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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10
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Hard Hits, Bold Sayings sr4
Paragraphs From Reform 1r p. Psaiat
The Brooklyn Eagle well ~'s'''
there is no egg so bad a. sa'S that
who throws one" '00 fUffa
Dear money means choan
none know this fact better ,+ ~ and
money mongers. -Tularo vom ian Tie
Z3n. 9y G5,
The devil doesn't worry a5o,.
in this country, az long as tba raS'9
let the bankers run tain.s t,o people
way.-Chicago Express. 07Q
In this era OF goldbug nro..
men born without O reg to n. ts'&2
are abundantly supplied with '% 's
now.-Amerjcan Enterprise ''sa
Georgia has gone through t5o
necessary process OF ar. election w.
The returns were all in at le8s- . gan
before the day Of elcction.-Son4toR
Mercury.
No government has the right r.
crease the debts Of its CITIZENS vft. ILL.,
their consent. This has been dona
the Unlte1 States, which claims +. u u
a government CT the people -soorS. VI
Mercury.
How many farmers have ma9a o q.
gle dollar by the advance in vboa,
Unfortunately the advance dos,,%
come until the wheat is cut Of tbat,
hands Progressive Farmer, Nj. ",
non, Ill.
When the farmer is Droenor,n,
manufacturers run at full csnsotr
labor is employed and consumers a.,
plentiful. Diminish the purcbasino
power of farm productsand you GRIMM
manufacturing interests and turn lg5nI
out to tramp.-Luray Union.
Use all reasonable care to lessen tRs
cost OF production. Maintain thrift
with the stock at the lowest cost. Hgrs
everything sent to marke5 in .ho beat
condition, 50 as to realize the djgbet
price, and then with a lower oost & 5,
profit is possibIe.-Pa. Faruet.
The American Journal Of Politics
says that the American people Day
50. 900, 600 a day to the f0reIgn collect
ors of interest for the European gold
trust; and this is met with the products
Of industry reduced to tie lovesr fg
ures possible by legialatiou.-C1icsg
Express.
Many shameful acts have co. per-
petrated il this campaign. Sucd .hlng7,
on either side, certainly do not mot
the approval Of liberty loving md l8~.
abiding citizens, and are more in coz.
formity with the relics Of the pss: than
the Enlightenment Of the present. Pa
Ajliance Advocate.
Carnegie has posted notices IN his
works of a read Qevmeng" OF wsgaa,
averaging about 20 per cent. reduction
to take effect on January I. 1t seems
he proposes to Gus wages whether it be
a gold or silver standard. And ghatB
what all the workmen will fad, too
Alliance of the r ,ckies.
The horde Of Wall street halaitti,
headed By john Mostand G.over Cievs.
land, yelling, Anarchists and Repl.
diationists" at 40, 900, 900 Of American
Cit z9ns, is holy show, at which Bel
z3bub, in a white choker and gold
sp9ctaciee, must sit back on a brim.
stone kettle lid and chuckle. U tahniaDf
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Palmer is too rotten for & decoy duck
and 700 d-n rotten for bait. HeboItei
the caucus that nominated Lincoln to
the Senate, he gait the army in front
Of Atlanta, he quit the Republican
the Populist and the Democratic
He will be in the front row
when he strikes that place where LIZ
arus found Marx Hanna's anceetor-
Times, Aspen, Col.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Grover Cleveland oughtto share part
of the blame along with Mark Hanna.
Tom Watson's letter Of acceptance IS
still unpublished, but Tom is alright
himself.
Already some of cur exchanges are
insisting that Thomas E, Watson tell
us where We are at.
We r now ready for that EZRA of
unprecedented prosperity" that was to
follow the election.
The English press is unanimcus in
expressing joy at the election Of Nc
Ktnley. Best proof OF all that a sad
mistake has been made.
Strowd only beat ~Bullyragger PUu
1900. The Pous are bright boys down
in Johnson county, but when they get
away from home they don't burn the
river up.
Billy Bryan need not make Z speeches
per day all the while. Mckinley will
be in the field with his tramp making
and business crushing machine after
the Ash Of March.
If Marcus Hanna and his Wall street
allies think that they have settled the
financial question, and that the people
will all quietly put on the yoke of
serfdom and wear it, they are very
much mistaken.
II the eigners Of the Declaration Of
Independence could have been IL the
flesh last Tuesday ard watched their
descendants voting the country into
English slavery. wouldn't the old fel
lows have been mad!
A Democratic exchange is i1bilant
because the militia has been ordered
out at four points to preserve order in
this State since the election. If the
military can't cope with mobs, let Col.
DIR. Klngabury and his Cabling gun be
brought forward.
We do not pity any Of the defeated
Democratic candidates in the State.
The election frauds and intolerance Of
the party in the past and the desperate
attempts TO get in by means of bogus
tickets this year ought to forever de
feat any party en- earth.
The Life Insurance companies have
been active in fastening the gold stac-
dard on the people. Wehope the people
who want TO lay Up something for
their families hereafter will invest in
real estate or something else and lee
the goldbug insurance companies hus
tie for a living. They no longer de
serve patronage.
We merely rise to remark that g few
Of our ex changes were mistaken when
they said The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
was trying to defeat Bryan. O1e Of
our Maryland exchanges said some
pretty hard things about US, That
paper will please notice that Bryan
carried North Carolina by Is 600 ma,
iority. Mckinley carried Maryland
by larger majority. We do not cherish
any feeling of resentment, but the
Maryland editor will notice that Mark
Hanna's m-ney seemed to be more
effective in Maryland than it did in
North Carolina. Just stating facts;
don't mean to intimate that the Mary
land editor saw" Mark Hanna.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10

