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THE- E flARMER, NOVEMBER 3"J W T i. North Carolina' State . Board of Agri culture.: - fiov. A. M. Scales (ex-officio) chairman W. R Williams, of Pitt, Master State Grange. Col. R. W. Wharton, 1st Congressiona District. - Dr, A. G. Brooks, 2d Congressional Dis trict. ; H. L. Grant. 3rd Congressional District. Col. W. F. Green, 4th Congressional District. J. H. MurrOw, 5th Congressional Dis trict. r ' i S. B. AlexanderpGt.h Congressional Dis trict (elect). ' . A. Leazer, 7th. Congressional District Burwell Blanton, 8th Congressional Dis trict. Dr. C. D. Smith, 9th Congressional Dis trict. ' -' :-' ' - OFFICERS. John Robinson, Commissioner. T. K. Bruner, Acting Secretary. . . . C. W. Dabney, Jr., Chemist and Direc tor of Experiment Station. John T. Patrick,' General Agent Immi gration. TRUSTEES OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND ME CHANICAL COLLEGE.' The members of the Board of Agricul ture, to whom are added: W. S. Primrose, Wake. G. Z. French, Pender. II. E. Fries, Forsyth. :: Gen. R. Barringer, Mecklenburg. Elias Carr, Edgecombe. STATE GRANGE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. W. R. Williams, Falkland, Pitt county, Master. , Dr. J. W. Sessoms, Bethel, Lecturer, W. II. Powell. Battleboro, Treasurer, R. T. J. Ludwig, Mt. Pleasant, Secre tary. . EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Rev. Wm. Grant, Jackson, N. C. Capt, W. II: Powell, Battleboro, N. T. Ridley, Boykins, Ya. a TIIE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS' ASSOCIATION. President Elias Carr, Old Sparta Edgecombe county. Vice Presidents W. R. Williams, 1st Congressional District ; . A. uaraen, 2d Congressional District; n. rencn 3d Comrressional'District: W. F. Green, 4th Congressional District: II. E. Fries, 5th Congressional District ; J. S. Reid, Gth Congressional District; VV. 1. lioDson, 7th Congressional District: Uurweli 5lan ton, 8th Congressional District; W. II. McLure, 9th Congressional District. B. F. Hester. Oxford, Secretary: S Otho Wilson, Vineyard, and W. E. Ben- bow, Oak Kidge, Assistant foecretanes. EXfcCUTlVE COMMITTEE. D. Reid Parker. Trinity College, A. Mclver, Oaks, D. McN. McKay, Averas boro; L. L. Polk, Raleigh, and C. Mc Donald, Concord. N. C. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. W. G. Upchurch, Raleigh, President; John Nichols, Raleigh, Secretary. NORTH CAROLINA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. President J. Van Lindley, Pomona. Secretary S. Otho Wilson, Vineyard. Treasurer J. A. Lineback, Salem. i Rev. Charles S. Farris has resigned the editorship of the Biblical Recorder. It is reported that the peanut crop in the eastern part of this State is almost ruined by the long wet spell. -Mr. J. A. Hood, Shotwell, N. C, i Secretary of Piney Grove Alliance, in stead of H. V. Bunch, as has been pub lished. Neuse river is said to be higher by four feet at Milburnie bridge than it was ever known before. The damage by the recent heavy floods is very great in this county. Work on the new railroad from Henderson to Durham will commence soon. The first ten miles from each place are out for bids for grading and cross-tying. It is now recorded that the "oldest inhabitant" never saw any weather in October to compare with that which has prevailed for the past three weeks. Heavy snows are reported North of us. President Cleveland has issued a proclamation naming the 24th day of November as a day of thanksgiving arid prayer, and calling upon the people of the United States to observe it in an ap propriate manner. ' ! The repori of Agriculture of the State for the-year has been issued, and shows a very good average. The grades are as fol lows as to average production: Cotton, 89 1-2 V- cprri, 96 3-8 ; tobacco, 92 1-4 ; sweet potatoes, 98. ' Mr. E. G. Harrell, the energetic and enterprising Secretary of the N. C. Teachers' Assembly, is arranging to have all the State Superintendents of Public Instruction, of the Southern States, to hold a meeting during the session of the Assembly at Morehead City next summer. We are daily receiving applications for blanks for making up subscription clubs, and. we are profoundly grateful to our good friends all oyer the State for the interest they 'at kindly manifest on be half of our paper and for their cheering words of encouragement. Jt.is. our high est aim to make The Progressive Farmer a faithful exponent of their wants and wishes,, and a faithful advocate of their rights and interests. Many thanks, kind friends, Arrangements are being made by Mr. J ohn T. Patrick, of Patterson, New Jersey, to establish a silk factory at Wadesboro. It will be erected oh the! site known as " Carr's Mount." Arrange ments have , been made to have the ma chinery all there by the 25th of next February... Let the good work continue. North Carolina is the place for manufac-i turing. The laying of the corner-stone of the Lee monument in Richmond, Va., last week, was accomplished, notwithstanding the exceedingly bad weather. An im mense crowd witnessed the ceremonies and thousands of the braye old followers of the great and immortal Lee were pres ent to attest their genuine affection for him. Gen. Wade Hampton, of S. C, was Chief Marshal. We were delighted to see some beau tifully canned goods at our State Fair from the Han es Canning Co., at Lexing ton, and also quite a variety of our small