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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER eTXJLY i 1 f -1 he I. L. POLK, 'V ? -J W0R P. P. DUFFY, - - Associate4Editor. i ! rJOHN E. RAY, Business Manager: t? ' Raleigh, N. C.1 H SUBSCRIPTION: , 2.00 FOR ONE YEAR $1.00 FOR 6 MONTHS POST-PAID. ' " Invariably in Advance. . Special and Liberal Bates to Clitbs. Z-' Subscribers will be. notified two weeks before their time expires, arid if 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 our risk, if sent Dy registered letter or money order. . Advertising Rates quoted on application. . On all business matters relating to the paper, .Address " V JOHN E. RAT, Raleigh, N. C. . ;'. . . To Correspondents: ' Write all communications, designed for publica tion, on one side of the paper only. We want intelligent correspondents in every county in the State. We want facts of value, re sults accomplished of value, experiences f value, plainly and briefly told. One solid, demonstrated fact, is worth a thousand theories. . - Address all communications -to ' The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C. , RALEIGH, N. C., JULY 28, 1887, t This paper entered as second-dam matter a t the Post , ,., Office in Raleigh, N. CJ ENDORSED BY THE TION. CONVEN- The following resolution was passed by ' the Farmers' Mass Convention in Raleigh, ' January 26thK 1887: Resolved, That The Progressive Farmer, pub " Hshed 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. . IWe ask every Grange and Farm ers' Club in the' State to send us at once, the number of members in the organiza tion, 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 well 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. . - Ts there a Cross Mark on the margin of . your paper ? We adopt this as the simp lest and easiest method of informing our Eatrons that their terms of subscription aye 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, and 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 you. when will times - ; ; ter? GET BET- Hundreds of farmers jwlthih the past few months, ave propounded. -1 -m the above question to - - f , and we answer it. -we answer, or co rse, that they mean - better" tnnes" fo Ethe farmers, for we know fJi no great interest in this countryexcept that of agriculture, that is especially pressed by hard times. We do not think the rail roads are -complaining of hard times. We do not hear that manufacturers are com plaining of hard times. We believe -that the banking interests are hopeful fand prosperous. We think the in surance business is flourishing," spec- ulators seem to be thriving and are accumulating collossal fortunes every day so brother farmer it seems that you arid those who are directly depend- r . eni on youare tne only, ones in an "tMs busy, population who seem to be suffering very greatly from the pres sure of hard times. The classes and -interests named are not particularly ' anxious for " better times." They ' seem to be having a good time and are doing well enough. Well, how and I why 'is this ? One of the chief reasons .is, that they have thrown around these interests the strong and powerful arm of cooperation. "When will times be .1 better" for the farmers? -They will rbe better when the farmers shall resolve :Ao make them letter. .When they shall .;-do like these other classes get to k. gether, act together, .work together and stand together for the advance? - mentrand promotion of the farmers' t interests:.:-- ' .h:i ';,' v-l I Don't wait for " the capitalists,- Trail rpaamen, the manufacturers, the bank ers, the merchants, thei traders ana speculators to'" quiiv their ujsiness. to attend to . jours..- Don!t w$te your tim,e ia Vabuse of : rings, politicians, speculators, railroads, v extortioners legislatures-party-leaders, . and our National Congress, none of these are oingf to attend to your business. They, areall busy.with affairs of . their own, and wbile you- work and com plain and growl, some of tKS$Hie busy devising plans for capturing the profits of your labor. " Better times will come to the farmers when they shall stand up in the dignity of their manhood and show to the world nat they appreciate ; tbeir importance as factors in society and government, by systematizing their, effort to .advance and protect their interests. This will have to be done, and none can or will do it but' tbe farmeri themselves. .Or; ganie and worlc . together this must be done if weuld see better times for the farmers. '. ; - JOTTINGS BY THE WAY-SIDE. We shall remember with pleasure the kindly greeting with wichh we were honored by the good people of Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Guilford, Rockingham