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DEPARTMENT STORE.
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Burbank’s early, Canada, Capital
Carr’s Corn, Cary. Champaign
county, HI. Champion, Cham,
piou white dent, Champion yel
low dent, Cherokee, Chester
County, Pa.. Gourd-Seed. Ches
ter county early dent, China,
Clark’s early, Canning corn,
Common corn. Compton, Comp
ton’* early, Conqueror, Country
Gentlemen’s, Cropsy’s early,
Crowder’s, Currituck, Curaco,
Dakota Red, Davenport’s, Dolly
Doit, Dolittle, Dr. Woodboose’a,
Dugan’s Darkey, Dntton’s Early
Boston, Early Boynton, Early
Butter. Early Collossal, Early
Dutton, Early Eclipse, Early
Giant; Early Huron, Egyptiau,
Parmer’s Favorite, Farmer’s
Pride: Fisk, Giant. Golden.
Gourd seed, Hawkins, Hickory
King, Hogne’s Hoync’s-Homi
ny, Honey, Horse-tooth, Hod
men's Iowa-Beauty, Iowa Gold,
Ironclad, Japanese. Jitn-J, Kane
County Kan., Kansas King.
King Philip, kyle 1, 2. 3.
Laxawaxan,Legal tender, Learn
tag. Lemon, Log-Cabin, Long
Jobn, Long-Tom, Long-fellow.
Long yellow. Mammoth, Maple
dak, Marik bead. Mill’s white,
MHIet corn. Minnesota, King,
Mteour! Mammoth, Monroe’s.
Mortgage lifter. Mummy 1, 2 3.
Negro-pop, Ninety day. Old
Cabtn Home, Pearl, Pee Kay,
Ragaa>, Red-bladed, Red Cob,
brief description of thirty house
hold pests, etc.
"Hie American Crow," 98.
economic status of this well
known bird.
"Studies on American Grass
es,” pages 62. Studies on
Calamagroslis-grass, thirty-eight
species described, etc.
"Wages of Farm Labor, 1866
1900," page 50. Results of in
vestigations by the IT. S. D. of
Agriculture regarding wages of
farm hands etc.
Total volumes in library 358,
June 1, 1903.
usr you R taxes—r.ivn IN VOtTt
POLLS.
Regarding tlie law as to listing
(axes, it is well for every citizen
to inform himself. Persons who
fail to report to list-taken will
have to lint before the Board of
County Commissioners up to the
second Monday in July, and are
required by the law to pay 25
cents for recording and 5* on
the amount of tax. All person*
who are liable for poll tax and
fall to give themselves in, and
all persons who own property
and fail to list by the 2nd Mon
day in July may be charged with
doable tax, deemed goilty of a
misdemeanor and on conviction
fined or imprisoned. (Sections
15 and 58 Machinery Act 1903.)
UASTOK CROPS JUNE tJTO.
The week's rainfall has con
sisted qf heavy showers all over
the county. The winds were
light, changeable. The rains
nave given com and cotton a
healthier look and started a
rapid growth. A rapid improve
ment is indicated, "stands" are
irregular. Chopping is fiuished.
No crab grass. Cottou is small
for the season. Fields are clean
and well cultivated. Some wheat
has been harvested. Poor yield.
Oats favorable. Rye favorable.
■•itot Tnaf Peoples’ Uaioa,
Atlanta, Go.. Joly 9-12. 1993.
For the National Couveutiou
Baptist Young Reoplc’s Union
of America, which meets in At
lanta, Ga., July 9-12 the South
ern Railway will sell return
tickets at one first-class fare
(plus 25 cents) for the round
trip. Tickets sold from points
beyond a radius of 300 miles
from Atlanta on July 8, 9, and
10. Return limit to enable
passengers to reach original
starting point July 15.
We Want—
To pnt The Gazette iu every
reading home in Gaston county.
Why shouldn’t it be there ? It
pays its visits twice a week, tries
always to be a welcome guest,
and costs only one dollar a year,
Speak a good word for it to your
neighbor who doesn’t take the
paper. Wo will appreciate it,
and we believe the time will
come when your neighbor will
thauk 1 oil for having mentioned
it. The person who gets Tub
Gazettk, with its wealth of
local aud general news, for only
one dollar i year has the long
end of the single-tree on the
publisher.
Bsn't Mi.. It
The great gathering of music
teachers and music lovers, to be
held at Asheville June 30th to
July 3rd, ought to prove a note
worthy event iu the educational
history or the State. It will be
the first meeting of the Mnsic
Teachers’ National Association
ever held in the South, aud, be
ing held conjointly with the
meeting of the Southern Mnsic
Teachers’ Association, will
doubtless bring together disting
uished teachers and artists from
all parts of the United States,
many of whom it will be a privi
lege to meet. This meeting
will give our North Carolina
musicians an unparallelled op
portunity to put themselves in
touch with the great forward
more meat of the day in musical
as well es in general education,
an opportunity which it would
be a misfortune and a shame to
neglect.
