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r t 1 1 J TEE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. RALEIGH. N. C. MARCH 26, 1895. No. T PSOGEESSIV "LI A "O TOT) Jl i - V TatIONAL FARMERS' ALLI ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. president -J. ivWilletts, Topeka, KVice-President-H C. Snavely, Leb- Vfty-Tr01,6001- D. P. Dun- Columbia, S. C. EXECUTIVE BOARD. n L Loucks, Huron, 8. D. ; Mann ot, Brandon, Virginia; L E. Dean, pSove Falls, New York; H. C. Dem Sinz Secretary, Harriaburg, Pennayl fi; Marion Butler, Raleigh, N. C. JUDICIARY. a A.. Southworth, Denver, Colo, g. V7. Beck, Alabama. . D. Davie, Kentucky. -OSTB CAROLINA FARMERS' 8TATB ALLI ANCE. President J. M. Mew borne, Kinston, SV?co President A. C. Shufcrd, Now-t0karr-Treasurer-W. 8. Barnes, Lecturer Cyrus Thompson, Rich-la?Ward-J. T. B. Hoover, 10m City, :'a'aplain-Dr. T. T. Speight, Eewis Wor keeper-Geo. T. Lane, Greens AssistantDoor-keeper-Jas. E. Lyon, Jkrms-J. R Hancock, Greensboro, N. C. vc--fV. State Business Agent-W. H. Worth, Kaleicrh, N. C. , , Tnxate Business Agency Fund-W. A. Graham, Machpelah, N. U executive coirrrEZ or tee north CaSOLITSA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. VLarion Butler, Goldsboro, N. C. ; J. j. Long, Eoka, N. C; A. F. Hileman, Concord, N. C. a TATS ALLlASCa JUDICIARY 00MMITTE3. Jno. Brady, Gatesvilie, N. C. ; Dr. J. F. Harrell. Whiteville, N. C; John Graham, Ridgeway, N. C. -"crtb Carolina Reform Press Association. Officers J. L. Ramsey, President; iarian Butler, Vice-President ; IF. & arrs, Secretary, PAPERS. - I I I I tOKreaelve Farmer. State Organ, Raleigh, N. U. Caucasian, nonary, "Uttior, fVir Home. The Popult, The People's Paper, The Vestibule, Tfca Plow-Boy. uiow blade. Hickory, N. C. WhitakerB, N. C. Beaver Dam, N. C. Lumberton, N. C. Charlotte, N. C. Concord, N. C. Wadebboro, N. C. Peanut, N. C. ikich of the above-named papers are rvjueated to keep the list standing on v first page arid add others, provided hey are. duly elected. Any paper fail tjq to advocate the Ocala platform will dropped from the list promptly. Our npl can now eee what papers are iblihed in their interest. EDITORIAL SUGGESTIONS. If you have no pigs slop should be given to cowa or horsesr Either can be learned to drink it if you will be patieat. Bat always keep some pigs. It is a waste of time and money to undertake to grow profitable crops on lands which have been impoverished, without putting into the ground some thing to enrich it. This is a busy month on the farm. Planting should begin in a small way. However, it i3 better to wait until the ground becomes warmer before you plant much seed. If you want to do successful pruning in an old orchard, saw a little way into the under side of a limb and then saw from the top to meet it. The limb will fall to the ground without splitting. Fruit trees should not be allowed to remain in or places where water stands, but the ground should be drained so as not to allow too much moisture in wet seasons. The outlook for a gradual rise in the r price of all farm prcducta is none too bright. However, there will be a grad ual rise in view of the hope that the next Congress will do something to alleviate the trouble, or at leist, will not add to it. Truck farming on a large scale is a comparatively new industry in North Carolina, and is not always profitable. But we have all the advantages of soil, cliimte, etc , and it is bound to be the lead'ng industry in the eastern coun ties. Build it tin jr Plow deep and harrow thoroughly. 0 othctr Htsfflm will be a success Rant when the erround is drv and arm. Cultivate thorouhlv. To do this a small farm is better than a Large 'ae. In tho latter toUow the din ctions As a rule, these farm gardens are sad Parodies on what good gardens should be. If the wife and mother had entire charge of it, with the necessary mate and labor to apply to it, it would &e a very different affair. She knows 9 Valun nf are apt to underestimate it. ON VARIOUS TOPICS. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. "The tuberculosis scare is rapidly passing away," says one of our leading papers, speaking editorially. It now seems to generally admitted that there has been needless alarm and an unwar ranted slaughter of some of our best herds of dairy stock as a result of the agitation and discussion of tuberculosis which has for some time past occupied the attention of the dairy press. Much that haa been written has doubtless come from unreliable sources and even that which has eminated from so called scientific sources has been of a nature to convey to the average reader little else than a dread of the disease attack ing his own herd and a conviction that completo examination was the only cure. It is indeed commendable that the authorities have exerted every pos sible effort to stay the spread of the scourage, but as intimated in the quo tation above, much of the agitation has been of the nature