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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03
PRACTICAL SUBJECTS BY1A
PRACTICAL FARMER.

WAKE FOREST, N. c., Aug. 2, 'S9.
Mr.. ED1ToR:-W Will you, or some of
your farmer readers, with practical
experience, give us an essay on the
benefits and utility of annual clover,
more broadly known as CRIMSON clover
or German clover7I have experience
with it of only one year. On last
September / sowed three acres on
land too poor to grow the common
red clover; the last of April this year
1857 had an abundance of fine
clover two feet high or higher which
was cut and let lay in the NOW one
day and then put into small shocks
and let it stand two or three days
and then put four or five of them to-
gether in larger shocks and let stand
two or three days and then hauled to
the barn. It makes excellent hay
and makes it early enough for the
same land to be planted in corn or
cotton or tobacco. Ny opinion is
from a short experience, that it might
be sowed on all our farming land in
September and get off an abundance
of feed in time to plant the three
crops-corn, cotton and tobacco-on
the same land and have all the
stubble and clover roots as fertilizer
for the crops.
The crimson clover seed will come
up if sown over the corn field or clover
field or wheat field or cotton without
plowing. The seed will come up
thrown out on the hard yard indeed,
think they would come up if sown on
a fiat rock, if in a moist time Am
satisfied we are not making the most
of it, and would like to learn of those
with more experience, such farmers
as Jesse Taylor, who, l understand,
has several years experience with it
and is improving his land with it.
| forestalled your chapter of ad-
vice on the cultivation of the turnip,
and had broken an acre well, fertil,
lied well, narrowed twice over with
a two-horse harrow, sowed and then
rolled with q hand roller. By July
Both | had a stand lin three days1 and
shall expect to raise turnips enough to
feed eight or ten head of cattle, hogs
and mules in winter. l have one acre
well prepared and manured and rich
compost enough to broadcast it, and
will, in September, SOW in lucerne.
My experience with all the grass
family, rye, oats, clover and all
grasses, SOW in September, it gives it
a better crop by putting it ahead of
weeds in spring
S. NJ. STONE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03
PEANUTS AGAIN.

/ MK. EDIToR:MY letter in The
PRoGREssIvE FARMER of July both
has drawn out considerable comments
on the same and some contradictions
Two peanut buyers told me that there
was profit enough on peanuts at. the
present prices. Another trust peanut
buyer said three cents per pound was
the value of q pound of peanuts and
all they ought to bring.
So with .your indulgence, thought
] would give the cost Of planting and
housing an acre of peanuts as near as
can from my own personal expert
ence. I have put the labor low, even
on the pauper labor level of these
parts, and / have the average produc.
ton as high as possible and higher
than the present, average production.
I have not put in for ploughing the
ground but once and most all good
farmers treat it twice; have said
nothing about replanting which often
is one half as much trouble as the
planting. Neither have I said or
made any allowance for extra trouble
and labor on account of wet weather,
nor have / allowed anything for Inn
ing the land and al peanut land must
be lined, neither have We taken IN
consideration that We have to keep
our teams all the year and extra
teams as when the time comes for
them to be worked they ought to be
gone over once every two weeks.
So you can see that peanuts at three
cents per pound means loss to the
farmer every timesd And peanuts as
cents per pound means about pay
for his work and that is all. And
even these prices are more thar the
aristocratic monopolies are willing
that we should make.
The Southampton County Farmers
Alliance at q call meeting held at
Courtland On Aug. 10Th, decided by
a unanimous vote to put them up a
steam peanut cleaner, and took steps
to. put the resolution into immediate
action. Fraternally,
r. M. STENNETT.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03
GRANv1LLE RESOLUTIONS.
RrpeEwAY ALLIANCE, No. Ia2,

