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T5E PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
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tion .The Progressive farmer.
It costs $30,000,000 a year to replace
the decayed ties on railroads in the
United States.
The probabilities are that there wi 1
be a lively legal squabble oyer the will
of Samuel J. Tilden.
The salaiy of Grand Master Work-'
man Powderlv has been raised from
$1,500 to $5,000 a year.
At some of the political meetings
held this fall there are more candidates
than voters present.
Nine of the crooked New Yoik
Aldermen have been re-arrested and
their bail raised to $40,000 each.
Up to October 1st the losses by fire in
this country amounted to $83,000,000
against $70,000,000 the previous year.
The National .Grange, Patrons oi
Husbandry, holds its annual meeting in
Philadelphia on the 19th of November,
Dr. Douglas charged $7,000 for
attending Gen. Grant which Fred Grant,
who paid it, says was an extortionate
charge.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
savs that the man who invents a success-
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fill sugar cane cutter has a large fortune
within his grasp.
A trial of the Mason cotton har
vester was made in a field nearSumpter,
S. C, last week. It did fairly good work
but is not yet perfected.
Gen. Grant's widow has already
received $350,000 from her husband's
book an! the publisher says she will
realize $500,000 from it.
There are now 310 Southern cottcn
mills in operation against 161 six years
o rrr "Ptrr1 i r 1 lino -fVsxw-h
tl.V L IV7UUV HVH 11111 UUoCli 11 11111
$16,388,568 to $30,726,150.
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The town of Sabine Pass, in Texas,
was lotanv destroyed on tne nu?nt ot thp
j 1 1 t a 1 ii i . n .
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13th inst., by the overflowing of Sabine
river, and sixtv-nve lives were lost.
The average pay of the 300,000 school
tiachers in the United States is '200 n
ml a
year, i ne average pay ol the protes-
sional baseball nlaver is about &2.000
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An exchange says that if Jay Gould
lives ten years longer and meets with no
mishaps his wealth will reach $2,000,
000,000. .The writer meant $200,000,000,
but the printer didn't think thAt adding
a cipner or two made much difference.
Eight hundred thousand dollars in
silver certificates have been issued since
the 1st of October.
There are a number of women prac
ticing medicine in Northern cities. In
Philadelphia the incomes of some of
these from their profession range from
$5,000 to $20,000.
Abram S. Hewitt has been nomina
ted by the Tammany . Hall Democrats
for Mayor of New York. He accepted
on condition that the balance of the
ticket be satisfactory.
Some politicians on the stump are
fashioned after the earthquake style.
They-make a clatter and noise, but you
know as little about them after it is all
over as you did before.
Messrs. Louis Bagger & Co., solicit
ors of patents, Washington, . D. C,
inform us that there were granted to
citizens of Southern States, thirty-two
patents bearing the date of Oct 12, 1886.
Of the 46,000,000 hogs in the country
last year nearly 6,000,000 died of disease.
The percentage in the South was from
12 to 22. In the five great corn States
of the West Illinois, Iowa; Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska, the percentage
was 13 to 18.
We understand that Col. J. M. Win
stead, of Greensboro is a candidate for
Coniiress in this district on the Prohibi
tion ticket. "You pays your money
and takes your choice" Reid, Demo
crat Brower, Republican Winston ,
Greenbacker, and Winstead, Prohibition-
ist.
The experiments in tobacco culture
in Mecklenburg, Union and Cleveland
counties have been so successful this
year that the probabilities are a large
area will be planted in these counties
next year. The tobacco raised has been
of fine grade and the planters have been
successful in properly curing it.
We learn that Prof. J. A. W.Thomp
son will remove his school from Oakdale
to Siler, a flourishing village on the C. F.
& Y. V. R. R., and that a large and corn-
modious building will be ready for him
bv the first of January next. We con
gratulate the Professor and the com
mumty ot oner, tor ne win ouiia up an
excellent school at this point.
There seems to be a considerable
amount of ' skinning done on the
stump these days, if we can believe the
papers, and from the frequency of the
skinning operation some of the candi-
1. .1 ll'.T
dates must nave oeen mrnisneu witn a
multiplicity of skins to start with.
Skin-
ning
may be funny tor -the skinner if
nol for the skinned, but how much bet
ter informed are the people who go to
hear the issues of the day discussed after
the.se skinnings than they were before?
