The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-23
NEWS OF THE FARMING WORLD.

Sections Of the Country.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Live stock receipts at the five prin-
cipa! markets of Chicago, Kansas
City, Omaha, st, Louis, and st.
Joseph during 1901 show remarkable
gains over last year, both as regards
April and the four months ending
with April, the official receipts of
cattle, hogs, and sheep in the four
months just ended showing an in.
crease of S59, 417 head, as compared
with the corresponding four months
of 1900. The rise in the price of
corn is pointed out as being largely
responsible for this increased move
ment of live stock to market, it hav-
ing become more profitable to sell
corn at % per cent. above last year s
price than to keep the stock on such
high priced feed.
COTTON CULTURE BECOMING POPULAR
IN EUROPE.
Consul Mahin, of Reichenberg, re.
ports that it is intended this year to
essay the cultivation of the cotton
plant in Hungary. Is is said that it
will ripen in the Southern part of
that Kingdom, efforts to grow cotton
in the lower provinces of Asiatic
Russia, in the same latitude as Hun
grry, having been successful. 1t is
probable that bounties will be paid
the cotton planters, in keeping with
Hungary's liberal treatment of the
founders of factories. More or less
success is now attending the culture
of cotton in Spain, southern Italy,
Macedonia, and Malta. Consul
Hughes at Coburg, attributes a nota-
able increase in the cotton produc-
ton of Russian middle Asia, Box
hara and Khiva during 1900 to the
use of fine American cotton seed.
Extraordinary stories are coming
in as TO the
PROFITS OF TRUCK FARMING IN THE
SOUTH
for Northern markets. The fertile
peninsula which lies between the
Cooper and Ashley rivers, Of which
Charleston, S. c., is the apex, for in
stance, is divided up into little truck
farms, which produce fruits, straw
berries and early vegetables for the
Northern market. Train loads leave
every day in the spring for Wash
ington, Baltimore, and New York,
and there are two lines of steamers
sailing twice week filled with gar
den truck, which sells at high prices.
The farmers grumble about the
freight rates, but nevertheless they
do very we'll. One of them cleared
a, 900 last year from his strawberry
beds. One makes $4,000 a year
from little farm on which he grows
lettuce, tomatoes, early peas and
beans. Last year he cleared up
$500 an acre. From his crop of
cucumbers he received a revenue of
$1,934; from his potatoes, turnips,
beets and other stuff he got 81, 736,
and from his fruit $4,138. Another
man gets from 10, 900 to Is, 900 quarts
of Strawberries an acre between
April 15 and May Is, and sells them
at a profit of cent quart net. He
has an orchard of 1900 peach trees,
which last year paid him an average
of Sc a treo His profits from truck
gardening have averaged $125 an
acre for his fifty acres during the
last ten years He is a Yankee, and
plows deep. Similar stories come
from all over the South.
U. S. Consul John G. Covert,
Lyons, France, in report to the
State Department, gives the follow
ing information in regard to
AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS IN
FRANCE:
Associations of farmers, called "syn-
dicates, agricoles, " have been organ
lied all over France since the passage
of the law of March 21, 1884, their
aim being to further the economic,
Industrial, commercial and agricul-
tural interests of their members and
to attach the farmer more closely to
the country. They are organized
under a general law which authorizes
any twenty persons of one trade, or
of several similar trades, to combine
in a society. The dues are fixed at
from 10 cents to 81 per month. Ac-