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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
G BEET SEED.

The Experiment Station has secured
sufficient sugar beet seed from the
United States Department of Agricul.
ture to inaugurate tests in the several
sections of the State to ascertain
whether it is possible for them to grow
beets of quality and quantity necessary
for the manufacture of sugar upon a
commercial scale. For this purpose
the Station desires to secure the care
full cooperation of some Is or 30 care
full farmers who will cultivate about
two-tenths Of an acre each in this .test.
Full directions will be supplied. A
medium rich loamy soil is best, and the
middle and Piedmont section promises
to be the best locality for the trials.
All interested parties r requested
to make immediate application to Dr..
81 B. Battle, Director, Raleigh, N. O..
1t may be that sugar beet factories of
large proportions with several hundred
thousand dollars capital may be
brought to the State through the me-
dunn of these experiments. The factory
will pay remunerative prices to grow
ers of sugar beets, and another staple
crop may be added to those we now
have
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27

they never learn to think, to investi-
gatel 1t only required a little thought
to learn that if the Dean Company
really could manipulate money so az to
make the enormous dividends they
promised they would not be so unset
fish as to invite the general public to
come in and share the good things.
They could have taken a few dollars of
their own money and made profits fast
enough to have enabled them to buy
the United States and several other
countries in a short time. We hope
those who swallowed the Dean bait are
sufficiently amused.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27

the year before, and the eame is true.
in general, with their other crops. So
we see three very good reasons for last
years harvests, putting fewer dollars
into our farmers pockets than the
harveets of the year before, despite the
rise in wheat.
It was in overlooking these reasons
for the farmer growing poorer IN the
face of getting higher prices for his
wheat that the prophets, who conf
IDENTIFY looked for higher prices for
manufactured goods to follow the rise
in agricultural products during the
closing months of last year, went
astray. We pointed out these three
factors working for a smaller return to
the farmer from his crops, in the face
Of rising wheat prices, at the very
climex Of the rise, and f~oreseeing that
a poorer farmer meant less demand for
manufactured goods, we naturally
came to the conclusion that a further
fell in prices for manufactured goods
was inevitable.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
FORAGE AND FIBER PLANTS.

a recent bulletin of the N. @. Expert
ment Station which is now being dis
tributed, is No. 1873 entitled "Somenew
forage, fiber and other useful plants"
This bulletin describes a variety of
new plants which have been tested and
their value is reported. Among the
more important of the kinds that are
promising and worthy of more general
use, are the coWpeas of the I'm,
known" and Red Ripper" varieties,
hagy, a new Japanese legumine recent.
ly imported, allied to Japan clover, the
Canada field pea, and vetch Among
the plants that have recently been ad-
vertised and do not promise we'll AID
are not recommended. are the Beggar
Weed, so much planted in Florida; the
Horse Bean; Saccaline; the Flat Pea,
and Canaigre. The latter plant is
grown in the arid climates of the mid
die lower section of the United States,
Ariz )na and adjoining States, for use
Or tannic acid. SO far it has not been
AOUAO I'll N6ANO LII GA4S OG6GOs 4GOQ1AS'
ing fibre plants are ramie and jute, the
former especially, and some of the roots
are being distributed for co operative
testing in the eastern section of the
State, where it promises to be Uf con
siderable value in rich low lands and
in the rice growing districts. TIE only
drawback heretofore has been that
proper machinery for preparing the
fiber for market has not been known,
but recently machinery has been
invented which makes it more easy to
accomplish this. Farmers Of the State
use immense quantities of cotton bag
ging, fertilizers, ETC., and if the mate
rial for this purpose should be grown
and manufactured here, it would add
another important industry and would
be the saving of q large amount OF
money. A summary of the contents
of the bulletin is given in it 90 that
busy readers a ascertain the various
subjects treated. It will be sent to ap
plicants in North Carolina who apply
] to the Station for it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
THE FOOL AND HIS MONEY.

