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Vol. 1. The crops through Nash and Franklin are the best that have been for several years.-rBattleboro Head light. Nearly all of the water courses between this city and the Sound are dry, and the drought is becoming a serious annoyance. Wilmington Re view. Some of the farmers report that horn worms have nearly ruined their tobacco. There . has not been such a quantity in ten years. Ker nersville News and Farm Track has been laid on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Rail road seventeen miles west of Greens boro, or within thirteen miles of Walnut Cove. Danbury Reporter. The curing of the new crop of tobacco has begun in this section. We were 'shown several very fine specimens on Tuesday from the barns of Mr. Jordan Ham. Golds boro Messenger. Mr. . Herbert A. Rountree brought us two tremendous , pears on Friday. One of them weighed one pound and nine ounces, the other one pound and seven ounces. Greenville Reflector. L. E. Duffy, of ' Dover, has in vented a churn ' which possesses much merit. He will apply for a patent. In simplicity of construc tion and effectual work it cannot be excelled. Newbern Journal. A porpoise facipry has been established at Hatteras for the pur pose of makirigieatherj oil and fer tilizer. Improved machinery and skilled labor have been imported from Europe. Roanoke News. Col. W. F. Green was in ; town to-day with some samples of unusu ally fine tobacco. He is an enter prising farmer and seems to be suc ceeding finely in the cultivation of the "golden weed. Franklinton Weekly. f Cotton pickers are getting fifty cents per hundred around Kinston for picking out cotton. Producers held out stoutly for sometime against the price, but the cotton had to come out and the laborers tri umphed. Mr. D. A. Morrison has deter mined to build still another tobacco factory on one of his lots on Water street.. This will make two for him this season, and doubtless he will find tenants for them without diffi culty. Stdtesville Landmark. It is reported that a consider able number of negroes have fled from Steele's township fearing that they would be prosecuted because of ine rumorea insurrectionary move ment in their midst, and it is feared that the farmers will have trouble in getting their cotton picked. Rockingham Spirit of the South. The cotton crop is opening quite rapidly. There will be plenty of the staple ready for, the i market by the first of October. The crop is at least two weeks late, but if the frosts do not set in early the crop will be a tolerable good one. Concord Reg ister. . : The Yadkin Railroad Company will begin work on Nov. 1st, and the Water works Co. will employ two hundred hands when they begin work. -Thus far the cotton out look is good both for quantity ai quality. Now if it brings ten cents per pouna tnere win oe less gn vhngjj Salisbury Watchman. Toe. : supposed propnecy at an old colored woman, who; lafterfhav. ing been pronounced defunci and placed in her coffin, suddenly pat sup and predicted a terrible ; earthquake to occur on Friday night last, caused some of our; people, .to pass' i sleep less night.,i;It ;is someeonj olation to know that the old ladyidh d after all. Washington Progress; 1 THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS WINSTON, The quality of stock of all gradis especially of cattle and hogs, ishenng improvea in tnis county. As evi1 dence of the fact there afe row owned by citizens of this county four fullblood Jersey bulls. "Lenoir Topic. y The cotton manufacturers in this county have heretofore been running seventy hours per week, but a regulation is just going into effect reducing the time to sixty-six hours per week, with no reduction in wages. Alamance Gleaner. A few days since a convict on the Pittsboro road made a desperate break for freedom form the guards just as the prisoners were being taken but of the stockade, and was later on found in a bunch of bushes with five buck shot in his body Greensboro Patriot. We were sh own this afternoon a sample of bright yellow tobacco which was raised hear Laurinburg. It was very nice in appearance and bright in color. This anew enter prise in that section of the State, but bids fair to claim a large share of attention in the future. -Wilmington Review. Farmers are becoming more hopeful of the outlook of crops, gen erally. Upland corn is reported above the average, while the bottom lands, though . greatly injured by the, last excessive rains, are looking far better than was anticipated. Tobacco, in many places, is reported as looking fine. Town Fork News. In the storm - Sunday evening several trees were blown down. In the country;' we learn," trees and fences were blown down, and much damage done.- Some of our far mers who did not expect to make 400 pounds of cotton seed a few weeks ago now expect to realize 400 pounds of lint, which is a good yield. Smithfield Herald. Chicken cholera has been play ing havoc with some of the poultry about town the past week or two. Three hundred pounds of tobac co was sold at the Farmers' ware house in Winston, on Tuesday, that was raised by a young lady of Davidson county, she doing all the required labor herself. She realized for the pile 854.34.- We saw an old gentleman from the country the other day who says he has lived in the county all his life, and has never yet been inside the court room in the court house, although he comes to town quite frequently. He has . not the remotest idea how a court room looks. Salem Press. The brickwork on the main building of . the cotton factory is nearly complete. Twelve dwelling houses have been finished, and ten are being built. Mr. G. F. Hed- rick has presented the Dispatch with a double barrelled corn stalk. It is a real curiosity. Several farmers have examined it, and all agree that they never saw. one like it before. W. H. Hargrave's case was con cluded last Thursday night, the jury returning a verdict of guilty. The defendant was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the peniten tiary. He appealed and gave bond in the sum of two thousand dollars. Hargrave was indicted! for the lar ceny of a mare belonging to W. P. Brown. The mare was stolen from her stable in "this place on the night of 26th of April. The case ex- ed a great deal of comment. avidson Dispatch. V NOT FAIR. Our agricultural exchanges, the North Carolina Farmer and The Pro gressive Farmer, complain that the Agricultural Department is not treating them properly , in issuing the Bulletin at a mere nominal price and thus using" the 'taxes' to compete with 'individual ' enterprises.