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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-09
Crop Conditions in the Carolinas.
Last Weeks South Carolina Crop
Bulletin.

thrce-iOurthS nnlSMeu, anu early
rIantings are coming up to good
t+onds: some cotton has been chop
nod IN the eastern counties. There
has been some replanting done in the
central counties where the nights
have been too cool. Corn planting is
now confined to bottom lands, and
generally to the western counties.
Early corn has good stands but is be-
mo severely damaged by cut and bud
worms. necessitating considerable re-
nlanting. The corn that was cut
down by the recent frosts is coming
ont again, and will not need to be
replanted. Early corn is being cul
tivated.
The wheat crop is being damaged
bv The fly in several northwestern
counties, but is otherwise promising.
The oats crop was scarcely injured
by the frosts and, with exceptions in
the southeastern counties, is in
promising condition though heading
too low in places.
Truck was greatly beenfted by the
showers of the week, and is promis-
ing except peas which were injured
bv the cold weather of February and
again in April. Some white potatoes
we're completely destroyed by the
frost. while the larger portion of the
crop is making a new growth. Large
shipments of strawberries being
made.
Protected peach and other fruit
trees were only lightly touched by
the frost of the 18th of April, in the
extreme northwest, while exposed
trees had all their fruit killed; the
damage is less in the central coun-
ties and very small in the eastern
ones. Apples are not promising.
Pear trees are blighting badly. Rice
planting has not yet begun in the
Georgetown district, and is about
finished in other districts. Tobacco
transplanting is well advanced gen.
orally, and finished in a few sections.
Melons and other minor crops are
now doing well. Pastures afford excel
lent grazing. The season is from one
week to ten days later than usual.
H-Latest North Carolina Crop Bulletin.
A large quantity of corn was
planted, and this work is we'll ad-
vanced towards completion; corn is
coming up tc good stands. and in
southern counties the early crop is
receiving its first cultivation; low
lands have not yet been planted.
Planting cotton is also proceeding
actively, large portion of the crop
having been put in during the past
week; evidences point to a definite
intention on the part of farmers to
materially reduce the acreage in
cotton; about all the cotton has been
planted in the extreme southern por-
ton; cotton is terminating rapidly
and promises good stands. Planting
peanuts is under way. Transplant
ing tobacco has commenced in sew
eral counties (Pitt, Johnson. Column
bus. etc.); the plants have made
rapid growth and are healthy and
vigorous; scarcity of plants is re-
ported from very few counties.
Wheat, fall oats, rye, as well as
spring oats continue to make vigo-
rous growth and are exceptionally
me IN most of the important grain
growing counties of the State; wheat
Is 8tooling nicely. Grasses and clo--
yer are also fine, pastures are ex-
cclient and stock is in very good con-
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-09


nesErEng to introduce to the growers of
~ South WONDERFUL VARIETY OF I'M
PROVED SEED CORN,
BATTLES PROLIFIC
which has made such magnificent yields wherever
tried have decided offer four prizes stated
the first best second best third BEST and fourth best
developed and largest grown from this seed Each
contestant to send fifty by November l5 1906
and the judges will then decide among which four
growers the Sl00 will be divided.
The following well-knOwn gentlemen have consented
to act as judges in this contest:
T. B. PARKER, Secretary and Business Agent of the
North Carolina Farmers Alliance, Raleigh.
COL JULIAN s. CARR, owner Of Occoneechee Farm,
and President of First National Bank, Durham.
DR.. @. w. BURKET Professor of Agriculture at A.
& M College, and Agricultural Editor of THE PRO
GRESSIvE FARMER, Raleigh.
BATTLES PROLIFIC
is A MAGNIFICENT WHITE DENT CORN, and
if there prizes the increased yield will
richly repay you for giving it trial. You have moth
ing to lose, and splendid opportunity to win nice
prize. Ten Cents may bring you $5O Order to-day
and enter the contest
packet 1Oc pint &c., quart 45c.; by mail post
paid. For further Information and prices on larger
quantities, write
f. G. BATTLE, Mgr. Southern Seed Company,
DURHAM, N. c.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-09
The Advertisers in The Progressive Farmer

and Will do they es
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
BIG LEATHER FIRM
joins THE / UNITED NJ |. D
IellI7

