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Clje Chatham Record H. A, LONDON, Editor and Proprietor, "Irms of subscription, $1.50 Per Year. t)t Chatham fltrori. ' . RATES OF ADVERTISING, Ob sqnar, OB intertloa 11.00 On square, two Insertion 1.JM On square, on month 1W For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Con tracts will be made. Strictly in Advance VOL. XXIX. PITT.SBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C, THURSDAY. MAY 16. 1907 NO. 40 NORTH STATE NEWS 31 DIE IN A WRECK AGAINST THETRUST Court Decides That Druggists Must Not "Black List." READY FOR TRIAL Idaho Miners Arraigned on the Charge of Murder -' SLAUGHTER Of SIX Murder Maniac Works Havoc in Boarding House Southern Agricultural Topics. Modern Methods That Are Helpfal to v Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman. . : a Swift Running Excursion Spe cial Totally Demolished Items of Interest Gleaned From Various Sections ffl it n a1 FROM MOUNTAIN TO SEASHORE Blinor Occurrences of the Week of Interest to Tax Heels Told in Paragraphs. Our State at Jamestown, Raleigh, Special. Commissioner General Pogue, of the North Carolina Jamestown Exposition Commission, was here last week. He says that he finds that it requires constant atten tion to keep things on the move. The management "of the transportation de partment has been simply chaotic and he spoke of one car of show cases for North Carolina which have been load and unloaded seven times. Then, too, the official decorators and carpenters have been outrageously behind with their part of the work. He says that if the freights had been delivered within ten days after arrival a,t the grounds and if the decorators and iu stalation had been completed by the contract time, practically all of the North Carolina exhibits would have been ready on the opening day. No loss than 180 of the North Carolina cotton mills make exhibits and have shown a very great degree of inter est in having their department com prehensive and it will illustrate all the kinds of textile work done in the State, some of which will be a sur prise to North Carolinas and to the general public. The furniture men will have two exhibits and will show splendidly what the State is doing in this line, notably in the manufacture of artistic furniture which will con vince people that they need not send to Grand Rapids or anywhere out sf the State to get beautiful designs and excellent workmanship. The North Carolina building at the Jamestown Exposition is to be turned over by the contractor May 25th. It is not known whether there will be any ceremonies of dedication or not. The building complete and furnished will cost something like $20,000. Three rooms have been furnished m a private contribution a parlor, as reception room and living room. Mrs. George Yanderbilt furnished the re ception room throughout all the ar ticles in it. bpincr tliA TYrnr?ntc nf tho Industrial School, at Biltmore. She has at her own expense had this room paneled in oak. She takes a great deal of interest in the whole affair and 110 room in any of the State buildings will be more attractive than this one. One of the best known furniture man ufacturers in the State furnishes an other room and it is hoped that other manufacturers will follow their ex ample and furnish other rooms, &s it gives public spirit and at the same time ilustrate in the handsomest fash ion what is being done in the State. The North Carolina building will be in charge of some specially appointed persons ob person all the time and during North Carolina week, August 12th to 17th, Governor and Mrs. Glenn will be in entire control of it, as the commission will for that week turn the building over to them. It is ex pected that on Thursday of that week, there will be a general reception on a very large scale, as that will be "North Carolina Day." A Large Bequest for Guilford College High Point, N, C, Special. Mr. J. E. Cox, one of the trustees of Guil ford College, has received the encour aging news from Chicago that large bequest has been left to said college from the Fowle B. Hill estate. Mr. Hill was related to James J. Hill, the railway magnate, and has relatives in North Carolina. North State Notes. A splendid monument to Cleveland county's Confederate soldiers was unveiled on May 10th. Col. Locke Craig was the brilliant orator ofthe occasion. State Veterinarian Butler, who went to Polk county to investigate the alleged case of glanders, finds it was not that disease but merely an abscess cf the tofrih. John Bethel a notorious negro was shot and killed while attenroting to escape from the convict camp of Wake county near Wake Forest. He was sentenced to four years for lar ceny. He escaped from jail some years ago, leading several other pris oners. Insurance Commissioner Ybungrules that no life insurance company doing business in North Carolina shall issue any special or board contracts or sell eny stock in connection with its pol- Hes. This is to prevent rebating and ?s intended to place all citizens of the fjtate upon the same basis as far os 'if iasurancs contracts are concern ed. Secretary Livingston Johnson re ports that North Carolina Baptists JSf tte past twelve months gave jG,500 for foreign missions sad $16,. 