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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-06
For THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
AN EASTERN FARMER SPEAKS
HIS MIND.
TAR LANDING, Onslow Co., N. c.,
Feb. Is. 1888.

Dear SIR and Brother.-As I never
see anything in your valuable paper
from this sectiony I thought a few
lines would not be amiss. Welive a
good distance from transportation,
such as railroads, steamboats,, &C., but
we know how to raise good hams, fine
beef, mutton and potatoes. Besides,
we, the farmers of this section, are
paying a little attention to something
else just now. We have several large
and fourishing lodges Of the Farmers
Alliance In our county, and would
have been much stronger but for sew
eral mistakes which were made in
organizing, and these are to be cor
rected before we can proceed. So we
propose to remove the obstacles in
time to come in at the eleventh hour,
If not before; at least we propose to
come in in time to send a farmer to
the next legislature to look after our
interests; and if the farmers in the
other portions of the State will do as
well, We think times will improve.
There seems to be a great deal of
anxiety among the politicians, lawyers,
doctors, newspaper men and cross
roads reporters in regard to who shall
be the nominee for Governor of the
Democratic party. Now, gentlemen,
just be quiet awhile and remember
that "still water runs Deep" and wait
until the convention meets and you
will have plenty of time to exhaust
your buncombe andIgas, for, unless
[ am badly mistaken, if the farmers
in the other sections of the State are
aroused as they are in this, there
will be more farmers in the next State
Convention than has been for years.
And also, unless I am badly mistaken,
we will let you gentlemen know that
we are capable of something else be.
sides working the roads and going to
q e~lectlons'uT rTDAn " FWnTTmD
III see in the lNewberne Journaza |
communication endorsing Jarvis for
Governor and Caldwell for Lieuten.
ant-Governor. The Journal adds by
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-06

It is q mistake not to keep an egg
record.
FL It is a mistake not to- keep an &C
count of your profits and losses.
It is a mistake to attempt to keep
fowls in health without having a dry
poultry house. a
It is a mistake to allow a sick fowl
to run with the well ones for an hour
after you discover the sickness.
1t is a mistake to overfeed your
fowls. Especially are you apt to get
your Asiatic, fowls too fat; they are
hearty eaters and are apt to become
so fat that they are useless for layers
or breeders. Many diseases that fowls
are subject to come from overfeeding.
The digestive organs become weak by
too high living, and diseases follow;
foremost among them is cholera and
roup. Fever is induced by indiges-
ton, the blood is poisoned and the
chick droops and dies.
= It is a mistake not to give your
fowls a sufficient run, that they may
have plenty of exercise. Idleness
leads to mischief, and they are likely
to learn bad habits, such as eating
their eggs and Iulling their feathers.
It is a mistake not to have your
poultry house thoroughly ventilated;
not from the door or window, but al
ways near the top of the1house.
1t is a mistake to keep hens over
three years old for breeding purposes,
as they begin to lose their vitality
after they reach that age.
It is a mistake to think that your
chickens should be drenched or nearly
drowned in every rain in order to kill
the lice. .e* +" 'e - "a @-
1t is a mistake to expect a full
supply of eggs from your fowls, if you
neglect to feed meat of some kind
once a week, at least, and twice a week
would be better. Eggs contain a
large proportion of matter which must
be supplied in a concentrated form. I
prefer lean to fat meat, and it should
be free from salt, faint or odor. There
is more nitrogen in lean meat, and
that is the, substance desired when
feeding meat. f. g.a.I:as ada .sjt f..
It is a mistake to expect your eggs
will hatch in precisely twenty-one
days. While this is the rule, it is not
an invariable one. Some will hatch
in nineteen days, others in twenty-one
days and others still require twenty
two to twenty-five days. I have had
hens set on eggs twenty five days and
hatch nearly every one. ae ..H5.st.
It is a great mistake to keep chicks J
OF different ages together, or to at
to feed young chicks with old
+.-tst Ar 8'"- "2N I.+ .o'
1t is a mistake to crowd too many
fowls together; allow at least three
square feet of room in the poultry
house for each fowl. Thus ten hens
will require 80 feet or a house 5x6
feet.
1t is a mistake not to write the date
your eggs with lead pencil every
day, just as soon as laid; by so doing
young you will be able without a
doubt to select the newest and freshest
eggs for setting, as fresh eggs always
hatch best, and it will be impossible
tell which they are without dating
~o0D ~Yry -y.-.--
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-06
GOOD CULTIVATION.

