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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-28
$14, ooo.o 70 for Mecklenburg's Rural
Schools.

The County Board of Education
held it's regular monthly meeting in
the office of the County Superintend-
ent at the court house yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock, the entire
Board being present.
The Board authorized Prof. r. j.
Cochran, the County Superintend-
ent of Public Education, to make ap-
plication to State Superintendent of
Public Instruction Joyner for a loan
of $4,000 from the appropriation of
100000 set aside for rural schools
by the last Legislature, the loan to
be used in building new school houses
in the county during the next two
years.
The districts in which the school
buildings are to be erected will have
to furnish half the amount required
in the building. For instance, if the
building costs 5000, $500 of that sum
would be raised by the local school
committee, and the other half taken
from the loan of $4,000, which will
be repaid in annual installments of
$50 with interest at 4 per cent.
This loan of $4,000 added to the
sum of $4,000 appropriated by the
Southern Educational Board and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-28
STATE NEWS
zaov cURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
If Interest Cleaned From Our Cor
respondents and Exchanges.

Wilson Times: Mr.. Cyrus Watson
he will not antagonize Capt. R.
D GIenn's gubernatorial aspirations
- both are from the same county
and Mr.. Glenn got out of his way for
the Senatorship.
Raleigh Times: The total debt
e the State. interest and non-inter-
o.+-boaring securities, is $6,527,77O.
r the State should pay 100000
ivory year. it would then require
more than sixty-fve years to pay
tbi, dcbt-two generations of peo-
pie.
4 citizen of Yancey tells the
Evansville Eagle hat there are
something like $4,000 bushels of APP
ME, still in the hands of the farm
prs of the Pensacola community,
and that they cannot get them to
market on account of bad roads. The
chances are they Will lose most of
their fruit.
Mt. Airy News: The people are 60
inc West in increasing numbers.
Only a short time ago one ticket
AGENT ON the Southern Railroad in
Surry County took in $500 in one
day for tickets sold to persons going
West. 1t Is said to be a daily occur
renee at Winston, Greensboro and
numbers Of other places in the State.
Charlotte Observer: Again advert
ing to the subject of taxation and
the inequalities thereof, the Observ-
r wishes to call renewed attention
to the fact already noted that half
the counties of this State are to
some extent supported by the other
half. In other words, that half of
the total number draw more out of
the State Treasury than they pay
into it. The County Commissioners
have named the tax-listers and asses
SorS for the various townships, and
on the lst of June they will proceed
to assess the property for taxation.
In view Of the situation above re-
terrcd to, it is important that a
more equitable valuation be arrived
at. The assessors should take pains
IN seeing to it that the citizen is
placed upon his honor in returning
his property for taxation. This is
an important matter and the remedy
'oF a great injustice lies with the
new tax assessors.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-28

the frequent precipitation. Though
not excessive in amount rain fell on
five days of the week, with snow in
the mountains on the 18th. The
rainfall was least in the southeast
portion of the State and in that Sec
ton blowing and planting made
some progress. On the 18th severe
local storms with hail occurred in
several western and eastern counties.
with much damage to truck and
Strawberries in limited localities,
chiefly in Beaufort, Craven, Samp-
son, Cumberland and Columbus
Counties. The lack of sunshine, the
cold northerly winds, and soaked
condition of the soil prevented much
work of any kind, and farming oper-
atiOns are now very backward; more
yer the cold, wet soil is very unfav-
orable for the rapid termination of
seeds.
A few farmers have finished plant
ing corn on uplands in the east, but
very little corn has been planted else
where, and what was planted early
is coming up very slowly. Some cot
ton has been planted in the south
portion. Tobacco plants are well ad-
vanced, and many plants have been
set, though most of the land is hardly
ready yet. While a majority of re-
ports indicate that winter wheat is
still in fair condition, many CORE
spondents state that the crop has re-
ceived much damage from the hes
sian fly; chinch bugs are injuring
wheat in many fields; the cold, wet
weather has caused much y~ellowing
and rust is spreading. Irish pota-
toes are coming up fairly well. Gar
dens have made very little progress.
Fruit in the west was further injured
by frost this week, but there will be
plenty of peaches, plums and a good
crop of apples. In spite of unfav-
orable conditions for ripening of
berries and maturing of truck, ship
ments of these crops we're large dur
ing the week.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-28
A SIS, o T CROP.
And a Crop of Cucumbers Almost as
Valuable-How it is Done.

