The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
A Batch OF Kind Letters

1t Is an agreeable thing 20 note tha,
new subscribers are oning in daily aver
aging two a day for the past three weeks.
The editor takes pleasure IN the fact, not 80
much from the financial view. as he has
been working for halt Il dozen years past
merely for 4 very moderate supply of food
and clothesl, but because the more readers
the paper obtains. the wider the field :or
doing good, the greater the solace of feel
ing that hard work Is not thrown away.
One of the leading members of the late
State Senate writes under date of Septemhcr
18th =:
| find it to be the most interesting paper
10 m family that comes into the house. We
can do without it. Your Three Years"
&c, are written with spirit and ability, ard
are exceedingly readable, while the whole
conduct of the paper Is full of life, interest,
and independence.
One Of the farmer-kings Of Pitt county
writes =
Il prize the FARMER AND MECHANIC
above above all other papers. Ny wife and
children eagerly seek it. | get ii generally
on Friday, and my wife always reads il first
of all our mail.
One of the leading farmers of Wake. a
former member of the Legislature, says
Il take no other secular paper, as | can
get the Raleigh, the county, the State, and
the farming news from your paper"
The landmark says:
Three Years in Battle, and Three Years
in Prison, continues TO grow interesting
Another subscriber at Hilliardston writes
Your paper is certainly a good one. |
would not be without it for three times tie
price. take four papers, and yours the
best of the lot"
1t is worthy of unlimited patronage, and
we heartily wish the accomplished editors
and their paper unbounded success."-Con
cord Sun.
1T deserves all the patronage it receives
and more too. Durham Plant.
Capt. r. A. Shotwell's Three Years In
Battle and Three Years in Prison will be a
valuable contribution to Southern history.
Now is the time to subscribe. Only 81 a
year ."-Polkton AnSonion.
One of the best known, and most success
full farmers in North Carolina, writes =
Il am much pleased with the FARMER y
MECHANIC. 1t is very good on general
news, and is not re~r-tardenei with a~gricul-
tural matters. Your criticisms on the De
partment of Agriculture are good. Continrc
them. They may bring some good out Of
the Department. 1t must come ont, If there
is any good about it for it is oil ~ thee
yet and it must come out In such n man
ner that the farmers (for whose benefit it is
intended) shall see it. The fertilizer assay
reports are 6 to s months too late to do any
good for the year in which they are used.
The act establishing the Department Of Ag-
r~iculture especially charges the Board with
such investigations as may seem best
adapted to promote the improvement and
extension of sheep husbandry.' If any
thing has been lone in this branch of their
duties l nave failed to see it. If the Board
would do son,ethtng, however little, it would
do more to gain the confidence of farmers as
to the usefulness of the Department than
any other one thing possible for them to do.
Let them attempt something, and that
speedily, if they wish to continue the De
artment beyond the next session of the
legislature