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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
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Vol. 1. WINSTON, N. C, APRIL 14, 1886. No. 10.
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Agricultural.
ENSILAGE AT THE SOUTH.
If preserving forage in silos is de
sirable at the North, it seems to
me it is much more so at the South.
You can make hav: here we cannot
or do not, to any extent. I have
tried clover, orchard grass, blue
grass, etc., at a cost of about seven
hundred dollars, and have nothinjr
to show for it but a ten-acre patch
of a poor stand of clover. These
grasses as far South cannot with
stand our long, dry summers. If
we had the climate for grasses, we
could not raise cotton.
But we can make Spring crops
wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, fod
der and pea vines, and hence can
have plenty material for filling silos.
Year before last, I built one in
which I put fifty tons of fodder cut
in saccharine stage, or when in silk,
and ran it' through a lame thresh
ing machine with steam power;
this shreaded it nicely for packing
in the silo. It was then put in in
two days, covere J with a few inches
of straw, then with one-inch planks,
and weighted with rocks
theory from my reading
J. 11U
was.
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that the sooner it was put in and
weighted down the better. It did
not get even warm from first to
last ; when opened it was found per
fectly preserved, but very little
acid, or vinegar sour. The cat
tle, however, ate it all. I sent
samples to two chemists, who both
said it had been too long exposed
between being cut and
down.
weighted
Since then quite a number, in
giving their experience, say that
they made better ensilage by not
filling the silo too rapidly, but gave
no reason. Then came the theory
of allowing the ensilage to heat to
destroy bacteria.
I have seen but little in the par
agraphs published in papers as to
proper stage of ripeness to cut corn
fodder. All the books I have read
on the subject say it should be cut
while in the tassel. This thought
must be wrong, as nothing is so
good and wholesome when imma
ture as when ripe.
Last year, before filling the silo
for the second time, I thought it
best to satisfy myself by experi
ment as to the two points, viz.,
filling the silo quickly or slowly,
and the proper stage of ripeness to
cut the corn fodder. I procured
three good, tight barrels; one I filled
with corn fodder cut in tassel, and
weighted it down at once; another
with corn cut when in the sac
charine stage and weighted it down
at once; also, the third, with the
corn cut in saccharine stage, but
did not put on the weight for eight
days. They -were opened a month
-afterward. The first had a very
offensive smell, and was miserable
stuff, not fit to feed to anything,
much less to a Jersey cow.
The second barrel was sour, like
my ensilage the year before, but
the third was much better and
sweeter. The barrels were emptied
in the cow lot and in separate piles,
and four of the cows turned in;
they examined each pile, then ate
all the sweet ensilage, next the
sour, but that cut in tassel they
would not touch. May not this
fact of the corn fodder being cut in
tassel account for the objections
that have been made to milk and
butter when ensilage was fed ?
Last year, I filled my silo with
corn fodder, cut in silk, two feet
per day, taking seven days to fill-it.
I weighted it down as usual ; after it
settled, we opened it and filled to
the top again with pea vines (mak
ing in all sixty-five tons) of what
we call cow clay peas. This makes
decidedly the bes,t and richest en
silage and is greatly relished by the
cattle. They prefer it to anything
else you can put before them.
This variety of peas grows to
perfection here, making an enor
mous yield and seldom fails. No
better milk or butter was ever
made than we are making now from
feeding this ensilage. I have a
small herd of twenty-five Jerseys,
with Puzzler (a grandson of Signal)
and Raymond Duke (a son of Duke
of Darlington) at the head. I am
not alone in introducing Jerseys in
this section. Several others have
good numbers and of good pedi
grees, and, with ensilage, I think
they will thrive, and we can make
dairying pay in connection with
cotton-planting.
Above you have an article which
I contributed to the Country Gen
tleman, In addition, I may say
that last summer I built another
silo, about same size of the first
one cost sixty dollars and filled it
with early Amber sorghum (cut
when ready to make up into syrup)
and pea vines cut when a few pea
pods were grown.
