The Progressive Farmer, February 18, 1002.
Miscellaneous.
jjCELZCTURK WORK IN THE EAST.
.... Lecturer Bala Beporti rrogreii in
SUrtin ana ueauion touuuH.
wrresPondence of The Projcresslve Farmer.
r reionad Kooersonviue, m juamn
aunty, January 16th, and spent a
. A
lw,pk in lecture wors among me
Urniera and brethren of the county.
I found them (as moat all North
'Carolinians are) a very kind and
;renprn9 people. eriainiy tne
brethren did more than we could
really expect of them, to make our
visit pleasant to us. I will ever
Pleasantly remember the kindness
iad hospitality of brethren W. S.
Vick, Smith, Keel, Marion Green,
Roebuck and other brethren too
numerous to mention. We should
have been pleased to have visited a
jew other places in the county, but
03r time was too short. We left the
w0rk there in good and safe hands.
Bro. W". 8. Viok will organize or re
organize Sub- Alliances at any place
jeered. We may expect, and I am
assured, that Martin will be repre
sented at our State meeting this
year.
" On Friday, the 24th ult., I entered
tfi began work in this, Beaufort
scanty. Have since met twelve ap
pointments that the brethren had
made for me. Have organized one
new Sab-Allianoe,Swain's Land,with
a goodly number of the best farmers
of that section The attendance was
good at most all the appointments,
even in the rainy days of last week.
At the close of my lecture last
Wednesday at Aurora the request
vras made that we hold a session at
night for the reception of old and
members, which we did. The
result was the receiving of 11 mem
bers, three of them by initiation. I
found the brotherhood in this county
in better condition than I expected,
and it is expeoted that the organiza
tion will take on renewed growth. I
Lave certainly been kindly enter
tained and cared for in this county,
izd wish to hereby express my
thankfulness for the same.
I will go from here to Currituok
county to engage in lecture work
there.
"Some Things All of us Should
Think About," written by Mr. D. L
Gore, in last week's Progressive
IiiiER, is timely, interesting and
toniotive. , We hope he will write
often ; and, by the way, if we have
been correotly informed, Mr. Gore is
originally from "our Harry Farm
er's" county, Columbus.
J. C. Bain,
Lecturer N. C. F. 8. Alliance.
TEY GOOD ROADS BENEFIT THE FAR
HER.
Financially speaking, good roads
oald ba of no inconsiderable ad
vantage to the farmer : 1st, the oost
cf road transportation will decrease
t certain times of the year. 2d,
There -will be a wider ohoce of time
to market the produoe and a wider
choice of market places. 3d, Perish
able crop? can be more extensively
raised. ih, Prices will be more
nearly uniform over the oounty.
Sth, There will be no greit rush of
railroad work, at different seasons
c year.
Bat in the eyes of the agricultural
people the arguments as to the great
financial gains from stone roads are
not founded on faot ; the major argu
ments with the farmer to day are
social questions. 1. Good roads will
mate possible the centralization of
the rami school system which is now
receiving attention with the farmer.
They will facilitate rural mail
delivery, and to my personal knowl
edge I know that at the present time
is, with the farmer of Illinois,
one oi the strongest arguments in
favor of better roads. 3 Highways
iil change in appearance ; the sani
ary conditions of the farm will im
Prove, and it will bring to us a
2her degree of civilization. Fred
R- Crane.
1 DESTITUTE FOR MACADAM ON COUN
TRY ROADS.
hilo for macadamizing purposes
P3rP;'es on country roads burnt
oSiio.j i not quite so durable as
i jT'- jf the best grades of rock, it
s many advantages to offset this
"ii-jrtcoming, Blight aa it is. The
Pc. of producing burnt gumbo
e'lres practically no capital or
great skill to carry on. The most
lnury labor and a little common
" e on the part of one person, as
erser, can produce the best of.re
!t Of course, the road should
Properly graded and crowned be
putting on the gumbo road
ta L A face of burnt clay, six
ght inches in thickness, is com-
monly sufficient for good, results ; or
ten inohes in particularly places,
where unusual conditions exist or
traffic is especially heavy.
By selecting for improvement the
heaviest parts of the road first,
since the worst stretohes are often
caused by the very heavy material
that makes the best grade of road
metal, - and systematically working
under intelligent guidance, five years
would find every principal highway
in a oounty as passable the year
around as a paved city street, and
at very little more coat than is now
usually squandered on "working the
roads." The county surveyor could
easily superintend the whole work
for his district ; and, with local over
seers as head burners, he coula soon
produce as good a system of high
ways as any one oould wish for.
Onoe properly prepared, two men
oould easily keep the roads of a
whole county always in good repair.
With no more expenditure of
money and effort than is now put on
the country roads, ballasting with
burnt clay would produoe in a dozen
years a system of highways equal to
any of those for which France has
so long been famous.
A burnt gumbo road is never
muddy, for that property is lost in
the burning- The surface of the
road is hard and smooth. As a
speedway for bicycles and automo
biles it is ideal. For carriages and
heavy wagons it has no superior.
