Vol. 2.
OUR FARMERS CLUBS.
What our Farmers are Doing and How
the Work of Organizing is
Progressing.
OLD GUILFOKD TO THE FRONT
From a private letter we learn that
a farmers club was organized at Sum
merfield with 60 members, and that
the farmers are taking hold of the
work with great enthusiasm. "We
shall expect to hear of good work by
that conservative and sterling com
mUnity. We hope to hear from the
secretary m a few days.
PIKKVILLE NEWS.
The farmers of this section met to
organize a "Farmers' Club." Mr. J,
H. Edgerton was appointed tempo
rary chairman and Dr. J. E. Person,
Secretary.
A committee was also appointed to
prepare suitable by-laws.
After an interesting talk from Mr.
Edgerton, the meeting adjourned to
convene again on the 2nd Saturday in
June, when a large attendance is ex
pected. Messenger.
Euto Farmers' Club, New Salem
Township, Union county, N. C, was
formed April 9th, 1887, and elected
W. H. Austin President, John M.
Austin Vice-President, Joseph M. Aus
tin Secretary, Ashly Baucom Treas
urer. Executive Committee : J. B.
Brantly, V. H. Baucom and W. A.
Tarlton. The Club numbers 30 mem
bers and meets twice a month, Ques
tion for discussion for June 4th is,
"What course shall we pursue to better
our condition ? There are two other
clubs in our township, one numbering
30 , the other 35 members. We are
all young soldiers in vthe field, and
need the counsel of others of more ex
perience in the grand work of organ
ization and consolidation.
Joseph M. Austin, Sec'y.
THE FARMERS' INSTITUTE.
An enthusiastic meeting of farmers
was held in the court house at noon on
Tuesday, pursuant to the notice pub-
liehed in the Dispatch last week
"D T T TTT 1 a 1 "11 1 .
jrroi. x xj. v v ngnt oemg canea to wie
chair, explained the object of the meet
ing. W. R. McCuiston, Esq., was
chosen secretary. j
The first and most important ques
tion to decide was: "Shall we have a
farmers' institute?" Dr. W. B. Mears
made an excellent talk in favor of the
institute. Other prominent farmers
also spoke favorably, and, on the vote
being taken, it was unanimously deci
ded to hold the institute on the 18 th
and 19th of August.
The following committee was ap
pointed on program or work for the
institute: H. L. Clodfelter, II. J. Pal
mer, George Kinney, K. D. Snider, J.
H. Swicegood, W. A. Beck, David
Smith, Dr. J. F. Beal, B.F. Becker
dite, C. L. Badgett, By resolution
Prof. I. L. Wright was 'added to the
committee. Dispatch.
FARMERS' MEETING AT HILLS
BORO. The Farmers' Club at Oaks adopted
the following resolution at their last
regular meeting :
Resolved, That we recommend and
earnestly request the farmers of Orange
county to meet in Hillsboro on the 30th
day of J uly next to organize a county
farmers' club and institute.
In the great movement now made
in this and in all the Southern States
to unite the farmers in the protection
of their own interests and the promo
tion of the great industrial interests of
the South, we appeal to our brother
farmers in Orange county not to stand
aloof or be indifferent. Let us organ
ize and pull together.
Alex. McIver, President.
S. S. "Webb, Secretary.
PROGRESS.
One hundred and twenty-three new
Granges have been organized in the
United States so far this year, against
ninety-one for all of -last year. ,
THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS
For Tpu Pboobxssitx Faxueh.
CEDAR GROVE CLUB.
. Winston, June 6, 1887.
The club met in regular meeting
last Saturday, and held a very inter
estmg session. The topic under dis
cussion, which was handled in an in
formal way, was what is the best way
to earn a living on the farm ? which
called for remarks from a number of
the members present, the conclusion
arrived at being that the best way was
to make the farm self-sustaining, to
raise our home supplies, what we eat
ourselves, and feed for our stock our
own beef, pork and mutton, wheat,
corn, oats, grass, &c, and thus be in
dependent of our own masters.