104 for home missionaries. Wake lorest College ha3 in 'four months raised $37,000 on the new endowment fund. William Dancy, who served in Com pany E, Forty-seventh North Carolina Jjcgiment and who also had been in the Soldiers' Home 15 years, died, aged 86. MANY MORE INJURED WILL DIE Special Train Carried 145 Shriners and Friends Returning From Los Angeles Locomotive Struck De fective Switch While Running 50 Miles an Hour, Turning Somer sault. . . Santa Barbara, , CaL, Special. Tir-ty-one dead and a score injured com prise the casulties of the wreck ht Honda Saturday of the Ismailia spec ial train of New York and Pennsyl vania nobles of the Mystic Shrine, who were returning home from the anm c: meeting of . the Imperial Coun cil of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shriners al Los Angeles. The train carrying 143 Shriners and friends from Ismailia Temple, Buffalo; Rajah Temple, Reading, Pa., and neighboring cities was rushing northward at 30 miles and hour on the -Southern Pacific coast line when the locomotive struck a defective switch at the sand-swept sea coast siding of Honda near the waters of the Pacific ocean, along which the railroad runs for 100 miles north of Santa Barbara. The locomotive turned a sumersault into the yielding sands. The cars swirled through the air and landed n the fiery mass of wrecked steel. The coaches were crushed to debris, and took lire. The flames were soon extinguished by uninjured persons from the rear coaches. As Honda is isolated it was not till late Sunday that detinue information could be collected. The bodies of 23 victims now lie in Santa Barbara and four more are at San Luis Obispo. The injured, many of whom are" terribly hurt, and some of whom may die, are in two sanitariums at San Luis' Obis po. The wreck occurred at 2:33 o'clock one hour and 45 minutes after the party had left Santa Barbara, where they had spent all the morning sight seeing. The statement that the tram v.-ss making a terrific speed when it struck the defective track is borne out by the fact that it covered the CI miles of crooked track from Santa Barbara to Honda in 100 minutes The locomotive in leaving the rails tore up the track, twisting the huge iteei rails into fish hooks. The bag gage car half buried itself in the sand on the right side of the locomotive. It was smashed almost to kindling wood. The dining car, in which were 32 persons eating luncheon, leaped into the air and fell directly on the de molished locomotive. Nearly every person iuj the dining ear was instant ly killed. Scores were scalded by steam escaping from disconnected pipes. The rear coaches rushed on the first wreckage, jamming it on" those who might otherwise have escaped. Several pinioned in the debris were roasted alive. Engineer Frank Champlain was pitched with, the cab 23 feet beyond the engine. He got up nd ran a mile, seeking help before he discovered that bis arm was broken and that he was severely scalded. Only two of the nine men of the dining car crow are numbered among the dead. The re mainder, though cooped up in the nar row kitchen and pantry, sustained only euta and bruises, A last call for luncheon had just sounded a few minutes before the disaster, Embezzler Surrenders. Charlotte, N. C, Special. The ex pected happened Saturday morning when Mr. Franc H. Jones, the default ing assistant cashier of the Charlotte National. Bank, suddenly appeared h the city and voluntarily surrendred himself into the custody of the Unit ed States' officers to answer the charge preferred against him, that of embez zlement. Mr. Jones arrived on South ern passenger train No. 44, which come in a few minutes before G o'clock . He was accompanied bv his wife and his attorney, Mr. C. D. Ben nett. A. preliminary hearing was given him Saturday meht, and he was released on a bond of $10,000. $380,000 Improvement Bonds. ' Richmond, Va., Special. The Rich mond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Company ' sold $3S0,000 of 3 1-2 per cent 40 year gold bonus to the Richmond-Washington Company to provide funds .for "the Richmond, Fredeiioksburg & Potomac portion of the cost of double tracking the belt line around Richmond, and to buy new rolling stock. The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac will pur chase immediately 100 new steel coal cars and 200 new steel ' under-frama box cars. On July 1 next the per diejjjjiire of freight ears will be in creased from 25 cents to 00 cents. 