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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
Vol. 2.
RALEIGH, N. 0., APRIL 14, 1887.
No. 8.
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OUR FARMERS' CLUBS.
What our Farmers are Doing and How
the Work of Organizing is
Progressing.
CATAWBA COUNTY FARMERS CLUB.
The Farmers County Club met in
Corfover on Saturday, the 26th day of
March, 1887. Through the kindness
of the Faculty of Concordia College,
the Chapel was used as the place for
the meeting. The house was called to
order by the President, J. W. Robin
son. Before proceeding to the regular
order of business, the President was
requested to vaddresss the meeting, to
which he responded most acceptably.
He insisted on a thorough organiza
tion, without which the farmers need
not expect to succeed. He said that
each Club represents a sheaf of wheat,
and the County Club represents the
shock. That in order to secure a good
shock it is necessary that each sheaf
be so bound that it will stand without
the assistance of another, and then
when all are brought together they
cannot be easily overthrown. He
urged the farmers to be . more united
in their calling, that in union alone is
strength. Said that nothing should
be said or done that would mar their
harmony; that if they would be true
to their calling a brighter day would
surely dawn ere long.
The Constitution was then read.
Roll was called. Each Club showed
the following representation:
Hickory, . 35 members.
Startown, ; 21 "
Lyles Creek, 36 "
Conover, "20
Clines No. 1, 41
No. 2, 33
" No. 3, 34
" No. 4, ' 24,
Catawba River, . 28.
B. & CXo. line, 24
East Catawba, - 20
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The following are the Executive
Committee chosen from each Club:
Hickory L. P. Seitz.
Startown Cicero Cline.
Lyles Creek J. M. Miller.
Conover C. W. Herman.
Clines No. 1 W. II. Rocket.
No. 2 T. L. Hunsucker.
No. 3 A. M. Moose.
No. 4 S. D. Little.
Catawba River J. W. Mouser.
B. & C. Co. line J. F. Click.
E. Catawba. S. C. Brown.
The question of establishing a Far
mers supply store was then considered.
The following was the report of the
committee:
Whereas, This being a matter of
great importance to the Catawba coun
ty Farmers Club in its great work of
reformation, and to better the condi
tion of the farmers as a class.
Resolved, That the matter of a sup
ply store be left open, and referred
back to the County Club at . its regular
meeting in July. The report of the
committee Was received, and after a
lengthy discussion, engaged in by
Col. H. A. Forney, C. W. Herman,
J. F. Click, N. E. Sigman, S. C.
Brown, Dr. C. H. Bernheim, Prof. J.
D. Rowe and others was tabled. Dr.
C. H. Bernheim then read some very
interesting letters and made some
timely remarks on the subject of ag
riculture. On motion, a committe con
sisting of J. F. Click, J. P. Cline and
H. A. Forney was appointed to con
sider and report a better system for
landlord and tenants, the same to be
discussed at next regular meeting. - The
Club then adjourned to meet in Con
over on the 4th Saturday in July at
10 o'clock a. m.
M. J. Rowe, Secretary.
CRANE'S CREEK FARMERS CLUB, MOORE
COUNTY. '
On Saturday, March 26th, 1887,
some of the farmers in the vicinity of
Crane's Creek met at the school house
of that place for the. purpose of or
ganizing a Farmers Club. Maj. John
W. Scott was called to the chair tem
porarily. Mr. Scott explained the ob
ject and intention of Farmer's Clubs,
after which the following names were
enrolled as members of the . Farmers
Club of Crane's Creek: N. T.Tyson,
A.. II. Cameron, D. Cole, B. W. Spivy,
J. P. Gilchrist, J. A. McLeod, W. B.
Parliam, J. M. Tyson, J. B. Cole,
Herbert Jackson and D. N. Caviness.
On permanent organization. A. H.
Cameron was elected President, B. W.
Spivy, Vice-President, D. N. Caviness,
Secretary, and Herbert Jackson, Treas
urer. N. T. Tyson, D. Cole and J. P.
Gilchrist were elected an Executive
Committee. D. Cole and D. N.
Caviness were appointed a committee
to report on Constitution and By
Laws. . The Constitution and By-Laws
as given in The Progressive Farmer
were adopted .with very slight modifi
cations. . ,
J. P. Gilchrist was elected delegate
to the County Club, which will meet
at Carthage Tuesday, April 19th, 1887.
The Secretary was ordered to notify
the editor of The Progressive Far
mer of our organization.
