The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24

"A new process of extracting the
juice of the sorghum cain for1making
sugar has been successfully tried in
Kansas. Soaking is resorted to instead
of crushing the cain between rollers, and
thus nearly all the juice is secured
when by the other method rarely seventy
per cent. was. .. E#< F.fr
Louis Dagger & Co., solicitors of
patents, Washington, ID. c., write us
that 90 patents bearing date of 10th
inst. were granted to citizens Of Southern
States, among them one to III. P. Jones,
of Hillsboro, N. c., for danger signal,
one to j. j. Thornton q P. Hubbard,
Greensboro, for bosom board, and n to
Frank Vaughn, of Elizabeth City, for
car coupling.
The wheat crop of the world for 1886
is estimated at 2,122,336. 665 bushels, a
slight increase over the crop of 'S5,
which was 2,1l4,56S,752 The demand
for consumption was 2,lS3, 100000. Ac.
cording to the US. Department of Agri
culture the deficiency last year was
7O,OOO,OOO, and about 100000 bushels
this year. This being SO, wheat ought to
hold it's wv in price.
-Ex-President Chester A.. Arthur,
who has been i'll with a complication OF
diseases for a year or more, died at his
home in New York last Thursday morn.
ing. President Cleveland and several
members of his cabinet attended the
funeral which took place Monday, the
remains being inferred in the Rural
cemetery, the family burying ground, at
Albany. He was ffty-six years of age.
The farmers of South Carolina think
they ought to have an Agricultural
College, and express their sentiments to
that effect for the benefit of the in.
coming legislature. The farmers OF
North Carolina, too, ought to have an
Agricultural College, and would have il
the land scrip donated by Congress was
applied as it was intended to be applied,
instead of being used for the benefit OF
the State University, which could and
should get along without it.
Fire Tuesday, 10th, destroyed the
principal business block in Durham,
with Parrish's warehouse, the largest in
Durham, and some other buildings, n.
49, L., 80 oH~-@ 5000 900 IT,,
fire originated in the rear of Atwater's
store, it is supposed either from adefect-
i've fue or a Kerosene lamp. The only
means of fighting the fire was achemical
engine which proved useless. AS thirty
ing a town as Durham should not be
without water works, and better meth
DDS of protection from fires.
Fayetteville was saved from destruc.
ton by fire on 18th inst. by the heroic
conduct of a little boy named John P.
Moore. A large frame building was
burning, throwing burning brands in all
directions under a high wind, one OF
which fell upon the roof of one of the
principal business blocks. There was no
ladder to reach the roof. and the house
caught fire, with the high wind the city
was doomed. The fire engine was dis
abled with a bursted fue. The question
was how to reach and extinguish the fire
which the brand had lighted on the
roof, without a word the little fellow
threw off his coat and shoes, flew up a
tree which spread some of its branches
over the roof. climbed out on a projecting
limb, dropped upon the roof, tore up the
burning shingles, in the presence of
hundreds of people who stood cheering
the little hero, and saved the house and
the town. Fayetteville should remember
that boy. #sE.