The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-13
State gtelus.

We learn from the Davie Times
that the farmers of Mocksville town.
ship will meet at Jerusalem, Sat-
urday 10th, to organize a Farmers
| Club.
Steps are being taken to make
application for the creation Of a new
county out of parts of Wilson, John
ston, Wake, Nash and Franklin.
There is complaint among farm
ers that the cotton crop has been
considerably cut off by the con-
tinued dry weather-Rockinghnm
Rocket.
Mr. r. L. English, of Randolph,
furnished us with a tobacco leaf of
his own growing, which measured
% inches wide by 32 long-High
Point Enterprise. ....
Our candidate for Sheriff, Mr.
B. F. Patrick, sent us one day last
week bunch of rice that is six feet
tall and some of the heads fully a
foot long. This rice was grown on
his farm near Greenville and he has
large crop of it.-Eastern Reflector.
j. F. Vance, who lives a few
miles from town possesses wonder
ful hen. Her eggs measured for
three days in succession ei ight inches
one way and nine inches the other,
and upon the fourth day she deter
mined to beat her own record by
laying two well formed eggs.-Ker-
nersrHe Fdrm-Nears.
The estimated loss to the tobacco
crop of Guilford county by the frost
on the night of the I'd of October is
about 25,0O0 in round numbers.
The North Carolina Spoke and Han
die Works which was destroyed by
fire at this place last August has
been rebuilt and will commence
operation next Saturday.-Greens-
boro Patriot
The farmers of Alamance county
report that they have the sorriest
tobacco crop they have had since
the "frosted crop" and some say
their crops will not bring as much
money as the ''frosted crop" The
flea bugs, cut worms, dry and wet
weather did the work for them. We
gathered this information while at
court at Graham and we saw far n
ers from every section of the county.
Durham Recorder.
An informal meeting of several
of our prominent business men was
held Monday, at which meeting
committee was appointed to confer
with President Bridgers of the Will
mington & Weldon Railroad, relative
to making Durham the terminus of
the Albemarle & Raleigh Railroad
For the year ending Septenfber
Both, Durham shipped 444, 126
pounds of smoking tobacco, worth
s1,599, 1924. 43,199 pounds of
chewing tobacco, worth $15, 12O.
9,166,O6O cigarettes, worth
$4,000.
At the warehouses last year A.
591,451 pounds of leaf tobacco were
sold, worth S1,397, ,179. 20 PLANT.
We learn of considerable tobacco
that was caught out by the frost.
We know of one man who had 20
acres in which he had not put a
knife, while numbers of others had
from 10000 to 10000 plants in one
field out.-The potato crop this
year is an abundant one, and this
will 60 far toward making both ends
meat this winter. With an ample
corn and potato crop people can live
in this country though they have to
buy everything else.-Mr. F. FL.
Taylor who lives near Woodwork,
this county, has added another to
to the fine blooded stock of our
section, having recently purchased
thoroughbred registered Handle
tonian stallion. He is beautiful
animal, seal brown in color, of fine
size, well proportioned, six years
old. Mr. Taylor purchased him
from Col. Alexander, proprietor of
the celebrated Woodburn stock farm,
of Kentucky. He is unframed and
has a record of 2:379 at five years