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.. " Vol. 1. OUR FARMERS' CLUBS. What our Farmers are Doing and How the Work of Organizing is Progressing. FARMERS CLUB AT JERICHO. Jericho, N. C., Oct. 16, 1886. Editor Progressive Farmer: The farmers of the vicinity of Jeri cho school house in Davie county met on 16th day of October, 1886, at 2 o'clock p. m., and after explana tions of the object of Farmers' Clubs and the reading of a valuable and interesting article by Mr. B. F. Stonestreet, fourteen names were enlisted. Much interest was taken in the proceedings, and the following were elected officers : J. P. Kurfees, President; O. H. Spencer, Vice-President; P. Turner, Secretary; B. F. Stonestreet, Treas urer. Executive Committee: D. II. Dwicrgins, It. M. Allen, C. S. Brown, C. W. Seaford and Wiley Bailey. The next meeting will be the 1st Saturday in November at 2 o'clock p. m., which is looked forward to with much interest. P. Turner, Secretary. NEW CLUB IN CATAWBA. Conover, Catawba Co., N. C, ") November 1st, 1886. j Editor Progressive Farmer: A Farmers Club was organized at Deal's School House on last Satur day. The following officers were elected: N. E. Sigman, President; Logan Dellinger, -Vice-President ; W. P. Sigman, Secretary; II. M. Isaac, Treasurer. Executive Committee: C. W. Rockett, Logan Dellinger, G. I). L. Yount, J. W. Rockett and John Stine. The Constitution and By-Laws as published in The Pro gressive Farmer, with very slight changes, were adopted. Name: No. 1 Farmers' Club, of Cline's Town ship, with about 40 members en rolled. Your correspondents were present on the occasion. J. W. Robinson, President. F. L. Herman, Secretary, II. F. Club. The farmers of Dulin's school house neighborhood in Davie county meet next Saturday to organize a far mers' club. The editor of The Progressive Farmer acknowledges a kind invi tation to be present. CULTIVATING WHEAT. A correspondent of the Indiana Farmer gives the result of experi ments in a plat of wheat two-fifths of an acre, sowed as usual but the space between the rows sixteen inches apart, which will be interest ing as to the essential points which are as follows: The soil was high sand prairie, facing to the northwest. The win ter winds nearly blew it all out of the ground, and when spring opened it was in a sorry plight. When the blades were about four inches long it was cultivated with a hoe, then again when about knee high. It was harvested with a cradle and made twenty-five shocks of a dozen bundles each. Before it wasthreshed the English sparrow took the cap sheaves entire. The wheat was weighed and after adding for cap sheaves there were ten bushels. This is at the rate of twenty -five bushels per acre. Not a very large yield, says the cultivator, but almost unprecedented for the quality of the soil. There were no fertilizers used. A heavy crop of potatoes was taken from the plat just before the wheat was sown. The product was thought to have been doubled by the cultiva tion, the saving in the seed much more than paying for the cultivation. A horse can walk in a space of six teen inches and a bull tongue will ffive much better cultivation tnan the hoe, which was the writer's shift for the small area experimented on. Farm, Field and Stockman. 77f INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS jtate Stems. The English Syndicate has given up the intention to build a railroad from Wadesboro to Salis bury via Albemarle. Concord Times. AY. D. Snyder reports a chicken with no bones in its legs, and says that as lonxr as it sits down it is all right. But when it attempts to walk it is all wronjr. Davie Junes. Durham will have water works. No doubt about it. Large quantities of machinery are here. Seventy-five hands have been employed, and the work is being pushed with energy. Durham Plant. The second crop of raspberries and June apples seems to be getting ripe hereabouts. We have in our office a fine bunch of raspberries and a well developed June apple, ripe and mellow. Hendersonville Times. Seventy-five lots have been sold at Walnut cove it is said, and five steam saw-nulls are sawing in that neighborhood and cannot meet the demand fast enough, though some of the mills saw 10,000 feet of lum ber per day. Danbury Reporter. We learn through a private let ter that there will be two corps of engineers on the Lynchburg road in a few days and that a meeting will be held in South Boston at an early day to for conference with the North Carolina directors. Roxboro Courier. Mrs. Julia Mitchell, in Caswell county, near Ridgeville has a turkey hen that is carrying a brood of tur keys, chickens and partridges. There are seven young partridges with the gang. Mr. W. C. Adams is just from there and saw the whole covey. Webster's Weekly. Last year Capt. J. E. Parrish sold 8,002.000 pounds of leaf to bacco. The graded school con tinues to boom. The interest in the school is very great. The pupils in attendance number over 400. Yet there are several hundred more who ought to be there. Durham Recorder. A Mr. Wiley George; of Ivy, Mal ison county informs us of a yield of wheat that has not many equals in this section. He sowed 4 bushels of wheat. From the product hcjhas just cleaned up 120 bushels. Ofithe four bushels one was sowed the first of September. It ripened earlier and was cut and threshed earlier, and the yield was 38 bushels. Ashecille Citizen. The grading of the Charleston Cincinnati and Chicago railroad be tween Black's and Rutherford ton is now completed and a large force of hands are now pushing the work on the water course crossings which will soon be finished. A large quantity of steel rails is expected claily. The Carolina Central Com pany will next week begin the bridge over the Second Broad River. Tel egraphic connection with Ellenboro will be established in a few days. Shelby