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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-05

Section 1. There shall be elected by the
executive committee n its first meeting a
secretary, who shall also act as secretary of
the central committee, and who shall have
immediate charge and supervision of the
records and headquarters of the committees.
Sec. 9. The secretary shall keep in books,
to be provided by the executive committee. q
full record of the proceedings OF the central
and executive committees and shall make and
enter a transcript of the proceedings of every
convention OF the party in the city. and shall
keep a full record Of the names OF all the
memt ers OF precinct and other committees
and subcommittee. and shall keep an accu-
rate account of all moneys received and dis
bursed by the executive committee.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty Of the secre-
tary TO cause to be printed suitable blanks
for the returns of secretaries of precinct
caucuses, upon which shall also be printed
SO much of these articles as relate to the man.
ner OF holding caucuses, and the duties OF
precinct committees and the article upon dis
ciplIne and the provisions in regard to con-
tests and Immediately upon the call for any
convention to transmit the members OF each
precinct committee one of said blanks, to-
gether with a copy of the call for the conven-
ton and adirectionto the members OF the yari-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20
HCLSTEIN CATTLE.

Holstein cattle are gradually re-
replacing the Jerseys They have
been known for 500 years in Hol-
stein. immense quantities of butter
and cheese are made there for the
London market, and breeding was
carried on there long before it was
begun in Great Britain The testi-
mony of many eminent men is in
favor of the Holstein breed. The
cheese makers of Holland have COWS
giving twen1y-eight wine quarts a
day. The fattening quality Of the
Holsteins is remarkable There is
On farm near Gwynedd, Pa, cow
five years Of age, weighing 1900
pounds. There are four others,
weighing 114O, 1175, 1145 and $50
respectively. AS milk producers the
Holsteins are unequalled. Echo has
a record Of IS, 100 pounds of milk in
365 days, and Constance S. gave
eighty pounds Of milk in one day,
a feat which has never been equalled.
AS butter-makers the Holsteins rank
high. Mercedes won the challenge
cup by scoring ninety-nine pounds
and 81 ounces in thirty days; Aggie
I'd made twenty-seven pounds and
seven ounces in seven days; Lady
de Rees, 121 pounds and twelve
ounces in thirty days, an average Of
over four pounds per day. The
Holstein oxen are large, strong and
docile, b1t I prefer the shorthoWs.
-Amfric0n CMLtiUatOr
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20

The excursion to Washington
netted the Baptist church at this
place about -Greensboro Pa
triOt
Joseph Yokely, Of Davidson
county, sheared 49 pounds of wool
from Il sheep. Considering the
small cost of wintcring sheep this
shows that farmers could make good
profit by keeping sheep Of improved
grade. Mr.. Yokely has four Of
Marino stock, that yielded fifteen
pounds Of wool alone.-Onef farmer
always selects his seed corn in the
field. He saves nothing but nice
firm ears, and he will not save an
ear from large stalk, it matters
not how nice the corn is. By pay
ing attention to this method a num-
Der Of years he has corn which will
not grow large stalks but good ears.
-iSdlem Press.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20
BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE

I The demand for bureau Of Agri-
culture in one of the departments Of
the general Government was long
urged by public opinion before the
first step had been taken toward it's
qualification Commerce and manu-
features had with great propriety
been cherished as objects entitled to
it's fostering care; but that upon
which the prosperity of all other
pursuits depends had found little or
no direct support in legislation. In,
1889, however, an appropriation Of
$1,000 was made, at the suggestion
of Mr.. Ellsworth, the then commits
sioner of patents, for the purpose Of
collecting agricultural statistics, etc:
In 1912, three years later, another
Thousand was appropriated; in l843,
$4,000 was appropriated; in 1914, a
like sum; 1915, $4,000; in 1847,
like sum; in 1848, $500; in 1849,
the same; in 1850, S450O; in 1851,
$500; and the same in 1852; and in
1853, $4,000. By this time the ben
efts Of these appropriations began
to be partially comprehended, and
the conviction took strong hold
upon the public mind that branch
of industry which had in 1850 been
officially ascertained to yield pro-
ducts valued at nearly one and a
third billions of dollars ($1, 1926, ,691,-
326, the products of mining, manu-
facturers and the mechanic arts
being considerably less was worthy
the expenditure Of a few thousands; !;
and accordingly, we find that in
each of the years 1854 and in 1855
an appropriation of s25, 900 was made
together with $4,000 to supply a
deficiency in 1853. Since then the
appropriations have gradually in
creased to half million dollars a
year.-Ben Purley Poore, IN American
CultiUdtOr.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20
OUR FARMERS CLUBS.
What our Farmers are Doing and How
the Work of Organizing is Progressing.
CEDAR GROVE CLUB.

