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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1894
Page
7
Letters from subscribers across North Carolina praise The Progressive Farmer and renewal support. Readers including J. L. Bridges, J. W. Self, M. G. Dunn, W. Jordan, and many others express loyalty, noting reform content and value. A practical farm note reports guano trials increasing corn yield by about 174 bushels per acre, with profit outlined.
To the Editor the Lenoir Topic describes an experiment with M809 on corn last spring. The test involved checking a 4 feet square area, with one sack used in the process. The note suggests a practical farming trial for local readers.
J R Means reports a February 23 meeting with Prof N C English and Y G Frazier. Five members were reinstated and two initiated. Officers retained include S W Wall as President. Weather was cold but outlook appears favorable.
Office of Barnes Bros announces The Progressive Farmer as an advertising medium. Messages from North Carolina and other states including Mississippi New Hampshire and Pennsylvania show the ad ran three times. The business manager Mr Denmark is cited.
Dr. Cyrus Thompson the State Lecturer will visit multiple counties including Nash Edgecombe Dare Hyde Beaufort Martin Pamlico and more with talks starting at 11 a m Speakers to be sent only on request and further arrangements possible. W A Graham trustee will also tour Liberty Greensboro Davie and Guilford with talks at 11 a m The Executive Committee adjusted plans to place speakers only where asked and count on regular meeting days aside from Wake which meets Friday and Saturday after the second Thursday.
State agency announces completion of arrangements to supply undertakers with all grades of linings dwarf caskets cloth-covered and metallic coffins raised top and plain. Burial robes for men women and children available to counties and small businesses through the agency.
An Alliance notice urges members with unpaid fertilizer notes to settle promptly. It praises the Durham Fertilizer Company for leniency during hard times and stresses that timely payments will restore credit for spring supplies and prevent further delays.
A 1892 notice from W. H. Worth announces fertilizer options for cotton, offering N. C. Alliance Official guano on 300 pounds of middling cotton with f.o.b. delivery by Nov 1, 1894. The company covers freight on cotton, buyers pay freight on fertilizer, and quality and weight guarantees apply. correspondence directed to Durham Fertilizer Company.
Notice to egg shippers to Boston via Richmond and Danville Road west of Durham should route through West Point Virginia with M. and M. steamboat line. Those using other roads must ship via Norfolk with M. and M. line. Express shipping not advised due to high rates. January 6, 1894.
Instructions on crate preparation packing materials and order details for egg shipping. Includes crate counts costs shipping routes requirements for Order members and marking labeling best practice and the use of stencil plates and cards for shipments.
Detailed guidance for slaughtering killing and dressing poultry with emphasis on preserving quality. Notes on bleeding scalding avoiding food in the crop and keeping birds warm after pickling. Packing rules specify cold not frozen poultry in paper wrapped bundles with no straw and box sizes 100 to 200 pounds.
Avgust Post and Tuos J Ocivim endorse Mr Allen's Labor and Capital as timely and valuable. The Progressive Farmer offers the one volume work of about five hundred pages at $2.00, with discounts for subscriptions and club orders.
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