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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1895
Page
1
The document lists officers for national and Carolina farmer organizations including presidents, secretaries, treasurers, executive board members, judiciary committees, and press association links. It notes papers supporting the Ocala platform and maintaining rankings on the "hat" page.
A broad discussion on crop costs and management highlights barley as a better yield than wheat on clay soil with good fertility, and fall sowing of grain crops. It notes the value of improved breeding for pigs, greener feeding, and timely cultivation to reduce spring workload. It also mentions pasturing potatoes and buckwheat as responsive crops and stresses practical farming improvements.
The Pro gressive Farmer reflects on a abundant harvest with yields over 100 bushels per acre for corn and 125 for oats, praising Buckbee seeds and Rockford Seed Farms. It urges farmers to adopt improved seed stock for 1896 and highlights garden novelties, plant varieties, and economy on the farm as a path to prosperity.
Corresp ondence of the Progressive farmer argues economy as the foundation of success. A farmer notes household frugality, recounting his wife Katharine’s poultry and sugar purchases and plans to store preserves while avoiding extravagance in groceries.
The Durham Sun notes the Virginia belle Miss Irene Langhorne will marry an New York artist renowned for drawing. The writer quips that a man who earns his living by drawing or digging is more fitting for first circles than a man who relies on his father, praising usefulness over idle wealth and wishing the couple long life and prosperity.
The Carson Appeal argues that goldbugs will drop other issues to protect self interests. It envisions a Democratic House and Republican Senate causing shifting free coinage bills that are killed or revived to blame the opposite party, a ploy supported by Wall Street manipulation. The piece compares political strategy to Napoleon splitting forces, accusing moneyed interests of engineering compromises.
D. P Meacham reports a traveling Alliance lecture circuit from Raeuah to Washington and various North Carolina towns. Reorganizes Cedar Grove, Latham, Pantego, Head of Pungo and Edwards Mills Alliances, notes political tensions over free silver and religious critique of ministers.
James G Blaine in Congress on February 7, 1878 argued gold and silver coin are money of the Constitution and that Congress lacks power to demonetize silver, paralleling a note on demonetization with agricultural advice using kainit as an insecticide for onion maggots.
Nevada Director presents a puzzle about a counterfeit silver dollar found by a laborer and passed through many hands to pay debts. The tale asks if debts were truly paid and whether a genuine coin could replicate the effect, exploring the idea that metal value vs legal tender determines payment.
A modern age magazine presents speculative figures on global population distribution and eternal punishment. It questions salvation rates among Christians, estimates souls condemned, and contrasts with a note on crimson clover as a winter crop grown for profit.
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