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Late Fall Plowing.
Id a large portion of our terri
tory there ie coueiderable fall
plowing yet to be done, and ou a
good many farm* the teaui* will
be kept occupied until the
grouuu freezes up. You can huek
the corn in freezing weather. Y'ou
can't plow then.
The advantages of fall plowing
are so great and obvious that as
much plowing as possible, par
ticularly of sod ground, should
be done in the fall. We would
not hesitate to plow sod in the
fall, even if it wtre quite wet, a
method which is not at all per
missible in the spring of the
year, especially on heavy land.
The reason why wet fall plowing
is permissible is that in sections
where there is heavy freezing this
will disintegrate it no matter
how wet it is when plowed.
In spring plowing we have al
ways urged our readers to har
row before they unhitch, when
ever a shortage of moisture is to
be anticipated, or where the
ground is a little wettish, or
lump formation is likely. This
would be bad policy iu plowing.
The object iu spring plowing is
merely to loosen up the soil, but
also to conserve moisture, and
to get the ground in proper
physical condition. If it is
plowed a little too wet and not
harrowed immediately, lumps
will form, and the crop is liable
to suffer for lack of moisture.
The object of plowing in the
fall is to put the soil in such
condition that heavy freezing
will go far to put the ground in
proper physical condition. There
fore don't harrow ufter fall plow
iug. I^eave your land rougu, so
that the frost can do its complete
work.?Wallace's Farmer.
Scarcity of Farm Help.
An Iowa subscriber wiitesus,
wanting to know liow to get all
the work doue up that ought to
be doue on the farm before winter
sets in, when he cannot hire help
and can not do it hims?lf.
We wish we could answer this1
question satisfactorily either to
ourselves or to our readers. We
can give no auswer tuat will be
of any immediate help. We can,
however, make two or three sug
gestions for future use:
First: Adopt a rotation which
will distribute the work as evenly
as possible throughout t he year.
The greatest complaint comes to
us from sections which grow a
large acreage of corn. If a rota
tion of grass, small grain, and
corn was adopted, which will
give less corn to husk in the fall
but larger yields, it will do a
great deal to solve this labor
problem.
Second: If you can buy labor
saving machinery that will in
crease the efficiency of the hand,
whether the owner or hired hand,
throw away the machinery you
have, or sell it to some person j
who wants something cheap, and
buy machinery that will have!
the greatest efficiency. One can,
safely increase the amount of
horses, especially if he keeps
brood mares, if by so doing he
can lessen the amount of manual
labor.
To which we might add a
thiiJ suggestion: Substitute as
far as possible brain work for
hand work. This will lead to a
favorable consideration of the
two foregoing suggestions.?
Wallace's Farmer.
A Short Apple Crop.
Apples will be apples this year,
due to a shortuge over almost
the entire country. The Orange i
Judd Farmer, which gives especial
attention to crop statistics, esti
mates the Fnited States crop fo;
1905 at 23,4115,000 barrels, to
be compared with 45,300,000
barrels for last year. 42,020 in
1903, and 46,025,000 in 1902.
In round numbers, therefore, we |
have just about half the apple
crop of last year. The high price
is limiting the export, and will
also very seriously interfere with
home consumption.?Wallace's
Farmer.
If you art* troubled with indigestion,
constipation, sour stomach, or any I
other pain, llolllster's llocky Mountain i
Tea will make you well and keep you <
well. 8." rents. Tea or Tablets. 8?'ima I
Drug Co., A. II. Boyett, Druggist. 1
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Hold for Fifteen Cents.
New Orleans, Nov. 20.?I'resi
ilent Harvie Jordan, of The
Southern Cotton Association,
has issued the following procla
mation and form of agreement
with the object of securing to the
farmer the highest practical price
for the remainder of this year's
small cotton crop. He suggests
that toe farmers of each locality
diecuss the matter among them
selves, sign up the agreement for
the holding of as much cotton as
they can afford to take off the
market, using the form of agree
ment as below, and mail same
to the Southern Cotton Associa
tion at Atlanta, Ga., as soon as
possible:
FORM OF AGREEMENT.
