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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Glasgow and Brown in Halifax County Are Successful Farmers, 1903

“Good Farming in Halifax,” from The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, January 13, 1903

Well, Mr. Editor, as I have read in so many letters in The Progressive Farmer about good farming in different parts of the State, I would like for you to know what some of our farmers are doing in old Halifax County. I will mention two of them.

First, Mr. J.E. Glasgow, who started a poor boy with no capital. Now he owns 1,000 or 1,200 acres of good land. It would do any one good to go with Mr. Glasgow over his farm. I went with him to look at his hogs Christmas day. He has 27 head in is low grounds that would have made between 4,000 and 5,000 pounds of pork if killed then, and they were not half done eating up the peas. Mr. Glasgow is a progressive farmer, and makes plenty of everything to eat—he told me that he cleared $7,000 on his farm in 1901, and last year (1902) about $1,000.

Next, Mr. J.D. Brown, who has a one-horse farm. He made 10 bales of cotton, $700 of tobacco sold at bard door, not stripes, 75 bushels of field peas, 100 bushels peanuts, 25 gallons syrup, 30 barrels of corn, 6 stacks of fodder, and of peavine hay he doesn’t know how much. If this escapes the waste basket you will hear from me again.
                --Leonidas, Halifax Co., N.C.

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