Y ~ - 81 4 q
Especial to The Times Dspatch.)
$iWINCHEsTER, VA, September 2s.-'The
big leather fitm Of Cover & Drayton, Of
Winchester, Philadelphia and Chicago.
has been formerly transferred to the
United States Leather Company, the
papers having been filed in Jersey City
yesterday. The price, while not stated.
ia understood to be sl05o0oo. Thomas
Cover, ST., who started the business many
years ago, has retired but his sons and
former partners, Loring A.. Cover, and
Thomas Cover, Jr., will remain with the
new owners, Henry T., Drayton, Of Phil
adelphia, will also retire.
l It is reported that the company will be
.reorganized under the name OF the Cover
Tanning Company, and operated under
tho direction OF the trust. The sale In
cllldes tho business of Cover & Drayton
and their ex tensive tanneries at the Mar
rows, Giles county, Va; Lost City. Moore-,
field and Capon Bridge. Hampshire coun-
ty,5W, Va, which will continue to be
operated The purchase price LOT these
was 81, 700 900. Tho United States Leather
Company has also bought from the Cover
Drayton firm 100, 600 acres Of timber land,
estimated as being worth $3.50, 900, An order
to close tho transaction 100000 in cash
was paid and the trust is to pay 500, 900
n month until the business Is paid for.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
GIRL BEATEN TO DEATH
BY HER ANGRY BROTHER

WILLIAMSBURG, VA. September 49, n
Bully Fpps, a negro boy about fifteen
years old, was arrested BY Sergeant Law al,''-
son to-day. charged with killing his SIS
ter, a small girl The crime was com
mittcd about : week ago about SIX !. m'les
from town, md the girl hurrledly buried i,u!
BY the family. Later It leaked out th Ia't
the child had been beaten to dcHth $pv
her brother. e ~
4 Justice III 4 r. Armlstcad Issued a var
rant for the boys arrest. The mother
or Epps admitted to the officer that the
child had died after being beaten by her her
brother. 5%3. is pa X III 4$ ~ rs
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
Supreme Court Of Appeals.

1I771g Especial Ito The TImes-DIspatch.J rs
sTAJNToN, VA, Sept 23,-The SUI
prcme Court held an extra session this
morning and heard argument in the fol-
lowing cases
Duncan Campbell ct ais VS.. Bryant cl
ala, Circuit Court, Amherst argued ed ana Y
submitted #
Lane Bros Company vs.. W. L. Leak
ford, Circuit Court A1bemarle county,.
continued until next term. Gfi
R Williams VI. Virginia state insurance
cnmnnny, !, from n Circuit Court Nelson
county, continued. 4G
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
THEY must PAY
FOR THU /: I. STOCK 8 | | OK
Jamestown Exposition Company
Receivers Against Small
Subscribers.
TO RAISE 4. |: !: ASSESSMENTS E: Is
Valuation Of Railroad and Steam
ship Property ii Norfolk to
Be Increased,
\ RAISE ASSESSMENTS.

Especial to The ;Tmes-Dspatch.)
NORFOLK, VA, Sept. 23,-The James
town Exposition Company to-day secured
Judgment In Magistrate Bonnle's court
against seventeen delinquent subscribers
TO the stock Of tho Exposition Company,
The amounts Of Judgments range from
s5S to 800. Other like cases will be heard
In the Justices court next week, and
cases against delinquents for more than
500 will DO heard in the Corporation
Court. Prominent citizens are among
those being sued but there arc COM
met their obligations.
To Increase Assessment.
The Finance Committee of the City
Council has takon stops to have Increased
the assessed valuation OF railroad and
steamship corporation property, The as
sesscd valuation of all other property In
tho city has been Increased by tho as
SCISSORS. It Is the opinion of the Finance
Committee that the value OF property Of
these corporations should also be In
creased. Tho local appraisers have ap'
praised the property according to pres
emit values, and CITY Attorney McllWalHe
ha staken the figures to Richmond for
the purpose of having them approved. II
possible, by the Corporation Commission.
The big schooner Maria O'Teel driftsd
ashore on Willoughby Spit Mt ebb tide
this morning, The tug Chesapeake made
an effort to pull her of shortly after she
stuck hut was not successful; however,
at high lido this evening shs was floated
without injury to herself and proceeded
on her way to Salem. Mass, with her
cargo of coal, taken aboard at l4amberts
Point
John Bright. keeper of the Portsmouth
Almshouse who has been III for long
while, has become mentally unbalanced,
and to-day was removed from the aims
house TO the jail hospital.
Out Of Car, Into Prison.
To be locked in a box car from We'd
nesday morning until Saturday morn
ing Without water, and then to he SEN
fenced to thirty days in jail. WAS the
fate OF Robert Smith, colose,i, He de-
clares that he got the car Wednesday
morning at Florence s. O. where. he
says, a brakeman agreed TO take MN 70
q point up the road for a pins Of WAaeSey,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
.WOMAN's REFUSAL TO DANCE
q. LEADS TO GENERAL ROW

