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The Progressive Farmer, January 22, 1901. 1 Published Weekly at Raleigh, N. C. Mrs. L. L. Polk, - - Proprietor Clarence H. Poe, - - Editor. Benjamin Irby, Corresponding Frank E.Emery, S Editors. S. W. Denmark, Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION Single Subscription One Year. . .$1.00 Six Months. . . .50 Three Months, OK . 'The Industrial, and Education al Interests of our People Para mount TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS or State Policy,' is the motto of The Progressive Farmer, and upon this platform it shall rise or fall . Serving ao master, ruled by no faction, cir oumscribed by no selfish or narrow policy, its aim will be to foster and promote the best interests of the whole people of the State. It will be true to the instincts, traditions and history of the Anglo-Saxon race. On ill matters relating specially to the great interests it represents, it will ipeak with no uncertain voice, but will fearlessly the right defend and Impartially the wrong condemn." From Col. Polk's Salutatory, Feb. 10. 1886 When sending your renewal, be sure to give exactly the name on label and postoffiee to which the copy ot paper you receive is sent. Address all business correspondence to and make monev orders payable to'THE Progres sive Farmer, Raleigh, N.C.," and not to any ttdi virtual connected with the paper. DISCONTINUANCES Responsible subscrib ers will continue to receive this Journal until Uhe publishers are notified by letter to discon tinue, when all arrearages must be paid. If you do not wish the journal continued for another year after your subscription has expired, you thould then notifv us to discontinue it. RENEWALS Tne date opposite jour name Ml your papr. or wrapper, shows to what time your subscription is paid. Thus 1 Jan. '00, hows that pavment has been received up to Jan. 1. b. I Jan. '01. to Jan. 1, lt)l, and so on. Two weeks are required after money is re oeived before date, which answers tor a receipt. n be changed. If not properly eliangeu witmn two wo week after monev i sent notify us We invite correspondence, news items, susj estions and criticisms on tW subjects of agri-r restio culture, poultry raising. sttwMv breeding, dairy ing, horticulture and carding; woman s work, literature, or any subject of interest to our lady readers, voung people, or the family generally; Bublie matters, current events, political ques onsand principles, etc.. in short, any subject discussed in an all-round farm and family news paper. Communications should be free irom personalities and party abuse. Editorial. TO NON-SUBSCRIBERS. If you are not a subscriber but have received this number of The Progressive Farmer as a sample oopy, you should examine it care fully. If you find it what we rep resent it to be, forward your sub scription. Fifty cents will secure the paer for you six whole months, and if at the end of that time, you are not satisfied with the investment, say so and your money will be re funded provided your sanity is Clearly established. Better still, send a dollar and get the paper a full year. In this issue wo begin the publi cation of the proceedings of the Legislature. This will be a very im portant session and you cannot afford not to keep posted regarding it. And no weekly p-iper will be better pre pared for keeping yoa posted than The Progressive Farmer. Subscribe now. ONE SCHJJL TEijI PER YEAR. One of the wisest suggestions made ! I I by our retiring Superintendent of its Association of North Carolina, Public Instruction is this: j That we do earnestly ask our Sena- "The Committee should not be al- tors and members of Congress to re lowed to divide the school of any j duce the tax on manufactured to one year into two terms, as is now j bacoo. The tobacco growers itnd the done in some places. We have heartl of schools where the Committee em emploved one teacher two months in the summer, and another teacher I for two months, for the same chil-j -o Y-i in til n u-mtfir TT.ht- nm bit I dren ever make any progress, and schools be of any value to a com munity, when we have such manage ment on the part of School Commit teemen V" We have had the opportunity of observing some of the evil effects of the system which Mr. Mebane so properly condemns. It is with a school just as ir is with an engine : it requires some time to get fired up, the rust worn off, and the wheels to turning properly. After the ma chinerv gets in good running condi- tion twice as much work can be done represented upon the B nird of Agri as just after firing up. But -under our culture during the past year by a present sy.