Ne vegetation can grow on it. It is
practically free from dust, after the
highway system has been well devel
oped, so that mud is not brought in
from the tributary roada. More
over, the warm red highways con
trast pleasingly against the green
landsoape at those seasons of the year
when country drives are most enjoy
able. From "Burnt Clay for Roads
in the West," by Charles Rollin
Keyes, in the American Monthly Re
view of Reviews for January.
THE TARIFF CBISIS IN CONGRESS.
The event of the week in Congrees
was the vote in the Ways and Means
Committee cf the House of Repre
sentatives upon the Baboook amend
ment to the tax reduction bill. This
amendment put upon the free list
the important iron and steel produots
whioh this country is now selling
abroad in large quantities. The list
includes all structural steel and iron,
hoiler plates, steel rails, and nearly
every steel product in the form used
as raw material by our manufactur
ers of maohinery and implements.
The faot that our manufacturers
can sell these goods abroad, after
paying for transportation, at as low
a price as foreigners can make in
their own markets, is assumed to in
dicate that our manufacturers can
sell to our countrymen as cheaply
as foreigners could sell them if our
tariff were removed. The bill would
not guarantee that our manufac
turers should sell as cheaply at home
as abroad, but merely 'that they
should not charge at home more
than their price abroad plus the oost
of shipping the goods back to this
country. This amendment came
within one vote of being adopted by
the Committee, as the other Republi
can member from the Northwest,
Mr. Tawney, of Minnesota, supported
Mr Babcock, and they had of oourse
the united support of the Democrats.
Mr. Baboook says that the fight is
not over yet,and that he will bring his
amendment before the House, where
it is more popular than in the Ways
and Means Committee. This claim
we may well believe, as most of the
members of the Ways and Means
Committee are noted for their strong
protectionist leanings. It is certain
that the amendment would have the
support of the oountry at large for
in Amerioa's 'committee of the
whole' there are not nine Republi
cans to six Democrats, as on the
Ways and a Means Committee, but
only nine Republicans to eight Dem
ocrats, and measure supported by
all Democrats and even one fourth
of the Republicans has an over
whelming majority. New York
Outlook, 15th.
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Pate, Scotland Co , N. C.
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CORRECT TABLE OF BUBAL SCHOOL
LIBBABIES BY COUNTIES.
The writer had to leave the office
before reading the proof of the article
on rural school libraries published
last week, and we notice that there
were a few errors in it. Caswell
oounty should have been credited
with one library, Catawba with five.
Tyrrell has none as yet. Five more
libraries were established last week
two in Moore, three in Forsyth.
The following carefully correoted
table, therefore, -shows the exact
number of libraries in each oounty
that have to date received the State
aid provided by law :
A lamance 6 Johnston .......
Alexander. ..... Jones.. ..;......
Alleghany 4 Lenoir 6
Anson 6 Ldnooln 4
Ashe 1 MoDowell ,
Beaufort 6 Macon 2
Bertie 6 Madison 6
Bladen.... 1 Martin
Brunswick 1 Meoklenburg ... 2
Bunoombe Mitohell
Burke Montgomery . . .
Cabarrus 6 Moore 4
Caldwell 3 Nash 6
Camden N Hanover
Carteret Northampton... 6
Caswell 1 Onslow 5
Catawba 5 Orange 6
Chatham 6 Pamlico 1
Cherokee 1 Pasquotank 6
Chowan 4 Pender .
Clay Perquimans.... .3
Cleveland 6 Person 1
Columbus 2 Pitt .6
Ctavtn 6 Polk .1
Cumberland 4 Randolph ... . . . 6
Currituok N Riohmond. ... .12
Dare Robeson .4
Davidson 2 Rockingham .... 6
Davie . . '. Rowan . 4
Duplin 6 Rutherford 6
Durham. 6 Sampson
Edgeoombe 4 Sootland
Forsyth 6 Stanly. 6
Franklin 4 Stokes 6
Gaston 2 Surry...
Gates 3 Swain
Graham Transylvania. . . 3
Granville 4 Tyrrell
Greene a Union .6
Ouilford 6 Vance
Halifax Wake 6
Harnett 4 Warren .6
Haywood Washington 6
Henderson c Watauga 2
Hertford 1 Wayne 6
Hyde 4 Wilkes 4
Iredell a Wilson .6'
Jackson Yadkin
Yanoey
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I still use ''Gombault's Caustic Bal
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it. I some times buy in Elinira and
some of our druggist here. There is
nothing to compare with it, in my
belief. I. B. WILEY, V. S.
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KIDNEY TROUBLE, LAME '
BACK AND RHEUMATISM
CURED BY SWAMP-ROOT.
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Among the many famous cures
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Progressive Farmer, the 6ne we
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our readers, speaks in the highest
terms of the wonderful curative
properties of this great kidney
remedy.
T. F. MCIIUGH.
Taooma, Wash , Nov. 29th, 1901
DR. KILMER & CO.,
Binghamton, N. Y.
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that of hundreds of others regard
ing the wonderful curative proper
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back three years ago before leaving
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" THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
Raleigh, VN. C.
rheumatism was due to my kidney
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