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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-09
FERTILIZERS FOR TOBACCO.

There are few products whose quantity and
quality are more affected by kind of soil and fer
tilizer than is tobacco. For bright tobacco, the
main kind grown in this State, the fine and deep
sandy loan with yellow colored sandy clay sub
soil is the type of land most largely used and the
one which grows the best grade of this character
of tobacco. Generally, the kind of soil that is
suited to the production of tobacco, is better
understood than the fertilizer that should be
used on it. Evidence of this is seen in the great
variation in the composition of fertilizers sold
in the State, especially for use on the tobacco
crop. In 1901 there were registered with the
Department of Agriculture one hundred and
eight GOS) special fertilizers for tobacco. 1t is
interesting in this connection to note the wide
variation, as we'll as the average composition of
these fertilizers. The highest amount of avail
able phosphoric acid guaranteed in any of them
was 9.25 per cent, the lowest 5 per cent, and the
average S.12 per cent. The highest amount Of
ammonia guaranteed was 10 cent, the lowest 2
per cent, and the average 2.73 per cent. The
highest amount of potash guaranteed was 5 per
cent, the lowest l per cent. and the average 2.64
per cent. These wide variations in the amounts
of the valuable fertilizer constituents indicate
that the fertilizers themselves must have had very
varying effects on the quality and quantity of the
tobacco crop.
A study of the experiments in tobacco-growing
and a consideration of the experiences of good
tobacco-growers show that the amounts of am
monia and potash in the average tobacco fertili-
GERS, as stated above. are not as large as are need
ed to give the best results. 1t would appear that
the largest amount of ammonia 90 per cent? in
any of these specials" is greater than is re-
CURED for bright tobacco, while the maximum
quantity of potash (5 per cent? III any of the
one hundred and eight brands is less than is
used by numbers of our best bright tobacco grow
ers, especially in the eastern part of the State,
but more than is employed in much of the old
bright tobacco belt. A considerable number of
these growers either mix their own tobacco fer
tilizers, or else have them put up according to
formulas of their suggestion. Below are given
five formulas for mixing fertilizers for tobacco.
The grade of these fertilizers will be higher and
they will, of course, cost more than the goods
that are generally used in the State on tobacco,
but | feel confident that the increased yield will
more than justify the additional expense. In our
correspondence with farmers, we have been rec
ommending formulas of about the composition of
these for a number of years, and evidence is
accommodating which shows that the character Of
tobacco fertilizers is undergoing quite a consid-
cradle change.
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acid, 7 per cent; potash, 10 per cent; ammonia,
5 per cent.
Pounds.
Cottonseed meal 700
Nitrate of soda 100
High-grade sulphate of potash. ........... 800
Acid phosphate 900
Total, one ton. 1000
This mixture will contain, available phosphoric
acid, 70 per cent; potash, II per cent; ammonia,
3.8 per cent.
Four hundred to one thousand pounds of these
mixtures should be used to the acre.
The mixtures made from formulas Nos. 9 and
3 are somewhat mere concentrated than that
from No. 1, on account of cottonseed meal con-
tanning less ammonia than fish scrap and dried
blood. The three formulas are given to enable
the use of any one of the three main organic,
heterogeneous materials-dried blood, fish scrap
and cottonseed meal. In the coast sections, fish
scrap and meal are both easily obtained; some
distance inland meal is more accessible, while in
the far western end of the tobacco belt it will
be found convenient to use dried blood. All three
are good sources of ammonia for tobacco. The
other materials-nitrate of soda, sulphate of pot
ash, and acid phosphate-are the same for all
mixtures.
Occasionally formulas furnishing as much as
10 per cent of potash arc wanted. and No. 4 has
been arranged to meet needs of this nature. 1t is
known that excellent tobacco. in quality and guam
tity, IS grown by the use Of fertilizers of this
class, and some of our farmers greatly prefer
them to others containing less potash. 1t takes
considerable observation and experimentation to
determine the best practice in matters Of this
kind.
A limited quantity of stable manure is bene-
fetal to tobacco and it succeeds we'll after pea
nuts. These materials add ammonia to the soil,
and where heavy publications of fertilizers are to
be made in Connection with manure, and on pea
nut land. it would be well not to have so much
ammonia in the fertilizer as is used in the ones
employed on land not having other ammonia
materials put ON them. Formula No. 5 is de-
signed to meet cases Of this kind. \ good many
eastern tobacco growers plant tobacco after pea
nuts, and some Of them grow peas between the
hills of tobacco, planting them with hoes and put
ting six to ten peas in a place the latter part of
juno or early in July. This improves the soil for
after-crops, but tobacco grown after tobacco and
peas is said not to be of good quality, though.
as would be expected. the growth is very large.
Good results will come from the use of high
grade fertilizers, such as are suggested above,
or similar ones, and we believe that when once
tried, there will be no inclination to go back to
the lower grade ones now so largely used.
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Chicago sIarhel.