The club met Saturday. 9th inst,
with a full attendance of members.
The subject chosen for discussion
was the present road law, known as
the Watson law, as compared with
the old system. There was a full
and free discussion, every member
participating and expressing his
views. At the conclusion Of the
discussion vote was taken, which
stood twelve for the old system,
seven for the new, and two i'm favor
of working the roads by taxation,
alone. The club expressed desire
to hear from the other clubs in the
county on this subject, with view
of ascertaining the sentiments of the
farmers of the county upon it and
suggest that it be considered at the
next meeting.
A. w. BEvEL, Secretary.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20
HOW RAIN is PRODUCED.

Did it ever occur to the reader
that there is just as much water in
the air above him on a clear bright
day as on a cloudy or rainy one?
Rain does not come from somewhere
else, or if it is waited over to you
from elsewhere, the water that is
over you is simply waited on to
some other place. What is said
love explains this. Water 8
absorbed in the air above us at GER
tain temperature, and it becomes
insensible. Cool that air by wind
draft of cooler atmosphere, or by
electrical or chemical influences, and
the moment the air becomes cooler
it gives up some of the watery par
ticles that were insensible or invisa-
Bile to the highertemperature. These
small PARTICLES thus given out unite
and when enough of them coalesce,
obstruct the light and show as
clouds. When enough of them unite
to be too heavy to float in the air
they begin to descend pair after
pair of them come together until a
rain drop is formed. One Of these
minute rain drops is made up of
millions Of infinitely small watery
particles.
Air passing over the cold tops of
mountains is cooled down so that it
gives up a good deal of the concealed
watery vapor, and hence little rain
falls in the region along the ice
side of the mountains. This is why
so little rain falls in Colorado and
in other places north and south of
that State. The prevailing winds
blow from the west, and the cool
tops of the Rocky Mountains lower
their temperature, and thus take
out the moisture that would other
wise fall in rain.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20
WINSTON, N. c., OCTOBER 20, 1886.

following order: One on the Sd, one
on the 9TH, two on the 7th, one on
the 9Th and two on the 18th. Symp-
toms are, slight fever, diminished
appetite, stiffness and apparent pain
in the affected limb, with a distinct
cracking sound when walking, red
ness, heat and swelling of skin in
interdigital space, formation Of vesi-
clcs, suppuration, burrowing Of pus
in soft parts; and sloughing out of
soft parts within the hoofhorn.
The Inflammation extends above the
corona and in some cases to the
back. Pus is at first thin, watery
and tinged with blood; later, is yell
lowish and more purlent.
Feet affected have been as follows {:
Left hind foot in three cases, right
fore. foot in two cases. Treatment
has been thorough washing, disin-
fectants and free application of an
astringent anodyne ointment. Two
cases have recovered in five days;
none have shed the hoof horn; none
have died. JNO. w. THOMPSON,
Steward
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20
HEAT OF THE GULF STREAM.

It is we'll understood that Great
Britain and other parts of the north
western Europe owe much to the
warming influence Of the Gulf
Stream. The extent of the effect
has been given in the calculation Of
DR.. James Croll, who has found that
the amount Of heat conveyed north
ward in the Atlantic by this stream
is equivalent to 77,479, $50, 1000, O,OOO,-
100000 foot pounds of energy per
day, which is equal to all the heat
received by 1,56O,935 square miles
at the equator, and more heat than
is conveyed by all the air currents:
The heat of the Arctic Seas and
North Atlantic would be diminished
that much by the stoppage or diver
sion of the great ocean river.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20
QUITE PARADOXICAL.

