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. - - ' ' . - v ' ' . . ' -.;.......'--. .... . , . : - ' - - , v - . t . . - - - I ' . . I ' , - - - ' -. . r ' ' - . ; ' .. ' , ' - ' ... - " . . - . ' ' ' . . , ' . ' '. - . , V . . ' -. !. ' . .. .- - .. . . - ' - ; . . . -..... - - , y : ' ' " : - . . '. .. . ; ',' ..fS , '. ' . '- J t . , : ;i.. , . ..,T,. J " IX.. y, , ; ..-.. ,, ; . . ' - "" . -; ,. . - ' . f: i ,- 'f r k 1 THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. Vol. 2. RALEIGH, N. UGUST11, 1887. No. 25. n OUR FARMERS' CLUBS. What our Farmers are Doing and How ytht Work of Organizing is Progressing.. The farmers met at Madison Satur day, July 3 Oth, according to appoint ment. Organized by electing the fol lowing officers : Gol. J. M. Gallaway, President; C. A.:McGehee, Vice-President; Geo. W. Martin, Treasurer; and D. W. Busick, Secretary. The club organized under the name of Dan River Farmers' Club. Forty enrolled their names. Our President on taking the chair, gave us a nice little talk. Much interest was manifested, and we anticipate a large club at this place.i Subject for discussion at the next meet ing, " Wheat and Wheat Sowing." Many expressed a desire to see your paper, The Progressive Farmer. Respectfully, ;D. W. Busick, Sec'y. The Farmers' Club of Stoneville, Rockingham, Co., organized on Satur day, 30th of July, with 26 members. T. B. Lindsay was elected President ; Tyler King,- Vice-President; P. F. Galliher,- Treasurer ; J. D. Meddor, Secretary. Postoffice of President and Secretary, Douglas, N. C. Sub-! ject for discussion at our next meet ing is Wheat growing, best prepara tion of the soil,- time and manner of sowing, quantity of seed to the acre," &c We are thinking , of offering a premiumtto the one who will grow the largest quantity of wheat on half an acre of land. A-great many take The Progressive Farmer and are well pleased twith it. Every farmer ought to join a club, and every member of a club ought; to take. Tiie Progressive Farmer. T. B. Lindsay, ; Deep Springs Farm, Auffl ; IV '8 7 '. ' (dV The Wake County Farmers' Alli- ance convened in the city of Raleigh on Saturday, July 30th, 1.887. .The Alliance was called to order at 1 1 o'clock by the President, J. D. Allen. The" Vice-President being absent, Eugene T. Jones, Esq., : was chosen Vice-President pro. tern. J. J. Penny, P. P. Pace and J. Wiley Jones were appointed a committee on credentials. Twenty-four Alliances were found to be represented. - I ; Having been formally opened, the Alliance proceeded to the considera tion of the interests of the order in the county, and considerable time was spent in an interesting and profitable discussion of various matters. ' W. G. Allen, ;R. J. Buffaloe and J. J. Penny were appointed as a finance committee. -t T By request of the Alliance, J. B. Barry, organizing; officer of the Na-; tional Alliance, appointed four ad-; ditional . organizers ? in different parts of the county, viz: .D. P. Meacham,' R. D. Weathers, W. G. T. , Allen and A. M. Thompson. ; y. ; !.f (cfY The following resolution was intro duced by J. M. Turner and unanimous ly adopted: r - v , , v Resolved, That this Alliance recom mend ;The .Progressive Farmer as worthy .of our hearty support, , and that we adopt it as the .organ of The Farmers' Alliance of ,Wake county. ' . After having disposed of- the busi ness presented for ita consideration, s the Alliance was , entertained , by a very : interesting ; address Jby the Lec turer, J. M. Turner. The Wake County Alliance then adjourned to meet in the. court house, in the city of Raleigh, on the last . Saturday: in' August, 1887. ; - i r' ...s. .. ; ;;W. G.jCrowder, Sec'y. ; For Thk Progressive Farmer. A word in regard to the treatment of milch' cows. ' As a rule the people of North Carolina have never learned the value of a good cow, hence the great mistake of ? keeping too many and not 'giving them the proper at tention.. I think that one cow prop erly fed and sheltered is enough' for any family - at one1 time. -; In cold weather the cow should be : protected from the cold winds, and always from the cold - rains She should always be as well fed as the horse, and if either has the preference it should be the cow. Let us count the cost of feeding ana tne value of the milk and butte produced. One hundred pounds wheat bran4 and one hundred pounds of . fodder will more than supplher for one mouth ; this is worth $2.50. With . this' f oodproperly prepared, the cow will yield at least four gallons, of milk per day eaual to twentv-eifirht gallons per forty cents - " .A ..It W. week: Milk worth per gallon (here) 28 to 40 -equal to $1 1.20- a neat profit of $8.70 per week, aid this is not an over estimate, for I have tested it and many others have also. For summer and fall feeding, Ihave( found that ; corn; produces more milk and butter and a better quality than any other food. This can be produced at a very small expense by thoroughly preparing your land in the spririg and sowing the corn in rows about two feet apart.' '. Commence sowing in March and sow a small quantity about every three weeks until the first of August. Cut about , the time : the tassel begins to shpw ; you can sow same land two or three times the same year, and by so doing one acre will keep a cow for. a, year,- I have tried clover and tne grasses, but corn ex ceeds them all by far, both in quantity and quality of milk. I know that many people think that $50 is a high price for a cow, but this simply by not making a proper calculation. The, fact is, it.is; hard to tell what a good cow; is worth. , ; - More anon, . M. A "TAR HEEL" ON GRASSES. T have made cmany . .inquiries of various persons in a circuit of ' forty miles around me as to Seeding clover and grass together, and wanted to learn of a good mixture. ;Of course I have read -in 2 lie Southern ; Cultivator of these mixtures of grass seed with clover, but almost every writer differed more or less, and hence I ' was at sea and in doupt. Last year, however, I sowed clover,-'and' stray grass seed was mixed "with the cloven :seed, and I determined for 'myself that timothy would mature with clover, information from supposed reliable parties to the contrary, nevertheless. This seeing with my own eyes is satisfactory ; so I know that r I can sow timothy and clover. On i a trip recently I saw orchard giass and clover growing to gether, and was satisfied that it would mature with clover. Now, I am satis fied ' as to this fact, and don't want any more hair-splitting opinions upon these ' two points. J supposed for. a year or two that the Means or Johnson grass would be a good variety to sow with clover, timothy and r orchard grass, because " the thickness' with which the varieties would grow would necessarily '. : make the means - grass grow with a - delicate , or, ; very : much finer stem and by that method 4would be a valuable addition, its other qiiali- K ties being: so fine : "' but it matures, or perhaps outgrows the others,1 arid I am afiaid of its making too course a stem, if cut with the maturity of the others. - I don't advise it to be sown with the others. T cut a stalk of it today (June 18) seven" feet high, and this should have ; been cut for hay at least a ; month ago, . or ; even sooner. Don't know., anything about red top, but I intend to put it in 'my mixture to harrow into a clover sod in Sep teber or October, or February ' and March.i ) Have just' finished cutting fifteen acres of clover and . did not have a first rate , catch, yet 1; have filled' Quite a larere barn full to over- . i ; . , : ' ' . : nowiug. jvepu one two-horse team busy hauling;- two 'women to load, from" Tuesday morning ' until Saturday night;-.. I will j cut , this held again in the fall, as soon as it is ready, and again next June," and will then allow the autumn crop to "go to seed and fall upkm the ground fdr fW new seeding This might be liarrowed :6r rolled during; the v winter- cr early, spring so as to press the seed into the firrouhd.UJoHN H." 'Wilson in Sbirth- nrl ern Cultivator for Augitst-- fMERS ORGANIZATIPNS. le necessity oi i nem and the Good to be Accomplished by Them? Correspondence of The Landmark. Since the agricultural association -was organized hr Iredell county quite a number of fanners have been per plexed about joining that body. Some say they would join if Mr. -7 did not belong ; others, that farmers will not remain organized long ; others say it is hot popular to belong to ah' organization composed only of ;. farm ers ; and quite a number are .waiting to see who joins. There are a num ber of letters on my table before me containing such questions as " What do you propose . to do ?" "Do you think you can benefit the farmers7 condition ?" Some of the writers ask me to answer them through The Land-' mark that they and also their friends may understand our object. This is a fast age and the man or set of men, who are satisfied to follow in the paths trodden by our ancestors and make no departure from the way, 1 1 it !" "L-j'' ' 11 Jl m wnicn tney aicr ousmess, win al ways be behind and are unworthy of the age in which they are. living. ? All the