Aug. IL, 1889.
Nh. EDIToR:-I take up my pen as
Corresponding Secretary of our Alli-
ance to let your numerous readers
know that we are not dormant, but
alive to all the important interests of
our noble order. We concur with
the action of our conventions and pri-
mary assemblages that have so firmly
made known their sentiments In con.
demning the various trusts and COM
bines of the moneyed power, and do
earnestly request each member of our
numerous order to undergo some
sacrifices to unite and refuse to pat
ronize them by using the articles so
greatly and unnecessarily advanced in.
price as the best means of defeating
them. -
At our last meeting the following
preamble and resolutions were unani-
mously passed and ordered to be pub
lished in THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER:
WHEREAS, We learn from different
sources of a large combine or trust,
entered into by wealthy manufactur.
ers of tobacco, which we consider
detrimental to the interests of both
producer and consumer of tobacco,
and fragrant violation of our decla-
ration of principles and the spirit of
our free government, as it gives the
few power to control the many and
thereby increase their power and
strengthen their cords of anarchy and
oppression. Therefore be it.
Resoz0ed, That we as farmers and
producers will not calmly submit to
such gross violation of our rights; that
we will use all honorable means to
subdue the monster before he binds
us tight by the strong arm of his
moneyed power.
Resolved, That we consider the inter
nal tax on manufactured tobacco and
the tariff on merchandise shipped to
US by foreign powers the first items
that require our best efforts to have
repealed or greatly modified.
Resolved, That we insist and ear.
nestly request our representatives in
the Congress of the United States
from this State, at its ensuing session,
to renew their attacts and use their
best efforts to consumate this import
ant object, and greatly relieve the
oppressed and diminish the great
source from which the oppressors re-
ceive their power.
ResOtued, That we pledge ourselves
as members of the Farmers Alliance,
and earnestly request that all of our
order In this State and all oppressed
by these combines refuse to patronize
these mammoth factories in any re-
spect; that we discard their manufac-
tured articles and urge our order to
the Importance of establishing and
maintaining as many factories as pos
sible, and the consumers of tobacco to
sustain them by using their article.
Be united, my brethren, and success
will crown our efforts.
A. NJ VEAzEY, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03
DIRECTORY OF FARMERS Or
CARNATIONS.

wnRrH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
President-Elias Carr, Old Sparta, 10.
ce-President-A. I'll. Hayes, Bird
town, y. @.
Secretary-L L. Polk, Raleigh, y. @.
Treasurer. d. Allen, Falls, N. q.
Lecturer-Thos. b Long.
Assistant Lecturer B. Hunter, Char
lotte, N. c.
Chaplain-J. J. Scott.
Door Keeper-W 81. Tomlinson, Fay
etteviIle, N G.
Assistant Door Keeper-H. =. King,
Peanut, N @.
sergeant-at-Arms-J. s. Holt Chalk
Level, n. @.
State Business Agent-W. b. Worth,
Raleigh, N. G.
KxEoUTIvE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CARO-
LIMA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
S. B. Alexander, Chariot e, N. O.,
Chair nan; J. NJ Mewborne, Kinston N.
c.; ]. s. Johnston, Rufin, n. @.
oEPIeERs OF THE VIRGINIA STATE ALLIANCE.
President-G. t. B4rbee, Bridgewater,
Va.
Vioe-Pres dent-gaj Marin Page,
Brandon, Va.
Secretary. j. silvey, Admissible, Va.
Treasurer Isaiah Printz, Stonyman,
Va.
Iecturer-J. D. shepperson, smithville,
Va
Assistant-Lecturer-P. H. Strobe, Step
hen City, Va.
Chaplain-Wm. M. Rosser, Luray, Va.
Doorkeeper-B, B, Frank Beahen, Kim
ball, Va.
Luray, Va
sergeant-at-Arms-Milton Pence, For
estville, Va.
State Business Agents. P. A. Bruba-
ker, Luray, Va.
Ch'mn Ex. CONF. T. Brumback,
Ida, Va.
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NOTES FROM LENoIR.
CHAR1rY ALLIANcE. no. 449.

INSTITUTE, n c., Aug. $50.
Mr.. EDIToR:-It seems to me that
it is reproach to our members of
this lodge to read the number of
glowing letters from other sections of
our grand old State, but never see
anything from home.
We are holding our own pretty
well, / think, but, brethren, don't you
know that you cannot attend your
meetings in the fall and winter only
and be good Alliance men7 No, in
deed, you can not.
And again don't expect when you
join the order to carry your Jug and
nealsack; we havn't got any CALI
ance" moIasses or meal on hand to
furnish you with at the present.
s. admonish you, brethren, pay your
quarterly dues promptly. How can
you expect your Secretary to make a
good report when you have SO signal
ly failed TO do your duty r
Do you not know that if you plant
your crops and say that is an Ali
ance " crop. it will never arrive at
goal for which you intended it. Be.
cause
He that by the plow would thrive.
Himself must either hold or drive.
Brethren the taxes are indeed very
heavy, and if those laid on by the gov
ernment were the only ones we had to
pay we might more easily discharge
them, but we have many others, and
much more grievous to some of us.
We are taxed twice as much by our
idleness, three times as much by our
pride and four times as much by our
folly; and from these taxes the com
missioners cannot ease or deliver us
by allowing an abatement. If we are
industrious we shall never starve, for
at the working mans house hunger
looks In but dares not enter.
Into this our great undertaking my
friends some of the best talent in our
land has been employed not only by
the men alone has our success been
achieved thus far, but noble women
have taken hold with us as every per-
son should know.
There lis In every true woman's
heart spark Of heavenly fire, which
lies dormant in the daylight of pros
peritY, but which kindles up and
blazes in the dark hours Of adversely
More anon. 6,l3, 8.
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Of the water cutting the land near
CRANKY. He successfully carried out
the idea in che jetties in the Missis
sippi River.
Let as have an appropriation for
levees If Tanner leaves anything IN
the Treasury, and when our Legisla
talre meets, let US put our convicts to
work reclaiming the waste places.
On FeGY.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03
NEWS FROM WAYNE.
WALTER, Wayne Co, N. c.,