and Caswell counties, on our recent trip. They have good crops, and are wishing, hoping, long ing, for the coming of better times, And we believe they are going to work to bring it about. '? We found a good crowd of ladies and gentlemen at old Rocky River church a congregation noted for its large number, its sturdy integrity and its unusual intelligence and boundless hospitality. At Huntersville, the friends of education have done themselves high honor by the erection of a splen did school building of brick at a cost of $7,000 seating capacity of hall, 856 by actual count. President Orr has a fine school here. At Summerfield, Prof. Blair has a very flourishing school, and the good ladies of that community tempted a great crowd out on Monday, even though the thermometer told them that it registered 100, to hear our talk and to share the feast of good things they had prepared. At Rocky Springs, the whir of the threshers was heard in all. the land, and the farmers were up to their eyes in the golden harvest, but a clever little crowd met us. At Madison, we were again made to feel that our lines had fallen in pleasant : places. The Baptist church was . filled by - respectful, intelligent and interested listeners,4 -'and:rtlie cor dial kindness of the ladies arid gentle men of that community will long linger with us. . At Stoneville, we knew we would meet friends before we had even met one of them, so nicely had they pre pared for the comfort of speaker and audience., We : predict that one of these days it will be said of Stoneville that no more substantial and progres sive Community can be found in that whole section. At Leaksville, a goodly crowd-filled the public hall and v seemed deeply in terested in the questions presented. .Here,' too that free . and open-handed hospitality ..wbich . is ; characteristic of the Rockingham people, and indeed of the whole Piedmont section, made us feel quite at home. ! At Trinity church, in Caswell, lock ted in as fine community, f and among as clever and good people' as can be found in the State, we found ; the house full of intelligent, refined and eager listeners. Here, as at most of the other places, there was a "feast of fat things." : p ; . ; Clubs were formed at several of these places, but our- readers will be more definitely informed as to these in the future,-as we-shall- hear from them. 4i,ltls .i';-v-. r.,-..: '- ,? We are indebted tforj special (favors to Mr. J. M. Harris, JiXW pjbore Prof. Blair and lady,. Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Belnetiit and 'family, IMrBusick and fairulyCol -Galloway and la" Mr. Witkins did la&y, B.indsay and lady,' Mr. I vie," and our old friend, Mr. Azariah Graves and his family. Many, many ' thanks' to our numer ous and kind friends for their aid in making" us ' a - handsome" contribution of subscribers, to. our paper. We shall strive earnestly and constantly to pr6ve ourselves" wOrtHy 'their confi dence arid - support. ' .' ? ; THE GRAP5 FAIR. . The premium list of the Grape Fair to be held , in this city August 4th, has been placed on our table. The premiums aggregate ? $200 in cash; and are to be awarded as follows ; For the largest. No. pounds by, one exhibitor $20 00 " varieties by ime exhibitor 20 00 " beet display by one exhibitor 20 00 " beet display of Wineg by N. C. .- ; Manufacturer;... ......... 20 00 For the-best plate of each of the following varieties, five dollars : Con cord Ives' Champion,' Martha, 'loores, patawba, Delaware, ;.Pekins, fearly Victor, Duchess Brighton, Hartford, Wooden, Cottage, Salem, Telegraph, Lady' Norton, Clinton, Scuppernong. This will be the largest grape show ever held in the South, and the most liberal premiums ever offered. Every lover of North Carolina should come and see the magnificent display which will eclipse anything of the kind ever attempted in the . South. Write to the Secretary, Mr. S. Otho Wilson, who will most gladly give any infor mation. We learn that letters are be ing received daily indicating a very large attend mice. LET OUR CHILDREN SEE THEM. Some of our cotemporaries are ad vocating the placing of statues of our eminent men in Statuary Hall, in Washington, D. C. Better by far place them where our children can see them. In the rotunda of our cap ital in Raleigh, are four empty niches, designed by the architect to hold the images of some distinguished sons of our State, and they are very sugges tive. There is not a slab as large as one's hand erected by the State any where in our borders to commemorate the lives and services of any of our great men. Let us first put up monu ments at home and place in the hands of our children school books that shall teach