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2 IN THE SOUTH. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. There is a princess in the South About whose beauty rumors hum As honey bees about the mouth Of roses dewdrops falter from ; . And 0, her hair is like the fine Clear amber of a jostled wine In tropic revels ; and her eyes Are blue as rifts of Paradise. Such beauty as may none before Kneel daringly to kiss the tips Of fingers such as knights of yore Had died to lift against their lips : Such eyes as might the eyes of gold Of all the stars of night behold With glittering envy and so glare In dazzling splendor of despair. So, were I buta minstrel, deft At weaving, with the trembling strings Of my glad harp, the warp and weft Of rondels such as rapture sings, I'd loop my lyre across my breast, Nor stay me till my knee found rest In midnight banks of bud and flower Beneath my lady's lattice bower. And there drenched with the teary dews I'd woo her with such wondrous art As well might stanch the songs that ooze Out of the mockbird's breaking heart So slight, so tender; and so sweet . Should be the words I would repeat Her casement, on my gradual sight Would blossom as a lily might. Indianapolis Journal. THE APPLE TREE TENT CATER PILLAR. University of North Carolina. In visiting apple and peach or i i i j i ... cnaras at mis season it is a very common thing to see a dense white web at the junction ot two branches This is the habitation of a caterpil lar which annually does considera ble damage to orchards and renders unsightly a tree which, properly cul tivated, should be a thing of beauty. This insect is commonly known as the "Apple tree tent caterpillar. A knowledge of its habits will aid in its destruction. The perfect insect, which is a moth, deposits its egs to the number of 250 to 300, in an oblong cluster around one of the ' small twigs of the tree, usually some time during the month ol June. The eggs are covered with a glutinous substance, which protects them from the inclemency of the weather and affords the first meal for the newly hatched larvae. JJuringthe summer and autumn months the young is developed m the egg, but does not, as a usual thing, hatch until the fol lowing spring. During the first warm days of spring it breaks its prison walls, feeds upon the glutinous sub stance covering the egg cluster, seeks the nearest lork forward bv the branches of the tree, and spins a tent by running webs across the space between the two branches. Within this the living mass of 200 to 300 caterpillars live, going forth to feed upon the foliage of the tree twice each day. They go forth in pro cessions, spinning a thread as they go, some times forming a silken road over the roughened bark of the limb. Many times they have "spun" their tent and are ready for work before the buds have burst. I have seen this spring as many as three of these nests in one tree, and so vo racious were the creatures that the leaves could not "get a start." In the course of five to six weeks the larva? has completed its growth. It then leaves the tree and seeks s sheltered place in ome corner or crevice, spins a silken cocoon, and in three or tour days passes into the "pupa state." In the course of three weeks it transforms into the adult insect and is ready to deposits its eggs for the brood of the next season. Remedies: The remedy for this injurious insect is so simple and easy of application that it is a wonder it is allowed to disfigure our orchards, frustrate the hopes of the horticul turist," and cause the loss of labor for years expended in rearing the tree. With the use of a ladder, by means of which the nests may be reached, and a strong glove to protect the hand, the nest, if visited early in the morning or late in the evening, may be torn off, thrown to the ' ground and the caterpillars destroyed.'' An other method is to use a long' pole with cloth attached to one end; this is twisted in the web, which adher ing is torn away with its dwellers. THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, MAY 5, 1836. Some recommend dipping the cloth occasionally in strong soap suds or whitewash, which kills every cater pillar that it touches. There is an- .1 a 1' 111JaaI.