The Club - then adjourned to meet
on Saturday, April 23d, 1887. From
present indications we will have a
strong club. Success to Progressive
Farmer.
D. N; 'Caviness, Secretary.
The farmers of Moore are moving
for a County Club- A meeting has
been called by Club No. 1, Pocket
township, for the 19th inst., at Car
thage. The following were appointed
as delegates: - Thos. C. Campbell
Evander McGilvary, Jas. D. Henley,
O. B. Murchison, Eugene Mclyer, D.
M. Underwood, A. M. Wicker, G. B.
Cole, W. R. Camqbell, Geo. Willcox,
J. F. Gilliam and Geo. Cole. -
E. McGilvary, Presiding.
D. M. Underwood,. Sec. pro (em.
An interesting meeting of Lenoir
Springs Farmers Club yas held on the
2d inst.
A GRANGE RE-ORGANIZED.
Mr. J. T. Eaton, General Deputy of
State Grange, P. of H. of N. C, re
organized Palmetto Grange No. 110
at Vanceboro on Tuesday night with
seventy-two members 43 males and
29 females. The following are the of
ficers: Mr. Thomas Buck, Worthy
Master; Mr. Lewis Dickson, Overseer;
J. A. Jackson, Esq., Lecturer; Chas.
J. Buck, Stewart; Mr. W. E. Brown;
Assistant Stewart; Mr. J. Y. Pegram,
Chaplain; Mr. C. C.. Butler, Sr., Treas
urer; Mr. Peter Willis, Secretary; .Mr.
John W. Simpson, Gate Keeper; Mrs.
M. D. Dewey, Pomona; Miss Alice
Jackson, Flora; Mrs. M. Simpson,
Ceres; Mrs. E. Ewell, Lady Assistant
Stewart.
Mr. Eaton reports that there is con
siderable enthusiasm among the far
mers for organization, and he thinks
the Granges in this section will be in
a flourishing condition within a year.
New Berne Journal.
It is proposed to hold a Farmers
Mass Convention in Tjexington early
in the month of August. If the far.
mers of the good county of Davidson
will undertake it they will make it a
grand success. And they should have
it by all means. They need it and it
will do them good.
The High Point Enterprise says a
Farmer's Club will be organized in
that town on the 29th inst.
CATAWBA VALLEY CLUB.
The Catawba Valley Farmers Club
met March 26th, 1887, organized by
electing Capt. J. S. Bridges Presi
dent; M. J. Cochrane, Vice-President;
Capt. J. H. Sherrill, Treasurer; C. A.
Reid, Secretary. On motion J. H.
Sherrill, J. L. Cline and J. Q. Rowe
were appointed a committee to draft
constitution and by laws for this club
and report at next meeting. The sub
ject of, discussion was the best manure
for corn and how to apply it.' Newton
Enterprise.
- At the meeting of the East Catawba
Farmers Club on the 2d inst. it was
agreed to measure 'off a piece of land
and see who could raise the most corn,
cotton, potatoes, &cL; to-the acre, pre
miums to be considered at the next
meeting: The subject for discussion
at the meeting on the third Saturday
in this month is "Does farming pay,
and if so, how does' it pay best?" - S.
C. Brown was elected secretary in
place of the former secretary, who had
moved away.
MITCHEL'S MILL CLUB, WAKE COUNTY.
' On the 2d instant a club was formed
at Mitchell's Mill, and the following offi
cers were elected:
J. B. Redford, President; R. C.
Mitchell, Vice-President; R. J. Bar
ham, Treasurer; R. M. Barham, Secre
tary, f '
The Constitution and By-Laws pub
lished bv the Progressive Farmer
were adopted. The Club will meet
again on the fourth Saturday of April,
when they expect to have a large ad-'
dition to their numbers. Postoffiee,
Hartsville, N. C. -
GOOSE CREEK. FARMERS CLUB, UNION
COUNTY.
Our Club, held its third meeting on
the 19th ultimo and. effected a perma
nent organization by electing the fol
lowing gentlemen: 1 -
President, J. ; M. , Braswell; Vice
President, E. E. Braswell; Secretary,
S. L. Mullis; Executive Committee,
J. L. Chaney, W. E. Presley, J. A.
Clonts, J. S. Jones and J. J. Tomber
lane. We now number 51 members, and
the whole Club is fullv aflve to everv
thing which may build us up and bet
ter our condition as a class. We feel
that the farmers of the whole country
should organize for their protection
and advancement. We will cry "hard
times, until we learn the Jruth that we
must depend on our awn efforts arid
owh brains and stand together. Please
send us sample copies of your paper
and give us your best rates to clubs.
