PAGE EIGHT
Rough Ginning W
Cotton May Reduce
Income To Farmers
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Overman Points Out
Importance To Obtain
Greencard Class
Chowan county cotton farmers who
want to keep up with the marketing
picture can receive the market news
service and official classing of their
cotton again this year from the U.
S. Department of Agriculture’s Cot
ton Branch, C. W. Overman, county
agent for the State College Exten
sion Service, said this week.
“Growers,” he declared, “will find
it to their advantage to get an offi
cial government classing on each bale
as it is ginned. The USD A ‘green
card’ classing not only shows the
grade and staple length of each bale,
but tells both ginner and producer
when a bale has been reduced in
grade because of rough ginning prepa
ration.”
Turning again, to the problem of
rough ginning preparation, County
Agent Overman pointed out that it
may result from either hauling ex
cessively damp, wet, or green seed ■
cotton to the gin, or Lfi improper j
operation of ginning machinery. ]
Roughly ginned cotton, he said, may
reduce the market value of a bale as *
much as from sls to $35.
The county agent pointed out that
the higher the prices for average 1
qualities of cotton, the greater prem- 1
iums the higher grades and longer |
staple lengths should bring. Farm- '
ers who have their samples classed, 1
he explained, should be in a favor- i
able bargaining position when mar- j
keting their cotton, since they will ‘
know the official grade and staple
length of each bale, and—with mar- ;
kets news service—how much it 1
should bring.
With the high prices prevailing this 1
season, farmers are selling much of ’
their cotton soon after ginning. How- ■
ever, Mr. Overman pointed out, farm- ;
ers will find it to their advantage to :
obtain an official government class on
each bale, even though they sell it im
mediately after it is ginned—first, to ;
serve as a check on each sale made,
and second, to give them an official
record on each bale.
Pointing out the value and import- <
ance of USDA’s “green card” class
ing, County Agent Overman explain
ed that the official classing record
will show the grower how uniform |
his staple lengths are, thus giving him j
a check on the performance of his |
planting seed. When staple lengths of
any of the usual varieties grown in
Chowan County fall below one inch,
it’s an indication that planting seed
need to be replaced, he pointed out.
The chief function of USDA’s class
ing and market news service, he de
clared, is to assist farmers in obtain
ing the full market value of their cot
ton.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Hobbs, Jr., an
nounce the birth of a son, John Cour
tenay, born Sunday, September 24th,
at Chowan Hospital.
Pirates In Petticoats
(Continued From Page Five)
jugation, and she would brook no in
terference with anyone she felt affec
tion for. In her own words she says,
“When love enters the breast, it stirs
the heart up to the most noble ac
tions.”
At this time, Captain iWoodes
Rogers was sent out to New Provi
dence Island, in the Bahamas, to of
fer a Royal Pardon to any and all
pirates who would give up piracy and
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Answer to Question No. 1:
1. It’s high blood pressure and
Is most often due to hardening
of the arteries. Old rules of
thumb for determining whether
your pressure is high, low or
normal (for instance, that nor
mal pressure should equal age
plus 100) don’t mean anything.
Let your physician decide
whether yours is normal or not.
Answer to Question No. 2:
2. One set of twins is born in
about every 87 births. If there
is a history of twins in your fam
ily your chances go up slightly.
About three-fourths of all twins
lead an honest life. Captain Rack- 1
ham and his crew accepted the Royal 1
Pardon, but finding it hard to settle
down they soon took to sea again, \
Mary and Anne with them. ,
While serving with Captain Rack- <
ham, Mary and Anne learned well .
the art of handling a sword and pis- :
tol, and earned a reputation for ruth- 1
lessness. Mary was the less cruel of <
the two women; Anne the most san- ]
guinary. Mary would have preferred ■
the domesticity of a life ashore; Anne i
loved the life of a freebooter.
The “big four” among Carolina pir- 1
ates were Edward Teach or Black
beard; Stede Bonnet, the pseudo- ;
seaman but excellent swordsman;
Mary Read and Anne Bonney. Anne ,
was at one time closely associated ■
with Stede Bonnet, but whether the
alliance had permanent developments,
history does not definitely relate.
Inevitably though, the road of pir
acy leads to death by the sword or
pistol ball, or apprehension by the au
thorities and imprisonment or death
by hanging. And it was inevitable
that Calico Jack Rackham would
eventually reach the end of his rope.
