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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
LABOR WORLD.

Texas and Oklahoma farmers have
labor unions.
New York's bologna makers are
thinking of going on strike.
4 union Of shoe workers was formed
in Yauco, Porto Rico, recently.
Laundry wagon drivers of Los An
geles, Cal, have been ~reorganized.
The strike IN Moscow is spreading
and agitators are openly preaching a
revolution.
The strike Of workers in the harbors
of Buenos Ayres and Rosario is still
in progress.
At Waltham, Mass. the Master Ma
sons will hereafter be included in the
Masons' Union.
II Holland the textile workers have
an independent organization number
ing about 1000.
The Strike Committee of the Social
Democrats, of Germany, has published
q report for 1904.
To-day the miners unions in Illinois
hold nearly 100000 of the best organ
iZ~d men in the world.
The strike of carpenters and ~ioiners
at Glasgow, Scotland. has been settled
by mutual concessions.
Victoria, B. c.. has been chosen for
the next convention OF the Dominion
Trades and Labor Congress.
4 81, 100000 plant to employ $500
persons will be erected on Staten ISL
and by the Proctor & Gamble Com
pany.
The IDEA of compulsory insurance is
being adopted against great opposition
by several American labor organiZa-
tons.
Residents of Elsdon. ILL.,, drove out of
town every non-union man ready to
take the place of striking switchmen Of
the Grand Trunk Road.
William Huston, a member of the Ma
tional Board of the United Mine Work
ers of America, has been organizing
the eoke-workers in Pennsylvania.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25

ignorance and the lack of informa-
ton has cost the Southern farmer many
dollars, and in many ways. First be-
cause We have not hid the practical,
chemical knowledge of our soils. We
have spent millions Of dollars in sup
plying our land with f%ertilizing ma
terial that they were not deficient in.
For instance, some of u lands are
well supplied with nitrogen or ammo
MIA, especially after certain crops have
been grown the previous year. Others
contain potash OF lime, or acid phos-
phate. Still, as a rule, the farmer will
buy a complete fertilizer for his crop,
when only certain material is needed,
thus spending large sums Of money for
material with which his soils are al
ready supplied.
1--WE have wasted time and money
in poor preparation of the soils for u
crops, and in the improper cultivation
Of anne.
''The lack of knowledge in judging
livestock and the proper car of same
has also been expensive to the South
ern farmer.
"Another thing that has cost the
farmers of our St: .te enormous sums
of money is the habit we have of go
ing from home to buy our mules, hay,
corn, meat and other things we could
so easily raise at home; for instance,
Edgecombe County raised last year
ABOUT $4,000 bales of cotton that sold
for about one million dollars, and she
spent the same year for mules, meat,
hay, corn and fertilizers about three
ffths of this whole amount or $780,
600. Not only did we pay out this
large amount for something we could
have raised at home, but the over
production Of cotton cost us nearly an
amount equal to this, the difference in
price we could have gotten had the cot
ton crop been reduced sufficiently to
have enabled US to raise these things
at home.-E. L. Daughtridge in ad-
dress at Farmers State Convention,
Raleigh, N. G.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Fertilizers For Small Grain.

