The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-30
State 9telus.

There are four hundred and ten
convicts at work upon the Cape
Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad.
License to retail spirituous
liquors at Shoe Heel has been raised
from one hundred and fifty dollars
to two hundred and forty dollars
LumbertOn Robes0nian
Mr. Newton Taylor, of Bun
combe county has shown the Ashe-
vile Citizen sample of his oats five
feet six inches high, and says he
has large crop Of the same kind.
Mrs. James Weathers has hen
known to be twenty years old. She
laid we'll every year until the pres
ent. This year she has laid no eggs,
but is fat and seems to enjoy life.
-FranMlnton Weekly.
The tobacco farmers in Thomas
vile vicinity are greatly discouraged
by their plants frenching. Mr.. S. G..
Morris reports about 5000 of his
crop in that condition and are worth
less.-Lerington Dispatch,
Rufus Lawrence, colored, and
James and c.. J. Freeman, white,
convicted in the Federal Court at
Charlotte of passing counterfeit
money, were sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary and to pay a fine
Of $500.
"A new body Of ore has been
struck in the vein of the Catharine
mine, near the city, which it is
thought is sufficiently large to keep
the mining force at work for nearly
three years-Charlotte Chronicle.
The Old North State gains about
seven thousand acres of rich bottom
land by the late correction of the
line between our own Mecklenburg
and the South Carolina county of
Lancaster. Raleigh Ne,os- Observer.
Our wheat harvest is over. The
yield is very poor. Corn is looking
well, but the rainy weather has pre-
vented it's being well worked, but
the farmers are now trying to catch
up with their work. Cotton and
tobacco are said to be doing well.-
Chatham Home.
The celebrated India, Pointer
mad stone is no humbug; it is being
applied to great many cases of
dog bites with perfect success. 1t
is owned by Samuel Pointer and
George w. Barnett, of Roxboro. This
stone is endorsed by the oldest citi-
zens of this county.-Person County
Courier.
In Bakersville the Baptists have
erected and covered very substan-
TALLY new church, and the Metho-
dists have done the same at Forest
Home, about six miles from POrce-
lain.-At the Western Asylum
they will begin taking in the 25O addi-
tional patients next month.-Lenolr
Topic.
In this immediate section crops
are not as good as last year, except
Highland corn, which is probably bet
ter than formerly. Cotton has been
injured by the cool weather during
the first three weeks in June and
the heavy rains which have been
falling since the last of April. Wheat
and oats tolerably fair crops.-Char-
lOtte Democrat.
We have been having too much
rain of late for tobacco, while corn
is not receiving benfit from it. Intel
ligent farmers tell us tobacco cannot
turn out anything like as well as it
would have done but for the excess
i've rains for the past week or two.
The plants have been growing too
fast and as a consequence cannot
develop and mature as they should.
Henderson G0ldlev.
Mr.. T. V. Avent, prominent
farmer of this county, has eighty
acres of very fine tobacco. Last year
he planted seventy acres and that
he has already received $4,000 from
these seventy acres and still has
10000 lbs. on hand unsold, from
which he expects to realize $1,000
more. So much for good farming.
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