The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-10
STATE NEWS.
Cream Of the State P~ress-Drops Of Turpentine
and Grains of Rice from the East-Clusters
Of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
N~orth-StaIks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts

and Cotton Seed from the South
A U. s. fish car is now at Morehead
City to collect specimens of our fish to
carry to the Atlanta Exposition, says
the Beaufort Herald. ,s
The palmetto branch road from
Hamlet to Cheraw, was sold at auction
last Friday at Hamlet and was pur
chased by Mr.. Moncure Robertson for
SO, 600. Exc.
The first bale of cotton was brought
into Maxton last Saturday by MI.
Byrd, who lives on Mr.. r M. McNair's
place. 1t brought s cents per pound.
Say 8 the Robersonian.
The first telephone used in North
Carolina, and owned by Mr.. JnO. D:
Williams of this city, will be exhibited
at the Atlanta Exhibition, says the
Fayetteville Observer.
A gentlemen from the lower end OF
the county brings the news that APP
Piles are so plentiful there that tEey go
begging at 4 cents a bushel. Say s the
Wilksboro Chronicle.
Three bales of new Mecklenburg
county cotton, all from Pinevllle town
ship, were on the Charlotte market
last week and sold for $40 cents a
pound. Say the Salisbury Herald.
During the storm of rain, thunder
and lightning here last Saturday even
ing, the barn of Mr.. Sterling Ruffin, in
the northeastern part of town, was
struck by lightning and a COW killed
in the barn, says the HlllsbOrO Oh
server.
We were shown Monday, by Mr.
James Jolly, one stalk of corn hat had
five large ears of corn on it. This C m
was grown on high land. Mr.. jolly Is
one of our best farmers ard knows how
to make corn, says the Columbus
News.
Mr.. s. L. CarTel, Of No. 2, has an
ammon tree that yields fruit every
year. He planted it for a faL cy peach
tree, but it yields ammons just the
same, If this climate is favorable to
such fruit why not raise it extensively ?
says the Vestibule.
The caterpillar pest is giving a good
deal of trouble in Charlotte. They in
fest nearly all the young shade trees
ard soon make the limbs bare of
leaves, They or worse this year than
has been known for a long time, says
the Charlotte News.
Mr.. Chas. @. Moore, proprietor of
Double Oaks Diary, has purchased Mr..
George Halls farm on the Salisbury
road. He paid $50, 400 for the property
which consists of 2OS acres. Mr.. Moore
will run a diary IN it for two years,
says the Charlotte Democrat.
Mr.. Noah Hoyle had a family reun
ion last Saturday, at Hoyle's Mil in
Cleveland county. About one hundred
and fifty persons we're there, a big din
ner and a good time altogether. Mr.,
Dan. Keever and family from this
place attended, says the Hickory Press
Bill Craig, colored, of Orange county,
who formerly lived in this city, was
before Commissioner Whitaker yester-
day afternoon charged with selling
whiskey without license. He was
bound over to court under a 800 bond,
which he gave, says the Durham Sun.
Last Sunday a couple of dogs went
in Mr.. Junius Baugham's pasture and
killed eight turkeys and FIVE geese.
At this ju cture Mr.. Baugham Rp-
peared on the scene with his gun, but
the dogs retreated so rapidly his shot
took little effect, says the Patron and
Cleaner.
DR.. Tyre York seems to be ahead in
the wheat line. He had a four acre
field which yielded "a bushels. One
acre was bedded and yielded only
about s bushels, leaving an average of
over % bushels per acre for the other
three acres. Says the WllkesbOro
Chronicle.
Mr. G F. Crowell, of Vance town
ship, has a powder gourd which was
brought from England by his great
grand father more than a century go,
The gourd Is still in use. Mr.. Crowell
| also has a clock which has been keep
ing time for one hundred and three
years, says the Monroe Ell quirier.
The merchants have not been able tC
supply the demand for fruit jars. More
fruit and vegetables have been canned
in this community than ever before,
promise and the prospect that the price
Of cotton may keep up to it's present.
mark, there is no room for the cIoaker,
says the Sanford Express.
1t took Goldsboro some time to rise
to the emergency of a tobacco ware.
house, but when she did get down tc
business along this line she showed
herself, a on all such occasions Of en-
terprise. She has now one of the large
ct tobacco warehouses in the State and
If necessary, others will be construct
ed, says the GolGs0oro Argus.
The tobacco sales in Wilson during
TIE no nth of August were astonishly
immense. Over one million pounds o.
the weed was sold at prices delight
iutIy satisfactory to the planter, and
a Is the reason why Wilson is bound
60 prosper, for she has so much to bach
ner' mats capital, not the pun. bu-
l Uhe TOBACCO, says the Wilson Mirror.
e MISS Lizzie Savage, daughter of Mr.
l John Savage, who lives near TTwronco
, few days ago wrapped 1,777 bundIe,
OF tobacco / enc day. We cOnsi1o,
her the nhamninn- tnhaaa- E-4sLo0.