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Nevada County picayune., 1886-04-14
HUMOROUS.
X Dog That Watched the Clock.

An old farmer from Amboy, Os- wego county, took great interest in the trained dogs which appear ia the Grand Opera House this week as they were taken into the Caudee House after the show last night. "I used tb have Il dog,' said the farmer, which was the most knowing and intellectual dog you ever see. He could tell about what time it was by the clock just as we'll as l could. He would run into the house in the aiternooon without saying a word to anybody, and look up to the clock and II It wasn't a quarter past tiNe he'd go off about his business. Then he u come back again and the second It was a quarter past five he'd bark and start for the COWS.
 One day my woman thought she'd see if the dog could be fooled, and at l o'clock In the afternoon she turned the clock to ,. The dog came in, looked indilIcrently up at the clock, stopped, shook his head, aud then ran to look at the sun. He came back again squatted down and eyed that clock asifhe was Waiting for rat. When the minute haud got around to quarter rast he started off as usu al, and before we could stop him he had all them cows up iu the barnyard. l drove them back aud a more mortified person you never see than that dog. He ran into the house, but the woman had turn ed tue hands back to the true time. The dog jumped up at the clock and acted as if he wanted to tear it to pieces. He always seemed to distrust tho dumb thing after that.'
Nevada County picayune., 1886-04-14
Money In sweet Pc atOCs.

MT. k. c. Ramsey. living some six miles northwest of this place WAS in the city to-day with d load of sweet potatoes, and gives us some remarkable revelations in reference to the raising 0 this pro- duet. He raised this year l6OO bushels, and they are now worth sl per bushel, and says that next week they will bring him sl.25 The yield is averaged at 800 bush els per acre, or in other words, he | will realize at $l a $500 yield peI acre. After such examples as this, we can't see why our farmers will continue to raise cotton. Other articles can be made just as profit. able. Ton should watch the mar. ket and when you find any of your Qatural products bringing these Yhtiated prices, why raise them. 1 You have tested cotton to your sorrow now try something olse. Early vegetables will pay remarka ply well to those living close to fnarket. Try corn, oats and hay, and raise stock in connection with tLese natural productS.-Htlena 1 World.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-04-14
X Lawyer iSanica.

Jim McSnifter was beuig tried in San Antonio for trying to bribe a colored witness, sam Johnson, to testify falsely.
 ''You say this defendant offered you bribe of $50 to testify i'll his behalff" said the Lawyer Gouge to Sam Johnson.
 "Yes, sah"
 "Now repeat precisely what he said, using his own words."
 ''He said he would get me $50 if
 ''IIe can't have used tho SC words. He didn't speak as third person. "No, sah; he tuck good keer dat dar was no third pusson present. Oar was only us two. De fepdant am too smart ter hab anybody list. enin' when he am talkinn about llis own reskelity."
 "I know that well enough, but he spoke to you in the first person, didn't hep
 ''I was de fust pusson, myself"
 You don't understand me. When he was talking to you did he use the words, I will pay you S5O:'
 No, boss, he didn't say muffin about you pyin' $50. Yer name wasn't mentioned, 'ceptin' dat he tole me eff ebcr l got inter scrape dat you was de best lawyer in San Antone to fool de Judge and jury"
 "You can step down.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-04-14
Profits in Poultry Raising.

No other business connected
 with agricultural pursuits, seems
 so attractive as poultry farming. Even those who fan in the busi ness and retire from fl, aver that they are certain that they could
 succeed in new trial. At the
 start, the general idea is that tho business consists of throwing out corn to flock of hens with one
 hand, and gathering eggs with the
 other. But while th.s may be true
 in some cases, it is very different
 in others. The expert poultry
 raiser may perhaps meet with no
 difficulty, and all may. go on
 smoothly, but the novice is in
 trouble from the first; the eggs are
 few, and tue chicks die. One may
 easily keep ten or twelve fowls
 with profit, who could not double
 or treble this number successfully,
 because with a large number all the difficulties which arise, such as want of cleanliness, the pres ence of vermin, impure air, and risk of infection, increase in a much
 larger ratio thnn does the number in the flock. But if one has sue. ceeded with small flock, there is no reason why he saoald not do so with severa. focks, if each is kept in just the same manner as the original one. Afterwards the flocks may be enlarged. but as this is the very point on winch most of the younger poultry raisers fail, the greatest caution should be ob- served in adding to the number of fowls kept in each coop or house, or yard. M. I. FERRIS.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-04-14
Good Authority.

