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TENANT FARMING x IN NORTH CAROLINA BY FRANK PARKER North Carolina State Statistician The publicity given to the cenaua reports showing the large percentage of <g>wlesa, hogleea, henless, etc. farm* in North Carolina did not call attention to the fact that of the 270,000 farms in this state, over 43 per cent or 117,469 were tenant fhrms. A tenant farm does not mean an en tire farm but only part of land work-, lad. by him. We realise only too well that the average tenant is a frequent almost annual mover, and does not own much property. The landlord has often found it unprofitable and unwise to famish breeding stock to his tenants. The trouble is that a tenant seldom gives the needed atten tion to the economic breeding and de veloping even of chickens. It is unfortunately true that the average tenant thinks of a landlord as "well-to-do" and overlooks small Total farms in th? state Farms with no cattle ----- With no milk cows , With no hogs Growing no corn - -- Growing no hay or forage Having no garden Growing no sweet potatoes C If farmers, and particularly if ten ants, would utilise their most idle, periods in repairing and painting tools houses etc., instead of letting them trust, rot and fall to pieces, enough would be saved in spring inconven iences and expenses, to permit of more attention to these lacking fea tures during the rush spring and sum * ? MURFREESBORO NEWS i Mrs. Willi* Bunch and two children of Franklin, Va., arrived last week and are guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Babb. Mr. Babb had as week-end guests, Messrs. Stephens and Ander son of Tarboro. Mrs. Laura Blanchard arrived from Woodland Sunday to spend a month with her daughter, Mrs. Walter Fu trell. Mr. And Mrs. G. B. Storey and children from near Ahoslrie were the week-end guests *f the letter's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Whitley. Miss Sarah Vaughan returned home last Friday from a visit to friends in New York City. Mrs. Allie Parham returned home Saturday from Florida where she spent two months with relatives in Cocoa, with frequent visits to other points farther south. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cooke, Mrs. Cooke and two daughters, passing through town Sunday, made a brief stop to see friends here. v - ] Mr. and -Mrs. Luther Joyner of 8evern spent Sunday with Miss Maude Vinson and sisters. Mrs. Sallie Gardner attended one of the features of the Winton graded I school commencement Monday even ing. While there she spent a few hours at the home of her brother, Mr. J. J. Beale. Mrs. Forehand and Mrs. J. D. Babb attended the East Chowan Associa tion which convened in Gatesville on two days of this week. Miss Eddie May Vann left last week for Littleton. Mr. 0. S. Parker attended the com mencement exercises in Winton Mon day evening. ' Mrs. Wallace Sumner and Mrs. Walter Howell of Como, were in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Parker and little son, J. J., Jr., who have been ill, are very much better. Misses Grace and Doric Chetty at tended the graded school finals at Menola last Friday. While there were guests of Miss Janie Parker. Rev. J. W. Whitley, and Mr. C. E. Boyette, went to Norfolk last Wed nesday where they held a business interview with Messrs. Cain and Smith, architect and contractor.' CHOWAN COLLEGE On May 4th the annual reception of the Academy Junior class of Chow an College to the Academy Senior class, was given at 8:30 o'clock in the Alathenian Society Hall. The recep tion?unique in arrangement?was in rainbow colors and everywhere the decorations were minutely carried out ih the seven colors. Over each win dow was a rainbow and at the end of a large rainbow over the door was the alluring "pot of geld." The Juniors wore colored organdie dress es representing rainbows. After a period of music given by Misses Nor man, SpruiH, Lane and McCullen, the guests and hostesses chose partners and entered into a contest, "The Lov ing Princess Rainbow," in which Miss es Ruth Holloman and Monnie Carlyle were winners, but after drawing, Miss Carlyle was the lucky one, and received a box of chocolates present ed by President Vann. All were then invited to explore in I .. .1 leak*. Joat because the owner Uvea in the "Grave" er in town end hae hie own stock, ia no ezcuae for the tenant to become careleaa with bia responsi bilities. Peraonal experiences have indicated that