Mr.. EDIToR:-I feel like [ had done
but part of my duty. have not
seen anything from this point in your
paper take it for granted that no
one has written anything for you to
publish.
Since my visit over to Fayetteville
and having met so many of the good
brethren there, and having had the
pleasure of shaking the hand of that
great, noble man, President Macune,
and hearing his lecture, we have
grown several degrees in self alliance
estimation. Our visit was not only
pleasant but profitable. We had the
pleasure to tramp over the same
old streets that our grandfathers trod
century ago.
The old city of Fayetteville where
Presbyterianism was preached two
hundred years ago and where its doc.
trines are still taught a Mecca to every
North Carolina Presbyterian. We
wended our way up to Hay Mount,
one mile out of town to the west.
There we saw the remnants of cruel
war. One evening in March, 1865,
Sherman's cannons frowned down
over the city from this point and the
sun of Fayetteville's Confederacy
went down to rise no more forever.
We stood and listened and looked
while an old colored man pointed to
where once the different parts of the
old United States Arsenal stood, and
tell how Mr.. Sherman scattered things
in lively way. He told us that he
was on that same hill when the earth
quake came, and he said that it was
more terrible than Sherman's army.
A good view of Fayetteville to the
east can be had from this point as it
overlooks the whole of the city.
Crops along the line of the railroad
to Fayetteville are very poor, or they
look that way to us. Nearly every
kind of crop has suffered by the con
tlnued rains, and are in bad condition,
grass excepted.
Corn crops in Wayne county are
generally better than they have been
in several years, but not SO good as
was expected. On stiff, clay lands
there is finer crops of corn; on light.
sandy soil the corn crops are very diff
ferent, The large amount planted
will insure full supply for home
consumption. Wheat crops were
good; oats (fall seeding) were fine;
spring seeding, light. Potatoes prom
Use well; the pea crop was never bet
ter; fruit has been nearly a loss, rot
ted by the rains. Cotton, oh king,
what of thee. There is some very
fine fields of cotton on stiff, clay land,
while that on light, sandy soil is far
below an average Cotton is fully
three weeks late and shows but little
matured bolls, and has not taken ON
full crop of blooms. The weld de-
Pends very much on what the NEXT
month is as to getting a full cron
onould 1t rust like last year the cron
VIII be a very short one.
The Alliance is booming. 1t has
become very popular and il often
consulted by those outside. Good
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03

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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17
A Monaghan Jack the Rippcr,

City front pedestrians were edited
recently by the e~ioquance of the first
Chinese evangelist who has made his
appearance in that locality. He an
nounces his name rs All Qui. He did
not claim any connection with either
tl'e Salvation Army or the Holiness
Band.
len years ago i was "a bad man."
said he. What you call highbinders
here. that's what | was in Canton. |
worked for ii big mandarin fifteen
years. During that time | killed lifly-
one people for money. Twenty OF
them were women. | will tell YOU
how | was converted. NV master set
his eyes on Il Christian Chinese yiri.
but could not get her, so | WAS sent to
XIII iicr. ] was to receive $40 for the
icf. found her alone in the house
one night, and on her refusal to ac-
company me to my master | told her
she must die. She asked time TO pray.
l was so affected that the knife
dropped from my hand, aud that in
cidcnt led me to Christianity. | grew
to love her, and she became my wife.
The preacher at whose house she lived
iioi us.
''One night we were seized and
carried to the louse of my former mast
er. He ordcret! me 10 murder her and
refused to do it. Then he said that
another would perform that offs and
that | could end my days by harn-kiri.
His order " oheycA in n case.
The disrolscd my wife and three men
bound hct, while Il third cut OF limb
after limb. She PRAYED for them
while they were doing this rs long AS
she hat breath in her iroIv.n
~ this point QHi lcll,eI into the air
n shri"i:f'i ihree w|frarll.ly wells.
while the cro"d vino had listened to
the weird story stood astast viii, sup
pressed excitement. He seemed to be
insane Tor at least IL minute. Then
wlping his eyes he exclaimed: "Lihe
next day ! escaped, and here ! am.
The exi"rtaliun wnici. followed
TASTED for ut least twenty minutes aud
was intensely earnest. He sftid that
e@proposci 10 90 ali through Mi.
'and amt ten liz s;9ry ~ I..a rpuye.-
SOU L, ,':t1s. tl9l ,@,~,t 81 grace,
,sdH I f'tl.GtStp IL tEntfsf
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17
Captixated K

