The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-09-18

lotte under date OF 9TH inst, says the cot
ton crop is very spotted in that county
Some sections will make less than a half
crop, while others viii make two-thirds
to three-quarters,-a average of say five
Fights to two-thirds. The storm was
very damaging to low land corn.
in the lower House of Congress Mr..
Anderson, of Iowa, presented a bill to de-
fine trusts and to provide for the punish
ment of persons connected with them.
Also a resolution providing for the print
ing of 10000 extra copies of the report Of
the Pacific Railroad Commission, which
he declares discloses scandalous law
breaking on the part of the management,
The New York World says Presi-
dent Cleveland's1 recent message has
attracted attention in France, and that
French newspapers are busy explaining
to their readers that Canada is alarge
body of water filed with valuable fish,
and that the quarrel turns upon the
ownership of Three-Mile Limit, an Island
which lies near the mouth of the River
| Montreal.
-"Anti- Trust Cotton Baling" is the way
Messrs. Page & Arendell advertise their
stock of substitutes for trust bagging in
this issue of The PRoGREss1vE FARMER.
They always have an eye open to the
wants of their customers and friends and
having had much experience as farmers
and merchants are enabled to anticipate
the demands of our farmers. Read their
adv. on Sd page.
The Lane Cotton Mills, of New Or
leans, telegraphs Commissioner Coleman,
SO he informs us by letter just received,
hat they have succeeded in making a
cotton covering which will meet all re-
q~uirements." They say. that a sufficient
supply can be made by cotton mills in
sixty days to wrap the entire crop. Let
US nave cotton wrapping with wire in
stead of ties, cotton bags for our -four,
corn, oats, meal, guuano, &c.
Bro. W. H. Hatch, Business Agent
for Chatham county suggests that a meet
ing of all the Business Agents of the
| State should be held in this city at an
early day. We agree with Bro. Hatch in
the opinion that such a meeting could &C
complish much good, but it is a matter
which must be decided by the Agents
themselves. 1t would be a wise thing, in
our judgement, if such a meeting could be
held regularly at least once a year.
"A farmer makes the sensiblesugges-
| ton that cotton should be packed in large
bales this season for the following reasons:
Merchants pay more for heavy than light
bales; it takes no more .bagging for a
heavy than for a light bale, hence a saw
ing in bagging for one aggregate crop.
Tare on a heavy bale is no more than on a
light one. These are solid reasons and
should be observed by our farmers. We
need to save every cent possible in mark
citing our cotton.
Mrs. II. J. Marsh writes from Marks
vile, Mich, to the N. Y. World: "When
DR.. Thompson was port physician a West
India captain told him that on approach
ing Havana in yellow fever times he
always served out to every n on his
vessel a tablespoonful of pulverized char
coal in a wineglassful of water three
times a day, and that none of his men
were ever affected, even when yellow
fever was epidemic all around them. The
hint may be worth something now"
The Catawba Industrial Association
opens it's annual Fair at Hickory to-day,
which will hold until Friday, the 21st.
Unusual effort as we learn has been made
to make it the best Of all the Fairs that
the Association has ever held. We hope
to attend and will tell our readers next
week, no doubt, that it was a complete
success. The Catawba people never go
at anything with a half heart. We sin
cerely wish the farmers all over the State
and the South, could catch something of
the enterprise of the Catawba farmers in
this direction.
The Richmond & Danville, Railroad
System, one of the most progressive and
enterprising of all the systems in this
country, has now introduced a class and
style of Pullman Cars on the Richmond
& Danville Railroad which are to be run
from Washington to New Orleans with
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