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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-01-11
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sTHE LATEST FARM NEWS.
Correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. Z, '98

Correspondence OF the Progressive Farmer.
WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. z, '98
No subject is of more genuine inter
est to the farmer than good roads.
Every farmer knows what it means to
attempt to haul load of produce to
town or to a shipping point over roads,
or rather through roads, which are
any where from two inches to. a half
foot deep in mud and water. He knows
the amount OF time wasted, he knows
the necessary reduction in the weight
of his load, and he knows the wear and
tear occasioned his animal and him
self. Anyone of these is sufficient to
make him hail with joy any real and
practical project looking to decided
betterment in the condition of his roads,
providing it does not impose too large
tax burden upon himself. In the
building of better highways however,
the objection generally comes from the
farmers, because where Macadam
roads have been constructed it has
seemed to be the practice to place upon
the farming element the enormous bur.
den Of taxes required for their build
ing. Nor is the farmer, in the light Of
past events, to be blamed for such an
attitude. From the early days, ever
since the time when stone turnpikes
were built and tolls collected upon
them, it has been left to the farmer to
see to the building of wagon roads and
to their repair, and it has been left to
him likewise to pay for their construc-
ton AID improvement. The average
farmer, therefore, naturally concludes
when crusades are instituted for good
roads, that the burden of taxation is to
fall upon him. Tie road taxes have
never been paid by anybody else than
| himself and his farm neighbors. The
question of government aid and State
aid in building roads has been dis
cussed. It seems reasonable to assume
that the State should contribute to the
making and improving of State roads,
as the tax therefore would be levied
upon the entire population, city and
country, and the entire population
would benefit. Those who did not
themselves travel the country roads
would receive an indirect benefit
through the ease with which the farmer
could transport his products and the
proportionate cheapness at which he
could afford to sell them in the cities.
But now comes General Roy Stone,
the Chief of the Division of Good Roads
of the Agricultural Department, with
his proposition to be worked in con
junction with the postal savings banks
plan of Postmaster General Gary,
which is alike startling in its magni-
tude and in it's apparent benefit to the
country at large and especially to the
farming and rural districts.
The postal savings bank scheme is
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1.-THE road that passes your gate, the
school your children go to, the church
you attend on Sunday, your village
and it's every interest, require your
earnest and conscientious attention
and support. Why should politics in
fuence you in deciding who shall sur
vey the road or select the teacher or
keep order in the village7 And yet,
eight times out ten, the party conven-
ton or boss will decide your vote even
in the selection of a school director.
For your own home interests you want
the best, most efficient and most faith
full person in each place. But for the
sake of helping to maintain an organi
zation which aims to elect a Congress
man once every two years. or Gov.
ernor, once in four.-you will sacrifice
interests that affect the prosperity,
comfort and intellectual and moral ad-
vancement of your family as these
officers never can do.
DIR. CHAs. W. DABNEY,
Baltimore, i'd.
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OFFICE OF THE
EsTEY ORGAN COMPANY,
Battleboro, VI,


