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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTEREITI OF" OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO, ALL OTHER COs
TIONS OP STATE POLICY.
Volume XVII.
RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1903.
Number 49.
AGRICULTURE
HARRY FARMER'S TALKS.
CHI.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer :
We want some of our readers to
write on some crop or subject which
they have made a success or com
plete failure in, giving all the de
tails. A speaker said once to a large
crowd that, "any man can make
money." An old farmer asked,
"How?" The speaker replied that
he did not know. "Well, it is the
'how we want to know," said the
farmer.
So, friends, it is the "how" that the
up-to-date farmers want to know.
Just give it in your own language
just like you were talking to your
neighbor. The editor vill put it in
good shape. These articles will do
an immense amount of good. This
is the kind of book farming that
helps. "An ounce of experience is
worth more than a pound of theory."
We do not like to give our failures,
but they are as important' as a suc
cess. In writing give the cause of
the success or failure as you see it.
It saves us from doing unnecessary
hard work. A young farmer hears
some one say that lime is good for
land that needs it and mixed with
leaves and straw it will cut them up
and put them in a nice condition for
a potato crop. He jumps at the con
clusion to try it on his stable manure
with the result that its value is en
tirely destroyed. He knows that sta
ble manure is one of the best fertil
izers he can use on almost any crop,
but if mixed with lime all the am
monia, the most valuable part, is
entirely destroyed and lost.
Now to give in detail an expe
rience so that the average reader can
understand it will help thousands of
struggling farmers. Now do not be
afraid to do this for fear you will
glut the market. Every one who
reads your experiee is not going
to try it; Farmers are a conserva
tive class and do not jump at every
new thing they hear about. In some
instances this may be best, but we
are most too slow about making
changes. But we all often "sin
against light" to our own hurt.
But let us make farming one of
the best callings that can be follow
ed. The time has come when a large'
number of farmers make fancy crops
that buyers come to their doors to
buy. -So you see that if you have
enough of any crop to justify it, the
commission merchant or agent will
take it off yours hands. One man
cannot raise any crop to be sold on
the general market well because it
requires carloads to get the best
prices.
HARRY FARMER.
Columbus Co., N. C.
Money in Farming.
There are many men in North
ampton who are making money farm
ing, and our farm lands are steadily
increasing in value. There probab
ly will never be a time when North
ammpton farm lands will be worth
less than now. The farm is becom
ing more attractive each year. There
are many notable instances of farm
ers who have made money during the
past few years. They can be found
in every neighborhood. Citizens of
other States who make their home
our lands and invest money in them.
Dr. Robt. P. Morehead, a native
West Virginian, who located in the
county about eight years ago, and
has built up a large practice, has
bought several small farms, and it is
said never loses an opportunity to
invest in farms, if near enough to
him to give them some oversight.
Perhaps th"e most notable instance
of successful farming in the State
can be found in this county. We re
fer to Senator Ransom, who retired
from public life six years ago, com
paratively a poor man, having de
voted the best years of his life to the
service of his country. Like his
great kinsman, Nathaniel Macon, he
turned his attention to agriculture.
Roanoke-Chowan Times.
THE CHARLOTTE POULTRY SHOW.
The order of the Superintendent
of the Rural Free Delivery system
directing the postmasters to post in
their respective offices correct lists
of all persons served by routes ra
diating therefrom opens the gatewav
for floods of mail of all sorts and
kinds to our rural neighbors. The
medicine men, the novelty men, the
cheap jewelry and merchandise men,
all sorts of men, including the news
paper men, will get copies of these
lists and send the people mail by the
bushel. Hitherto, as we understand
it, it has been the policy of the"Fost
Office Department to protect its pat
rons against receiving all sorts of un
solicited mail by instructing post
masters not to furnish lists of names
from among its patrons. But in the
new order this policy is reversed. The
theory is that the posting of lists of
patrons will bring them larger vol
umes of mail and, in turn, greatly in
creases the amount of mail gathered
up along the routes. Gastonia Gazette.
List of the Awards Officers Elected.
This is the last day of the Char
lotte Poultry Association's Show in
the city hall. The attendance yes
terday was quite large.
