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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-01-21
Resolution adopted.

HoSspAf, ~ Jan uARY 9Th.
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from July LIST TO December 5lst, l9O2
inclusive, were as follows:
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-13

also. And what a vast difference of
opinion. For bolts in horses give
two quarts of molasses and in thirty
minutes halp pound of active glober
salts, or some active purgative, so as
to pass them from the stomach. One
of our dairymen said to me that the
remedy to relieve a COW of collie is to
make a halter stall and put a smooth
piece of wood for a bit and pull open
her mouth and put the bit of wood
in her mouth to keep her mouth open
so the gass could escape. A COW that
has collie clinches her mouth. So he
gives the reason for so simple a rem
edy. r. r. MOORE.
Guilford Co., N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-13
Two Practical Notes: Planting Seed;
Remedies for Bolts and Collie.
Editor Of The Progressive Farmer:

Editor OF The Progressive Farmer:
Vegetable growing is much in a
line with all other knowledge. To be
a frst-class machinist it requires
years of training and skill. It is
much a science and an art. So with
all the parts in growing fine vegeta-
bles in a succession of years. The
great variety to be grown from small
and from large seeds causes many to
make mistakes. Parsley seed are so
small that when covered deep they
never come up for years. Ny plan
has been to prepare land well and
make a mark and SOW and leave I'M
covered until rain covers; so with
celery, leaving for rain to cover Let
tuce comes best sown on a rich loose
bed. Other seeds may be lightly COW
cred.
People differ about all subjects. In
conversation yesterday with two pro-
fessors, diseases Of horses came up
for discussion-lock jaw, sO-called
sanded, balky horses, hampers, blind
staggers, and other ailments; bolts
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-13

Sanford Express: The best grape
raised in North Carolina is the Soup
pernong. And by the way, the Tar
Heel State is the home of this most
delightful grape. It grows nowhere
so well as in North Carolina. They
have never been SO profitable as some
other kinds of grapes, as they r
harder to save when shipped. How
ever, Mr.. John Phillips, of Cameron,
PROPOSES to ship ten car loads if he
can get that many.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-13
Dried Sweet Potatoes.


Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
Dried sweet potatoes are said to
be comparatively more palatable and
more like the green product than are
dried apples. The Department of
Agriculture is preparing a bulletin
which will tell how Sweets" can be
dried and kept indefinitely.
While sweet potatoes may be pro-
duced in abundance at small cost
and furnish a cheap, nutritious, and
generally relished food they have
fallen far short of the full measure
of success as a market crop because
they do not keep well, they are too
bulky to pay for extended transport
t~ation, and they cannot stand rough
handling and exposure to freezing
weather. The Government Expert
ment Station in South Carolina be-
lieves that these results may be OBJ
tanned by boiling the potatoes in an
open kettle and drying in a fruit
evaporation. Several bushels of
sweet potatoes were lowered in an
iron basket into a large boiler in
which the water was heated by steam.
To secure uniform cooking the roots
should be nearly of the same size.
Those weighing from 1 to 2 pounds
required one hour for thorough cook
ing. Six to eight hours yer re-
CURED for e~vaporating them at a
temperature of $50 degrees F. An
ordinary laborer peeled and sliced 1
bushel per hour.
The e~vaporated product contained
3.42 per cent of moisture, and it is
claimed "will keep for an indefinite
time and bear transportation to any
part of the world at any season."
To prepare the product for table
use, "soak the slices in warm water
for an hour and prepare as dressed
or candied potatoes. The d~esiccated
potatoes may also be used as are the
fresh roots for pudding or for Gus
tards." For the latter purpose they
may be quickly prepared by adding a
small amount of warm water and
boiling; not more than Is minutes
it is stated will usually be required
GUY E. MITCHELL.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-13
The Boil Worm, Not the Boil wesvi1.
Raleigh, Oct. 5, 1903.

