The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-12-08
1orTINGS BY THE WAYSIOE'

ertv. are mixed up in this Worio!
And nowhere, to an observant eye,
can more of it be e e than on our
GREAT railroads. Seated in the a
IS a lady clad in the deepest u
ing and bowed in GRIFFIN the
EXPIRES car is a corpse. She is fol-
lowing it to it's last. resting place
in the old family burying ground.
In a seat near her and reading the
Century is a man, evidently OF cul-
ture and wealth, whose costume
shows him to be a sportsman,
and in the same express a IS his
pointer dog for which he would not
take a thousand dollars, cash.
v-Prof. McIver, once u State
superintendent Of Public instruction,
and who represented M~ecklenburg
in the legislature, and who Is n OF
our best educators, has several farms
and is therefore greatly interested
in all that pertains to the advance
ment of the farmers of the State.
He said II am strongly in favor OF
a farmers, convention and L hope to
be able to attend it. l want to see
if the convention can't devise some
means to lead our people out from
the meshes of the mortgage lien sys-
tenn. / want the farmers to take
some action also in regard to com
mercial fertilizers. The excessive
use of them is running u people. |
shall endcavor at once to organize
a club and see that it is represented
in the convention.
V-"The farmers of Georgia have
two conventions each year, on in
February and n in July. All the
counties ire represented and gener-
ally there are about 800 delegates
present, the most enjoyable occasion
Of the whole year. They cannot do
without it and you would be aston
ished to see the. interest, they take
in it, the good it is doing in our
State" So said an intelligent Geor-
gian to me. ... ..
Durham, plucky little Durham:
is rising from her ashes and is rap
idly rebuildingt the burnt district. Her
people are confident of the road
from Lynchburg and talk hopefully
of the Williamson & Tarboro being
extended to that place. Pipe is be-
ing laid from u water supply six
miles distant and soon this fire.
scourged town will have plenty pf
water. We dotf our hat to Durham
in honor of her indomitable pluck
and push, Of which she possesses
more than any town in the State
except, of course, our own thriving
and enterprising Twin City. a
What are we to do for building
lumber after awhile? The G.. IF.
4 Y. Y. road and the Raleigh &
Augusta Air Line are shipping MIL
lions of it away. II a buy lutn-
Der now to build a house-good lum-
ber-at five dollars and fifty cents
per thousand feet" said a Raleigh
an> NsG oR..x~- a<AtH :
had the appea,anee 81 a
well-to-do farmer, plainly but neatly
clad, clean shaved and the faultless
Wilderness Of his linen told of a care
full housekeAper he had left at home.
Interested INCUR conversation, he
took a seat neArU and said: "Well,
you don't alloyNthe women to join
your clubs 90 Your" eyes, they
are received as honorary members if
the club desires to have them"
"Well how in the world a YOU get
up subjects to interest them, I cant
understand. Will you tell me?'
Why my dear sir" we said "there
are a thousand questions that not
only could but should be discussed
in these clubs, in which the farmers
wives and daughters are more con-
cerned than any n else. For
instance: have you ever made up
your mind which should do the
milking, the men or the women? Is
it economy to build a shed near the
cook room, supply it with plenty Of
dry wood so as to keep the wife or
daughter out Of the wintry weather?
Have you a we'll or a spring." II
have a spring-as good water as
ever flowed out of the ground" said
he. "And how far is it from your
house, we inquired. "About sixty
yards he replied. allow long have
you lived there" about Al years."
"How many times per day through
ont tho x,oon Iooo tho 1uofo, bo-a