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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-06

Mr.. John Lindsay, of Tennessee.
has brought a car load of hogs,
about 600 in number, which he is sell
ing to farmers at 8 cents per pound
gross weight. They are fine porkers;
many of them will weigh 900 pounds.
: John A. Morrow killed two IS
months old pigs that weighed 1858
pounds. Ward Bell killed one of the
same litter that weighed $40. The
point we wish to make is, that if
three such hogs can be raised in Gas
ton, more can be raised, and it ought
to be good business for CASTOR farm
ers to raise hogs to sell to CASTOR
farmers who have to buy them. At
8 cents per pound gross, Mr.. Nor
rows hogs would have sold for $124.-
Ga. And Mr.. Bells for $45. At such
rates it is plain that there is.a good
profit in raising hogs for sale in this
State. r. D.. MARTIN.
CASTOR Co., N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-06
CASTOR County,
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:

The Progressive Farmer is a great
help to me. Permit me to give you a
few random notes from old CASTOR,
and her bountiful crops. The corn
acreage of this county is enormous
$50, and the production, 127, 1886
bushels. The wheat acreage was
8,017, and the production, 876,281
bushels. So you see we will not lack
for "the staff of life" The cotton
crop was very short, and, as I re-
marked in the Gastonia Gazette's
agricultural Topics Department."
of which I am the editor: "The rails
ing of cotton with us is no longer a
money-making business. The uncer-
tainty of the season and the high
price of labor, has caused many farm
ers to become Disguised, and if there
was any other cash crop, cotton
would be abandoned" The cotton
acreage was 1896 and baleage
6,233.
Peas has been a profitable money
for the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-06
North Carolina Farming Notes.

county are in a very bad condition.
Many farmers are unable to haul
farm products to market.-Rich
Square Times.
We were shown a turnip last Sat
urday by Mr.. John McGraw, who
farms on Mr.. John Roberts place
near Shelby, that for size and weight
beats anything we ever saw. It
weighed IA pounds and is about 80
inches in circumference.-Shelby
Aurora.
Squire II. L Price, one of the best
farmers of Sandy Ridge Township,
has been experimenting with a new
breed of hogs, the Mammoth Black"
breed. Mr.. Price killed three seven
months-old pigs one day last week
weighing 200 pounds each, and yes
terday he killed a ffteen-months-old
pig weighing 4O8 ~pounds.-Monroe
Enquirer.
Vegetables are exceedingly plenti-
full now in town-Turnips are hauled
around town for thirty cents a bush
ell, potatoes sell from the boats at
forty cents, and cabbages are equally
as cheap. Yesterday a c%olored man
was seen peddling a load of collards
which he begged some one to give
him one cent apiece for.-New Bern
Journal.
Mr.. J. S. Humphrey, who was in
town the first of the week, tells us
that the farmers in the upper end
of the county are using more grain
drills than heretofore. This means
that more grain is being planted,
which is a good indication of more
prosperous farming and the employ
ment of better Notwithstanding
Robesonian.
The public weighers say that more
peanuts have been packed this De-
C6LlDGE Gudu ever DG1OIG Ill ILLS
month. It is not improbable that
more have been raised IN this vicinity
7ur mzuy1aEIneE8navB not ye6@d1s-
posed of their crops. Most of the
offerings are by troopers and tenants
and those who give liens to enable
them to cultivate their crops.-Tar-
boro Southerner.
The sales in the Wilson tobacco
market for December were handed to
Mr.. Leach, supervisor of sales of
the tobacco board of trade, to-day
as the market closed yesterday for
the holidays. The report for Deem
Der shows that during the month
1,936,243 pounds of the weed were
sold on the Wilson warehouse floors,
against 1,355,O3O for December last
year. The total sales to date on the
Wilson market amount to 1861 27
pounds, against 12,6O3,982 for the
same period last season.-Wilson
News.
The tobacco season just closed has
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-06