professional classes are or ganized, and it is easy to observe that they recognize the order they have reduced their business to. . If it; pays the professional man to systematize his business, why not thet farmers organize and' reduce all theirl affairs to some method ? The farming class of men do more hard manual labor and the world is more indebted tothem than any other class, and yet their affairs ; are more neglected and more ignore i by , other classes, than any other, line in , propor tion to its extent.' -All the professions and the different lilies of-: manufactur ing interest in the country, in short, everything ; but farming has laws of business, customary rules, &c, by which it is governed, except farming and selling of farm products. : - If a farmer wants counsel he must' fee a lawyer, which is generally from five to fifty Uwefilty dollars. If his family gets sick he calls in a physician; he must have from , fifty cents to a dollar per mile, which he can travel in a few minutes. If his teeth decay and he calls in a D. .D. S. who fills a few teeth, he charges him from five to ten dollars for work which he will do in two or three hours. If . he wants farming utensils he must pay the manufacturer his price. If he wants fire-arms, jewelry, musical instruments, &c, he must pay a fixed price. If he wants goods and goes to the dealer he: hot only pays for the manufacturing, but he finds added the merchant's per cent. Now in- all this buying he finds he must pay the price asked, or do without the goods., ' How is it on the other hand when he has a load of produce to sell and hauls it to market ? He is not asked -what he will take but is told he can have sq much and if he will not take it he can haul it back home. If he has tobacco to sell he hauls it to town, someDoay else sens it ior mm ana ne must pay a given price- for selling it whether it brings that, amount or not. If he has pork to sell he must take from four, to seven cents , per pound. If he wants bacon4 in a few weeks afterward, he has to pay from ten to fifteen cents per pound. He pays the dealer more for a few pounds of salt that only cost one cent per pound and for keeping his meat a few weeks than he gets for making i, " ' . j It is easyito .be seen: that farmers are "hewers of wood and drawers of water " for other classes of men. The tillers of the soil in all ages have been more contented, more law-abiding and better citizens as a; rule than any other class. .As they generally reside in 'Hoe. rural , districts " this may be partly the cause of it, nevertheless this contentment has cost them a great deal. But; the day has come "when the farmers, have'begun to realize their situation ,and . while it . does jiot' become them to abuse other classes for look ing"' after :theif ihterest; f or that is their business;' yet hey- see their situation will-never be -benefited -unless - they bring about - changes by their own efforts. . ; '; ' ; . ; . u . It is gratifying to see the interest that is manifested in several of the Southern States. While the1 farmers have been organized in several of the Northern States for a number of years, it has neyer amounted to; much ; but more recently it begun here in , the South, and today Texas boasts, of her two hundred thousand T members ; Louisiana fifty thousand, and every Southern State ; is enlisting her thou sands. ; While . we organize by town ships and counties and do some good, we can never do all .that is needed without a State and National: organization.-' Such an organization will eventually be the result! ; : ' ; . 1 . Wiile other States have caught the spirit and are making such commenda ble efforts in. behalf of the great issue of the day, let North Carolina do' her part, arid old Iredell, that is nevef be hind in any good thing that she is call ed on to do, wake up. , Several hundred of her farmers have enrolled ; let as many more enlist. The meeting at the court house and the township gatherings can be made interesting and profitable by discussing the manner of cultivating the different kinds "of crops, when and , where to seed,' and in what 'shape to rriarket the products of the farm. "If the farmers 'df North Carolina had been well' organized fifteen years ago they and their farms would to-day be worth fifty per cent, more than they; are. . There is a class of farmers in north Iredell, Davie, Yadkin and Wilkes counties who have been for the last fifteen years clearing annually fields , for tobacco and grain whicfi could be grown on .them ,for a few! years witnout ierunzers. xms ciass of farmers