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CLOSED PERMANENTLY.


A Washington dispatch brings theg
information that Secretary Carlisle hats
ordered the mints to close permanently
so far as silver is concerned on the FIRST
of November. They have been prac-
tically closed for two years, but that is
a formal official notice that the country
may not expect more In the way OF
money, except gold, until the people
put honest men in office. The dis
patch says:
The appropriation for loss on the
recoinage of worn and uncurrent silver
coin for the current fiscal year is ex-
hausted. No further transfer of such
coin can be made from the treasury
to the mints for recoinage, and as it is
the intention of the Secretary of the
Treasury not to resume, for the present
at least, the coinage of silver bullion
purchased under the Sherman act, -
and as the stock of gold bullion ON
hand at the mint in New Orleans ia
very limited the Secretary has decided
to discontinue all coinage operations at
that mint for the present. Instructions
have been given for the furlough, with
out pay, of nearly all the employees at
the New Orleans mint. About seventy
employees will be furloughed until
such time as coinage operations can be-
resumed.
The Treasury now holds of silver
bullion purchased under the Sherman
act'' 137, GA, 900 fine ounces, the cost OF
which was $124, ,OSO, S23. The coming
value of this bullion in silver dollars is
$177, 1864. OOO If this bullion were coin
ed into silver dollars, the profit to the
Government on it's coinage would be
nearly $54, ,OOO, 900, which sum could be
paid out for the ordinary expenses Of
the Government, or silver certificates
would be issued against it. It is not
thought that the coinage of silver dol
lars will be resumed at the mints until
there is some action by Congress on the
currency question. The mints at Phil
adelphia and San Francisco will con-
tinue to be employed in the coinage OF
| gold.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05
CHEAPER CoTToNsEED MEAL.

While the price of cotton is going
steadily up, the price of cottonseed is
on the decline, The price per ton has
dropped from 50 to $8 for railroad seed
and from So to 81 for river seed. The
outlook for b9tter prices is at present
not fattering, according to the idea of
those who are in the business. Tt may
seem trife strange to the uninitiated
that two products, borne by the same
stalk, should not be allied in the mar
ket go far as price is concerned, but the
fact Is that there may be good price
for cotton end poor price for seed at
the same time. This is explained by
the surrounding conditions. Not alone
the status of supply but the status of
demand has a large share in fixing
both prices. With a poor cotton crop
and big demand for the staple owing
to other causes than the decrease in the
crop, the big price is legitimate.
The cottOnseed market is partially
dependent upon the supply of corn and
other teedstuffs. For ms -ance. cotton
| seed oil Is used largely in the manufac-
ture of an article of commerce which
sells for lard, and which has IarpaIv
superseded the use of the real article
As matter of necessity the price of
the vegetable lard is dependent to .
large degree upon the price of thu ami.
NAL article. The corn crop this wear
Is immense. The hog crop, if there can
be such a thing as a hog crop" ;" is de-
pendent upon the corn crop. PLENTY
of corn gives plenty of food to fatten
hogs, and when hogs can be fattened
at small cost, they can be marketed at
small cost. This condition of affairs
has its influence on lard, and of course
the price of seed products used for the
manufacture of lard" falls off. Again,
with plenty of corn and other grain to
teed cattle, there is not SO much need
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05
RALEIGH, N. c., NOVEMBER 5, 1895.