hdIG1Su, OCG. D. 40O0o
editor Morning Post:-In the
Post of October 4th you copy an item
from the Elizabeth City Economist
concerning the ravages of the sup
posed Cotton boil weeviP and advise
the farmers there to communicate
with this department. Permit me to
say that in this particular case the
farmers who discovered the EweeviP
did send specimens, which came to
me and proved to be the old and too
well known boil worm.
"This worm is a native, and has
been known in North Carolina longer
than the white race. It ought to be
sufficiently familiar to cotton and
corn growers by this time.
"Mr. HollowelPs cotton bolls show
ed also the presence of a fungus dis
ease (anthracnose) that seems to be
growing in Importance in this State,
though formerly of little real signif-
canoe. These facts and the best
remedial measures for the occasion
were promptly communicated to Mr..
Hollowell.
"The scare about the Texas boil
weevil is a needless worry. That in
sect does not at the present time oc-
cur anywhere north of New Orleans.
It's progress northward is naturally
slow and in all human probability it
will be ten or more years before the
insect reaches North Carolina. In
the meantime science will probably
have discovered an efficient remedy
for it's ravages.
"It is a good rule to abide by the
old recommendation hat Sufficient
for the day are worries thereof The
farmers of North Carolina can rest
assured that the Department of Agri-
culture is up with the times and will
at all times keep on tap the latest
information concerning Eweevils' and
other varmints.
Respectfully,
GERALD MCCARTHY,
biologist North Carolina Depart
ment of Agriculture"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-13

SCOO ohOu4u OSS1h III Tic u0lus u0r0
the general growth of stalk can be
taken into consideration, height, size,
amount of fodder, position of ear on
stalk, or better if there are two ears,
and maturity. In other words, the
plant must conform to your stand
ard type of growth. After husking,
the ears are subjected to a critical
examination. First select a perfect
a al a type for comparison. This
applies to the size, shape and color
of ear and kernel; the arrangement,
number and space between the rows;
the indentation of the kernel; the
filling out at butt and the tip; color
and size of cob.
The cylindrical form of ear is
preferable to the tapering, since the
~tapering, if it have much taper, re-
suits from the dropping of a row or
more of kernels, and means, of
course, a smaller proportion of corn
to. cob. The closer we keep to the
cylindrical ear the greater the
amount of corn the ear will carry.
The shape of kernel has much to
do with the amount of grain a given
size cob will carry. The preferable
shape is the long or medium wedge
The circumference of the ear being
two or three times the circumference
of the cob, it is obvious that the
wedge shaped kernel is the only ker
mel that will shell the maximum
amount of corn.
Number of rows on the ear anC
the burrows between the rows should
be taken into consideration in the
selection of seed. A perfect ear Of
corn has not only a good number o.
rows made up of wedge shaped ker
nels of good length, but these rows
~crowding the shank at the butt
should run parallel with the cob wei
to the tip, covering entirely the poin.
of the cob. Ears containing shor
or imperfect rows, or which do no.
conform to the standard type, shoulc
be discarded.
By this steady method of improve
ment Illinois farmers have increased
the average yield per acre of corr
during the ten years between 1884,
and 1900, 22.8 per cent over the aver
age yield between 1880 and 1890. Il
Indiana the increase in yield during
the last decade over the preceding
one was 1913 per cent per acre
Why cannot Virginia farmers d
as well, even better? Here corn ha
been given as an illustration, but tn
other crops grown on the farm ca
be improved just as well as corn. TIL
time has come when labor and othe
conditions are such that it will pa
us to attend to these important fea
lures of production.-Meade FergU
son, Experiment Station, Blacks
burg, Va, in Southern Planter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-13

I can easier teach twenty what
were good to be done, than be one of
the twenty to follow mine own teach
ings.-Shakespeare.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-13

Find your niche, and I'LL it. If it
be ever so little, if it is only to be
a newer of wood and drawer of water,
do something in this great battle for
God and truth.-Spurgeon.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-13
Selecting Seed Corn.

