The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Now let each County Secretary send
US q report of his county meeting as
early as possible. Let as have it before
it gets stale.
An ex ,elIent address by Prof. Benja-
min Irby on Agricultural Education"
crowded out OF this issue, will appear
next week.
If you want an excellent photograph
Of the delegation in attendance at the
recent meeting of the State Alliance,
send % cents to 7. B. Parker, Hills
boro, N. O., and you will get it. The
photographs this year are first class in
every respect.
We wish to heartily second the ad-
vice given by one of our correspond
ents in the article, "Hold Your Cotton
Seed" which appearson page1 There
are reasons enough for this course.in the
article, Cotton Oil Jumps Up" which
we copy from the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser on page 8 Of this Issue.
Read it and hold your cotton seed.
Do you know how much government
ownership Of telegraphs and telephones
would cave the American peopleH
Listen: The receipts Of the Western
Union Telegraph Co. last year were
S23 GIG 900, expenses $17. 1875, coo, profits
6 1870, 900. The Ball Telephone Co
made gross earnings Of S. 13l, 600 il
'97, and paid dividends of s.. 683. 600.
The National Grange meets at Spring
field, o, Nov. 10 Ole Of the biggest
sessions ever held ia being planned.
Over 40, 900 new members added to che
Grange and more Oranges organized
than for many years, is the record Of
the work of 1899. The farmers through
out the country are awaking to the
need for thorough organization. We
are glad to hear of the prosperity Of
the Grange.
The truckers of the S ate also realiz,
the need of CO operation and truckers
from ali parts of the State are expected
to meet in R aleigh tomorrow, Wed
nesday 18Th, to orgaD;z' an ASSOCIATE n
foI the protection Cf the trucking in
dustry. No organization offers more
advantages along this line than the
Farmers Alliance and the truckers
cannot do better than to j0in it en-
mGsSe
Bro. 7 B Parker called to see US
last Friday, returning from Moore
county, where he attended the meeting
of Moore County Alliance. He reports
that the Order is taking on new life in
Moore and that substantial gains in
membership have been made since the
July meeting. Moore's Hill Sub, for
instance, has received five applications
for membership since its last regular
meeting, and the brethren feel that the
Alliance is again on the up grade
throughout the county.
Attention has recently been called to
the fact that the people of the United
States annually pay out thousands of
dollarsfo o rhododendrons potted abroad
and brought across the ocean for sale
here. These beautiful flowers are very
abundant in Western North Carolina
and the people Of u m )uutain section
can pot and sell them much more
cheaply than they can be brought here
from abroad. And we should be glad
to see the money America has been
sending to foreign countries distributed
among our own mountain people.
BRO. Fieming's letter was one OF
the best things in your paper this
week." said a prominent Allianceman
to US last week. And 80 it was. We
are under the impression that it was
the fret letter Bro. Fleming has ever
sent US for publication, but we hope
to hear from him often in the
future. The other letters in our last
issue we're also excellent. Bro. W. A.
GrahRm's statement of the value of the
Alliance as a truckers organization
deserves the consideration of this i'm.
portsnt class CT farmers. We give
this week two other excellent Alliance
letters, one from Prof. John Graham,
aud one from Dr.. j. E. Person.
Bro. T. B. Parker was in Wayne
county last week and did some efsc
tive Alliance work. In private letter
he says: ~ visited Home Alliance, in
this county, Wednesday night. After
making a short talk we opened The
doors aud added 16 members to Home
Alliance, II men and 4 ladies. E ght
Of the 16 were new members and the
stated. Among them we're the best
people OF the community. Oilers have
promised to come in at their next meet