We, the following named citi
zens of l'ost Office
County State, hereby
a-tree to use every power at our
command to hold t he number of
bales of cotton stuted opposite
orr respective names for 90 days
from date and refuse to sell any
of said cotton within that time
for less than fifteen cents per
pound, b tsis middling, at our
market It- nts:
The name of all signatures will
be confidential and none given
out to the public by the Associa
tion, only the aggregate num
ber of bales from each county
held.
Name? l'ost office? State
No. Hales
PROCLAMATION.
Mr. Jordan's Proclamation to
the farmers follows:
To all holders of spot cotton:
It is now definitely ascertained
from all reliable sources, includ
ing the Department of Agricul
ture at Washington, I). C., that
the present crop of cotton will
be in the neighborhood of only
ten million bales. Half the crop
has been sold around ten cents
An unpreceedented demand exists
for the balance of this cop,
which, if sold at fifteen cei.ts.
would average the price to the
mills at only 12%c. We must tie
un at least three million bales at
once to convincethecotton world
that we mean business. If this
is done the market will advance
to our figure. The Southern
Cotton Association, therefore
asks all spot holders who are
able to do so to subscribe to the
pledge.
HARVIE JORDAN.
Do not be deceived by counterfeits
when you buy Witch Hazel Salve. The
name of K. C DeWitt & Co. is on every
box of the genuine. Pfles In their worst
form will soon pass away if you will
apply DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve night
and morning. Best for cuts, Burns,
Boils, Tetter, Eczema, etc. Sold by
Benson Drug Co., .1. H. l.edbetter and
Hood Bros.
Will It be Severe Winter?
One of the so-called eigne of a
severe winter, according to our
weather prophets, is the migrat
ing of squirrels southward. They
are said to be crossing the Ohio
river in large numbers. It is said
they carrv chips and sticks to
float them over. They must
havesense or instinct to tell them
to set ou their voyages on a day
when the wind blows from the
north. One of our farmer boys
says: "They use their tails for
sails." Maybe so, but they must
have the wind in the right direc
tion.
Another sign of a cold winter
they give is that the wild ducks
and geese are flying southward
in great numbers; but they al
ways do that about this time of
the year. We have as good a
right to prophesy as anyone,
and we predict a mild winter,
and our reason is that the past
two years have been rather
severe, and it is time for Nature
to balance accounts by giving us
a mild one. Hut we advise all
our readers to have plenty of
good dry wood, or a big . pile of
coal, on hand, all the same. We
have no more faith in our own
prediction than we have in that
of that of the squirrel men. No
body knows.?Indiana Farmer.
Pain may go by the name of rheumo
tiam, neuralgia, lumbago, pleuray. No
matter what name the pains are called,
Hollister'a Kocky Mountain Tea will
irive them away. .'I* cents, Tea or Tab
eta. A. H. Boyett, Druggist, Selma
brttg Co.
Farmers Must Look Higher.
The time has come waen farm
ers aDd the business men gener
ally of the south must look high
er than 10 cents as the orice for
the great staple product of this
section of the American union
J What, is 10 cents when manufac
turers are running their plants
night and day. spinning cloth on
a basis of 1-i cents for the raw
material, and when, too, tbe.v
are running from six to twelve
months behind their orders? lr
! 10 cents a pound high or reason
I able for cotton when the price of
all other necessary supplies on
the farm have ad vanced from 200
'I to 400 per cent in the past few
years? Is it not right that cot
! ton, the great staple product of
America, and the currency of the
south, should begin to take its j
place in line with all other prod
ucts and commodities that have
in recent years so materiallv ad- j
J vanced in value. Why should!
the producers of this valuable
liber, upon which the whole civi
lized world depends for clothing, j
be content to accept the bare
. cost or at best a small profit
i over the cost of productiou aud
permit the great profits in the
staple to be later divided out
among those who handle it after
it passes from the hauls of those
who grow it? We have followed
| this system for forty years, and
the time for a change has come.