A crop of lettuce from two and
three quarter acres of land sold a
short time ago for the handsome sum
of $4,000, says a writer in the Ra-
leigh Post.
The statement sounds, to the aver
age up-country farmer, who has
worked Drawn and muscle for five or
even ten years with less returns, like
IN impossible story. Yet it is a
plain, unvarnished statement of the
fact. 1t was not accomplished by
the ordinary, haphazard manner of
farming that has so long prevailed in
the State among the tillers of the
soil, but by carefully studied plans,
based upon scientific principles in
which brain cut a much more impor-
tant figure than Drawn.
1t was on the farm of blackburn
and Willett, near New Bern, that we
saw a novelty in the awy of modern
farm equipment. They have a steam
plant by which they protect their ear
ly crops of lettuce. The area over
which the steam protection extends
embraces two and three-quarter
acres. The plot is laid off in sections
or beds about ten feet. wide, and
through the center of each bed a
steam pipe is run the entire length.
Each bed is enclosed by boards about
two feet high on the north side and
about n foot high on the south,
and covered with heavy canvass
which is removed as the weather
conditions permit. When there is
danger from frost or freeze the can
vass is spread and the temperature
regulated by steam furnished from
a large boiler.
The pipes r arranged so as to an
swer for irrigating this favored sec
ton of the farm. About every TWEEN
ty or twenty-five feet a short section
of pipe run up is equipped with a
spray nozzle. In the boiler room a
modern force pump is stationed and
water is brought through a large pipe
from a creek about three hundred
yards away, the sprinklers set to
work and the land is thus kept at a
proper degree of moisture.
From this brief description the
reader can see that early crops can
be grown in spite of cold weather or
lack of rain. From the above de-
scribed two and three quarter acres
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-28
Southern Education.

The town Of Fayetteville, n. O.,
and the Township of Cross Greek, in
which Fayetteville town is situated,
will vote on the question of levying
a local tax and issuing school bonds,
during the month of May. It is said
that there is considerable opposition
to the proposed increased tax rate.
But the advocates of the measure
will conduct a strenuous campaign
and hope to arouse public sentiment
to the paramount necessity of the
tax.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-28
POTATO INDUSTRY IN cArAwBA.

The Growing and Shipping of Sweet Po-
tatoes an Extensive and Profitable In
dustry.
The potato farmers of Catawba
County have been hustling the last
few weeks, Grating and shipping off
last years crop.
On account of the mild weather,
the demand from the central and
eastern counties Of this State for Ca
tawba County potatoes has not been
IS active as during a cold winter. Po-
tatoes have kept in hills and the old
way of storing them, and our farm
ers, who keep their potatoes in spe-
cially built houses, have had to look
more than ever to the Northern mar
kets. Boston is the best selling place
for Catawba sweet potatoes. They
have been going the past two months
by the crate and the carload, until
the farmers have about disposed Of
their crops, except what they need
for bedding.
Potatoes have Melted the shippers
in Boston from so to 80 cents a
busheI. The local price has remain
ed about so cents, the same as dur
ing the winter months. Last year
at this time the price went up to
about Is cents.
It would be interesting to know the
number of bushels of sweet potatoes
that is annually shipped from Ca
tawba County. 1t is now one of our
lergest and most valuable crops.
Since wheat has become such an I'M
certain crop, the sweet potato is a
most important supplement to many
a farmers income. The marketing is
done in the spring and yields pocket
money for summer expenses. Even
at SO cents a bushel it is a profitable
crop.
The townships that have gone most
extensively into potato farming are
Hickory, CIine's, Newton and ia
cob's Fork, though the other four
townships are getting into it more
and more every year.-Newton En-
terprise.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-28
Latest North Carolina Crop Bulletin.