for cottonseed meal or hulls. These
are reasons advanced by the mill men
for the low price of seed and the poor
outlook for better one.
Last year, at this time. cottonseed
oil was worth in the market 273 cents
per gallon. This year it is worth only
1S cents. This makes difference OF
$4 rs in the value of a 5O-gallon barrel
of cottonseed oil. Last year at this
time the value of cottonseed meal a6
Memphis was $17 so per ton. This year
cottonseed meal brings only $14. CoV
tonseed hulls are quoted at the same
figures which prevailed last year, ~
per ton. The low price of cottonseed
affects the farmer more than one thinks.
For each bale of cotton is marketed
there is in the neighborhood of 1000
pounds, or over half ton of seed for
sale. The price of seed is far from
satisfactory, and many Southern farm
ers who are able to do so will hold their
seed for a better market.
Memphis is perhaps the largest cot
tonseed market in the world, and the
condition of affairs which prevails here
is prevalent elsewhere. The mills, and
there are six of them in operation at
the present time, are working in har-
mony and there is little probability
that the enormous prices which char
acterized the war between them year
or more since, when cottonseed sold on
the river as high as $17 per ton, will
be seen in Memphis this winter. The
difference of 81 per ton in the value of
railrC ad and river seed is easily ex
planned. Seed can be shipped by rail
in bulk. 1t has to be sacked when it is
shipped on the river. Mills must fur
nish river seed with sacks, and besides
the cost Of the sacks themselves there
is the cost of labor in sacking and un-
sacking the product. A fact about
cottonseed that is not generally known
is that river cotConseed produces much
more oil to the ton than does railroad
seed. This is because river seed comes
from the bottoms and railroad seed
from the hills.
We shall print next week or in the
following issue thereafter, an elaborate
article comparing the feeding and ma
nurial value of cottonseed meal with
other by products. At current prices,
it is one of the cheapest feeds. and ce,
tainly the very cheapest (and one of
the bes) of ilizers.-American Ag-
riculturist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05
THE COMMERCE OF CANADA

The Secretary of Agriculture will is
sue in few days Bulletin No. of the
Worlds Markets" series. The pres
ent one treats of Canada, which has
become a great competitor of the
United States in foreign market.
This bulletin shows that the t0sAl
exports of our Canadian neighbOr in
creased from $89, 100000 in 1885 to
$118, 900, 900 in 1894, or 33 per cent
the imports from $1O9, 200, 900 to $123.-
900, 900 to $241, 900, 600, or 81 per cent,
during the same period. The largest
proportional annual increase was IN
1892, when the value of the total trade
exceeded that of the preceding year
about II per cent. During the years
1888 to 1891, inclusive, the trade OF
Canada with the United States ex-
ceeded that with any other country ;.
since the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland has taken first
rank, with the United States second.
An important fact is that q large
share of the agricultural products gO-
ing abroad from Canadian seaports are
cereals and -four in transit from tba
United States. OF $27, 900, 900 worth
of such products shipped last year
SO, ,OOO, 900 was American merchandise
OF late years increased attention hes
been given by the Governments OF
Canada to dairy interests, enGouRag
ing the dairy associations through
out the country and passing strict san-
itary laws regulating the manufacture
of cheese and butter. No adultera-
tions can be used, and the importa-
tion, manufacture, and sale of oIeo-
margarine and other similar substances
are prohibited.
Though the quantity of butter ex>
ported decreased from 10, 500, 600 pounds
in 1868 to 5, 500, 900 in 1894, nearly per
cent, the value declined from 81, 7O0,-
coo to 81, ,1OO,O 900, or only about 30 per
cent. This indicates Improvement in
the quality of butter exported.
The export of cheese has increased
notably. While in 1868it was 8, 141, SO
pounds, valued at 1920, 543, in 1894 its
rose to the large figure Of 154, s7z, 4es1
pounds, valued at $15. 488, 19l.
Mention is made of the fishing indus
try and forest products. TIE value oE
the former in 1894 was over SO, ,O0Os-
600 and of the latter for 1894 over
$50, 600, 900.
OF wood pulp, in 1894, the United
States alone imported from the Domin~
ion 1863, O10 worth.
The bulletin contains reports f0na
thirty Of our consuls.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05
FAILURES AND SUCCESS IN
SOUTHERN FARMING.

