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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
FLOWING BY NIGHT.

A plan has been adopted by the
farmers Of COlusa county to gain time
by blowing at night, as a means Of
accelerating fall blowing. The plan is
to use a steam pillow which can be run
day and night over the level farms at
the rate of eight miles an hour. 1t
has q traction engine, and tears up the
ground in strips 81 feet wide, doing its
work much more evenly and thoroughly
than the old hose plows. The same
appliances are used for combined har-
veBters and thrashers in the proper
season. The engine is equipped with
locomotive headlights for night work,
and they throw a light in the path in
front of the machine. additional lights
throw their rays on the plows, which
are placed in q row ObllQuely from the
direction of progress, enabling the
machine to turn sharp corners. Ordi-
narily, an engineer, a fireman and a
man to look after the pillow can operate
this labOr-saving device, which plOws
about 100 acres a day, running con-
tinuousiy, at a cost of 121 cents per
acre, including wear and e "a of ma
chinery. Team blowing could not be
carried on for less tnan Is cents an
acre. The ability to work at night
enables 8 farmer to rush his work
when he is pressed for time. The
main objection to running at night
is the difficulty encountered in having
two different crews to run the machine,
one by day and the other by night. If
anything goes wrong draing the day,
the night engineer usually falls heir to
the difficulty, which the other fire.
quently, neglec8 and makes no effort
to repair the damage Pacific Rural
Press.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
RESOLUTION OF MIDDLE SOUND
ALLIANCE.
New HANOVER COUNTY.

NEW COUNTY.
We met for Thanksgiving on the first
day of January, 1892. and unanimously
passed the following resolution:
ResOlUed, By this Alliance that we
approve of the conduct of our leaders,
especially our beloved President, Col.
L. L. Polk.
wish to say that our County ALI
ance met on Thursday, and although
the weather was disagreeable, we had
a good time. There was a plenty to
feed all present and as many more.
We are few in number but solid or
the principles and demands.
Yours fraternally,
L. r. MASON
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
MARTIN COUNTY ALLIANCE.

DARDINE, N. {.
MIR EDITOR:-By order of the Martin
County Farmers Alliance, [ send you
some resolutions for publication:
ReSOlUed, That the Martin County
Alliance endorse the Observation-Disclosures
demands as set forth at ST. Louis,
Ocala and Indianapolis.
3. That we will not vote for any per
son or party il a Legislative capacity
who is not in full sympathy with
said demands.
3, That we will give preference in
our support to those papers that advo-
cate our ause.
4 That we will, to the best Of our
ability, uphold the hands of ur lead
ers in the battle they are waging
against our ~OppressOr5.
5. That we very much regret to lose
our esteemed friend and brother ".
@. Bowen, but cheerfully recommend
him to the brethren of Forsyth county
of like faith.
g.. That q copy Of these resolutions
be sent to THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
for publication.
J. NJ. BATEMAN,
7. E. McCAsKEY,
Committee.
q. N. BURRUS. Prest.
7. E. McCASKEY, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
KING COTTON.
How to Raise Hogs and Prevent Dis
eases Among Them.

eases Among Them.
Mr.. EDITOR:-"Cotton is King" 1t
has proven to be a tyrannical one, how
ever, and has reduced many of its vo-
taries to penury and want. The king
has proved to be very arbitrary in his
rulings. Some have tried to depOee
him, but still he sways the ~sceptre.
Six cent cotton is the feather to break
the camel's back, and it may be the
tyrant will soon be dethrOned. Men
begin to see that they must worship at
another shrine. Cotton does not pay
at least, does not pay the farmer who
furnishes the land, buys the fertilizer
and strikes the hard ticks. 1t is gen
orally admitted that the farmer must
look to some other source for the fu-
ture. The New York World, a leading
political paper, say s that the yoke of
surfdOm for the farmers Is inevitable.
Observation teaches us that to continue
to raise cotton will hasten that condi-
ton. The farmer has been for years
doing his best to fashion and fit that
yoke to his W neck, and the feecy
staple has done much to bring it about.
While IL has served to make him poor,
it has enriched the mOnOpOll6t and
speculatOr, and put millions in their
hands, thus enabling them to Cypress
him, and hinder him in efforts for re-
form. What we want is a remedy,
and a few suggestions may be in order:
One acre of land that can scarcely be
made to produce one third or One-half
bale cotton Will, if planted in peanuts
or sweet potatoes, make 500 pounds of
pork, which is equal in value to 500
pounds Of lint cotton. or one bale; and
one half the labor will do it. Ali the
fertilizer you need for either is a little
lime, about Is cents worth to the acre.
There is no expense of gathering, as
the ordinary piney woods rooter is an
expert as 3 potato or peanut digger
Therefore many dollars would be saved
which is now paid out annually for
cotton picking-mOre than enough to
buy the hogs in the spring, if none
were raised on the premises.
Our neighbors tell us that the diff
Guilty in pursuing sueh.a oOurse is the
hog cholera. Now, when we remedy
this evil, then we think the problem
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
WILKES COUNTY RESOLUTIONS

