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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29

teIest in the old church-yard and in
the town which / could not visit for
lack Of time. / have said my glance
was but a feeting one, but / took N
enough TO fill me with desire for
more. long talk | had with my oid
friend Mr.. Halfway, who did 50
much to preserve the records OF those
far-ofI days when the state @1s q
borning. Death has snatched the pen
from his feeble grasp, but il is TO be
hoped that some active, loyal son or
the old capital will take it up and
write for us the story OF the town.
Of its cultured women and brave pa
tliots, of it's legends and traditions.
The glimpses of its society in Colonial
days which We catch in McRee's Life
and Correspondence OF James lredell ].
the data furnished by the colonial
Records OF North Carolina the
original sources still unpublished, and
the tales and fractions which yet live
i'll the memories OF aged citizens Il
g.ye ample promise OF q most fascl-
mating story when once it has been
presented in a style and spirit worthy
OF the subject.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29
Buying Clover Seed.

It is well to take time by the fore
lock and get your clover seed on hand
ready for sowing. And right here we
would like to warn those who have 10
buy clover seed that low priced seed
is always the most costly. Not only
most costly in the actual amount
paid for the clover seed that is gotten,
but costly in the seeding of your fields
with all manner of foul weeds. for q
very low price for clover seed means
poorly cleaned seed. If one gets. for
instance. clover seed for SIS per bushel.
when re-cleaned seed is selling for 81
more. the re-cleaned seed is always the
lowest in price of the rure seeds that
are in the bushel. and being clean. 10
not provide for filing your land with
weeds. The best way to buy clover
seed is to start early and get samples
from the dealers Examine these
samples closely and sort out all inn
DuriticS III the shape of weed seeds
and trash. and then compare the sam
pies. Get seeds that are clean of weed
seeds, il you have to pay double price
for them. We are frequently called
upon TO advise how to get rid of broad
leaf plantain and narrow-leaf plan
tain. two weeds that have gotten
spread more through clover seed than
in any other way. We know farms So,
infested with the narrow-leaf plantaih
clover on them now. the weed having
gotten complete possession of the
ground. When you find a real clean
sample of seed buy it at whatever the
price may be as compared with badly
cleaned seed, and get a guarantee from
the dealer that the seed shall CONS
UP to the sample. We will never get
rid of oxeye daisy. plantain and wild
carrot until we quit sowing the seed
in clover. Then. too. of recent years
the creeping yellow clover has spread
over the country through unscrupulous
dealers who have imported the seed in
immense quantities for the purpose of
adulteratiilg red clover seed. oTu Will
need a magnifying glass 10 distinguish,
the various weed seeds and adultera-
lions, and it will pay to learn the vari-
GUS seeds and their appearance. Then
buy your clover seed from frst-class
men who have made a reputation for
good seed. and who are not going 10
sacrifice it, and do not expect to get
the best seed except at the best price,
for it is the worst sort OF extrava-
cancc TO buy low-Driced seed. especial
ly of clover and grass
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29
Notes From a Carolina G rdcn.