New Era. The ordnance which has been used in this internal revenue district in the past, by raiders in enforcing the revenue laws, has been this week shipped back to Washington from the collector's office, no further use being found for it. Mr. I. M. Overcash has been raising hemp in his garden in a small way, and brought us the other day a plant of this season's growth which was 11 feet high. He has been growing hemp for the sake of the seed, but the birds are so fond of the seed that he has had little success in saving any. In the vicinity of Cross Roads Church, Yadkin county, on Monday, 18th inst., a young man by the name of Lakey, shot and mortally wounded J. Cooley, with whose daughter he was running away. Cooley objected to the marriage and pursued the couple. When he overtook them Lakey shot him inflicting a wound OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO WINSTON, N C , NOVEMBER from which he died two days later. The slayer fled leaving the girl with her father, and at last accounts was still at large. Statesville - Landmark. A Richmond & Danville official was at High Point a few days ago and intimated that his company was contemplating buying the Winston and Fayetteville road, with a view to completing and equipping it. During a storm which passed over Milton about 12:30 o'clock Tuesday the mail rider carrying the mail on the Hillsboro rojute between Mil ton and Ridgevillej N, C, was struck and killed by lightning while stand in the door of the Apost office. The lightning struck the building just above the door, passing down into the door. He lived about twenty m i n u tes aft e r h e w as str uc k . Greens boro Patriot. One hundred and ten students have enrolled at the public school. Capt. Snow took 25 pounds of finest Modern Barn cured tobacco down to Raleigh Tuesday for exhi bition at the fair... He says he will certainly get the $50 premium for the finest tobacco. Mr- Emory A. Benedict had the misfortune to have his packing house destroyed by fire Tuesday night. It was locat ed about one mile from town, and contained the tobacco from 65,000 hills or about 10,000 pounds, all of which was burned. It was insured for $500. Origin of the fire unknown. All that has been learned con cerning the building of the Winston & Fayetteville railroad is that if the Richmond & Danville Company can not buy or lease the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley road they will cer tainly and speedily build the W. & F. road. We have been informed that they cannot possibly get poses sion of the C. F. & Y. V-, hence we may expect work to be resumed on the road here almost any time. Rest assured that the road will be built some day any way. High Point Lntervt$er- yyj FARMERS' INSTITUTES. The State of Wisconsinhas organ ized Farmers' Institutes as one of the methods of dissen mation in reference to the farm among the farmer of the State. These institutes held at places and when thev M. can be attended wjr i .i ft least inconve- nience dv tne iarm js. ihev are held in the Winter months and in as many counties (lh eanbe conveni ently reached. The coming wTinter fifty-two will fye held, so appointed as to reach apportions of the State and trive all farmers who desire ati4 opportunity to attend them. The institutes are held under the auspices of the Board of Regents of the State University, which employs men of reputation and recognized authori ties on agricultural subjects to deliver lectures and addresses on subjects relating to the farm, meth ods of cultivating the different crops raised in that State, stock, stock management, &c, thus educating the farmer who is desirous of learn ing more than he alreadjT knows. They are farmer's schools organized for the benefit of the 750,000 people who live on the 140,000 farms of that State and are, in the language of Mr. W. H. Morrison, the Super intendent, u schools of practical in formation to enable farmers to pro duce more and better stock, larger crops, and to develop the great pro ductive industries of the State." What the promoters of these insti tutes are endeavoring to accomplish in Wisconsin through them The Progressive Farmer is endeavoring to accomplish for the farmers of North Carolina, through the instru-. mentality of Farmers' Clubs. The result so far is gratifying though the work is scarcely begun. The clubs are increasing every week and we j see abundant evidence to show that North Carolina and the farmers of North Carolina are being benefited by them. ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF 3, 1886. THE BREAD WE SHOULD EAT. ,- Let us examine this little grain of wheat whose family is so able and willing if only permitted, to serve the physical needs of humanity, but whose chance of so doing is reduced to far less than one-half by the pro, cess of e-nasculation at the mill and adulteration at the bakery. The half that has been wasted at the mill is the most healthful portion of this best of foods, especially for children and young people under twenty years. Wheat meal contains everything that can be required for nourishing purposes. The white loaf of common use is, as we have shown, only half a loaf, inasmuch as a large portion of the material that forms muscular flesh and nearly all that forms bone, has been taken from it. Children fed on white bread are very liable to suffer from rickety bones, con sumption and bad teeth, because their food does not nourish them properly. To make a simple statement of fact: twenty cents' worth of genu ine wheat-meal bread contains three times, the flesh forming, seventy times the heat-produced and three times the bone forming material to be found in twenty cents' worth of beefsteak. Analysis of these two factors, and the comparison of races or families that eat true wheat whether cooked or whole, or in the form of meal with those who