TAX LISTERS
Attention!
Under the new law the date for listing property for
taxation has been changed from May 1st to April 1st.
The list takers will be ready in each township on the
first day of April and each day throughout the month
at the usual places to take the lists of the property in
Franklin County.
All persons subject to list property for taxation are
urged to attend to this matter at once and save trouble
and expense both to yourself and your County.
GEO. L. COOKE,
Accountant and Tax Supervisor.
-FRANKLIN COUNTY - ?T?
HAPPY FEET!
Put ''Twinkie Shoes" on the
children and let their feet
grow Natures way.
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"Twinkie Shoes for
Happy Feet"
Wright Clothing & Dry Goods Co.
BUNN, North Carolina
AFTER MARCH 15th
I will be located at Howell
Storage House with a full line
Fertilizer, Nitrate Soda, Oats
Hay, and Cotton Seed Hulls
and Meal. Also complete
line of Roofing.
Will appreciate your patronage and will try to
SAVE YOU MONEY
A. W. PERRY
Cotton Seed?Coker's Extra Cleveland
mil Inch to 1 1-16" Staple. Recleaned.
Lees than SO bushels $1.15, larger
quantities $1.00.
Marrow-Pitt Hardware Company,
Ml-5t ' Tarboro, N. a
Some men run away with women,
some run after them and others stand
without hitching and refuse to budge.
About the most Important thing In
life Is what to do next
FRANKLIN COUNT!
The Franklin Tlmea la Indebted to
Mr. F. H. Jeter, Editor of the Exten
tlon Farm News, tot the following
"""Live At Home" was nothing more
than a phrase to Franklin county
farmers In 1828, a survey reveals
which was made by the agricultural
extension service of North Carolina
College In connection with the "Live
At Home" program of Governor O.
Max Gardner. ..
This survey shows that in 1928 the
farmers of Franklin county failed by
produce worth 81,560.812 of produc
ing enough food and feed to meet
the requirements of the county as a
whole and That they failed by produce
worth 8992.877 of producing enough
food and feed for their own require
ments. ? ^ ...
These figures mean that the citi
zens of Franklin county either spent
one and one-half million dollars out
side their county for food and feed
in 1928 or that they did without a
portion of the required food and feed
and in doing without lived below the
standards of the average American
citizen.
If they bought the million and a
half dollars worth of food and feed
which they did not raise they bought
It at store prices with money they
had received for cotton and tobacco
sold at farm prices.
This business of selling at farm
prices and buying at store prices is
one of the things that has caused
North Carolina agriculture to be in
a period of depression at the present
time, according to Governor Gardner
and the agricultural economists of
the State. Every year hundreds of
millions of hard earned North Caro
lina dollars are being spent out of
the borders of the State for food and
feed that could have been grown Just
as well in North Carolina.
To stop thlB condition Governor
Gardner is pleading with the tar
mers this year to raise enough food
?hntrTBea--tg take carrot- their
requirements even if doing so means
a reducton in their cotton or tobacco
acreage.
This will be a new experience tor
Franklin county farmers if they fol
low the advice of the Governor for
I in 1928 they produced only two items
I of food and/ feed in quantities suffi
cient to take care of their own re
quirements and not one item suffi
ciently to fill the needs of the coifnty
as a whole.
Eggs and sweet poatoes were the
two items the Franklin farmers pro
duced in farm surplus quantities.
They fell 206,000 bushels behind in
producing enough oats for their needs
and 14,000 tons behind in producing
enough hay. The shortage in oats
was worth 8160.961 and the shortage
in hay w a8 worth 8307,010.
The" Franklin farmers raised prac
tically enough corn to take care ol
their own needs but they were 83,000
bushels short in wheat. 1,025.000
pounds short in beef, 389,000 pounds
short in pork, 85,000 pounds short in
mutton. 935,000 gallons short in milk,
and 52,000 pounds "short In poultry.
