The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-03-06
IN "rHR LAND OF THE SKY"

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the Broad River, we were reminded
Of Burdeste's Brakeman at Church
by the steedy pull up river always
close to the water, but not always
straight ahead.
At Marion business is as lively as IL
possible through roads which are
strangers to M9ckIenburg and Wake
counties methods of improvement,
90 the teams can pass over and not
through them,
At Asheville we met no particular In
cident. A street report as we left gave
the number of small p0x cases IN the
city at only 500 per cent. more than
the attending physician was treating,
the actual number of cases being five
A few hours were pleasantly spent
in Fl endersonville, where several farm
ers from n~ejghboring towns we're met.
We were fover6d and instructed by
being present at a meeting Of the citi.
zans, presided over by the Mayor, and
addressed by several Of the leading
men of the city.
On u trip to Brevard we met Mr..
Hayes, the genial Business Manager OF
the Toxaway Company, who is build
ing an extension to the Transylvanla
Railroad, and making extensions in all
the departments of this company's
great summer watering place at Sap
phire.
We also met here for the first time
Mr.. Fl P. Clarke. at whose cottage, on
his Rockbrook Stock Farm, we we're
pleasantly entertained during the cold
est days OF this winter, Saturday and
Sunday, February 18th and 18Th. We
enjoyed every hour of this visit and
were pleased to be able to inspect this
practical establishment where some of
the very best milking strains of Short
horn cattle are to be found, as we'll as
"Ohief 1 Know" and other familiar
strains of popular Poland China swine
are being combined.
At the r ockbrook Farm we saw Kirk.
wood Clay, by Roam CLAY 45h and son
of Kitty Clay Sd of Worlds Fair
fame. But the pride of the dairy and
herdsman, Mr.. A. q. Oliver, was a
young roan bull calf by Kirkwood Clay,
which is growing at a rate exceeding
three pounds per day. A 400 pound
calf at 100 days old is seldom seen in
this State, yet here is one and he ia a
beauty.
Leaving BrevRrd, our first stop was
at E5oWah, a small station on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, near which
point are a number of wide awake
farmers whose thrifty stock betoken
the care which is bestowed on every
thing under their hands. Fattening
steers are not plentiful yet some very
coed ones can be found with Mr.. Jend
wine, of Esowah, and also with Mr..
Cannon, of Horse Shoe. Mr.. Cannon
is also excelling with his sheep. He
had more young lambs than mothers
the date Of our visit.
A fac flock of sheep is that of j. 8
Holmes, where So lambs from 60 sheep,
with one or two yet to be heard from,
was the record on the day of our visit
Two lambs had already been sent to a
Northern market and the returns we're
satisfactory, though too much of gross
receipts seem to be consumed in trans
portation and commission.
Rev. r. Wainwright has gathered
about him many Of the material com
forts Of life and has settled down at
Bowman's Bluff to en- oy the quiet rest
earned by many years of active mis-
work among hardships which
would appall a man OF less intrepid
Enj oying the generous hospit
ality Of R0s9 Cottage, we had an &C
count Of Clusters last battle from R3v.
Wainwright, who was doing his duty
as a frontier missionary in that then
wild section OF the West, North Da
kota, and participating ia the hardships
Of the frontiersmen and soldiers.
Some readers will remember an in
quiry sent US by Nj. Vain wright about
bitter milk a few weeks back. Here
we learned the cause. Sometime after
the query was made the COW was
found to have taken up tobacco chew
Tobacco raised for furoigating
house plants had been thrown out in
an accessible pile and the cow called in
for her chews of the weed.
. removal of the pile changed the favor
Of the milk.
We viei5ed Mills River town, but saw
little OF the stock aud few of the pep
pie. T. E. (.