January 1, 1898.
To the Editor You have, without
doubt, with many others, observed that
OF late our agricultural fairs are be-
coming less and less agricultural edu-
Gators, and more Fourth of July or
circus combinations; such things hav-
ing been added to them with view of
drawing larger crowds; and which
have invariably drawn class of people
that has not been Of any help to the
agricultural or better class of people.
know that many agricultural soci-
eties are going out Of the business; /
suppose from a lack of patronage, and
il seems to me that the managers of
such fairs have made great mistake.
wish to offer as an example Of the
other kind of fairs, the one held here
in our town each year for the past
twelve years; and I am happy TO say
that the last one, held September 29th
and 3Oth,, was even a greater success
than ever before. have the honor to
be treasurer of this society, and there
fore am in position to judge of iCs sue
cess. TIE attendance at the last fair
was six thousand on the first day and
fifteen thousand on the second. It is
patronized by the very best people in
this Connect icut Valley; extra trains
being run from as far South as Spring
field, Mass, and North for an equal
distance. We also have extra trains
on the FItchburg road.
We started in with a capital stock Of
$40, 900, with which we bought our
grounds, and commenced the buildings
for the accommodation Of horses, cat
tie, sheep, swine, poultry, farm prod.
ucts, agricultur ! and mechanical i'm
plements, etc ETC., and we now have
a property that has cost US S25, GOO
and all but the original capital stock
has been made from the fairs. We
have never failed to add a goodly sum
each year to the property from the
profits made. We strrted out with
the avowed purpose of never permit
ting any fakirs of any kind on the
ground, no pool selling. no games of
chance, but legitimate agricultural
fair. Our display this year in all de.
partments was said by people who
have attended large number of fairs,
to equal if not surpass anything they
had seen. We have adhered strictly
to our rules, and am confident that
all our managers believe that it ia far
more profitable than any other course.
l believe that if this course were fol-
lowed by other agricultural fairs in the
country, they would prove not only of
greater benefit to the people who at
tend them, but also to the stockhold-
ers. am,
Very respectfully,
JULIUS j. EsTEY,
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1t always pays to have a good roost
ing place for the chickens. Once q
week cover the droppings with sand or
dry earth. Apply also some air slaked
lime. Scrape up and mix with enough
more dry earth and lime to render it
perfectly dry. Keep in some shed away
from rain until wanted for use.
W. T. WALLACE,
Lancaster Co Pa.
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soRTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLI-
ANOE.
President-Jno. Graham, RidgewRy,
NC,
Norrisville, n. Q.
Secretary Trea easurer-J.T. b. Hoover,
H1lsbOrO. NJ. 9.
State Business Agent-T. B. Parker,
HT,e TeoFurer-Dr. V. N. seawell, Villa
now, N. O.
Assistant Lecturer w. B. Brick
bouse. Mackev Ferry, n. Q.
Chaplsin-W. 8. Mercer, Moyock,
n iDSo;or-keeper-Geo. T. Lane, Green's
US Assistant oor-keeper-Jas. e. Lyon,
DIrham, n. Q.
54elr.goesnt-at-Arms-A. ! yea D. z. Wallace,
A1t@Is5 TT,IsT5e i business Agency Fund-W.
A. Graham, Machpelah, N. ..
,vrc1rT1vE COMMITTEE OF TIE NoRTH
CAR ynIEA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
Nv. Denmark, Chairman, Raleigh,
NC.
John Graham, Ridgeway, N, @:
". B. Fleming, Ridgeway, N. Z.
A r HIleman, Concord, ~ &.
Dr.. J. b. Alexander, Charlotte, n. 9.
Thomas J. Oldham, Teer, N. w.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Dr.J.E Person, Pikeville, N. Q.
W. S. Barnes, Raleigh, N. Q.
7. Ivey, Cary, N I.
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cry respectfully,
Treasurer Valley Fair Association.

It is well to think twice before cut
ting down fine tree. Some claim that
such tree in field is only "a big
weed, but this is a narrow view. Pos
sibly the hay crop may be slightly
diminished, and the hoed crops will not
yield quite as much as they otherwise
would on account Of the tree But man
ought to have some regard for the
higher instincts of his nature. If he
gets 80 that he can only see beauty in
plants that have cash value in the
market he dwarfs his nobler faculties.
The man who should plant potatoes in
stead Of flowers in front of his house
would be looked upon as deficient In
taste and strangers. at least, would
gain the impression that he was not
only an intensely worldly man, but
that he was also lacking in mental cul.
tivation. The man who removes a
splendid tree because it takes a few
feet Of ground from his field crops is
doing himself and all about him an in
jury. A fine tree is a great object les
son in the natural world. It also has
a decided value as home for birds
those greatly neglected friends Of the
farmer-and in its effects upon the soil
and the air.-Practical Farmer.
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There is one remedy for potato bugs,
which am sure is not priced as highly
as it should be. With me, it has never
failed. In the spring, at the first Rp
pearanee Of the bugs, sprinkle the
leaves with SCOT or ashes, and the bugs,
to use a.slang phrase, proceed to make
themselves scarce" hops to hear
from other readers of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER who have tried this remedy.
A READER,
Raleigh, N. @.
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How few farmers know exactly
where they stand at the end of the
years work9 They keepno accounts,
and even if they desired to, many have
not sufficient education to fulfill their
desire. The head work is left to others.
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Begin the new year by keeping &C
counts.
Do you know how much the farm
paid you9
In very cold, stormy weather feed
the stock little more grain.
When it can be done conveniently,
water the stock twice every day.
Gauge the amount of the ratione
largely by the condition of the stock
Exchange.
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cotton is all right, but the implied
statement that there is now q great
overproduction is wrong. I say, we
must raise less cotton, because we have
two enemies to fight, viz: overproduc-
ton and what is worse adverse legisla,
tlon. JEREMIAH JoNsING,
Fayetteville, N. @.
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AGRICULTURAL FAIRS.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
STATION o, Boston, Mass,
January 1, 1898.
A wide publicity of Mr.. Estey' 3 valu-
able letter, herewith transmitted,
would seem to be timely, at this season.
when annual meetings are being held.
Yours respectfully,
EBEN BUMsTEAD.
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Louisburg, N. Q.

