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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1897
Page
8
A naturalist notes plant growth mainly at night with a daily schedule showing over 90 percent of growth occurring between sunset and morning. The writer describes growing chicory from five cents worth of seed, processing roots into chicory meal to imitate coffee, and urges adoption to cut costs. He also discusses dairy house needs for butter production and farming efficiency.
Correspondence rails at a Progressive Farmer piece praising cellar dairy storage. The writer notes outdated views as twenty five years behind times and mocks editors who advise on dairy practice without farm experience. The dairy department is called largely useless and impractical.
The article lists practical dairy handling rules enforced at the Wisconsin University creamery. It emphasizes prompt emptying of skim cans, thorough cleaning and scalding of equipment, cleansing of the cloth strainer, use of the airator, rapid cooling of warm milk, protection during freezing, dust protection on cans, avoiding mixing warm and cold milk, and accurate labeling for milk delivered on different days.
A plea urging farmers to join and bolster the Farmers Alliance, promote education and economic principles, reorganize sub alliances statewide, and engage in missionary effort to influence industrial work from home and abroad. It calls for collective action against political manipulation and stresses serious study of wealth distribution and agricultural economics.
An appeal criticizes betrayal within the Farmers' Alliance, urges solidarity among farmers and laborers to counter trust domination, and urges members to lead locally by example. The message cites Hillboro shoe production as a test of commitment and calls for putting capable, loyal leaders in every Sub, County, and State unit.
A worn passage notes Boston shipping more food to Liverpool in 1895 than New York, and Montreal overtaking New York in flour shipments from the Great Lakes traffic. The piece cites Sir William Van Horne on cost of moving flour dock to dock, warning of New York’s waning harbor dominance as Galveston gains via Hamburg routes and prairie grain hubs draw foreign commerce.
The piece argues that by 1896 New Orleans would complete terminals costing over two million dollars to accommodate foreign commerce, challenging New York’s supremacy. It notes southern ports like Norfolk gaining prominence, rail lines bridging to cotton, grains, and flour, and criticizes New York for costly transfers and lighterage charges that hinder direct shipments.
In a fragmentary release from Portsmouth Virginia, high ranking officials including E. St John and H W Bglver as vice president and general manager appear in a general office notice. The document mentions J J Andere and a general superintendent role tied to pass duties.
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