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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26

use oil little piece of land will accom-
plish, but does not prove that keeping
COWS stabbed all the year around and
cutting food and hauling it to. them is
the best method of dairying. In fact,
| We do not believe that it is, though it
may be done with profit on a small
scale, near great retail market, and
where land is costly and labor abund-
ant. And now comes me Philadelphia
Ledger, with nearly column On what
Mr.. DIETRICH has done and says mat the
Secretary of Agriculture wanted to lave
a bulletin prepared telling all about the
little farm and the methods employed
With the idea that it will stimulate
farmers all over the country and add
millions to the food products of the
| United States But Mr.. D. objects to
having his farm overrun with curious
farmers. taking his time and interfering
with his wock. and be tells Secretary
Wilson, so the paper says, that he Will
consent to the publication of the bulle-
tin on condition that he is paid lump
sum of $4,000 or made salaried officer
OF the Depar nent at salary o. 1000
a year. Some of the scientist the
Department, the Ledger SAYS, TX that
his terms should be accepted, and that
the knowledge of what he is doing will
be worth forty million dollars a year to
the dairy men of the country. Now. we
| have no disposition to belittle what Mr.
| DIETRICH has achieved. In fact. we are
proud of the fact that a Pennsylvania
| farmer has found profit in the intensive
culture of little piece of land. But. as
we have said. Joseph Quincy demon
strated the same thing more than a gen.
GRAFTON ago, and published his ideas.
But how many dairy men have adopted
| the notified and what dairy men, who is
airying on large scale could find the
| labor to do it? Worked i'll the same way
dairyman with 200 acres would have to
| keep twenty hands the year through
while in most rairy sections it is hard
| to get men to carry on the work in the
common method. Mr. Detrich's place is
| fine illustration of what may be done on
a little piece of high priced land near "a
market. But land is the most plentiful
! thing we have in this country, and human
| labor the most costly and Scarcest, too
costly and scarce for the adoption of these
methods IN a large scale. The thing may
| be entirely new to the scientists of the
| Department of Agriculture, but dairymen
/ have been familier with the soiling sys.
| tenn for many years, and yet few have
adopted it. We do not blame Mr.. D. for
/ Directing to having his place continual
| ly invaded by the curious and his time
taken up for nothing. He cannot do his
work and be continually interrupted by
crowds attracted simply by curiosity.
Then we are far from being willing to
agree that the keeping of cows stabbed
| the year around is conducive to their
health or TO the production of the best
dairy products 1t may make a little
farm rich enough to produce an i'm
mense amount of feed. but the health of
/ the cows and the production of the best
milk are the chief concern in a dairy
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
LIKE MOTHER.
The Son Followed Happily.

Improper food and drink wears out the
stomach before it's time but sometimes
il only appears to be worn out and the
right tcod and drink will restore 1t.
when Mother reached her seth year
she was in a very critical condition from
her stomach. The doctors said it had
worn ont and they could not make her
a new one.
''She had been a coffee drinker for
many years and thought she couldn't get
along without her cup of coffee; one day
q friend persuaded her to quit coffee and
try Postum
HE urged. so hard we got some for
her and decided to give it a trial, she
formed a fondness for it but it was some
little time before We could see her i'm
rrove much at her age After awhile
however her stomach began to get strong
er ard stronger, and today, at the age of
IS she is far better than she was at Sc
and we credit Postum Coffee for the i'm.
proyement for we know exactly that did
it.
For years l myself was troubled with
t,aa headaches, stomach constantly out
of order. felt bad, got irritable, cross in
the house at my work, ran down in flesh
with a weak. trembling, nervous spot at
the pit of my stomach. Doctors could
not fix me up but when ] saw Mothers
Improvement 1 concluded 1t might be
f,gfIee so | commenced Postum too and il
was not long before my headaches left
me. fts empty spot in my stomach was
Oiled. my nerves were better. Now l am
aa1,ays in good humor and want to sec
my friends and iaVe them see me-
have gained much in weight, don't know
aast how much, feel good, nave good
color and am proud man.
I'VE know lots of Eases among oul
friends and neighbors where Postum ha-
done almost as much good az II has IL
our own home when used in place o
coffee" Name given by Postum Co.
Battle Creek, Mich. There's reason.
Look in each package for the famous
It,ls look, 1.-THE Road to MELVILLE
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
About Planting Cotton,
By Harvie Jordan.

