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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-14
Last Weeks North Carolina Crop Bulletin.

Cotton though still somewhat small has made
rapid growth during the past week, and as chop
ping is nearly over the stands are reported much
improved; on early cotton in the extreme south
ern portion squares are beginning to form; very
few complaints of damage by lice have been re-
ceived. Corn is growing rapidly, and is general
ly being worked the second time; there is now
but little left to be planted. The rains this week
gave farmers an excellent opportunity to trans
plant tobacco, and this work is now approaching
completion; the crop is smaller than usual, but
is starting off well. Early wheat and rye are
ripening, and though low, the heads are well filed;
some fields are ready for cutting and harvest will
begin next week; winter oats are not good; spring
oats are beginning to head. A poor stand of pea
nuts is reported, and a good deal of replanting of
this crop is being alone. A large number of sweet
potato slips were set during the week. Digging
Irish potatoes is underway in the east, with a fair
yield, and shipments of potatoes and beans are GO
ing forward. Bugs are somewhat troublesome in the
west to Irish potatoes, but the crop has improved
considerably during the past week. Peaches are
ripening In the south, and a fair crop is expected
in many counties; apples continue to drop from
tho trees in some sections; blackberries will be
abundant.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-14

med milk are expected to, and do pay for the at
tendance of the COW which amounts with us to
about FIVE cents per day. Our cows we're tested
each month the first year, composite samples be-
ing taken from six consecutive milkings. Since
last March we have tested them each month, but
the weighing at each milking has been, and will
be, kept up. Thirty-four cows completed the first
year with an average of 5,755.8 pounds of milk
and 284 of butter; average income was $7784:
average cost of keeping, $40; average net profit.
1854; five heifers, with first calf, yielding 4,213
pounds of milk and III pounds of butter.
We raise most of our veal, starting them on
whole milk and gradually getting them on
SKINNED milk by about the second week, a mixture
of Is per cent by weight of c-orn-meal, 10 per
cent of bran, 10 per cent of oats, 5 per cent of
oil meal is kept before them until they are ready
to butcher. I gave them the oats, bran and oil
meal to keep them on feed and enable them to
consume more corn meal. For roughness, they
have clover hay mixed with timothy. They are
confined in box stalls with plenty of sun light,
have access to fresh water and salt. They dress
out a frst-rate quality, and SIS to IS per cent at the
age of eight to nine weeks. Our heifer calves
which we wish to keep are allowed to run out and
are stuffed with a growing ration aud second crop
clovers when not on grass. They have skinned
milk for about six months.
I sincerely hope that every dairyman here, be
he old or young, is keeping Individual records
of his cows. Our case is a good example. For
twenty-eight years we thought that we had a very
profitable herd of cows, and we did, but they were
not developed. It takes the scales and tester, and
a whole lot of plain di~"ing and close attention
to produce milk and grow healthy animals. We
are only getting started. But now we are milking
eighty cows, and during December, 19oa,We aver
aged almost three gallons of milk a day per COW,
with an average test of 4.3 per cent butter fat,
and the COWS had no shelter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-14
The Collapse of Freak Farming.

Speaking of Angora goats, ginseng, mush>
rooms and the like, Prof. L. III. Bailey says:
"The point is that these small crops and factiti-
Gus enterprises are mere side issues and really
have no great effect on agricultural prosperity as
a whole. They may be very profitable here and
there, but they are for the few and for special
conditions. Mere specialties cannot revolutionize
a great series of business like the agricultural
businesses, that engage four times more fixed
capital than manufacturers We have probably
about reached the limit of fancy farming ex-
cept as it may be p~racticed as a mere diversion.
In the upheaval of old ideals, we have made many
impractical experiments; but the farmer stands
by the old things, improving them slowly and
surely year by year. We must be near the point
of collapse of all kinds of freak farming."-From
Country Life in America.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-14
An Al-corn Diet Not Good for Work Stock.

