The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-07-07
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died at his home in Nash county on
Saturday last. He could have made
fortune had he travelled in cir
Gus, but he was reserved in manner
and shrank from public gaze, and so
he died poor and comparatively un-
known.-W Wilson Mirror.
DR.. W. T. Woody, of Chowan
county, has 100000 tobacco plants
in a good growing condition, with
few cut worms. 1t is all he could
ask. His barns for curing are about
completed.
The new sash and blind factory
opposite ]. L. King & Co.'s tobacco
factory, is about completed and the
machinery will be put in position in
few days.-Enterprises of every
description continue to rise to the
surface in Greensboro Chief among
the latest is the Joint stock company
composed of w. E. Bevill, j. L.
King, Samuel Mitchell and G. N.
McAdoo, recently organized, for the
manufacture of Greensboro
Patriot.
Abe Kiser, of CASTOR county, of
unsound mind, shouldered his gun
week before last and started from
home He spent his time in wander
ing about through the woods and
fields eating berriesand leaves. When
he perceived that he was discovered,
he would run like deer, and all at
tempts to capture him proved abort
i've until last Friday. When caught
he was much emaciated and nearly
starved to death. .-Ne,Ct0n Enterprise.
Mr. Louis Blount, who has just
returned from a trip through part
of Orange and Person county, in
forms us that the wheat crop in that
section was failure, but that the
corn and tobacco crops were looking
we'll. .-Messrs. Walter and E. G.
Holt are progressing very rapidly
with their new cotton factory at
Company Shops. Company Shops
is destined to be the centre of the
cotton manufacturing section. They
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three Hillsboro Recorder.
The rainy weather has contin-
ued now for more than six weeks,
and the farmers are pretty blue
Wheat standing in the fields is not
sprouting much, where we'll shocked,
but oats can hardly be cut between
the rains and some of it has to be
moved. What seems to oppress the
farmers most, however, is the fear
that they will never be able to catch
up with the grass. Grass and weeds
are just about to take corn and cot
ton.-A note from Prof w. E.
Hidden informs us that one of the
emeralds found at the mine of the
Emerald and Hiddenite Mining Com
pany, Alexander county, on the I'd
ult:, has resulted in cut gem of ex-
quisite lustre and beauty, about one
half inch square and nearly as thick.
Prof Hidden says: "It is the peer
Of any emerald gem yet found in
the United States, and | have seen
much poorer ones from the far-famed
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mark
There will be an effort made to
have a public road opened from
Spaugh's store on the Salisbury road
to Hopewell, in Broadbay township,
and from thence by New Friendship
to the Salem and Lexington road.
Mr.. Alexander Vogler says that
he has a field of uniform fertility,
and that on part of it was sown
Kivett wheat, and on the remainder
Foltz wheat The Foltz wheat yield
ed double as much per acre as the
Kivett. 1.-The daisies are spreading
in this vicinity to great extent.
Many meadows and wheat fields
have already been injured by them,
and it is feared by farmers that in a
few years they will become very
serious pest to the farming interests.
We hear much complaint that
young chickens are dying and it is
not certain what their disease is
One person who has made examina-
tion, says there was small worm
in the throat of each of those exam
ined, and that by giving coperas
water to those sick, the worm spoken
| of is removed, and the chickens get