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Devoted to the Interest of Those Who I W Till the Soil m t CONDUCTED BY J M BEATY | r ?> ??S ^ THE FARMERS INSTITUTE. The doctors, lawyers, bankers, merchants, cotton mill men, lum ber manufacturers and men ol almost all trades and proteesioue have their meetings to talk over matters that concern them. It is said to be harder to get farm ers to see the importance of such meetings than people of othei professions and really it seems that way. A great many fann ers seem suspicious of each other and of everybody else. We uotici this in their attitude to the farm-} ers institutes. The Department ? of Agriculture arranges forthese [ institutes free to the farmers and yet many of them seem never to see the importance of the work. In a large county like Johnston there should be several hundred farmers at au annual institute such as was held here August i)th. There were hardly as many as one hundred in attendance but the work goes on and all I who attend are benefited. The institute was the best ever held here and the only discouraging feature was the small attendance. The institute opened at 10:45. Prof. H. H. Hume spoke on '?How to improve our Soils." "To what extent should farm ers engage in trucking?" was discussed by Mr. It. H. (lower. '?Farm Poultry" by Prof. J. S. Jeffreys. At 2 o'clock Prof. Franklin Sherman talked on "lusect Pests." "Farm Dairying" was discuss ed by Prof. J. C. Kendall. At 2 o'clock the ladies held a meeting in the Pythian hali I which was led by Profs. Hume and Kendall and Miss Mae Card. The following were appointed an institute committee for next year: W. M. Sanders, Chairman, R. H. (lower, (J. B. Smith, C. C. Young, J. P. Cauaday, Jofiephus Johnson, J.J. Hose, 11. T. West brook. J. 1). Smith, W. A. lid wards, 1). B. Oliver, O. P. Rose, D. H. Bagley, J. L. Jones, W. (1. Wilson and H H. Biggs. Don't Invite Hog Cholera. None of our readers will be so foolish as to knowiugly invite such an unwelcome guest to their farms and feed lots as the dread ed bog cholera. None the less, however, many unwittingly issue an urgent invitation It is well understood that the genuine hog cholera and its next of kin, swine plague, are germ diseases, and that they will not appear on any farm unless the germ has first been in some way introduced. It is perhaps not so well understood as it should be that, even if introduced, it will not necessary prove fatal unless a seed bed has been prepared for these germs. They have their own proper environment, and farmers are more likely to invite tbem by preparing the proper seed bed than in any other way. Western farmers are to be con gratulated on the fact that there is, as far as we know, very little cholera this year, nor has there been for the last year or two. We seldom have any great 1 amount of cholera when corn is either scarce or high priced. This if eo common an observation tbat it has almost passed into a proverb. We often bear the re mark that cholera comes in with new corn. All who have made a careful study of the disease know that new corn does not contain the germ of cholera or cf swine 1 plague. Hence the proverbs above mentioned must have their conception in the fact, quite well established, tbat a constant corn diet produces eo to speak, a proper seed bed for the cholera germ, especially if farmers begin to feed it before it is lit, namely, in the roasting ear stage. 8ome render may ask: How does feeding hogs on roasting ears prepare a proper seed bed < for hojr cholera'.' The answer to this in (juite ea?y: Corn alone, no matter how Hound or well matured, doe* not furnish in tt 8*df the material adapted to ' he growth and development of a healthy pig. In ot her words, a pig grown on corn from pighood up lacks a good deal of the essential requirements for health. There) is not enough bone-making ma terial, as is shown by the uniform softness and weakness of bones of hogs on an exclusively corn"! diet. Neither is there enough muscle making material; hence there is a lack of muscular devel opmeut in hogs grown in the! corn country, unless the corn has been balanced by feed con taining a greater amount of pro tein or muscle-making material. Especially is this true where farmers begin feeding tli?-ir hogs corn in the roasting ear and con tinue to use it as an exclusive feed until they are finished for market. In fact, a good deal of what is called hog cholera is simply the corn disease, or lowered vitalitv caused by the continuous feeding j of a one-sided or unbalanced ration, especially when this is fed to young and growing pigs. Many fanners who ieed corn altogether unconsciously balance it, and thus avoid many of thei evils, when they feed their hogs on skim milk or buttermilk, or when they give them the run of clover pastures, or in the fall of the year in a timber country an | opportunity to gather mast. I M ere it uot for this unintention al balance, we would see far! greater mortality among hogs than we see now 1 his unbalanced ration pro ducer, ho to upeak, a reed bed for \ the cholera germs; and when they art once introduced, especially in sections where there is a large [ hog population, the disease in creases in malignancy and sweeps over the country, particularly1 along the railroads, sometimes becoming so malignant that it; even sweeps through herds that have been kept under the best possible conditions both iu re gard to diet and sanitation. Therefore the way to avoid hog cholera is to keep the hogs j under the best