Many persons never care to ven ture an opinion upon any matter without first consulting some au- ttoi9ty. A Dutch witness showed proper respect for the judgment to which he pinned his faith.
 During the trial of case in Louisville, recently, witness per sisted in testifying to what his wife told him, To this, of course, the attorney objected, and it was ruled out by the judge. He would pro- ceed again 10 tell "shust how il vas,' when the attorney would sing oHt,-
 "How do yoR know that!"
 "My wife told me" was the an- swer.
 This WAS repeated several times. Presently .he judge became unable 10 contain himself louger-
 Suppose your wife were to tell you the heavens had fallen, what would you think"
 -Vell, den, 1 di,ks dcy vas down.o
Nevada County picayune., 1886-04-14
AGRICULTURAL.
Plan!iug Upland Cotton.

Prepare the land by thorough breaking with the blow. Plant
 when all danger of frost is over. Cotton delights Tn a warm soil.
 From the first of April to the first of May Is perhaps the best season for planting. The distance be- tween the rows and the hills de- bends upon the poverty or fertility of the soil; usually the rows are laid off from thirty to forty inches apart; on rich bottom CT very strong soils the rows should be five to six feet apart, and the stand left to three or four feet in the row. After laying off the rows with q straight shovel blow, throw two iurrows each side of it to the row with "twisterS" or small turn shoy- els, either with 0ue hor-e or two horse sulky, or walking cultivator.
 When ready to plant, open the bed thus made with straight shovel blow, and tn this furrow apply the manure or ammouiated superphosphate of lime. Some then drll in the seed at once,upon tue fertilizer, but better plan is to cover the furrow after applying g the fertilizers and then reopen, af- ter which you are ready to plant American Agriculurlst.
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4 History g5 Our O'rR B0Ratry
 and Our Ora ITmtS.

The mos. popular and hr>t -eiiing book now oifcr,d agent. Strongly Canmeitedb by the prc,s without regard lo po'itiyM rruciyitir~. Pr sdcnt Cleveland says, "l cuns'i"n;ously ,oinmcnd it to my tcihfN-cIiilcn,.' lion. James C. Blaine sny,, "il ], written in clear and graphic >tyle and extremely cntcituin- ing." FA-pre,ideW Have say, 1t will be he valuable and tru, worthy in natter scholarly and entertaining in ,tyI'.' Nir"- President Hendricks >aN~, "lt will be g val uablc addition to our hi~tory.' Speaker Cur iislc says Il would commcud this work t"thc people ot the United ~tHtc-.' llou. Ahuun E. Hewitt ,ay.. "lntcr,s,jng a> 4 r"fn6ncc. Hundreds of ngr.itS are m"rtiug Nt;h great ,ucccs>-nakiu% from cl01 tn SiG0 Der month. Agents without former experience. irc doing grardiv with it, while czpcrioic-d aanvu>scrs find 1t in 'pcriect bonuhza" Wc want an agcut in every township in the Unitcl States not now occupied; i'ry!'u, experience, Whi!e dc,ral}c not absolutely re- luired, as we give ali necessary instruction, for success. Books now ready for delivery. If unemployed or you desire to better ycW conditt'n. write to Us for [ rms for agents.
 .iddrcss J \. X R. \, REID,
 Providence, K. l.
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- - .,
 MERRELI'S FEMALE TONlC

is prepared solely for the care or cons, pIaints tohich oLiict nedr!y o'e'sl t'omoa In all classes O( soctety' Bg Sivi9.g tone aRd strength 70 tne Uterine fanctioras, st corrects oH " :, reguiarities aud dfsptace'aents' IL is or the greatest uGtte t's cha"g', A of life. .,.,I! Its uss during pregnancy WsaI dI greatly reliepe the paiss o[ 1"ooT"" assures C speedy recovery. ,st IS plcasd9t to the taste ana "aF bc taken in aN conditions CT ths sV' teN srith i,erfect SdTcty. Doctors tJreSc rice tt Jor 0H DsseN peculiar Co kcn.a{es.
 
