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

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course, in each instance, the "dead bills y
We're returned to the senders.
-ReY. R. G. Pearson, the noted Evan
gelist, is now conducting a series of
revival meetings in the Cash Tobacco
Warehouse, at Statesville, N. c.. The
same success attends his effects there as
elsewhere. Extensive preparations are
being made for his appearance in Will
'mington. 80 s-.
Negotiations are pending looking to
the purchase of the Western Baptist, pub
lished at Asheville, N. c., by Rev. Jas. E..
Carter, by DR.. G. T. Bailey, of the Biblical
Recorder, Of this city. If the trade is
conSumated, the Western Baptist will be
merged into the Biblical Recorder and
published at Raleigh.
The season is upon us when the
farmer must begin to look after and get
together his implements for tilling the
soil. Those of our readers who find
themselves in need Of plows and castings
cannot do better than to p~atronize Mr.. J.
FL. Gill, Iron founder, of this city. See
his advertisement on the 9TH page of this
paper.
Farmers, read that "Practical talk
from a practical farmer" in this issue.
We thank Mr.. Neal for his generous esti-
mate of the efforts of this paper, on be-
half of the farming interests of the State.
His article should arrest the attention of
that class of our people who are sitting
On the stool of do-nothing and put them
to thinking, for it is full of progressive
thought. Read it and act upon it.
The Senate postofice committee hav-
ing decided that it would be unwise to
attempt to reduce the Treasury surplus by
a reduction of the rate of postage, the re-
cent proposition to make letter postage
one cent will hardly be adopted at this
session of Congress. The p~ostofice de-
partment is not now self-sustaining, and
until it again becomes so, the committee
think it unwise to alter the present low
rate.
At a meeting of the Atlantic Hotel
syndicate, held in this city on Wednesday
evening last, it was decided to enlarge the
hotel building at Morehead city to double
it's present size, and the contract was
awarded to Mr.. Geo. E. Ellis. The con-
tract requires that the work be completed
by May 18th, 1888. The improvement
contemplated will give North Carolina
the finest seaside resort to be found on
the Atlantic coast.
The attempt of New York to Guido
all her sister States in her State Capitol
has proven a most humiliating failure.
After expanding 10000 600 on the
Building, her Governor and legislators
are afraid of it, aad the legislature refuses
to make additional appropriations to COM
plete it. Thus to crafty the vanity of
impractical men the people Of that State
have been taxed ST., 100000 to erect
this magnificent monument to their folly.
The readers of this issue of The Pro
GREss1vE FARMER will hardly fail to see
the heat and attractive advertisement of
the old and thoroughly reliable book con-
Germ of ALFRED WILLIAMS & Co., Of this
city. The high standing of this firm is
we'll known throughout North Carolina
and many of the other States, and it
needs no special commentator at our
hands. When you need anything in the
book or stationery line give them a call.
Mr.. J. M. Eudy, of Iredell county,
gives the Charlotte Democrat the follow
inc statement about some cotton he raised
last year: II bought n bushel of seed
last Spring called the "Peerless Cotton"
and planted the bushel and made sixteen
hundred and thirty pounds of seed cotton,
which made me a bale of lint Of five hun
dred and twenty-seven pounds. | did not
use any guano on that cotton at ALT
grew on land that had only been in cult
walton three years"
The completion of the Hatch Law by
Congress gives to the North Carolina
Experiment Station, located in this city,
an annual revenue of $4,000 from the U.
g Governments. commencing October,