of the railroads owned by the State for
the simple reason that it takes them
out of politics" Funny statement,
that is. When did the SpuEhern or
any other railroad company get out Of
politics7
To be consistent Gov. Cerr should
now negotiate the lease OF the State
capitol and mansion, and his Edge
combe county farm TO the Southern
railway and get them "out Of politics"
If the incoming legislature doesn't at
tend to some OF these railroad schemes
when it meets, the people should see
that no other legislature OF the kind
shall ever assemble again.
The North Carolina railroad, extend
ing from Charlotte to G 0ldsborO, about
215 miles, is by far the most valuable
railroad property in the State. a few
months ago it was leased to the S3uth-
ern railway company for 80 years for
a mere cong, every thing considered.
This was done six years before the old
lease expired. The Atlantic and North
Carolina from GoLd5ooro to Beaufort,
is really on extension Of the North
Carolina road, but had never been
leased, and has always been operated
by the State. During the panic of SO,
when nearly ali the roads went into
the hands of receivers, the Atlantic
and North Carolina pulled through all
right and paid dividends into the State
treasury. When the road was first
built the country east of Goldsboro
was undeveloped. But the agricultural,
timber, trucking, fish and oyster bust
ness of the east has grown to such pro
portions that the road is now paying
property, and this effort to swallow it
up in the jaws Of the Southern will
succeed unless the Legislature will in,
terfere.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10

The P0pulists will come Gus Of the
election wreck a little ahead Of the
game, though Bryan is defeated. They
viii probably have twice as many men
in the Uoited States Senate as they had
and three times as many in Congress.
Kansas has been redeemed, the Popu
lists getting the Governor and other
State officers, and more than half of
the Congressman, and will elect a Sen
atOr.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10
This is the ex-

I planted the Mastodon corn. The
acre I planted was laid off by a rod,
seventy yards square. I was late in
planting. If it had been planted the
4 h of April instead of the 45h of May,
I would have avoided the long drought
IN August.
There is a good deal in seed, but the
main thing in farming is to make the
land rich and prepare the ground well
before planting.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10

