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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-26

common mountain COWS. / have some full-blood
Jerseys, and last year bought a fu1lblood Holstein
bull, hence my calves this year will be half HoI-
stein and half -Jersey-native. I know you will
advise rue to sell my herd and get the beef type
Now, friend Joyner, I shall not advise you to
sell any Of your cows nor will I advise you to buy
animals Of the beef type. ] really do not think
that is practical for the average farmer. My
idea is to build up a herd. Many people stay
away from the livestock business because they
think they must have high-priced animals. I am
not one of these. I believe in taking simply what
we can start with and build them up. The prac-
teal way is to use the very cows you now have.
They are healthy, active and robust. IF you breed
them to a pure-bred bull of a good beef herd, it
will be only a short time until your herd will be
high grade, possessing every characteristic of the
pure-bred animal, and the same will be as salts
factory, in general, as if every animal we're pure
bred. Then keep using, forever and forever, a
pure-bred bull and your herd will be a pride to
you.
8. "My idea is to get a Red Polled and breed
up from this beginning. What do you think of
this plan? and what do you think of the Red
Polled as compared with other beef herds for this
section of North CarolinaW
I think the plan of breeding up is excellent,
but / do not quite agree with friend Joyner when
it comes to directing the herd Red Polled-ward.
Understand me-the Red Polled is an excellent
breed, but it insists that it stands for d~ual-pur-
pose results. Practically every breeder of Red
Polls says the breed is both dairy and beef. Now
does not friend Joyner want to get away from
the dairy and go to beef exclusively2 Why should
he go to a breed then that stands for the dairy
when he doesn't care for it? I would therefore
suggest that he breed toward the Angus, the
Shorthorn or the Hereford. Either breed is a
good one for the middle South. Good breeding
sires can be obtained all about us, and at very
reasonable prices.
4. II have plenty of pasture, and I intend set
ting a good field this summer to Bermuda"
That's right. Bermuda is a grass without a SUI
perior anywhere in the world. And for beef one
wants plenty of good pasture. Why not try a lit
tie alfalfa2 It is coming to the South, and may
he able to do well with it. Try only a quarter or
half acre at first.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-26

Crude fiber may perhaps be fairly considered as
the characteristic constituent of coarse fodder.
Of q large number of American rations has been
found to be about IL.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-26
A Batch Of Timely Farm Notes.

Editors Progressive Farmer:
An effective way to retard early swelling Of
fruit buds which are thus liable to get nipped by
a late spring frost is to spray with whitewash.
White surfaces, it is well known, will not readily
absorb the suns rays and experiments have shown
that treatment of this sort on peach trees has de-
layed blossoming nearly a week.
Okra Is a plant which should be in every gar
den. The plant is a prolific yielder, though It is
a little hard to start in heavy ground, and should
be sowed thick enough to allow for thinning three
fourths of the plants. A row fifty feet In length
will supply a large family and also dried pods
enough for many fine winter soups. It is about
as good this way as fresh, and to some tastes full
" as good as the canned okra, which is quite ex-
pensive.
Why not determine to spray every apple tree
this spring and not have a wormy apple2 Spray
ing against some of the fungus diseases. such as
grape rot for instance, is a very laborious task,
since the operation has to mmence with the first
swelling of the buds and be repeated every fifteen
or sixteen days until the grapes are pretty nearly
grown, SO that if one has only a small private vine
yard it may well be considered too much trouble;
but killing the Goblin moth and having worm.
free apples is too easy and simple a task to let go
by. The moth lays its egg In the blossom and all
you want is to get some bordeaux mixture and ar
senic there first so that the young larva viii eat
and die.
The Department of Agriculture has in type a
timely farm publication entitled "Rations for
Laying Hens" Professor Wheeler, of the New
York Experiment Station, states that when the
egg yield of a hen is one hundred per year, the
production of a pound of eggs required 4.56
pounds of digestible organic nutrients in the feed,
and as the er~ yield increases the proportion of
nutrients increases. The natural feed of poultry,
it is stated, consists of grain, insects, green forage
and grit, and accordingly in domestication it is
reasonable that they should be fed cereal grains
and mill products, such animal foods as meat
meals and skinned milk and also an abundance
of green food, or such substitutes for it as roots
or steamed clover. Oyster shells, grit, and an
abundance of clean drinking water are also prime
requisites.
GUY e. MITCHELL.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-26
Live Stock and Dairy

