Advises Ranting Of
Black Wafamt Trees
The black walnut has been called
the liberty tree because of its unique
value. It grows wild or. once did,
and has been planted ?q every state in
the Union. It ia the moat valuable
tree in the United States, Although
It grows on higher lands it flourishes
on most overflow acres which are of
ten very fertile silt, but cannot be
cultivated because subject to floods.
The primary and secondary black
walnut areas include probably
twenty-flve million acres of such land.
Much of this land is the natural home
of the black walnut which does not
mind an occasional flood. So by
planting black walnut millions of
acres can be reclaimed and made pro
fitable. Since it must be planted why
not plant the best there is? There
are many torts of black walnut now
selected for site, quality, easy
cracking, bearing, and so on. These
sorts are propagated the some as
varieties of apples, cherries or any
other fruit. Growers of Thomas
black walnuts are now receiving $1.8$
a pound for the shelled nut. Wild
nuts bring 7 cents a pound in the
shell. One bushel of nuts of the
named sorts will crack out about ten
pounds of meat, that is at the rate of
$13.50 a bushel. A machine has
been perfected which cracks black
walnuts by power, producing 75 to 95
per cent half kernels. Black walnuts
have many by-products. The husk is
used for tanning, stain, bair dye and
other things. Grafted black walnut
trees have borne seven nuts when
planted only 17 months. Propagated
trees including nut trees, bear much
younger and grow much faster than
seedling trees. For bearing nuts the
trees are set 40 or 50 feet apart to
give large rounded trees. The trunks
grow short and thiek. Propagated
nut trees are expensive to produce
and cost more than fruit trees but
they live longer, fewer are needed
to the acre and they require no spray
ing and vary little prunng and nuts
do not spoil or rot like fruit. So they
are cheaper by the acre. A man in
Iowa says, "black walnut is becoming
a hobby with me and I am advising
young men to plant them on their
beet land and go after the proposi
tion ,os a business scale. There is as
crop' which our test' land can be de
voted to that will pay a better return
for the investment." If this is true
of the best land, what about the mil
lions of acres of swamp overflow land
now of little value in North Carolina.
The main use for black walnut has
always been its valuable wood and
still is. The annual cut is sixty mil
lion board feet. At present about 85
per cent of walnut furniture is made
of American black walnut which is
popular and expensive. A figured or
curly grain black walnut tree is used
for veneers, for panels, furniture,
and cabinet work. Lags of figured
black walnut have realized as much as
$1,200 each to the tree owner. A
method has been discovered by which
this valuable figured tree can be
propagated. This is the first time a
tree has been propagated for the val
uable wood instead of for the fruit
or foliage. The variety has been
named the Glory Figured Walnut
Authorities state that under favorable
conditions black walnut will grow as
much as one inch in diameter of
trunk a year. This for seedling trees,
propagated trees will do better. It is
said that an acre of hardy nut trees
is worth $2,000 at the age of ten
years and is worth eight times as
much when twenty years old. No
one should delay planting black wal
nuts of the varieties now to be had.
There are thousands of acres of
swamp and waste land in Bertie
County that could be planted in such
trees. Many generations would be
benefitted because they will live and
bear for 150 years. Keep this arti
cle and think about it and investigate
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LABOR QUESTION OF
TODAY COMPARED WITH
30 OR 40 YEARS AGO
<By "Old Farmer" Across the Way)
Editor, HERALD:
I will undertake to show to the
majority of the wage careers of to
day the difference between the pres
ent and 80 or 40 years ago, when mar.!
labor was at 40 cents a day, and ex
tra good man at 60 certs a day, and
women from 25 to 30 ce*t-, a day.
They worked from sunrise to sunset.
Let us see what they oeuld buy
with that amount; say one day's
work: meat, 8 to 10 cents per pound,
lard 10 cents, meal 80 ?ents per
bushel, flour 3 to 3% cents a pound,
sugar 6 to 7 cents, syrup and molass
es 25 to 40c, coffee 10 te 15c per
pound, potatoes 60c per bushel, corn
$4 per barrel, peas 75 to 30 cent* a
bushel, fish He each; and there were
other articles in proportion.