MR.. EDITOR Whereas in view of
the general distressing financial con
dltlOn of our people and the necessity
for Immediate relief; therefore be it
ReSOLUed, By the Wilkes County
Farmers Alliance, assembled in regu-
lar session at Liberty Grove, on the
9TH day Of January, 1892, that we do
hereby petition u Senators and Rep
r~esentatives, in Congress assembled, to
use all honorable means in their power
to ecure the immediate repeal of the
mlquItOus, unjust and oppressive
United States internal revenue taxes
on liquors and tobacco; the immediate
reduction of the high protective tariff
ON the necessaries of life; the passage
Of 8 bill for the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver; the passage Of the
Sub-Tr6Rsury bill or some bill on the
Sub Treasury plan; that a copy Of
these resolutions be sent to our hOnOred
representative in Congress; that they
be spread upon our minutes, and that
a copy be sent to The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, the Wilkesboro NeUS and the
WilkesbOrO Chronicle. with the reGuf st
that they be published.
WHEREAS, The partisan press
throughout the country have been
maliciouSly attacking the private
character of u honorable National
President, L. L. Polk; therefore be it
Resolved, By the Wilkes County
Alliance, that we do hereby affirm our
faith in the honesty and integrity OF
Col. L L. Polk.
2. That a copy of these resolutions
be spread upon our minutes, and one
sent to The PROGRESSIVE FARMER with
a request that they be published.
@. G. WRIGHT, Sec,y
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02

suffer loss and the world loses just that
much of it's products. IF by some luck
less means an universal confagration
should wipe out the wheat product of
the globe there would be a bread fam
ing and we shOuld know just where to
seek an explanation of the unhappy
occurrence. Is it not an alarming fact
that the very men whom this nation
has regarded as her wisest sons, safest
statesmen and purest patriots either
willfully or ignorantly fail to see the
cause of the nations poverty9-Ore0O1a
Advance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
A BROTHER WHO KNOWS THE
CONSTITUTION.
GOLDSBOPO n. G..


Mr.. EDIToR:-Wayne County Ali
ance sends gree tings to the brethren all
over the old North State, and says to
them through your columns that we
are not dead nor sleeping. but standing
"fatfooted" upon every plank in the
Ocala platform, with our heads boi8ted
ready for the fray.
Although the morning of the 18th
was cold and dreary." a goodly num-
Der of us met at Woodland, and passed
a very pleasant day. It would have
been more pleasant and p~rofitably
spent, but for the fact, we have a
constitutional" crank among us, and
he takes pride in teaching the Alliance
what Ia, or is not constitutional. He
reminds me very much of the partisan
editors and dry rot" politicians a
year ago when they were thunder
ing 1t into Us about the SubITreasurv
plans being unconstitutional.
ALLIANCEMAN.
, ASl HFaya1Iar tsLa Do..L, 49,,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02

who fought in 1776 to free the country
from British rule.
We have admired Bro. Bell, our
State Lecturer ever since he refused 10
sign that wonderful document born OF
the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee. F~raternally yours,
w. II. SOHOOLFIELD.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02

AsI Traveller, tax Beesham's Pills with you.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02

~ NV
T. E. McCAsKEY, Sec'y.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-15
FIRES AND CAUALTIES .

