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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04
Wayne County Alliance.

The Wayne County Alliance will
meet with Salem Sub the second
Thursday in July (the 13th), and all
the Subs in the County are earnestly
requested to send delegates and rep
r~esentatives. The meeting will be
held in the school-house at Salem
church. j. M. MITCHELL,
County Secretary.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04
winston's Big Tobacco Sales.

Winston-Salem N. c.. June 90
The shipments of manufactured to-
bacco from this city during the fiscal
year ending tomorrow aggregate
3O,S13, 7421A pounds, this being an in
crease over the past year and the
largest in the history of the local
tobacco market. The tobacco stamp
sales for the year amounted to ST.
4 S,824.55.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04
Alamance County Alliance to Meet.

There will be a very important
meeting of the County Alliance of
Alamance held in Graham on Thurs
day, July 13, 1905.
The business is urgent, so all the
sub Alliances are especially request
ed to send up a good delegation. Let
us get together.
j. H. WALKER,
Secretary.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04
STATE NEWS
FROM cURRITUcK TO CHEROKEE.
Items of Interest Cleaned from Our
Correspondents and Exchanges.

Governor Gl6nn r6IuSeS W pd1uOh
Howard and Hawley the gold brick
swindlers.
The first new water melons raised
near town were offered at klnston
last Friday.
The Baptist Midsummer meeting
now in session at Jackson Springs, is
largely attended.
The new directors of the A. and
N. c., will not assume their duties
as such until July IA.
Postmaster Bailey disbursed 1884,
900 in settlement of rural free deliv-
cry carriers accounts for salary in
June.
The preliminary hearing of Off
Ger I. W. Rogers for shooting Jno.
@. Dockery, came up yesterday at
II o'clock.
James Parker, a machinist i'll the
Southern Railway shops at Spencer
dropped dead at his bench early this
morning.
The State Test Farm Committee
visits Wilmington to investigate the
claims for locating of a test farm
in that vicinity.
The annual convention of the Fer
tilizer Manufacturers Association
will meet In Asheville in October.
They met in New York last year.
Governor Glenn has gone to New
York ON business and Lieut.. Gov.
Winston occupies the Gubernatorial
chair in the mean time.
Postmaster Jno. A. Ipock, of
Cove, after a preliminary hearing
was bound over to court for tamper-
ing with the mail of Miss jamie l..
lpock.
Governor Glenn refuses to COM
mute the death sentence of Dan
Ieachy. Of Duplin County; and Dan
VII be hung July 20, for the murder
of Bob Rivenbark.
Three North Carolina boys stood
successful examinations for entrance
to the q. S. Naval Academy. They
were w. P. Taliaferro, @. D. Price
ana Z. IL.
Since the Southern has announced
its purpose to build a line from
Marion, N. c., to Johnson City,
Tenn, new interest is revived in pro-
posed line from Spartanburg, S. O.,
to Rutherfordton, N. @.
The condition of Mr.. John Dock
cry is considered encouraging. The
X-Ray is to be applied in order if
possible to locate the two bullets in
his body so that the surgeons may
know where to go for them.
Farmers in, the Elizabeth City
section are now marketing their po-
tatoes at a loss. Quotations are
75c. to $1.00 per barrel. The Econo-
mist says the farmers will give them
away or eat them rather than ship
at these prices.
Golfers for last week contains
p~hotogravure copy of an issue OF
the Cape Fear Mercury, date June
3, 1775, giving the minutes of the
meeting in Charlotte 10Th and 20tl
of May, of the same year, which
minutes contain the Mecklenbure
Declaration of Independence.
Judge Purnell in the y. S. Circuit
Court entered judgment agains
Onslow County in favor of a Chi
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04

Thos. E. Meyer, of Wilmington
died from an overdose OF QPlt 4b.
taken last Wednesday night. Nnern
er intentional or not is not Known
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-04
Second Crop Potatoes.
Secretary.