Answering an inquiry of a Progressive Farmer
reader as to what should be done for a young
mule which eats its own excrement,. ETC., it's food
seeming to do it no good, State Veterinarian TAFT
Butler writes:
Such a depraved appetite frequently results
from some stomach irritation or a arrangement
of digestion. It is particularly likely to occur
when the food lacks variety or the ration is not
properly balanced. Such as, for instance, when
hard-worked young horses are fed exclusively on
corn and corn-fodder.
The corn plant is an excellent food for horses,
but it does not contain enough of those food ele-
ments which go to form the tissues of the body.
to supply the "worn-out'' muscles in a hard-worked
horse, unless he digests more of it than can be
done by the average animal. The attempt to di-
gest sufficient is likely to result in some stomach
irritation such as this. Therefore, either oats,
wheat bran or cotton-seed meal should form-part
of the grain ration, or part of the rough food
should be pea vine or clover hay Of good quality.
To correct the trouble after it has developed,
give internally night and morning two (2) ounces
of hyposulphate of soda, and one % dram each
of sulphate iron and powdered nux vomica.
If the work can be suspended for three or four
days it would be well to begin<with a laxative of
one and a half pints of raw linseed oil.
The animal should be prevented from continue
ing the habit by tying him SO as to prevent it
until the desire to do so ceases.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-14
How to XIII Potato Bugs.


As a farmer with twenty years experience in
the North in cultivating Irish potatoes, / wish
to give my brother farmers the benefit of my
experience in killing the potato bug.
Take about one hundred pounds of road dust
and mix thoroughly with this one pound of paris
green, dust on the, potatoes while the dew is on,
and / will guarantee the death of the bugs. This
is a simple, inexpensive and sure remedy for the
potato bug. L. LEARNED.
Fender Co., N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-14

Every reader of The Progressive Farmer
should send us at least one new subscriber during
1904. Have you done 500
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-07

1t never needed the welding touch
OF great sorrow" to make the lives
of Archbishop TAFT and his devoted
wife "a perfect whole" Speaking Of
her many years after she had been
taken from him, he said. ITO part from
her. If only for day, was a pain only
less intense than the pleasures with
which / returned to her. and when I
took her with me it was one of the
purest joys given to man to watch
the meeting between her and our chill
dren."
When David Livingstone had passed
his thirtieth birthday, with barely a
thought for such IAN indulgence as
wooing and Wedding" he declared hui
morously that when he was little
less busy he would send home an adj
vertisement for a wife, preferably a
decent sort OF widow" and yet so un-
consciously near was bis fate that only
a year later he was introducing his
bride, Mary MOffat, TO the home he had
built, largely with his own hands. at
Mabotsa. From that "supremely hap
by hour" to the day when, eighteen
years later. he received her ''last faint
whisperings" at Sbupanga, no man ever
had a more self sacrificing. brave. de
voted wife than the missiOnary's
daughter. In fact, they were more like
two happy. light hearted children than
sedate married folk. and under the
magic of their merrlment the hard
ships and dangers OF life in the heart
Of the dark continent were stripped OF
all their terrors.
Jean Paul Richter confessed that he
never even suspected the potentialltiea
of human happiness until he met Caro-
line Mayer. that sweetest and most
gifted OF women" when be was fast
approaching his fortieth year, and that
he had no monopoly OF the resultant
happiness Is proved by his wife's dec
laration that Richter is the purest. the
holiest. the most godlike man that lives;
to be the wife Of such a man
is the greatest glory that can fall to a
woman" while of his wife Richter
once wrote, Il thought when I married
her that l had sounded the depths OF
human love. but l have since realized
how unfathomable is the heart In
which a noble woman has her shrine"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-07
rInm PudaIns ;. Fooa.

