The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-05-14
Alliances to date.

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4 Bro. T. E. McCaskey, Deputy or.
ganizer for Washington county, Will
organize the County Alliance in Ply
mouth on the 18th inst.
Reports from Virginia are OF the
most encouraging character. We
have 267 Sub-Alliances and Is Coun-
ty Alliances organized and new or
CARNATIONS are being made every day.
Amy Alliance that has not a copy
of Circular No. l. issued by Bro. Ora
ham, Trustee, can get it by applying
to the State Secretary. They were
mailed to every Alliance in the State.
Brethren Alexander, Carr, Payne,
Murrow and Stevens were in the city
last week in attendance on the meet
ings of the Board of Agriculture and
the Trustees of the Agricultural Col.
lege.
"A brother of Prosperity Alliance,
No. 1887, kindly sends us a club of
subscribers, and says his lodge is doing
well. 1t has subscribed $3.50 tothe
Business Agency Fund and the
brethren are cheerful and hopeful.
1t was sensible and practical in
Duplin County Alliance to offer to its
members a premium of ten dollars for
the best acre of Grab grass to be
raised this year. Now if every mem
Der in the county will compete for it,
the gain to the county will be hun
dreds of dollars.
The Alliance of North Carolina
will be represented tomorrow in
Birmingham, Ala, by Mr.. Elias Carr,
Chairman of our State Executive Com
mittee, W. A. Darden, State Business
Agent, and L. l.. Polk, State Secre-
tary. The PROGRESSIVE FARMER hopes
to convey to the brethren cheering
news in its next issue.
The membership of Thomas
Greek Alliance, No. 1890, though
small, is in a prosperous condition.
They T ready to fight trusts, COM
binations or the enemies of the labor
ing class whenever the word is given.
This Alliance is using no guano this
year at all, and our correspondent
thinks the change will benefit the
farmers greatly.
"A brother of No. 1903, Craven
county, writes that his lodge numbers.
about thirty members and that mat
tiers are moving on comparatively
smooth. "But, says he" as is bound
to be the case in so extensive an or
~ganization, some of the brethren are
becoming luke-warm, and we would.
like to have some one come and make
us a stirring Alliance speech.
Organizers M. Asbury, of Burke
county, has organized Alliances since
last report, as follows: On March
14th, Table Rock Alliance, with IL
members, with Robert Patton, Presi-
dent, and Jos Morrison, Secretary;
March 18th, Linville Alliance, IA mem
bers, c. A. McGimsey, President, and
Fl. A. Conley, Secretary. There are
twenty Sub-Alliances in this county
with a membership of about 500.
-Boyce's Alliance, in Wake county,
was visited by an officer of the County
Alliance on Saturday before the fourth
Sunday in April, who represented the
Alliance Warehouse. of Raleigh and
another project of the Wake County
Alliance, ~whereupon they took $lO0
stock in the former and $50 in the
latter. They are a noble, working
band and will be heard from in every
Alliance movement when work is
wanted.
Secretary T. P. jerks, of North
Brook Alliance, Lincoln county, says:
al beg leave to report, in response to
your request, that our Alliance crop
prospects are as follows, The use of
commercial fertilizers, compared with
last year, is less by 20 per cent; cot
ton increased Is per cent; corn in.
creased 10 per cent; small grain,
(wheat, rye and oats increased SO l-3
per cent. Homemade manure, SO
per cent. advance.
Antioch Alliance, No. COS, of
Orange county, at its last session
passed resolutions thanking Mr..
Cheek, of Orange, and Mr.. Nichols.
of Durham, for their support of the
Railroad Commission bill in the last
Legislature, and also one condemnine
Senator T. 81. Hughes and J. A
Long for failure to support said meas
ure, in which they declare they will
never support these gentlemen again
for public Office.
Bro. W. D. L., writing from
University Station, N. c., is kind
enough to say;"I cannot get along
farming without reading our organ.
IT is q foundation STONE To thn farm