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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER: JULY 21, 1896. m 1 PQULTBY YABD FAILURES AND THEIR CAUSE. It ia a strange fact that farmers know less in regard to the management of poultry than should be the case, and the reason is that while they have given their attention to other farm stock, they. have not looked as deeply into those matters that pertain to poul try as a business. The raising of poul try has not been considered a business at all, but simply an adjunct or a pas time, the consequence being that while the farmer gives his attention to larger stock and learns daily how to manage with greater success, he he a allowed his hens to manage themselves. The sick horse or cow is a source of anxiety to the farmer, because he has in the animal perhaps a hundred or more dollars invested, and veterinary skill or the experience of the farmer will be used to its fullest capacity in order to avoid loss. Infectious diseases are guarded against, and due precau tion is taken against loss. Farmers are learning that there is a profit to be derived from the small things on the farm, and that the capi tal invested in poultry, though not usually great, is sure to briDg in a re turn, and they are turning their atten tion in that direction, having the ad vantage of ready sales at all seasons and home markets ; but the long neglect of years places them at a disadvantage, as they find that while they are familiar with the details of farm management and the care of animals, they are lack ing in the knowledge so essential to success with poultry, especially when they desire to venture on the keeping of poultry in large numbers. Without any real experience in that direction, though accustomed to having hens in the barnyards from boyhood, they make many failures that might other wise be avoided with the possession of knowledge in the matter of poultry raising. Failures occur from attempting too much without experience. Tnere are essential details necessary that can only be properly performed by those who are experienced, and the first steps should therefore be gradual. The farmer should learn something of the breeds and their uses. He should know the breeds that will suit his climate best. The best laying breeds may prove a miserable failure unless it is sur rounded by conditions for success. It ia difficult to teach the farmer that the common barnyard stock is net as good as any other. That stumbling block he will not remove, and it is dangerous, for as long as the farmer clings to old traditions and adheres to former cus toms, he will fail to recognizs the im portance of improvement in other di rections. Better houses, better breeds, I systematic feedirg, cleanliness andernment. The principles embodied careful selection of breeding stock are essential, and if neglected results in failure. Poultry Keeper. LETTER FROM THE EAST. Ykatesvillic, N. C. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. If you will permit me to write you from this quiet little burgh here in Eastern Carolina, a place and village ! that has always had very difficult ac-1 cess to the centers of population and commercial pursuits, but I am truly gratified in being able to state that Yeatesville, a place of much fame, honor and title, and for his namesake J ex Congressman Jessie J. Yeates, of Hertford county, in 1874, and since those youthful days of Democracy have elapsed, our town has been well known I throughout this State and represented by some of our leading mercantile men of the north. Yeatesville, like other of our sister towns, has been cut off from all railroad communication, but has many real natural advantages that will excel your town in the wes First, we have the greatest shipping points by marine with foreign ports and could compete with Wilmington and Fayetteville, N. C, or Charleston, B.C., and Savannah, Ga., provided we had the population here to engage in agriculture. We have two railroads near us, viz : Norfolk & Southern and Atlantic Coast Line. The eastern di vision of this road terminates at Washington, N. C, and iis western division at Tarboro, N. C, connecting with the Norfolk & Carolina road. Mr. Editor, in changing the sub ject from our industrial enterprises and casting our eyes on the condition of our country, the stringency in the money market, the causes of hard times, etc., is it not the gold standard or the monemetalists on the silver question that are responsible for the present condition or the country? II . think so. There is plenty of money, but we don't get it. There is already enough silver corned to supply the de mana, out wnat is the result? Tne bulk and surplus of the money is con - -4 1 1 - WUMBWU AU U1Q iOTKO UUWUOOO CBO tewin carrying on our large mercan - vuo interests, manuiacuirmg, etc., ana in the management of our extensive government enterprises man, revo nue system, etc The causa of hard times among the laboring masses in North Carolina, Virginia, Webt Vir ginia, Kentucky, Georgia and Tennes see is due to oppression. This is what has caused so much crime among us ; and the statistics of the criminal re cords show that four-fifths the crime committed in this State and. thosa of our sister States has resulted from whiskey alone. Out of whose pockets does this money come? Oat of the taxpayers of course. Tennessee's criminal prosecutions amounted to $6,000,000, Kentucy, $8,000,000, includ ing a part of West Virginia's crimes; our State, not exceeding perhaps $3,000,000, and now, I would like to ask, who pays the tax on the prosecu tion of these criminals. Again I ask, out of whose pockets does this money that piys the expenses of prosecution, etc , come? Why out of the pockets of the country people the backbone element of the country of course. The time for united action has CDme. Will our next legislature, in accordance with the wishes of the people, bring about the desired changes of relief? Let our next General Assembly estab lish the whipping poet in North Caro lina, and lessen expenses and relieve the people of the great burden that they are hopelessly carrying from day to day and year to year. Look at the many country people that go to town throughout the State to attend these murder trials If the the whipping post could be established four courts a year