The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-22

Alliance men, in writing for THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER are, requested to
give the name, of their county as well
as their p~ostofice.
Pee Dee Alliance, No. 90, has
resolved that they will use no guano
this year unless they. can buy at the
same price paid in 1888.
Wakefield Alliance, No. PIP, of
Wake county, at their last meeting,
unanimously endorsed the demands of
the State Alliance upon the Legisla-
ture.
The Southern Alliance, a most
excellent Alliance journal, has been
removed from West Point, Ca, to
Atlanta, Ga. We wish it abundant
success.
-Perry's Alliance, No. I,246, has
resolved that this year, they will make
their own fertilizers, and use no com
mercial fertilizers, if it can be avoided.
1u0I d1SO OCOIOON w OUJ liz SOOOC Oh
time. Wise. conclusions.
Cor. Sec'y, H. S. B., of Horse
Shoe Bend Alliance, No. 1888, Gas
ton county, says his Alliance is work
ing with a spirit which indicates
ultimate success to the order. There
r twenty Alliances in the county,
and vet there is room for more. At
the last meeting, the Alliance resolved
not to use the products of any fertili-
Ter company that refuses to deal
directly with Alliance Agents.
Deputy Organizer, Pfaff, of
Forsythe county, has organized new
Alliances as follows since his last re-
port: On Dec. 18th, Warmers ALI
ance, with J. P. Brinkly, President,
and D. A. Brinkly, Secretary; and on
Dec. 29th, Oak Grove, with Ellis w.
Hauser, President, and R. H. Hauser,
Secretary. Bro. Pfaff proposes now
to push forward and complete the
organization of the county as soon as
possible.
At a meeting of Fairport Farm
ers' Alliance, No. SCI, Granville
county, January l4th, 1889, the fol-
lowing preamble and resolutions were
unanimously passed: Whereas, We
have carefully examined a large num-
Der of accounts of sales for leaf to-
bacco sold on our several tobacco
markets, and find the charges to range
all the way from 10 to rs per cent,
and realizing that these charges are
exorbitant and more than the farmer
can pay and proftably continue to
cultivate any crop that is subject to
such unjust levy; therefore RESOLVED,
That we ask all Sub. and County ALI
ances located in tobacco districts to
give this matter their earnest atten-
ton by calculating the cost of selling
their leaf tobacco as shown by actual
amount of sales. and if the charges
agree or nearly approximate those we
have calculated, to unite with us IN
using all honorable efforts to induce
the various tobacco warehouses to dis
pense with the items of weighing and
auction fees, and to sell u leaf to-
bacco for a commission, not to exceed
five per cent.
Bro. A. J. White, of Alliance
No. 29l, Franklin county, writes us
from Sutton as follows: For the "good
of the order" let me say a word to the
brethren through your great paper.
Three of my neighbors and myself
took four loads of tobacco to Hender-
son last week. The drive was a long
one, and we had the benefit, on the
road, of "drummers" representing
different tobacco warehouses; but upon
leaving home we had set u faces to-
wards the "Alliance," and, luckily
for us, turned neither to the right
hand nor to the left. Reaching the
busy town of Henderson about sunset,
we found with Butler, Jenkins & Co.,
good quarters for ourselves and our
teams. Next morning the rain was
pouring down and we feared that the
outlook was a bad one. But the pro-
prietors of the "Alliance " assured us
that "behind the clouds the sun was
shining; and if you could have seer our
faces about the time u tobacco was
"cried out" you would have thought
him a big Dutchman who could fill
the trousers which might have been
made from the bolt of cloud cut away
to let into our hearts so much OF sun
shine and good feeling. We attended