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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-10
Correspondence.
AN IDEAL, YET POSSIBLE ACRE
OF CORN.
For the Progressive Farmer.

TOR tlc IIOSISSSiNC III
The writer of this article plucked
from a single hill thirteen good ears
thus proving the possibility oftwelve
ears at a hill. This was on an acre
of branch bottom where the drill
burrows were 81 feet apart, and the
hills distant 3 feet in the drills. Now
dividing 21O feet, the length of one
side of an acre, by 81, would give 60
drill burrows 21O feet in length. Di-
viding this length by 3 would give
20 hills to each drill, or 1900 to the
acre. This 1920 by 4 would give us
1890 stalks; and this by 3 would
give 50,400 ears; which latter diVid-
ed by 200 ears to the bushel, would
give us 252 bushels as the possible
yield of our ideal acre.
Now let us consider the condi-
tions and modus Operandi upon which
we would depend for obtainingth these
results The land should be Of such
a nature that there would be suff-
cient moisture under all circum-
stances together with natural fertil-
ity. In June or July clear it of all
rocks, stumps, roots, &C., SO that
there may be no hinderances in the
way of thorough cultivation, and SO
that every inch of ground may be
utilized for plant growth. Examine
carefully the lay of the land, and,
thus having determined upon the
best location for under drains, pro-
ceed to dig marrow bitches 81 to 3
feet in depth. Fill these bitches
half full of pine, gum, or any kind
of poles that r convenient, also
using loose rock that would be in
the way; cover with a layer of
broom-straw, and fill up with soil,
somewhat above the general surface.
Lightly bulLtongue the land until
all roots and other Instructions are
removed, and then level with har-
row. Broadcast with peas and turn
under, following with a good sub
%soiler, and noting the direction of
burrows. Just before frost, give a
heavy coating of stable manure and
cotton sect, turn under thoroughly,
and subsoil deeply, crossing the fur
rows made at the time of sowing.
Open up surface drains and bitches
preparatory to the winter rains, and
leave your ground to be mellowed
by the frosts, and the plant-food,
natural and supplied, to undergo
the necessary changes in the great
laboratory of nature. See that your
land is ready for the planting as
early in the spring as possible, by
keeping all surplus water drained
off during the winter. Try and have
this mellow planting bed dry enough
and warm enough to do the sowing
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-10
gestry,
THE IL ~cANTEEN.

AS / searched to-day the attic 81 b.
In the farm house old and gray,
Where i'm years to me so sacred
To the wal | marched away;
Hid amid the dust and rubbish
Where the cobwebs intervene,
There I found a relic precious @Eb
My old army tin canteen.
Tho the cloth was worn to tatters
And the rust was thick o'erspread;
Tho5its strap had long since parted
With the clasps it once had wed,
Yet it seemed to me a treasure -
Shining bright with glowing sheen
Lighting up the place with glory no.
% Where i found the old canteen.
Back it carried me in fancy
To that day-our first review,
When we marched adown the village
Clad in patriotic blue,
Guns that shone like FURNISHED silver,
Bright against the summer green,
And the box and knapsack polished,
With that army tin canteen. f".
Where are those that marched that
.4a.- morning, .a..s5 g5fo3 .- a.r.
Elbow elDoW true! -
Many sleep, but few are waiting
For that silent, last review;
Gun and knapsack long have vanished
Mid the years that intervene,
This alone of all remaining go f...H
My old army tin canteen. s ..as.
Mid the march and mid the battle,
1t was ever near to me;
Sick or weary, tired or wounded,
e 1t was true as friend could be,
And when home at last returning .
Two old comrades neared the scene,
One a soldier manned and wounded,
One the army tin %canteen.
We have older grown together,
Veterans from the soldier days,
And a sight of it hath wakened
Dearest memories to my gaze.
Long will | the treasure cherish,
And when death shall close the scene
May they place us both together, f#'l
Me and thee, my old canteen. ESQ
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-10
practice the value ofsthe pork NAV
be nearly all credited to the milk.
TOO LARGE LITTERS.

Sometimes sows will farrow more
pigs than they have teats, and thus
finding themselves in the unfortu-
nate position which every admins
tration occupies with regard to its
Office seekers. 1t is always advisa-
BILE in selecting breeding sows to
choose those with longy rangv
bodies and at least thirteen or four
teen teats. There is no objection
to having the fatalistic number
thirteen at that table, though very
likely the old, superstition that
some of their number will die with
in the year will come true. If a
SOW has more pigs than teats the
surplus should be disposed of as
soon as possible. a.-.t r..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-10
VALUE OF SKIM-MILK.

