The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12

81, and money refunded if the corn does
not disappear. If you send him a dollar
you will receive by return mail the fol-
lowing recipe: "Cut off your toe"
We are indebted to DR.. H. B. Battle
of the North Carolina Agricultural Expert
ment Station for a treatise or. Home
Made Fertilizers and Composts,", which
we will lay before the readers of The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER at the proper time.
The exports of wheat and corn from
all American ports and Montreal from
Sept. LIST to May 18th this year were H.
$4,000 bushels wheat and 81, 600, OOO
bushels corn, against O2,883,O 900 bushels
wheat and 23,o67, 900 bushels corn same
time in 1867
The editor of the Elizabeth city
Economist, writing to his paper from New
Berne, says: awe would not say aught
unkind Of the dead but the old CASTOR
House was a milestone around New
Bern's: neck, and the Hotel Albert is a
necklace of pearls"
The United States treasurer has paid
out So, 500, 900 during the month of May
on account of pensions alone; but not
withstanding this, the receipts of the
month exceed the expenditures by nearly
$5,0OO,00O The treasury surplus is again
over 500, 600, 900.
The fourth number of the Dai7y
Tobacco Plant has been received at this
Office. tits well edited, neat and newsy,
and is perhaps, the first and only cred
headed" daily the world has ever seen.
This new departure in journalism has our
best wishes for success.
Some Southern women are distin-
gishing themselves as farmers and fruit
growers. One Georgia woman has sold
this season 5000 quarts from about one
half an acre of straw berries. She has set
out 10000 additional plants, doing all the
work with her own hands.
Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, has a plan
Of his own for disposing of the "trusts."
He has introduced a bill in the. House
placing on the free list all articles of mer-
chandise the production of which may be
controlled by trusts and corporations.
This, if adopted, will most effectually
squelch them go. ftt
The oldest newspaper in the whole
wide world is the King Pau, Or "Capital
Sheet" published in Pekin. 1t first ap-
peared A. D. Oil, but came out only at
irregular intervals. Since the year 1851,
however, it has been published weekly
and of uniform size. Now it appears in
three editions daily. +HECiiohH-
The metric system is now the only
legal system of weights and measures for
about four hundred and ten millions of
the only prominent exceptions to
it's general use being Russia, the United
States and Great Britain, in the last two
of which it's use is authorized, although
not generally adopted. 'T'''
Water from an artesian well is death
to fish. The United States Fish Commits
sion car reached Atlanta, Ca, or Mon
doy, the 4th inst. Change Of water was
found necessary, and artesian water was
supplied. Inside of an hour $4,000 young
fish were dead, and nearly 3,00o,0 900 eggs
are supposed to be killed. '
This seems to be an "off-year" in
the matter of Prohibition, only a few Of
the smaller towns and villages of the
State deciding against "~license." Durham
and Concord defeated license by greatly
reduced majorities. Raleigh, Pittsboro,
Warrenton, Charlotte, Asheville, Kinston
and Statesville went wet. eta
The Farmers Friend Fence Machine
Co., Greensboro, N. c., offer great in
ducements to farmers, mechanics, lumber
and others desiring to engage in a
manufacturing business requiring small
capital and paying large profits. A few
good agentsswanted to travel and organ
ize manufactures in each county. * *
We regret to learn that a very de-
structive hailstorm visited portions of LIE
noir and Jones counties on Saturday
the I'd inst. Houses were %unroofed,
glass broken out and growing
crops SO badly damaged as to re-
quire the replanting of great tracts. The
losses sustained can hardly beQestimated.
DIR. Strickland, of Nashville, Tenn,
has declined the call to the pastorate of