The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25

and enlarged attendance upon our
public and graded schools, as we'll as
high schools and colleges. Prof.
Edwin Minis, of Trinity, was elected
president of the Assembly and Prof.
W. D. Carmichael Secretary.
Clinton has passed through the
strawberry season and is now in the
midst of the huckleberry season.
Sampson has a great crop of big blues
this year and the money returns for
them are considerable. The darkies
have taken to the woods to pick ber-
ries and there is great Generalization
of farm labor, endangering crops, on
large Observation-Disclosures dispatch.
A week or so ago we copied from
an exchange, for the purpose of illus
trating the power of interest, an
item regarding the Wake county
bond issue, as to the object of which
contemporary expressed it's
ignorance. A friend reminds us that
it is "for the purpose of settling and
paying the floating debt of Wake
county, incurred for necessary ex-
penses and outstanding on the first
day of February, 1901, this debt hav-
ing been contracted prior to 1898"
The Marshall Enterprise says that
n of the most remarkable farms in
Madison county is the Stackhouse
farm near Putnam. 1t contains $40
and has Is dwelling houses on
it, most of which are rented out by
the owners, Amos StaCkhOuse & Bro.
The aggregate rents amount to $40
per month. The sale of hay and
feed yearly amounts to 81, 900. They
utilize every stick of timber and
have a good income from railroad
ties. They also have a saw mill and
DE- quite a large business in the way
of lumber.
The fruit crop of North Carolina is
worth much more than the average
man supposes. Here is proof from
the Monroe Journal: ''Mr. John H.
Blanton sold and caused to be sold in
Union county last year about $4,000
fruit cans. That means rs, 900 quarts
of fruit, vegetables and berries saved
that otherwise would have been lost.
At 10 cents a can the value of this
fruit, etc, is 81, 500. More fruit and
vegetables were saved in the county
last year than in five preceding years
and nearly all this has been and is
being consumed by the producers"
A case of Importance to employers
is reported this morning IN the digest
of the Supreme Court decisions. A
man known to be cruel and mean to
children was superintendent of a
cordage mill. In his service was a
ten-year, old boy, a f~oOr-sweeper.
For ~inattention to his work the
superintendent showed the boy, so
that he fell upon some spinning
frames and sustained the loss of
fingers. The Supreme Court holds,
in an action for damages, that the
owner of the mill is liable, because
he had no business to put a superin-
tendent of such reputation in charge
of the mill. The decision is a just
One.-EX.
Raleigh dispatch, 10Th: To-day
the clerk of the Superior Court, sit
ting in this city, issued a writ of
claim and delivery on w. T. Rochelle,
a farmer, for a county bridge. The
case is novel in this State. During
the recent freshet the bridge was
swept away and carried a quarter of
a mile on ROchelle's land. He has
seized it, and with chains and locks
has fastened it to stakes driven in
his land. He says it is his own prop
erty. Deputy sheriffs have gone to
serve the writ. 1t is Il wooden bridge,
covered and %shingled, and SO feet
long. The officers say that as the
bridge is solid it is not floating
timber. LATER-Rochelle gave it up.
Washington Post: Judge Spencer
B. Adams, who was the Republican
candidate for governor of North
Carolina in the last campaign and is
now an applicant for a judgeship in
the Philippines, vas presented to the
President yesterday by Representa-
tive Moody, of the Ashe vile district.
Judge Adams, who is not yet fifty
years of age, served a term on the
district bench and is said to be a
LAWYER of very fine attainments. All