The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-12-15
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The acreage seeded to wheat is
perhaps short of last season but the
ground was in good condition and
good stands were generally obtained.
| confidently expect a good wheat
crop. L have never known a failure
when the old Dutch rule could be
observed: "Put in your wheat when
the dust rises from your horses feet
And | believe the rule holds good
in any crop. | have v seen a
good crop of any kind that was
planted when the ground was too
wet. Many of our people wait for a
good season" to transplant potato
slips, cabbage, &C., and many OF
them do this work when the ground
is so wet that it will not support
their weight. The plant is retarded
in it's growth and especially if expos
ed to dry hot weather and turns
yellow. The ground should be in
good condition for any crop. l look
for a crop of wheat Of excellent
quality.
ALI along the lines of the c.. F.
& Y. V. and the n. G. Railroads l
see large piles of our finest hickory
timber ready for shipment to the
machine shops and factories of the
North. I see fiat n loaded with
magnificent walnut, cherry and
poplar. An agent Of a large manu-
featuring establishment told me last
Spring that he was cutting an aver
erage of one thousand hickory trees
per day. I see that a syndicate
of Northern men have just
arrived in our state and want to buy
25O, 900 acres Of timbered lands.
These timbers are sold at a low price.
they are shipped north and furnish
in their manufacture employment
and bread to thousands of mechanics
and their families, the manufacturer
pays the freight, pays his employees,
pays his rents, pays freight back to
the depot from which they were
originally shipped and sells them to
the persons from whom he bought
the timber at an enormous profit.
Here we have idle men and wOmen
>apd children, idle water power and
every advantage naturally over our
neighbors and yet some of ourpapers
are quoting with approval and pride,
the sales referred to as an evidence
Eof thrift and progress! Our fathers
with their thousands of acres and
scores of slaves, butchered their for
ests and Quilted their soils and left
us Il legacy of worn out fields, and
we are robbing our children in the
same way and worse by sending off
our most valuable timbers at a nom
inaI price. And we have some men
in our midst who call this develop
ment.
One of the best men of the Cape
Fear region said to me recently; Il
have bought enough commercial fer
t~ilizers since the war, to have paid
for the best plantation on the Cape
Fear River" "WelI, it ought to
have made you rich" [ said. at
has ruined me and it is running this
country. If | had never bought
a pound | would to-day have been a
thousand times better off" A man
said to me at Lexington, "One Of
my neighbors, a poor man, bought
two bags of fertilizer to put under
his tobacco-he sold the crop the
other day and came out in debt six
dollars and eighty cents" / saw
Mr.. Charlie Hinton, Of Wake county
sell a large lot of tobacco in Dur
ham. 1t brought fine prices, some
of it as high as $72 per hundred. 1t
was his second crop and was raised,
cut and cured without the aid of an
expert. He used commercial fertil-
izer, but he used it with intelligence
and had fine tohacce~la4fa~
IN able and influential lawyer
an our State writes: "There is evil
IDENTIFY a powerful and growing SEN
timent to appropriate the Land.
Scrip fund-$125,O OO-to Industrial
education and this sentiment has
been mainly build up by the Pro
GREssIvE FARMERA You will have
opposition-stronAand powerful OPP
position from a certain quarter, but
work and work On, and as you
never worked before and your efforts
will be crowned with glorious suc-
cess. The great mind and heart of
Oup naonIo ora with ~ fnnIIx,