The President on Rural Mail Delivery.
In his recent. message to Con-
gress, President Roosevelt spoke as
follows of the rural free delivery of
mails:
Rural free delivery service is no
longer in the experimental stage; it
has become a fixed policy. The re-
suits following it's introduction have
fully justified the Congress in the
large appropriations made for its
establishment and extension. The
average yearly increase in p~ostofice
receipts in the rural districts Of the
country is about two per cent. We
are now able, by actual results, to
show that where rural free-delivery
service has been established to such
an extent as to enable us to make
comparisons the yearly increase has
been upward of ten per cent.
con November /, 1902, 1850 rural
free-deliverey routes had been estab-
Eshed and were in operation, cover
ing about one-third of the territory
Of the United States available for
rural free-deliverv service There
are N ~ dwaTCt1g the act1on OF the
DEPARTMENT petitions and applica-
tions for the establishment of 1O,748
additioPal routes. This shows con-
clusiveIE the want which the estab-
lisbmenA of the service has met and
the needGof further extending it as
rapidly a9 possible. 1t is justified
both bv tha financial results and by
the PRACTICAL benefits to our rural
population; il brings the men who
live ON the soil into close relations
with the activk business world; it
keeps the farmdr in daily touch with
the markets; it is a potential educa-
tional force: it enhances the value of
farm propertyS makes farm life far
~pleasanter and less isolated, and will
do much to check the undesirable cur
Tntry to city.
hoped that the Con
liberal appropria-
.tinuance of the ser
lblished and for its
-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-06

kin, who lives near
wed us a turnip last
aised on his place,
4 pounds, with the
III pounds. How is
Ige turnip? Such as
turn-up often.-Dunn
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-06

The experience of the Post
Department in sections where
free delivery has been in full
ton for two years, it is state
officials, justifes the belid
revenues in the rural di
creasing fvefold over VIVA
under the conditions here
vailing. Rural free de
been one of the most satA
periments which the COVE
undertaken for a long "
factory both to TIE government and
to the farmers. Many pessimists
arose at first to prophecy that the
system would be a failure; that it
would not be self-supporting; but on
the contrary would enormously in
crease the postal deficit, and also that
the farmers did not want it. Not
only is the scheme proving more than
self-supporting, but it is undoubted-
ly n of the strongest factors in re-
Iieving the monotony of the farm and
bringing the farmer, his wife and
children, into closer and pleasanter
relationship with the great outside
world. GUY E.. MITCHELL
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-06
Fine Strawberry Prospect.

Mr.. j. A. Westbrook, of Mt. Olive,
the pioneer and the largest straw
berry grower along the Atlantic
Coast Line, was in the city yesterday
to attend a meeting Of the board of
directors of the East Carolina Fruit
and Truck Growers Association, who
met here to make arrangements for
the movement of the coming seasons
crop of berries and other truck
Being asked what the copA
the strawberry plants is. now he sa1
the plants are healthy and vigorous
and the prospects are exceedingly fine
owing to the very mild winter. With
reference to the blooming and pro-
duction of a second crop of berries
this winter, he said he did not think
the vines would be seriously damaged
by this remarkable condition. Or
two varieties, he said, had
a second crop, "Excelsi
Kinley7 berries, anQ@
ties would be dam
any.
Mr.. Westbrook info
some Of the groW~who had shipped
sTrawberriaato New York in the past
4ewzweeks have received as much 9
81 a quart for. their berries. T
frTit was as nrattv as he ever
in the spring and the flavor was
as fne.-Wilmington Messenger
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-01-03