Reported over private wire by J. L. Me Lean & Co. 9 Broad street. New York. and $40 Chapel street tHubinger Building), New Haven. Conn. Norman A. Tanner. Man
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ciostms Psices.

Following are the closing prices reported by Prince l& Whitely, Bankers and Brokers, 52 Broadway. New York. and lo Center street, New Haven. Conn:
 Rid Asked
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cages sde. snored away Ike a major The drills and mandrills from West Af- rica sat up like toy soldiers, and an Ara bian baboon perched above them on his launches. let his long tail swing down into the faces of its smaller cage mates.
 In the lion house the kings of all the beasts were found sleeping like dogs. either on their sides. with feet held straight out. or on their bellies, with heads resting between their paws. Two of the tigers had rolled over on their backs and their feet pointed toward the cages roof, while their tongues lol- led from their partly opened jaws.
 The puma, curied up like a cat. had the back of his head resting on the floor and seemed to enjoy sleeping with a twisted neck.
 Dunk, the elephant had thrown his great body on his side and lay as still as a mouse Elephants sleep only when their keeper is not around. Let him appear and they will stand and lazily swing their trunks in circles as long as as remaining in sight. But once he has vanished they waste no time in wooing slumber.
 As the attendant said. the wolves howled almost every hour during the night, and the noise they made sounded like nothing so much as q medley of college yells at q big football game, When they were not disturbing the slumber of the other beasts the wolves slept lightly. lying on their sides in dos fashion.
 On the other hand, the foxes in neighboring dens, seemed to slumber heavily, despite the noise and their rep utation in the fables for sleeping with one eye open. According to old hunters the fox Is a sound sleeper.
 The fishes. however, did sleep with !. their eyes open. Fish have to, for they haven't any eyelids. Each fish bal anced itself on the tip of submerged rock and permitted itself to be rocked in slumber by the gentle swaying on the water Sound never awakens 9 1 fish-W Washington Star.
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EimamefaI.
YESYERDAl,S STOCK MARKET
coujsctureas 10 A Accumulation ofUnion
 Pnciffc stock.

Pacific stock.
 New York, March SO.-There was practically no limit to the surmise and conjecture with which professional Wall street indulged itself to-day over the hidden significance of the accumu- lation of Union Pacific stock which has been the mystery in the market now for many days. The favorite hypothe- sis at the outset was that the accumu- lation was in the interest of the St. Paul interests and it was asserted that an official statement would shortly be forthcoming from the St. Paul author- ities that they had secured 100000 shares of Union Pacific. What gave plausibility to this rumor was the ad- mitted anxiety felt by St. Paul inter- ests at the time of the Burlington pur- in which the St. Paul system would be left. It is matter of common notoriety that relations between St. Ptul and Un- | ion Pacific in the interchange of traffic and of common ownership of stock are
 
