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PAGE THIRTY-THREE I MUSETTE Inc. I THE PLACE J —for— *'■ i•' »-r M Books and Stationery, Edison Phono j graphs, Athletic Goods, School Books M and Supplies, Office Supplies, Gift lj Novelties anchHoliday Goods, Greet = ing cards, Post Cards, Local Views, M Tally Cards, and Party Favors. M Only the BEST is carried in our stock s and our prices are Right. j| Make our store your headquarters, s not only Fair week but at all times M when you are here for business ojr pleasure. We have many new items M to show you. . Hj Phone 579 Opposite St. Cloud Hotel llllllllllllllllllllllllliM Economical Buyers ts Uili 4tl&U. ' , k ; .... Know the Advantages of Cash Trading WE BUY FOR CASH AND SELL FOR CASH Being out of the High Rent District with no Bad Debts to bother us,’we are able to offer values .which mean a big saving to you in DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES' V Fair Week Specials i EN ROUTE TO THE GROUNDS Fine Men's Shoes, brown and black, $7.50 values, Fair Special 1 $6.50 High Grade Girls’ School Shoes, $5.50 values, Fair special $4.50 Fine Shoes for Women, black and tan, $6.00 values. Fair . Special i $5.00 This is Sweater Time. 'We have them in big heavy Shaker Sweaters for men or women. $6.50 values. Fair special $5.00 i . -DURING FAIR WEEK ALL DRY GOODS 10 .PER CENT. OFF W.L.Widenhouse&Co 208 W. Depot St. Concord, N. C. r" Religious Life of Community. (Continued from Page Twenty-nine.) the effort has succeeded, But the best evidence of the progress of religious influence in this community is the way in which the. business of the town lines itself up on ever fl moral i is sue that is presented. If you /would .looi for tlie places that give the/ test to the religious ‘ efforts you will find that the business concerns are probably the hard est to touch. Dealing continually with ‘stubborn facts and odd eaßh" they are slow to feel the religious atmosphere shat is thrown about them. But so pro gressive has been the religious life of the - , .w V!.’ safea*vi<l , /'a*, ■ ■ " 1 11 —!L' 1 fowu that the busmens concerns lire fall ing wholeheartedly in line with every dffort to make this town and community a model. When we look back over the' road that' hag been traveled we are as tonished that such progress could, huve been made in so short a timp. But it has been the result of a conscientiousness to duty and opportunity that never relin quished any effort to make for this town the beat possible name that can be hae(t . Mrs. KUa Bejle, who 'sfes th&t the people of Baling, Kansas’-'are‘supplied with 20,000,000 gallons of water daily, is believed to be the only wolnan city, waterworks manager in the United States. ■ _ ■\' • * [THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE—FAIR AND INDUSTRIAL' EDITION POISON AND PASTURES TO BECOME FACTORS IN DEFEATING THE WEEVIL The boll weevil certainly occupies the center of the stage. Other matters like the coal strike and the railroad strike may attract some attention, but even politics had to play a minor role in com petition with the boll weevil. He is the cause of two questions which ape being universally asked among farmers, how can we make a living with cotton? And how can we make a living without cot ton? Everyone is trying to find an answer to these questions. Every scheme for fighting the weevil, no matter how fantastic, can command attention; and every suggestion as to possible profits from other methods' of' farming tlian cotton growing receives careful consid eration. Methods of combating the wee vil which were years ago proved Worth less arc still being tried: and many farmers who have about abandoned all hope of growing .cotton successfully un der weevil conditions have plungpd or contemplate plunging on the growing of crops new to them, many of which arc risky because of their perishable nature and uncertainty of market or their un suitability to the soil and conditions where they are to be grown. But both questions have been answer ed the last sumn\er, and in such manner as to point the way not only to the de feat of the weevil but to the establish ment of the agriculture of this section on a basis of greater permanent prosperity than ever before. The two developments of the summer which answer the ques tions and which are believed to hold forth more hope for the continued pros perity of this section than laughing “which has ’ occurred for several years, are indicated in the headlines of this story, i. e., the extension of the poison and pastures. Armour aril Company, tlie