In popular belief plum pudding,
though difficult Of digestion. contains
a large proportion OF nutslUent The
London Lancet publishes the analysis
made Of two puddings, Of which one
was found 10 have a nutrient value
OF 8S per cent and the other Of so.
II appears that, although most agree
able as an article OF food, plum pud-
ding Is not quite so concentrated a
form Of diet as has been supposed, and
lonjectures that II yields as much sus-
tenance az heefsteak are certainly not
supported Uy It's chemical compost
tion. The amount Of nitrOgenous mat
ter Is only moderate. and II must be re-
membered that in calculating the nu-
TRENT ratio aud value ali the nitrogen
has been assumed 70 be albuminoid.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-07

81 had letters TO a prominent official
in Porto Rico" said New York manu-
facturer OF artificial ice plants. "and
went down TO that island, thinking
had sure grip on a big thing. | made
an appointment by letter and on q GER
tain day aud hour was ushered into his
Office, and we had no sooner shaken
hands than he turned 10 the attendant
and said:
Jose, bring the gentleman a fresh
glass Of lemonade and see that It Is
good and bot
1T was hot enough to melt dog,
and felt rivers OF persplration run.
ming down my back, and when that
boiling hot lemonade was brought IN
knew that l was dished. So It turned
out. might have sold red peppers
or horseradish. but as for iee-they
didn't want any Ia theirs"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-07
TRIBUTES TO WIVES
WORDS or. TENDERNESS UTTERED
eV GREAT MEN.

The Homage That Tom Hood Paid to
the Partner OF His sorrows and
Joys--Jenn Paul Richter'r Unstint-
ed Praise OF Caroline Mayer.
Few great men have paid more en-
thusiastic tributes to their wives than
Tom Hood, aud probably few wives
have better deserved such homage, says
the Chicago Chronicle. "You will
think" he wrote to her in one OF his
letters. "that am more foolish than
any boy lover, and l plead guilty, for
never was a wooer so young Of heart
and so stepped in love as /, but It Is a
love sanctihed and strengthened by
long years Of experience. May God
ever bless my darling. the sweetest,
most helpful. angel who ever stopped
to bless a man. Has there ever. we
wonder lived wife 10 whom a more
delicate and beautiful tribute was paid
than those verses Of which the burden
is, II love thee, love thee; It's all that
can sayg'
Il want thee much" Nathaniel Haw-
thorne wrote to his wife many years
after his long patience had won for
him the flower that was lent from
heaven to show the possibilities of the
human soul" "Thou art the only per-
son in the world that ever was neces-
sary to me, and now am only myself
when thou art within my reach. Thou
art an unspeakably beloved woman"
Sophia Hawthorne was little better
than a chronic invalid, and II may be
that this physical weakness woke all
the deep chivalry and tenderness OF the
man. And he reaped a rich reward for
an almost unrivaled devotion in the
atmosphere of love and happiness aud
inspiration" with which his delicate
wife always surrounded him.
The welded life Of Wordsworth with
bis cousin, "the phantom of delight"
was a poem more exqulsitely beautiful
than any his pen ever wrote. Mrs.
Wordsworth was never fair to look
upon, but she had that priceless and
rarer beauty of soul which made her
life "a center of sweetness to all
around her "All that she has been to
me-" the poet once said in his latter
days. "uone but God and myself can
ever know" aud it would be difficult
to find a more touching and beautiful
picture in the gallery of great mems
lives than that of Wordsworth aud his
wife, both bowed under the burden Of
many years and almost blind. walking
hand I'm hand together in the garden,
with all the blissful absorption and
tender confidence Of youthful lovers.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-07
Good for Children.

The pleasant to take and harmless
One Minute Cough Cure gives immed-
late relief In all cases Of Cough.
Group, and LaGrlppe because 1t does
not pass immedla ely into the stom-
ach. but takes effect right az The seat
Of the trouble II draws out the IN
fammaiion, heals and soothes and
cures permanently by enabling the
lungs to contribute pure lie giving
and life sustaining oxygen to the
blood and tissues One Minute Cough
Cure IS pleasant 10 take and II is good
alike for young and old. Sold by ]. n
Wallace.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-07
FRENCH PoLlTENEss.
It IL Widespread, Oppressive and
Time DevOuring.