The programme includes sev
eral grand concerts, besides lec
tures, excursions, etc., worth
meuy times their cost. For fur
ther information address P.
Ftadogton Hsrker, Biltmorc,
N. C., or Secretary Board of
Trade, Asheville, N. C.
HESSIAN PLY IN WHEAT. |
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There sceuis to be urgent
need of informing the wheat far
mers thoroughly as to the beat
meant of dealing with the Hes
aiau Fly, for it ia evidently
causing them much loss every
year. A week or two ago we
gave in The Progressive Farmer
the essential points in dealing
with it, but will repeat here
more in detail as more serious
reports have been received siuce
the publication of that article.
The adult parent insect of the
Hessian Fly is a very small,
slender, blackish, two-winged
fly (there ore a number of speci
mens before me) which resem
bles a mosquito. The adult fe
male fly deposits its eggs on the
wheat leaves, usually selecting
those that are uearest the
ground. The eggs hatch into
small white maggots which
work down to the stalk, feeding
on it uear the joints where it is
near the basc*bf the leal. Here
it grows to maturity, when it
chauges to what is known as the
''flax-seed” stage. This stage is
correctly known as the pupa and
it is brown and oval m shape
suggesting the seed of the flax
m general appearance. In this
stage the insect is entirely help
less and takes no food; the mag
got is simply transforming to
the adnlt fly. We see then that
there are four distinct stages of
existence in the life of the Hes
sian fly: (1) the egg; (2) the
maggot, which docs the damage;
(3) the pupa or "flax-seed,” and
(4) the adult fly.
All through the piedmont scc
tiou of North Carolina there are
two complete generations of the
insect each year. One brood of
adult flies appears and deposits
eggs in tbe fall and another
brood emerges and deposits eggs
in the spring or early summer.
Let us now begin when the
fornner soars his wheat in the
fall and follow bis field (and the
fly) through n year, and we will
then be able to discuss the mat
ter of remedies intelligently.
[ Suppose bis wheat is sowu
; early in October and is nicely
up by tbe 20th of that month.
About tbe 25th a brood of the
flies appear and deposit their
eggs on the young wheat. The
maggots which batch from the
eggs work around the joint of
the stalk near the gronnd feed
ing, on the juicy fiber. Here
they reach maturity in about
four weeks and change to the
pupa (flax-seed stage) to pass the
winter. The adnlt fly emerges
from this papa in April or May
(specimens bred from stalks
sent to me emerged between
May 4 and 18) and after mating
tlic female deposits eggs for an
other brood. The flies them
selves do no harm other than
lay the eggs, and after they are
deposited the flies die. The
eggs thus laid transform into
maggots which continue the
destructive work and which ma
ture and transform to tbe pupa
(flax-seed) s t a g e by harvest
time. The grain is cut and the
stubble left standingiu the field.
Another field is sowed to wheat
in early October and the brood
emerges from the old stubble in
the latter part of the month,
flies to the new field, deposits
eggs and dies.
It mere is no wbest np when
this fall brood of fiiea emerges
then they must die without de
positing their eggs or they must
deposit them elsewhere, and
each fly only lives for a day or
two after emerging, for it is the
natural course of events with
many insects that they reach
maturity only for the purpose of
proyiding for the next genera
tion, and they die a natural
death of slow starvation after
maturity is reached.
It is evident that it would be
very expensive to apply any kind
of remedy which should reach
the insects on each stalk, but
knowing the history of the inf
sect’s hie we are prepared to
combat it effectually. Note that
the adult fiiea emerge in the fall
m October or early November
and that therefore they may be
largely avoided by planting as
late as possible. Note also that
the insects arc in the pupa (flax
seed) stage when the grain la cut
in summer, so that by at Sues
burn-1 ng off the stnbble they will
be tamed under deeply aad then
rolled to pulverise the top tor
face, the lies will be suffocated
■od unable to emerge.
These are the two great points
to be attended to in combatting
the Hessian fly and tbe advice
may be boiled down to these two
propositions:
1. Plant late as possible in
the fall.
, t barn off or tuts under
deeply the stubble of inftsted
•elds immediately after bar
V9ft«
Any farmer who will adopt
these practices will realist greet
rial if nflaptel generally
the farmers in a comma
ctaiaa Fly is a had past
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and wilt no doubt coatimic to be
so. but It wilt not seem nearly
so serious wheu the farmer learns
thoroughly the history of its liie
as here explained, and puts into
practice the suggestions here
given. There is nothing theo
retical about this. Kvery farmer
must sc#tbc common>001130 of it,
oud sll know that the very late
sown wheat is not so subject
to damage by fly as that which
is sown earlier. In teaching my
classes at the A. & M. College
for the past two years, oud when
ever I have had occasion to talk
with farmers about this pest, I
have always brought out the
poiut of late planting and have
never yet found a farmer who
had carefully uoted the results
who did not admit its value.
