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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, JUNK 23, 1887. .A .... .. - - L: L: POLK, - . : - Editor. P. F, DUFFY, - Associate Editor. JOHN E. RAY, Business Manager. Raleigh, N. C. - SUBSCRIPTION: . - $3.00 FOR ONE YEAR. $1.00 FOR 6 MONTHS POST-PAID. " . r- invariably in Advance. . Special and Liberal Sates to. Clubs. , -Subscribers will be notified two weeks before" their time expires, and jf they do not renew, the paper will stopped promptly. . Active agents wanted in every county, city, town and village in the State. Write for terms. Money at our risk, if sent by registered letter or money order. . Advertising Rates quoted on application." " ' On all business matters relating to the paper, - JOII E- RAT V Raleigfi, "n: C. ' . To Correspondents' : Write all communications, designed for publica tion, on one side of the paper only. : , :- e ! We want intelligent correspondents in every county in the State. We . want facts of value, re wilts accomplished of value, experiences of value, plainly and briefly told. One- 6dlid, demonstrated fact, is worth a thousand theories.-' - j Address all communications to The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh N... C : raleigh, n. a, junb;.23; issl ..... i . This paper entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in Raleigh,!?. C ' . ENDORSED BY THE CONVEN TION. ' . The following resolution was passed by' ; the Farmers' Mass Convention in Raleigh, : January 26th, 1887: Resolved, That The Progressive Farmer, pub lished by L. L. Polk, Winston, N. C, be declared " the Official Organ of the North Carolina Farmers' Association, and that its Editor, L. L. Polk, be ad mitted to the privileges of the floor as an honorary member of this Convention. fWWe ask every Grange and Farmers'- Club in the State to send us at once, the number of members in the organiza jtion, together with the name and post office address of each officer. PLEASE NOTICE. In writing to this office to change the address of a paper, our subscribers will do us a favor by stating the office at which the paper is received, as wejl as the one to which it is desired to. be sent. Failure to do this puts us to a great deal of trouble and the necessity of going through a long !.' list of names, involving not only much work, but much loss of -time, when time is valuable. SUBSCRIBERS, READ THIS. Is there a Cross Mark on the margin of '1 your paper ? We adopt this as the simp lest and easiest method of informing our -patrons that their terms of subscription ; nave expired, and that the paper will be ' stopped if we do not hear from you. We know "times are hard" on every body, and especially is this ' true of "newspapers, and particularly agri cultural papers. But we must help ; each Other as best we can. If, therefore, ; you are not prepared to renew for the - whole year, renew for apart of the time, v.arid this will enable you to have time to - make us up a club, for which you will get , the paper one year free of charge. So if you see the Cross Mark, let us hear from f you. . , - WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST 1 S - BE? - :v - The prospect for a good crop year, 'is most encouraging. Our farmers I are in the midst of their wheat harvest and if favorable weather continues they will be fortunate. From the best information we have been able to i - -- - , obtain, a good crop of wheat will be , realized. . Arid what a blessing ! But we want to utter a word of warning '.Thist. Iip'rp. "WV Irnrvnr tliat. manv farm. j jsrs in all portions of the State are ; without . money and almost, without jbread. Many of them cannot wait ior me inresner, so mey are xnresmng ;bypiand, in order that they may have foread. .? The great pressure in'money matters which has weighed so. long ancl I'jso heavily upon them, will .cause others we fear, to rush their surplus wheat ?pn. the market and- depend on their (corn crop ; but that f-corn crop is not jet mad e, they must remember. And tjiefe' are" so many contingencies at- tending it - that we - would urge our farmer friends to take care of f their wheat be stingy with