The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-11

Nouns AIRY -
lies r shipping large quaint
If goods, considering the faot
9S L,si. the dull season OF the
Fear.
un;,s the sales of fertilizer tax
nv the Agricultural Department
q. .Dring are large, they r not 90
Zoe as they were last Spring'-Col.
DldS.
9th the Shelby Aurora and Kin
Free Press came 10 Us enlarged
"a otherwise improved. We wish
- these excellent and enter
D-ising papers continued success.
~, Odds State Auditor Dixon was
SioEan with establishment today,
che return of a pension warrants
&c. accompanying it saying the
aon.ioner did not need the money.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer:
rbo,e are now over 90 applications
che admission of m~eritorious
..s 70 the State Hospital here, not
- 81 whom can be admitted, as the
~.1.titntion is more than crowded.
Tba Carolina Fruit and Truck
Growers Journal, estimates the in
o-ssse in strawberry acreage in
North Carolina fully 20 per cent
The Weld this year bids fair TO be
unusually heavy and the fruit of
superior quality.
Chatham Record: The "bird law"
take. effect in this county next
Saturday, when it will be unlawful
until next November) for any per
son $50 hunt with dog or gun, or
kill, shoot, trap or net any partrid-
ges. uuails or wild turkeys"
Asheville dispatch, 9Th: Railway
communication with points west of
Asheville was resumed TO day after
week interruption on account of
Smds. The first through train in
sven days arrived here late this
dternoon. Trains are now running
In sIl directions.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer :
Arrangements are made for opening
three leaf tobacco warehouses here.
The increase in the tobacco acreage
IN this section is TO be very great,
PARTICULARLY in the southern and
EASTERN parts of this county, where
the soil is light and sandy.
The Senate has passed bills appro-
priating 800, 900 for the erection of
,bublio building at Durham N. G. +;
ippropriating $50, 900 for the estab
fishing of q light station on Bluff
shoal, Pamlico Sound, N. c.; to
authorize the establishment of q
Efe-saving station at or near Bogue
Inlet, N. G.
Elizabeth City dispatch: An cpl
demic of some deadly disease is rag
ing among the horses. Ii is a disease
that, cannot be observed in its ap-
proaoh, but acts swiftly and surely.
The epidemic first was heard of in
Hyde county and in a remarkably
short space of time it has made its
way here.
Washington Cor. Post: Congress
man W. W. Kitchin has only four
applications for appointment as
naval cadet at Annapolis. He is
surprised at the small number of ap-
plioatiOns. The appointment will be
by competitive examination, which
will be held at either Greensboro or
Durham the middle of March.
Col. Odds: There is general express
sion of marked approval at the ap
pOintment of Prof. James Y. Joyner
as State Superintendent of Public
Instruction. He is recognized as an
able educator, a devoted friend of
public education and as a man OF
affairs. Such are the popular ex-
pressions one hears regarding him.
The government census sho Ms
400, 1872 white children in North Caro-
lima of school age and the Superin
tendent of Public instruction reports
only 263, sos white children who are
now attending school, then talk about
Compulsory education not being
Necessary It is the only remedy for
iiteracy in North Carolina, argues
the Charlotte News.
Winston Sentinel: "Dr." billiard,
the millionaire" negro, we'll known