have destroyed enough valuable timber of different1 kinds by burning it in log piles to have paid for building a railroad from btatesville to this point if they had been convenient to a market for it. This class of farm ers will have to learn to farm differ-' ently and stop such distruction of the forest. There , is another class of farmers that reminds one of the adage, "Dis tance lends enchantment to the view." Because they could buy fertilizers ont time they made the venture and the result in many- instances was that the crop would not pay the fertilizer bill. Many of these farmers own a consid erable herd of cattle which is allowed to roam at large, stay in some old field at night, . when if they were herded and the excrements 'every, morning throw in a pen kept .covered, protect ing it from the sun and rain, it would greatly reduce their bill ior fertilizers. We need farmers who can reclaim our barren fields and make them pro ductive, and s this with home-made fer tilizers. " 'The farmers should organize 'manu facturing companies, uniting their sur plus , capital and 1 manfacturing their farming utentils. from our native woods. . Ji ours would meet together and -'discuss all these measures aud" buy more good books and papers and read them, we would soon see a change. .We would see more . entensive farming, more stock. raised, and better stock. Our people would become better in formed and not be so easily" taken in by every dead-head swindler and ped dler: that comes along, j And. last but not least, the agriculturists, , interest demands,, some legialation.f- Let the farmers discuss among themselves what laws they need to protect their interest and in a body petition our leg islators for what they need and; they will.be sure to get them. . " J" " ' E Smith,. - Settle, NCuiy 21, 1887r : : SUICIDE OF A RECKLESS MAN. 5 A man who committed - suicide in an Arkansaw town i left the following lettet : I ii Any feller 7 that,: saysXanVt jin 5y iTigh jmpd'whenj -..do;this here deed don't know f much ; about my dis positibn.. Five weeks ago I had money and was happy, but reckless living brought me down to this. I lost sight of the fact that I had worked hard for- my money, an went out with a passel s of boys an' spent eighty-five , cents, f This only left me a dollar an' a quarter, ; an being unable to stand the disgrace which my reduced circumstances i brought about, I must die. When I came to this town I had nearly three dollars." Arkansaw Traveler. 1 THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER . AND ITS FRIENDS. .... 1 It is known that we started this paper under most disadvantageous surroundings. It is not known how we have toiled and labored "in season and out of season '" day and night, to place it beyond the breakers. We confess with pride and with gratitude to our friends, that it has succeeded beyond our expectations. It has made strong and true friends. It has enjoyed the courteous kindness, if not co opera-tion, of the 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 subscibersV 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 01 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 ud from fifty to one hundred each ? . If our friends in these counties will kindly give us their help and will give half thenumber 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 u 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 4to accomplish it ? ' Who will give us their aid in securing five thousand subscriber by the first "of January ? ' . : Look at these rates .. 1 ' yiwin to clubs: ' 1 subscriber and under five, I year, $2.00 5 subscribers and under ten,1 year," 1.65 ' 10 subscribers and under fifteen, IV . ; year, .; ,. . . . ' . . 1.50 15 subscribers and under twenty, 1 'f:J year, 'y. ' :t ,::J 20 subscribers, or more, 1 year, . 1.25 1.00 , JSrtctly cash in advance. Who will be the first to send us a club? Remember that for any one of the above clubs, ' ydu get the paper free ior one year.r: Will yow not make up a club in your neighborhood in your. Grange, in your Club, in your Alli ance ? , How many of our frienas will join us in the 'effort to get the 'five thousand?- Write to us for -iblahk subscription list and sample : cpy of t 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 Alhance and show it ; to your brethren and get them to take it. WJio wilt write first for the Hank I Join us in the work, and let us havoj by the beginning of next year the very best paper in the whole South for our iarmers.- . r i1 8' 1 r , A'
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