The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14
SOME PRINTED MATTER.

The United States Department Of
Agriculture has just issued a very
valuable bulletin on "Sweet Pota-
toes" the work of MI. D. NJ. Nesbit,
one of the leading sweet potato
growers of Maryland. Every phase
of the subject from bedding to cook
ing is thoroughly treated. It is per-
haps not generally known that the
latest available figures show that
North Carolina produces more sweet
potatoes than any other State in
the Union; Georgia holds second
place and Texas is third in line. We
hope that a large number of Pro
gressive Farmer readers will secure
copies of this excellent bulletin. A
postal card application to the "Sec-
rotary of Agriculture, Washington,
D. c." will get it for you free of
charge.
Mr.. Jacob A. Riis' autobiography,
published under the significant title,
"The Making of an American" in
The Outlook, continues to attract
attention and forms one of the most
popular serial features ever publish
ed in that periodical. The install
ment contained in the May maya
zine number dwells in a somewhat
humorous way on many incidents and
adventures which befell the young
Danish immigrant in his attempt to
gain Il fOothold in American life. In
the matter of autObiOgraphies, the
Outlook is peculiarly fortunate, hav-
ing just published that of Booker T.
Washington, which excited more in
terest than has any other series of
magazine articles for a year past.
Mr.. @. S. Wooten, of La Grange,
n. c., has prepared a series of we'll
written essays, partly biographical,
partly historical, with the South of
ante-bellum days as the background.
They I being published in the Sun
day Charlotte Observer.
The Chicago Farmers Voice, per
haps the best farm and family paper
in the West, has absorbed the West
ern Rural.
EXPERIMENTS with Fertilizers, a
neatly printed and handsomely illus
trated little booklet, postmarked
from Southern Pines, n. c., lies be-
fore US. The title indicates it's char
acter. 1t is issued by the Expert
mental Farm Of the North Carolina
State Horticultural Society, and Pro
gressive Farmer readers can obtain
copies free of charge by addressing
the superintendent Of Experiment
Farm, Southern Pines, N. c."
we are indebted to Robert M.
Douglas, of the North Carolina Su
preme Court, for a copy of the ad-
dress delivered by him at the Gull
ford battle-ground Celebration, July
4, 1898, The Life and Character of
Gov. Alexander Martini This is a
paper of permanent historical value,
and in it Judge Douglas proves him
self an entertaining and forceful
writer, as we'll as a diligent student
Of the States early history.
Of similar character, though Of
much greater length, is "The Con-
gressional Career Of Nathaniel Ma
CON- which has recently appeared
as the second Of the James Spruut
historical monographs, issued 10y the
University of North Carolina. Both
Martin and Macon served the State
we'll in very trying times, the former
serving as Governor for a longer
period than any other man since Our
separation from the mother country.
and the latter heading the list for
Congressional service, but in politi-
cal opinions they differed most
widely. Jefferson never had a more
devoted follower than Nathaniel
Macon, while Gov. Martin was n of
the Feueralist leaders and a warm
supporter of John Adams. But both,
we repeat, were able men and true
patriots, and their lives should be
studied by all our citizens.