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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.
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j Economical prices fc
? want you to save as
Pv in being in business.
C ily budget.
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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
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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
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<E?ONE IN BLOWING ROCK m
IERY THURSDAY? BOONE, N. C.
Bailey's Plurality Over
Simmons Was 67,625
Raleigh.?Returns from the on*
Hundred counties of North Caroline
n Inst Saturday's primary show?-<.
osiah William Bailey to have defeat
:fi Sonntnr FjH^lifold M. Shrill,
or the Democratic nomination ai
Tnited States Senator by 67,62i:
otes, R. C. Maxwell, secretary a!
he State Board of Elections, sure
londay night.
The figures compiled by Mr. iL?.r
/ell are not the official figures ot
he State Board of Elections as thai
mdy will meet later in the week tc
anvass tin* i t turns and announce
he official result of the piimaryi Mr
lax well's figures are to bo present
d to Judge J. Crawford Biggs, the
hairmait, for consideration by the
card.
Complete returns from the one
undred counties gave Bailey 198,807
otes to 131,242 for Simmons anc
L592 for T. L. Estep, "wet" candi
ate
George M. Pritchaid, Asnevilk
Congressman, won the Republican
Senatorial nomination, 22,287 vote?
c 9.098 for George Butler of Clinon,
his nearest opponent, and Irvir
Tucker got 6.277. Rev. Grady
)orsett. the man responsible for the
Republican primary, got 1,532 votes
In the race for Corporation Com
nissioner, George P. Pell, incumbent
early doubled the vote of James H
lolloway, his opponent, when he go!
67,083 votes to Holloway's 86,337.
Only one second race for Congress
kfjn uk held, according to the com
lete unofficial compilation, with
lamilton C. Jones, of Charlotte, anc
Ij. Butwinkle, of Gastonia, fight
tig it out in the Ninth District. Bui
/inkle got 18,203 votes; Jones 17,
77, and A- If. Sams, third candidate
{,161. There will be no second race
or Superior Court judgeships.
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The value
craftsmanshi
the first tw
service empl
operation an
As you dri
will develop
growing rcsf
into it. Fror
make a good
a far-seeing,
Wherever
ami tliis si"
bought a Foi
\ FORT) owner in >
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.
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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 .... , .
J All price* f.o.b
ig places in a contest Sump-rs or.
econd in the Rafaela Vnfven4ac~ii
rst and second in the offer*
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5 REFRESHMENT 0
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Ipjciate a cool, refreshing* drink B
Qor a tasty sundae now and JJ
Z the n. IJ efore > ou choose jr
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Brand notice the prompt ' " 2
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6 BOONE, N. C. Q
rTUJ'LA"'"'STTT.V,""oV t iT
iwp?vnxiAtt.y ov/Mro onac SToncsi^?!]
r*l
ousand
?rials and careful
ic new Ford after
Long, continuous
ty and economy of
nltis and years you:
appearance and a
that lias been buiit
thing that goes to
liat you have made
c praise of the car
ise? "I'm glad I
opciihagen-to-Faris-to-Copen*
gold medals ill England* first
Llie durability test over the
incaes read in Peru, and first
930 reliability run conducted
Automobile Club of Sweden.
:sl was an exceptionally se?
endurance and sturdy conluse
it was held in the dead o?
overed 600 miles of steady
snow-covered country roads
nous hills.
W FORD PRICES
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$435 Coupe . . $495
440 Tudor Sedan 495
....... v>25
ipe ...... t>45
w Fordor Sedan . . 600
Cabriolet .... 625
ietnn - /toe
in 640
660
. Detroit, plut freight and delivery,
id spare tire extra, at low coif.
t Company plan of time paymentm
another Ford economy.
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