In the old days when a new ground
was cleared every winter, the farmer
always had fresh land we'll supplied
with plant food f L his wheat. He
generally gathered corn as early as
possible and sowed his wheat by plow-
ing in with tongue OF shovel plows.
A two-horse brush or harrow was run
over the land to smooth the rough
places and knock down the corn stalks.
That was the old method and good
crops were made on the virgin soil.
But the new ground days are yer and
our small grain has to be made on
land devoid Of humus to a great ex-
tent. Some kind Of fertilizer is neces-
sary to make a good yield. Stable and
lot manure is the best application, but
no farmer has enough of that. Cot
ton seed applied at the rate of twenty
to thirty bushels to the acre is excel
lent for wheat or oats. That is very
expensive, however, for thirty bushels
of seed at twenty cents would buy 600
pounds Of standard fertilizer, or about
500 pounds of cotton seed meal. It
Is not we'll to make a heavy applica-
ton of nitrogen in the fall, especially
the quick kinds, such as are generally
used in the high grade and high priced
fertilizers. Ammonia when quite solu-
BILE is inert in the winter and much
may be lost by teaching and evapora-
ton. Apply only poatsh and phos-
phoric acid in the fall.
Farmers should mix their own fer
t%ilizers. When they buy them mixed
they pay $3.50 to $500 a ton for the
mixing. Buy fourteen per cent. phos-
rhoric acid and gainit, or muriate of
potash. If the land is in "good heart
as it is called, and there is humus
enough in it to keep it in good condi-
ton. use the following for wheat:
1000 pounds fourteen per cent. phos-
phate.
600 pounds kainit.
The analyst. will be 9.S and 3.75 and
the cost Of a ton will be $3.50 cash.
1t requires little time to mix it. If
the land has little nitrogen add to the
above about fifty pounds of nitrate Of
soda, or y pounds OF cotton seed
meal. If the wheat is yellow and not
growing we'll when the first warm
days of spring come, apply fifty to
seventy-fve pounds Of nitrate of soda
and run a smoothing harrow or weeder
over it. For oats put in with a drill
in the open furrow mix the following:
1000 pounds fourteen per cent. acid;
600 pounds kainit:
400 pounds cotton seed meal.
Mix thoroughly and apply POO to 800
pounds to the acre. Applying 200
pounds to the acre the cost will be
about S1.75. If the oats are not max
ms q vigorous growth in March apply
fifty pounds Of nitrate and run smooth
ing harrow over them. Charles
Petty, Spartanburg County. S. c.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Travelling in France.
Grocer.

Compelled to choose between the
two, the devoted French husband and
father would sooner separate himself
from his. family in travelling than from
his baggage, though. as a matter Of
fact-a marvel of his devotion to both
h seldom fails to keep them all to-
gether. In registering ones trunks, in
making ones way to the train, one
trips over bath tubs and lawn mowers,
bumps into cage beds, runs into dogs
and cats ~snarling in crates, and strug-
giles horribly with the ubiquitous
father, brayely clutching a string of
children by one hand. while with the
other he embraces the innumerable
bags and bundles containing all the
household goods he has not checked,
and-a further degree of martyrdom to
the French ideal of family unity-at
every shift Of his baggage, at every
step of the family's progress through
the care, he halts to consult his wife,
attached to, tho string Of children at
the other end, to debate with her, to
resist her opinions, and generally in
the end to agree with her.-Harper's
Bazaar.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Quarantine Against the Yellow
Fever Only a Memory
REJOICING VERY GENERAL
Texas Modifes Her Quarantine in
Favor Of People Who Will Make
Satisfactory Afddavits and Alabama
is Expected to Act Soon.

New Oraleans, Special.-Report to
6 p. N. Sunday:
New cases, 2; total, 1851.
Deaths, none; total, 1876.
New focus, l.
Under treatment, Is; discharged,
1858.
While Sunday was the fifth conse-
cutive day on which no deaths were
reported, which in itself was a cause
for much general satisfaction, the
most gratifying information came in
the shape Of a telegram from the
State health officer Of Mississippi that
at 6 p. m. all Mississippi quarantine
would be raised. Another source Of
congratulation was a telegram from
DR.. Tabor, Of Texas, to DR.. White, to
the effect that Texas would admit peo-
pie from Louisiana who would make
an affidavit that they had not been
near an infected point for six days
previously. 1t is believed that the
Texas restrictions will be entirely re-
moved in a short time, and that Ala
bama will also remove all restrictions
in a short time. The removal of the
Mississippi quarantine is the cause
Of the greatest satisfaction, because
Of the close relation between this
city and the Gulf Coast, which is
regarded as practically a suburb of
New Orleans.
There were no reports Of new cases
or deaths from the country parishes
Those places which did report had no
new eases.
Houston, Texas, Specialize State
of Texas lifted its quarantine against
all points in Louisiana except those
which are infected. Persons who en-
ter this State will be required to take
oath as to point Of origin, but no
health certificates are required. Be-
fore making the order, Dr.. Tabor
sounded the sentiment at Orange.
Beaumont and Houston, the places
nearest he border.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Stockholders Sue Land Company.

Jasper, Ala, special.-A bill was
filed IN the Chancery Court here by
j. III. Hayes, a minority stakeholder,
against the Jasper Land Company
and l.. B. Musgrove, seeking to have
a receiver appointed for the land
company and a general accounting Of
its affairs. The company has IN au-
thorized capital stock Of $5o0,o0O,
divided into 5000 shares Of Il par
value Of $500.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Harvesting and Shedding Corn.