Two men were fatally injured by the
bursting of boiler at Diamond, Iowa,
Sunday.
MAI. HIRAM C. FELLOWS, who took
part in the original survey of Minnesota,
was killed by the cars in South Dakota.
THE boiler in pork packing factory at
Bridgeport, PA, exploded Monday morn
ing. Two men were killed and several
others injured.
A CYCLONE passed over Fayetteville,
Ca, Wednesday, killing four persons and
wrecking many houses.
FIRE in the engine room of the cooper
age building of the Standard oil works at
Constable Hook, n. j., caused loss Of
SIS 900.
The business portion Of Plainfeld,
The loss is $4,000, with very little in
suranCe.
The loss by Saturday nights fire at
amounted to S475, 900, with insurance of
1907, 200.
AT Hamilton, Ont, the Wonzar Sewing
Machine company's premises were damag-
e1 by fire Wednesday night to the extent
of 100000. The amount of insurance is
unknown.
EXPLORATION of the Krebs mine, in
Indian Territory, shows that by the re,
cent explosion about 100 men were killed
outright and more than that number
severely injured.
The Louisville aud Nashville car shops
were destroyed by fire Friday night. The
loss is $40, 900; fully insured. Fifteen cars
were burned.
A FREIGHT train jumped the track on
the Little Rock & Fort Smith railroad
near Reynolds spur Friday night in
Arkansas. The engine and seven Cars
rolled down a steep embankment. E.
ginecr Brown, Fireman Freeman and
Brakeman Kennedy were killed. The
damage to the railroad property will b:
about $4,000.
On Wednesday morning freight and
accommo dation train on the New York,
Ontario & Western railroad, at Smyrna,
Chenango county, was run into by a light
engine going in an opposite direction. The
engineers of both locomotives were killed.
One man is missing.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-15
CRIMINAL.

FRANK FOSTER received a five years
sentence for burgiariz,ng the house of W.
n. Sattley on Nov. l, 1891, at Chicago,
Tuesday.
JOHN ANDERSON is locked up at Cleve-
land, O., charged with bigamy. He has
seven wives.
A SALTWATER man was murdered by
half-breeds in British Columbia and his
body thrown into the Pacific.
AT Eaton, Nd LAURA Smith (colored)
Is years of age, has confessed that she
poisoned her father and brother. The
father, Thomas Smith, died in great
agcny.
J. W. WEST, a prominent citizen of
Woodbury., Conn. while standing in his
door Friday night was shot by some I'M
known person and died instantly.
In Philadelphia Monday, while crazed
by jealousy, Joseph Garrison shot his wife
and himself Both are in a serious oondi-
ton.
The wife of Captain Osborne confessed
that she stole Mrs. Hargreave's jewels,
and the libel suit against the latter has
been withdrawn.
GOVERNOR PETER Tuesday,,honored the
reauisition of Governor Francis, of Mis-
souri,, for James A. Morgan, charged with
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-15
NEWS IN BRIE

M. PEYToN, ex minister of marine r
France, is dead
COL Z. ). GILMORE, deputy lieutenant
governor of Ontario, is dead.
GEORGE HIT, American deputy consul
general at London, has resigned.
NEW YORK exports Of general merchan-
disc last week amounted to Sc, 724, 4O6.
A MEETING in the interest of woman s
work at the world fair was held N st.
Paul
A PHYSICIAN of st. Paul was buried
alive and died Of suffocation before he
could be rescued.
The duke of Devonshire has been
elected chancellor of the University of
Cambridge.
THE Cherokee council has formally rati-
fed the agreement for the sale of the
Cherokee strip.
ROSWELL P. FLOWER took the oath Of
office as governor Of New York Friday.
NINE DE BoUcHERvILLE, wife of the
new premier of Quebec, died of the grip
on Tuesday.
CARTER HARRISON, nephew of Presi-
dent Harrison, died on a train near
Franklin, Tex. He was consumptive.
The clearings of the Chicago banks,
Saturday, were SIS, $50, 344, and for the
week s105, 1858, 551,
A BURGLAR in the Kansas penitentiary
becomes Eeir to a million dollar estate in
England.
CARA, the Mexican revolutionist, still
keeps under cover, and all efforts to cap
ture him have thus far proved fulfil.
JAY GOULD was sued for $435, 900 Fri
day by the Northwestern Construction
company of Kansas City, Mo.
On Saturday, Adjutant General Reece
commissioned William L. Arkels second
lieutenant of Company G, Sixth Infantry,
Illinois National Guard.
J. w. CLARK, ex-presideut of the Bos-
ton & Montana and of the Tamarack Min
ing companies died at Boston, in $25 900
esidence just completed.
THE dry goods merchants of New York
have addessed a memorial to the legisla-
ture asking for liberal Legislation on behalf
the worlds fair exhibits.
SANeAMON county, H., is probably the
banner county as regards sparrow killing
Six thousand have been killed up to Satur-
day night since Dec. l.
CHIEF Joshua Sitwell, the last of the
Puyallup chiefs, died in Tacoma, Wash,
Wednesday, age so. He was always
friendly to the whites and rendered early
settlers much assistance in Indian wars
THE semi official denials of the extent
of the famine in Russia induced Governor
Merriam, of Minnesota, to cable Minister
Smith at st. Petersburg for the facts.
The reply confirms the worst reports and
aid for the famished peasantry will be
pushed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-15