| think it would be good plan Tor far
mers just at this time to interchange Ideas
regarding their methods of preparation
of land, fertilizing and planting the cotton
crop. There are a great many different
methods employed, especially In different
sections of the belt, where the cnarac'
tiers of soil are different. A great many
farmers have by experience MT upon
methods that give better results than the
old fashioned plan of quick preparation
in the spring by scratching with shallow
ploys, instead of deep breaking | think
if we could have letters from subscribers
wiving their methods OF preparing, plant
ing and eultivating the cotton crop 1t
would be useful at this time.
Esbeciallv would it be interesting and
instructive to have SUCH letters from lhese
of our subscribers who have succeeded IN
making good yields per acre In the past.
These letters would be pupHshed In TINS
paper for the valuable information con-
tanned and the good instruction which
they would convey to others who are seek
ing information along this line. The in
ouirv dcnortment is a good medium for
any farm naner. but practical letters from
nracticaI farmers would be of a great
value as an adjunct to our agriculture de-
partment. We have now Ealf a hundred
thousand subscribers, everyone of whom
This paper goes into the hands of more
up-to-date, successful FARMERS ,han any
othe rpaper in this section Vi tlie oou'h'
# these i Successful planters would help
the agricultural editor in the work he is
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
FOR SWAYNE IMPEACHMENT.
HOar Resolution Concerning Practice
of English House OF Lords.
(By the Associated press.l

Washington March 25.-In the Senate
today Mr. Hoar. offered and the Senate
adopted the following resolution:
THAT the Committee on Rules be di-
rected to consider ana report whether
any amendment be desirable in the Sen
ate rules relating to impeachments and
especially whether the rules may prop
erly and lawfully provide for taking tes-
timony in such cases by committee in
accordance with the practice of the Eng
lish House OF Lords in such cases, ques-
tions of the admission of material testi-
mony and the final argument being re-
served for the full Senate"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
ARKANSAS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.
There To-day When Governor Jeff.
Davis Seeks Third Term,
(By the Associated Press.l

Little Rock, Ark, March 25.-The most
strenuous and exciting campaign Arkan-
sas has ever experienced closed tonight
and tomorrow each of the seventy-f five
counties in the State will hold Demo.
cratic primaries. Candidates for the
State offices will be voted upon and Dem
ocratc nominees for Congress will be
chosen in seven districts
Interest centers in the race for the
nomination Tor Governor between jeff
Davis, who aspires to a third term. and
Hen. Carroll d. Wood, who is at present
an Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court.
Governor Davis, in addition to asking
the nomination for a third term is an
a6cwed candidate for United States Sen
ator to succeed Senator James H. Berry,
whose term expires March 4, 1907.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26

II makes spinster mad every time she
hears OF widow marrying again.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
GOVERNMENT AID TO AGRICULTURE