- - For the county as~a- whole produc
tion of milk was 1,878,813 gallons be
lcw requirements, beef was a million
and a half pounds off, pork was a
million pounds off, com was seven
thousand bushels below par, one
hundred and fourteen thousand more
bushels of wheat were needed, Irish
potatoes were 25,000 bushels short
and sweet potatoes 7,000 bushels,
mutton 126,000 pounds, poultry 200
000 pounds, and eggs 75,00 dozen.
I Underproduction of milk was the
most important and costly item in
the failure of the Franklin county
farmers to provide sufficient food and
feed for the population of their coun
ty. The deficiency in milk was worth
8373,000. Underproduction of beef
was the second most costly, value of
the beef and veal deficency being 8239,
621.
But in spite of their shortcomings
the Franklin county farmers proved
between 1919 and 1928 that they were
on the right path and the production
of foods and feeds in Franklin county
in this period was generally on the
increase.
Milk production was increased
from 776,000 gallons to 1,402.000 gal
lons, corn production from 370,000
bushels to 699,000 bushels, oat pro
duction from 3.000 bushels to 20,000
bushels hay production from 4000
tons to 8.000 terns, Irish potato pro
duction from 4,000 bushels to 26,000
bushels, sweet potato production from
66,000 bushels to 87,000 bushels,
beef production from 217,000 pounds
to 398,000 pounds, poultry production
from ^14,000 pounds to 314.000
pounds, and egg production from 294,
000 pounds,* and eggs 76,000 dozen.
Daring this period the Franklin
coujity farmers increased their pro
duction of tobacco Itom 8,122,163
pounds to 12,539.507 pounds and the
cotton production from 12,124 bales
to 19,498 bales. Total value of crops
other than staple foods and feeds
was 84.415,573. This was classified
ss follows: tobacco 82.633.298; cotton
81,742,864; cowpeas 818.223; SOT
Better Call OffjShe Ltog
liy Albert 7 Reid
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bfans 115,631; rye $4,690; peanuts
$596.
It is estimated that Franklin coun
ty farmers spent 6666,330 on fertlizer
in 1928. It is also estimated that
their land cost them 81,005,540 in
rent, etc. These costs when sub
tracted from the gross receipts for
agricultural products and when the
farm food and feed requirements were
subtracted, left a net return to
Franklin county farmers front th|e
enumerated sources of $1,750,000 or
about $86 per member of the farm
population, men, women and child
ren. ?
It should be noted that the pro
duction of vegetables, trucf and
fruit are not included in these esti
mates.
Some folks are so suspicious that
they won't trust anyone, except those
who are too ignorant to deceive them.
More famous last words: "What
can you expect of the child when he
has such an example from his father."
, CHAMPION
PLOWS
CUMAX
INCREASED PRODUCTION PERMITS IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
If Your Dernier Cannot Supply, Write U?
G, Billups, Son & Company, Inc.
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
ESTABLISHED 18S8
- Sole Manufacturers of the? - ; J
Genuine "Champion" and "Climax" 'Plows and Parts
For One Week from March 21st to 28th
"Armours Veribest"
PEACHES, 2 No. 2 1-2 Cans 45c
ROCK CO COCOA, 2 lb Can ...... 25c
No. 3 Can
TOMATOES, Full Pack, 15c
No. 2 Can
BLACK EYE PEAS, Can 10c
3 lb. Can
GOLDEN CUP COFFEE $1.10
.3 lb. Cartoon
CRACKERS, Fresh 45c
Sweet Chocolate for Dipping
BAKER'S "DOT", 8 o* Cake ..... 23c
Fancy Eating
IRISH POTATOES, 6 lbs 25c
Every Body is Now Drinking'
"CAPITOL SPECIAL COFFEE"
Fresh Ground
5 Pounds
BANANAS, Pound 7c
Sunbeam
MAROCHINA CHERRIES, Bot. .. 10c
OLIVES Plain or Stuffed, Bot. .. 10c
SUGAR, 100 lbs $5.35
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