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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26
TUT NORTH CAROLINA FARM
Frs STATE ASSOCIATION

In MANY of the States the farmers
have a State Organization, and In
many others hey | have Instituted
steps looking to&hk same end. n
interest evinced Ry many OF u
most intelligent and thinking farm
ers indicates that a similar move
ment will not hong pc delayed IN
North Carolina.
We have always favored thor
ough and permanent organization OF
the farmers--an organization tnat
should embrace townships, counties
and States. First organize township
clubs and from these organize coun-
tv clubs, and from these, State asso-
Citations, and from these, a National
| association. Let the township clubs
meet at least once a month-let the
county clubs meet at least three times
a year-let the State association meet
once a year, and let the National
association meet once in two years.
Every other interest of any import
ance or magnitude in this country is
advanced and protected by the tos-
tering care Of organization. And
why should not this great interest
the ground-work-the foundation OF
all other interests?
The agricultural classes form fifty
one per cent. of our entire popula-
ton. They pay eighty per cent. of
all the taxes. OF all our domestic
exports, amounting last year to
1926, 900, 900, seventy-three per cent,
or $3.50, 600, 600, were the product Of
the farmers, and how is this mighty
factor in the productive wealth OF
this country regarded? A brief COM
parison with other countries will
show:
Last year France appropriated for
the advancement of her agricultural
interests the sun of $2O,O0O,OOO
Brazil gave So, 900 900 Russia gave
81, 900, 900; Austria, $4,000, 900 ia
pan $1,000, 600, and the United States
gaze $3.50, 900! The farmers in North
Carolina constitute 76 per cent. Of
her population, and pay certainly
not less than three-fourths of all the
taxes, and vet it is undeniable that
they have but little voice in shaping
the policy which is to affect their
interests. g.
We would be pleased to have the
views of our farmers in regard to
this highly important matter. We
know that many of the clubs that
are being organized are highly in
favor of a thorough and perfect or
ganization. There are a thousand
valid reasons why it should be done.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26
A GOOD SIGN.

W. learn from our exchanges from
the western and central portions of
the State that the low price of to-
bacco has resulted in causing a num-
Der of farmers to reduce the acreage
Of tobacco and increase proportions
ately the acreage in corn. So also
in some of the tobacco counties in
Virginia. Thisi is wise. Ifthe tobacco
acreage were reduced one-haIf it
would be money in the pockets of
the farmers, provided they gave
more care to the reduced acreage
and raised a quality Of tobacco,
which does and will continue to COM
mand a fair price. In tobacco, as in
everything else, it is better for a man
to cultivate one acre we'll than two
poorly. 1t means less work and more
money, a more remunerative crop
though less in quantity, perhaps,
with less outlay of muscular exertion
and cash. With the small crop he
can cultivate we'll, sort and pack
we'll, bring to market in good, pre-
sentable shape, and get the highest
price, and go home feeling that his
work has not been for nothing,
which is not the case with the man
who tries to run too many acres and
does it in a shiftless, ~slovenly, sense
less way.
AS a matter of fact, there is too
much tobacco raised now. The area
for tobacco culture is extending
every year. Not many years ago It
was confined, practically, to a half
dozen States, and was a limited crop
in these. Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and
Missouri, had almost a monopoly of
it, and in some of these States the
tobacco area was confined to a COM
paratively small number of counties.
In some of these the area and pro-
duct has been doubled and trebled,
while the cultivation has extended
to Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
and even as far West as Dakota,
which now claims that she can rival
Wisconsin (Which has made consid-
cradle progress) in the quantity and
quality per acre Thus we see that
an extensive section of country
which not many years ago depended
upon the original tobacco belt for it's
supplies, now raises it's own tobacco,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26