A writer in the Lewiston Tribune
in writing upon the movement to
abolish the stone and timber act ex-
presses the sentiments Of hundreds
of Of the common people when he
says:
I am surprised in the fact that no
western observer has resisted the
intense effort to withdraw the timber,
stone and desert lands from the
public domain. The cry is echoed
from the office Of the secretary OF
the interior that fraud is being per-
petrated under the present law. The
agents of the government have
sleuthed about every land office In
the west for two years to find sub
stance for the cry of fraud. There
have been no volumes of evidence
collected to feed the desire that gave
this scheme birth.
The fact is the timber monopolists
have been opposed in their grab
game by the common people. This
effort to repeal the present land laws
is for no other purpose than to dis
arm the purpose for the fight against
monopoly. While the robbing script
method was permitted to operate
unchecked there was no opportunity
for the poor man to share the profits
to be derived from the progress of
development that gave values to the
public domain.
The robberies of the railroads and
the timber syndicate became so glar-
ing a few years ago that the people
put them down by the pressure OF
righteous Indignation The only
legal weapon left to the poor man was
the citizens rights to appropriate his
quota of this domain under the laws.
This right gave to the citizen small
interest in the timber, stone ano
minerals, which become recognized
equity in all public domain.
1t will be observed that the people
who have this equity are not charged
with felony for accepting considera
ton therefor The echo is promul
gated to conceal the fact that hund
reds Of poor men have profted b.
cashing this equity This fact, which
is concealed, is the primary cause O
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-01-03
Hi CRYS OUT
AGAINST WITHDRAW Al
STONE AND TIMBER ACT
AGAINST POOR MAN AND
TAKES HIS PROFITS.

this cry of ''stop thief. "
If this movement to abolish the
stone and timber act is carried to
fruition there will be no possible OPP
portunity for the poor man to divide
the profits that are accommodating
faster than the interest on all the
government bonds by the progress of
the country. This timber will grow
and advance in price for the syndicates
alone. There will be no new laws
enacted to give you, or me the profits
on our share of the domain which
will no longer be public. 1t will
then be straight deal between the
rich buyers, and who ever knew the
government to get cent from a land
deal with corporation?
The timber reserves are in line
with this agitation to hold the nat
ural resources of the country for the
syndicates. The enlargement of the
Bitter Root reserve is not for the
purpose of protecting timber, for
there Is not timber enough IN the
acquired territory to meet the
demands of the mines. There is no
weight to the claim that water will
be conserved by this extension for
irrigation. The forest reserve scheme
goes hand IN hand with all the other
subterfnges to place the poor man In
the role of buyer and the syndicate
in the role of jobber and seller.
If the movement now being pressed
to repeal the stone and timber act
and desert land act is successful there
will remain no means for the poor
man or the common citizen to derive
benefit from the public domain.
This scheme is like the other steals
that have been put through congress
for railroads and other syndicates.
The citizens of Idaho have received
hundreds of thousands of dollars for
their equities in timber lands during
the past three years. l ask any
friend of the repeal scheme to poin,
out how any common citizen who if
not the agent of some syndicate Of
millionaire dealers will make dollar
out of the remaining million acres
If this stone and timber act is re
pealed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-31

him but It is best to learn the fundamental
work of such undertakings first before assuming
the work Of an expert. And IL ne taxes up '"7
study of architecture he win be better pre-
nared for the important duties which ne eXpe1'S
to assume ... =.
should he decide to cOnfine his operations q
fret TO buying or selling for himself or ior o'"e'
nersons. his efforts will make him known ~
- v,,,,,ber Of persons He will hear the OLD
and the young men in the business express '
on,nions about the property offered or 10 oe
ta,,,bt Some will no doubt. tell him that they
do not want the property at any price o1h1''
.h+ the nrica is not only too high. but the loca-
ITO, of the property is undesirable for the Pl0i9
for ir1proving that they have In NINA
ebould receive these opinions and expressions
with wide open ear They may OV ~
hear They may feel worse tnan the sums
WASH They may act as a camper 10 i
arystic snrfts He should not be easily ais
couraged however. but should De ever
and courteous Cheerfuness ana courtesy "
infectious and may win for the posseSSoI me-
lasting friends Through these ne may ' -.
70 increase the volume of his business or 10 se'
go j., the market 1t does not always
nav TO meet with unusual success SOON o.
hoa,,ning q real estate career, as such success
may lead to carelessness
A national tendency TO reveal the cheerlui
news and to help conceal the bad news WIN '
found in realty circles Great hhanclai lO'7
t., tho market cannot be hidden away any more
than can q long spell of inactivity In the saIe'
o- building lines lie kept a secret from the pun
Ito what Is true about realty conditions mere
O., ,oora or less true about similar col -itloNs
elsewhere. How many persons have heard 'aIe5
of largo losses through realty speculatlohS-
Probably not one in thousand THESE taIeS may
Of he
mon and women have lost fortunes in the eHort
To make money in realty investments Inc per-
con who ia not thoroughly acquainted with real
estate transactions may be inclined to put these
Losses down to a lack OF the use OF common
sansa for has he not often heard of the vast
fortunes which the Astors and many other well
known families have made from real estate in
vestment and was anything ever said to fndl-
cate that any one else could not have been just
as successful If he had lived at the right time TO
heconoe identified with such transactions? In
view Of these remarks, the question may be
asked When is the right time to become identl-
fed with realty transactions. and are the pros
meets of success as inviting now as they were
years ago?
Since 1900 when Henry Hudson, as an agent
for the Dutch East India Company, made
VOYAGE I'D the river which now bears his name.
in his little ship, the Halve Moen (Haf Moon)r
the island of Manhattan has been transformed
into the great metropolis of the New World
From accounts Of the days of the early Dutch
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-31