A clean soil, in which weeds are not
allowed to grow, is eminently import
ant. By timely stirring the soil, or
before the weeds can reach the surface,
instead OF allowing them to become a
foot high, will save nine tenths of the
labor. This will give the young crop
entire possession Of the field, followed
with a large and handsome growth.
Use the smoothing harrow broadcast
on the crop before the weeds appear,
and harrows and cultivators after
wards. In order to have control of
the work, hire enough beforehand to
keep a few days ahead of the apparent
demand, to take time by the forelock,
and instead of the fear that money
will be wasted by hiring too much, it
will be found that a large saving will
be effected. Remember the story of
the mill owner who found his embank-
ment perforated by a musk rat but
refused to pay the engineer the dollar
he asked for repairing it, because he
could not spare the money. The next
day he found his embankment wash
ing away, and was ready to a for
the work, but it had now become five
dollars, and was again refused. On
the third day the flood was tearing all
before it, and the destruction was
stopped only by a hundred dollars
worth OF labor. A similar mistake is
made by those who economic in do
ing work out of time onlthe farm to
save the wages of efficient laborers.-
q. ". Samderln, IN Kanston Free
Press. t73s'~ - gh51133 .t- @ts
That fresh meat, beginning to sour,
will sweeten if placed out of doors in
the cool air over night.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-06
POULTRY

y eve are pleased to announce to the readers of
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER that we have been so
fortunate as to secure the efficient services of Mr.. R..
H. Weathers as Editor of this Department. He is
one OF the best Informed men on this subject in the
South. He desires that all communications and
questions designed for his Department be addressed:
Poultry Column, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, Raleigh,
y. c. He will most cheerfully answer all ques-
tions relating to poultry through this column.
Write him. Edit PROGRESSIVE FARMER.)
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-06
[For Hi PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
GAVE A HOG FOR A DOG.
The "Dog" Question Settled With
out the Aid of a Judge.
MI. OLIVE, N. c., Feb. %, 'SS.

~OS SuCSI4OA SCII1Cu w I'LL
out the Aid of a Judge.
Mt. OLIVE, N. c., Feb. %, 'ss.
Col. L. L. Polk: r4,.i, yr,:H
|a9 Dear lSsr.-I wish to say all honor
to the woman who has the moral
courage Ito speak against the love
of dogs and their I'll depredations
in this age p and country as Mrs.
F. S. Hogan. did in a recent
article published in The PRoGREssrvE
FARMER 5OnlyIa few days ago 1
heard a man of fair means, intelli-
gence and influence say "that he
had rather be good bird dog in this
country than a poor laboring man." I
must confess I could not see the
"why's and wherefore's of such an.
assertion just then, but upon reading
Mrs. Hogan's article I began to see
the reasons for such a "rather."
Here is a bit of my experience, a
part of which will be found to accord
well with that of the lady's above re-
ferred to - When wife and l began
excepting house " we thought we must
have a dog too, SOL bought a small
dog, giving a hog Tor shote) for the
same. T soon began to find that I
had made a bad bargain, for the food
I gave the dog would have fed and
fattened from six to ten dollars worth
of pork a year. And to increase my
regret, as 1 would come in from the
hot dusty fields, painting with heat and
thirst, [ could see my dog most hap
PLY reclining in the clooling shade. I
thought this would not do for me, and
as the dog manifested an attachment
to his former master by going back to
see him occasionally, 1 concluded to
let the man have both dog and hog,
verify believing that the lesson of ex
porience which l had received was
well worth the hog. From that day
to the present "a period of about IL
years. we have gotten along without a
dog of our own. We have been right
much troubled with our neighbours
dogs, though l have never killed but
one that l know of, and fortunately
the Judge did not learn of that.
For the benefit of those whom it
may concern, I would say that [ have
found great relief from these pests in
the service of a little sentinel by the
name of strychnine. Just get this
little fellow to lie in the nest some
dark night, and if the dog finds him
there he (the dog) won't come back
very soon.l Of course we shall incur
the displeasure of canine lovers, but
what other car we do when the Judge
will not let us kill them?
In conclusion, let me ask: would
not a tax of one dollar on each dog
add two months free school to each
and every school district in North
Carolina !? Would it not be wisdom
u legislators to enact a law to
efect2 I hope that our people
wlleandidly consider the subject pro
ct CON and that our next legislature
will take such action in regard to the
matter as -shallagive us less trouble or
benefit from dogs. f
You see [ have not said sheep"
yet. J.>nNrs g''v, A. FARMER. -
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,,.ts ..f r. lFOr The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
THE GREENSBORO CONVEN-
... ...,.ss. TON. -.,..
Interesting Report of the Cumberland
Delegates.

