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$1.50 A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE. LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM ST AT, BE THY COUNTRYS, THY GOD S, AND TRUTH S.' THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM VOLUME XXIII. WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N. C, MARCH ,6, 1 893. NUMBER 1 1 I f ' " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ! STATIONERY 5 v v?"& In the Original Store YOU WILL FIND A NEW STOCK OF Stationery JUST RECEIVED PRICES AS USUAL. We Have Only Ladies Cloaks Left. Sizes 32, 36, 38 46. Ouk price was $5.25; sold elsewhere at $7.50. We now offer them at $4.20 to close as we don't want to. carry one of them over. Now is your chance if the size is right. You will find them in " The Corner Store." In the Back Store ... 1. . - We have a Specialty in Ladies Dong. Buttoned Shoes at $1.25 i per pair. , Th3 Cash Racket Stores. J; M. LEATH, 'Manager. . Nash and Goldsboro Streets, - WILSON, N..C. ' DR. W. S. ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, n. c. Office in Drur Store onTarboroSt. DR. ALBERT ANDERSON, , Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, N. C. Office next door to the First Nationa Bank. DR. E. K. WRIGHT. Surgeon Dentist, WILSON, n. c. . Having permanently located in Wil on, I oner my professional services to he public. WOffice in Central Hotel Building'" IF TOO WISH TO PURCHASE THE BEST OS, at the most reasonable prices, write to us for prices and catalogues. Our In struments are carefully selected and our guarantee is absolute. Cabinet Organs. We carry an immense Stock and offer them at lowest prices. For, par ticulars address, - E. VAN LAER, 402 and 404 V. 4th St., Wilmington, N. C. tST We refer to some of the most prominent families in Wilson, io-27-am ifH NEW STORE, Prices. I take this method to inform my friends and the public that I have opened a fresh stock of GROCERIES, GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES, CONFECTIONERIES, FRUITS, ETC., FRUITS, ETC., at the stand on Tarboro street recently occupied by Mr. John Gardner. KEROSENE, per gal., ibe TOBACCO, per lb?, 25c. All other goods proportionate ly low. Highest cash prices paid for country produce. Respectfully, W. R. Best. 4 Piari New POETRY. ONLY ONE MOTH KB. You have only one mother, my boy, ' Whose heart you can gladden with joy Or cause it to ache Till ready to break So cherish that mother, my boy. You have only one mother who will Stick to you through good and ill, And love you although , The world is your foe So care for that love ever still. Your have only one mother to pray That in the good path you may stay : Who for you won't spare Self sacrifice rare So worship that mother alway. You have only one mother to make A home ever sweet for your sake, Who toils day and night For you with delight To help her all pains ever t?ke. You have only one mother to miss When she has departed from this, Iso love and revere That mother while here Sometime you won't know her dear kiss You have only one mother, just one, KememDer.tnat always, my son ; None can or will do What she has fnr von What have you for her ever done ? BILL ARPS LETTER.- ARt WITH THIS SCOTS AND THOSE WHOSK ANCESTORS CAME FHOM SCOTLAND. I have been to Scotland not across the ocean, but in North Caro lina. I dident know there was such a place and such a people in America. My invitation to rayettevule and, Red Springs and McCalls came from people whose names began with Mac, but I thought it was merely a coinci dence. When I readied Eayetteville Mr. McGelvey met me at the train, and when we reached the hotel I was introduced to a number of gentlemen whose names began with Mac. In fact I do not recall a single name that did not begin with Mac, and when I made a remark about it they told me that this was Scotland, and it included nearly all of Cumberland and Robe son counties, and extended over into Marlborough in South Carolina. More than a century ago the genuine highlanders settled j here and they multiplied according to the scripture, and kept the faith, and that is what they are doing now. This is the southern land of steady habits. The race traits of a people are a study for the philosopher. How did it happen that the Scotch are such a high-toned, unbending, uncompromising people, strictly moral and law-abiding, wed ded to their religion and their cus toms, while their nearest neighbors in old Ireland were so rolickhng,resuess and uncertain, acknowledging- no oyalty save for the priest, and taking but little concern for old age or rainy days. The laws of heredity seem to be stronger