The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-24
The Rocky Mount Idlker says

Capt. J. d. Harden, the Contrac-
tor, is pushing his force ON towards
completion of grading the road as
far as Nashville, and it may safely
be predicted that a locomotive will
get to Nashville in time to have a
railroad celebration in connection
with the usual fourth day of July
jollification.
The Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, at its meeting yes
terday, took decisive steps looking
to an early election in this place on
the question Of local option Mr.
r. D. Erwin, of Concord township,
has brought us the foot of a hog
which be killed during the winter
Just above it there projects from
the leg another perfectly formed
but small foot, cloven hoof and all
StdtesUille Landmark.
Apples are drug on this
market at 80 to IS cents per bushel.
Even Northern apples sell at above
rates. A gentleman in the Western
part Of the State told us that in
many localities twenty cents per
bushel for good apples was all that
could be obtained. Corn 48 and 80
cents per bushel.-Mrs. Margaret
Rudisill, of Gaston county, died on
the 4th inst, at the age of ninety
four years. She was the mother of
children, 80 grand children, and
55 great-grand children.-CharloHe
Democrat. #-
Last year, DR.. J. A. Leslie, of
Winder, this county, planted five
acres in cotton and one acre in to-
bacco, in the same field and the same
soil. The five acres Of cotton netted
him $4,000, and the one acre Of
tobacco netted him $14O.1O. He
sold his tobacco at from 10 cents to
$1.30 per pound, averaging FL cents.
While this is above the average
yield, one acre in tobacco beats five
in cotton. Yet there are many of
our farmers who say that they are
afraid of tobacco.-Moore Gazette.
-Lenoir expects to have tele-
graph line by the first of June
Mrs David Setter, of this county,
now past So years of age, has lived
to see five generations Of her chill
dren About month ago a son was
born to Franklin Hoyle, who lives
near Ripeto, who is her great-great-
grandchild.-The Granite Falls
Manufacturing Company has been
running day and night for several
weeks and from Monday morning
till Saturday night there is a contin-
ual hum Of machinery. About 20
hands are employed inside of the
factory and the weekly work
amounts to $4,000 pounds of yarn.
Mr.. Thomas Setter, who lives
ON Little Mulberry, has been keep
ing house for 40 years, say: and has
within that time procured from 9th
er persons seed oats but once. The
crop which he will harvest this sum-
mer is the lineal descendant-for
forty generations offspring oats
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"set up for himself Lenoir Topic
w-Messrs. F. & III. Fries are boring
an artesian we'll at their cotton fac
tory.--Messrs. +. & III. Fries have a
heavy order for cotton cloth to be
shipped to China.-There will be
great crop Of watermelons raised
for market this year. We hear Of
some who will have several acres in
melons.--A man tells us that he
has discovered that chicken hawks
do more good than harm. He
says they destroy large number OF
field mice which would do much
damage to crops if allowed to go un-
molested by the hawks. There
have been some large prices paid
for land in Vienna township, this
winter. Mr.. T. M. Hunter at a late
sale of land, paid at the rate of $3.50
per acre; but then this is not so
high when he receives very near
that much for the. tobacco he raj, e )
on one acre.-One woman who is
generally successful in raising chick
ems says that she does not try to
raise the first young chickens, but
had rather her neighbors would
have the earliest broods, for, she
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