The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-01

icals for wheat fertilizers, which shows
the progress our farmers are making in
manipulating their own fertilizers.
The American Dairy Association holds
it's national convention in Philadelphia
on the 14th and 18th of September. 1t
is to be a congratulatory meeting over
the success of the oleomargarine hill and
to discuss measures for the further pro-
motion and protection of the agricultural
and dairy interests of the country.
The annual Fair of the Eastern Caro-
lima Fair and Stock Association will be
held at the grounds near Goldsboro on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, No
vember Sd, 4th and 9Th. We are in
debted to the Secretary for a premium
list, with programme. None of the pre-
miums are very large, but in the aggre-
gate they amount to considerable.
The Roanoke District Grange Agri-
cultural Fair will be held on it's grounds
at Woodland, N. c., October 9th and
2Sth. 1t has always been largely attended
and successfully conducted. The editor
of THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER has been in
vited to deliver the annual address, and
looks forward with much pleasure to the
meeting of many old friends of the Roam
oke and Chowan section.
Mr.. S. Ohio Wilson, one of the live
and progressive farmers and fruit cult
vators of Wake county, has contrived
and applied for a patent on a new pro-
cess for hanging and curing tobacco. He
pulls only the leaves as they ripen, leav-
ing the unripe on the stalk to mature.
By his process uniformity of color is
secured, with much less labor and at CON
siderably reduced cost.
-Messrs. Louis Dagger & Co., Solic-
itors of Patents, Washington, DC, write
us that thirty-five patents, bearing date of
August oath, were granted to citizens of
the Southern States, among them one to
G. H. Gaskins, of Pantego, N. c., for me-
chanical detector; one to Levi Jones, of
Hendersonville, N. C., for a mill and
fish dam, and n to j. M. Maynard, of
Hickory, N. c., for marking OF laying
out mortises.
-"Breethren brethren! for goodness
sake, tote fair" said an old colored
brother, who was being taxed heavily by
church. and THE PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER in all the eloquence Of solid earnest
ness, appeals again to its "breethren" of
the State press to "tote fair" You may
not all understand it, but those brethren
who persist in doing us the honor to
appropriate our articles and will not
give us credit for them, know exactly to
whom this appeal is directed.
Senator Jones, Of Florida, who was
in his seat one day during the whole
past session of Congress, spending his
in Detroit, Michigan, in pursuit of
a wealthy spinster, has decided to remain
that city and has notified the Gov
of Florida that he will not be a
candidate for reelection. He will not
however, but will continue to hold
on and draw his salary as he did, regu-
larly at the end of each month during
the past session. 1t would not be an easy
to draw a correct distinction be-
tween this kind of business and steal
ing.
The Second Annual Fair of the
.atawba Industrial Association will open
Hickory on Tuesday, the 10Th of Octo-
Der, and continue four days. The pre-
MUM list just received indicates a most
careful preparation on the part of the
management for a large Fair. That it
will be we'll conducted and be a creditable
success none will doubt who know any
thing of the energy and business tact of
It's managers, or of the progressive and
people of Catawba. 1t will
be a Fair well worth attending. The
editor of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER has
accepted an invitation to deliver the an
nual address.
Cutting, the Texas editor, has been
by the Mexican authorities, but
there is another matter pending between
two governments of a graver nature
han the Cutting affair. One Arresures,
h Mexican, who claimed to be an Amer