Interesting Report OF the NumDeIlanO
Delegates. .yt
ME-. PREsIDENT.-The undersigned, a
delegate from the Cumberland County
Alliance to the North Carolina Farm
ers' Convention, which was held in
Greensboro on the 18th and 18th of
January, asks leave to submit the fol-
lowing report: ''"'' 1854 ~.
Iattended the Convention, and think
it's action was in the main wise and
conservative. Many matters of direct
interest to farmers were discussed and
acted upon. Probably the most i'm
portant action was a declaration that
the present homestead law was the
couse of the present system of lien and
chattle mortgage which is so injurious
to our farming interest, and memorial
izing the General Assembly to submit
to the qualified voters of the State the
question of abolishing the homestead
laws. .9. f#t." IGa
The Convention also approved the
action of the last General Assembly
in providing for the erection of an
Agricultural and Mechanical College
at Raleigh for the benefit of the agri-
cultural classes. The President of the
Board of Trustees assured the Con-
vention that no further appropriation
would be asked to complete the work
undertaken, and that the institution
would be open for the reception of
students by September lst.
Since then the passage by the U. S.
Congress of what is known as the
Hatch Bill, secures to this institution
about $4,000 per year. r r.--
When opened, this institution will
give free tuition to 200 or ESQ students.
In the work shops, on the farm, they
will be taught the use of tools, and in
the recitation rooms the science of
mechanism and agriculture. Their
education will be practical, as well as
scientific. e l, aH 81
The successful Inauguration of this
institution will mark a new era in our
State-a long stride in progress. . taa
There can be no doubt as to the
desirableness of such an institution,
but many doubted the ex%pediency of
means resorted to to get it. It is sell
dom wise to tear down in order to get
material to build with. Some doubted
the wisdom Of Gripping educational
and other useful institutions to secure
such adesirable end. And some
regarded it as an indirect raid on our
State Treasury to secure an end they
would not directly ask an appropria-
ton for. But since we have assurance
from a high source that no other in.
stitution will be seriously hurt, and no
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-06

That fresh meat, beginning to sour,
will sweeten If placed out of doors in
the cool air over night.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-16
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
MARIETTA, Aug. 1lth,

MARIETTA, AUG. 18th, 1873.
Call meeting of the Mayor and Council.
Present I. W. Glover, Mayor, and Alder
men Tumpstey, Holland Dobbs, Leake
and Austin. Absent, j. E. Motley.
The Mayor vacated the chair, and re-
quested r. N. Holland to preside.
The following ordinance was introduced
by his Honor the Mayor T. w. Glover
and passed
LIST. Be it ordained by the mayor and
council that from and after the passage Of
this ordinance, that all persons residing
within the corporate limits Of the city of
Marietta, who shall keep privey, or hog
pen upon the same, shall be required to
keep the same clean, and free from filth or
stencil each privey shall be cleaned at
least every 10 days, and well sprinkled
with lime and fresh earth.
2nd. Be it further ordained that it shall
be the duty of one of the Marshals to visit
each residence and premises every ten
days, and to carefully examine each privey
and hog pen within the corporate limits
and to make reports accordingly to the
mayor and council, and to swear warrants
against any person or persons who may
violate this ordinance.
Sd. Be it further ordained that any per-
son who shall violate the fist section Of
this ordinance and convicted thereof shall
be fined not exceeding ten dollars and in
default Of payment shall be confined in the
guard house not exceeding ten days.
4th. Be it further ordained, that the
mayor shall have authority to assign to
each Marshal his respective portion Of the
city connected with his duty as described
/ in Sec Of this ordinance.
9th. Be it ordained that all ordinances
that conflict with this is hereby repealed.
On motion council adjourned.
II. j. ScHoENTHAL, T. w. GLOVER,
Clerk. Mayor
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-16
BALL VS.. BAWL.

