The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-08
State 9tems.

Mr. Eli Zimmerman raised 317
bushels Of wheat this year from 16
bushels he sowed last Fall.-Darid-
son Dispatch II
This promises to be brisk fall
in Goldsboro. Trade in every branch
of business is already picking up
Go!dsboro Argus. ~#
We have seen some very fine
tobacco cured from this years crop.
1t was a very bright, and had a
good body.-Ihr Riuer Ialker.
Mr.. R. P. Reinhardt is now hav-
ing the seed threshed from a portion
of his clover crop. He will get
about 80 bushels.-Farmers in
Burke county are still preparing
wheat land. From all indications
there will be more wheat sowed this
year than was last. Piedmont Press.
Our farmers are not nearly so
blue as they were month ago.
There has been wonderful outcome
in all the crops. Tobacco especially
has come out. What proportion of
brights there will be, nobody knows;
but the prospects for those are
better than the other side Of the
Ridge AsheUWe Citizen
The farmers around Milo have
commenced cutting tobacco.-Mr.
Julian Dunn is in Jail for six months
for selling liquor on Sunday. The
Judge in sentencing Dunn said, SO
far as he was concerned, he proposed
to see that the law in regard to the
sale of liquor on Sunday or to minors
was enforced. -Smithfpld Herald.
The upland cotton and corn
crops will doubtless reach an average
if not little beyond, this year
Mr.. Wilson Furr, a young man of
Locust Level: Stanly county, was
found dead in his barn on the night
of the 21st inst, by his wife, and it
is supposed that he was kicked to
death by mule +No"tg0mery
Geo. Hauser, of big watermelon
fame, writes Frank Hege that his
largest melon now weighs IS pounds
and is gaining from one pound to
pound and a half day, and that
it will not be mature before the
middle Of this month. Frank has
engaged it, and when it is pulled it
will be on exhibition at the sign of
the "big coffee pot" ."-Salem Press.
Mr.. John Spoon, of Alamance
county, who is u years old, sold a
load of tobacco at the Globe Ware
house yesterday. 1t was the first
tobacco he ever raised and the first
he ever saw on warehouse floor
He has never taken but one chew
of tobacco. Three years ago he was
married in his 74th year.-Durhan,
Recorder.
Notwithstanding the poor crop
prospects in this section at one time
which was occasioned by the exces-
sive rains, we are pleased to learn
that the indications now point to
an abundant yield of cotton, while
the corn crop on uplands is quite
promising We hear ofseveral large
cotton planters whose crops are the
best in ten years.-Rockingham,
Spirit of the South.
Mr.. ID. A. Morrison is about
commencing the erection ofa tobacco
factory, 40x8O, on water street near
the warehouse of Messrs. Mott &
Cowles. The rent has been guaran-
teed and tenant for the factory is
almost secured The corn crop
this year is going to be capital, cot
ton is going to be much better than
it was last season, and our people
are likely to be better off by Christ
mas, Notwithstanding the bad pros
poets Of the spring than they have
been in five years.The meeting
at Salisbury yesterday of persons
interested in the proposed Smith
Vile Bristol Railroad was attended
from Rowan, Stanly, Davie, Wilkes,
Surry, Watauga and Ashe. The
meeting was enthusiastic, and the
representatives of these counties
pledged them for sums ranging from
$4,000 to S100, 0,000.-StdtesUstt