- otner insect cioseiy anieu w uie ap ple tent caterpillar, called the "tent caterpillar of the forest," (Clisio- 1 X ! J.1 campa siivatica; wnicn sometime infests the apple, peach and pear. Its habits are not very different from those of the Clisiocampa Americana. One habit, advantage of which is taken to destroy the caterpillars, may be mentioned. While feeding, if the limb is jarred they suddenly drop, spinning at the same time a thread by which they are suspended. By then swinging a stick across the threads may be collected and de Btroyed. When we consider what a beauti ful sight an orchard presents as the first opening buds give, the delicate shadowing to the bare limbs, fol lowed by the richness and prolusion of apple and peach blooms, loading the air with sweetest perfumes, and later the mellow fruit with its rosy cheeks and gladdening the senses of sight and taste, to say nothing of the "jingling of coins in the pocket of the friiit-errower, it should be the duty of every one, who takes upon himself the responsibilty of planting and bringing to maturity a fruit tree, to see to it that no enemy so easily routed should be allowed to cheek the harvest of golden fruit and strip the foliage from plants that helps to "take off the edge" of a hot and dry summer. Geo. r. Atkinson. News and Obsemer. VALUE OF A GOOD PASTURE. A good cow demands a good pas ture. Having been bred for a ca pacity to convert food into milk and butter she must be provided with a sufficiency or she will prove a fail ure. The change of location will entirely alter the yield of a cow, and yet many ascribe the fault to the animal when the true cause is in the pasture. Nor is a full supply of grass in the pasture a sure indica tion that the cow is satisfied. The appetite of cows differ, and they will often lose time by traveling restlessly from one portion to an other, overlooking certain grasses that are plentiful in order to seek a more favored kind. For that reason the pasture should consist of a variety, and contain an abundant supply, in order that the cow may have ample opportunity for filling herself quickly in order to rest and masticate her food properly. It was long time before some sheep breeders discovered that the large breeds could not exist on poor scanty pas turage, and it is no exception with the cow. If she is an ordinary cow. and is to be turned into the pasture only to come up at night with what ever she will yield then wo have no advice to give, but if a cow is a valuable one, known to yield an extra large quantity of milk, her owner should not allow himself to suffer loss by supposing she can ful fill that which is required of her by being turned upon an insufficient supply of grass. It is not the size of the pasture that such a cow cares for, as she is not the kind that can afford to walk and work for her grass, but the pasture should be of good quality, and so arranged as to keep a portion under growth while the remainder is being eaten off. Farm, Field and Stockman. LEVEL CULTIVATION. A long agricultural experience has convinced us, says the Farmer and Irucker, that on well-drained land naturally or artificially flat or level culture is best. The moisture needed to feed the crop is better held, and the effects of drought are greatly averted. Under a system of flat culture the soil can be kept stirred with light implements, such as har rows and cultivators, ; which will keep it open for the admission of all moisture coming from dews or other sources. When the land is banked up by beds or hills the surface drain age is too rapid for well-drained land. Of course on wet lands, not well underdrained, it is best to bed the land before planting ; and the first letter in the book of farming is thorough drainage. n .' . The revival that has been going on for some time in the Baptist church in this city closed on Wed nesday night. It was one of the most fruitful revivals ever, held in he above church, resulting in 28 accessions, to the Baptist faith,, this being the number baptized duriner the course of the revival. Goldsboro Argus. . .Y .,' GUINEA hens. There is one advantage in keeping guinea fowls with other poultry, as their loud noise frightens away hawks and other enemies. Guinea fowl meat is dark, but has a gamey flavor liked by those who have a fancy for game. As egg-producers guinea-fowls are excellent, though their habit of roaming causes many of the eggs to be lost. CARBOLIC ACID AS A REMEDY. A farmer recommends from expe rience diluted carbolic acid as a rem edy for chieken cholera, for hog cholera and for pinkeye in horses. He gives two drops of carbolic acid in drink for his hens, four drops for each one of his hogs and ten drops diluted with water as a dose for a horse. In this small quantity car bolic acid will do no harm, and the remedy is worth remembering. WASTAGE IN DRESSING. Every farmer before killing hogs or other animals should have them weighed, so that it may be known how great is the loss in killing and dressing. In selling by live weight buyers require farmers to deduct a larger percentage for wastage than is generally experienced. In well fattened, compactly built porkers the waste is often not more than twenty per cent, of the whole, and sometimes less even than this. THE SHAPE OF POTATOES. The form and smoothness of pota toes are important in determining their marketable value. One with a few eyes and those on the surface will be salable, though much smaller than one which is rough and has deeply-sunken eyes. The early Ohio and Snownake varieties seldom grow to the largest size, but their smooth ness makes them desirable when not larger than a hen's egg, and thus very few are unmarketable. SWEET APPLES FOR HORSES. No stock is more fond of apples than horses. A few given every day at this season with or after their grain -will improve their appearance. Sour apples should not be given horses when fed whole oats, as the two may cause sore mouth, especial ly if the oats have a tough skin. Sore mouth from eating: whole oats is the reason why many well-fed horses cannot be kept in good con dition. Such horses will do better on meal mixed with moistened hay FALL FEEDING WORSE. Few farmers would think of turn ing stock on their timothy meadows in tne spring. &ut tney should re member that Fall feeding: is even worse, as it destroys the growth needed to protect the roots during the v inter, when protection is most needed. Every pound of feed thus stolen from a tiniothv or clover meadow is offset by the loss in next season s hay crop, besides the chance it gives for noxious weeds to fill va cancies where the grass is killed. MAST FOR HOGS. In the old times the nuts of the beech and other trees, called mast, were a great help for farmers in growing and fattening hogs. These nuts, Irom their oily character, made a soft pork, which needed consider able corn to harden it. Probably a feed of peas, barley or even oats would be even better for hogs fed on mast than corn would be. Our best bred hogs, are not, however, adapted to hunting their living in the forests, and almost certainly would lose rath er than gain flesh by such an exper iment. FIGHTING RAMS. Sheep do better not to be kent in large nocks, and at any rate the 1 m - number should not be so Janre as to require the use of two rams. In the nittmg season rams hffht fiercelv. ana oiten inflict bruises on each oth er in which the fly lavs its eersrs from wnicn maggots in the head are pro- aucea. These maggots can be des troyed by making frequent applica tions oi a solution of carbolic acid. Spirits of turpentine will also kill them, but the carbolic acid makes a 1 . - better dressing for the wounds than the latter. CLEAN WATER FOR HOGS. One reason why hogs are more liable to disease is because usually no pains are, taken to provide them with plenty of clean water. The swill tub with its dishwater and oth er slop is no substitute for pure wa ter so far as health is concerned. ; In Winter, especially, there is little ad vantage in giving sloppy food. ; The ho-will thrive better if given its meal only slightly, moistened and left to drink what clean water it chooses from another dish. FARMING! FROM EXPERIENCE. The farmer's work is necessarily experimental. While some