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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-02-05
At the Linen Counter.

Here are goods and prices that will
surely interest the "head of the house."
Real Irish Damasks, the perfection of
fneness and finish, new spring patterns.
If you are ready for few new cloths or
dozen of Napkins, never better time
than now to purchase them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-16

len, speaking further of farm feed
ing stuffs, furnishes more real nutri-
ment than a pound of any other
grain. Corn contains about 8 per
cent of digestible protein, barley $50
per cent, oats 9.25 per cent, rye 9.12
per cent, but wheat contains 1923
per cent. To guard against danger
from indigestion and to utilize wheat
to the best advantage as to stock food
it should be fed with other grains.
An English authority estimates
wheat fed to lambs as worth about
76 cents per bushel. The Indiana
Station realized II cents per bushel
for wheat fed to sheep.
"It would be difficult to find a bet
ter food for young hogs and shoats
than two parts (by weight of wheat,
two parts of corn and one of shorts;
or a ration perhaps of equal weights
of wheat, corn and shorts"
In Canada it was found that frozen
wheat fed hogs, between 81 and AS
pounds in weight gave an average in
creas of 1916 pounds per bushel,
while with heavier fattening hogs,
from 9 to II pounds of gain was
made per bushel.
GUY E. MITCHELL.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-16

Raising hogs here in Brooks Coun-
ty, Ca, interests us. The most thrift
ty part of this fine county is most de-
voted to this industry in large part.
The only, chief difference between
their means of doing it and our way
in Robson is, that they fatten their
hogs on pindars. We are not sure
that our lands are so well suited to
pindars as theirs. They buy their
seed from Wilmington. Bacon is
sold on the Quitman market by the
four-horse wagon load, and shipped
away in carloads lots. Our young
friend, George McGoogan, of st.
Pauls, although he is not yet mar
ried, killed seventy-fve hogs last
season and expects to kill one hun
dred and twenty-five the next
Rev. P. R. Law, in LumbertOn Robe
.sonian.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-16
GROW PECANS.
The Trees Make Excellent Shade and the
Nuts are Valuable.
Editor Of The Progressive Farmer:

Editor Of The Progressive Farmer:
1 would like to call the attention
of the readers of your paper to the
double service the pecan tree is rem
dering the farmers and suburban
city residents down here. The city
of Baton Rouge is full of these trees
and they furnish an excellent shade.
Some of the trees here are as males
tic as sturdy old oaks; and they are
as beautiful as the oak, elm or maple.
Besides, they bear heavily and the
nuts sell for good prices. The Louisi-
ana soft shelled pecan is the best.
The nuts are almost as large as
pigeons eggs, and the shells being
thin, they are easily cracked. The
flesh is as good as, if not better, than
that of the hickory nut. I am told
that many people here sell enough
of these nuts from a single tree in
the back yard to pay their taxes each
e
The trees grow rapidly in the rich
soil we have down here. But they
will grow just as we'll in the poorer
soils of North Carolina if they are
well MANFRED at the start. Mr.. Jas.
0. Loftin, of Mount Olive, n. c.,
has been very successful in getting
the trees started. His plan is to dig
a large hole some three or four feet
wide and as many in depth, then fill
this with rich manure and plant the
trees in top soil over the manure If
planted in this manure they will fur
nish shade and begin bearing in
from eight to ten years. In fact,
they will furnish shade about as
quickly as the elm, maple or oak.
| think some of our people who are
thinking of planting some shade
trees might do we'll to plant pecans
and kill two birds with one stone.
ROBT. S. TAYLOR.
Baton Rouge, La.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-16
The Feeding Value of Different Crops.
Baton Rouge, La.

&A~ SNS
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
1t is becoming a generally we'll
known fact among farmers that the
leguminOus hays are very much more
nutritious in protein than the hay
from other grasses, said DR.. E. W.
Allen, Assistant Director of the Of
fee of Experiment Stations, in a re
cent talk on the value of various
feeding stuffs. "The ~clover5, alfalfa,
cOwpeas, lupines, ETC., contain about
twice the amount of digestible pro-
tein that hay from the grasses does.
As a result the manure from the
Iegumes contains much more nitro
gen.; it is also somewhat richer in
potash than that from grasses. The
seeds from such legumes as the cow
pea and sofa bean are exceedingly
rich is protein and a take the place
of expensive commercial feeds.
"By growing and feeding on the
farm more leguminous crops the
amount of grain required will dimin-
ish, the value of the manure increase,
and the soil enrich in fertility. And
as>the legumes draw about all their
nitrogen from the atmosphere, the
farm and the farmer, if the latter
plants plenty of them, r sure to be
the gamers"
"a pound of wheat" said DIR. Al
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-16
Progress of the Warfare on Cattle Ticks.

