The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07

the mill here tells us that he ground
one bushel of new wheat last week,
which after taking the toll out made
forty six pounds Of good flour. That
was pretty good for mountain wheat,
says the Danbury Reporter.
The Webster Herald is reliably in
formed that A. B. Allison, of Jack
son county, has a fine Jersey cow, six
years old, which he grew from a calf,
and last week the COW shed her horns
as completely as ever a deer did, and
new horns are now growing.
The Commonwealth says that a Scot
land Neck firm kepta last years water
melon in the store under the shelves
without any other protection. 1t was
put away in October and after s
months of u~ndisturbed s~eclusion it WIGS
cut and found to be we'll preserved.
Wilkes county oddities certainly run
in unique directions. According to the
North Wilkesboro News, R @. Lowe
planted ten bushels of onions this
spring for his own use. Henever comes
to town without a big piece of corn
bread and his pockets full of onions.
Rowland, N. c., is erecting a tobacco
warehouse. The town is centrally To-
Gated in the tobacco belt of the two
Carolinas. With warehouses in LIm-
berton, Fair Bluff and Rowland, the
outlook for increased acreage of the
weed is good, says the Lumberton
R~obesonian.
Jonesboro Progress: Crops never
looked better IN this section than at
present. Cotton seems to be at least
two weeks earlier than usual, and if it
were not for the fact that there Is an
unusually large crop planted, which
will no doubt reduce the price, farmers
would be happy.
For some time past a deer, a very
large one, has been staying on the
Mebane plantation near Edand. One
day last week Mr.. Ben Mebane and a
neighbor got in reach of the buck and
killed him. He weighed IS pounds to
the quarter. 1t is the talk Of the neigh
borhood, Gays the Burlington News.
A young man named Robertson Free
man, from Reidsville, who came here
a few days ago and was given work at
the Burlington CCffin Co.'S lumber
yard, happened to a very painful &C
cident yesterday evening by which a
leg was broken and a foot badly
mashed, says the Burlington News.
Roxboro Courier: We were shown
the tallest stalk of corn a few days
since that has ever been raised in these
parts. It measured II feet, and the
ear was fully ten feet from the ground,
Mr.. W. D. Ovens, of Club Lake, was
the farmer who raised it. He said it
had never been hoed or plowed since
planting.
While in a fit of mental derange
ment, Handy Joyner, colored, commit
ted suicide in Stony Creek township,
early Tuesday morning, by blowing
the top of his head eff with an old
musket. He was a tenant on Mr.. Cur
tie Howell's farm, 80 years of age, and
leaves a wife and one child, says the
Golds6oro Headlight.
A sneak thief lifted a gold watch and
chain, to which a gold ring was at,
tached, from the vest of Mr.. L f.
Craig Saturday morning about s
o'clock. Mr. Craig is a timer and was
thinning the back doors of the new
warehouse of Mess. T. W. Newborn &
Co.. in which he hung his coat and
vest, says the Kjnston Free Press.
From Kings Week y, of Greenville,
we learn that Mr.. J.. E. Spier, of Grit
ton, has q white cat that will sit about
in the garden and watch for moles.
When she sees one break she will
pCuuce upon the place and scratch the
mole out She never fails to catch
him, and has been known to bring in
as many as four or five in one after
noon.
OlI6st Friday Herman Wilson, Of
Cove Creek, Watauga county, while
coming down the Turnpike, was halt
ed by a crowd of drunken negroes, one
Selling the rein of his horse. On dis
mounting to free his horse the negro
drew a pistol and as he fired Wilson
grabbed the pistol, the ball passing
through his right hand, says the Le-
noir Topic.
Stanly Enterprise: The indications
are that u cotton mill will be a great