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HOW TO MAKE AND YHEP THE ROADS SMOOTH American Highway Association. The traffic on earth and gravel roads has a constant tendency to de velop rota, chuck holes, and depres sions. The ohief aim and purpose of road maintenance is to prevent and remedy this destructive action. To be successful and efficient, road mainten ance must be systematically, and con tinuous. Haphaiard work is exten sive and unsatisfactory. If the road is very rough and un even or the crown very low the road machine or graded is very efficient for placing it in shape. One must guard, however, against the all too common practice of scraping the sod and oth er vegetable matter and refuse from the sides and ditches on to the road. In general, on the clay and heavy soil roads all vegetable or spongy ma terial should be carefully excluded. Such materials absorb moisture read ily and furnish but little resistance against the wear. The road surface should be built up with the best ma terial possible material which will pack and consolidate under traffic and which will be as nearly water proof as possible and will wear uni formly. In general the road machine or grader should be used in the spring of the year while the ground is moist and in such condition that it will work easily and at the same time pack well under passing traffic. Considerable skill and judgment is required to use the road grader to the best advantage. An unskilled and careless operator will sometimes actu ally leave the road in a worse condi tion than when he began -work. Do not ecrape sod and refuse 'into the Toad. Good earth is far better as it will not decay nor absorb moisture so readily. Do not be guilty of the too common practice of leaving a wind row of clods or loose earth along the middle of your roads to impede traffic and absorb water at the first rain. Leave the roads smooth over the en tire surface and traffic will spread and be less likely to produce ruts. Air ways use the grader in such a way as to make the road better and not worse for the passing traffic. When the road has been placed in good condition as to crown and smoothness the road drag is the best tool for maintaining it in good condi tion. Drag the road after each rain while the surface is still moist but not sticky. Use a light drag and move only a very little earth just sufficient to fill the ruts and depressions and leave a slight surplus if the crown is low. Ride on the drag and shift your position according to the amount of earth necessary to be moved. If the rain has been of long duration it may be advisable to drag the road twice; first, very soon after the rain, and again when the clay is drying out of beginning' to set. Do not drag a dry road. Success ful dragging is dependent on a cer tain amount of water or moisture in the road ' surface. Practically all clays and most soils, if not too sandy, will puddle if worked when wet, and on drying out will set very hard. The drag in connection with traffic is essentially a puddling machine which, when properly used, leaves the road surface crowned and covered with a smooth layer of puddled and densely packed soil. This layer is as nearly impervious to water as it is possible to make it. Following rains find lit tle or no place for lodgement, as the water quickly runs off to the side ditches. Unices tine rain is long- con tinued tbe roii'l s-.-rfuc? is not softened to any great depth. The prompt u.e of the drair after each rain leases the furface .smooth dnd ready to with stand the next storm. Therefore, to make your read r "i1-. r -oat! mr-. hi no or trad er to put it in proper .shape in the f prin? of the year. Too keep yo'.ir road smooth, me the road dm? diciour-iy after each rain. This will ken an earth or ?itac-1 road in t!"' best shape in wtrca it is possible to maintain it throutrhout tlio year. Till: SH YhTI-li LAWYER Tlic'C are itores of ways in which a shyster lawyer and hio tout and assistant, medical or other, may work. Through ambulance-chasing; through watching newspaper columns for sug gestions of actionable libel; through simple blackmail of the innocent, tak ing advantage of unfortunate coinci dence; through blackmail of those guilty of transgression of the social code, punishing thereby innocent rel atives; through obstructing corpora tion changes after purchasing for the purpose a few sht.res of stock. Magistrate Corrigan, of New York City, who knows of more such ways, through his bench experience, than he would probably care to tell, lays bare in a recent issue of the New York "World gome of the harm that unprin cipled lawyers can do to the public. He blames two things: "Inhuman newspapers" that publish details of ocial transgressions, and "hypocriti ., cal legislators" who pass hypocritical Him. ' - -. WHY BATE GOOD ROADS There lire an abundance of recsone why we should have good roads, even under normal conditions. But there are urgent reasons why we should have them this year, when conditions are expected to far surpass even those of normal. Our roads must be in condition for prompt harvesting of the great crops which the world is demanding of America this year. Experts in all lines of business pre dict that 1915 will be the most pros perous year in the history of the Unit ed States. ' President Wilson has publicly warn ed the farmers of the country that the task of feeding the world will soon devolve upon us, and he urges us to utilize every ounce of energy and ev ery foot of ground that the supply may be equal to the tremendous de mand for food. Europe today is non-productive, yet the people of those