The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26
THE FIELD AT LARGE.

The Gillipsie (Tex.) Alliance de-
mands that convict labor be kept in
side of prison walls. That land be
kept for settlers only.
The National branch has determined
to petition Congress for the election
of United States Senators by a direct
popular vote.
The Willow County TEX Alliance
petition the Legislature to make it a
felony to lend money for more than
eight per cent. per annum.
The Walla County TEX. Alliance
petitions for a railroad commission,
and a law requiring all voters to show
their tax receipts when voting.
The Meriweather, Ca, County ALL
ance resolved that it will not purchase
guano at advanced prices, will use as
little as possible, and urges every ALI
ance to send forward it's pro rata stock
to the State Exchange.
The Talbot County Ca, Alliance
has resolved that it is dishonorable
for any member of the Alliance to
employ any cropper or hand under
contract to another member, or neigh
Dor.
The Talladega Go. (Ala Alliance
asks the Legislature to call a constitu-
tional convention and change the law
so as to let each school district vote
it's own tax on schools, and not be
bound by the county or State law.
The Alliance defeated the propo-
sition in Texas to have road bonds
issued by the county, and their State
Executive Committee is urged to visit
Austin in person and insist on the
passage of the railroad commission
law.-Southern Farm.
A correspondent in the Southern
Mercury compares the fellows who
went into the Alliance at first, and
then quit, to the negroes who expected
to get forty acres and a mule when
they joined the Republican party, and
he congratulates the order that these
men are now out.
The Gordon County (Ga,) Alliance
has resolved that every member will
raise his own supplies, and make cot
ton surplus. And having attempted
to get guano at satisfactory prices,
and having found those prices ad.
vanced over last year, they urge every
member to abstain from buying fer.
~tilizers and make their own compost.
Nh. T. M. Smith, of the Texas Ali.
ance, wants articles from the lady
members on the following subjects
"Home influence, and how it should
be directed" "Should female mem.
bers attend, and take part in the ALI.
ance meetings" This will be a very
interesting discussion, and we shall
look-for the letters and print them
Southern Farm.
The Georgia Alliances are especially
making a point against the sale OF
cotton seed to leave the farm. This
is good advice. Even if the seed is
sent to the mills, the seed cake, or
meal should be brought back to the
farm to enrich the land from which it
is taken. Enough money cannot be
paid for cotton seed to make it profit.
able to sell them off of the farm
Southern Farm.
The Georgia Alliances are making
a very firm fight against the advanced
price in guano. They have heartily
resolved that they will not buy com
mercial fertilizers until the addition
of four or five dollars a ton over last
years prices is taken off. This con.
certed action will certainly cut down
sales, and turn the attention of farm.
ers to homemade manure and com
post heaps, by which the State will
gain.
The Farmers Alliance of Missis.
sippi has purchased the grounds and
buildings for a factory to be devoted
to the manufacture of agricultural i'm.
plements. 1t proposes to manufacture
and sell them to members of the Ali
ance at actual cost. This kind OF
cooperation is needed all over the
South, and especially among oul
farmers. God speed the day when
that which the farmer buys will moi
cost ali he makes. The price of what
he buys is too high, while that which
he sells is too low.
The Nararro Co., Tex, Alliance de
mands a law requiring a uniform sys
tenn of text books to be printed in and
by the State of Texas, and to be fur
nished to children at actual cost. Il
also demands an Agricultural Bureau
and demands that the surplus OF the
treasury be distributed-and that the
chattle mortgage be SO changed as tc