I run both through a large thresh
ing machine, made by C. Aultman
fc Co., Canton, Ohio, and after three
years' experience, I decidedly pre
fer threshing to cutting. I was
more than two weeks filling each
silo. On opening, we found the en
silage in splendid condition. The
mules prefer the sorghum, the cat
tle the pea vines.
I have seen it frequently stated
that corn fodder and pea vines
would keep just as well put in the
silo whole. A neighbor of mino
tried pea vines this fall; he sent for
me when he opened his silo, and
notwithstanding, he had put an
enormousamount of weight on them,
they were not in a solid mass, and
therefore were not preserved. W.
P. Or me, in Southern Cultivator and
Dixie Farmer.
CHICKENS AND COTTON.
At the beginning of 1885, Mr.
John K. Humphrey, of Jonescounty,
had forty bushels of cotton seed for
which he was offered five dollars,
cash ; but he had determined to
make one acre rich for cotton, and
refused the five dollars for the cot
ton seed and applied them with
stable manure to this acre. After
his cotton was up and growing, he
made another application of stable
manure. From this acre he obtained
a bale of cotton which brought him
$32. One-half 5f this had to go to
Mr. .Williams for land and team,
which left him $16. The picking
of the cotton was worth $6, leaving
him $10; the cotton seed he applied
as manure was worth $5, leaving
him $5 for his stable manure and
cultivating one acre in cotton.
But Mr. Humphrey had better
results from poultry raising. Last
September he had twenty-five grown
pullets which ate, up to the time of
making this statement, two and onc
half barrels of corn, worth $7. From
them he has sold eggs to the amount
of 829; has fifty thrifty young
chickens and three dozen more eggs
just ready to hatch out.
According to Mr. Humphrey's
experience, twenty-five pullets are
far more profitable than a rich acre
in cotton, even if the farmer has
the land of his own to cultivate.
New Berne Journal.
The late wood's fire in 71st
township was very destructive.
Mr. James D. Nott and -Mr. Thos.
Lutterloh were both losers in the
matter of timber and fences. The
fire swept three hundred acres in a
few minutes' time. Fayetteville News.
Several farmers from Ashe
county, in the city trading yester
day, tell us that corn is so plentiful
in that county that it would not
bring 30 cents a bushel if put up at
auction. Money is exceedingly
scarce. A gentleman who has
just returned from a visit through
'Wilkes, Yadkin and Davie informs us
that in the lowlands of these coun
ties, fruit has suffered very much,
and a great deal killed. In other
sections it promises well. Charlotte
Chronicle.
A Yadkin county man tells the
Concord Times of a genuine case of
leprosy in that county.
On Saturday last, Col. Geo. W.
Tate, of Orange county, was taken
to the Insane Asylum at Raleigh for
treatment. Col. Tate was one of the
cleverest and most substantial citi
zens of Orange. Durham Tobacco
Plant.
Capt. John R. Stoekard's crop
of tobacco averaged about $100 for
each acre cultivated. One of his
sons received $65 from the tobacco
grown on a half acre with the
use of one bag of fertilizer. Al
amance Gleaner.
The present panic prices for
low grades of tobacco is quite a
hard blow to some of our farmers.
But it will open their eyes to the
necessity of raising enough at home
to go on. After guano bills are
settled there will be very little left
with many to buy something to live
upon next summer Dan Valley
Weekly.
We heard it remarked last week
by a lady that there was less drunk
enness among the young men of
Concord than of any other place
she ever knew. This certainly
speaks well for Concord. This is
one place where drunkenness is
d i srep u table Concord Times.
It is expected that work will
begin May 1 on the west wing of
the penitentiary. Work begins
the middle of the month on the
new State building, west of the
agricultural building. Yesterday
fifteen convicts were sent from the
penitentiary to the Clinton & War
saw railroad, bringing the fjree
there up to eighty-five. Raleigh
News and Observer.
We hear very favorable reports
of the wheat, oat and rye crops in
this immediate section, and also in
the counties west of Mecklenburg.
