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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
CLEVER ACT BYACLEvERM MAN

At a meeting of the Central Busl-
ness Committee of Wake county, on
the 3rd inst, a very courteous letter
was received from Mr.. L. III. Adams
of this city, generously rendering the
use of his large hall in the "Adams
Building to the Alliance for its meet,
ings, free of charge. This timely ana
generous offer on the part OF Mr.
Adams will bessdulye appreciated by
the whole membership of the county;
The following resolutions were Offered
and unanimously adopted in the Com
mittee. g.
RESOLVED, That the chairman OF TINS
meeting appoint a committee OF three
to tender to Mr.. L. 81. Adams, o..
Raleigh, the assurance of u aPpreT
citation of his courteous and generous
favor, in offering to us the free use o.
his hall for .onr meetings.a
Resolved, That the said comml''es
are instructed to, present the letter ~
Mr.. Adams to the next regular meas
ing of Our County Alliance with
COPY Of the above resolutions. I
s = a. ,Ag4Fv- c".@z *tffa ..-ast -<isAb 5f--s
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09

whether in all the historyo of the ALI
ance movement a parallel to it can be
found. Then We must remember that
it was simply an impossibility to so
perfect our organization in so short a
timerand especially beginning so late
in the year, as to be able as a State
organization, to introduce and operate
the Texas Business System. We re.
peat that the order has made marvel.
Gus progress in our State. Our Presi-
dent and Executive Committee have
done and are doing all in their power
to push the work of organization to
that point where we may safely intro
|duce the Texas or "Macune Business
FSystem." But they have wisely sur
veyed the ground and have wisely de-
termined to make no mistake in this
vitality important matter. They are
men Of sound Judgment, whose pro-
g~ressiveness and zeal is tempered with
prudence and discretion. They know
full well that a mistake in this mat
ter might mean ruin. They believe
that whatever the brethren Of Texas
or'any other State can do, We of North
Carolina can do. They believe that
the Alliance Business System can and
will be a grand success in North Caro-
lima, but it must be established with
great care and prudence.
We must get stronger, we must be
more thoroughly organized, before it
can be safely introduced. and to this
end they are working zealously and
faithfully. Meantime we are glad to
see that sub-Alliances, and in some in
stances County Alliances, are clubbing
together in their purchases, and are
succeeding admirably we'll.
| Let them act prudently and judi.
ciously; and above all with patience
and perseverance, and the dayis not
distant when the dawn of a new era
to the farmers will gladden. their
| hearts.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09

sustain and advance the development
of the great railroad interests Of our
State; NORM recognition of their won
derful potency and power in promot-
ing the material and industrial pro-
gross of our people. but the limits of
their powers should be defined and
enforced by the State. This should
not be done nor attempted to be done
under the influence Of party rancor.
This question should not be dragged
into politics. 1t should be done with
the greatest deliberation and the most
impartial Judgment.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
YOUR BOY MAY LIVE TO SEE IT.