The great majority of Southern
farmers who are la5oring in poverty
and under the weight Of mortgages,
are those who have never yet been able
to recover fully from the effects of war
and negro emancipation. Most OF the
men who have achieved success, in any
undertaking In the South, within the
past twenty five years, are those who
readily abandoned old sentiments and
old practices, and who went to work in
earnestness and with judicial economy
directly after the war. There are thou
sands of men all over the South who
have achieved great success in farming,
and there is no difficulty whatever in
the way of success in farming here to
men who will work with judgment and
zeal. The South has every condition
of soil and climate necessary to agri
cultural success. She has a rainfall
that has always been-except at rare
intervals-a reasonable guarantee
against drouths of long duration.
Furthermore, the seasons usually are
so long that if spring drouth does
occur, there is always ample time
afterward for the grain crops Drouths
very rarely affect the cotton plant.
Large fortunes are seldom the direct
outgrowth of farming in any country;
but as an example of successful farm
ing might give instances coming Un-
der my own observation. One of my
neighbors made single acre of ground
yield the sum of 1878, about 5000 of
which was net profit. His crop was
the Ribbon sugar cane converted into
syrup. In another instance a single
acre planted to corn and rye produced
crops worth SIP; the first year the
sales were $50, the second $50. In ad,
dition to these amounts, the land Gov
cred with heavy growth of rye sown
in the early fall yielded pasturage for
six head of cattle and other live stock,
running upon it for three months in
the winter-this pasturage itself equal
ing in dollars and cents the outlay in
cultivation. Hence, outside of the ex-
penses of home made fertilizers, esti-
mated at $40, the average profit was
nearly $45 year
A special advantage the South pos
sesses is that, in nearly every part of
her broad area, the soil and the climate
allow two crops annually in everything
except sugar cane, cotton and tobacco
agricultural products which have
often brought bankruptcy and ruin to
their growers NV. Moore, Alabama,
in American Agriculturist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05

1t may be possible to keep sheep very
cheaply through the winter, but it Is
not policy to do so. A flock wintered
through the cold weather on straw will
show pretty poor fleece.
Good feed fed to good stock will in
crease many fold, but in no circum-
stance can food fed to poor stock bring
any profit. Consider it wholly wasted,
but thus some men manage all their
lives.
A Fargo CN. D. paper says that not,
withstanding excessive heat, frosts,
hot winds, smut, drouths, deluges,
ehinchbugs, Hessian fes and liars, the
yield of wheat in that State will aver
age fifteen bushels per acre.
While apples are reported good
crop in a number of States, yet in
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Michigan and Wisconsin the official
returns for August 1st show only per
centages ranging from % IN Michigan
to 49 In Vermont.
There is no doubt, if there was some
sort of a farm study in the country
schools and even a flower bed agricul-
ture pracuced in the school house
yards, that there would be great gain
made IN the direction of a better love
for farm life.
An excellent fertilizer for crane vines
is to break bones into pieces and mix
them with unlea.htd wood ashes. keep
ing the mixture damp with soapsuds
Dig around the vines and use the mix
ture literally. The bones alone, buried
around the vines, are excellent.
Our Southern California friend
plume themselves a good deal, says tn
California Fruit Grower, on the allege,
TACT that the Walnut Growers Conver
ton, held in Los Angeles on August Is
was the first convention of that kin
held in the United States possibly i
the world.
Whether the raising of horses b.
comes profitable or not, the horse
most serviceable to the farmer al
those he raises on the farm, provide
he breeds for the kind he prefers. Dl
position, constitution, capacity an
perfection in any degree can be bel
secured by breeding for those qualitie
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05
WHY THEY ARE AGAINST Sill.
YER.

At a recent foreign Monetary Con
ference a delegate said:
'Gentlemen, we must demonetize sill
yer, for in no other possible way can
we keep down the price of land and
labor and farm products. It is of the
highest Importance that we should de-
monetize it, We want low prices.
There is nothing in the world so hurt
full to the banker as a rising scale of
prices. When this is the case trade
expands; every thing doubles in value,
and it takes a tremendous amount OF
capital to corner a market and make a
living profit. By demonetizing silver
we at one blow can cut down one hall
of the capital of the world; this rem
ders our work as bankers compare
lively easy. We will have in our cru
sade against silver all of the college
professors, and all government officers,
for the purchasing power of their sal
aries will be greatly increased-in fact,
this purchasing power will be doubled
by the demonetization of silver. Ii we
will only unite we can accomplish
it. and once done it will never be un-
done. We can buy the public press
and teach the common people" that
it is for their good and they will get 30
poor that they will never find out any
better-in fact, we will give them such
a hard time to make living that they
will have no time for socialism and.
political complications. The very fact
that gold from it's nature can never
circulate as the money of the ''com-
mon people" is greatly in our favor.
The use of notes will be compulsory,
and every banker knows the profit Of
issuing notes.
LET us stand together, gentlemen;
all of the Semetic race of the world are
unit in favor of gold monometalism.
This is great consideration. I can
1ot take my seat, gentlemen, without
noinA Ting out to you one alarming con-
aiderof1Son. IF we do not demonetize
o1r mr. IdiioTnity as public functionar1es
ill he 5-s atty de creased and lessened
SacaIse tbea purchasing power Of our
-NT~.. U- III be deminished. Gentle
ooon Sr.aC1- AI 49,, tiaat you viii rise equal TO
the occasion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05
FARMERS INSTITUTES.