Dear Sir:-Please let me know how
/ can best raise a second crop of
Irish potatoes. The kind of seed,
and how to ~repare the seed for
planting, the kind of fertilizer and
when to plant, and anything else
about it that l ought to know. You
can write me or put it in The Pro-
gressive Farmer soon, and oblige,
@. E. RHYME.
CASTOR Co.. n. c., June 10, 1905.
The above condensed letter asks
for a good deal of information, and
the writer of this is not sure he is
equal to the task, for he has found
that the same results will not follow
a set plan in different sections of the
State. For instance, [ have grown
second crop potatoes successfully
near Goldsboro, and have completely
failed following the same plan near
Hillsboro.
Dry weather is detrimental to the
potato crop. therefore it is best to
have land hat does not dry out too
easily, and yet it must be land that is
we'll drained, a sandy loam being pre-
terable. Plow the land at once and
keep 1t narrowed until ready to plant
SO as to conserve moisture. It is bet
ter to plant in rich land and not fer
tlllze heavily for the second crop:
but fertilizers can be used if well in
corporated with the soil bv running
a pillow point a time or two in the
row after the fertilizer has been
sowed before planting the potatoes.
Use a high-grade fertilizer, rich in
potash, and from 500 to 1000 pounds
per acre according to the fertility
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
NOVEL PLAN OF COERCION
Unionists Pay Fares in Pennies to
Nonunion Conductors-Often
Join Union.

Lynn, Mass.-A novel scheme is be-
ing put into practice in Lynn by the
members of the labor organizations to
force conductors of electric cars who
do not already belong to the Amalga-
mated Association of Street Railway
Employees to join it.
Patrons of electrics we'll know with
what horror conductors in general look
upon pennies. Only women who are
out ON shopping tours are accustomed
to give these when paying fares, and
in return they get the stony glare, and
sometimes are accidentally" carried
beyond the point where they desire to
stop.
Every union conductor wears a bu:-
ton in the lapel of his coat, and when
this button is missing it is the cue for
the union men of other crafts to give
that conductor five pennies.
One conductor got 13O pennies, most
of them from union men who were on
their way to ball game. When the
conductor learned the cause of the
food Of cents be joined the union.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
DECREASE IN COAL OUTPUT
Falls OF in 1904 to Great
Extent.

Washington.-Not as much coal by
6,000.GOO tons was mined in 1904 as
during the previous calendar year. The
total OF anthracite and bituminous coal
mined last year in the United States
was 351,196,s53 tons, compared with
357, ,356,41 tons daring 1904.
Illinois is one of the states showing
a decrease in tonnage. Ranking Sec
ond as a coal producing state, the Illi-
nois output ~ 1904 was IS 800, ,796 tons,
compared with 36,957 ,104 tons during
the pi evious year. Pennsylvania heads
the list, mining 73,156.709 tons of an
thracite and 97,916,733 tons of bitum-
inous coal during 1904, compared with
74,6O7. .O68 tons of anthracite and 103.-
HITS tons of bituminous coal in 1903.
Since 1914, when % tons of anthra-
cite, the first mining recorded, was
taken out of the earth in Pennsylva-
MIA, there have been produced in the
United States 5,577 ,210,577 tons Of coal,
Of which 514 ,152, ,432 tons was furnished
by Illinois.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
CHINESE WOMAN A DOCTOR
First Of Her Nationality and Sex to
Take Physicians Degree in
United States.

Philadelphia.-Miss Ii Bi Gu of
Hingghua, China, who has spent the
last four years in this city, taking a
medical course at the Woman's COL
ege, will graduate from that institu-
lion this year with high honors. So
tar as is known, Miss Ii is the first
Chinese woman, to study medicine in
this country. She was born in Hing
ghua, where her father is considered
the most prominent man Of that COM
munity. He is also the leading spirit
in the Methodist church of that prov
ince.
The Chinese maiden has been in this
country more than eight years, and
has spent all of her time in hard study.
She first studied at Herkimer college,
New York She graduated from that
institution with high honors and de-
cided to take her medical course in
this city.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

No. sos. SO
NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF REDEMP-
TION PERIOD.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY
Of Cook-ss.
To E. ". Wakelin, Adm:
Take notice that the following described
said Cook County, State Of Minnesota,
viz:
An undivided one sixth interest in the swA of
neM and in nwA of seA of section Il, in town.
ship 81, range east, was on the sth day of May.
pursuant to real estate tax judgment
entered in the District Court in the
Counties of Lake and Cook, on the 21st
day of March, 1900, in proceedings to
enforce payment of taxes upon real
estate which became delinquent in and
prior to the year 1897 for said Cook
County. That the amount required to
redeem said lands from such sale is.
at date hereof. the sum of twenty-one dollars
and ninety cents. In addition to tho
amount above stated as necessary to redeem
from said sale the costs to accrue upon
this notice and such interest as may accrue
from and after this date must be paid ; and
the time within which said lands can be
redeemed from said sale will expire sixty
days after the service of this notice
and proof thereof has been filed in the Of
flee of the County Auditor of said Cook
County.
Witness my hand and official seal this
aoth day of August, A. D, 1905: -
(SeaDo County Auditor,
Cook County, Minnesota.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
Timber Land, Act june g. 1878.-Not1ce for
Publications UNITED States Land Office, Du-

