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THE
, MAY 19 1887,
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PROGRESSIVE
FARMER
totals
North Carolina State Board of Agri-cultured-
, -
Gov. A. M. caje3 (eawcio) chairman.
W. R. Williams,' of Pitt, Master, State
Grange. . . - .,:.
Col. R. W. Wharton, 1st Congressional
District. .... r . .. . - . . .
Df. A. G. Brooks, 2d Congressional Dis
trict, . ' ' ' '
H. Lr Grant, 3rd Congressional District.
Col. "W. Fi Green, 4th Congressional
District. - f -i1
J. H.: Murrow, 5th Congressional Dis
trict, i .' . ' 1 , .
S. B. Alexander, Cth Congressional Dis
trict (elect).1-
A. Leazer, 7th Congressional District.
Burwejl Blanton, 8th Congressional Dis
trict. ' , " "
Dr. C. D. Srhith;'9th Congressional Dis
trict.' . t .' i "
OFFICERS
.
John. Robinson,-.Commissioner.
T.K. Bruner,. Acting Secretary.
C. W. Dabney,-' Jr., Chemist and Direc
tor of Experiment Station.
John T. Patrick, General -Agent Immi
gration. TRUSTEES OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND MA
CilANICAL COLLEGE.
The members of the Board of Agricul
ture, to whom are added:
W. S. Primrose, Wake.
G. Z. French, Pender.
H. E. Fries, Forsyth.
Gen. R. Barringer, Mecklenburg.
Elias Carr, Edgecombe.
STATE GRANGE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
W. R. Williams, Falkland, Pitt county,
Master.
Dr. J. W. Sessoms, Bethel, Lecturer.
W. H. Powell, Battleboro, Treasurer.
H. T. J. Ludwig, Mt. Pleasant, Secre
tary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Rev. Wm. Grant, Jackson, N. 0.
Capt. W. H. Powell, Battleboro, "
N. T. Ridley, Boykins, Va.
THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS' ASSOCIATION.
President-Elias Carr, Old Sparta,
Edgecombe county.
Vice Presidents W. R. Williams, 1st
Congressional District; W. A. Darden,
2d Congressional District; G. Z. French,
3d Congressional District; W. F. Green,
4th Congressional District; H. E. Fries,
5th Congressional District ; J. S. Reid, Gth
Congressional District; W. H. Hobson,
7th Congressional .District; Burwell Blan
ton 8th Congressional District; W. H.
McLure, 9th Congressional District
B. F. Hester, Oxford, Secretary ; S.
Otho Wilson,, Vineyard, and W. E. Ben
bow, Oak Ridge, Assistant Secretaries.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
D. Reid Parker, Twnity College, A. M.
Mclver, Oaks, D. McN. McKay, Averas
boro; L. L. Polk, Raleigh, and C. Mc
Donald, Concord.
N. C. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
W. G. Upchurch, Raleigh, President;
John Nichols, Raleigh, Secretary.
It is said that Mrs. TJ. S. Grant is
dying of diphtheria.
The next Episcopal State Convention
will be held at Salisbury on the fourth
Wednesday in May 1888. . .
It is stated that the acreage planted
in corn in the Southern States is 24 per
cent greater than last year.
We sympathise with our friend Wade
H. Harris, of Charlotte, and his estimable
wife in the death of their little son..
The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons of North Carolina holds its annual
communicatio'ii at Charlotte on the 24th
inst. ; .: : '
The celebration of the Mecklenburg
Declaration of". Independence on. the 20th
inst, in Charlotte,, promises . to be a grand
affair." . " . ' v. ' .-tV"'-
During the Baptist Convention in
Louisville a foreign mission mass meet
ing was held ana $20,000 were subscribed
on the spot. ;: '-; '.
The collector of the part of San Fran
cisco seized $'60,000 worth qf opium on
the 14th inst,which had just arrived from
Hong Kong. v : ,
Mr. H. J. Dowell, on account of ill
health, retires from the editorship of the
Windsor Ledger and is succeeded by
Benj. H. Swain. ; :
The Gold Leaf wants a Yance county
cattle show to be held at Henderson, and
says that Vance county can make a good
exhibit of fine cattle.
