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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. Vol. 2. RALEIGH, N. C, JULY 14, 1887. No. 21. OUR FARMERS' CLUBS. What our Farmers are Doing and Hew the Work of Organizing is Progressing. Oak Grove Farmers Association, at Mt. Mourne, N. C, propose to have a grand farmers' picnic on the first of August The Farmers' Club of Pikeville township, "Wayne county, will have "'a rousing time " about the first of August ; ' but our readers will hear more definitely about it next week. FIXE LEVEL FARMERS CLUB. On the 1st inst. a club was organized at Pine Level, with fifteen members. The following are the officers : President Theo. Hinnant. Vice-President G. Fitzgerald. Secretary W. H. Wellons. ? Executive Committee Thos. E. Wellons, J. H. Worley and T. R. Fulghum. Vfe have decided to begin our young club-life by meeting once a month. Subject for discussion at our first meeting: " Should we diminish the use of commercial fertilizers?" You shall hear from us, and we hope to get your paper introduced thoroughly here. W. H.. Wellons, Sec y. to THE GROUND SWELL The Edgecombe farmers contem plate having a Farmers' Institute. They want a big farmers' dinner in Union county. Mt. Mourne is moving for a gala day with the farmers . and their families. At Liberty, they intend to have the " biggest, thing " ever seen in that section. The clans in Robeson are gathering their forces and intend to show the farmers of the State what is meant by " a grand old time." The farmers and clubs and the wo men and children of Forsyth county will all meet at Clinard's Store on the 30th inst. and have the best time ever seen in mat progressive county. Chatham, "has risen and sh herself" and the farmers iiVl CXXIX IXCbXtO W XXX mccu XXX tittsboro on the 25th to takesuch ac tion as their best interest and the good of all the people may require. The boys and girls ann the sturdy fathers and good mother of Johnston will picnic at Archer Lodge on the rav nil c onri rtnlno " vm 1 1 orit- m 13th of August. For a generous "feafet of fat things" for a season of imalloyad social pleasure with as big-nearted and hos pitable people as can be found in all this land of hospitality, commend us to " The Farmers' Afnnual Dinner " in Harnett county." How anxious we are to be there in J the first days of August to share that programme, which is stuffed full, of good things for all who go ! It isKthe event of the year with the good people of the old Cape Fear. With a new town and asoew rail road comes a new departure limong the farmers in the wavof a farmers' basket dinner and picnic at Liberty on the 9th of August, when they expect vuv V) IkUlC VV7UXXlljr VV kVy lXXtsXV2. "V I VXVVk;j J-- VfcJ UIXXV4 S-M. Ml 4. S being organized so rapidly that we can't keep up with them, and they reany act as though they will take the country. s A LITTLE MORE LIGHT, BRO. ADAMS. We are gratified to learn that L Reid Parker has been putting in some good work in the old Cape Fear region. A most pleasant and interesting letter from Mr. W. D. Adams, of Little River Academy, tells us of a capital speech made there recently by Dr. Parker and of the organization of a club, of which Mr. Adams was made secretary. Please tell us the number constituting ' the. club and the names of all the officers Many thanks, Bro. Adams, for your kind .interest in The Progressive Farmer and our work. Yes, you can get us a club of subscrib ers easily. See terms in this issue. If you would have a live, wide-awake. club, get your brethren to read their, own paper the organ of the farmers of the State. It will quicken them into new life. ONWARD IT MOVES. ( O One of the most hopeful indications that the farmers' movement is " here to stay," is the earnest and active in terest manifested throughout the State by men of influence and intelligence. We see, constantly,1 the names of lead-, ing farmers in all sections, identified with the movement. A letter from Moore county, informs us that Mr. Geo. Wilcox was present at a meeting of the farmers of that county and aided in the organization of a club, to be known as Fair Haven Farmers' Club. : ' This Club begins with twenty -three members, and a prospect of its becom ing very strong. Dr. Richard Street was elected President ; A. J. Jones, Vice-President ; A. P. Davis, Secre tary, and W. E. Paschall, Treasurer. Postofiice of Secretary, Fair