The habit of smoking cigarettes is
spreading among the women in Chicago.
Somebody has been figuring on the
wealth of the U. S. Senators and foots
up the aggregate at $162,0OO,OO0.
The new pension bill which calls for
$26O,OOO,OOO out of the United States
Treasury, has passed the Senate.
The deposits in the savings banks
of the State of New York have increased
from $5s, 100000 in 1860 to $437 ,OOO,O 900
in 1886.
Parsons, the New England Anarch-
list, who was at the bottom of the bloody
onslaught on the Chicago police, has a
negro wife.
The anarchists who have been Jug
ged in Chicago, New York and San Fran
cisco, fail to make the proper distinction
between liberty of speech and license.
The fruit growers, gardeners and
truckers in and around Fayetteville held
a fair May 18th, in which there was a
splendid exhibit of small fruits, etc.
The rain of last week did immense
damage in M~ecklenburg county, wash
ing away bridges, growing crops, and
running the lowlands in plantations.
Whether President Cleveland's adj
ministration prove a success or not, 700
babies have been named after him, all
the same.
IT. j. Cluverius, convicted for the
murder of his cousin, Lillian Madison,
in Richmond, has another chance for his
life. The Supreme Court has granted him
another hearing on September 10th.
The National Viticultural Associa-
ton met in Washington, D. c., last week.
The bill OF Hon. w. j. Green, defining
fac wine, was endorsed, and also resolu-
ticns were adopted urging upon Congress
to place this important industry in more
close connection with the Agricultural
Department, and to make appropriations
for the same.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26

and will in future raise more oft, tbnn
becoming not only nonpurchasers hut
competitors in the markets Of tba
worldl The tobacco they raise, how
ever, Ike the Kentucky and Mis-
souri, leaf, is a strong, h~eavy-bodied
leaf, lacking the attractive qualities
of the finer and lighter leaf raised in
the border counties of Virginia and
North Carolina, the bright tobacco
belt proper, the leaf of which, when
properly handled and cured, com.
mands such good, and sometimes
such incredibly high prices. It is
this kind Of tobacco the North Car.
DINA farmer should aim to raise. for
in this he has practically no compe.
tition and there is no danger Of the
market being overstocked with it
The way to do this, unless he has
ample means to cultivate largely. is
to limit his acres SO that he can give
it attention in the field and pr0Der
care in the barn. If this course be-
pursued our planters will have no
competition to fear and may feel
reasonably sure of prices that will
nav them we'll for their toll.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER MAY &c, 1886.

"A correspondent of the Ashevllle
| Citizen says that in the neighborhood of
Alexanders, in Buncombe county, the
cut worms have destroyed the first set
ting of tobacco plants.
At the election in Asheville Tuesday,
18th inst, the proposition to incur a
bonded debt of 800, 900 for water works,
streets and lights, was carried. The
mountain city is pushing ahead.
While Mrs. Goe. H. Pendleton, wife
of the Minister to Berlin, and her daugh-
ter, were out driving in Central Park,
New York, last Thursday, the horse be-
came frightened, and bounding suddenly,
dragged the driver from his seat. The
ladies attempted to jump from the We
hicle. The daughter jumped first and
struck the ground where she lay in an
unconscious condition. The mother fol-
lowed. People running to the rescue
found the mother dead and the daugh-
ter seriously, though not fatally, injured.
From a private letter we learn that
Mr.. A. H.. Lemon, of Orion, Columbus
county, is making some experiments
with what he terms the woody Angora
goat, and with most satisfactory results.
They are larger and more prolific than
our ordinary goat-will clip as much
wool as a sheep, which commands a bet
ter price. Last year eight ewes Of the
ordinary breed, and bred to the same
stock, brought eight kids-this year the
same ewes crossed on the Angora, brought
seventeen kids. This grade he says will
pay to shear. Several attempts in a
small way, have been made in our State
to breed the Angora goat to profit, but
we are not aware that it has been thor
oughly tested. We would be glad to hear
from those who have tried it. If we can
find some animal that will supply us with
wool, and which can live in peace and
safety with the ever-present and inevi-
table cur dog, let us have it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26
WORK ON THE r M.

North Carolina produced in 1870
2,859,879 bushels of wheat, and 49,
454,216 bushels of corn. In 1880 she
raised 3,307,393 bushels of wheat,
and 2~8,O19,839 bushels Of corn an
increase Of 20 per cent. in wheat and
nearly 80 per cent. in corn.
La 1870 she raised 144,935 bales
OF cotton in 1880, 389,598 bales;
an increase Of 175 per cent.
In 1870 she raised 11,15O,O97 lbs.
of tobacco, in 1880 26,986,213 an
increase of $50 per cent. This gives
some idea of what our farmers are
doing. We have no figures to show
the increase since 1880, which would
doubtless make a good showing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26
SOl ND TALK.

