The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20

has Just made trip through Kentucky i
and Tennessee. He thinks there is no /
question but that the blue grass region
can raise a hunter which which will |
command a very high price in Eag-
land. Such a horse, he says, must |
have considerable thoroughbred blood !
This will give him courege-but |
to carry a beefy Is or 16 stone (21O to
224 pound) Englishman, he must have
three or four hundred pounds weight
than has the thoroughbred Professor
Curtiss also reported Incidentally that
fine American bacon is being shipped
TO Ireland, then stamped and reshipped
TO Britain as Irish bacon, which has
the highest reputation in the world.
Secretary Wilson himeelt states that
ne knows bacon men in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, who came over from Ireland,
bringing their methods aud skill, and
even their own brine IN casks which
had been used for years, and Ghey are
now making cut of the Iowa hog the
finest sugar cured bacon known.
An experiment ls reported trc N Can
ada in wintering bees in which the
hives we're placed elk inches from the
floor and protected with a piece OF CID
wOolen carpet placed under Ghe wooden
cover When placed in the cellar each
colony had 80 pounds of honey. which
proved more than sufficient for the
winter and all the hives wingered sue
cessiully. The temperature OF the
cellar, shown by a self. registering
thermometer, remained stea 1ily be
tween 40 and 80 degrees f.
In 1896 some ff3ulty was exper:-
euced with persistent swarming of the
bees, resulting in the weakening of the
colonies, and in the following year
most of the brood frames were filled
with b es and large upper story filled
with wire found Ations was added and
the frames extracted as required. This
gave an abundance Of room and no
awarming whatever occurred and all
the colonies became strong before fall
An average Of As pounds Of extracted
honey was taken from each hive.
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The Biblical Recorder Of last week
Gays: There Is hope for the North
Carolina College Of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts, il its truste will
resist the faculty clique who are
running it and making life burden
for their fellow teachers; there is hope
il the trustees will make OF the institu
ticn somewhat Of that which its found
ers desired. There is no need for it
and no future for il as literary insti.
tuition. To endeavor TO make one OF it
5 10 argue that the University Of the
STATE mas failed and that the denOmi
CIopaI colleges are inadequate. To
make a literary institution Of it can
benefit no one save the professors who
conduct it's departments. The Re
cor der asserts that in the College up
80 this time the ''kid glove idea" has
predominated. We do not think this
statement correct, but it is true that
the kid glove idea" has Ot late threat
ened it's future. We do not tnink,
however, that it is nov a serious
menace. The little scheme OF the Re
| organization Committee to give less
attention to agriculture by c0nsolidat
Iug that department with the horticul-
tural division was very properly uippec
in the bud by the Board Of TIT tsj5es at
the recent session of the Beard. And
ia 90 doing the Trustees rightly j ldged
| the temper of the paoo'e They were
not in a mood to be trIf ID with.
1t is reported that ts5imony was
taken before Senator Mason's pure