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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23
.LEsrP. Moore Co. n. c..
June -. 1891.

Mr.. EDITOR PLEASE allow me space
in your valuable paper for a few lines
from Euphronia Alliance, No. 9O3. [
concluded to write you a short article
and let YOU know Of the existence of a
prosperous and goahead lodge in this
section of North Carolina. We have
a good membership and the majority
are Jealous, earnest workers who seem
to be awake to the Importance Of the
great reform movement Of the day, al
though there r some who are luke
warm and Indifferent.
l am sorry to say our female mem
bers do not attend as regular Is they
should. Women should attend as
regular as men. I am glad the ALI
ance did not oppose the admission of
the fair sex, for there is nobody that
deserves more love and respect than a
true woman, and wherever we find a
man that does not think so, there we
find a man that is of little service to
himself or anybody else.
Our Alliance is composed of the very
best material in the community; they
have on the 6redst-pIdte and intend to
fight monopoly to the bitter end. 1t is
encouraging to think how fast the ALI
anbe has spread; it has gone North,
South, East and West, and even to
England.
AS this is the first letter | ever wrote
for duplication, will close. Love and
best wishes to THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
and the Alliance.
Yours f~raternally,
L. G.. CAVENBsS.
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ALLIANCE CORRESPONDENCE.
CEDAR CREEK, n. c., June s, 81.

CEDAR CREEK, n. c., June 8, 81.
Mr.. EDyfoR:-The Terabinth Ali
ance, No. 476, was organized nearly
years ago with nine charter members,
and we have at present 127 members
IN good standing and have had alto
gether about 40 members, and for the
first time during our history death has
visited our brotherhood and taken from
us brother Joseph B. Fort, a good and
true Allianceman. Brother Fort was
also a member of the Cedar Creek Bap-
tfsT church.
The Terabinth Alliance has an Ali
ance Exchange which is doing a con-
siderable business and is of great bene-
fit to the community at large.
The crops in this section r very
backward. Cotton is a bad stand, and
many Of the farmers T blowing up
their cotton and planting corn. We
are having very heavy rains, retarding
farm work very much, while the grass
and weeds are growing.
Fraternally, N. @. T.
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B. Battle, Director N. Q. Agricul-
tural Experiment Station. We have
two meetings per months. w have
never been honored with a speech from
any Of the State Lecturers, neitheHthe
presence of our County Lecturer or
President. We wonder if they know
that such an Alliance exists in Warren
county. Well, we are going to get
there" just the same, for we are going
to have a Alliance picnic and public
speaking in July. We need some good
Alliance doctrine preached to us very
much, to make weak strong and the
strong stronger and more active in the
Alliance cause. There are several who
are eligible outside of the Alliance yet
whom we think would join could they
be made to believe that they are being
benefited. If they are asked to join,
they will say that they can buy out of
the Alliance as cheap as W can through
our Business Agent. They don't seem
to realize the good that is being accom-
plished by the Alliance. To such we
think more light needs to be turned
on.
Hope our Corresponding Secretary
will excuse me if I intrude.
J. F. P. HARToN, Sec'y.
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BLUFF ALLIANCE, No. 577,

Sampson Co., N. c., June 6, 81.
MR.. EDITOR:-We deem it expedient
at all times to protect our noble order
against any assault that may be made
upon it, and purge it's ranks of all I'M
worthy and ~superduous material;
therefore be it
Resolved, By Bluff Alliance, that no
member of our order has the right to
assail another member publicly,
through the press or otherwise, so
long as their names are on our roll of
membership.
I'd. That such an offence is a viola
ton of the obligation and should merit
expulsion.
Sd. That no paper vested with author
ity to represent our order officially
has the right to assail our principles,
or any member Of the order while act
ing in such a capacity.
4th. That such an offence should
merit the reputation of such paper by
all true Alliancemen promptly.
9Th. That no member, while his
name remains on rolls, has the
right to assail the principles of the
order publicly.
Yours f~raternally,
j. Fl. BRYAN, President.
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EVENING STAR ALLIANCE, No. 1896,