general principals are . always applicable it is impossible to provide for details without knowledge of attending cir cumstances. -No positive rules can be made to fit ail cases, and there fore each must be decided on its merits as it arises. To do this re quires excellent judgment, and it is not unnatural that an old and suc cessful farmer should regard with some distrust the knowledge which has been derived only from books. FEEDING HOGS. The popular idea that a hog can not hurt itself by over-feeding is er Even if fattening, it is bet- ter to give only what can be eaten up clean at one time and at regular intervals. If the feeding occurs at stated times each day, the hogs will lie down and sleep in the intervals, and this will fatten them faster and be more healthful than keeping tood before the animals all the time. A mess of partially-eaten food left in his trough is distasteful even to a hnn- nnd nmlffts him eat.less in ouan- " v - " - - l titv and with less relish than he otherwise would. TRANSPLANTING NURSERY STOCK. The most successful nurserymen transplant twice those trees which are choicest or which they wish to put in orchards for their own use. The first transplanting is done while the trees are small, or a year before the second. This check to the roots causes the formation of a large mass of feeding roots where they were cut off the year before. All trees in nur sery rows get more or less root-pruning by cultivation, and this is one rea son why well-eared-for nursery stock is much more valuable for transplant ing than trees of equal size or larger that have grown in open ground. Lack of fibrous roots is one cause of the failure of so many young for est trees dug up in woods and trans planted. CARBOLIC ACID AND DISEASES. I do not dread hoc: or chicken cholera at all, for as soon as either begins to show signs of disease I mix some carbolic acid in the feed, and they soon are all right again. It is the best preventive medicine I have ever seen tried, and farmers would do well to keep some in the house, and whenever they suspect that their stock has been exposed to some contagion, feed them some for several days, about two or three times a day. I tried it for the pink- eye on norses, and those that had been getting the acid after expos ure to the disease had it so slight tnat it did not hurt them at all, while the first one that took it with out being treated before got down very low with it. It is also recom- 1 sk menuea tor rinderpest, or cattle plague, rot in sheep and glanders in horses. I have not had occasion to try it for those diseases, but have no doubt that if anything will cure or prevent them, carbolic acid will. But I have found it an unfailino- remedy for gapes in chickens. Tf tney are so bad that they will not eat any more, dissolve the acid in water until the water becomes clear and pour a little in their throats, and it will cure almost immediately. Doses for horses or cows. 10 to 12 drops two or three times a day; pigs, 3 to 10 drops, according to size : chickens, 2 to 4 drops of t.h crude acid, but always dilute it with water. commercial Gazette. EXTERMINATING THE THISTLE. The thistle is a . biennial plant maturing its seed and dying the second year, but as it is pronao-atAd from both roots and seeds its chances for being obliterated are verv slim The practice of mowing them down is gooa enougn so lar as it goes, but the destruction of the thistles hv preventing them from seeding can not be assured. There is but one way to kill them entirely and that is not to allow them to grow at all They must be destroyed as soon as they put thoir i heads above frround and by continuing such method they may be smothered' to death, and finally decay. It cannot be done in a single season, as the thistle is very persistent, but it can be: done with patience and the assistance ? of a few sheep, which will nip them off when they are young and tender- arid prevent them, from, making headway. Farm, Field and 'Stock man; ,- .: !.;,' .. . . W. H. HUGHES Dealer m CHINA, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE Lamps, Table Cutlery, Silver Plated VJ Refrigerators, Tea Trays, Oil