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
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LXI. SELL YOUR LEAN, SKINNY, SCRUB HENS; THEN BUY HALF
AS MANY OF SOME GOOD BREED AND MAKE SOME MONEY.
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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
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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. Tell
that neighbor.
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did. You can't afford to lose the price
Of one or more cows each year there's
no reason why you should. Get a Tu
bular and get more and better cream
out of the milk ;save time and labor and
have warm sweet skimmed milk for the
calves. Don't buy some cheap rattle
trap thing called a separator; that
won't do any good. You need a real
skimmer that does perfect work, skims
clean, thick or thin, hot or cold; runs
easy; simple in construction: easily
understood. That's the Tubular and
there is but one Tubular, the Shar
pies Tubular. Don't you want our
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with the prices he is obtaining for
his products ; who desires an agree
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anxious to obtain a home at low cost,
should buy a farm in the vicinity of
some busy manufacturing centre of
the South, where iarming products
are the highest, the prices of land 'the
lowest, and climate and surroundings
the most agreeable.
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