People who like to work for fun can
raise cotton, but so long as can make
turnips that measure seven and one
half inches across, and the people OF
Macon will buy them, the amount of
the staple that grows on my place will
not help to pull down prices to any
great exGent. Some of these days some
body may show that $l33 worth of
cotton can be made on an acre of Bibb
county land at as small an expense as
my turnjps represent. In that cese
may turn my attention to that crop.
In the meantime 1 beg to be excused,
for prefer turnips. have already
sold $3.50 worth of turnips from three
acre patch and expect to receive $3.50
more. A Macon Telegraph reporter
gives a larger account of my success.
CLIFF FOSTER,
Lorraine, Ca
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It strikes me that the following is
good doctrine, and am so we'll pleased
with it that hope the editor of THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER will give it to his
readers. It is from the pen of the
editor of Farm and Ranch:
The South has TOO much land
planted to cotton. Whether there is
too much cotton grown is question
for theorists to dispute over. Instead
of sc, 600, 900 acres to produce 5000, 600
bales, 100000 acres is about what it
ought to De. That would leave q, ,O0O,-
600 acres now in cultivation that could
be used for other crops; or better still,
for 270,O 900 homes for American fami,
lies. We need more small farms. Cot
ton should be grown five to eight bales
to the farm and Ole bale at least per
acre. Tt is the great cotton plantations
that are an aggravated waste of good
land. The proportion Of tenant farm
ers should be decreased and the pro,
portion of home owners increased. The
large cotton farms that run the land
lord over head in debt, should support
several worthy families in the moderate
enjoyment of the fruits of their labor.
We want more well fed citizens, and
not so many poor landlords of the soil. "
Success to The PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
For my part, think its advertising
columns will also do us great deal of
good, if we study them Alright
endorse what the editor said as to
the need of improved machinery,
fences, fruits, etc., on our farms. and
in the advertising columns of THE Pro,
GREssIvE FARMER we can always find
the names and addresses of reliable
firms who sell them. IalWsyssay, IF
see an ad. i'm THE PROGRESSIVELY FARMER
it is reliable" Having taken consider
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able pains to learn the reliability of ad
vertisers, find there are few religious
papers in North Carolina whose adver
tisers fulfill their promises so complete
ly as do those who advertise in it.
TENOX.
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We farmers should work those fields
in which nature helps US most. IL we
ind that nature has bestowed her
Richest blessings in a particular line,
We should expend our enterprise and
energv in that direction. Nature is a
gand allv, but an obstinate and invet
crate foe. =. 3. WOODS.
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Brown: I just met White q few
minutes ago, on his way downtown 10
recover his sons body.
Green: You don't tell mel Was
his son drownedl
Brown: Oh. no; but his father eaid
he needed suit Of clothes. .-Ex.
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"The great successes of the world
have been affairs Of a second, q third,
nay, q fiftieth trial. John Morley.
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- RATIONAL FARMERS ALI.
ENCR AND1NDUSTRIAL
UNION.

Mann Page, Brandon,
- Vice President-C. Vincent, Indian
polis, Ind. r-,0a,,-or w D Prio,-o.
ooGsn Station, Pa.
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LECTURERS.

rP Sossamon, Charlotte, N. Q.
Har1lin V. Poore, Bird Island, Mimi.
FH. Peirsol. Parkersburg, w. Va.
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Raleigh, N. @.