The earth is throbbing from zone
to zone under the restless activity and
power Of mind. Never has the world
witnessed such grand achievement
and glorious triumph Of intellect and
genius. A. little t~en-year-old boy
livingof in the country who never saw
a railroad, has no conception of a
printing press, street cars, electric
lights, gas lights, telegraphs or tele-
phones. Yet he may live to see the
curves in u railroads abandoned and
~enveloped in grass, and magnificent
airline trunk railways, 1ibboned with
three, four, six, steel tracks, over
which an hundred trains shall go
laundering along daily at the rate Of
sixty to one hundred miles per hour,
with no wood, nc coal, no fire, no
water about the engine. He may live
to see the great metropolitan dailies
duplicated simultaneously in all the
leading cities of this country and of
the world. He may live toGsee the
day when the telegraph will be dis
carded and ignored, as being too slow
and too tedious. He will doubtless
live to see the telephone brought to
such perfection that it will virtually
annihilate space. He. may live to see
the ebay when friends living on oppo-
site sides of the continent may, by
means of Photographic processes, be
brought face to face and look each
other in the eye, as they talk through
the telephone, as freely and ~1uently as
if sitting together; He may live to
see the day when an agent Of the
weather bureau, located at Raleigh,
will inform the central office at Wash
ington that a drought prevails in a
given section of the State, land that
agent will be ordered to give it rain
and it will be done. The possibilities
of human genius and scientific achieve
ment have lever yet been fathomed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Members Of the Alliance, a0hen aOratsng
to US, 0lU greatly tavor as # they wiU
ola0oys gave the No of their Alliance.
How is this for progress? One ham,
dred and twenty-three Alliances haze been
organized IN this State since the lst dan
Of January.
The organizer for Lenoir and Greene
counties goes to that field this week
for the purpose of organizing subor-
dinate Alliances.
Bro. D. A. Clark, Deputy Organizer
for Montgomery county, makes his
first report. Owing to sickness in his
family, he has not been able to do
much in the way Of organizing. He
reports the organization of one ALI
ance in every township in his terri
tory, except one.
r. Beach Cliff Alliance, Necklenbutrg
county, organized on the lst Of No
a.vember and got so strong that a por-
ton of its members, by. consent with.
drew and organized Hopewell Alliance
on the 2Sth ult. with % members. IL
has received two new members and
starts off under the most encouraging
Auspices. e - VS.. et,e /.
An esteemed brother writing us
~ - = 4 Ess< e s~ a. s4fsS -,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
For THE Progressive FARM

AOA AAN
M%oRR1sv1LLE, NC, Jan. 81, 'S8.
Col. L. L.. POLK, SEc'Y N. G. f. s
ALLIANCE:
Dear Brother.-In compliance with
the Constitution, I will attempt to
make my report for January.
I organized Piney Grove Alliance
on the 2lst with thirteen members.
P. H. Massey, President, and Jas. M.
Shepheard, Secretary; and have met
the farmers in Cedar Fork township
and gave them a talk in the way OF a
lecture. They will organize on next
Saturday, | expect. They want me
to meet them on that day.
[ have been in two or three other
neighborhoods, but owing to the bad
weather, have not done very much.
[ think all the farmers need to be
ready to organize in Durham county
is to have the principles of the ALI
ance explained to them. The outlook
is good. | expect to visit two other
neighborhoods in the near future.
j. S. BARBEE,
Deputy Organizer for Durham Co.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
IMPORTANT TO SILK GROWERS

The Commissioner of Agriculture,
at Washington, has just received from
Europe a consignment of choice silk
worm eggs which he will distribute
g~ratuitously to all persons who desire
to raise silk-worms and who are so sit
uated that they can do so satlsfac-
torlly. He will also be able to furnish
books of instructions in silk-cultufe
before the sericultural season com.
mences. For two seasons he has been
purchasing cocoons from American
silk growers at an average price of 95
cents per h., and wishes to still fur
Their supply with which to continue
the experiments now being made at
Washington in the reeling of silk from
the cocoon. All, therefore, who seek
a market for their cocoons or who
wish silk-worm eggs or books of in
struction or information Of any sort in
relation to the industry can obtain the
same, free of charge, upon application
to Hon. Norman j. Colman, Commits
sioner of Agriculture, Washington,
D. O..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
RAILROAD COMMISSIONS.

Georgia has a Railroad Commits
sion. Before this was established,
passenger rates on all the Georgia
railroads were five cents per mile. The
Commission put the rates down to
three cents per mile. The railroad
people protested that it would ruin
the roads. They used every legiti-
mate means at their command to pre-
vent the establishment of this Commits.
sion. They feared it's power, and
when the Commission reduced the
fare to three cents per mile, it was re-
sisted. But now in the light of expe-
rience, it seems that the roads are
about to conclude that it will be bet
ter for them to reduce the rates still
further. We see that the lessees of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad
have established new rates as follows:
For so miles and under, 2 IL cents
per mile; for so to 100 miles, 2 Ia
cents, and for all distances over 100
miles, l-8 cents per mile. The new
rates will 60 into effect March lst.
Of course the other roads of the
State will adopt these rates sooner or
later, and the people of Georgia and
all its business interests will be greatly
benefited. That the roads will be the
gamer by this reduction none can
doubt, since they would not make it of
their own choice, if they did not clear
ly see that it would be to their interest.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER has ever
been in favor of a Railroad Commits
sion for North Carolina. Not that
it is opposed to railroads; not that it
has any prejudice against railroads
not that it would in any manner
abridge their rights or curtail their
business, but because it believes that
It is the duty of the State to the citi.
zen to exercise such restraining infu.
ence over the powers of corporate
bodies as shall best secure justice and
equity to all concerned. We belieye
that the best interests of the railroads
and of the people, would be subserved
by the establishment OF, a C9pimmission
tor our Stats, and believing J i, tits
our duty asa citizen and a~doarnalist
| to say so. N 81 - - III utss. 4
No paper will go further than T4r
PRoGREssIvE FARatER in it's effort To
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09