-tt-m, the machinery is city lawyer, a city editor and two often stopped just at the time when j all concerned are prepared to do most effective service. Then there are a few months in which to rust and get out of working order, after which the whole performance of , firing up and getting the belts and j cogs in place must be repeated, tak- ; ing up most of the time of the sec ond session. It is a costly and foolish plan and should be abandoned. Bro. T. B. Parker has been sick tor some days and his appointments for ers ot the Fourth District. A.n out Wayne county have been cancelled. ! sider would suppose that the Le-'isla- GOV. AYCOCK'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. On August 7, 1900, The Progressive Farmer said : "Our next Governor, Hon. C. B. Aycock, is a high-toned Christian gentleman of courage and ability. He is not a man of violent prejudices or of bitterness toward those that dis agree with him, and as Governor he will doubtless pursue a dignified and conservative policy." While this statement of ours was severely attacked by rabid partisans, we bided our time. And now as a vindication of our estimate of the present Governor of North Carolina, we publish in this issue his inaugu ral address. There is in it nothing narrow or small, not a sentence breathing the spirit of partisan ha tred. It is the utterance of a states man who scorns the arts of the schem ing politician. There is nothing vague or uncertain about it; every sentence rings clear. His plea for public schools and the performance of all his party pledges is masterly and convincing. His argument for an election law ufair in every pur pose, clear in every detail" will be read with gratification by all good citizens. No less commendable is his plea for freedom of thought and the abatement of partisan prejudice. We trust that the spirit of Gov. Aycock's inaugural address will ac tuate the Legislature of this year and the new administration as a whole. If so our State will at once enter upon an era of educational progress, industrial development, and good feeling in politics, more ex cellent than the good old days of the fathers. X THE TOBACCO GROWERS' ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the Executive and Legislative Committees ot' the North Carolina Tobacco Growers' Associa tion was held in this city last week. Col. J. Bryan Grimes, owing to press of business interest, tendered his resignation and Col. Jno S. Cun ningham wtis elected President Col. Cunningham is the State's larg est tobacco grower and we congratu late the Association upon the selec tion of so capable a man. But Col. Grimes is no less deeply interested in the work of the Asseciation than be fore. He, with Col. Cunningham and Dr. R.H. Speight, will look alter. the interests of the tobacco growers dur ing the session of the Legislature. For one thing, they will secure a charter for the Tobacco Association giving the farmers ample power to erect at any desired point tooacco, cotton anil fertilizer lactories. We are informed that several such en terprises will probably bo .started. Tiie meeting was well attended, enthusiastic, and good results are J l oped lor. TO REDUCE THE TJBACC0 TAX. At the Tobacco Growers' met ting held here lat week, the following resolution, introduced by (Jol. .J. Br, an Grimes was unanimously adopted : "Unsolved, bv the Tobacco Grow- small manufacturers need this relief. "Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to each of our Senators and members of Congress, and that they urge an immediate ' A similar resolution was in troduced in the Cotton Growers' Convention by Jno. P. Allison and unanimously adopted. THE FARMERS AND THE AGRICULTURE. BOARD OF A called meeting of Wake Count v Alliance was held in The Progressive Farmer office January 10th. All Subs were represented except two. The following resolutions were adopted : Whereas, The Fourth district was city business men, therefore be it lienolvedy by Wake County Alli ance, That while we recognize these as men of honesty and of ability in their respective lines, we respectfully suggest that this year the farmers of the Fourth district should be allowed ut least one representative upon the B ard which is to look after the in terests of the farmers. Tne preamble gives all the argu ment needed in support of the reso lution. The present arrangement is j a standing reflection upon the kim. V tures of the past four or five years could find no farmers here capable of looking after their own interests. The Legislature might also risk a few more farmers upon the Board of Trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, after ascertain ing the number now serving upon the Board. We have heard these matters discussed by wide-awake thinking farmers from all parts of the State and we trust that the Legislature will give them some con sideration. The Raleigh Post fears very much that the Grout bill would damage the interests of the cotton farmer. As a matter of fact it has been shown that it would not affect the price of cotton one cent per bale. But it would en courage the dairy business, for which our State is so admirably adapted. Again let us say : it reduces the tax on all oleo that does not play the impostor ; it increases the tax on that oleo only which masquerades as pure dairy butter. What is this but fair play? THE STATE FOULURY ASSOCIATION AND THE CHARLOTTE POULTRY SHOW. The Charlotte Poultry Show held last week was a farly compact ex hibit and filled Charlotte's city hall. The leading farmers of the State brought out a lot of good