The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24

North Carolina is we'll abreast
with Georgia in the facilities she is
giving her children to obtain an edu-
cation. During the last year there
was drawn from her treasury seven
hundred thousand dollars for this
purpose. Georgia did not spend
this much, although she had an in
come of three hundred thousand
dollars from the State road.
Like Georgia, North Carolina has
a State University at Chapel Hill,
and has a Methodist college at Trim
ity, and a Baptist college at Wake
Forest and a Presbyterian college at
Davidson. Then there is the fam
Gus Bingham school and others of
less note. These ~ for boys and
are literally patronized.
Trinity college is five miles from
the Richmond and Danville railroad
at High Point. 1t is situated on a
high plateau of sandy loamy land
and is environed by beautiful farms
and many small industries that make
these farms profitable. Just plant
$50 students and $50 mechanics in a
community if you want to see farm
ing prosper. | wish | could put
that sentence in italics. College
boys are we'll behaved nowadays
better than they were before the
war for they are poorer. Most OF
them were brought up poor and re-
member what a strain it is on their
parents to keep them in college.
Before the war most of the boys
were rich and proud and a stingy
boy was looked upon as a plebeian
or a charity student, but now many
of the boys mess together in clubs
of eight or ten and hire a cook SO as
to reduce their board to the lowest
possible limits. They lose no caste
or fellowship by this, but are COM
mended for it. | saw at Trinity the
game of foot ball for the first time
and | liked it. 1t is that same old
"shinny without the crooked sticks
that we used to use and without the
wooden ball. That Skinny was a
rough and dangerous game and [
still have memories of hard knocks
that laid me up for a time. Near
Trinity is an extensive shuttle fac
tory that supplies many southern
mills and a factory that makes spin
dies for the Williamantic thread
company. There is also a large tan
merry and shoe factory that turns
out 100 pair every pay. Their shoes
are all engaged before they are
made. and command a better price
than northern shoes, for the people
know they are honest work and
honest leather. A Bush Hill brogan
will bring two dollars as readily as
a northern brogan will bring one
dollar and a half.
The dog congress was just begin
ming to convene at High Point. 1t
convenes there every year about
this time, and a stranger is liable to
fall over a dog most anywhere about
town. The hotel was crowded with
them. | could hardly get to the
register to record my name, and the
clerk looked all around me to see
how many dogs [ brought. | took
a quiet seat in a corner and for an
hour or two listened to the yarns
of these sportsmen as they told of
their adventures that covered a ter
ritory from Maine to Mexico and
included the Rocky Mountains. Some
of them had been on the boards as
MINISTRIES and they wound up with
banjo music and negro songs and a
dance, all of which was entertaining
and kept me awake and wondering
how many kinds of people it took
to make a world. Hundreds of
sportsmen and dogs we're expected
at this congress-, for there was a.
great wager up for the best days
work among the quails. These
sports have leased the shooting priv
ilage on ten thousand acres near by
and have many other smaller areas
secured. They start out by sunrise
in long bodied hacks with six or
eight i'm the seats and the dogs in
the ballast, and return after night
with bags full of birds that are to
be shipped north by the first train.
Their dogs are very precious, some
of them rated at a thousand dollars
and | was very careful not to offend
them, and felt like bowling and tip
ping my hat as l gave them the side
walk and said "good morning dog"
There are some Quakers in these
parts They GRO q uI1iaf industrious