It is said that a large per cent. of
mankind, and womankind, too, are
fools. We see something to prove this
every day..
Not long ago a concern was started
in New York known as the sc, s..
Dean Company" Circulars were seat
out telling how this company was cap
italized for 1000, 900 and that it was
ION the inside' and could make for
tunes in bonds and stocks for small in
vestors. Pretty soon a large business
was built up. Offices were established
in at least a dozen important cities
throughout the country. Liberal ad
vertising continued to catch suckers
from every corner Of the earth. At
first dividends were paid to each new in,
weston and he would tellkis friend and
new suckers would begin to nibble at
the bait. Pretty soon the investor
would get a hint that it would be a
good idea to let the dividends stay in
and compound" They generally
swallowed that, 600. Finally the post
Office officials began to investigate the
matter, and it was exposed, but not
until millions of dollars had gone into
the fraud. Ten thousand dollars a day
was no unusual amount toward the
last. This money came from people in
nearly every town in the country. The
New York postof1ce authorities opened
the mail for the company one day and
found $40, 900 in cash. This will be re-
turned to the senders.
Will people never learn that they
! can't get something for nothingl Wi
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
A FURTHER saRINKAGR IN
PRICES.

With the upward stimulus given to
agricultural prices during the closing
months of last year by the Indian
famine, the Australian crop failures
and the general shortage in the worlds
wheat supply, many were the prophets
who came for ward to tell US that this
rise was the precursor of a rise i'll
prices for manufactured products, and
that an upward turn in the general
trend of prices was at hand. In the
light of the course of prices these
prophets now stand ~discredited. says
the Philadelphia American.
No rise in prices for manufactured
goods followed the rise in prices for the
products Of our farms for the very
sufficient reason that this rise did
not put mor dollars in the
pockets of our farmers And with
out more dollars they could not
increase their purchases of manu-
featured goods, and the increased de
mand for the products Of mill and fac
tory, on which reliance was placed to
raise prices for such products, could not
materiaijE9. Consequently no rise in
prices came. On the contrary, afurther
fall in prices for manufactured goods
has come, for, in spite of the rise in the
price of wheat and other farm products
in sympathy, the farmer is poorer than
aver and has less to sDpnd.
Nor is it any enigma that the farmer,
though getting better prices for his
wheat, found fewer dollars in his
pockets after selling last years crops,
and it is these dollars that he now has
to spend, than he had after marketing
his crops of the year before. In the
first place, the misfortunes of our own
farmers had not a little to do with rails
many farmers lost, in greater or lesser
degree, their winter wheat crops. So
it happened that though last years
wheat brought better prices than the
wheat of the year before, farmers
had fewer bushels to sell-according to
the agricultural reports, 80, 1000, 600
bushels fewer. In the second place,
our farmers had sold most of their
wheat before the better part of the ad-
vance in price had materialized, and
in the third place, wheat ia not the only
crop, it is not ven the most important
crop, Of our farmers. Corn comes first
in Importance, and corn, though higher
to day than six months since, is much
lower than a year ago. The same is
true Of oats. And 80 it is that the corr
and oats crops Of our farmers brought
! them much less money last year than
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
SOME PLAIN TALK.
The last issue of the Chatham Citi
contained the following:

The last issue of the Chatham Citi
zen contained the following:
1.-THE trusts, railroads and money
powers who own the political parties
that have ever fought the Alliance i'm,
agine that they have scored some good
points the past week or two. Abuse OF
the Alliance has become so cheap and
the influence which the Alliance has
awakened against corporate greed has
become so strong, that they decide to
put on the guise of an angel Of light
and tell the world what a great factor
for good the Alliance was before 1t
was murdered by politics. SO we lave
the lugubrious (hypocriticaD wall OF
the enemies hired mourners and the
high praise of true Alliance principles
of the would-be funeral orators at the
death of the Alliance.
They tell us of the great number
who were once members of the Alliance,
what a power for good it then was till
you would actually think they were
praying for the resurrection Of the i'm
mortal principles Of the Alliance,
which they complain have been buried
by politics.
Are they really sorry that the ALI
ance does not number as many as it
did under Col. L. L. PolkG Col. whatG
Col. PolkR Well, hold on n minute
Is this the same crowd now bewailing
the falling off of Alliance membership
that once so abused and villifed Col.
PolkH Why, certainly, and the same
men who at heart have been in
sympathy with the principles which the
Alliance has scared them into adVo
eating in their political platforms.
"They will abuse it'll that will kill it;
they will steal it's principles and pre-
tend to favor them il that will kill 1t;
they will take the Alliancemen upon a
high mountain and show them all the
offices of this State and promise that
they may choose rulers for all Of these
if they will but return and worship
the OLD p6rG1eS-8Il GnlS Gu6y Will uo
if it will kill the Alliance. But it has
not died and now they claim to be bet
ter friends to the Alliance THANH it's lead
ers, hoping thus to kill it.
They think if they can establish this
in the minds of the people, that the
Alliance leaders are less true to the
Alliance than those who have fought
every organization of farmers which
looks toward reform" and who have
ridiculed reform" 80 much they will
kill it.
If one could see no holes in the sheep
skin covering the wolf that raises this
cry, it would look dark for the ALI
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
INJUNCTION.

Robert Hancock, the new President
of the Atlantic & North Carolina Rail
road, from Goldsboro to Morehead
CITY, on behalf of the new board of di-
rectors, secured restraining order from
Judge Adams, on Friday, to prevent a
meeting of the private stockholders of
that road, which was to have been held
at GOldsboro today, Tuesday.
Some months ago the old board Of
directors attempted to lease the road
to an alleged company, but IN injunc.
ton was secured temporarily, and
later on was made permanent. After
the new directors were appointed by
Governor Russell, Mr.. w. r. Tucker,
of Raleigh, n of the private stock
holders (two thirds of the stock is
owned by the State), secured an order
from Judge Simonton, of the United
States Federal Court, restraining the
Governor from appointing a States
proxy. 1--WE presume that the new
goldbug law applies in this case-that
two thirds of the stock is less than che
third.) The injunction brought by
Mr.. Tucker will be heard by Judge
Simonton at Asheville on or about the
9Th of June, the same court before
which the North Carolina lease will be
tried.
The counter injunction secured by
President Hancock Friday is granted
upon the application of the State Of
North Carolina, the Atlantic & North
Carolina Railroad and the counties of
Craven, Lenoir and Pamlico, stock
holders in said road, and is based on
the allegation that W. r. Tucker and
others, the defendants in this case,
have procured from the Federal Court
an order restraining the Governor from
appointing q States proxy and thereby
have prevented the participation Of the
State, which owns t%Wo-thirds Of the
stock in the Atlantic and North Caro-,
lima Railroad from being present and
participating in said meeting and it
would be manifestly negotiable to al,
low a small minority of the stockhold-
ers to legislate for the road when the
majority of the stockholders are re-
strained from being present. "
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
FAIRNESS TOWARD RAILROADS