The Cornucopia, published in Nor
folk, Va., prints a notice of George A.
Wilson, an Eastern Virginia farmer, who
b gan after the war with little or nothing
and is now the owner of 8,000 acres oi
good land. His corn crop the pre -en:
season will reach 50,000 bushels oi
shelled corn. His oat crop threshed out
2,500 b jshels, and he put up 300 tons of
clover and timothy. He has increased
his grass acreage to yield him 600 tons
next year. He raised 25 acres of pota-
toes from which he realized $2,460, and
sold 175 lambs and 200 fat sheep
which brought him $4 a head for the
lambs and $5 for the sheep. In addition
to this he sold $3,000 worth of beef
cattle - This fal1 he wiU cure
Punus oi por. ivir. v nson is evi lentiy
ji . . i? i n r tttm i ; -i i -l
one of the farmers who farms with his
brains.
SELECT YOUR SEED.
The selection of seed corn is a
matter which should be attended to
with care. It is not well to wait
until the corn isgathered and husked
and then when planting time comes
go out to the crib and take what
is wanted, as many do. The best
time to select seed corn is when the
corn is standing in thefield, for then
not only the best ears can be chosen
but they can be picked from stalks
presenting the best yjints. One of
the objects should be to secure
the most corn to the least stalk as
well as to the least ground. Corn
carefully selected from the field,
properly handled and cared for
makes better and more reliable seed
than that taken hap-hazard from
tho crib. ,
The Republican committee has
placed Judge R. P. Buxton on the
ticket for Chief Justice in the place
ftf TlldffA Hxrnnm urhn Ho.linorl nnrl
nominated V. S; Lusk, of AsheVille.
as Associate justice in the place f
Buxton.
THE "JUMBO " BARBECUE.
It is said that the largest assem
blage of persons ever seen in Moore
county, was at Jonesboro on last
Friday. It was the occasion of the
opening of the " Golden Leai 'Jum
bo' Warehouse," by Messrs. Buch
anan & jBeryman. To give some
idea of the magnitude of the affair,
we quote the following as a part of
"Jumbo bill of fare, taken from the
record of the cuisine: Twenty-five
beeves, thirty-five sheep, fifteen pigs.
three hundred chickens, ten barrels
flour, one dozen cases bread, besides
cakes, &c, in great profusion.
Speeches were made by Mr. I). H
McLean, of Lillinirton, and the
Editor of The Progressive Farmer.
By the late arrival of the train we
were deprived of the pleasure of hear
ing the speech of Mr. McLean, and
as we expected of him, we were
made to regret it more and more,
the more we heard ot it.
Early in the evening the large
building was brilliantly illuminated,
and until late in the night was a
scene of festive enjoyment. Two
excellent bands were in attendance
and hundreds of 3roung people
"whirled in the mazes of the dance."
Messrs.' Buchanan & Beryman,
the proprietors, Mr. Baptist, the
manager of the warehouse, and all
the gentlemen composing the com
mittees were active, vigilant and
faithful in the work of looking after
the comfort and pleasure of the
thousands who came and went and
they performed their laborious du
ties handsomely. The occasion was
unanimously voted a grand success
from beginning to end. ?
The warehouse is constructed of
wood in the most substantial man
ner, 90zl50 feet, with full size base
ment and we do not hesitate to say
is the best and most perfect wooden
warehouse, in all its appointme its,
we have ever seen, fcueh : energy
and enterprise as is m mifested by
these gentlemen merit success and
we doubt not they will enjoy it.
Situated on the old red sand-stone
belt which traverses the State north
and south, and along which the
world-renowned "golden leaf" is
grown to such proportion, wo trust
that such efforts as are made by
these gentlemen may induce the
people of that section to give some
attention to tobacco.. Anything to
loosen the shackles with which the
tyrant "King" Cotton has held
them so long. AVe note these inva
sions of his domain with peculiar
pleasure.
SHEEP BREEDING.