The average farmers institute is a
splendid school for the farmer. While
il is true that some of them are little
better than useless, the system of hold
ing Institutes has been pretty generally
perfected to a marked degree. The in
stitute must be practical, or it is moth
ing. It is no place for the airing of
political doctrines or the advancing of
untried theories. Every word spoken
ought to mean something of valuable
import to the practical farmer. In
many sections the talent can be secured
at home, or near home, to make the
proceedings of great interest. Yet it
is advisable to secure men, when pos
sible, from distance, for the methods
of prominent farmers in a community
are apt to be pretty well understood by
all the most intelligent farmers of that
neighborhood. The directors of some
of our experiment stations are valuable
on the program of an institute. II they
are really practical men they have op-
portunities for demonstrating facts
that no farmer can have. Intelligent
specialists can impart much informa
tion. Still these men coming from a
distance, unless they are exceedingly
careful and explicit, may mislead, for
their experiments and achievements
have been under materially different
conditions from those existing in the
county where is held the institute that
they address. The method that may
do in Wisconsin might not do at all in
Southern Illinois. Farmers who usually
attend the Institutes understand them
selves and their business pretty thor
nughly. 1t requies exceptional ability
and a broad experience to teach such
men in the science of general farming.
Yet they attend the institute to learn
something new, and are disappointed
unless they do. The boys should be
encouraged to attend these meetings.
We know of no other place where
boy can learn so much, in the same
length of time, as he can at practical
farmers institute. He will learn things
here often more readily than he will at
home, even though his father could
and in the long run would teach him
these very things. Where the dairy
receives special attention, the institute
is of special attention to the boys
Farmers Voice.
1
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05

The Department of Agriculture rec
ommends growing more of the legumi-
nous crops, as they furnish the cheap
est food for stock and the cheapest
manure for the soil. They obtain from
the air nitrogen which is necessary for
both plant and animals and which
costs, in the form Uf fertilizers and
feeding stuffs, from Is to 25 cents a
pound.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05

soda or 400 to 900 pounds cottonaeed
meal will also be necessary. When
these fertilizers are freely used, thor
ough cultivation given, poor fruit will
disappear from our markets and fruit
growers will be, as they of a right
ought to be, our most prosperous peo-
pie. 0. w. BLACKNALL.
Kittrell. N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05

TIE PROGRESSIVE FARMER Is still GO
ing at $1.OO a year. Some Of our sub
scribers seem to think We are giving
is away.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05
,oF,gru CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLI
ANCE.

ANCE.
President DR.. Cyrus Thompson,
2ichlands, ..
Vice President-Jno. Graham, Ridge,
way, N. @. Do,
S9cretary-Treasurer-W. 3. Barnes
laleigh, N. @. C..-
Lecturer-J. T. B. Hoover, Elm City,
1 isSfeward-Dr. S V. N. seawell, Villa
aQTi QChiapiain-Rev. pi P. H. Massey, Dur
1o1o Door -keeper-Geo. T. Lane, Green's
Assistant Door keeper-Jas. (. Lyon,
Durham, N. @.
Sergeant at -Arms-A.D D. <. Wallace,
Rntherfor lton, N. @.
state Business Agent-T. 1Vey, Ra1-
'T1rnstee Business Agency Fund-W.
Graham, Machpelah, N. 9.
xDCUErvE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
n1p0LINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
Hileman, Concord. N. c.; N.
q English, Trinity, N. c.; James III.
MeWborne, Kins on, n. =.
rATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
John Graham. Gatesville, N. c.; DIR.
J.F. Harrell, Whiteville, n. C.; L. j.
Gambler, Acton, N. q.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05

Send us what you owe us, or write
us you haven't got it. Be business-like.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05
~zn NATIONAL FARMERS ALL
ANCR AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President-J. T. Willetts, Topeka
IAN. ooroIv T,ah
12I' 1s2eIc'rotary-Treasurer-COl. D. P. Dun
an, Columbia, s. Q.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05