The Danbury Reporter is doing a
good work in calling the attention of
the farmers of Stokes to the policy
of giving sole attention to tobacco
and ~neglecting wheat, oats, corn, the
grasses, &c. The editor urgently
protests against the stupid policy of
selling tobacco and buying home
supplies and hay, hauling them some
times a distance Of twenty-five or
thirty miles, and this too, in a county
where the cereals yield ab%undantly,
and much of the time OF the farmer
is devoted to killing better grass
than the bailed stuff they pay S1.0O
or $1.25 a hundred for. He CON
cludes a vigorous editorial on the
subject as follows, which we endorse
as applying not only to Stokes
county, but to every other tobacco
producing county in the State. We
quote:
"Now, gentlemen, people of Stokes
or any other county who are acting
in the same way, we are talking to
you've have said and stick to it,
that the people of middle Western
North Carolina possess as good,
natural, sound horse sense as any
people under the sun, but in this
fertilizer and tobacco business they
are not using the judgment God has
given in selling tobacco at one dol
lar per hundred, and paying $L25
for hay when the work required to
grow and market 100 lbs. of tobacco
will make 1000 pounds of good clio
yer and timothy hay. Fellows, use
the judgment you have, make less
tobacco but make it better; and
make your home supplies at home.
You answer, but tobacco is our only
money crop But are you sure of
that? Just let your neighbors know
that you have five hundred bushels
OF wheat, rye, or oats to sell, or a
thousand bushels Of corn that you
will let go for cash, and you will not
have to haul it twenty or forty miles
and pay somebody to sell it, but
men with money will drive their
teams to your house and take it
away. Good hay is almost as cur-
rent in paying a debt in this county
as the old dollar with the buzzard on
it. Only stick to it and you will
surely find this fertilizer and tobacco
business Gone crop system) will put
you through. Yes, let's stick to it
and it will not be long until the fer
tilizer man will come round and
turn over our lands to some one who
can make a living on THEIRS. No,
we don't object to making tobacco,
but we say make less tobacco and
make it better, and raise something
else. tits believed that if there never
had been apound of fertilizer brought
into this county, and the amount of
money that has been spent for COM
mercial fertilizer had been used in
making homemade manures Stokes
would have been the richest agricul-
tural county in the State to-day"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26
THE COSS MARK.

The cross mark on your paper in
dicates that the time for which you
subscribed has or is about to expire.
1t is to give notice so your subscrip-
ton may be renewed. If the sub
scription be not renewed the name
will be dropped from the list, but we
want every one to renew and bring
a friend along too.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26
FARMERS ORGANIZING.

Send to the PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
Winston, N. c., and get a form of
Constitution and Bylaws for organ
izing Farmers Clubs. Mailed to you
free Of charge. Every neighborhood
should have a well organized Farm
crs' Club.
State exchanges please copy the
above and we will most gladly re-
ciprocate the favor.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26
BETTER THAN KANSAS.

Reuben G. Greer, who some time
ago left Watauga county to seek his
fortune in the West, writes to the
Lenoir Topic that he intends to re-
turn to North Carolina, being SUI.
ficiently educated as to Western at
fractions. He says Kansas is a beau
tiful country, and a good farming
country, for a man who has ample
means, but not for a poor man that
$500 in the section of North Caro-
lima which he left, is equivalent to
$4,000 in Kansas, where he then was.
This is the experience and testi-
mony of many a North Carolinian
who left North Carolina to seek a
home in the West under the delu-
sion that making a fortune there
was an easy matter, that it came al
most at the calling. For years this
drain upon North Carolina has gone
on until the descendants of North
Carolinians in the Western states
number over 100000. Some of those
who have gone have prospered and
remained, others have remained and
not prospered, and others have re-
turned to their old homes better sat
isfed, but having paid dearly for
their experience in the meantime.
For years Western immigrant agents
scattered countless publications as
advertisements throughout North
Carolina, painting in exaggerated
colors the attractions of the West,
and the railroad corporations put
down the fare at very low figures,
and thus thousands of people, many
of them doing measurably well were
induced to break up their homes and
try their fortunes in the new States.
Twenty-Five years ago there was
more and better reason for this mi
gratory movement than there is now.
Then land was cheap and easily got
ten in almost any of the Western
States now it is not, for the cheap
lands have been occupied and the
rest is held for high prices. Then
large farms we're the order of the day
in North Carolina, as we'll as in other
Southern States, and it was not an
easy matter for young people to pur-
chase farms for homesteads but it
is not SO now The big farm day has
passed with the institution upon
which it was based, and anyone who
wishes to and has a little money can
buy a home place at reasonable fig
ures. Then there were but few rail
roads in North Carolina, now there
are many and the number is being
constantly added to. The situation
is changed and all for the better for
North Carolina. If her people will
work rs hard, work as jndiciousIy,
practice the economy that the mai
who succeeds in the West is com
PEELED to do, they will have more
money, enjoy life more, and be in
every way better off than the men
Of the West who have to work early
and late, through hot summers and
suffer through bitter cold winters,
and see but little real pleasure or
comfort while they are struggling as
but few in this favored climate ever
struggle.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26
A BEAUTIFUL PREMIU M.