Haven, N."C. FARMERS' GATHERINGS. The law of emterprise and progress is a co-operative effort. We see it every day and inhe work of all classes. Political parties, ianufabturing and mercantile and commercial enterprises would tumble to pieces, but for organ ized co-operative effort. It holds good as to farmers. If the club does not suit you, join' the Grange or the Alli ance, join something where you may meet your brother farmer and grasp his hand as your brother, and extend to him that help and receive that help which is due, one to the other. The crops will soon be disposed of, and you will have ample leisure to join some one of these organizations and get the harneseirTWi-nfortably fitted fojvtiie bier work that ougtiVto be ickme in their meetings during th Umg evenij f lhe""appruacfei&win- are many and great objec ich the farmers of our State should endeavor to accomplish but it can be done only through organized effort. THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND ITS .FRIENDS. CO) It is known that we started this paper under most disadvantageous surroundings. It is not. known how we have tolled and labored "in season and out of Season " day andUnight, to place it beyond the - breakers. We confess with pride andwith gratitude to our friends, that it has succeeded beyond our expectations. It has made strong and true friends. It has enjoyed the courteous kindness, it not co-opera-tion, of thev press of the State, for which it expresses its pro found appreciation. Kind words of en dorsement and encouragement are borne to us by almost every mail. For all this we feel gratified. But we desire to speak a few plain, earnest words to our subscibers. Ours is an agricultural State. Our people are supporting over one hun dred and fifty newspapers and jour nals. Over one hundred of these are political papers. The Progressive Farmer is the only agricultural paper (weekly) among them all. .It is de voted exclusively to the interests of industrial classes. Is it unreasonable to claim that of the one hundred and ten thousand subscribers to all our papers, a majority of whom must be farmers, that The Progressive Farmer ought to have ten thousand subscrib ers? This would be an average of but a' fraction over one hundred to each county in the State. Are there not twenty counties in the State that with little effort on the part of our friends would give us five hundred each by January next ? Are there not fifty other counties that would give us two hundred each? Are - there . not twenty others that would give us from fifty to one hundred each ? , If our friends in these counties will kindly give us their help and will give half the number named by the first day. of January next, we believe we can safely guarantee to run the list up to ten thousand by the . first of June next. It would enable us first, to reduce the price of the paper to the uniform price of one dollar. Second. It would enable us to increase the size and give our readers the model agricultural weekly of the South. Third. It would enable us to employ .constantly the best edi torial' talent in all its departments, and lastly, it would give us a paper that could and wOuld wield a tremend ous power in our State. Is not this true ? If it be true, is it not worth an effort on the part of our friends to accomplish it ? Who will give . us their aid in securing five thousand subscribers by the first of January ? Look at these rates to clubs: 1 subscriber and under five, 1 year, $2.00 5 subscribers and under ten, 1 year, 1.65 10 subscribers and s under fifteen, 1 ' 0cllj m 15 subscribers and under twenty, 1 year, . 20 subscribers, or more, 1 year, 1.50 1.25 1.00 briefly cash ii advance. , : ' Who will be the first to send us a club? Remember that for any one of the above clubs, you get the paper free for one year. Will you not make up a club in your neighborhood in your Grange, in your Qlub, . in your Alli ance ? How many of our friends will join us in the effort to get the five thousand ? W rite to us for blank subscription list and sample copy of the paper. Who will, help? If you can't do it, can you not get some one to do so? Show 'the paper to your neighbor take it " with you to your Club, Grange or 'Alliance and show it to your brethren and get them to take it. Who will 'wrii first -for the' blank ? J oin us in the work, and let us have', by the beginning of next year, the very best paper in the whole South for