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Tho Progrcssivo Farmer, February 1 , 1902. " I 'ublished Weekly at Raleigh, N. C. SLARERCE I POE .Illtif. . W. DENMARK !" Prtprlelif BhIiiii iir. SUBSCRIPTION "Ingle Subscription Ono Year. . .11.00 " Six Months... .50 Three Months, .25 4 The Industrial, and IUduoation kL Interests of our People Para IOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS ;f State Policy,' is the motto of The .Progressive Farmer, and upon this Platform it shall rise or fall. Serving io master, ruled bv no faction, cir F f vumscribed by no selfish or narrow ;olioy, its aim will be to foster and promote the best interests of the vhole Deonle of the State. It will be rue to the instincts, traditions and llstory of the Anglo-Saxon race. On II matters relating specially to the jreat interests it represents, it will ipeak with no uncertain voice, but rill fearlessly the right defend and mpartially the wrong condemn. rrom Col. Polk's Salutatory, Feb .0, 1886 Se sure to give both old and new addresses in jrdering change or postomce. We invite correspondence, news items, sug restlons and criticisms on the subjects of agri- mlture, poultry raising, stock breeding, dairy- lterature, or any subject of interest to our lady eaders. vonne ceonle. or the familv erenerallv: public matters, current evenis, political ques donsand principles, etc., in short, any subject Uscussed in an all-round farm and family news paper. Communications should be rree irom jersonalities and party abuse. DISCONTINUANCES Responsible subscrib ers will continue to receive this Journal until Jie publishers are nouned by letter to discon lnue, when all arrearages must be paid. If you lo not wish the Journal continued for another rear alter your subscription has expired, you ihould then notify us to discontinue it. A THOUGHT FOE THE WEEK. To live content with small means ; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion ; to be worthy, not respeotable, and wealthy, not rich ; to listen to stars and birds, babss and sages with open hearts ; to study hard ; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never ; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common this is my symphony. William Ellery Channing. ED IT OBI AL NOTES. A sentence well worth remember ing and pondering over is this, found in Hamilton W. Mabie's estimate of Dr. Lyman Abbott as given in the World's Work lor February: "He believes far more deeply in light than in heat as a means of influ encing men, and it is as a light-bearer that he has served his generation.' ERRATA. This issue is No. 1, Vol. 17, of The Progressive Farmer, not No. 52 of Vol. 16, as the printer's figures on page 1 have it. In making up, columns 3 and 4 of page 4 were transpo?ed, and a num ber of copies were printed before the error was discovered and corrected. The Charlotte Observer has just completed its tenth year under the present editorial management. Its independent policy is "in harmony with the spirit of the times," its news-gathering facilities are of the best, and its Sunday editions sur pass by far those of any other South ern daily with which we are ac quainted. We wish it CDntinued success. HOME-MIXUD FERTILIZERS. In his letter to the Charlotte Ob server, re-published in Tiie Pro gressive Farmer last week, Mr. C. L. Evans suggested that we could serve our readers much better by publishing information helpful to farmers in the home-making and home-mixing of fertilizers than by condemning the "secret process" scheme. If Mr. Evans were a reader of the paper, ho would know that we have given column after column of such information, and have earnestly urgt?d our farmers to adopt all re liable methods of curtailing com mercial fertiiizjr expnnees now amounting to nearly f-0,000,000 a year in North Carolina, alone. But we do urg.' our farmer readers not to wa?te nv:i;ev rn "ferret process" recipes prepared b" men of whose ability and fitness tliey know noth ing, since our government employe chemists of the highest character and the finest training to give ad vice in such matters free of charge. Just now we ak attention to tho letter of Dr. Kilgoro on page l.which contains information ot interest to fertilizer buyers. Additional matter upon the same subject is contained in the Bulletins to which he refer ; they are free and -we advise inter ested readers to apply for them. COME TO THE GOOD BO ADS CONVENTION The Good Roads Convention to be hold in Raleieh Wednesday and Thursday of this week will doubtless be very largely attended. A very attractive programme of addresses has been arranged, but the most in structive and impressive feature of the meeting will be the object lesson in good road building. For "seeing is believing," and we expeot more converts to the good roads cause as a result of the aotual work done with the up-to-date maohinery and equipment that will be