fruits put up in handsome style by the Hickory Canning Co., and on exhibition at the Catawba Fair. Such enterprises should be encouraged by our merchants and people, for they are valuable factors in our industrial progress. J. he continued rains must operate seriously against the farmer. Much of the corn, cotton, peas, potatoes, etc., is yet not harvested, while a very large pro portion of the land to be seeded to wheat is yet untouched. We fear that erreat damage will be done to the crops yet in the field. The very unusual bad weather for the past two weeks should admonish our farmers that there should be no delay in gathering in the crops as soon as the weather will permit. Let this receive their first attention. v' j We learn by a card published in the agricultural and alliance papers, from T, J. Andrews, State Alliance Business Agent of Arkansas, that he was en couraged by the business men of Little Rock to establish his headquarters in that city. He did so, but the cotton buyers combined against him. He promptly re moved his office to St. Louis, and now Arkansas cotton will go to another State to find a friendly market, and the trade which an Arkansas city would enjoy from its sale is, by this piece of arrogance and folly, transferred to a city in another State. When will some people learn that the farmers of the country have rights ? We saw a heifer thirteen months old sold for $150, and one of the same age sold for $100 at our Jersey Cattle Show in this city last May. We also saw a bull calf, ten months old sold for $75. Last week we saw a three-year-old cow, weight 1,560 pounds, with her first calf, giving six gallons of milk per day, and the calf, only three weeks old, could not be bought for less than $275. We saw a bull two years old which weighs over 1400 pounds, and a calf fourteen weeks old which weighs 450 pounds. And it costs no more to raise and keep such cattle than the common scrub cattle. And yet we see men every day in our travels who are cultivating good grass and clover lands, incotton, corn and tobacco, and their whole herd of scrub cattle does not pro duce enough butter for the family. A calf three weeks old worth more than eight bales of cotton ! Read the demands laid down by the National Alliance and read them carefully. Some of these demands have been laid down numbers of , times by different bodies, but lfke most of the good resolu tions of farmers, they were formulated, passed and died out. withthe earnest speeches which inspired their adoption. They have not been followed up and pressed. ' They, were , not mentioned in the primary - meetings . arid conventions which nominated candidates and framed platforms. They were not discussed through the papers. They were not ad vocated as they should have been by the agricultural press of the country. Some of these demands were adopted by the Farmers' Inter-States Convention at At lanta, and we know that Congress will readily address itself to the consideration of these matters, if we present them in the right way. The right way is to go to that body with the united voice of the producers of this great country. For The Progressive Farmer. : SECRETARIES ASSOCIA-TION. THE Raleigh, N. C., Oct. 29, '87. Pursuant, to notice previously given, a number of5 the Secretaries of the Sub-Alliances in Wake county assem bled in the court house in this city to day at 12 o'clock m. The assembly was called to order by the Secretary of the County Alli ance, who asked Cel. L. L. Polk to act as temporary Chairman. ; - On taking the chair,, Col. Polk 11 '1.1 I I . m stated the object ot the meeting .to be to effect an organization of the SecgT targes m the cqunty in -order to-secure system and accuracy in the imxrtant work with which the Secretaries are charged. After a few remarks from the Sec retary of the County Alliance, insist ing on. the necessity of organization, and pointing out some of the benefits to be derived! from it, on motion of Bro. J. J. Dunn, the Secretaries prese ent proceeded to organize " The Wake County Alliance Secretaries' Associa tion." ... The Association then adopted the following " Declaration of Purposes and Constitution:" We, the Secretaries of the Farmers' Association in Wake county, feeling the importance of the work with which we are entrusted, and desiring to perform that work in an intelligent and efficient manner, do hereby organize for that pur pose. CONSTITUTION. Aimcr.E 1. Sec. 1. This body shall be known as " The Wake County Alliance Secretaries' Association. Sec. 2. This body shall be composed 'of the Secretaries of the Alliance in Wake county. . Article 2. Sec. 1. The meetings of this body shall be held quarterly, and each meeting shall be at least one week previous to the quarterly meeting of the County Alliance. Sec. 2. The officers of this Association shall be a President, Vice-President, Sec retary anil Door Keeper and Assistant Door Keeper. Sec. 3. The officers shall be elected an nually, beginning with date of organiza tion of this body. They shall be elected from the members of the body and shall be entitled to hold office until their suc cessors are eleeted and qualified. Sec 4. The duties of the officers of this body shall be the duties of similar officers in the Sub-Alliance Article 3. Sec. 1. It. shall be the duty of each member of this body to furnish at each meeting the quarterly report from his Alliance to the Secretary