The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02
STATE NEWS.
FROM cURRITUcK TO CHEROKEE.
Items of Interest Cleaned From Our Correspondents
and EXCHANGES.

Institute and more recently the president of
Statesville Female College, dropped dead on the
street in Statcsville last week.
President Allen X. Smith, of the bank at
Smithfeld, gives it as his opinion that there are
less than three hundred bales of cotton in the
hands of the farmers in Johnston County.
Congressman Kluttz announces that he will
not be a candidate for denomination, as he de-
sires to retire at the end of his present term to
resume the practice of the law and to give neces-
sary attention to his private interests.
Franklin Sherman, Jr., entomologist to the
North Carolina Department of Agriculture, has
issued two valuable circulars, No. + being in re-
gard to spraying apparatus and No. % concern
ing lime, sulphur and salt wash for the San Jose
fruit scale.
Durham Herald: There was another big seiz-
ure of birds here Saturday night, being shipped
out of the State. In the lot was the largest
number of pheasants yet found, there being four
teen of this kind. They were sold at auction this
morning, readily bringing scventy-fve cents each,
the partridgcs selling at $3.50 per dozen.
Sanford Express: 1t Is said that the crate
factories in North Carolina and Virginia have
formed a trust and will make the fruit growers
pay high prices for their crates. This will hit
NOI1lC vi lIC ~ NObIt BNOIIN VIM 1"loI "tN
ship fruit and vegetables. 1t is said that the
crate factories of South Carolina are not in the
trust. So the fruit and truck growers Of this
State will probably buy their crates from them.
Col. Odds: Some sportsmen from the North
who were here to-day on their way to hunt par
tridges in Duplin County, said birds at Pittsburg,
Pa, were bringing from thirty to forty cents
apiece. A Raleigh man who was talking to these
CDOr+CD,nD told tboD, +bo+ fOrtv-covoD or
he brought to Raleigh 631 partridges which he
caught in traps and nets and sold these to a
merchant for $6.31-in other words, for a cent
apiece.
Raleigh Cor. Messenger: A prominent official
of the American Tobacco Company who has made
a trip through the tobacco growing section east
of here has made the statement that the COM
pany will quite sharply advance the price of leaf
tobacco. He says that it will have to do this in
order to induce the farmers to plant any to-
bacco and that they are making arrangements
to put in other crops. Despite his tatement that
there is to be an advance in prices, there is as
yet no sign of it, and of course there are unbe-
levers.
Burlington dispatch. Goth: IT q meeting of the
representatives of the cotton mills of Alamancc
County held to-day. at Burlington, it was unani-
mously resolved to curtail the production one
fourth on account Of the present high prices of
cotton and the inability to sell goods at a profit.
There are twenty cotton mills in this county,
comprising about 100000 snindles and 5000
looms, employing thousands Of hands, and this &C
ton means a severe blow to our county, and We
fear the movement will probably be general all
over the State.
The State Labor Bureau has completed its an
nual report on textile mills, showing $50 in opera
ton, with 1,S35,421 spindles, Al 500 looms and 30