Among the enormous appropriations
made by Congress to various objects, and
the great sums the protective tariff has
thrown into the hands OF our manufactur-
ers the sum of $6,22S,8S0 for agriculture
seems insignificant. 1t was shown in Con-
gress that other nations, and poorer ma,
tons than the United States. are doing
more for the advancement of their agri-
cultural interests. The little country of
Hungary gives 80 cents per capita for ag-
riculture, while the United States gives %
cents per capita. Germany. with an area
of 2OS,S $50 square miles to Station, has so
Experiment Stations, while the United
States has 60 Stations. or one to every
3692125 square miles. The Carnegie
Institute appropriates many thousands
of dollars to aid men who are engaged
| in the study of pure science and not a
dollar to those who are engaged in the
investigations of the problems that di-
rectly concern the farmers of the coun-
| try. Why could not the Department Of
| Agriculture be enabled by the Govern
ment TO do for agricultural and horticul-
tural investigationsthing some like
what the Carnegie Institute IS doing Tor
pure science. There are men in the va
rious stations who could use vastly more
means in their work If they were TO be
had, and we can see no good reason why
the department should not be able to
make special appropriations to enable
tfese men to carry on their work. Some
| thing OF this sort, it seems to us, would
| be better than ever an average increase
| all around to the stations, though all OF
them could use proftably twice as much
money as they get. At present the an
nual appropriation of $4,000 to each sta
ton is largely used up in salaries, and ii
| is necessary that it should be so, for
capable men should have fair pay for
their work, and capable men cannot be
had for meagre pay. Hence the stations
are unable to undertake az many lines
| of investigation as they would like, since
every separate line involves a separate
salary. and there are problems being left
uninvestigated that should be undertaken.
The department knows better than others
what the work of each station is and
where special funds could be used to
! advantage, and the department should
have at its disposal the means fer aal
yancing the work where it can best be
done. Therefore, lett the Department OF
Agriculture be endowed with means to
take the place for agriculture which the
Carnegie Institute takes fef science
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
875,547 BALES
LESS THAN 1902.
Figures Given Out by
Census Bureau.
CROP 1O,399,5 58 BALE.
The Distribution of the Crop by States
and Territories. Complete Annual
Report on Ginning Will be
Published About
May 1st.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, March 25.-The final report
of the Census Bureau on cotton ginning
showing the total cotton production for
1903 gives the following:
Number of commercial bales, Jcluding
linters 10,399,5 5S, against 11,275, 1O5 for
1902.
The following table distributes the crop
exclusive of linters, in the United States:
10,205,073 commercial bales, 9,359,472
square bales. ropes round bales, 1888
sea island bales.
The tota crop reduced tosa common
basis as to size of bales is an equivalent
of 1851, 129. five hundred pound bales
against 10,630. 945 five hundred pound bales
in 1902. The number of bales, counting
round as half bales. including linters was
10O1i.454. against 1O,7S4,473; the equiva-
lent bales of five hundred pound stand
ard. including lnters were 10,045, &c.
against 1925, 16S in 1902. The square
bales upland crop, reported from ginner-
les, which aggregated 9.359,472, shows a
decrease of 633. 1913 from 1902; the round
bales. upland crop, reported from ginner-
les were POS, decrease of 211 ,056: the
bales of sea island cotton reported from
ginneries were $685. a decrease of
29,560. and the bales of lnters report
ed from cotton seed oil mills, were 1874.
4S5, a decrease of LBS. These statistics
were collected through canvass of the
individual ginneries of the cotton States5,
by 631 local special agents. who found
that 30.21S ginneries had been operated
for the crop of 1903, compared with 3d.
94S for 1902. In the final canvass for
this crop where ginners had not finished
ginning they were requested to prepare
careful estimates of the quantity of cot
ton which remained to be ginned at their
establishments; their estimate amounting
to 75,401 commercial bales have been in
oluded in the totals of the above table.
The distribution of the crop. exclusive
of linterS by States and territories, giving
the total commercial bales as follows:
Alabama 1,123,959; Arkansas TAI ,236;
Florida 5S,572: Georgia 1,329,27S; Indian
Territory 312, 776; Kansas rs; Kentucky
GA; Louisiana S5S.56S: Mississippi 1.439,-
294; Missouri 1888; North Carolina $780,
800: oklahoma 2O4,957; South Carolina
s14.351; Tennessee go. 437; Texas 1852 ,692;
Virginia 1861.
The complete annual report on cotton
ginning will be published about May 1.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
WINSTON TEMPERANCE FORCES.
High License May Sidetrack Prohibi.
ton or Dispensary.
ISnecial to The News and observers

Especial to The News and Observer
Winston-Salem March 25.-The anti
saloon league OF Winston-Saien was set
on foot at meeting of temperance men
last night. After a temporary organi-
alton was effected the question of organ
iiag an anti-saloon league for the pur-
pose of entering into a fight Tor total
prohibition or a dispersary was dis
cussed generally.
II was suggested that il action be
postponed that it was very Probable the
present. fbo3rd of aldermen would at
their July meeting raise tho license to
81 200 and compel the bar-rooms to close
Il; o'clock and open at a. m; that
in fact some assurances 80 this eject
had been given by certain members o:
the 5oard who wore classcd whiskey
men. A meeting will be he'd Sunday
April 18th, when permanent organa
ton of the. league will be effected.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26