May 30, 1891.
Mr.. EDITOR:-I ask you kindly for
room IN THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER for
a few lines from The Evening Star ALI
ance, No. 1895. We have a very fine
Sunday-school, and on the 14tn Of May
we had a fine picnic and a fine lecture
from our County Lecturer. There was
a large congregation out at the turn
out. 1t is very good for every Sub
Alliance to teach a Sunday-school. And
also a fine lecture by Rev. L. Eborn,
who is county superintendent of public
schools in Washington county, N. c..
At our lastmeeting in May we passed
a resolution that on the Fourth of July
we would meet at the place where we
hold our lodge for the purpose of keep
ing that day as a day of independence
and praise and thanks to Almighty
God, also a cordial invitation is made
to the ministers of the Gospel and lee
turers of the Alliance. We do not
expect to have a picnic in that day,
but we do expect to prepare for com
pany. Do not be afraid, brethren, of
the Alliance; we are firm. I tell you
we are at work. We have received
members from a while back until now
at every meeting. We would like to
see something in The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER from our lodge. Some of our
brethren say we are not of the right
stripe to have anything published, but
l say that if the editor has to search
all around to see who belongs to the
Republican or the Democrat party be-
fore he can publish anything, he ought
not to have anything to do with the
Alliance, and I am certain if the editor
has any respect for any part of the
Alliance it must reach us, as we are
working hard in the cause of the ALI
ance. Yours truly,
A. W. AMBROSE.
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CLEMENT, Sampson Co., N. c.,

June 6, 1891.
Mr.. EDITORIAL a regular meeting
of South River Alliance, No. 831, the
following resolutions we're unanimous
ly adopted:
Resolved, That we, the members of
this alliance, do hereby heartily en-
dorse the official letter recently ad-
dressed by President L. L. Polk to the
Alliance brotherhood, and that we
pledge ourselves to do all in our power
to carry out the instructions contained
therein.
2. That we hereby serve notice to
the politicians that we have thrown off
the party collar and that hereafter we
intend to support only such men for
office as are known to be true to the
principles of the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union and are willing to
pledge themselves to stand by the Ali
ance demands and do all in their
power to have them enacted into laws,
the S~ub-Treasury bill not excepted.
Sd. That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
and Clinton Caucasian for publica-
tion.
s. B. Page, J. R. Brown, w. F.
Hayse.-Committee.
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HARLOWE, N. O..

Mr.. EDIToR:-I am happy to inform
you that Harlowe Alliance is again
blooming as the rose. We had nine in
itiations last meeting. The ladies,
may God ever bless them, have taken
hold of it which means success. Our
people are reading THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and other Alliance literature,
and we find that those who will read
and inform themselves will come to
the Alliance. We occasionally find a
brother, in the church, I mean, who
seems to think that the Alliance and
negro party, as they call it, belong to-
gether. Such men, we presume, do
not read Alliance literature and hence
do not understand the nature and in
tent of the order. We would advise
all such tv inform themselves. or have
the sense of Il, clam: viz: keep their
mouths shut. The third party is com
ing. We, as Democrats, always looked
upon third parties as an evil, but since
the two old parties have ignored our
demands and we can get nothing out of
them but depression, the now coming
third party would seem a necessary
evil. More anon.
F~raternally, B.,
Pres. HarlOwe Alliance.
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THE NATIONAL FARMERS ALL
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President-L. L. Polk, North Caro-
lima. Address, 344 D. St., N. w,
Washington, D. @.
Vice President-B. H. Clover, Cam
bridge, Kansas.
Secretary-Treasurer-J. H. Turner,
Georgia. Address, 239 North Capitol
St., n. w, Washington, D. @.
Lecturer. II. Willetts, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
@. w. Macune, Washington, D. @.
Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Da-
kota.
J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
r. G. Patty, Macon, Miss.
Isaac McCracken, Ozone, Ark.
A. E. Cole, Fowlerville, Mich.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The Presidents of all the State organ
izations with L. L. Polk EJc-Ofic5O
Chairman.
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RIDGEwAY. n. c.. June u. 81.