The turning under or burning
off stubble is a point not so well
kuown among farmers, but it Is
of value for the reasons here
given.
PUA.KiO.IN Shejlxan, Jit.,
Entomologist, Department,
Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C.
NOTICE.
Carolina 4 North-Woatara Bail*
way Company.
Notice ia hereby given that a
special meeting o7 the stock*
holders of the Carolina & North
Western Railway Company has
been cnlled by tike Board of Di
rectors, and will he held nt the
principal office of the Company
m Chester, South Carolina, on
the thirtieth day of June, 1903,
at twelve o’clock, noon, and that
at such meeting there will be
considered a proposition to create
s new mortgage upon the proper
ty of this Company and to issue
bonds thereunder for the pur
pose of unifying the funded debt
of tbis Company and to provide
funds for the purchase of addi
tional equipment, aud for ex
tensions of the railroads of this
Company, stichbonds to be limi
ted in-the aggregate amount to
$2,500,000.
By order of the Board of Di
rectors.
• J. J. McLukk. Sec’y.
Cheater. S. C., May 28. 1903.
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paid to Beneficiaries of t b e
Peoples' Mutual Benevolent
Association since organisation
of Gaston Division, two years,
nt a maximum yearly cost to
policy hohlern of 56.33 per
52,033 insurance. : : • s
Where is the insurance that
is any cheaper or better than
the Peoples' Mutual Benevo
lent Association? : : : :
An Association in which
everyone can afford to carry
protection.
Call on our Directors and
Agents in Cleveland and Gas
ton counties for information.
W. L. GALLANT,
I-ocal Agent. Gastonia. N. C.
J.I.IMK.Prei. 3.Jsclrwr.
t)»m» Prvtsitns.
Precessions! Cards.
LUCIUS J. HOLLAND,
Altoa-i :>• Counsellor at Law,
DALLAS. N. C.
Office near residence.
R. B. WILSON,
Attorney at Law.
GASTONIA, N. C.
P. R. FALLS,
DENTIST.
GASTONIA. N. C.
Office over Robinson Bros. Store
Phone 86.
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dr. d. e. mcconnell,
DENTIST.
Office f:r*t floor Y. M. C. A. HM’it
GASTONIA. N. C.
Phone. flf».
Southern Railway
SCHEDULE.
We Make a Small Profit,
You Make a Large Saving
liy buying your Drew Good*. Millinery. No
tions, Clothing, Shoes, and Gent's Furnish
ings from us. We mention a few prices:
Colored Lawns
6c kind at only. . . Sc
8c kind at onlv... Sc
12c kind at only . 7Me
15c kind at only . lie!
White Lawns
Sc kind, only . . . . Se
10c kind. only . . 7X<
LSc kind, only . . lie
tO in. 25c value at 15«
We sell good goods cheap. Look where you
please; afterwards come to as and we will
surely sell to you. :: :: :: :: :: ::
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Chaayaat Store la Meals IIM. IKTHL Prep.
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The Newest aof Host Fueintlat Prior Gone
More Simple than Authors.
More Scientific than Whist.
Each pack consists of 150 cards, which
are absolotaly necessary to play the game
successfully The combinations while aim
pie. are so intricate that the same has
been pronounced by many to DC more
scientific than whist. Minch may be
played in any home by the whole family,
ana enjoyed by old and young alike.
Price - • SO Cents.
By Mall • 60 Cents.
GASTONIA BOOK STORE.
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SOUTHERN
RAILWAY
THE GREAT HIGHWAY
OP TRADE AMD TRAVEL.
Umltlng tha MmI^bI Oa^paratal
Camtan tod Haal^h tad Wmaw
latBrla mi tK« Jaatk wttlk llta 4m A
NORTH, EAST and WEST.
A. D. CLARK.
OROCEB■
Thl* U the place to get your
groceries cheap. I<et n* quote
you dome price*: i
Beat Patented Capttola Mow . . .
. . 12.SO per sack.
leasas."Icisfc
Oraeulated Sugar, Mika, for . $1.00
Roeated CeSae .... 10c per tb.
Mb. ea* Tewatoea . . . .We
Cera.*0e per be.
Come and *ee my line before
piecing your order.
Renpectfalty,
' A. D. Clarke
C. A N. W. RAILWAY.
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Gkatcra coznty’a Uadlnr p«p*r.
Tzrfea a waek, $1.00 a nvi
CHI in MVUM.