here than we expeot from the speeohes, however able they may be. No one is more interested in the improvement of our roads than is the farmer, upon whom the mud tax falls most heavily, some times mean ing the difference between profit and loss in the year's work. Come to the Good Roads Convention, see the best road-buildine machinery in operation, hear the authorities dis cuss ways and means of improving our roads, and join in the work of the State Good Roads Association that is to be organized. Again let us eay, we hope to see vou in Raleigh at the State Good Roads Convention, Wednesday and Thursday, February 11th and 12th. DAILY VS. WEEKLY PAPERS. The views of Mr. D. L. Gore as to daily and weekly papers, as given in The Progressive Farmer of last week, remind us of what Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip, formerly Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, says of the matter in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post. We quote : "I believe that one can keep abreast of current events much more accurately if he gives comparatively little time to the daily paper and a great deal of time to the weekly re view. Such journals handle current affairs with dignity, keen judgment, and much greater acouraoy than is to be found in the hurriedly pre pared articles of the average daily. If such weeklies .are supplemented by monthly magazines and publica tions which seoure articles on sub jects of the most living interest, written by men well qualified to write them, and covering most of the phases of commercial, finanoial and industrial development, a knowl edge of current affairs will be gained Incomparably more acourate than would result from the reading of daily newspapers." THE SHIP SUBSIDY STEAL. While some of the vicious features of the original ship snbsidy bill are perhaps omitted, the one now pend ing in Congress is no less pernicious and un-American in principle than that which was so deservedly un popular last year. The artiole from the New York Outlook which fol lows gives a correct and conservative viaw of tho measure. We auote : "By a strict party vote, Senator Frye's new ship subsidy bill has been favorably reported to the Senate. The measure differs from the one de feated last spring in the amount it appropriates, but not in the prin ciple it involves Last year's measure granted certain shipping interests $9,000,000 a year for a period' of twenty years. This year's bill, ac cording to the figures of its friends, grants these interests less than $2,- 000,000 a year, and does not fix the period during which the grant shall continue. In the present bill, how ever, as in the last, there is. the defi nite concession that public money shall be handed over to a powerful grouo of capitalist', on the ground that their industry is of great value to tho general public as indeed every honorable industry is, if it is self supporting. The group favored thin year is not identical with that of last year. Last year's bill per mitted Amerioans who have bought ships abroad to give them Amerioan reg-isfry and receive one half the subsidy granted to American ships. This year's bill grants no suoh pri vi le, .o Senator Vest, of Missouri, the leau.-.r of the Democratic opponents of t io hill, announces that he will off . r an amendment, allowing Ameri cans who own foreign built ships to give them an American registry without becoming entitled to any subsidy and without becoming en titled to engage in our coasting trade. But it is not thought that oven this amendment will be aooepted. The presont bill is rather a measure to increase the profits of present own ers and builders of American ships than to increase the size of the mer chant marine flying the American flag and carrying our foreign trade. The new bill omits the provision of the old that no ship shall receive a sub sidy unless it carries on its outward Voyage a cargo of one-third its ton nage. It is therefore in no degree an exporters bill. It is simply measure to help the ship builders who last year enjoyed the most profit able season they have ever known and to help the ship owners, who a thi3 very time are trying to effect t combination to prevent lower rates.' STAT OS OF THE BUBAL SCHOOL LIBBABY MOVEMENT. The Progressive Farmer has been from the first, as our readers know, an earnest advocate of the rura eohool library movement. It is not neoessary for us to repeat here the arguments we have made in behalf of this nlan for getting the best literature within the reaoh of our oountry children and so developing the reading habit in those who might otherwise grow up without it. These arguments we are sure our readers have not forgotten. But it is worth repeating here that, until the appropriation is ex hausted, six school libraries in each county are entitled to State aid un der the plan whioh, you will remem ber, is this : The