CONDUCTED BY wM. B~URKETT
Professor of Agriculture, N. G. Al M. College, and Aeri-
cultur1st North Carolina Experiment Station.
Inquiries of Progressive Farmer readers cheerfuny an
swered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-11
FELL THROUGH WINDOW
Clara Crawford, of "Chinese Honey
mOon,'' Seriously Hurt in Topeka.

Clara Crawford, one of the chorus
girls of THE Chinese Honeymoon
company which played in Topeka last
night will never forget Topeka. She
nearly lost her life in an accident IL
minutes after she arrived in the city.
She fell through the plate glass win
dow of the Oxford hotel entrance, sus-
tanning serious cuts which necessitated
no less than Is stitches to close the
wounds.
Miss Crawford was one of the first
to get off the street car which brought
the party from the Union Pacific depot
and she led the chase from the street
car to the hotel.
Miss Crawford was in the lead and
she was closely followed by one of the
chorus men of the company, with sew
to the hotel to which they ran is form
ed by a small vestibule about four feet
square, open in frOntfi with a wall on
one side, the plate glass window oppo-
site and the door directly in front of
the open space from the street. An
iron grating forms the floor of the YES
tibule and as Miss Crawford reached
a corner, and her foot slipped on the
iron. The man running behind her
was unable to stop and knocked her
forward against the glass, breaking the
big window.
The glass broke in splinters with long
jagged points. 1t cut through the skirt
of her dress and cut a long cash in her
Her hands were both badly cut and il
is a miracle that she suffered no in
juries of the head and face. Had one
of the large pieces of glass from the top
of the window struck her in the head
it would have killed her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-11
EN1PoRIA TRUANCY CASE.
Pastor johnson Is Having Hearing
in Court. f. IS -.s..

Emporia, Kan. Nov. lin Justice
McCain's court late Thursday the first
court case as the result of the school
truancy law that Lyon county has had
since the law was made, was tried.
The defendant is T. w. Johnson, a
preacher, who lives near Rinker
bridge, northeast of town, half mile
from the Rinker district school.
Mr.. Johnson has refused to send
his children to school, in spite of the
demands on him by Truancy officer
Fred Fowler. County Attorney Nc
Carly prosecuted the case. Mr.. John
son demanded that a jury hear the
case, which demand was within his
right, and jury was summoned. Just
on what lines Johnson will make his
defense will not be known until his
side is started. but it is said authenti-
cally that he will argue that his chill
dren are being taught at home by
their mother as satisfa ctorily as they
could be at school. However, the
county officers claim that they have
tested the children and found that
they cannot pass examinations as they
should. The school officers know no
reason why the children should not
attend the public schools, as they have
the required books at home. Mr.. John
son has stated for the past two years
that he has not sent his children to
school because he intends to move to
South America to become a mission
airy. He is pastor of a country church
near town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-11

something to mystify them still fur
ther- They could have escaped to the
shore in their canoes, but they did not
want to abandon their prize. King
John caught sight of me and threat
ened me with instant death if I did
not take the brig back to her anchor
age. I told him that only the captain
could do this, and though knives and
clubs were f1ourished they finally de-
cided to spare my life.
An Off-Shore breeze helped us down
the bay, and in half an hour we were
at sea. 1t was a quiet night, but there
was big ground swell rolling in from
some storm at sea, and the brig
hadn't played see-saw very long be-
fore there was a terrible sick crowd
aboard. She heaved and rolled with
just the motion to make a landsman'S
stomach try to run away from him.
For a boy, L think 1 took matters
pretty cool. 1t was the period of good
weather in that locality and I did not
apprehend any danger in drifting off
the coast. The natives had got away
with the crew, but L had got away
with them in turn, and while they
were grooming and lamenting, and in
an almost helpless condition, it struck
me that 1 must keep the advantage
that circumstance had placed in my
hands. If our men had not been MUIR
dered out of hand there might be a
way to save them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-11
MARKETS TODAY.
Small Receipts and Decreased
Shipments Strengthen Wheat.
Corn Rules Decidedly Weak on
Cable Influences.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
Cattle Are Slow to Steady in
Kansas City.
Hogs Are Down Five and Ten
Cents.

