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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, NOVEMBER 24, 1886.
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HOEING HIS ROW.
Hoeing his row, the farmer boy
Whistles and sings in careless joy,
Nature smiling on every side,
Quickly the hours and moments glide ;
Little of sorrow his spirits know
As gaily he labors and hoes his row.
Hoeing his row, in later years,
A buoyant hope his spirit cheers;
While blade and stalk grow green and
strong,
He sings full many a lover's song;
And future pleasures brighter grow
As hoping he labors and hoes his row.
Hoeing his row in middle life
Away from cares and angry strife,
A loving wife and children fair
His many joys and pleasures share;
Crop of plenty their wealth bestow,
As happy he labors and hoes his row.
Hoeing his row the setting sun
Tells us his work will soon be done
Peace and comfort crown his days
And all who know him speak his praise ;
Who would not change the world's vain
show
For his simple joys, as he hoes his row?
Hoeing his row? His life is past,
His sweetest moments were his last :
He never sought for praise or fame,
But children's children bless his name;
Over his grave sweet breezes blow,
The faithful farmer has hoed his row.
DON'T GO TO LAW.
Lawyers are very useful some
times but to the funnel their bene
fit should be in keeping him out of
lawsuits rather than making it easy
to enter upon them. Our Iowa
friends are. perhaps, all familiar
with the celebrated calf case,"
which has been in the courts in that
State for a dozen vears. It has it:-
practical lessons. The Peoria Jour
nal thus summarizes its history:
"Twelve years ago S. I). Potter,
of Greene county, Iowa, went to
.lones county to buy some calves,
and purchased five of Robert .John
son, which the latter claimed W
have purchased from a stranger
named S nith. These calves proved
to have been stolen, and Johnson
was prosecuted by the Anti-llorso-TiiieAssociation,
but wasaequitted.
He then began action against seven
members of the association tor ma
licious prosecution, and asked $10,
000 damages. The case has been in
the courts ever sine, and has been
tried seven times, and each time ex
cept one Johnson received damage;
ranging from $3,00 to $7,500. Thi
week theA'lelwaset aside and
now ,(mes back revesd at the
cloMf'ot the last term. TiW total
court cjtt-"1tlnrreur
was estimated that expenseso
y" . ...
sides since the prosecution I
would aggregate fully $20,000,
several persons have been bankr
uril
cd by it. Tfie calves
worth about 850."
A WORKINGMAN'S
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The Agricultural and MGhanical
wre oniy
'OLLEGKA
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College of Texas tirt Opened it
doors to students in 1870. Il
began its work uuder yrtie most flat
tering auspices. Kxnccting to find
in its curiculum a ujmrse of studio
specially adapted xJ thir needs, the
young men of thv State a State
whose industry is almost wholly
agricultural flocked to it in such
numbers that its buildiugs wen
over-crowded and temporary dor
mitories had to be erected to meet
the pressing need of room.
But in this college, as in most of
its compeers under the land grant
act, the system of instruction first
adopted and followed in the tradi
tional ruts of drill in the so called
classics mementoes of dead and
buried centuries to the neglect of
the very lively issues of the livintr
present, and it was soon discovered
that tu-'h'a system v:i wholly out
of place among a people so eminent
ly practical as the farmers of Texas.
Three-fourths of the tudents left,
and criticisims without and disscii
tions within soon brought the
school to the verge of ruin.
In 1879 the college wascouiplctely
reorjranized in sucli a manner as to
bring the departments of applied
agriculture and mechanics to their
proper place as the leading features
of the school. It necessarily required
some time to recover from this early
mistake; but during the last three
years there has been a continuous
increase in the number of students
until now there i no room- for
more.
In look injr over the last annual
catalogue of this school, we note
that its course of instruction begins
low down so low that any farmer's
boy who has obtained the rudiments
of a common school education may
enter immediately upon the special
studies provided in this college
course, a provision which recognises
both the disadvantages under which
the farmer's boy labors in the strug
gle for education, and also the lack
of aptitude of the present high
school methods to the necessities of
of those whose living must be made
chiefly by manual labor.