State Veterinarian TAFT Butler
says that of the ninety-seven counties
OF the State, l7l2 are now free from
cattle ticks, which cause the Texas
OF >pIcnctic fever. In one year, he
says, he has succeeded in freeing five
counties from ticks. In the autumn
VI I9Ol there were one hundred tick
infested farms in Henderson County,
|nje this spring there was only one;
uen there were twenty-eight in
wilkes. while now there are only five.
IT. Butler will attend, tomorrow, a
n5e'In@ of the Burke County Cattle
1'0"erN. lie was asked some ques-
"oIIs about how the ticks affected the
PI''e OF cattle, and replied that ''the
"sF day a carload of steers was
r"PPoo from south of the quarantine
TO a point north of that line,
>oI' at thirty cents per one hun
i l' less than if they had come from
t5e north of that line, thus making
Shows SS G'"."0." DR.. Butler says this
COST "Na1 the presence of a tick is
leriaJ lie terms it a "tick tax
tna T. OF! stock south of the uuaran-
Ne HE. Col. Odds.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-16
An Important Point in Corn Cultivation.

AN important PO1nC III corn
But now let me give you one abso-
lutte rule in regard to the use of the
cultivatOr, weeder or harrow in grow
ing crops. You cannot do this work
just when you have the time and get
best results. 1t will not do to simply
go over the ground so many times in
a season, without regard to when,
simply often enough to keep the
weeds down. Let me tell you about
the when, a matter that has literal
ly brought us thousands of dollars.
From start to finish never let the sur
face dry up after a rain, or rainy
spell, and remain unbroken. Stir it
always as soon as the land is dry
enough to work. If it rains again
in twenty-four hours, no matter, stir
it again. If it does not rain, is all
dry dust, never mind, stir again in
side of a week any way, although you
work in a cloud of dust. This stir
ring makes a mulch that saves water
from evaporation-saves it for the
crop. Water ]evaporates rapidly
from an unstirred surface when the
sun shines or the wind blows, but
very slightly after you have made the
surface fine and mellow two inches
deep. This is the way to save water,
for your crop in a dry time. But
keeping weeds down and saving water
is not all one does by so much work.
No! There is much inert ~plant-food
in the soil. Ordinary tillage makes
a little available. This extra tillage
makes more ready for plants and you
get larger crops. Larger because you
have kept weeds from getting any.
Larger because you have saved water
for the crop. Larger because it has
been able to get more to grow on. l
hope you all prepared your ground
we'll and have it we'll supplied with
vegetable matter, then this extra care
of crop will pay still better:-South-
ern Cultivator.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-16

A Quart of Strawberries From a Single
Plant.
I began strawberry culture with
the purchase of f~orty-eight acres of
rough, uncleared land at $500 an
acre. The first of June, five years
ago, [ began to chop the trees and
clear away the underbrush. By the
last of July I had two and one-half
acres in such condition that I could
set out plants. To clear the land and
to set out $4,000 strawberry plants
cost me only $500, besides, of
course, my own labor.
In spite of my starting so late, the
plants did we'll and gave me a clear
profit of $241. The expense of pick
ing had amounted to $1,000 in cash.
Besides this [ was able, after the ber-
ries were picked, to get 100000 plants
ready for next season. Although I
was able to use so many, this number
would have sufficient to set out ten
acres.
On a single one of my t~wo-year-old
plants [ have counted 437 berries.
Now, since those who are familiar
with the size of berries know that it
takes only about 100 to Eli a quart,
this sounds fabulous. To be sure,
this was an unusually fine specimen,
still it is not at all extraordinary
for single plants in well-cultivated
fields to yield a quart of berries. I
set 10000 plants to the acre and get
an average yield of 1920 quarts
that is, one hundred crates.
To produce what [ aim at-berries
of large size and fine favor-requires
the use of plenty of some high-grade
fertilizer. It takes about $500 to
get half a ton for each acre. This
high fertilization, followed by thor
ough cultivation, is a factor in pro-
ducing early berries, which are al
ways more profitable.
The season of 1901 brought me re-
turns of $1,000 for 438 crates from
five acres in cultivation. Clear of
expenses I made 500.
Last season I sold the entire crop
IN four acres at an average price of
1898 a crate, making a clear profit
of $3.50. had/no experience in this
work whep1 started out for myself.
F. Long, Chadbourn, N. c., in
Country Life in America.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-16

