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Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the SandhiU Territory of No
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Address all communications to
THE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N. C
FRIDAY, FEB* 11, 1927.
MOORECOUNTY
FARM NOTES
The ‘Cow, the Sow and the Hen^
Program Has Put Many
Counties on their Feet
WILLROGEaiS
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Are your cows producing satisfac
tory results or are they doing as a
great many others in the county, pro
ducing about one gallon and a half of
milk per day? This condition can be
remedied by taking the cows that we
now have on hand and breeding them
to purebred bulls. In a great many
cases cows of this type look like pure-
breds and production of milk has
been almost doubled. This is some
thing that we need to think about.
Monday of last week Mr. Charlie Ki-
vett, of Carthage, purchased a high
bred Guernsey bull which he now has
on his farm and which has attracted
quite a bit of attention. This I hope
is going to be the beginning of a nice
piece of cattle development work in
the county. There are prospects for
two or maybe three more at the pres
ent time. It cost no more to raise a
calf which, when grown will give
three or four gallons of milk than it
does a scrub that will give no more
than a gallon and a half to two gal
lons. If we are going to raise milk
cows then let us raise some good
ones. The “Cow, the Sow and the
Hen” program has put a good many
counties in Georgia on their feet. If
this program is good for Georgia it
will certanly benefit us some too.
Good Profits In Hogs.
Have you any pigs on hand that
you do not care to carry over until
fall? Pigs that will now weigh be
tween 50 and 80 pounds can be made
to weigh 150 pounds or more and put
in a car to move from here some time
in April. There are several who have
a few pigs and we are getting up a
co-operative car. Gains in most cases
can be put on for about eight cents
per pound and hogs on foot during
April will in all probability sell for
about 13 to 14 cents per pound. In
some cases the prices have been even
better than this. Grow a few more
acres of com this year and sell it to
hogs this fall.
Hogs properly fed and cared for
have paid as high as $2.06 per bushel
for com that was fed to them. Can
you get this much anywhere else for
your corn?
A complete report of some of the
work done in North Carolina can be
seen at the office if you are interest
ed. During this period of depression
hogs are a mighty good money crop
and are much safer than cotton.
Lime for Tobacco,
Orders are still being taken for
magnesium lime. This form of lime
has proven highly beneficial for to
bacco. It can be delivered here for
about $6.25 per ton in good strong
paper bags. It has also given equally
good results on corn and small grain.
A car will possibly be made up for
Vass or Cameron within the next
week, so get your order in now.
Two-Day Terracing School.
Some time during the latter part of
February a terracing school will be
conducted here at the Court House if
there is sufficient interest in the
work. Realizing that it will be an
impossibility for one man to do all
the terracing work that needs to be
done in the county we are going to
try to work it out on this basis. Each
man who enrolls for the course will
be asked to buy his own instrument.
These can be purchased through State
College now for $20 each. These in
struments can be easily paid for by
doing work for your neighbors at odd
times. In other places communities
have purchased an instrument togeth
er and sent one man to take the
course. He then as his part in the
instrument can do the surveying for
the community. The course will last
for two days and will include both
field and class work. Mr. Holman, ex
tension engineer, will conduct the
school and there will be absolutely no
charge for the course.
Talk this over with your neighbors
and get your name on the list at once.
NUMBER
olina
Appearing at the Carolina Theatre, Pinehurst, Wednesday Night, February 16th, 1927.
Do not let winter rains in a month
or two carry away the fertility from
your soil which you strive so hard
all during the year to put into it. Ac
cording to government figures we lose
six times as much fertility from
washing each year as it takes to pro
duce our crops. Land which is prop
erly terarced does not suffer as much
during dry weather as that which is
not properly teraced.
E. H. GARRISON, JR.,
County Agent.
Reserved Seats at Southern Pines
For ‘The Night of Love.”
WATER SHORTAGE
GROWS SERIOUS
Wells and Springs Failing
Steadily and Prospect
Bad
On account of the unusual demand
which there will be for seats for the
United Artists* Production of “The
Night of Love” with Vilma Banky
and Ronald Coleman, on Saturday
night and to avoid the necessity of
being at the theatre when the doors
open in order to get the choice of
seats, patrons may reserve their seats
in advance at the Broad Street Phar
macy. These tickets will go on sale
Thursday morning at 9.00.
“The Night of Love” was held over
for a second week at the Strand Thea
tre, New York, on account of the de
mand for seats and it is unquestion
ably the finest picture these two noted
stars have ever appeared in.
Matinee Only of “Let It
Rain” at Pinehurst.
On account of the engagement of
Will Rogers, the world^s greatest en
tertainer, at Pinehurst on Wednesday
night, February 16th, the Douglas
McLean United States Marine Com
edy, “Let It Rain,” will be shown
there for the matinee only at 3:00
p. m.
Here^s an easily made winter jam:
Soak 1 pound of dried apricots over
night in 1 pint of water. In the
morning, chop them and add 1 cup of
sugar. Drain the slices of pineapple
from No. 3 cans, cut them into very
small pieces, and cook with 2 2-3 cups
of sugar for 20 minutes. Add the
apricots and cook for 25 minutes.
Watch while cooking as the niixture
scorches easily. Seal while hot in
sterilized jars, j
All over North Carolina the water
shortage is J^ecoming serious, and
the outlook is not good. In Moore
county the problem is acute in many
quarters, and the point has been
reached where dependence on rain is
not encouraging. Vass is feeling the
shortage keenly, and the country in-
; habintants are in unhappy predica
ment, while some of the other vil
lages are at their wits end. Pinehurst
I and Southem Pines have made pro-
I vision for . an abundant supply by
building extensive water plants, and
that area from Southern Pines to
Pinehurst, including Knoll wood, is
not worrying, for in a pinch if either
town should meet wth temporary dif
ficulty it could quickly connect with
the other and thus fortify itself un
til proper arrangements could be
made. But both these places have
been farsighted enough to look to
the future and to build in accordance.
