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State Forester Begins A Campaign To Plant One Million Pec^n Trees "Old Farm*", Feature Writer for the HERALD, Has Offer ed This Suggestion Upon Several Occasions, and Is Leader In The Thought Which Is Now Being Put Into Action "Old Parmer" has scored another touchdown. This time is has to do with his suggestion that pecan trees be planted along the highways in this county, and also as shade trees for the home. He has uppn several oc casions suggested an extensive cam paign in that direction, and is per sistent in his belief that it will be a great boon to the county. Our feature writer has already learned of the great program of a "Million Pecan Trees in 4 Years", which has been recently mapped out by the Extension Division of the North Carolina State College, as he makes mention of it in his writings for this week. For those who are not familiar with the recently inaug urated program, the HERALD gives the following account recently pub lished "One million pecan trees in east ern North Caroline within four years is the goal of a campaign started by the agricultural forces of the State last week. The Extension Division of North Carolina State College and the Department of-Agriculture is foster ing the campaign, according to H. M. Curran, forester of the division, and co-operating with the Extension workers are the various county farm agents. "Mr. Curran, with the assistance of W.- N. Roper, of Petersburg, Va., an experienced pecan grower famil iar with all phases of pecan culture and handling, have direct supervision over the campaign. "Mr. Curran has announced a plan by Which he hopes the goal of the campaign will be reached. The plan is to secure 25 men in each county who will agree to plant 100 pecan trees each year for.the four years, and to give all possible assistance to these'men. "Our plan i? for the local county agent to secure the names of those people interested in planting trees and these men will be visited by Mr. Roper, who will give advice and suggestions as to bow the planting may be done, where the trees may be secured and the prices that should be paid for the stock," explained the forester. 'We have secured reduced priees for orders placed during the campaign and Mr. Roper will give the matter particular attention. We will encourage the planting of such varieties as the Stuart, Schley, Alley and Success, which have been tested in eastern North Carolina over a period of 15 years by the Division if Horticulture, and hav# been found ideally suited for soil conditions in this section.' "Mr. Roper, Mr. Curran aeld, will assist in securing and distributing planting stock. A county agent or Some specialist of the Extension Division will assist the fanners In selecting lands suitable for the plant ings and will visit the groves after the trees have been planted. "If the plan of establishing hun dreds of pecan groves in Eastern Carolina with over 1,080,000 trees is ; materialised, it will mean practically a new product for the State and an additional agricultural Income of thousands of dollars. "Later on, Mr. Curran said in speaking of the campaign, it is hoped to establish a Virginian-Carolina Pecan Growers Association for the purpose of handling the distribution of the nuts in the best way. * One of the large commercial growers, he said, already has expressed his will ingness to enter such an organisation and a number of other smaller plant ers are heartily endorsing the idea. "The present campaign, which will be waged intensively for several months, has the approval, it was anl pounced by Director B. W. Kilgore, Of the North Carolina Experiment Station and Extension Service. The Division of Horticulture, it was add ed, will assist in it. "Mr. Roper and Forester Curran now are visiting various eastern counties in the interests of the cam paign." mind went astray Profesor Noaiot was a very absent mipded man. One morning he drift ed into the barber's to be shaved. Af ter the operation he continued to occupy the chair and the barber, thinking he had dosed off gently re minded him by saying: "Asleep sir?" The professor started, "Bless me, no!" he exclaimed. "I am not asleep but I am terribly short-eighted. When I took my glasses off I. was no longer able to see myself in the mir ror opposite and quitp naturally I supposed I had already gone home." DUI FARMER" TAKING ABOUT MOONLIGHT LOVE ' * * We fcad four Indian Summer day* thl? week and the way we clodhop per* got stuff oaten the field was a sight, fer it was a real pleasure to ?nap corn and drive a wagon down the row and see it fill up the body good and quick and watch the mules nib ble at the corn stalks as they stop at the corn pile. I've just been out In the open air this week a drinkin' my lungs full of the delicious ozone that's in the air and I feel like I could janj by jump up and kick my heels to gether. You know folk* has a way of sarin' when we have a few real pleasant days in the fall o' the year that it must be Indian Summer, just like they're guessin' 'bout it. Listen folks: When October comes we has Indian Summers off and on till jam by Christmas, fer there aint no set time fer Indian summer after the Harvest Moon, for every spell of pretty weather is Indian Summer. And in ear Southland and especially in Eastern Carolina aint the Indian Summers beautiful and pleasant. I sometimes think it's autumn flingin' back a kiss at spring. ? The Harvest, Moon, is when the moon is nigh its full at the time of harvest, or 'bout the autumnal equi nox, when it rises at nearly Hie same hour fer several days owing to the small angle of the ecliptic and the moon's orbit; then's when