Ihe reports of crop correspond
en'> for the past week indicate that
TIE weather conditions have been
Uecidedly mfavorabIe both for farm
r1f6 and for the growth of crops.
l". temperature averaged from 2
" . degrees daily below the normal,
"SInS from a maximum of IA de-
S''gS to a minimum of 81 degrees,
A. I',,or temperature occurring at
w.. I'''..e the morning of April 18th
."" killing frost; light to heavy
,.I also occurred in the central
I'm EASTERN portions of the State
d.n l'''raay morning with slight
f.r Sg TO Vegetation. The most un-
durable feature for the week was
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11
Yachting Terms.

For the benefit OF enthusiastic pa
riots who are not up in such matters
the New York Herald compiled CLOS
sary of common catching terms. They
run as follows;
Close hauled on the wind, by the
wind and full and bye, meaning sail
ing as near as possible to the direction
from which the wind is blowing.
Close reach means that the wind
strikes the vessel forward of beam.
Beam means the width of the vessel,
or an imaginary line at right angles
to its length.
Broad reach means that the wind
strikes the vessel aft the beam. "Aft"
is in the direction of the stern of the
vessel.
Down the wind, running and going
free mean that the wind strikes the
vessel directly over the stern. The
stern is the after part OF the vessel.
Starboard-The side OF the vessel to
the right when facing the bow. The
bow is the forward part OF a vessel on
either side.
Port-The side of a vessel to the
left when facing the bow.
A vessel is on the port tack when
the wind strikes her from the port
side.
Windward - The direction from
which the wind blows.
Leeward The direction toward
which the wind is blowing.
A vessel is close hauled when going
to windward.
A vessel is sailing down the wind
whe going to leeward.
A vessel close hauled has the right
of way over a vessel which is sailing
free. When both are close hauled the
vessel with the wind on the starboard
side has the right OF way.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON FRIDAY MORNING. SEPT. II, 1903.

Colonel William Jennings Bryan is
in favor of small colleges and against
the great institutions. "The college,"
says the Colonel, in a characteristic
passage, ought to turn out something
better than q scholar. 1t ought to
turn out a man. The heart has more
to do with human happiness than the
head has. l believe the small college
supplies the moral element as the
large one cannot, because there is no
influence so great as the influence of
the upright life, such as the life OF the
professor constantly before the student
in the small college" That is as truly
as we'll said. But the Colonel forgot
when he said sometime ago, that there
were in this country three hundred
and seventy institutions OF the higher
learning having less than one thou
sand students that only forty-two col
leges had larger enrolment. The
colossal colleges that are now build
ing will naturally be few. They will
not harm the cause of education. On
the contrary they will be the places
whereat most of the great problems of
science will be worked out with the
aid OF their enormous endowments.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11
Filipino Education.

The new education bill has Just be-
come q law. 1t appropriated the sum
OF $4,000 to cover the expenses Of
the first year. 1t further provides
that one hundred Of the best qualified
students, securing at least Is per cent.
on each subject at an annual exami-
nation to be held in each school dis
trict, shall have the privilege of going
to the United States to complete their
education at institutions to be desig-
mated by the government. The com.
petition, is moreover limited to the
pupils Of public schools and TO Fill.
pinos Of from 16 to 21 years of age,
and physically sound. These students
are required to take the oath OF allie.
glance. promising with the approval Of
their parents, to faithfully study for
the full course. and upon returning to
the Philippines. to take . civil service
examination, accepting later if sue
cessful, an appointment under the
government for period equaling that
which they spent in study in the
United States.
1t is estimated that each student
will cost the government $500 annual.
ly, exclusive OF his transportation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11
SEPTEMBER POEM.

adore thee, sad September,
With thy sere and somber glow.
As thy fading, tieeting shadows
Chase each other as they go.
While the Marguerites bedeck thee
And the black-eyed Susans smile,
Nav | cherish a sweet secret,
As my sole thou dost beguile.
Bright Golden Rods and Poppies gleam
Upon thy bewitching brow,
While straw stacks loom with naughty
mien
Where the Rhododenrons bow.
The haze of Indian summer rests
On the valleys and the hills,
And locked within my beating heart
An ecstatic rapture thrills.
Through the maze in silence standeth
Where its tassels kissed the br eeze
And now one by one are falling
Dying leaves from all the trees,
There come odors from the orchard
Like ambrosia's s healing breath.
And fain would tell my secret
Ere thou goest to thy death.
Soon the arms of hoary winter
Shall enfold thee to his breast,
And the bloom which now surrounds
thee
Will be then snow-white crest.
But remember, dear September,
When enwrapt in filmy shroud,
That the whole world was thy lover,
And before thy shrine hath bowed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11
Felt for the Child.

