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Lespedeza, a Saver of
Soils, and a Friend
to the Farmer
Lespedeza has long been known
to the farmers of the southeastern
United States, but its economic im
portance has only been realized din
ing the past few years. This legume
was known to the early Spanish ex
nlorers of Florida, and in fact, it
derives its name from one ot the
early Spanish explorers. Its spread
and adaptation to the southern sea
board states is nothing short ot re
markable. The value of lespedeza
economically was probably first leal
ized in Mississippi and Louisiana,
and it’s spread through the northern
seaboard states has been reported as
partly brought about by Sherman s
invasion, where the legume was used
by his army as feed for horses and
mules. If this is true, southerners
can at least thank Sherman for this
much, for the legume is playing a
large part in the rehabilitation of
worn-out southern soils.
There are five more or less distinct
strains of lespedeza that can be
utilized by the farmer. They are
common lespedeza, the most com
monly used of the strains, Korean
lespedeza, an earlier and largei
strain, introduced by department of
agriculture workers from Korea;
Kobe, a strain that matures at the
same time as the common, but which
makes a larger growth; lespedeza
No. 76, developed by the Tennessee
agricultural experiment station, sim
ilar to Kobe somewhat, and used
chiefly for hay, and the Essary strain
of lespedeza, developed also at
Tennessee. In addition to this, ac
cording to Mr. Q. F. McCrary, dis
trict agent, there are a number of
other strains, known to botanists,
but having no economic importance,
which can be found growing in most
of our upper Piedmont Carolina
counties.
The popularity of lespedeza, and
its consequent increase in acreage
in Chatham county has been really
remarkable. During the late winter
of 1926, Mr. S. J. Kirby, extension
agronomist, assisted the county agent
in inducing twelve farmers to con
duct pasture demonstrations. Twelve
pounds per acre of lespedeza was
recommended in these pasture mix
tures, and most of the farmers seed
ed their pastures in late March and
early April. Du e to the excessive
drought that spring, grasses and
clovers, with one or two exceptions,
were killed. However, when these
pastures were visited in the late sum
mer, it was found that the lespedeza
had made a good growth, withstand
ing the dry weather, when the other
grasses and legumes died out. The
good results obtained from these
first seedings of lespedeza encour
aged the county agent in inducing
other farmers to try lespedeza the
following year. In 1927, some 25
farmers seeded lespedeza, and with
no exceptions, this legume did un
usually well. In 1928, a campaign
for increased acreage was conduct
ed, with the result that 75 farmers
seeded 500 acres, and in 1929, the
campaign was continued, 1500 acres
being put in this year by 500 farm
ers. This together with the old acre
age, gives Chatham county over 2000
acres in this valuable legume.
During the winter of this year,
the county agent ordered seed of
some of the new strain (lespedeza
No. 76, Korean, etc.,) for certain
farmers for demonstration purposes.
Some 750 pounds of these new
strains has been seeded by 35 farm
ers. These strains show promise of
becoming more popular, due to their
larger growth, and hay making qual
ities, especially the lespedeza No. 76.
in i'JZv, three seed pan's for saving
lespedeza seed were introduced in
the county, and this year orders have
been taken for ten seed pans to Gate.
Vfhat* Lespedeza Is Doing for Chat
ham County Farms
A remarkable demonstration of
lespedeza No. 76 was visited by the
county agent last week. In late Feb
ruary, Mr. C. H. Lutterloh secured
36 pounds of lespedeza No. 76, and
after liming with one ton to the acre,
seeded it on three acres of small
grain. Lespedeza on this field is as
thick as it can stand, and will aver
age well over 20 inches in height.
A sample measuring well over two
feet was pulled up. Mr. Lutterloh
intends to cut a portion of this for
hay, and leave a portion to mature
for seed. Farmers will be interest
ed in learning the yield on this three
acre field. /
Mr. T. O. Justice and J. W. Dark
who seeded lespedeza this spring
have fine stands, averaging around
14 inches in height. These men in
tend to order seed pans for saving
seed.