The prospect is good. In our
travels on railroads last fall and this
spring, we had seen many persons
leaving, the State for Texas and
Florida, but we have seen just as
many returning to the State to stay.
They got very sick of Florida and
Texas. Charlotte Democrat.
Forty-four persons, so far, have
connected themselves with the M.
E. church at this place, since the
protracted services began. From
the way lumber is pouring in. we may
look for many new houses before an
other winter comes upon us. We learn
that more new buildings are on foot
now than ever before in this place
so early in the spring. Reidsville
Times.
- Mr. John Turner, of Davie
county, wasin Winston one day last
week with tobacco, and informed a
Sentinel reporter that he was 84
years of age and that was his first
trip to Winston, notwithstanding he
only lives 35 miles away. He also
stated that he never wore a pair of
boots in his life, but thinks himself
none the worse oft' for that. Win
ston Sentinel.
Tobacco' men say their plants
are coming up poorly. The far
mers in upper Sampson have gone
to work in earnest. All are cheerful
and hopeful for a bountiful crop
this year. -We hear of a good
many forest fires, which have done
more or less damage. One in Tay
lor's Bridge township burned several
days and destroyed much valuable
timber, a large quantity of fence
and some houses. Clinton Caucasian.
Mr. W. H. Tdol, of Jamestown,
is erecting a steam saw mill near Ab
bott's Creek church. The growth
of Greensboro's tobacco interest is
further substantiated by the fact
that there was more tobacco in
town last week than ever before
seen. -There are 126 cases on the
State docket and 102 on the civil
docket in Stokes county, to be tried
at the present term. Grevnsboro
Patriot.
Wilmington in the past twelve
months had forty eight fires, causing
a loss of $800,000 ; with insurance
of $650,000. -Industrial education
may be seen every day at Shaw uni
versity. The students have built
with their own hands the massive
brick buildings of the school. They
work in all sorts of ways, and re
ceive a certain fixed pay. They are
now building a mechanical depart
ment, 60x50 feet, two stories in
height. Raleigh News and Observer.
There are 22 paupers at the
poor house. Trinity farmers brag
on their wheat. A carriage and
buggy factory on a large scale to be
operated by a Northern company is
soon to go up at High Point.
Messrs. J. H. Free and J. E. AValker
are preparing to put up 60 Plaid
looms at Randleman in the building
formerly occupied by A. O. Redding
Co as a sash and blind factory.
Asheboro Courier.
Our farmers, generally speak
ing, have made good use of the
very favorable weather, during the
the greater portion of March, and
they have their spring work well
advanced. Potecasi Sub. Grange
held a very interesting meeting last
Saturday. Fertilizers and ensilage
were the principal topics of dis
cussion. Post Master, E. B. Las
siter prepared and read an inter
esting paper on ensilage. This sub
ject is now claiming the attention
of our farmers. Roanoke Patron.
One of Cleveland's farmers, Mr.
T. M. Oats, brought part of his first
crop to the warehouse on Wednes
day and got 32 cents per pound for
55 pounds, all he sold. Numer
ous petitions for a local option elec
tion for Cleveland county have been
circulated during court. Quite a
number of voters have signed their
names and it is probable an election
will be ordered at the next meet
ing of the Commissioners.
Rev. P. T. Penick, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Mooresville,
died of pneumonia at his home in
that place on Monday the 29th ult.
Quite a number of wagons were
in town last Thursday, loaded with
apples. Our down-the-country friends
would be amazed, could they but
see them, the piles upon piles of
apples that have been stored in our
warehouses during the present sea
son. Lenoir Topic.
Mr. Lemmon, one of the con
tractors on the. Carolina. Central
extension is in the city securing
hands for work upon the road. He
reports that the work of grading
is being pushed very satisfactorily
and as rapidly as such work can be
done. It will be but a short time
when the entire grading and the
road-bed will be completed to Ruth
erfordton. The Southern Construc
tion Company is prosecuting their
work, also, with vigor. The two
lines will run side by side. Char
lotte Chronicle.
