THE DANBURY REPORTER
VOLUME XXXIII.
MAKING MONEY ON THE FARM
OTHER WAYS BESIDES RAISING COTTON AND
TOBACCO.
I suppose 1 have been asked to
write upon this subject because I
raise neither cotton nor tobacco,
yet np&nage to get along, and be
cause diversified fanning is the
only safe plan for the Southern
farmer to pursue. So thoroughly
lo I believe this, that I am glad
to do what little I can to bring
about these conditions. It would
eeem rather unnecessary, however,
for me to shy anything, after what
Mr. Harvie Jordan has urged in
his speeches at the Cotton Associ
ation in this State, and the eloquent
appeals of Mr. C. C. Moore
to fanners to raise mora of the
necessities of life and to diversify
their crops so they will not lie
compelled to raise so much cotton
and tobacco to buy the things that
the farm can and ought to raise.
N
JSAVISO OUR WASTE LANDS.
It is easy 4o fee that, if a farmer
will raise his horses, cows, sheep,
hogs and chickens, and hftve a
little of each to sell, he will not
need to raise so much cotton. If
this method is followed out the
cotton crop can be reduced so as
to get a living price for it.
Then, too, there will be an open
ing in the South for farmers tc
take up our waste lands. I ntil
this system is carried out, I do
not see why we should go wild
over getting people tu come here
and help decrease the price of cot
ton by raising more of it. Th«
South is peculiarly adapted tc
diversified farming. We cau raise
a greater variety of cr6ps than any
other section of the I nited States
When we think of how much we
buy, and where it comes from, il
is a wonder how the cottonand to
bacco grower have stood the drain
FAKMItfO WITH COTTON OB TOBACC O
I have bean asked this question
more than any other; "What it
your money crop? How do you
get along without a crop of cotton
or tobacco to sell? '
This is the question 1 aui now
going to answer for Progressive
Farmer readers, and I hope to be
able to show the cotton and tobac
co farmer how he can reduce hie
output and at the same time get
ffa much for si* bfllcs of cotton as
he would for teu,
RA WISH HIS OWN HORHEB.
In th.> first place, I raise my
own horses, and instead of having
to buy, I sell one now and then
no money goes out but some
comes in, and the farm is made
productive. Cau the cotton anc
tobacco farmers this? 1 say yes
Their work is light compared with
that oh our red soil, and in#te»(J ol
sending SSOO to Kentucky for a
big pair of mules, get two large
mares and raise two good colts
They can easily do this and noili
through the crop, if given propei
food and care. Do this every yeai
and you will be supplying your
•etf aud wiling to others and keep
ing the money at hand save
raising some extra bales of CPtton
It is the same with regard tt
hogs. I raise my own meat, sell
pigs to those who want them—sell
tome pork, and also sell bacon
after it is cured. You can do this
as well as I can. It keeps money
at home and gives to go oti
(Jw .credit side.
FEEDING HWeOKN C'RCW AT HOMfc
Last year I madp a good corn
crop, for me. This corn has gonfi
into the horse*, milch cows, colts
sheep, goats, hogs and chickent
(all of which produce an income)
and have sold what corn my stock
would not consume at *0 cents pel
bushel. I raise my own wheal
find sell the surplus in flour, and
have the bran to feed the stock. I
raise my own clover, grass and pea
vines—feed stock all they will con
sume, and sell the rest. You can
do this.
MONEY IN CATTLE.
I have fed this winter seventy
head of cattle. Instead of having
to buy my family butter, or run
all over the county looking for a
fresh cow to feed the baby, I have
made milk and butter enough to
feed a large family, have sold
since Oct. Ist S6OO worth of butter
and fed the skim milk to chickens,
calves and pigs, the value of which
1 can't well calculate, I have sold
several hundred dollars wortii of
young cattle. No feed is bought
for these cattle except cottonseed
and cottonseed meal. All the
time the farm is getting more pro
ductive from the manure made.
I keep some sheep—eat a lamb
occasionally, and sell a few —and
from the wool get the best of
clothing for the family and have
blankets made that would cost
soven or eight dollars.
AND FINALLY, THE GOOSE.
Well, I am going to mention
the much-despised gooso and then
(jliit. I have become a strong
friend of the Toulouso goose.
They ure easily confined, live on
grass through the summer, m.ake
splendid meat, and find ready sale
You can pick the young goslings
about three times-a year, then sell
them for a good price. Resides
making our own beds, there is al
ways a demand for fresh feathers
at eiifty cents per pound.