Another demonstration with lespe
deza No. 76 is being conducted by
Mr. M. H. Woody of Siler City route.
Mr. Woody selected three acres of
grey land, which he describes as be
ing poor and wornout, limed it and
seeded 35 po'unds of lespedeza No.
76. When visited last week, this
lespedeza was well over 17 inches in
height, and several samples measur
ing 20 inches in height were selected.
Mr. W. F. Bland, of Pittsboro,
route 1, seeded one acre with 10
pounds of Korean lespedeza last
winter Mr. Bland describes this one
acre field as poor land. Neverthe
less, a sample of lespedeza 19 inches
in height was obtained from this
fiold
Mr W W Lutterloh of Pittsboro,
route 1, 'also seeded three acres in
lerpcdcm last spring. This field has
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not been visited recently, but when
visited in August, showed promise of
giving large yields. Mr. Lutterloh
expects to harvest seed from this
field. v j
Common lespedeza is somewhat
deceptive in growth, in that it does
not show its true possibilities for j
hay production on good land. In an
issue several weeks back, we told
something of the yield of hay se
cured by Mr. C. A. Culberson when
he clipped 8 acres of lespedeza,. Mr.
C. W. Jordan recently cut 8 acres
of lespedeza for hay. This was the
finest field of the common variety
that we have ever seen, measuring
17 inches in height. Although we
have not secured the yield on this
field, one of Mr. Jordan’s neighbors
reported that the field yielded 15 two
horse loads of cured hay.
Mr. Vet Clark of Siler City re
ports a yield of three big two horse
loads of common lespedeza hay from
three acres.
Thursday of last week we visited
a two acre field of lespedeza behind
the Pittsboro school, seeded by Mr.
Wes. Harmon in 1928. Mr. Harmon
had mown possibly one and one-half
acres of this, and the cured hay was
covering the field, well over ankle
deep.
It is estimated by Mr. S. J.
Kirby, extension agronomist of State
College, that a full stand of lespe
deza, turned under in the soil will
supply S6O worth of nitrogen per
acre, at the present price of the
nitrogenous materials. Mr. Kirby
also tells us that for every inch over
9 inches, lespedeza will cut one ton
of cured hay. When we consider
how badly some of our fields are in
need of organic matter and nitrogen
for economic .production of crops,
and also the need of more farmer?
producing enough roughage for more
livestock, we begin to realize what
lespedeza can do for us.
Touching on the soil improvement
phase of lespedeza, there were sev
eral fields of one year growth of this
legume turned for cotton and corn
this spring. Mr. J. E. Clark of Pitts
boro turned a one-year crop of
lespedeza this spring, which is now
in corn. Although this corn was re
planted several times, Mr. Carr states
that he is satisfied that the lespedeza
turned under this corn will make him
id-to 15 bushels more of corn per
acre than the field formerly made.
‘ Mr. M. H. Woody also turned a
field of lespedeza, and followed it in
cotton. Mr. Woody states that with
favorable weather conditions, he will
make a bale of cotton where lespe
deza was turned, as compared with
less than one-half bale where there
was no lespedeza.
Messrs. James and Charles Wicker
of Goldston each turned lespedeza
for corn this spring, and we believe
that the lespedeza will greatly in
crease their corn yield.
TWO CHATHAM FARMERS
ARE FIGHTING BOLL WEEVIL
“Billie 801 l Weevil” is being given
the fight of his young life on at least
two Chatham farms this year, and if
the assault does not weaken, he is
certain to come out second best.
Last Monday, we visited Wade
Paschal’s farm. Mr. Paschal has been
poisoning for the boll weevil for sev
eral years, but he has gone after the
weevil in earnest this year, and is
getting good results too. He is using
a two-row duster and also several
hand machines. We first visited a
field of late, rank cotton near the
farm home. Two applications of
poison had been given this field, Mr.