allure remains constant. 1T is this
La+ links us to all preceding genera.
Ions Of men. The lowlands that fed
- Pbaraohs are more fertile now
bon they we're before the Pyramids
we're built.
uTbe great of all ages-from Abra-
ham TO Thomas Jefferson, have stood
directly on the soil.
dor it is a modern and recent con-
,on+ion of the farmer that he is a left
oror man. a man who could not sue
,ood IT something else. This notion
oomo with the recent rush to cities.
The first effect of modern transport
to+;on was to build the town-to draw
men away from the earth. But it is
IN accidental. certainly an incidental
and temporary, result of the first ap-
nIication of science to travel.
what is North Carolina? With
III respect to the work and to the
character of the men of the past and
TO the men of the present, and to all
that they have done-they are not
North Carolina. Our history has
bpen but a feeting chapter of mems
first deeds in a wilderness. The one
stable thing-the one lasting thing
that we know in all Gods universe is
the soil that we stand on. That is
North Carolina-these rolling hills
that were here when our ancestors
dressed in skins and lived in caves,
these sand slopes that lead east
ward to the sea, these uplands hat
rise to our mountains. These are all
fertile. each in its own way and each
according to the knowledge that men
bring to their culture. These are
North Carolina; and you will be the
first North Carolinians worthy of
this fertile marvel of creation, if you
win the wealth it offers-the wealth
Of food, of rc~frcshment for the spirit,
serenity and breadth of mind. Our
civilization depends on this-whether
the man behind the pillow be a clod-
hopper, or a sympathetic scholar of
the soil.
"Ihc ancient earth, yet virgin,
awaits you, and the fullness thereof
awaits You as its first masters and
as the builders of a new Common
wealth."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-16

He who forgets his own friends
meanly to follow after those of a
higher degree, is a snob.-Thackeray.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-16

Happiness will never be found so
long as your back is turned on duty.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-07
NORTH AMERICAN FOR OCTOBER

The October number of the North
great variety of its contents. In an
article entitled Congress and the
Currency" William A. Nash, president
of the Corn Exchange bank, New York
deprecates any alteration of exist
ing currency laws, except such as
would prevent the boarding of public
funds in the treasury. James H.
Eckels, formerly comptroller of the
United States currency, pleads for
more businesslike relation between
THE Government and the Banks"
Stephen BOnsal, in a contribution en-
titled "The GCI:,.an Knot in Macedo-
MIA gives an Interesting description
of the conditions existing in that pro-
vince Of the Turkish Empire H M.
SOmerville, formerly associate JUS
tice Of the Alabama supreme court.
enumerates Some Cooperating
Causes of Negro Lynching" Edith
Wharton writes entertainingly on
| The Vice of Reading" United States
Senator J. R. Burton shows the close
| relation between the measures which
| should be taken for effecting, scienti
| fically, Flood Prevention and Irri-
CATION E. T. Chamberlain, United
| States commissioner of Navigation,
analyzes "The New Cunard Agree
nent,' with a view to ascertaining
the influence it will have upon Ameri-
can shipping Fannie H. affney, Hon
orary President Of the National Coun-
| Gil of Women, replying to Mrs. Kate
T. WOolsey, sets forth "WOman's Ac-
| tual Position In a Republic' Charles
Johnston gives a glowing account Of
|''Ireland's Bright Prospect Under Re-
| cent Legislation" Dr. A. G. Mayer,
curator of Natural Sciences in the
| Museum Of the Brooklyn Institute,
explains how the "EducatiOnal Eff
cheney of our Museums" can be de-
veloped. Archibald S. Hurd tells the
story Of "Japans Growing Naval
Power" frank B. Tracy contends
that present relations between "The
Dominion and the Republic" are un-
natural, and predicts that emalgama-
Iiou VI OaAdNtd anu me - uiteu OldloS.
Charles F. Thwing, president of the
western reserve university, main
tains that the best business man is
the man whose faculties have been
trained in college. James Gustavus
Whitley defines "The International
Position of the Pope Wilbur Larre-
more criticises the conditions pertain
ing to american Courts Martial"
\ and suggests certain remedies for
their defects; and the number closes
with the tenth part of Mr.. Henry
James novel, "The Ambassadors"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-07
THE MEANEST MAN LIVING.
Stole CrippIe's Clutches ana Proceed
ed to Dispose of Them.

