The Charlotte Democrat., 1893-03-31
North Carolina News.

The Statesville creamery has been run
ming on full time almost ever since it was
established and has more orders than it
can fill.
The Virgin Cotton Mills, of Hunters
vile, contemplate putting in weaving
machinery, working plain white cloth at
| the start.
1t is rumored that company will be
formed to purchase the High Shoals
water, power near Lincolnton, and build
cotton mill to utilize same.
The Cannon Manufacturing Co., of
Concord, is preparing to erect quite a
commodate the additional mill hands they
intend to engage. The company is rum
! ming both night and day force.
The board of trustees of the University
has authorized a committee to proceed
| with the repairs, for which an appropria-
! tion was granted at the last session of the
General Assembly. The matter of water
facilities, baths, etc., will also receive
proper attention.
1t has been decided that the North
Carolina teachers will leave Raleigh for
| the Worlds Fair on July Goth instead of
| August 14th, as at first stated. The
change is made so that the party can at
tend the Worlds Fair Educational Con
gress which meets in Chicago July 25th.
Salt water in which to keep live salt
water fish at the Worlds Fair, is to be
obtained at Morehead The last freight
train took down five immense iron tanks
in which to obtain the first supply. The
| bolJ ohn A
Just fit car built specially for that
purpose.-NeoObern Journal.
1t was reported yesterday that Mr..
Geo. w. Vanderbilt had purchased Mt.
Pisgah and will build large and elegant
hotel on the top of the mountain. This
mountain is 5,757 feet above the sea level
Therefore it will be the highest elevation
upon which hotel is built this side of
| the Rocky mountains.-AsheUiUe Gazette.
The Herald man visited farm in the
county recently the proprietor of which
does he buy pound of fertilizer His
land is all under cultivation and you
could travel many miles before finding a
better farm. This farmer makes his
living on the farm and has crops to sell
for spare change beside. His home is a
model of neatness and comfort and fences
are we'll kept up.-Bulington Herald.
Mr.. Theo Woody, of Union township,
has a remarkable eve sheep. The eve is
now l6 years old, and is the mother of
80 sheep, having produced twins every
year of her life. We do not suppose that
any other such instance has ever oc.
cured in any community; but Wilkes is
original in its productions Mr.. Woody
takes special care Of this eve, and she
comes up to the house for her meals
regularly Wilkes6oro Chronicle.
Mr.. W. H. Bray has killed his prize
fat Berkshire hog which he exhibited at
the Fair His dressed weight was 628
pounds. Mr., Bray made 315 pounds Of
lard from his porker and sold it to Mr..
John Dunn at 13 cents per pound. $40.95
was the amount of cash that Mr.. B. re-
ceived for the lard and he still has the
hams, shoulders, etc, to eat. With such
successes before his eyes, why will any
farmer waste his time with common
breeds of any kind of stock. Get the
best and do likewise -Ne1o Bern Journal.
Wonder if Secretary Hoke Smith re-
members the trick played on him by the
miller of MOTIFS mill at Lincolnton when
he was accustomed to pay that place b
weekly visit holding a bag Of corn down
on a mule. While waiting on his grist
he and two other boys took a swim down
the creek to the river. While gone the
miller hid their clothes and made them
believe some one had stolen them. Hoke
did some tall pleading with the miller to
go after other clothes but he was entirely
too busy to leave the mill. That miller
now lives in Newton and bis name is uncle
Billy McCasln.-Nevton Enterprise.
Mrs. H. A. Boyd has a Jersey COW that
yielded her from 2lst February to 23rd
March GO days) by actual measure and
weight 4794 quarts of milk weighing
,054 pounds. At five cents per quart
the gross income, from this valuable COW
for month go days) would be S23973.
Her feed for the 80 days has been 500
pounds of fodder, worth $400, 80 quarts
peas worth s2.7O, 18O quarts of hominy
worth $3.50 and 100 pounds of ship-stuff
or brah, worth $2.00-total cost ofteeding
$3.50. Net income, not counting the
manure raised, s1l.677. This is an aver
age Of about 16 quarts per day. The
greatest yield any one day was Is quarts
and Il pints, which weighed 81 pounds
and ounces.
Who can beat it?- WdTrenton Record.
A REMARKARLE YIELD.-Mr. Will l..
Garlick reports the most remarkable
yield of onion sets we have heard Of
Last spring friend gave him six small
onions of the multiplying variety and he
put them in the ground. Monday be
took them up and was both surprised and
delighted to find AS good sized and we'll
developed onion "sets" as the result OF
his crop. He says they were the pretti-
est things of the kind he ever saw and if
he had been told that the yield from six
onions would have been as large or had
read a like statement in some seed cata
logue be would not have believed it. II
these produce in proportion to the original
,, stock be will have enough to supply the
!, whole of Vance county with onions next
' fall.-Henderson Gold Leaf.
| We have talked with a great many
farmers this week, advocating the in
tensive system of farming and the neces
sity of raising all our supplies at home,
and every one has fullV aoread with ua n