in the Scotch than in any other race, for just as their forefathers were, two centuries ago. the descen dants are now. When I learned that I had to stand up before an audience of Scotch people I was somewhat alarmed, for I remembered that Sid ney Smith said it took a surgical op eration to get a joke , into Scotch un derstanding. So I carefully left out all my jokes, and left in all my hu mor and philosophy, and got along with them' splendidly. Dr. Johnson said: "Much mierht be made of a Scotchman if he was caught young." My opinion is that these Englishmen were a little vain of their wit, and they dident like the Scotch because they dident make a big fuss over it. Lord Jeffery scored them occasionally, and never smiled at their smart saymes. and Smith said that Jeffery lived on Scotch vinegar, and nothing pleased mm ; tnat not long ago he heard him speak disrespectfully, of the equator. but 1 lound that Carolina Scotchmen is as full of mirljhas any of the Smith family. I was introduced to a Scotch audience at McCalls by a Scotch minister, and his humor was so charming and delightful that I ws reluctant to follow him. They areua dilligent, temperate and prosperous people. There are no better farme s in the state. They live in painted douses all along the line, and I am afraid Jto say how many Presbyterian churches there are m these two coun ties. Almost every man you meet is a Scotchman, and if you don't know his name it is safe to call him Mr. Mac for he is a McLean or McLeod, or McMillan, or McWhorter, or Mc Kosh, or McEwen, or McClure, or McLendon or some other Mac. I asked the darkey who drove me to the station what his name was, and he said, "McDougald, sir." The horses and dogs have Scotch names, and the little towns are Montrose, Inverness, Argyle, McCalls, Scotia, Mackston and so forth. The little newspaper at Red Springs is The Scottish. Chief. Red Springs is a beautiful little hamlet and is fast be coming noted for its mineral waters. A' wealthy gentleman, Mr. Townsend, has built an elegant hotel near by and all the summer and fall has it full of guests. "Cooking is not a lost art in that house and a bed means rest" The public roads are delightful drives. You may talk about Sheridan's ride, but I.made one last Saturday night that beat him and John Gilpin. My lecture closed at 10 o'clock, and I had to drive eleven miles by 11 130 o'clock to reach the station on the Carolina Central in time for the train. It was 10:10 o'clock when I stepped in the bnggy, and I had despaired of making connection. 1 he liveryman gave me his best team and a good driver and said : "They will take you there in time ; dinna be afraid, I had 'no watch and there were no mile posts, but those black horses seemed to know how bad I wanted to get there. Not a touch of the whip, but occasionally a gentle word. ' It was a level, firm road among the pines and the moon was directly over us Never did I ride after such a team in my life. Only twice did they break the long, sweeping trot, and that was while crossing the shallow branches. "Oh, yes, sir," said McDougald, "dey make it every time ;-dey neber fails in an hour and a half." "But they havent got but an hour and twenty minutes said I." "Dey make it, sir. Get along Will ! Move up Bruce ! I was so anxious that I found myself leaning forward to help the speed. There was a big gate to open about midway and I feared the lost was fatal, bufon and on we went and just as we came in sight of the distant station my driver said : "She's comin'. I see the, headlight 'way down de road. Get along Will! Don't you hear me Bruce," and we fairly flew to the little depot and reached it just as the train did. I slipped half a dollar into McDoug als hand and tumbled out promiscuous with my grip in my hand. Well, it was glorious and I was happy, for I was homeward bound and was not well. There would not have been another train for forty-eight hours. In North Carolina they permit a train that has started batuday night to go through to its destination on Sunday, but no train is allowed to Sunday, ex cept some of the great through lines that carry Uncle Sam's through mail. . While at Raleigh -I visited the legislature and heard some old fash ioned eloquence. The bill that was up was one from the Ladies Memorial Association asking 'for $10,000 to help erect a monument to the con federate dead of North Carolina, and the ladies were there in all their beau ty. The galleries" would not hold them and chairs were brought in and they filled the aisles and all around the speaker's desk. It was an impressive and inspiring scene. Several old veterans made good speeches, but