If 1 can make diversified farm
ing pay, why could not a tobaccc
or cotton farmer (in addition tc
these staple crops) put in practice
a system of rotation of crops thai
would to some extent enable him
to raise more of his necessities,
and instead of buying, have some
of each to ttell ? Some farmers
feel that it is too little a business
to take eggs to market, but it is
the sale of these little things thai
count. We might learn a lesson
from the merchant. He has tc
sell a great many articles at 8
small protit in order to make any
thing.
liV|2W»ip|Kl> FARMINU IS C'OMINU
8o on the farm we ought tc
raise and sell many dilTereul
things that are in good demand al
paying prices in order to make
anything. Diversified farming is
the solution of the problem con
fronting farmers today. Necessitj
will drive the farmers to it, ami
they might as well consider the
iwst way to go at it. Each farmei
must study his farm and the con
di'ions surrounding him, A dol
lar saved is ii dollar mado, It ii
not how much a man makos, but
how much he saves that counts in
the end. After you have sole!
your cotton and tobacco, see to il
that you do not have to let it gc
for the things you can and ougli 1 !
to produce at home, namely
horses, nuilos, oow9, meat, sheep
clothing, etc. Begin gradually tc
put this idea into practice and you
will not have to make so much
cotton or tobacco —get a bettei
price for it, and make room for «
large population that is soon tc
conit) U> f}>e South and take uj
her waste lauds, ft BPPIHB to mf
it will be a very great mistake il
diversified farming is not put intc
practice mora gonerftlly.«-R. W
Scott in Progressive Farmer.
Mr. W. V- yiielton, of Danburj
Route 1, was in town Tuoaday.
DANBURY, N. C M MAY 17, 1906.
DEATH OF MR. J. H. BLAKEMORE.
He Spent a Season In Danbury Years
Ago—A Dangerous fight Near
Mt. Airy-News Of the Gran
ite City.
Mt. Airy, May 12.
We are indebted to Dr. J. M.
Hollingsworth for the facts about
a serious row that took place in
the Mcßride settlement seven
miles north of this city last Sun
day evening. Charley Jones mar
ried a Buckhart and some family
difference arose between him and
his wife's people. Last Sunday
he and his friend Joe Young filled
up on liquor and well armed went
on a hunt for the Buckhart boys,
Ack and George. They found
them at their father's home and
the row began. Joe Young caught
Ack Buckhart and held him while
Charley Jones almost c.qt hid to
pieces, and while holding him had
his own hands severely carved by
the mislicks of his friend. While
they were carving up Ack Buck
hart his brother George was
operating with a revolver and shot
Jones in the arm and beat Joe
Young in the face with the pistol.
Dr. Rollingßworth says that he
has never seen a fight that left so
many marks and yet not prove
to some one. Ack Buckhart
has seven wounds and Charley
Jones is shot in the arm while Joe
Young's face was beaten all to
pieces.
Married, at the residence of
Jessie Combs near the Flat Rock
Apr. 20, Mr. Jessie Campbell and
Miss Emma Combs, J, A, Death
ernge officiated,
Mr. J. K. Reynolds left today
for the city of Chicago where he
gues to buy a car load of suppliei
for furnishing the hotel at the
Sulphur Springs. He will be away
for a week or more.
The meeting at the Baptisl
ohuroh is largely attendeo at every
service. This is the second week
and the house is filled at every
service. Much interest is manifes
ted and at nearly every service
persons are joining the church
The meeting will probably con
tinue all the week.
The annual meeting of the Sur
ry County Orchard Co. was held
in this city Wednesday night, Mr,
John A. Young, of Greensboro; F.
C. Boyles, of High Point; C. H.
Haynes and R. C. Freeman, of
Dobson; and some more stock
holders attended the meeting.
They are we|| pleaded \yHh tbe
proappcts and now have all the
funds neodod to push the business
as fugt as it Is practical,
News reached this city this
week that Mr. J. H. Blakemore
died of heart failure in Roanoke,
Va. last Monday morning. Mr,
Blakemore was 7i5 years old at the
time of his death and was an old
citizen of this place. The larger
part of his life was spent in this
city where he conducted a photo
graph gallery. He was a man
who made many friends and was
liked by all who knew him. Some
years ago he left this city and has
been living with his son in Roan
oke.
Mr. T. N. Sutphin, whose home
was two miles east of this pity,
died Apr. 3Q at the advanped age
of fljf years, He leaves a wife and
one grown son and a host of
friends who mourn his departure,
Mr. Sutphin has been a member
of the primitive Baptist church
for more than thirty years and
was a good citizen and neighbor,
Mr. Monday, the new police,
man, is a good man for the place
He served for a long time in the
army and was a good soldier. He
followed the ilag in Cuba and in
the Philippine Islands, and wae
never sick a day while connected
with the army,
THE FARMERS ARE IN EARNEST.
