEstlsSc4.
New-York, March 1S ASOS
New-York tribune., 1903-03-25
MUSIC.
Il Rehearsal of "Gerontins.

The useful and the beautiful were charrnlnsiy
blended in the rehearsal OF E1gars oratorlo' in7
Dream OF Qerontius," by the Oratorio oocletS III
Carnegie Hall. II was the final rehearsai "i ''io
work with full chorus orchestra and SOLO singer D.
and it was heard by audience Of invited guests
which nearly filled the large audience i''''
the majority Of them teachers In the punhc sciiool
Of the city. It was deeply interested audience
and it's rapt attention from end OF the evening
to the other must have been an ample reward 10
the directors OF the Oratorio for their oeneVoleht
act. It Is an admirable policy which is pursuing
in these invitation rehearsals. The COST Is, ol
course considerable. but it Is wisely expended IN
this species of popular education. Through the
teachers they are influencing the future seneraton
not only Of music lovers but also Of chorsters' ana
from this the Oratorio Society will beneht IN trne
Besides, rehearsal like that Of last night, "nlch
was to all ntents and purposes a PUBLIC perform
ance, puts the singers and players on thelr metal
and because OF 1t the music and listeners VIII
receive good tomorrow evening when the concert
takes place That the performance Will pe ono
which will do honor TO the society was PLAINLY
apparent last night. The bass solos which are 10
be sung by Mr.. Bispham tomorrow were last night
sung by Julian Walker, with fine voice and nice
New-York tribune., 1903-03-25
MAY INVESTIGATE POOL.
Colonel Gardiner AdUertises for In
formation about It's Management.

good deal Of interest was excited IN the wan
Street district yesterday by an advertisements
signed by ex-District Attorney Asa Bird GardlheF
and appearing in several newspapers. 1t follows:
Request Is hereby made that participants In me
Southern Pacific Railway pool. in which IT Is stated
that losses have been incurred. will communlcate
to the undersigned such information as they may
that proper Investigation and action may be had in
the interest OF participants
Both the Keene and Union Pacific interests de-
clared that they knew nothing about the matter
and Colonel Gardiner declined to say for whom he
acting. 1t was reported. however. that he mad
been retained by of the dissatisfied members OF
the Southern Pacific pool.
James r Keene yesterday issued another state
ment. to which. adhering to their policy since the
present controversy began, the Union Pacihc part!
declined to make any reply in advance of the arEu-
ment the Taylor injunction application. on April
/. Mr.. Keene's statement was In part as follows:
People can do Illegal things in this country until
New-York seems to he the side OF the majority
They find that minOrities have rights that
for the execution Of the law OF the land. have
good right to protect the value Of my shareS as
shares. The Southern Pacific is the most under,
valued railroad property in the United states ana
it undervalued because its control IS illegaily
possessed and in such Illegal possession is not m
depenGently. but IS unjustiY. operated nave SUM
mOned the law. let the law take its course
Southern Pacific stock fairly strong yester-
day. closing at a net loss Of only i per cent
San Francisco. March 24-LocaI railroad circles
are aGitated over the unexpected and almost 81
nultaneous departure for the East OF General Man
ager Kruttschnitt. Of the Southern Pacific thter
Counsel Herrin Traffic Manager Stubhs apd Cher
Engineer Hood. That something serious Is await
ing those officials in NeW-York. is generally cred
tied rs fact and many beisye says Iae G3r1n ,os
ton IN the fight with the Keene interests
New-York tribune., 1903-03-25
JAMES M'CREERY's WILL FILED.
Widow Gets Annuity of $4,000 and $55,ooo
Other Bequests.

The will Of James McCreery. the drygoods mer-
chant who died at Aiken. s. c, on February 20,
was filed for probate in the Surrogate's ofice yes
terday James Crawford McCreery. son OF the
testator and trustee under the WILL appears as Pc
tftioner The petition sets forth that the estate
is valued at $4,000 in property and $2o9l79 in
personal property.
To his widow Fannie Maria McCreery. the tes-
tator bequeaths all his household belongings. plate
works of art and the family house at Inwood. She
also receives annuity of $1,000 horses, carriages
etc To support the house and herself. Mr. NC
Creery directs that 100000 worth Of his real estate
be set aside the income Of which is to be paid to
his widow.
The heirs-at-law and next Of kin named In the
petjtIon are Fannie NJ. McCreery. widow; James
Crawford McCreery. Andrew buchanan MGCreeTS, ef
Robert Samuel McCreery. and William John NC
Creery, sons; James Howard. Arthur ana SIoney r
McCreery grandsons: Ada Fanny and May hatn-
crime granddaughters. -o,. AZ,
The will provides oeqpest OF $s9,S $s z Rside M .:
his James c. McCreery receives H5o,0o0. Each OF
fbe grandchildren receives bequeSts of SlOV9. Inc
residue and remainder Of the estate at the
widows death is to be divided equally among the
four children of the testator
New-York tribune., 1903-03-25
rWo SONG REcITALs.

Miss Leila Morse and Mr. David Baxter gave the
second Of their song rectals in the Astor Gallery
of the Waldorf Astoria yesterday afternoon with
the help Of Victor Harris accompanist hne
audience heard the recital and generous in Its
p!audts. Miss Morse confirmed the good opinion
expressed a fortnight ago about her voice, inte'-
gence and taste, and her companion disclosed his
old tendency to cultivate doleful dumps. IN the
evening Miss Fannie Hlrsch. more familiar ns-
ure on our concert platform ten years ago than of
late gave a concert in Mendelssohn Hall, at which
Max Bendix played violin solos acceptably
and signor Giuseppe Aldo Randegger recent ar
rival from Naples. played some Of Chopn's plano
forte pieces in a way which will not be acceptable
in New-York until present notions, based on many
delightful experiences undergo a change. Miss
Hirsch sang songs by MacDowel. DeHbes, a group
by R. Strauss and the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria
at the close Her voice is true in intonation and
good in quality her taste highly commendabie an, and
numerous and kindly disposed audience listened to
the entertainment.