where so clearly uSWOhS"A""ON a. AZ
farm crops. As a rule, farmers pay
entirely too little attention to this,
one of the most important steps In
farm production.
Not n of us would think OF
breeding u animals without some
particular object in view, and to OBJ
tain this object we would select with
care. for breeding purposes, the ami
mails which would likely reproduce
the type we desired. We would con-
slider the size, shape, symmetry of
buiId, rate of growth, capacity for
producing beef, milk or pork, al the
case might be, and any other fea-
lures we may wish to see reproduced.
Then after breeding we would expect
the offspring to represent that which
we beheld in III minds eye:
Now, what is true in raising ami
mails, is also true in raising the ordi-
nary farm crops. By carefully Sc
Iecting the seed, keeping always in
mind the type of plant and kernel
which will give a large yield, we may
greatly improve the quality and
quantity of crops. This fact is
forcibIy illustrated in the production
of sugar from beets. The Germans
have, by seed selection, increased the
average yield of sugar from five per
cent to an average of eighteen per
cent. At Kleinwanzleben, the great
sugar beet seed plantation of Ger
many, the selection of beets for the
production of seed receives the min
utest attention. This selection be-
gins in the field. The tops must con-
form to a certain type of develop
ment, then the beets themselves pass
under the eye of an inspector, and
those not perfect in size and shape
are discarded. Those which come up
to the standard in this selection are
then taken to the laboratory and a
core is withdrawn from each beet and
analysed. Again the ones which do
not contain a certain pei cent of
sugar are thrown out. Thus the seed
are produced from absolutely perfect
beets, and, consequently, the increase
in yield of sugar is more than three
times.
Any farmer in the State may, at
almost no expense and very little in
convenience, bring his cereal crops
to a high state of perfection.
Well selected seed from a crop on
the farm will have the advantage OF
similar environment year after year
The soil, climate and treatment will
be about the same, and then the
farmer has the opportunity to adapt
the type and quality to his specia.
needs and uses, besides the educa'
tional value of watching his crops
and the pleasure of seeing the i'm
provement from one year to the mex
cannot be estimated. Then every
farmer will be his own seed grower
making a speciality of the strains besr
adapted to his own purposes.
IN order +O do +bio o11ooorsf1IlU
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-13

He hath riches sufficient who hath
enough to be charitable. - Sir
Thomas Browne.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-03

fair where you make a bag an then go
an buy it back again. 'Merican storekeep-
ers don't min takin' risks, an II they
can't sell a thing one way, they will an
other, but dunno as any Of 'em have q
guarantee for sale tn ev'rything they
have in the store. Mrs. Gray says It
the reason folks save money shoppin'
abroad is cause they can't fin things to
buy, an that's jes' the way 1t is with me.
seems If, an I'm goin' to take that money
t Lima Schmitz gave me to buy her a
Paris dress right back to Minneapolis an
she can get suit anywhere as cheap an
as good as I could buy her here, an
then she can't blame me II the color isn't
right. - -
ut isn't safe to asst to see anythin'
'thout you have the money to pay for 1t
in your pocket. Billie an foun' that
out when he wanted a. sailboat t was In
the store window. dunno whether the
man thought was astin' him to make
us q presen', but It sounded as II he
called us all sorts of names, an he had
his wife an his sister an his gran'father
an even the small children in often the
street to look at us fore we lef'
You can talk bout the politeness Of
the French to those who haven't shopped
'mong 'en. It's only skin deep, an when
| it don't bring in a franc or two, why it
| isn't even on the surface. The French
| folks are pleasin' 'nough, as long as things
come their way, but they don't take dis
| pointmen's WELL seems IT,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-03

their best points In black also, and the
girl who would be in the very first flight
Of fashion will order an exact copy Of the
Ga1nsborough model, the one in the pic
ture of the famous Georgiana, Duchess Of
Devonshire, she who went electioneering
and sold kisses in exchange for votes in
days gone by. To those to whom this par
ticular model will not prove becoming
and they be few-the clever milliner can
make bend, or turn, or twist In the
brim which will bring 1t within the posi-
bilities of the wearer, while still further
adaptations can be made by making the
bandeau which fits the shape to the head
high or low, as occasion may require.
And since 1t Is to be velvets, the manu-
facturers have put their heads together
and given US such a variety OF weaves
and such g. diversity Of colors that the
difficulty Is not to decide whether you
want a velvet, but just which velvet you
shall choose For hats-since we are
speaking of hats-there is the new long
nap panne, which in some colorings looks
exactly like fur. A very smart one, as
seen at one of the suburban horse shows
the other day, required more than one
look to tell whether it was fashioned OF
moleskin--the latest applicant In furs fol
Fashions favor-or Of velvet and only
a. very close inspection indeed decided the
question In favor of the velvet. And at
this same horse show there was seen e
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-03

press it closely for first favor. All Of
the purple and violet shades are seen in
fashionable haunts, and there Is a new
shade which the French call aubergine,
which is just the: color: of the outside of
an eggplant. This takes on an added
softness and beauty In the velvet pile and
when combined with a rich lace, as was
one seen the other evening at a smart
restaurant the effect was all that could
be desired. s ..>@ 1.-.
Settled that velvet Is to be the thing,
of course, the smart girl considers her
hats first. There is an old axiom-or is
it tradition ?-to the effect that black
above the face makes the wearer look
younger, whilst black below the chin
makes one look, we'll. at least, all Of ones
years, If not older. The smart girl, then,
who knows just when she looks her best,
is likely to select at least one black velvet
hat, and there are several good shapes
now in the milliners' showcases which she
can adopt. For wear with her walking
suit of black English velvet, which she
will have made with three quarter
length coat and plated skirt which will
clear the ground all around, she will have
a smart little sailor, with perhaps huge
cut Jet buckle and smart blackbird OF
seagull poised on the left side. For use
with the calling costume, which she re.
serves for afternoon wear, the picture hats
are all em1nently suitable. These develop
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-03