Els1ch of The abOUe-1aGnaed papers are
seQwested to keep the list standing on
-ss first page and add others, prOUtded
f9sg are duly elected. A7ay paper tGtL-
svag 10 advocate the OcGLG platform tUtH
ss dropped from the list promptly. Our
asogIe can 7GO1U see IUbGt papers are
sa5fished in their interest.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05
wECrTTYE BOARD.

ri, Il. LOuCKs, HuEON, .. y. IASaLlLI
age. Brandon, Virginia; I. Z. Dean,
Toneove Falls, New York; Il. 9. Dem
1ing. Secretary. Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
gania; Marion Butler, Raleigh, n. y.
JUDICIARY.
r. A. Southworth, Denver, Colo.
R. w. Beck, Alabama.
F D. Davie, Kentucky.
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sorth Carolina Reform Press Association.
slAcers-J. L. Ramsey, Prestde'at ;
ssaTSo1s Butler, Vice e-PresSdeTt; w. s.
garHes, Secretary,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-11-01
Sherift'S Sale ON Foreclosure

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE
WASHINGTON, COUNTY OF MASON.
OREGON MORTG AGE COMPANY
VS. llimitedl Plaintiff.
JOHN McREAVY and FANNIE
ID, MCaEAvY, his wlfel
Defendants.
IN pursuance of a judgment of foreclosure and
sale made and entered in the above entitled ac-
tlon and bearing date the 18th day of Oct, eigh-
teen hundred nlnety-five, certified COPY of
which said judgment, annexed to the execution
hereinafter described has been served on the
undersigned, and under and by virtue of an
order of sale, to the undersigned. direct
ed and delivered, issued out of the SUPERIOR
Court OF the State of Washington for the County
OF Mason on the 18th day of October, eighteen
hundred nlnety-fVe. in the above entitled &C.
ton, in which said action the Oregon Mortgage
Company, limited plaintiff, recovered judg-
ment against, john McReavy and Fannie b
McReavy. his wife defendants, for Seven Thous-
and, Four Hundred and Thirty Dollars and
twenty cents lS74302 POI, together with an AttOr-
neys fee of Two Hundred Fifty T$25Ol Dollars
ana costs and disbursements OF this action tax
ed at $3.50, in gold coin of the United States nj
America and Tor foreclosure and sale against
the said defendants:
|, the. undersigned. am commanded to obev
ana enforce the provisions of said iudgmant
and to sell according to law, all the FOLLOWING
described real estate, situate lying and being in
the County OF Mason and State of Washington
towIt: An undivided two-thirds interest ~, yi
10 Lots three and four. and the Southwest n,,art
er OF Section twenty-three Township tu auc,.
two North OF Range four west, also all the fol-
twenty-five, Township twenty-three. north of
Range three east; the East half of The nor+ ~
west quarter of Section Eighteen TownSh;r,
twenty-one north of Range four west. the Ea ap
half OF north east quarter, and East half Ta ~
southeast quarter. OF Section eight Tornsh;4, VI
twenty-one, north OF Range fOur vast. UP
southeast quarter of the southeast onsrtar .ne e
Section twelve, Township twentv-one nnr.h %
Range Iour west; Southeast Quarter Of sn,,. VI
cas-. quar,er oi section SIX, township twenty
que. of.n =. ,snse . tilree west Also all of Nc
RI
lots one aud two af Block twentv-seva.!' except
addition, the .coyering the Northaa - VI salu
er of Southeast lrter and Southeast n quart-
northeast quar-. :, of Section six 1,o'nn usI "
twenty-one, nor. of Range three ,vast ~
Willamette Mei ian. ' VI tue
r., Now therefore lotice is hereby given. that ON
Tuesday, the Sr day of December a; ;Lat on
hundred ninety re, at ten oclockin Tbs u f'-
noon OF that ca at the front door of the Cor,
House, III the u ypf Shelton, Mason Convtr
Washing ton, iii in obedience to sa;S 1 au!'
lnand, sell at pub ic auction Ito toe hiebes. ps
der for cash, the above described pronert -. oiu-
much tnereoI as may be necessary to satisfy
pialntlffs judgment. with intereat thereon. any
AL costs and increased costs Of said action. "Au
Dated Shelton, WASH, October, 9th 1895.
~ s. CALDWELL, Sheriff