iH? - * • v.. _ : * .; i in the fbr the next we will prices ;~1n g , GOODS, SHOES S SHIRTS. ip*’ ' and put us test and see H how far a little money will J at our store. — Bros. DEPARTMENT STORE. :r £3 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. | TW Fm II lwt«E Uoowully ; MUnwflw la Wsstsrn Coos tlM—Batsaoloflst Sherman • Tells el Way* e! Combatting < U. I rmaklio !U»tuiui. Jr.. iu pro«rt*»iyi. lur mm 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 II ... i ■■ I II i irfuntirV - 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. s i t s 1 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. ■* 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. :: :: :: :: :: :: Add4ddd**d4dddd*ddd THE BEE HIVE, Chaayaat Store la Meals IIM. IKTHL Prep. FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FUNCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FUNCH FLINCH PUNCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH PUNCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH PUNCH FLINCH FLINCH PLINCH FUNCH FLINCH PLINCH FLINCH! 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. PUNCH PUNCH FUNCH FLINCH FPINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FUNCH FUNCH FLINCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH PUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH PLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FUNCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH FLINCH 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. kLowmoaocx um lltlkH IHwHw A—« •». '•*» l.llii- TIM 1Im4m4. SSSUJVS *■ r®# *Rlt V) NMI. Itef) « CMtu. Taz OAtrowiA Gazktti It Gkatcra coznty’a Uadlnr p«p*r. Tzrfea a waek, $1.00 a nvi CHI in MVUM.

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