Mamma-How cruel, Eleanor, to
hurt the poor little worm. Eleanor
But he looked so Lonesome, mamm8'
an I just cut him IN two SOS he'd have
company, an the two of him wigglea
eff together JUS ever so happy Life
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10

We are not going to say: II told
you So" or upbraid anybody just now.
But, fellow citizens, isn't it plain that
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER was right
in claiming that the union of silver
forces had not been effected, and that
there was strong danger of Bryan's de
feat. The silver Republicans in the
West aud middle States were driven
back by the nomination of Sewall and
the treatment accorded Watson.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10
WHERE saoas Ara WORN.

Counting Missouri. ard States
8 nth of it and south Of Maryland ana
the OHIO river, the South is by far, the
largest consumer of New England
shoes. There were /, 692, $40 cases sem
thither in 1894; 1.747 100 in 1895 There
was a greater increase than this in
Missouri alone-9O, 265 cases. X
The gain in Virginia wes 16. 604 cases ;
in Kentucky IL, 1877 cases. x
slightly diminished quantities taken in
Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina
Arkansas and Florida Shoe ard
Leather Reporter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10

Last week Mr.. Bryan refused an
cff3r of $25, 600 a year to look after the
legal bu.iness of Seigle, Cooper & Go +,
New York. You did right, Billy. The
campaign is to go right on, and sou
are to be the Populist nominee for the
Presidency four years from now, and
we will see that no Maine goIdoug is
put on the ticket to defeat you, 1t is
further understood, Billy, tnet if the
Democrats want to give a grandstand
display of patriotism, we will see that
they have the nominee for Wee Presi-
dent, provided they will put a South
ern silver man on. In short, we pro
pose to return good for evil and sense
for fOOIishness.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10

The shipments Of shoes from BISON
to twelve towns in North Carolina
averaged for the years 1898. 4 and s.
Is, 1872 cases per year. AS it would take
rs, OCO cases to give n pair per capita,
you find that about 30 per GEN. of cur
shoes come direc5 from Boston, that is
from second hand, while the balance
come into the State from third to tenth
hands-and cost Jul wearers twice
factory price, On an average.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10
WHERE SHOES ARE MADE.

B. J. Curtis, in the curse of a lee
ture before the Commercial Club, Of
Boston, October 18Th, 1895, said: Take
the manufacture of boots and shoes for
instance. The total manufacture Of
boots and shoes in the United States is
about 1886, 900, 900, OF which there are
manufactured in the State Of M2ssa
chusetts alone about 500, 600, 900; Lynn
manufacturing $25, 500. $40, Brockton
SIG 1874 452, Hav8rhitl $14 875 1872; a
total in these three cities and towns Of
$50 5l1, 653"
And yet out OF a total manufacture
OF 1886, 900, O0O, the country exported
last year less than one million dollars.
X X X X X
Two Of the strongest trade orga1iza
tons in the country are the shoe manu-
facturers' association, and the shoe aud
leather exchange,"-Shoe and leather
Reporter.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-29

Granted, but how long will it take you
to get that damage or the overcharge
refunded? All of these cut q 6gure in
the merchants expenses and must be
accounted for.
Suppose everyone should follow Mr..
Dixie's plan. The merchants would have
to turn farmers, and they would be at
great inconvenience. Suppose few
pounds of butter were wanted Che will
probably reply that everyone should
make what butter they use, but he
knows that this cannot be doue), would
he send to New York for it? If he
wanted pound of cheese, would he
send to the north for that, or an ounce
of pepper, or hundred and one things
l might mention. No he wants the
merchant to furnish these, and COM
plains because he charges good price
for them. There are few things that
might be bought at the north in small
quantities and shipped here at saving,
but they are few.
There are very few merchants who
could not furnish the goods just as cheap
as they can be bought in small quantities
at the north and laid down here, if the
same quantity IS taken and the cash
paid down. With Jacon at seven cents,
16 pounds of graduated sugar for ST.,
coffee from Is to 40 cents, canned corn
at eight cents per can and tomatoes the
same, there is not much chance for the
farmer to save money by ordering his
goods from the north. Ispeak from ex-
perience, as before my health failed
enjoyed the distinction Of being a mer-
chant, but now am trying to nurse back
to bearing an orange grove. With all
my experience as a groceryman, and
knowing the best markets to buy in,
find that | can buy what groceries [
need from our merchant at less cost and
trouble, taking it all around, than l
could by sending to the north, besides
[ am helping to keep up business that
is positive benefit and help to everyone
in the community. o. B. SUTTON.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-29
For the Florida Agriculturist.
A Fine Native Peach.
Cabbage Bluff, Fla.