0 Ars Supposed. Dead in Mine, City of Mexico, Special. Ninety men are supposed to have lost their lives in a fire which started in the Ten a res Copper Mines at Varlardena, in tiie Stan? of Durango, last Friday nivht. The fiie i3 still raging and is said to be beyond c mtrol. Thirty five bodies have bo-n recovered, up lo this time. Seventeen miners "are known to have escaped. OLD PRACTICES AT AN END Decreeof United States District. Court Pereptually Enjoins it From Continuing Operations. Indianapolis, Ind., Special. The so called "drug trust" was perpetually enjoined from continuing its opera tions by the entering of a decree in the United States Circuit Court for the district of Indiana on the com plaint of the United States govern ment "filed by Joseph B. Keating, United States district attorney. The defendants, 92 in number, who are the members, officers, directors, agents and attorneys of the Nation al Association, of Retail Druggists, with the National Wholesale Drug- rists' Association, tri-partite proprie Tors "black list manufacturers." 'direct contract proprietors," ''wholesale contract proprietors," md Charles C. Bembaugh, are pre petually enjoined from combining md conspiring to restrain trade in irngs, fix prices by agreement, black list retailers who cut prices, or to re fuse to sell to any retailer on equal terms. All publication of black lists is forbidden and all contracts and agreements covered by the charges and declared void. The direct contract serial number plan is prohibited as well as the secur ing of the adoption of schedules for the sale of drugs. CharleS C. Bombaugh was charged in the bill of complaint with being angaged in printing and circulating lists called black lists, which contain 3d the names of druggists throughout the country who sold proprietary ar ticles and medicines at prices lees than those which the alleged combina tion ordered. . As charged, he mailed a list each month to every retail and wholesale Iruggist in the United States who be longed to the association, of those ae 3used of cutting prices, and as a re sult of this, these "aggressive cut ters" as they were called, could not buy goods. It was further charged that those accused of cutting prices on proprie tary medicines, were unable to pur jhase any kind of drugs from the members of the several asociations. All such practices are perpetually en joined. HEIR TO SPANISH THRONE. Young Queen Gives Birth to a Son and There is Great Public Rejoic ing. Madrid, By Cable. The news that the direct male succession to the throne of Spain had been assured by the birth Friday of a son to Queen Victoria sent a thrill of rejoicing throughout the country and at night the happy event is being celebrated from one end of the land to another. Mother and child are both doing well. The hurried departure of royal mes sengers form the palace at 10 o'clock to summon the courtiers and the mem bers of the diplomatic corps gave the first indicatk that the birth was im minent. The usual gathering outside the. Palace court yard was soon swel led by immense throngs of the exeit 5d populace, who watched the con tinued stream of brilliantly uniformed personages .driving up to the royal residence and tried to identify the in dividuals When the event was finally announced there was great publie de monstration of joy. Congratulations were later received from all parts of the world. Lynchburg Box Factory Burned. Lynchburg, Special. The box fac tory belonging to R. E. Mitchell, in the East End, was destroyed by fire intailing a loss aggregating about $5, 800, with $2,600 insurance on stock, building and equipment. It is be lieved that spontaneous eombustion sansed the fire. Three nearby dwell ings ignited, but the firemen saved them. Entire Train Leaves Rails. Chicago, Speeial. One woman was silled, and three score other persons were injured in a wreck on the Chica go, Burlington & Quincy Railroad at the crossing of that line with Hamlin avenue in the southwestern part of the city. The woman whose life was lost was Mrs. Mary Miller, widow of Thomas Miller, formerly traffic man ager of the; Burlington road. Fully 40 passengers were injured, but in so slight a manner that they did not repgrt their injuries to the, police, White Boy Slashed by Negro. Winston-Salem, Speeial. George Sales,, a young white boy about 10 years old, was fearfully cut by a ne gro at the R. J. Reynolds tobacco factory about 5 o'clock Friday after noon. Two