Chicago, Nov. u.-WHEAT-Smal re
ceipts in the northwest and decreased
shipments from Argentina caused a firm
tone in the wheat market here today.
The December delivery opened a shade to
3sa15c lower, at S113ss0L13sz, but rallied
to STA. May opened &c higher to 1sc
lower, at $L13GL13A. After selling up to
s.. 1872 the price settled back to $113A. Re-
ceipts were sol cars, against SSS cars a
year ago
Later December advanced to S1.15 The
market closed strong with December up
5sQ%c, at H.141z. May was up 1lsc, at
$1.l4A.
CORN-Under the influence of obscure
cables and heavy Argentine shipments the
corn market ruled weak. December open
ed 1sc lower to sc higher, at 5034 G5114
and sold off to 505sc
December closed with gain of 12G5sc,
at 51ssG5115c.
OATS-The oats market held steady. De-
cember opened unchanged, at 2Sazn287sc,
sold to 2S7sd 29c, and eased off to 2Sa4Q2S7sc.
Observation-Disclosures were easy.
January pork was down TIC, at s12 So
Lard was off sc, at $40 Ribs were 21ac
lower, at $685.
WHEAT-Cash: No. red, $11Sd1. 10;
No. 8 red, $112Q1 16; No. 2 hard, s.. 13@I1. Is:
No. hard, $1.07Q112; No northern, s.. II
@12O: No. spring, s1.05Q1.15; No. north
oATgNo. 2, 2sala8oc; No 3, 29a29hc.
CORN-No. 2, 57@5715c; No. 8, 5215Q5Sc
RYE-Nov., S013c; Dec, Sic; May, SIC.
FLAX-Cash: NV, $1.17; S.W., 81. 10Y;
TIMoTHY-Nov., $26212; JAN, s2.671k;
CLOVERENov., $12. oO@12.2.
BARLEY-CaSh: 37d5Ic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-11

Two former district judges will be
Benson of Franklin. and the other is
Ansel r. Clark of Rice
Cowley will have a strong team in
the house. One member will be w.
P. Hackney. who was a leader in the
house thirty years ago and is one of
the -readiest debaters in the state, and
the other is c. S. Beekman of Arlan-
sas City, who is said to be an orator
of ability. Beekman is a young man.
w. A. Trigg of Anderson was for
years editor of the Garnett Eagle, but
he recently retired from the newspaper
business.
L. H. Seaver, the member from Ellis
worth, served in the legislature of 1899.
Probably one of the strong young
young men of the house will be W. Y.
Morgan. editor of the Hutchinson News.
The boss busters made big fight on
Morgan but failed to defeat him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-11
DEAD AT WINDOW.
o. G. NIathewson Expires While Re-
pairing a Screen.

Otis G. Mathewson, of 1905 Morris
avenue, dropped dead of heart dis
ease at his home today at about 1890
o'clock.
Mr.. Mathewson was we'll this morn
ing except that he complained of a
touch of a cold which affected him
about the chest a trifie. He was work.
when he fell over and was found to be
dead. His family believed his death
TO have been caused by the blow of
striking against some object as he fell,
but DR.. ]. p. Lewis. who was called
and who made an examination ex-
presses it as hi sopinion that his death
occurred before he fell. The dead
man is well known in Topeka, where
he has been manufacturing the Meth
ewson improved refrigerator. He was
rs years old, and leaves wife and one
daughter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-11