could be dispensed with, and great good would be the re sult. L?t us look more steadily to our home bff iirs, to prepare for an eco nomical home government in the pend ing election, and let us look more steadily to this great, end with no spirit of narrowness or animosity ; but rather, in the highest sense of the word, let us find within the borders of our beloved State a spirit advanced in the interest of prosperity and tho hap pines of our dear people. Now, brethren, let us unite in one solid band, for where there is unity there is strength. Let U3 unite; let us be one from the mountain top a to the sea coast, from the Atlantic to the Pa cific, and with pluck, grit and energy in this pending election success is as sured, and that is the one essential ele ment in life. When we cast our bal lot, let us see that we have a fair count, and let us stand firm for the right as our fathers stood. Let us hes itate to form a silver party on the bi metalist platform. We shall be sure to wreck the old rotten Democratic and Republican machine this year. The People's party, though in its in infancy has not had but a limited or short period of lime to do much as yet, but in its platform, it advocates a cause of a just, wise and frugal gov and embraced in the organization known as the People's party are the most unselfish, the grandest and no blest ever orginated and put into prac tice by the human race, for the good of humanity. Such a body and cause must of necessity have a natural and seemingly slow growth. The plant that shoots up in the shade wilts and dies when exposed to the sun. Time is an essential element with everything good and great. Assimilation to give strength and growth, like that of the oak, must be slow. We have no motive to draw men to us, except the love of principle and the cause of humanity. It is accomplishing one of the greatest efforts that has ever appealed to the hearts of ram, and those who would adhere to a party for no good or suffi cient reason will also desert it in time for no reason, as was demonstrated in the old party's vote in the last election. Those who ally themselves with us can give a reason fpr the faith in them. No such cause as ours has ever before oc- cured in the history of the human race. It is the cause of modern Chris tian civilization and of civil liberties. I It falls to our lot now, as a nation, as I it did a century ago, to make the sec lond declaration of indepedence, fight I out the battle and regain our industrial I liberties. Statistics can be obtained showing crimes committed inopendefi ance to the Constitution, and the laws are simply appalling. That brazen and unnatural combination of impudence and avarice who now disgraces the position of Chief Executive of the United States has issued bonds in order to fetter the lives of children unborn. This he has done in violation of all law and every moral and Datriotic principle. He ought to have been I impeached two years ago. How long I will the American people submit to I such crimes. If we now comprehend its enormity, let us now grasp the I truth, that all these crimes committed I at the instigation of the Cleveland 'con I spiracy and his allies, usury and na- I tional individualism ia the crime of the 1 age. No reform is reform that pro- I ....... . I nQOM t I At It I IV A TAlrA AWftr nsntwxr 1 and Cleveland would not be issuing his I one hundred million dollar bonds in vi I olation of the law; take away usury iana that band of traitors called the I National Bankers Association would never have been organized and never would hold another meeting; take away usury and the Bank of England and its bastard progeny, our national banking system never would have sean light ; take away usury and they would not seek to steal and use the national functions and prerogative to issue the money of the nation by the interven tion of bank corporations ; take away usury and this country would not be blanketed under a two thousand dol lar interest drawing debt at the hands of each voter; take away, usury and the so-called Henry George doctrine as a single tax for all labor ill as a pana cea, and never would have been as an advocate. Usurer's money inspired him and now pays him for propagat ing these schemes. Let us beware to form a silver party on the bimetalist platform to stop there ; the issue upon which the civil ized world hangs to day is whether the people, their government and the na tion shall ruie and use the national prerogative to coin the money, as Mr. Lincoln always called it, into a full legal tender money. Oar cause is a noble one. If there is a God of justice who sees and understands the affairs of men, who rules and overrules and who makes the wealth of men to praise him, our case must succeed. We must be one from the mountains to the seashore and from the Lakes to the QuJJrmexico. We must not listen to the siren song of any 'isms"; we must not stop short of any national legisla tion embodying therein measures that will take the life out of legalized, pri vate and public usury, and that has been the death of the nation's oiviliza tion. The financial policies of the countries with which she has financial and commercial dealings. Has this country, with all her weath and un unbounded prosperity, become, by her own voluntary act, a mere financial de pendency of Great Britain, which ac complishes by the mere strategy of her financiers that which she was un able to do a hundred years ago with arms when the country was poor and didn't have one-twentieth the popula tion she now has. England has no de pendency that pays here as much tribute as she annually squeezes out of the American people with her money system, which her financiers, with their co laborers, fastened upon her twenty two years ago. Then we adopted England's gold standard, when silver was one of our lawful monies, thus practically doubling our debt and at the same time practically diminishing one-half our means of paying it. Yours respectfully, W. S. Clark. SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED. "What dsea the term ratio 16 to 1 mean?1' It means that 16 ounces of pure sil ver are equal in value to one ounce of pure gold. "Is not our legal ration now 16 to 1? If so, why ask for what we already have?" The legal ratio is now 16 to 1, but out mints are closed to silver at