patrons or friends of a public school raise a sum of money, not less than $10, for the purohase of a library to be estab lished in connection with suoh school. Notifying State and county eduoa tional authorities, 120 additional is furnished, making at least $30 at the beginning for each public school library. This brings us to the point : In quiry at the office of the State Super intendent of Publio Instruction last Monday revealed the fact that 289 sohool libraries, representing 68 counties, have already received the State aid provided for. In 32 ooun ties the limit, six libraries, have re ceived the State appropriation ; in 36 counties one or more, but less than six, have been helped ; in 29 counties no libraries have yet been established. We believe it will interest every reader of TnE Progressive Farmer know to whioh of these three classes his county belongs, and it may stir some of the slothful to more earnest aotion. So here follows a list of oounties : those in whioh the State can aid no more libraries are printed in italics ; those in whioh no libraries have yet been established are de noted by a star. The other counties have from one to five libraries, but no county should be satisfied until it reaohes the limit provided by law. The table follows : Alamance G Johnston Alexander Jones Alleghany 4 Lenoir 6 Anson 6 Lincoln 4 Ashe 1 MoDowell Beaufort G Macon 2 Bertie 6 Madison G Bladen 1 Martin Brunswiok 1 Mecklenburg. . .2 Buncombe Mitohell Burke Montgomery . . . Cabarrus 6 Moore Caldwell 3 JSrash Camden N. Hanover Carteret Northampton Caswell Onslow , Catawba Oranye Chatham 6 Pamlico 1 Cherokee 1 Pasquotank . . . . a Chowan 4 Pender Clay Perquimans 3 Cleveland G Person 1 Columbus 2 Pitt 6' Ciavtn 6 Polk l Cumborland 4 Randolph 6 Currituok Riohmona. . . . Dare Robeson Davidson 2 Pocking ham.. Davie Rowan Duplin 0 Rutherford.. Durham G Sampson Edgecombe 4 Scotland Forsyth 3 Stanly e Franklin 4 Stokes t; Gaston 2 Surry Gates 3 Swain Graham Transylvania. . .3 Granville 4 Tyrrell 3 Greene G Union 6" Guilford G Vanco Halifax Wake 6 Harnett 4 Warren 6 Hy wi.-cd Washington G Henderson G Watane-n, 2 Hertford 1 Wayne G is - -- -- Hyde 4 Wilkes 4 Iredell G Wilson G Jackson. Yadkin Yancey The Smithfield Herald reprints three times in its current issue this bit of healthy optimism from Harry Farmer's latest letter and the thought is really worth repeating : "Do not look at that old field with distrust ; it has made you some good crops, .and is ready to do so again." SALABIES FOB BEBS. CABINET MEM No one believes more strongly than we in economical government But we do not approve of a "penny wise. Dound foolish" polioy. The salaries of our publio offioials should be suoh as to command the best talent that the country affords. Congress, we believe, aoted wisely last week in increasing the salaries of Federal judges, and unwisely in voting down the amendment for an inorease in the salary of cabinet officers. These now receive only $8,000 ner vear : men of no more ability and with similar duties in European governments receive on an average probably $25,000. Only last week Lyman J. Gage, who served as Secretary of the Treas ury at the $8,000 salary from March, 1897, till the 1st inst., was called to a $100,000 position. It is a well known fact that every Attorney General who gives up his private praotioe and accepts the salary paid by the government, loses thousands annually. We should like to see Congress reconsider its aotion refusing to make the salary of cabinet members $12,500 per year. A Sampson oounty correspondent asks: "Where can I seoure rape seed for pasture and about what is the prioe?" If this friend will look over our advertising columns; he will find the names of a number of seedsmen who sell rape seed ; some of them make a specialty of it. Prioes can be learned from their catalogues. THIS WEEK'S PAPEB. Mr. A. T. Olive gives sound and timely advice to tobacoo growers. Suoh letters are always weloome ; we wish we could give every reader a personal invitation to speak through our oolumns on any matter affeoting the welfare of the farmers. Another good letter of county farm news is that from Mr. R. C. Whit- ener, of Burke, of course, the reader hasn't forgotten that we wish suoh letters from every county in the State. Our Horticultural Department is unusually interesting. Grafting ought to be muoh more generally practiced, and we commend to all what Mr. L. W. Chamers has to say on the subject. Prof. Irby talks of Irish potato growing, about whioh Harry Farmer will have more to say next week. You should read the suggestions regarding "Tree Plant- ng" before setting out another tree. The problem rf improving our oountry roads ia or.e of the most im portant that now . nfront us, and we believe that m my of our readers would be enabled to discuss it more intelligently by reading the new bulletin on "Earth R?ads,"to which