TiDse DevOuring.
During one summer which spent
among exclusively French people in
hotel at Saint-Germain estimated that
lost quite twenty-four hours cut OF
each week saying good morning and
good evening TO the men, women, lit
tie children and dogs about me. IL you
encounter the same person twenty-five
times in the same day, you must smile
rapturously pause, at least shake
hands II you do not kiss, tremendously
inquire how he OF she Is going and
tremendously bid him or her "au re-
voir" at parting. Not only every man
and woman expects this, but all the
little children toddle up to you. shake
hands and exact the same amount OF
ceremony Then every well regulated
French family has a dog that more
than likely occupies a chair and eats
or a plate beside you at the table, so
that It is considered churlish IL you do
not also stop and tell the dog bon
Jour" and Eau revolr" a dozen times a
day, pausing TO take the paw which he
is prettily taught TO extend to you.
Wnen the washerwoman brings home
your linen, there are at least Ave min
utes spent in tremendously greeting
and parting from her. In tie operation
Of receiving and paying for linen you
exchange 'mercis" and 'pardons" not
fewer than ten times. ANY other serv-
ing person or tradesman who comes to
do business with you throughout the
day you similarly receive with 'bon
Jour. monsieur" and 'au revolr mon
sieur," and you thank him and beg his
pardon as often as you can possibly
get the words into the length OF time
he has to stay.-Harper's Bazar.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-07

The liquid wonder Of the vegetable
world-scotch Tone.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-07

Only n small Percentage OF ApDkk.
cants Know the Right Way.


Only n small Percentage OF Applk.
eants Know the Right Way.
Il see you have lots Of applications.
said the advertising manager to the
business house manager who had ad-
vertised for a typewriter and book
keeper.
"From all over New England" said
the business man, jamming his pockets
full. "But what some OF the girls who
answer are thinking Of can't imagine.
Here is one girl who Will come tifty
miles to take place at So a week"
Can you tell much as TO their quail
fications by their lettersT
Can /? Well, rather. For instance.
there Is the Writing; there Is the spell
ing Of the words; there is the way the
letter is put together; there is even the
way the letter is folded Ever think
that letters are folded so as to save
time nowadaysT
mo" said the advertising man ITS
all can do to get the stamps 10 put on
'em. My stenographer folds 'em all
right, guess. How sl5uld II be doneF"
Easy enough, simple enough. but
folded wrong often enough" said the
business man sentenuously. III your
typewriter knows her business she
takes the sheet aud folds II up from the
bottom toward the top, leaving the
proper width for the envelope, then
over from right 10 left and from left
70 right-so. Then when your letter Il
opened It is right side up. Seer
Il see. murmuEed the Adyerti1lng
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-07

we're bound 10 pay if you've a deposit
with US. The money IS always safe,
because our whole capital stock Is
balanced against it, When you want
TO use It, simply
SIGN YOUR NAME
10 check Your signature becomes
significant. II acquires weight among
business acquaintances. We cordially
nyite you 20 open an account with
US at any time. Money couldn't be
put In a better place
THE GUTHRIE NATIONAL BANK
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-07

man. "And how many applicants fold
their letters that way?'
"Oh. three or four out Of a dozen.
perhaps quite commentary on bust
ness as she is taught eh?" remarked
the business man as he strolled away
Springfield Republican.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-07
My Breath.
ShortneSS of Breath
Is One of the Conn
monest Signs of
Heart Disease,
Notwithstanding what many physic-
ians say. heart disease can be cured.


