The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-23
NIAGARA FALLS.
The Greatest of the Worlds Great Won
ders---Among the Big Lakes.
Western New York
and Canada
Editorial Correspondence
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are South. For instance, you seldom
see anybody chewing tob acco, but
many smoke. The ladies drink more
here than in the South. They usually
carry a ticker of rye when travelling
and take a nip" on the sly. In the
cities they drink beer, but to their
credit it can be said that they do not
drink to excess-that is, ladies do not.
The newspapers are different, too.
Most of them r. making money. The
people OF the North may be mean, but
they are not mean enough to allow an
editor to work eighteen hours a day
and come out in debt at the end of
every year, after practicing the most
rigid economy all the while. The pa
pers are not full of dead advertising.
The business men there do not sit
around talking about the force bill,
the tariff and other things and allow
their advertisements to stand one way
six months. They advertise every
thing. If they want to buy a horse,
COW, farm, employ a hand-any-
thing-or if they want to sell anything
they advertise. Most of the men ad-
vertise for a wife and Uice Uersa.
AS a rule the newspapers do not a
"a large crowd of country people were
In town Saturday evening"" or that
Mr.. Henry Jones has put us under
obligations to him by sending us the
first mess of green peas we have had
in three years." Neither do they call
on those who promised to pay their
subscriptions in wood to come and
whack up now, for it is getting cold"
nor do they spend time thanking Mr..
Samuel Jenkins for, placing the
largest tomato we have ever seer on
our table" For years and years no
Northern paper has contained anything
like this: MIR. James Mcdonald
came up to his store yesterday morn
ing with a broad smile extending all
over his face. It's a boy, and will be
christened Grover"
Some of the Tarheel editors stopped
in Washington. They wanted to in
vestigate the rumor that Cleveland
was nominated two months ago at Chi
cago. They will publish the news in
October. However, about twenty five
came on to New York. After a two
days stay there it was found that all
except two had decided that they were
at the end of the world and could go
no further.
There are two popular routes to
Niagara Falls from New York.
One is up the Hudson via the
New York Central. This road has a
line through to Chicago with four
tracks and the fastest trains in the
world. 1t runs through via Niagara
Falls, crossing on a suspension bridge
just below the falls, thence by Wind
sOr, Canada, and Detroit, Mich. The
other is the New York, Lake Erie and
Western road and then over the Lee
high Valley route via Buffalo. This is
another through route to Chicago.
Mr.. H. A. Latham, editor of the
Washington Gazette, the handsomest
editor in the State, and the writer
were the only editors who went
on the Niagara trip. We went to
Canada, but stole nc money before
starting. We left New York at 4:30
one afternoon. The distance from New
York to Niagara is 443 miles, but we
travelled a circuitous route of 500 miles
because the railroads wanted us to see
Chatauqua Lake, the finest natural
rural retreat in America. Our special
train went through Port Jervis, Elmira,
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jamestown, Buffalo and other cities
containing from 25, 900 to 300, 900 in
habitants without stopping.
Although New York State contains
several hundred towns and large cities
and great manufacturing concerns, it
is a fine agricultural, stock and fruit
raising State. The farming land is
very valuable, especially on the rail
roads, ranging from 800 to 81 1900 and
even 81, 500 per acre. A gentleman
who owns a fine farm near Buffalo
told me that the Armour beef monopoly
has cut off all profits in beef cattle and
only milk COWS are kept. Even there
but little money is made on the farms
except near the cities, where trucking
and dairying pays. 1t seems that farm
ing is to become mere non-paying
drudgery everywhere. The fruit crop
is a failure in the North this season.
That will cut off receipts from the New
York farms very much.