 self-protection necessitates such action by St. Paul presumes similar necessi- ty on the part of all the Pacific and transoontinental railroad systems for a lcontrol of through facilities from a trunk line terminus to the Pacific coast. Hence the rise in St. Paul was logically accompanied by strength in Atchison, ! Missouri Pacific and others situated in 1 like manner, the floods of new ruinors extended the principle illustrated in St. Pauls supposed purchases of Union Pa cific. One variation of the rumor was that the buying was for the Gould in- terests rather than for St. Paul. The l enormous capital requirements for such an interchange of ownership did not seem to effect the credence given to ru- mors, although it will be remembered that the avowed purpose of the North | erls Securities device was to make less onerous the enormous holdings of Northern Pacific which had been accu- mulated in the contest for the control ;; of the system. Other factors had only a small influence on the rise in prices. Cheerful reports were hear of the coal l trade and the reduction in prices of | anthracite to go into effect on April l is expected to stimulate demand. These who sold United States Steel preferred 1 on the fear that the dividend is to be | reduced seemed to feed treasured to- | day an that stock recovered it's yes I terday's decline and held better than l the average. Speculative confidence over the reliability of some of the sto-
 was decidedly impaired as the day pro- gressed and during the final hour the level of prices touched represented a cancellation of the best part of the
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FREDERICK RuDD SHELTON.
Prominent Philadelphian Was Born ir
 Derby in 1S49.

Prominent Philadelphian Was Born III
 Derby in 1S4S.
 Frederick R. Shelton died to-day in his sixty-first year, at the residence of his son, 22S S. Fist street, after a long period of invalidism, the result of q paralytic stroke of some years ago. He was prominently associated during his active life with Philadelphia best in terests.
 Mir Shelton was born in Derby, Con- necticut. in 1S43. and after a course at Yale, he removed to Philadelphia in the Hate sixties, and was first associated with manufacturing interests in Mana yunk. In 1871 he organized the Mana yunk National bank, of which he con- tinued as first president for many years. He successively became connected with many of Philadelphia's progressive in terests being in 1878 elected a trustee, and later treasurer of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, and also first president of the Sea side House for Invalid Women at At lantic City. In 1880 he was a member of the citizens committe of one hun dred, organized in that year. Tn 1865 MT. Shelton married Matilda Hart, daughter of James Hart, of Philadelphia. Of two sons, one, Fred erick H.. Shelton. well known in gas engineering circles, survives.-Phila. In- quirer March "A.
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NEW HAylN MoIN1No COURIER

earlier gains. The persistent pressure on UnioIn Pacific and Southern Pacific, which was ignored during the forenoon, gained additional inpressvness. Those two stocks ranged below yesterday s last prices throughout Union Pacific's loss on the day is a fiat point and Southern Pacific's ifs 3-4.
 The market closed irregular and near the lowest.
 Bonds were steady. Total sales. par value. 2,165. .O00.
 United States bonds were unchanged on call.
 Berlin. March sO.-Business on the Bourse to-day was quiet.
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BEASTS IN SLUMRER.

Star reporter with. party of friends happened at the Zoo the other after noon when an inordinate desire to see the wild animals asleep overcame the scribe. To one of the attendants he ad- dressed a query as to the after-dark habits and customs of the various birds, animals, and reptiles in custody, and was assured that with the permission of the superintendent, nothing would be easier than a nocturnal inspection of the various cages and dens. This was secured.
 The reporter and the attendant walk ed past deer ranges, where soft-eyed creatures lazily munched he remnants of their dinners; past dens of wolves and foxes, where the former were pac- | ing back and forth and snarlng at one another: past ponds for ducks and ot- ters and beavers. to the dens of the bears. There they stopped and the at | tendant pointed a big black hulk being swallowed up by the rapidly falling darkness. It was just light enough to make out that the animals feet were l tucked under a bumped body and that | it's droooing head was trying hard to emulate the paws.
 l Hes been snoring like steam en- l zine since five o'clock" said the at tendant, "and he won't wake up until morning. He's early to bed and late to l rise. When the wolves howl, as they do several times a night, he's the only Fellow in the whole zoo who isn't dis turbed. He just keeps on snoring and snoring, does this Kodiak bear from 1 Alaska
 1 An hour later all but two of the bears were in sound slumber. The hairy cared bear from Aisa dreamed as he sQuatted his launches and propped himsels on his paws.
 | The Sour crotches of the dead tree l were occupied by as many black bears 1 curled up into balls. Cinnamon, brown
 and grizzly animals were scattered ovei
 the rocky floors. The two polar bears
 had flattened themselves like pancakes
 on a cliff over which the chilly night
 air swept freely. and, judging by the
 contented sights they emitted every
 little while, they seemed to be relishing the frosty breezes that ruffled up theil 1 WnlJe coats.
 The other wide awake was big griz- l zly scuatted before his dens gate. He consistently endeavored to pick the ! lock. Half an hour later he desisted ii his vain efforts and soon was sound
 asleep in front of the gate, but one paw still reached up toward the lock.
 Not a sound came from the primate's house until a door creaked as it was
 opened. Then every living thing scampered about and chatted. The hay in the cages rustled, the sides of the
 cages rattled as the monkeys ran UT
 and down, and the shelves and perehes squeaked under the burden of disturbed
 animals. Pretty soon all were settled
 once more and the monkeys were seer as they slept.
 The little squirrel monkey from SoutI
 America was perched on limb of z
 tree, and his tail, four times the lengtf
 of his body, struck straight up in tht
 air. The rhesus monkeys, lying ui
 their bellies and with their hands un-
 der their chins. reminded one of tn,
 way human babies frequently sleep.
 A big black ape bumped up on tn,
 floor, with his head leaning against tn,
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!. ELIZABETH B. HUBBARD.