We are now we'll settled into the
winter garden. But winter is touching
us lightly. We are still using on the
table lettuce from the open ground
also Chinese radishes of flne qaahly
and green onions and spinach. Head
cd lettuce is being cut from the frames.
The California Cream Butter lettuce
came in first. with Giant Crystal Head
n close second We will now SOW III
the frames seed Of the Unrivalled and
the Maximum for setting outside Ill
lat, February. After setting matters
at home in shape We lately went 10
see what our market gardeners are
doing The centre of the trucking M
dustry in this State is about the Gty
of New Bern, on the lower Neuse
River. where they have transportation
both by water and rail North. me
state Board of Agriculture has there
under test 279 named varieties OF CAP
bage from seedsmen all over the world
the object being to find out which are
really distinct sorts ana Whlch are
merely synonyms. We visited one OF
the largest market farms there. me
lettuce crop is now the leading in
terest At the farm we visited there
are 10 acres, over which run sprink-
ling pipes high enough to work teams
under. A large main runs from the
steam pump, and from this smaller
pipes, pierced with holes, branch each
way 40 feet apart. Each line waters
20 feet each way On six acres OF TINS
land there are frames 9 IL by about
$50 feet each. These are covered with
cotton cloth, and through each frame
runs IL 1-inch steam pipe to use in
extra cold nights. They told me that
the steam is used six or eight nights
in winter just to keep hard frost out
The practice with most Of the growers
is to set Il crop early in the fall, OF
lcttuC2 to cut out by the first OF De-
cember, with little or no protection
The firm we visited do not plant much
of the fall crop, as they find the re-
planting at once with lettuce for
spring causes a great deal of rot in
the spring crop. Hence they plant
Il small fall crop and follow ii with
beets When we were there in De-
cember the fall crop had ben cut and
beetS were being soWn. From AZ acre
and a quarter of the fall crop cf let
tuce they had sold over $1,000 worth
and the spring crop had just been set
This CROP will be cut in March and
the frames at once planted with
CucumberS. The cukeS Will be follow
cd by second crop Irish potatoes TO
keep the frames cleaa for lettuce again
in The fall. After the price Of cucum-
bers falls the remainder of the crop
is put into tanks in brine TO sell TO
piclllers, and they have two tanks
that hold so barrels each. The ends
of the frames and the ridge poles are
taken out in summer 50 that the
frames are worked with mules. The
second crop of potatoes had just been
dug and this firm has 1900 barrels
Of the grown from seed of the early
crop at rate of g. barrels per acre.
The early potato crop * all grown
from the late second crop seed, no
Northern seed being used at all. From
the New Bern section over 100, 900
barrels of early potatoes are shipped
annually. many growers making, over
70 barrels per acre. Green peas and
other crops are also grown in large
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29
Selling Produce.

The old plan of shipping truck ana
small fruits to commission men was
as Il rule very unsatisfactory TO the
growers owing TO the many dishonest
men that used the produce commits
sion business as an easy way to get
more than they Mere entitled to. The
editor has q. very distinct remembrance
of ii car load of early potatoes which
he shipped to Il so-called commission
man in Philadelphia, whose commits
sion covered the whole thing. for we
never received a cent for the carload
and had the freight TO pay Many
plans have been tried to remedy this
state of affairs. the best plan being
that which was first tried on the
Eastern shore OF Virginia, and more
recently i'll Maryland. This is TO form
produce exchange. the capital stock
Of which is distributed amon~ the
growers. no man being allowed 10 own
more than ten shares. The exchange
has local inspectors and generaf
manager 10 see that all produce
shipped is properly graded ana
packed. Sales are made by tho agents
OF the exchange aud members are
charged about half the commission
formerly chargcd--and share in The
PROFITS. These exchanges have beea
uniformly successful. In the South
the growers of strawberries and
truck now sell all their products at the
shipping points. Every wagon load -
inspected by the dealers aud hidden
Tor. The grower gets II check on the
spot ard goes 10 the bank for his
money and the dealers have their re-
frigcrator ears at hand and load aud
distribute them to various points and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29

areas but the growing scarcity of
labor has caused the growers to con-
tract the area in outdoor vegetables
and tC give more attention to the in
tensiVe winter work in the frames. The
firm we visited work 10 to 80 hands
during the winter season, aud Us many
as they can muster in the spring. They
are feeding about 100 becNes with
their abundant crop of COW peas and
corn, mainly for manure. for they dud
that lettuce needs both manure aud
fertilizers in liberal quantity. From
the frame crops under artificial Gull
turc they get about $4,000 per acre
for the three crops of lettuce, cucum-
bers aud potatoes, a large part Of
the second crop potatoes goes North
in February and are sold us new her-
mudas, the only fraud being that they
did not grow il Bermuda, for they are
of better quality than the true Ber-
mudas. In Hyde county many years
ago the state cut canal from Lake
MattamuSkeet 10 Pamlico Sound, low
ering the water level of the lake and
opening up some of the finest land in
the whole country. This section. cut
off from railroads, has but lately done
much in trucking. But now the early
potatoes are grown Immensely there,
one grower the past season. Mr. Make
w. is reported as growing 80 600 bush
els. IS there another such in the
United States?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29
Single Cropping.