old General Vance, brother of Zeb, got wrought up to passionate fervor as he recounted the sacrifices and suffer ings of their soldiers and that of the women the mothers, he said, of these beautiful daughters who are pleading for a memorial to the dead. He car carried us along with him gently and tenderly and before he concluded the tears of love and pity were coursing down our cheeks and we were not ashamed no not ashamed. Of course there were some watch dogs of the treasury, there always are and two or three made a feeble show of opposition, but it did not avail. One proposed to reduce the amount, but an old veteran rose upandjsaid, "Mr. Speaker, I live in a benighted region that is dark, very dark wijth the sons of Africa, but, sir, I cajn go back home and tell them what was done here to today and every negro will say amen." The bill was passed and if there was a dissenting vote it was not loud enough to be heard. I had the pleasure of meeting Governor Carr, the compromise allianceman, the suc cessful farmer, the country gentleman. He did not seek the office and now is everybody's choice, for he is a high-toned, conservative gentleman. Wouldent it be a funny law to say that no man shall have an office who seeks it and yet it would be a good law it it could be executed. Gover nor Carr made no ring and is free to choose the best men for his co-workers in building"the ship of state. And now it is President Cleveland and little Ruth is playing on the White House grass. And the senate and the house is democratic ! Who would have thought it a year ago ? What next ? It makes me tremble to think of the responsibility that will be upon the administration.' There are good men and great men in both parties and neither party is united upon the great questions now before the country. Now is the time we need statesmen and patriots instead of demagogues. ' Now is the time to heed the motto of the Scotch in Caro lina the motto of their own Robert Burns: "Princes and lords are but the breath ol kings, -An honest man's the noblest work of God." And they remind me that not lohtr ago I hunted all through Burn's poenls to find "Robin Adair" that my daughters were singing, but I did not find it. I met my friend George Adair who knows everything about the Scotch and I said : "Who wrote 'Robin Adair ?' " He swelled up and said, "Why Burns, of course." 'He dident said I. "You can't find it in any edition of his poems." "Well," said he, "I will ask Annie when I go home. She knows." . And sure enough she did know. It was writ ten by Miss Kuppel, the daughter of the earl of Albermarle, who fell in love with Robin and because he was a poor young surgeon was not allowed to marry him. It was the old, old Jstory. Bill Arp. The Modern Way. Commends itself to the well-informed to do pleasantly and effectually what was formerly, done in the crudest manner and disagreeably as well. To cleanse the system and break up colds, headaches and fevers without unpleasant after effects, use .the de lightful" liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs. A cold of unusual severity de veloped into a difficulty decidedly catarrhal in all its characteristics, threatening a return of my old chronic malady, catarrh. One bottle of Ely's Cream Balm completely eradicated every symptom of that painful and prevailing disorder. E. W. Warner, Rochester, N. Y. THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. THE WOULD'S FAIR A GREAT SCHOOL. The Surpassing Advantage It Will Offer The Big Mistakes That Even the hlg Four Can Make About the Chicago Mar-ket-The Magnificent World's Fair Bulld- . ings and Ground The Probable Cost of Living Tbo Inviting Club Men. Chicago, March, 1893. The packers have not bought much cotton oil lately. They explain it by saying that their trade for lard stopped off suddenly, and they in turn werecom- ! pelled to stop buying oil. They ! attribute this stoppage to the very ! high price of lard. They all seem to ' think that oil is still good property and that the price ; will not decline much and they expect to be in the market again later on for oil. . It is generally supposed that the Big tour control the stock market m Chicago and know just about what the future of the stock market is. If they do keep tract of and control this market it is in just about the way the weather department ol the govern ment knows the future of the weather. Last year Swift & Co., built immense additions in their works for slaughter ing hogs in the belief that this year s crop of hogs would be immensely greater than ever before. Instead of this being the case, the company can't get hogs enough to