The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-24

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they are becoming too dependent on
these manures, and are neglecting
to give back to the soil those essential
clements of plant food, which can
only be obtained from vegetable or
barn-yard manures. Do not neglect
to make compost heaps, and have
your barn and stock yards we'll filed
with large n piles. Can you
keep your corn crib, or your flour
barrel, or your potato hill, or your
apple cellar full, if you take from
them every day and put nothing
back? Can you go to your field ev-
cry fall and take from it a generous
crop, and expect it to continue fer
tile and fruitful when you give no
thing back to it?
We are pleased to learn that DIR.
III. T. Bahnson and Mr.. Henry E.
Fries are each going to build silos
and put up a quantity of ensilage.
during the coming season. This pro-
cess of preserving green food for cat
tie, horses and sheep, has now gone
beyond the stage Of mere expert
ment, and we hope, in a very few
years to see every farmer in the
State, who a possibly do 40, have
silos in their stock yards. More
grass, more forage, better breeds Of
cattle, horses and sheep, more rich
butter and milk, more fat beef and
mutton, and our farmers will live
better and be happier.
Statistics compiled for THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER by Mr.. r. w. Best
of The Forestry Division of the Cen
sus Bureau, are worthy of study.
From them We learn hat the value
Of exports in 1870, was S361,18S,-
4S3,-in 1884, $536,315,318. Value
of breadStuffs exported in 1870,
s72,25O,933.-in 1884, s162, 544,715.
Two-thirds of our cotton crop is
shipped abroad. Of the persons in
the United States having avoca-
tions, 1880, Al per cent. we're en-
ployed in agriculture. OF the total
value of exports the products of ag-
riculture constitute 76 per cent.
Truly the farmers feed and clothe
the world
Who of our readers has tried
the LeConte Pear? W. were shown
some young trees two years ago, by
u friend, Col. Gum OF Macon. Ga,
in his orchard. They We're vigorous
growers, and of remarkable beauty
and symmetry. We we're told by
him that it is only necessary to cut
il twig and stick it down in the
ground and it would readily take
root and grow. No grating neces-
sary. We nee that it is being cult
waited extensively in Southern Geor-
gia and gives great satisfaction. 1t
is not only very prolific but the fruit
has many superior qualities. Thorn
asville alone, shipped last season,
$4,000 bushel crates. 1t is a new,
pear, belongs to a new race and il,
pronounced by our Georgia friende
to be a phenomenal fruit tree, Can
some of u nurserymen give us in
in regard to it? We doubt
not it would thrive well in the cen
trail and eastern sections of our State.
The Tarborough Southerner says
that 100000 have been lost in
Edget omb County, in the last twelve
months, in cotton futures"
The spirit Of speculation and Of
legalized gambling is rife in the
land and is running many Of our peo-
pie, especially among u young
men. "Cotton futures" and lottery
swindles, have wrecked many a
young man in our State. We were
told by a friend not long since that
young man in his county had just
drawn a prize in a lottery. This
VIII prove a curse to the young man
and a curse to his county-for it
doubtless will beget in him a desire
and a purpose to make his living by
and it will cause many of his
acquaintances to take the same fool
ish and hazardous risk. We have
known some young e who toiled
at the counter and desk all day and
until late at night, faithfully, and
who sustained character for BUSH
ness tact and fidelity, to save from
their small salaries a portion "to try
their hand in a lottery ticket or in
futures, and without excep-
ton they were flched of their mon
ey. The whole country is suffering
the swealth craze" Better 90
slow, Young man. and be on the safe