We read a letter lately in one of
the papers, from an observer in tse
northwest, who said that the lands or
the Red River VALLEY of the Dakotas.
while naturally very fertile, have been
much reduced i'll productiveness
through the constant growing or
wheat. This will always be the case.
no matter how rich the land is natuv-
ally. where the one-crop system, or
rather lack of system. prevails. 1t
has been the case in the cotton and
tobacco lands of the South, and 1t Will
be in the wheat and corn lands of the
West and northwest. The Minnesota
Station has tried to show the farmers
the need of rotative cropping for kecp~
ing up the productiveness of the SOIL
and many careful farmers there have
learned the lesson. But there is the
same ambition North and South to be
big wheat growers, big cotton growers
and to go over acres instead of learn
ing the capacity. of an acre wen
farmed. The Red River lands will
doubtless stand this sort of culture
longer than poorer lands. but they will
finally get to the "old fields" there IS
they have in the South. and i'm a eli
mate where the restoration will be far
more difficult Then the growing OF
staple crops in large areas under one
head is destructive to the home life
OF the country for great areas OF thou
sands of acreaS mean fewer permanent
inhabitants. smaller social privileges,
poorer schools and fewer churches
The happier conditions are where men
have invested large means in real
estate and have divided their estates
into numerous farms each with its
comfortable outfit and good farmer.
While it may be argued that the great
bonanza farms reduce the cost of pro-
duction To the owner, they are harm
full in their influence on the country
and destructive to the best interests
of society. especially when but one
thing is grown and Il host of hands are
there for Il time and then scattered
10 tramp over the country.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29

avoid gluttirg any one market. This
plan has worked vary well in the
Southern strawberry districts, and will
doubtless become the rule elsewhere.
But the Eastern Shore exchange sys-
TEN is thu best yet oaVic2d for such
crops as early potatoes. etc. and we
hope TO see more of the EXCHANGES
further South. President Orlando
Harrison of the Peninsula Produce
Exchange, Berlin. Md, has kindly sent
Us the full organization of his eX-
change. and we regret that we have
not space to print it entire. We as
sumo, however. that those who wish
to know more OF the plan can get In
formation from Mr.. Harrison.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29
SAH BOONE
DEPARTED THIS
LIFE 1IG7
AGED II YEARS.

AS l read these two rude inscrip-
lions there came to my minds eye q
picture of all The hardships and dam
gers they experienced in the wild
woods l saw how they stood Nsur-
rounded by savage beasts and still
more savage men. their lives exposed
to every conceivable peril in an unset
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29
Cured of Asthma
After IS years of Suffering.

It win be gratifying to Asthmatic
readers to learn that an absolute cure has
at last been discovered by nr. Schitfmann.
That the remedy is an effectual one can
not be doubted after perusal of such test.
mony as that of c. w. Van Antwerp, Ful-
ton, n. y, who says: Your remedy
tSchiffmanns Asthma Cure) is the best
ever used. / bought p package of our
druggist and tried it and one box entirely
cured me OF Asthma, and have not had
it since. / can now go to bed and sleep all
night with perfect comfort, which / have
not done before for IS years and | thank
YOU for the health that ] now enjoy. |
hope that youwill publish this letter, that
others may learn of its wonderful virtues"
Sold by all druggists at SOC and s1.O0.
Send &c stamp to DR.. R.Schilimann,B Box s9l,
St. Paul, Mimi, for free sample package.
An important item OF holiday
shopping is Candy. Buy "Roysters'
l. l., ! l.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29
Agricultural Education in the South

The State Agricultural Colleges IN
the South are taking on new life. In
most of the colleges instead of dozen
or SO students taking the agricultural
course, there are hundreds, and the
colleges have been compelled to In
crease their equipment. CLEMSON the
Agricultural College of South Carolina,
is the most literally endowed college
in the South, and has magnificent
equipment of buildings for all the de-
partments. including a very fine agri-
cultural building. We some time since
gave a cut of the new building now
in process of construction for the
North Carolina College. which is one
of the finest in the country. And now
the Virginia College is building a
splendid structure for the agricultural
work. The South has rather Jagged
behind in these matters. but it is rap
idly catching up With the procession.
and the effect on the farming interests
of the South from the hundreds Of
young men who are graduating at
these and other colleges in the South.
is incalculable. With the best money
crops in the country, the South needs
only we'll trained farmers to restore
the waste Of war. and careless. culture
Of the past, and to-. place the South
in the lead agriculturally.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29
Government Farming.

What the average newspaper ana
magazine writer does not know about
farming would fill a cyclopedia. Ths
January number OF the Worlds Work
says that the United States government
has gone into farming Oh large scale
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29
Sheep i'm Virginia.

