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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06

wonder is it that the number of mil
lionaires is daily increasing and a much
larger number of paupers and tramps
is being turned out7 But these r not
all the ways in which m~illionaires are
made. The enormous amOuntO Of stock
watering and swindling by means of
the gambling operations of banks and
boards of trade, and various forms of
usury, rents, profits and dividends
make millionaires by the thousand,
and paupers and tramps by the mil
lion. Mr.. f. J. Shuttle has issued an
Economic Chart" illustrated in col
Ors, in which he shows that 81 cents
worth of meat to the farmer. after it
has passed through the hands of the
mOnOpOlist, becomes worth, to the con
sumner, 81; vegetables that bring to the
producer 80 cents, cost the consumer,
after the mOnOpolist has taken his toll
just three times that amount; Sc
cents worth of coal at the mines, after
it has crossed the mOnOpolist's bridge,
requires the expenditure Of 81 by the
consumer.
OF the business of the country, 95
per cent. is done on credit and but 5
per cent. in cash, "O1r population in
1866 was 81 900 900; 50, 600, 600, 900 were
then in circulation. Our population
to day 60 600 600. and the money in
circulation Is 81. 800, 900 900. With all
the money in the land, the banks could
pay their depositors but 10 cents on the
dollar, Or in gold only 2 cents on the
dollar, or in gold and silver only 3
cents on the dollar" The worst phase
of the whole business is not given in
the above. In 1866 our industrial peo-
pie were mostly out of debt, and such
as were not had constant employment
at high wages, received high ~pricesfor
what they produced, and Of course we're
able to pay their debts; whereas now
the vast amount of the Indebtedness
into which the producer has been
forced must be increased yearly be-
cause of the low price of his products.
The large amount of money at that
time was mostly in the hands of the
people, hence they mostly exempt
from the vast amount of usury which
the use of money nov implies, since
the most of the money supply Is con-
trolled by banks and private usurers.
But a still more oppressive and de-
structive power welded by these
usurers is the power they always hold
to make the available money supply
large or small at their sovereign pleas
ure, thus putting up or putting down
prices, legally robbing and running
thousands.
Every nation in the past-and there
is n reason to expect a different re
suit now-that has permitted its pro-
ducing classes to be thus robbed by its
idlers, has gone to the wall.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06
H ROAD.

Every traveller has experienced light
ness of pocket book after one round
with the Pullman car monopoly.
Hence the following is likely to be
his sentiments" when it took
three days and four nights to make
the trip from Chicago to Denver the
Pullman company charged 81. so for a
berth for the trip. To-day the trip is
made over the Burlington in two days
and one night, and Sir George M. Pull
man still charges 81 so. 1t used to
take two nights and a day to run from
Omaha to Denver, and So. so was the
price of a sleeper in those days. Now
the Union Pacific runs the trip in one
night, but Pully nails the public fer
So SO, Just the same. This sort of thing
exists all over the country, and has
called for a bit of calculation from a
student of POOr's RaGLU0y Manual. He
estimates that in sixteen years, at the
present rates Sir George charges the
railway companies for the use of his
cars. he can w all the railroads in
the country if he SO desires. This
being the S (and we have no doubts
about it,, it would seem that the ques-
ton to day is: Shall Sir George M.
Pullman own the railroads land the
people to boot), or shall the people own
Sir George and the railroads."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06
SHEDS o STOCK.

When a farmer, not skilled with
tools, desires a good building erected,
he Is under the necessity of employing
a carpenter; but because he is not able
to have what he desires, his stock need
not be made to suffer thereby. A shed
may be built by anyone who can use a
hammer and saw, so as to not be I'm
slightly, and afford good protection
from the storm. On one side of the
yard make a tight board fence, five or
six feet high, then in the yard ten or
twelve feet from fence, set posts eight
feet high, directly in front of fence
posts. Put on a plate at the tops of
the long posts to run parallel with the
fence. Put another plate through the
center parallel with the other, supper
ted by post, then put on a board roof.
The ends may be boarded or not, as
you may choose. AS this shed Is
chiefly for affording shelter from rain
and sun in the Summer it may be left
open at the ends. Sheds of this kind
also afford a protection from cold
storms later in the season, before hor-
ned cattle are put in the stable, or for
those that are left out during Winter.
The same structure as described be-
fore, with the ends boarded down to
within two and a halffeet of the ground,
will shut out cattle and afford a good
shed for sheep. On the same plan a
larger shed may be built in any loca-
ton desired. Make two parallel side
walls after the manner of the tight
fence, twenty feet apart, and as long
as desired; then set high posts in the
center and roof down each way. Where
it is desired to make a more slightly
piece of work, a frame may be made
of scantling of any size desired. A
good sized stone with an upper fiat
surface, should be used for the scant-
ling posts to rest upon.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06
WHAT ARE YOUR HOGS Do1NGa
Does the following story meet your