packers, un dertook, under the supervision of Dr. R. H. J. DeT.oach, director of their bureau of research, to control the weevil under ordinary farming conditions on 800 acres of cotton grown near Arlington, Georgia, by a combination iff the meth ods of poisoning with calcium arsenate dust and picking and destroying of the sq unrest. The wonderful success achiev ed should be published to every farmer in this section, for it carries a message of hope and an assurance that the wee vil can be controlled. That the result will be so published is certain, for both the farm press anil the city and country newspapers alike have taksrn a deep in terest in the work at Arlington, and no one who has visited the fields where Dr. DeLoach has so successfully fought the weevil can have any doubt as to the value of the methods used. Dr. DeLoach states that it was not an experiment but a demonstration, the prime purpose of which was to make cot ton at a profit in spite of the weevil. Both the farming and the fighting of the weevil were done by ordinary share crop pers, with of course proper supervision of the work for the weevil destruction, but no change in the ordinary farming methods, although Dr. DeLoach states much improvement was possible and | would have resulted in considerably in- 1 creased yields. Therefore the work this | year is a practical demonstration of what \ may he done by a proper fight afcaiiist the weevil without other change iu the farming methods. It is true that a va- | riety of long staple cotton was used which will command a liberal premium in price over the ordinary short staple cotton. Os course Dr. DeLoach's reputa tion as a cotton breeder and expert nat urally explains that lie could not plant ordinary gin run seed when he knew so much jibout the value of good seed. No selection or only tlie good land was made, but land which was customarily planted to cotton by the tenants was us ed. Naturally this included some mighty poor land, which explains the range in | yield from so little as one-fifth of a bale to the acre to a bale and a half on the best land. The average yield will ex ceed a half bale per acre, and this is practically what would have been made on that land in a similar season before the weevil came. This does not mean that they prevented the weevil from de stroying any squares, for they had just as heavy infestation as in any of the fields of that section (many of which where nb fight was made will make prac tically no cotton), but the poison was used S and the squares picked up just when they should be, so that the loss of from natural causes and weevil damage combined was no greater than could be expected under ordinary conditions had there been no weevils present. The share cropper!* of course did tie labor, so the Actual cash outlay for the weevil fightr'was SI.BO per acre for 10 pounds of calcium arsenate, half of which was charged against the croppers. It is figured that had wage hands been aged, the total cost per acre, including labor, would have been under $4,2a. This work at Arlington certainly proves that cottou can be made successfully un der weevil conditions. Dr. DeLoach calls attention to the fact, however, that poisoning was less than half of the fight, and he gives the picking up of squares < credit for 60 per cent, and the poisoning credit for the other 40 per cent, of the 'control seeuted, and states that one without the other would not have obtara the same percentage of control. The other happening of the last season hieh is believed to carry a message of hone for the continued prosperity of this section is the amazing success of the 'permanent pastures seeded during 19-0 nnd 1921. and the ambition aroused 111 'thousands of farmers to have pastures lof their own equally as good. Tlie weevil will, as ho did in the states west of us, which lie hrst infest ed cause notable changes in our farming system, though by no means so radical Ins many believe when they have first suffered a serious damage from this pest. The weevil can in a, couple of years cause more diversification of crops thin was brought, about by more than twenty years of' preaching and teaching on the part of Hie government forces, the agricultural ‘r. - and? this enhances the iw cotton. evidence of success in rSg the weevU .ut Arlington. The Southern Cotton Oil* Company, in eon- S With the Virgiuia-Carolina Chem !?