The proposed farmers' meeting was
considered favorably and the follow
ing resolution was unanimously
adopted :
"We, the members of Cedar Grove
Club, favor the proposed farmers mass
meeting and dinner at Clinard's Stand on
the last Saturday in July, and that the
farmers of Forsyth and adjoining counties
be invited to participate, and we request
an expression or opinion from all the
other subordinate clubs in the county
through The jf rogressive .Farmer.
It was thrown out as a suggestion
that every member of a club, or
Forsyth farmer bring a basket with a
supply of eatables sufficient for his
family and two or more besides, to
insure an abundance of substantials
and delicacies for all that may come
J. J. Craft, Sec'y.
A MODEL HAY BARN.
Dr. H. T. Bahnson has erected
novel hay barn upon his Sedge Field
Dairy Farm below town. It is about
18x20 feet and has four corner posts
some 20 or 30 feet high in which holes
have been made at regular intervals
and in which pins are inserted to sup
port the roof. 4 .The roof can be raised
or lowered by the pins. The sides
are open and the barn can readily be
removed from one place to another
and is a decided 'impiWEement over
the common stacking: system.
xTHE PROSPEROUS FARME
X ' C N
'ne prosperous iarmer, like eve
other business man, is he who takes
advantages of circumstances to get the
most he honestly can out of what he
has to sell. Not all business men fol
low the golden rule to do unto others
what would be desired of them. Not
all farmers do this, yet the golden
rule is best in the long run. Why ?
A man's probity in dealing not only
insures respect, but enables him to get
better prices than he who does not
strictly regard his word.
The man honorable m his dealings
may be a man as keen in his bargains
or in getting prices as he who does not
strictly regard his word. He is more
apt to figure closely in personal ex-
penses, wniie at the same time Deing
liberal m all things. He is apt to feed
closely and at the same time fully. He
saves by attending closely to the com
fort of his stock. No depreciation is
allowed to take place in buildings and
sheds. His farm machines, wagons
and implements never. suffer from un
due contact with the .weather. Every
thing has a place, and all labor is per
formed at the proper time. He does
not undertake work out of season, but
in season he drives his work ; it never
drives him. He hires only the best
help, treats his workmen courteously,
and hence always gets the best and
keeps it. His workmen may advise,
but never dictate to him.
When a crop is ready . for the mar
ket it is promptly sold if the price
suits. If not, it is held until the price
iis satisfactory.. A crop, however, or
animals, are not held for speculative
prices. Me well Knows tne cost oi
holding a crop, and the loss on ani
mals from feeding, while holding from
he market when fat. : -
The prosperous farmer is a reading
man. He keeps him sell posted on ms
business through journals devoted to
his profession. - He may not get rich
suddenly, but he does not fail, except
from some unavoidable disaster. Are
OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO
RALEIGH, N. O;, JUNE 16,
there any of our readers who have
been pursuing the slack way of doing
business? If so, there is no better
time to institute reform than now.
A DINNER.
The Farmers Club which was recen
tly organized at Nobles' Mills, on Sat
urday 18th will give a dinner. Gen
W. R. Cox and others have been Tnvi
ted to attend and address the club.
The club will meet at eleven o'clock
sharp Tarbora Southerner.
CANNING FACTORY.
Mr. L. C. Heynes will shortly start
in Lexington a factory for the purpose
of canning fruits, vegetables, etc. Mr.
Heynes is one of Lexington's most
enterprising citizens, and we predict
success for him, in his business. With
our splendid native fruits and veget
ables there is no reason why home
institutions should not supply our
home markets with these goods at an
advantage to the retailer as well as to
the canner. Charlotte Observer.
WISCONSIN FARMERS' INS:
TUTE.
Wisconsin may be called the bknner
State, in the successful carrying out of
Farmers institutes.' With the month
of December they are fairly under
way, and from that time on these pop
ular gathering of the farmers are be
ing carried forward in the various dis
tricts of the State.
These Institutes are under the pat
ronage of the State, and complete
programs of places,, dates and speak
ers are issued. They have become
fully popularized in the State, and
other States may well -profit by the
means there used for this practical
manner of disseminating the theory
and practice of agriculture. The
Western Farmer says 30,000 farmers
attended these meetings last winter.