Notwithstanding what many physic-
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DR.. Miles New Heart Cure has per-
manently restored to health many
thousands who had found no relief IN
the medicines (allopathlc or homoeo-
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successful IN curing those diseases.
Nearly always. one OF the first signs
OF trouble Is shortness Of breath. wheth-
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~ the heart Is unable to meet this extra
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Il know that Dr. Miles New Heart
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and II 1 lay fiat on my back would nearly
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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-28
MEMORIAL DAY.
APPROPRIATE SERVICES TO BE
HELD BY CAMP PRESLEY.
All Veterans Urgedto be Present and
the Public Invited to Participate
Interesting Programme Arranged.

A meeting of Camp PRESLEY has
been called for Tuesday, May 10,
to participate i'll the Memorial SER
vices of that day. As business of
importance will be discussed it is
essentially necessary that every
member be present. Come forward =,
old comrades, your cooperation is
needed. Let us revive Camp Press
lev. Old soldiers not members of
any camp are invited to come and
enroll their names. All are requested
to assemble in the court house at
10 O'Clock a. m.
Sons of Veterans (if organized)
will conform TO the above order.
G. j. GRAHAM, II. H. KINDER.
Adiutant. Commandant.
The following programme has
been arranged for the day:
II o'clock. a. n., speeches by pa
triotic orators. To hear these the
audience will please be on hand
promptly. Patriotic songs and other
entertaining features by the school
children.
At the close of the meeting the
meeting the old "Vets" will form in
front of the court house and pre-.
pare to march to the different ceme-
teries where soldiers are buried in
the town.
The ladies are requested to atten d
in full force, as they constitute the
grand committee on decoration.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-28
THE NEWS AT BENSON.
Death of a Chih-A School Picnic
Agricultural and Meteorological.

BENSON, April 25:-On Thursday
night, April IA, Mr. j E Brown lost
one of his children about two years
old. have not been able to as Ger
tain the nature of the illness OF
which the child died.
Miss Ethel Nesmith's school at
this place will close next Wednesday,
the 9th inst, and on Thursday fol.
lowing picnic will be given to the
children, in which of course grown
ups Will participate. Can't you
make it convenient to be with Us or
that occasion, Mr. Editor?
Miss Mayme Grayson's school al
Bethea, Berkeley county, has closed
and she returned home Saturday
evening.
The drought is becoming quite
serious in this section.
Early..planted corn is well up to a
fair stand except where the birds
and insects have despoiled the fields,
in which case replanting has been
necessary. Late planted corn is slow
in coming up. 1t is thought that
cotton already planted will not germ.
mate until there is good rain.
For the past week the weather has
been wintry and several frosts were
noted, albeit the damage is apparent
ly slight. The past day or two has
been more spring-like, but We predict
that the end is not yet and there may
be a killing frost about the full of
the moon. W. 5. u.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-28
BEST COUGH MEDICINE FOR
CHILDREN.

When you buy cough medicine
for small children you want one In
which you can place Implicit conf
dence. You want one that NOT
only relieves bul cures. You wan
one that is unquestionahly harmless
You want one that is pleasant to
take. Chamber!ain's Cough REM
edy meets all OF these conditions.
There is nothing So good for the
G. ughs AID colds incident t" child
hoou. 1t is also certain prevent
i've and cure for Group, and there is
no danger whatever from whoop-
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been used in many epidemics OF
that disease with perfect success
For sale by DR. ID Z Scott, Kings
tree; Or W = Lynch, Scranton,
Lake City Drug Co, Lake City.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-28

What his competitors and their
friends sneered at as ''sickly sentl
mentality" in young Mr. Croft's am
Lition to succeed his father. the late
Con gresham George W Croft, for
his unexpired term seems not to be
so regarded by the voters of the sec
ond district, as Mr. Croft only lacked
a few hundred votes Ct winning out
il the first primary over all three OF
his competitors. AS it now
stands he will 60 into the
second primary with Sc M",yfeld
with lead of over two thousand
votes. The "sickly sentimentality"
has developed into pretty healthy
sentiment in Mr. Croft'S favor.