The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18
Correspondence.
FROM OUR REW YORK CORRESPOND
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Oorrespond-ur ~ The progressive Farmer.
While New York cannot be said TO
be an agricultural region in the
strict sense of the word, the fact re-
mains that there are always TO be
gathered here q good many items
that are O. general interest TO the
farmers of the country. No farm Ia
no remote nut that-indrrectly 1t
may bf-its owner is not interested
at some time in New York City, for
is is here shat in a sense Is the
heart of the nation. True we have
no such sights as the Chicago stock
Yards. or the Minneapolis Touring
mills but the money that makes the
Hwhistle of the Chicago ptg's tail
and shat makes the wheels go
round in Minneapolis, is frequently
found here; and when at last the
hackers and millers accumulate
enough tn retire and want TO pass
their remaining days where some.
thing Is going on they come here,
build a palace on Fifth Avenue and
live happily aver after, as the stories
saw. Not that New York is an
especially good place TO die in but
il only takes two hours to get go
Philadelphia, where one a close his
eyes in perfect quiet and not even a
buzzing fly will disturb his last mo-
mentsI
A most interesting development is
hat of
THE EXTENSION OF THE TROLLEY sYs-
TEN
in this part of the country, thus
developing remote agricultural SEQ
tons and at the same time relieving
the congestion of the city TO some
extent. The farmer living in the
m~ud-bound regions of New Jersey or
New York Gan now hale q oar at his
gate, put aboard a crook of butter or
basket of eggs, and is whizzed off TO
market while on each side of the
track the mud is hub-deep and form
erly acting as an efectusl preventive
to his getting TO town at all He
sells his produce, buys a washtub,
fills it with groceries and is home in
time to do half days work. Thanks
to the trolley.
There Is one person who may not
at all times rejoice over the success
of the trolley extension, and this is
the country store keeper. Mrs. JAG
.quith has for years sold him her
"butt-r n'eggs )" but now she has d
picnic ''going to town" and the
trolley whirls her past the store
while the merchant ruefully regards
her es one more lost customer.
BuS on the other hand, the trolley is
TAKING THE CITY DwELLER TO THE
COUNTRY.
He buys his goods largely from
the country store keeper, and his
city life has gotten him into the
habit of paying Dash, and so u
merchant is perhaps ever better off
@A6A bOsOGOg ONOA HULL . A144O"
standpoint. The trolley is doing the
greatest good TO the greatest mum
Der. We have only a few more links
before New York will be connected
on n side with Philadelphia, and
on the other with Boston, and per-
haps within five years one can reach
Cleveland at the rate of 40 miles an
hour sup hill and down dale"
1T is COSTING MORE TO LIVE
here this winter than for sJme time.
Food products have advanced, in
some Gases so per cent. or even more
The farmer, of course, has been
benefited more or less by the ad-
kept pace with food. The man whu
got $15 a week a year ago could get
along after a fashion easier than he
can now with SIC so or 10 per cent
more Pork, beef, potatoes and
canned goods are much higher
Speaking of canned goods, a year ago
tomatoes in three pound cans were
quoted at wholesale at rs cents Dor
dozen. To-day they are selling at
$1.35. Eggs have been retailing at
40 TO As cents apples sell from 10 to
Is cents u quart; butter is 80 to IS
cents, and so it goes. Florida orange
are about the only fruit that one in
modemte circumstances can have
Or we Can use North Carolina sliced
dried apples at about 10 cents IA
pound and really n can do worse
than TO u'e this fruit, for it is a.
a rule of very good quality.
A deter mined effort is being made