The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-18
"WoLVERINE" STUDYING THE
RAGGING QUESTION AND
OTHER SUBJECTS.

Upon the hearts of men"
"Have hone Though clouds environ now,
And oladness hides her face in scorn,
PIT off the shadow from thy br0W-
No night but hath its morn.
aHave faith. where'er thy bark is driven
The caIm's desport, the tempests mlrth-
Know this God rates the hosts OF heaven,
The inhabitants of earth"
oHave love. Not love alone for one,
But man as man, thy broter call,
And scatter like the circling sun
Thy charities on all"
"Thus grave these lessons on thy soul
Hope. faith and love-and that shall find
Strength when life surges rudest roll,
Light when thou else vert blind"
l do not expect to shine very
brRfntly in "Wolverine prose beside
the divine luster of Schiller's poetry;
but there are three lessons [ would
grave upon the thought of Southern
men:
Diversity your industries-"Have
hope"
Build up home markers. Don't
invite in too much outside capital.
The profits extorted from your land
and labor will be sent out of your
reach, just as the earnings of railroads
are from us at the North; worse, per-
haps, than the rent wrung from Ire
land is sent abroad to absentee land
lords. Aim to keep the profits at
home to build up your own country.
"Have faith"-in yourselves.
Cooperate. "Have love for
love is the fulfilling of the law"
As to diversifying your indus.
tries: Ny friend who runs a produce
business and elevator told me very
glaefully a good joke. An order
came for a sample of cheap hay. A
bale of ripe June grass was sent and
a Car load promptly ordered a $lO.5O,
cost him Sc. 1t was ordered sent to
Georgia for mule hay. transportation
and charges increased the cost to over
$19I A correspondent in Carolina
writes me he has cut three crops OF
clover hay from the same ground in a
season that averaged a ton per acre
each cutting. Three crops of clover !
Nineteen dollars a ton for June grass
strawI Methinks I hear a music
laden voice gently MARBLE, "Hay-aw!
hay-awl hay-aw-w-w!" Crescendo, d.
natnuendo, fortissanao and de cGpo.
A few years ago Kalamazoo, Mich,
was infested with large tracts of
swamp chronic nuisance. A Dutch
man went at a little piece, raising
celery. 1t was a success. Bismarck
ian hosts captured those swamps
slicker than they did Paris, and to day
Kalamazoo is known as "Celeryville,'
far and wide. Thousand of pounds
are shipped from there, and that
swamp land is worth fabulous prices.
Decatur was similarly placed. A great
canal drained the swamp and presto!
that worthless swamp land rose to
$l00p per acre. Can you raise celery
in the swamps of eastern North Car
DINA?
In Wayne county, and in many
places in Southern Michigan, the
peppermint plant is cultivated and its
oil distilled. 1t is said a gross yield
of from 500 to 1925 per acre is often
obtained. With your cheap laoor,
can't you distill such oils g.? Winter
green, sassafras, ~bergamot, pepper.
mint. Pshaw! Oil your wits and
distill dollars from things you now
waste.
Sage has a good market in sausage
season, so to IS cents a pound here
and no one seems to catch on. 1t
winter-kills here badly and labor is too
high to pick it. Most in the market
is moved sage in about two-ounce
packets at ten cents. | should think
a.truck farmer in your glorious eli.
mate could make a point on that in,
dustry. But perhaps you bacon your
hogs and never sausage.
Sage makes apretty good tea, which
reminds me Of al account of tea cul,
ture in China, which added gusto to
my morning cup. Said the writer:
"The tea is dried in the sun, after
which it is trod by the feet Of the labor.
ers to expel the remaining moisture
/ don't believe the Chinainan who
stamped" the last hal. pound 1
bought had washed his hoofs in q
week! Eugh! it tastes --! An.
other says: The stepped leaves from
the saloons (we'd call them hotels, &c
are collected, dried and used to aduI
terate cheap teas, for poor folks,
suppose. Another, a missionary, writes
that cheap teas are often stacked ur
like clover hay, where they become
the resort of vermin, dust &c. An
other says some teas are treated to 6
layer sof China clay to add weight
Many a time I've seen a lot of dir
settle in the bottom of my saucer.
Now our US. Agricultural Depart
ment tried growing tea at Washing
ton. It grew all right, but they de
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