We want to keep posted and the way
to do it is to read our newspaper.
S. L. Mullis, Sec' v.
PLEASANT RIDGE CLUB.
Our club met March 19th, and we
discussed the question of "diversifica
tion of crops."
F. N. Pfaff being called on to open
the discussion said: Gentlemen, we
must diversify our crops more than we
have been doing. Every should raise
wheat enough to do him and oats and
corn. We should pay a more at
tention to the raising of grass than
we have been doing. By raising grass
and plenty of good hay for our stock,
we can save a great deal of corn, and
the grass helps to improve our lands,
and it helps us in raising stock, and
the grass and stock will help us to
make manure and thus build up our
farms. We must curtail our tobacco
crops, though Pam not going to quit
raising tobacco entirely, but I'm first
going to try to make plenty of wheat,
oats, corn and hay, vegetables of all
kinds such as potatoes, both Irish and
sweet, cabbage, &c Then I will try
to raise a small crop of tobacco and
trv to make that good. But raising
-a large crop of tobacco requires so
much work that we are bound to neg
lect our other crops and also the im
proving of our lands.
Mr. J. I. Leinback: What consti
tutes a happy life on a farm? It is not
this one crop system, the culture of
tobacco. It is raising plenty of the
necessaries of life which we are bound
to have. By jthe raising of tobacco
we have moved our graneries and
smokehouses North. Last summer I
had three fresh milch cows my least
boy, 9 years old, was my ; herdsman.
He would take my cows out and at
tend to them twice a day, and when
he was not out with the cattle he
would be putting leaves into my cow
stalls. I had milk and butter plenty,1
and I tell you it takes no small quan
tity at my house, I have a large fam
ily. I had up several young hogs which
I fed principally upon milk.: This is
what my youngest boy did while three
of my older boys and myself were
working on the farm trying to. raise
tobacco and corn, :&c. I coinsider my
youngest boy the most valuable hand
I have on my'farm. -Tc ;
. Mr. R. B. Flynt said I agree with
these men that every farmer should
raise plenty of grain to do him. A nd
I am going to, try to fix myself for
raising stock. By raising stock and
grass and I can build up my farm.
We ought prepare our land well for
wheat. Plow deepvbut not turn the
land too deep.- But for corn 1 don't
think it it matters how deep we turn
our land and then, keep plowing deep
in cultivating your corn and get your
soil well mixed. But I don't think
we ought to quit raising tobacco en
tirely. But don't go crazy over it as
we have done. But what we raise
make it good.
Mr. A. D. Hulin: Gentleman I
agree with the rest of .you on raising
tobacco. We raise too much. I
would like to see some of you take
notice of - what time you spend on a
crop of tobacco. .All the manure we
make and all the fertilizers we buy
the tobacco crop gets. " We must raise
more grass and stock; one is essential
to the other. The best' and most
valuable crop I' ever raised was clover.
I know " it was , worth ': $50 an acre.
We don't prepare, our land for wheat
as we should do.' The tobacco worms
keep us from it. This everlasting to
bacco is always in the way it's to
bacco first, tobacco last and tobacco
all the time. We ought to pay more
attention to : the raising of oats and
potatoes. Potatoes are like the old
darkey's rabbit they are good this
way and good that way they are
good any way. They are good for the
old woman, good for the children,
good for the cattle, good for the pigs
and in fact they are good for every
thing. : 1 - F. JjT. Pfaff. -
ROCK RIDGE CLUB, WILSON COUNTY.
We are glad to report a club or
ganized in this county. By appoint
ment several farmers of this section
met at Rock Ridge Academy on the
29 th ult., at night, and organized a
club of about twenty-five members
with the following officers: L. B.
Boyette, President, Benagie Scott, Vice
President, L. H. Boy kin, Secretary.
Much interest and enthusiasm was
manifested in this meeting and we ex
pect fifty or seventy-five members very
soon. .
I hope to see a club in every town
ship in this county very soon. I will
try at the meeting of the County Club
to get some progressive and live far.
mers in each township appointed as a
committee to organize clubs in their
townships. I do hope to see this done
in every county in the State, and then
these County Clubs to co-operate with
a well organized and conducted State
Club. By a thorough system of or
ganization we can more readily get at
each other and find out our wants,,
and especially can we more readily be
benefitted by the efforts of . our State
department, which I hope has started
to get into a good position, if managed
by the right man, to do a vast amount
of good to our farmers.