Does the following story meet your
case7
"a hotel man kept a wild 'rustler'
of a hog that did nothing but sleep,
eat, and squeal. 1t did not grow, but
squealed off all the fat it put on while
eating. Still the man kept the hog wear
after year, and when ASKED why he did
so he said, Amt he jest as good to eat
up my swlll as any other hog ,"
We are afraid from the breed of hogs
we see running around sadly too often
In Our trips through the State, that far
too many of III farmers are keening
animals like that Of the hotel pr0Ori.
etOr. They eat and root, and do little
else. To make meat of them thew must
be kept until they are two or three
years old, and then the meaj is of such
a texture that the difficulty is to keep
it in the pan whilst it cooks. IF not
weighted down it will curl 10 and
jump out into the fire. Hogs of this
| kind are not worth the room thew Oc-
cupy and the food they waste. The
effort should be to keep a breed that
will make $50 to 200 pounds weight at
ten months old. If kept beyond this
age, too much of the food eaten goes to
the mere sustenance of the animal,
without any increase of weight to
make the feeding profitable. Now is
the time to push the eight or ten
months hogs to this maturity, 80 that
| they may be marketed before Christ
mas. What the market wants now is
lean meat, not fat hogs, fit only for the
lard kettle. The former are always in
demand, the latter are valueless at lard
prices. Hogs that have been on clover
and grass ought now with a months
feeding on corn, sofa beans, or peas, to
be just the meat required. When
taken up to finish off, keep them in a
| clean dry shed with plenty of fresh
water, and feed them in a clean trough
or on a clean board floor. Don't let
them have to pick the corn out of the
filth and dirt of the pen, wasting much
of it and injuring the meat. The hog
is lot naturally a dirty animal. He IS
frequently made into one by his sur
roundings and housing. Let them
have hard wood ashes and sulphur,
mixed in equal parts, in a trough under
cover, to which they can have access
at all times. This, though not a cure
for hog chOlera-there is no such thing
yet discovered-seems to largely tend
to prevent it. This is the experience
| of many who have tried it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06
GOLD A BENEFICENT DEMON.

You are right. The silver dollar as
sassinated by the conspiracy Of 70 will
not down any more than the ghost Of
Banquo. The silver dollar was the Gre
alton of law, the same as the gold dol
lar before it was Outlawed, and was on
a parity with gold. 1t is still a solar
sun of which all the great products are
the satellites. Silver measured by any
other product than gold will buy as
much now as it would before it was de,
monetized and reduced to bullion as a
commodity Gold, however, l am ready
to admit with you, is now the imperial
master, and it will be till you bind the
restraining authority of law. Never
was there q wiser conception than
when the fathers of the Republic united
it i~ndissolubly with silver in the Con
stitutiOn of the United States. Gold Is
now the beneficent demon and 1T will
not let anything live within the realm
of it's sweep and sway that it does not
control-silver, diamonds, iron, corn,
wheat and even labor, which Is now
stimulated and protected to some ex-
tent by the tariff. The recent cy clone
was one of general popular discomfort.
The people are restless. They see the
scramble for gold" in Europe and
know they are it's victims. Balfour
tells them that England is suffering
from the increased purchasing power
of gold. The silver advocates have
been preaching this doctrine for years.
-EUgene BlOOdgOOd Beebe, IN Ne1C
York Herald.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06
HOW TO BEGIN B~EE-KEEPING.