keep the old works going. The pictures of the World's Fair buildings and grounds give no ade quate idea of the reality. Though not yet completed, it is easy to see that the general view of 'the Fair buildings and grounds will be im measurably handsomer than the pic tures would go to snow. 1 nere are any number of State buildings not shown on the pictures at all which help to give variety to the general view. . Most of the buildings are in shape to receive exhibits but the floors are yet entirely bare, excepting only that the Westinghouse lighting machinery is there and being set up. This is the machinery for lighting all the build ings and grounds. It seems im probable that the buildings can.be completed and the exhibits properly arranged in the two months yet remaining, but as soon as the light plant is in readiness work will go on night and day. The World's Fair will be a great school. I doubt if it would be going too far to say that more knowledge will be disseminated at the Fair in six months than has been spread by Yale or Harvard in their whole "existence. The teaching will be by object lessons and lectures. The illustrations will be the best products of every nation of the earth. The teachers will be men and women selected by nations, coiporations and individuals to take charge of exhibits and explain them to and discuss them with the people. These teachers, taken together, will constitute an extraordinary accumula tion of skill, energy and talents. They will together make such a faculty, as it were, as never before existed. jThey will be selected not alone for skill, talent and energy, but unlike most teachers they will be selected from amongst men and women who are in close contact with the affairs of the world and the people. . Everybody who goes to this Fair will, nolens volens, be a pupil. Though every one of these teachers are high priced and well paid, yet the people pay them nothing. They will be paid by various nations cor porations and individuals and there fore to the public the tuition will be free. A small fee in the shape of gate money will be charged for light, the service of cleaning and adminis tration, but the education will be free free to all the nations and all the people of the whole earth, but especially free to the American peo ple because it is so available to them all. When General Grant made a trip around the world every opportunity was given him in every country he went through to study the resources of each countrv and the eanabilities of its people. At this Fair it will be possible to see in two weeks, in effect, all that General Grant saw on his whole trip without being bored as he was, with Eastern ceremony." Within the space of 1 .000 acres there will he gathered the best products af all man- Kinas skin and ingenuity and each exhibit will be in charge of a person specially selected for knowledge of the subject and for capability in com-' municating that knowledge. There will be the full opportunity to get so much for so little that no one who can possibly afford it should miss the Fair. Numerous hotels are being built near the Fairgrounds. The rule will be to rent rooms only to run these hotels on the European plan. Very little has yet been said or announced about prices. Every hotel and lodg ing house keeper is simply intending to get all possible. The protection of the public will lie along in. the competition that the unusual prepar ation will create. Schemes to make money off the public are already in operation ; as for instance, the schemes for having a fair club as follows: Some enter prising fellow or fellows buys a piece of ground and constructs a hotel build ing. Instead of calling it a hotel building they call it a club building and send out circulars to the well rated people in' Bradstreet's or Dun's, inviting people to become "members" of the club. You are told that the payment of an initiation fee of $5 to $25 will constitute you a member of the club and that when you come to the Fair you will be admitted to a room in the club building at $5 per Highest of all in Leavening 11 jasa2 ABSULT7ELy F3JRE day if there is room for you. One of these so-called clubs is said to have received initation fees of $12,50 from 5. coo people', making over $60,000. The subscribers, of course, go in with the- idea . that they all have some special privilege, but the hotel- com pany gets the $12,50 for nothing and in some measure a customer at high prices. If the subscriber gets any benefit, I can't see it. Generally speaking, it looks at the present time as if the cost of lodging here during the fair would- be about $2 to $5 per day