The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-07-14

past month than at any other point in
the United States. But don't begin to
blow about it, for Texas may yet be heard
from. Youremember her recent achieve
ment in the way of hail-stones. OIL
Never, perhaps, have the farmers
given more faithful attention to the
needs of their growing crops than they
are just now doing. A season of favorable
weather will produce a wonderful
change. H.
1t is not yet too late to plant Early
Rose Potatoes for a second crop. E the
ground be properly prepared a; i ma
nured, a good crop can be raised. Be
careful to select well-grown and thor
oughly matured potatoes to plant. Try
it and you will be gratified with results.
DO not neglect to sow peas. This
crop will prove a timely and valuable
supplemental to your grain and for
age crops. Peas are said to be "the
natural clover of the South" and surely
there is no crop that gives a larger return
for the investment. 1t is one of our very
best green soil crops-it costs but little
to plant OF cultivate, and now that We
have the Savage Pea Harvester it costs
comparatively nothing to gather them.
-"We are informed" says the para
grapher of the Raleigh News and Observer,
"that in 1889 the summe season was
so full of 'remorseless DROWN that cotton
planters turned their stock into the fields
in despair. Soon afterward, the weather
changed, the stalwart hoe was welded,
and the biggest cotton crop ever raised
up to that time became a fact ofhistory."
Perhaps somebody whose cotton fields
are taken with grass can pluck a sprig
of consolation from this old 39-er.
-Messrs. Louis Dagger & Co., solic-
itors of patents, Washington, write us
that there were thirty nine patents bear
ing the date of July 9th, 1886, granted to
Southern inventors, among them one to
Jacob Dulls, of Charlotte, for a gate latch,
one to w. J. F. Liddell, of Charlotte,
for a portable steam boiler, one to M. c..
Hargraves, of Wilmington, for a sash
holder, and one to R. P. WHIT, of
Stephens, for seed planter.
The Board of County Commissioners
for Wake county at their last meeting
declined to grant license for the sale of
wine and beer in that county. An effort
was made to have them construe the local
option law so as to exempt wine and beer,
but they decided t stand by the letter
and the spirit of the law and refuse to
grant license to sell anything of an in
toxicating character. As far as heard
the comissioners in all the counties
where local option carried have pursued
the same course.
The Knoxville, Tenn, Chronicle says
that arrangements nave been perfected
between the Richmond Il Danville and
the Cincinnati Southern railway compa-
MES to build a road from Paint Rock in
this State across East Tennessee to Knox
Vile. "The agreement has been sealed,
signed and delivered, the route surveyed
and the charters are in the hands of will
ling parties" Maj. Wilson, engineer of
the w. n. C. r. R., has been ordered to
locate the line at once to Knoxville.
This is another boom for Asheville, which
IS rapidly becoming a great railroad
Mount Etna, the volcano, is now inf
! state of eruption. A writer who p&-
GENTLY witnessed the scene from an EEe-
Tated position two miles distantf de-
it as awfully grand. A constant
stream of red hot lava is pouring out
rom two c~raters, one some di{tance
above the other, on the mountain
tide, flowing down into the valleys below.
The outflow thus far is about THREE or
miles wide, six miles long and forty
eet deep. 1t moves slowly, being a mass
If red hot stone, some of them of inn
nense size, and not liquid lava, as many
suppose.
I'm our recent travels through the
we noticed quantities of "cheat"
md cookie in many of the wheato fields.
t was almost impracticable to destroy it
'efore harvesting the crop, although we