Not only docs the course begin
low but it ends low. " Apparently
the fact has been recognised that
but a small proportion of the youth
of our farms can or will spend fif
teen or more solid school years, of
nine months each, in the common
school, high school and col
lege, and hence the attempt is
made to place before them, not such
a course of study as every man who
has tested the value of education
would be glad to see every young
man follow, but a course calculated
to give those whose environment
forbids a more extended pursuit of
knowledge, that training which
shall best fit them for the struggle
for bread which they must soon
enter. Farm and Fireside.
AN IMMENSE BUSINESS.
Armour & Co., the Ch'cago meat
packing firm, the employees of
which furnished the chief portion of
themen who inaugurated the recent
great strike in Chicago, is probably
the largest packing home in the
world. The following statistical
items of their business for the year
ending March 31st will be of interest :
Their sales for the year amounted to
$43,000,000; they killed during the
year 1,133,479 hogs, 330.652 cattle
and 035,202 sheep and produced 55,
142,952 pounds of lard. 85,918,460
pounds of salted meats, 51,508,386
pounds pickled meats. 4,062,459
pounds spiced meats, 8,219,630
p iunds green hams and shoulders,
;"4,008,729 pounds smoaked meats
33,696, 460 pounds eanned meats
and 2,431,522 pounds fertilizers.
Armour & Co.'s buildings cover 30
ncres of ground and furnish a f o r
area of 88 acres. Their chill-room
and storage area is stated at 20
acre:-', and their storage capacity at
90,000 tons. During the summer
season they employ 4,000 men, ami
during the winter season 5,000
Their annual pay roll exceeds $4,000,
000. SAGACITY OF A RAT.
During the recent freshet in the
Ohio river, a singular instance of a
rat's sagacity occurred a short dis
tance below Cincinnati. About the
time the river was at its height, a
number of people were assembled
on its margin, watching the huge
masses of hay swept along on its
ivsistable course. At lengtii a
gqose hove in sight, struggling some
times for the land and at others sail
ing majestically along with the tor-
nt, and as it drew near, a mack
sjW was observed upon its snowy
plumage, which the spectators were
astonished to lind was a living rat,
and it is propable that it had been
borneurom its domicile, and observ
ing tlje goose, hastened to it as a
retugo. On the goose making land
the rat leapt from its back and
scampered away.
Colorado has 800 miles of first
clas irrigating canals, 3,500 miles of
secondary canals, and 40,000 miles
of smaller ditches, which have cost
in the aggregate about $11,000,000,
and will irrigate 2,200.000 acres.
The largest canal is taken from Rio
del Norte. It is nim-ty-eight feat
wide at the top and sixty-five feet
on the bottom, with a carrying
capacity of 207,000,000 cubic 'feet
per diem. Thev main line is fifty
miles IvHivf. and it is designed -to irri
gate 200,000 acres. It was construct
ed in tour months by o.tMW men and
1,200 teams.
A French entomologist has
described the bird-spider of -tropical
America, the largest of the several
hundred known species of spiders,
as a formidable creature having a
body 4 inches long, or a diameter
of seven inches with the legs extend
ed. Its nest, in the centre of which
its 1,500 or 2,000 eggs are deposited,
is so - strengthened" as to be capable
of arresting a small bird, and; the;
snider is - sufficiently powerful to I
destroy not only young birds and
adult humming birds, but large
lizards and reptiles. ;
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CLEANLINESS OF PIGS.
We apprehend that few persons
would have their appetites greatly
sharpened for pork steak by seeing
an over-fat hog struggling to swim
through some of the liquid manure
tanks, called hog pens, we have
seen under barn stables.