sanitary condi-j tions, with clover or blue grass pastures, with spring or well water, with clean and dry sleep ing places, aud at this seasou of the year an abundance of shade of some kind. Many farmers unwittingly in vite hog cholera when it appears in their neighborhood, by per mitting their neighbors to visit their hog yards on one pretext aud another. Others very fool ishly accept a neighbor's invita tion to visit his yards aud give their judgment as to what is the matter with the pigs When chol era appears every bog yard should tie absolutely quarantin ed. -Neighbors should be forbid den to enter on general principles. You should not permit your father or your brother or jour brother-in-iaw, or any of your wife's relations, to come snoop ing around your hog yard to see bow your pigs are growing, and whether they havecholeraoruot It goes without saying that ped- i dlers of dead hogs, which inform er times spread the disease most efficiently, should be absolutely forbidden to enter the premises. i\eep juur nogs at nome, ana Bt*e that your neighbors keep theirs ( at home, l ee every precaution J to prevent the germ of the disease finding a lodgmeut onyourfarm. Fortunate is the man in hog cholera times, who-e buildings are away from the main traveled road. Fortunate also is the man who at such tiuws has few visi tors, whether business or social We have known instances ofj herds thus situated and kept un der quarantine that wereentirely free from thu disease, while the herds on adjoining farms were , swept away by it. There is plenty of good money in the hog business. If farmers j will breed carefully, feed carefully,! and use all precautions against the sprea 1 of the disease, there is a chance to make more good I money in hogs this year than any year within our recollection. J ?Wallace's Farmer. For Ellwood Field Fence call :>n Cotter-Underwood Co. To what Extent Should our Farmers En gage In Trucking Crops? Tbe following speech was de livered by Mr. It H. Gower be fore the Farmers Institute held at SmitbHeld August '.tin: W bile we are doing our part to cloth the world; producing about 30,000 bales ol cottou per year, and staudiiik third in the list ol cotton producing counties in tbe State, we are not producing pos sibly more than two thirds enough food crops to feed our own people. If we could know the amount of corn, meal, Hour, meat, lard, butter and all |Other articles of food shipped into our county, I've no doubt it would verify the above assertion. And yet, all the world with its teem ing millions has got to be fed. I'wo great lines of railway, the Southern und the Coast Fine cut our county in to four quarters, crossing in the centre. We are in a few hours of ihegreat north ern markets. We have a soil and climate perfectly adapted to most of the trucking crops; an abundance of good reliable la bor and yet this great mine of wealth that might fie ours lies almost untouched un l undevel oped. < >ur people are too much inclined to run in ruts. We all too are putting too many eggs in one nest. If the price of cotton, this fall, should drop to H cents it would bank rupt the county. The entile crop at that price would scaicely pay the larmers and merchants deots. Hut if we had grown and sold enough truck ing crops all through theyear, (a thing we could have done) to have kept off the store account we would be far better off. We would be in a position to hold our cotton and thus help to keep up the price, getting perhaps as much money for our cotton as if we bad planted no trucking crop at all. Around Clayton, the sec tion of the county in which Hive, we are making a beginning. An average of 20U lbs. of butter per week is shipped from the two dairies near the town, fifty car loads of water melons, two cars of canteloupes and two of irish potatoes have been shipped this season. We are on thefiouthern road.i Farmers on the Coast Line would have an advantage over us in shipping. One great thing about trucking crops is that you can grow two crops a year on the same land and leave the land 25 per cent, better off for the strain. After potatoes you can grow corn and peas; alter mel ons a crop of peavines and crab grass; hay; after cabbage, tur nips, etc. We have in our own county eleven thrifty growing towns, these^re eVut their present rate of groirt J, will, in a few years, make a^od markets. Hut the farmer does well to remember that the world has got to be fed and that it is always in six months of starvation; it can cut on clothes, but not much on ra tions. Vof course to succeed with these crops require much more brain, energy and attention than straight cotton and corn. The extent to which I would ad vise trucking in our county, is just what 1 have done for the past two years. Cut your cot ton acreage 20 percent and put that much acreage in these crops. Changes in Ten Years. In bis address a few days ago to the National Live Stock Ex change in Chicago in reviewing the wondeiful adva ces made in the pase ten years, Thomas Kel ly said in his address: The average price of 2,500, 000,000 bushels of eoru has been doubled the last ten years, ad ding $500.000,000 annually to the created wealth of America. The average price of hogs and sheep has been more than doub led. Cattle are selling forty to sixty per cent higher, benefitting the producer hundreds of mil lions yearly. Distributing sta tions for America's meat prod ucts girdle the globe, bringing $180,000,000 of foreign gold to our shores each year, to "leaven the dough," and add to that