ks. ELIZABETH B. HUBBARD. E. Elizabeth Boyd Hubbard, widow |tephen A. Hubbard, long time Eging editor of the Hartford Cour- |died at her home, No. 791 Asylum |ue, Saturday morning. Mrs. Hub was a daughter of James Boyd of |ted and half-sister of John Boyd, secretary of the state, who was [person who found and saved the hal charter of Connecticut. He Il it after it had been cast aside at IWyllys home in Hartford. Mrs. bard was a woman of singularly and retiring manner. Her daugh-
 Mary Elizabeth Hubbard, sur
 her. Stephen A. Hubbard, her
 and, died January Il, 1890. He l to Hartford from Winsted to the | when Joseph R. Hawley enlisted . he, Charles Dudley Warner and |h E. Hawley subsequently, Gin bought the Courant, merged in it Press and conducted it from that
 on. Before going to Hartford MT. bard was on the staff of the Win Herald, whre he was working with lnd Clarence Stedman, who later
 to New York and became broker
 poet.
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NEW CORPORATIONS

Documents have been filed with the
 secretary of state as follows: Certiti- cate of incorporation of the Recta Light company of Stamford, with q capital stock of $2,500
 Certificate or organization of the J. H.
 Pain & Son company of Groton. Certificate of organization of the Fal- cen Rubber company of New Haven. Certificate of organization of the Wy more & Kenefick company of Middle town.
 Certificate of organization of the Car diana Chemical company of Chatham.
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The Union Trust COnlaly
NEW HAVEN.

 NHARTERED by the state of Connecticut with authority to act as Executor, Ad- ministrator, Guardian, Receiver or Trustee, under will or deed.
 Is a legal depository of money paid into Court and all public Trust Funds. Acts as Trustee for Municipalities, Corporations, and individuals and administers trusts of all kinds. Empowered to act as registrar of stocks, bonds or other evidence of indebted ness, manage sinking funds, and do all bus mess such as usually done by trust compa- nies.
 1t also does a general banking business, collecting checks, notes, coupons, and re- ceives deposits. The principal of each trust is invested by itself and kept separate and apart from the general assets of the Com pany.
 This Company is by law regularly exam ined by the bank examiner of the state of Connecticut.
 HENRY L. HOTCHKISS, President.
 EUGENE s. BRISTOL, Treasurer. m26-tf
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LOCAL STOCK QUOTATIONS.

Furnished by Kimberly, Root & Day. Bank CTS aud Brokers. 1SS Orange Street.
 BANK STOCKS.
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NOTHING MORE DANGER rus

Than Cutting Corns. THE FOOT EASE SANITARY CORN PLASTERS cure by ab- sorption. They take away that pain that makes you tired all over when you have done nothing to make you so. and give ease and comfort Something entirely new. Tine Sanitary oils and vapors do the work. Sold by all druggists. 25c. or by mail. Do not accept any substitute. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen $. Olmsted, Le Roy, N Y
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SRRAUSS NO SQUIRREL.
NCE HIS ATTEMPT TO FRI
 VOL
Put Domestic Life Into Music Proves ElephantIne.