 long experience in tho treatment or ,r.1 Yri sra.blas liaR cOny need mo that hol 6erif' MUteria Ged4CaC CScels N6rtsl eiih4ss. s. Ia rti in tie troGiueIt of djsease& fer Nflch " 'I car highly TOGO amend | for ell a lnellts IHSff 'H to r!y e4x Mrs NJ T. ROBINSON, h' Ao 7
 hi,J5 Give Street, st. AoaA'' A-'
 
 "sferrell's Sanitary Adviser, v ofrit0 byfeI ipsfsTcctioSs J0F "se s,.cnt or at ogdiEa,U diseases e"' k,, ! free to dng address, ES Erery family sh0Htd haeoo oI'o' AFsss tJ. $. MERRELL, St. Lenis, MO ;Z93s ssg -.. ...i ssssss, ,s esyss VSc sAef 2 .s. '. s,ssss A x z z,
Nevada County picayune., 1886-04-14

One of the darky walters at an Alabama college is d noted hypo- rrite. He was taken to task lately by the students for some shrt-com. ing, and in the course of the exam ination one of them asked: "Wby, Sam, what are you going to do when sou de and go 10 hell?" "Wait on the students, sah," he re- Ilied, naively College Exchange.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-04-14

A writer in the New Yew Star suggests the blowing mp of the sun ken steamship Oregon with dyna- mite, in order to recover the mails and passenger baggage which went down with her.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-04-14

In Chicago a murderer named Muck wiski is waiting to be hanged. He is all eursosity to know his an gel name.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24
< Il GOOD

Some farmers are
others r not. Some live wnl I0Isl0I,
the comforts and ~luxuries % nave ave-
around them, others live hard lie
hard, have few Of the comfort" WORK
none Of the luxuries. Soma and
better start, perhaps, than otha
better farms, and are better e]ouinnnS,'
but it will be found that tho Ppeu'
who succeed, who live we'll mel,
make money are men Of matb "ll1
men who believe in and have u'
tenn Of management, men who thiGsS,
on what they r doing. M aA
nothing at hap-hazard. The sno~ ~
lator, dealer in futures, stock ioFPbo'.
may take chances, but there Is u
chance work with the f,rmn
Nature establishes laws which on,
imperative, as to what may be nro
duced in certain climes and on cap
tain lands, while the laws Of sunnlr.
and demand regulate the prices ana
consequently the profit on what is
Produced. The thoughtful and sun
cessful farmer, while recognizinn
natAre's laws, will also give heed IS
the INV Of supply and demand that
he MAY not waste his time in cnIt;
waiting what is already a drug unor
the market, and will consequently
cause loss to him. If experienco
prove that there is more money in
an acre of grass than there is in an
acre of cotton, the wise farmer will
give some attention to grass and
less to cotton; if one acre of potatopS
will yield twice, three or four times
as much as an ere of tobacco the
wise farmer will give more attention
to potatoes and less to tobacco; if
one good cow is more profitable than
two poor cows, the wise farmer will
keep one good COW instead of two
poor ones; if the farmer can save
money and feel independent by
raising his own family supplies and
feed for his stock himself, the wise
farmer will raise them instead of
buying when it may sometimes be
hard to get the money to buy from
what he has to sell. The man of
method thinks Of all this, lives well,
makes and saves money, the man
without method does not, works
hard, lives hard and is always run
to the throat latch to make ends
meet, and then don't always do it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24
THREE CROPS.