Timber Land, Act June::3 1S7s.-Notlce for
Publication.-UnltedS States Land Oftce. Du.
lutb, Minn.. Sept. Z, 1905.
Notice is hereby given that in compliance
with the provisions of the act Of Congress of
June 3, 1878. entitled IAN act for the sale of
timber lands in the States Of California, Oregon,
Nevada and Washington Territory" as exten.
ded to all the Public Land States by act OF
August 4. 1892, Alan L. schlaPpl, OF Kelsey.
county of St. Louis state of Minnesota, has
this dey filed in this office his sworn statement
No. 1856, tor the purchase of the 81 fnwA
and nwA of nw4 Of :,, section % I?
to show that the land sought is more valuable
for it's timber or stone than for AGRICULTURAL Al
land before u S. Land office at Duluth, Minn.,
on Tuesday, the 10th day of December. 1905.
He names as witnesses.
G. c. Foster of Superior. Wis.,, w. J. Wheeler
and Dan Smith of Beaver Bay. Minn., Archie
Wiseman of Duluth. MINI.
Any and ali persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims in this Office on or befofe said 10th day
of December. 19O51 -. ~:
9-2S VIM. E. CULKIN. Register.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
RUssIA's FINAN cIAL. STRAIN
Great Cost Of Year Of 1904 Brings
Weighty Debt Upon an I'm I.
&-@rs poverished People. ss..z I

st. Petersburg. - The Russian
budget for 1904 showed that the ordi.
nary revenue Of $1,0O8, $500, 900 exceed.
ed. the ordinary expenditure by $53,.
100000. Extraordinary expenditure 81
$401. SOC, 900 had to be met. OF this $780,
100000 was. for war expense and $751;
100000 for railroad construction.
This extraordinary expense was met
by the following:
Ordinary revenue surplus. ....., s., SOC, 900
Treasury bonds and Imperial
Balances from prior years. ....... $50, ,500' go
Other extraordinary revenues.... 1,5GO,OO0
Total .$461 00O, 600
This leaves a surplus of $59,500, 900
to the credit of the Russian treasury's
free balance" The free balances"
have been reduced from $190,500 900
to $59, 59,500,OO0, and the public debt in.
creased by $215,50O,OOO.
Since the close of the war $780,.
100000 was also raised by internal
loan.
The net result is that the govern.
ment has 150,500,0O0 to meet war
expenses. In the II months of 1904
the war expenditure was 1920, SOC, 900.
The ordinary revenue of 1904 was
$5,500,000 less than for 1908. The
1905 ordinary revenue will doubtless
be still further reduced, as the Rus.
sian people are daily becoming less
able to meet taxation. Every day the
war goes on makes matters worse,
more and more going out and less and
less coming in.
All this means more loans and
further heavy burdens on an impover-
ished treasury and an impoverished
people.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

Timber Land, Act June 3, 1s7s.-,Notice for
Publication.-UnitedS States Land Office. Du-
luth, Mimi, July 18, 1905.
NOTICE is hereby given that in compliance
with the provisions of the act of Congress of
June ), 1873, entitled 'An act for the sale of
timber lands in the states of California, Oregon.
Nevada and Washington Territory" as extended
to al the =, Public Land States by. act of August
county of Hennepin, state of Minnesota, has
this day fled in this office his sworn statement
of section 10 in =, township, g north
range east 4th P. M, and will offer proof
to show that the land sought is more valuable
for its timber or stone than for agricultural
purposes. and to establish his claim to said
land before the. Register and Receiver of
this Office at Duluth, Minn., on Thursday, the
18th day of October, 1905.
He names as witnesses:
Major G. Wilson of Bemidii, Mimi, De Will.
lam Berry, Thomas H. Wilkinson and Joseph
A. Arpagaus. of St. Paul, Mimi.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above-described lands are requested 10 file their
claims in this Office on or before said 10Th day
s-5 wM E. CULK1N. Register.
H. L. Shepherd. Atty.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