When you buy boar, do you get
the cheapest that the breeder will sell,
or do you pay fair price and secure a
good one2 Do you realize that the
boar is one half the litter of pigs9 If
you have a poor SOW only one litter of
pigs that are not up to the mark will be
obtained, but if you breed to a poor
boar you do not get even one good lit
ter. They all are away below the aver
age. The best in the way of sires is
always the cheapest in the end. Try
it one year and see if am not right -
E. T. RIDDICK
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Does it pay to subsoil clay land3 Ii
90, what is the proper depth, and when
is the best time for doing the work
Let US hear from some who have had
experience in this line.
@. H. BRAsWELL,
Judith, N. Q.
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II 6Eu0E6 lShN0 GOO MUCH lOE OGnGES 10
do that they can and ought to do for
themselves. They complain of the
laws, yet will not educate their SOUS so
that farming can be represented in our
legislature. Only give the boys as great
q chance for success and as great
pride in their labor as their city broth
ers, and they will not leave the farms.
Send your educated and worthy young
men, those who love farming for farm
lng's sake, to the legislatures. Push
them on and upward, as you do the
city fellows. Let farmers stand I'D for
farmers first and always. Let them
have more confidence in one another.
And American farming will soon attain
the proudest position of any profession
in America. A. V. SMELL
Try this plan: Gather any con
venieDt quantity of cookie burs, say
one bushel. The stalks containing the
burs may be pulled up and carried to
some convenient place and the burs
shelled off. Bruise sufficiently to pre-
vent the seed from sprouting. This
may be done soon after they are gath
cred. Properly composted with rich
earth for future use, or the bruising
may be delayed until near planting
time. From a peck to half bushel Of
the bruised burs may be used for a hill,
and Thoroughly mixed with the soil.
The burs may be used "a few hllls) in
lieu Of cotton seed, according to plan
heretofore published in your paper,
which served to keep the vines green
and in good bearing condition all sum
mer. have substantial reasons for
believing that the burs will answer as
good, or even better purpose.
The cookie bur stalks may also be
bruised and used in few separate hills
by themselves. BRYAN TYSON.
A fatal mistake of farming is i'm try
ing to work too much land. More can
| be made by tilling fewer acres and do
ing the work better and carefully and
at the same time with less worry. A
large farm with many acres to plow,
harrow, cultivate and reap needs q
great many farming implements, the
price Of which is about the same, not
withstanding the low price Of produce
farm hands are also very scarce in the
rural districts, especially trustworthy
men. In the seeding of oats, when
there are many acres to prepare for
sowing, it is very likely to be past the
right time before we have finished,
hindered perhaps by heavy rains, and
as result, they are sure to be light in
yield and weight. Other crops are
liable to have same results. In the case
of the small farm, the farmer is enabled
to concentrate his time and energies on
one field, perhaps, and is able to SOW
at the right time and with the result OF
a far larger yield per acre, better quail
ity, the use Of fewer men, horses and
farming tools. Farms of from 30 to sc
acres, cultivated in diversified way,
add materially to the prosperity, popu
lation and attractiveness of the coun
try. BURR BARKLEY,
Genesee Co., Mich.
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Mr. Joe Strickland, who lives in this
neighborhood, gives the Times the fol-
lowing history of one stalk of cotton,
which, think, will interest most of
your readers: In 1895 he noticed quite
a fine stalk of cotton In his field which
contained 36 bolls. It was pulled up
and hung in the barn. His wife after
picked the seed out with her fingers.
In 1896 be planted these seed from the
one sEalk and that year raised 78
pounds of seed cotton. In 1897 he
planted the seed from the 78 pounds
and made this year 327 pounds seed
cotton. 1t is very superior varietF
of cotton and next year Mr.. Strickland
informs us that he will plant no other
seed except the Strickland seed"
A SUBSCRIBER,
Louisburg, N. Q.
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r,r1nNAI, RXNCUTTVR OOMMTTTEN.