v;it and j: hold 4o it until they are assured: as to jeir;": orh cropl What' we . greatly .desire is, to see our farmers have once inol a''plentiful supply of cbrh!, wheat, jfnieat, , oats and other, foragein their wn barns, and tokeep this -supply on ;liand from year to y'eagIt Janiiot be one unless they.bebojhujsband tiese crops with prudeA. sure d save enough to suppr your 'family :n . bread for another yeari- A FLUTTER AMONG THE" FLAGS ; x President Cleveland has raised a tempest. At the suggestiohof some one, he proposed. to, return tothe 'dif ferent States, the flags that were caj turecl from, .their troops during the war. - It-was-'putting the match to the magazine. Immediately) tHe ; Gover nors of some of the Northern.. States instituted' legal proceedings. to restrain him, and the Grand Army of the Re-" public sent in -its earnest' and indig nant protest, tfhen tnferesident con cluded he would not sand the flags, v And now blatant "politicians . who ; never smelt gun vpowder, but . who .have been "valiant soldiers in' peace,- !wili agMn wavHHe blo'bdy 'shirt. r Those old, fla;haye' been': packed away ill uuaco iLJ "Hy ewy iiy. jycipv mei)t;of the vQapitol overtwearty yeacrs. jLet them stay there. -The Southern Jsoldiers did -tiot ask the; President for jthem. The,men who imperilled tneir livesto defend these flags, and the ones who defied death to capture them "know full well how 'they, came there and they will be the last men to dis turb them. . The " boys in gray " put a dear price on those flags, but the " boys in blue " paid it. NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD' BE V THERE IN FULL FORCE. co Questions of magnitude and of vital importance to thej progress and de velopment of agriculture in the South, will ensure the attention of the At lanta Convention. very farmer in the South is dire and vitally in eration of these terested in the bnsi questions .an in he conclusions reached. A they should interest themselves to see that they are prop erly represented in that body. Es pecially should North Carolina be there in full force, and we hope to see very many of our progressive and thinking farmers from, all parts of the State, in that convention, in addition to those appointed by the Governor, as delegates. No convention has ever been held in the South, having in charge, issues of higher magnitude and involving results of so great and direct importance. Let every county, at least, be represented, and by its best men. If it is found that for any reason a county is not to be repre sented, the clubs in such county should take hold of the matter and select and send a delegate. GAMBLING IN THE NECES SARIES OF LIFE. - Mischievous and corrupt combina tions in every department of commerce and trade, have almost supreme con- trol not onl; of the . value, but of the Very bone an m ele of productive industry. . Now any months ago our people could off ee at twelve cents pier pound. 4. Jut false statements from commercial -centers showed a tremend v. ous falling off in the Brazilian crop arid at once the price of coffe(eran up gloated jjii this jf east s:6i . infiaibn. Gaflablers infh& Exchanges grew fat. But a fewadays ago-gome of them un dertook1 to' iinldadnd busted:1 So of a huge " corner " made in wheat and so Sf those who made the corner. We rejoice incft mihecrrtisfortunes of our fellows:. whoi are ovrtaln and over whlihed Bjr adverse - fbrturie in their honest ; effort' to accumulate property honestly anix legitimately, but we" do look on ' with . .complacent .isatisf action when-these'corrupt yand wicfed-men are caught rfand' are hopelessly en tangled 1 ifi . the " meshes wliich .their avarice and greed and craft. havewpven for the honest and unsuspecting. - The honest toilmg millions of this County, whether in the workshop, thQ factory, the cojihtih rbc. the farm. Or" wherevertiiey Je, should elect such men to. our t Stat' legislators tb ruinous iiesaiLjof 4&e, rlmdXbare6Gg; nized as a grave crime, and should be punishe'd by law. T.e South produ ced a little over .0,000,000 -bales of cotton in 18S5, and ' yet the value of 80,000,000 bales exchanged hands in the cotton exchanges of this ' country. "v vSomjQ years,, before ' his .eath. Edr ward :.