The coming winter it is expected that
50,000 will avail themselves of these
benefits. Farm Field and Stockman.
BUSINESS SENSE IN FARMING.
Major. J. H. Dent's "Thoughts
about Farming, published m The Cul
tivator for April, are timely observa
tions, yet he has forgotten to mention
one more quality a really successful
farmer must have, and that is a clear
business head. I have known farmers,
well educated practically and theoret
ically, intelligent men who had good
thoughts of their own and could carry
them through practically, yet were
only successful when they were work
ing under a business man's control.
By "under a business man I do not
simply mean a man who has made
money in & certain kind of business,
but one who in every position is full
of resources one who when he does
fall does it like a cat, always lands on
his feet, never on his back. Such a
man may fail, but he will recuperate ;
he may miss in his calculations, yet he
always will make the best of it. Such
people are rare ; still, m whatever
business they start, they will be finally
successful. We see plenty of large
farms here and in Europe, admirably
managed, with splendid results in
every, point except the financial one ;
yet they are managed by men who not
only have good theories and views,
and know how to have them executed,
but can if necessary pick up the imple
ments themselves and do the work to
perfection ; however, the business part
is not in them. They have also learned
how to make up their accounts, but
there is never a balance left ; or if so,
it is on the side one does not like to
see it. The world has many good
soldiers, but only a few great generals;
there are many students of medicine,
practical and theoretical, yet very few
really good doctors, , and even they
may not be successful in a financial
point of view : and still there may be
people of generally spoken limited in
tellect, limited theoretical knowledge
and no practical experience, still hav-
ng the business sense m. them, ; an4
ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF
1887.
they make a success of their pursuits,
Twenty-two years ago I lived in
Australia, and there made the ac
quaintance of a German Jew illiter
ate, with little knowledge about ptac
tically working a ranch or farm, yet
he was one of the most successful
ranchmen there. He had the sense of
seeing where a dollar was to be gained
and Jcnew how to piclr the right man
for the right place and had the faculty1
to discover, quick as a flash, whenever
a person did not come up to his ex
pecfations. Before he was a ranch
man, he carried on a general merchan
dise there, which he sold out on ac
count of -health, and bought a ranch
with over 30,000 sheep and a large
.number of cattle and horses. Though
he never had had anything, to do with
a ranch or farm, lie saw within a few
weeks that the old manager was no
good, so he discharged him and picked
out one who knew his business. Thus
lie made a success of his ranch from
the very beginning, not because he
had a good Pjagfekal'ttf1'111!
itical
knowledgfof ranching, but
becai
he hfd a "practical business head."
. A. Hoerle in Southern Cultivator for
June.
FARMERS OF THE FUTURE.
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Farming in the year 1887, and
every year hereafter, will be depend
ing for success more and more upon
the knowledge, training and skill of
the farmers. , .
The child of the family, who is of
the clearest mind, most ready to study,
most given to observation of cause
and effect, quickest of apprehension,
best adapted to the use of tools and
machinery, who loves horses and cat
tle this child should be trained for
the farmer.
The men, such as these children
will make, are to be the successful
farmers of the future.
It is useless to expect the lazy,
shirking, indifferent boy and man will
do well on the farm, or make his mark
in that direction. Such may make
passable men in other pursuits, but
the farmers hereafter must be wide
awake, cultivated men, with a knowl
edge of the principles which lie at the
foundation of their profession.
It is on this account that the farm
ers of today should take the necessary
means to secure a thorough agricul
tural education for those who are ex
pected to take their places. They
should take the measures necessary to
make the colleges, established by the
United States, practical agricultural
schools for their children.
This depends wholly upon the farm
ers themselves, who by a determined
spirit can accomplish wonders in this
direction.
The failures in crops often result
from the superficial knowledge of
those who have them in charge. They
expect nature to supply all their own
deficiencies, and when she does not,
they lay their ill success upon the
season.
The farmer of the future must leave
as little for nature to supply as pos
sible, must be able to forestall all the
deficiencies of the season. It can be
done ; but only when the farmer is a
thoroughly educated, trained and
capable man, in his department of life.
