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Vol: l. Ill i ' ! t ; t ; i i i i i OUR FARMERS' CLUBS. I - I i ( j - i t j ' i I- What our Farmers are Doing and How the Work of Organizing is Progressing.' trinity1 club, July : 10th, 1886. Subject: "Summer Making and Sav , , . inn Manure." ' tf W. W. Andrews. On most farms j each hand has his work assigned him. The manure pile is - of tran scendent: importance to the farm and farmer. All. farms shouldi have; on them an - intelligent man, : whose sole business is to cut. feed for all stock, preparing it and mixing in a way to render it palatable for the animal and at the same time convert it into fine available manure. ,This is sadly neglected on many farms, consequently the land becomes hun gry and pale. He then gives a dose of phosphate. This produces a spas modic effect and some show of life but no permanent improvement. Like patent medicines, the good ef fect is only temporary. Home made manure is permanent and never fails, let the case be never so bad. In summer every fence cor ner and ditch bank has vegeta tion that may be converted into manure and much more rapidly when we hayesummer heat to aid us; but the hands are busy and we lose the opportunity. The treasure is lost. I suggest this plan. Hire a man of some intelligence, give him a gentle horse and a dump cart. Have him hitch up early and carry the needed tools, for the day, to the field and deliver them where needed and return with a load of green feed. Clean out the stalls, examine. , the manure bank, if alfout to' fire-fang get water and jgive it a thorough wetting. Go after more green stuff and thus keep it up unless called to the mill or shop. He should do all these chores, and put in the balance of his time at the manure heap, not neglecting to fetch in dry stuff for the bedding for the stock. Some may say pur crops are planted and manured and it will accumulate in the way before we heed it. There are 313 good working days in the year, t each of, which . is a good one to haul outmanure. The ob ject is to .manure the Jand not - the crop, consequently you will find plenty places to put it. . . . ,. , , ,- A. Parker. Use plenty of vegeta ble bedding in large stalls, well ven tilated. :.: When accumulated , suffi c:ently take out and compost. Top dress with it in the fall. I object to putting long raw manure out before decomposing. Jn decomposing strong manure use plenty of rich earth: to prevent it from burning. . To decom pose strong manure is a critical job. It requires as close attention as a physician would giye . to an extrenje case of sickness, A little negligence at the proper time may cause great J. E. Summer. I, am,. preparing to cut and spread jon poor places the weeds, and bushes found in fence corners and on; ditch bankp. My object is to shade the'land, while, de-composition-J&gbing.,on, and save the labor pfitakingrto.andn from the barn. Putting green bedding in stalls makes .them wet and filthy. Mow before the .seed .are ripe. -I spread the remnant of my old crop of straw on the cow lot as an absorbent while decomposing. We are all neg ligent in the important matter of saving manure, i Livery-stable men make more: manure than other peo ple by throwing ; it out . often and saving: it ' S t ; 1,! . -A U W. O. Harris. -I have lost a great deal by trying to compost ; manure. I have about come to the conclusion that when it is.taken;from the stall it ought . to - go., direct to the field. Compost all other trash that grows or accumulates about 'your premises that has a vestige of plant food in them. The heat and scent im large quantities in the staH may be:dele terious to the health of animals and injurious to the hoof of the horse. If so it should be removed often. Every person should have a pen- near, the back yard to put sweepings in, and THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS : I : n i i : the wash woman should be required to put the ;water from the wash .tub on. this pen; it is rich in potash and other, ingredients from the. body washed. oqt of. the clothes. Dr. Parker. The most successful farmers are those who avail . them selves of every opportunity ;to enrich their lands from home resources, al lowing nothing to go to waste, which can be utilized for plant food. They, raise clover and grass and produce stock and manyrre. They can raise big crops, pfwgrajn a and, still their lands are improving all the time. The poor farmers are those . who , de pend on tobacco or cotton, and buy their manures. They find t hat about all of their money goes to pay for their provisions, feed and fertilizers. It is, said