The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

x Bro. @. E. Voliva, of Columbia,
Tyrrell county, has our thanks for a
club of Is subscribers.
= Bro. P. B. Kennedy, one of
Iredell's most progressive citizens, has
placed US under obligations to him for
a club of 6 subscribers
Alliance people everywhere are
taking great interest in affairs. Old
differences are being healed; our ter
ritory is being extended and new
Alliances constantly forming.
= Bro. Darden sent $50 to Bro.
Worth for the business agency fund
last week and also favored THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER with a club of %
subscribers. Thanks, Bro. Dardep.
= We have received the Potato
Manual, a neat and instructive publ,
cation by G.. D. Howe, a well known
potato grower at North Hadley, Mass.
1t contains much of interest to potato
farmers everywhere.
~ We call attention to the adver-
tisement of the Quinnipiac Guano Co.
of New London, Conn, which appears
in this issue. The Quinnipiac is one
OF the companies that did not join in
the pool" to evade the fertilizer tax.
= We will begin the publication
of a series of articles written by "Old
Fogy" next week. These articles will
be: History of Money, Gold, Silver
and Paper" Don't fail to read them
carefully. They will be both interest
ing and valuable.
= If every man would vote as he
thinks, and if men would resent evil
legislation at the ballot box; if every
man would take off the party collar,
the tenure of political position would
be so uncertain that the professional
politician would quit the business.
= So long as the Knights of Labor,
Changers, Alliances, ETC., remain non
partisan, they will stand as "great Or
CARNATIONS i'm the estimation of
politicians; but let them declare for
political independence, and, Caesars
Ghost how the old party press will
warm them.
- Bro. H. A. Forney, one of the
best known citizens of Catawb county,
sent a club to this paper last week
and writes as follows: "THE Pro
aREssrvE FARMER is growing in favor
and reliability with the people. [ am
glad to see more substantial matter,
food for thought and not so many
windy resolutions as formerly"
X. The Peninsula Farmer warns it's
readers not to ~patronize "dealers in
novelties" That paper refers to
nursery dealers who get up big
booms about new novelties in fruit
trees and plants. Our contemporary
might have included dealers in novel
Ties of another class, also, such as
cheap jewelry, gold and silver plated
goods in general. Nearly all of these
concerns are frauds.
= Col. Robert Beverly and the
Sub-Alliances of Targular county, Va,
have contributed two car loads of corn
for the use of their brethren in the
Southern part of the State where the
corn crop failed. The railroads trans
ported it free. Will not our liberal,
hearted Alliance men in Western
North Carolina do the same for our
suffering brethren in the eastern
counties Of this State q?
Maj. R. L. Ragland, of Hyco,
Va, one of the best farmers in that
State, wrote a business letter to The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER last week and
adds the following kind words 81
embrace this occasion to enew my
subscription to your valuable paper,
which has become to me a necessity.
I am pleased to see it kept full up to
its high standard and increasing
rather than decreasing in ability and
merit"
The Industrial Age, an eight
page, 40 column weekly, published in
Duluth, Mimi, comes to US this week
with four pages or 20 columns set in
solid nonpareil advertisements of
mortgage foreclosure sales. And thus
the alarming work of destruction of
values and impoverishment of the
people goes steadily on. And it has
not been a week since a Congressman
said that the people of that section