The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-11-19

The annual session of the Western
North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Church begins in Gastonia
this week.
A Farmers Institute will be held
st Scotland Neck, November %, with
special addresses by State Chemist
Kilgore and State Veterinarian But
Ter
AsheborO dispatch: There will be
eight rural libraries in this county,
as we more than the State
for have been determined on. Others
NAV be established.
Washingt m Gazette: We are told
more -ecOud crop potatoes have been
raj ed in this cDunty this fall than
Eel known, and the farmers are re-
Ceiving a better price for them thar
for those they shipped in June and
July.
Greensboro Patriot: There is
muoh c)mJlaint of the fly from
wheat growers. Some of the farm
ers think the pest would be eradi
GATED if there wer a law prohibiting
the shooting of birds for several
years.
The WadesbOrO Messenger and In
telligenoer says that in September
AM October 1900 $3.50 bales G rttnn
were sold there and brought 1894, 900.
During these two months of this
year ? 495 bales were sold there f r
$92, 600, a d ference of over 800, 600,
in :avor of last season.
High Point dispatch, 18th: On
Wednesday the trustees of q .ilfOrd
COLLEGE met here to receive a gift of
5000 to the endowment fund, do
mated by Mr. Samuel Hill, an old
student of the institution, now a
resident of Minneapolis, Mimi. He
is a son-in law of Jas. j Hill, the
great railroad magnate.
Asheville dispatch, 18th: In the
oase of Mary Slagle, the Is year old
girl who shot Houston MerrimOn,
the preliminary hearing was held
yesterday and she was reles sed on a
$500 bond. DIR @. P. Amber and
H. T Collins we're her bondsmen IT
Is stated that Houston MerrimOn is
gradually getting better
Sanf,r I'D Express: Mr.. George
Gilmore saws he ,ised rs bushels of
potatoes this year on a quarter of an
acre of land This is at the rate of
800 bushels per acre, the greatest
Weld we have so far heard of. Al
so cents per bushel Mr.. Gilmore
would realize the nice sum of $3.50
from one ncre of land. This beats
raising cotton all hollow.
Fayetteville Oh. Mr. John
Blue, president of the Aberdeen and
Rockf-h Railroad, is one OF the
States most remarkable business
men So far "a we know, he i the
ONLY man that has aver successfully
undertaken the construct n of q
railroad al ne Thirty odd miles OF
this road mas already been completed,
and the work of construction is stin
in prgress
State superintendent TOOn rived
from R0heson county TO dav. He
saws: IF .eOpIe Of means do not in
that section obey the Sor1ptural in
junction and help people who have
not, then many people will 81 fer If
the merchants were pressed TO settle
accounts there would be a general
crisis in that part of the State. The
crops are so pror as TO make the
situation positively disheartening.
Exchange
Col. Odds: Three large timber syn
dicates n va acquired large interests
in the Weldon s ctiOn. One of these
will next year build a railway for
Weldon by way of BrinkleyviLle and
Ring vond, e. 8 me point in the edge
of Franklin county, distance about
30 miles, to get at 500, OOO, 900 feet
Of shnrt-Ieaf pine timber. The three
concerns are the CONNER, the Il L
Vincent and the Camp Manufacture
ing Company.
Col Olda: Mention was made some
time ago of the fact that only about
3 dozen co~nvirts we're kept this year
on the Ansnn p~enitentiary farm, n
That it was brin< only n"mlnally
operated. 1t vii be sub lat until
-LLt rtnte,s lease expires. All other