of a scare which is passing away after having run its course. But if all this discussion has led to a better understanding of pre cautionary measures it haa served an admirable purpose. A scientific treatise on the disease is of little value to the unscientific reader, but he has learned much if from it all he has gathered the fact that prevention is the -beet cure and that sanitary conditions and gen eral care have much to do with it. If the scare has been productive of reform in theee matters it has fulfilled a worthy mission. In looking over the Southern agricul tural papers it is quite noticeable that more and more attention is being given to dairying The possibility of success ful dairying in the South is no longer a question since modern appliances and better methods in the manufacturing and handling of dairy products have changed the order of many things. With the latest appliances, tempera ture becomes a less important factor. Quite recently I noticed the theory put forth that the moist air of the South has some advantages over the drier air of the North which in a measure over comes the latter's advantage of a lower temperature. The boundaries of the dairy district seem to be widening every year, and it will not be long bo- fore the South will be in no mean place in dairy progress. The low price of cotton, the failure of some of the fruit crops, and a general tendency to more diversified farming are some of the factors in this movement. 4 4 We want to have our butter or produce ready for market when it is in the greatest demand," said a speaker at a Eastern farmers' inptitute. That is a terse recognition of the fact that the farmer must be a dealer not less than a producer, and this is particu larly true of the dairyman. It is not simply a question of how to make a good article of butter, but when to put it on the market and in what form. Winter dairying usually offers sufli cient advantage in way of higher prices to compensate for the increased labor and difficulty, and winter dairying is seldom overdone in any community. The Practical Farmer says: "The evidence seems to be coming in that the 'something that is called butter flavor is a matter outside of feed and the cow ; in fact, is an artificial crea tion caused by ferments in the milk and cream and that there may be sev eral of these flavors in the air," etc. Is there not just the shadow of a mere possibility of carrying this matter of germs, ferment cults, and kindred animals" a little too far? Is it not a little radical to tell us that the flavor of butter is something outside of feed and the cow ? Are we to understand that we can feed any kind of cows any kind of feed and then by a proper in troduction of an aristocratic species of germ into the cream produce the high est marketable aroma! What has made the butter of certain sections famous for its delicacy of flavor if it is not the peculiar grasses of the pastures and meadows and the purity of the water ? After teaching the farmers for years to pay the strictest attention to their pastures and feeds in order that the butter might have every advantage of flavor that these things can impart, it seems rather dangerous to inform them that butter flavor ia something outside of feed and the cow. Doubt less the proper ripening of cream has much to do with aroma, but I doubt if it does more than bring out those nat ural fl ivors which came from feed and already in the cream. The time may come when we will keep a bottle of germs on the shelf in the dairy room on which we will depend for "that something called butter fUvor," but until then it would be quite as well to depend on the cow to carry on business at the old stand, by converting the sue; culent grasses of green pastures, the contents of sundry well filled feed bins, and the pure waters of good springs and wells into butter having a choice aroma, even though it be innocent of "arti ficial creation," F. W. Moseley. Clinton, Iowa. - Those chickens really do need atten tion. When the poultry house is white washed this spring, put a little carbolic acid in the wash, and this will destroy many vermin. Also, if the chickens are not provided with a place where they can have a "dust bath," the lice will play hide and seek among their feathers. They will seek the hide most, though. FARMER'S GUIDE. This is the tittle cf a new book which has just been issued by the German Kali Works, 93 Nassau Street, New York. It is a valuable contribution to the agricultural literature cf this country and is equal if not surpassing in merit to other publications which have pre viously been issued by said firm. The book impresses one from the impartial and effective manner in which the sub ject "fertilization of farm crops" is treated. Main portion of the publication com prises an enumeration of most farm crops and horticultural crops raised in this country from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canada Border, setting