wonderful prosperity which is the marvel of all nations. Thousands of cold storage bouses dot America from Port land to Mexico, from Alaska tc the Florida Keefs Tens of thousands of refrigerator cars swell the touage of our railroads Two buudred million acres of gram lauds heated within a radius of five hundred miles of j Chicago have advanced iu value from $20 to $<>0 per acre, giving us an increase of six to eight bib i lion dollars in America's taxable values. Our present prosperity, eubauced value of grain, live stock, land, raiTroad and bank bank stock, together witu many other of our industries, are so closely interwoven and directly . attributable to modern methods ' in the building and distributing of our meat products, that one | is lost in amazement when the panorama of cause and effect is spread before him. William Hryant, of Montgome ry county, this Stafejong known as the "cattle kiner," died a few j days ago in his S.'li yeir. He began a poor h^y ami built up i an estate worth $200,000.?In diana Farmer. Scrub yourself daily, you're; J not clean inside. Clean inside means clean stomach, bowels, blood, liver, clean, healthy tis J -.uo in every organ. Moral: I Take Hollister's Kocky Moun tain Tea. lia cetit^, Tea or Tab lets. .Hood Bros. The Oldest Mule Is Dead. 1'robably the oldest mule in I the I nited States died recently in this county. The mule belonged I to John Davis, colored, of An sonville township, and was 40 years old. That the mule was every day of 40 years old is es tablished beyond a doubt. Mr. M. W. Hyatt, one of Ansonville township's most substantial citi- j zens, tells the M. it I. that he was present, as a lad, when his father, the late David Hyatt, of this countv, traded for the mule. This was .48 years ago, and Mr. Hyatt says the mule was two years old when it came into the possession of hie father. At the sale of his father's effects Mr Hyatt bought the mule and ! owned it until about five years ago, when he sold it to Davis, j | The mule, Mr. Hyatt further de i | poses, did good work on the j farm until this spring.?Wades-1 boro Messenger and lntelligen-| r The Origin of Coffee. Coffee wan discovered in 128." L?y adervishnamed HandjiOuiar, a native of the town of Mocha? , hence the familiar name. Handji j < imar, lost in an Arabian desert, J was dying of hunger, when he discovered some small, round berries. On trying to eat them he found, to his disgust, that they were extremely bitter. Then J he tried roasting them, and final- ( ly steeped a few thus roasted iD | water. Naturally, this was cof-j fee, and. though of the worst de-1 scriptiou, so agreeable did Hand- j ji Omar find it that as soon as be | could make his way back to his ; native town, be introduced this! new drink to the wise men of the j city. So well pleased were they 1 with it that the dervish was made a saint.?North Western [ ! Agriculturist. Fifteen Years for Lyncher. Salisbury, N. C., Aug 10? j George flail, of Montgomery county, charged with being one iof the leaders in the lynching here Monday night was tried in j Rowan Superior Court here to day and sentenced to fifteen years in prison, the maximum of the law. This was the first case against the Rowan lynchers. The trial was a speedy one, and it is the first instance in the history of the State, when a prisoner charg j ed with aiding in a lynching was [convicted, and is considered a distinct victory for thecourtand the law. The Golden Rule Applied. "Really, Mr. Hanson." said the fair girl, "I'm shocked to hear you confess such behavior j in your business dealings. You should always 'do unto others as you would have others do un to you.' " ' You wouldn't have me do that always'.''' "Certainly," she replied; "al ways." "All right. Here goes!" he cried, and kissed her.? Ex. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROAlOQuin ine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature on every box. 25c. SUPPORT SCOTT'S EMULSION serves as a bridge to carry the weakened and starved system along i*Jl it can find firm support in ordinary food. Ser.d for free sample. I SCOTT ft ftOWNE, Chemisu, 409-415 I'earl Street, New York, i?; joe. ar.d f 1.00; all druggists. ?V 1' AdG (ElHillllffllW C ASTORIA1 I AYefic table Prep arat ion for As - slmilating the Food and Reflula I ting the Stomachs and Dowels of Promotes TH^esDon,Cheerful ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium Morphine nor Mineral. 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If 25c ones at 16c. ft if 50c ones at ... - 3ic. ff g 11.00 ones at 59c. jf yt Ask your dealer if he can meet these X if] prices. if % % ? * * GULLEY (EL GULLEY x * dC J CLAYTON. N. C. jg * XAAXXXAUX* XX I XXX X XX XX XX XX w. _ Blacksmith and Wood Shops I am now located in Benson and prepared to do any and all kinds of Repairing on ("arts, W agons and Buggies. Horse and Mule Shoeing a specialty, cheap tor cash onlv. New work to order. All work warranted. Mr. R. E. Massengill, an Experienced Shoer, is with me. and ask his many Friends to call and see him when in Town, hoping by Fair dealings to 6hare a portion of your patronage. 1 am yours to serve, JAMES A. JOHNSON, - - Benson, N. G. Near W. R Dennini's Brick Store j| S h o p \AJ o r k | X We Make and Repair Carts, Wagons, Buggies X V and do Wood, Iron and Steel Work. Horse- X shoeing a Specialty. * We have West's V raulic TIRE ? SETTER with 6 h we can A set the tires on X agon in If teen minutes, jf Satisfaction A Guaranteed. 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