The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03

confront the debtor in the shape of an
enormous bill that causes the trouble
andeinconre1ience. It would betfar
better for all farmers If the rule of
paying as one goes could be adopted,
or else MOTTO go.e 3a9a
The Nebraska Alsdncs thinks
the Farmers Aniance has new
reached a .point-the critical point
where it is beginning to attract uni
versal attention and combination
upon combination will soon. be farm-
ing it out, and says it therefore stands
every Gne of its membersein9hand to
redonb1e their diligence Double the
pieketsd I'VE sares getting into the
enemies country look OUT
We earnestly commend the
articles on railroads and railroad
Commissions. Which We are producing
from. the coIufdns Of that sprightly
paper the Scctfahd Neck DEMOCRAT.
Read ema-steadily and file them
away for future reference. By the
way, the DeMocydt is edited by that
genial and talented young CaroliRian,
Bro. e. E. billiard, and he is making
it worthy the people oPthe old R8ann
oke country: $, -
Organization and cooperation
is the order of the day. The wheat
growers of the Northwest areegather-
ing their forces and eombing against
the great wheat combines which have
hitherto controlled their crops. They
have formed the Farmers federation
of the Mississippi Valley, with.s CAPT
talstock of 10000, 900, and9eall for a
meeting of the wheat growers at St.
Louis on Oct. lst. to perfect their
plan of organization and action,
Nv eheartily thank Bro. #. H..
Patrick, of Tyrrell county, fora club
eften subscribers He says theywant
to hold up the hands of THE PRoaREs-
srHE FARMER and will stand by their;
guns until the trust shall "bust."
Bro. S. f. Glenn, of Durham, also
commandssour p~rofoundest bow for a
club of sixteen subscribers. Send;
them along, brethren, and make your.
paper the strongest~power in the State.
and the best paper in the South.
= On last Wednesday, at 1870 a..
M, the building of the A. & NJ. Col
1ege was discovered to be on fire.:
Parties living in the vicinity quickly.
rallied and extinguished the flames,
but not before the building had sus-I
tanned damage to the extent Of about
one thousand dollars. The building:
is insured for $4,000. The damage
will be repaired at once and the open
ing of the fall term, Oct. Sd, will not
be delayed. The cause of the fire is
unknown.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER is
gratifed to learn that the State Fruit
Fair, held in Winston last week, was
the most successful, in every particu.
lar, of any ever held in the State. Our
fruit interest is enlarging and at no
distant day will be a most. important
factor in the development and mate
rial progress of our State, and we hail.
with pleasure any and all agencies for
its promotion. The next Fair will be
held at Mt. Holly, in CASTOR county.
7Of course Winston Salem did the
handsome thing by the Fair.
The farmers and Alliancemen
Of Laurinburg are erecting and will
soon be ready for operating a cotton
seed oil mill. It will have a capacity
of 80 tons per day. We are proud to
note this evidence Of enterprise and
progress. We must kindly admonish
them and all others who are opposed
to monopoly, that they must be pre-.
pared for. an onslaught from the cot
ton seed oil trust. Let the manage
ment and farmers stand strongly by
the, enterprise and save, the money
and profits for themselves which the
conspirators will try to take from
them.
It now begins to look as if the
recent international question, raised
by the seizure of the s~eal-steamer
/" Black Diamond is to become an
uproarious farce. It is intimated at
the State Department at Washington
that the steamer is, after all, an Ameri-
can and not a Canadian vessel, being
owned chiefly or entirely by citizens
of the United States. The heft of
the joke of the situation as it stands
at present, says the Baltimore Sun, is
on the Canadians, who have grown
red in the~sface with CRYING ont over
the outrage of selling Of their
vessels in the open sea seventy miles
from landvosgoo
Our readers will remember that
one hundred members of the North
Carolina Teachers Assembly left
New York early in July to make a
tour of Europe. The party was in
charge of Mr.. Eugene Harreu, of this
Ecifv The trim was romarkahIoin