fraud at st. Louis and in custody in Chi
cago.
THE body If John Loveless, the SYRIA
cuse, n Y, drummer who committed sui
Ide at D ecatur, Ind, recently. was ex.
humed and carried away Thursday night
Fort Wayne medical student are sus-
pected
AT New York, All Hung, a Chinaman,
and Mrs. Cayanaugh, have been arraigned,
charged with abduction aud forcibIe de-
tention of girl Is years of age, named
Esther Bewick. They were held in s. 900
bail
A K SLOAN, at one time prominent in
Memphis business circles, committed sui
eide early Friday morning at the Jail by
butting his brains out against the iron
bars of his cell, the bars being covered
with hair and clotted with blood.
IN Chicago Wednesday George Hatha-
way was sentenced to three years impris-
onment for the murder of German named
William Whelan on the night Of Oct. 26,
1890. The men were in salo and the
shooting was the result of personal and
political quarrel between them.
IN row Friday morning, Joseph G.
Ian, at Buffalo. n Y. McGraw is under
arrest. The men were celebrating New
Years eve and got into dispute. Phelan
was knocked down and his skull fractured
by striking the pavement.
The Botkin- Wood feud in Kansas has
resulted in the murder of Sheriff Dunn
and two deputies at Arkalon. Judge
Botkin had received notice of plot to
him from ambush on his way to court and
the off aprS were sent to disperse the assas-
sins. A pitched battle followed in viii b
the officers and several memb ers of the
mob were shot
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-15
CABLE FLASH Es

THREE HUNDRED hatters have gone on
a strike at Troyes, France.
SEVENTEEN British war ships are rem
dered useless by a olunder in construc-
ton.
CITIZENS and police cruelty abuse mem
bers Of the Salvation army IN a town in
England.
MEMBERS of a secret league whose OBJ
ject was to assassinate the car have been
arrested in Russia,
BULGARIA refuses to rescind an order
expelling Chadcuine, the French CORES
pondent,
THE car of Russia, with an annual in
come of $10,0O0,000, is probably the best
paid ruler in the world.
THOMAS GEORGE ANsoN, second earl of
Litchfeld, died Thursday, aged sc. He
will be succeeded by his eldest son.
IT is intimatea that Russia has failed
to support France in the Chadouine affair,
and that the French government will
patch up compromise with Bulgaria.
lT is reported that the doctors who are
in attendance on the queen of ROumania
despair of saving her life.
REV. CHARLES H. STURGEON has so far
recovered that he was able on New
Years day to address his friends at Men
tone.
The town of Here's, Granada, was at
tackled by party of marauding rurals, who
were repulsed and twenty of them cap
tuIed.
AN explosion of fire damp occurred Sat
urday in the VOLTS Bank coal pit at
Essen Six miners were killed and seven
were terribly burned.
The Matin asserts that the pope has
Mritten to the archbishop of Paris censur-
ing the French bishops for their attitude
toward the government.
THE arrest of dynamite1s at Walsall,
England, results in the exposure of plot
similar to that which eliminated In the
Haymarket massacre IN Chicago.
SIR GEORGE BIDDELL AYRER, astron-
omer royal, of England, is dead. He was
born in 1901 and his long life was replete
with scientific achievements.
SEVERAL persons were fined at Dover,
England, for coming In contact with
the public while suffering from la grippe,
which is alleged to be contagious dis
ease.
NJ. GoRIoT's saw mill at st Denis,
France, nave been burned, the damage
amounting to 100000.
Ri. Rev. HENRY PHILPoTT, D. D., for
merly Cishop of Worcester, Eng, has died
at the age of 81 years.
AN explosion of fre-damp occurred
Saturday in the Wofe's coal-pit at Essin.
Germany. Six miners were killed and
seven were terribly burned.
AT Crosse Tuesday an anarchist explod'
ed bomb in front of the prefecture as a
protest against the arrest of some riotous
comrades. The explosion caused much
excitement but did no damage.
FURTHER demands on the part of Lord
| Salisbury have delayed the settlement of
the saleries question, and Sir George
Powell, one of the English commissioners
says that the premier will make no con
| cessions.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-15
PURCHASES BY WEIGHT AND
MEASURE.

