The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12

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Several Alliances in, Mississippi
have resolved to raise their w to-
bacco.
The farmers in the Minnesota
Legislature are making their presence
known.
The Farmers Alliances have
raised the necessary amount to erect a
Cotton Factory at Centre, Alabama.
The Scotland Neck Alliance, No.
S54, has contributed the largest
amount to the Business Agency Fund.
The Alabama Alliances have hit
guano too. All over the State they
are deciding not to use any at all.
The Mississippi Farmers State
Alliance proposes establishing a bag
ging factory with a capital of $500, 600.
in the Georgia Legislature nearly
half the members of the House and
seven inthe Senate are Alliance men,
y ~ 80. s---.F . - - "a = 4 ~
Bro. r. J.. sledge Of Texas has
made a proposition to start a sorghum
sugar factory with a capital OF
$780, 600.
DIR. J. E. Person, of Pikeville
Alliance, No. $50, has made the largest
individual contribution to the Business
Agency Fund: - ,vn 3
DR.. J. F. HarreH, of Pleasant Hll1
Alliance, No. 10, contributed the first
V to the Business Agency Fund and
has certificate No. /.
Hunt County, Texas, Alliance has
offered $50 in premiums for the largest
hog raised by any member of the ALI
ance in the county.
Let every Alliance member liY-
ing in the Third Congressional District
send their postofice address to Hon.
G. W. McClammy, Washington, D.. G.
The Farmers Alliance of Ala
bama has received $500 in cash
and as much more is to be paid in dur
ing the year to their Business Agency
Fund.
The Farmers Alliance Warehouse
at Henderson is, we learn, on a big
boom and its management is giving
satisfaction and is drawing to it a very
heavy trade.
Maj. w. A. Graham, Trustee of
Business Agency Fund, is preparing a
circular relating to the Business
Agency Fund which will soon be
mailed to each Alliance.
-Ormondsville Alliance, No. 472,
Green county, sends so cents for u
unfortunate brother, William Andrews.
Alpha Alliance, No. 1,423, also sends
forty cents. to the William Andrews
fund, and Pleasant Grove Alliance,
No. 479, also sends Is cents.
Chatham County Alliance is in
most hearty accord with the action of
the State Alliance, and in regular
meeting endorsed its demands upon
the Legislature. Our correspondent
says Chatham farmers are buying corn
at 53c. per bushel, thanks to. the
Alllance) and are going to try as
never before to raise their meat and
bread at home, and their fertilizers also.
State Business Agent, Capt. W.
A. Darden, is now prepared to furnish
the Alliances with "Trade Cards " at
twenty-five cents per hundred. The
matter of selling "Trade Cards" to
the Alliances is not a private enter
prise of my own, as some brother has
said, but belongs entirely to the Ali.
ance, as every other transaction done
IN my Office. Fraternally, w. A.
Darden. I
w. S. Gardner, Secretary of
Churchill Alliance, No. 48O, says:
"Our Alliance is getting on finely.
Made a slow start, but we now mum
Der twenty-seven, with ten applica->
tons for membership. Crops came in
very short last year. Have been
planting too much cotton, but we
have resolved to raise our own meat
and bread this year, and plant less
cotton, which has about ruined this
country"
The last meeting of<the Sampson
County Farmers Alliance was very
interesting and profitable. The reso-
lutions, of a business nature, were the
right kind, and showed that Sampson
county is filed up with farmers as
true as Steel and they are going to
work for the farming interests. Reso.
lutlons of respect and sympathy were
adopted, referring to the death of
Col. John Ashford, a worthy member
of the Alliance.
"A brother of Parrv'c AIliopoo