Let the wage earners see what
those laborers did. Thev jived and
saved money. How did you know
about what they did in thoeedayu, may
be aoked by many hoboes, sitting
back blowing the smoke from cigars,
with monkey rum on their breath.
Mr. Editor, I was with the boys in
those days, and let me tell you, labor
was to be depended upon; it was first
class. It was labor worth employing,
and, Mr. Editor, again the young man
in that ity and time, or many of
tern, after laying by a good little
purse, decided to settle down, per
haps. Now, one of the first things,
he buys a piece of land and builds
himself a house, and he starts to farm
the first year to get something for
support.
Then he looked for a sweet woman
to share the battles of life. Mr. Edi
tor, he makes this by hard work and
using economy. I have some today
in my mind who are wealthy farmers
and some of thoee did not prefer
farming, went in business and have
done well. I juet speak of the way
young: men did in that day and time
by hard work and economising.
New, Mr. Editor, I will call your
attention to today. The laborer in
this country gets all the way from
$1.50 to $5.00 and quite a bunch of
them do not care to work for that
price. Sir, it was a rare thing for a
young man back in the times I speak
of to be called up before the bar of
justice. Why? Because he was at his
business; he had too much pride to
stoop so low, to be looked down upon.
Please sir, how is it today?
Notice: good wages, yes, oh yes.)
Work? no, not many; they prefer to
loaf. Steal? yes. Get drunk and)
scrap Oh yea It seems that many
had rather live smutty lives?beat
high prices, when they can buy
double and treble more for the day's I
labor than 80 or 40 years ago.
I say, young man go to work. Be
a man and have something. In my
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younger dayi I remember there wu
en old colored men thet eeld white
folk hee ffot something end I went
something, too; end ao he did, by his
honest toil. He worked for it end he
made it. The old man has now gone
on to his reward. He set a good ex
ample for others of his race. Oh,
young men, go to work and mind
your business. I approached a
bunch of young men some time ego,
when I wanted some work done and
needed one or two helpers.
As 1 approached, the first word was
by their spokeeman, "What do you
pay?" I asked them, "how much do
you want?" His reply was, "We do
not went to work." 1 walked on.
Mr. Editor, if labor gets much
worse, sir, solve the problem for us.
Many more will look at the chain
gang. Young men, I say get out and
go to work; be a man. What will
support pride and laziness, when the
old folks pass out from under them
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and they have to go on their own re
source*. I mean both whhe end col
ored. Be men, (or your old mammy**
aake.
Come on, let's go. I am one of the
Old Boys Jost follow me, and you
will do a day's work. I wHI make you
feel good.
We are indebted to Mr. Joseph H. <
Etheridge, of Bertie county, for the
foregoing article. Only a few is
sues back one of the "Old Farmer's" :
letters dealt largely on the advan
tages of planting pecan trees. Both
articles are worthy of serious consid
eration, since the time is here when
forest conservsition, propogation, and
preservation demands immediate at
tention.
Mr. Etheridge has stood in the
forefront of time urging his people to
study the whys and wherefores of
things that pertain to a higher and
better condition of things.
Th? columns of the HERALD are
open to Mr. Etheridge, for ho habit
ually wields an effective pen.?The 1
Editor. '?' jk
EXECUTORS'S NOTICE
Having qualified as executor of the
estate of Berry Joyner, Jr., deceas
ed, late of Hertford County, North
Carolina, this ia to notify all persons
having claims against the estate of
said deceased to exhibit them to the
undersigned at Roxobel, North Caro
lina, on or before the 10th day of
October, 1924, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate payment
This the 10th day of October. 1928.
REV. P. A. BISHOP, Executor
10-19-23-8t of Berry Joyner.
E. R. Tyler, Attorney for Executor.
The HERALD one year for $1.(0.
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