*, romnany and other organizations, £ 2X& testa in poisoning the > cases where results have not been all ■ that was hoped for, the cause was ucg ; lect in the picking up of squares in ad i dition to poisoning. . While conditions brought nbout by « the weevil will increase the cost of nnik > iug cotton and restrict the growing of r cotton to the richer lauds, cotton will nl- I ways be the foremost crop of this sec . tion, though it can no longer be grown to i the exclusion .of practically everything > else. • The conditions of the last couple of I years have proven the necessity for and i the value of raising more live stock, i While -live stock prices, like those of all . farm products, hHve not been so high as . during war-times, tlie farmer who has - had some hogs to sell or some cows to • milk has had so much more ready money 1 than the farmer without such live stock, . that the statement that live stock rais ■ ing is essential "to the permanent, pros-- ‘ perity of any farming section can no > longer be doubted. i That there is a widespread determina . tion to raise more live stock, is evidenc i ed by the interest being taken in grasses by farmers whose interest in grass three . years ago was entirely confined to meth ■ ods of killing it. Grass was classed . along with the boll weevil as a' menace • to cotton, nnd that was about all the i consideration given it. But now the farmer who wants to raise live stock i realizes that the right grass iu the right ■ place, i. e.. permanent pastures, is the ! cheapest source of feed for his sotek, and lie is not nol.v willing but eager to learn Jiow a good, permanent pasture may be made. The problem of permanent pastures for the Southeast has been definitely and positively solved within the last couple , of years. Less than five years ago, at a meeting called by the Georgia Land Owners Congress, held in the Hotel Sa vannah November 19, 1917, to consider the possibilities of the live stock indus try in that section,, which was attended by heads of departments ami bureaus of the United States Department of Agri , culture, the speakers stressed the neces sity for the Southeast producing its own live stock, and Dr. C. V. Piper, head of the bureau in charge of investi gation of forage crops anil grasses, stat ed that we hud no real permanent pas tures iu the Southeast but must have them if we hoped to succeed with live stock, but that the question as to what plants would give best results could not be definitely answered, as tests must be made of a number of plants before defi nite recommendations could be made. The agricultural department of the Central of Georgia Railway'believed this pasture problem, if solved, would enable "the Southeast to compete with other sec tions in live stock raising, and President Winburn authorized an appropriation for the carrying out of a plan to encourage the starting of permanent pastures. This plan had to be abandoned under the re strictions of government control which forbade an increase in expenditures for I railroad agricultural development work. This prevented the Central of Georgia | doing more than encouraging /in a gener ]nl way tlie efforts of the Georgia State 'College of Agriculture, which assigned Paul Tabor to tlie work of endeavoring Ito solve the pasture problem. At the end of government control, however, the plan was revised and the announcement was made that tlie Central of Georgia Railway Company was ready to spend SB,OOO to pay half the cost of establish ing a test pasture iii each of the counties it serves, provided a farmer could be found who had suitable land and was willing to contract to pioneer in making, for the benefit of himself and the farm ers of his county, a permanent pasture on 'his laud. In this work he was to fol- I low the recommendations of Mr. Tabor 'and the instructions of tlie railroad’s ag ricultural agents who were to have sup ervision of the making of a real pastuic by the methods which Mr. Tabor was confident would get results! There are now fifty-three test pastures established in as many counties, and in addition ten times ns many pastures have been started by other farmers who have followed tlie same instructions and rec ommendations as for the test pastures. These pastures have proven beyond anv possible doubt that low, moist land, such as can be found on practically ev ery farm (most of which is now classed as waste land and is earning nothing, or which has proved too wet to bo safe for crop production), can be seeded to I-es pedeza, carpet grass and Dallis grass for a liberal seeding, may he grazed contin uously from the time of seeding, anil will ‘the first season give sufficient grazing to more than pay for the cost of the seed, and beginning a year