referenoe ia rrtad-s on page 8. Send or a oopy. One of the best of our series of poems is Goldsmith's description of the preacher and the sohoolmaster of his "Deserted Village." A faith- f ul and impressive picture of eaoh he draws. Cardinal Gibbons speaks upon a great question, and with no uncer- ain voice, in the artiole frcm his pen wnion we nublisn on page -. , Tne evil against whioh he warns his readers is oonflned almost exclu sively to our cities, but the tenor and spirit of his artiole make it well worth the attention of the women on the farm also. Mrs. Stevens furnishes another Nature Study article. The correct A 1 answers to ner tree oonnunarums will appear next week. "The Grumble Box" appears in the Children 8 Column, but you doubtless know some older neoDle v?ho should read it. Dr Stevens makes a very strong plea for the introduction of Nature Study into our schools. His address should not be overlooked bv anv teacher, and contains much matter of inaerest to the general reader. Mr. S. M. Rowland's defense of the rural free deliverv svstem is nn well done that we find it unnecessary to publish a reply to "Ruralist" that we hid written. Mr. Rowland knows the merits of both the old and the new systems of handling mails in the country, and he speaks with authority. "The Alliance in Sampson is on a boom." So says a postscript to a letter just received from a farmer of that county, and we record his statement with pleasure. But we should like to have such news a lit tle more in detail. We hope for a full report of the next oounty meet ings in Sampson. LABGEB The Thinkers. SPABE THE BIBDS. Mr. Kirk Munroe, of Florida, honorary vice-president of the An dubon Society of that State, makes the following: strong plea for the birds, which we reproduce, beoause it applies with equal force to North Carolina and to everv other South ern State : "Florida is pre eminently an agri oultural State, and fruit raising is its chief industry. The hardest fight of the fruit grower ia the horde' of in- seots, aphides, ants, bugs, beetles, cateroillars. crasshomoers. flies and ' ' grubs that devote their entire ener gies not only to the destruction of his crop, but of his trees, whioh they attaok in leaf bark, and root. He fights them with sprays, washes and fumigations, and perhaps suc ceeds in destroying one beetle out of a thousand, one aphis in a million, and but one ant of eaoh billion. His efforts are expensive, more or less injurious, or ridiculous in their in efficiency. In spite of them he would be quiokly driven out of business were it not for an army of trained ajlies, alert, sharp-eyed, tireless and eager to devote their time to his ser vice without pay. "I mean, of oourse, the birds, without whioh our fair State would quiokly beoome not only non-pro- duotive, but absolutely uninhabit able. "In our inoonoeivable folly, we of Florida never hesitate to kill a bird, if seized with an inclination to do so. A little gray-coated chap, flitting from tree to tree, in search of the inseots that are sapping their life, offers a tempting mark, and we blaze away at him with a 22-rifle, just to see if we oan hit him. To kill him is suoh an expensive form of amusement that it would be more economical to oharge our rifle with a golden bullet and fire it into the sea. A fruit grower spies a red bellied woodpeoker sampling his ripening peaohes, and instantly de clares a war of extermination against the whole family. He had better re- ire from business at once and save the further expense of oaring for his orchard, for without the expert aid of the woodpeokers his efforts can only result in failure. "A meadow lark, or eaoh one of a covey of quail, in a ten aore tomato field earns ten dollars in a single season as an inseot destroyer. Yet we not only shoot these birds our selves, but we invite our friends from far and wide to come and help us destroy them as though they were a ptst we are desirous to abate. "We take every precaution to keep a thief from stealing even the most trifling of our possessions, and at the same time make no effort to dissuade the gunner from shooting the birds upon whose existenoe depends our Very livelihood. Queer, isn't it?" If there is any one who should appreciate the value of the birds as insect destroyers it is the farmer and fruit grower, and yet they do not seem to appreciate them any more than the boy with the sling or the pot hunter who goes out and takes a pop at everything with feathers on from a turkey to a hmming bird. The central part of this State is a grain-growing and fruit-growing section and yet there are thousands of aores the hunting privilege on whioh is leased to Northern sports- men, the consideration being that the leasors pay the taxes on the leased land. Thus leasing farmers and fruit growers get their taxes paid, but they pay five times or more as muoh in diminished crops on ao oount of the