forth briefly upon what kind of soil these crops should be planted, what place they should have in their rotation wi'h other crops, and what kind of fertilizers should be applied to them, together with the average amounts per acre. A few valuable suggestions are also given with each crop. We understand that this book valu ab'e as it is is a donation to the Ameri can public and can be obtained free of any cost by writing to the above men tioned firm. If you have an orchard, you can keep the apples from being wormy by spraying with Paris green. A pump for tbis purpose costs about fifteen dol lars, and you think thit you can't afford it. Well, how about your neigh bor? If he has an orchard, it may be that he thinks about as you do. So how about getting a pump between you? - m- RESOLUTION OF HOLLAND ALLI ANCE, NO. 1,664. Lemay, N C, March 9, 1895. Resolved, That we, the members of Holland's Alliance, pledge ourselves to use every endeavor to procure guanos from companies that have not entered into the guano trust. 2. That this resolution be sent to The Progressive Farmer with request to be published. C. & McCullers, Pres't. R P. Wynne, Sec'y. It requires time to bring up an ex hausted soil. If you have such soil be patient and depend largely on green manuring RESOLUTIONS. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. The following resolution was unani mously adopted by Fork Sub Alliance, No. 1,224, Academy Hall, Fork Church, N. C,: Whereas, The General Assembly of North Carolina has by enactment, reestablished the original charter of the N. C. Farmers' State Alliance; therefore Resolved, That we extend our hearty thanks to each of the members for the unanimous and hearty manner in which they performed this legislative act, in the interest of the farmers of North Carolina By order of Fork Sub-Alliance, No. 1,224, in regular session on 19th day of December, 1895. H. C. Foster, Pres't. W. F. Merrell, Sec'y. Crops that it will pay to raise : First, everything that your family and your stock will consume. Second, for money crops, potatoes, tobacco, trujk, small and large fruits, and lastly the staples in this order corn, oats, wheat, cot ton. Third, for meats, poultry will yield better returns than any other stock, mutton next, pork and beef, but the dairy will continue to be the most profitable business for those to follow who are already successful in it. We are convinced that our first suggestion is the best that it is easier to raise our food than to buy it. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBIT OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES AT VIENNA. The Imperial Agricultural Society of Vienna, under the patronage of his Im perial Highness the Archduke Carl Ludwig, will jiold in Vienna on May 4, 5, 6, and 7, 1895, an international ex hibition of agricultural machinery. The United States Department of Ag riculture has been requested to call the attention of manufacturers of all kinds of machines U9ed in agriculture, horti culture, forestry, dairying, brewing, distilling, etc., to this exhibition and to invite them to send their machines for exhibition. All exhibitors whose machines need power must supply their own motorp, but these will be part of the exhibit. The exhibitors will be privileged to sell machines, but none can be removed from the exhibition until its close. The lists for applicants for epace from America will remain open until April 15, 1895; those from European countries close March 15. Reception of exhibits will begin April 22 and end April 30. Cards of admission will be issued to the exhibitors and to the per sons in charge of the exhibits. Arrange ments will be made concerning the entry of all exhibits free of duty and the privilege of transportation over the Austrian railways, and a communica tion from the Austrian Government has been forwarded to the Government of the United States requesting free re entry of all exhibits from this country to the exhibition in case they should not bo sold in that country. The exhibition will be divided into the following departments: Agricul ture and agricultural industries; for estry and forest industries; fruit and viticulture; animal industry ; dairying; fish culture; veterinary work, and horseshoeing ; electricity as applied to agriculture and forestry ; and an annex for seeds and artificial manures. Under agriculture and agricultural industries there will be exhibits of machines and implements for the preparation of the siil, for sowing, harvesting, thrashing, cleaning of seeds, and for the harvest ing and preparation of silage; field tramways; motors for driving agri cultural machines; hay-saving ma chines ; and machines and implements used in malt houses breweries, distill eries, ?in the preparation of lees for agricultural uses, sugar work, vinegar making, and starch making. In the department of forestry and forest in dustries there will be included exhibits of machines and implements