-1 This does not look fair, ' and the1 Depart ment ought to issue-its Bulletin in a way not to injure, or compete with the agricultural papers. 1 At least so it seems to us. Christian "Advocate'.' OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO THE monthly bulletin. The State of North Carolina has an Agricultural Department, and the Agricultural Department pub lishes, at the expense of the tax payers of the State, what is called a Monthly Bulletin. Six months or more ago, in these columns, we took occasion to express the opinion that the Bulletin of the Agricultural De partment should be a bulletin sim ply, as its name implies, and should not aspire to be an agricultural jour nal as well;' that if it was a bulletin, published at the expense of the tax- Eayers of the State, the Agricultural department had no right to put a subscription price upon it and charge for it, and that if it was not a bulletin simply but an agricul tural journal as well then the State had no right to use the money of tax-payers in that way, nor to enter into competition with private enter prises which it was doing by engag ing in the business of publisher. The State has no more right to publish an agricultural journal than it has to publish any other kind of a jour nal, or to set up a grocery store and sell coffee, sugar, salt, &c. We were sustained in our position by nearly every paper in the State that ex pressed any opinion on it.; We have recently been favored with some official information from the Department, on the supposition that we wore not posted as to the true inwardness of the management of the Bulletin, the facts in which we are allowed to use, and which we here give substantially with the comments which they elicit. It was asserted tjhat the. BnlletijLjss free to the' farmers and citizens of the State. We asked if so why the words "subscription price 25 cents per year" stands upon the title page, and we are informed that this is put on "to conform to a regulation of the Post Office Department. They (the Post Office Department) further re quire the Department to charge and collect this subscription from all per sons receiving the Bulletin except exchanges and the residents of this State, who, as tax-payers to the State, are supposed an India rubber word this is to have already paid their subscription and tcr be in the nature of partners in the enterprise therefore. There is richness in this, and as a genuine specimen of leger demain, hocus-pocus-whip-the-devil- around- the- stump now-you-see-it- and-now-don't articles it is unique. The rules of the Post Office Depart ment require that the paper must have a subscription price to get the benefit of newspaper rates on post age, not only this, but it requires that postage be not only charged but collected and it is collected by 'supposing" that every tax-payer in the State is a "partner in the enter prise" and has paid his subscription in advance, in the way of taxes. The richness of this is in the remark able astuteness of it, which is only equalled by the exceeding thinness. If they were going to take the tax payers of the State in as partners in that "enterprise" why didn't they take 'era all? Why issue only 20,000 copies and send them out to some of the partners, ignoring the great ma jority who paid their " subscription " as well as these' twenty thousand? Why discriminate in favor of these as against the others and greater number if all tax-payers are " looked upon in the light of partners in the enterprise ? " If one tax-payer is entitled to it on' this condition of partnership then all are and to favor some at the expense of , the others is not fair nor just. Arid again,: why take the money of such farmers of the State and tax-payers who send along the 25 cents after having been " supposed " to have paid their subscription in the way 1 of taxes ? Is it : fair to make them 'pay twice while others1 only pay once? These little inquiries we leave for the De partment 1 to answer,' if it1 sees fit, for our fbrther r information as well as for the information of f the great' number 1 of f " partners ' : who nave A V7 ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY, ; -X 1886. been "supposed " to have been pay ing for . the Bulletin for several years continuously without ever having been favored with the sight of one number of it. We are further informed that " by conforming to this rule of the Post Office Department we save the State hundreds of dollars, for we would have to pay one cent on every copy sent out if we did not do so." Let us see. The rule requires a subscrip tion price to be charged and col lected, therefore the price, 25 cents per year, is stereotyped on the title page of the paper, and the money is "supposed" to have been collected in taxes paid. Don't this look like the thinnest kind of a dodge to circum vent the U. S. Government, and beat it out of a little postage? Isn't it, too, rather a discreditable position to place the great State of North Carolina in as a party to such a a dodge? It may be economy, but it is economy carried to an extreme bordering on dishonesty, which only an ingenious stretch of the English language can distinguish from swindling. No individual "en terprise" could play such a dodge, nor would it be permitted if it at tempted it. We are further informed that the Bulletin is simply a bulletin, "an offi cial document that contains no news except official news from the De partment," and this in