The negro ball in Rogers hall, Monday
night until o'clock Tuesday morning,
was truly 'bawl" in every sense of the
word Dancing is one thing and yelling
and screaming is another Why will the
city council allow such disturbances to be
perpetrated upon an unolfending people to
an untimely hour when nights quiet
sleep is necessary to every citizen?
No man who loses a nights sleep or
frolics all night is fit to do an honest day s
work next day.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-16
Personal.

Mr. N. H. Frohlchstein, of Mobile, Ala,
writes ! take great pleasure in recommend
ing DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, having used it for severe at
tack Of Bronchitis and Catarrh. 1t gave
me instant reliet and entirely cured me and
have not been afflicted since. / also beg
to state that | had tried other RENE
dies with no good result. Have also used
Electric Bitters and Dr. Kings New Life
Pills, both of which can recommend.
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds, is sold on positive
guarantee.
Trial bottles free at W. H. MilIen's Drug
Store.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-16
CLEVELAND AND THURMAN.

Agents wanted to sell the most complete
biographies of the democratic candidates.
lie only Authentic edition published.
Contains splendid portraits of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cleveland and Mr.. Thurman. Also
many other portraits and illustrations.
Sketch Of the charming bride OF the White
House. Everybody should have copy of
this fine work. About 600 pages. Only
81. Send SOC for full outfit and special
terms to agents. Address Standard Pub
fishing Company, Atlanta, Ga.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-16
An Old Sayinu

Variety is the spice of life can be said
as regards many things, but when once you
have tried Chipman's Liver Pills no other
will satisfy you. Tested for fifty years they
stand without peer Give them a trial
and see for yourself what they can do.
Sold by w. Fl. Millen, Marietta.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-16

DR.. r. R. Thompson ofCedartown
is in big luck. Prospectors have
struck oil on his lands in Gordon
county, and also coal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-16
BREAD! BREAD!

We are Agents for JACKS Ma
chine-made Bread, the finest bread
in the world. Remember that we
can deliver your bread to you. Give
us your standing order and you can
always rely on having fresh bread
every day.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-16
Questions of the Day.

of the surplus in the treasury, the
reduction Of the tariff, or the con-
gressional or presidential race, con-
Germs none of us more than NWhat
shall we eat?" and where will we
get it? Now having a store full of
goods bought to sell, at prices as
cheap as the best goods can be
bought anywhere, we are anxious
for you to cali and see us. Try the
Corned Beef either in bulk or in
cans, it is nice. Hams, canvassed
or uncanvassed, (have one cold
boiled for Sunday, nothing like it,
Breakfast bacon, Dried beef, lunch
tongue, canned Tomatoes for soup
already prepared, nice cheese, fresh
crackers, the best brands of Flour,
Meal always on hand, Deviled Ham,
Columbia Salmon, fine French Sar-
dimes, canned Mackerel, canned
corn. But if you want something
extra, try a bottle of that Piccalilly
pickle, canned tripe, Clipped beef
in cans, cove oysters, pine apple,
sliced OF grated, Irish potatoes,
Buckwheat -four, Baked Beans,
Rice, Hominy, Oatmeal, good But
ter kept in ice house, sugar, syrups,
Cofees and Teas a speciality, all
ground pure spices, Pickle Olives,
in fact we can give you a fine assert
ment. Prunes, have some and
thank US for reminding that we
have some fresh, Pine Apple, Mar
malade, shredded oats, fine cigars,
and all kinds of Tobacco, smoking
and chewing. Tomato catsup, Pep
per sauce, French prepared mus
tard, New Honey, Gelatine, the
best Baking Powders, and all of the
finest favoring extracts.
Now keep cool-we are keeping
Ice. Throw aside that old wool
hat, and get you good straw hat.
You would feel better to say moth
ing of your looks. A whole big
counter piled up to select from.
(But here is an item the ladies
mustn't read y Just opened a big
lot of Crockery, something new. If
you see it you will want to buy it,
fine, cheap. The 5 and loot coun-
tiers are attractive to housekeepers.
A tremendous stock of Paints and
Oils, headquarters, paint your hous-
es and your fences and keep up
with your neighbors. Lamps and
lamp fixtures. We have the best
thing made to polish silver. Call
for sample. New fresh French and
stick candies, Raisins, and Lemons.
Children's Shoes, Opera Slippers,
Newport Ties, a shoe for an old lady
and everybody else, A big lot of
checks, calicoes, water sets, large
lot of Jelly Tumblers, barrels of
them, Mason's fruit jars, they are
the best. Cow feed, Bran and Peas.
Colored Shirts, overalls, but there
is no use trying to enumerate half
Of the things we have in stock, but
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-16
d. M0ffeti's TEETNINA TeethIng PoNdarsl