The political leaders of the State
are greatly. embarrassed las to the
proper candidate for Governor, and
almost every day anew. man is pro-
duced, or a Encouragement is sug-
gested, by which the State a be
swept like wild-tire." Our clever con-
temporary the Newbern Journal, seems
to think that the farmers will have
something to say in this matter and
it suggests that Ex-Governor Jarvis
is the man to lead the. ticket. and Capt.
S. B. Alexander should be given the
second place on the ticket. How long
has it been since North Carolina had
a farmer-G Governor T. Of the thou
sands of good and true and patriotic
farmers of the State, is there not one
among them who would make us a
good Governor? The farmers "may
take it into their heads" to have
something to say in this matter, and if
they do, we would not be surprised if
they would say that they had quite a
number of excellent gentlemen in
their ranks, who would do honor to
the position and that they feel that it
is about time that parties and politi-
ticians recognize the fact and cour
teously accord to them the. choice as
to whether they will demand q posi-
ton on a ticket at all and If they do,
that they be GRACEFULLY permitted to
say what that position shall be. We
would kindly warn the leaders of all
parties to. exercise els Is s~xcseeding great
caution this year, in arranging tickets.
public prints and 5obbatrvudfng their
views on the public are remark;
ably. quiet about these matters, but
they are doing s9me lively thinking.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09

We warmly appreciate the follow
ing complimentary allusion to ourself
taken from that sterling agricultural
journal the Farm, Field and Stochman,
of Chicago, ILL.,: ~
"THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER is doing
excellent work in the South as the ex-
ponent Of Farmers Alliances, Coop
erative Unions, and other societies for
farmers. It deserves we'll of the peo-
pie of the South for the sturdy blows
it has struck for cooperation as
against the monopolizing tendencies OF
the age.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09

from Laurinburg says: "Alliance
affairs in our section are slowly but
surely moving forward. We have
purchased our fertilizers at a savino
of several dollars on the ton. We
mean business and expect to succeed
He asks for sample copies of our PAPER
and promises to send as a club of sinh.
scribers.
A letter from Bro. H. T. Scarboro
Secretary of Montgomery County
Alliance, informs us that the outlook
in that section is encouraging. Mont
gomery has been divided between
brethren Scarboro and Clark, who
will proceed at once to thoroughly
canvass and organize the county,
Bro. S. is one of our most jealous and
efficient organizers and we confidently
expect a good report from his county.
Bro. Thadeus Ivey, President of the
Robson County Alliance, and Vice.
President of our State Alliance and a
member of our State Executive Com
mittee, spent two days in making an
official examination of the books, rec.
ords, &C., of this Office and passed
upon the official bonds of the Secre.
tary and Treasurer of the State, as
required by the Constitution of our
| State Alliance. He is an intelligent,
progressive, jealous and most efficient
officer. We enjoyed his stay with us.
Since the last issue of u paper,
we have recorded the organization of
the following Alliances: Hopewell
Alliance, in Mecklenburg, by E. G..
Davidson; Oak Dale, in Johnston, by
w. A. Wellons; White Oak, in Samp
son, by E. J. Edwards; Shackloford,
in Onslow, Whaley's Chapel, Haw
Branch and Cedar Fork, in Duplin, by
H.. E. King; Oak Grove and Belmont
in Iredell, by c. W. Mccoy; Turnball,
in Bladen, by J.. G. Blocker; Triangle,
in Lincoln, by J. Springs Davidson;
Collision and Asbury, in Chatham, by
j. G. Burt; Pugh's Hill and Centre
vile, in Franklin, by D. P. Meacham;
Rome and Glenwood, in Johnston, by
c.: E. McCullers; Long Branch, in
Mecklenburg, by G. W. Mccoy; Rock
fish, in Robson, by J. O. A. Kelly;
Antioch, in Robson, byR R. K: Blake;
Smith Creek, in Warren, by.W. T.
Barrow; Serecta and Sandy Plain, in
Duplin, by H. E. King; Newton Grove,
Mingo, Maple Grove and Spring Hill,
in Sampson, by T. W. Kendall.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
THE BUSINESS FEATURE OF
THE ALLIANCE. -