Emperor William is trying to get up
something to put himself in the class
with Teddy, who just put a peace con-
terrence through. and made a shute the
shute in submarine. It is very much
feared in Germany that Emperor "Bill''
will try a fying-machine '"stunt" as
nothing tanner than that will appeal t.
him.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
Timber Land Act, June 3, 1878 Notice for Pub
rlication Limited States Land Office. Duluth


slication. limited States Land Office. Duluth
Minn., June ~, 1905. 1'.& : .'.* -
with the provisions Of the act of Cong ress OF
June 3. 1875 entitled" act for the sale of TIM
bel lanls in the States of California, Oregon,
Nevada. and Washington Territory."as extend.
ed to all The Public Land States by act of Aug
ust 4, 1892, Gustaf Meden, of Duluth county Of
Ct: LOUIS state of Mimi, has this day filed in
this office his sworn statement No. l0247, for the
purchase of lots e. and 4. of section 1S
In township "a north, range 3 west, and
will offer proof to show that the land sought
is more valuable for its timber or store than
for agricultural purposes, and to establish
his claim to said land before the Register
and Receiver of this Office at Duluth. Minn..
on Tuesday, the Goth day OF September, 1905.
He names witnesses:
August Anderson, RenhOld r. Graetz, Fred
A. Gross and Albert F. Gross, of Duluth, Minn.,
and George Wartner of Guntint, Mimi.
ANY and all persons claiming adversely the
abovo-descrlbed lands are requested to file their
claims in this Office on or before said 26th day Of
Septembe1 1905.
7-22 WIN. +. CULKIN. Register.
B. N. ohnson & Son, Attys. =
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
NORTHERN MINNESOTA.

The old familiar forest reserve. nation
al park, state park. game park, or what
ever it may be variously called, bobs up
ever and anon in Northern Minnesota,
the gift of enthusiastic gentlemen who
have no interests in the areas they would
segregate.-Duluth Herald.
They do say that Northern Minnesota
has the youngest school teachers of any
state in the Union-and as we'll the pret-
TEST. Anyone going into the schools in
this county can easily see at.-Badger
Herald Rustler.
Drainage bitches are making extensive
tracts OF Freeborn county lands more
than twice their former value, and be-
sides will greatly increase their actual
productive capacity and wealth of the
county.-Albert Lea Standard.
According to Northern Minnesota
sentiment everything must take back
seat for drainage, and unless little
moderation Is shown it is liable to be
overdone. Drainage is all right, but
there are other things requiring state
aid, good roads for instance.-Elk River
Star News.
Some of our friends in the southern
part of Minnesota seem to think that
the drainage Of the swamp lands in the
northern part of the state will prove OF
no avail to them. They are in error,
The State of Minnesota holds these
lands in trust for the school fund, and
consequently, when drained they will
sell at good prices and the whole com
monwealth be benefited thereby
Princeton Union. ~ + >.::.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

England proposes to buy vast quan-
titles of American wheatand store it up
for emergencies, provided of course, John
w. Gates, of Illinois, does not interpose
any objection.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

New Orleans has passed an ordinance
that every "tank" in town must be
screened. This applies to citizens as
we'll as other tanks.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

Iowa should not be unduly alarmed
at it's loss of population. With two men
in the Cabinet, and Mr.. Shonts building
the panama canal, it ought to expect
some kind of shake up: in population.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

Senator Bever1dge is writing about
the young man of the world. He prob
ably puts in a good deal of time think
ing it would be nice to have a young
man in the White House.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

A St. Louis servant girl has collected
$4,000 for refusing to testify about the
'home scandals" of her employers. Thle
ls starting a new school in "high
finance"
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
Whisky Is Not PropertY.

The supreme court of Kansas decid-
ed that whisky is not property" in
the usual sense of the term, and thai
in depriving citizen of the right tc
sell it the fourteenth amendment tc
the constitution of the United States
is not violated. =
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
Two Millions a Year.

= When people buy, try, and buy again, Il
means they're satisfied. The people OF the
United States are now buying Cascarets
Candy Cathartic at the rate of two million
boxes year and It will be three million be-
fore, New Years. It means merit proved,
that Cascarets are the most delightful bowel
regulator for everybody the year round. An
druggists loo, 25c. Soc q box. cure guaranteed.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

Richard Crocker's daughter has mar
ried an italian nobleman. What a
trump that kind of card would have
been to catch the "dago" vote IN the
days when "Dick" was high priest of
Tammany.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

The Indianapolis Sentinel caught an
Indiana poet rhyming "terrible sqreel"
with "automobile' and then allowed him
to escape. 1t was pity.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

Mayor Woodward, of Atlanta, does
not take pride in calling his town the
Chicago of the south, since he paid
visit to the Windy City.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
Notice for Publication. Department of the In
terror, Land Office at Duluth, Minn., Aug. H.