Keep your boys and girls at home
after night, at least within sight. The
devil is a night watchman. v That is when
he gets in his 'biggest work.
, r The government is about to purchase
a tract of 224 acres of-land about two
miles from Washington, to be . used as an
experimental farm for, the Department of
Agriculture. ' : c
Messrs. F. & H. Fries, of Salem,
have put a 200 hoirse-power Corliss engine
in the." Arista cotton mills and ;it is said
that it requires the hides of 80 cattle to
make the driving belt. (
Five 'thousand emigrants arrived in
iNew York one day last week', ' and it is
said that 65,000 tickets have been sold in
Ireland and Scotland' for - America-the
emigrants to come in June.1 ' J
It is" said that the Birmingham,"1' Ala.',
-boom has bursted''and left lots of folks
badly hurt. Booms are dangerous'things
to handle unless y our kno.wy which end to
take hold of and just when, to Jet-go.
'". A j dispatch from Columbia, S. C.,
says that myriads of cotton caterpillars in
tlie'Pee Dee sAvamp have stopped an en
gine and train of cars, by ci'awling onfthei
rails, and causing them to become slick.
! , The Union Pacific Railroad Company
; received from the government an average
of $27,000 in cash, for every mile of road
, constructed an aggregate of $27,t)00,000,A
: to say nothing of millions of acres of land.
We note that some of thec farmers'
clubs will hold fairs the coming fall. One
of the clubs in Forsyth county will hold
a fair and offers about 40 premiums. That
club is on the right track and will be sure
to live and prosper. . y
An exchange mentions as a rare oc
currence that a captain of a sloop lying
at the wharf " sneezed his set of artificial
teeth overboard." It would have been a
much more rare occurrence if he had
sneezed a set of material teeth overboard.
While a large crowd of spectators
were viewing a colored baptizing in the
river at New Orleans last Sunday, a
defective railing around the wharf gave
way and a hundred or more were forced
into the river and about fifteen drowned.
Capt. B. P. Williamson has presented
us with a small bundle of Italian rye
grass 30 inches high, from a second cut
ting, the first cutting having been made
thirty days ago when the grass was 32
inches high. This makes a growth of 62
inches.
Some sharp wool dealers down in
Texas have resorted to a cute trick to
evade the duty on wool imported from
Mexico. They drive flocks of sheep
over the border and have duty as
sessed upon them as live stock, and then
do the shearing.
Albert Tabor, the colored villain who
committed a rape in Granville county last
March on a highly respectable lady, was
tried last week at Oxford and condemned
to be hung on the 18th of June. The
jury was composed of two white me
and ten negroes.
The Southern . Cultivator, at Atlanta,
Ga., has been, published contimiously for
forty-four years, and is, we ae glad to
learn, flourishing. Such journals are a
credit to the sectior in wtich they are
published, and to the peole who show
their appreciation of them by liberal sup
port. . .
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A new device is being adopted on
the Richmond & Danville KStilroad trains
to take the place of the old bell cord. It
is a steam whistle placed in the cab of the
locomotive, operated by steam from the
boilers of the engine, carried through
pipes attached to the cars similar to the
pipes on the air-brakes.
There is one advantage in being un
known to fame. There will be no neces
sity of having your grave guarded to
prevent your bones from being stolen. It
is said that a plot has been recently ex
posed to steal'the bones of Henry Ward
Beecher fronrtneir temporary1' sepulcner
in Greenwood Cemetery, and policemen
have been placed there to guard it.- -:
-'-jl,To remove the scales or loose baric
orijapple trees and to destroy the habita
tion of the codling moth, some persons
resort to scraping or to whitewashsng the
bodies of the trees.- .We have always
found tliat a liberal wash of lye soap will
do the work effectually. This should be
done in early, spring but it is not too late
now to Tbe of great benefit to the trees.