our farmers. For The Progressive Farmer. Ashpole, N. C July 6, 1887. Good rains in this, Robeson county. is are fine. The farmers are in ighexpectation. Organization among thX .farmers is still croms on. Two or tHre farmers' alliances were re cently oanized in this county. Robe son counter farmers are becoming well organized. ours, &c., b. lvEY. FARMERS OF CHATHAM MOV ING; QO A meeting of the farmers' clubs of this county was held at Lockville Academy on the 25 th nit. to consider the matter of a mass meeting with the view of organizing a county club. Mr. W. C. Thomas was elected Chairman and Mr. J. E. Ryan Secre tary, and Alex. Wicker Assistant Secretary. H. C. Farrell, in a well timed speech, explained the object of the meeting. It was ascertained that five clubs were well represented, to wit.: Oakland No. 1, Oakland No. 2, Gum Spring, Cape Fear No. 1, and New Salem. - - On motion, a committee of one from each of. these clubs was appointed to shape the business of the meeting. The committee presented the follow ing resolutions : - . . Resolved, Tht it is the sense of this meeting that to perfect our organization and to make our efforts for improving the condition of our farming interests more effectual, we should have a county or ganization. Resolved, That to accomplish this ob ject, the farmers here assembled call on each and all the clubs, in our county ana on all the farmers of our county to meet in . Pittsboro ion. Saturday the 23d inst., at 10 o'clock, a. m. . Resolved, That each club in the county be requested to send at least five dele gates to said convention. Resolved, That Col. L. L. Polk, Editor of The Progressive Farmer, A. H. Mer ritt, Editor of The .Home, L. J. Haughton, R. J. Powell and W. S. Primrose, be in vited to be present and address the con vention. - :-.,.. .. . Relolved, That The Home and The Pro gressive Farmer be requested to publish the proceedings of this meeting. The resolutions were unanimously adopted. - We hope to have a full meeting of earnest farmers from all parts of our county, and that much good will be accomplished. . W. C. Thomas, Chairman. J. E. Bryan, ) 0 , . , Alex. Wickee, j Secretarles- CHEMICALS. We give below a short list, of the more common- and more useful " chemicals," or composting materials, with their average composition and retail cash prices the 1st of Jan., 1886, at the places named kindly furnished by Dr. C. W. Dabney: " 1. Phosphates, &c. -Finely , ground S. C. phosphate' rock or. " Floats " 23 per cent. phos. acid, $12 per ton1 at Charleston. - ' : ' - N. ; ' CY phosphate -,n simply finely ground, 15 to 20 per . cent, of phos phate, 60 percent, "of carbonate of lime, $8 per ton at Rocky Point, Wil mington or Raleigh. Acid phosphate, 12 per cent, avail able phosphoric acid, $19 at Wilming ton and $21 at Charlotte or Raleigh. Ground bone, 3 to 4 per cent, am monia and 40 per cent, of bone phos phate, $32 at Baltimore, $37 at Ral eigh and Charlotte. .1 ; II. Sources of Nitrogen. ground fish scrap, .10 per cent, .ammonia, $35 in Baltimore, or $37 at 'Wilmington. Tankage from beef, 8 per cent, of am monia and 30 of bone phosphate, $25 in Baltimore. Azotine, $2.50 for each per cent, of ammonia in the ton, usually 15 per cent. ... Dried blood, .$2.40 for each per cent, per ton. " Sulphate of ammonia, 25 per cent, ammonia 3 1-2 cents per pound. Nitrate of soda, 2 3-4 to 3 cents per pound. -The last four are Baltimore prices. III. Sources of Potash. Muriate of potash, 2 1 cents a pound in Baltimore, 50 per cent, potash; kainite, 12 per cent, potash, $10 per ton in Baltimore or Wilmington; $12 to $13 in Raleigh or Charlotte. "Pure sulphate potash." High grade sulphate potash 40 per cent, potash, $40 per ton in New York. CORN AND MEAL FOR COWS. Corn is a fat-producing food ; and if a cow in milk is fed liberally on corn or corn meal she will gradually fatten, and diminish in the yield of milk. Remember this and do not make the mistake of feeding too much corn. It has been found by experiment that meal will pass through the diges tive organs quicker thanhay, and that if the meal is fed to the animal on an empty stomach, it passes away before it is fully digested, but if fed after hay it becomes mingled with it, and more benefit is derived. Do not allow ani mals to take much water immediately after feeding. The Western Rural., PROPORTIONS OF A PERFECT BODY. The height should be exactly equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of either hand when the arms are fully extended. Ten times the length of the hand, or seven and a half times the length of the foot, or five times the diameter of the chest, from one armpit to the other, should also give the height of the whole body. The distance from the ' juncture of the thighs to -the ground should be the same as from that point to the crown of the head. The knee should be precisely midway between the same point and the bottom oi tne neei. The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger should be the same as from the elbow to the middle line of the breat. ' From the top of . the head to the level of the chin should be the same as from the level of the chin to that of the armpits, and from the heel to the toe. United States Gazette. , :- SPECIAL NOTICE. Our correspondents will please notice the limitations placed upon . the work of the Experiment Station by the last meeting of the Board of Agriculture. Without any special authority "for it the laboratory has, heretofore, under the directions of the Board, made , all sorts of analysis of any public interest for the people of North Carolina. But now, the legislature having cut down our appropriation, it became necessary for the Board to reduce the working force at the Station. When this was done the work to be done had also to be reduced. v t . .. V - All the funds for the support of this work comes from a tax on an agricultural commodity. It is proper) therefore, that-when some work is. tp be limited it should be something in no way connected . with agriculture. These were the reasons which made it necessary for the Board to adopt the t following resolution at their last meet ing: -. ? " Resolved, That all applications for minerals, ores and mineral waters, &c, of no agricultural interests shall be. referred to the Board before they are analyzed." " The chemical work of . the Station will continue to cover: 1 - The analysis of Agricultural Chem icals, of Composts and Home-mado Fertilizers and of all materials from which they can be made; The analysis of Soils, Marls and Mucks; , The analysis of Feeding Stuff; The analysis of Drinking Waters and Articles of Food. - The Station has facilities for doing the following botanical and other work: . The examination of Seed with ref erence to their purity and capacity to germinate; The testing of varieties of Cultiva ted plants; The examination of grass and weeds. Chas. W. Dabney, jr., Director.' HOW TO PREVENT SPRING BILI OUSNESS. Several corrospondents who are af flicted with what is termed "spring biliousness," are interested to know how it may be prevented. . Biliousness is not, as many people suppose, a dis ease of the liver, but pertains almost altogether to the stomach. It is chiefly,' the result of over-eating, eating too freely of sweets, pastry, fats and highly seasoned dishes. The cold, tonic air of the winter months antidotes the bad influence of these digressions in diet, in some degree ; but as the warm, re laxing weather of spring comes oh, the stomach begins to fail more percepti bly in its efforts to accomplish the un necessary and injurious labor imposed upon it. Indigestion is the result. By-and-by the poor stomach gets so far behind in its work that it is alto gether overwhelmed and disabled, and the difficulty culminates in a bilious attack, which is nothing more or less than a cessation of work on the part of the stomach. The over-worked or-. gan needs rest. A billious attack can always be prevented by giving the stomach rest by fasting for a meal or two before the final crash comes. No organ in the body will endure more abuse and still patiently continue its work than the stomach. But finally forbearance ceases to be a virtue, and the faithful servant rebels against abuse. Correct and properly regulate the diet, and there will be no more trouble with bilious. attacks at any season of the year. Good Health. .-' Accounts from all over Texas show the most magnificent crop prospects since the famous big crop year of 1882. All over central and northern Texas the average yield of corn which is now in the ear is estimated at thirty bush els an acre on black hog wallow prai rie lands. In river bottoms and allu vial lands near the coastthe yield is estimated at seventy-five to 100 busli- els an acre. - , Subscribe to Progressive Farmeb.
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