that, Florida sends out more money for hay alone than all their orange crop brings in ! We must make and save all the manure we possibly can. Feed your land and in return it will feed you. Don't bo afraid of composting. None of the animal excrements, nor vegeta ble matter are available for plant food until they are decomposed. Some of you object on account of the extra work it takes to keep the heap from damaging. Labor is the price of success. This is true in every de partment of life. D. M. Payne, Sec'y. . ML TABOR CLUB. Discussing How We Can Best Improve Our Lands. . Mt. Tabor, N. C, July 17, 188G. The Club met this evening, Great enthusiasm prevailed. Three new members were added to the list. , F. W. Pfaff, J. L. Pratt, Isaac Petree, David Endsley, J. T. Zieglar, J. A. Petree and Eli Thomas made short speeches on the .subject, "How can we best improve our farms?" F. W. Pfaff. 1 1 think we ought to mako all the manure m we ;can, and sow peas and , clover, turn the green crop under, and if we use fertilizer, use it .in a scientific way ; sow clover with it, and there may be some benefit derived by using it. J. L. Pratt. I think there are too many gullies oh our farms that we ought to look after and try to stop, caused many times by carelessness by letting plows drag over land after finishing a field, &c.i vl; think we ought to make all the manure we can by hauling trash and other refuse into our barn lots, and build a shelter ! to protect it from sun and rains.. I do not think much, of com mercial fertilizers. I think they are proving a curse to our farmers to a certain Extent.; Let us go to .work and make all our ; manure and sow all the. clover we can,. i -n i . ;i Isaac Petree. I . think the best way to improve our wornout lands is'to sow wheat and then clover. I do not believe f much in commercial fertilizer for improving lands. Hi think we ought to make all the ma nure we cnand use it judiciously. It is too common among our farm ers to use too little of it on. land. They therefore derive, but little: benefit, -i; . ! David EndsieykrrI don't think we plow'deep enough. I think we ought to use. .the subsoil plow more than we do, make more manure, sow more grass and clover mix orchard grass and clover together. 'The best time to sow is in the spring of the year. I think farmers ought to sow timothy that iti would grow on our uplands as well as any other grass. - I do not like fertilizers to improve lands pi think it impoverishes land and leaves it in a worse condition than it was before. ? If i never : bought but ;five sacks in my life, and if I get forgive ness for.that I: will buy.no more.if. ; J. T. Zieglar.- When you use ma nure, use - enough to, do some good. A great many farmers J don't use enough; to do much good I. tried it last: fall on aismall piece of land by manuring heavily, and found it to pay best. The best way to use fertilzers is to sow on wheat and then clover. J.5 A. Petreer I think peas have great fertilizing properties, and 0F: OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO WINST,ON,: N. C., JULY 21, should be sown, turned under, and then clover. .: ; Eli Thomas. We ought to go to work with a will,. and build up our waste places, make all the manure we can, sow grass and clover, beau tify Our homes, which will entice our boys to, stay; on (the farm, and not think it degrading to be a farmer. - The following delegates were ap pointed to represent the Club in the County Convention to meet in Win ston the:; s first Saturday an August : F. W. Pfaff, Isaac Petree,' David Endsley, J. T. Zieglar, E. H. Thomas. The Club adjourned to meet again the second Saturday in August at 1 o'clock p. m. 1 : , r ; . ; - Thomas King, ; . ! ; Secretary. The work of organizing farmers' clubs in the State is progressing. This office has received applications within the past week from five coun ties, and forwarded, forms of consti tution and by-laws. FROM WAKE. The Wake County Farmers Waking Up. For the Progressive Farmer. Wake Forest, N. C, July 14, 1886. I have wanted to write you some time but so much rain and our fail ure in the wheat crop, with the most uhpropitious time in the recollection of man to save an extra fine oat crop, has given most of our farmers the blues, and I myself have not had the heart to make you a report from our section. We have had some fine weather lately, though; and our farmers ' have made good ' use of it and have nearly succeeded in con quering the grass. Our cotton crops, where they have been well worked up to date, are fine, and the finan cial outlook, it seems, is better than for the past two years. Low ground corn has