Dr.- JFrank M. Deems, , resident of
New York, sonpf Rev. Dr. C. F. Deems,
the well-known preacher, seems, to have
domestic trouble. His. wife sues for di
vorce, alleging that he is a victim .of the
morphine habit, that he is very crdel and
that she fears to live with himj while he
replies that h4 is also a victim of mor
phine, unkind to him, &c. ' They are evi
dently unsuited. , . ' " ' 11
For twentjr ' years past we have not
seen the work of our farmers so well ad
vahced. The weather has been alike
favorable to the crops and to all- kinds Of
fai'in work. The prospect-for a fruit crop
is good-the .wheat is exceptionally fine
-oat crop good, tand the grasses and
clover were never better, while the splen
did stand of cotton and corn has never
been surpassed. Now let our f armers see
to it that they husband from this abund
ant prospect a plentiful supply to live on
at home, and stick to the policy of home
supplies and in a few years, they will, in
deed, be independent. . . -l . V
i Mr. C. T. Aberhathy tells us what he
knows of the Catawba farmers in the
Piedmont Press: "I expected to find
farmers discouraged, owing to the short
crops last year, but they seem to have
profited by the failure and have gone to
work in earnest, planting large crops and
making their own manure, and don't talk
nor think of hard times, except a few
grumblers, who buy guano and raise cot
toh and fight grass in summer and then
buy grass, meat and bread all winter. J At'
;very near every school house in the
county the farmers have organized and
are doing some good farmers' club work."
V The rapid growth of The Farmers'
Alliance in Texas is marvelous, and per
haps without a parallel in the history of
farmers' organizations in this or any other
country. They have a number of strong,
able and zealous organs, and this is the
secret of their growth and strength. We
read with interest the Alliance Standard,
Tlie South West, The Southern Murcury
and Hie Longview Cycle all zealously
devoted to the interests of the farmers
and to their organization. The enterpris
ing farmers of that great and enterprising
State have sfruck the key-note to success
have papers of their own, devoted sole
ly to their interests and give them a
hearty support.
Our Thanks Are due and are hereby
extended to the marshals of the two
literary societies of Wake Forest College,
who have sent us one of the handsomest
commencement tickets we have ever
seen. The exercises, take place June 7th,
8th and 9th, and on the bill of fare we see
the names of J. H. Mills, Hon. M. W.
Ransom and Rev. Dr.' Thomas Armitage.
This is guarantee sufficient.
And now here comes another most
elegant and tasty invitation to the Com
mencement Party, at'' Trinity College,
which occurs Thursday evening, June
9th. And this bears the names of J. J.
Scarborough, Qilyf Mniiwwim jiiiI J. A.
Ragan,
meriyjfe bow our acknowledgments an
you a most delightful occasion, sor
rowing most of all that we cannot be at
both places at the same time.
A CONSTITUTION OF
The National Farmers' Alliance and
Co-Operative Union of America.
The committee on constitution and
by-laws being ready, were t allowed to
report, after which the constitution
was adopted seriatim. ' Then on mo
tion of J: Mi 'Perdue, it was adopted
as a whole, and signed by each of the
delegates, as follows:
Whereas, We, the undersigned,
twenty-one delegates, representing
over two hundred thousand members
of the Farmers Alliance of Texas, and
over ten thousand; members of the
Farmers Union of Louisiana, are in
convention assembled for the pur
pose of organizing a National Labor
Association of Farmers, and '
Whereas, ; This con vention has had
full authority delegated to it by the
Farmers State Union of Louisiana,
therefore it is resolved,
I. That said association be a secret,
organization, and
2. That it is to be non-partisan In
politics and non-sectarian in religion.
3. That it be composed exclusively
of white persons who are citizens of
the United States- ,
4. That the following constitution is
hereby adopted and submitted to the
Farmers Union of Louisiana for ratifi
cation. CONSTITUTION.