eat white bread, at once settle the ques tion. It has been stated 'that if moth ers were to cook whole or cracked wheat (containing the full structure of the skeleton) for their families, all the deformities we now see in children, where not caused by acci dent, would disappear in two or t hree generations as by the hand of an invisable enchantress. New York Cuisne. BOTS. It is strange that with the cheap pricenf literature relating to lives and habits of insects, animals, etc., the old fallacy of bots causing the death of horses has not long ago passed away. V The bot fly, or. gad-fly, is of a bee like color; is seen during the middle and latter parts of summer flying about horses' jaws, legs, etc., causing great uneasiness to the animal. It leaves behind it small, yellow specks, so firmly attache! to the hairs that no ordinary friction will remove them. These specks are the eggs, and the female, when depositing them, selects those parts within asy refjiikrof the horse's tongue, as the fore limbs, etc., or such parts that the young, when hatched, will fall directly into the animal's food, as the cheeks, lower jaws, etc. With the food they are conveyed into the stomach; there they attach them se'ves in clusters to the cirdiac, or insensible part (rarely to the true digestive part), become covered with an impenetrable skin, bury their mouths or suckers deeply into the wall of the stomach, and remain there feeding upon its secretions for about eight months, until the larva stage is complete, when they disengage themselves and are ex pelled with the dung. The larva now seeks shelter in the ground, contracts in size, becomes a chrys alis, or grub, in which state it remains a few weeks, then bursts from its confinement to assume the form of the fly. During about eight months of the year bots are found in the stomachs of all country horses; but the com mon idea that the horse could not live without them is contradicted by the fact that horses not exposed to the gad-fly never contain a bot, and sueh animals can be found by thous ands in our large cities, yet they enjoy the best of health ; they can not cause pain; they are not neces sary to health; they cannot be icmoved by medicine; .and lastly, they voluntarily detach themselves STATE POLICY. No. 39. and pass out. So the wise owner will do well not to doctor for bets, but study well the symptoms shown and asceitain the real disease affect ing ti e animal. Eut how does this agree with the usual method, when inflammation of the lungs, stomach, bowels, kidneys an! colic have'all been pronounced bots, and the animal drenched with one pet medicine after another until it has died, or got well in spite of the vile compounds? And this is done just as often during the season when not a bot can be found in the horse as at any other time. Now, if bots did trouble horses, what would be the prospect of removing them, when they will live for some time in spirits of turpentine, and even nitric acid does not immedi ately kill them? So it will be readily seen that the numberless potions and drenches given for their destruc tion are entirely useless, and every farmer's experience must have con vinced him that bots are the scape goat of numerous and pretended horse doctors. An intelligent owner will not allow medicines to be blindly poured down his animals for an imaginary disease. He will rather trust to nature." W. H. in Farm aud Fireside. DON'T MIX THEM. With all the emphasis that double leaded-type can express, we enjoin our tobacco farming and prizing friends South and West to refrain from mixing the frosted with the sound tobacco harvested this year. This appeal has already- gone out in letter and print to some of those sought to be influenced by it, but it is our duty to see that it is brought to the attention of every grower and prizer in the country, and we hereby perform that duty. The markets of the world are full of poor tobacco, and the good tobacco in stock is very limited. The growth of the past year has been large and what has been frostbitten can well be spared. It will not do to put the frosted tobacco along with that which is good for the bi-fold reason that it will depress the already low prices still further, and factors, large buyers and jobbers will not touch a hogshead of the 1886 yield if a sin gle hand of the frosted tolacco is in it. These parties have agreed to this and contemplate issuing a cir cular expressive of their sentiments on this subject. Frozen tobacco has been found serviceable in time past, but frosted tobacco never. It is utterly unfit for use, and when brought into the barns and hung along with sound leaf may cause fire-burn throughout the entire mass. If the frosted tobacco is to be gar nered and prized at all, let it be cured and prized by itself. There must be no taint on the crop of 1886 if it be desired to realize a cent of profit from it or the old stocks still on hand. New York Tobacco Leaf. CO-OPERATIVE FARMING IN ENGLAND. A successful attempt at co-operation in farming is reported in Eng land. A company of city working men, tradesmen and mechanics in London, who were out of employ ment, united in an association which rented a run-dp wn farm of 18-4 acres near London. They paid a compar atively high rental for such land,, thirty-five shillings per acre, but put so much labor on it that the enterprise was a success. The land .was enrjehed and devoted largely to' market gardening and dairying, the latter increasing as the associa tion secured capital to purchase cows. Formerly only four men were employed on the farm. Now it gives employment to forty, with proportionate increase of the prof its. The colored people in this county are trying to get up an agricultural fair to be given sometime next month. Elizabeth City Falcon. i 7
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