suffered from too much rain, but upland corn is extra fine and I think the acreage in corn and grain is much increased. I think our farmers have smelt the rat and are determined to make their own supplies and not to belong so much to their generous-hearted commis sion merchants. From what I cab learn from our merchants' we all owe less than usual, and I believe f We have all used less commercial fertil izers than formerly. It seems to me that wei have been warned suffici ently, and that we; might, if we would,' throw off ; the yoke of ( thral dom which wc have worn so ' long arid show ourselves masters of our country. How ' long, on, how long will we continue in the course we have pursued since the .war? Would that some one could awaken each and every; one of : us that claims the noble? nanle of-a farmer to, act for oursevles to act asTHE Progressive Farmer has so strenuously- insisted on for' the past I six! months. Let's make : everything -we; need at home that we can make, and what cotton and tobacco we can as a surplus crop, and we certainly will; then be travelling-, the i right road! to prosperity and wealth. , ! ; . - Wheat-threshing has commenced and there .is much ; damaged wheat on t account , of .wet weather. The water-courses; . in our community have! done, (Considerable ; damage to com, oats, and wheat, cari-ying off much of the wheat-and oats-to the river. . . j.. . ; T -j I wish you ) would , give us a good receipt for making cheese on a small scale for. home use. j. - f?n- f i . I j am ashamed ; to state - that we have not a farmers' . club in our neighborhood, j f but s I ' think it. a move i in the .right direction, and ;I feel that the , time is coming ' when we will be af well organized body and able to defend' and represent our selves with credit. s :" - ; u rmi -t; Respectfully yours, , ; Some think , .that v jbavie, will have to buy her bread next year. It does ; sorter, look that way, ; but , it will be the first time she . has ever had it to do. ! i ? r ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF .' 1886. A PROGRESSIVE FARMER. Goldsboro, July 15, 1886. r Editor Progressive Farmer Dear Sir i-There is at least one pros perous and progressive farmer near this place, and I know:whereof I speak. .? While on a visit to Dr. Kurby's farm I was especially pleased j to see a system of mixed farming pursued, the only successful course which can possibly lead to prosper ity. Upon this farm I saw fields of tobacco. in a fine state of cultivation. The last year's eiop was in the barns and well attended, awaiting thd rise in price. I saw on the bottom lands rice fields in luxuriant growth, and a large crop of field peas. The fruit trees of every variety were borne down with fruit, and I indeed thought I had found the spot I longed for, where cotton is dethroned and the farmer's home a Paradise. The field peas being cultivated by Mr. H. C. Parrot, of this place, had recieved only one ploughing, yet they had met in the rows, and are fruiting well. About one hundred acres on this farm will produce about two thousand bushels of peas, and some of these will bring one dollar and a half a bushel. Now it would cost at least four hundred dollars to harvest this crop of peas by means of hand picking, but Mr. Parrott will use a field pea harvester which will do the work at a cost less tian forty-dollars, thereby making this a profitable crop, w'th no ex pense for fertilizers, and the vines will permanantly enrich the soil. Cotton is also planted on this farm but receives only equal attention with the other crops, and it is fully understood there will be "no net proceeds in its culture. Dr. Kurby resides in town and is an influential gentleman, a large real estate owner and a most excel lent physician, therefore others will pursue the successful course directed by his wise counsel ; and by his ex ample make those attainments, which have ever 'marked his prosperous career. 