First, you should get sOme bees, says
the American Bee Journal, then by
subscribing for a bee paper and getting
a bee book, begin the practice with the
theory, and you will succeed faster and
surer. Some of us might read agricul-
tural papers all our lives, or for years,
then put us in the field to secured crop,
and w would most likely fail; SO we
need the practical part as we'll as the
theoretical.
It depends altogether upon what kind
of a person you are, as to how many
colonies you should start with; one col
ony would be a plenty for some, while
others might run fifty profitably from
the start. Be a little bit your own judge
about that.
Il will be a nice little experiment to
buy your start in box hives, and try
your hand at transferring, going by
the direction in your book. After you
transfer, and find you have been sue
cessful, you might venture again, etc.
But, by all means, do not get excited,
and upset the whole thing. Should
you fail on the first experiment, try
again. And, by the way, if you do not
at the beginning make up your mind
to promptly meet all failures with a re-
neWed determination to succeed any
how, you had better quit before you
begin, as Bookkeeping is as apt to give
its disappointments as other branches
of Jul rural industries.
Some will tell you to start with frame
hives, by all means; but, if l had to
start again, l would GIT the cheapest
bees l could find, and transfer, as that
is a bit of experience the beginner first
needs, and my instructions are for the
beginners with limited means, and |
would have you start right, SO as to have
as few disappointmentS as possible, as
those with plenty Of means may make
a failure, and not hurt them much, but
when n puts his all into an invest
ment, he would like to be sure of some
thing back.
So, get some bees in some box hives.
transfer them, and after you get started,
and think you can afford it, get some
Italian queens from some reliable
breeder, and Italianize your apiary.
Move step by step, and be quick to
"catCh on" to everything you hear
about bees at conventions and other
places, and especially from those you
know to have made the pursuit a sue
cess, and you will soon learn what it
used to take bee keepers years and
years to learn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06
HOW M1LLIoNAIREs ARE MADE

During 1CO yearsof African slavery
in America, no slave owner was able
to amass a fortune valued at 81. OOC, 900;
but in twenty-eight years of financial
slavery we have made over 4, 500 mil
lionaires, some of whom are worth
from $50, OOO, 900 to $3.50, OOO. 900. y
The Century.
In a great hardware store in this
city, owned and run by millionaires,
one man puts handles in axes. When
you consider the price of axes and
handles as they are sold by the same
house, the man earns for the establish
ment just $12 per day; of this sum he
receives 50, and millionaire masters
pocket $40. The best hand in the pack
ing department of the same store. while
in the performance of his work, stennnd
on a nail and run it into his foot Tho
injury incapacitated him for ahor 80
a few days, during which time ~.
wages were stopped, the firm s-ssionjn@
as a reason that they could NOT eFonS
to pay for labor which thew SiJ Ont
receive; yet they employed no hand ~
NJ ms place, compelling or otbeU
Workmen to do for nothing the WoHl
ne was unable to do. Such is the oa
CORRESPONDING thievery practiced nv ~
ran upon the poor in every deDont
menu OF human effort. part
! Ohoer such a labor system uho+
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06
CUTTING AND GRINDING FEED

Editor Farmers Voice:-On the
small farm where the most must be
made out of everything, it will nearly
always pay to cut and grind the feed
for the stock and especially when the
plan of keeping a sufficient number of
stock to consume all of the products is
followed. In addition in very many
cases it will further pay to purchase a
sufficient amount of bran and oil meal
to use all of the roughness to the best
advantage. In this way a larger num-
Der of stock in proportion to the c
age can be kept, and if properly man
aged more manure can be made and
the fertility be more easily kept ND. a
more perfect ration can be made up
when the food is all prepared in this
way, while the waste is n duced to a
minimum. Then the straw and fodder
can be converted into a much better
ration than if fed alone or even with no
ground grain. Corn fodder or wheat
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06

for nails, screws and all the other ar
ticles 8, label the drawers, and, with
these things so arranged a child can be
sent after what you want from the far
field if necessary, and make no mis-
take.
This arrangement will also prevent
your being out of just the thing you
need, as a glance into the drawer when
going to town will show you just what
particular things r running low and
need renewing
Does any careless man say this won't
pay? Then | don't understand his way
of working, as I have often seen the
momentary use of a little inexpensive
tool, or presence of a particular size of
bolt, save me a trip to the blacksmith
several miles away. The want of a
little machine bolt once cost my father
half a days idleness in harvest, and
that is how I learned my les on.
Let US remember the old saying, 1T
is a wise man that profits by his mis-
fortunes" JACOB WYCKOFF.
Somerset county, N, J.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06
THE ALLIANCE AND POLITICS.