In the present depressed financial
condition of the>farmers of the South,
it is most natural that they should re
gard with peculiar Interest any move
ment which promises even partial re-
lief. 1t is most natural in their
humiliating dependence and almost
.servile helplessness, that they should
eagerly and impatiently grasp at any
thing which might aid in lifting from
their wearied spirit the heavy hurthen.
This is strikingly exemplifed among
the members of the Farmers Alliance,
in many counties of our State where
the order has been introduced. They
are eager and anxious to avail them
selves of the Business System of the
Alliance. They are DESTROYS of buy
ing together and of selling together.
And we fear, in their great anxiety to
cooperate in a business way, they
have not given sufficient thought to
the subject to comprehend it's great
Importance and true magnitude. And
if they fail in this, they surely fail to
grasp the network of difficulties and
obstacles which environ the undertak-
ing. We read glowing and inspiring
accounts of what our brethren in
Texas r doing, but do we stop to
reflect that they are just now begin
ming to reap the fruits of eight years
of arduous labor, of persistent effort
and earnest thought? Sixteen weeks
ago we had no State organization and
only five counties partially organized.
To-day we~have a State organization.
complete in all its departments, with
three hundred and forty-nine subordi,
nate Alliances, one hundred and
thirteen of which have been organized
since the first day of January. When
we reflect that the details of the grand
system of the Alliance were new to
all of US, that we, had to begin at the
ground-without organizers, without
a dollar in the treasury, without a
single page of printed matter to send
out, and that the greater portion, Of
the time since we got in shape, to
work, q r,organizers could not utilize
because Ststhe bad weatherAsstwe say
when all this is considered, our progress
has beepeNonderfufe Indeed we doubt
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
PLEASE NOTICE.

In writing to this Office to change the
address of a paper, our subscribers will do
US a favor by stating the office at which
the paper is received, as well as the one
to which it is desired to be sent. Failure
to do this puts US to a great deal of trouble
and the necessity Of going through a long
list of names, involving no only much
work, but much loss of time, when time
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
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Soft you see the Cross Mark, let us hear
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
Yours truly,

20: The best, cheapest and most effec-
tive device we have ever seen.<for
breaking COW of this habit is to con-
struct a frame of some light, strong
wood to fit the neck loosely, say IL to
ID inches long: It prevents the COW
from reaching the udder, but in no
way interferes with grazing or feeding,
and cannot possibly harm her. The
habit is not incurable, but when in
dulged without hindrance becomes
very difficult to manage. Ordinarily
this habit is begun not as many sup
pose, because the COW wants the milk,
but because Of pain in the udder, pro-
duced by an excess of milk, and the
COW by instinct draws off the milk for
relief. The taste is thus acquired and
the habit established. Can any of our
readers give us a better plan than the
above?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09

The Progressive Farmer is the
Official Organ Of the N. c. Farmers
Association and N. c. State Farmers
Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
RALEIGH, N. c., FEB. 9, 1888

T This paper entered as second class matter at the Pos
Office in RGleigh, ". CT
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
TROUBLE WITH A COW.

MI. ED1roR.-I have a grade Jersey
heifer that has a habit of sucking
herself. Her calf is about ten
months old; she commenced the bad
habit some two or three months ago.
Is the habit incurable? If not, will
you or some of your readers tell me
how to cure her, and very much oblige
an appreciative reader of your excel
lent paper?
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-11-10
BARB-WIIsE FENCE.