for a respectable room without meals. There will be plentyof restaurants in and out of - the fairgrounds and there will be no diffi culty about a plenty to eat Of course there will be rooms lower in price than $2 and higher than $ ;. If the preparation is in excess of the require ments, competition may - reduce the above considerably. The adaptation of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup to the cure of all diseases of the throat and chest is certainly marvelous, t or cold, cough, croup, whooping-cough and incipient con sumption it is incomparably the best preparation made. Whispers About Women. Mrs. Robert Winthrv. of New York; is worth over $10,000,000. Huldah Fnedrichs has the honor of being the first lady taken on the regular stan 01 a l-ondon paper. Miss Bertie O. Burn!, of Auburn- dale, Mass., who saved two girls from drowning last summer has been pre sented with a medal. I I Mrs. Orme Wilson, of New York. is nothing ' if not English. All her entertainments are modeled after those of our British cousins. Mrs. Stevenson, mother of the vice president elect, is eichtv-three vears of age and one of the authorities on tne early history ol Kentucky. - Dr. Kate Camobell Hurd is medi cal director of the Bryn Mawr school, near rnuadelphia. . bhe is the daugh ter of a physician, and has studied extensively abroad. Miss Pauline Whitnev. of New York,; one of the debutantes of this season, is certain to be a belle. That she is a great heiress goes without saying, for she is not only the daugh- ter duc ine grand -daughter ot a millionaire. Mrs. Choate. president of the New York Woman's exchange, is a tall. graceful woman, with erav blue eves and hair slightly tinged with gray. ane is always kind and sympathetic, and listens patiently to many a tale of woe. Miss Gertrude I. Barrett, daughter of Rev. B. F. Barrett, of Philadelohia has been made general manager of tne awedenborg Publishing associa tion since the decease of her father. who was for many years president of ine association. The fact remains, and is incon trovertible, that the remedy this Com pany has placed on the market is the most valuable ever introduced for a number of ailments, and this in a great measure accounts for the fact that it is to be found in nearly every household in our broad domain. We would not keep house without a bot tle of Pond's Extract." Fashion's Mirror. Green, gray, brown and baize are now very popular for woolens. For velvet gowns cloaks dark green red and black will be most employed. Satins have won their wav back to popular favor, and now "anything that is satin is in style. This season will see manv Flaring red gowns. Red and black will be a specially favored combination. Pansy velvet and bishop purple are' Parisian favorites, and will be seen in both costumes and millinery. A new style in all wood velvets is a bright ground in colors covered with a soft down of long white hairs. The Russian velvets now in favor are only those of the richer trades. The lines area thin cord of silk over a dark woolen background. Bonnets are of all possible shades. and their garniture is often most original, i here will surely be a re turn of flowers to favor. Alreadv the later importations of Paris bonnets snow nowers lace and fur in close combination. "". A wide formless sack coat of seal in h-Jf length shows only two seams. The front Darts close bv burtons. which reach to the high Stuart collar. unoer wmcn is a long hood falling down to the waist. The wide sleeves are narrow at the wrists and have no cuffs. Philadelphia Record. M. D. Lane. Devereaux. Ga.. writes: "One summer several years ago, while railroading in Mississippi, I became badlv affected with malarial blood poison that impaired mv health for more than two years. Several of fensive ulcers appeared on my legs, and nothing seemed to give perma nent relief until I took six bottles of B B. B., which cured me entirely." Power Latest U. S. Gov't Report Hood's Pills cure liver ills, jaundice biliousness, sick headache constipa tion. Not troubled with rheumatism any more.