Allays Irritation. Aids Digestion, Regulates the
Bowels, Strengthens the Child, makes Teething
Eruptions and Sores, and nothing equals 1t for
the Summer troubles of Children Of any age. II
10 safe and sure. Try it and you will never be
without TEETHINA as long as there are child
rem In the House. Ask your Druggist.
For sale by G. NJ. CROSBY & co.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-16
TEAS

We are still headquarters for Fine
Teas. Our Teas will always please
for whether we sell you the finest
or the cheapest, you will always get
the very best that the market will
afford. Our No. 4 Brands cannot
be equalled for the money.
COFFEES-
Have you tried Thurbef"s Mona
ia Coffee, the finest blend in the
market :?
Java and Mocha, Java, Rio in
bulk and Arbuckle's Coffee in pack
ages.
Call on US for Crockery, Hard
ware, or Groceries of all kinds.
Very Respectfully,
HUNT &c GO.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1888-11-29
The Education of Children.

Children in Kentucky are precocions,
fond of study. and brighter far than the
much to be pitied boys and girls of the
north. whose parents are more DESTROYS Of
their learning French than English, and
who inculcate in their infant minds q
contempt for their country and history,
with corresponding admiration for
everything foreign. | know of two boys
in Washington--both of whose parents
are native Americans-who have had their
sons taught German from their infancy
and who speak only German to each other
and to their mammas. They are to be
more thoroughly Germanized when they
are old enough to be educated at Heidel-
berg Cor. Courier Journal.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1888-11-29

While Maine money Is flowing in A
steady stream to the West and building
up Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska in farm
mortgages and city Improvement sccm-
ties, all the capitalists in the country who
want to invest In real estate are coming
to Maine and buying up land at our sea.
coast resorts. Boston, New York and
Philadelphia capitalists have put immense
sums into Maine summer resort property.
and Western financial men with spare
funds to invest are now turning to Maine
seeing in the swift development of our
old resorts and creation of new ones bet
ter openings than they have at home for
doubling up their money by the rapid rise
of values. There is difference in the
two classes of speculations, a difference
not to Names advantage, for the eastern
capital furnishes the western boomers
with the means to develop their country
and get rich, while on the other hand our
resorts are bound to develop anyway I'M
der the inexhaustible demands of fashion
and the immense profits made by the ap-
probation in value of resort property are
made by spectators from away and
drained of from the wealth of the state
Our moneyed people are too many of them
slow about realizing this Industrial
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1888-11-29
The Danish BRIDES Dover.

For months before the wedding the
bride with her mother and sisters have
been hard at work at the loom. spinning
and weaving all the linen for the person,
as well as for the house; which store, to-
gethcr with n couple of young horses, q
couple of cows, aud a pair of sheep. in
variably forms part of her marriage por-
ton. Bridal ornaments are not heirlooms
as in Norway The Danish peasant girl
wears simple crown of myrtle with her
national costume-varying with the dis
trict, but always charming-and pots Of
myrtle are carefully cherished by girlish
hands through the long winters in antici-
patton of the great event. Her sole heir
loom is the great oaken dover chest,
heavily clamped and often finely carved,
that holds her goodly store of linen
Fortnightly Review.