Congress ought to take up the barb
wire fence nuisance, and pass law
making it a state prison offence to
manufacture barb wire, or to build a
fence of the cruel stuff. Almos:
every day some one is killed by being
thrown against barb wire fence, and
some OF the best horses and cattle in
the country have been ruined by it.
These fences are a constant danger to
life, and ruin to animals. If q man
should build fence OF boards and
place razors and knives on top of it,
he would be arrested. Barbed wire
fences are worse. A wire fence with
ont barbs is su Ricient for all practical
purposes. The inventor OF barbed
wire must have been devil incarnate
and every man that builds a fence o.
it is ashamed to look an animal in thu
face.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-11-10
Several discoveries of coal or lign

Several discoveries of coal or Ignite
have been made public the past few
days, in Boise valley, and also in Owy-
hee county, Idaho, ON Succor and
Reynolds creeks. Specimens from a
nine-foot measure OH Succor creek
look as if the only trouble about max
ing it merchantable article, is the
tendency to crumhle. AS only sur
face samples have been taken, it may
be that when depth is obtained q
much better quality will be found.
There is no discount in the amount OF
heat and nice ash it makes. On the
l4th q discovery was made on X y
nolds creek not far from the stage sta,
ton. The measure is fourteen feet
wide, dipping into the hill at an angle
of thirty degrees. The coal miner who
discovered it, compares the coal and
formation to that Of Grass Greek, Utah
where he once worked in the mine. J!
those discoveries prove good qualit,
OF coal, it will aid Silver City great,
aud he Of great value to a large scop'
OF country.--Statesman.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-11-10

Governor Stevenson, estimates the
population Of Idaho at about 100000,
and the value Of taxable property at
81 ,28S, 1892, which his report says, il
less than half its actual value in cash.
About 46O,0O0 acres Of public land
have been entered during the year.
The agricultural and grasing statistics
are given. The report from the U. s..
assay Office ut Poise City shows the
gold, silver and lead production Of the
Territory for the year $S,9O5, 1876 OF
which gold was $2,522,2O9, silver 49,
422,657 and lead $2,96O,27O. The
Governor recommcndsie that the In.
dams be given their lands in severalty
and that the balance Of the reserva
tons be opened to settlement; thai
the people Of the Territories be giver
the right to vote for President AM
e-Presidcnt; that the Territory b.
given the right to lease school land
and apply tile proceeds to the schoo
fund.-; that the mail facilities =
Idaho be increased, and that all crime
committed by the Indians on the ret
ervation he tried in the United State
courts at the expense Of the Unite
States.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-11-10

This magazine makes speciality
of giving just such information
about the great Pacific Northwest
as those who are interested in that
region desire to have. 1t is neither
an immigration pamphlet nor a
subsidized railroad publication, but
a genuine magazine, now in its
fifteenth year. 1t devotes its at
tention especially to Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho, Montana, British
Columbia and Alaska.
It gives reliable descriptions and
beautiful engravings Of the mines,
agricultural districts, stock inter
ests, fishing industries, and the
cities, towns and resources Of that
region, as we'll rs the famous seem
cry. In fact it is the only publica-
ton giving the class Of information
sought for by emigrants and tourists
to the Pacific Northwest.
Subscription price, $3.50 pei
year. Sample copy, Is cents.
Address l.. Samuel, Publisher o.
The West Shore, Portland, Oregon
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-11-10

A neighbor,ng exchange wants TO
know what makes one town grow into
city, while others with good location
remain villages? It is because in the
one case there are men of energy and
push. who are not: afraid to spend
their time and money to boom their
town. Theyf erect substantial build
ings, organize stock companies, and
establish factories and secure railroads,
work for public improvements and use
every means in their power to induce
people to locate in their city. They
send newspapers and circulars to every
acquaintance whom they think can be
induced to visit their city. Then the
attractions are shown to him, and he
is treated with so much kindness that
he falls in love with TIE place at once.
A town only ,ccceds when it begins
to work for itself.