The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-11-21

gives pest thoughts from best educators
throughout the country and keeps up
with all the movements tending to
educational advancement in this and
other States. We are proud to see the
name OF North Carolina" at the head
OF this educational publication. for it
ranks with the foremost of it's kind
Stanley County Enterprise.
The Southern Field, of Washington
the Industrial publication of the S Juth
ern Railway, Gays: The section of the
country along the Southern R Ill way,
between R aleigh and G 1ldsboro, N G.,
is splendidly adapted for the cultiva-
ton OF melons. berries and other fruits.
and for vegetables, and it offers splen
did opportunities for settlers to engage
in the raising Of crops of those things.
Truck farmers will certainly succeed.
One of the principal advantages of the
region is it's nearness to Virginia and
Z astern cities and the quick transpor
tation facilities afforded by the South
ern Railway.
Monroe Enquirer: A gentleman Iiv
ing a few miles north of Monroe lost
his bearings, so far as the reckoning of
time is concerned, last week and did a
hard days plo wing seed wheat last
Sunday. He started his pillow by day
light and quit the field a little before
0RPk in Op6or hot ho Oo;~LA .Io-oo-S
get ready for S lndsy, as he thought it
a dissertation of the Sabbath to shave
on that day. As he was shaving q
neighbor came up and informed him
that it was Sunday and not Saturday.
It was a hard matter to convince the
man who had lost a day from his reck
onlng that he vas wrong as to the day
of the week.
An analysis Of the report Of the sU-
p~erintendent OF Public Instruction
shows that the negroes own almost ex
actly 1-27 of the property in the State.
1t also shows that while the whites
pay % "a each year for public school,
taking the number Of polls returned as
a basis, the negroes pay 81. The value
of the public school property of whites
is 1926 662; that of the negroes 1857, 143
There are 6 $40 school houses. There
we're I. 551 white and 872 negro teach
ers, who attended county institutes
during the year. There are 5 Ala white
and 2, 776 negro teachers; total, $3.50
There are 5 443 white school districts
and {. 172 schools, and S.515 negro
school districts and 2. 1876 schools.
The North Carolina section of the
climate and crop service of the
Weather B lreau, which was issued
last week, gives the folio wing summary
OF the damage resulting from the re-
cent hurricane which g Vept through
the State: TIE wind reached a maxi
mum velocity of rs miles from the
northeast at Kitty Hawk, but only 43
from the southeast at Wilmington
Toe damage in the interior consisted
chiefly in the %uprooting of trees, de
struction Of fences and frail structures,
with minor I'M Try to u~ngathered crops
From ali accounts there appe ,rs to
have been only n life lost, but the
damage the damage to property vas
very great, a conservative estimate
placing the loss at over 5000 900.
Col. Odds correspondence: The So
perintendent of Poblic Instruction has
asked the State Treasurer whether the
800. 900 appropriated to pubic schools
Oy the L'gislature this year will be
paid. The Treasurer replies that he re
grets to say that the pres lect is not
good for an early payment; that dis
bursements during the eleven months
of the f1cal year up to O35ober 31st
we're $l47 900 more than the receipts
and that unless the receipts are much
greater and disbursements much
smaller he doesn't think the condition
of the Treasury will b3 such al to ad-
NIT of the payment of the 800, 600 be
fore the end of next year. Toe Audi
tor, when asked if the State would
meet the appropriation, replied that
with proper care as tt collections he
felt sure that all could be paid. There
is a net balance in the Treasury accord
ing to the last statement of $44 600
The Financial Review of New York
city says of Treasurer Worth in the
issue this week: 1.-The decision of the
Supreme Court of North Carolina to
the effect that State Treasurer W. II
Worth was right in refusing to pay out
of the $11O, 600 realized by a bond
issue, the penitentiary debts, justifas
the stand taken by that off eial, which