-New Farm.
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LAZY FARMERS.
I used to get mad and cuss like a
trooper when the -Yankees said that
Southern people were lazy. But I
have had to acknowledge the fact.
Tis true it is not real pleasant to
think so, but facts are stubborn things
to get around. And for twenty years
stubborn facts have been accumulating
hat from beyond a doubt that we, as
a people, are lazy and thoughtless
Now, here are some of the facts.
Since 1865 the people of the cotton
States have sent to the North for
meat, bread, vegetables, horses, and
mules $300,000,000 for just such
things that, had they been as energetic
sa people should De, would have been
raised at home. The State of Georgia
alone has sent $10.0,000,000 to pay,
STATE POLICY.
No. 17.
for meat .which could easily have been
raised at home. -
Now, if every farmer in the cotton
States had raised all he needed, and
then enough to sell the people in the
cities, all this money would have been
kept at home, and what cotton we
made would have brought double the
money. Had this been done, my
brothers, do you think that there
would have been a cry all over the
land about the merchant charging too
much?
I have said that every man who
farms can raise all his family con
sumes. For the renter, who moves
from place to place, this may be diffi
cult, but for the man who owns his
land there is no earthly excuse for not
having plenty of sweet and Irish po
tatoes, peas, beans, carrots, parsnips,
salsify, turnips, and dried fruits ; and
during summer he can and should
have as many vegetables as his family
can consume, besides enough to feed
one pig for each member in his family,
and then raise plenty of corn to feed
all his stock. Corresponent Home and
rm.
REARING AND TRAINING TOMA
TOES.
I read with interest the various
methods employed by others to accom
plish the same end, and not yet having
seen my very simple device mentioned,
I send it to your readers with the hope
that its very simplicity will recommend
it to some. Early in January,' having
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secured tne variety oi seea aesirea, j.
plant it in shallow seed boxes, wooden
soap boxes sawed in two sections being
my first choice, using light, rich,
friable soil. These boxes I place in
my glass pit, which I heat only with oil
stoves, and when up three inches 1 pot
off the plants into thumb pots, contin
uing the shifting as often . as needed
until warm weather is at hand, gener
ally by April 15. By that time the
plants are in full flower, and often
fruit formed. I prepare my beds by
extra deep spading, never allowing any
other implement in breaking up the
soil. These beds I fertilize only every
four or five years, having proved to
my entire satisfaction that rich soil is
the main, if not sole, -cause of the
tomato rotting so badly. Since I have
pursued this plan I obtain an abund
ance of perfect fruit, whereas, before,
when I manured heavily, I got mag
nificent plants crowded to breaking
with extra-sized tomatoes, while in
almost every specimen, even before
coloring began, the rot made its dis
gusting appearance.
Now I plant in a single row i 1-Z
feet apart, close to a plank fence which
commands the full sunshine nearly all
day. In this narrow bed I drive
rough stakes front and back of bed,
opposite each other.' Cfn each pair of
these stakes I nail three horizontal
courses of lath across the bed, at one,
two and three feet from the ground,
the upper course being at the top of
the stakes. The space between each.
pair of stakes is generally four or five
feet, and on these cross lathings I
place about three long, pliable poles
the size of a man s wrist, and this
gives me a three-storied structure. As
soon as the tomatoes have reached the
first course of slats, I give the plants a
gentle pull over it to act as a support,
and then vigorously pinch them in,
believing that to stop the top growth
advances the fruit already formed and
forming. :
I never set more than fifty plants in
the garden, as I sow seed out in open
ground for later crop. I never allow .
my fruit to ripen on the vine ; each t
morning I go in person, with my
basket, and select the hnest and Dest
for self, and if, perchance, any have
begun to rot, plucking and throwing
away. In this way I have far more
than I can use, and with f us they are
used in great quantities in a raw state,
being ,a well-relished breakfast dish, I
with great lumps of ice placed on; top
just arxer peeiiug uuu Biituug jm
before serving.ro. J: S. R. T.t "in ;
Vtcfc s Magazine.
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