In portions of the country where
butter is made in quantities it is
usual to keep one COW for each sow
with pigs. If she is a good COW
the skim-milk she furnishes will
make the framework of the grow
ing pigs as no other feed can. With
this to give the pigs a start they
can be kept in thrifty condition on
grass or clover with very little grain
until ready to put up to fatten. Tn
an orchard the pigs will earn their
way eating fallen fruit, and thus de-
stroyingg injurious insects, By this
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-10
THE FARMER MARCH 10, 1886.

doned, or if one il purchased on
some spurious Recommendation, it is
found to be almost invariably infe-
riorl to the representations made by
tha seller s.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-10
KEEPING GOOD HORSES.

No farmer who has not tried to
buy a horse can appreciate the diff
fculty of getting n just right in
every respect. The idea that one
can be picked up in a few days has
to be slowly and reluctantly aban-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-23
OUR SCHOOLS.

In his address at the Salem Acad-
envy Commencement last Thursday,
Senator Vance congratulated his
hearers on the progress which North
Carolina was making, in nothing
O forcibly illustrated than in the
attention which was everywhere in
the State being given to the subject
of education, and in the gratifying
success of her schools. This is true,
and it is something of which the
people Of North Carolina may justly
feel proud. No year within our re
collection have the schools shown to
better advantage, nor the people
shown more interest in them. The
commandments everywhere have
been unusually largely attended, and
the exercises have mor than met
popular expectation. The State
University, Wake Forest, Trinity
and Davidson colleges had a full at
tendence throughoutthe year, and
each sent out to, the various avoea
tons of life it's quota of graduates.
The same may be said of the female
seminaries at Salem, Greensboro,
Raleigh and Charlotte. The pre-
paratory or intermediate schools,
like Bingham's, New Garden, Oak
Dale, Oak Ridge Farmers, Kings,
Mountain, La Grange, and others
that we might mention, male and
female, have done a good work, and.
Rrospered. And SO, too, have our
graded schools in Winston, Greens
Horo, Charlotte, Goldsboro and other.
towns, done we'll, and last but not
least, good report comes from the
common schools Of the State, which
have been we'll attended and are grow
ing in favor, popularity and useful
ness. The teachers and scholars are
to be congratulated, but North Caro-.
@lpa is to be congratulated even more
on this progressive movement and
the glorious success with which it is
meeting. $1,000
s .
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-23

Some admiring newspaper man hay,
ing suggested the name of George Wash
.ington Childs, proprietor of the Phila,
delphia Ledger, for the Presidency, Mr.
Chllds rises to remark that while he fully
appreciates the honor, he would not
touch the Presidency with a forty-foot
pole, a~llegoricalIy speaking. Heregards
conventions as very uncertain bodies to
fool with, but adds that if nomination
We're certain he would not take it. tie
doubtless concludes that a Handsomely
paying newspaper is a better thing than
four years torture in the White House.
On the whole Mr.. Childs is e%minently
level-headed, and he is happy, as all truly
good and virtuous newspaper men are.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-23

@nractical instruction is not gTen,
but it is not a good reason forhor~a
justification of the continuea use OF
the $500 a year withoutthe con-
sent of the farmers, to whom 1t De
longs. OF without rendering a fair
and honest equivalent. That is what
we object to, and that is why we en-
ter these protests. This money should
be funded for the farmers, SO that at
some day they may have an agrl-
cultural college in fact, and not a
mere %pretense. GOD
The plain, unvarnished truth is,
this money has been used for all
these years, not for the benefit OF
the farmers sons, but for the benefit
of the University, and it is now SO
used. # ssa-s a
As pertinent to the point under
consideration we reproduce a letter
written by Gen. Stephen d. Lee,
President ofthe Agricultural College
of Mississippi, to the Farmers Aduo-
cate, at St. Paul, Minnesota, in reply
to some inquiry as to the method OF
conducting the college. He says:
awe have, SO far for the sessions
of 1856, a total of $50 students.
The key to the c in an agricul-
tural college is to Loyalty carry out
the spirit Of the Federal law organ
ling them, viz: TO benefit Agricul-
ture and the Mechanic Arts and,
not to aid other colleges, whose bias
are in the line Of literary, classical
or general education. These insti-
tutions are loyal to other objects and
they smother the agricultural schools
attached. In fact a student who
enters to become a farmer and be
instructed in that school, is generally
ridiculed out of it and pointed to
brain development and culture, as
the only honorable education. 1t is
an indisputable fact that in such in
situations enjoying the proceeds of
the land scrip fund to benefit agricul-
ture and mechanic arts there are
no students being benefited in the
direction intended by the Federal
law. I am therefore of the opinion
the farmers should insist that this
fund be used as intended, and in a
separate college-put in hands loyal
to their interests and enjoying their
sympathy and encouragement. No
college a benefit a class without
enjoying it's confidence. The tech
nical training in an agricultural col
lege Loyalty administered, will pro-
duce like results to that obtained at
West Point, Annapolis, Medical Col
leges, Engineering Colleges, etc., ad-
ministered in their different inter-
ests. Testimonials enclosed show
that our Mississippi college enjoys
the confidence of the farmers. The
State Grange endorses it every year,
and demands that it be supported,
as do the other agricultural soeie-
ties"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-23
Winston n c.,LJpne %, 1886.
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"A fruit fair will be held in Fayette