birds. In many specimens great excellence was seen. On the day of our visit the judges were hard at work scor ing the birds and making the awards. It was rather an advantage to these gentlemen skilled in the fine points of our domestic fowls that the rainy dtiy prevented crowding of the cor ridors and gave them a better chance to complete their work than if the attendance of Wednesday had been repeated. Beside the fowls of economic value we saw canaries, parrots, an owl, an eagle. A young coon and a pair of both were good specimens of their respective breeds. There was an interesting group of games at one corner of the hall. No Carolina show would be representa tive without a considerable number of the favorite games in evidence. There seemed to be more represen tatives of the American chisses. And of these the favorite, if numbers on exhilibition point a preference, were Barred Plymouth R ck. Tnere were many fine specimens of this breedin the show. Perhaps the finest exhibit present was the tastely arranged ribbons and cards won at leading p mltry exhibits by the Biltmore Poultry Yards during the last two seas ns. These were attached to a plush back ground or strung in line ot cords and stretched over the small exhibit of birds shown by the Biltmore Poultry Yards. These were mule u; of fair specimens which had n it previously been out to show and whatever ferrets were alo attractive to the children who were out in the after noon. The exhibit of turkeys and water fowl were limited to two of the former and one or the latter but prizes are taken by them wiil be all the more creditable M!i.:n M in iger Kerr did not exp.ct to enter the com petition but to show some represen tative birds. Tiiis meeting of tin? fan. iiers marks the beginning of greater things. A State Poultry Association has been organized. The officers and princi pal committees are : A. I. Tate, High Point, President ; J. P. Kerr, Biltmore, First Vice-President ; B. S. Davis, Charlotte, Second Vice-Pre.-d. dent ; L. P. Dillon, Monroe, Third Vice-President; R. L Simmons, Shelby, Secretary ; W. M. Bar ringer, Charlotte, Treasurer; J. A. Hurriil, Ellenboio, Superintendent; S. W. Porter, Grilliih, Assistant Superintendent. The Executive Committee consists of B. S. Davis, J. P. Kerr, W. B. Alexander, W. M. Birringer, R. L. Simmons, W. D. Harnli, J. T. Wins low, C. C. Uandfeman, T. P. Dillon, J. W. Kestler and J . W. Gibbs. The Committee on constitution and by-laws consists of J. P. Kerr, B. fc. Davis, U. L. Simmons, W. M. Bar iinger, and Dr. S. B. Lea of South Carou ua. This committee were to report to an adjourned meeting and Chairman Kerr was preparing the articles at every opportunity. Dr. Lea and R. L. Simmons were the expert judges tor tne how. Tne latter, as many of our readers know, is the paoiisher of the Tar Heel Poultry man. We tooK. down a list of about thirty exhiintors and thinu: this is not a complete one. In their good work the newiy organized, .foiiitr. Asso ciation und tne Cnariotte Poultry Show have our uest wisues. VF. E. E. MEETING OF THE COTTON GROWERS' ASSO CIATION. A meeting of the North Carolina Cotton Planters' Association was held in this city last week. Strange to say, the two counties now so well organized, Edgecombe and Scotland, were not represented. And while little of importance was done at this meeting, some novel ideas were set forth ; it cannot be said that the meeting was without plans. They have not been reported in any other paper, for The Progressive Farmer was the only journal represented in the meeting. At 11 o'clock Wednesday, 16th, the convention assembled in the Agricul tural Building and was called to or der by President W. A. Graham. Secretary Jno. P. Allison read the minutes of previous meetings and also the minutes of the Inter-State Association at Macon, Ga., last No vember, as reported by him for The Progressive Farmer of Dec. 11th. Mr. W. P. Batchelor wished to know if any feasible plan for reduc ing acreage was presented at the Macon meeting. "I attended a cot ton growers' meeting in Atlanta four or five years ago," said Mr. Batch elor. "Cotton was selling at five cents. We unanimously resolved that it ought to bring ten, elected our officers and adjourned. And no more attention was paid us. Elo quent addresses and resolutions amount to nothing without a well defined business policy." Mr. Batch elor then outlined a plan for a cot ton growers' trust, which he thinks should be tested. We expect to pub lish his proposal in next week's Progressive Farmer. Mr. W. S. Barnes also presented a scheme providing a system for cot ton growers very much like that em bodied in the Jordan plan for to bacco growers. Mr. Barnes will also explain his proposed arrangement in an early issue of The Progressive Farmer. Maj. Graham said he didn't think farmers should term any organiza tion formed merely for the purpose of self protection, etc , a trust. "The trouble with our people is that they want good prices for their products, but they do not want the trouble of attending meetings and paying dues. But we can't start a State movement here ; it must