The Country Gentleman quotes Mr..
Jesse Davis, a buyer for Armour. as
giving Il woeful account OF a trip
through Virginia. He says that the
country is too rocky and poor. where
land is cheap, to make grazing sheep
on q large scale profitable. Then he
says, "Some OF the cheap lands are so
badly tobacco poisoned that they are
absolutely barren of vegetation" ITO
bacco-polsoned" is good one. Why,
sir. there is no better preparation for
a good wheat crop than to work Il,
piece of land in tobacco. and some OF
the finest wheat crops are grown in
the tobacco growing sections. Twenty
eight TO thirty bushels of wheat per
acre would not be considered bad out
West, and yet this is commonly made
in the black tobacco lands of Nelson
Co., Va, and other sections. The lands
YOU saw were doubtless run down by
bad farming, but tobacco did not
poison them, for they were simply
robbed to keep the tobacco land rich,
and the poor, thin lands that you
thought tobacco-poisoned proba bly,
never had a tobacco plant on them.
They were not poisoned. but were
made poor by bad farming. We fear
that Mr.. Davis saw Virginia only from
q car window.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29

Nut grass, CyperuS Hydra, common
~ regarded as the worst weed pest in
the South, has been found TO be a
profitable crop to grow in Georgia for
hog pasture. One farmer writes &c
the Atlanta papers that one acre OF
nut grass will keep q half dozen hoge
fat and thriving during the summer.
1t is common in the South to grow q
near relative of the nut grass. the
chufa, Cyperus Esculentus, for hog
feed, and it would seem that the great
er productiveness in nuts of this
species would make it far more desir-
able than the nut grass since ii does
not become a weed like the other ana
makes a greater crop. But then, If
one has the nut grass infesting his
land the hogs can be used to ;,dvanr-
age in clearing it. as they will seek
every nut in the soil. But few people
understand the way in which nut grass
spreads most rapidly. 1t is the COM
underground tubers or nuts. and so il
does. But where one comes in this
way there are hundred that come
from the seed. After cultivation
stops in late summer the nut grass
speedily runs to seed. and it makes
seed in myriadS to keep up the, sup
ply. If kept constantly cut off ana
never allowed to seed the weed can
be abolished as we know from expert
ence. and we would not grow it for
the hogs. as the chufa is far better.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-01-11
TO CALIFORNIA.

Via Scenic Colorado or True southern
Route. Daily Through Pullman Stand
ard Sleeping Cars, st. Louis to San
Francisco, via. the Missouri Pacific Ry.
and Scenic Colorado. Elegant Tourist
Sleeping Cor Service every Tuesday and
Thursday from ST. Louis. Daily through
Pullman Standard Sleeping Cars, st,
Louis to Los Angeles, California, via.
Iron Mountain Roulette True
Southern Route. New Tourist
Sleeping Car Excursions via. Iron Noun
tain Route and FL Paso, leave St. Louis
every Tuesday and Saturday. The ser
vice and equipment is strictly up-to.
date. Round trip and low rate one way
tickets are ON sale via. Iron Mountain
or Missouri Pacific System from all prin'
cipal points in the East. For berth
reservations and full information, ad-
dress r. T~G. Matthews, T. p. A., Louis
vile, Ky, or H. c. Townsend, c.. T. 4
L A., St. Louis, Mo.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-01-11
MEN PICKED
WHO WILL WORK ON THE Az.
PORTIONNENT ORDINANCE.
They Are Aldermen Stalks, BELL.
kraus, and Councilmen Kolb
Riglesbergcr. Ilehkopf and
Oehlschiacger

Mayor d. A. Yelser will call a
meeting of four democrats and four
republican members OF the general
council for tomorrow night to NEE,
and make out the apportionment or.
dinance The meeting will be called
a. 1880 in Auditor Kirklands Office
and although this is not the legal
finance committee. the ordinance win
be framed and presented to the
boards when the deadlock is broken
and the boards get down to business
Mayor Yeiser said today.
81 have selected the men I want
TO get up the ordinance. and they are
all good men. have chosen Alder
men starks. Bell. Kraus and Durrett.
and Councilmen Kolb, Rigglesber-
ger, Rehkopf and Oehlschlaoger We
hope to frame up the ordinance at
one meeting but even after this Is
done. IL the deadlock is not broken.
Il cannot be acted on"
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-01-11
OVER A YEAR
John Benton. Colorcd. Said TO BC
Wanted In Uopkinsvllle.

