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1 H 1 JX. THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. RALEIGH, N. C APtflL 2, 1895. V6L io. No. n PjRO GrKE&SI VE f 1 WTO -TNAL FARMERS' ALU- ANC& " ww - UNION. PrtBident-J- iTwaietta, Topeka, KtwPresident-H C. Snavely, Leb- aDfty-Trerer-C!ol. D. P. Dun can Columbia, S. O. EXECUTIVE BOARD. a h Loucks, Huron, S. D. ; Mann P Brandon, Virginia; L E. Dean, ggove Falls, New York; H. C. Dem- w vretary. Harnsburg, Pennsyl fam; Marion Butler, Raleigb, . C. JUDICIARY. r x Sauthwortb, Denver, Colo, n v. Beck, Alabama, ff. D. Davie, Kentucky. .rsra CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI ANCES. president J. M. Mewborne, Kinston, Vice-President A. C. Sbuford, New r. t0JeSry-Treasurer W. 8. Barnes, Lecturer Cyrus Thompson, Rich lRSteward-J. T. B. Hoover, Kim City, N'Chapiain-Dr. T. T. Speight, Lewis ten, r. C. Door keeper Goo. T. Lane, Greens roro. N. C. xt-it Assistant Door keeper Jaa. L. Lyon, Durham. N. C. T TT , Sergeant-at Arms J. R. Hancock, Greensboro, N. C. State Business Agent w . H. Worth, Raleigh, N. C. , Trustee Business Agency Fund - W. A. Graham, Machpelah, N. C. tXECUnVE COiDHTTEK OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. Marion Butler, Goldsboro, N. C. ; J. J, Long, Eoka, N. C; A. F. Hileman, Concord, N. C. -iTATS ALLIANCES JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. Jno. Brady. Gatesville, N. C. ; Dr. J. F. Harrell. Whit&ville, N. C; John Graham, Ridgeway, N. C. 'ertii Carolina Reform Press Association. Oncers J. L. Ramsey, President; an m Butler, yice-ir&aaeni ; ir. c. smai. Secretary, PAPERS. rcressivs Fanner. StAte Organ, Raleigh, N. C Cauca-s-ao, Raleigh, N. C ury. liickory, N. C. tt:er, Whitukers, N. C. nr Hnrae. Reaver Dam, X. C. The Populist, Lnraberton, X. C. Trie People's Paper. Charlotte, X. C. The Vrt,tif.nle, Concord, X. C. The Plow-Boy. Wadesboro, X. C. miiiow Blade, Peanut, X. C. Vr.ieh of the above-reamed papers are njuenfoAto keep the list standing on toe first page and add others, provided i&y are diuy elected. Any paper fail nj to advocate the Ocala platform will V irref'd from the list promptly. Our can now see what paper are aSlithsti in their interest. EDITORIAL SUGGESTIONS. That cow which costs $10 per annum to feed and produce $30 in milk and butter, is a sad leak, equal, if not greater than a rat hole in the bin. Do not allow the manure heap to lay expeeed to all the drenching rains from fall till ppring, and then buy commer cial fertilizer to help the crop aloDg. Greater in number than any other class, yet the farmer is subject to law makers who ignore his existence. He libors hard from one year ta another, trusting to a power that controls the price of his ''labor and the product of his toil" Do not expect to sell eggs enough to buy the groceries, when the hens are compelled to roost in the trees with the thermometer most of the time crowd- tog z?ro. The best hen m the universe foreta all about laying eggs under such circumstances. Hay or grass, with roots, ensilage ar a variety of wheat, corn, oats and parley grouLd together, furnishes the pest elements of growth in the ycung nrse, and maintains the matured ani ml iu the beat condition. 0ts and corn only are not the best to build up oone, flesh and mu3cle. The cheaoest norfc- ia ,wmch are never wintprprt w iba good ah.i U tUtSutJUUUCO Pcg a loDg season upon pasture or a feOoa ran? In tv, 7j u i i.uo nut tu uiover 13 dc the universal pork producer. bila ifiaat in tha Q.-.,,ru 1: Iace eveo more cheaply. 3 the ycung animals are not m-ikicg Qirec: return for their keeping, it f ynot be strange that as compared hm lhe Productive ones they are ui, sugated. Still, they are in iae most important stages of "C1r llfp. n;;r? it ia o A 1 take tm gleet them. !armyCU raid6 hay to eeil from the 0ga ' r niber that timothy will take oif m lbe farm than clover. Man L P 0 0 buv aro Wrnm hnwovti. i ehtiy cut, nicely cured clover is ,f uau "tnotny fur nearly all pur- nmovny win uring me money, an acre, as a rule. AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL MA CHINERY IN EUROPE. (By Associated Trade Press.) Paris, 1895 The d'splay of agricultural imple ments and machinery by the United States' firms at the annual agricultural show now being held at the Palias del Industrie, Paris, is in every respect befitting the splendid connection that they have of late years secured with the European market. The show yard covers an extensive area, lying betwe3n the Champs Elysees and the Cours la Heine, and even this is becoming too restricted for the machines that are crowded every year into the eaclos ure. Nevertheless, the position being a central one attracts a considerable influx of visitors, and the business done by exhibitora is larger than for many years past. In fact reports all around speak of the past s jason being an exceptionally good one, and makers and agents look forward to doing quite as much, is not more in the present year. The demand has been particu larly good for grafs cutting appliances, in which some of the agents ran en