Sheep breeding could be made a
profitable industry in North Caro
lina if it were not for the dogs
that destroy them. There is not a
county in the State where they
could not be raised to profit were it
not for this. : The ranges are ample,
the pasturage good, the summer not
too warm, and the winters so mild
that little or no housing is neces
sary. Some efforts have been , made
at breeding sheep of improved breeds
which have been brought into the
State at considerable cost to the
breeders, and they have met with
some success notwithstanding the
dogs, because they watch their sheep
and protect them, but hundreds of
fine sheep that cost much money
have been destroyed, involving not
only loss to t ieir owners but discour
aging others wno feared to venture
when the chances were so much
against them. Attempts iiave been
made year after year by those interes
ted in sheep culture to secure some
kind of legislation that would protect
their flocks from prowling curs, but
so far , without success, for the aver
age legislator seems to have a horror
of tackling the dog question in any
shape, and the result is that
between the dog and the sheep the
dog always wins. The eonsequerice
is more dogs than sheep; the
dogs multiply, while the sheep
diminish, and the legislative candi
date continues to cherish the belief
that the dog controls more votes
than the sheep. This is the only
reasonable way of accounting for
the legislative deference that is paid
the dog. Judging from the past
unless the farmers take tthis matter
in hand the dog will still continue to
reign, and the sheep to supply him
with mutton. But perhaps if the
farmers' clubs take the matter in
hand and intimate to the legislators
that the sheep has some rights that
the dog ought to respect, it might
have some effect. In the meantime
if the farmers were to resolve to
shoot on sight every dog they find
prowling the country without ah
owner,-it would have a better and
more immediate effect. Th.s would
L u.u mmnlflfit, and speediest
ue auuut mo - .
solution of the dog question that w
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can think ot just now. vu:
a. anttfnrd county who
invested in some fine sheep and was
making considerable progress until
the dogs entered the field against
him adopted the method of poisoning
carcasses oi sneep wmt
d leaving them
where killed for the dogs to feed
upon when they made the second
.oil Tho rdnn was a success, and
it thinned out the curs considerably.
The only dogs tnat sunereu wuiu
hfilvied themselves to
sheep meat that they had no right
to. If farmers all over the State
did likewise the dog census would
be perceptibly reduced by the time
the next one is taken. But, seriously,
111 I?S Illl I 111 iJKJL CIJ V M ul;onvu
consideration oi ciuds.
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r.F.kTIVR ITEMS.
Here are two suggestive items
clipped from two of our State
exchanges, the first from the Dur-
ham Tobacco riant, the otner irom
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the Monroe Enquirer:
"On the bulletin board in front of
the court house are posted twenty-
one chattel mortgages and two war
rants of attachment. This looks
like hard times."
"Yesterday an old gentleman who
lives 5 miles trom town, drove in
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with a bale of cotton on his wagon,
and a gentleman remarked that he
would carry every cent ot the
money his cotton brought home
with him. Another one remarked
that he never came to town without
bringing with him enough produce
of some kind to pay for all that he
bought and then have some left to
carry home. He is an old time gen
tleman and he follows the old time
system. It is needless to remark
that he lives at home and has money
out at interest. Many of his neigh
bors, who follow the new sstem
and work as hard as he does, are
mortgaged up to tho very hilt
and can't pay their doctor's bills or
for their paper. We need a return
to the old landmarks in some other
things as well as religion."
At this season of the year the
chattel mortgage figures very con
spicuously in certain portions of
JNorth Carolina. It would be safe
to venture the assertion that the
givers of the twenty-one chattel
mortgages referred to by the Tobacco
Plant, gave these mortgages for
money and supplies to raise tobacco,
depending on that, and that alone
to redeem these mortgages when
the obligations matured. They now
have to dance to music they don t
like and to pay the piper his price
oesiaes. iina so it is year alter year
throughout the tobacco and cotton
belt; planters borrow to raise a crop.
pay enormous interest, manacle
themselves with mortgages, and
take the chances of good or bad
crops to free themselves. If crops
oe good they may come out and
have a little left for their year's
labor, it the crop tail ruin is their
lot, unless they throw themselves
upon the mercy of their creditors,
and the creditors prove merciful.
Ihere is not so much of this borrow
ing done as there has been in
years past, and it is growing less
every year, but there is still ten
times as much of it as there should
be, for there should be none. No
farmer can afford to borrow money
X 11 rk
to raise crops, especially it be con
fine himself to one crop. And no
farmer who expects to prosper can
affyrd to cultivate one crop and
depend upon that to pay his obliga
tions ana purchase the necessaries
of life. It is only the farmer who
raises these at home, enough of them
to supply nis wants and pay his cur
rent expenses, who is traveling the
right road to success. The farmer
in Union county, to whom the
Enquirer refefs furnishes an illustra
tion of this, for while he raises cot
ton he has the good sense not to
depend upon c.otton alone, but raises
enough of other things to supply
nim witn tne oasn he needs, leaving
ui coiion 10 aaa to nis oanK account.