76T# (SpecInl to The TIfnes-DlspHtCH.J N
x sTAttNTON, vA.,t Sept. A.--As the re-
suit Of a free 70 rail night Mt. HSerroll,.
Augusta county. Wednesday night Johh
Downey, II young Hercules. was sent on
10 the grand Jury here to-day and later
btlicd b yhis mother. M 4. iii J. q !,
v lady / IL dance 1T trcrroll refused TO
dance with .Downcy. and he started
row, Downcy, according to his account eAlf' !,
was po,inccd upon by three women a l'1I1
Two men, lie was badly bruised about tlit
the face, and his eyes were ~ bud con- i, !.
Idtion. lie seems 7 o have done rs muc zen
damage as his opponents received. IA
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
,New Enplanders Here.

Mr.. A. w. n Corey chief OF police Of
Brookline, Mass, with Mr. Clarence ~ ~
sDelano prominent secret order man. man.
are visiting In Richmond They were e. e e:
tended the courtesies OF the city py me
police headquarters men. .5a|. N D,
Police Captain Vogel, sof Newa TX, J n il
is also in the city, and has been shown
around BY the officers X
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
Colonel Boykin Chairman.

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.)
Ell SUFFOLK. VA, III September 23.-After
a friendly contest on the part Of their
adherents, lasting nearly two hours, Col
onel r. =. SBoykin to-day was re- oleot ed
chairman Of the NanscHon County DEM
ocrat!c Executive Committee over W. J.
Kendrick, the vote being eight to- four.
Kendrick later was chosen treasurer and
p. L. Pruden was elected secretary.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
Granted a Divorce.
I aoi,, - INC rim as Dlspatch,)

WINCHESTER VA September ga
decree was entered In the Corporation
Court to-day granting q divorce q ylnculo
matrimonie to Mrs. Mamie O'Neill Leafe
from her husband, !. fiji Lindsay Leafe
formerly OF ilvinchester, utinows Of Ports
mouth, Va. Mr.. Leafe was until recently
the lending bass singer OF the Red
Feather Opera Company. The couple
have not lived together for ngnumber OF
ycars afN.sESsWslHg {# II b9gS5}
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24

who have given III 10 the demands in
this city.
'.rhe master printers iintc also sul
ceeded III placing contracts for about 600,
Oto ems weekly for tho various weekly
and monthly publications. for which they
had contracts. The linotype offices do
Ing the work for them are located IN
small towns, arc operated by non-tnioll
people,, II. .E
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24

iIe paId tho. price and got In the car, but.
When. lie wanted to get out found the
car nailed up, He maize frantic EFFORTS
ID make his Imprisonment In the car
known, but was not successful nnttl this
morning after the car had arrived az
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
Commissioner I oses Badge.

- '- n
a police commissioner Of the city sew
eral DAYS ago lost his badge, which he
would be very glad to have returned to
any of the police stations. u. The badge
Is absolutely worthless TO any one other
than the commissioner 5f
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
Duffy'S Pure Malt Whiskey

prescribed
lin
dbyth
dyspepsia
weakened diseased con-
OIL It
souAe medicn
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24

Pinner's Point, He Was faint from thirst
an4 hunger when taken from the oar.
aa1i when given fcod and water fa afs
asa drank With Tho rapacitS Of a beast;
nv was late rsentenced to JAN for srss-
pAaaains on the railway properly Il 81
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24

Buys Chemical Engine.
Especial to The Times Dispatch)
q STAUNTON. VA, Sept. % The city
ha spurchased a fine chemical engine ut
a cost Of fifteen hundred dollars. I ,{
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
fGlassblowers Hold Meeting.