- IIulUt Oil l. W OAS1 IA oy WV
vile August 4th and 5th.
The House of Representatives last
Thursday passed a bill appropriating
$4,000 for the construction a govern
ment building at Ashville, in this State.
.-P. H.. Winston, ST., an eminent citi-
zen of North Carolina, died at his resi-
dence at Windsor, in BERTHE county, on
Monday, 18th inst, after an illness of
three years. e
The town of Sheffield, Mass, claims
to have issued a declaration of independ-
ence on January 18th, 1878, over two
years prior to the Mecklenburg, n. c.,
declaration.
The first wheat of the crop of this
year arrived in Baltimore on the 10th
inst. from the Rappahannock region of
Virginia. It was an inferior lot and sold
for so cents a bushel. .a
The city of Lynchburg, Va, has
voted $250,O00 to the Lynchburg, Hall
fax and North Carolina railroad, to run
from Lynchburg to Durham. Work will
begin at once. .3ga del
Bacon and Gordon on the stump as
rival candidates for the Democratic. CUB
ernatorial nomination, continue to make
things lively in Georgia.
The town of Vancouver, at the termi-
nus of the Pacific Canadian railway, was
destroyed by fire on the 18th inst. Out
of 500 houses not a half dozen remain.
Ten persons lost their lives.
1t is proposed to hold a convention
of Northern settlers in North Carolina at
Raleigh during the next State Fair. The
object of the convention is to give en-
c-ouragement to Northern people con
templating moving to the South.
Senator Jones, of Florida, still holds
the lines in Detroit, Mich, laying siege
to that obdurate spinstef.A In the mean
time his seat in the Senate remains va
cant, as it has been since the beginning
of the session of Congress. .sts. @r1.
The police force of East st. Louis.
must be a badly demoralized set. They
have been discharged because of the dis
covery of a conspiracy between them and
several noted burglars to rob the town
and divide the plumber. ni ity15ss
The Greensboro Patriot informs us
that two little boys ''between three and
four years, convicted of some offense in
the Superior Court in Greensboro, were
sent, to Jail. What the crime ofthese little
ones was is not stated, but when it comes
TO sending children three or1four years.
of age to Jail il. looks like carrying justice
to the extreme. 800 :. IT,"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-23

= =. III
The burnt district in Whining
ton is being rapidlyrebuilt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-01
rrw.yonr DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JULY l. 1880

ny several large bodies OF worklngnleh' WHO "'e
Mt present engaged in contests with employers
The Lake Shore strikers at Chicago nave not
refraiued from violence or blOodshed, and have
nIoceJ Themselves within reach OF the law.
probablv. long after that strike is over, some
of them will be answering in the courts TO IN
tctments for crime, or serving III piisoi' ui''ic'
sentences for their violations of law, rs strikers
of the Missouri Pacific and Texas Pacibc lines
are now. These men forgot their duty 10 so'
ciety. in their zeal for secret organization
They forgot that it was crime to deprive oiiier
men OF THEN rights, or To Interfere with the
property Of others, or to resort to violence, or
to incitc riot or bloodsbed, and that it was no
cycuse whatever that their object was to secure
higher wages for certain class of workers.
II is to be hoped that these lessons Will not
bc disrcgardcd by the rOlling-mill workers who
go on strike, about 1900 in number in Phlla-
delpha. 1t is said that they are to be sustained
by the Amaleamatcd Association OF Iron ana
Steel Workers, and the language OF the leaders
in this strike is cool, cOnsiderate and well cal
crated to impress public opinion in their favor
II the men refrain from all acts of awlcssncss or
violence do not threaten or maltreat any who
selves as law-abiding citizens they Will go far
TO convince the public and the employers also
that their claims are not born of passionate I'M
reason, but ought to be seriously and kindly
considered.
Another large strike is threatened by the win
dow-glass workers, who ask only continuance
of the old wages. it is said, while the employers
argne that the condition of their business ie-
ouires a reduction. Public opinion is not unlikely
to side with the worker in this case, because,
when the present rate of wages WIS proposed
10y the workers, there were many employers VINO
declared, us many declare now, that they could
not possibly afford to run their establishments
at such rates. Yet they finally decided to ito So
rather than to remain idle and that when bust
ness was much less active and promising than
il j. now. The usual summer suspension OF
work begins to-day and gives both parties time
to consider the matter carefully, and while the
suspension may be longer than usual if stocks
have largely accumulated, as is stated, 1t would
seem probable that the manufacturers will again
conclude to pay the rates asked, as they did
before.
The workers in this country are the people,
and are therefore sure of the sympathy OF the
people when they seek to improve their condl-
Ton by lawful and proper means. But when
a few of item organize themselves, and make
war upon the far greater number who are not
organized. as in the Lake Shore ease, they de-
serve 10 sympathy, but are hated by the great
majority of unorganized l.bO.ers rs the worst
of monopolists and would-be tyrnntS. II they
resort to violence OF threats, they are simply
Iow-b,eaLcrs. and as such should be punished
without hesitation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-01
PERSONAL

