The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-04

Elder c. b. Justice, of Ruther.
fordton, received a bad hurt in stepping
from the depot platform at Shelby on
his return from the Baltimore Conven-
tion.-Biblical Recorder.
....Nep York, June 2.-Fish & Hatch
have resumed business. -. Edward
Simmons was elected president of the
stock exchange to-day.
....Albany, N. Y, May 29.--To-
night Caroline Schneider, insane from
the loss of a bank book, murdered five
of her children, and, running with the
eldest, aged 9, threw herself in front of
a train and was killed. The child can-
not live.
...Wadesboro Times: The Indictment
against Col. +. B. e. Cash as an access
sorry to the killing of Marshall Richards,
of Cheraw, by W. Began Cash was not
pressed in the Superior Court ofChester-
field county. Monday last, and Col. Cash
was released from bond.
....A special to the Neaps and Obser-
7 Ger from Marion, n. c., says A man
named Bowen was killed by a fellow
named Lineback, heal Plum Tree, in
Mitchell county, in a dispute as to the
ownership of a mica mine. 1t was near
the place where the murder Of Ray and
Anderson about a mica mine, occurred
last February.
Col. Bill Arp tells the Georgians
what he saw in Wake county Not long
ago | was over in eastern North Carolina
ana | found the question answered in
some places, l found some nice we'll edu-
Gated girls cultivating small fruits and
vegetables for market. They dident pillow
| the ground but they planted and hoed
and weeded and gathered the crop. l
saw an acre of strawberries that to sisters
had planted and they made a frolic of it,
that is they went at it with a will and
took a lively happy interest in it and they
gathered 4 1000 quarts and said they would
get a thousand more and they packed
them in the little baskets and the baskets
into crates and sent them north and their
sales had averaged 80 cents a quart.
Their total expenses for hire of help and
cost of baskets and freight to market was
500 and this left a thousand for their
work and watching and constant care.
We'll those girls are proud and iudepen
dent. Their father had five acres and he
was making mOney--a good deal of
money. never saw a nicer business nor
one so simple and sure. The land was
poor and sandy. The rows three feet
apart. when the plants get we'll set a
pillow opens a furrow close by on each side
and this turrow is nearly filled with cot
ton seed and then the earth is thrown
back on the cotton seed, after that the
vines are mulched with pine straw and
that is all, | never saw vines as small or
berries as numerous, | coulted 24O on one
plant. They laid Cd one another. This
zine had been picked three times and
there were $40 lett. They frequently
picked a quart from 3 plants and left
many not ripe. They pick till s O'Clock
in the morning and the girls averaged IL
quarts by that time. They begin again
at 4 in the afternoon and get Is quarts
more. When they hire pickers they pay
q cents a quart to girls and 2 cents tt
boys for the girls are more careful anc
do not mash the berries nor spill then
and do not eat every big nice one they
: come across.
But this is not all. These girls have
got a crop of raspberries just behind ant
they will make two or three hundred dol
lars off of them and they are growing
currants and g~ooseberrie and talk abou
going into potatoes and beans and grape
and all that. we'll why not. Fruit grow
ing is a nice business for girls and 80 II
/. ! raising vegetables.