The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-08-21

new and very powerful steam engines to
meet the demands of their large and con-
stantly increasing business.
Henry Alley, a prominent bee-keeper
of Massachusetts,, proposes to raise SIS, 200
to be paid to the person who, will devise
some method of converting honey into
sugar, similar to graduated sugar. L.
Work on the Henderson end of the
Durham and Northern Railroad is being
rapidly pushed, and it is confidently ex-
pected that the entire line win be finished
in time for the Durham Tobacco Expo
,sition. :.
The total internal revenue collections
for the fiscal year, which closed June 80,
to $l24, 326, 474, or an increase
of SIS, $780, 7a over hat Of the previous
year. The cost of collection was 3d.
98s, 900. . -
. Last month a young man residing
near Ettrick, Wis, while hunting, saw a
swarm of passing bees and fired his gun.
at them. At nee they settled on him.
singing him so badly that hedied within
an hour. .33 ,'t
"A friend of ours, who is a judge Of
music, says a bass drum is an indispensa-
BILE adjunct to most brass bands of the
present day. Although it doesn't make
good music itself, it browns a great deal
that's very bad. I'll
The Baptist Church of Greensboro
has voted the pastor, Rev. w. R. Gwalt-
ney, a months vacation and put a purse
and an accidental policy in his pocket.
He boarded the train Tuesday morning
for the mountains.
Some hens eggs that were acciden-
tally covered up by some men blowing at
Petaluma, Ca, last summer, were Matched
by the heat of the sun upon the earth,
and the noise made by the chicks led to
their discovery and release.
Mr.. J.. Van Lindley, of Guilford
county has been appointed a delegate to
the Farmers Congress of the United
States, to be held at Topeka, Kan, No
vember 18th, 1888. The number Of dele
gates from this State will be eleven in all.
The Greensboro Workman says, dur
ing the Firemen's Tournament and Cele-
bration in this city on the 18th and 18th
Of September, there will be a State Asso-
citation Of firemen organized. We hope
all the fire companies in the State will be
represented.
"A postal card informs us that Master
Fred Bonitz, of New Hanover, a six-year-
old lad, on the 18th inst, picked from a
small patch which he has himself been
attending, a fully matured boil of cotton,
which is probably the first of the season.
Mr.. il Stone, of this city, dealer
in musical instruments and sewing ma
chimes, who had been confined to His
home for the past several weeks, with a
severe case of typhoid fever, died on Sat-
urday morning last, in the 10th year of
his age.
Commissioners of Labor Statistics
Jones informs the Raleigh News and o.
server that all the data for the annual re-
ports have been received and the work of
compiling the report has begun. 1t will
be a volume Of about 400 pages and viii
appear about December. - .
This brief reference to the rooster is
from the New Berne Journal: The roos-
ter would be a much more popular bird if
it could only be induced to feel that there
is no real vital necessity for it's reporting
it's whereabouts between midnight and
three o'clock in the morning. 4csf O.. T.
A New York dairyman says he can
get more milk from cows fed on beets,
two bushels per diem to the cow, han
from ensilage. The milk yield ran up to
twenty quarts. He asserts that he can
produce beets at a cost of four cents a
bushel, 1000 bushels to the acre.
1t has been ordered by the Grand
Master of Masons in North Carolina that
a special communication of the Grand
Lodge be held in the city of Raleigh,
Wednesday, August 23d, 1888, to lay the
cornerstone of the North. Carolina Col
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
The Grand Lodge will convene at Ma
sonic Hall at 4:30 o'clock, p. M.
"A huge waterspout rushed from the
ocean and passed over St. Augustine,
Fla, upsetting boats in the river, wreck