the only way to yet raeulte from live-etoek ia for the care taker to have an in tercet, a money in terest too, in them. Very rarely does a tenant leave a farm with a surplus of stock over that which was furnished him. This ia to argue that it is full time to advo cate ownership interest to tenants. Below is a new table on the subject. Suppose we argue that every owner operating his own farm has all kinds of Uve stock and grows every impor tant crop, as well as a home garden, and lefs put all the shortages on the tenants, not that it belongs there, but to study the reasonable proportions. Considering aU pigless, etc., farms in North Carolina, thq percentage as applied to tenants only would be as shown. From this it will be observed that only the hayless and sweet pota toless farms approach the number of tenants. N All Farms If Tenants Tenants Number Only Per cent 268,768 48.6 48.6 78,967 29.6 67.4 99,669 36.9 84.7 47,768 17.7 46.6 16,787 6.2 14.2 184,424 49.8 114.6 ?44,197 16.4 87.6 132,638 49.1 112.9 mer seasons. Late summer and early fall plowing is better than winter or spring work, yet most of us let up after "laying by" time and put each task off until the last minute, claiming lack of time as an excuse. This is not meant to excuse the many farm owning operators for fail ing to have these things, any more than the tenants. search of luck and behind a screen each found a tiny "pot of gold" with a request that they write on the en closed sheet their heart's desires, be ginnig each word with the first letter of the rainbow's colors. Following the novelistic feature they again chose partners and pro ceded to the dining room where cake, cream and after dinner mints were screed. Around the table placed at right was an artistic arrangement of colon. In the center was a large rainbow-colored umbrella to which was attached riddles rolled in colored strips, one connecting with each plate. The game was, pull your strip and draw a riddle. Miss Topping, the ^eqlor president, who took the lead, asked the riddles. The lucky guesser was entitled to the next pull. This guessing contest afforded considerable fun and amusement, and proceeded while each enjoyed their cake and rainbow cream until the last riddle was drawn. Thus closed a unique and delightful social event. For souvenirs each guest was pre sented with a little "pot of gold*'? found at the foot of the rainbows. The-Seniors present were Elizabeth Topping, Doris Smith, Pauline Saw yer, Maye Pendergraph, Ruth Hollo man, Lethia Carter, Ailine Parker, Margaret Nesbit, Minnie Maye New bold, Monnie Carlyle, Merle Britton and Elizabeth Watson; the Senior "sisters", Sadie Norden and Lilly Per ry. The Juniors were; Lucile Hollo man, Jewell Askew, Page More head, Mary and Winnie Whitley, Ella Maye Parker, Irma and Sarah Vaughan, Mary Spruill, Nannie Pritchard and Ruby Moore. Those of the faculty present were; President Vann, Mrs. Vann, Mrs. Turnley, Misses Parker, Norman, Brett and Lane, and her guest, Miss McCullers. Tuesday evening of last week, an American Indian Operetta, "The Feast of the Red Corn" was given in the College Auditorium by the Chorus Class. On Friday evening of last week the Woodland High School talent pre sented in the Auditorium, a three-act play entitled "As a Woman Thinketh" Monday evening of this week, a lawn party was given on the College lawns by die Academy Senior Class and the class of Home Economics. Miss McCullers of Clayton, N. C.. is die guest of Miss Lane at the col lege. O I SHAW-SHAW The following announcement has been received by the Herald. Mrs. Kat Van Landingham Shaw announces the marriage of her daughter Sue Frances Mr. Jofn Samuel Shaw on Thursday, the fourth of May nineteen hundred and twenty-two Macon, North Carolina At home after May the twentieth, Winton, North, Carolina 0 Build up your ?y?tem and feel flue ell the time by taking; Teniae. C. H. Mitchell. Adv. : ARMENIA NEEDS FOOD Supply It Exhausted, Ameriean Relief Workers Report Oroad I* Mad* Fran alf torts *f tob ?tanc**?Broak-up of Wlntor Ro woals Ttrribl* Condition*? tood Qrain Noodod. New York.?A cablegram wwhe* by Charles V. Vlckrey, general aecre tary of Near East Relief, dated Alsx andropol, tells of how laTeetlgatloa by American relief workers has revealed terrible starvation among refugees and orphans with the break-up of winter in the mountain villages of central Ar menia. Foodstuffs throughout the area are exhausted, the cable