The New York World pertinently
remarks: "What paradoxical par
ody upon republican government it
is when citizens are SO busy in max
ing money that they will not take
the trouble to protect themselves
from being robbed, swindled and
misgoverned by a set Of pot-house
politicians
There is more complaint of the
shortcomings of officials in New
York than in any other city in this
country, and yet the fact is that
there are over 30, 900 citizens, voters,
business men and property owners,
who never go to the polls to vote,
but they complain when thieves get
in office from which their votes
might keep them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20
MOUNTAIN CREEK FARMERS CLUB.
BOsTICK's MILLS, N. c., }
October Is, 1886.

EDITOR PROGRESSIVE FARMER:-l
thought perhaps a few lines about
our Mountain Farmers Club might
be of interest. Since our dinner on
the 10Th of August, we have added
nineteen to our membership.
At our last meeting the question
of fertilizers for the coming year
received some attention, as it was
thought that the Club ought to use
every means to buy at the cheapest
and that onl ly of what was absolutely
necessary. The question for discus
sion at the next meeting of the Club
is, (Which would be the best for
frmers, to buy Guano or to buy
the chemicals and compost p The
Club then discussed the desirability
of building house to be used as a
store and also as hall to hold the
Club and other meetings. 1t was
felt that the members were placed
at some inconvenience by not having
a house in which to meet, and with
the prospect of largely increased
trade during the coming year, all
agreed that the time had come to
build a house for the Club.
Crops in this section are much
shorter than was expected; both
corn and cotton being cut short by
the long dry spell after the wet
spring. In spite Of the short crops:
the Club members are paying up,
and no doubt all will pay for what
they have bought through the Club.
But had they been compelled to pay
time prices, most Of them could not
have paid out.
We heartily agree with the Pro
GREssIvE FARMER in the line it is
taking, and trust that great results
may be the outcome.
/ am yours truly,
JOSEPH l.. GALLOWAY,
Secretary.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20
No. 81.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS

The Baltimore Manufadurer's Rec
ord gives the following suggestive
synopsis of the progress in Southern
industries for the past nine months:
"Among the principal iron and
steel enterprises now under way are
five new furnaces of Basic steel
works and $4,000 coke ovens by the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company, who already have five
furnaces in operation. This COM
pany has capital of $1O,0O0,00O,
and when the new furnaces are com
pleted will have a daily capacity of
about one thousand four hundred
tons Of pig iron; two furnaces now
building at the De Bardelobar coal
and iron company one by Mr.. Sam
uel Thomas and associates, Of Penn
sylvania; two under contract at
Sheffield Ala; two by Nasheville
and New York capitalists at South
Pittsburg, Tenn; one by the Coal
burg coal and coke company, Of Bir-
mingham; one at Ashland, Ky; one
at Etna, Tenn. ; one at Calera, Ala.
an S9OO,00O iron company at Flor
ence, Ala. Bessemer steel works at
Chattanooga, Tenn, and Richmond,
Va; two stove works, each with
capital of 100000, at Birmingham;
two iron pipe works, one to be the
largest in the United States, at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, and similar enter
prise at Wheeling, Ala. A 100000
company has been organized to
build an iron manufacturing town at
Bessemer, Ala; a $3,OOO,OOO com
pany, composed of Northern and
Southern capitalists, has purchased
large part of South Pittsburg,
where two furnaces are in operation
and where three more are to be
built and also iron pipe works and
other manufacturing enterprises
while two other iron centres are to
be developed near Birmingham, one
by the North Birmingham Land
Company and the other by the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad COM
pany During the last nine months
there have been organized in the
South forty-two ice factories, fifty
six founderies and Machine shops
(many of them large) one Besse-
mer steel rail mill, sixteen miscel-
laneous iron works, including iron
pipe works, bridge and bolt works,
&c., five stove foundries, nineteen
gas works, twenty-three electric
light companies, eight agricultural
implement factories, one hundred
and fourteen mining and quarrying
enterprises, twelve carriages and
wagon factories, nine cotton mills,
nineteen furniture factories, twelve
water works, forty-four tobacco fac
tories, seventy-one flour mills, three
hundred and sixty-two lumber
mills (not counting the small porta-
BILE saw mills) including saw and
planning mills, sash and door facto-
ries, stave, handle, shingle, hub and
spoke and shuttle block factories, &C.
In addition to which there was a
number of miscellaneous enterprises.
During the first nine months of
'86 the amount of capital, including
capital stock of Incorporated compa-
nies represented by new manufact-
uring and mining enterprises organ
lied or chartered at the South and
in the enlargement of old plants and
in rebuilding of mills that were
destroyed by fire, aggregated about
s48, 1884, 200 against So, 1886, 300 for
corresponding period of '85.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20
A STOCK REGION.