Capt. G.. w. HollowelI, near EHz-
abeth city raised three cropsof Irish
potatoes this year from the same
piece Of ground, as we gather from
the following in the Economist:
II send you three samples Of Irish
potatoes, raised on the same ground
this year. The LIST, planted 9th Of
March and dug the 18th Of June,
the second planted the l4th Of June
and dug the 14th Of September. The
3rd planted the 18th Of September
and dug the 9Th Of November. The
season for the 1st crop was all we
could ask for, until the LIST Of June
when the rains began. For the sec
ond crop [ never saw a season 50
unfavorable for the Irish potato
.rop-entirely too wet the whole
time and for the third crop, hardly
a drop of rain for eight weeks. The
three samples will show for them
selves. [ am satisfied we a WITH
an average season make three iaII
crops on the same land. Old mother
earth is very kind to u.s., and II we
will only do III part we need never
want for a potato"
The Irish potato grows to per,
lection and in great abundance
when properly cultivated, through,
out North Carolina and yet there y
not a town in the State that ooeS
not import Irish potatoes from Inc
North at twice the cost OF hoDl'
production. 1t looks strange, to Say
the least of it, to see people Nv,
ing in a State where three crop
of potatoes can be raised m
one season, buying from ola.s'
where more than one crop IN a se"'
on is an impossibility.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24


out Of sales which are not maze
Hundreds of merchants n NORM
Carolina towns have felt this pres
sure, and many have be maet dt their
obligations because /of (strange
reason) too much mud on country
roads. Everybody in the State IS
interested, directly or indirectly, ID
good roads, the farmer, the mer-
chant, the mechanic, the common n
laborer, all, but especially tne
farmer, for the result of his year s
labor must be hauled to town for
sale, and if he must take four days
to do what could be done in two
and employ four horses to 40 what
one could do it is that much OF a
tax in addition to what he has
already to pay for the privilege OF
laboring and sweating during the
spring and harvest to produce crops
that pay him but poorly at best
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24

1t costs So per cent. to collect the
U. s.. Internal revenue. The collections
for the fiscal year ending June 3Oth,
amounted to $116, 9O2, 1863, an increase of
100000 over the corresponding period
of the year previous.
The Richmond & Dlnville Railroad
company, who still have fifteen years to
run on the lease of the North Carolina
road, have made a proposition for an ex-
tension of the lease for. twenty-five years,
after the present lease expires.
If the money that goes out of North
Carolina every year for meat and bread,
and household and farm implements, all
of which could be made at home, were
hept at home what a different story of
prosperity North Carolina could tell.
The Supreme court of this State has
decided in the case of the Capital
Club at Raleigh, on appeal, that the
steward of the club cannot dispense
liquor to members of the club without
violation of the prohibition law now in
effect in Raleigh.
"A California Judge has sentenced
two prize fighters to prison, one for three
months the other for six weeks, for
engaging in a smuggling match. Here is
a commendable example for other
Judges, save that the months and weeks
ought to have been years.
The estate left by ex-President
Arthur is estimated at between 5000, 900
and 100000. 1t is said hat he saved
while President, $4,000 a year of his
salary. His son Allan and daughter
Nellie have 100000 in their own right
left by their mother, who died in 1879.
Mr.. L. E. Horne, residing about
three miles from Wadesboro, ten years.
ago dug a we'll on his place sixty feet
deep, but failing to get water abandoned
it. The we'll remained dry until the
earthquake of August 3lst, since when
it has had twenty-five feet of water in it.
Col. A. Y. Stokes, a native of Caswell
county in this State, but for forty years
a resident of Richmond, Va, where he
accumulated a large fortune in business,
died suddenly last Friday at his home
in Goochland county where he has
resided for the past year. He took an
active interest in railroad matters and
was, until 1882, a large stakeholder and
n of the controlling spirits of the
Richmond and Danville company.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24
STRANGE, BUT TRUE!

Mrs. Margaret Stewart, who lives
near Five Forks, Stokes county, had
been i'll some time up to last Sun
day morning, (November 49, and
at about l o'clock she apparently
died. Her relatives and friends made
arrangements for her burial on Mon
day. On Sunday night some neigh
bors gathered to sit with the corpse
and on Monday morning, about 2
o'clock, one Of the watchers having
occasion to adjust some article of
clothing about the body discovered
signs of life. The body was taken
out of the coffin and a doctor sent
for. Mrs Stewart having been Wig
orously rubbed, came to, and
at last accounts there was hopes
of final recovery. The above comes
to us fFsm a gentleman who saw
Mrs.. Stewart come out of the trance.
= Winston Republican.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24
FOREST FIRES.