The Manufacturers Record, Balti-
n ore, publishes an interview with ex.
Secretary of the Navy, Herbert, in
which he says that capital will flow to
the South if the people will manifest q
spirit of fairness towards railroads and
kill out the anti monopoly craze.
We have not been able to learn who
it was that gave ex Secretary Herbert
authority to speak for the South. 1t
is hardly probable that he knows much
about the South. When he intimates
so emphaticRlly that all or any large
portion Of the people of the South are
antagonistic to railroads or any other
legitimate enterprises he proves con.
clusively that he either knows nothing
of the South or else is wilfully misrep
resenting our people, trying to brighten
continuing to stand up for their rights.
No section of the country has been
more liberal in the treatment of rail
roads than the South. They have had
but little trouble to secure charters and
right of way privileges. Cities, towns
and counties have given large sums of
money to encourage railroad building.
The roads have been patronized beyond
the ability of our sparsely settled
couRtry. Doubtless both sides have
been in the wrong at times, but we
think moat OF the feeling between rail
road companies and the public has
been ''unfRirness" on the part of the
railroads. Just so soon as the grasp
ing owners Of the railroads learn that
their patrons, the citizens of the terri
tory through which the roads run,
have some rights and begin to respect
those rights, there will be but little
friction. What is wanted is more
: Iiberality" on the part of the railroads.
Mr.. Herbert puts on his corporation
glasses and GEES but one side of the
question. His theory is that the cor
porGtion kings can do no wrong.
Mr.. Herbert's polite suggestion that
the people of the South sit quietly
down and allow the money trust and
the thousands of manufacturing trusts
to prey upon them-form trusts on the
raw material which they buy from the
producers and sell the same back to
them in the shape Of finished goods at
trust prices, will not be well received
by sensible people anywhere. This is
a time worm three card monte and will
not be accepted as good advice. When
any man says that the South will not
foster and protect legitimate railroad
building and management and manu-,
featuring, he simply tells a falsehood,
and he is not entitled to further con.
alteration
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES At
RICHMOND.

The commencement exercises OF the
University College of Medicine, o.
Richmond, Va, of which DR.. Hunter
Mcclure is President, DIR. Thomas D.
Moore, Chairman of the Medical Fec
ulty, and DR.. J. Allison Hodges, CF
responding Secretary, will take place
in the Academy of Music, that city, Oh
the evening of April goth.
Hon. Walter Clark, of Raleigh, AZ
sociate Justice of the Supreme Oour''
and one of the most eminent litera'
tours Of the South, will deliver tD0
annual address before the graduating
class.
This institution is one Of the large'
medical colleges in the South, thet'
being 274 martriculates during the
sion just closing, among them a nU~
Der of North Carolinians.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
A PUNCTUATION,

The absence of punctuation marks in
the following excuses presented to a
teacher in one of our country schools
would lead one to think the scholars
had singular occupations to attend to
outside of the school house:
"Please excuse Willie from school
this afternoon he has to help butch
er his father"
please excuse Sally for being
late this morning she had to help to
wash her mother"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
A RIA

A Hazelton, Pa paper says: lint
next Pennsylvania Legislature will be
found one gambler, one base ball UNI
pire, one preacher, eight men who
declare they n gentlemen nineteen
without occupations, twenty seven
lawyers and one pugilist. OF the mem
bers, three were convicted of larceny,
one was tried for murder and acquitted
three in insane asylums, while eight
have been at Kelley cures and four are
divorced"
w will have to be a little more care
full in u claims for the late North
arolina legislature hereafter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
THR N. c. RAILROAD LEASE.