Tho glass blowers OF the Blair Ruehl
Glass Factory held a meeting last night.
when they passed resolutions, saying
that they were free-born citizens and
that they reserved the rightio meeting
when and where they pleased and they
we're not beholden to the glass company
or any one else This meeting was held
in reference to their entering a certain
saloon In Manche s ter. 4 5l H
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24

tober nth They will occupy the va cant IAN
grounds next to the store OF Moore and
Burke. The show, which Will occupy,
six coaches In It's passage here, Is saln
1 to be excellently gotten up and one well.
worth seeing. There will be two per-
.formances on the date Of its arrival.
l Services will be at Sacred y cart
Church to-day at 9 o'clock and q 1o $50
o'clock 81 . &.
Mr.. j. Budd Morgan. Of Rocky Mount
n. c. IS visiting friends in Manchester.
Mr. Robert B.. Reynolds Of n o.S. -
I1nll street, win visit the Big Five Club,
Of Norfolk, to-day. He will return to
Manchester in few days.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
Nurse and Patients
Praise Dudy'S

Capable Experienced Nurses
nvgorntig, Tfe-GvinE
ag55 nndC Curative Properties or DuFFY's PURE 5E
NiAIT WlisI
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-24
.'.'ON.EAsY STREET
SAYS | N Mr.. NAD |: .E|YI'
Employing Printers State That
They Have Made Con-
tracts.
Mr.. R0BT. WHlTTET's LETTER
Mt. Pace, President Of Local
Union, Makes All Interesting
Statement.

The strike situation remains prac tically
the same as when the men walked out
two weeks ago..
When seen yesterday. Mr.. Pace, presl-
dent Of the local typographical union
said that he had no statement to make.
,rhe strikers, he said except In few
cases were standing firm, and that those
union men who had returned to work
had not been really counted upon by the
union. He further sud tha- the union
had gained as many men as It had lost.
So satisfactory, In fact, are the reports
that the international Union has Advised
and recommended that the assessment
levied when the strike began be cut In
ghulf.s The first assessment was 20 per
cent. Of the wages Of those at work. and
the action Of the union last night reduces
this to 10 per cent. which is indica tive,
according to the printers, that they arc
moro than satisfied with the condition
of Kings.
n Mr.. Everett Wnddcy, for the employing
printers, gave out the following state
ment last night:
'The situation is becoming each day q
little clearer here. One or two men who
went out arc coming back every day
or two and trying for their old positions
and every day one or two new men are
coming In from out OF town. SO thatseach
office Is turning out a little more work
in their composing rooms each day. and
the employers confidently expect in about
two weeks more to be able TO take care
or such new business as tho public may
have to Offer ia
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-09-16
-.-4
EFFECT OF GUN FIRE.
nen in Engine Rooms Of War Yes
sells Not Uncomfortable.

Some highly interesting facts, says
@the Army and Navy Journal, as to the
: feet of modern gun fire on the en-
eines and boilers of armCred war
ships have been brought ont by an
| examination of several of the Russian
vessels disabled during operations in
Ne far east. There has been wide
spread belief in professional circles
that the men stationed in what Kip
Ing picturesquely describes as 1.-THE
little hell below" would have all eX-
cccdingIy uncomfortable time Of II
during sea fight under modern condi-
ions. but experience has shown that
the engine room and the boiler room
II the battleship and cruiser Of to-day
arc somewhat the most comfortable
parts Of such vessels The captain CT
the Russian cruiser Nariag states that
after the terrific battering his ship
received al Chemulpo her machinery
T. low worked as smoothly as if she
had only been engaged in target prac-
lice The battleship CZarevitch, ham
mered and almost dismantlcd in the
battle off Port Arthur, was taken in
charge by a midshirman after all
his Superior officers were killed or
wounded and steamed away safely to
Tsngtan with her engines and boil
ers only slightly damaged. The bat
tleships Retvizan and Pobieda were
both almost totally wrecked in their
upper works in one of the engage
ments off Port Arthur, but were able
TO return to shelter with their own
steam and SO little were their en-
gncs and boilers injured that both
vessels ran out to sea a few days
later
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-09-16
Treasures of the Vatican,