Another correspondent at Burgaw
writes us as to the disastrous fires
which have been devastating that
section: He says that they original
ed on the line Of the w. & w. r. r.
about one mile from Burgaw and
were caused by a tramp or organ
grinder. The fire spread toward the
West leaving a blackened trail be-
hind it and destroying everything
perlshable in it's course. 1t was last
heard from near South w shington,
having destroyed in it's progress
Numerous tar kilns, turpentine
farms, fences, out houses &C., and
entailing great damage to stock and
wild animals Wilmington Reriew.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24
Rors'

It is a hard thing to get people out
of ruts. Generally they are disposed
to run in them as a wagon wheel
does. Hence Innovations ape slow to
be accepted and nearly always meet
with more or less opposition. Too
many people are coptent to follow
in the old way. of doing, without
ever asking whether there be an
other or a better way. Among other
relics of antiquityNthe rail fence still
fingers and seems to be treasured by
some as something which cannot
under any circumstances be parted
with, and yet the rail fence is n OF
the greatest nuisances that sires ever
handed down to their sons. They
cost ten times as much as they are
worth, and the man that has them
on his farm pays an annual tribute
in time spent in repairing, in loss OF
land taken up by them, in weeds
protected by them to seed the farm,
and in other ways more than the
value of the whole fence, if fence of
any kind be necessary. In labor and
in timber it costs hundreds of dollars
to fence a small farm, thousands Of
dollars to fence a large one. The
rails rot, winds blow them down,
cattle knock them down, and they
must be constantly watched to be
kept in good condition. And what
for? Alto keep a few struggling
cattle or hogs out. How much bet
ter, and what a saving it woh ld be,
in time, labor, timber and money, to
fence these few cattle and hogs in
instead of letting them u at large
and compelling a whole community
to fence them out. There are many
counties in North Carolina where
the traditional fence once stood,
where it stands no more, where a
fence, save a neat fence about the
house and garden, is not to be seen.
And they are gone to stay gone.
The people would no more think of
restoring them than they would Of
eating the rails. They have learned
the benefit Of being without them.
They are saved the expense Of
fencing and keeping fences in repair;
by being kept up and attended to
their stock is improving, there are no
squabbles among neighbors about
trespassing stock. They have gotten
out of that rut and wonder that they
ran in it SO long. But there are
people who still cling to it and will
not be happy if they can't gaze upon
that old worm fence at morn and
eve and spend a great portion of
their days fixing it up after some
body or something has knocked it
down, and in trying to kill the
weeds that from secluded places
in the fence orner are scat
tered over the farm. These people
are running in the ruts. Their chill
dren will get out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24

There has not been enough rain
here to wet the ground good since
the great earthquake shock of Au-
gust 31st.-We have seen some
apples, sweet potatoes and cabbage
raised in this county this year that
would be hard to beat anywhere.
Verify this is a great country
HendersOnraIIe Times.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24
THE CROSS MARK.

The cross mark on your paper in
dictates that the time for which you
subscribed has or is about to expire.
1t is to give notice SO your subscrip-
ton may be renewed. If the sub
scription be not renewed the name
will be dropped from the list, but we
want every n to renew and bring
a friend along too.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24

The Goldsboro Oil Mills, 'n"I
have become noted for the unuSu+'
excellence of the oil they turf, ou,,
are now operating their rehn5 w.
also, and it works admirably
were shown a sample of the re n1asr
oil yesterday. 1t is as crystal o| oil
and golden as the purest owe #
and finds ready sale as rapidly ans,
can be turned out.-G0tdsb0T0 any,"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24

BF See our offer to give The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER n year and the
Patch Corn Shelter for four dollars.
This is the best shelter forthe money
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will give entire satisfaction. Send in
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24

The bulk of the cotton crop .hp
already been removed from to
fields. This early removal Is uu rest
the unprecedented favorable na ;fa Of
season this year.-The "T Icing
Daniel Bateman, colored' lave
about one mile from Plymouth all
birth to triplets on Monday l't three
boys, and at last accounts Ill nash.
were living, SO says the S"'-'
ington Progress.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24

R. M. Gibson, coIored, who lives
in the southwestern part of the city
brought into our office this morning
a fine pear of the second crop, which
he pulled from the tree this morning,
Greensboro Workman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24

Read our advertisements. And
you will do us a great favor when
you speak or write of them, to men
ton The PROGRESSIVE FARMER. /
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