Ten years ago, when came here, [
found growing on my place, in the we'll
known Prevatt grove, several immense
peach trees, with stocks some eight or
ten inches in diameter. It was the sum-
mer following the big freeze of 1886.
They bore large crop that year, per-
haps too large for their strength, for it
was their last crop. Afterwards they
rapidly decayed, and finally I dug them
up and burned them. But saved a
number of seedlings from them, and
they are now well grown, and are richly
repaying me for the trifing culture [
nave given them.
Until the present year they have been
disappointing, as they refused to bear
more than few struggling peaches, and
I have often threatened to cut them
down, or bud them to some of the new
tangled imported varieties. I am now
glad didn't; or they have been sup
plying me, in the month of July, after
all other varieties are gone, the most
delicious peaches 1 have ever eaten in
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-29
Sisal Plant Culture.

A colonial paper, called Colonies and
India, says: "Regarding the slsal in
dustry Of the Bahamas, DR.. Morris said
the history of this industry was inter-
esting. The sisal plant had been in the
colony for the last so years, and had
really become hindrance to agriculture.
People did not know what to do it. Sew
eral governors took the matter up. The
first of these was Mr.. Bayley, in 1857;
then Sir William Robinson, then Sir
Henry Blake, who, just as he was on the
point of developing the industry, was
transferred to Newfoundland. 1t was
then taken up with great energy and en-
terprise by Sir Ambrose Shea, who
really deserves the credit of having
placed it on a commercial basis. There
are about $4,000 acres already planted.
1t is estimated that this year they will
export about 5000 tons of prepared
fibre. There were fears that the mar
ket had fallen so low as to render the
industry unremunerative. The price of
the fibre last year was e13 per ton, but
today it is worth ELY los, and, as the
fibre can be marketed for about G10 $500
per ton, there, is at the present moment,
good margin of profit"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-29
For the Florida Agriculturist.
Keeping Money at Home.
Lake Helen, Fla.

Since reading your issue Of july 18th
l have been wondering what kind of a
country or what kind of a town we
would have if the different plans which
are being offered for the benefit
of our people should be followed.
For instance your correspondent,
Hodie Dixie, tells how we can
keep money at home by sending north
for our groceries. would not say that,
as far as he is individually concerned,
he is not right, for I do not know the
size of the CORNERS" where he or rather
his neighbors do their trading. But [
do not believe that the plan he proposed
could be followed out in three fourths
of the state with any particular saving.
Because he can send west and get a
barrel of flour and pays $3.50 for it, does
not signify that he has clear gain of
$3.50. When he orders flour from the
north the money goes with the order
but if he buys of his merchant it is
more than likely that it will not be paid
for till the end of the month and if the
checks Cont come in from the north he
will let the merchant wait another 80
days. Then if there should happen to
be anything wrong with the flour he
will at once carry it back to his local
merchant but it's too far to send it back
L
two barrels may come from the west in
good order and on good time but the third
may get damaged by being in the same
Car with barrel Of coaloil or have the
head mashed in and partly lost, or have
an overcharge on it. Where does the
saving come in then? 1t is true the rail-
road agrees to deliver the goods in good
order, or they are held responsible for 1t.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-29