settlers on the island 1t is natural to think
that most of them when they first set foot here
were 1.-the Cf limb and either youthful not
far beyond the prime of life. 1t is reasonable to
think that before they sailed from Holland they
deliberated on their fitness to come With as
much elaboration should the person thinking
of beginning a real estate career measure his
capabilities. The average road to success in
the real estate market is long. and on it the
traveller usually encounters many disappoint-
ments and setbacks- If a young man is think
ing Of becoming identified with the realty mar
ket the time to enter the field is now. When
he has grown to be old man many years of
close association with his fellow men may have
1narred the beautiful pictures of life which he
held. His tread may then be slow. his voice
weak. his memory poor If he enters the mar
ket then, how many persons viii be attracted
by his coming feel his presence? Yes, in
youth is the best time to begin.
young who intends TO consider the
whole country his field for work would be
we'll repaid by making careful tour of the
country and a study OF the people. OF the finan-
cal and mercantile enterprises and of the
probable future realty growth and demand.
Cities. towns and villages are growing in the
West like mushrooms in night. The West is
only in the infancy of it's growth. and it will
be considerably greater in many respects in
the near future than it is now. 1t seems that
calamities by flood or fire or hurricane can
not arrest for any great length of time this
tendency to build and grow. The fire which al
most destroyed the entire city of Chicago did
not cause a serious setback to its growth. In
fact, newer and better buildings rose on the
sites of those. that had been destroyed. In
some sections of the country the greatest
losses to lives and property have been from
floods. 1t was not very long ago that
Galveston swept by mighty waters from
the Gulf OF Mexico. And many times has New
Orleans been in the throes of yellow fever and
smallpox epldemics. and the officials OF that
city. in their efforts TO wipe out the epidemics
were forced to destroy by fire many buildings
These epidemics have not arrested the growth Of
New Orleans. and she has been growing rap
idly. while medical experts have been trying to
find how TO prevent and stamp out the yellow
fever and other like scourges. IL is now a gen.
orally accepted theory that a species OF mos
quito is the cause of the spread of yellow fever.
BY wipng out the breeding places OF this kind
of mosquito, the danger from yellow fever out
breaks is almost nothing. With vaccine virus
the medical world has a powerful preventative
against smallpox, and there is apparently no
excuse now for any place being particularly
favorable 20 smallpox. These references are
given Ill order TO show that the confidence placed
by the persons who kept building and I'M
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ure or location is not attractive The public
will have none of them at any price. and there
fore the builder suffers a severe financial loss.
He might have achieved singular success had
he known and appealed to the whims Of the
public. 1t may take many hours in every month
TO keep in touch with the popular trend, and to
learn what is to be wanted tomorrow; but in
the long run it pays. In some sections the de-
nand for apartment houses is growing. and the
number of dwelling houses there long ago
too great Elsewhere conditions exactly op-
posite will be found.
Some years ago the majority of families in
comfortable circumstances seemed to prefer
dwelling houses to fiat apartment houses. but
now their preference is, beyond q question OF
doubt for the high class apartment house. This
change of opinion is due to many causes, the
principal one being the servant problem. Many
builders who were good judges of human char
acter and kept in close touch with the trend OF
public thought, positive years ago that the
popularity Of the apartment hotel and the apart
lnent house would increase and they turned
their attention to the erection of high class
buildings of these types. In most cases they
well repaid.
In recent years in some sections, the building
of apartment hotels and apartment houses has
been somewhat overdone, the buildings have
been so constructed that the cost Of mainte-
nance is greater than the rentals. Abnormal
conditions in those sections will exist in the
near future. When they do the observant
realty man will see them and grasp the oppor-
tunities that they may reveal 1t is absolutely
necessary to be ever wide awake to what is
going on. and for that reason too much stress
cannot be laid uninterrupted observation
OF real estate transactions and conditions
man may become a specialist in the market and
limit his field of operations. The work of the
specialist. however, contains many exacting
duties as those who labor in the entire market
Ordinary reports of real estate transactions do
not furnish all the news that he must read If
possible he should have a general idea of the
news OF the day. and especially that which af-
fects the city or tn place to which he confines
his operations
When a young man enters the real estate mar
ket he may have considerable doubt as 10 the
line OF business to which he will pay the most at
tention He may decide to become a builder II
the beginner has sufficient money to undertake
building operations he Will have to depend for
many years on the advice of persons he en-
ploys 10 superntend the acceptance and carry
ing out OF contracts. AS he has had absolutely
no experience In the building line or in fact in
any line of the real estate market how can he
place any reliance Oh his ability To say what ia
good or what is bad advice? lie may be car
ried to success By those he has gathered about
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-31