Wheat is growing nicely, and
the prospect for a good crop is ma
terially improved. Capt. L. C.
Hanes says that farmers can make
more money raising clover than
they
can
get
out of tobacco.-
There is a good prospect for a to
bacco factory to be built here this
year, to be occupied and operated
next year. Some farmers who
have been West and have returned,
say that a man who emigrates
westward expecting to get rich, is
very likely to be disappointed.
Lexington Dispatch.
A rumor comes to us, not well
authenticated, however, and we
therefore withhold the name of the
party charged with the crime, that
a man living on the headwaters of
Clear Creek, in Henderson county,
went home intoxicated, and being
annoyed at the cries of his infant,
only a few days old, jerked it from
its mother and slung it into a hog
pen, where it was partially devoured
and killed. The story is too hor
rible for belief; yet it is stated to be
true A sheville -Citizen.
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Truck men from the North are
beginning to make their ap
pearance in these parts, solicit
ing consignments of truck during
the shipping season that is about
to open. It will hardly pay them
to visit our city this year, as our
truck crops, especially peas, are
exeeelingly shorter than we have
ever before seen them; and we
have seen some short crops in this
line. But, moreover, the area planted
in truck hereabouts this year is not
so extensive as it has been usually
in former years. Goldsboro Argus.
The peach crop, it is feared, has
been slightly damaged by the re
cent cold snap. Mrs. S. G.Woods,
of Purley, Caswell county, had the
misfortune to lose his tobacco storage
house one night last week. He had
stored therein 25,000 pounds of
tobacco, valued at $4,500. Insurance,
$2,500. There seems to bo a reg
ular building boom in East Durham.
There will in a short while be but
little building space between the
town and cotton factory. There
are quite a number of handsome res
idences in that section. Durham
Recorder.
Dogs killed several sheep be
longing to Miss Mariah Longwood,
a few nights ago.
J. S. Sides has set out an orch
ard of 1,100 fruit trees on his land
in Broad bay township. He fer
tilized them with tobacco stems
this spring.
The cultivation of sumac is
gaining favor in many sections, and
prices paid for it are such as should
induce persons to make experiments
in its production. As it grows spon
taneously in many vicinities, no
doubt, it could be raised with little
trouble and expense.
Carp ponds are common near
Lexington. Quite a number are
within sight of the Lexington
road. Last Saturday, Mr. Hin-
kle diewoff one of his ponds and
found it well stocked with carp of
different sizes. We talked with
a Mr. Temple, of Reedy Creek
township, Davidson county, who
told us he has 13 children, the oldest
of them being but 9 years of age.
His family is composed of twins,
triplets, &c. He has a son three
years old that weighs 64 pounds.
He says he is willing to be qual
ified to the truth of the statement.
Salem Press.
WATER-POWERS, MINERAL
LANDS, &c
We are requested by Mr. J . T.
Patrick, Commissioner of Immigra
tion, to publish the following;
Persons : h a vi ng water-powerr,
mineral and timber lands in ; North
Carolina to dispose of or desire . to
secure a partner to . assist i them in
some manufacturing or -mining 'en
terprise can have their wrants made
known, free of charge, to persons
interested. Address with full in
formation Commissioner of Immi
gration, Raleigh, X. C.
S. A . ' Braley, of East Roxbury,
Vt., writes Commissioner Patrick
inquiring if there is a suitable place in
North Carolina to establish a found
ry and machine shop on a small
scale where water-power can be ob
tained and where the people in the
surrounding section will patronize
and encourage an establishment of
the kind.
Parties in North Carolina desir
ing to contract for the erection of
large buildings would do well to cor
respond with Thos. Woodruff. Me
dium's River, Va., who is first
elas contractor and builder, hiving
all the necessary' steam-power ma
chinery for erecting houses. He
desires to make his home in North
Carolina and will be of advantage
to any section he may locate m.
Chas. A. Griffin, of Colgate, Dako
ta, desires to settle in the Piedmont
section of North Carolina, . and re
quests that persons haying improv
ed lands for sale will address him.
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