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Newspaper

The Progressive Farmer

Location

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

May 19, 1896

Page

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North Carolina Farmers State Alliance Officers Listed

The document lists multiple officers and executive members for North Carolina offices including President Cyrus Thompson of Richlands and joint secretaries in Hillsboro and Durham. It details executive board names, judiciary committee appointees, and state liaison roles across several North Carolina towns and states.

Cyrus Thompson Richlands N. C Jno Graham Ridgeway N.C W. 8. Barnes Hillsboro J. T. B. Hoover City Jas. E. Lyon Durham A. D. K. Wallace Rutherfordton T. Ivey Hilsboro Sey Fund W. A. Graham Machpelah North Carolina Farmers’ State Alliance A. F. Hileman Concord N. C. English Trinity James M. Mewborne Kinson

Agriculture tips for currants, peas, and storage in farming

Advice on currant and gooseberry culture in rich soil with thorough cultivation and staggered planting to extend harvests. May peas on poor land improve soil and be plowed under before frost. Guidance on moisture retention by shallow cultivation after rains. Learn beef curing with brine from a barrel. Farmers should monitor markets and trusted ads for selling and buying trends. Bran vs wheat middlings as animal feed compared for sheep and hogs.

Northern farmer eyed cow peas as clover substitute

The Farmers Magazine argues cow peas can replace clover in northern farming, with quick growth and fertilizing clover roots. Farmers are urged to test on a small patch next season, beginning with a plot mixed with southern peas when soil warms for millet. Weather notes follow, highlighting a cool spell and dry end to the week across districts.

Farmers Magazine

Drought Worsens Across North Carolina Counties

Respondents report no rain and consequent suffering of all vegetation. Cabarrus Iredell Rowan Sirry Yadkin and part of Mecklenburg are worst, with wheat most injured. Two correspondents cite hail damage. Cotton and corn stands good elsewhere, some waiting for rain to finish cotton. Horning cotton, planting sweet potatoes, hoeing and plowing noted. Potato bugs destructive. Soils vary. phosphoric acid and potash pay wherever moderate to heavy. Kittrell NC. O W BuackyaLu.

Centra Ofdice Raleigh N. C North Carolina State Weather Service Pamlico Centra Cabarrus Iredell Rowan Sirry Yadkin Mecklenburg

A Cheap Garden Hose From Homemade Materials

A reader describes crafting a durable garden hose from 20 ounce white ducking sewn into strips for a one inch pipe. The project, costing about $30 for 150 feet, uses an aleck stitch machine, overcasting, two coats of boiled oil, and several days air drying. Shorter lengths are advised for better pressure endurance.

Gardena

Horticulture Facts for Fruit Growers

A fruit grower shares experience on soil needs and fertilizer balance. He argues most commercial fertilizers misfit fruit crops, detailing high phosphoric content and low potash, and offers a practical per acre mix of kainit, muriate potash, bone phosphate, and nitrate soda with spring and late season applications. The method stems from field trials and years of use.

Experience

Poultry Yard Remedies and Hen Diet Tips

A poultry almanac suggests carbolic acid in water to prevent disease, chlorate of potash for soup, and various remedies for worms, gapes, colds, and sneezing. It notes health signals from the comb, advises on laying season vigor, and cites Farmers' Voice on balanced hen feed emphasizing albumen, water, grit, and prefer wheat over corn for laying efficiency.

Mr. Dawley

Portable Creamery Can Sizes and Storage Logic

In a discussion of portable creamery can shapes, eight and a half inch by twenty inch round cans hold about five gallons, while seven by twenty inch oblong cans hold eleven gallons. The distance center to outside affects cooling, so shapes matter more than volume. Double storage is possible with two eleven gallon cans or four five gallon cans, even for small capacities. Three cans offer no inherent double storage, unlike an even-numbered setup.

F. W. Moszney

Best farmer’s hog for feed lot and market

The improved Chester White or a cross between Poland China and improved Chester White is proposed. The writer notes feeding both pure breeds in the same yard with Chester Whites gaining 40 to 60 pounds by eight or nine months, being more docile, while Poland Chinas reach the feeding place first and tie for feed.

Poland Chester Guo. Williams G.zstte

Nash County Alliance Meeting Celebrates Growth and Prizes

C H Barnes reports Nash County Alliance meetings are thriving with 18 lodges active, a 36 percent gain in the past year, and one lodge restored after inactivity. Prizes awarded to secretaries Rozell Joyner and M M Manning for increasing membership and restorations. He urges continued effort despite looming political campaigns.

Nasuviing N. C Mt Pleasant Old Nash Progressive Farmer Rozell Joyner Pridgen Hill Alliance C. H. Barnes Bec’y Treas Nash Co. Alliance

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THE National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union Mann Page Brandon H. ©. Snavely Lebanon R. A. Southworth Denver Col H. L. Loucks Huron W. P. Bricker Cogan J.¥. Willetts Kansas W. L Peeke Colo W. Beck Alabama M.D. Davie Kentucky South Carolina Farmers State Alliance State Alliance Judiciary Committee John Brady Gatesville J.¥. Harrell Whiteville T. J. Candler Acton, N. C North Carolina Reform Press Association Officera J. L. Romney Marton Butler Barnes Ve Farmer Bets Xapeactan Curse Agriculture PEAS Uwfekly Kittrell, N.C O. W. BuackyaLu Poultry Yard Et Ee Clinton Iowa Nash County Alliance
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