It has taken money, but the people
have been courageous enough to pro
vide it, and the wisdom is seen now.
Vass has been debating about a
water plant for a long time, but is
still hoping that rains will swell the
waters and put off the expensive step
I that to some folks seems imperative.
I Niagara seems to be fortified so far,
but Carthage is having grave trouble.
The springs there are down to a point
where the people have decided to take
action and Thursday night they meet
to discuss the pressing problem.
For half a dozen years the normal
rainfall has been lacking, and we are
now several feet short of the usual
fall. As a consequence the ground is
no longer saturated up to the level of
the springs which supply much of the
county, and in many wells the water
level has fallen befcw the bottom of
the well. Old residents say they nev
er knew the wrings and wells to be as
low or as dry as thk winter. And
the unfortunate prospect is that as
the ground has been drained of its
stored water during the last half doz
en years it will take not only a normal
fall of rain throughout the present
year to wet the ground below the
surface, but to bring conditions up to
the normal saturation that has pre
vailed we should have this year as
much rain as falls naturally in more
than two years, a prospect that is
highly improbable.
The general impression is that the
prudent man carries his umbrella in
a dry day, or rather that he who
thinks he will need water in the fu
ture is about the place where it is
time to provide for it. Nobody seems
to have any logical theory for the
steady decline in rainfall for the last
few years, but it is pretty well real
ized that it will take a great amount
of rain the next three or four years
to get back to the normal saturation
of the ground, and to safe dependence
on the old wells and springs.
DANGEROUS FIRES
WERE NUMEROUS
TELLS
OF REFORMERS
Cleveland Man Talks to Ejwanis
Club About Prominent
Men
At the Kiwanis dinner Wednesday
at the Pinehurst country club the
question of the Farm Life School
came up and the membership voted
in favor of a resolution to back the
school, and to ask the county author
ities to submit to the voters a plan
to take over the school and incorpor
ate it in the county school system,,
and if necessary issue $40,0tJ0 bonds
for that purpose. The matter was
vigorously discussed and many sug
gestions offered, but in the main the
sentiment was favorable to the work
the school is doing,
H. H. Johnson, of Cleveland, a man
well known in Pinehurst, was
speaker of the day, and he talked
about some reformers and reforms.
He began with Walter Page, a stu
dent at Johns Hopkins university in
the early day of that institution, and
how the young man cante back?io
North Carolina to do newspaper
work and incidentally to introduce
some reforms. One of the first
things he did after he established his
paper in Raleigh was to renvark
about the stupidity of some of the
controversies that arose in religious
matters, and that week he lost half
of his circulation. Soon after when
he criticised the immaculateness of
the democratc party he lost the other
half, and about the only reader of his
paper left was himself. Then he
went to New York and joined the
New York World, and for the time
ceased to reform North Carolina. But
Walter Page continued to be a re
former, and died one of the great
nf^o1utionif»t!« of the world, and one
of the powerful leaders along the
lines that lead toward righteousness
and progress.
Mr. Johnson talked of Mark Hanna,
the most perfect example of a bus
iness man in politics, and the typo
of politics the big busness man of
Hanna's day procured for ths coun
try. He also reverted to Tom John
son, a reformer along social lines,
and the father of many of the re
forms that have been introduced in
municipal matters and utilities. The
Van Swearingens were another
bunch that started with nothing and
now are among the powerful financial
leaders of this country, and men of
millions. His story was interest
ing, and like all hs talk was receved
with the hghest enthusasm.
This has been a right good winter
to burn the grass in the Sandhills and
many cautious farmers took advant
age of the opportunity to make their
lands and buildings safe. The fire
wardens in some neigjiborhoods took
charge of the work of getting rid of
the accumulated combustible grass,
and little harm resulted on such oc
casions. It is said that conditions are
better in many parts of the county
now than for a long time, and with
the increasing of cleared lands and
the subduig of the wire grass it is
thought the risks from grass fires are
growing less each year.
But in some places fires got out
from the usual spring causes, and
over around Jackson Springs, and in
the vicinity of Vass considerable fire
has been visible during the last week
or two. In much of the area in this
immediate vicinity the hot summer
fires n the last year or two disposed
of much of the inflammable material
on the ground, and lessened the dan
ger this year, but in other places ip
the county where grass has been al
lowed to accumlate the fires have
been rather fierce. How much dam
age has been done to growing trees is
not yet known, but probably not so
If canned beans in glass have been
frozen they may be used provided
freezing did not break the jars or
loosen the seal in any way so as to
cause the product to spoil. All canned
vegetables should be boiled for five
minutes after the jars are opened,
before being served in any way.
A blackboard hung in the kitchen is
helpful for noting down supplies
needed, the menu when different ones
are to prepare part of it, errands to
be done, or interesting family events
to be announced. It makes some of
the routine work more fun and less
drudgery to assign it to different ones
by means of a bulletin board.
much as is always estimated at first,
for it takes a lot of fire to really kill
the pines. Losses to buildings have
amounted to some thousand dollars
throughout the grass territory.
The rains in a way were timely, for
they checked the fires that had got
out without supervision of the war
dens or the landowners, and that
gives the people a chance to regain
their grip on the situation, Sunday
and Monday the air was dense mth
smoke, aetllng aver-,the, ground from
aU direciidnal Tueffdiisr tlie situation
cleared of smoke, and with the ground
wet again it will.be easier to control
the fires, and to bui!ii such otlier plots
of grass a» the farmers x may desire
to get rid of.
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