RDGEwAY, n. O., June II, 81.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Please allow me a lit
tie space in your valuable paper, as I
have not written you anything from
our Alliance in some time, and for fear
that the brethren might think that
Smith Creek Alliance had ceased to
exist, but you may tell them that she
still iveth, and I think she will con
tinue to do so, for we are here to stay.
We number So male and seven female
members in our lodge, and some of
them are made of as pure Alliance grit
as can be found anywhere in the State.
We are eve ready to put our shoulder
to the wheel and do our part of push
ing. At u last meeting we adopted
the plan of cooperation for improve
ment In farming methods, as suggested
IN The PROGRESSIVE FARMER by DIR.
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Assistant, Walter Rowe and Chas.
Atkinson; Business Agent, w. Il.
Grice; Executive Committee, J. Ct.
Roper, w. M. Holland Ira Roper.
The above is a list of u best men
and under their administration we ex-
pect a successful year. Success to The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER and it's able
editor. Respectfully,
E. J. BARNES.
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of opinion among members of the ALI
ance should be kept out of the reach of
those partisans who are always ready
to make capital of all such. All ALI
ancemen know our demands; they
know our motto is reform, therefore l
suggest that if there is a member OF
any Alliance whose prrtisan feet + so
broad that he cannot stand on our plat
form, that he get out. would suggest
to all who are opposed to our principles,
aims or demands to get out and not
stay in the Alliance and fight against
it; and if they will not get out OF their
own accord they should be turned out,
for these Ephramites do more harm
than good. Send them on after their
idols, their old party bosses, but not
suffer them to lead us astray. Let
them go into the ranks of our enemies
and fight US, for the harder they fight us
there the stronger and more determined
to conquer we get. Let us keep u
eyes open for 1892. Both old parties
seem to be uneasy On account of the
Third or Peoples party. faint any
use to howl; times, circumstances and
conditions demand it and it is a spon-
taneity now waiting for the time to
assert itself. In 1892 we will see what
we have not seen and hear what we
have not heard-a terrible disruption
in both the old dominant parties, there
fore I suggest that we make no o
concessions but assert our manhood
and demand our rights. When we do
that we will see a cOnsentaneity of
conscientious toilers and working men
of every calling and color, regardless
of former political differences. Then,
brethren, all we have to do is to stick
together, march in solid phalanx and
the victory is won. This is all that is
necessary to make our calling respect
able and our election sure; therefore [
suggest that we be all of one mind in
regard to reform. Let aim be to
do good and be friendly to each other,
avoid dissension and controversies,
live in peace, and may the God of love
and peace delight to dwell with. and
bless us. K. j. P.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23
NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALI
ANCE.

NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALI
ANCE
President-Elias Carr, Old Sparta,
N. G.
Vice-President-A. H. Hayes, Bird
town, N. @.
Secretafy-W. S. Barnes, Raleigh,
N. @.
Treasurer. D. Allen, Falls, N. G..
Lecturer-Thos. B. Long, Asheville,
N. G.
Assistant LECTURER. B. Hunter,
Hu~ntersville, n. @.
Chaplain-S. J.. Veach, Warsaw,
N. G.
Door-Keeper-W. H. Tomlinson,
Fayetteville, N. @.
Assistant Door-Keeper-H. E. King,
Peanut, n. @.
Sergeant-at-Arms-J. S. Holt, Chalk
Level, n. @.
State Business Agent-W. H. Worth,
Raleigh, N. @.
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W:
A. Graham, Machpelah, N. @.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. c.,
Chairman; j. M. Mewborne, Kinston,
n. c.. J.. S. Johnston, Ruff1n, N. @.
STATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. c.; N. @.
English, Trinity College; j. j. Young,
Polenta; H. A. Forney, Newton, N. G.
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invisible, but where it was reported =
be I found what appeared like a boiIino
spring from which flowed a stream %
water nearly as large as a mans wrist
which spread itself out into a babbIino
little rill in the meadow below. A00
examination of the bed of this riU -
the depth of eight inches or mora
showed that the end of the tile was
well located to be trodden on by cattle
or wallowed out of place by swine
There was no screen on it, so that rats
and other small animals could gain
ready entrance, and become lodged
there and obstruct the'drain.
It was a four inch tile laid by guess
abont a foot and one-half below the
surface. In several places the tiles
had frozen and collapsed, clogging the
drain. These were the only peep-
holes. Nothing but the mere surface
water was carrid off. How could the
drain do more, being on the surface
itself? The drying of the field was not
FASTENED in the spring except in one
or two spots of lower ground where
the water would stand; and in fact the
only advantage afforded by the drain
was the benefit to these few places,
The annual profit from the investment
in these drains cannot be over four
per cent, whereas if they had been
put in four feet deep, costing a trihe
more but acting on the soil as low as
cloverroots usually penetrate, enabling
them to bring up the hidden treasures
of the subsoil, and gaining four or five
days in the spring and keeping off
frosts in the fall for several days; and
if they had been laid with good joints
on an exact slope gagged by the sur
veyor's level or some equally accurate
instrument, and properly provided
with silt-basins and peep-holes, and
the outlets protected by masonry, the
annual profit on the investment would
not have been less than Is per cent,
whichis better than government bonds.
Drains so made are more permanent
than farm buildings. They neither
rot nor rust, nor do they demand
repaires of any kind. In permanent
improvements the best is and must be
the cheapest; and it doesn't make any
difference how many thousand miles
Of tiles old man Clay has laid, if he
doesn't know how to do the work
properly he is an improbable MAI to
employ. would rather boast ofnever
having seen a tile than of having laid
a thousand miles of them so that they
ought all to come up and be laid again.
Clement j. Strong, Eaton county,
Mich., IN Rural NeW Yorker.
Clean out the fence corners now.
Crowd corn cultivation continually.
Reduce the number of fences on your
farm.
Fences on a farm, like corners in a
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RAND's MILLS, N. c., June 2, 81

RANDS MILLS, N. o., June 2, 81.
Mr.. EDITORIALS [ have not seen
anything in your valuable paper from
any of the AIliancemen in this part of
the country for some time, 1 thought
l would take the liberty to write you a
few lines and let you know that we are
not dead physically or morally, but
very near dead financially. Mr.. Editor,
I would like to make a few suggestions
to the Alliance generally, if you think
them worthy of a place in The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER. First l will suggest
to the brethren that they avoid con
~troversies, especially 10 regard to the
principles, aims and demands of the
Alliance. I see a long article in the
State Chronicle, U. S. Hall against
and w. r. Lindsay for the Sub-Treas-
ury plan. I suppose they are both Ali
ancemen. Brethren, such as that is
just what the partisan press want; we
could not please them better. Dissen-
sions in our ranks is what thew have
been working for ever since the ALI
ance has been organized, and I am
sorry to have to say that they have
succeeded too well for the good of the
Alliance. Brethren, unity is what is
needed and what we must have inside
of the Alliance or we will not accom-
plish much. Remember that a house
divided against itself cannot stand.
Therefore I suggest that all differences
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THE FARM.
SUPPORTS FOR CLIMBERS.

In many places it is hard to get
brush for peas or poles for climbing
vines and tomatoes. The neatest OF
all supports and the cheapest IN the
long run is the galvanized wire netting
now made in various widths. This
netting can be bought for about three
fourths of a cent per square foot and
can be had from three to six feet wide.
It only needs a few stakes to hold up
a row of this netting, and all sorts OF
climbers find a ready support. Being
galvanized it does not rust and can be
rolled up and used year after year. 1t
is also more neat and slightly in a we'll
kept garden than the poles and brush
commonly used.-W. F. Massey, HOr-
ticulturiSt, N. C. Experiment Station.
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A PRACTICAL SUGGESTION FROM THE N. c. AGRICULTURAL AND
MECHANICAL COLLEGE.