tirely out of stock, and had to order fresh consignments. In the section that is chiefly devoted to foreign ma chines there is a very extensive and interesting show by American and English makers, between whom there is a keen rivalry for the European trade. Until a few years ago the busi ness was entirety in the hands of the European firms, but these latter are nov? bour.d to confess that they are not making so much headway as their United States competitors. Some of the Transatlantic makes have pushed their enterprise so far as to oecure a standing in England where they have taken up their position with the lead ins Eneiish firms. Gne of these is I Walter A. Wood, who is always to the front with an excellent show of his well known machines, and his exhibit comprises four harvesters and three mowers which perform their work in a way that very favorably impresses the onlookers. The John ston Harvester Company has a large number of machines on view than any other foreign maker. These har vesters are made especially for the Continental market, where the heavy crop needs a machine of exceptionally large capacity. This firm is showing a very light and compact harvester of new type, in which the elevator is placed low down so as to facilitate the cuttiDg of the heavy grain. The reap ers, provided with a very simple ar rangement for changing the gear, are meeting with a great deal of success, and as a large number of interchange able pieces are delivered with the machines the buyer is not put to the inconvenience of waiting for a consider able time for now partp, as is the case very often with foreign machinery. The firm's agent asserts that no fewer than 1 200 machines were sold last year, and this is a pretty convincing testimony as to the popularity. Another successful machine is the Mc Cormick harvester, of which two or three are shown, together with several reapers and mowers. They are very compact and of light draught, while for districts in which the grain is par ticularly high, machines are made with open elevators. Adriance Piatt & Co , of Now York, have on view several reapers and binders and mow ers in which they do a considerable trade throughout E'irope. Being'con strutted without elevators they are simple in design and are very light and strong. The merits of these ma chines are proved by the number of awards that they have secured in Europe in competition with the lead ing productions on this sidp. The Columbia Harve steisof D. M. Ojborne & O., N. Y., posess many points of interest to buyers who are on the look out for a light and efficient machine. The exhibit; of this firm comprises sev eral reapers and mowers, while the hay tedders are particularly strong and durable. A noteworthy stand ia that containing the Machines of D. S. Mor gan & Co., Brock port, N. Y , whose Triumph harvesters and mowers have 1 ng met with a great deal of success in this country. Oae or to new American firms have made their ap pearance for the first time at the Pans show, including the Deering II irvester Co , of Chicago, whess reapers and harvesteis received great attention. As with ail American harvesters they are very light and compact, and for this reason theyare likely to have a good sak. The Buckeye reapers of the Piano M'f'g. Co., of Chicago, are also on view, while an ingenious hay teddar manufactured by the Stoddard Co , of Chicago, seems destined to secure a good position on the market In plows the French have made such enormous strides during the past few years that there would seem to be no further opening for plows of foreign manufacture. Firms like Bajc, Liancourr, turn light, strong plows suitable to all kinds of purposes in such numbers that they are now pay ing attention to export markets, and it is certain that in a year or two Freach plows will have a considerable sale abroad. Every part of the plow is made of steel, and it claimed that they are practically unbreakable. The wrought steel shares will wear, it is said, ten years or more Nevertheless, the American plow makers have sue ceaded in securing a very firm position upon the market, and a large number of Oliver-chilled plows are sold in this country. In view of the success of these plows Eoglish firms have gone to great expense in trying to produce chilled share3, but they have been obliged to give up the attempt Whether it is owing to difference in tho metal or in the prcess of chilling, it is certain that the English makers are unable to get the same results The Oliver plows aro 3till unique among their kind, and the opinion of the English makerp who viewed the large display of chilled plows wes that there wts nothing equal to them. Another good implement is the plow manufac tured by the Galo Co , of Albion, Mich., whose plows make a re it and interesting stand. A splendid line is made by one of the English agents cf the Improvements of the South Bend Chill Co., South Bend, Ind., which are likely to sell well on account of their price. Indeed, visitors marvel that the United States can send over plows, and, after paying for the heavy charges for