Rackham’s ship was taken by a Brit
ish sloop sent out by the Governor
of Jamaica, and Rockham, Mary and
I Anne and all who were not killed
( were taken to Jago de la Vega in
I irons, there to await trial. Some his
torians maintain that they were taken
to England for trial, but on this point
they are a little obscure.
An incident in the taking of Rack
ham’s ship exemplifies the courage
and determination of Mary Read and
Anne Bonney. When attached, the
crew, including Rackham, ran below
decks and refused to fight, Mary and
Anne, snatching cutlasses, rushed to
the hatchways and shouted to the
craven pirates to come up and repel
boarders and help to defend the ship.
But their brave attempt to rally the
crew proved futile.
Later, when Rackham was standing
n the dock awaiting his sentence to
death, Anne remarked, “If he had|
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are “fraternal.” They may be
boy and girl or of the same sex
and may or may not resemble
each other. “Identical” twins are
nearly alike in appearance and
are always of the same sex.
Answer to Question No. 3:
3. Overweight of 25 per cent
or more raises the death rate in
every adult age group by 74 per
cent Doctors and nutritionists
generally agree that overeating
and eating the wrong foods,
rather than heredity or gland
ular troubles are by far the most
frequent causes of overweight.
Consult your doctor about what
to eat and what not to eat
fought like a man, he would not now
be waiting to be hung like a dog.”
Although this remark has some jus
tification in fact, it is a revealing
commentary on Anne Bonney’s true
character. Where Mary’3 was warm,
Anne’s was cold. Anne was cruel and
ruthless by nature and had nothing
but utter contempt for cowardice. She
could not retain her loyalty, even for
her husband, when he displayed this
trait and joined his crew in ignomini
ous flight.' Mary Read would have
remained loyal, and stood by him,
come what may.
Calico Jack Rackham, Mary Read
and Anne Bonney were all three found
guilty of piracy and sentenced to
death by hanging. They were con
victed on November 23, 1720, But
Mary died of fever soon after her con-
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viction, induced probably by her im
prisonment. Anne Bonney, such are
the vagaries of justice, was later re
prieved and finally pardoned. From
that moment, Anne Bonney disappear
ed from the piratical scene, the last
of the great women pirates.
Anne Bonney was born in Cork,
Ireland, the illegitimate daughter of
a lawyer. When she was quite young
her father immigrated to Carolina.
There, on a plantation, Anne Bonney
spent her childhood. She was a fiery
tempered, impetuous, beautiful girl.
Her uncontrollable temper got her
into many a scrape, but her beauty
got her into worse ones. When still
a very young girl, Anne married a
sailor, but her father who had a tem
per too, violently disapproved and
turned her out of doors. The fiery
tempered Anne followed her husband
to sea, where they eventually ar
rived at New Providence. By this
time, she was tired of her humdrum,
commonplace husband, and yearned
for one more romantic and glamor
ous. At New Providence, where col
orful and daring pirates collected,
Anne found what She was looking for.
She met the dashing, and handsome
Captain Rackham, one of the most
famous and notorious of the pirates
who frequented New Providence.
The affection of Anne for Rackham
was mutual. Anne deserted her sailor
husband and promptly married the
more attractive Rackham. She donned
male attire, strapped on a cutlass and
pistol, and sailed away with her new
husband on his piratical forays.
It was then Anne met Mary Read.
From that point on, insofar as it
pertains to piracy, Anne Bonney’s
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l Ann was not as well known as Mary
Read and Anne Bonney, but she was
contemporary with them, and at one
! time a consort of the famous, or in
; famous, Blackbeard.
(Mary Ann, if she lived in the pres
’ ent century, would be known as the
“strip-tease” pirate; for she staged
an 18th century version of the “fan
1 dance” on the deck of her ship when
approaching her quarry, in the ap-
I proved Gypsy Rose Lee style.
With this strip-technique, Mary
Ann lured many a ship to its destruc-
I tion. When the ogling sailors awoke
to reality, they had sailed closer to
I Mary 'Ann’s pirate craft than dis
cretion would warrant; and before
j they were aware, her guns were blaz
ing, boarding lines thrown out, and
j they found themselves captive of the
audacious Mary Ann. Caught in this
siren trap few ships escaped.
But Mary Ann did not always re
' main a pirate, having brains as well
|as beauty. She amassed a fortune,
' quit the pirate business, and settled
’ down to the life of a housewife with
a Spanish sailor, whom she had mar:
ried. And she must have lived happi
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