Mann Page, Brandon, Va; John
pro 1ig, W. Va; A. B. Welch, New
york: Y. A. Gardner, Andrews Set
Lament Pa.
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| think D. LIS letter in your last
weeks paper is wrong. It is true we
aaVe raised more cotton than we should,
Uut that is not the sole, and in my
humble opinion, not the chief, cause Of
@e low price. The advice to raise less
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JoeC Allisons Esq, of Allison post
Office, Caldwell county, a few days ago
killed three pigs as follows: One IL
Months old, weighed 218; one IL months
Old, 2l9; aud lone. II months old that
Weighed 679 pounds; total. ], 116. Joe
always kills good pigs.
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As a farmer I get many important
and useful ideas from The PROGRESS
sIvE FARMER. It is a great help to me
in farming. j. NJ PARR1s'
Dillsboro, n. O.
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JUDICIARY,

& ". Beck, Alabama.
1, .. Davie, Kentucky.
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Has the largest
circulation Of any
family aRricultu-
raj or pol teal
paper published
between Rich-
mond and Atlanta
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Caldwell Institute, N. O., Dec. %, 81
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AGRTCULTURE.
THE FARMERS LETTER BOX.

~ We hope eUery one of our sub
scribsrs will contribute a brief letter TO
this department. Keep US informed as
toWhav is happening among the farm
ers of your rneighborhood. II you have
either by experiment or by any other
method discovered anything which you
think can be of interest to North Caro-
lima farmers, tell them of it through
our columns. Don'G think III wait
until others start the ball rolling" but
jump 10 and help US yourself. Let US
hear from you before next week
Henceforth we hope to make this a
permanent feature OF THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER. Always give your real name
and address, even though you wish
some other name signed to your letter.
No industry offsrs such a chance to
realize on capital invested as does
poultry. DR.. 1t. I'd. IWITCHELL.
While differ with you sometimes,
yet in the main you are right, andyour
paper is doing great good.
@. 8. WooTEN,
La Grange, N. O.,
"A
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nThe Progress
.,,s Farmer is 3
.ood paper---far
Sove the aver
.SSee-and possibly
sSs best adverti9'
soS medium in N.
70 Printers lax
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RALEIGH, N. c., JANUARY IL, 1898.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-10
Eugene Sues Prapl.s

The father of Eugene Sue was q nb,,
s s,clan with exalted patients all Owe
EUROPE who sent him the choices
vines VINES Inc emperor of Austria, for in
etance' mad contributed tokay, the kin,
vi russia rare hook, Queen Christine
oi SPAN priceless alicante, Prince Met
m 1uri'lcn genuine cachet dor, and 81 Nv
no Ino whole was kept in a large iron cnn.
s uoaro ID the study of the learned =.
slcian' known as the Elzeyir .,,.
eugene was then college fr,sl,,na,,
. anu' having procured a skeleton kew to
tno closet, with his friends, Adolnbo
Aualn, Veron and others, procceded
every night to investigate the contonts
" .no pottles. Not wishing to have
.holr explorations premntrrely stonnoa .
rney 'uok the precaution to fiji m tho
a exhausted TASKS with water
ln,'l ' ! 10 reseal them. When. for =
s sons 'ilAe afterward, the doctor bronrht
iorth samples of his precionc staa,. en 1o
ano delectation Of guests WORTHY of i ~
" "nu inc company tasted it with n dro ~,
. .tnso OF awe, it was privately fo,t that
lne celebrity of these great hr,nd s . VIA.
S W. iloohshine, that ordinary table d,bo.a
nohna'' was preferable to them. Rut
nft nu', y, Jared to say SO, and it was onlv
al'er tho death of his dreadod Va" r, only
WV novellst confessed the saorileee
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-10
English Jacobite Societies.

To judge from the list of jacob,
clubs and associations given in tn
'Legltimist Calendar For 1895, "whic
IN includes the order l. of the White Roses
vAo hyvon wnlue Rose club, the Legiti.
mist .jacobite League of Great Britain
and Ireland (ponderous titleD, the East
ern Counties (shade of CromwellD
White Cockade club, the Forty five club
OF Grlmsby, the Glasgow .Jacobite club,
the Oxford University Legitimist club,
the st. Ives (Hunts) Jacobito club, the
Jacobite Restoration league, the Surrey
White Rose league, the Mary Stuart
club of Lanark, the Legitimist Regis
tration union, the National Royalist
and Jacobite association, the order of
st. German and the Hemingford Grey
Royal Oak club, not to mention our old
familiar Thames Valley Jacobites and
two Or three foreign legitimist bodies,
1t ought not to be difficult for the SUD-
porters of the lost house of Stuart to
put several hundred adherents in the
held Cor oven Ludgate circus) if they so
1ecide. London Mail