1t occurred to me that my first move
should be to hunt for rum. We had
plenty of it aboard, as 1 found in over
hauling the lazarette, and 1 broke out
a keg and rolled it on deck. Every
native welcomed it with a yell, and
could not get at it's contents fast
enough. In half an hour 1 saw that
the whole crowd would keep it up until
dead drunk, and ] quietly withdrew and
began to hunt up rope. At the end OF
an hour the last of the natives had
Topped down on deck, and then spent
a full hour tying the Wretched lot hand
anu foot. 1t was 10 o'clock at night ere
/ had finished, and I then went down
to the captains cabin and turned IN
ana slept through the balance of the
night, knowing that the brig was all
right and that none of my prisoners
could release themselves, even If they
sobered off. I slept like top until an
hour after daylight, when the first OF
the natives sobered up and began yell
ing. 1t wasn't ten minutes before the
whole crowd was hooting away.
If we had been carrying a cargo OF hogS
found them when went on deck Every
native was still half drunk and half sea-
whoops, words of menace and silly smiles
The first thing I did was to get even
my leg was too tired to do anything more
IN that direction. AS l was barefoot, L
don't suppose I inflicted, any mortal in;
juries, but it did me a hear, of good all
the same. When the kicking bee was over
got such sail on the brig as could han
die and stood back for the bay and the
island, and two hours later got sight of
our whole crew coming out in canoe to
meet me. They had been made prisoners
and were to be killed. but when it was
known that had run off with King John
and his cabinet the natives ashore be-
came AFRAID and released the sailors.
To say that captain and crew were
pleased when they got aboard and saw
how things stood is Craving il mild. Ev-
erybody got ropes end and sailed in on
the crowd of blacks. and each and every
one was baSted until he howled for mercy
ten times over. Then King John was
given an alternative. 1t was either to load
US with 20 tons of copra, barks, roots and
Sandalwood within three days or be car
ried off TO Singapore, ami he did not hes
1tate two minutes in making choice
The freight was forthcoming and he
waved us adieu, and 1t was years after
tfat before he dared to indulge IN hostile
action against another trader-(Copy-
right 1904, by T. c. Mcclure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-11
HIGH SCHOOL TO PLAY.
Topelxa's Star Team Will Meet Kan
sas City Tomorrow.

Topeka will send its undefeated
high school team to Kansas City Sat
urday to play the return game with
the Kansas City central high school.
The game will be played at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning, and DR.. John Out
land will be there to encourage the
Topeka team.
Topeka has a hard game before it,
for Kansas City is laying for the
boys nj yellow and black. A few
weeks ago Topeka beat the central by
a score of 81 to on Washburn field.
The central people calimed at that
time that their team was somewhat
crippled, and did not. do its best work.
DR.. Outland will go to Kansas City
this evening to be on hand for the two
games there Saturday. He is to be one
of the officials in the Nebraska-Has-
kell game Saturday afternoon, his Sc
lection having been agreed upon by
the two schools after it seemed as
though the game might be Cancelled
because of a dispute about the selec-
ton. Outland is recognized as the
fairest and best official nthis part or
the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-11
CAME FROM THE FARM.
More Than One-fOurth of the X. q.
Boys Parents Are Agriculturists.

Lawrence, Kan, Nov. u.-Statistics just
completed by the registrar of the Univer-
sity of Kansas show the occupations pur-
sued by students parents Some of the
occupations are listed this year for the
first time in the history of the school
More than one-fourth of the students of
the university are from the farms of Kan
sas The number of students registering
thus is three times that of any other oc-
cupation. The parents of the students are
pursuing Seventy-six vocations, from day
1aborer to retired capitalist. 1t is a no
ticeable feature of the enrolment blanks
that not a SaloOnkeeper is reported among
the parents of the students. There are
twenty-four druggists. There are many
retired farmers" and oil and gas is
given for the first time as the occupation
of many parents.
Fifteen years age. there were 80 men
registered in the university Already this
year $50 men have registered, gain of
169 per cent; 1880 there We're 15S women
students; today 414 are registered.
years the men have been gaining in at
tendance faster than the women. The
per cent in the case of the men is So to
As for the women. In the last five years
the men students have increased is per
cent and the women u per cent The
youngest student in the university is Ii
years old. The oldest is SO. The average
age of the members of the senior class is
= years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-11
A BLACK KING.
(By M. Quad.)