ravages of insects, and they thus not only injure themselves but their neighbors. Wilmington Star. THE POLL TAX BECEIPT. As all citizens know, or ought to know, no person can vote in this State after the firet day of May next who has tailed to pay his taxes, poll tax included, for the year preceding the first of May prior to the day of election. As to poll tax, of oourse the law only applies to those liable for kuoh tax, and these are all male citizens between the ag6s of 21 and 50 years, save those exempted there from on aooount of physical infirm ity or poverty by the oounty authori ties. The new eleotion law author ized by the constitutional amend ment, contemplates that eaoh voter, liable to the poll tax, exhibit to the eleotion officers his poll tax receipt for the tax for the year before, whioh receipt must also evidence that thfl tax was rtnirl rn , i . r Uil ur DeiCj the first day of May preceding. The Ashevllle Gazette makes very important point in this oonned tion in oalling attention to the gen eral rather than speoiflo character of tax receipts now used, and expresses the doubt as to the value of such receipt to a voter when he goes to vote next November. The form generally used, and until the present election law was sufficient, is a8 follows : County, N. C Received of as follows f0r the year 1901: State tax $ County tax $ Total $ " " Tax Collector. It will be noted that nothing s said above as to poll tax, nor does it show that the receipt is "in fall 0 all taxes" due for 1901, which thus expressed would inolude the poll tax though whether it would comply witn tne law as pertaining to euf. frage qualifications may be doubted, It would at least leave a good sized gap for contention if not fraud, anj this the present eleotion law ia in. tended to prevent. The taxes for 1901 are being paid now, and, must certainly all be paid on or before the first day of May tc entitle the citizen who may be &' voter to vote next fall. As the W distinctly mentions the poll itjf other taxes, it is better if not act ually necessary to avoid trouble that the receipt shall show that taxes property and poll, have beer paid, and were paid on or before the first day of May. We are sure it ij only neoessary to call attention to this to have the proper officers of he oounties to see that proper re ceipts are given. All voters Tloj nave paid tneir taxes tor lyoi, m all who pay hereafter, should ex amine tneir receipts and see tlir they designate the payment of i noil tax. when suoh is naid. as ml I ' ! as all other taxes. This is very im I m every county, by voters and offioers. Raleigh Post. TEN YEABS AGO AND NOW. There is no better antidote for de spondenoy than to take a measure of vour own community aoiSmftto years ago and as it is to-day uviw you live in an unrepresentative and stagnant community. You will be likely to find the roads or the streets better than they were ; the railroad servioe better, the postal service, nnafiiTilxr Avon tVi o 4o1onriartVi and tJiA telephone servioe ; you will observe! better houses, more attractive: grounds ; the people are better clad or more are well-clad. Inside their houses you will find more books or better, more bath-rooms, be to lights, and better furniture. larger proportion of children and youth are receiving good training a' better sohools. All this means morr than prosperous years. It means higher level of life and a strong ambition. The well-being of fiy people of the United States is risiE higher and especially is it diffusl itself wider. Life is constantly k coming more oomf ortable and mof oheerful as well as longer and safeH leading to better conditions for K telleotual growth and social develop ment. From the World's Work, f It is a custom in our schools-, have readings weekly, or more oft as the case may be, from standa-' literature. This is well, as the yom. mind oannot b9 too well acquaint? with the standard works, but we lieve that it would be a good idj and one entirely appropriate to e j stitute a good live newspaper otf, sionally. This will get the pa; into the habit of reading the ne paper and make them acquain with current events both local foreign. No greater or more va- able educator exists than the nej paper. The home without it is H in keeping with modern time 1 the trend is towards greater enlig-j enment and the watch word people should be "progress Tar Heel. nf t " i As we said before, so sayweag Trust the people. Let the peoFj North Carolina have a chance to - who they want for United St Senator. That will result, irjfaJ in leaving at home some who not to go. It is muoh easier legislature or a convention of , always disinterested members to j get what the people will not frj And if a man of clear record j olean life is wanted to represent in Washington, the best chance f getting him is to let the pe0Pf5 their say with as little interfe$ as Dossible Proahvterian Dli f