Those who called at the Office OF First
Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson,
on Thursday, says a Washington cores
pendent, saw a handsome woman about
80 years of age, dressed in semi-mourn-
ing, awaiting for q document being made
out in the appointment room. She had
just received assurance that she should
have a commission as postmaster at her
West Virginia home. Her appointment
was brought about by an interesting in
cident. There was a sharp contest for
the appointment, all the applicants being
men, till the case hung up temporarily
in a deadlock. One day a West Virgin
ian who knew General Clarkson, called,
and showed him the photograph of a
sweet faced lady.
How would she do for q postmis-
tress?"
Would she have it?" was the reply.
Yes" answered the caller, ''she
wants it."
We'll" said General Clarkson, this
is the solution of the case. Send for
her"
The moment the assistant postmaster
general saw the woman, his impression
gained from the photograph was con,
frmed. He at once said: ''Sit down,
madam. and your commission will be
made out at once" When she left The
city. she carried away the documen,
which gave her possession of the office.
The general left the city that evening fol
Kentucky to consult some party leaders
in reference to the distribution of fedora,
patronage in that state, and the name OF
the lady or her p~ostoffice cannot be
learned. Hereafter women will file pho
tographs with their applications for post
masterships.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17
E!izabcth's Gracious CIcmency.

On one Christmas Eve in the early
part of her reign, Queen Elizabeth
entertained Il party of mobiles at the
palace. 1t had happened unfortunate.
ly that the First Lady of Her Majcsty's
Laundry had failed to keep her APP
pointment, aud the Queen appeared al
the dinner in II of her unoflicial
collars.
Shortly after the boar's head had
been served, the Queen turned to the
Earl of Leicester. who sat at her right
hand, and remarked that she felt very
uncomfortable.
'And why. me liegess2r queried the
handsome courtier.
because me collar betitteth not the
hour. 1t hath no jewels, and sore doth
veN me for that it is upon the edges
fraycd."
':By me halidom," guoth Raleigh,
who sat upon her Majesty's left. '.but
tllat is ruff
As may he well imagined, this i'll
timed Jest threw the table into an up.
roar. and the Queens anger knew nc
bounds.
10 the block at dawn" she cried,
and swooned away.
1t would have Jared i'll with Raleigh
had her Majesty not been brought TO,
and in honor of the occasion been in.
duced to pardon the offender. Raleigh
was sent to represent the Court OF
England in Siberia for a"year, and
those who We're in the confidence of
the Queen at the time assert that but
for his uncalled-for atlront TO hcl
Majesty the well-remembered states.
man would have found the Order OF
the Garter in his stocking III" following
morning.-Hnpei'S .NiqTziae.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17
ALuCkY Hit.

st. Louis, Mo-, star-ssyipgs, March %:
Last Monday morning, Paymaster Randolph
OF the st. Louis and San Francisco railroad,
called at the Continental bank and collected
s15, 5000, one-twen,ieth of the capital prize in
the last drawing OF the Louisiana State Lot
terry. The number of the ticket was 2,SS7.
A couple OF weeks before the drawing came
off, the employee of the Frisco road Clipped
In 10 cents each aud purchased the one-twen-
ttcth ticket which drew the capital prize,
$500, 600, The lucky ones were A. u. Masters,
chief dispatcher; j. l. Toomey, Mark Waters,
George Wherry and Robert Gregg, fre'gbtcon-
ductors; w. ID. Reyes, a dispatcher; Dan
Mahoney and j, B. Sheldon, brakemen; j. p.
Eddy, foreman Of the reundhouse, aud A.
V, ceh, civlsion superintendent. Mr.. Ran
colpn says the boys were very glad last Mon
day VII II LIE AVE them each I; $50. Most Of
the boys are married and the money came in
handy. There are a few OF them talking Of
ioinir e a building association of some Kind
lhey may try the sane scheme this
roxt drawing, for there Is some talE 10 that
4 ffrttt'
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17
snubbed ON the Quiet