We do not feel like defending or
apologizing for the existence of such
homes of the pig, nor are these one
whit worse than thousands of open
pens in villages where the pig is
put into a ten foot space open to all
the rains that fall, and never cleaned
till the hog is killed. It is because
of the too general neglect in these
matters that the well-to-do classes
are getting out of the way of using
pork upon their tables, except to a
very limited extent. Pork is one of
the least popular meats sold in our
markets, and yet it may be so grown
as to be one of the best as well as
one of the cheapest. It does not
spoil a pig to get his feet dirty, any
more than it spoils an ox to get his
feet dirty.
Absolute cleanliness is hardly a
possible condition in this world of
dirt and dust; but there is a wide
difference between a very filthy, un
wholesome hog pen and one that
is but slightly offensive; and if we
wish to secure good paying custom
ers for our pork, we will find it
profitable to keep our pigs in reason
ably clean quarters. Live Stock
Record.
A little bag of mustard laid on
the top of the pickle jar will prevent
the vinegar from becoming mouldy,
if the pickles have been ut up in
vinegar that has not been boiled.
The Twin-City Music House!
LTBKRTY STREET,
WINSTON, N. 0.,
VtTILL PROMPTLY FILL ALL ORDERS
IT for the Chickering. Mathushek, Mason and
Hamlin, Arion and Bent Pianos; ihe Mason
and Hamlin, Packard, and Bay State Organs,
from the Ludden & Bates' Soul-hern Musk
House and has In stock alIM tds of small
Musical Instruments, Musical Merchandise,
etc. Will also keep the Latest Sheet Music
and Music Books. Tuning and repairing thor
oughly done. Old instruments taken in ex
change for new ones.
Prof. C. L. WILSON,
J. II. HA K HELL,
Proprietors.
POMONA HILL
NURSERIES!!
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rpHESE NURSERIES ARE LOCA
L ted 2 miles west of Greensboro, at
the. junction of the Richmond & Danville
and Salem Branch Railroads. There vu
can find
ONE AND A HALF MILLION OF
TREES AND VINES GROWING.
Parties wanting Trees, &c, are respect
fully invited to call and examine stovk
and learn the extent of these Nurseries.
Stock consists of all the leading and n vv
varieties of Apple, Peach, Pear; (Stand
ard and Dwarf), Plums. Apricots, Grape.
Cherries, Mulberries, Nectarines. Fisrs,
Quinces, Gooseberries, Rasplerries, Cur
rants, Pecans, English Walnuts, Japanese
Persimmon, Strawberries, Shrubs. Roes,
Evergreens, Shade Trees, fcc. and in
tact everything of the hardy class usually
kept in a first-class Nursery,
SUITABLE FOR NORTH CAROLINA
and the Southern Border States.
New Fruits of special note are the
Yellow Transparent Apple, Lady Ingold
Peach, the Lawson, Keiffer, Lucy Duke
and Beaufort Pears, Lutie, Niagara, and
the Georgia Grape, Wottbrd's Winter.
Descriptive C-atalpicsfree. .
Correspondence solicited. Special in
ducements to large planters.
Address, I. VAN. LINDLKY,
Pomona, Guilford Co.. N. C.
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Joins Jnpurance Jompany
OF RALEIGH, N. C,
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This Company has been
in successful operation
for Sixteen Years.
W. S. PRIMROSE,. President.
W. G. UPOHURCH, Vice Pres.
CHAS. ROOT, Sec. and Treas.
P. CO W PER, Adjust er.
Feb. 10-ly. i
THR NORTH lll)LI.
INSORKS AGAINST W BRI
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GRAY" BLOCK.
WINSTON, N.C.
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NO TIJIE LIKE THE PRESENT TO SECURE
UNPARALLELED BARGAINS.
The people are overwhelmed at the
vast array of inducements we offer, and
our willingness to give full value for
every dollar spent with us, secures the
favor and confidence of our patrons, and
fixes beyond all question our claim to
the distinction of
LEADERS IN 0UK LINK!
Strongly protesting against the common
practice of trickery and deception, the
low prices we name for first-class articles,
strike with terror all competition.