He may not raise much cotton but
whether he raises little or much he
is still an example that all cotton or
tobacco planters should follow.
Mr. R. W.Rankin, of Jonesboro,
a tobacco buyer, raised a crop of
tobacco this summer. He planted
and has cured fifteen acres at a cost
of 8637. A few days since he was
offered $2,500 for his cropXas it was
in the barns. ;
WHAT DO YOU no ,t
We are requested to nM,llVl.
the following article whi,,), U;
in our issue of July 21st )eaN
The great value of wo.l .Ku
a ierLiin&ur is not a
k ierunzer is not appreciated 1
arge majority of our farmers 'V
i rule they are thrown asi,ef
e as
larg
a
a
posi
trk 1ifh nnn vvnsh irwl I
ui-uiromrk
out the year. Why not save tCi
Now that the regular w. jn V;
crops will soon be over v
for it. Go to the woods
arran.
nice, straight poles enoa-h to
.11111 i A
feet square. Locate the 'pen at th
point most convenient to your fip
places. Haul trash and vereta
matter, and deposit it near the pen
Fill the pen about 18 inches to l,L'
witn. un tnis put a layer of ash0s
two inches thick. Alternate in this
wj-iv. savin.o fill the worwl ...
" "J 7 O ' "MU "Tji.o
wnicn may De garnered around the
nremises. Throw in nil th,.
I - --- iv n;mse
tsoup-Buuo. xjjf oniy a ilajf
hour per week to this matter yuu
will be pleased, if not surprised ai
tne numoer oi wagon loads ot tinelv
i j i iii j
puivenzeu anu valuable manure vm
can make in one year. Let the ash.
pen be a fixed institution on your
premises.
FENCES.
political canvass in Buncombe
county eeiu vu uu tne lenee ques
tion, public sentiment seeming to 1 e
undecided as to whether theie
should or should not be fencis
around farms hi that county. A no-
fence act was passed by the last
legislature which met with so much
opposition that it practically became
a nullity. A similar act was passed
for Wake and Orange counties,
where there is also considerable
dissatisfaction. The mistake was in
passing this law without giving the
people full and ample opportunity
to hear it discussed and decide its
merits for themselves. It is one of
those new departures which it takes
time to educate the people up to,
the old ruts. In the counties where j
the no-fence law has had a fair trial,
and the advantages have been tested,
public sentiment would be solid
against re-placing the fences it' it
were suggested. Doing away with
the fences does away a cause of
immense cost to the iarmer, and
wi i fitnn Vvl rk rtvnnnuo Oflllll'lliv
UlUVll 11UUU1C CVIIVA V.VJJVyHO till liuut'j
in keeping the fences up. There is
no reason in being compelled to put
up hundreds of dollars of fence to
keep out a lew dollars worth oi
stock; better reverse it and put up
a few dollars worth of fence to keep
in a few hundred dollars worth of
stock, stock of the right kind that
will pay for the trouble of fencing
and for what they eat.
NEW COUNTIES-
A movement has been started to
form a new countv out of portions
of Wake, Johnston, Franklin and
Nash. There may be some advant
age in small counties, but they arc
costly. There are about twice as
many counties in JNorth Carolina as
there ought to be. If there were
fewer the cost to the people would
be less, and the public business
quite as well attended to. With
fewer counties there would be fewer
court houses to build, fewer officers
to pay and the taxes of the people
would, in consequence be very
largely reduced. But the tendency
is to small counties and we suppose
the work of cutting off and forming
new ones will go on regardless ol
cost.
FORSYTH COUNTY FARMERS
CLUB.
This body will meet in Winston on
next Saturdav. the 23d inst.
hope to see a full delegation from
each suhordinntft elnh in the county.
Some interesting reports will be
made from these clubs and matters
of importance will be discussed. lAt
there be a full meeting.
CHEVIOT SHEEP.
v. wni u u:a mir reader
throughout the State if they will
furnish na with .the names ana
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addresses of farmers in the fctaa
ml.n . ; ,1 : knod in c the
Chev
success,
iot sheep, with particulars as to
and points ot superion?
any, over other breeds.
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