Stoves, ce 309 Fay etteville Street, Raleiyk X.c l-3m C. J. W ATKINS. DRS. VATKINS & CONRAD, DENTISTS. Teeth Extracted WITHOUT FAIN by the of Nitrous Oxide Gas. OFFICK : P. O. ADDHEStj: Main St., Salem, N. C. Winston, X. e THE FORAGE PLANT. K5iV.T ' VWtTun Mlllot TV..,, lAll rtiAivu, "i ej .f i t. c firown or vt. Tf 1a nnr vn.1 m for onwa m,i .... ,.H different from German Millet and miloinaiZ(, v.. imun finriie-ft tjurooses on account ,.r numerous ten-day cuttings ailorded. a small plat will keep a cow. t v.rtUATA thia o tvnipnl Kiln rwnnt Address all communications and orders to JOSEPH A. WORTH, ll-4t. Fayetteville, x, c TlMElSMOM! :(o): Every Farmer should have a good, re liable Watch. You can save in one year the cost of a good Watch by always knowing the exact time. You can al ways find a good assortment of W ATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, &c, &c &c, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Main Street, - - Winston, N. c. done promptly, and all work warranted. 4-3m. CAROLINA CENTRAL RAILROAD COSII'HI, OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT, f Wilmington, N. C, Sept. 27, 1885. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. ON AND AFTER THIS DATE, THE F0L lowing Schedule will be operated on thw Railroad : PASSENGER.M AIL AND EXPRESS TRALY DAI Li' EXCEPT SUNDAYS. (Leave Wilmington at 7.00 P. 1 No.M Leave Raleigh at 7..o P. 31. (Arrive at Charlotte at 1M A. JL (Leave Charlotte at 8.15 P. M. No. 2. Arrive at Raleigh at .....9.00 A.M. (Arrive at Wilmington at .8.25 A. M. LOCAL FREIGHT Passenger Car Attached. Leave Charlotte at 7.40 A. M. Arrive at Laurinburg at ..5.45 P. 31. Leave Laurinburg at... G.15 A. M. Arrive at Charlotte at 4.40 P. M. Leave Wilmington at 6.45 A. M. Arrive at Laurinburg at 5.00 P. M. Leave Laurinburg at .5.:s0 A. M. Arrive at Wilmington at .5.40 P.M. Local Freight between Wilmington and Lau: rinbursr Tri-weekly leaving Wilminston on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Leave laurinburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays andbai urdays. Pllficanrrai Trn 1 nci of An n t wnvii l.iw L.t.if innc in. lv, and Points designated in the Company's lime labie. SHELBY DIVISION, PASSENGER, MAIL, iAPltiliSS AJND FREIGHT. Daily except Sundays. Tsiy. o f Leave Charlotte at 8.15 A. M. ( Arrive at Shelby at 1215 P. M. Nn a f Leave Shelby at- 1.40 A. M. ( Arrive at Charlotte at 5.40 P. M. Trflinfl "Mr 1 OnH O-molrA 1n nn.tlfin lit. Hamlet with R. & A. Trains to and from Ralpi?h Through Sleeping Cars between Wilmington mu uurioiie ana xtaieign ana cnariotie. Western N. C. R. R., Asheville and points Also, for Spartanburg, Greenville, Athens, Atlanta and all points Southwest. L. C. JONES, Superintendent. W. F. CLARK, Gen'l Passenger Agent. Caps Pear & Yadkin Valley Railway Co. Condensed Time Table No. 13. PERSONS DESIRING THE BEST FOIUr P PLANT In use, to my knowledge, can i cure seed of me by mail, in bags, utw r pnt Tvuiloiro niiin I rw ir 'n TRAIN NORTH. Arrive. Bennettsville . Shoe Heel 9:4i a: m. Fayetteville....... . 12:00 m. : Sanford 2:15 p. m. Ore Hill...... 3:43 p. m. Liberty 4:37 p. m. Greensboro 6:00 p. m. Leave. 8:2 ) a. m. 9:50 a. m. 12:25 p. m. 2:25 p. m. Dinner at Fayetteville. TRAIN SOUTH. Leave. 9:50 a. m. 11:05 a. m. 12. -00 m. 1:45 p. m. 4:00 p. m. 6:15 p. Dinner at Sanford. Freirht and PajskaW nettSVllleTuPSdflVS. Thnrcovcan.l .UaturriaVS at 2:30 p. m., arriving at Shoe Heel at 4:30 p. m., uu ui, r uyetievi ue at p. m. " , i in ssaiuruayi ai e:w a. m., snoe ueei iu a. mm urn vpu ot iarmt rot. 1 1 a or j ' in. Freight and Passenger Train North leaves Sanford with Freight and Passenger Trains to xvttieign;, leaving saniord at ll:w a. m.,anu SLTTlviner nt. CiroanizYinM a K.An m c - " - - w w w n i tj.w J. ut. - ' " I.PRVPU ilrotneWn lnll tin m . loaveS (vuwruaiiuoa.ra. ana arrives at jf ayen ville at 2:40 p. m. ; , , w General Passenger Agent. I r 1 1 1 -r umsk. Arrive. Greensboro ' Liberty .. Ore Hill..... Sanford i.ji) 'p. m" Fayetteville 8.50 p. m, Shoe Heel...................... 65 p. m. Bennettsville .7:30 p. m. Gen. Superintendent
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