The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-02
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some pretty extensive street work within
the past week, cleaning out cutters, lev
cling up, &c. +
The merchants complain of dull
days. But these are busy days on the
farm. Busy days on the farm now mean
busy days for the merchant after awhile.
The juvenile potato is coming 70 the
front. Those we have seen offered for
sale on the streets range in size from a
cherry to a walnut. They are vefy good
to keep out of the house.
The gauge on the railroad from
Winston to Greensboro was Ichanged
Yesterday. There were no trains on the
road yesterday, but the regular schedule
was resumed last night.
The buzz of the saw and the clatter
of the carpenters hammer isIheard on
all sides in Winston these days, and in
all directions new houses may pc seen 60
ing up. Many of them are handsome and
attractive structures, and all Pf a sub
~stantial character.
There are fewer dogs to the square
yard in Winston than almost ahy other
town we know of. The dog-shooting pc
Rod has about arrived in somepf the
other towns, where part of the outfit of
the police becomes a long range double
barrel shot gun.
A BELATED CHICK.-The Messrs. Stew
art, in addition to running a frst-class
Job office, are amateur poultry ~raisers.
One of their hens closed up her work
the other day and walked off the nest
with a dozen or so of chicks, leaving one
unmatched egg behind. Two days later
a faint chirp was heard in the nest, and
the belated chick which had been left
behind, put in an appearance, too late to
be recognized by the maternal hen; a
lone and solitary orphan, so to speak.
Mr.. Jenkins, who owns a farm near
this city, brought to Office a speci-
men of clover from a five-acre lot, which
he is harvesting. The clover will aver
age not less than three feet in height on
the entire lot. He bought the seed for
red clover, and while the stems and leaf
are in all respects identical with red
clover, yet the bloom is white. But what
we wish to bring to the attention Of our
farmers is the splendid growth of this
crop. We have men in this country who
say it will not pay to raise clover. How
is it that a Pennsylvania farmer, who
can make no better clover, can ship it
here and sell it to these same men and
make money?
WINSTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.-The
Winston State Normal School begins July
9Th, and continues three weeks. The
following instructors have been elected:
Prof. J. L. Tomlinson, Supt. Graded
Schools, Winston, NC, superintendent;
Prof. Chas. D. McIver, of Peace Insti-
%stitute, Raleigh, n. c., late of Winston
Graded Schools, Secretary; Prof. T. j.
Mitchell, Supt. Schools, Charlotte, NC;
Prof. w. A. Blair, Fellow in Pedagogy,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Md; Prof. w. III. Neave, Director Music
School, Salisbury, N. c.; Miss Fannie B.
Cox, Winston Graded Schools. Other
instructors and lecturers will be duly
announced. The greater part of two
days during the session, July 18th and
10th, will be devoted to a "Sunday
School Normal during which time the
most successful Sunday School workers
of the State are expected to be present.
This is rather a new departure and will
doubtless result in great good, especially
to sunday School workers.
Too MUCH FOR HIM.-A young man
passed our office a few days ago heavily
charged with applejack. The apple
jack, with the young man surrounding
it, persisted in endeavoring to accom-
plish the impossible feat of walking on
both sides of the sidewalk at nee. In
the middle of the sidewalk was a wheel
barrow, which was not loaded with
a~pplejack, and which was strictly sober.
1t stood there and held the right of way.
The young man labored under the occu-
lar delusion that that wheel-barrow was
a twin, and that its twin brother stood
just beside it, and concluded he would
60 between it. He took his bearings and
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