Many people innocently get a wrong
idea of the mission of the Alliance.
That it's principles r political it is
true. but that its aims are partisan is
not true. The mission of che Alliance
is education. 1t believes in the divine
Injunction to go out into all the world
and preach the gospel unto all men and
unto all nations and then shall the end
come. The Alliance does not worry
about what the end will be when the
people shall become educated. 1t fur
nishes the opportunity for free and full
discussion. 1t builds from the bottom,
teaching men to be honest, independent
citizens, work together for then mu-
tual interests, and vote for just glvers
instead of Doodle dispensers
The Alliance Is no dress parade affair
in politics. 1t does not stop with re.
solves nor with demands made on pa
per. 1t educ 4tes the voter that to get
principles and demands into law men
true to them must be elected. Any man
can vote for Jay Gould or Carnegie if
he chooses and not forfeit his member
ship, but no true Allianceman will shout
reform and vote for monopoly. The
reason why the Alliance has often been
COMPOUNDED with the now party is be-
cause the new party has received the
support of Alliancemen generally for
having endorsed its principles almost
literally.
No political party is the Alliance nor
can take it's place. The Alliance is non
partisan, a school, a literary society
and business circle in which men
women learn to know themselves, each
other and matters relating to the gen
eral welfare. Its organization should
be pushed into every township IN the
investigation that cannot be found else
where. Every farmer should join it.
The advantages are too numerous to
enumerate at this time A candid in,
vestigation will convince the most skep
tical that the Order is both socially
and financially a wonderfully benefit
cial Observation-Disclosures Tribune
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06
CALAMITY HOwLER.
THE FARMERS WORKSHOP AND
TOOLS.

The farmer who has no workshop,
no place in which to employ his stormy
DAYS or odd minutes in necessary re-
pairs, or the construction of necessary
things, no place in which to keep tools
and articles for repair for every ordi
nary emergency, is not fully awake to
his own interests.
The man who has few or no repair
ing tools lessons his powers, and, con-
seQuently, his usefulness, as the arts
of neatness and dispa oh in work often
lie more In the possession of the proper
instruments than In the man himself.
Every farmer should have a workshop,
a place for the business if possible, if
not possible at present then sOmee easily
accessible corner in a large building
where tools may be kept for repairs of
buildings, machinery, wagons, harness,
fences, etc., and with room by the
bench for the greater part of these re-
pairs to be made where the tools are at
hand, as a small piece of work will
often call quite a variety Of tools into
play.
Every farmer should have light and
heavy riveting hammers and a claw
hammer, cross-cut saw, rip, compass,
and hack saws; plane, spoke shave, for
S4Cula1 pLo44USg Oil dSSOI GllG4U VI
chisels, brace and bits for iron and
wood, steel square; files, fat, square,
triangular, round, and knife blade F;
saw set, compass or dividers, calipers,
pincers, harness needles and avis,
paint brushes, and also, if possible,
anvil and wise, especially the latter,
and this should be a mechanics wise
to meet the farmers greatest needs.
And to back these up to their full
measure Ofusefulness the farmer should
keep himself supplied with the various
little things that go into the construc-
ton of everything he handles, viz,
boards and scantlings in useful sizes.
bolts, nuts, and washers, a half dozen
or so of each in all their common sizes
and forms; nails, cut and wire, all
necessary sizes from the small carpes
tack up>to the six or eight-inch spike,
enough for an emergency; screws
from the little 3 8 inch up to 2d2 inch
copper rivets and washers. several
sizes; thread and wax for harness.
white lead, oil, lamp black and vene.
tian red for paints, and other items
added as the need of them prese ITS it
self. These articles of repair withou'
the tools will call for a five dollar bill
and possibly a ten all told, but afarme,
cannot spend any money on his farm
to much better advantage.
Provide for their safe and separat
keeping a good sized box with drawer
and give each its proper place. Civ
one thickness of bolts a drawer b.
itself and divide the drawer into a
many sections as are necessary to hol
the various lengths of that size OF boil
Do the same with all the bolts, MARI
ing each section with the dimension
of the bolts it contains, and on tn
front side of drawer mark a measuI
in inches by which to get length OF an
bolts to be returned to the drawer.
Provide the same accommodates
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06
WITHOUT ANIMosITY.
Rrotber Who is Willing for all to Vote
as They Please.

