The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-06

had 2S,15S an increase in ten years, Of
400 per cent. It is now claimed that the
number has grown to $4,000.
Collier Cobb, of N. c., son of our
brother Rev. N. B. Cobb has been ap-
pointed by the Board of Overseers of
Harvard College assistant instructor in
one of the geological courses.
The Empress of Germany nurses her
baby. AS the little one has been made {
colonel in a German regiment and already
belongs to various orders of the knight
hood, he is worthy OF his honor.
1t is computed that this years corn
crop, if loaded for railroad shipment,
would fill 2,87S,57l cars, and make a train
that would reach 16,449 miles, or two
thirds of the way around the world.
Two San Francisco ships arrived at
New York, September 10, one bringing
$4,000 gallons of wine, 5000 gallons of
brandy and 2s3, 800 pounds of wool; the
other,2 700 tons of Sandwich Island sugar.
The Alaska Commercial Company's
steamer st. Paul, arrived from Ounalacha
August 29th, in Sanfrancisco, with 1OO,-
900 seal skins valued at two million dol
lars. This is considered a fine seasons
CATCH ..... .- .
-"By the Alliance we are led" is the
title of a beautiful song composed and
set to music by Professor Clifford Edge
worth, of Mt Croghan, s.. G. Every Alli-
ance girl should have it. Ten cents per
copy, $6.4O per hundred copies. :
Col. w. T. Blackwell, of Durham, the
originator of the Durham Bull trade mark
over which there has been so much litiga-
ton, has made a profession of religion
under the preaching of the evangelist,
Sam Jones, and joined the Baptist church.
B. P. Hutchinson, the Chicago wheat
manipulation, is averse to having his pho
tograph taken and has never allowed a
photographer to point a camera at him.
His son said a few days ago that he whuld
give $1,000 to get a photograph of his
father.
The many friends of Col. Wharton
J.. Green will be pleased to learn that he
was married at Tokay Monday morning
to that incompatible lady Mrs. Davis, nee
Miss Burr, the widow of the late Judge
David Davis, once acting Vice-President
of the United States.
-Twenty-seven hundred silos were
built in Great Britain last year, and that
is the land of roots too, as well as expen-
sive grain for stock. The truth is that
the more expensive are old-time cattle
foods in any given locality, so much more
is the need of the silo.
The packing of hogs at the principal
Western points from March lst to Sep
TENDER 10th was as follows: Chicago,
1,425, 900; Kansas City, 1000; Omaha,
511,OOO; St. Louis, 215,O 900; Indianapolis,
$4,000; Cincinnati, los, 500; Milwau-
kee, $4,000; Cedar Rapide, 139,2O8.
The great iron ore and copper wealth
surrounding Murphy, N. c., is now in a
fair way of development. Cherokee
county has voted $4,000 to aid in build
ing a road from Chattanooga to Murphy,
and this it is said insures it's construction.
1t will open up one of the finest countries
in the world.
Major Alvord, an agricultural writer
and close observer, would draw the milk
in the pure open air, and thus have it
thoroughly oxygenated. He says that
when the COWS are MIXED in the same air
in which they stand, the milk will be bad,
but if MIXED in fresh air the trouble will
be obviated. ri
IA balloon of colossal dimensions, and
said to be capable of being guided at will,
has been for some time in course Of con-
struction in Berlin. The balloon is 500
feet in length and fifty feet in diameter.
The total weight is about $4,000 pounds,
the envelope and netting alone weighing
10, 900 pounds. ">%
The Paris Worlds Fair opens on the
9Th day of May next and closes on the
31st of October. The area of the build
ings and enclosed grounds is 5000, 600
feet, and the space allotted to the
United States is Is, 900 square feet. Japan.
Mexico and all European Countries, ex-
cept Germany will be on hand.
of the ia manufacturing industries