PROGRESSIVE PARMER AND COTTON PLANT. Thursday, October 4, ig06 W. L. DOUGLAS 53.50&3.00 Shoes BEST IN THE WORLD Lost Strayed or Stolen One Gow Vf.LDougIa$ $4 Gilt Edge line cannotoe equalled at an j price , That is about what happens each Year for the man who owns five cows "and does not use a Tubular cream sepa rator. He loses in cream more than the price of a good cow.The more cows he owns the greater the loss. This is a fact on which Agricultural Colleges Dairy Experts and the best Dairvnien all agree, and so do you if you use a Tubular If not, it's high time you To Shoe Dealers : W. L. DouglaV Job bing House is the most complete in this country Send for Catalog LXI. SELL YOUR LEAN, SKINNY, SCRUB HENS; THEN BUY HALF AS MANY OF SOME GOOD BREED AND MAKE SOME MONEY. 14 SHOES FOE EVERYBODY AT ALL PEICES. men's saoes, 3 to 9 1.00. poya' unoes, $3 to $1.25. Women's Shoes, $4.00 to $ l.SO. Misses' & Children's Shoes, $2.20 to $1.00. Try TV. I Douglas Women's, Misses and Children's shoes; for style, fit and wear they excel other makes. If I could take you into my large factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you how carefully W. L. Douglas shoes are made, you would then understand why they hold their shape, fit better. wear itrugci, aiiu arc ui gicaici vamc 'than any other make. Wherever you live, you can obtain W. L. Douglas shoes. His name and price is stamped on the bottom, -which protects you against hign prices and inferior shoes. Take no substl tute. Ask your dealer for W. L. Douglas shoes and insist upon having them. Fast Color tuelets used; they wilt not wear brassy Write for Illustrated Catalog of PaU Styles. W. L, DOUQLAS, Dept. R, Brockton, Mass. Shrewd men wanted in every community, to act under instructions; previous experience not necessary. Send for free book of particulars. Grannan's Detective Bureau, j jg Cincinnati, O. Young Ladyi Learn Stenography & BooKheeping. There's a place, in the commercial world for you with a good, salary and steady advancement if yon are really anxious to succeed and do your best. Lady graduates of this college oc cupy positions of trust with the largest mercantile houses. Will be frlad to have you write for a cata ogue. Either place. MASSEY Business colleges. Birmingham, Ala. Houston, Tex. Montgomery, ala. kichmond, Va. Columbus, Ga. Jacksonville, Pla. LnJell QDHlIs For Horse, Steam or Gasoline Power VoIl Augers For Horse Power Address 100MIS MACHINE CO. TIFFIN, OHIO Special Rates to Raleigh, N. C, and Return t Account of the State Fair, October loth to 20th, 1906. The Sea Board announces rate of one first-class fare plus fifty cents, including admission, from all points in the State of North Carolina, in cluding Richmond, Norfolk and inter mediate points in Virginia. Low round trip rates for military com panies and bands in uniform. Tick ets will be sold October 12th to 19th, inclusive, and for early morning trains of October 20th, with final re turn limit of October 23rd. Special trains will be arranged from points between Weldon, Oxford, Hamlet and Raleigh. See announce ment later, or address, C. H. GATTIS, T. P. A., v Raleigh, N. C. Messrs. Editors: At first thought it seems surprising that it should be necessary to present an argument in behalf of better poultry. That the better article pays a decidedly better profit to the producer is self-evident, and should be convincing, and yet such is the indifference ta, or igno rance of economic conditions, that the great bulk of the farmers and their wives who raise poultry f ob market, still stick to the lean, skinny stock, which pays but a small profit to the producer, while at the same time the buyer is eagerly searching for and demanding a better article. Get Rid of Your Lean, Skinny, Scrub Fowls. I know the average farmer has not had the same incentive, or even lofe for his -fowls, as the city lot "chicken crank" has, because the larger ani mals around him seem to be of more importance, claiming his whole atten tion, and it seems easier to become. fond of them. Neither will the farm er think of fowls as being a factor for intellectual observation. In fact, the farmer has at first no use for a hen so far as there is money to be made, yet he is not slow to take ad vantage of improved breeds and methods, after being once convinced that it pays, and to try to convince the farmer of this fact is the object of this week's letter. Eggs and Chickens Getting Higher Every Day. The continued rise Jn prices of beef, mutton, and pork has caused to say nothing of the decrease of the large Western cattle and sheep ranges, which necessarily makes beef and mutton higher, nor to mention the recent packing house scandal, which gave one for awhile a decided distaste for anything coming from that quarter has sent the price of chickens and eggs soaring skyward Eggs at the present writing are 30c. to 35c. per dozen, and half-grown chickens 40c. to 55c, and hard to get at that. Now, if in place of old scrubs, the farmers had a good laying strain of some good standard-bred stock, they could be selling eggs at these paying prices, and not be stand ing off looking at some one else reap the reward. Brother farmer, stop and think. It has been carefully esti mated that on the average, it costs just seven cents to produce one dozen eggs; deduct that from the selling price, and see if you would not have several extra dimes to spend on the Midway at the State Fair next week. Sell Your Scrub Hens; Buy Half That That Number of Some Good Breed. You cannot get the same results from scrubs as from standard breeds and it is "love's labor lost" to try. Now what I want you to do (and they say, "God helps those who help them selves"), is to sell off that mixed lot of chickens and with the money buy half that number of some good breed. Of all the times of the year, the fall is the most opportune. You will be ready then for winter eggs and early spring hatches. - But listen! Read, mak, and in wardly-digest:' you can't expect good results from any chickens on earth, if you put them in that old rotten trap Of a house, with half a roof, cracks large enough between the boards to put your hand through, and the floor damp and emitting an odor that is not suggestive of peaches and cream. . Fix Up Your Hen House and Feed AVell. Fix up the house, bottom the cracks, but give good overhead ven tilation. If the floor is of dirt, fill it up six or eight inches higher than the surrounding ground outside. Then, lastly, and by no means less vital, feed these fowls right. Don't throw down a gallon of corn for a dozen chickens in the morning and go off and think you have done your whole duty, and then consign me to another land than this because they don't lay. Feed right: a variety of foods, the greater the variety the bet ter. Summer is the nat ural laying season of the hen. Why? Because she gets all the component parts of an egg, with exercise. Give "her this in winter and if you have provided comfortable roosting quarters, she can no more help, laying than the wind blowing. Do You Want Four-Pound or Seven Pound Hens 60 Cents or $1.05 ? The average scrub hen will weigh four pounds while the average weight of a standard-bred bird of the Ameri can class (and these are the kind, in my opinion, a farmer should have) will go seven pounds. At fifteen cents a pound you can soon determine which pays the best. Farmers are no fools even if they are not all stick ing together on the cotton question My friend, Mr. Moore, seems to be the only one who has his whole heart wrapped in cotton. He has been away from home so long an unusual thing for him until he took up cot ton that I doubt very much whether Mrs. M. and the children will know him. One More Thing to Consider. But I digress, back to my favor ite subject: If you do decide to sell those mixed chickens and buy . good ones, don't forget that it is better to pay $10 for three chickens than it is to pay $10 for ten chickens. That is one great mistake that is of ten made. The cheapest are not al ways the best, though I admit we sometimes catch a bargain, but not often. Buy good ones with 'an egg record. Never mind the show part of it, though I admit "a thing of beauty is a joy forever," but that is not your UNCLE JO. Mecklenburg Co., N. C. Only 15 cents till January 1st. 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