--Judge Gatewood, 84 Avery St, Cincinnati, Ohio., writes thus : "I bought a bottle of Salvation Oil for rheumatism, with which I was afflicted. The first application gave relief and I have not been trouble since." - Benjamin Harrison a Professor. President Harrison has accepted a professorship in theLeland Stanford University of Calfornia. He will de liver a series of lectures on constitu tional law, commencing in October next He has had the-matter under consideration for some weeks. So He Had. Editor (reaching for his walking stick). So you are the person who sends the poems from Polecat Hol low?, m The Poet (with pride I am he, indeed ; and I came down to sub scribe to your paper. " . Editor (agitated) Oh er allow me then sir to present you with this cane, as a token of my esteem ! I purchased it expressly for you. Hoke Smith. It is not generully known that Hoke Smith is connected bv ties of hlooH and marriage with a distinguished New York familv. ludes Rohert Van Wyck, of New York, and An. Kuaiiis van vv ycK. Ol tsroOKJvn. are thus related to him. Thev are proud of their distinguished relative, and on his arrival they called on him, and the three had luncheon together at one of the corner tables in the Ar lington. The lunch lasted a little over an hour to be exact, about an hour and ten minutes. They talked oyer family matters, but they did not discuss patronage and politics, ex cept in a casual manner. Neither of the'Judges Van Wyck is a "candidate for any Federal office, and they are satisfied with the representation the family has received in Hoke Smith Judge Van Wyck, of the City Court of New York, said that there was nothing to be said for publication regarding the celebrated luncheon, which showed the links thaj: exist be tween Hoke Smith and the North, and it is also tended to incline one to think that in official matters he will favor Tammany Hall and the Brook lyn Democracy, to which his distin gushed relatives belong. ' Everybody from New York was in terested and everybody from the South was gratified by the attention with which Hoke Smith was received. There was no such crowd about any other man on his arrival. There were a number of people to see Mr. Cleveland when he got to the Ho, tel, but it was nothing to the throng which gathered when it was hispered that Hoke Smith had ar rived. The halls and offices .at the Arlington would not hold the crowd. The Alabama delegation, which had been marching along the street to its headquarters, turned into the Arlington when they heard that Hoke Smith was there. New York Sun. The Peach Tree Borer. The r'Borer" which infests the roots of the peach tree should receive prompt attention during early spring. This grub is . the larval form of a small, steel-blue, wasp-like moth, Sannma Exifiosa. The female moth lays her eggs in spring-time on the bark, at or near the collar of the tree. From the. egg hatches the grub, which gnaws its way downward into the roots- leaving behind it a tunnel which soon becomes filled with gurn. This grub lives in the root one year. The following remedy is confidently recommended. Scrape away the soil from about the collar of the , tree and find the 'holes from which gum exudes. Probe these with a sharp-pointed wire. Then before replacing . the soil wash the base of the tree with the following mixture : Sour or butter milk. .1 gallon Hydraulic cement s tablespoonfuls. Make and use fresh, applying with a brush or rag. The cement will from a thin coating on the bark of the tree through which the grub will be unable to- gnaw its way. The liquid should be applied from below the surface to a height of 1 2 inches. The soil scraped away should then be replaced and tramped solid- Gerald McCarthy, N. C. Experiment Station. In a recent State weather service division bulletin (No. 38) of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Mr. C. F. Von Aerrmann, the Meteorologist, describes rules for making local weather forecasts. Many who are interested in this matter and wonder how weather predictions can be made so accurately can ascertain by a perusal of these rules. Our sales in 1883 Ten Tons. Our sales in 1892 over Four teen Hundred Tons. 'Proof of the pudding" is in the use of Pocomoke in ' the field. It is conceded by the best farmers of .Wilson and adjoin ing counties that Pocomoke makes one-eighth more Lint Cotton than any other brand in Wilson. TINSLEY'S HIGH GRADE TobaccoGuano. Highest analysis of any Brand . sold in Wilson. It is absolutely necessary 'to use Tinsley's Guano on your Plant Bed. If you want to make Fine Tobacco we refer you to the most successful farmers of Wilson and adjoining coun ties as to the result of Tinsley's Gua nos. Do not use Common Cotton Guanos, called Tobacco Guanos the only dif ference being that the bags are marked for Tobacco unless you are willing to make six cent Tobacco.1 Take nothing but Tinsley's Guano if you want to niake Fine Tobacco. C. A. Young & Bro. mil ' Bay State, Banister's and E. P. Reed's fine shoes are the best made at E. R. Gav's. 5 Rheumatism Cured in a Day. "Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in i to 3 days. Its action upon the .system is remarka ble