A few days ago the writer saw a large farmer and hay raiser drawing clover
from the field in racks 81 constructed that twas impossible to draw a fullOad
When w take into consideration the value of the time consumed in travelling
from the field to the farm OF stacks we will begin to see how much could be
saved by having a rack so constructed that at least a ton Of good hay can be
hauled at one time both conveniently and easily.
The students taking the course in agriculture at the North Carolina College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts have, during the past winter constructed
rack in every way suitable for the convenient and easy loading of hay
grain. The rack IAN be placed On any farm wagon by lengthening out the
reach to sui" the length of rack.
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WHO KNOWS HOW TO LAY g
EVILS OF POOR DRAINAGE.

Passing through this agriculturally
prosperous section of Michigan last
fall, I was impressed with the large
amount of tile draining being done by
the farmers along my route, and con-
sidered the work a proof of their in
telligence and prosperity, since drain
ing is a permanent investment which
is to pay an annual percentage like
money at interest, instead of making
a full return in a limited time, like the
application of fertilizers.
Stepping into a field where a we'll
TODD farmer was engaged in laying
tiles, [ found he was putting them
only Il to 10 inches below the surface
and that he was laying them by guess
as to descent; that his "ditch" had
not been surveyed, nor had a pen
scratch been made to record it's loca-
ton. Provoked by my i%nquisitive-
ness, the old gentleman raised himself
straight up and eyed me with mingled
pity and scorn as one just escaped
from a lunatic asylum, and after com
posing himself, he calmly remarked:
"Sir, you must be a sort of crank.
Old man Clay, here, has laid more
tiles than you ever saw; and I guess
this is all right"
The subject of draining has been so
thoroughly discussed by all the first
class agricultural papers and treatises
on farming that I was surprised at
this inconsiderate investment O money.
Since late winter 1 have been located
on one of these farms on which were
200 or 300 rods Of drains laid in this
way, and l have been interested in
watching them carry off the surplus
water incident to the season. The
~inefficiency of this ill-advised method
was manifest on every hand; but the
marvel was that the drains were SER
viceable at all. Without a plot of any
kind, the only part that could be
located was the outlet, and this was
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23

Clean out the fence corners now.
Crowd corn cultivation continually.
Reduce the number of fences on your
farm.
Fences on a farm, like corners in a
house, are what cost.
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2 rounds 37-l2m. diam. Of middle II
2 stakes at hind corners 1~4x13x20 inch,
II oak pins, 8x3 inches
Blocks.
2 under front cross piece 4x4x24. -.
4 Over I'd cross piece 14x23x4 inches.
Bolts.
Connecticut western news., 1891-11-12
The End of the Season.

There's an old fellar know down to Hyannis, his gret after game t eat, mostly coots. Ev'ry fall O the year he's out layin for coots. It's coots an coots with him. By gracious, eff he warl't out after them coots las year as long as there's coot flew. Come long bout Thanksgivin time an there warn't no more coots. Hanged if Bijah didn't git up an ole loon. Well, there warn't nothin else, an loon was game, eff yer don't squint at it too particlar, says Bi- jah. Well, he hangs the ole loon up on side his blaciSsm' shop-allus hung his game up thar by the tail feathers till it dropped. Ain't no other ways with game they says down to the Cape, an--well, he hung there bout week, an Bijah he took it an dress it an picked it an he eat it. Had it hot, had it cold, had it into a stoo, an he warmed it over; an when he g done an there warn't no
 more loon, the big fool, he s down in a corner an cried.-New York Evening ] Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1891-11-12
A Joker Taken Down.

In his desire to be thought wit, Nash was sometimes brutal in his jokes, and on one occasion received a smart reprl- mand He was walking in the grove when he met two ladies, one of whom was deformed. Addressing her, he asked where she had come from.
 Straight from London" was the re- ply.
 "Confound me, madam" he said ''then you must have been warped by the way"
 The lady said nothing at the time to % unfeeling and i'll timed pleasantly but it ranked. A few days after Nash joined her as she was sitting in the rooms. and asked her, with sheer and . bow, if she new her catechism aEi could tell him the name of Tobit's dog
 "His name, sir, was Nash. and an in pudent dog he wasv-Murray' Maga. zine.