To every one who will send us a
subscriber for a year, within the
next 80 days, accompanied by two
dollars, we will mail post paid a
copy of "Passion Flower and other
POEMS" by Theo. III. Hill, of Raleigh,
N. G.. 1t is a book that should be
in the library of every family in the
State.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-26
Winston, N. G., May 20, 1886.

This paper entered as second class matter at the
Post Office in Winston, N. CT +
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-26

WIN. A. Wheeler, the partner of r..
B. Hayes in the Presidential steal of
1877, is now a hopeless victim of NOR
phine at his home in Malone, N. Y,
a physical and mental wreck who has
lost not only his health and political
standing but does not even enjoy the
respect of his own aeighbors. What
fearful retribution Only ten years,
and yet he has passed so completely
out of public notice that his very ex-
istence had been forgotten by the peo-
pie of the country. Hayes would al.
so sink into obscurity but for his gall
in thrusting himself before the pub
lie whenever a public man dies, by
sending kilograms of regret and the
like. He even had the brazen impu-
dence to send message of coincidence
to the family of Vice President Hen.
bricks when Mr.. Hendricks died
Unlike Wheeler, he hasn't sense
enough to know that the people o.
the United States now look upon hin
in his true light and that he is an oh.
ject of contempt in the eyes ofnot on
ly Democrats but Republicans al
we'll.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-26

Senator Green Smith, President
pro tempore of the Indiana Senate
and acting Lieutenant Governor, will
contest the right of Robertson, the
Republican Lieutenant G overnor elect
to assume the office upon the ground
that there was no vacancy to fill un.
der the constitution, which provides
that state officers be elected for foul
years. Smith became Lieutenant
Governor upon the resignation of Gen
Manson. This contest it is believed
by the best lawyers of the state will
be decided in Smiths favor. The re.
suit will greatly effect the Senatorial
race, as the Democratic majority of
two in the assembly is seriously
threatened by the Republicans who
control the House and are preparing
TO unseat enough Democrats 10 ena-
bic them to more than offset the
Democratic majority in the State SEN
ate. They are desperate but their un-
scrupulous methods will not succeed,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-26

George ii. Thobe, the recent work
ingman's candidate against Hon. Jno
&. Carlisle for Congress in this the
Sixth district, is making active prep
arations TO contest the election of Mr.
Carlisle on the grounds of illegal and
irregular measures in the election in
the various counties. One of the
main grounds will be the eligibility
OF the judges of election. The law
provides that they shall be selected
equally from both political parties, /.
ca Republican and Democrat Judge
and the clerk and sheriff, one Repub-
lican the other Democrat. This was
not observedin many voting precincts.
For instance here three of the officers
were Democrats and one Republican.
Thobe is inquiring as to the state OF
affairs generally and says that so far
he has found grounds to throw out
800 of Carlisle's votes. If after q
thorough Investigation he deems il
expedient, proof will be taken and q
contest made. Carlisle's majority as
per returns to the Secretary of the
State is 825.-Warsaw Independent.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-26
HIS SLEEP ETERNAL.
Hon. Charles Francis Adams, ST.,
Son Of an Ex-President, Dead
After a Long and
Useful Life.