Florida. | do not except even the deli
cious Angel, which was the last to go.
The trees, as implied above, are
hardy and longlived The fruit is true
freestone, from one and quarter to two
inches in diameter, slightly elongated,
suture, with blunt point and family
marked yellowish green in color, with a
slight dash of red. The flesh is white and
firm, not very juicy but yet not dry, and
has just enough acidity to give it life
and prevent the insipidity that charac-
terizes some of the cultivated kinds,
with a delicious peach favor, to give it
richness. In this respect it mbles
the Angel, which is by far the best of
all the new varieties. We have here a
peach of local origin named the Suber,
which is also tart, but it is deficient in
flavor; it is simply sour; and besides it
is a cling, and for my eating cling is a
nuisance.
Judging from it's firmness I should
sty that it would be good shipping
peach, but it's lateness spoils it for that
use. But for the expense of placing it
on the northern markets, | believe it
would hold it's own in competition with
the famous Delaware peaches. For the
family and the home markets it is in
comparably fine.
But there is one drawback, indicated
above. The trees bear only when they
take notion, VIII Oh is not often.
Whether better cultivation or different
treatment can cure the lazy habit
don't know. I shall try.
Probably Mr.. Taber or some other au-
thority in psychology can tell all about
this peach, and give it "a local habita-
ton and name II so should like to
be informed. I know nothing myself,
further than have just stated. A few
trees are we'll worth keeping, even if
they bear but seldom. am having I'M
mense satisfaction from mine.
J. WILLIS WEsTLAKE.
Lake Helen Fla
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tag on the fertilizer just what it is made
of and then he should be able to tel
whether or not it is suited to his crop.
"Hodle" gives the fertilizer men a
gentle dig under the fifth rib because
they claim that their goods furnish
plant food and are not stimulants. That
depends on how one looks at it, If he
calls bread, steak or potatoes slim ulants
to the human body then commercial
fertilizers are stimulants and in GER
tain sense they are for they supply that
force which enables the plants to live.
In the same way stable manure is a
stimulant for if "Hodie' had plant
that he wanted to do we'll he would cover
the ground around it with well de-
composed stable manure. If he applied
enough the plant would be slim ulated to
vigorous growth. If he should pre-
pare lot Of liquid manure and apply to
the plant he would also stimulate it and
if he kept it up the plant would be over
same plant fortified with nitrate of
soda or sulphate of ANN onla.
1t is well known fact that plants
have been grown to full maturity and
fruitfulness without in any way coming
in contact with vegetable matter. their
whole food being supplied by chemicals.
What the farmer should learn is how
to use the different fertilizing materials
that he can get to the best advantage.
There is not enough stable manure pro-
duced to supply one tenth Of the plant
food that is required by the farmer and
fruit grower and they must use COM
mercial fertilizer or retrograde.
l do not wish to be understood as
decrying stable manure for | save every
bit Of it that | can and as I have three
mules one horse and two COWS to feed the
amount saved during the year is con-
siderable. | want advice given as to
how to use this manure to the
best advantage in connection with the
four or five carloads Of commercial
fertilizer that use in year. We have
got to use commercial fertilizer and
there GIN possibly be no good done in
trying to keep the minds of the people
prejudiced againstit
"Hodie's letter, however, is worth to
me the whole years subscription. But
the meat is in the last paragraph IN
which he tells why he has plenty of
Kelsey plums. My Kelseys have all
been failure as they were on peach
roots. The Kelsey as too good fruit to
drop from our list if it can be made to
grow and give good crops of fruit.
A TRUCK RAISER.
Cabbage Bluff Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-29

Rheum atism, which is caused by an
acid IN the blood, is cured by the use of
Ayers SarsaparilIa. External treatment
is of no avail. Until the blood is thor
oughly cleansed of all impurities, it is.
useless to expect the cure Of any disease.
Has cured others will cure you.