The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-08-18

OUOIlcN lIlc, CudC SOlllo pdIGlcS nave
despaired of doing anything with
their tobacco crop and have fallowed
the land for wheat-Le0ksuiUe Echo.
1t is said that joint stock COM
pany has been formed to rebuild the
spoke and handle factory which was
destroyed by fire in this city night
before Iast.-Greensboro Workman.
-Geo. Hauser who raised the
1O6 pound watermelon last year,
planted some of the seed from it
this year and has melons on his
vines which now weigh 40 pounds.
The melons are yet in green state
and growing.-Solem Press.
Farmers say that if the present
fine weather continues few weeks
longer the corn on the uplands and
sandy bottoms will be fairly good.
They say tobacco is too far spent
to make crop, and that the con-
tinuous rain of the summer has
exhausted the strength Of the fertil-
ize.-Danbury Reporter.
Mr.. r. P. Reinhardt, of this
county, made 2,766 bushels Of wheat
The yield per acre isi a little larger
than last year, and the wheat is Of
fair quality.-The Catawba county
Agricultural association will hold
it's exhibition at the Fair Grounds
at Hickory on the 10Th, Goth, 21st,
and 22nd of ofOctober.-Nevton Enter
prise.
The Stokes county Democratic
convention was heldaat Danbury on
the 9th when the following ticket
was nominated: For the House of
Commons-J. Y. Phillips; for Clerk
of Superior Court-James RyerSon !;
for Register Of Deeds. E. Hill !;
for Sheriff /. Dalton; for Sur
veyor-Gideon George for Coroner
J. H. Carroll
Contracts We're signed yester-
day by Messrs w. n. Blackburn,
w. A. Lash, S. T. Wilder, and J. c..
Bailey for the erection of four large
store houses on Main street north
Of the bridge. Work will commence
at once and the four will be one
hundred feet front three stories high
and running back eighty feet
Torn Fork News
Farmers are busy worming
tobacco and turning stubble land
getting ready to SOW a big wheat
crop of this fall.-Our people are
very much excited over mad dogs.
About six weeks ago, dog ran
through the yard of Mrs. G. A. Brown
and bit calf: The calfwas confined
in a pen, and died last Friday with
clear case Of hydrophobia.-Dorie
Times.
Governor Scales has commuted
the death sentence Of Gooch and
Smith, the two men convicted Of
the murder Of John Cheatham, in
Raleigh in June 1885 to 20 years
imprisonment in the State peniten-
tiary. He based his action on petit
ton of 800 citizens, backed by the
recommendation Of Judge Clark, the
jury, prosecuting attorneys, and
Judges of the Supreme Court.
"A gentleman who reached here
yesterday after long trip through
the State in a buggy, occupying sew
eral weeks, says the crops look well.
The upland corn is by far the finest
he ever saw. He says that crops
in this state are much better SO far
as his observation goes, than either
in Georgia er South Carolina, in
both of which States ne has travelled
extensively.-Raleigh Ne,cs
Good rains since our last issue
have done a great deal toward reviv-
ing the dropping crop prospects.
They did not suffer a great deal, but
few days more Of dry weather
would have cut them short. 1t is
said that there will be splendid
August crop ofcotton made. Upland
corn was never better, and some corn
will be made in the creek and branch
bottoms. We will not have a fam
inc this year.-Monroe Enquirer.