The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-11-04

DOME SPECtMEAs OF NORTH
FARMING For weeks past our exchar ges
have chronIcled instances OF good farming.
1t is rather late in the season, but we col
lect a few items that may do the State some
service among our Northern and European
readers. Duncan Cameron, Esq, Of Orange
made six bales of cotton on three acres,
with common compost. The RecOYft says
Mr.. j. &. Gilmore, of Chatham, made. with
one muie,-a crop OF II bales cotton: 90
bushels corn % barrels wheat; $50 bushels
corn - S. D.. Mclean Ct Guilford
shows the Patriot seven sweet potatoes that
more than fill halfa bushel basket, and
2s4 lbs. Mr.. w. S. Moore showed u APP
Piles that weighed % lbs-neariy one pound
a piece, and exactly filled half bushei meas
ure. -But the High Point Meycury beats
Gui!ford with Il common beet weighing IL J
pounds, and measuring 30 inches around
the waist band -Our sunshiny friend, OF
the Concord Sim has seen cotton stalks
with $50, and llS, bolls, Charlie, and j.
Harris, own them. Mr.. Nat Johnston in
same county, has a stalk of corn IS feet
high, and IL feet from the roots to the first
ear of corn. High roosting ears like that
would be an invaluable breed for fields in
the vicinity of predatory colored camp
M eetin's-Mr. II. II. Burt of Greene
made 100 bushels of fine rice on i acres.
The Edenron Clarion of Oct 26 says
DIR. w. r. Capehart of Avoca, sent to US. a
peach limb II inches long, and ! of an inch
in circumference, having on it 0 peaches
weighing from 10 to l3 ounces and meas
uring 10 to Ii inches, averaging nearly : OF
a pound.-The Elizabeth City Edic0n
says: Uncle Geoffrey Overton had IS chill
dren by two wives, of whom l9 are still
living. He is a hale, honest. hard working
old colored man and has reared bis cxten-
sive progeny in a decent manner Col.
John ID. WhItford exhibited an 500 pouna
Poland China hog, years old, a. State
Eair.-We learn from Mr. n. p~lumadore
that IL. z. Jones Of HlIlsboro realized as
follows from p acres Of land, 500 worth Of
table grapes 46 bushels wheat:2UJ busnel S
of oats; 70 bushels corn % bushels of IRISH
potatoes: from one peck of cuttings l5J
bushels of turDips; 600 head Of cabbage;
1000 pounds pork besides garden vegeta-
hles. The kinston Jouradi records the
second crop OF irish potatoes this year raised
on the farm Of Mr.. j. w. Kincey. He
planted in July, and some of the potatoes
now harvested weigh over one pound each.
The Register says ID. S. Callwell has a
Il FOUNDER sweet 'tatO; and Martin Phiier
a seven foot cotton stalk with $50 bolls -
The Sunny Home says: Mr.. w. II. Langley,
informed us he had made this year with two
horses, 80 bales of cotton from 80 acres of
of land. He sowed ii bushels of wheat and
thrashed 32S bushels. After cutting the
wheat, he sowed a part of the field in peas
and had gathered about 200 bushels. The
lowest estimate on his corn crop is 300 bar
rels. And sweet potatoes-there is no tell
ing how many he will make."-The Ashe-
vile Necs says The finest apples we have
seen this season were raised by Mr.. ". A
Patton, near Swannanoa postofice. Three
of them weighed 3 pounds : ounces -.
The Hickory Press notes that a sweet pota-
toe 229 inches around the belly band, raised
by Gilbert Holler, who, however, need
not holler until all the returns
come IN. A. NJ. Peeier can hence
forth be a pumpkin eater. He has a
vine with 10 pumpkins averaging 80 lbs
each. He also made one hundred gallons of
moiasses on an acre of sorghum. At pres
ent prices this beats cotton. THE Will
son Adcance's Nash county letter saws.
: Mr.. John A. Kicks will make twenty bales
Of cotton on twenty acres, and Mr.. V. B.
Bachelor about twenty-seven bales on
five es."-The same paper saws:
W. l. Bryant, who lives at Whitakers'
Mills, with four plows has made 60 bales
Of cotton, and 300 barrels of corn, besides
wheat and oats.