Proves ElephantiDe.
 squirrel can frivol, but an elephant hot. Hence Richard Strauss, who lot of the squirrel species, gambols gily when he writes on tricksy hes. He produced at Carnegie Hall, night, before a big and enraptured Isence-it did not always know what Twas hooraying for-his Domestic phony,' that has been frequently spunced, and as frequently post Ed, for lack of rehearsal. It is a D compact and orderly work, by in |fon, and more diffuse and chaotic |prmance by temperament, than any Is which the doctor has so far writ There are good musical ideas in it, big ideas, but the symphony is Irfed by it's name, After you have h out the statement that it is de- ptive of day with ones family, you lot imagine that it expresses such &eits as are heard in the Don ;" the ''Zoroaster" and the Death Transfiguration," which are things biemn import. The work is dedica- to the authors wife and boy, and completed only at the end of last so it had never been heard before. lay be several moons before it will sard again. There was a time, in when man who did such a wild, wful thing as this Domestic" sym y would have been crucified, and, It is, Dr. Strauss would better keep from Indianapolis.
 course, it is different from the pre- ed forms, because it has no divi- <. It has several themes, and IS ingenuity in their development e is a regular leitmotif, which ap- 5 to denote a spirit of tranquil gay K but which is tortured into various '. .Aings, the disturbance at one or two Is assuming such tremendous pro- ons that the listener, seeking fol Nstic meanings, is forced to believe they indicate the discharge of the k There are times also when the ! poser is joking, no doubt of it, as 5 he makes the clock strike sever lt the infant to bed, and strikes il to have him up. There arc es, too, that suggest the need of the |rnal slipper, and if it is a tin horr
 the child is blowing, when the pets enter so intrusively into tht ersation. it is a pity that some g minded, strong armed aunt is mol
 about the premises. From th' of any suggestive whacks on the drum, or rhythmic jingle on the pals, it is assumed that corpora shment is not in the creed of tht y of Strauss. But after tht ling and chattering of a wonder large and modern band, it is com lg to learn that Strauss can opel ars to the singing of the strings he lets them sing.
 bre are moments that suggest tn,
 
 fried Idyl," which is a noble
 of similar purpose. Strange har es sound through the dreams ant bles, as if we heard some strail
 the forgotten music of forgottel there are bits as delicate ant
 musical as anything Strauss ha en; but as 8 whole, the symphon. low his mark. It will not be pop at all events. Yet its author wa out half dozen times, ant ths were given to him. The, d have been more appropriate afte arger and more serious Don Juan
 preceded, and "So Spake zara ra,' that followed the longer com ion.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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APPRAISAL OF ESTATES.
Reports Filed by Appraisers in the
 Probate Court

Reports Filed by Appraisers in the
 Probate Court.
 The appraisers on the estate of James P. Lee, of Hartford, have filed their in- ventory in the probate court at Hart ford, showing the valuation to be $5O,- 02t.1:
 The estate of James P. Lee was ap- praised by Arthur P. Day and Albion B. Wilson, and their inventory is item ized as follows:
 $5.0OO Southern Pacific R. R.
 Go, 1887, o 1OS.............,. s5,4Oo % $5, GOO bonds Chicago & Erie R.
 R. co. 5s. 1882, @ 117....-..... 5,S5O % $3,o0O bonds Elgin, Joliet &
 Eastern R. R. Co. 5s, 1941. &
 114 =. ...................... s.42O % q, 900 bonds Hooking Valley R.
 R. Co, 4 1-2s, 1999 o 1O5..... 1,O50 % Interest in contracts with Win-
 chester Repeating Arms Co.
 and TInion Metallic Cartridge
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SEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

openias. Highest. Loweat Quotation On the New York Stock Exchange, report ed by Prince S Whitely. Bankers and Brokers, 52 Broadway, New York, and 15 Center Street. New Haven. Conn;
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