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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29
North Carolina Farming News.

In an interview with DR.. TAFT But
ler, State Veterinarian, some very
interesting things were learned
about the farmers Institutes held in
North Carolina this year. There
were eighty of these, which is more
than twice as many as were ever
held in any one year before. On an
average about $50 farmers attended
these Institutes, making a total of
some 9,OOO This is a very crafty
ing showing. A great deal of valu-
able instruction was given. The Oc-
tober bulletin of the Agricultural De-
partment will consist entirely of Sc
lected talks before these institutes
by the different gentlemen who made
the addresses or lectures. This mat
ter will be found to be of great prac
tical value. Next year there will
probably be an even greater eXten-
sion of the institute system. ~
DR.. Butler was asked about the
work in regard to quarantine inspec-
tion of the cattle raising section
of the State and replied that it had
been finished both by himself and by
the Federal inspectors He is now
waiting to learn how much more free
territory has been added, as the in
spectors will find how much more
has been freed from the deadly cat
tie ticks. .- .- -..... ..
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29
soCIETY's VERDICT.

He was man with money blessed,
Around him wealth and beauty
pressed;
At his feet the world bowed down,
He ruled, although he wore no crown.
She was woman, sweet and fair,
With lovely face and stately air;
In her circle she was a star,
Worshipped by many from afar.
They met-and played a game of
hearts
In which each of the two had parts
Or thought they did. Players, alas (!
with edged tools,
Dangerous find it without tempers
cool.
Twas SO in this, and when too late
Both knew that they had met their
fate;
The tale is told, the woman fell
They loved, not wisely, but too we'll
The world rolls on, the man stands
high
As ever in the days gone by;
He rides success highest wave.
And DER him still the women rave
Along the city's darkest street,
A passerby may chance to meet
A woman lost in depths of shame.
Without a home, without a name.
Society's verdict has been passed:
The man has won, the woman lost:
The man caressed, the woman cursed
God knows which one has sinned the
most
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29

lines. No better apples are grown
in the world than in Western North
Carolina, and the possibilities there
are boundless.
DR.. Hume says one of the next
steps to be taken will be the estab-
lishment at each of the State Test
Farms of home fruit garden, in or
der to teach farmers in a very practi-
cal way the growing of fruit for
their own table and also for sale.
This will be a very practical step.
TOBACCO PRICES.
1t is learned from tobacco buyers
here that farmers are now bringing
in leaf quite freely. Prices are high.
The weather has not been favorable
for handling leaf until very recently
and then the farmers have been very
busy with other crops. Wrappers are
bringing from 500 to $55, and COM
mon grades are high. About a third
of the crop has been sold, it is said.
Not over hal an average crop was
planted in this section or east of
here, but west of here there is a
full crop, and a good one, too, as to
quality 1t is said that the farmers
in that section will be strictly in it
this year-Raleigh Cor. Charlotte
Observer.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29
A POULTRY FAIR.

The State Poulty Fair is soon to
be held and the State Poulty Farm
will make a remarkably fine exhibit.
If the State Agricultural Society
would do what it ought to do, that is,
erect new buildings here On its
grounds of a permanent character,
a great show of this kind could be
held here annually and be made a
feature. A special building is need
ed. and of course this could be used
at the fairs; also for the poultry
show.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29
APPLE GROWING.

In an interview with the State Ag-
riculturist Harold Hume, he spoke
about apple culture in the State.
Specimens of apples are coming in
to him from the western counties,
which are very fine, among them
Albemarle pippins, which are the fin
est apples in the world. These are
mainly raised for market in one or
two counties in Virginia and prac-
tlcally the entire crop goes to Eng
land, where they sell for as much
as $40 barrel, the price in this
country being from 81 to $3.50 a
barrel, and often So. AS yet, none
of these superb apples have been
shipped abroad from North Carolina.
but they will be later on. At present
Haywood County is the largest apple
producing county, last years crop
having been 10000 barrels, and sell
ing at from So to $3.50 a barrel. DIR,
Hume received to-day very fine speci-
mems of the Pennock apple, which
ranks very high and which he is glad
to find in bearing in the State. The
Board of Agriculture is being urged
by the apple-growers in the noun
tain region to establish a farm in
that section on which tests of apples
will be made, and it is believed the
Board will take this wise course, as
it has done so much towards the de-
velopment of industries along these
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-02-13
Rare OF Well pone2