nights takes me back to my courtin* days when we young bucks would arrange some sorter meetins' in the nabor hood and walk home with the buck som lassies and they were just as sweet as lassies too. You know there's somethin' 'bout a pretty moonlight that when the "young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." It just penrs like the occa sion demands it In the cool moon light of memory, I recall as I Write, that one Sunday night I brushed up my Sunday-gorto-meetin' clothes and give my shoes a extra brush over and went to take a young lady to church in the town which I will eall W. From her home ter the church was a good long ways, Oh Well! I'd say three quarters of a mile and let me you the moon was in her glory that night an dthe winds like gentle zephers kissed her cheeks and as we walked and talked we came up ter the church, and I says ter her "this is too pretty a might to be shut up in a church, fer I feel like I wanter live in this moon light" and I proposed that we just stroll on around the church block and up the next street parellkl with the one we came and she raised no ob jections and we strolled on in our snail like pace and back ter her house and I just had ter tell her as we walk ed along how good and pretty she was and she said that the romantic moon light was bavin* He effect on me and of course it was, fer "The queen of night asserts her silent reign." Golly, the years have rolled be tween that night and now, fer some years after that night I married my dear old woman and then something like three years afterwards this young lady married. I was over in 'Hoakie town last spring, I think it was, and went to the depot and met her son, who is a stalwart and fine feller and he has the right ter be fer his mother was a sweet and splendid woman and his father was a capital feller, who died while hie eewwas a wee bit df a baby in Ms mother's arms. He told me that his mother was then living in the Cashie Neck and if she should happen by chance ter see Old Farm er's letter next week, she'll even know Ms middle name. Memories! Memories! Memories! That feller Tom Moore had lots-and cords of memories and wrote some of the best lines that was ever printed on his memories, in Loves of the Angels he wrote: "Through the shadowy past. Like a tomb-searcher, memory ran, Lifting each 'shroud that time had cast O'er buried hopes." And then he got ter tMnMn' of the bygone days and wrote: Long, long be my heart with such memories ftll'ed! Like the vase in which roses have once been distell'd, You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling I' round it still. ' And ol Tom was dwellin' on the past when he penned these lines: | Let fate do ,her worst} there art moments of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy; Which come in the night-time of sor row and care, And bring back the featurae that joy ? ? i- ^ -c UMd to WMT. And don't yon think the Irish poet wm' boot right when he wrote: When time, which steels our years sway, . Shell steal our pleasures too. The memory of the pest will stay, And half our joy renew. When I begun ter write this week I didn't intend ter write a ' thing 'bout things gone by but intended writin* along a different line, but I happened ter git on this subject and took up all the space that I oughter this week but I am glad ter notice in Jim's Raleigh paper last week that the agricultural officers of the state is puttin' on a campaign ter have a million pecan trees >ot out in Eastern Carolina within the next four year. This work is ter be handled through the Farm Demonstrators of each county, and here's Hertford county without any demonstrator. Well, Hertford county 'just aint a-gwine ter stand fer no such business. We just aint a-gwine tor be the cow-tail county of the state. The commission ers are the guardians of the county and let 'em Wi to it that we aint fer no such thing. All this tomfoolery is costln' us money. , * ' The lightening bog is a pretty thing, But it hatat got no mind, It just goes bussin' 'bout With its headlight on behind. Hertford commissioners can't af ford ter git in lightening bug poetry, but if they don't watch they'll be in it and it won't have a pretty tune to it either. Don't forgit ter have the Office Cat at Winton next first Mon day and make a record of how each one.votes on that ont-of-the-county lawyer-business. And listen: The member that votes fer the county ter pay them fees 'bout that school dis trict business oughter ter hand in his resignation the next minute. Old Farmer won't say why, because yon know why. OLD FARMER. November 24, 1023. "Biting" Retort "I like cheerfulness. I admire any one who sings at his work." "How you must love a mosquito." Clarence Perry's idea of a pluto crat is a man who has enough differ ent hefts of underwear to meet the daily changes of the weather. Never , neglect a cough PJT an end t s ic c.nc- with Dr. Bell's Bine- far. Honey.1 Loosens harJ.pnctaci shlifm, soothes lt?ll?Tn-'i-i^sU' ? .. stores norma! broth..I'. ,i. I tho same rnedici cs yct? - \ -J?r?rr? prescribes, canA.ir.e.1 wmi the cood old f-r.ndty?' pifie- ttr honey. - You'll like its t?Me, too. Keep Dr. ?