One of DR.. Lorenz's compatriots
chuckles every time he tells this anec-
dote, which is told as an actual occur
renee in the great surgeons career:
The doctor was always charitable
and treated great many people gra.
tuitously. Among them was a poor
little girl in whose case be was deeply
interested. One morning DR.. Lorenz
happened to meet her mother, and
was surprised to hear that the patient
had died few days before.
why didn't you send for me when
the change Gamer" he asked.
"We were going to do so, sir, but
we thought it better to let the dear
child die a natural DEATH" was the
fearful reply.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11
PREcEDENrs.
BY BYON MILLETT.

A precedent may be found to sane.
tion any act, whether right or wrong.
1t makes no difference, as we are told
by the preacher. "Tbere is nothing
new under the sum-" Precedents
we're found for the poisoning Of Soc
rates. 1t was claimed that he put
dangerous ideas into the heads of the
young, contrary to established laws
and customs. So it was with Jesus.
He had iofringed the law. and must
suffer death, because it was so written.
There were numerous precedents for
the upholding of chattel slavery as q
divine institution. Gentlemen of the
cloth made frequent references to Holy
Writ in that behalf. 1t was, however,
out OF square with honest thought and
could not endure. Hawthorne said,
We laugh at dead meme jokes, and
are governed BY dead mems laws"
Jefferson was not only opposed to a
strong government, but he contended
it should not remain permanent; that
no written constitution should last
more than thirty-four years, the life
OF the average generation. 1t was said
of the great Gladstone that he spent
his life in changing his opinions. EN-.
erson said, Dare to he inconsistent. /"
Our courts are continuously formulst-
ing precedents and changing them.
On . given proposition, though it may
be simple, the people are not willing
to accept = single ruling, they want
several decisions before accepting q
precedent as established. Then it may
happen. that afterwards, when the per-
sonnet of the court shall have been
changed, former decisions are over.
ruled, which must subsequently be ex-
planned, limited or distinguished. Thus
we are reminded of the instability of
human affairs.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11
MAN AND MULE.

The mule-he is gentle beast;
And so is man.
He's satisfied to be the least;
And so is man.
Like man he may be taught some tricks
He does his work from s to 6;
The mule-when he gets mad he kicks
And so does man.
The mule-he has load to pull
And so has man.
He's happiest when he is full;
And SO is man.
Like man, he holds patient poise.
And when his works done will rejoice.
The mule-he likes to hear his voice;
And so does man.
The mule-he has his faults, tits true;
And so has man.
He does some things he should not do
And so does man.
Like man, he doesn't yearn for style,
But wants contentment all the while.
The mule-he has a lovely smile;
And so has man.
The mule is sometimes kind and good
And SO is man.
He eats all kinds of breakfast food;
And so does man.
Like man, he balks at gaudv dress
And all outlandish foolishness.
The mule accused of mulishn ess;
And so is man.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11
Brothers.

Two strangers once met each other
on highway.
They were about to pass without
sslutation, when, simultaneously, each
seemed to recognize in the other some
semblance to himself.
And so they stopped and talked.
"When I first looked at you," said
the one, "you seemed totally unlike
anything 1 had seen before. But q
second glance convinced me that this
was not so. 1t then came to me that
in reality you were very much like my
self"
1.-THE same thing occurred to me
when looked at you," replied the
other. "Who are you. anyway"
The first stranger smiled a singular
smile.
81 am" he replied, "an illusion.
Men are always seeking me, but when
they find me am entirely different
from what they thought. And what,
pray, are you?
al am also an Illusion" replied the
second stranger. "Men are always
trying to avoid me, and yet, when /
overtake them, 1 am entirely different
from what they thought. We are,
then, both illusions"
"Yes."
And what is your name~
al am called Happiness. And
yours?"
AZ am called Unhappipess,"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11
A MOUSE MILL.
How a Thrifty Scotsman Put the Small Ami
NAL to Work