Roast beef which happens to be rare
has been nj times turned into well done
meet with rapidity that the lay pa
irons Of restaurants could never UNDER
stand. Yesterday. one Of the men in Il
restaurant who bad cut away niece
of roast beer observed TO the waiter that
lac regretted it WAS SO rare.
"I'H fx that al right said the wait
or, tnkjng up the plate.
but I've cut It." was the answer.
That seemed to make no difference
for the waiter carried Off the beef He
returned presently bearing Il. slice. THAT
looked quite different. But when IL was
cut, the meat was just the sanie,. nj
though 1t was dark outside The waiter
was panied that the guest should be, III
the least dissatisfied
why. | never worked in restaurant
ID my life where it wasn't customary To
make the lonst beef well ,lone BY hold.
ing il in boiling WATER. sai,f he, with
IN injured mir. That's what we always
do when wc have % take it beck for a
customer" New York sun
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of picture hooks came sliding to the floor.
ut wasn't our fault said one. I'VE
didn't mean TO keep them apart all day
Il can't even keep myself together"
said another. The children have mixed
my pages so that | can't tell whether I'm
Hop-o'-my-Thumb or Jenny Wren. I've
almost lost my wits
Il have an idear exclaimed the rubber
doll, turning somersault and landing ON
his feet.
Suppose we all fix ourselves comforta-
bly,, and see il those children won't take
the hint
A moan came from the rocking horse:
II never can be comfortable again. My
tail, my proudly waving tail, is gone for
eycr,'
why what is this in the waste bas-
ketT' exclaimed the rubber doll II do
believe it is your tail. But | can tie 1t
GU with string"
He did it SO skillfully that the rocking
horse rocked for joy.
What about the rest of usY' asked
the little pony. II shan't be comfortable
until that bear is chained up; aud who Is
to chain him.
"Ill 20 IN myself" replied the bear.
"But it's very hard to give up frighten-
ing the pony. for it's the only fun
have" With last growl, that almost
made tie pony's glass eyes pop out or his
"Now let MS straighten out these
books" directed the rubber doll "Who
is there here that has ever learned to
readg'
II can say mama and papa came
.shyly from a pretty little doll in pink
bonnet.
'sThen you are the one" answered the
rubber doll Il myself never had any
education" he added signing,
Soon all the books could tell their sto-
rics straight and were piled neatly on
the shelf. The ninepns marched in good
order on one side Of the room. As the
little pony rolled III, the bear started To
growl. but on second thought mumbled
10 himself instead. The two Japanese
babies Sat with their arms clasped so
tightly that they never could be parted.
Now are you all fXed?' asked the rub
Der doll "All ! want is to be put ON my
feet and ont Of the way of the tin FIRE
engine. That fireman would run over
every toy IN the playhouse if he saw a
burnt match on the carpet
He climbed on the shelf above, the toys
settled comfortably down III their places,
and the state of mind in the playhouse
was betterClara Marie Plat in st.
Nicholas
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When Good Bleeding Shows.

Every daughter of Eve-or at least
every one who belongs to that branch of
her family that eventually became Amer
lcan-is fond of pretty clothes, as an adj
Junet IN the furtherance of the natural
desire to please, an instinct implanted by
q Denehcent Creator-but not every girl
knows that her breeding is shown in her
clothes, and that fine ones do not make
her a lady nor impose upon anyone by
inakiDg her appear to be one.
Cheap iinery net only betrays poverty.
winch 1t IS unnecessary TO eonfide to the
world at large, which regards il most I'M
ssympatheticaily. and not only proclaims
Ignorance of good taste. but also laws n
girl open to misconception and nOSsihla
identification with the least worthy Of
her sex. We are not all amenabie 10
suggestions for our good; and, when our
desires clash with our sense of ought
ness, 1t depends upon the quality of our
makeup which shall prevail Another
evidence of gentle breeding is Il we'll
modulated voice. Thomas Wentworth
f1lgglRSon said, ''Shut me up in n dark
room with mixed multitude. and | can
pick out the gentle folks by their voices. :
In the compass of every voice there
are three ragisters-the middle or throat.
the lower or chest, and the upper or head
register, The use of the middle pitch for
should be trained to slide up and down.
varying with the emotions; low, when the
mood inelineS toward seriousness. and
higher when it becomes tinged with ex.
element, An interesting speaker con
stantly changes his pitch not abruptly,
but with ease and skill. aud the greater
range one has the more certain he is to
get and retain the pleased attention of
listeners. Our high-pitched. strident
voices are sharply criticised and it is
quite within our power TO change them.
| confess to liking bit of slang now
and then from n young mans mouth. 1t
sounds racy, adds snap and spice if used
judiciously, and few Of its terms are
pithy and expressive. but when a girl
uses slang it only sounds common. What
is becoming to one sex is not necessarily
50 to the other.
When we see woman who laughs and
talks loudly in public places, we put
severe strain upon our charity and iudg-
ment not to think her vulgar. When 10
the conventional How do you do?" she
replies, "Finep we know on Just what
rnng of the social ladder to put her.
Success.
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= Young Folks Column. =