for the saving of forest seeds, preparation of the ground, culture of the trees, and wood cutting ; forest tramways ; motors for driving saws, and machines and implements used in making excelsior, wood pulp, and paper; also for the utilization of by-products of the forest. Implements of vine and fruit culture and wine making; also for filtration will be shown. Under the head of stock raising, machines for the prepa ration of food, self waterers, food cook ers and stall furnishings. Implementp, hatcheries, artificial fish ways, etc., will be included in the fishery exhibit This partial list indicates that the plan of the exhibition is to include all the departments of agricultural activity. Transportation, unpacking, and set ting up is to be at the cost of the ex hibitor, but will be under the general charge of the Commissioner of the Committee. At the close of the exhibition all ex hibits must be removed at the expense of the exhibitor by May 14, All communications should be ad dressed to the Committee of the Impe rial Agricul tural Society of Vienna, No. 13 Hcrrengasse, Vienna. LAW AND ORDER. IT Correspondence of the Progressive farmer. Law and Order ! We couple the two together in one phrase when either one is threatened, as if the one depended upon the other for existence ; and in that assumption we are correct: But there is that dif ference between natural law, natural order, which is God's law and order, and human laws, human "methods of procedure, which is human law and order, (the law and order that we in voke when the poor organize and strikes occur) vhere is this immeasur able difference: the first is infinite, per feet, the work of God, and irrevocable by man, the second finite, imperfect, is the work of man, revocable when ever its imperfections are ducovered dnd justly intolerable when its sub jects for any reason, are unwilling to abide it. Order is the persistent existence of a prescribed method. If it were admit ted that the existing order "of society at any particular period of time in the past, at present or in the future, is entitled to the right of permanence, the right to have its follies, imperfec tions and outrages against humanity crystalized into an unchangeable rule of social conduct, and society abides that order; at that point social progrees ceases and the decadence of civilization begins. "The Law 1" In the common sense, popular use of that term, we mean the tolerated usages or recorded choice of a people, "defining the conditions of existence of a State or other organized community" of human beings. The phrase has no reference to nor necessarily any inclu sion of physical law, moral law, will of God or any superhuman authority, but only the will of certain human be ings, at a certain time, accepted or tolerated as a rule of government for a social community. E. Stillman Doubled ay. ORANGE COUNTY RESOLUTIONS. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. Whereas, Our noble Order has been assailed by certain newspapers and designing public epeakers as being a partisan organization ; therefore be it Resolved, That we, the Orange County Alliance, in session assembled, denounce the report as false and ma licious in the extreme, and that we ad here to our first principle, as being a non partisan organization ; and we call on all good people, whose interests are identified with ours, regardless of past affiliations, to join us in helping us to correct the great evils which confront us. And whereas, the price of our farm products have been greatly reduced by class legislation, and the purchasing power of money greatly increased. Therefore be it Resolved, by Orange County Alli ance, That we petition our represen tatives in the General Assembly now in session to use every effort to cuTtail the expenses of our State Government. 2 That wo are in favor of reducing the salaries of all State and county officers, &n d appropriations as far as possible. 3 That a copy of these resolutions be sent to The Progressive Farmer for publication, and a copy sent to our representatives in the General Assem bly. J. F. McAdams, Sec'y. AMERICAN TENANTS. Some time ago a writer in the North American Review made the statement that the United States is the largest tenant farmer nation in the world. Here is a list of the tenant farmers in some of the States as given by the writer : Missouri 39 872 Pennsylvania 45, 825 Maryland 13 898 Virginia 34.537 North Carolina 52 728 Georgia 62,175 West Virginia 12,000 Ohio 48,2&3 Indiana 40,050 Illinois . 