be started in the town ships and worked up." Pr f. Benj .min Jrby thought sup ply and demand influenced prices of Cotton 75;0', speculation, etc., 25. "Get a majority of the people pledged to curtail crop and the un pledged minority will double its acre age," he said. "The best way to in crease the profits is to reduce the cost of production. Don't sell your products as raw material, thus get ting only one small profit. Let a hundred farmers of each county purchase a thousand acres of land. On this let them run a cotton farm, a cotton fact'-ry, a cotton oil mill, a fertilizer mixing establishment, also raise beef for market. With this arrangement they can put their pro ducts into manufactured form and save to themselves the bulk of the profits that now go to manufacturers. Take a bale of cotton. Your factory separates lint from seed, and you save a profit. Your oil mill gives you hulls, seed and meal another Dig profit saved to you. Then you have many of the fertilizer ingre dients made for you. I have always advised home-mixing, even as a merchant. For $20 you can buy the ingredients and mix any ordinary 25 fertilizer. Greater would be the saving with co-operative oil mills, etc. If these manufacturing enter prises can buy our products and manipulate them and make a profit, we should certainly be able to make a profit, with our own products." Col. Cameron thought these plans somewhat out of order. "This asso ciation as organized in Georgia is merely a combination of tamers, merchants and bankers for the pur pose of ascertaining size of crop and distributing sales throughout twelve months instead of two." Mr. Batchelor thought that the association should work for greater things ; that this in itself would do little good. "The speculators know that there is so much cotton in the c )untry that they are bound to get sooner or biter and it makes little difference as to manner of market ing. "The truth of the matter is," said Col. Cameron, "that at Macon it was admitted that without Texas and Louisana not much could be effected." Before adjournment, Secretary Allison talked of the work of the Georgia association. "The people are in dead earnes tdown there, " said he. "They are growing cotton in a business way. Diversified farming is becoming the rule, the grain acre age is being steadily increased, and the people are in a position to hold cotton. If the same spirit of deter mination and perseverance existed thoughout the South, great good would result. Messrs. William R. Cox, Jno. P. Allison and Beneham Cameron were then selected as the North Carolina members of the Inter-State Executive Committee, soon to meet in Atlanta. No other business being presented, the convention adjourned to meet at call of President. It is probable that another meeting will be held in Raleigh early in June at which meeting we hope all the cotton growing counties will be represen ted. BUBAL FREE DELIVEBY. A number of new rural free deliv ery routes may be established inNor th Carolina if the neighborhoods that desire them will ask the assist ance of Congressmen. The people along the routes already established now regard free rural delivery as in dispensable. We shall say more of this matter next week. LEARN BY EXAMPLE. On a recent trip into Chatham county it was reported that a Vir ginian has recently visited that part of the county near and about Lock ville. The object of his visit was successful, as he purchased and took back with hith him ahout seventy voung heifers. These were selected with some care as representing na tive and grade Durham, Herford or other strains of cattle which make rather large growth. No Jersey or other small breed was taken. Our comment on this is simply that North Carolina farmers are strangely constituted that they do not keep such stock as that at home and purchase new infusions of the best bred bulls in the country to mate up with. Then turn their attention to the production of food stuffs as never before. These Virginia dro vers and cattlemen are laying solid foundations for future profits. F. E. E. PUSH THE ALLIANCE. From the New York Farmer edi torial page we clip the following : "Now go right ahead and carry out your'New Year resolutions. "Join the Grange. "If there be no Grange within range, join the Patrons of Industry, in case that order is established in your county. "Farmers, more than any other class of producers, need to co-oper ate in order to dispose of their prod ucts profitably. "Have you read the Grange pro gram of discussions for 1901? It is an interesting, a varied, an import ant program Tne discussions will be of great value to all who share in them, both as speakers and hear ers. Don't overlook it. "The Grout bill should be for warded in the Senate as rapidly as possible. Write to the two Senators from your State to aid in forwarding it." In North Carolina all these notes should be heeded. Where any other organization is named for New York we have the Alliance and co-operation is even more needed among North Carolina farmers than in New York. But listen to this note in one of the strong farmers' organizations : "Here