The newspaper men and the scientific
farmers OF the Department OF Agricul-
ture are getting into q hysterical state
over Mr. Detrich's success In feeding
COWS on his little 15-acre farm at Flour
town. Che would imagine from the fuss
they are making that soiling COWS was
aa entirely new thing. Many years ago
josiah esincey did the came thing in
massachusetts, which Mr.. d. is doing
hcW, and he published a book about it,
ana Iof q time there was great furore
over soiling cows. The fact that Nr
Detrich has made 1t a success or his lit
tie lot simply shows what an intelligent
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
0N SPEEDS COTTON
BuIIish Tone Prevails and
Advancing Prices is
the Result.

Cotton is humping itself again and is
now doing trip up the elevator again.
Futures did the trip up act on the
market yesterday to the tune of a cent
on the pound. 1t was INCLINED to sell
off early in the day, but the ginners' re-
port advanced it rapidly.
The figures are close to ten million fifty
thousand bales mark, and this Is a report
that shows there is not enough cotton to
go round Hence the prices went up.
Spots only advanced a quarter of a
cent a pound on the New York market,
moving up from IA IL cents to IA ga
cents pound, the spot market being a
quiet one, the nervous energy being spent
in futures.
Raleigh dealers report no change in
prices, the market holding as before,
though it is possible that good cotton
might have brought IA cents pound here
this afternoon. with perhaps 10 "a as the
ruling price. No cotton was brought here
yesterday and the dealers do not seem
anxious to handle any in the present state
of the market, while the farmers who
have a remnant left are not selling while
the prices are below 10 cents pound.
The figures issued as the government
ginners' report are such as to give COM
fort to the bull contingent and again
there comes the prophecy from many that
cotton will yet sell for a higher figure
than it has yet reached this season.
Mr.. Cameron Morrison, of Richmond
county, who was here yesterday says that
there is but little, very little, if any,
1zcA -
farmers there have sold at good prices.
The crop work for the present year, he
says, is not well advanced.
Rev. Livingston Johnson. of Cary while
here yesterday said that in a visit to
Scotland county. he had found that in
that section the cotton had all been sold
The news from every cotton section of
the State is that the crop is we'll cleared
up. This is the condition in Wake coun-
ty and the reports bear out the state
ment that but little cotton is yet to be
sold in North Carolina.
There were more folks hurt by the
big cotton slump than a lew. The
Wadesboro Acknowledgements shows
how it was in Wadesboro: ut is current
y reported that the slump of over two
cents in cotton, last Friday afternoon,
caught most of the spectators here for
greater or less amounts The bucket shop
so it is SAID was at first behind $4,000 on
account of losses not made good by its
customers. Later settlements however
on the part OF a number of these Gus
TONER'S we are told, has reduced the loss
suffered by the bucket shop to some
SO, 600 or $4,000.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
NEARLY JERK HEAD OFF.
AT Roanoke a Murderer's Final Drop
is Horrible.
(By the Associated Press.)

Roanoke, Va, March 25.-Chesley PEG
pies, white, was hanged at Wytheville to-
day for the killing of John Seagle on De
cember 2, 1903 The body was almost de-
capitated by the drop. The men were
playing cards in Seagle's room and quar-
relied. Peoples left the place, saying he
would return and kill Seagle. Securing a
shotgun Peoples returned to Seagles room
and shot the latter, killing him instantly.
Tn 1882 Peoples shot and killed Alf John
son at Wytheville but wa sacquitted on
the plea of self-defense.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26

Jackson, Miss, March Ex-Governor
Vardaman, acting under resolution pass
ed by the Legislature this afternoon re-
tained Monroe McClurg, of Greenwood,
and Judge Hannis Taylor, of Mobile Ala,
to represent Mississippi in the litigation
before the United States Supreme Court
II the boundary dispute between this
State and Louisiana which involves a
large strip of territory on the Missis-
sirpi coast. Louisiana will commence
taking dispositions in the case on April A..
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
SEEKING TRAIN WRECKERS.
Rumored at Henderson that Two Ne
groes Had Switch Key.
Especial to News and Observer