The territory of Alberta in the
Canadian Northwest contains, it is
computed, 1926 cattle, 1O,O25
horses, and 21,3OO sheep. Thus at
$40 per head, $3,O53,OO0 is invested
in cattle; $6O1, 800 in horses at $50
per head and $500 in sheep at 81
per head This is very good begin
ming, considering it is only three or
four years since the first attempt
was made to establish ranches in
the Territory.--Farm, Field and
St0ckmdn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20
CATTLE DISEASE-INFORMA.
TION WANTED.

EDITOR PROGRESSIVE FARMER
The following epidemic has broken
out among the cattle Of the N. G..
Insane Asylum, and any information
that would throw light upon the
probable causes would be gladly
received. Since the Sd of October
seven cases have occurred, in the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20

We learn that strong club has
been formed at Jerusalem in Davie
county. The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
asks that all clubs report their pro-
ceedings through it's columns, thus
making it a convenient medium of
communication between them, as
thereby they may hear from each
other every week.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20

A farmers club was organized at
Greenville, Pitt county, Saturday,
9th inst.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20

A Farmers club was organized at
Jericho, in Davie county, on last
Saturday. A report of the proceed
ings will appear in our paper as soon
as received.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20
A THIEF'S PAWN CHECK.
How 1t Led to His Detection and Got an In
nocent Man into Trouble.

Last week Willard Norcroes was arrested for
trying to beat hotel out of bill and was sent
to Jail as vagrant. The deputies at the jail. in
taking charge of the effects on his person, found,
among other things, check for watch that he
had pawned at Wakefeld's shop, at the corner Of
George street and Central avenue. Cincinnati.
The amount obtained on it was S. Noroross told
John Long, one the Jail deputies, that the watch
was valuable one. and that. as he would be IN
able to redeem it, he would let him have it and
redeem it. Long took the check and sent it to
Cincinnati to be redeemed, in charge of
Four. Faulkner went to the pawn-shop on
Wednesday, and presented the check and the So,
which Long had given him, with which TO
pay principal and interest The pawn
broker took the money, and almost
before he suspected that anything was wrong,
Faulkner was arrested by the police as an ac-
complete of the man who had stolen the watch.
He was held in the sum of $500, but gave bail,
and on coming back to this city put the facts be-
fore Long in very earnest manner Mr.. Long
lost no time in writing to the Cincinnati author
tiles, and giving full statement of the facts.
Word was received, yesterday to hold Norcross
a fugitive, and saying he would be sent for
to-day. Long is out five dollars, and Faulkner
is in for good deal of trouble The watch,
which Norcross now acknowledges he stole, be-
longed to member Of the Cincinnati Times
Star force, and was stolen from him while in the
Office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20