J. 0. W. Gravely Tells Of His Ex
periences in Surry and Stokes.
No Counties In State Raise Bet
ter Tobacco Than These.
I spent last week in Surry and
Stokea counties, adding members
Jo the North Carolina Farmers'
Protective Association.
About three hundred of as good
men as can be found anywhere
joined.
The farmers are in earnest up
in that section and say they must
organize and thereby get better
prices for their tobacco or quit
raising it, and I think they are
right. The very thought of a farm
er raising tobacco at ti.V to 8 cents
per pound and expecting to make
any clear money, is worse than
folly.
No counties in the State raise
better' tobaooo than Surry and
Stokes, aud it is a shame that
they should be forced to grow it
for nothing when others make so
much out of it. If lam not badly
mistaken, they have resolved to
at least divide profit with the
other fellow fellow on the stuff
which they themselves produce
If all sign do not fail, you will see
the tobacco growers as thoroghly
organised as our brother cotton
farmers, and with equally as profit
able results.
There is no sense, no reason, no
justice in the very best men in the
world working 313 days in the
year for an average of loss than
one dollar per day while others
make out of the stuff he produces
millions upon top of millions an
nually. They have for many years
past been hoping for something
to "turn up" whereby they would
be able to get profitable prices foi
thetr product, but nothing yet,
save the sheriff in aome instances,
has "turned up," They are, there
fore, beginning to realize the groat
importance of working out their
own salvation by acting in concert
The spirit of "get together and
stick togeter" to obtain bettei
prices for tobacco,, as well as other
farm products, is creeping into
the minds and hearts of the tobac
oo farmmers of this couutry as
never before.
This so-called "vave of unpre
cedented prosperitp, which is
sweeping over the country, is
touching the tobacco growers in
an alarmingly few places, so few,
in fqct, they have to climb upon
high hills of other enterprises
and industries to get a whiff of the
good times.
No crop should be more profit
able to the farmer than tobacco,
yet the conditions that exist fix
the piice at such a low figure that,
if he is able to send his children
to the. public school for four
monts in the year, he feels that
especially good fortune has him.
Hundreds, yea, thousands of
the smartest and brightest boys
and girls on earth are forced, on
aocouut of the low price of tobac
oo, to grow up in ignorance, thus
depriving the State and Nation of
that active intellect so greatly
needed.
The great army of wealth pro
ducers are begiun\ng to sue already
the iujustioe uf existing conditions
and art) determined, I believe, to
use every honorable means to put
into their own pockets at least a
part of the wealth they produce.—
J. O. W. Gravely, in Farmer and
Co-Operator.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
STOKES COUNTY DIRT BRINGING GOOD
PRICES.
I. G. Ross, trustee, to L. T.
Isotn, ', l acres, consideration s(>so.
A. D. Reynolds and wife to W.
H. Vaden, 390 acres, consideration
$4,000
Russell Jones and wife to Lar
kin A. Lynch, 30 acres, consider
ation S2OO.
R. A. Brown and wife to Joel
A. Hicks, 22 acres, consideration
$154.
Samuel Riser, commissioner, to
Win. T. Tuttle, 73i acres, consider
ation $1,225.
0. W. Glidewell and wife to
Joel A. Hicks, 120 acres, consider
ation SI,OOO,
John D. Humphreys to Jno.
W. Heath, 118J acres in Meadows
township, consideration $1,500.
W. VV. Withers and wife to
Raleigh Satterfield, (55 acres in
Sauratown township, consider
ation SSOO.
Jno. W. Mitchell and wife to
O. I*. Pulliam, 11 55-100 acres in
Meadows township, consideration
$75.
W. P. Lankford and wife to
Jno. M. Taylor, 55 acres in Quaker
Gap township, consideration SSOO.
Paul Hill, J. M. Hill, Jeremiah
Westmoreland and wife to J. D.
Humphreys, 120J acres in Mead
ows and Sauratown, consideration
$1,250.
M. T. Chilton and wife to Robt,
L. Wilkes, 75 acres, consideration
$575.
Dr. Jno, W. Neal and wife tc
Franklin T. James, 2 acres in
Moadowa township, consideration
m
J. D. Waddill to Charles C
Huff, 221J acres, consideratior
$1,500.
C. E, Clark and wife to D. N.
V. G. and J. T. Crouse, fiOJ acref
in Peter's Creek, consideratior
SBOO,
J.J. .Leak and wife to P. E
Slate, interest in Peterson Slatf
place, consideration $.'500.
Sally Poor to Rufus Watkins
274 acres in Snow Creek, consider
ation $135.50.