Henderson, n. G., March a5.-It is ri,
mored here that detectives are on the
track of negroes or their confederates
who caused the Florida Limited wreck
Thursday morning when switch is said
TO have been thrown open.
1t is said suspicion points to two ne
groes who are reported to have switch
keys, the men not being in the Seaboard
Air Line employ. Work is being done in
tracing these men and in seeking to find
if any parties have had the switch keys
in their possession.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
Talks with Farmers

Farmers as n rule, fail to understand
that this disease is caused by a miro
scopic germ or bacillus which is easily
transported from place to place, though
probably never in the air. One of the
most common sources of contagion is the
practice of throwing dead bodies of hogs
that die with the disease into some out
of way place where the dogs and buzzards
at once attack them, and easily scatter
the germs among well pigs.
In the Southern section of the country
the buzzard is the great carrier of infec-
ton from the dead bodies of diseased hogs.
But there are other and little suspected
ways in which the disease may be trans
ferred The germs may easily be carried
on the feet and where a neighbor has the
disease and you are free from it. never
allow him to visit your hog lot. and if
he is the right sore of a man he will not
want to do so. Many States have laws
| requiring the burying of carcasses of dead
animals, by these laws are poorly enforced.
| If every dead animal was at once buried
deeply and covered with quick lime the
danger of transferring the disease would
be greatly lessened. If the disease is on
a stream above you, keep your pigs away
IL oiH IildI StldIil, lOT the WuttG VIII lEdUS-
port the germs and many people are care
less enough to throw dead hogs into a
stream. Keep your premises clear of any
thing that may attract buzzards if you live
| in buzzard country, for they are the
greatest of all carriers of disease germs
When you have a hog attacked by the
disease do not take him out and leave the
well ones. but take the we'll ones away
| from him and onto unaffected soil. and
do this as fast as another is taken sick
Taking the sick hogs out and leaving the
well ones where the infection is will never
stop the disease. Clean uD the infected
premises and sprinkle a solution of ear
bolic acid everywhere and whitewash the
pig pens and house with lime and sulphur
saked together. You cannot cure hog
cholera, but you can keep it away to a
great extent with proper care.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-27
GET AFTER
THE RAILROADS

AT the meeting of the jobbers and
manufacturers at the Chamber of Com
merce yesterday afternoon resolution
was adopted authorizing the Chamber of
Commerce ito recommend that the inter
state commerce commission enforce the
law relative to the filing of tariffs on i'm
port and export traffic.
The matter will come up again at the
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce next
Monday and the recommendation will I'M
doubtedly be made. as the members. as a
whole, are in favor of it.
The matter is one of utmost interest to
Tacoma and, in fact. to all Puget Sound
cities. The railroads have repeatedly ig-
nored the law and have refused to compl
with the demands of the coast shippers
The matter will now be put where the
railroads can be brought to time and the
jobbers and shippers on the Sound be Civ
en- chance for their lives.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-27
STEAMBOAT MEN
LOOK FOR RACE

Since the publication in The Time OF
the story OF early steamboat laces,
interest has been revived in that exciting
pastime and the old steamboat man VINO
wanted to see one more race before he
died is likely to have his wish grati6ed
Frederick Marvin of the Mcdonald
steamboat line says he is willing to gam
BILE that the Multnomah can make 5He
run from Olympia to Tacoma in jus 3
little less time than the Greyhound can
Captain Fred Wilson of the Greyhou d
chews the end of his cigar and says 4e
can skin any boat on this end Of the
Sound except the Flyer, and the man g0o
doubts it has another think coming.
The breaking of the Greyhound's shaft
yesterday may delay a possible speed
trial
Steamboat men are taking quite an in
terest in the matter and look for brpsb
between the two boats some day 1lat
will make new speed record for the
Olympia -Tacoma run.