The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Prof. j. III Johnson mas returned
from the Farmers Institutes recently
held IN Southeastern North Carolina
and will in u next issue describe and
comment on these meetings. Prof.
johnson is one of the most promising
young men engaged in the work Of
scientific agriculture in this State, an
active worker and an interesting writer.
The machinery, ETC., in one of the
American Cotton C~ompany's cylin-
drical baling cuff g is valued at 81, 900.
We understand, however, that they
do not lease an outfit to any one who
faiIs to guarantee them 81 900 each year
it is used. When they have driven out
competition even more may be de-
manded. 1t occurs to US that 81. 600
annual interest on a 81 900 investment
is rather steep for these days Of sound
money"
We do not sympathize with the i'm
periaIistic tendencies of Mr.. Elihu Root,
the new Secretary of War, but as we
have the Philippine ~insurrection on
our hands, we are glad to see that he is
determined to settle it as speedily as
possible and stop the miserable bush
Whacking that has been so long in
progrefs-no, not in progress, but in
force over there If we can whip the
FlIipinos, let us do so speedily; if we
cannot whip them, let's admit it and
leave Aguinaldo in peace.
Just after the meeting of the State
Alliance in 1889, ten years ago, The
Progressive Farmer said: "Our Trus
tee, Bro. W. A. Graham, is a live,
energetic man. He has enough energy
to run a camp meeting and have as
much left over as ordinary mortals
have" Though ten years older, Presi
dent Graham seems to have lost Of his
energy and '~joyousness Of spirit to.
which this paper also alluded at the
time. The work of re building the Or
der ia a great one, and a man of Presi
dent Graham's energy is needed to
push it.
We learn just as we go to press that
Mr.. Walter 81. Page has resigned the
-editorship of The Atlantic Monthly
and has accepted an invitation to take
a prominent post in the direction of
the literary work Of the allied houses
of Harper & Brothers and the Double
day & Mcclure Co. Wherever he goes
he will have the good wishes of all
North Carolinians. HIS successor in
the editorship of the Atlantic is Nh.
Bliss Perry, known in literature as the
author of two novels and a number of
essays and stories.
An adjourned meeting of Wake
County Alliance will be held at the a.
& NJ. College, Friday, August is h. A
full attendance is urgently requested.
Wake county can aft ord to lag behind
no longer. Every old member should
get back into Order and wherever a
charter has been returned, let the old
members get together, re organic and
get to work again. Let all who can
meet at the A. & NJ. College Friday,
and prepare to push the work Of re
organization. The State Alliance has
given the order, Forward! march,
Wake should not delay in responding
20 the command.
We had a pleasant call from Bro. R
N. Parker, of HArnett county, dele
gate to the State Alliance last week.
His lodge is one of the few Sub ALI
ances in Harnett. 1t, however, has
been thoroughly tested in many ways,
and is sill true. Bro. Parker says
that crops in Harnstt have been very
much damaged by insects h and
his family consider The Progressive
Farmer indispensable and he thinks,
he says, that there are some people in
Barnett who would walk to Raleigh
every week, if there were no
other way of getting The Progressive
Farmer
We find a very general impression
among the farmers OF the State that
such men as Profs. Emery, Irby, John
son and others of our Experiment Sta.
ton farm chiefly On paper" and do
not really handle the tools, the stock,
etc. Such ideas are totally erroneous.
Anyone who will take the trouble to
visit the Experiment Farm will find
them regularly and actively engaged
In real, practical, every day farming
no, not everyday farming, for on the
Experiment Farm, farming is consid
cred a business requiring thought,
study and preparation just as banking,
or any other business requires. In
that respect only does their farming
differ from averv daV aPmin