The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-07
THIS WEEKS PAPER-sOME RAINBOW 49,
MENT.

Col. Wades note regarding the prevention
hog cholera was crowded out of our last ;oo,o y
was written just before DR.. TAFT Buffers 1o4+ou
the same subject appeared two weeks AGO. Init =
will be seen that he and DR.. Butler have recon,
mended almost exactly the same mixture &C
preventive of swine diseases. By the wav, wv
types made DIR. Butler prescribe "sodideo Of M.
tass;um instead of iodide of potassium.
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Our Craven correspondents "Saturday Even
ing Musings" make exceptionally interesting read
ing, and we should be glad if I'D. l." would regu-
larly give our readers the benefit of his weekend
reflections. We do not~often find progressiveness
and contentment combined in so nearly the right
proportions as in his case. He believes in the
strenuous life, but also in the serene life-in work
without worry.
AL our subscribers, we are sure, will find help
full suggestions in Col. Killebrew's EARN Work
for July" while the great ice age is the subject
of one of the most interesting of our easy
Science Studies" And now that wheat has been
harvested, the article on page 3, Cline to Thre8h
Wheat and How to Kill Weevils" deserves a wide
| reading. It contains a number of timely and SEN
sible suggestions. Of course, the carbon bisul-
phide prescription has already been published
many times in The Progressive Farmer, but it is
given again in obedience to the old rule of pre-
cept upon precent."
In our series of poetical selections, as will be
observed, we have come to Tennyson's "In Memo
riam," with which every reader ought to be fami-
lar. MANY beautiful poems," says DR.. Henry
w. D-l-o Ho.J $1,000 - ~o11o +Lo+ +LO, mo for
ever illustrious, have blossomed in the valley of
the shadow of death. But among them all is none
more rich in significance, more perfect in beauty
of form and spirit, or more luminous with the
triumph of light and love over darkness and NOR
tally than Tn Memoriam,' the greatest of Eng
1ish e~legies." In the New York Outlooks sympO-
stun sometime ago on "The Ten Greatest Books
of the Nineteenth Century" fully half the contrib
utors mentioned "In Memoriam." It may not be
amiss to explain again that the book was called
forth by the untimely death of Arthur Hallam,
the friend and companion of Tennyson IN their
young manhood. Hallam died in 1888, and Ten
nyson began the poem soon after, but it was not
finished and published till 1849. The fact should
not be overlooked that the prologue, which we
gave last week was written after the rest OF the
book had been completed.
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Example" George Washington observed about
$50 years ago, "is more prevalent than precept'
Doubtless therefore the practical example IN beau
tifying school surroundings reported on page I,
will be worth more to the cause than any genera
argument that could be printed. We commend 1t
AS well as the practical suggestions made Oy
Mrs. Stevens on page 1O-to all our country Schoo
teachers. In a personal note to the Editor MIS-
Stevens says: off I have only brought out inc
idea that there must be design-not merely III
or miss planting-I shall be satisfied" BY Ihe
way, we are expecting Mrs. Stevens to folio" up
this article on improving school grounds with III