The youth who enters the real estate market
IN hope of reaching a top notch should be no
weakling wanting in a fair education
He must have a resolute will. ener-
getc disposition and a fair memory for
dates and figures. He should also be
close observer of human nature be court
in manners and appearance. and. further
more. should be,S.he TO cultivate q cheerful way
of taking up and mastering the details of the
realty market For that young success is
almost assured, and, if he should fail to
attain his ambition he VIII be free from the
remorse Of spirit which follows a faint hearted
effort crowned with bitter dtsappont .nent. 1t
may be said that the picture here drawn is that
of the perfect young man. But that is the kind
of young to whom will be offered in the
realty market the choicest places and the most
important work in the future and in the
coming generation OF business men.
Physical stamina is an important requisite to
success in the realty field, for many reasons.
Simply TO keep of the market is q tax on
mans strength. Seldom does a day pass with
out a fair number Of transactions being
ported. Among these will be auction and pri-
vate sales. building loans, plans for buildings
or alterations. Then the transfers Of titles,
mortgages lis pendens and mechanics liens re-
corded demand attention. Taken together, they
should, in a certain sense. reflect the present
and probable future condition of the market.
Every we'll regulated Office has books in which
such transac tionS recorded for future ref
erence, and the chief value of these books de-
ponds upon their accuracy. If the transactions
OF any day be read IN a careless manner the
Indifference shown by the reader to his business
interests may not only cost him many hours of
unnecessary labor later, but also peCuniary loss.
No man, unless gifted with marvellous mem
DRY. can be expected to remember the lesser
sales or transactions of a previous year, but he
should be fairly well posted the greater sales
of the past which have likely TO have
bearing on the present or immediate future.
BY close attention TO the records of every day
the observer will have a general idea Of values,
and by forming comparative tables Of previous
and present prices he Will learn whether land
In certain sections has grown cheaper or dearer.
From this knowledge he may be able to find
for himself the causes which have wrought the
changes Some men there who make spe-
calties OF particular districts, as brokers, oper-
ators, investors; but, while thus placing limita-
lions TO their business sphere. they cannot over
look what is taking place around them with
out running great risks.
BY constant study fair knowledge of what
has actually been done may he acquired But
TO foresee probable developments requires more
than good or bad memory. 1t is said that a
person is born prophet of realty conditions