Paschal stated that he should have
applied at least four poisonings- to
this field, but the results obtained
with only two applications of dust
were good. Bolls on this field were
fruiting well up the stalk, and the
cotton was still blooming. However,
on a field several hundred yards from
the house, Mr. Paschal is conducting
a real poisoning demonstration.
Here we have two fields, side by
side, one poisoned, one unpoisoned,
both fertilized alike and both plant
ed at the same time. Three appli
cations of poison had been given the
one field, and the cotton was begin
ning to open. An average of 12 to
15 grown bolls, well up the stalk was
found on this cotton. When we
stepped over to the field adjoining,
which had not been poisoned, we
found where # the boll weevil had
played havoc. There were less than
six bolls (grown) per plant, and
several were weevil punctured. It is
a safe guess to estimate twice as
much lint cotton per acre where
poison was used over the unpoisoned
field. As to the cost of the poisoning
operations, Mr. Paschal states that
he does not believe that it will run
over $3 per acre, probablv less.
Mr. Paschal is a firm believer in
lespedeza for rebuilding poor, worn
out soils. He seeded some thirty
five acres in lespedeza this year,
seven acres of which was of the
Korean strain. He intends to seed
lespedeza in his cotton land, to fol
low in cotton. Mr. Paschal will prob
ably save enough seed this year to
all of .his cultivated land that
is lvincr idle.
On Friday of last week. were
invited to visit the farm of Mr. Joe
Johnson on Hickory Mountain near
Kimbolton. Mr. Johnson has a seven
acre field of cotton in front of his
house that yielded one four hundred
pound bale of cotton and one 350
pound bale in 1928. Realizing that
he would either be forced to give
up cotton or adopt some measure of
insuring fair yields, Mr. Johnson
decided this year to poison. Here
also, we ran into a real demonstra
tion. The seven-acre field has been
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given three or possibly four appli
cations of dust. Directly behind this
field there is four acres of cotton
that has not been dusted. By stand
; ing at one end of the row, one can
1 see bolls matured to the top of the
dusted cotton, compared with bolls
‘a third of the way to the top on
the undusted field. We both made
an estimate of at least 2500 pounds
of lint cotton on this seven acres, as
compared with 750 pounds last year.
Mr. Johnson also showed me fields
where the cotton had been dusted
once, where the dust had been used
twice, where it had been used three
times, where squares had been picked
up and destroyed and no poison used
and where no poison had been used
and no squares picked up. 801 l
weevil damage showed an increase
where the application of poison was
less, an increased damage where
only the squares were picked, and the
worse damage of all where no
squares were picked and no poison
used.
Mr. Johnson is demonstrating
clearly that the dust poisoning
method, where used several times at
least, is most effective in controlling
boll weevil, that where poisoning was
done less frequently, the boll weevil
damage increased, that where squares
were picked and no poison used, the
boll weevil damage was worse than
even the fields where only one appli
cation of dust was used, and finally
that picking of squares was better
than nothing at all, because there
were more mature bolls where the
squares were picked and no poison
used than where no poison was used
and no squares picked. Mr. Johnson
and Mr. Paschal are rendering a high
type of service to their county in
doing this week, and we believe that
it is the forerunner of a more in
telligent production of cotton, with
a subsequent larger yield in Chat
ham county.
CHATHAM FARMERS UN
LOADED LIME LAST WEEK
Chatham farmers are awakening
to the necessity of improving their
farms through the use of lime and
legumes. Last week at Siler City and
Bonlee, five car loads of lime were
delivered to farmers for use under
fall-seeded grains and legumes. An
other car will be delivered at Mon
cur® shortly, which with the lime un
loaded in the spring, makes a total
of 246 tons of lime being used by
Chatham farmers this year.
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COUNTY AGENT ON LEAVE
The county agent will bq absent
from the county from September 23
to October 5. During this time he
can be communicated with at Clem
son College, S. C.