countries must be tA Tl m,,ct nn ctarvo And I'' "' ..... - 'America is the only nation that is equal to the gigantic task. And because this herculean task falls upon the American farmer, it is imperative that no act of ours be left undone that may be productive of greater of swifter results. And herein lies the value of good country roads. Tremendous crops may be . grown, and harvested, but they must be mar keted in record time this year. And without good roads this can not be done. The time is opportune for the peo ple of this community to take up this matter and see that prompt measures are taken to insure the best of roads in the country districts before the time is at hand for the moving of the great crops we are asked to produce. Horses and mules must draw this produce to the shipping points, and this is a matter requiring both time and animal energy. An animal possesses only a certain amount of energy, beyond which it may not be taxed, and when that en ergy is exhausted it ceases to be of the greatest value to its owner, and future movements are retarded be cause of its lost vitality. If the country roads are placed in the best possible condition during the spring and summer months, the fall moveir snt of crops will be accomplish ed with greater ease and less expense than heretofore. And every hour of time will be needed this fall if the farmers heed the call of the world and the warning of our president. Let us be "up and be doing" here, that we may contribute bountifully to our substance when humanity turns to us for bread. PURCHASE OF LAND UNDER WEEKS LAW Representatives of Forest Reserve Department have been over the large areas in Western North Carolina re cently purchased by the United States Government, and are highly pleased with the purchases made. The appropriation for the further purchase of lands runs out this year, and the Forest Commission will ask for $10,000,000 additional to carry on the work already started. Certain lands already or being surveyed will not be taken over unless more money is provided, there being only about $.";00,000 remaining unexpended of the ;?",000,000 appropriation originally made. The commission, which is composed of Secretaries Lane of the Interior, Garrison of the War Department aim Houston of the Department of Agri culture and a number of members of Canrxess is supported in its desire for ?10,('00,000 by the "various forestry associations. Great interest in the purchases has developed within the last few years in the South. At first there was much opposition among the native mountaineers to the Government scheme to buy and control lands alon;? the streams in .the mountainous sec tions of the State. The North Carolina lands taken over under the Weeks law amounts to more than S00.C00 acres. Ttv TJlltmore tract, with its beautiful scenery, im provements in ttie way of roads, and well-bundled forests, contains 70,200 acres. It is proving a blessing to the people of the mountain section. The Government will open it up next year and it will be a vast, popular play ground for tourists and others. To The Public. "I feel that I owe the manufacturers of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhcea Remedy a word of gratitude writes Mrs. T. N. Witherall, Gowan da, N. Y. "When I began taking this medicine I was in great pain and feel insr terribly sick, due to an attack of summer complaint. After taking a dose of it 1 Had not long to waic lor relief as it benefitted me almost im mediately." For sale by all dealers. '' The manufacture of macaroni by the Waldciiskns at Valdese in Burke county la one of the new industries Announced is ttns State. - - WHOLE CROP HARVESTED BY USE Of SILO- A Good Silo Adds Beauty to the Farm Yard. (By W. J. FItASER. Illinois.) The digestive organs cf animals that chew the cud are so formed as to require comparatively Juicy and bulky food. The cow cannot, there fore, thrive on excusively dry food so well as can the horse. The nearest an ideal food that can be obtained for the dairy cow is good pasture; but, in many sections, for more than six months in the year green pasture is not available. The best substitutes to use during this period are corn silage and such roots as mangels and turnips. Corn yields an average of twice as much dry matter per acre as do root crops, and since the latter require much more labor, which In this coun try is relatively expensive, silage is far more economical. Making corn Into silage is a means of preserving the grain as well as the stalk in the beet possible condition for feeding and without the expense of shelling and grinding. In feeding whole corn, either In , the ear or shelled, many of tbe kernels are aot digested. With silage, the grain being eaten with the roughage, nearly all the kernels are broken during mastica tion, and, since they are somewhat soft, are practically all digested. By the use of tbe tl'o the corn is removed from the field at a time when no injury is done the land by cutting it up while soft. As the corn is cut before the blades are dry enough to shatter, there is no waste from weathering and both stock and grain being in good condition, the whole crop is consumed by the stock, while with dry shock corn a large percentage of the leaves and butts of tbe stalk is wasted. - It has been determined that ' one cubic foot of bay in the mow contains about 4.3 pounds of dry matter, and that a cubic foot of silage in thirty six foot silo contains about 8.9 pounds of dry matter. From this it is evi dent that a cubic foot of space in a silo of proper depth will hold more than twice as much dry matter as tbe corresponding