While the crew of twelve men of
the trading brig Wanderer went
ashore one night in August. IS, to
have a feast with King John, who
ruled over seven islands of the Pau
motu group, South Pacific, was left
alone aboard to keep anchor watch.
was then boy of sixteen, and had
been an apprentice for a year.
1t was about o'clock in the even
ing when the men pulled ashore in the
yawl, and the shouting and laughing
and the bonfires were evidences that
the entertainment began almost at
once. 1t had just grown fully dark
when King John and about fifty of his
subjects came alongside in their ca
noes and clambered on board. Be
fore I could ask any questions, L was
knocked down and had my feet and
ankles securely tied. None of them
deigned to explain what was going on,
but in a few minutes 1 picked up suf-
ficient to satisfy me that the men
ashore had been overpowered and
that King John proposed to get the
brig up the river. which emptied into
the bay just there. There was water
enough to float her, but our captain
for obvious reasons. King John play
ed fair with the traders only when
there was no opportunity for treach-
cry.
The tide was running out rather
strong, but in their hurry to get pos
session the natives either overlooked
the faCt or thought they were strong
enough to overcome it. A long two
inch rope, which they had either
bought or stolen from some craft, was
made fast to the briggs bows, and the
canoes took the free end. Then they
began work at the iron cable, but not
knowing how to unshackle it, they
presently grew impatient, and King
John ordered me cast loose to do this
work. l got hammer and drove out
the shackle pin. The canoes were al
most in line under the cable, and as
it was unshackled almost at the wind
lass and went out of the hawser hole
as if pulled by steam engine, five or
six canoes were upset and a score of
natives more or less hurt. AS their
tow rope Strengthened out there was a
grand yell for the canoes to go ahead
but the brig started down the bay,
stern first. and pulled the lot of them
after her. 1 Sneaked aft and put the
wheel over and dashed it, and five
minutes later the brig swung around
until her bows pointed down the bay
The natives were all more or less
under the influence of the keg of rum
which went ashore with the crew, and
when the brig started off with them
they became at first hilarious and then
panic-stricken Pretty soon they all
scrambled aboard and began to weep
and howl like a lot of children. A
ship was a mysterious thing to them
and that one should run away with
them without having sail set was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-11

Cyrus Leland, the member from the
First district, will, OF course, be one
OF the conspicuous figures in the com
ing house as he was in the last one. So
will w. r. Stubs. the father of the
boss buster movement Leland and
Stubs were on the ways and means
committee together during the last ses-
sion.
Other old members who were re-elect-
ed are p. W. Goebel of Miami, who in
PRODUCED the bill in the last house pro-
viding for placing the money in the
state treasury in banks so as to allow
the state to draw interest on it instead
of the state treasurer; c. A. Fisher of
Crawford, Z. B. Schermerhorn of Cher
okee, w. H. Wyckoff of Coffey, ]. t.
Pringle of Usage, S. E. Brown of
Brown, F. H. Pralle of Marshall, G.
W. Schmidt of Geary, T. z. Adair of
Chautauqua, s. H. Brandon of Butler,
e. G. Crocker of Chase, c. B. Kirkland
of Saline, j. w. Adams and A c.
Hurey of Sedgwick, Z. G. Farris and
J. A Jeffries Of Sumner. J. A Burke
Of Harper, A. G. Mead of Mitchell, ].
B. Taylor of Osborne. T. H. Tannehill
OF Phillips, S. I. Hale of Rush. c. NJ.
Beeson of Ford, A B. Jones of Trego.
c. d. Jones of Norton, and W. NJ. Kin
nison of Finney.