JUNIOR FARM NEWS
(Activities of the 4-H Club Mem
bers of Chatham)
An effort is being made to show
. a Chatham County Calf club exhibit
at the State Fair this fall, and those
calf club members who expect to
; show their Jerseys are busy fitting
and training their heifers. The State
Fair this year is held during the
week of October 12, and we are hop
ing for a creditable 4-H Calf Club
exhibit. Some of the boys who ex
pect to show their Jerseys in the
Chatham County Calf Club exhibit
1 are: Billi® Harrington, Isaac Bland,
Palmer Foushee, Charles Lutterloh,
T. C. Justice, Chas. Ferguson, Leon
Gilmore, Addison Bui'is, Frank and
; Raymond Culberson, E. Guy and
Burt Dark and Paul Clark and others.
We feel that through the generosity
of the Fair Association, N. C. Jersey
Breeders Association and other or
ganizaitons, our boys should at least
make expenses through winning
premium money, and possibly much
more. Arrangemenst will be made
for the free transportation of thest
Jerseys to Raleigh, and also for a
reliable man to take charge of them
while in Raleigh.
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ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of, C. G. Howard, late
of Chatham County, I hereby warn
all persons holding claims against
said estate to present them duly
verified on or before September 5,
1930, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery. All persons
owing the estate will please make
early payment.
This the sth day of September,
1929.
L. J. HARWARD,
Administrator.
V. R. Johnson, Atty.
(Sep 12, 19, 26, Oct 3, 10, pd)
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NOTICE OF SALE OF SCHOOL ]
HOUSES AND SCHOOL LOTS ]
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Under and by virtue of an order ’
duly made by the Board of Educa- ;
tion of Chatham county at a regular ;
meeting held on the 2nd day of Sep
tember, 1929, and in pursuance to
the provisions of the laws of the
State of North Carolina, the Board
of Education of Chatham County
will on
Monday, October 7*th, 1929,
at 12:00 o’clock, noon,
at the Courthouse Door of Chatham
County, in Pittsboro, N. C., sell, at
public* auction to the highest bidder
for-cash, the following school houses
and .school lots, which have been
abandoned for school purposes:
Climax school house and lot, Al
bright Township No. 1, containing
one acre, more or less.
Mt. Pleasant school house and lot,
Baldwin Township' No. 2, containingi
2y 2 acres, more or less.
Merry Oaks school house and lot,
Cape Fear Township, No. 1, contain
ing % acre, more or less.
New Liberty school house and lot,
Center Township No. 5, containing
1 acre, mere or less.
County Home school house and lot,
Center Township No. 2,- containing
1 acre, more or less.
Hanks Chapel school house and
lot, Center Township No. 1, contain
ing V 2 acre, more or less.
Bethel school house and lot, New
Hope Township No. 4, containing 1
acre, more or less.
Brown’s Chapel school house and
lot, Hadley Township No. 4, con
taining % acre, more or less.
Battle Creek school house and lot,
Hickory Mountain Township No. 7,
containing 2 acres, more or less.
Union school house and lot, Bald
win Township No. 1, containing 1
acre, more or less.
Chestnut Hill school house and
lot, Albright Township No. 6, con
taining 1 acre, more or less.
Wood Dale school house and lot.
Albright Township No. 5, containing
1 acre, more or less.
Fairview, Williams Township No.
4, containing Ms acre, more. or less.
Moses school house and lot, Hic
kory Mt. No. 3, containing 1 acre,
more or less.
Mt. Pisgah school house and' lot,
Williams Township No. 2, containing
2 acres, more or less.
Mann’s school house and lot, New
Hope Township No. 7, containing 1
acre, more or less. .
Mann’s Chapel school lot, Baldwin
Township No. ’3, containing 1 acre,
more or less.
Northeast school house and lot,
Williams Township No. 1, containing
2 acres, more or less.