space in a mow. It is also true that on the average a larger amount of digestible feed can be ob tained from an acre in the form of silage than in any other way at like expense. Making corn into silage ia POTATOES IN COW'S -RATION I As Valuable Succulent Food as Any of Roots Like Mangels, Turnips, Etc. Rich in Protein. Potafoea are fully as valuable as a succulent food in ration for dairy cows as any of tho roots, like man R'ls. turnips, etc. In food valuo as shown by their chemical analysis, they are fully equal to any of them, being much richer in starch, equal in protein and also nearly equal in fat. This being tho case, it is largely a question of palatability and digestibil ity. Cows may not at first like pota toes as well as they do beets, but it is largely because they have not been educated to eat them. When potatoes are very cheap it will pay to feed them to cows, but usually they are worth too much for human food to bo used as live stock food. Heets or carrots, etc., are not usually figured as be:.i worth more than four to five dollars per ton for stock food; . according to this, pota toes must be as cheap as 15 cents to pay to feed them. KEEP SILAGE CVER SUMMER Extra Supply Vill Net Spoil During Hot Weather in Averaoe Well Built, Well-Filled Silo. Don't worry! The extra Fiipply of silage) left over from the winter's feeding will not spoil during the sum mer in tho average well built, well filled silo. In case of doubt, cover what silage remains with straw, hay or barn sweepings, tramp down hard and dampen thoroughly. At corn harvest remove the cover ing and fill as usual. You'll never know the difference. But better than all this, supplement your pastures with silage during the dry spell this summer. Black Pig It Preferred. In the northern states color is of little importance, but in the south a large number of pork-growers prefer a black hog, as being less susceptible to the heat and sun. However, some southern hog-growers stIU cling to white hogs and seem to experience no trouble from that source. then both an economical and compact method of storing feed. Much damage has been done to the cause of silage by the extravagant claiqfS of its over-enthusiastic friends. Although corn silage is not a complete and balanced ration in itself, it is so well relished that large quantities are consumed. Being a succulent feed, it tends to heavy milk production, and should be given an Important place in the ration of dairy rrn. It has proved an important factor in steer feeding as well as in milk production, but a steer cannot be finished on' silage alone, any more than a cow can pro duce her best yields of milk on such a ration. To obtain the most economi cal returns, some dry roughage should be fed in connection with silage, and a legume hay, as alfalfa, clover, or cowpeas, is the best for this purpose, particularly for young stock and cows. Economical milk can be produced from these feeds without the addition of grain, if the cows are not giving more than two gallons of milk a day, providing the corn was well eared and both the silage and tbe legume hay are of excellent quality. Cows giving a larger yield must have grain added to their ration. A pasture will carry much more stock during spring, early summer, and fall, than it will through the hot dry weather of midsummer. By help ing the pasture out at this season with partial soiling, the cattle not only have better feed during this critical period, but more stock can be carried on a given area than by pasturing alone. As land increases in value and farm ing becomes more Intensive, there is greater need for soiling, and the most satisfactory method of providing a substitute ' Is by means of the silo. U requires too much labor to cut green crops every day and haul them to the cows, and besides there Is necessarily a great loss in being obliged to feed the crops before they are fully mature and after they are over-ripe. No crop furnishes more feed to the Acre than corn, and with tbe silo It can be utilized for soiling, thus per mitting the whole crop to be harvest ed when at the right stage of matur ity and fed when needed, saving both feed and labor. LEGUME TO FERTILIZE SOIL There It No Excuse fo Man Who Cut. tivates Poor Land in South Yields Can Be Doubled. It will pay to grow some legume after oats or wheat, or In the corn, or during the winter between crops of cotton and corn to plow under to fertilize the soil. It will pay better to feed legumes to good live stock and return the ma nure to the soil than to plow the crops under direct for fertilizer, but on soils that will not now produce a profitable crop It may be the best thing to plow under at least one or two crops. It does not pay to culti vate poor soil, and it only costs the seed and labor of seeding to grow a crop that will more, than pay for this ccst when plowed under. In the in erpnsod yield the first year and then repeat the increase tho year follo itiR. There la no excuse for the man who cultivates poor soils in the South. He can grow tho same one crop a year he is now trying to grow and be tween these at practically no extra cost grow a crop that will quickly double bis yields. Progressive Farm- . STIMULATE A SLUGGISH JACK Veterinarian cf Oklahoma Experiment Station Gives Direction for Handlina Breeding Animal. A breeder writes to Oklahoma A. and M. collego that he has a jack that is apparently in good health, but re fuses to work. Dr. W. 1 Shuler of tho department of veterinary medicine of Oklahoma A. and M. college gives the following directions for handling a breeding animal of this kind: "Provide sufficient