long gashes were cut in his head necessitating 20 stitches in dressing the wound. He is painfully, though not seriously wounded. The neeTo who did the cutting has not yet been arrested but the police are I HAYWOOD CASE BEGAN FIRST Defense Motion For Bill of Particu lars Overruled, Judge Declaring It Came- Too Late Moyer, Pettibone and Orchard, Charged Jointly With Haywood for Murder of Former Governor Stuenenberg, Will Be Tried as -Circumstances Dictate. Boise, Idaho, Special. By overrul ing the motion of , the defense for a bill of particulars setting forth what overt acts, if any there were, to con nect the accused with the murder of former Governor Frank Stuenenberg, Judge Fremont Wood, of the District Court of Adair county, cleared the way for the trial of William D. Hay wood, secretary of the Western Fed eration of Miners. Judge Wood held that the request of Haywood's counsel for a more ex plicit statement of the charges against the prisoners at an early stage of the proceedings. In cases where bills of particulars are allowable, Judge Wood, who is to preside over the trials of the accused miners, de clared the motions be made before the indictments are pleadede t and before the cases are set for trial. Haywood is the first of four men accused of complicity in the muder of Stueneneberg, to be tried. The others, Moyer, Petti bone and Orchard, the last cf whom is said to have made a confes sion, will be tried as circumstances dictate, following the conclusion of the proceedings against Haywood. The prisoner, his counsel and the attorneys especially retained to hand le the case and plead the cause of the accusing State, are ready for the long ordeal in court. The first, and one of the greatest tasks of court, is to pro cure a jury and that will be com menced Thursday morning as soon as Sheriff Hedgin has intoned the formal cry, opening the court. The victim of the aldwell assas sination, long a conspicious figure in the political life of the .State, was possibly known to hundreds of citi zens of Adair county, and personal alignment and partisanship on the labor question in which the prisoner and his co-defendants were for a long time active leaders, is general, so that it is a difficult task to find men free from the disqualifications that unfit them for the high duty of juror. Many men who know the comment well, and who add to their calcula tion the farther handicap of appre hension of future violence for revenge take the extreme view that it will be impossible to get a jury, but the weight of opinion is against this ex treme conclusion. One of the counsel for the prisoners says : "The brosder the scope of the case offered by the State, the better we shall be sajtisfied." Nearly 40 correspondents for press associations and newspapers have come here to report the case, and special wire arrangements have been made for the transmission of the des patches. Killed by Live Wire. Greensboro, N. C. Special. Ernest Keeeh, of this city, was killed at Chattanooga, Tenn., by coming in contact with a live wire while at work on top of a telephone pole. News was received here by his mother, who re sides on Walker avenue. The body will arrive in the city Thursday after noon and will be taken to the old home at Tarboro for interment. The young man was 20 years of age and was well known here. He was em ployed by the East Tennessee Tele phone Company, of Chattanooga. Anchored Because of Fog. New York, Speeial. The steamer Baltic, which sailed Friday in re ported aground off Sandy Hook. The fog is very heavy in that vicinity and the only possible communication with the steamer is by wireless. The White Star line people report that the Baltic is not aground but has anchored because of the dense fog. Explosion Causes 18 Deaths. ' Johannesburg, Transvaal, By Cable. An explosion occurred it the Mod-der-Fontein gold mine. Three whites and 15 natives were killed. Drownd in Tub of Water. Spencer, N. C, Special. A 1-year old child of John Botts, an employe of the Southern Railway Company at Spencer, was drowned in a tub of water at the home near Spencer Thursday afternoon, While about her household duties the mother left the child playing in the 'yard. Returning a few minutes later shs found it dead in the tub, New Georgia Railroad. Chartertd. Atlanta, Ga., Special.Tbe Savan nah & Southwestern Railroad Com pany, which is to build a line of tail road 350 miles in length, from Sa vannah to a point on -the Gulf of Mex ico in Florida, was granted a charter by the Secretary of State . The capi tal stock is to be $7,000,000 and the road will be bonded at $20,000 per" mile. The incorporators are . citizens of Chatham, Bibb, Appling and Col quitt counties. AN INDISCRIMINATE BUTCHER