>.::* c. l-i-.d fc- l.I the family. Ml druggists. Be surj re ge: the genuine DR. BELL'S 'Pine-Tar Honey ?:? I Weak J | Back I Mn. Mildred Plplfe of I I R.P.D. 8, Cohunbit, Tone.. I Sj Cardui has covered a number at H I yean. Nineteen yearn ago... I I was run-down and to weekend I I nervous I had to itay tabed. I l l read oi CARDUI ?M ? ?' v Tin Woman's Ink I tad sent |or it 1 took only ooe I I bottle at that time, and it helped I I toe; teemed to atraugthen and I II buOd me right up. So that la || | bow 1 Brat kaew of Cardid. Br | After that ?. ? when I began to K| | get weak and 'no account*, 1 I || tent right for Cardni, and It fl | never failed to help me." If you are weak and suffering B | from womanly ailments, Cardui I gS may be Just what you need. ! | Take Cardui. It has helped H I thousands, and ought .to help I IBBB^nESSEESBBll FARM NOTES Lime and bumui era again proving * good combination in improving crop yields. An Iredell farmer has just found' that it pays with corn. Tom Tarheel says: The farmers of this State have caught the spirit of the new North Carolina. Henceforth, they will be torch bearers in the pa geant of progress. NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST . By virtue of the power and authority given by a certain deed of trust, executed by R. N. Nickens and wife, Irene Nickens, J. A. Copeland and wife Millie H. Copeland to Jno. E. Vann, Trustee which is recorded in the office of the Register of deeds for the county of Hertford, in book 66, page SI, the following property will be sold at public aution, vis: Two lots in the Town of Winton, N. C., beginning on Hill street at Mrs. Bettie Majette's line, thence an eas terly course along said Majette's line I 100 yards to the Faison line, thence a northerly course along said Faison line 60 yeards to a supposed cross | street; thence westerly course a straight Hne 100 yards to HOI street; thence along said strest a southerly course 60 yards to first station. Said lots lie side by side and known as the late A. J. Pearce's gin and saw mill'lots. The saw mill, engine and boiler, saws, belting, shafting and all other saw mill machinery and fix tures, together with the cotton gin, press, scales and all other fixtures connected with said gin. Second: A tract of land bounded I en the north and west by the lands of the late Harriet Downes, on the south by the lands of the late C. D. Nickens, and on the east by the lands of the Cofield Manufacturing Co., and J. P. Jones, contaning 6 acres, more or less, and known as a part of the J. H. Nickens land. ? Third: A lot in the village of Co field, N. C., beginning at a corner in the Ahoskie road; a corner for the heirs of the late J. H. Doughtie; thence along said road S. 34 8-4 W. 9E feet to corner for C. D. Nickens; thence with said Nickens line, N. 66; i W. 272 feet to right of way of the " Atlantic Coast Line R. R. Co; thence 1 along said right of way N. 64; E. 100 feet to corner for Doughtie; thence with Doughtie line S. 66 238 foet to the beginning. Place of sale?Courthouse door, Winton, North Carolina. Time of sale?December 10, 1923. Terms of sale?Cash. This November 1, 1928. ll-9-4t JNO. E. VANN, Trustee. , . ,11 "" 1 ?? i Baked At Home Instead of adding to the fortunes of the fellow away from your home town, Drop in the Home Bakery, and select what you want, right hot from the oven. We bake it here, and let's eat ft Here. We invite your patronage. e HOT BREAD TASTY CAKES LADY FINGERS HOT ROLLS NOVELTY CAKES MACAROONS We make them to your order, for all regular and spe cial occasions. Once tried always bought here; Try It. * THE DAISY BAKERY AHOSKIE, N. C. ? ?? ? j ===? RYE May be sown any time this side of Christmas. At the very low price seed rye is now selling every available acre should be seeded to give it a winter covering. Also furnishes good winter grazing and an excellent coat of manure to turn under for spring planted crops. 'V'.. V ? '' \ Our price only $1.10 per bushel in 2 1-2 bu. bags or $1.00 per bushel in 10 bushel lots i Send cash with order, please Pinner & Co., Inc. SEEDSMEN # SUFFOLK, : # * VIRGINIA i CANCERS SUCCESSFULLY TREATED AT THE KELLAM HOSPITAL The Kellsm Hospital treats successfully Cancers,' Tumors, Ulcers, X-Ray Barns, and Chronic Sores without the use of the knife, X-Bay, Radium, Acids, or Serum, and we have treated successfully over 90 per cent of the many hundreds of sufferers treated during the past twenty-three years. KELLAM HOSPITAL, Ine. 1617 West Mala Street. Rlehseeed, Vs. OUR COMMERCIAL PRINTING IS DONE WITH LATEST MACHINERY, NEW TYPE, AND SKILLED WORKMEN We rejoice with our people that a great Nation turns from its tasks, today, I to render solemit tribute to The Maker of All Things, for the abundance of His B goodness. We are thankful for citizenship among a Christian people. H Looking backward, on this day, we leap the bridge of time which spans Ml today with the years gone by. We stand, and reverently clasp hands with our finj sturdy old forefathers, and see, as they saw, North Carolina, a virgin soil. We EH see the privations and hardships they endured, strengthened only by their faith gjj in Him to whom we return thanks today. ESI We see them on the shell-torn fields of two great wars, and we are grateful {9! I for the stalwart manhood which has been handed down to our great State. As we look about us, on this Thanksgiving Day,, and see the golden peace B and plenty flowing from the crucible of other days, there comes to us the thought I that we, ourselves, are but pioneers for those who are yet to come, blazing the trail toward lasting peace and greater prosperity. We are thankful that it is our privilege to work with our people, and con- * I m tribute our part toward the advancement of a great State. And with the con- ? I sciousness of the important part we must play; comes a new determination to try ?B to play it better that the threads in the warp and woof of time's loom shall re H main unbroklh and unmarred by any act of our, and the finished cloth shall be I a perfect pattern?a greater North Carolina. I RANK OF AHOSK1E I I "THE OLD RELIABLE" I I AHOSKIE, N. C. jg
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