I hope to see more in The Progres
sive Farmer, from your correspon
dents, of what they have done and how
they did it, than what may or ought to
be done. Thousands of farmers know
that they ought to change but they
don't know how to do . it. We want
to know how every successful and
progressive farmer in the State made
his success. What he did, how he did
it, and where? Will try to make up a
club at our next , meeting for your
paper. " .
Very Truly Yours,
H. F. Freeman.
There are , twenty-seven inmates at
the county, poor house. Ash boro
Courier. : - . .-' -
Several farmers clubs have been or
ganized, in Caldwell county. Newton
Enterprise, r -
: We are daily in receipt of cumula
tive evidence that, thus far, the peach
blossoms ; near; and: away from; town
arer not all killed, ; There is promise,
of a fair crop of the early, :a few of
the medium and some very late kinds.
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A car load of MeCorinick's latest
improved mowers and self binders ar
rived here this vtooV. Salisbury
"Watchman.
A block of mica was recently dis
covered in Jackson county, measuring
26 bv 3( inches and 10 inches thick,
and weighing 1,000 pounds. Newton
Enter j trise. '
It is estimated that the daily output
of the mills situated on Pungo and
Pamlico rivers, when they run their
full capacity, is over 230.000 feet- of
timber. Washington Gazette.
Parties in Raleigh will build a horse
car railroad across Bogue teach, from
the landing on the sound. This will "
add greatly to the many new attrac
tions of the Atlantic Hotel the coming
season . It rce kly Record.
We. are informed that on. the old
Meyer's plantation there is a vessel
fully 75 feet long, which is buried in
the mud ten miles from the Chowan
and nine from the Cashie river.
Windsor Public Led tier. .
A survey of the Cape Fear & Yad-
kin Valley Railroad from Milboro to
Ashebbro has been ordered. Randolph
county is in high glee over the pros
pect of a railroad extension, which
may ultimately work through Ashe-;
boro to Troy and Wadesboro. North
State.
On Tuesday, March 29th. a young
white man named Davie Pavne was
drowned in Haw river at Cedar Cliff,
while attempting to cross the stream
in a boat. His body floated down the
stream and was found in the mill pond
at Cedar Cliff last Saturday afternoon
about 4 o'clock. -Orange County Ob
server. '" ---- . ' '
If there is any patriotism in bal
loting, the citizens of Winston town
ship will be given an unusual number
of opportunities to display this virtue
during the next few months. There
is the Railroad election, April 14th.
Municipal elections, 1st- Monday in
May; Local Option election June Cth.
Union Republican.
Mr. F. H. Fries, ol Salem, has
among his numerous collections of
curiosities and mementos of a recent
pleasure trip to foreign lands a copper
cent, partially imbedded in lava, which
was so surrounded in his presence,
while standing near the crater of Mt.
Versuvius, with the burning, seething
lava flowing at his feet. Yinston Re
publican. "
It is estimated by those who are in
position to know, that not over, half of
the year's tobacco crop has yet -been
sold. -The sale of commercial fer
tilizers here this season is as nothing ;
compared with that' of past seasons.
The farmers, during the fall winter
and spring, have made more compost
some with and some without the use
of acid than they ever made before.
Statesville Landmark.-
We hear that a- man's house and
farm is to be sold at the court house
soon under a mortgage for a debt of
seven dollars. A letter has been
received from Gen. Joseph E. John-,
ston, in wrhich he signifies his inten
tion of being here' on the occasion of
the unveiling of the Confederate
monument on the 10th of May. How
ever he will not deliver the address,
as his business engagements are" such
as does not allow him . sufficient spare
time to prepare a suitable address for
the occasion. Senator Vance has been
invited and will doubtlefes deliver the
address. -Smithfield Herald.
Mr. John Carter, hear Wentworth.
has two turkey hens which he says lay
three , eggs each ? every day. The
peaches, if not ail killed, are so badly
burned by the frost that it is thought
they will drop off before they mature.
A drunken man would be quite a
show on our streets, and would create
asmuch excitement as a dog fight.
The farmers who have visited our
office the past week all agree that to
bacco plants are destroyed. No great
preparation, they sayti as heretofore,
has been made, and even- if every
thing had been favorable there w;oiifd
not have been the usual quantity '1?ut
now the prospect ; i or , any crop -seems
to be cut off, as the plants are dead.
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