There were three or four unoccupied
ment, grip in hand, near the door, and
then walked to a scat in which a young
lady sat alone, and sat down beside her
with an impudence that astounded al
other passengers. The girl looked up at
him ana around the car, and evidently
realized the %eituation, for she took pencil
and tablet from her reticule and made
ready for him. After about five minutes
the mar turned to her and observed:
Beg pardon if l am mistaken, but
don't you live at Omaha?"
She looked up in a furtive way, and
then wrote on the tablet and handed
him:
Il am deaf and dumb"
"Ah! BY George he sighed as be
read it, that's too, too bad! Deuced
pretty girl to have such n misfortune.
Well, m left, after all my smartness
Saw her al the window before | got on,
and carried out the plan to a dot. Deaf
and dumb, Ell? First one | ever
struck
He nodded bis head To her to signify
that he understood, and he would have
been glad 10 exchange seats if he could
have done so without loss of dignity. AS
the train Numbered on he pcruscd the
contents of a couple of newspapers.
yawned q while, and then bought and
finished g novel; and finally, after a ride
of four mortal hours, the whistle blew,
and he reached for his grip with the re,
mark:
"lll be hanged if l amt glad this
stupid ride has come to an end at last"
"Ditto,' quietly replied the girl, as
sbc turned on him.
"You-you-r' he gasped, as he stood
there looking down upon her with twelve
kinds of emotion galloping over his coun.
tenance.
"Good-by," she said. and he backed
out and dropped to the platform like q
man retreating from q mules hind lcgs.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17
Telling Trees by Electricity.

Hitherto machines for telling trees
have been driven by steam power, Lul
this is sometimes in%convenient, es.
pecially in thick woods, and electric
power has recently been adopted in
the Galician forests. Usually in such
machines the trunk is sawed, but in
this case it is drilled. When the wood
is of II soft nature the drill has Il sweep.
ing motion and cuts into the trunk BY
means ofcutting edges on its sides. Tho
drill is actuated by an electric motor
mounted on a carriage. which is brought
up close to the tree and shackled To it.
The motor is capable of'tnrning round
its vertical axis, and the drill is gearcd
to it in such a II that it eau turn
through an arc of a circle and make !;
sweeping cut into the trunk. Theiirst
cut made, the drill is advanced a few
inches and another section of the wood
removed in the same way until the
trunk is half severed. 1t is then
clampcd to keep the cut from closing
and the operation continued unit! i,
would be unsafe TO 70 Oh. The re.
mainder is finished BY a hand saw o,
AK. The current is conveyed to the
motor by Insulated lruls brought
through the forest from Il generator
placed III some convenient siie.-LoR-
y T,n,a,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17
Corn and Cut4 " uruns.

An incident bearing on this subject,
now undergoing Il good deal of discus
sion in some places, may afford some
instruction to young farmers. Some
years ago | planted in drills with a
planter, six acres of corn on inverted
sod; and being absent afterward some
days did not return till the crop was
several inches high, when | discovered
that at least two thirds vas destroyed
by cnt-worms. There was not enough
left for half n crop. AS the planter
could not be run in the same rows
again without destroying the remain
ing corn, which | was unwilling to
lose, directed the workman who had
the field iii charge to replant by run
ming new rows between the old ones.
But" said lie, this will make the
rows only twenty inches apart, so mar
row that we can't cultivate EN- |
told him we had made provision for
that difficulty, and directed him to 90
ahead. The cut-worms had mostly
gone by the time the new rows made
their appearance: and before they had
come up, directed the man to 30
over the whole with the smoothing
harrow, the lirst planting being nearly
4 foot high. ''Wny,n exclaimed the
man, ''you will kill all the corn that is
left, to harrow right over il that way,"
He had never seen the smoothing-har-
row before, and did not know how it
operated. He did as directed, how
ever, and when he came in at night
said, "Well l have laid tits dono
for!' He supposed that by bending
ny-a thn ,,1o,t, h. LoJ l:l-l -
but admitted a day or two later that
they were all right again. The opera
ton was repeated after the second
r,.pr ,vo, cn1,aro1 .,oLo, l.-L - ~