The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-12-14

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rience on this subject.
Now the Alliance shoe factory is in
operation. Perhaps a good many have
bought their winter shoes, but there
will be q steady demand for certain
grades, and we trust that the brethren
will patrontze the factory in every way
possible.
VA good j0ke is out at the expense of
the football players. "What kind of
animal is it that has very strong limbs
a fierce temper, wild bushy hair on it's
head aud is called the king of beasts3"
asked teacher. "a football player
responded the bright boy.
Many farmer boys snd girls will start
to school again after Christmas. 1t
is we'll to consider the claims of Win.
ton Normal School Winton, N. O., and
Jamses Maske School, Lemon Springs,
N. O., before starting. Write then for
more information and mention The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
Feeding Experiments, Milk Records,
etc, +" is the title of bulletin No. 143 re
Gently issued by the North Carolina
Agricultural Experiment Station. 1t
was prepared by Prof. Frank E Emery
Agriculturist of the Station. It 0
tains some valuable information and
we advise our readers to write for it.
Y Serif Jenkins, of Chatham, has set
tied his taxes with the State. He was
really the first Sher if in North Caro-
lima to settle in full, although the Sheriff
of johnson also claims this honor.
Sheriff Ellington, however, omitted
one item from his report. This puts
old Chatham at the head Of the pro
cession.
\ The Winston Republican says that G.
country Democrat asked who is
General Winston who drew up those
resolutions at the meeting of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee. When
told that he was a renegade Republican
and voted for Cleveland, resigned and
said IF a radical writes the Demo.
cratic platform I'll de darned if 1 will
vote the ticket"
IA leading English paper, the London
Daily Chronicle says that President
McKiuley's message, is weak and
tame compared with President Cleve,
lands, and says McKinley's comments
on the currency question ''are positi
lively childish" The common opinion
is that Mckinley is the same servile
slave of Wall Street that Cleveland
was, and lacks C~leveland's backbone.
when those agents of Shylock in the
ne wspaper business grew tired of say
ing the Populists and Republicans OF
North Carolina were responsible for
outreges committed, they published a
yarn on Senator Butler saying that he
said some Democratic were responsible.
Then they told how "mean" he was.
This is worse than a case of the ''shunk
telling the opossum his breath smells
bad"
1--WE regret that owing to the absence
of our associate editor, who expected
to compile the proceedings of the Meth
odist Conference, which held such a
successful session here week before
last, the proceedings did not appear in
our last weeks issue. We owe ali
apology to our readers, but as the error
was not detected till too late to remedy
and the news is 10Y stale we shall
have to let this matter go with promises
to do better in future.
Our readers patroniz9 u advertis
ers. When we find they do not, we
will follow the example of thousands
of other journals and make a lot Of
money by taking humbug ads. IL will
not hurt our conscience then 1t is
not our fault il you are humbugged by
the advertiser in some Northern jour
nal, but if you ever find an ad. in The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER, which is not
thoroughly reliable in every way, we
ask you to notify US.
Western North Carolina is getting
famous as an apple-producing section.
Bro. Geo. E. Boggs is n of the most
successful, enserprising and progressive
of these apple growers. Apples are
now being shipped from W~aynesviLle
to New York and even to Europe.
these apples r winning
the praise they so richly deserve.
There's money in a~pple-raisiAg, and
some of our enterprising brethren in
Western T%arheeldom are getting it.