up with an easy lounge and numerous unfxed
easy chairs. The interior finish is OF solid ma
hogany, long mirrors in the dining-room are IN
carved mahogany frames, and the decorations
are of lincrusta walton and birch. The lin
crusta walton is of Tiffany's design and the col
oring lis uniquely variegated and very rich
A train upon the Fitchburg road has been sup
piled with new invention, in which electricity
has been utilized by the inventors, Geo. D. Bur
ton. of Burton cattle-car fame, and C. FL. Ma
goon, for the purpose of enabling the conductor
to signal the engineer by means with which each
car of the train is provided, and which do not re-
quire to be provided with separate couplings be-
tween adjacent cars. This In accomplished by
utilizing the coupling of the various automatic
air-brakes and their connections. SO that no addi-
tional labor is required to make electrical con-
nection throughout the train. az the circuit is
instantaneousy and automatically completed by
coupling the airbrakes together. The invention
has been working successfully upon the Fitch
burg road for some time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20
THREATENED BREACH IN A CHURCH.
The indianapolis Presbytery Endeayors to Ad-
just the Troubles of Congregation.

A special meeting of the Indianapolis Presby-
terry was held at the Second Church, yesterday,
the particular object of which was to consider
and its pastor, Rev. George L. j. Brown, and
to correct long existing troubles that
have threatened to cause a breach in
the congregation. Rev. J. W. Augh
presided. The discussion disclosed that
Rev. Brown, upon coming to the pastorate of
the church at Columbus, being somewhat of a
progressive turn began to work on new lines
This independent course of action in the direc-
tion of church affairs proved distasteful to GER
tain of the older members who had been accus-
toned to figure largely in such matters and al
though Dir. Brown had been highly successful
in adding members TO his church, they submit
ted reasons why he should resign his pastorate
He presented the matter to the congregations at
the same time offering his resignation. This
the congregation at first refused to accept but
upon the opposition TO the pastor becoming
stronger and more urgent in its demands it was
finally agreed to accept the resignation of Mr.
Brown If two elders of the opposition, Messrs.
Graham and Bonner, could be persuaded to re-
sign The terms were accepted and all three
sent in their designations, which were accepted
but the elders were Immediately reelected. The
friends OF the pastor charge the opposition with
dup'city, and yesterday submitted a paper
signed by one hundred members declaring that
peace could not be preserved ana that the con-
gregation would Immediately divide if Graham
and Bonner continued as elders The signers of
the paper further alleged that they had voted
to accept the resignation Of Mr.. Brown
upon condition of the elders being removed, not
subject to reelection for three years. They
further charge that the resignation of Bonner
and Graham was part of scheme to get rid of
Mr. Brown and retain these elders. The sgners
petitioned the prestytery to restrain Messrs.
Bonner and Graham from being installed
At the request Of Mr.. Brown, the presbytery
dissolved pastoral relations with
the church at Columbus and dis
missed him to the Maumee Presbytery
The elders agreed not to present themselves for
installment for tho present aad the presbytery
decided to hold MEETING for further special in
vestgation of the tacts, at Columbus, in two
weeks The presfytesy passed resolutions com
plimentary to Mr.. Browns services.
Rev VIM P. Bryce, of this city was accepted
as a candidate for the ministry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20
The Central Traffic Association.

The old time enthusiasm of President Ingalls,.
of the "Big Four" over the Central Traffic AS
ISOLATION has evidently petered, says the Wall
Street News. He thinks there is great danger
of its going to pieces by reason of lack of har
mony between it and the trunk lines, and re-
greis exceedingly that tho trunk lines were not
represented at the Cresson, Pa. meeting. The
trunk lines, he says, will suffer from the disrup-
ton of the Central association. if that comes
about, and the evidence of this is the success of
the Chicago 81 Atlantic in doing as it pleased re-
CARELESS of trunk-line threats and coaxings.
Cancellation and mutual concessions are the
things essential, according to Mr. Ingallss ideas.
We apprehend that since close relations were
established between the big Four" the Illinois
Central on the north, and the Chesapeake q
Ohio on the south, Mr.. ingalls, may have forgot
ten that fundamental principle governing all
pool relations between the trunk lines and the
Middle States roads is that the trunk lines die
tate. That is what the latter went in to do.
They could control their affiliated lines and in
combination make things hot for the lines that
undertook to be independent Such, at least,
was the the theory. and, acting upon it, the
trunk lines would not think it necessary TO be
represented at the meeting of Chicago and Mid
die States roads