and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease imme diately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits, 75 cents. Sold by E. M. Nadal druggist, Wilson, N. C. 4-7-6m Jacob Reed's Sons spring line of samples for suits to measure, just received at E. R. Gay's. Adrice to Mother Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should always be used for children teething. It soothes the child, sof tens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for diarrhea. Twenty-five cents a bottle Supply all your wants in wearing apparel at E. R. Gay's. We can't describe them. You will have to see those beautiful ail chromos we are giving as premiums, to appre ciate them. Remember, . we don't give you your choice of the six, but actually give all six of these gems of art and and a prize certificate entitling you to your choice of one of twelve articles enumerated under the head of "Offer Exraordinary" first article on this page. The certificate you send with twelve cents to P.O. Vickery, Augusta Maine. We give the certifi cate and the six chromos and mail to you address " Vickery 's Fireside Visitor" and The Wilson Advance one year for the small sum of two dollars. Clean op tbe Fields. If the dead leaves, vines or stumps of last year's crops still remain in fruit yard or garden, no time should be lost before removing them. - Cab bage stumps and other trash that cannot be burned should be hauled off to some hole or waste place and there buried or covered with soil. Formerly it was considered best to plow under the leavings of the last crop to supply humus to the soil. The extraordinary increase ol fungi and noxious insects in recent years no longer renders this a safe plan. This trash usually harbors the winter spores or eggs of these noxious pests, and to leave them upon the ground or even turn them under with the plow is ruinous economy. Burn and de stroy them before the warm days of spring waken them into activity. The neglect of this work will entail a heavy loss in next season's crop. Gerald McCarthy, Botanist N. C Experiment Station. 5yOur Premiums are Beauties. Peach Rot. Rot is the greatest enemy of the peach in North Carolina. Peach rot is not caused by the curculio, as many suppose, but by as microscopic fun gus known to botanists a mqnilia fructi gena. The spores or germs of this fungus live through the wintpr in the rotten, dried-up fruit, on trthe trees and on the pits of the fruit which has laiien and rotted on the ground be neath the trees. To save the crop the first thing to do is '. to throughly disinfect the orchard. Remove and burnall withered fruit still on the trees. Gather up and burn all the peach pits from beneath the trees. These make excellent fuel. Next apply a liberal dressing of air-slaked lime beneath and around , the trees. Burn also all prunings. After the flowers have fallen spray with IMPROVED BORDEAUX MIXTUSE. Copper sulphate (bluestoiie). . 1 pound. Fresh lime 1 pound. Molasses i pint . Water... ....10 gallons. Directions. Dissolve the sulphate in a wooden, glass or earthenware vessel in 5 gallons of water. In an other vessel slack the lime in 1 gallon of water. Rub lime until all lumps have been broken, then add the molasses, strain and stir slowly into the sulphate ; never pour the sulphate upon the lime. When all ebullition has ceased dilute to 10 gallons and use. One-half ounce of Paris green or London purple may be added to each 10 gallons of this mixture. When the arsenite is used it will be best to sprinkle it upon the lime be fore slaking the lime. ' The above fungicide will at the same time protect the trees from "leaf curl," and if the arsenite is used protect against all gnawing insects. Not more than the prescribed quan tity of arsenite should be used. Gerald McCarthy. N. C. Experiment station. - A State Forecast Official. At the recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of the A. & M. College and of the Board of Agriculture resolu tions were passed by these bodies re questing the United States Secretary of Agriculture to locate a state fore cast official in the meteorological divi sion of the North Carolina Experiment Station organized as the State Weather Service. This official will make forecast for North Carolina, and being located at Raleigh will be much better situated to study local state weather conditions and can predict the weather with probably greater accuracy than ever before. Many states have already these officials located at the headquarters of the state services, and it is hoped that the Secretary of Agriculture will be able to allow the request
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