A San Francisco Carpenter, Suddenly Becoming Unbalanced Goes Through Boarding House Dealing 'Death -Right and Left With a Double Barrelled Shotgun. San Francisco, Special. Walter Charlie Davis, a carpenter in a fit of insanity shot and kitied six per sons at 414 Pierres street ki this city Davis and his victims all reside with the family of Orzoa Bush, who con ducted a boarding house. Davis' home was in Farmville, near 'Visalya, this State, where he has a wife and six children. He had been working as a carpenter since the fire. The shooting was done with a double-barrelled shotgun. Davis, who slept in the same room with young Orzon Bush, and W. E. Beard, rose shortly after 5 c'clock and shot his two room mates. After killing Bush and Beard,-Dayis tobk a box of shells from a shelf and walked down the hallway, where he met Mrs. Lillie Crothers, a boarder, who had heard the first two shots, and had come to her doorway to find out Avhat was the matter. He siot her and, with the remaining shell, shot Mrs. Or zon Bush. M. E. Vinton, a govern ment surveyor w;ho had recently come here from New York, was killed as he lay in bed. Orzon Bush, Sr., heard the shooting and rushed up stairs where he was met by the murderer. The appear ance of the hallway indicates that Bush made a desperate fight for his life. His body was found as it had fallen at the head of the stairs. Seventeen-year-Oud Annie Bush came running into the hallway and met Davis. He turned the gun upon the girl, aiming at her head. The girl found voice to say, "Please don't kill me." and the shotgun drop per from Davis hands. . "I can't do it," he said. "You are a good girl. Besides, you look like ,my own child, and . I would see her face if I killed you." When the policemen came to arrest Davis he fought like a demon and a riot call was turned in. Seven offi cers responded in an automobile. Two officers engaged Davis in conversa tion while the others got behind him and pinoned his arms. He was then removed to the detention hospital. j" " Exposition Secures Loan. Washington, Special. Secretary Cortelyou and Assistant Secretary Edwards of the Treasury DepartrncVi held a conference with officials of the Jamestown Exposition Company, President Tucker, Chairman Johnson and Mr. Elyson of the board of gov ernors cf the exposition .being pres ent. Details of the proposed loan of $400,000 by the company were sub mitted and approved. This fund will enable the company to pay off all out standing obligations and leave a bal ance sufficient fox proper operating expenses. Unearthed Land Frauds. Seattle, Wash., Special. Six secret service operatives are working in western Washington unearthing a series of land frapds th,at are declar ed to be more astounding in their far reaching character than the discov eries made in Oregon or California. A secret service operative in the con fidence of President Roosevelt has just been sent to the coast to take charge of the work and assemble the evidence that has been accumulated for presentation to special officers of the Department of Justice. For False Imprisonment. Chattanooga, Special. Capt. J. F. Shipp, Sheriff of this county, is de 2iint in a damage suit brought for $2,500 on account of false imprison ment of Mrs. Bertha Brown, a high ly respectable resident of Hill City. Two of the Sheriff's deputies arc charged with personal- responsibility for the false arrest, and tl.e 'Sheriff is held to be accountable for their acts. Robbers Hold Up Train. Butte, Mont, Special. The north coast limited, east bound train No. 22 on the Northern Pacific Railway, was held up by two masked men near Welch's Spur, a siding 18 miles cast of Butte at 2:13 Tuesday morning. Engineer James Clow was shot and killed and Fireman . James Sullivan was shot through the arm. Without making an attempt to blow up the ex press ear, a3 was evidently intended, the robbers jumped from the engine and ran dowp the mountain side, dis appearing in a gulch several hundred yards from the track. Florida Man Ccsficted cf Feeaaga. Tampa. Fia Ipeeiai. F, I. How da, MEeral--anagw of tbe.4raino P('bbJ ' Pbogphftt CaSnpaBy at Mul berry, Fla., was convicted cf peon age by a jury in 4be" United States Court after two days trial. Judge Locks reserved the sentence. Tit? court immediately proceeded with the trial of W. C Sprott, marshal cf Muiiii-rry. on n s.u ilra charge, -he complainants in the case were .Brod aky and Boreski Russians.