Boston, Nov. 2l.-The Hon.
Charles Francis Adams, ST., died at
3 80 A. NJ, to-day, at his residence in
this city. He had suffered for some
five years from brain trouble, arising
from overtaxing his brain in the lit
erary work upon which he was EN-
gagged. His wife, who survives him,
was the daughter of the late Peter
c. Brooks, of Medford, whom he
married 5S years ago, and by whom
he had five sons and two daughters
Three died. Those living are the
Hon. John Quincy, the Hon. Charles
Francis, Henry Brooks and Mary, the
latter the wife of DR.. Quincy Ded
ham. The funeral will take place oil
Tuesday afternoon from the Congre
gational church at Quincy.
Charles Francis Adams was tho
only child of John Quincy Adams
thatsurvived him, and was born il
Boston, August IS, 1907. When q
child he was taken by his father tc
st. Petersburg, where he passed the
next six years, and learned TO speak
the Russian, French and German Ian
guages. Returning to America, at
ter ten years spent in Europe, he en-
tered the Boston Latin school, and
later the Hartford College, gradual
ing in 1926. lie studied law in the
office of Daniel Webster, but never
engaged actively in the practice. His
first public service was in the Lcgis'
lature of Massachusetts-in the House
three years and Senate two. lie was
elected to Congress in 1858. In 1861
he wac appointed by Mr.. Lincoln
Minister 10 England to succeed Mr.
Dallas. He remained abroad unit
1868. lie served by appointment OF
the President as arbitrator for the
United States in the settlement Of
the claims of England and this coun,
try against each other, growing Out
of the late war. This was his last
public service.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-26
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

Bob. MoSeley, COL, was found dead
In bead at Shelbyville.
Joe Portman, Stanford, has already
killed 2S3 birds this season.
Jas Mills was crushed to death by
falling coal in Kensee coal mines.
Geo. Buhr, veteran hotel proprie-
tor of Frankfort, died last Saturday.
E. E. Smallwood and Miss Belle
Thomas, of Horse Cave, eloped to
Gallatin, Tenn, Thursday.
Vote in 9th district: Thomas,
Rep, 1884, Wall, Dem, ll,707,
Thomas majority IT'S.
A. Newhoff, a merchant, suicided
at Paris by drowning, Tuesday. He
was threatened with lawsuit.
Isaac Arnold was shot and killed
in Washington county last Monday
by Thos. Dugan, of Nelson Co.
Wyatt Johnson, COL, has been ar
rested at Louisville for dividing his
affections between two wives.
j. Dudley George committed sui
eide by hanging at Cynthiana. lie
was 63 years old and was tired of life.
A bogus Frank James is playing in
the role Of preacher in the noun
tain counties and attracting much
attention.
j. w. Kelly's residence burned at
Newcastle and two small children OF
the cook, colored women, persisted
in the flames.
Granville Prewett has been found
guilty of the murder of Miss Ellen
Buck, at Monticello, and sentenced to
be hanged Jan. u.
Jno. Bryan, of Campbellsburg, was
killed while crossing the track in
front of a moving freight train at
Anchorage. He was 20 years old.
The Ashland Independent is kick
ing because the butchers are getting
rich, and wants the lrices ormeat cut
down 10 suit the dull times.
L. w. Gaines has consolidated his
two printing offices and will print
the Bowling Green Sunday Herald
at the Elkton Progress Office in the
future.
The Superior Court has decided
that the local option law does moi
prohibit practicing physician from
prescribing or furnishing in good
faith liquors TO his patients, just al
he would any other medicine.
The new Cave road is thoroughly
equipped and runs 3daily trains each
way. They leave Mammoth Cave
Junction, on the L. & N, at 6 80 a
m, IL 80 a. m. and 4 10 p. m. Re.
turning, they leave the Cave station
at Gals a. m, 3:l5 p. m. and 5 :25 p
IN. The distance is nine miles, and
covered by the train in twenty-five
minutes. This includes two stops
one at Grand Avenue Cave and one
at Proctor's Cave. The former il
now open to visitors, the latter will
be in six weeks.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-26

The first number of the Glasgow
News at once entities the new ven.
ture to rank with the best and spiciesl
of the weekly papers of Kentucky
Jas. NJ. Richardson is one of the
brightest journalistic lights on the
state press, and the simple announce.
ment that he will occupy the editorl.
al chair is enough to insure the sue.
cess of the new candidate for publ,
favor. Here's luck to you Bro. Rich
ardson. Send us your paper and W.
will try to pay you for it when w,
thrash our hogs.