lie hunted through the library.
He looked behind the deer.
lie searched where baby keeps his TOYS
Upon the nursery floor:
He asked the cook and Mary
He called mamma To look
He even started sister up
To leave her Christmas book
He couldn't find Ii anywhere
And knew some kOrrid tramp
had walked In through the open gate
And stolen Ii. the scamp!
Perhaps the deg had taken II
And hidden it away:
OR else perhaps he'd ehewed 1t up
And swallowed il in play.
Ana then mamma came down the stairs,
Looked through the closet door.
And there IL hung upon its peg.
As II had hung before
a M Fommy's checks turned rosy rcd,
Astenished was his face
he couldn't find his cap-hecause
Twas in its proper place.
The Youths Companion.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-02-13
Saves An His Dimes.

In one ~ the dry goods stores this
week a gentleman paid a small amount.
an in dimes, and afterwards purchased
about So worth OF goods and also paid
for them IN dimes. As dimes are very
scarce the merchant asked his customer
where he got 20 many. His reply was
that he bad sold load Of hay to W. X.
Noe and had received the full amount,
so, In dimes
Mr.. Noe says he was in the habit OF
taking two drinks Of whisky a day every
day, but now be gives his wife two
dimes day and abstains from drink
Since he commenced this practice he has
purchased a horse for 500 and paid foi
il in ten installments, all in dimes. and
after paying for his hay in dimes still
has dimes left.-Green County Ky
Record.
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70 dnmb friend. He owns pet coat
and one night Billy was taken IN. and
hiled bus shelter house and It's puriief4S
with distressed ba-ahs. Fredaie's self
hlt.e heart was wruHg with anguish ami,
hiVt'ieF eatfea tiles nStwlths anding he
remained close by his pet hall the night.
Is not this the foreshalowinr AT ),
beautiful manhood and fatherhooiq TIE
yearning Children so often feel for some
thing To love and protect and fuss over
should be cultivated. never repsessea
The more dollieS to mother. tile more
kittens to feed and watch over. the more
dogs and horses TO study and often learn
lessons of unseldShness and natience
from, the liner and broader will be the
little man 5 or woman's outleol. ON life.
The lesson OF SelishneSS is A hard one
to learn at best, vet without ii we are
unl0yely, indeed. How can the child who
has been allowed to laugh at the dog
with the tin-ean-tied tail, to pull ont the
cats whiskers, or throw stones nj birds
or at the colt in the pasture become a
noble man or womanly woman? IL is
a moral impossibility.
rms may seem platitude TO many.
Yet it is astonishing how many homes
"of the better sorf' are utterly devoid
OF this spirit OF tenderness for chose
who cannot speak for themselves Its
so untidy to have dogs around sscats
are always under foot, y What's the use
of keeping a pony for the children? We
can rent one by the day whenever they
want it-these and the like are heard
MI too often. Yet our boys and girls
viii miss one of life's sweetest and pur-
est joys without the daily comradesllip
of these faithful friends. who never sulls
or talk back, who are always ready to
play and who would gladly give their
lives, il need be, for their young owners.
There is a cruel streak in some chill
dren, too, which is entirely the result OF
ignorance, but is none the less shocking
One of the incest little boys l know was
found one day sitting triumphantly on an
inverted foot tub, from under the edge of
which protruded the tail of the luclless
family tabby imprisoned within Her
agonized news filled the room, but her
tormentor only grinned delightedIy over
the rare sport. A few moments OF quiet
explanation of pushes feelings and n pic
ture of himself in the same predieament
brought the boy TO tears and ever since he
has been Il chivalr0us champion OF all
unfortunates. What If his
mother had let the matter pass with Al
careless you naughty boyr'
Even from a strictly matter of fact
viewpoint. household animals are Il wise
investment. They relieve the parents of
the often onerous task of constant amuse-
ment and the home where there are nli-
merous and well loved pets is not the
home from which the boys feet wander
i'll their early teens, or the girls eyes
turn in search of foolish eXcitemenf.J.
). K. in Buffalo News.
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THE SHETLAND PONY.
Runs Wild in His Early Days--A De-
voted Friend of Man.