the face of the following announcement which we clip from the January number of the Bulletin: " The Bulletin of the Department will henceforth have a much wider scope than heretofore. It has been in a great measure directed; to .our staple crops j subjects deemMitriportant to the gen eral progress of the State, but which did not lie in the direct line of our agricultural journals, have also occupied a large space. Henceforth it will embrace the whole field of agriculture, giving chief promi nence, as heretofore, to our staples, while as much attention as circumstances will admit of will be given to the orchard, the garden, to stock, to poultry indeed to everything within the domain of rural economy. It will be much enlarged, and distribr uted more widely throughout the Stale.'Nj We are curious to know how the Department will reconcile these two statements. To sum up our position in brief on this question, it is this: We hold that the Bulletin should be a bulletin, as its name implies, and that it should confine itself to pub lishing the proceedings proper of the State Board of Agriculture, and that it should give us correct and regular reports of what the Depart ment of Agriculture is doing, and .how it is spending the $45,000 a year which it takes to run it. The people don't want the opinions of this man nor that in it, but facts in which they as tax-payers are inter ested. The law requires that the Department "shall publish a quar terly report of the operations of the Department" so that the people may know what it is doing.' This is part of the business of the Bulletin, and this is what it should do "but does not do. v We are opposed to the State's using the public money to enter as a competitor in the business of a journalist, or in any other business in competition with individual enter prise or honest labor, which demand and are entitled to the protection the State. We are not hostile to the Agri cultural Department, which may be made of great value to the farming interests of the State when properly conducted, and when carrying out the objects for which it was estab lished, and wo have no objection tot the ' Bulletin1 as the chronicler of the the ' operations of that body for which it'was established, and we want it to' be a faithful chronicler of the information for which the people pay arid which they have a right to demand; ' They are both good insti tutions, -provided they do what they were1 established to do, arid do it hbttSstly'and faithfully!: : ;;s; We' say this riot from any hostility but because we believe in fair and 5 No 33. onest dealing that will stand the wiinoui any iorcea construction ot language. - . CLOVER AND HOW TO MANAGE IT. Gibson Station, IN". C. Editor Progressive Farmer: Will you kindly oblige me by getting some good, practical farmer, one who is experienced, to furnish me through your paper, information as to the fol lowing: How to get a good catch of clover. Whether it is best to sow it alone or with the grain or grass. How much per acre and where the best place to buy the seed; the. price &c. I want to try it and I desire to do it intelligently., Your kind attention will greatly oblige, yours truly, Eli Gibson. We referred the above inquiries to Mr. P. H. Hanes, of this place, who is not only a successful tobac conist but one. of, the most thorough ly practical and successful farmers and he kindly furnishes us with the following reply. Winston, N. C, Sep. 14, 1886. Editor Progressive Farmer : I am not accustomed to writing for t he public to read but at your request I reply briefly to the inquiries of your friend, Mr. Gibson, as follows: I think it safer to sow in this : sec tion on our heavy clay soils, iri the latter part of February, putting the seed on broadcast and harrowing them in. We avoid the ordeal of the freezes of winter and besides the harrowing is of great benefit to the wheat.' 1 If, however, it bej&qwn on his sandy, warm 'soils by the middle of October, I should say he could secure a good and safe stand. If sown with wheat, prepare" the land thoroughly by good plowing. Sow. the wheat and then , sow down one peck of clover seed and one peck of Orchard grass thoroughly mixed,, per acre and harrow it in. To secure a good crop of wheat or clover and grass it is as necessary to prepare the land thoroughly, as it is to secure a good .crop of turnips. This should not be forgotten. T want a good catch the first season and to get this I use the quantities named whether with or wiyiout wheat. I regard Orchard as iie best grass to mix with clover. He! should be cautious in buying his clover seed, to get them free from wild carrot and other noxious plants! This is the risk he takes in buyingy Northern seeds. The wild carrot s to be dreaded and it - has been introduced' all through- the South from these sources. Mr. R. R. Crawford, of this place, has a clover holler, and from him good na tive seed rnay be obtained at about six dollars )er r bushel. The orchard grass sel jat about two dollars and twenty nVe cents per bushel and may be nau trom any seed dealer in the btatt Thorough preparation, and good seed putf in ' by 'the middle of Octo ber, forffall sowing, or from the first of :Fcbfuary to the first of March for thiijl section, will give him, satis factory results. ! Most respectfully, P. H. Hanes. THIS SHOULD NOT BE. No one pretends to deny that the Bulletin, published by the Agricul tural ueparimem, is a vaiuame ana t useful publication," but by going out- side and publishing other matter than that pertaining to the work, of the Department, it comes in compe-. tition with the agricultural journals of the. State: This 'should not be the- case., The Bulletin ia published with the Statea monev, and should nojcome in , competition with t indi vidual industries. -Greenville Reflec tor, As IThe fi ret temperance society, in this country 4was organized in Sara toW county, N.ltX in March, 180. rjiiThe first copper cent was coined inKew Haven "in 1687. - test
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