1906.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice Of his intention to
max sd IN IL G ms ana
hart, s. Commissioner. at his office at Grand
Marais. Mimi, October 16. 1905, viz:
Frank Turgeon, who made homestead entry
No. 1922, for lots l. 2, sWl4 of ne14, nw4 Of
seA, section 80, lot l, section 3s, township "a.
range west.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
Frank Pellitier. Dan Selvey, Jos. Mason and
Fred Bramer, of Grand Marals, Minnesota.
$40 W. E. CULKIN Register
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
Blonde and Brunette,

Blonde and Brunette.
The king of England has an ivory and
mahogany typewriter. But the materia
will not prevent the letters from gettinf.
mixed up the same as in the old-fashs
ioned variety. ...s. 81 .<s4. s#E s.. ! e. s@
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23

With Sixty thousand fraudulent vot.
ers on the polls in Philadelphia it must
have been difficult for an honest man to
find room TO get on there too.
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-23
SATURDAY, SEPT. %, 1905.
The dogs of war are getting SO tame,
that they will come right up and eat out
of your hand.

The Russian advocates of peace-at-
any-price found that 1t paid to wait for
the advanced seasons cut price induce.
ments.
The Lamar register., 1905-08-23
THE FARM AND RANGE
Farming on One Acre.

Can a man make a living from one
acre of land? This question has arisen
as a result of the determination ex-
pressed by Anthony p. Canny of Potts
VILE, Pennsylvania. who announces hia
intentions of purchasing one acre of
land at Vineand for the purpose OF
testing his belief that this small tract
will support him and his wife and
young boy. Mr.. Canny recently came
to Colorado for his health. He is
man of small means and had but little
money to invest in land. His physi-
clans In the East warned him against
attempting to do manual labor and ad.
vised him to purchase just as little
land as he could possibly produce a
living from, in order to minimize his
work. until the outdoor life and inyis.
Grating climate gave him strength to
work bigger farm.
Mr.. Canny is resourceful man and
he determined that what had been
done in California can be done in Colo
RADIO.
True. his farm will not produce
everything raised on the California
model farm. but he argues that lie will
be able to raise products that would be
impossible in California.
In his eastern home Mr.. Canny had
-
model He expeimented with yegeta-
bles and flowers. and although he had
nothing but the back yard of 14On
6O-foot lot he produced sufficient yege-
tables to supply his table. with good
quantity left for sale. II was this ex-
perlence that led him to believe that
with irrigation he could utilize every
foot of an acre and make living for
his family while nursing himself back
to health.
Mr.. Canny has purchased some rare
seeds and cuttings for experimental
purposes. He will set aside a small
portion OF the garden upon which to
experiment, and he will endeavor to
prove that Colorado's fertile soil IL
capable of even greater results in the
production of horticultural specimens.
He will experiment largely with valua-
BILE plants and flowers rather than
with vegetables, as It is from the rarer
specimens OF plant life that he eN-
poets to derive his profits from the al
most toy-like farm. relying upon the
vegetables to supply his table with the
necessities.
The results OF Mr.. Canny's Robinson
Crusoe experiment will be watched
with interest. Many say he is fore
doomed to failure. as they point out
that many large farms barely provide
a living for their tenants. But Mr..
Canny valves these objections aside
with the assertion that their larger
farms do not pay because they do not
work systematically. owing to size. He
expresses confidence in his ability to
duplicate the performance of the Cali
fornian, Clerk, and he promises to add
his one-acre farm in Vineland to the
famed spots in Colorado.-Pueblo
Chieftain.
The Lamar register., 1905-08-23
Coarse Grass for Coverings.

On many of our Colorado ranches Is
to be found coarse slough grass that
grows in wet places which is valuable
as a cover for several kinds of for
age that will not shed rain when put
up. In an early day this grass was not
of much value. as cattle would not eat
it unless compelled by hunger and then
they did not thrive upon 1t. This grass
is especially valuable for topping out
stocks of alfalfa or native hay 1t
makes the best covering when 1t Is put
on as fast as 1t comes from the mower.
Then It is heavy and settles down
firmly on the stacks, and II IL Is Tapped
over on the sides It will keep the hay
PERFECTLY II tame hay is put up In
this way and weighted with wire and
some heavy substance. but small loss
will result from the elements. II will
pay TO top out all tame hay stacks and
stacks Of loose grain with this slough
hay. 0at straw stacked early is apt
to be badly damaged. but cover of
slough hay will keep It,. Slough hay
also makes the best of covering for
temporary sheds. The sheds may have
a covering of strawy to make bulk and
then finished with the green slough
grass.-Field and Farm.