The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-17
TOTTINGS BY THE WAYSIDE.
Editorial Correspondence.l

pdy ITO dCCcIIOiOH w ono N4 49,
think good preparation Of the
gground-plenty Of manure and
proper cultivation gets away. with
all ssigns." "The best manure ?
Well, l have never found anything
that beats wheat bran-I put a
handful Of wheat bran to each hill
for l plant my Irish potatoes in the
hill-check off the land, as if were
going to put out tobacco plants;
only of course I have the hills close
together. I beat the "moon' peo-
pie every time, too" and the PRO
GREssIvE FARMER felt that it had
struck a man who believed what he
was saying. .al.l.,asro.I
There is a lady living four miles
from Greensboro, who for the past
six years, has sold the fruit from n
cherry tree for twenty-five dollars
per crop. The same man has pur-
chased it every year at that price
and he gathers the cherries. rr5
The purchasing agent Of hickory
timber for one of u manufacturers,
said II am now cutting one thous-
and trees per day-so as to have
them to work until fall" We don't
cut it while it is ain sap And we
mutually inquired, Eat this rate
what will hickory timber be worth
ten years hence? '""'.'@ .&'1'.'
The Benbow House, on last
Wednesday, placed butter before it's
guests which was presented by a
gentleman owning a dairy-farm in
Northampton county, Pa, He has
customers in the city of Philadelphia
to whom he supplies weekly one
hundred pounds at one dollar per
pound. 1t was most excellent, and
the price he gets for it shows what
attention will do. We know a lady
in Alamance county who sells butter
in Raleigh, throughout the whole
year, at forty cents per pound. She
has Devon cattle-always fat-and
gives extra attention to the milk
and butter and it pays her hand
somely. Her butter is always in
demand, willie inferior qualities
frequently cannot find sale.
1t is a real pleasure to a North
Carolinian to travel over the G.. F.
& Y. V. R. r. With polite and ac-
commodating officials, comfortable
coaches, a splendid road-bed' and
steel rails, and all along the line,
neat and thrifty little villages spring
ing up, and other evidences of pros
perity, it will not take many years
to bring the country along its line
prominently to the front. -. 8ns.H
Very many of the farmers on
the Cape Fear wish to try the cult
walton of tobacco and many ofthem
we fear will make a mistake. There
r two chances of error. One is, to
refuse to try it on the assumption
that their land will not produce it.
The other is, in their great anxiety
to find some crop that will be more
remunerative than cotton, many
will plant it without first ascertain
ing the important fact whether their
land is adapted to it.. We submit
that neither course is the prudent or
proper one. First, go to work intel
ligently and with all the best avail
able information, make a prudent
and fair experiment and prove
whether your land will produce the
plant of such quality as the market
demands. Then, and not until then,
can they judge whether it will pay.
Diamonds! [ see by this map
that you have found diamonds in
this State" said an intelligent-look-
ing gentleman as he scanned one of
Collin Cobb's maps which adorned
the wall of the sitting room in the
hotel. 81 don't know, but we have
lots of gold in the State" responded
a middle-aged and intelligent North
Carolinian. And so it goes. Our own
people know too little of the re-
sources and capabilities of our
State-hence we find by the census
tables that over SOC, 900 of her citi-
zens are living in other States. And
they went off to find a better land!!
In Fayetteville we enquired of
an intelligent farmer as to the gen.
eral financial condition of the farm
ers: "Low-spirited. Cotton and
mortgages have greatly depressed
Them" he replied, "but many are
hopeful that tobacco may prove
profitable, but" he wisely added,
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