The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-19
No. Is.

Again this year the wheat crop
will be very light. A subscriber told
us Monday that the prospect in his
township (Morton's) was the poor
est he had ever known w.
E. Holt, of this county, and Mr.. G.
A. Hunt, of Lexington, are building
cotton mill at the latter place. The
building will 5Ox21O feet and two
stories high.-Alamdnce Cleaner. -
Mr. r. S. Kennerly, of Barrin-
gers township, has turkey gobbler
which, on Wednesday of last week,
began setting on a nest full of eggs.
TO drive him off does no good, for
he at once returns and resumes bus
mess at the old stand. While the
gobbler is doing the hens work, the
hen that laid the eggs is strutting
around the place like a gobbler-
Landmarks.
-Jonesville, N. c., has an absent
minded citizen. Two mornings in
succession after milking the cow, he
set the pail Of milk in a corner and
carried the milking stool into the
house. On the third morning he
took basket Of turnips to the COW,
emptied them before her, and then
began to milk in the basket. He had
presence enough of mind to stop
when about half through milking
Wilmington ReUieac.
The North Carolina State Den
tai Association will meet in Raleigh
on the first of June, the session to
last three days.-A lady gave birth
to twins in Limestone township, this
county, last Sunday-the twins
weighing respectively one pound
and one and a half pounds. The boy
lived three days and the girl was
living at last accounts, she having
been the heavier weight Of the two.
-AsheuiUe Citizen.
The fine cherries which were
brought in to us in a ripe state on
Wednesday, we have ascertained to-
day, are earlier than the earliest va
rieties anywhere known now, and
Mr.. Mac Branch, the owner, has
gone into an agreement with Mr..
Westbrook by which the variety
will be at once numerously budded
into other stocks-FdyetteUiUe News.
The Gold Hill mine is the lar
gest in the State One shaft is $50
feet deep.-Mrs. Agnes Archibald,
of Flows, is 95 years old, and can
hear and see as we'll as she ever
could. She is almost as cheerful and
active as she was fifty years ago.
Cotton has been injured some
by the late cold rain. The stalk
would turn black near the ground
and soon rot off. In some places
there is not a good stand.-C0ncord
Times.
-Sherff Boyer turned over to the
State Treasurer S12,23364 in State
tax, and to County Treasurer Cox,
$13,642. so, school tax-There is
kind of ugly bug that infests the
shade trees in most yards, and young
chickens devour them voraciously
and some who have lost many young
chickens have found by examina-
ton that these bugs are the cause
of their death 1t is we'll to try to
keep young chickens away from
them.-Joseph Mendenhall, of Dav-
idson county, killed bed of tobacco
plants by putting strong stable ma
nure in water and then sprinkling
this liquid manure on the plants
Jonathan Jones killed bed of plants
by sprinkling fertilizer on them.
They are tender and should be treat
ed with care-We hear much
complaint that watermelon seed do
not come up well, and that the in
sects destroy the plants Of those
which do come. We have been told
that those which are planted with
fertilizer in the hills are not disturb
ed by insects very badly.-.Sdlem
Press.