The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-31
ADVANCING LIKE BOOSTERS TAIL !

ADVANCING LIKE BOOSTERS lAIL
The committee on Agriculture, to
whom had been intrusted the query, Are
We advancing in agriculture?' reported
that they had spent seven weeks in in
vestigating the matter, and were quite
ready to answer in the affirmative. Among
other instances of progress in agriculture
might be mentioned that of hoeing corn.
\ dozen years ago the plan was to lean
the hoe against stump in the field and
go off fishing. 1t is now done by giving
a chattle mortgage on three steers and
hiring a neighbor to do the work. Ten
years ago turnips were heaped up in the
barn or cellar and supposed to be fit food
for only cows and calves. To-day they
are carefully wrapped in tissue paper, laid
in a bureau drawer, and are considered a
tit diet for Senator. When wiped of with
dish cloth and scraped with butcher
knife, they furnish very bracing and
enervating diet. Progress had been made
other particulars. and the committee felt
safe in saying that the time was not far
distant when a farmer could sit in an arm
chair in larger beer saloon and raise
sixty bushels of wheat to the acre.
1t is IA fact that little, just perceptible
cracks, in earth enw are will disapper, and
the dish look as good as new,::i it is boil
ed in milk.
Now that spring time has come, do not
forget that one OF the best ways to get
dust out of carpet, is to spread 1t on
the grass a0d swept it.
We say once more that every farmer 5
wife ought to have white wire clothes
line that does not have to be put up and
taken down tifty-two times year. One
will out last five ropes.
Said Miss Dotonart, at the Art Decora-
tion Exhibition, Yes, | am SO delight
ed. Chawles and what bee utiful burst
is that oppositc?" Money couldn't force
her into saying bust"
The Anson Times announces that If
the citizens will grade and cross tie the
route from Wadesbore to Ashevlle, a
distance of ten miles, Col. Bridgers'
company will extend the Cheraw and
Salisbury road to that point.
Lady Hsberton writes, mo one sees
anything Objectionable in a leg being
shown up to the knee in crossing a street
or getting into carriage, provided it is
covered by stocking" OF course not
who says they did?
Said .he Chicago girl as she saw Bun
thorne after the desertion of Patience
sink down crushed: What did he give
up that way for? Why didn't the drat-
ted fool sue her for breach Of promise ?"
Chicago girls take deep interest in 4
play.
When you see woman going toward
the river with a good sized pole in her
hand, and wrinkle across her nose, you
needn't think she's going a fishing. Not
much; she's got a boy down that way
who promised her, with tears in his eyes,
he wouldn't 60 in swimming.
A day or so since the Penitentiary au-
thorities were gratifed by the receipt Of
the following brief letter frsm the negro
who some years ago stole valuable
horse from Gen w. r. Cox, of this city.
He had escaped from the Penltentiary
ago. We give the letter GER
bat,na: Il AM Asheboro Jail charged
with stole horse black moss send quick
for me. GEORGE MCCALL"
The Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing
Company of Ga. are preparing to build
q granite-rock dam across the Chatta-
hoochce river at their mills. When
it will be the largest structure
Of the kind in the South. The entire
dam is to be of granite rock, and will be
about one thousand feet long and an
average Of eighteen feet in hight