them of the great and good men produced by our State, and to learn them something of our resources and. history. How many men in North Carolina can repeat the names of her Governors ? No, let us educate our own people in regard to our State and its history. . ' ' - n i ONE OF THE GREAT NEEDS OF THE SOUTH. (C) We need petty industries. We want small enterprises in manufactur ing established in our villages, towns and cities.. We want employment for our women and children, that they may be self-supporting and be pro ducers Of wealth instead of consumers. No need of calling for the building of railroads, cotton factories, furnaces and other enterprises requiring im mense capital. These will come of themselves and in due time. Capital will . find the places - and , the invest ments where it will be the most re munerative. But we must encourage those with small capital to invest in small enterprises.- The Southern community that realizes - this truth and acts upon it will be wise. : i H4 RESTRICTED IMMIGRATION. The Knights of Labor are agitating national legislation . looking to the re striction of immigration. The slums and cess-pools of European cities are being emptied on our shores, and one of these days our statesmen will firid that rtlie' character1 ancl integrity , of American institutions' will be .largely inithe hands jof t those; whose idea of government,' infwhateyer forrnV is, thai ' 2, . I it is synonymous" 4with tyranny and oppression;! mys07: invh(Cwitness agaM; aterrible rugglltostlbUsh the doctne that " Americans 'mist rule America." POINTING. THE ;,W.EONQ.-JKAY- "When we were a boy, we frequently found wagons broken down on the road'sicTe, but the r tongue ! or poll was pointed invariably, toward the market. We notice now in such cases that the polL-points. the. other. ..way fancLthat the load consists, Tof- hayy fertilizer, corn, flour and bacon, and yet our farmers complain of "hard times." BEWARE. ' A good many farmers are accus tomed to hang their milk and meat in their wells to keep 'it" cool.' News 'comes - from ; Wilmington, Delaware, i that r 'three persons were recently spoisoried by drinking water from a well in ' which a piece of meat had fallen and decomposed. " ' - r- . - - . The following is in a circular, issued by the Secretary, of the Inter-State Convention to delegates and explains itself: ; The Kimball House will accommo date delegates at .from $2 to $2.40 per day, Markham House $2 per day, and the National Hotel $1.50. Even less rates. may be secured at private boarding houses, of which there are many in the city. Respectfully, W. Si DeWoLFE, Sec'y. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION, IIENDERSON VILLE, &C. ' Monday night, July 18th, found this deponent aboard the train bound for the meeting of the Press Associa tion. There were several pleasing features of the trip in anticipation. The range of the , thermometer from 95 to 104 for a week or more had well nigh exhausted what physical energy there was in us, especially as the nights had become almost insufferably hot. Even the thoughts of starting towards the mountains filled us with delight. And then, too, the warm-hearted expressions from the people of Hen dersonville had raided our expectations pretty high. On the cars we. found a right good delegation from the East. This con tinued to increase slowly until our ar rival at the place of meeting. As might have been expected, the cars were all packed from Greensboro to Hendersonville not, however,with representatives of the press alone. Our attention was attracted more by the growing crops, as we passed along, than--by anything else, except the heat, for there was no " cessation of hostilities " until we ran into a nice shower of rain at Conover. We found the crops suffering much more 'for want of rain in the Piedmont section than nearer home. At Connelly's Springs we. were caught by another shower, which rendered the stop more pleasant. And yet all the way from Raleigh to our destination we were informed that there had been, the warmest weather, and the longest " whet of it," that had been known for years. , , .; : ,As the train was about to leave Asneville, quite a heavy rain began to fall, nor did we get out of it any more. And we were not a little surprised to find that there, yr&s much more need of rain west of 1 the Jlidge than there was down east. ' They told us at Hen dersonville that .there had been no rain there for six weeks and morel The corn is considerably injured, and information reached ; us that there were some sections - where it was a matter of meat and bread. But the refreshing showers have come and all nature is bright and- verdant. THE PRESS ASSOCIATION was