transport and import duty, sell them at a price much below that at which they could be produced in this country. Of course, when one con s'ders the perfection to which mechan ical production hi s been brought, in the United States, there is no caus3 for astonishment. The Planet hi es and plows are going very well in France, where the lightness of these imple ments is much appreciated. Such firms as the New York Manufacturing Company, aed the Whitman and Barker Manufacturing Company, are competing very keenly with the She f field firms in rakes, hoes, scythes, knives, etc., and in point of price ttoy leave their English rivals far behind. Altogether, the Paris show affords evi dence that the American firms are in stronger force in this country than ever before, and there is no doubt that they mean to do a considerable trade in most classes of implements and ma chinery in the coming year. It has been stated by good authority that thousands of dollars are thrown away in this State every year for com mercial fertilisers, to say nothing of the time and labor lost, by not knowing the needs of the soil. Fertilizers will bring fair results, but the elements needed must be well understood. HIS NAME. A pair of twins was born in the Back Bay district. A bright boy set about to try to name them. He said, 4 'Will they be called Peter and Repe ter?" But no; his mother would not listen to the name Peter. Then he said "Let them be called Max and Climax " 'No,v she said ; "they are both little girls, so we cannot name one of them Max." Then he said, after much thought, "Let them be calbd Kate and Dupli cate," After that his head was band aged, and he was sent out to play. Union Signal. A CONTRACTED CURRENCY. . When the Superior Court of Pender ounty was in session at Burgaw a few days ago the case of Ida McAllister against W. T. Bannerman was on trial and oae of the witnesses was Milton H iyef, a typical country darkey. He was put on the witness stand by Law yer H L Stevens, of Warsaw, to proe the actual value of a certain piece of property in dispute, and in reply to a question as to what rent the place was worth per month he said : 11 Wall, in de present state er de cur rency it is wuff about er dollar and er half, but wid morn dey is in succula lation I should jedge it ougffter fetch two dollars and er half er mont." His answer created a laugh and Judge Hoke remarked that he was more fit for Congress than he was for the witness stand. Wil. Messenger. Read our Clubbing List. THE USE OF FERTILIZERS. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.' Some time ego I noticed an editorial in your paper advising the farmers not to discontinue the use of Commercial Fertilizers on account of the low price of cotton. Now I am sure you were perfectly sincere in your advice and perhaps you were right. But from my standpoint, as a practical farmer your, argument seems entirely wrong. In the first place I believe that al most if not quise as good a crop of cot ton can be produced without guano. Of course it will require more effort on the part of the farmer in composting etc., but the saving would more than oajf for the extra labor. But even if the yield per acre should be decreased considerably by not using guano, then it seems to me there would be no less to the farmer. You know it is generally contended that there is an overproduction of cotton in the South amost every year. And I believe no one doubts but that there is more cotton made than there is a brisk demand for. It is also a fact that for every ton of guano used in the South this year at least one bale of cot ton must be raised with which to pay for it. Taking the whole South over it is easy to see that the amount of extra cotton required to pay for the guano is the grand cause, under present con ditions, of the glut in the market every fall. Suppose then the farmers should re solve to use no more guano. Then the cotton crop could be easily reduced to the amount required to eupply the de mand. But ou the other hand if a large eupply of guano is bought and another large crop of cotton raised, as there must bo if guano is used, then the farmers may expect to pay for it with four, if not three, cent cotton next fall. I think it would be well for farmers to think over this matter carefully, talk it over with their neighbors and in the Alliances and resolve to use no more commercial fertilizers. J. F. ?PENCK. To unproductive ground the legumi nous crops bring nitrogen absorbed from the air, and manures eupply simple elements which make a balance in the consistency thereof. Land which U unproductive is not necessarily ex hausted ; the elements of fertility may lie there in an unavailable form. THE SHOE FACTORY. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. Will you please keep that little ball rolling that I started for the shoe fac tory ? Like the snow ball it may gather slowly at first, but the further you roll it the f ns'er it accumulates. Mr. Editor, if you think it would do better to change my proposition from giving one dollar to subscribing one dollar you are at liberty to do so, any thing that is right for the shoe' factory. We are glad that so many thousands of good people take and read The Progressive Farmer We hope its numbers may increase from day to day, until no man shall say ''Know ye the Alliance and its principles," but all shall know them from the least to the greatest. But brethren, "He that knoweth his mas ter's will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." We had better never perused its pages; never had learned its truths of justice and right towards our brother man, than after we have learned them not to put them in practice. There is not a man in North Carolina that ought to be out side of the penetentiary or lunatic asy lum but will acknowledge that wo ought to organize for our protection and for the good of our fellow man. We want our "factory" that the shoe less may be shod, the naked clothed, the idle employed, and the hungry fed. When the pa!e boatman Gome s and car ries us over the ' dark river ' we want the first ealutationthat greets our ears on the "Shining Shore'' to be, "In yen ders world I was hungry and you fed me, naked and you clothed me, enter then into the joys cf thy Lord." Many good people say to me, I can't pay my dues to the Alliance. Brethren you can't afford not to do it. Many say I am too poor to subscribe a dollar to the factory. Brethren that is the way to get out of your poverty. I hope I know the poorest man in the State, yet he is rich ; an heir of God and a joint heir with Jesus Christ rich enough. He has a large family of his own to feed, clothe and educate by the sweat of his own brow, besides two invalid sisters about seventeen years old to feed and care for. Is not that enough ? No. He has a good old mother, born before this century commenced, who has been blind and helpless for ten long years, to feed, clothe, doctor and nuree. Are you poorer than that? Brethren, by the grace of God, he keeps his Alliance dues paid up for himself and three others; has sent one dollar to the fac tory, is ready to euecribe another when you say so, and yet another to have our fertilizers compounded there, and yet another to have all our clothing manufactured there. Now I want to ask every one of the officers of our State Alliance, together with the Busi ness Agent and State Treasurer, to let us know for our encouragement, and as a stimulant for us to do better how much each one has subscribed for our factory. Don't be too modest, gentle men, to tell what you have done, we will not look upon it as self praise, but as a stimulant for us to do better. Now we meant to ask The Progressive Farmer, that paper that we have blessed, and still expect to bless with more subscribers than any paper in the State, will you subscribe to the factory all the paid up subscriptions you may receive tie first week in May, 1895? Now, brethren, look out for the answer to this question, and if it is "I will," let each old subscriber renew for one year and get all the new subscribers he can and send them in during that week and the work will be done and nobody hurt. ' .m...."r' And now may God bless cur people and nation, and curse with death the tyrant that would enslave ua with "bonds." W. H. Davis, Williamsboro, N. C. Our plans for next season should all be made now, while we have time to think them out. Without them, in the hurry cf spring work, we will be obliged to start out in the old, old ruts. There are many men who are not even farming the best they know how. Every year should bo a year of progress. FROM SILOUS BUSH TO MAJOR BILKINS. Dear Mr. Bilkins: I wuz kinder in hopes that you would kum ercund ter see me while you wuz up in ther mountains, fer I wanted ter see y ou e ffla bad and have a talk with you. I wanted ter ax you sum confidensul qneetirjs erbout whut fer me ter do. I haint seed agude dimacrat like you in so long I dont kDO how cne looks. Well I did git a sorter ov a glimps at our demacrat representative thee other day when he kum home. I wuz at ther depo when he kum and one ov the kounty kum missioners met him tbar with a buggy and he just jumped eft ov ther cars and run and got inter ther buggy and drove fer home as hard as they could tair. I wante d ter git a hold ov his hand and hcudy with him, but he seemed ter be in too big ov a hurry ter tell ther folks houdy like he did durin' the cam pain last fall. But I guess he wuz refraid somebody would rob him. Fer they say that there iz mity big pay in the pereishun that he has bin a holdin and be must ov bin a Eavin ov it purty well fer when bis pay stopped he wouldn't f tay and pay fer bis board till the legislature adjourned. Stranger he dun this ever bitov it. But we mustn't kick at a little thing like this fer we are nearly kicked to pieces now. My motto iz ter vote fer 'em and try 'em ergin. Mr. Bilkins, I want ter ex ycua confidenshul question or two fer infor mation. When the people axes 3 ou why are you a demacrat what do ycu tell 'em? The other day I got ter talkin poler ticks with Peete Jones, and he leud he wuz a populist, and I told him that I was a demacrat teeth and toenails. And says he. Silbus, why are you a demacrat? Because my Daddy wuz one and it wuz handed down ter me, says L And then Peete says ter me. Silous, if our daddy's done rong and dies and goes ter Hell iz that any signe that we should follow him ? I want ycu ter tell me how ter aneer such foolish questions as this. I don't kno whut makes 'em ax me such ques tions as that fer nohow. Let me hear frum ycu rebout the matter.