- Alfalfa Fop the South. The interest in this plant, not only in the Western States, and in the fer tile sections of the North, but all over the South is so great that everybody who has had any experience with it is simply flooded for information as to Its value, the proper method for growing itj and ifs practicability. For this reason the writer wishes to give a very brief talk on the sub ject, hoping that it may be helpful' to some. Here I wish to tell something of its value, and the practicability of growing it in any Statein the Union. Briefly, I think that there is no State where it may not be grown, nor where it will not pay as well or better than almost any other farm crop. During a recent trip through the South, I was greatly impressed with the possibilities for money making, in a great many ways, and one of ftre' principal ones through this plant. All over the Southern States there is land, much of it naturally drained and on limestone soil, that to-day-may be bought for from $5 to $o0 per acre. Much of the cheapest of it is on limestone soil, and is even now growing as much or more alfalfa than in Ohio, that we can grow on our $100 land. The market for the hay was even better than we have. As a single instance a friend, J. Innes Thornton, of Watsonia, Ala., has 200 acres in a body that averages him four tons per icre, as well as we can do here, and he secures $14 per ton for the hay, with no trouble at all to find a market. This year the hay is worth much more, but the average is from $13 to $14. The land that this is grown on is anything but high priced, even at $50 per acre it will nearly pay for itself each year, and to my mind is really worth a good deal over $100 per acre. Does this possibility suggest anything to you? When this cheap land may be made to produce in this way, more than paying for itself, may be, each year, is there not a geod prospect for pros perity, spelled with a capital? Prob ably I need not mention the fact that whereas cotton, tobacco, corn or any grain exhausts the soil, and compels the heavy use of fertilizers alfalfa adds' nitrogen to the soil, and grad ually makes it more and more fertile, the longer it i3 left in the more fertile the soil becomes. Probably I do not need to msntion, either, that while any other kind of meadow requires renewing every few years at the best, alfalfa should not be plowed up oftener than once in from six to twenty yars. , A word as to its feeding value. It analyzes practically as rich as best wheat bran. By the analysis it is worth much more per ton than any other grass or clover, excepting the little white clover, which is not tut for hay. Furthermore, it is vefy palatable, so much so that cattle will leave corn to eat it. Men who have fed large quantities of the other clovers and different sorts of hay, in cluding ourselves, consider one ton of alfalfa hay worth at least a half more than any other form of hay found in the United States. This ap plies, whether fed to cattle, horses, sheep, swine or poultry. For pas ture we do not recommend it," except for horses and hogs. Where it is easy to grow we consider it a bonanza, and where it is difficult to grow we think it worth any amount of work in making conditions proper so that it will succeed. Chas, B. Wing, in Southern Cultivator, The Pruning of Neglected Trees, . One of the surest means of stimu lating old and neglected trees is by pruning. There are many tress In which the number of dead and dying limbs equals the number of living ones every one endeavoring to prune Itself. Natural pruning is a slow process at best, for the useless branch .must first be killed by the competition with its fellows for light and food, and then must be pinched off by the slow growth of new wood around its base. And during the years that are occupied thus insects and dissassa find the weakening mem ber very vulnerable, gaining here a foothold against the healthy parts of the tree. The removal of a branch by saw or pruning knife is the work of a moment, and prevents a great waste of energy. It is true that a wise forethought would have antici pated the necessity of cutting out large branches, by the annual re moval of such as were evidently mak ign the crown too thick. The several branches which form the crown of a fruit tree are competitors for light and. room, just as are the many trees that make a forest. In the forest the trees which for any reason have an advantage over their fellows, as by more rapid growth, or greater yjgor, or shade endurance, will ulti matefy gain tn ascendancy pve? fne others and shade them ta death. - So u the fruit tree, pertain branchgs Short Ordtr Vtm, The attituds of the Administration toward Republican politics in Tea - in tliiit nesses hag caused surprise in that State and at the national capital. -President Roosevelt was the prin ciple' speaker at the unveiling of the McClelan statue in Washington. Strained relations existing between Mexico and Guatemala cause appre hension in official circles in