John Benton. colorcd. one Of the
negroes arrested last week suspect
ed of being implicated in numerous
thefts. and fined $40 for disorderly
conduct. is said to be wanted at Hop
kinsville.
Soon after he was arrested the po-
lice telephoned 10 Hopkinsville to
know II he was wanted, and the au-
thorities there said he was not want
cd
Yesterdays Hopklnsville New Era
says OF him:
Benton. who was serving SEN
tence In the workhouse for carrying
concealed a deadly weapon. escaped
from the street gang on September
N. There are four hundred and for
~ days imprisonment for him when
be Is returned 80 HopklnsyIlle."
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-01-11
RURAL ROUTES.
Several To BE Established In Padu-
cab soon.

Western kentucky is being we'll
looked after in the way of free rural
mail delivery. The following new
routes will be established February
1:
Dawson Springs, Hopkins county,
two routes: population 73G; Hickory
Grove, Graves county, additional ser
vice. one route; population 5S5;
Mantle. Hopkins county. additional
service; population $50; Mayfeld,
Graves county, additional service,
four routes: population 2,0S4; Muir
ray, Galloway county, additional ser
vice; population 432; Sebree, Web
ster county. additional service, two
routes; population $50; Water Val
ley. Graves county. additional service,
population 445.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-01-11

Chief" Harry Lloyd, manager Of
thFPaducah baseball team, says in
regard TO Grover Land;
"The fact of the matter Is that the
bis team managers want 20 try Land
out aud do not want To pay for IL.
Dreyfuss took Land with the under
standing that he pay the other $3.50,
having paid $lOO down, and in event
Land did not make good, was to re-
turn him to Paducah, but nothing
was said Of thee 500 paid down.
Dreyfuss wants the SlOO back before
he viii release the draft, not caring
TO take Land this season. Mickey
Finn wants to try Land out and if
he makes good will pay for him but
does not want to place a forfeit. IL
they want Land, they win have TO
pay something for trying him out and
We don't want them making a play
thing out Of him, first trying him in
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-01-11
Notice in BankIuptCY.

District court of the United States
for the Western District, of Ken
lucky. In the matter Of Henry
spann. bankrupt, in bankruptcy.
To The creditors of Henry Sp3nu
Of Pa1ucah. in the county of Nc.
Cracker and district aforesaid, a
bankrupt. Notice is hereby given,
that on the 9Th day of January.
1905. the said Henry spann was duly
adjudicated bankrupt, and that the
FIRST meeting Of his creditors viii be
held at my Office in Paducah, Nc
CraCken county, Kentucky, on the
21st day Of January. A. D.. 1905, at
8 O'Clock in the forenoon. at which
time the said creditors may attend,
prove their claims. appoint trus-
tee. examine the bankrupt, and
transact such other business as may
come properly before said meeting
And the bankrupt is required to be-
present.
EMMETT W. BAGBY,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-01-11
Nv NI- W DEfNbIl
Referee in Bankruptcy
Paducah, KY. January 10, 1905.
Notice OF First Meeting Of Creditors

Notice of First Meeting of Creditors.
District Court OF the United States
fog the Western District of Ken
lucky.
In the matter OF James Taylor,
bankrupt. in bankruptcy
To the creditors Of James Taylor
Of Paducah. in the county of Nc
Cracker and district aforesaid, a
bankrupt. Notice is hereby given,
that on the eth day Of January 1905,
the said James Taylor was duly adj
Indicated bankrupt. and that the first
meeting OF his creditors will be held
at my Office in Paduoah, MeCracken
county. Kentucky. on the 21st day OF
January, a. ID 1905, at 8 o'clock in
the forenoon, at which time the said
creditors may attend, prove their
claims, appoint trustee, examine
the bankrupt and transact such 9th
er business as may come properly
before said meeting, And the bank
rupt is required TO be present.
EMMETT W. BAGBY,
Referee in Bankruptcy
Paduoah. Ky, January 10, 1908,
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-01-11
THROUGH TOURIST SLEEPING
CARS TO CALIFORNIA. '

Commencing Saturday, September
18th and every Tuesday. and Satur-
day thereafter the Iron Mountain
will run Through Tourist Sleeping
Cars from 81. Louis to Los Angeles,
California via TexarAana and Ell
Paso. 1.-The True southern Route
These excursions will be person
ally conducted and the service will
be up-to-date. For Information and
berth reservations write any repre-
sentative OF the Iron Mountain
Route; or address II. c, Townsend,
G.. p. & 7. A., 81. Louis, Mo, or r. T..
@. Matthews, T. p. A.. Louisyille,Ky.