The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-20

Eight hundred thousand dollars in
silver certificates have been issued since
the LIST of October.
There are a number of women prac-
ticing medicine in Northern cities. In
Philadelphia the incomes of some of
these from their profession range from
$1,000 to $4,000.
-Abram S. Hewitt has been nomina-
ted by the Tammany Hall Democrats
for Mayor of New York. He accepted
on condition that the balance of the
ticket be satisfactory.
Some politicians on the stump are
fashioned after the earthquake style.
They make a clatter and noise, but you
know as little about them after it is all
over as you did before.
-Messrs. Louis Dagger & Co., solicit
ors of patents, Washington, D. c.,
inform us that there were granted to
citizens of Southern States, t%hirty-two
patents bearing the date of Oct II, 1886.
-Ofthe 46, 1000, 900 hogs in the country
last year nearly 100000 died of disease.
The percentage in the South was from
II to %. In the five great corn States
of the West-Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska, the percentage
was Is to IS.
We understand that Col. j. M. Win
stead, of Greensboro is a candidate for
Congress in this district on the Prohibi-
ton ticket. "You pays your money
and takes your choice"-Reid, Demo-
crat--Brower, Observation-Disclosures,
Greenbacker, and Winstead, Prohibition
list.
The experiments in tobacco culture
in Mecklenburg, Union and Cleveland
counties have been so successful this
year that the probabilities are a large
area will be planted in these counties
next year. The tobacco raised has been
of fine grade and the planters have been
successful in properly curing it.
We learn that Prof. IA. w. Thomp-
son will remove his school from Oakdale
to Siler, a flourishing village on the C. F.
& Y. V. R. R., and that a large and com
modious building will be ready for him
by the first of January next. We con-
graduate the Professor and the com
munity of Siler, for he will build up an
excellent school at this point.
There seems to be a considerable
amount Of ''skinning" done on the
stump these days, if we can believe the
papers, and from the frequency OF the
skinning operation some of the candi-
dates must have been furnished with a
multiplicity of skins to start with. Skin
ming may be funny for the skinner if
or the skinned, but how much bet
tel informed are the people who GO to
hear the issues of the day discussed after
these skinnings than they were before?
The Cornucopia, published in Nor
folk, Va, prints a notice Of George A.
Wilson, an Eastern Virginia farmer, who
b gan after the war with little or nothing
md is now the owner of 5000 acres OF
good land. His corn crop the pre- en-:
season will reach $4,000 bushels OF
corn. His oat crop threshed out
800 Bushels, and he put up 800 ton of
and timothy. He has increased
lis grass acreage to yield him 600 tons
next year. He raised % acres of pota-
;oes from which he realized ? ,46O, and
sold 175 lambs and POO fat sheep
which brought him 81 a head for the
ambs and S. for the sheep. In addition
this he sold $4,000 worth of beef
This fall he will cure 10000
pounds Of pork. Mr.. Wilson is evi lently
,ne of the farmers who farms with his