your fingers In your ears so you can't
hear the French talk, you'd think you
were in fafry1an', but seems If no fairy
ia talk French when she could use Eng
fish jes' as well. I dunno how comfort
able the palace Id be for ev'ry-day Twin,
for 1 have my doubts bout the heatin',
an seems If you'd have trouble 'th the
Servants, but there isn't a corner t don't
make you think Of Mary Antonnett. But
as says to MRS. Gray when we were
peal1in' in the window Of the dairy where
the queen used to play when she got
tired of the palace, says I, There's no
use gettin' excited, Mrs. Gray says T.
It's all over and done for, an all we can
do Is to hope it won't happen again.
There's been bad doin's in the pas an
what's in the future we can only guess
at, like the fortune tellers. But for all
Of our autymobiles an flynn machines an
telegraphs 'thout wire. folks are folks an
human beins somethin' like a stick OF
dynamite, you can't tell when or where
the explosion'n come says I.
''Billie an sat down on the grass side
of the creek an watched the children
sail their boats. There were a good many
picnic parties out there that day, but
dunno as I'd have chosen it for pleas
| URN If I'd been the French, tho I've seen
folks at home take their lunch baskets
to the cemeteries. It was main to me
to hear those children talk French. They
could jabber away as well as their pas
an what's more, they could understarl' it
an when they got mad at each other
as children do, it sounded like lot o.
torpedoes goin' OFF together There was
one little girl It Billie took quite q fancy
to, an she let him sail her boat for mos
| fifteen minutes. asted her was Shit
French, an she says to me. says she
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-03

velvet gown which is worthy Of notice.
OF deep emerald green velveteen, the coat
was cut after the somewhat severe "cor-
set" model each one of the many seams
being covered with a black silk braid
which had the tresses woven In plaid pat
tern. The fronts, which were Of the
semiftted or straight-front variety, hay
ing only one DART had smart black chenille
pendants, which softened the somewhat
severe outline and gave more dressy
effect. The skirt was cut to barely clear
the ground all around and had the braid
applied In sharp points on the many cores.
And here is a good hint for the girl who
desires her walking skirts to embody the
latest hints as to style, and that Is to
have them cut with plaits-side plaits or
box plalts-which are caught down invis-
IDLY on the under side only to we'll below
the knee and we'll pressed, that they
hold the plated shape right down to the
very edge Of the hem. And it Is wise to
have the necessary binding applied before
the final pressing, so that this, too, will
take on the plated fold.
Those fascinating little dinner jackets,
which are really an economy rather than
an extravaganza since they can be worn
with almost any kind Of a skirt, those chic
little garments find their best expression
in the pale color velvets. A Fifth avende
house, which claims the distinction of
gowning the majority Of the good dressers
on the stage, was showing some Of these
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-03

last week in pale yellow, in turquoise,
which shaded on the green rather than
the blue, In apricot, and in beautiful
shade Of pinkish mauve-just that color
which we see in the orchid which is
known botanically as Crypidendum, and
which must be seen to be appreciated. All
of these little jackets were trimmed with
real old laces Of the pale creamy tint,
which tones in so well with the velvet pile.
They were one and all built upon the
Louis Seize lines, with broad revers, fancy
vest, handsome buttons and flowing half
sleeve, finished with tiny ruffles of chiffon
or lace. The length below the waistline is
an item which the smart girl can choose
to suit herself II tall and slender, then
by all means have the coat come to the
knee. but If short and plump, then cut it
off just below the curve Of the hip, and
have the fronts In long points while the
back is quite short. The pinkish mauve
one referred to had quantities Of old Honi-
ton lace, so old that it was almost yellow
with age, and quite a quaint idea was in
troduced in having the undersleeves of the
lace brought down in g. mitaine effect over
the hand, and cute little thumb piece
inserted 80 that the effect was one Of
sleeve and lace mitt combined. The girl
who cannot be suited in one Of these
charming little dinner jackets-which are
equally good for theater wear-and look
her best while wearing it must be very
hard indeed to please.