15 Sep 1896
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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1896
Page
1
A roster lists officers and judiciary from the IBE and North Carolina Farmers State Alliances. It names presidents, vice presidents, secretaries, treasurers, and executive and judiciary committees along with affiliated press partners and a note that papers must advocate the Ocala platform or be dropped.
Agricultural notes urge better tree pruning in September to remove interferences and sprouts, promote sap use, and keep salt and water available for dairy cattle. Suggestions include building a farm library, studying agricultural texts, avoiding political office for farmers unless qualified, and using waste feed for hogs. Texas farmer F Darlington advocates a cross between ford and Durham beef cattle to establish a distinct Western range type within a decade.
The weekly report for September 5 1896 covers Central and Western North Carolina crop conditions. It notes drought in many areas despite scattered rain, ongoing cotton picking, late corn prospects, and efforts to improve road districts with gravel and maintenance guidance. Crimson clover danger to horses when seed heads mature is discussed.
Shreveport Judge denounces the cotton seed oil trust for fixing the price at 4 dollars per ton. He urges farmers to unite and refuse seed sales unless prices are set by the producers, noting seed’s value as fertilizer and warning the trust will capitulate.
A Michigan Farmer correspondent criticizes state road building practices outside major districts. He notes roads are scraped clean into the middle creating short lived smooth stretches, but winter returns mud and ruts, leaving riders with poor surfaces. He condemns the habit of overhauling with new machines and sod redistribution.
A long excerpt promoting a booklet Principles of Profitable Farming outlines lessons from Prof Wagner in Germany, farm experiments at Southern Pines North Carolina, and US trials on potash use. It argues for drains, clover, ashes and potash on sandy soils, improving poor farms with labor and small funds, and suggests diversifying into wood, fisheries, or quarrying. It notes drought relief in Arizona and New Mexico and hints at beef price improvements with better rainfall and cattle shortages.
The article describes Australian landholders like James Tyron with about 2,000,000 acres and 1,000,000 sheep, plus others with 640,000 to 1,214,877 acres. It notes government leases, artesian wells, and the impact of station names on wool prices, contrasting with a Louisiana estate of 1,500,000 acres divided into pasture stations with railway, steamboats, and rice mills.
A humorous Stock Journal anecdote from February 1992 recalls a wife’s push for a pig. A small backyard pig grows to 400 pounds, while dogs disappear and three pigs are expected to yield 800 to 1,000 pounds of pork plus lard and sausage.
A New York Journal writer argues women can profit and beautify farming by pig keeping. Two girls abandon typewriting to raise pigs on a carefully laid out, drained plot with baths, then sell 17 pigs privately for 255 dollars. Advice covers pig breeds, housing, feeding, hygiene, and humane handling, ending with a contrast to gold standards and a call to resist Wall Street.
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