Northeast old school house lot,
Williams Township, 2
acres.
Gardner’s school house and lot,
Cape Fear Township No. 5, contain
ing 1 acre, more or less.
Colored school house and lot on
Pittsboro - Sanford state highway,
containing 1 acre, more or less.
Ragland colored school lot, Cape
Fear Township No. 1, containing 1
acre, more or less.
The above mentioned school
houses will be offered for sale sep
arate from the lots on which they
stand, allowing the purchaser sixty
(60) days from date of sale in which
, to remove same; and then the lots
. will be offered for sale separate from
' the houses; and then the houses and
| lots will be sold together, and which
ever way the said property brings
’ the best price is the way the same
will be held. Each of the above
mentioned lots will be sold sep
arately.
The Board of Education of Chat
ham County reserves the right to re
ject any and all bids.
This the 6th day of September,
1929.
W. R. THOMPSON,
County Superintendent Schools.
Long & Bell, Attys.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE UNDER EXECUTION
NORTH CAROLINA:
CHATHAM COUNTY,
i G. J. Griffin, S. B. Griffin,
, and George H. Brooks,
trading under the firm name of
Chatham Hardware Company
1 vs.
Fannie Bell Mitchell.
Under and by virtue of an execu
tion issued by the Superior Court of
Chatham County, in the above en
, titled action, directed to the under
signed, Sheriff of Chatham County,
the judgment in the said action hav
ing been docketed, in Chatham Coun
ty on the 17th day of August, 1929,
the undersigned Sheriff of Chatham
County, will on
Monday, October 7, 1929,
At 12:00 o'clock M.,
at the Court House door of Chatham
County in Pittsboro, N. C., sell at
public auction, to the highest bidder
for cash, ior the purpose of satis
fying the said execution, all *of the
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right, title and estate of the said
Fannie Bell Mitchell owned on the
date of the docketing of said judg
ment in Chatham Couty, or acquired
since said date, in and to the follow
ing described lands located in Center
Township, Chatham County, North
Carolina:
FIRST TRACT: Four and two
tenths (4 2-10) acres, more or less,
t)f land in Center Township, Chat
ham Township, North Carolina, con- |
veyed to Fannie Bell Mitchell by
Nannie Hackney and her husband,
C. E. Hackney, by a deed registered
in Chatham County Registry in
Book “G.Q ” at page 53, to which
deed reference is hereby made for a
description of the same.
SECOND TRACT: Seventy -seven
(77) acres, more or less, of land in
Center Township, Chatham County,
North Carolina, conveyed to Fannie
Bell Mitchell by Ben Grimes and
wife, Alice Grimes, by deed regis
tered in Book “G.A.”, page 270,
Chatham County Registry, to which
deed reference is hereby made for
a description of the same.
This the 6th day of September,
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,G. W. BLAIR,
Sheriff Chatham County.
Long & Bell, Attys.
NOTICE OF SUMMONS BY
PUBLICATION
NORTH CAROLINA,
CHATHAM COUNTY.
Vannie Miles
vs.
George Miles
To George Miles, the defendant
above named—Greeting:
You, George Miles, will take notice
that the above entitled action was
commenced in the Superior Court of
Chatham County, North Carolina, on
the 24th day of August, 1929, by
the plaintiff, Vannie Miles, for the
purpose of obtaining an absolute
divorce on the grounds of five years
separation and adultery.
The defendant will further take
notice that you are required to ap
pear before the Clerk of the Super
ior Court of Chatham County, North
Carolina, at his office in Pittsboro,
North Carolina, within thirty days
from the first publication of this
notice, which date will be the 28th
day of September, 1929, and answer
or demur to the complaint of the
plaintiff, which is filed in the office
of the said clerk, or the relief de
manded by the plaintiff will be
granted.
This the 24th day of August, 1929.
(Signed by)
CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT
A. C. Ray and F. C. Upchurch,
Attys. for plaintiff.
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