vetol tablets for a ten-day course of treatment. These tablets contain yohimbine, a recently discovered drug having a powerful stimulating action on the sexual or gans. "Secure tablets which contain one grain each of this drug. This is a dose. It should be administered three times dally in tbe food, or dissolved in a half-pint of water as a drench. "This is a much safer drug to use than cantbaiides or 'Spanish fly,' and Is surer in action." TO TSACH IN -NOVPsBE 4 ltoOTugat Schools For Adali'initti rate The month of November has beten chosen, as has been announced in The Courier, by the State committee on Social Service as the period during which the moonlight schools shall be held throughout the State. It has been decided to have meet ings of the county committees on so cial service with, the teachers of the counties at each' county seat a week or more before the time for the schools to begin, and then to have meetings of the local committees and the local teachers on the eve of the opening of the schools, these to round out the arrangements "and stir enthusiasm to the utmost It will be permissable to change the dates fn counties in which the county schools are not actually in progress during the whole of November. The 12 lessons each on reading, writing and arithmetic, especially adapted for moonlight school work, have been perfected and will be adapted for publication in pamphlet form and for publication in the week ly newspapers of the State, so that the newspapers can be used as the actual text books in their respective counties. Besides the whole educational forces of the State, including over 5,000 school teachers, there ar pledged to special effort, the civic service organizations of the State, the Federation of Women's Clubs with Mrs. Lingle of Davidson College at the head of a special committee of 100 of the leading women of the State, the Farmers' Union, the Jun ior Order United American Mechanics and other strong forces throughout the State. The social service committee has decied to launch no other civic service movement this season and concentrate energies and effort on this moonlight school movement. Biliousness and Constipation. It is certainly surprising that any woman win endure the miserable feelings caused by biliousness and constipation, when relief is so easily had and at so little expense. Mrs. Chas. Peck. Gates. N. Y.. writes "About a year ago I used two bottles of Chamberlain's Tablets and they cured me of biliousness and constipa tion and biliousness, f or sale by all dealers. KEEPING SWEET POTATOES The keeping qualities of the sweet potato depend upon the variety grown the type of soil in which it was grown, and the methods of handling at dig' ging time. Clay soils on which highly nitrogenous fertilizer has been used will produce rough cracked potatoes. 5- The Chewiest , Chewing Gum X ever Chewed mm Chew W"' "Bobs"' 5c. the packet or two "Bobs" for a cent at all the better stands and stores. ND now trumps mivn I "Bobs" made it he pep, the flavor an the 1 1 L.M chew and put rCI a grand slam. LooVrorrfie candy-coated hewing gum hearts ?obs. Eyerywhery" "Bobs" Saeh jetateea -ara . generally ketve'n. "poor Mhlfoll rffl -m crashed ifcrtatot ' Such potato ire' usually- good.,ieepers, Too Jnuca tare can not be spent ia ("KB1" pvmvw. mx toruessiy .dug and handled 'the 'potato becomes. bruised, hence they very easily rot. When digging ft la best first to cut the Vines, preferably with a vine cot ter, and then run under the potatoes - Lwirli a refrular sweet Batata r t, - - , The diggers are similar to a plow but -, have fingers attached to a short mould , board. After digging, the plants or J hills should be lifted and laid care fully in piles, after which they can be. , picked off by hand. This method will prevent a lot of needless handling and . bruising. When the potatoes are shaken off in heaps, or are picked and pitched to a heap or into a basket they , are. badly bruised and skinned, andi when in this state are in a very favor, , able condition to rot. Before being placed in storage they should be al lowed to dry out as much as possible.' The successful keeping of sweet po tatoes depends on the following prin ciples: 1. Harvest potatoes before they are frosted. r- 2. Don't bruise them, handle as lit tle as possible when digging. 3. Throw out all cracked and broken, potatoes. 4. Dry out as much as possible be fore storing. 5. Keep dry. , 6. Keep warm. WINSTON-SALEM MAN SAVED FROM DEATH J. E. Erwin Says Wonderful Remedy Brought Him Astonishing Relief, J. E. Erwin of Winston-Salem, N. C... was for a lonir time the victim of" serious disorders of the stomach. He tried all kinds of treatment and baa many doctors. One day he took a dose of Mayrs Wonderful Remedy and was aston ished at the results. . The help be sought had ccme. He wrote: "I am satisfied through persons! nse of the life-saving powers of your Wonderful Hemedy. You have saved, my life. I could have lived but a few weeks more had it not been for your remedy. I am inclosing a list of friend sufferers who ought to have some of' your remedy." . Worth Their Weight in Gold. "I have used Chamberlain's Tablets--and found them to be just as repre sented, a quick relief from headaches,, dizzy spells and other symptoms de noting a torpid liver and a disordered condition of the 'digestive organs. They are worth their weight in gold, writes MiBS Clara A. Driggs, Elba, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. ! Children Cry" FOR FLETCHER'S a " "r- r i ifv i I W r-. I w 1 Hearts are i v in ,cnewm 7 he
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