- Everett- the high-toned and pure-minded - Statesman, delivered an address'before the New r-Yorkr: 'State4 Agricultural Society, in whiph he reP. f erred to , gambling 'in breadstjiffs as follows 1 In , acknowledging, ; as J do most chieerf ully vthe important - relations of city life and commercial pursuits "to the .entire social1 systems of .the coun-' try, I leave of course out 6f the accounr -J have"no words .but of v abhorrence' ; for the organized conspiracies., swin dling and plunder whfcxrexist side by side with the, legitimate' transactions of the; stock exchanga rlt is not one of the leastperplexing anomalies of modern life and manners, that 'while avowed and thus far honest gambling if I may connect-these words is driven by public opinions and the law to seclude itself from observation with in carefully tiled doors, there to fool away " hundreds, perhaps thousands in ' - secret discredited, infamous, blasted by the anathemas of deserted, heart-broken wives and beggared chil dren, subject at all times to the fell swoop of the police the licensed gambling of the broker's board is car ried on in the face of day, its preten ded, sales of what it does not own, its pretended purchases of what it does not expect to pay for, tare chronicled in the public prints to the extent of millions in the course of the season, for the cruel and dishonest purposes of frightening innocent third parties into the ruinous sacrafice of bona fide property, and thus making a guilty profit out of the public distress and the ruin of thousands. . : - ' ' PULLING STUMPS. After the crops are laid by, the farmer will use his time in clearing up. At our request, a f riend has sup plied a description , pf a successful plan for pulling stumps.. He writes : " I will be only too glad togive you all the knowledge at my' command, though I have none about stump pullers, strictly speaking. From my experience, and. 'I have had a good deal, I think God putri stumps in the ground-to stay there, not to come out, and if there is any easy way to take them out, I have not found it. "We take them out';by cutting off all lateral roots with axe and grub-hoe, a spade ; is a great help. To do it properly you cut a trench around the stump, cutting each root off twice, and all but one as close to the stump as convenient, that one is left a little longer to catch the chain against, to prevent slipping around the stump., "When the stump is weakened by this, we twist it off with lever and chain: Experience alone will teach when it is weak enough to twist. Our lever is of some tough wood ; black-gum is good eighteen or-twenty feet long, some six or seven inches at the butt used round just as it grows. The chain is made of 5-8 round iron, and I think it is about eight feet long, perhaps more, (larger the-stump the longer the chain required) with large ring at; one end to go over the butt end of the lever. Trim the lever to fit the rng, and: put in at spike to keep it from , slipping off, with a hookrat the otfeer end this shape to un- hbojeasilyf.: Hitch mules -or oxen at ine jijfye ena ot tne lever, iasten on to the.siumpjj and pull , around iri circle, to the left is , best, practice t.will soon teach how. to. fasten the chain around the sjump. tfIC 4 - uu: PLEUROPNEUMONIA. : I The agents of theNatibriai 'Bureaii o Animal Industry are erigagedvin a vorpua Btamping-out of this terrible disease:hxhe northern toWris of -West chester tOouhty, ,N.i Y: just ''-above' NjBjjfeX&rk City. The disease r con veyed "by a drove of ; westera -milch' cows) was first reported in Mrch, and investigation showed the "urgent need quarantine which has been declared, forbidding the transportation of cattle from one farm toahother, or ' into ;' or put of the county, .without the consent lor the- agent' of the -eoyernmen There are 3 0, 0 0 0 neat cattle in We f V 4. ' S T i Chester ConntW. valued W $ 1 ; 200, 00 dnstry is a serious matter. Several hundred Jhead. have been-slaughteredf the-covernment navinsr 940" for efeCh healthy animal, and. $20 for eaclfone infected" wittf the - disease. Commis sioner of Agriculture', has issued a notice as follows: . - TThe -attention of all, persons is called "to. sections 6: and 7 of the act of Congress, approved May 29, 1884, es: tabjishing' the Bureau of Animal. In dustry which seqtiohs make' it a mis dMeanbr punishable by a. fine of not less than $100 nor more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one vear orbv both such, fine and im prisonment, for any , transportation company or person-. to rJreceive ior. transportation, or to transport or- Xty idrive, from one State o'r Territory to i another, any live stock""" affected f with ;ahy contagious, infectious ' or cbmmu 'nicable disease, arid especially f pleuro- pneumonia ; or lorany person or uer- sons to aenver sucn anecxea nve siocK to any transpojiatipr. company," 4, ; xif Ati reward:pf JPQ ill,b9;,paid,.to.v any : person ging iipuip. to the chief of theVUreaUf try that results in me con victioii: of -any persOn ifor a violation of section 6 and 7 of the act of Congress of $Iy .29, 1884V:' Country Gentleman. '';;,c' "We clip the above to show our read ers, that this fearfully fatal disease, may make its appearance in our State any day and to admonish them to be very cjareful in purchasing cattle of all kinds, that are brought to our State. We cannot be too cautious when we see that it has found its way into the herds of a County in New .York, where the cattle are valued at $1,200,000, despite all the vigilance that was used to prevent it. This dis: ease among our cattle would be indeed, a great calamity. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. A TRIP THROUGH ROBESON COUNTY. Thursday of last week, at 4:15 a. m. I found myself In the beautiful to, ot Lumoerton, xne ravages tne recent fires .were apparent onafeveral sides. And yet the enterprising peo ple have gone busily to work, and ere long the present ruins will be the scenes of handsome brick, buildings, and Lumberton will take her stand with other recently unfortunate sisters whose vim has been exemplified in what seemed to be a, fell stroke of ad versity. A fire is not always an un mitigated evil. . Through the kindness of Mr. J. P. Pittman, I was transported over a good road eleven miles to the village of Ashpole, arriving in time for an early breakfast. The crops all along the road were as fine as have ever been seen oh the same : land at this season of the year. Indeed I had seen no better this year, up to that time. Thursday, was a big day for ASHPOLE INSTITUTE, which is so ably "presided over by Prof. S. Ivey, a ripe scholar and a Christian '. gentleman. It was com mencement day, and the usually large attendance ,. was greatly, increased by the previous announcement that Rev. Dr. Taylor, President of "Wake Forest College, was to 'deliver the address. At an early hour the grove was full of vehicles and people, and when the hour forjservices arrived, not half the people could get into the chapel The address was the finest and most appro priate In ever listened to on such ah occasion. 7 3nw: ' ; The afternoon wase taken up in dec limations;wgiiiail fijiefeches and music ly the pupils, all of which did much oredit to the institute and thlhstruct' ors. In the 4iTening, v the young peo ple (and some 61 u who wef eolder) enjoyed what is known around Ash pbjefts a " $&ckhll.rxMt tHe youth and ibeauty f orh hiifesrarj6und were present in all the. attractiveness pos- diui auu ib uas ueen some lime Since this deponent has seeri mbre handsome ypuflgiladies gathered together from any, locality. I would like to say many things about i the 'institute and his'joyous occasion, but time and space fprbidMj". stay in the community was trge days more; and I have never .sjSent a nlore pleasant time anywhere, except rior eat and. lack of good water. V f I am - under special obhga tibns for. f avorshWrribTttfriends. J: Jf. :ittmanj; ;&.r;Ivey Q. P. Flo i; lvey0. A. iGrantham. Rev. J. A. SmitlT and others, and neculiarlv so to , ... i - j Ai Ai? -Ihinan: and . his handsome aughters, h Ashpole cwill long occupy .a jjreen spot in toy memory. , K . : FABERsVAliLLlNCEir:?7?: The rmra 0iBobysbh;afe; better' hijy'r;lmotedgel!M 