any ratio. What is asked for is that the mints be opened, at that ratio, to the unlimited coinage of silver, same as they are now to gold. "Wouldn't the world dump its silver on this country then?" The world didn't flood us with silver when our mints were open at that ra tiofrom 1782 to 1873 and an expe rience of 81 years is hard to offset by a bare assumption. "But conditions have changed since then ; the production of silver is much greater now than in 1873 " Yes, the silver production of the United States has doubled sicc3 then, but our population has also doubled, so that relative conditions have not changed. "Bat the increase of production of silver in other countries has been greater." The world's output of silver is a lit tle over double what it was in 1873, but the combined output of silver and gold m the world has not kept pace with the increase in population. "But silver is now worth less than mm -.. - yu cents an ounce, ana n our mints were opened at the ratio of 16 to 1 it would be worth $1 29. China, for in stance, has 1800,000,000 of silver, would not shrewd men bring it all to our mints and flood this country with cheap silver?'' China has a population of over 400 000,000, and that $800,000,0001175 per capita is all the money she has to transact business with. It is all in cir culation. She has no gold or paper money. She couldn't spare her silver even if it were worth $5 an ounce here Suppose China has 800,000,000 bushels of wheat, worth 50 cents a bushel the .. ... JJ ! . umjr vrouustuu sue nad and the United States should pass a law that wouia make wheat $3 a bushel h does any one believe that China would send her wheat here? She couldn't do without it. Neither could she do with out her silver, and it would not come here. The same is true oi inaia ana other countries. "But some shrewd financier who had saved up a few million ounces of bul lion would dump a lot of it here, and wouldn't it debase our currency and give us 50 cent silver dollars?" This is one of the fallacies of gold standard advocates. If opening the mints to unlimited coinage were to make silver so cheap, foreign silver would be sure not to come, no matter how big the surplus, for it would not pay; and if silver was worth fl 29 an ouDce, the silver in a silver aonar would then be equal in value to the gold in a gold dollar, and the currency could not, therefore, be debased. In other words, it cannot be true that for eign silver would be dumped on us, and also true that opening the mints would make 50 cent dollars. One or the other assumption is false. Journal of Agriculture, St. Louis NEW-BORN BABIES MIXED. Put in One Bed, No Solomon Can Tell Which is Which. Births took place recently in two colored families living in the same house at the same time. The unfortu nate father of the single child thought he could effjrdto laugh at the poor wretch who became possessed of twins. So he had the three children placed together in one bed, and the other poor man's horror when he was told that his wife had given birth to triplets may be better imagined than described. But in the sequel the brilliant humor ist was faced with a situation which even he did not contemplate. The children were all very much of a color, and each exhibited that remarkable uniformity of expression which usually character z 3s extreme infancy. The consequence was that when the time arrived to explain the joke the women in attendance found it absolutely im possible to tell which was which and which t'other. The puzz has not yet been satisfactorily solved, and the re epective parents remain in a perplex ing and unhappy state of doubt, and do not know what to do Demana Chronicle. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. At the regular meeting of the Wilson Alliance, Ledge No. 1316, held on the 20th day of June, the following resolu tions were adopted : Whereas, The Lord has seen fit to call from earth to heaven our beloved brother, Allen J. Sanders, on the 16 th of June, at the age of 55 years. Resolved, 1st, Tnat while we deplore the sad and sudden death of our brother, we bow in humble submission to Him who doeth all things well and is too good and wise to err. 2. That the Wilson Alliance has met with a great loes in the death of Brother Sanders, as he has always been a true and loyal member. 3 Tnat we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family. 4 Tnat a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of our deseased brother, and to the Shelby Aurora, with rfqaeat for publication in The Progressive Farmer. R. T Manney, 8 L Roberts. Chas. J. Huuser, Cemi-ittee. The Sheriffs of N. C. Are cordially requested, when bringing prison ers, or visiting our city, to remember the old reliable $1.f'0-a day Hotel- Harrison House. All the delicacies ot the season served in home-like style. For reference, any Mason, Odd Fel.ow, Republican Populitt or Democrat who has ever stopped here ence will, I know, kindly recom mend it to thuir frieLds. Thanking the above organizations for their watchful care and generous bestowal of patron ag e, and begging the continuance of the same, I am, Gratefully, d-24) Mrs E. M. HARRISON. Prop'r. For Sale, Cheap! One full blood Holstein Heifer Calf. T hree ?4 graded Holbtein Bull Calves. One H graded Holstein Bull Calf Wi I e sold cheap. If you want to Improve your stock, by increasing them in size and quan tity of milk, cross with the Holsteins. Write and enclose stamp for reply Thurman Poultry and Stock Farm, Thurman. N. C. Farmers anfl Mermen, Attention! For anything: on wheels, address Har rison Wagon Co., Cary, N. 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THE FINANCIAL QUESTION Is ably discussed in a pamphlet entitled A Remedy for the Panic, BY BRYAN TYSON. The pamphlet la one of the very 'IfLfvrt be written on the Financial Question. Lft-n some inner details relative to matters at. iDgton. WithaviewotfcrocurinKalprKetu l&tion, the price has been placed very w' TEN CENTO PER COPT- Postage one cent for a single copy. wrne ad be remitted. Three or more copies fw "1&id. dress, at Ibe above price, will be sent ver No other deduction for any, number, no large, can be made. Send all orders to THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. am) Rale.'0- nt 1 to I r A i r
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