AURORA, N. @.
Nh EDIroR:-Having seen nothing
~ vo,,r valuable paper from this sec
.+ion lately, l write to let you know
how we are progressing In the first
Mace we have just passed through h
most trying ordeal that ever an organl-
zntion was subjected to. L don't e
how any brother could fall out or even
orow cold toward another brother Tor
differing with him in his political opln-
ion. AS far as 1 am concerned my Al
lianceism is head and shoulders ABOVE
nv political party. I have seen
the time since l took the obligation
that I would not willingly abide the
decision of the majority and put my
shoulder to the wheel with all my
might in any u that was brought
I'D. Some of the brethren seem to mis-
construe the obligation, either ignor-
antlv or viciously, and I don't propose
to place the construction. If brother
honestly differs with me in opinion and
has manhood enough to stand back of
his opinion and has the argument to
back his opinion, 1 respect and honor
him; bu5 if he has no argument and
flies in a rage and wants to throw stale
eggs or ridicule, abuse and SANDER at
a brother who has the argument and
principles, which if carried into effect
would make the farmers and laborers
of this great Nation free and indepen-
dent instead of mere tools, as at pres
ent, to the great organized combines
and trusts of the country. We the
organized laOorers of this country,
have toiled and our labor has been ap-
propriated to build up the greatest
country on earth. Let US stop and ask
ourselves what have we got left for all
this work we have done? Ignorance,
d~esolation, mortgages and tramps.
This is not idle talk. Ask all lovers
of liberty to go to the records and post
themselves and act like men. You
need not expect the men who are get
ting rich off your sweat to make it any
better for you, for if the change is
made our sweat would be more profit
able to us and less profitable to them.
I feel that we {" this neighborhood
are extremely blessed in many in
stances. We have rich land, good
health, good neighbors and lots of
other natural advantages, yet with all
these advantages some of our hardest
workers who own their land are not,
under present conditi ons, able to buy
the necessary books for their children
to go to the public schools.
CALAMITY HOWLER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06

straw gS with bran and 81
very very good winter ra Oh meal NAB.
horses or sheep, and Ia 4Sn for cass
olned to a much i bat tney Can be sp w
c cut Goug63 nes is first run anoFFSantag
horses or sheep in W;r+ oest rarionssp
oats run through a d lnVtr Is unthrestS
quantity of wheat b T9 yer With a nv
t = cattle a6n a cheap and U wbolal,, VII
parts of straw and cIov Vomolning con-
through a cutting box tIa a1d nay rO15iS.
wheat bran. WA ana adding n.y.
Corn and cob ground togo,,.
a better feed for cattle t ag5 nal.
cornmeal alone, and if the thu bnogs I'd
or fodder is cut and corn r"o nay, SIN
a t6oe Il PETER PETER ration will be m Coo ps
o Cnan II either is fed alone 4ade
only In their eating what is SIT, II + !
them more clearly that Is supplied
cutting and grinding the food alnet
is less loss In ~digesting and a Uot t9
ing. 1t Is some work t. grir% dSslrlls
all OF the feed, but on the ar -lu and
the principal work to be- d I,a Se ian
feeding and caring for the s aonT ny
Is quite an item to do this IN I'tE andj
lei bes5 calculated to secure cue ,F aa
results, and generally anytbin we \
will reduce the cost will nr rn,ng &
able with low prices. If 'I a H,6 p6oi
realized the cost of productiGn pront
made as low as possible, and ~ nlus9
farmers with only a small nn 1pS sla
stock must get them ready fo Tn msS
at the lowest possible cost and ~, L;a'Q
only be done by feedi ~ in sncb ou 4 {
as to secure the largest possible o q Y
proportion to the amount Of fax aal
piled, and in doing this one itew =; "
avoid waste in eating as we'll AZ
costing, and it is in this that t5o ~ u
fit in cutting and grinding feed ~ ~ I ~
ly secured. N. J. SHFppp.o%s5
Miller Co., Mo DA"D