Fruit by weight instead OF by measure is
a dream Of the New York housewife that
is probably not far from realization, as
even the grocers, wholesale and retail, are
moving for the passage of municipal or
dinance recurring that both fruit and
vegetables shall be sold hereafter by the
pound instead of by the peck. Selling by
measure is a very crude and unreliable
Transaction. II gives INSCRIPTIONS dealers
neat advantage over customers which Is
FREQUENTLY improved, as any housewife
will testify. The method probably oper-
ates occasionally against the dealer, but
usually he knows his business well
enough to keep on the safe side, the art Of
loose package perhaps having been
one of the first acquired
in bis dayg of apprenticeship.
The bottom of the strawberry-box is the
scandal of the age, but it is scarcely more
fiagrantly deceptive and immoral than the
peck measure in the hands of the dealer
who desires to become suddenly rich. He
can make it hold little or more, according
to whether he is selling or buying. But
it is less easy to manipulate pair of
scales. Of course bad man can make
even scales deceive, but is comparatively
risky business, especially where an in
spector OF weights and measures is likely
to drop in at any moment on an inquisit-
i've errand. The weight standard is there
fore something to be desired. 1t prevails
already to a considerable extent in Chiea-
20, where potatoes, green beans, lettuce
and some other vegetables sell in many
cases by the pound.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-15
IOWA LEGISLATURE.
Both Parties Hold I'll ouse Caucuses for
Officers.

Officers.
DEs MONIES, Jan. I'm the exami-
nation of the credentials of members this
evening it was found that five senators,
three democrats and two republicans did
not have certificates prop
erly signed and could be
refused seats. Throwing out these
FIVE would have given each party twenty
two votes and Engle lind. would have
had the controlling vote there being no
partisan legislation to come up there will
be no contests of seats. In the house
fully twenty five from both parties did
not have the proper credentials; the com
mittee compared the certificates
with the abstract of the re-
turns and recommended the award OF
seats accordingly. The house republican
caucus this afternoon nominated the fol-
lowing officers: Speaker, w. O. Mitchell;
chief clerk, Charles Beverly, of Guthrie;
sergeant t-arms, r. s Findlay; enrolling
clerk, Fannie Mitchell; engrossing
clerk. Oliver Conger; Assist,
ant postmaster, Grace Martin
The democratic house caucus ch ose:
Speaker, j. F. Dayton; chief clerk, Geo.
W. Shaffer; enrolling clerk, Margu erite
Buchanan; engrossing clerk, Hattie
Mynsch; dOOrkeeper, w. w. DeWolt; as
sistant postmistress, Grace Martin.
There was considerable construction in
the republican, caucus whenTit was learn
ed hat Grace Martin had been nominated
for assistant postmistress by the demo
Gratis She was called before the caucus,
and asserted that If the democrats bad
nominated her it was without her solici
tation and she knew nothing OF it. She
was accordingly chosen by the republi-
cans,
Senator Engle, (independent), made a
proposition to the democrats that he
would support their caucus nominees il
allowed to name ten officers of the senate;
the proposition was refused and he went
into neither caucus. If he votes with the
republicans, it will take the deciding vote
of Lieutenant Governor Pyner (rep.) to or
ganize the senate.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-15
VISION SIN NEWS.

The Bavarian brewery, owned by Wall
ner & Deta, of Kewaunee, was destroyed
by fire Sunday morning. The residence,
which is situated near the brewery, was
saved by the prompt work of the fremen
The loss will reach SIC, 200; insurance,
$1,000 Three employees, who were sleep.
Ing in the brewery at the time, barely es-
capped with their lives, not having time to
save their clothes. The firm saved about
1000 barrels of beer, which were in the
cellar.
While sleighing party was crossing
Duncan Creek, about eight miles east of
Bloomer, the sleigh was overturned, seri-
ously injuring number Of the occupants.
TIE farm residence of Casper Elmer
mann. in the town Of Rhine, near Elkhart,
burned. None of the household effects
were saved. Loss, 81 800; partly insured.
While standing near kitchen stove
Saturday night shawl on Mrs. Marie
Boldt, of Milwaukee, caught fire, and she
was burned to death. She was " years
old.
Mrs. Lula Lishman die6 of consump-
ton at her home in Whitewater. Deceas
ed was the only daughter Of Assembly lyman
F. kyzer.
Mrs. w. II. Deming died at Ripon
aged 50 years.