says, and con tinues : "Bread is made from ell sorts of substitutes, including flax chaff and, sawdust, having no appreciable food value. The people are extracting un digested materials from old refuse and giving It to the children. Health con ditions are critical. Gastric and in testinal troubles prevail, due to mal nutrition. A large per cent of the people are suffering from skin diseases. One-fourth of the adults are Incapaci tated and bedridden. "In the villages visited there are 1^500 qrphans who should be removed Immediately if they are to live. Bvea in small villages the weekly death list includes ten children. In many villages all children have lost their hair during the winter. Several caaea were so des perate that the people resorted to eat ing human flesh, which practice was sharply punished by the authorities. Officials said they are doing all they can to prevent It, but the people loee their senses from hunger. At Mah maudchuk a family of fifteen persons was visited a month ago. Now only three of the family remain. The dead include all the male members of the family. Great anxiety Is expressed about securing seed and grain for spring planting. The head man of the largest village said: Tf we can secure seed we shall be on our feet by mid summer. If we don't get seed we are doomed to deeth." Near East Belief has sixty American relief administrators, doctors and nurses In this area. During the winter, however, their supplies and resources have bean so reduced that they have been able to do little more than care for the large number of orphans al ready accepted In Institutions, a single orphanage numbering 18,000 children. Secretary Vlekrey declares that not only the lives of the orphaned children this spring, but the food supply for the entire population next winter de pends on the prompt dispatch within the next few weeks of grain for food and eeed from the United States. LAUGHING UON CUB ?: 1 " 1 'i This youngster Is laughing with and at yon. So far as known It la the first time a photo \pts ever been made of a lion cob in the act of laughing. Nature students who have seen the photo say that the cab is not laugh ing but is prepared to go to sleep and Is yawning. The owner of the cub Is Mr*. EL E. Cole of San Francisco. STRADIVARIUS BRINGS $9,000 Makar Racaivad to Franca far K Whan Ha Mada It In 17S8. PuU.?A Stradivari us violin, for which the maker, Antohlua Stradl varloa, received 80 flrancs when he made it at Cremona In 1786, has Just bean sold here for 108,400 franca, In cluding the war tax. This la equiva lent at current rates of exchange to about (8,000. The vfblln was for a long time the property of the late Charles Lamour eux, founder and conductor of the famous Lamoureux orchestra. The recent tests, which seemed to establish that modern-made violins can not be distinguished from ancient ones by their tone, do not seem to have affected the price of ancient Instru ments, If this sale is any criterion. Sent Him a Mule's Hwi Independent*, Mo.?On hli hunting trip Frank Brown got an elk and or dered the head mounted. He waa ex pecting It one day recently, and when g big box arrived by expreaa he pro cored a hatchet, nail poller and der rick and hastened to open It op. The boys gathered around to watch, and when the box waa carefully opened the excelsior and straw removed, there was the head o< a grinning mole with dead Jlmpeon weeds for branching ant lers. These who saw It pronounced It a very flne head of Its kind, and the Joke was iiipliti whan the big am press MB was presented. i Something to | Think About | By F. J. WALKIR THE WRONG KEY ft? THE hapless earthllngs nftt end v themselves hmo and woman, thou sands are wandering hither and thither In life, trying with the wrong keg to unlock the door af tamo, auccaao and honor. It yon win ohaenro doeety, yon will oeo them every hour endeavor lag to force a key Into a lock whlcn stubbornly refuaee to rmnood to the violent twists and tuns of nervous Hnytuy. The man who carries the key which .will open the door to minor places, wHere he la sore of earning an Independent competence, persists In tampering with locks behind whose paneled door there reposes the coveted chair of manager or president, too big tor tils occupancy. Instead of reshaping hie key by hard work and high thinking, filing away the roughness to make It-smooth, he continues foolishly to waste his time and energy, quite oblivious all the while to what he