We know the wants of all classes. We
supply them in the most satisfactory
m inner.
We are the recognized authority on
Fashion, and
OUR IMMENSE STOCK THIS
SEASON, EMBRACING EV
ERYTHING NEW AND
ELEGANT,
maintains our reputation. We ask you
to look at the complete line of
Fashionable Fabrics !
that are burdening our shelves ami
counters compare our prices with am
house in the city, and we do not fear the
result. We show all of the
LATKST STYLK WRAPS!
it marvelously low figures. Full line oi
jOTIONS 8f ILLINERY !
And with a first-class Milliner and Dre.
Maker in the house, we flitter ourselve
iiiat we are able to meet the wants of all.
Make your headquarters at
THE TRADE PALACE !
When you visit Winston, and sav
uioiiev on all vour purchases.
J.
Very respectfully,
RYTTENBKIUt BROS.
Blue Stone Blue Stone!
A 'Large Lot at Reduced Prices
AT
ASH CRAFT & OWENS',
DRUGGISTS
PAnrrai faints i
IP YOli NEED ANY
SKD Oil.
WHITE LEAD,
MIXED PAINTS, COLORS,
Or Anything in the Paint Line,
You Will Save Money by
Buying of
ASH0BAFT & OWENS,
DRUGGISTS.
STANDARD Dili !
1)0 NOT FORGET TO CALL AT
The Old Reliable Drug House
OF
1 1 8. lipm's
for what you want.
Ho has all the
NEW and STANDARD DRUGS !
at bottom priLcs and vjUF" not be
undersold. ,r - ' '-'fa';''.
He has PAINTS fVi Vpnrnse,
wagon and carriage- ' .
It will pay 6u tostopmif vulv
to see that BEAUTIFUL $2,000
SODA FOUNTAIN.
ggfrolite clerks await" you
with welcome. t
BYTT&
Tmii Fakes I
WANTED !
I WANT EVERY FARMER
who reads this paper to con.e
and examine my stock of
HARNESS, COLLARS, BRIDLES,
SADDLES, WHIPS, HALTERS,
LAP ROBES, &c.
My goods are made of the best mate
rials and prices will be as low or lowrr
than goods of same quality can be had
of any other house.
R. G. BURGESS,
Liberty Street, opposite Post Offlc,
32-4m. Winston, N.
GUILFORD NURSEK1KS
ARE LOCATED ON THE CAFE
Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad,
three miles south of Greensboro, N. C,
where can be found a fine assortment of
Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs,
Vines, Plants, &c, consisting in part of
the following:
Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum, Cherry,
Apricot, Nectarine, Quince, Fig, Mill-,
berry, Japanese Persimmon, Strawberry,
Raspberry, Gooseberry, Currant, &c, Arc.
Specialties. Apple, Peach, Plum and
Cherry Trees. My stock of Peach con
sists of 300,000 trees of the best varieties
.'or market and home use; of Plum, Wild
Goose, Shropshire, Imperial Gage, Gre'ti
Gage, Washington, Peach Plum, Ri h
land, Weaver, fec. ; of Cherries, all the
leaders for market and home consump
. ion ; of Grapes, Concord, Ives, Champion,
Xortons, Martha, Delaware, Wordcn,
Niagara, and all the best Wine and Table
Grapes. I have 150,000 vines ready for
a 1 1 1 la n ting of the above varieties and can
rive special prices to those who contem
plate planting vineyards. Of Strawber
all the lest and most profitable
xinds.
Send your orders cvrly; they will be
Mrefully filled, and no pains spared to
please the purchaser.
Special prices given to large planters.
Correspondence solicited.
Catalogues mailed to applicants.
G. L. ANTHONY, Propr,
Vandalia P.O., N. C.
Shipping point: Greensboro, N. C.
:;0 :im.
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT, (
Wilmington, N. C, Hept. 27, 1885.
CHANGE "OF SCHEDULK.