Marshal Halstead. son OF Murat Halsteaf, AMI q re
cent graduate OF Princeton has become tho NewYork
represeu ative Of Inc Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
1" hoard word OF envy from his lips, and
saw CLEAN OF malice in his eye" said the Rev
Dr. Barto speaking OF his lifelong friend, the late
Edwin i. Wlipple.
Sir A. Mu,gravc Governor OF Queensland, was pas
seuger the steamship Athos. which arrived yesterday
from jamaica
As proprietor OF Babelsburg Castle, Ike any OF his
subjects the German Emperor under the law liable to
have soldiers quartered upon him.
Riding in a Washington the other day. Can You
tell u.s. asked OF three Ofce-hunng caim-urgIns
women If Secretary lamars office is in that building I"
and she pointed to the Interior department think II
lied Mr.. Lamar who the person addresses
but remained in the they got out and entered
the building
Mr.. W. w. Corcoran has decided TO go this mcr
usual to the White sulphur Springs.
At the fair recently held at senstor Logans house In
Washington the benefit OF the Garfield Hospital it is
related nr Logan devoted his attention for dine 10
very brisht and pretty girl who kept the els and
cigarette booth As be stOrd at the side OF tn, booth
looking all the world like the WOO len Indian OF the
shioned shop several other Senators
mp and OF them said Why does Logan linger mere
long e. on said the presiding genius OF the booth
that's all right: he's my sign" AT which ,Hgan
laughed a. heartily as the rest. !:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-01
CONTICTED OF TENALITY.

The Nep- York Times has received Il
scathing iebuke from the Republican members
of the Electric Committee. Naturally IL
does not allow its readers to see single line %
the report in which its conduct Is denounced
1t suppresses an important pnbic document
which it admits has been III its possession 1or
several DAYS. 1t adopts the craven device Ol
dismissing the report with single sentence
in its news columns and then of assiilng it
author with the foulest billng>gate it can com
mand. at is a lying and perhaps corrupt re-
port" it AYERS; Mr.. Ranney consciously
wicked!y and maliciouSly lies -; he has pre-
nared the report i'll the interest of the Bell
Company, OF which he was once stocKhoider'
and with the counsel of which he has been on
familiar terms and he is, in shot, a born
knave and an irredcemable scoundrel"
This cowaIdly suppression of the facts and
this coarse abuse of the eminent Massachusetts
Republican who has prepared the minority
report are characteristic acts that are
wholly in keeping with The Illness course
in regard to the PanE Electric scandal. II has
withheld this report precisely as 1t suppressed
all mention of the scandal when the charges
against Mr.. Garland first appeared III The
TRIBUNE. 1t has insulted and hbelled MI.
Rahney precisely as it insulted and hbelled
THE TRIBUNE and other New-lork Journals,
which exposed and denounced the misconduct
of Attorney General Garland and his associates.
When it repeatedly insinuated and openly
charged that its contemporaries III this town
had been corruptly Influenced by the Bell
Telephone Company, 1t had not one jot OF
evidence of any journals venality except its
OWN. 1t succeeded in imposing upon the Gre
dulity of the President and in bringing about
AN investigation Of its own wanton charges,
Int when the time came to show cause for its
malicious insinuations. proof 1t had none. 1ct
when il has been itself tried and convicted OF
defamation and venality, 1t turns upon four
members of the jury and hurls against them
the same charges which 1t could not prove
against its professional associates. 1t insin-
yates that this is corrupt report III
charges Mr.. Ranney with acting In the interest
of the Bell Company and with doing presumably
Cor pay the dirty work OF its lawyers "
born knaye - and 1" an iIredeemable scounfIei -
it calls him.
We'll. there was nothing else for poor Fagin
TO do. The facts were cleaIly presented III
the minority report. Every count in the ter
rible Indictment against him was sustained by
the evidence. What Mr.. Ranney wrote and
the Republican members agreed TO was based
upon the testimony of the owner and Editor OF
The Times. 1t was Iruc-every word OF
it ; and blackgIardism and reckless charges on
the part of The Times will not break the
force OF the verdict against 1t. Fagln stands
before the town-convicted pillOried and dis
graccd-and, save The Erening Post. there Is
no journal mean and snealling enough to take
nifty upOn him,