Is really doing. And so it Is frequently with men of talent, too Indifferent or Indolent to do anything but routine work, when Instead they should make use of the key given them by an all-wise Provi dence, unlock the right door, end rise to greatness. If persuaded by reason to do this, they would find opportunity waiting with open arms to receive them, glad to round out their Uvea with happiness and prosperity. Not to all la given supreme wisdom in these matters,*but such as Is be stowed, Is generally hidden away In a napkin and Ignored or forgotten. Thus, when a young man or women In s burst of passion unlocks the door to enmity. Instead of friendship, to evil. Instead of good, It becomes at once apparent that use has been made of the wrong key. Proper Judgment end action, all the exalted things In life. Including faith fulness, honor and virtue, decline to show their shining feces to the carriers of the Improper key. Whet the foolish do with keye en trusted to them to open the world of Hfe, makes wise men and women shnd And yet, when ell has been said, when the story of ltfe has been re vealed from the mora of the tod dling Infant to the night of tottering agt, who shall say that he or she has not at some time or another In his or her folly, need toe wrong keyt (Q?wnrtsht.> rfptigggapook I know t bank whereon the wild UqrM blown Where ox-Upe and the noddlns violet frowe Quito over-canopied with luefa woodbine with aweet muak rosea and with eclaa ?Shakespeare. GOOD THINGS FOR THE FAMILY "C* VERYBODY in the household likes ?*-' cinnamon rolls or cinnamon bona. The following la a reliable recipe: Take one cupful each of milk, water and sugar, two eggs, three-fourths of a capful of shortening, one yeast cake and a teaspoonful of salt Scald the milk and while It la still hot pour It over'the shortening and add the sugar and hot water; when cool add the yeast cake which has been softened In one-half cupful of water, add the salt and enough flour to make a batter which drops from the spoon. Beat It thoroughly and 1st stand In a warm place over night. In the morning add the wen beaten eggs and floor to make a dough which can be kneaded; knead lightly and well, put back into a well buttered bowl and let rise until double its bulk. Separate into two parts and roll out Into a sheet. Spread this with soft butter, tftown sugar, cinnamon and well washed and dried currants. Roll In a long roll and cut the bona In Inch slices. Place them In a pan and est in a warm place to become light. Bake In a moderate oven with a grate under them If there Is danger of burning. If the famOy likes sticky buns put one tablespoonfol of butter, one-half cupful of brown sugar, one-half cup ful of sirup, and one-half cupful of water In a sauce pan and boll until thick. Add currants to It When the buns are baked turn them upside down and spread this mixture evenly over the sides and bottom of the buns. Pimento ChMM Roll*. Roll oat a raised dough like the above cinnamon ban mixture, spread with a layer of softened butter, then with pimento cheese. Roll ap and cat In sUcoe one Inch thick, place cot side* up In a greased pan, let rise until light apd bake In a moderate oven. !? A good finish for a plain raisin cake Is to spread It while hot very gener ously wtth hatter, then sprinkle with a mixture of cinnamon and powdered sugar, using a tea spoonful of cinnamon to one-half capful of sugar?more U desired. *HujUt TvWwtiG. Copyright. lilt. WMNn NurmHr UBte , n The landlords of Bans have fennel | a league for their mutual protection and have pledged themselves to paj no mote taxes nntil certain govern mental restrictions, which are rjgert ? '1 nl 0 Im cigarettes ? ' tlx They are ? Good! M\J Buy this Cigarette and Save Money r City Market Now Open ; We have just opened up a first-class Meat Market and Grocery Store in the old stand formerly occupied by Mrs. Helen Benthall an Main Street. Our market is modern in every detail and our line, of Heavy and Fancy Groceries is complete BELOW WE GIVE YOU A FEW PRICES IN MEATS Western beef, round steak 28c per pound - Country beef, round steak 23c per pound Loin Steak 20c per pound Green Pork Sausage 23c Country sausage 25c per pound Country ham, corned 25c per pound Fresh Ham? 20c per pound Cotton Boll Flour__ 55c for 12 lb. bag OUR PRICES ON GROCERIES WILL PLEASE YOU 0D0M & FARMER Owners maid Proprietors AHOSKIE, N. C. * . 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