When at home the pony is still left
very much to himself, and during his
earlier years runs wild. But he is easily
reformed. and speedily abanGons his wild
and odd ways and becomes a devoted
friend Of man and an admirable worker
So great is their affection for the ponies
that the islanders never kill them. but
when they are too old for work they al
low them 10 return 10 the fields aud bills
aud live out the last Of their days IN
peace. Sometimes the old animals. in
their wandcrings FOR food, will fall over
the cliffs and so perifh. They still reach
the age Of 30 years or more in their ma
tive iand and there is a ease OH record
hui Ii is probably apOcryphal-of Shpltit
which lived TO be Il hundred years old.
Like every other good thing for which
Il demand has arisen the prices Of Shcl-
ties have increased in recent years There
has been for a considerable period large
export trade in the ponies. 0f which there
were nj one time 10000 IN the islands.
bat, according to government returns. the
number is now aboLt half IN the Eigli,
teenth century It was possible 70 obtain a
good Sheltie for 80 shiIiingS tabout Sl21.
and the average price in 1863 was ~
more Half century ago q pony conld
b. bought for from 81 10 so but ID 1871
males ranged from $40 ~ 800. the mares
fetching only half that sum, as they were
not suitable for pit work, FOR which the
Sheltics were mostly needed Since then
prices have greatly advanced. and large
sums arpsobtained FOR choice specimens ~
the pony. especially when they arc want
Ell FOR childrrn's use A ycarling vii
now command from $50 upward.
The Sheltie cannot be worked Hnti il
is 3 or ! years Old. and does not react
maturity until il is aged S or . years. ~
illustrated Sporting News.
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The PIaiat Of Love.

The ElGsll c. Love.
when a lads in love with lass that's
Lord. what a pickle his poor hearts in.
she's not 10 be moved by his manner
shes not to be shared in his gentlest Gin
What shall he do?l How shall he WOO?
What shall he tell her, and how begin?
when a lads in love with a lass that
LORD, what pickle his poor hearts in.
she's sweet at morn, and she's sharp soon
she's kInd at dusk, and she's cruel at
He waits on her smile, and receives her
laughter,
An his look be heavy. 10, hers is light,
Aprll was meier so changefully fair!
all but the lads in a sorrowful plight!
SHE sweet at morn, and she's sharp soon
she's Kind at dusk, and she's cruel at
night.
She leases a youth till he's old at twenty.
She plays with 4 sage till he's silly again:
She leaves them grooming or grinning, for
plenty
OF others are ready to dance in her train.
Az many a lad is sulky and sad
And many an elder is foolishly fam
Oh, she leases youth till he's old at
She pays with a sage till he's silly again.
The deuce. he would fee from lass so
Eighty.
And wish he had never made Eve to sin.
She would laugh at him meek and laugh at
him mighty,
And tumble his pride with tilt of her
chin.
Eut woe is me that cannot flee,
And dream all day of a way to win.
When lads in love with a lass that's
Eighty,
lord, what pickle his poor hearts in.
u j. Bell, author of ''Wee MacGregor
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-02-13
Choosing the Name.

e1ry deaF, have been readia2 MP VITA.
In the past week. md think have a
name FOR the baby" said Mrs. Greening,
oac day.
''Yon have. eli? What is nFT'
II read that PhGebus. the god of day,
toncs up. bright aud beautiful in the
morning: that he lights the world; thai
without him"
New look here, madam: let's have
no foolishnoss here. You can't call that
child by any such name. Did Phoebus
Of history ycll from II p. m. to 3 a. m.
and internationally from 20 Z o'clock.
! myself am doing the God-of-day bust
ness in the muttcr of getting up, and In,
not going to divide the honors. III you
want a NEUROLOGICAL eognomen for that
destroyer of rest. | have It,"
What IS ittF' asked Mrs. Greening,
with considerable asperity.
Aurora" brutality yelled elisha. Then
he LEFT the h0use.--Tit-B Bits.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-02-13
pHoTOGRApHING BIRDS.
Difficulty with the Spoonbills Down in
Florida.