of the County Alliance. Sec 2. It shall be the privilege of each member to submit to the body any mat ter pertaining to his duties, about which he may wish information, and such mat ters so presented shall be proper subjects for discussion. The Association then elected the following officers: President W. B. Smith; Forest ville. Vice President J. J. Dunn ; Neuse. Secretary W. G. Crowder; Cary. Door Keeper N. H. Hubbard; Raleigh. Asst. Door Keeper J. A. Hood ; Raleigh. On motion, the Secretary was in structed to present to the County Alli ance, at its next meeting, a copy of the proceedings of this body and ask the endorsement of the County Alli ance. A resolution asking the Lecturers of the Alliance in the county to meet and co-operate with the Association, was unanimously adopted. The following resolution was also adopted: Resolved, That each Sub-Alliance in Wake county be requested to pay . its Secretary two dollars per day for each day that such Secretary may attend the meeting of the. Association, con ditioned upon said Secretary's furnish ing to his Alliance a certificate of at tendance upon the meeting of the As sociation. On motion, the President was re quested to appoint a committee of three to report at the next meeting of the Association suitable By-Laws for the Association. . The Chair appointed the following: W. G. Crowder, J. J. Dunn, WV H. Rogers. ' : ; On motion, the Wake County Alli ance Secretaries Association adjourn ed to meet in Raleigh on December 30th, 1887. W. G. Crowder, bee i The Agricultural Wheel is another organization that is growing rapidly in the West; and South. It admits other classes than farmers. This is its principal difference from the Alli ance. There is a cordial feeling be tween the Wheel and Alliance in some States, and the Arkansas State Wheel at its last i annual meeting de cided to join hands with the National Farmers'. Alliance and Ce-Operative .Union. We can but feel that this ac tion was sensible, broad-minded and public-spirited. It is the begining of a closer and more compact union of the. farmers of the country than has previously existed, Home and Farm. At the recent meeting of the Na tional' Alliance, the Wheel of Kentucky and Tennessee and Missouri all affiliated with our ' order. -Ed. Progressive Farmer. DEMANDS OF THE NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLIANCE UPON -- i ' ( ' . CONGRESS. Below we print in full the demands made by the National Farmers' Alli ance in convention at Shreveport. They are sound to the core and show in ringing language the more impor tant purposes of this great body, and the ends they propose to achieve. This body was composed of farmers representing all the Southern States, and the resolutions appended were passed unanimously, Resolved, That we th 'National Farmers' Alliance and Co-operative Union of America,, in convention as sembled, advocate and endorse the fol lowing principles as in accord with the sentiments and demands of the tillers of the soil: 1st. We demand, first, the recogni tion, by incorporation, of. trades, unions, co-operative stores and such other associations as may be organized by the industrial classes to improve their financial condition, or promote their general welfare. 2d. We demand that the all public lands be held in small bodies, not ex. ceeding three hundred and twenty acres to each purchaser, fpr actual set tlers, on easy terms of payment. 3d. That large bodies of land held by private individuals or corporations, shall be assessed for taxation, at such rates as they are offered to purchasers, on a credit of one, two and three years, in bodies of one hundred and sixty acres or less. 4th That whereas, large bodies of our public lands, have been sold to foreign capitalists, thus tending to the establishment of a landed aristocracy in this country, similar to that which has reduced the people of Ireland, and other monarchical Governments, to a condition of abject serfdom; we de mand the passage of laws forbidding the ownership of lands, by aliens, whose allegiance belongs to other nations, and that the public domain be held as the heritage, of aur own people and our children after us. 5th. That all lands forfeitable by railroads or other corporations, imme diately revert to the government and be declared open for purchase by actual settlers, on the same terms as other public lands. 7th. We demand that all fences be removed, by force if necessary, from public lands unlawfully fenced by cat tle companies, syndicates, or any other L form or name of monopoly. 8th. We demand the extinguish ment of the public debt of the United States by operating the mints to their fullest capacity, in coining silver and gold: and the tendering of the same without discrimination, to the public creditors of the Nation, according to contract. 9th. We demand the substitution of legal-tender treasury notes for the issues of national banks ; that the Congress of the United States shall iegulate the amount of such issue by per capita circulation, that shall in crease and keep pace with the growth of the country's population, and the expansion of her business interests. We further demand the repeal of the present National banking system. 10th. We demand that the depart ment of agriculture be made one of the departments of State ; that it shall be increased in scope ahl efficiency, &nd in connection therewith, there shall be established a bitreau of labor statistics. . 