from (late of seeding will graze an average of one bead or more per acre from March until November. This is a grazing capacity as good as any pasture section of the United States can boast. The three plants named, all natives of other countries, are so adapted to our climate and conditions that they win fight their own way and if given a fair chance and grazed heavily, will wjttdn eighteen months crowd out all worthless native plants which have not their paya bility and food value, and which at best give- only a limited grazing seasoni com , pared with the eight to ten months of grazing from the Lespedeza, carpet grass 1 and Dallas Grass. ' The pasture problem is solved. -«e know what to do, and how to do it. Pas -1 tures such as have been described maj ‘ be established so easily and. at such comparatively little cost that no one who ! is in need of a pasture can afford to ' neglect starting one next spring ; pastures furnish fine grazing for H ’ K * 1 and sheep, as well as cuttle, an - large share of the profits from most o ■ the pastures come from the hogs wind ‘ graze them. . ' noting last July and August meetings ! werohetd oil the different test pastures,, i which were attended by interested farm ers from far and near, and whose who attended and saw the grasses and the ;■ conytiZ of the cattle and hogs which i : St SJ will W """“a , 25 tons of Lespedeza io tons carp vrass and five tons Dallas grass seen. 1 * The Ztuation set forth justifies the weevil on a smaller scale In the vicinity of each of their oil mills, and while a general report on results has not been seen, the reports of agricultural agents of the Central of Georgia, who have watched these tests at points in their territories are most encouraging and show satisfactory results in nearly every case; and it is believed that in the few belief that the rapidly growing interest in pastures is one of the big liappenings in the agricultural progress of this sec tion, and that it means much for the es tablishment of a live stock industry which will give us a permanently suc cessful system of agriculture. It is felt that this work for better pastures is laying the foundation on which a live stock industry will be built which Ran successfully compete with’ other sections of the United States and will enable the production of beef, milk, pork and mutton at a lower cost than jn sections ofr higher-priced land and Shorter grazing seasons. NEW INDUSTRIES ARE FLOCKING TO SOUTH (Continued) from Col. 3, Page 23.) ' This is (lie first of ten mills that are to be built by this company at various points. A second is contemplated sos Brownsville at an early date. An Oklahoma Mill. Oklahoma’s first mill for the,manufac ture of high-grade textiles was placed npder construction during the year at Sand Springs. The initial plant will be equipped with 12,000 spindles and 230 looms. If the operation of the mill is successful, the company has plans for other units, such as finishing plants; dye works and hosiery mills. Among the important mills upon which construction was finished or be guu during 1022, the following may be mentioned: At. Gastonia, N. C., the Art Cloth Mills, for N - the manufacture of! print goods; the Uuguu Spinning Company, capital 500.000, 6,000 spin dles : addition to the Loray mills, $75,- 000; Flint Mill No. 2; and work was resumed on the Priscilla Spinning Com pany plant. 12,000 spindles. Plant No. 1, of the Dixie Spinning company’s big. development at Chattanooga, was com pleted and installed with 14,000 spin dles. Contract was immediately let for nine other two-story mill units; the whole to cost $6,000,000. The Watts Spinning company, at Tay lorsville, N. C„ was completed at an investment' of $350,000. Work was be gun on the Lowell bleaehery, Griffin, Ga.; $600,000; the McLin Cotton Mills, at, Rome, Gn„ $75,000; the Cash Manufac turing Company, Blacksburg, S. C., 5.000 psindles; the Alta Vista mills, Alta Vis ta. Va.: 13.356 spindles and 300 looms, $385,000: the Nelson Cotton mills, Le noir. N. C„ 6,000 spindles; the Virginia Woolen company, 32 looms, Winchester, Va.; the Ware Shoals Manufacturing company, Ware Shoals, S. C.. a bleaeh ery having 800,000 yards weekly ekpac ity, a bag factory having 110,000 bags daily capacity, and a steam plant, the whole costing $1,000,000; the Dixie mills, Mooresville. N. C.. 1.500 additional spin dles : the Patterson mills, Rosemary, N. C., $45,000: the SpindaldvMills company, Spindale, N. C.. 5.000 additional spin dles; the .Tudson mills. Greenville, S. C.. 600 additional looms. $700,000; the