The breeds of chickens on exhibi
tion are as follows: Barred, bluff
and white Plymouth Rock, white
Wyandotte, white and brown Leg
horn, white and black Minorca, pit
and Indian game, bantams, and a
few others. There is a very fine col
lection of geese, among them being
the Toulouse and wild geese and the
Pekin and Muscovy ducks, which are
as large as common geese. The tur
keys, several breeds of pigeons and
the proud little bantam chickens
come in for their share of attraction.
The white and gray Belgian hares
and the squirrels make a pretty ex
hibit. Following are some of the awards
announced la3t night:
Barred Plymouth Rocks, W. B.
Alexander: First cock; second and
third hen first pullet; third pen.
A ' Bertlering, Atlanta, Ga. : Sec
ond and fourth cock; fifth hen; fifth
pen.
B. S. Davis: Third cock; first hen;
first and second cockerels; second,
third, fourth and fifth pullet; first,
and second pen; first collection.
C. C. Randleman, Randleman, N.
C: Fifth cock; fourth cockerel;
fourth pen.
Warden Bros.: Fourth hen.
E. M. Rigler: Third and fifth
cockerel.
White Plymouth Rocks, P. G. Big
gers: First cock, first cockerel; sec
ond pullet.
J. A. Bely, Burlington: First and
second hen; second and fourth cock
erel; first and fifth pullet; first pern
Roy Butt: Third hen.
McArrowood, Burlington: Third
cockerel ; third and fourth pullet.
Red Cops, Wm. Bush: First hen;
first cockerel; first pullet.
Black Langshan, R. H. Henderson,
Coronaca, S. C. : First cock; first
arid second hen; fourth pullet.
... Wm. Jose: Second cock; third,
fourth and fifth hen; first and sec
ond cockerel; first, second and third
pullet; first pen.
Brown Leghorns, John P. Green:
First cock; first, second, third,
fourth and fifth hen ; first, second,
third and fourth pullet; first pen.
Nevin Poultry Yards: Second
cock.
W. L. Ormond, Bessemer City:
First cockerel.
Buff Leghorns, W. F. Lilly, Petros,
Tenn. : First cock, first and second
cockerel; first, second, third and
fifth pullet; first pen.
Nevin Poultry Yards: Second
cock; fourth pullet.
Black Minorcas, H. M. Collins,
Charleston, S. C: First cock; first
hen; first cockerel; first, second and
third pullet ; first pen.
Wm. Bush: Second cock; second,
third, fourth and fifth hen; second
cockerel; fourth and fifth pullet;
second pen. i
Light Brahmas, W. L. Ormond,
Bessemer. City : 'First cockerel; first
pullet.
Bronze Turkey, T. J. Allison, Su
gar Creek: First Tom.
White Minorca, F. S. Bullington,
Richmond, Ya.: Third cock; first,
second, third and fourth hen; first
cockerel; first, second, third and
fourth pullet.
Toulouse Geese, B. D. Springs:
First gander ; first, second and third
goose.
All the ribbons have been placed
and everybody can see who the win
ners are.
The annual meeting of the Asso
ciation was held last night. It was
decided to hold the seventh exhibi
tion on January 12, 13, 14, 15, 1904.
Officers were elected as follows : B.
S. Davis, president; W. B. Alexan
der, first vice-president; E. G. War
den, second vice-president; Rev. J.
A. Dorrittee, third vice-president;
Jno. B. Taylor, secretary and treas
urer; S. W. Porter, superintendent;
A. W. Banks, assistant superintend
ent; F. J. Marshall, Atlanta, judge.
Charlotte Observer, 15th.
The poultry show closed last night
after having continued from last
Tuesday. It was not a financial suc
cess, owing to the very unfavorable
weather which cut the attendance to
about half what it was last year, but
the completeness and excellence of
the exhibits are said by experts to
have been fully up to the standard of
State events of its kind in former
years. Among the outside exhibitors
who took prizes at the fair were:
W. D. Harrill & Co., of Ellenboro;
Kornegay & Son, of Mount Olive;
J. M. Workman, of Burlington; P.
R. Brooks, of Black Creek, and Hen
ry Jaeger, the well-known Atlantic
Coast Line engineer, of Florence, S.
C. The judges and other officers of
the show who came from a distance,
left to-day, returning to their homes.
Wilmington Cor. Charlotte Ob
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