a decided - disappointment to us. It was composed of , not much ' more than a corporal's guard. Only a very few of the leading editors of the State were present. And the surprise was greater when we thought of the de lightfully j pleasant ; and hospitable place of meeting. ' - ' h?, : : . The ' principal items that were brought; :bef ore the body- -were the propositions to erect a monument to the late K MXHale, td establish' a unir form tariff for -advertising - rates; -and to prevent ' bogus and fraudulent ad vertising. It was a source of ishment that some oftlie best informed took the ground that no such thin? could be done as to have unifom, vertlsmg rates. The competent judges say that the annual oration, the poem and the essays were fine. A merited compli. ment was conferred in the election of Bro. Eldridge, of the Lexington Dis patch, as President. The same very efficient Secretary, Bro. Lindsay 0f the Kernersville Jfeius, was re-elected amidst applause. We must say a word about the peo pie of - 1 Hendersonville. It was our first attendance upon the sessions of the Association,, but judo-, ing from- the expressions we heard from several quarters, the reception was one of the most hospitable ever extended. , Everything was done to make our stay pleasant. The Committee on Hospitality met us at the train, assigned us homes at the various hotels and boarding houses took us to them , nor would they let us pay anything for this service, nor for our entertainment while here. Rev. J. B. Boone, president of that excellent institution, Judson College, threw the doors wider open and we used the chapel for our sessions. The admirable address of welcome by Rev. J. E. Carter, editor of the Western X. C. Baptist, was but an index to what was to follow. The ladies had also prepared a most excellent and enjoyable entertainment for us, which took place Wednesday night. It is not our purpose to flatter, nor bestrow fulsome praise, but we never attended a more pleasing enter tainment. It consisted of songs, in strumental music, recitations, tab leaux, &c. A free excursion . was given Thurs day to the Boilston Gold Mines, some 12 miles west of Hendersonville, of which most of the members took ad vantage: . On Friday a similar offer was made to go. to Hot Springs by that clever gentleman, Mr. McBee, Supt. W. N. C. Railroad. This too, was accepted and the Association ad journed. LEGALIZED ROBBERY. The Progressive Farmer has fre quently adverted to the system of gen teel (?) gambling in bread and meat and other necessaries of life, by which the prices of these necessaries are reg ulated and controlled by unscrupulous speculators and money lords. The people must elect men to legislate for them who will put a stop to this Na tional swindle. Mr. Mortimer White head, Lecturer of the National Grange has issued the following which ex presses our views so clearly that we cheerfully give it a place in . our col umns : Legalized robbery amounting to millions of dollars, that must be paid by the masses of people,' are becoming more frequent with every passing year. The great wheat and and coffee " cor ners " were of this class. The price of coffee was. doubled to the millions of consumers in this country for several weeks, and who has estimated the mil lions of dollars, "stand and deliver," thus taken from them ? How few people who are thus robbed are taking any action to have it stopped. The National Grange, at its late session in Philadelphia, had this subject under consideration, and, with the view-of bringing it" ; before the Subordinate Granges and the people, passed the followingVesolutions : . Resolved;" That the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, do hereby de nounce and condemn the practice of the monopolists and speculators in the purchase of what is known in commer cial circles as - "futures whether of cotton, cony wheat, pork, or any other product of the farm ; that we, the said Grange, -believe it to be a species of iniquitous jgambling; that it establishes the price of the produce of the farmer without regard to the necessity of the just and equitable law of supply and demand. .' ! ; Resolved, That we recommend to the Subordinate Granges, and fanners generallyto petition their respective legislatures to enact such laws as will make the said dealing in " futures ' a" misdemeanor, and punished as other crimes. : ' ' ;-i ' ' 7 When public sentiment in regard to this subject is aroused as it should, be, a law or laws will be enacted prohibit ing the 'dealing in "futures," and the haturanaw of supply and demand will govern -the market in .the necessary commodities of alife. 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