Washington.. having the advantage of position or strength, overcome others. Neglect a tree a few years, and the shaded limbs will be dead, and the lower branches of the living limbs will be greatly weakened. For light is the energy by which the crown of the tree is developed. Obscure the light, and the leaves can do no work, so their supporting branch dies." Com- , pare the size and color of apple leaves of the lower and inner branches with those of the upper and outer branches. Vigor is largely a question of light supply. -: . Such observations suggest the proper method of pruning neglected trees. First of all, cut out a portion of the crown so that light may be I freely admitted. Naturally, the ' branches removed will be the weaker ones, or those which by rubbing or by weak union with the supporting mem ber threaten the vigor of the tree. In determining what limbs to prune out one must keep in mind the sym metry of the crown; and as a usual thing, it 13 better to remove many small branches than a few large ones, for the latter practice not only mars the symmetry of the tree, but admits the light in great masses, threaten ing sun scald of the main limbs. Professor Charles A. Kieffer, Horti culturist, Experiment Station, Knox ville, Tenn. . i - Lowland or Bottom Soil. Much of our bottom soil in. tb.9 South is being abandoned for culti vation on account of improper drainage and annual damage from overflows. We must learn fir3t, to utilize them by having tiling or some kind of under-draining, and secondly, must put them in pasture or perrna- ) nent hay meadows; so we will have three chances at a crop instead of one and that the overflows may not wash our soils so badly. Bottom soil has an excess of humus and nitrogen in it; in fertilizing it, phosphoric acid and potash i3 all that is needed to apply. Along this line we will never forget the experience of Mr. A. P. Johns, of Toccoa, Ga. He told us. that he bought one of these fino bot toms on the Tugalo River, and the parties told him he could not raise cotton on it, that it would make plen ty of weed, but no fruit. He wrote to our father, who advised him to apply a fertilizer consisting of phosphoric acid and kainit, and since then he has had no trouble in making a bale of cotton per acre and often more. It would be well just here to give the analysis of sandy soil, clay soil and bottom soil, so that you can see their relative constituents: Lbs. Lbs. Nitrogen Ph. Acid Lbs. Potash lft. lft. lft. Sandy soil, per acre Clay soil, per - acre Bottom soil, per 3.230 2.907 4376 4.111 10.937 51.874 37.358 10.527 to be The acre C0.5S7 This shows bottom lands especially deficient In potash first essential in handling bottpm soil is to get it drained properly. The majority of it i3 sour and sodden. An application of lime would help, to counteract this sourness; but getting it properly tiled or otherwise drained so the air and sunshine can have their proper work will soon get it right. It is known by all observant men that some plants have peculiar adap tation to various kinds and condi tions of soils; so if you can not prop erly drain your bottom soil, sow it in herd grass or some gras3 that will thrive on wet lands. Mulch For Raspberry. Some of the advantages of the mulch in- the raspberry field are as follows: ; It prevents the growth of weeds. ' : .It retains moisture in the soil. It adds humus, one of the neces sary elements. It keeps the fruit clean and pre vents mud at picking time. It saves labor, the-cost of mulch ing an acre with forest leaves or straw not exce3ding $15. It prevents tleep freezing. II make3 the fruit more solid than cultivation and better for shipping purposes. It improves the texture of the soil and prevents bakingof the soil caused by tramping at picking tinis. Farm ers' Guide. "Millions in Poultry. In our poultry edition three weeks ago Mr. J. S. Jeffrey made the point that it is easily possible-by breeding up " our poultry to increase North Carolina's egg income from $2,000, 000 to $3,000,000 a year. If every reader of the Progressive Farmer would order right now a single dozen eggs of some fine or favorite pure bred stock, hatch them, and make an, egg-producing flock of the hatch, the results Jn one year's time would bq : eshgh" to. b?&Utify ft hundred thou sp.nd hora?3, f royreasly Farmer, Current Srinti. Thirty-nine persons, it it officially 1 announced, wers injured m the H ;ai. timora and Ooio wreCK at neasani timore and Ohio Cwek. Miss Elizabeth Loving's letter to a Charlottesville friend did not men tion Theodore Estes' name. Governor Swanson has appointed Judge Prentis, of Nansemond county a member of the Corporation Commission.--
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