Lo la Gingham mills, Stanley, N. C„ 250 additional looms; the Victor-Monagahan company, Greer, S. C-. cloth room addi tion ; the Bowling Green Spinning mills, Bowling Green, S. C., 5,000 additional spindles. New developments announced for 1023. in addition to the Pacific mills, Appleton mills and Lockwood Green developments already referred to, include a new com pany at Wades boro, N. C., to erect three buildings and make half a million invest ment : the Lumberton Cotton mills, Lumbertou, N. (’., 60 additional looms. $750,000: the Dover Mills company, Shelby. N. C., 11,000 spindles and 250 looms; the Shepard Mills company, at Hickory. X. C„ $200,OOf); the Groves mills. Gastonia. N. C., 15,000 spindles; the Republic Cotton mills: Great Falls, S. C„ 1,000 looms, $1,500,000; the May mills. Cramerton. N. C., a weaving mill, $200,000; the Calhoun Mills, Calhoun Falls. S. (’., $600,000; expansion; the Southern Bleaehery, Taylors, S. C., cap ital $1,000,000, new plant having 1.250,- (XK> yards per week; Cherokee Spinning company, Knoxville, Tenn., addition of 252 looms and other extensions, $500,000; the Robbins Knitting company,. High Point. N. f C., 135 machines, $75,000; the Norcott mills, Concord, N. C., 5,000 new spindles; an addition to the Entwis tle Manufacturing company’s plant at Rockingham, N. C., $900,000. New Steel Plants. The constantly mounting importance of the southern field in the manufacturof iron and steel was emphasized during the year by new plants and improvements totaling many millions of dollars. The Ashland Iron and Mining company, of Ashland, Ivy., recently taken over by the American Rolling Mill company, wijl un dergo great expansion under the new management,, including the construction of a finishing wolds to cost $6,000,000, which would give the plant a monthly capacity of 20,000 tons of finished prod uct. The Light on the Hill. Charlotte Observer. v The Norcott Mill, one of the Oha«. W. Johnston chain, is located on a high hill overlooking the town of Concord. It is a commanding position and Editor Kestler. of The Concord Observer, is moved to suggest that the mill manage ment place an electric sign over it. sim ilar to the great blazer at the Cannon mills, in Kannapolis. He says the light from such a sign would be visible “in both Concord and .Charlotte” —and the latter city Is 20 miles from the location. The sign at Kannapolis indicating “the largest towel factory in the world,” is not only a delight to the people passing through the town, but it is an advertise ment talked of by the people ns they go their way over the country. If we could get Johnston to sleep on the proposition a night or two, possibly he might do it. And by the same token, the owners of tall buildings in Charlotte might burn a little money in an electric light on toy of their flag poles. A light over the In dependence Trust Company’ home would be clearly sefn from Grandfather Moun tain,-80/miles as the crow flies, and 118 aVMeJhuto goes. A giobe oiVtop of all Charlotte's tall 'buildings, iiftiuding the new hotel, might serve as lights for the towns within 20 miles. Reykjavik, the capital of Iseland, may be heated by means of hot water from the natural hot springs near the town, thus doing away with the use of coal. ||| Shop Here » ' If you are not already a customer of ours you will be surprised how much time and money you will save if you make this store your shopping headquarters. 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CJ / i SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM j Arrival anil Departure of PnaxenKer Tralna, Concord, N. C. LV. NO. BETWEEN NO. AR. 1:«0A 30 New York-Blrmingham I 30 140A: 3:S7A 29 Birmingham-New York 1 29 2 37A B:12A 44 Wasbington-Atlanta I 44 5 12A 6:82A 31 Atlanta-New Y'ork 31 # 32A 8:41A 137 Atlanta-New York 137 S-41A 9:25A 11 Chariotte-Norfolk-Riehmonfl 11 9 2RA 10:55A 35 New York-Bitmingham-New Orleans 36 10-55A 7:10P 12 Norflolk-Richmond-Atlanta 13 7-10 P S:2OP 45 Washtngton-CharJotte 45 R-20P 3:45P 46 Cliarlotte-Danville 46 3-45P -8:18P 32 t New York-Augucta 32 8 IBR 10:20P 35 Birmingham-New.- Orleans-New York 35 lfl : 2oF< 9:4)1P 138 ; New York-Atlanta 138 9:45P 9:31P 135 Washington-Atlanta * | 135 | 9 31PI • Through Pullman sleeping car service ••to Washington, Philadelphia, Newi York, Richmond, Norfolk, Atlanta, Birmingham, Mobile, New Orleans. Unexcelled service, convenient schedules-artd direct connections to all points- Schedules published as Information find ate not guaranteed. R. H. 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