85,244 Michigan 15 411 Iowa 45,174 Nebraska 11,491 Kentucky 44 027 Kansas 22 951 Tennessee 57,296 Mississippi 41,558 Arkansas 26,138 Texas 55,465 Total 171,210 Hare are 21 of our leading States with more tenant farmers than Eng land, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Until the past season, we have not learned much, except in a negative way, about melon culture. We experi mented with flat "hills" and raised hills, and with fertilizers in small and large amounts, says the Rural New Yorker, but the vines were rarely vigorous, the melons under size and comparatively few. Last spring we selected a rather sandy spot. A rank growth of grass and weeds was plowed under and holes dug about two feet in diameter by about eight inches deep. These were hilf filled with old stable manure, which was then mixed with soil and the holes filled and formed so that the surface made a little dishing or concave was a couple of inches higher than the soil about them. We have never seen a thriftier growth of vine, never raised so many melons to the vine, or of larger size. Ernest Carnot, son of the late presi dent of France, who is an engineer, has been appointed private secretary Of M. Picard, who is commissioner general of the Paris exposition of 1900. A CLEAR CONCEPTION OF THE DOUGLAS,RESOLUTION. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. The exponents of the "machine" Democracy have heralded in every part of the State the action of the House in the passage of a resolution regarding the death of Fred Douglas;. and while the writer is frank to admit that it was a mistake, yet men of all parties voted for the resolution. While in no way condoning or en dorsing the action of the House, yet it is a fact that the New York and Mis souri legislatures passed similar reso lutions. The Mayor of New York city tendered the City flail and the body of Douglas lay in state there one day. The Senate branch of the General As sembly of this State did not pass any resolution regarding Douglas, but did adjourn in honor of boih Washington and Lee. The House also adjourned in honor o them. It will be remembered that Mr. Mon- roe, a Democrat in the House, rose to a question of personal privilege ajid stated that he voted for the Douglaa resolution, and I am informed that other Democrats voted for it. What is the purpose of making so much noise- over the passage of the resolution? It can be plainly seen that it is to en gender race .prejudice, for this is now the only issue the "machine" Demo crats posees. No man who voted for the resolution endorses miscegenation. It is stated that the author of the resolution intro duced it simply to give publicity totter death of Douglas, but the House did not adjourn on that day until 2:37 p. m., being in session 37 mkutes later than usual. Jams B Lloyd, SOME GOOD FARMING. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. Rocky Mount, N. C. As I have not seen anything frcm old Edgecombe for seme time past,, allow space in ycur precious columns for a lew lines. One of our one horse farmers killed 2 855 pourds of pork a few days ego and has four more hega to kill. One Of his pigs tipped the beam at 429 peuncls.. Haiias ijornjand.-, other produce to epare. Another one horse farmer (Business Agent of Juve nile Ailiarjce) made fcr himeelf and neighbois near 1 4C0 gallons of cane molasses the past season. With best wishes for Tbe Progres sive Farmer, the Alliance, the shoe factory and the reform movement, I am, Jas. A. Thomas, Secretary Juvenile Alliance, Rocky Mount, N. C. THE DAVIS FUND. The fund started to aid in the com pie tion of the Alliance Shoe Factory stands as follows: W. H Davis, Williamsboro $1 00' N. A. McNeill, Roberdell 1 00 M. P. White, Phosnix : 100- D. H. Peeler, Morganton 1 00 A. J. Pringle, Elko. 1 00 T. Sheppard, Rialto , 1 00 NEW SALEM CONSOLIDATED ALLIANCE. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.. The folio wing, resolutions were read and unanimously adopted : Resolved, That the heartfelt thank of this body be tendered to Dr. Rob ert for the able and practical address- delivered before this Alliance and the public on January 1, 1895, it beings "Alliance Thanksgiving Day." . 2. That the foregoing be spread orx our Minutes and the Secretary forward' a copy to Bro. Robert and a copy to The Progressive Farmer Wm. 8. Murray, Sec'y. LETTER FROM CHATHAM . Correspondence of the Progressive Farmers - . PlTTSBORO, N. C. During the campaign last October -the Democrats in this county boasted in whispers of their thousands for cam-, paign purposes. A few days ago I heard one of them cfler a wager of five cents that Hon. Marion Butler would not be elected to succeed Bena tor Ranscm in the United States Sen ate. Poor things I If they could only have seen the turn of events propelled by righteous indignation if they could s only have seen Bourbonisms' doom written on the brows cf 148,0(0 of North Carolina's invincible champions of ballot box purity emancipation from machine politics, and the emancipation: of labor and industry, they would have- been richer if not wiser men to day. O, Bourbonisml Bourbonifm! hast thou become a pauper? 'lis well. Then thou art ready for the tomb. Pass in. Thy music will be the clanking of the chains of thy bondage till the judg ment of nations. The people have said it. Leander Lockton.
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