and there may be heard, right in Five States Milk Producers' Association circles utterances tht are dead against the very principles of that Association. Is it possible that the middlemen are securing representation in the Inner circles of this distinctively producers' organ ization?" Brother reader, weigh this last item in connection with your Alli ance history ; can you see anything like a hint of history repeating it self? Is it possible for farmers to unite in upholding their common in terests? We still live in hope that it is possible and that we shall find men among our farmers and enough of them with intelligence and cour age to act on their own convictions and stand by their organizations and support the principles until the or ganization is popularized and may help all morally, mentally, educa tionally and financially. The Farmers' Alliance can and will do this if earnestly invoked. Renew your interest, brothers. Bring out the sisters and have them rejoin and revive the Alliance to rival the Grange in the North. F. E. E. The Thinly GOOD ROADS. That gravel makes the best roads is shown by the recommendation of the road superintendent of Wake, W. C. McMackin, to the county com missioners at their January session. He will advocate the making of gravel instead of Macadam roads, and that the county sell the rock crusher and purchase the rock nec essary, already crushed, from Grey stone. He says that gravel roads are bet ter for travel, are cheaper and better in every respect, except that they will not last so long without repair, than the macadam roads. Macadam costs $1,500 per mile, gravel costs $500 per mile. For such places as absolutely require macadam, he rec ommends that the material be pur chased from grey stone. This mate rial costs $1.22 cents per cubic yard, and Mr. McMackin says it is cheaper and more durable than that crushed by the city. In that county there is very much clay. Gravel mixed with it makes a splendid road. In this county, where there is an excess of sand, clay should be put on the roads. The best roads are those made of clay and gravel. Ex. It is strange to see the unmanlike cruelty of mankind, who, not con tent with their tyrannous ambition to have brought the others' virtuous patience under them think their mas ter hood nothing without doing in jury to them Sir Philip Sidney. THE CUMBERLAND DISPENSARY. We have a right to be interested in the dispensary question in Cum berland. Our county is adjacent, and we are a part of the constitu ency of Fayetteville. We must, in. very fact, exert what influence we can wield to retain the dispensary unless there is a chance to wipe out the drinking saloons and dispensary, and put an end to the traffic in whis key altogether. We are sorry the question of 'Dispensary'' or "No Dispensary" is thrust upon the peo ple at this time. The cry ot liberty, giving the people a chance to settle the question, is an old one. The in ference is that those who make the cry are against the dispensary and in favor of the saloon. We might content ourselves with allowing figures to show the advantage of the dispensary over the saloon. But we want at this distance to bear testi mony to the great change in favor of greater sobreity since the institution of the dispensary. Robeson would appeal to the good and true men of Cumberland, at whose capital she markets much of her produce and buys many of her goods, to go to the polls and vote overwhelmingly against the saloon and in favor of the dispensary. The saloon must go, and is going everywhere. Ltd. the historic old county of Cumberland march a breast in the procession un der the Christian banner. Rev. P. R. Law, in Lumber ton Robesonian. Only a faith which is sufficient to believe beyond the se eing, and a love which is able to walk childlike and lowly with its God, are willing to acknowledge the stupendous mystery without losing their heart and trust. Henry Wilder Foote. MBS. SALLIE C. HuBSOtf, MOTHER OF A HERO. Mrs. Sallie C. Hobson and her daughter, Miss Annie, occupied a box at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, at the great patriotic meeting held some months ago, on which occasion Lieut. Hobson pre sided. In reply to a World reporter, who had asked about her plans for bringing up boys, Mrs. Hobson said : "Teach them to be upright, honest and to do their duty always and to be frank and amiable. Give them the best books to read books that will give them high ideals, high pur poses ; books that will stimulate them an teach them never to fall short of the most lofty purposes." Mrs. Hobson said the lieutenant had inclined to sports as a boy. "He liked all outdour sport hunting, riding, fishing," she remarked. "As a boy he walked six or eight miles almost daily. Nobody could impose upon him. He could always take care of himself in a fight at scnool, and he did, too. It's no disgrace to a boy if he does have a little fight now and then at school, providing he doesn't get licked and he is in the right." Humility is the true cure for many a needless heartache. Montague.
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