What made me thrill with special ex-
ctcment was the sight Of half dozen
or so of large, rosypink birds quietly
perched upon the trees just opposite us
across the barrier, the roseate spuonbills
on their nesting ground. What Il spec
tacle~the dark green mangroYe foliage
dotted with ihises OF dazzling Wilderness,
pink Curlews" Chc local namel, and
bluc-tintcd herons! | felt that | had
here reached the high water mark of
spectacular sights in the bird world.
Wherever | may penetrate in future
wanderings | never hope to see anything
to surpass or perhaps TO equal that
upon which / then gazed. Years ago
such sights could be found NIL over Flor
ida. This is the last remnant and the
last place of refuge OF hosts Of innocent,
exquisite creatures slaughtered for D
brutal millinery folly.
So long rs ! kept very quiet the birds
did not manifest much concern at my
presence. Climbing a tree TO get above
the underground. | screwed my 4x5
camera to a limb aud proceeded TO take
pictures OF the surrounding birds, with
telepboto attachment and with longg fo-
Gus single lens. Then, with this camera
and the s5X7, ! followed along the bayou,
doping to find some way to cross. Every
time | tumbled into mndhole or snapped
u twig there was a wild confusion. The
mir was white with bises. Crowds of
Young ibSes and her0ns scrambled out.
from the sea Of nests above us and
climbed from branch to branch or hut-
tered 10 the ground and went Tapping
across the mud TO get out Of the way
Outing
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-02-13
After You Were Asleep.

When you went TO bed, the rubber doll
still stood ON his head, whore yoai threw
him, just as if he enjoyed it; the horse
whose tail you clipped short stood pa
tiently. pretending not to care. the two
little Japanese dolls looked louesomely at
each other from across great pile Of
books. but never shed tear-when you
went to bed. All, but after yen were
asleep.
| was sitting in the nursery all in the
dark. when suddenly there was chat
tering or little voices in the playhouse.
"Open that door, somebody called.
Now, all together: one-tw0- three.
The door few open and ont ratified AL
the ninepins.
"It's good 10 stretch biz" said the
kingpin. Its \ shame that we aren't
allowed any exercise JUST because those
children are tired Of u.s. I've been wing
in one position until I'm fairly stff -
There was pulling and snorting, and
the little pony on wheels dashed by, with
his eyes sticking straight out in front
and his tail sticking straight out behind.
After him waddled the dancing bear
growing fercely
1--WE been in such fright all day,
4 neighed the pony when he Was safe be
/ tween the rockers Of the big horse
"Why isn't that bear Gagged? He grows
I dreadfully. and he does not belong with
I domestic animals anyway
"The worst of il is that ! can't do any
4 thing but growi." answered the toy bear
"Ill he glad when they learn to make
MS so that we can bite. too, and reicvC
I cur feelings To lie shut mp All day witl
dolls and Mother Goose books is enough
to make any healthy bear gr0wir'
4 Behind the bear came two forlorD little
Japanese figures. and two f0rlorn ETH
japanese voices walled together:
Oh take us back to our home er the seas
For not toy here can speak japanese.
The toys tried in vain to comfort then
/ In English.
Then with a rustic aud Hutter the pile
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-02-13
BEIN' SICK.

Wuz you ever Sick-a little,
Just enough to scare yer ma
Lest. perhaps, you might get slckcr--
Just enough 10 make yer pa
Come home early in the eVenln'
Bringin' things Ger YOU to eat
Apples and bananas. maybe.
Or most nythlng that's sweet?
| have, Gee! when | been skatin
All day long, an catch cold.
An come home at night a-coughin',
Then they all forget TO scold.
Grandma, she runs after blankets,
If she's Quickcr'n Sister Nell,
An they say: "Oh, dear. Now Bobby's
Coin to have another spell"
Ever have n spell? It's jolly;
Just lie still while some one reads
To you about kings an giants.
Minotaurs an chargln' steeds
Or, " roU get cross an ugly,
You can yell an fight an kick
An thcy don't say nothin' to you
Gee IT'S jolly-ben' sick.
Cincinnati Commercial