With six years Of experience in
cutting and %shredding my corn, and
being asked questions very often in
| regard to the matter, I have decided
to ask you to publish through your
valuable paper a few thoughts of my.
experience.
First. Don't cut your corn too green.
Wait until the corn is thoroughly ripe.
The shucks should be somewhat yell
low and the fodder thoroughly ripe
Let it stand a week longer than most
people would if they were going to
| pull the fodder.
Two. Shocking is a matter that must
be well considered. Do not have
| shocks too large or too small. If your
corn is very large stalk put about 100
stalks to a shock; if medium, 125
stalks; if small, $50 stalks. This wilt
cause your corn to cure better than
in larger shocks, but do not make
them too small, for they will not
stand up SO well.
A great help in shocking corn is to
take a 2x4 scantling fifteen feet long,
nail two legs four feet long to end Of
it. let the other end rest on, the
ground, bore n and one-half inch
anger hole through the fifteen foot
scantling about twenty-four inches
from the legs, put something like an
old fork handle in the hole, then set
your corn about in the our spaces
and your shocks will stand up much
better than to shock it without any
thing. Take a rope about twelve feet
long, tie a ring in n end of the rope.
put it around the shock, draw it very
tight, and then tie the shock with
binder Irvine about middle way be-
tween the ends of shock, and also near
the top.
Let your corn stand from five to six
weeks in the field, owing to the
weather. 1t is better to shred it as
you haul it, as it saves handling it so
much.
Now as to the grain in harvesting
your corn. I can cut ten acres OF
corn, shred it, put the rough feed and
corn in the barn for about one-third
less thar to gather it in the old way.
l have doubled the quantity Of rough
feed. and 1 find that the shocks will
readily eat eighty per cent. OF this
rough feed: which gives me thirty per
| cent. more than 1 would get il l
shouid pull the fodder. l also save
thir y-three and a third per cent. in
gathering, thirty per cent. in value Of
rough feed and get heavier and better
| corn than if l should pull the fodder
NJ. L. Blalock, Norwood, n. C., in
Stanly Enterprise.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Five Drowned Of Yonkers. N. Y,

Yonkers, n. Y, SpeciaI.-F'ive per-
sons, the body Of M having been re-
covered, are believed to have been
drowned by the running down Of a
cat boat by a tug off South Yonkers,
When assistance reached the boat
there was found aboard it q list OF
the party who had gone sailing. There
we're: Edward Nelson. his son Ed
ward. Benjamin Benson. Edward
Simpson and Carl Thompson; all OF
South Yonkers. Later the body of
Benson was found.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25

much it means to me to came back to
Roswell the home Of my mother and
my mothers people, and to see the
spot, which I already know so well
from what my mother and my aunts
told me. It has been exactly IS if !
were re-vis;ting some old place OF my
childhood.
"{& hes been my VERY greet good
fortune TO have th~ right to claim
that my blood is half Southern anf
hail Northern, and /! would deny the
ri@iA If any man h2re to feel a great
pr pride il the deeds OF every South
crntv than I feel
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
SOUTHERN = FARM :: NOTES,
TOPICS or INTEREST TO The PLANTER, sTocKMAN AND TRUCK eqowEe,
p'@.u:

for want of attention. 1 know farmers
now land unfortunately their name is
legion), who have from this sort of
neglect lost all their vegetables and
now their wives are put to it to find
something to cook. Now this ought
not to be so. Work while you work;
play while you play, is the way to be
cheerful, happy and gay, but toe
much of it will put you Oh short ra-
tons.
No n likes to see the young and
old folks enjoy themselves more than
I, but there should be moderation in
all things. Have hours to work and
hours to play.
Now begin to cultivate your turnips.
Those tomato vines that have fallen
down and died with bushels of neg
,ected tomatoes on them, can be cut
off, cultivated and MANNED suckers
will put up from the roots. These will
bear a crop of late tomatoes, Some
will get ripe before frost. Then take
all green ones that are grown or
nearly SO, wrap them in paper and hay
them on a shelf. They will ripen. In
this way 1 have had ripe tomatoes
Christmas day. I have treated mine
so two weeks ago, or a part of them,
at least. They are now blooming.
Work out YOU celery and begin to
earth up slowly. Work your parsnip
and carrots and beets. Look after
your Irish potatoes. If they are On the
ground take up and put them in the
house till cold weather, then keep
them away for the winter. Look after
your small fruit vines or bushes and
flowers.
Your COWS now should be fed with
plenty of succulent food and some
grain, too, or they will lose their flow
of milk.
That pork will be higher goes with
out saying, so push your hogs, varying
their food, using corn, peas, and sweet
potatoes alternately.
With plenty of fine fruit, vegetables
peas, beans, green c%orn-both fresh,
canned and dried, poultry. eggs, pork
and beef, with fresh and salt fish, we'll
cooked anu pFepareu, WHat Hofe couiu
the President of the United States,
or any of the crowned heads Of the
world ask-except the dowager EN-
press, who perhaps would like a few
rats and some birds nests for desert?
No reason why the farmers who raise
everything should not be the best fed
people on earth; so don't neglect your
opportunities.-J. H. Parker, Perqui-
mans County, N. c., in Progressive
Farmer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Wheat Crop Short.

Mexico City, Special.-The short
ness Of the wheat crop is greater than.
was estimated a few weeks ago and
millers are looking for the entire re-
moval Of the duty on American and
Canadian wheat by the first of next
year. The city bakers have reduced
the size Of their %loaves, asserting that
it is impossible to give the same
weight as formerly. There are some
stocks of wheat in tie hands Of large
farmers here, but not sufficient to
bring down the price, which is stead
lily rising. The price of cor is also
rising, the advance being over fifty
per cent. as compared with the prices
of August. This causes hardship
among the poor. There is a probabi-
lily of the duty on corn being ahated,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
.Riis Supporting Mcclellan.

New York. Speciai.-Jacob A. Ris,
friend Of President Roosevelt, and
worker for reform III the poor dis
tricts of the East Side, declared that
he should support Mayor Mcclellan
"until he is elected, because he has
made a good, an honest, an cticlens
and a dignifed mayor; because he IS
George B. Mcclellan and deserves and
will get the thanks Of the people OF
New York and their votes"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Holding to Hang.

.Asheville, special.-A special from
sylvia says: Judge Neill has senten-
ced John Holden, convicted at this
term Of Jackson county court, In ses-
sion at Webster, to he harecG he
tween the hours of IL and 10, Deem
Der G., for the murder Of his wife, Re
be1ca Holden, last August. Will
Honden, son Of the murdered woman,
was acquitted. Tile evidence was
circumstantial. The condemned mai
claims that he is innocent.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
KEEP WELL!
Health the Only Real Physical Asset
Worth Having.

Worth Having.
What shall it profit a man if he gain
the whole world and lose his grip on
health? 1t is probable that the bril-
liant generaliZers who accuse the
American of this or that trait after
having observed a half dozen cases of
its existence arc as far astray in say
iEg that it is particularly the American
who lives at such a headlong gait that
he is the most short lived weakling on
earth. as they are in the majority Of
their attempts to become famous by
smart epigrams at what they are
pleased to call the new American peo-
pie. Now the fact is, we are not any
newer than any other people Oh earth
as far as our physical traits are con-
cerned. There ought to be an end of
this twaddle about America being a
new country and its people a new peo-
pie. We are grown up and that is all
anybody can be. But while we will
stand no %lecturing from outsiders on
the score Of health and will be very
apt to say to them. You are another"
if they persist in their impertinence,
and tell the truth when we do, it will
do us no harm to remember that pretty
much the only pebble IN the beach in
this world is good health. and that the
way to lost it, for ourselves and our
children, is to be il such a furious
haste to get rich that we dock our
hours for rest at both ends and then
.z.I l.
kinds for the lack Of energy which ma
tUre refuses to give is on such terms.
What is worth doing at all is worth
doing well. and that reverend observa-
ton applies to living as patty as any
thing else We know of.-New England
Grocer
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
$50 600 Fire in Ridgeway, Pa.

Ridgeway. Pa, Spec;al-Incendiary
fires IL the central part Of the Dor
ouoh late Sunday night destroyed sew
eral buildings, an op Ia h"usc, the
finest in this section, being burned
with 100000 loss or the building; IN
a $4,000. Reports of suppos-
e. house breakines resulted II 'he
calling out Of the militia. No ar
rests have been made.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Won Trophy Cup.