Seattle-Victor Stein is booked at
The police station on a charge OF pet
tv larceny and is about as mean a
thief as has been registered III many
4 day.
Monday afternoon a cripple named
Creighton. who lost his right leg in a
railroad accident, was seated on the
wharf at the fooJ Of Columbia street
watching the boats on the bay. He
laid his crutches on the outer beam
Of the wharf and they were lying
there when Stein came along. He
was perfectly frank and informed the
cripple that he needed the crutches
and appropriated them TO his own
use.
AS he walked away Creighton called
to him that he could not get along
without the aid of his crutches, but
this made no difference A stranger
who witnessed the theft informed Pa
trolrnan Wickman at the depot and
ne went to the wharf. The thief by
that time was nowhere about and he
sent Creighton to the station in bus.
Wickham informed Patrolman Mon
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-07
NEBRASKA CLUB WOMEN.
J. CHENEY & CO., Props,

Fremont, Neb., Oct. 6.-The open
ing today of the ninth annual meet
ing Of the Nebraska Federation of
Women's Clubs was marked by a
great display of enthusiasm. Dele
safes from local organizations
throughout the state filed the audito-
rum of the First Congregational
church, when the gathering was call
ed to order early this afternoon. The
church was prettily decorated for the
occasion. Mrs. W. E. Page of Bea
trice presided and the invocation was
delivered by Rev. Mary G. Andrews
Of Omaha. Addresses of welcome and
responses, interspersed by musical
selections. occupied the opening
hour. These We're followed by the
annual address of the president and
the reports of the other officers and
committees. Educational discus.
sions and papers are scheduled fol
this evening Some of the promi
nent speakers whose names are on
the program are Chancellor Andrews
Of the University of Nebraska, Miss
Jane Adams of Hull House. Chica
go, and Mrs. D. T. S. Dennison OF
New York, president of the General
Federation. The sessions are to con
tinue through Thursday.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-07

portance Of his announcement will
be understood better when it is added
that Egyptian cotton demands double
the price of American cotton. and it
is imported by American spinners to
the value of S10,000,000 every year.
With the exception Ct sea island cot
ton it IS the best in the world.
Our experiments have demonstrate
ed beyond doubt that Egyptian cot
ton can be grown in the United States
in practically the entire cotton belt
This is the statement of NJ Kear-
ney, who brought the simple varieties
from Egypt, and who has been eX-
perimenting with them for two years.
The test planting has been done at
Calexico, Yuma, the Pecos valley,
New Mexico and IN Texas. Paintings
We're also made at points farther east
in South Carolina, Louisiana and
Georgia. The results have demons
trated to the satisfaction of the de-
partment that we can grow cotton
equal to the best white Egyptian,
which is accepted as the standard.
The department is now working on
the problem as to what locality in the
United States is best adapted TO
growing the Egyptian. Considerable
interest attaches to the experiments
at Calexicc. which is about fifteen
miles south Of the irrigation settle
ment of Imperial, in southern Califor-
mia. The cotton growing industry is
new in this locality. Last year the
experiment at Calexico was not entire
ly satisfactory. The first paintings
were destroyed by storms and the re-
suit was that the cotton did not get
started until many weeks after it
should have, and when the frost came
the bolls were caught immature, anu
only a partial yield was secured. But
the quality of the cotton secured was
so good as to redeem the experiments
from failure. Samples were sent to
manufacturers in different parts of the
country, and they were almost unan-
imous in pronouncing it equal to the
best white Egyptian. This year the
planting Jared better, and reports
coming to Washington forecast a fine
crop from the paintings in the ex-
IRENE southwest Mr.. Kearney will
visit the various points where the
cotton is growing. and before the
frost comes will have some definite
returns on this years experiments
If the realization comes to present
promises, cotton raising is likely to
be added to the irrigation industries
Of the southwest
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-07

