The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-24

are preparing for it now, and those
who did cultivate it will not curtail
their crops.-Iar Riuer Taller.
Mr.. George w. Childs has headed
4 subscription to a fund for the ben
eft of the widow of Gen. Hancock,
putting his name down for one
thousand do" rs, with a promise Of
more, if +, quir ID.
Some OF our tobacco men have
sold and are generally satisfied. One
nan, MI. Lin Starnes, will receive,
>ver $1,000 for his last years
crop. Others from two hundred to
five. More will be -transplanted
this year than last year.-Cedar
VaUey Cor. IN Topic.
In 1872 Reidsville had a popu.a-
ton Of 100, with property valued
at twenty thousand dollars to-day
t has $500 inhabitants, and tax
able property amounting to one
million two hundred and fifty
thousand Greensboro Patriot.
The Stock Law is the greatest
pcace-maker ever invented by man,
md it would be hard to get a farmer
who has lived under the Stock Law
m Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, &c, to
move to Buncombe and live in the
townships that have been exempted
rom the operations of the Stock
Law.-HOme Democrat.
The .4SheciUe Citizen tells of Mr..
Ball of madison county, who bought
| small farm a short while ago,
saying $500 per acre for it.
H. sold the tobacco produced Oh
me acre for. 1921. His tobacco
crop will bring him between four
nd five hundred dolIar>-aIl clear
moley-because he raised also corn
econ, wheat oats and everything
ne ;dful: for home supplies.
Our truckers are about done
planting garden peas. Mr.. J. i.
Rhem has put in two hundred acres.
The planting is considerably later
shan last year, though the first ship
nent may be made sooner.-NeU
Berne Journal.
The Seargent Manufacturing
Company, of this place, have enjoyed
an unprecedented run of business in
their line for the past six months.
During the last ninety days they
AVE utilized their capacity to the
utmost extent, having sold six Tur-
Dine water wheels, eleven circular
aw mills and two hundred and fifty
.ook stoves of their manufac-
ture.-Greensb0ro Patriot.
Mr.. J. w. York, of Battleboro,
bought three-fourths of an acre OF
tobacco in the field from a Nash
county fourteen-year-old boy, paying
aim $3.50 for it. If that boy con
tinues to make tobacco he will be
tble to get married by the time his
sweetheart leaves school.-State
Chronicle.
DR.. Benbow made 345 pounds
Of butter at. his dairy farm during
september, and 81 pounds in Octo-
Der, Quite an item. But his silo for
3toring ensilage, for stock feeding, is
5he biggest thing of the kind in the
State.-Greensboro Patriot. tr
-Kinston Free Press; MI. B. F.
Fields, farming on the lands of Mr..
A. D, Parrott, raised last year, six
hundred and lightweight bushels of
heavy grained rice on ten acres,
eight of the acres averaging seventy
nine and three-fourths bushels to the
acre
FROM Gov. JARvIs.-Colonel. I. A.
Sugg received a letter last week
rom Minister Jarvis. The letter
was written early in January, and
the Governor said they in the
midst of summer weather. it was
50 warm in the city of Rio de Janeiro
that he was staying at a mountain
village about thirty miles away,
where he says everything was very
pleasant. He also stated that his
own and Mrs. Jarvis health was
splendid, being better than at any
time in a number Of years. The
many friends of Gov. Jarvis are de-
lighted to know that he is getting
on SO well.-Refec'or.
Mr.. G.. M. Whitcner, of this
township, raised last season, with
but very little manure, on three
ainhths Of an acre of land ON Hanrv'S