Raleigh, Special.-In the Senate
Chamber, Immediately after the ar
rival of the Presidential party, from
the train, the President presented to
Mr.. John Charles MeNeill, we'll known
and loved as the purest writer of lyric
verse in the State The Patterson low
ing cup warded by judges of the
North Carolina Library and Hlstorl-
cal Society produced during the past
wear.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Lexington Furniture Factory Sold.

Lexington, special.-Mr. J. N.
Mendenhall, trustee, IN bankruptcy
for the Rex Furniture Company, sold
the entire plant and equipment of the
company at public auction. J. I. He
drick, Of Lexington, was the highest
bidder, purchasing the plant for &c.
500. It is not known yet exactly what
the purchaser will DO with the plant,
if the sale is made final. 1t is more
than probable that the company will
be reorganized and the factory will
continue to be operated with some
changes in the line Of goods made.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
A Monument Unveiled

Saxapahaw, Specal.-At a reunion
of the Woody family at Spring church
q monument was unveiled bearing the
following inscription: "John W.
Woody and Wife, Pioneer Settlers
and Parents Of the Woody Family,
South.' The monument is Of North
Carolina and New Hampshire granite
and was unveiled by little Thomis
Clarkson Woody, of High Falls.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Pointed Paragraphs.

Sur " Itlay sends many of her sons
to tA.a country to dispense shines at
the re of 5 cents per.
Of, u there is a good deal more
business in a church than there is
religion in a place Of BUSINESS.
A ninety-eight-pound lump Of femi-
nine loneliness can make a 2eo-pound
man look like a grain Of sand in a
nickl's worth Of sugar.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
Sentance Sermons.

Kindness is the key to every heart.
Fidelity IS the best evidence of
Faith.
No big success can come to a little
sonl.
Saving money IS not being saved by
money.
Sorrow is often one way Of spell
ling strength.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
In Your Garden Now.

Many farmers work hard all summer
and raise fine crops and have fine gar
dens, but as o 0 as crops are laid by
they stop all name OF work. In Il
short time all vegetables are over
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25

About seventy specimens of the ex-
tinct great aux are now preserved i'll
museums. A specimen recently sold il
London brought $4,000.
Samples of the papaya. or Mexican
pawpaW, have been sent to American
paper makers to be tested for it's adapt
ability for the manufacture of high
grades of paper.
Since q Monaco engineers discovery
that an electric current will free the
soil from insects, the idea has been
held that electricity should aid in abat-
ing the insect plaques Of Southern
Europe.
Artificial zinc ortho-silicate does not
fuoresce like the natural substance
willemite-from Franklin Furnace. N.
J. The addition of traces of manga
nese makes it react to ultraviolet light.
however.
If we consider the species of butter
flies found in England to be seventy,
those of Europe will number 800, while
the wealth Of British India in species
will number the number OF
1900 species of winged beauties.
Some soldiers in battle are so serious
1y wounded that they lack the strength
to call loudly for assistance. To aid
these sufferers, DR.. Matignon, a French
doctor in the Japanese Red Cross SER
vice, has invented a whistle which,
with a very slight exertion, gives a
loud sound.
In treating red noses a Paris physi-
clan uses an instrument resembling a
very large toothbrush, but having forty
platinum wires instead Of bristles.
This instrument is as heavy as an Or
binary household hammer. 1t is con-
nected with an electrical machine, and
is then used in hammering the trouble
some nose rather sharply for several
minutes, or until bleeding is produced.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25

Temptations are sure to ring your
doorbell. but It's your fault if you ask
them to stay to dinner.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25
BAN IS Lifted STATE E W
Items of Interest to North Car
DINA People
Charlotte Cotton Market.

These figures represent prices paid
to wagons:
Good Middling.. . -. e. ....9.65
Strict Middling.. :. :. ....9.65
Middling.. .0.65
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25

About seventy specimens Of the ex-
tinct great aux are now preserved ill
museums. A specimen recently sold III
London brought $4,000.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-10-25

Samples of the papaya, or Mexican
pawpaW, have been sent to American
paper makers to be tested for its adapt
ability for the manufacture of high
grades Of paper.