truda. Of what had happened and ash
ed him 10 keep = LOCKOUT for Stein
Montruie, while walking along tbo
waterfront al hour later. saw a man
apparently veGy much crippled fl,
with rheumatism. re suspected hin,
of being the thiei and went and sDcko
10 him. Whe.i the crutches waro
taken from Stein he appeared not n
be able to walk, and hey We're given
back TO him and the officer startel n
go away. Once MCntrude was aro,,7o
the corner oUc Of sight Stein took ina
crutches under his arm and startai
on the run Up town 20 sell them for
what they would bring. MontrldA
saw the movement and an instant Ia.
ter Stein was at the box on his way
to the station.
The cripple. when Stein arrived
had been sent 10 a drug store TO gat
another pair, and Night Clerk Drew
found him and told him his crutches
were at the station.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-07

preservation Of the forests in the
mountainous districts where the,
viii rot Interfere with the bona fide
settlers who are coming to this state
by the thousands to establish new
homes and to add to the taxable areas
Of each county of the state.
when | first entered the senate |
found the county Of Clallam Of this
state or the verge Of bankruptcy,
owing tC the fact that a forest re-
serve had been extended over a large
part Of the county, which had been
considered fCr taxable purposes and
the count had 'een bonded. If thu
forest reserve blanket aad not bee
removed from Approximately 800 900
acres CT lond in Cal an county. it is
believed al was . certified at the
time by the bC2-- Of county commits
sioners and i-a1ing citizens of that
county that the result would have
been bankruptcy and the county would
have been unable to meet its obliga-
tons ard to pay inter- on it, bond
ed Indebtedness, because Of tie fact
that the forest reserve extolgions
had provd bligty upon furtter set
tlement
Violates Their Rights.
1T has always seemed to me-and
have so stated repeat u to ne
secretary O. t,1a irrar 1'-th"t the aX-
tension OF the forest reserve over a
tract of country where settlers have
already established them selves is
practical cOnfscatiCa CT TIER proper
ty rights. l mean by this that when
settler goes into a remote Fart of
the county and begins to establish a
home and make val able improve
ments, he anticipates that other set
tiers will shortly join him, and that
the combined settlement will result
in the advantages of civilization in
the way Oh school districts and the
of communicating with the outside
wrold through the operation of the
road district and the like
After he has made these valuable
improvements and other settlers are
preparing to come in and the gov
eminent sWoOps down over the com
munity with a forest reserve blanket,
further settlement is stopped, and the
settlers Improvements become prac-
tically valueless. This is in effect the
cOnfsCatiOn Of vested property rights
and such discOuragements to bona
fde settlers are certainly not to be
tolerated.
Rather ought the government to
give the bona fide settler who comes
into the country and increases the
value of the state by taking up a
homestead some substantial encou-
agement or remuneration, Or in fact,
| might almost say, pension. The
settler and the hOmesteader const-
tute the foundation of our country and
it is the theory Of the government,
[ am glad to say, TO protect him in
every reasonable manner.
Under the operations of the for
estry reserve, the settler has not
been protected, and while he is en-
titled TO a liu land selection in case
he desires to give up his home after
he has been thrown inside Of the for
est reserve barriers, still this is no
just and fair recognition of his labors
and his efforts to build a home, and
ill the soil in a forbiddng and unin-
viting district where only timber
grew before
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-07
HOW'S THIS?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Props,
Toledo, Ohio.
We the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last Is years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and
financially able to carry out any obi
cations made by their firm.
West e Truax, Wholesale Drug
gists. Toledo, 0.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole.
sale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inte1
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system
Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all
druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-07

Gabriel (urging his suiD-I know
I'm dreadful poor, but wealth isn't
necessary to happiness. 'Tis love
that makes the world go round
Evangeline-1 know it. Gabriel; but
think of the economy it would take
to make s11 a week 60 round"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-07

so you decided to try light house
keeping?" YES" said young Mrs.
Torkins, 'but after we had two or
three gas bills we wished we could
try dark housekeeping"