11th. We demand the enactment of laws to compel corporations to pay their employees according to contract, in lawful money for their services, and the giving to mechanics and laborers a first lien upon the products of their labor to the extent of their full wages. 12th. That the laws relating to the suppression of the transmission of im moral, profane or obscene literature through " the mails, be made more stringent; and be extended so as to suppress the transmission of such literature by any public carrier. 13th. We demand that the U. S. Government purchase, by right of eminent domain, the telephone and telegraph lines, and operate them as adjuncts' of tlreVU. "S; postal service. 14th. That in view of the fact that the delegates to this body represent a majority of tho cotton -producers of the cotton belt of America, which belt produces over two-thirds of the cotton of the whole world, and in view of the further fact that two-thirds of the cotton in the cotton belt is demanded and used .for export to a foreign power, which fixes the price on every pound ot our cotton; and in view, of the fact that the said power is debar red from 'returning to this country a single - yard of manufactured cotton, thereby making said power interested, in crowding down to the lowest figure the price of. cotton; we hereby demand that the Ui S. Government adopt a speedy system of reduction of the im port duty on manufactured cottons, in such a way as to do justice to this, the greatest of all classes of producers. 14th. We demand such a revision of the tariff as will lay the heaviest burdens on thejuxuries and the light est on the necessaries of life ; and as will reduce the incomes from imports to a strictly revenue basis. 15th. That as remedy against the unjust accumulation and encroach ment of capital, we demand a gradu ated income tax. 16th. That as upon, the intelligence of the people depend the stability and perpetuity of our own free govern-' ment, we demand for the masses a well regulated system of industrial and agricultural education. 17th. That we oppose the continued influx of pauper labor from the mon archies of Europe, whose anarchic views and communistic doctrines aro breeding discontent, and disloyalty to law, order, peace and good govern ment; and by an overplus of worth less labor, reducing our own laboring classes to. starvation, we therefore de mand more stringent laws to prevent this country being further used as an, asylum for: the communists and pau-; pers of qther countries. 18th. We demand that the consti-i tutions, both State aud -National, be so amended as to provide for the election of U. S. Senators by direct vote of the people. TO COUNTY AND SUBORDINATE ALLIANCES IN N. C. (circular no. 1.) Office Sec'y of F. S. A. of N. C, .. Raleigh, N. C. Oct. 7, 1887. 1. The officers of all County and subor dinate Alliances now organized, or which may be hereafter organized in the State of North Carolina, will henceforth make all reports and applications for blanks and forms, and remit all fees and dues to the Secretarv of the State Alliance at this office. 2. The secretaries- of the various County Alliances will report at once the name and number of each subordinate Alliance in their respective counties, together with the number of members in each the number of male members over 21 years of age the number of male members under 21 years of age and the number of female members in each. . 3. All commissoned organizers will re port promptly the Alliances organized within their respective jurisdictions, which have not been reported to the National Alliance and which have not received their dispensation or charter, and will re mit the fees due to this office. All organ izers will report to this office on the 15th day of this month all work done by them up to that date which has not been re ported to the National Alliance, and will remit all monies due this office (if any) up to that date. The secretary will provide as soon as possible a supply of all necessary blanks and forms, constitutions and rituals, for the use of the order in this State. In the incipiency of our organization he cannot too strongly urge upon all the offi cers the vital importance of making prompt and correct returns and reports as required by our Constitution. L. L. Polk, Sec'y Farmers' State Alliance of N. C. TO SECRETARIES OF COUNTY ALLIANCES. A C sA 4! . . (circular no. 2.) v OrricE Farmers' State Alliakce,' Raleigh, N. C. . : It is important that a complete record of all the Alliances now organized in pur State should be furnished this office at the earliest' practicable time. It is impossible for me- to act intelligently until this is done. . I therefore suggest to the Secre taries of the County Alliances that they call a meeting at once of the Secretaries of their respective counties and make, out a report and send to this office, embracing the following items : Name and number of each Alliance J date of organization; number of male members over 21 years of age; number of male members under 21 years; number of female members, and state whether the Alliance has received its charter or dis pensation ; the name and postoffice adT dress of the Secretary of each. Give the date of organization of the County Alli ance, with the name and postoffice ad dress of the ' Secretary. ; ; . L. L. Polk, j Sec'y Farmers' State Alliancej. T