- I am yours very truly, Silous Bush. This is getting it down pretty fine, but recent experiments show tbat the potash, phosphorous and ritrogen in the solid dung from the cow fed upon a mixed ration are worth four cents a day, and the liquids six. This is a strong argument for feeding as much as possible tho products of the farm upon the farm. POINTED AND PERTINENT QUESTIONS. .700 LaFayette Ave., . Brooklyn, N. Y., Editor Progressive Farmer : See Senate and House reports, pages 4 and 5, of Thb Progressive Farmer of March 10. 1895 i. e. Alexander county asks the Senate for permission to sell its old county jail and build a new one by special tax. (Query : Why should the people of Alexander county be obliged to obtain permission of Sen - - -ators from other counties, all over the State, to collect in its own way its own local taxes for local enpenditure in erection of a jail for its own crimi nals?) And the question of equity arise s in my mind as to why Sampson county1 should require State legislators1 per mission to provide for its own poorj Leakville, in Rockingham county, to issue town bonds; Wake county, to ap point its cotton weighers ; Graham county, to build its county court house, and so on and so on through the entire proceedings of both Senate and House, a hundred or more requests for permis sion, in towns and counties, to do their own business, from that of build ing their own court house, down to granting or refusing permission, to sell beer in a towriv.cr -ta-atc"Ihit--,r owia fiah in their own streams. Pleaae tell ma (a benighted foreigner to your good State) why the people of Wake county musi first obtain the perm's 5 ion of representatives from Alexander, Craven, Cleveland, Ran dolph, Rutherford, Hertford and all other counties in your State, beforo they can determine about the way and time and means of "catching fish in Swift creek." Pray tell me, if you can, , , what equitable right have Jim and Dick and Bab, from here and there all over your Scate, to orcter the con duct of fis'iing in Sivift creek, which they have probably never s?en, in which they have no proper nor prop erty rights, which has nothing to do with the Scare revenue and is a busi ness into which it is an impertinence; as well as a harmful folly, for strangers -to the location and the needs of the people, for the State government to enter and interfere. Why do not the people of the towns and the counties in your State, in' their several localities and their dia tinctly local interests, demand their right of local option in local affairs ? - The people of the State of New York are learning that their local righls are being regularly (?) used by tho State legislators es partisan politi- ' cal foot balls, to be kicked back and forth by the party politicians, in corrupt exchanges in reciprocal trade tor cor rupt jobbery and pernicious legisla tion. We are demanding and vigor ously promoting home rule in all dis tinctly local affairs. Does not that question appeal to you, as an intelli gen one, and as in the direction of a w:s i and needful reform? Pardon my impertinent questioning of your own affairp, but I carefully- read your paper, and as these peculiar facta in your legislative reports, were , so significant of an almostyfaniversai tolerance of injustice, I was tempted to express to you the thoughts suggest ted by them. With much interest and kindly re--" gard I am, Yours truly, E. tillman Doubled ay, We fully agree with our friendl The Progressive Farmer has pre tested against much of this time and again, and will continue to do bo. Every body with a grievance sends it to the legislature. Some of these local , laws are good ones, but frequently bills are gotten through when they only benefit one or a few individuals and -are detrimental to hundreds. The re cent legislature passed more than 80O' bills and defeated many others. The fishing industry in Eastern Carolina is a large one. Frequently syndicates obstruct the streams with traps and nets, cutting off the passage of fish. This makes legislation necessary. But it is not always wise. The same can be said of "ther local matters. We will do all we can help remedy the trouble. Editor The best shaped tweet potato tubers and the largest yield "will result oa shallow ploughed land, in small ridges.. about 32 inches apart, with the planter set 18 inches apart in a row. The secret, of easy cultivation is m stirring the soil as soon as it will work after each; rain, killing the weeds before they are visible and preventing a crust from forming. The Progressive Farmer and Bible- Reader one year $1. 10.
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