The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26

bug has made it's appearance on Mr..
n. M. Peppers potato vines. It. is
yellow colored beetle streaked with
ten dark lines on its wing covers.
-Danbury Reporter.
The truck farms near the city
are suffering severely y from the ex-
treme drouth. A fair price was re-
ceived for the peas but the yield was
not more than third Of a crop. AL
SO potatoes and beans, which have
just commenced being shipped, are
poorly matured and filled from an
insufficient amount of MOISTURE
NeaCbern Journal.
The tide of immigration has
changed it's course, over in Stanly.
Last fall there was a rush from that
county to Texas. Now the tide has
turned. A few days ago fourteen
Stanlyites returned home from the
Lone Star State to their old home,
satisfied with their experience, and
determined never more to wander.
- Wadesboro Htelligencer.
"A postal card from Thomasville
furnishes the particulars of a horri-
BILE affair which occurred in that
town last Wednesday morning. 1t
seems that little girl was feeding
some hogs with bread when one Of
the number bit her upon the hand.
The wound bled freely and as soon
as the hogs caught scent of the blood
the entire drove attacked the child
and tore her in shreads before as
sistance could be rendered. Union
Republican.
When the first train from the
North arrived in this city yesterday
afternoon there was crowd quickly
gathered around the baggage car,
the attraction being three large Eng
lish mastitfs-perfectly immense in
size They looked more like lions
than dogs One of them, the largest,
weighed 212 pounds, and the man
in charge of them told us that the
owner of them had refused $4,000
from Barnum, the circus man, on
Thursday in New York, for this dog.
They were en- route for Jacksonville,
Fla.-Goldsboro Argus.
The acreage in corn planted in
this section is reported to be largely
in excess Of that Of several years
past. Our people it seems are COM
ing to realize that "hog and homi-
ny are better than low priced to-
bacco and high priced guano.- The
acreage in tobacco planted in this
section will be cut down this season.
A very healthy sign we take it. Our
farmers are going in more for meat
and bread and finer quality Of to-
bacco; wise and sensible conclu-
sion and one that should have been
determined on long before now
Henderson Goldleaf.
A gentleman who rode over a
portion of the track Of the cyclone
in the Bethlehem neighborhood, tells
us that our description can give no
adequate idea Of the effects of the
storm. Mr.. James j. Ratliffe has
two or three hundred acres Of fine
timbered land. This has all been
felled to the ground except the small
er trees. The foliage on the trees
has been entirely removed, and the
trees so pelted by the hail that the
bark has been skinned off. 1t is
thought that the trees will all die.
There is no more vegetation to be
seen than is seen in mid winter;
wheat, oats and clover having been
cut to the roots and carried away by
the wind.-LedksUille Echo. ~
Farmers are plowing over their
corn the first There is every
indication of bountifuI fruit crop.
The boiler at Browns saw mill
four miles south of town bursted
Tuesday morning and killed the fire.
man, Henry Hamilton. No one else
was injured. Mr.. Hamilton was a
poor but an honest and industrious
man, and leaves wife aud five
children. The total amount of
county taxes collected by the sheriff
of Randolph county is $9,2O3.O9S OF
school taxes SO, ,387 81 Notwith~,
standing the scarcity money, there