The vatican is city, nay. a little
kingdom in itself. It's thousands OF
rooms are divided up into libraries
art galleries. chapels, monasteries, mu
seums, mausoleums, administrative
halls and private suites, says the
Four Track News. Within the portals
OF the vatican the impression wrought
up by its disappointing exterior van
ishes completely. Here all is one vast
silence. No echo from the outside
world penetrates to disturb it's Sc
rene peace. Dignity and decorum per-
wade the atmosphere and, in the deep
stiffness, pictures from it's tremendous
past come and 60 as in a panorama.
Pestilence, fire and war have ragged
within these old walls. Mailed Sara
Gems camped within it's sacred pre-
cincts, and vandals from the brutal
North bivouacked in it's sanctuary and
destroyed its finest treas
lres. Many are the nations the vati-
can guarded and watched alternately
rom afar, and many are the dynasties
t has seen rise and fall
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-09-16
TERROR OF THE SEA.
Greatest Danger That Confronts
Mariners Is the DereIct.


OF all the spectacles Of the seas,
none is SO tragic as the derelict, the
errant Of the n; ckless deep, writes
=. I. McGrath in McClure's. Weird
beyond description is the picture pre-
sented by some broken and battered
hulk, as she swings into view against
the Sky line. with the turgid green
seas sweeping over her moss grown
decks, and a splintered fragment of
mast pointing upward, as if in protest
against her undolng. 1t is a sight also
to arouse fear.
For the derelict is the most potent
Of all the dangers that threaten the
scafarer. Silent, stealthy, invisible, it
is the terror Of the mariner 1t is the
arch-hypocrite Of the deep. Against
it skill Of seamanship, vigilance in
watching, avail not. Lights and whis-
Ties, beams and buoys proclaim the
proximity of land; the throbbing OF
engines, the noise Of shipboard life
tell Of an approaching vessel; iceberss
and ice foes betray themselves by
their ghostly radiance and surround
ing frigidity Of air The derelict gives
no warning, makes no signal. The
first sign of its existence is the crash,
the sickening tremble and quaver Of
the ship suddenly wounded to death.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-09-16
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NEW ORLEANS.

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Tulane makes leaders in al vocaions. Its
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tnexceii"t opportunities for
the stu,:t Of Sugar Chs IN stry. Many : mol
arehirs IN the a"ad rnlc Department. Ex-
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b eilis October LIST. send for catalogue
Actress.
THE REGISTRAR Gibson Hall.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-09-16
41SS,ELLA OFF, indianapolis, Ind.
&E'[RED FOR MONTHS:
Pe-fu-na, the Remedy That Cured

Miss Ella OFF. lic7 Linden st., Indian.
apolis, Ind, writes:
~ suffered rim u ran. dOmH con-
SfffMfiON for ScCrtHt mOHttS. and
feared that 4 trOuid haze to gire APP
my eCOTir.
''OH seeking the ndcicc oJn pm YSi-
clan, he prescribed ~ tonic. 1 /ouHd,
hOMfrcr, that IL ala me no good on
SeSEtNg the ddrice ri onr druggist.
ne asked me To try P"runa. IN a
5eU aCceIcs 4 bcgdn 0Icei ana act iiLc
001HereHt person. Ny appetite iH-
CEeHsed, did not haze mat WOpH-
ont feetfng, and Icouid steep spi'm-
daily. In a couple Oj months Tas
entirely recovered. HGHE yOu for
Avtht yOMr mcdicinc has done for
nsef'---Eiia on:
.fNrite DIR. Hartman. President Of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus Ohio. for
fl1N medical advice. All correspondence
is held strictly confidential
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-09-16
Detects "Doctored' Maple Syrup,

c. H. Jones, a Vermont chemist has
worked out method whereby he is
able to tell when maple sugar is adul
tcratcd by the addition Of the cane va
riety. The discovery Is said to be new
and valuable to the chemists. The
head Of the Canadian revenue service
las spent several days recently in Mr.
Jones laboratory. and as a result has
several prosecutions under way
against Canadian producers
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-09-16
Error in Encyclopedia,

A famous English encyclopedia bear
tng date Of 1884, contains the follow.
ing peculiar statement: Newton, q
township in Massachusetts,, United
States of America, on Charles river,
eight miles west of Boston. 1t con.
tains two villages, Upper Falls and
Lower Falls, with three paper mills,
lhree cotton and hosiery factories, a
Baptist theological seminary and
twelve churches"