DECLARATION OF PURPOSES '
Profoundly impressed that we, the
farmers of America, who are united
by the strong and faithful ties of finan
cial and home interests, should when
organized into an association, set forth
our declaration of intentions. ' We
therefore resolve, . ; j
1. To "labor for the education of the
agripultural classes in the science of
economic government in a strictly non
partisan spirit, -and-to rbring about a
more perfect unicn xf ; said classes. ?
2. That we demandi equal rights to
all and special favors to none. . "
3. Tnrt we return to tne oia prin
cipal of letting the office seek the man;
instead of the man- seeking the office.
4. To endorse the motto, "In things
essential unity, and in all things, char
lty." . . , ; -
5. To develop a ' betier state men
tally, morally, socially and 'financially.
6. To create a better understanding
for sustaining our civil officers in main
taining law and order.
7. To constantly strive to secure en
tire harmony and good will to all man
kind,and brotherly 'love among "our
selves, t .-. .:
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, ,8. To suppress pei sonal, local, sec
tional and national .prejudices, all
: unhealthf ul rivalry and all selfish
ambition. - J ' " ' "c -
: 9. - The brightest ' jewels which it
garners are the. tears of widows and
orphans, and its imperative commands
are $o visit the homes where lacerated;
hearts are bleeding; to assuage the
sufferings of a brother or sister; bury'
the dead; care for the widows and
educate the orphans;, to e2cejrcise char-.
ity. towards offenders! to construe
woras ana aeeas m tneir most iavor
able light; granting honesty of pur
pose and good intentions to others,
and to protect the principles of the
National Farmers Alliance and Co
operative Union until death. Its laws
are reason and equity, its cardinal doc
trines inspire purity of thought an I
life, its intention is, "Peace on earth
and good will to man."
article i. ,
Section 1. This body shall be known
as The National Farmers Alliance and
Co-Operative Union of America, with
power to make its own constitution
and by-laws.
Sec. 2. The National body shall be
composed of delegates from the vari
ous State organizations holding char
acters from, accepting the secret work
of, and conforming to the constitution
and by-laws of this National organiza
tion. Sec. 3. Each State organization that
complies with the above requirements
shall be entitled to one delegate for
each four counties or fractions of four
counties organized in that State.
' Sec. 4. No person shall be eligible
to membership in the National body
until he shall have attained the age of
25 years.
ARTICLE II.
Section 1. The regular annual meet
ing of the National body shall be on
the second Wednesday in October of
each year, at 10 o'clock a m., and at
such place as may from time to time
be decided by the body or such officer
or committee as they may delegate
that duty.
Sec. 2. The officers of the National
Farmers Alliance and Co-operative
Unm shall be a President, Vice-Pres-identVn
additional Vice-President for
each state organized, a Secretary, a
Treasurer, a Chaplain, a Lecturer and
Assistant Doorkeeper and a Sergeant
at-arms.
Sec. 3- They shall be elected at each
annual meeting from members of
the body, and shall be entitled to hold
office until their successors are elected
and installed; at which time the retir
ing officers shall immediately become
honorary members of the National
body for that session only.
Sec. 4. The duties of the officers of
the National Farmers Alliance and
Co-operative Union shall be the duties
usually incumbent upon and performed
by officers of the same name in similar
organizations.
Sec. 5. The President shall be the
presiding officer.
Sec. 6. The Vice-Presidents of the
body shall constitute the executive
committee and board of trustees.
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ARTICLE III.
; Section ,1. Dues.--Each State . or-'
ganizatfonr under the jurisdiction of
this body'j shall pay at dach annual
session of the body five per cent, 'of
the gross cash receipts of the State
organization. , , - Y ...:
Sec. 2. The members of the Na
tional Order are expected to present
at the regular annual meetings, re
ports , of the numerical . strength and
condition . of , the order in the - State
they represent and of the success at
tending their efforts in co-operation;
also mental and moral improvement.
; j ARTICLE IV. 1 ;
Section 1. The President, Secretary
and chairman of committee on secret
work shall constitute a board for the
examination of brothers who wish to
become organizing officers.