Abel Hicks and wife to Z. R
Moran, 30 79-100 acres in Meadow
consideration $215.55.
E. R. Voss and wife to Mary M
Hairston, lot at Walnut Cove,
consideration s'2oo.
W. A. Lash and wife and others
to Stokes County Board of Educa
tion, academy lot at Walnut Cove,
consideration s2fis.
Mattie A. Heck, executrix, tc
Wiley Mabe, 53 acres in Peter's
Creek township, consideration
$3lB.
A. E. Boles and wife and D. E,
Boles to J. T. White, 37 acres,
consideration SSO.
Wm. S. Joyce and wife to Peter
E. Slate, 70 acres, consideration
S2O.
T. L. Mathews and wifetoPetei
Slate. 72 acres, consideration S2O.
John Plasters and wife and
others to A. J. Slate, interest in
old Peterson Slate homestead,
consideration SSO.
Housel Westmoreland, to Sarah
Harris, 8 fi-10 acres, consideration
love and affection.
N. O. Petree. commissioner, to
G. W. Thomas, 3,t\ 72-100 acres,
consideration $(500.
A J. Freeman and wife and
others to J. H. Arnold, >(> acres,
consideration $450.
P. T. Overby and wife and B. A
Overby and wife to T. P. Hart,
42J acres, consideration $:i01.33.
P. F. Overby and wife, B. A
Overby and wife and T. P. Harl
and wife, to R. T. Overby, 70|
Hores, consideration $498.06.
P. F. Overby and wife and T. P
Hart and wife to B. A. Overby,
14 1-8 acres, consideration SIOO.
Hessie M. Petree to R. F. Fulk,
8 acres in Meadows consideration
SIOO.
J. S. Schaub to D. J. Hooker,
If, acres, consideration $lO.
P. Oliver and wife to C. W.
Campbell, 2 9-10 acres in Yadkin,
consideration SSB.
W, D. Browder and wife to C.
M. Bowman, 14 acres, considera
tion SSOO.
C. M. Bowman and wife to Wal
ker W. Hamption, 57 acres, con
sideration $550.
J. W. Bowman and wife to C.
M. Bowman, 24 65-100 acres in
Meadow, consideration $3lO,
W. B. Tuttle and wife to Charlie
Bowman, 34 65-100 acreß, con
sideration $437.76.
S. W. Pulliam and wife to C. F.
White, 43 acres, consideration
SOOO.
S. C. Rierson and wife and J.
W. Rierson and wife to Jerry M.
Westmoreland, 129J acres in Mead
ow, consideration $905.33^.
R. W. George and wife to J. E.
Hill 85 acres in Quaker Gap, con.
sideration $650.
Lucy Ann King to Ed Reynolds,
55 acres in Quaker Gap, considera
tion $225.
Henry W. Kiser and wife to
Dewry C. Boyles, 422 acres in
Quaker Gap, consideration $405.
Mary Etta Martin to Martha
Moore, 27 acres in Snow Creek,
consideration S7O.
NO DAMAGE AT MONTEREY.
Accounts of the Earthquake In Cali
fornia Much Exaggerated, Says
Mr. Wm. C. Shaw.
Monterey, o*l., May 4.
Editor Danbury Reporter,
Danbury, N. C.
I Dear Sir :
Enclosed please find SI.OO for
which send me the Reporter for
one year.
I would like to say for the bene
fit of those who may be uneasy
about relatives in Monterey, that
the earthquake did no damage
whatever in Monterey. We have
the finest Bay on the Pacific coast,
the best climate in the United
States, some of the finest scenery
in the world. The accounts of the
damage done by the earthquake
have been much exaggerated. I
notice that some of the earstern
papers have stated that Monterey
was washed away. Monterey had
no damage of any kind.
With best wishes, I am,
Respectfully,
WILLIAM C. SHAW,
Attorney-at-Law,
LOCAL ITEMS.
Mr. Thos. W. Hylton, a promi
nent citizen of Campbell Route 1,
was a visitor here Monday.
Mr. W. W. Mcßride, of Camp
bell, was here Saturday on his
way home from Walnut Cove.
Messrs. Jno. and Irvin Bolt, of
Holyoke, Mass., who are sojourn
ing at Walnut Cove, spent a short
while in Danbury Sunday after
noon.
The third Quarterly Conference
of the M. E. Church for this cir
cuit will meet with the Sandy
Ridge ohurch on Saturday aud
Sunday, June 16th and 17th.
Tax Listing Time.
Mr. L. J. Young, list taker for
Danbury township, will be at Dan
bury on Monday and Tuesday,
June 4 and 5, and at Hartman on
June 6, for the purpose of listing
the taxes of the people of the
township.
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