I p Jj' JUNE is>. Jr?ao AMERICA LEADS IN MECHANICAL TOOL! ON ITS FARM LAND! More Power in Use Per Worker Tha in Factories. Animal Power Aiv a Big Factor. 50,000.000 Horse 8 power Being Used for Soii Tilling Still Plenty of Work for Huron Hands. By CALEB JOMWSON Let us think for a minute of favn, ing in terms of power. Animal power as well as meehaw eal power. (Farming without power is aapoa inconceivable to ihe American mint Yet in Italy today there is only on louse to every five farm workers At the beginning of the World Win when the use of animals on Ameri can farms was at its peak, we ha more than t\\?? horses for every ma employed in farm labor; Great Brit ain had less than one horse pel man Germany one horse for each tw< farm hands, France one horse to ev ?ery three laborers. Power on the farm, then, is noth ing new in America. It is the secre l of our greater farm prosperity. Am I in introducing mechanical power oi the farm we are still leading Europi (and the rest of the world. In the form of tractors and othe jrtMVfi-umen macnmery we na? mor than two horsepower per worker 01 the farms in 1900. thirty years ago In manufacturing industry less pow or was in use per worker than on tn farm. The same proportion obtained dov.i to 1925. It is only in the past fivy-ears that workers in industry hav. had more mechanical power per niai their disposal than workers on th? farm. Now the average workers 01 industry uses about five Horsepower while* the average farm worker ha at his command only slightly less ii mechanical power and more than thi equivalent or two mechanical horse power in the form of animal power. And the greatest increase in thi use of power, if the present tendon cy is a fair indication, wiH be oi the farm. The horses and mules an being replaced by engines much movi powerful than the animals are. AH of that means that the farn output per person employed in lain work is steadily larger. Few er men are needed to produce ant transport to market the same a mo on vf foodstuffs or other agricultuva commodities. 9 ;/our Home Chain Grt ' P 5 Ly/loney open j Economical prices fc ? want you to save as Pv in being in business. C ily budget. 1FLOU1 Daniel Boone COFFEE Pound 25 BLUE RIBBO MUSHROOMS, Fa SHRIMP, Dunbar's GORTON'Si REDI-RAHON E ROSES. 3 r?n? fn* _____ 2 LARGE RIPE TOM ft EXTRA LARGE Li 1 LARGE CALIF. CJ 2 CAROINA STC M THREE STORES IN WATAl i { I This increase in farm productivity \ has 1 een going on for a hundred |years. In 1S:>0 it, took the labor of Jjthiee-quavters of the people of the j j United States to grow the commodi-j ^ jties necessary to feed and clothe! w themselves, and the rest of the pop-! jjulation. By 1900. through the addi! tion to the farm equipment of more | horses and of mechanical power-? a driver, implements, we had reached! ? a stage of efficiency which required the work of not more than fcur* tenths of the whole population to 1 feed and clothe us all. . This year's census is not complete, hut it seems certain that it will show that not more than a quarter of the entire population of the United States is actually engaged in farm work: " and the continuing increase in power equipment may, and probably will, reduce this proportion to 15 per cent. '* in the course of another ton years? That is what the statistical experts figure?that e\entually we shall ' reach such a stage of agricultural ef^Jjficiency that only 15 per cent, of the c, peopie will be required to grow all '* of the crops and livestock which the entire 100 per cent of the people '* consume. The present volume of power in use on the farms of America is estimated a; 50,000.000 horsepower. This is divided among nearly 25,I. 000,000 separate units, of which r horses and mules still comprise the larger proportion. But in addition to " some 18,000,000 work animals there I art. io n*n 8^3 llftil * - ... V.VK ,/TOf,VVU JLC.tlll nawiuii, I . C>I?T?300 trucks?the farm job is in: I very large part a transportation job i |?? .-50,0 nan Atationacv tras engines, ! !j 1,000,000 windmills, 300.000 Individ~|ual electric plants and 500,000 cen1 I trai station electric installations. ^ I Those figures do hot include nearly 1 J 5,000,000 passenger automobiles, as Ithey are not primarily production ^ | machines. L, j There will always be plenty of -j work for human beings to do in farming. Few machines run themselves; s I few of the kind that can run them\ selves can do the varied things which e must be done on the farm. So in _ machine tending alone there will always be the need of human labor, ? though not so much in proportion to . the work done as is needed to take n care of the horses and mules which , mechanical-electric power is displacl ing. There will always be farms on which horses or mules will do most ^ j of the work, farms where power from 1 other sources cannot be used eco. uoinically. j It does not follow, however, that x even small farms cannot be largely \ operated more efficiently by the aid of mechanical power. There is a ? -WVW LT LI ISA ST! BLUE FRONT STORE* it in CAROLINA STORES . >r quality merchandise is in you spend. Otherwise we i We pride ourselves in beim FftThe Famous Laurel Va W 0-4 1 I ? 