The Richmond Times said recently :
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, a journal
with PopuIistic tendencies, published
at Raleigh, says that the charge that
the State of North Carolir a is trying Co
r%epudiate a contract with the Southern
Railway Company is not true, as the
State never made a contract with that
company. Twenty years ago, says
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, the North
Carolina Railroad was leased to the
Richmond and Danville Railroad Com.
pany for a term of years. That this
company was re organized, and is now
called the Southern Railway Company.
That there have been several governors,
and changes in the directorate OF the
North Carolina Railroad. That six
years before the original lease expired
a Governor who was friendly to the
Southern Railway Company called to
gether the directors and some of the
stockholders and they leased the North
Carolina Railroad to the Southern for
a term Of ninety nine years at a very
low cost. THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
also claims that this was done in secret,
and that only by the merest chance
did the negotiations become known be-
fore the trade was contaminated. It
further declares that the people OF the
State did not authorize the deal, and
that the directors, in making the lease,
ueurped powers that were not legally
vested in them. And, therefore, says
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, the State
proposes to r%epudiate the unworthy &C.
lions of the directors of the North
Carolina Railroad.
THAT is a poor defence. We do not
believe that Governor Holt would have
done this thing in a corner, and we do
not believe that the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company, with the
best legal advice in the country, would
have entered into a contract of such
vital interest to it's interests with per,
SONS who were not legally author
ICED to make it. But be this as it may,
the contract was made in good faith,
has been recognized by the State as
binding, and the State has no moral
or legal right to repudiate it.
I'VE have do doubt that the Populis-
tic prejudice against corporations is at
the bottom of this attempted repUdia-
ton"
The above from the Times is a fair
sample of defense usually offered by
papers too friendly to corporations. To
begin with we believe that every state
ment made by The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER is true. But the Times is con
siderably out of plumb when it speaks
of Gov. Hollis connection with the late
alleged lease. It was made more than
two years after his term as Governor
expired, during the third year of Gov.
Carr's administration.
Populistic prejudice has nothing to
do with this matter. Populists have
been active in opposition to the manner
in which the lease was made, and the
Objectionable features of is, and so have
many Democrats and Republicans who
believe in justice and fair play who be
lieve the people and not a few corpora
tions should rule.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27

GOOD

Instead of running around the coun-
try like a lot of pugilists, playing ball,
the students of Elon College recently
had a debate on the question of State
Aid to Higher Education. This is a
matter in which the people are con-
cerned, and Zion has set a good exam,
pie that the other colleges may follow
with profit. Nobody cares anything
about a ''pitcher," especially one that
is perfectly empty.-Charity and Chill
dren,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27
N. R. 2. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Is ia q dull day when somebody don't
get out an Injunction.
The reason money is timid is because
there Is so little of it in circulation.
When Greek meets Greek there is
trouble. Same way when Turk meets
Greek.
In the past few daystWo very notable
public men have passed away-Senator
Daniel W. voorhees, and Congressman
w. s. Holman.
The Treasury Department at Wash
ington is being run on a narrow Gage
track. That is why there is so little
prosperity in the country.
It is very likely that Hon. T R. Pur-
neil, Of Raleigh, will be appointed to
the vacancy on the U. 8. District
Court bench for the Eastern N. G. Dis
trist.
Business failures are about 30 per
cent larger now each week than they
were for the corresponding weeks last
year. How do you like the goldbug
good tImes7
We learn that some of Oorbett's an
cestors were successful in the dairy
business. He may go into training in
the near future and manage to whip
some cream
A Charlotte i~ncendiary has been &C
quilted, Notwithstanding he has con
fessed the crime three times. A clear
case Ct IAN honest confession is good
for the soul" Next time he goes into
court he should employ some able law
yers for the prosecution, or he may be
acquitted again,
There has been q eight fell In the
Mississippi river, but the U. 8. Weather
Bureau warns the people that there
will be q rise again this week and that
the water will be three feet higher than
ever known before. Work he's been
renewed on the levees and a desperate
effort will be made to avoid further
disaster. Armed men are guarding
the lev80s to prevent cutting, for self
preservation has asserted itself and
the people on n side are disposed to
cut the leyees on the other side to re-
lieve the pressure on their own side.
Hundreds Of thousands Of acres of the
finest valley farming lands are under
water and nearly 100, 900 people are
homeless. It is a pitiable state of
effaira
There is no farm that makes all the
manure that i5s owner could p~roftably
use in cultivating it; hence he must
either purchase commercial fertilizers
or restrict his production to the area
he can fertiliE9. It does not pay to
spread an insufficient quantity of ma.
nure over the whole farm in order to
cultivate the whole. That involves
waste Of labor IN land that had much
better be left in grass, though where
there is q near market for garden prod.
ucts buying commercial fertilizers will
always pay. In proportion to their
ehectiVenoss, these concentrated ma,
nures pay better than stable manure
made On the farm.