The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-31
State News.
TAR HRELs ARB DOING.

-vspes and Tobacco stems from the
~-5,-th-StAlks OF Corn and Grains Of
w1eat from the West-PeanutS
and CottonSee from the South
There are now 482 students at the
roiversity of North Carolina.
Charles McNamee, Superintendent of
.be Vanderbilt estate at Biltmore, has
s.on elected President of the North
carolina Agricultural Society, succeed.
irg Mr.. R. II. Battle, resigned.
sampson county will in November
,ote on the Dispenssry question. The
sounty is now under prohibition,
thought about by the County Commits
.ioners refusing to grant license at
January meeting.-N. Q. Baptist.
The October Bulletin of the North
Carolina State Board Of Agriculture
vl be devoted entirely to The Hog
and is Products" This matter is
treated in a series Of illustrated articles
m the handling and curing OF bacon.
Mr.. 7. K Bruner, the Secretary of
the North Carolina Agricultural De
nsrtment, he's estimated that the to
bscco crop of the S late this year will
Approximate 1875 600, 600 pounds. The
acreage has been greatly increased and
the yield per acre is the heaviest
known in a long while; the quality is
unusually good.
Il is announced that Senator Butler
will oppose the Constitutional Amend
ment. 1t is worthy Of note that several
Republicans have come out in favor of
the Amendment while several Demo-
Gratis have placed themselves squarely
against it. The leaders are discussing
with zeal and ability but as yet the
MISSES of the people passively read or
pass by unnoticed the lengthy argu-
mgnts. a heated campaign, however,
is ahead.-Ex.
Fsison correspondence Mt 0 i've AID
vertiser: We hope a strong organiza-
ton will be established through out
Eastern North Carolina with sufficient
means and back bone to be Of great
service to our trucking industry. Its
first business should be to petition
Congress to give sufficient powers to
the Inter State Commerce Commission
az to enable it to stop unjust discrimi
nations and to compel the proper hand
ling and haulingof ~perishable produce,
90 as to give US at least a fighting
chance with the competing world.
Wadesboro Messenger: Capt. r. P
Reinhardt, who for nearly three years
has been supervisor Of the Arson Ssate
farm, left last night for his home in
Catswba county. In bidding farewell
to Capt. Reinhardt it is but just to
him to say that he has made the best
record, 80 far as our information goes
Of any fusion officer in the State. IL is
also true that he did q great deal OF
excellent and permanent work on the
farm, while it was under his control,
and We believe that it was largely
through his answering loyalty to the
farm that the State decided upon it's
purchase
Statistics regarding the penitentiary
show that for the ten years ending
with 1886 and the ten ending with 1896
there we're: Convict5 received 4 953
and 4 $50; discharged 2 500 and 8 999;
escaped 945 and 564; recaptured 1858
and 288; pardoned 800 and 27I; died
769 q Sos; killed while attempting to
escape Al and 26; killed in other ways
% aud Is The figures in each pair are
for the first decade, the latter figures
for de ,sde ended in 1896 For 1897
and 1898 the figures in total are: r.
ceived 843; discharged 725; escaped 81;
died 30, pardoned "a; killed while at
tempting to escape L
Ryanoke News: The p~enitentiary
directors at a recent meeting in R1'.
eigb, acquitted Mr.. Louis Summerell Of
the charges of cruelty to convicts. We
are ve,y much gratified to learn that
Mr.. Summerell did not Intentionally
send his men out in weather that was
too clld to work. He is certainly con
sidered one of the best farmers in
Northampton county and a most ex-
cellent supervisor. We have known
Mr.. Summerell for years and could not
believe that he would be guilty OF the
horrible stories published about him.
We are glad for his sake, for the sake
OF the poor convicts and for the sake OF
North Carolina that he has sati=fed
the board that the reports were greatly
exaggerated.
describing the execution OF Avery
hale at Newton recently a newspaper
c0rroancndnnA anua. The nnEed Young