'Seal representing the -Farmers Alliance, h6fgi2:ed;some twelve' or fifteen r bodies, I was .told, and th.ey have sinde ueen ux gauizeu uw a county Alliance with Mr. T. Ivey as President. Mr Ivey promised to give our readers the benefit of his experience, and so I shall leave that to him. It was truly en couraging to see how enthusiastic and hopeful all the farmers I met seemed And they have much cause for being so. .rl have not seen such excellent prospects for a glorious harvest any. where this year. The wheat, oats and corn -are very fine, especially the corn and the cotton, in some sections I learned, wis beginning to hlonm From Ashpole to Plainview the cm wtjit? tuopw.vnaitj' line, u mess some unfavorable season shall visit them the- farmers of 'Robeson will have a most gratifying yield this year. " A yEW DEPARTURE. Arouh(j Ashpole. I noticed several fields. of yery fine.'tobacco. This crnn had never been, tried in Robeson until- last year. Dome iew tried it, and the success was so gratifying as to induo? : several " more to plant. I hope they fwill not, be disappoiiited, nor have reason to regret the experiment. "With the aid of Mr. T. Ivey, I secured a good list of new subscribers for The Progressive Farmer. And one or two other Alliance members promised me clubs in 'their respective neighborhoods. It was my pleasure to dine with Messrs. Cottingham and Bond, the gentlemanly clerks of A. & McQueen, at Plainview, who showed many courtesies. Nor would I forget to mention the consideration shown by the authorities of the Alma & Little Rock R. R., which penetrates one of the most thriving sections of Robeson county. But time would fail me to tell of all the gooft things I learned, and the manylavors shown me. J. E. R. JJNTY FARMERS' AL- XXANCE. ( r - Raleigh, N. C, June 20, 1887. Pursuant to notice previously given, delegates from the farmers' subordi nate alliances of "Wake county met in the court hourse today. J. B. Barry,of Bosque county, Texas. Deputy. Organiser of Farmers' National Alliance, called the meeting to order and statecnthat the object of the meeting wjala vo form a County Alliance, iycommittee on creden tials havingbeen appointed, found twelve subordinate Alliances repre sented.:' An' organization was effected by the election of the following officers : President J. D. Allen. Vice-President C.'E. McCullers. Secretary -W. G. Crowder. Treasurer P. A. Sorrell. , . Lecturer J. M. Turner. Asst. Lecturer Dr. A. J. Thomp son. x Chaplain J. F. McDuffie. Door Keeper J: S. Johnson. Asst. Door Keeper J. N. Hubbard. Executive Committee G. J. Banks, R. D. Weathers, J. T. BoUing. In response to calls, short but en tertaining speeches were made by J. M. Turner, J. D. Allen and C. E. Mc Cullers. - 'v A. motion prevailing to that effect, a committee was appointed to wait on Col, L. L. Polk, Editor of The Peo gressive Farmer, and invite him to address the alliance, (xreatly to the regret of the alliance, Col. Polk was absent from the city. - j vThfeWake County Farmers' Alliance a'djdurned to meetih Raleigh on the last .Saturday in July 1887. '' J. D.Alxen,. President. "W. G. CROWDEr Secretary. City papers please copy. I " - :' ' GOOD CAfe PRODUCES GOOD STOCK. ri , j This self-evident truth -is brought to inind by the experience of a. couple of firaiers. of pur acquaintance. They had planned $0 go to an auction at a distSstnce to ' buy some thorough-bred calves; Henry went but John did not go. Henry returned with two nice looking calves which he had-bought, not at the auction, but of a neighbor, the. poorest, of which he sold to John; (who thought it was a thoroughbred) for $100. . This spring ..having taken most excellent care of the calf, which as developing into a very promising aniKuil, Farmer John declined to rajty $.200or it; whereupon Farmer Henry returaecVhim the $100-paid and ex plained' hbw : lie htd bought the calf from theft neighbor's", herd. 1 The .moral of thWstory is that if Farmer Jonn nad given as ffood. care 10 V"CJ-ux;iS. BS lie, U1U lO Wiiau vr,. stock 'woul have donajust as well. Ffirm apd jHo ome. 'r ; ; , . .. j -
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