1 ; X. X. A DISASTROUS HAIL STORM. ' , . : ; Deep Kiver, July 17, 1886. , After an almost' continuous rain since June the 1st, giving the farm ers, with what extra labor they could; employ, niore than they could do to keep the grass down. Abbott's' Creek township, Forsyth county, or at least -the eastern por tion of it,), and a portion, of Deep River township, Guilford county, was visited by a most disastrous hail storm on the nTght of the 15th, do ing great damage to corn - arid to bacco, but more , especially the to bacco crop. The damage to' tobacco is estimated , to be at least one-half, and there are some fields so com pletely' stripped of leaves that the farmers can only cut down, the pres ent growth arid depend on the suckers to realize' something for their' labor and fertilizers already expended. A portion of ! the corn crop was also stripped of its blades; but it is thought by some' that it will not affect the growth of the ear very' much ; but the fodder will be a total loss. Take it all in all, the farriiers in the range of this ; hail storm have sustained very great damage, vvhich cannot be repaired during this season. ' '''' 'i'vii Ete Witness. -Mr.'Wilbern Campbell has just sawed a: poplar tree that made 7242 feet of lumber. The tree was 4 inches larger in diameter 48 feet above the ground1 than it was lu feet- above the ground. The lumber of this tree is worth over -$70.00-at the mill. Waynesville fNewSJ ? r u d a Sad news comes from near Lincolntoo John, Lantz, a young man was bitten by a strange dog some months ago, but the wounds soon healed and, nothing more was thought of it until last Friday .while working in the harvest field he was attacked' , with,' what the doctors pronounced hydrophobia. Hickory Carolinian. ,i, ;:, ,,.,? STATE POLICY. 1 . ' No. 24. 3Mt $ttm$. Two car loads of machinery were r received here yesterday for Beaver Creek Cotton Factory, and teams are busy to-day . hauling it out j--Fayetteville Sun. t - Messrs! ; 0! L. Huft and Dan Warner have ordered, pachiriery for a shuttle block factory, which they will put up in Concord. They intend to begin operations in a few weeks. Davidson-Dispatch. 1 The ;c -)tton, in some ' places, is dying by the acre, and some are plowing it up and planting peas. Mr Henry Williams, we learn has ploughed up a good deal of his. Washington Gazette. ' : Mr. II. B. Kumbough on Mon day concluded the purchase of a body of timbered land in Blount county, Tennessee, lying about 14 miles from the railroad. The tract contains 14,000 acres, and will be resold in lots to suit purchasers. The whole is in a state of nature and is covered with fine trees as yet un touched by the axe. Ashevdle Citi izen. , The recent long spell of wet weather has damaged much tobacco in the barns throughout the pied mont country.- The recent rains have done considerable damage to the wheat, shocked up in the fields, causing it to sprout.. Corn in the low lands is ruined. There will be a short grain crop in this section this yesLT.-r-Hickory Press. . -j ; a - .Mr. Mitch: Caldwell lost r a fi n e horse on the 12th by feeding it moulded clover hay. : Another tobacco factory well soon be built in our city. Messrs. J. II. Gilmer & Co. have decided to build a brick factory. 30x39, on their lot adjoin ing the Banner Warehouse. ? Mr. J. Barker is -making good headway with his eontfact'to rebuild the Car roll factory. Both factories will be ready for the fall trade. Greensboro NorthStaie: h: ,: - .', Mr?1 J. G. Sides, of this .place, makes nine pounds of butter a week from one cow. A . . great many persons say that5 Irish potatoes are rotting in the ground. Some per sons are digging their potatoes. There is a great amount of mush rooms in kthe woods and pastures, and it would be well for farmers to guard against allowing stock to have free access to them. In many instan ces they cause the stock to die, : and it is said that if milk cattle are . al lowed to eat them they will decrease the flow of milk. A' person told us that he broke off a 'twig 1 from a pear tree this spring and stuck the end of it into an Irish potato, planted it and that it took root; and is now growing nicely. It it' said that Mu ring wet seafon? in the spring it is not a hard matter to root; twigs in, this way . Salem Press. ' ' u : . j , g 'a ? ANOTHER HANGING, , Two little white boys, and a little negro, 'who witnessei the hanging of the riegro,'1 Frank Gaston, deter mined "to have !a small one of their own.' The little negro consented to be hung. 'The gallows was 1 rigged up with ! forked sticks 1 supporting a cross bar, to which the rope was suspended. The scaffold was built up' of- boxeA 'and1 the little negro climbed into position with sotnerdif ficulty.1 5 When ready, andjust before the black: cap Was adjusted, he was' asked'if he 'cared' to make a 'speech,1 He talked a few mihutes; repeating nearly the ; exact words of Gaston and wound up by requesting the ex ecutioners to make1 quick work of it.1 They attached the Cap and rope and knocked the boxes ; from under him. A negro woman passing just, then saw thedittle fellow Vswing in de land" and cut him ; down.u He would have died in a short time but for this timely rescue. It was a boyish "toy hanging'' which - came near being filial. 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