NAL to Work
Thrift is generally acknowledged to
be one of the leading characteristics OF
the natives of Fifeshire, and it never
was more forcibly exempifed than in
the person of David Hatton, q native
of Dunfermline, who actually proved
that even mice, those acknowledged
pests OF mankind. could be made not
only to earn their own living, but also
to yield respectable income to their
owners, says The Scotsman.
About the year 1920 this gentleman
actually erected a small mill at Dun
formline for the manufacture of thread
"a mill worked entirely by mice. 1t
was while visiting Perth prison in 1872
that Mr.. Hatton first conceived this
remarkable idea of utilizing mouse
power. In an old pamphlet of the
time, "The Curiosity Coffee Room"
he gave an account of the way in
which the idea dawned on him.
"In the summer of the year 1872"
he wrote, al had occasion to be in
Perth and when inspecting the toys
and trinkets that were manufactured
by the French prisoners in the depot
there my attention was involuntarily
attracted by little toy house with
wheel in the gable of it that was rum
ming rapidly around, impelled by the
Insignificant gravity OF q common
house mouse. For a shilling l pur-
chased house, mouse and wheel. In
closing it in a handkerchief, on my
journey homeward was compelled to
contemplate its favorite amusement.
But how to apply half-ounce power,
which is the weight of a mouse, to a
useful purpose was the difficulty. At
length the manufacturing OF sewing
thread seemed the most practicable"
Mr.. Hs,ton had one mouse that ran
the amazing distance of eighteen miles
day, but he proved that an ordinary
mouse could run ten and one-half
miles on an average. A halipenny's
worth OF oatmeal was sufficient for its
support for thirty.fve days, during
which it ran 736 miles. He had ac-
tually two mice constantly employed
in the making of sewing thread for
more than year. The mouse thread
mill was so constructed that the com.
mon house mouse was enabled to make
atonement 10 society for past offenses
by twisting, twining and reeling from
100 to 120 threads day, Sundays not
excepted.
To perform this task the little Pc
destrisn had to run ten and one-half
miles, and this journey it performed
with ease every day. A halfpenny's
worth of oatmeal served one OF these
threadmill culpri!s for the long period
of five weeks. In that time it made
$3.50 threads of twenty-five inches,
and as a penny was paid to women for
every hank made in the ordinary way,
the mouse, at that rate, earned 9 pence
every six weeks, just one farthing
day, or 7 shillings and pence year.
Taking 6 pence off for board and al.
lowing l shilling for machinery, there
was clear yearly profit from each
mouse OF 6 shillings.
Mr.. Hatton firmly intended to apply
for the loan of an old empty cathedral
in Dunfermline, which would have
held, he calculated, ten thousand
mouse mills, sufficient room being left
for keepers and some hundreds of
spectators. Death, however, overlook
the inventor before his marvellous pro.
ject could be carried out.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11
WE ARE AMERICANS"
We Have Made the Term What Il Is and to
Us Il Belonss,

" OSsVuSSs
The Paris edition of the New York
World is carrying on . controversy in
its columns Is to tho proper word to
use in Europe to designate a citizen of
the United States. They are univer-
sally called "Americans," but that
title is quite as applicable to a Canad.
ian, Mexican, a Brazilian or q Chill.
ian a. to an United Statesian," is
the contention of several correspond.
ents.
1t has been suggested by some in.
genious contributor to the Herald that
the word Usona shall be adopted in
referring TO this country-it being
made up of the initials OF United
States of North America. Then q
citizen OF this country would be called
an Unsonian; plural Usonans. The
suggestion is made seriously, but it
will never be adopted. There is no
need of separate term to designate
a resident of North America. 1t is
easy to name q citizen of any other
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11
Against the Sherman Law,

"Hortense," murmured the fond
youth, would you give me . penny
for my thoughts"
Wilmot," she replied with an arch
look, fear such a proceeding would
be contrary to law. You know it is
illegal to control the entire output OF
any industry"