,"n and after this date, the fol-
lowing Schedule will be operated on (hi
Railroad:
jASSENOER,MA IL AND EXPRESSTR A IN :
DAILY' EXCEPT SUNDAYS.
(Ijeave Wilmington at ..7.00 P. M.
No. l. Ieave Raleigh at 7.35 P. M.
(Arrive at Charlotte at 7.30 A.M.
Cleave Charlotte at 3.15 P.M.
Si.l Arrive at Raltigh at 9.00 A. M.
(Arrive at Wilmington ai .8.25 A.M.
fOCAL FREIGHT Passenger Car Attached.
Leave Charlotte at 7.40 A. M.
Arrive at Laurinburg at ..5.45 P. M.
Leave Laurinburg at 6.15 A. M.
Arrive at Charlotte at 4.40 P. M.
Leave Wilmington at .0.45 A. M.
Arrive at Laurinburg at 5.00 V. M.
Leave Laurinburg at 5.30 A. M.
Arrive at Wilmington at .40 V. M.
laical Freight between Wilmington and Lau:
rinburg Tri-weekly leaving Wilmington on
Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays. Leave
Laurinburg on Tuesday, Thursdays and Sat
urdays. Passenger Trains stop at regular stations on
ly, and Points designated in the Company
rime Table.
SHELBY DIVISION, PASSENGER, MAIL,
EXPRESS AND FREIGHT.
Daily except Sundays.
Iieave Charlotte at 8.15 A. M.
Arrive at Shelby at 1215 P.M.
v. , , ( Leave Shelby at 1.40 A. M.
( Arrive at Charlotte at 5.40 P.M.
Trains No. 1 and 2 make close connection at
Hamlet with R. & A. Trains to and from
Raleigh.
Through Sleeping Cars between Wilmington '
and Charlotte and Raleigh and Charlotte.
Take Train No. 1 for Statesvi lie, Stations on
Western N. C. R. R., Asheville and joints
West.
Also, for Spartanburg, Greenville, Athens,
Atlanta and all points Southwest.
L. C. JONES, Superintendent.
W. F. CLARK, Gen'l Passenger Agent.
Saps Fear I Yadkin Valley Railway Co.
Condensed Time Table No, 13.
TRAIN NORTH.
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Arrive. Leave.
iteiinettsvllle S K-JOh. in.
-lne Heel - J i:4'a. in. H:Vc. m.
Fayettevilie !l- :0 m. 12:25 p. m.
"tanforri .':15 p.m. 2:25 p.m.
Ore Hill 3:l3. m. .............. ..
Liberty . 4:37 p.m.
GreentHro j . in.
Dinner at Fayetteville.
TRAIN SOUTH.
Arrive.
Iieave.; f
Greensboro
:5 a. m. I
ll 5 n. m. I
12 Om.
Liberty -
Ore Hill
San ford
1.-2 p. ui.
4:V p. in.
ftf 5 p. ui.
7:3d p. m.
1:45 p. ni. f
4:00 p. m.
b:15 p. m. r
Fayetteville.............'....
liennettsville
Dinner at sanford.
Freight and Passenger T ain leaves Bn-f
netUville Tuesdays, Thumlays and Saturday I
at I':' 4) p. m., arriving at Shoe Keel at 4:30 p. m.,
and'Ut Fayetteville at 8 p. m.
lieavea Fayetteville on Tuesdays, Thurs-?
days and Saturdays at 6:30 a. m.. Shoe Heel at:
10 a.m.,iaud arrives at liennettsville at 12 in.
Freight arid Passenger Train Worth leaves
Fayetteville da'lv at 8 a. m (connecting at!
sanr;r,d with Freight and Passenger Trains to
Raleigh), leaving San ford at 11:30 a. m.Tand
arriving at reenRboro at 3:40 p. m.
I eaves Greensboro daily at 5 a.m.; leaves
Snford at 11:15 a. in. and arrives at Fayette-
JOHN M. ROSE, 5
General Passenger Agent
W. M. . DUNN. If
Gen. Superintendent
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