Sec. 2. A brother wishing "to be
come an organizing officer shall pre
sent to the above board of examina-.
tion a recommendation from the -President
and Secretary of his state organ
ization or some other- credible .author
lty as to his integrity : and moral char
acter,1 anc that he is not addicted o
the excessive use of intoxicants ; upon
receipt of which itshall be the duty
of the - examining board tor examine J
the applicant as to his qualification
(and adaptability to the work.
Sec. 3. If he shall pass a satisfacto
,ry examination, he shall be commis
sioned as organizing officer by the
.President, which conimission shall be
attested by the Secretary.
Sec. 4. .There shall not be more than
one- organizing officer commissioned
in each congressional district in States
having no State organization.
Sec. '5. -The organizers shall work
under instructions from the above
i named examining board, and shall fe
.port to the National Secretary.
Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the
President to issue a charter, attested
by. the Secretary, to each Alliance or
ganized according to law and inst rue-!
tions, . by. organizing officeis. i
. . Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the
by the Secretary, to any State," organ
ization, or farmers in any State, when
they comply with the following re-v
quirements: . . ,
A. That they admit to membership
no person unless eligible to member-1
ship under - the constitution of the
State Alliance of Texas, or the State
Farmers' Union of Louisiana.
B. That they have organizations in
as many as three counties in the State
for which the charter is desired.
C. That they will adopt and use the
'secret work of this National associa
tion. ;
D. That they will not adopt laws or
usages contrary to the constitution
of this National order.
E. That they have adopted a consti
tution and by-laws, and present a copy
of same to be filed with the National
Secretary.
ARTICLE, v.
Section 1 . All rights and powers
not herein expressly delegated, are
reserved to the State organizations sev
erally. ARTICLE VI.
t
Section 1. This constitution cannot
be altered or amended, except upon a
written resolution, clearly setting forth
the change or addition to be made,
which shall be read in open session on
at least two separate days, and adopted
by a two-thirds majority, and not then
unless it be ratified by three-fourths of
i the State organizations of the order
withm one year.
ADVICE FROM AN OLD SHEEP
BREEDER.
In breeding sheep for wool, start
with thoroughbred or even grade ewes
as large in size as they- can be had, of .
good length and thickness of wool,
neither too coarse or gummy. Use
for breeding none but those of strong
constitutions that have not been pam
pered or overfed. Procure a good
thoroughbred Merino ram as perfect
as you can find, -of large size,
square build, long and as evenly woolecl
as possible. - See that the fleece is not
too gummy or wrinkly, and let the
animal show for himself that he has a
strong constitution. Get' him from
some well-known and reliable breeder ;
never mind how long or short his
pedigree is or whether he has any, if
you are satisfied he is a thoroughbred
and will get good stock.
'-Never use a ram of your own rais
ing that will be connected with your
flock. This trying to get into a flock
of thoroughbreds by xising rams of 1
one s ownv raising and breeding, has
destroyed more good sheep than any-,
thing else that can be named. Where"
one man succeeds, 999 fail. As often"
as a ram is needed, buy one of the
same breed, mt not connected by .
blood relations. Have the ewes num-J
bered from 1 upward as high as your
flock goes ; carry a small note book in
your pocket, and if anything happens
to one, of the ewes that, will injure her
for breeding or for keeping, it should
be noted down, as it will be of great
assistance in culling your flock, which
should be done at shearing time.
J. R. C, Alleghany county, N. Y., in,
Farm and Home. -
Drilled at the irate of two bushels
per acre on land in good cultivation '
as . early as the condition of the soil .
will permit, the - Canada field pea
(white) can be harvested about the
middle oi August, when as a rule our
corn cribs are empty and grain bins
running low. This fact and the known
economy of feeding ; during mild
weather. the pea one of the most
desirable crops we can raise for an early ;
grain ieea ior iauening nogs,, yu
account of the pea weevil the seed
was longobtained from Canada, where
the insect is less prevalent. But the
last two years, , owing to the ; strange
jfact of an almdst entire absence of the
iweevil among us;1 many have sown
nome irrown seed.-i-J. I); Cook, Gene
see county, N. Yl, in Famyand Home.