4.t pounas All Five-Cent CANDY BARS c 3 for 10c N MALT ncy Four-Ounce Cans Fancy SALAD FISH ' KXJFOOD ROSED rtiP" - ^oc j Large No. i IATOES, 3 pounds for . . . EMONS, per dozen VNTELOPES, Each >RES OWNED BY CAR JGA COUNTY TWO IN BOOr THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?E> : great deal of talk about the "farm J of the future" as a great area operated like a factory, with workers employed by the operating corporation Ion an eight-hour day schedule, living in town and motoring out to their jobs every morning. Hf } Beyond doubt there will be a good j deal more of that kind of farming j m the luiufc than there is now, and ( there is quite a bit of it now. But f it will be confined to a few specially I favored areas and a few staple crops- \ And it will come very far from satis- t fying the vast majority of those who 3 now live on their farms, to whom farming is something more than a v means of livelihood but rather, as { President Hoover phrased it, a mode ? of living, which appeals to thern c more strongly than any other mode J of living. 3 Perhaps the greatest value, after * all, in the increasing use of power on c the farm is in the domestic appliea- ? lion which make this mode of living so much easier and more comforta- ^ blf?. for the farmer's family as well v as for the farmer hmiself. than life 2 on the farm used to be. d GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS t BUYS AFTERNOON PAPER 5 Greensboro, N. C. ? The Greens- jboro Daily News Saturday acquired ? control of the Greensboro Daily Rec- ? ord, afternoon newspaper, and the ? two will be merged into one business organization, with separate editorial J and news staffs. For the next few ^ days the Record will be published ? from its present location, Greene j Street, after which such of the physiieai plant am! equipment as will be * inquired in tne publication of the {1 two newspapers will be moved to the i Daily News building, Gaston and Da- / vie streets, where both papers will j| be published. v In the merger of the two proper- 5 ties the present officials of the News 2 company will be in absolute control f of both newspapers. Both papers will continue their respective editorial policies and will be published under their preset names, the merger being in the nature of a pooling of business interests so that numerous economies in management may be effected Old T-ady : If you really want wo-, L, Farmer Gray wants a right hand man. Tramp: Just my luck, lady, I'm left-banded. JULY 4th "SWING HIGH" e Save You Money s ggSJt Stays at j/ome 1| j itentional with us. We V vould not be justified \ a friend of your fam- % , y 89c | Parsons Household A AMMONIA fl Per bottle 14c ) Pound: 69c | 36c 1) 19c || EN OUNCES 14C I >ALE APRICOTS | 2 1-2 Can 25c 2 25c | 30c 1 OL1NA PEOPLE! % 13,000-mile trip acre and bark in sixty da; was extremely ccouon fortable and speedy.' (ells bow the Triples windshield saved his from serious injury. To test tires, a larj new Ford day and nig 500 miles every twent still giving satisfac 105,000 miles. A Ford car that ha Lake was submerged fore being raised. Afl carburetor bowl were i back to Spokane unde Many police depar of the special advant crowded traffic becau acceleration, and cam creasing number of f purchasing the Ford figures have given co: economy of operatioi In addition to im] Germany, France and six out of seven leadii in Finland, first and s races in Argentina, fii Fo j OKLAHOMA COUPLE EI^JOY WATAUGA NEWSPAPER! 'I Mavli O:. ahoin:', I Juiil- l.;. i.'.iu. j Air.-. K. (A Rivers. ,! Editor \\ ataujfu Democrat, " j Dear Sir: '! Please find enclosed money order 1 to put me over ami one year ahead. "I The paper is like a ray of sunshine j ** my nwd T. Wi are Watau* leans?once a Tar Heel, always 5 .! Tar Heel. Send the paper on and : obtijre. Respcetful'v yours, G. I. WINKLER. ; | Dr. C. B. Bau^hman, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist, Johnson City, Tcnn., will be in the office of ' Dr. J. Hagaman in Boone, on the j first Monday in each month tor the . | practice of his profession. 10-17-tf 1 NOTICE OK DEMOCRATIC COUNIY CONVENTION The Democrats of Watauga Ceun| ty are hereby called to meet in con5 vention at the courthouse in Boone on Saturday, June 28, 1931), at 2 | p. m. for the purpose of electing delegates to the State Convention, which ! will be held iii Raleigh on Thursday, July 3, 1930. The township chairmen will call > a meeting for each precinct to be held on Saturday, June 21, 1930, at 2 p. m. for the purpose of electing! delegates to the County Convention j ; and Precinct Committees. fjciv.ii piec.net io entitled to cue 1 vote in the county convention for each 25 votes and one vote for fractions over 12 Democratic votes ca?t " by the precinct for Governor at the " last election. - . This June 9, 1930. J. L. WILSON, Chairman, Democratic Executive Committee Vfter the Ft ity-fiee T#t utiles of sound design, good mat p is especially apparent in ll enty-five thousand miles. 1 lasizes its mechanical reliabilil d up-keep. ive the Ford through many 1110 an increasing pride in its >ect for ilic substantial worth n every standpoint?in ever) automobile ? you will know I satisfactory purchase, you go, you liear enthusiast! ;iiificaiit, oft-repeated phro d." ' tew York telJs of a run from C iaa tlio Tlnltod Q|aI?= ' ? ? ?< ?_ utigcti) uirur r's and says "tlie car ranking in 1 lical to operate, com- tortuous Am: " A grateful father place in the 1 : shatter-proof glass by the Royal wife and children This conti vere test of company drove a struction bee: lit, for an average of winter and t y-four hours. It was running over :tory service after and mounlaii d fallen into Feman for twelve days facer a new battery and retailed, it was driven NEw ? :r its own power. tments have written Roadster . ages of the Ford in Phaeton se of its alert speed. Sport Coupe s of control. An in- De Luxe Coo leet owners are also Three-windoi because their cost Convertible ( oclusive proof of its De Luxe Pha t and up-keep. De Luxe Scdi >oriant triumphs in Town Sedan I Italy, the Ford won .... , . 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