The foreign spinner and the
"bear" speculator have had their !
inning long enough. Ten cents
per pound in the face of existing
| conditions is too small. The|
heavy expense of growing the
crop should entitle the farmers
I to higher prices, and they can
get it by standing firm, bracing
up their backbone and demand
ing better prices for the product
of their labor.
SOME VALUA11LE STATISTICS
Fully 70 per cent of the people
who grow cotton in the south
are either tenants or crop
pers. Only about 30 per cent
are land owners. Hence nearly
three-fourths of the cropisgrown
by poor people, that is, people j
who own no realty and but little [
personal property. The average
production of cotton to the fami
ly is five bales Now suppose a
farmer who produces the five
bales with the labor of himself
and family sells his cotton at ten
cents per pound and pays ac- i
counts made to make the crop ?
and has a net profit of ten dol
lars to the bale left, that will
amount to only fifty dollars
profit on the year's work for
bimself and all the members of
his family. So that if the aver
age family can produce cotton
at a net cost of 8 cents per pound
and sells it for 10 cents, where
does the big profit come in?
Where is it possible for the head
of the family to buy any luxuries
for his wife and daughters or to
beautify the home or to properly
educate the children. The profit
on cotton at even ten cents to
the average family is ridiculous
ly small. No other business
would be satisfied on that basis
even in competition, and the
south has no competitor in the
production of cotton.
We control an absolute mo- j
nopoiy ot tne staple and until
our people wake up and appre- j
ciate what they have and learn
how to sell it to the best advan
tage they will never enjoy the
blessings that have been so pro
fusely showered on them by our j
Creator. This thing of dumping
the crop on the market as fast
as it is ginned will always mean
much lower prices than the cot
| ton is worth. This thing of
| planting ali cotton and making
all debts and having no bank
accounts and no corn cribs or
smokehouses except in the back
j room of a supply merchant's
[ store is poor business.
Plant only whrat you can culti
vate well. Don't increase your
j cotton acreage for 1906 above
1 what you planted in 1905. Make
your farms self-sustaining and
get out of debt. We have been
poverty-stricken long enough.
Sell what you do raise for a high
price and quit grumbling about
hard times. We make the times
by our own acts, good or bad.
Cotton is not high at 15 cents in
the face of a shortcrop and those
who bold a few months longer
will find that I am dealing in
facts and not hot air.
Harvie Jordan.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Tike LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
TABLETS. All druggists refund the
money If It fails to cure.
E. W. Grove's signature Is on each
box. 2 So.
Every subscriber who pays his
subscription one year in advance *
will be given a Turner's North
Carolina Almanac 1906
The Workman.
This Is the work of my hands:
To be but a cog in the wheel,
A strand in the cable that hauls;
To do and to do. not to feel,*
To toil till the last curtain falls.
Yet ever the toiler is blest
Who sees the fair vision unroll,
Interprets the dream half expressed.
Fee is the work of his hands with his
soul!
This is the work of my hands:
These monsters that furrow the deep
And baffle the power of the sea
Were given the sinews to leap.
Were bolted and forged by me;
These webs of miraculous steel
Outspun from the shore to the shore
My nerve and endurance reveal;
1 rolled them and wove them and bore.
This is the work of my hands:
To drudge, but in spirit be free;
Eat bread by the sweat of my brow
In accord with the ancient decree.
Yet labor with courage endow;
To know that, though meager the gain
While justice sows many a Haw,
In spite of distrust and disdain.
We are rising, and under the law.
This is the work of my hands:
To cherish the law of the land.
The shield that we've wrung from our
foe;
Ennoble the rights we demand
14y the honor and faith we bestow.
For brother am I to all.
The helpless ones and the great;
Together we rise or we fall.
Free workers within a free state.
?Robert Bridges in Collier's Weekly.
A Cough Syrup which driven a c< Id
out of the system by acting as a cathar
tic on the bowels is offered in Kennedy's
Laxative Honey and Tar. Clears the,
throat, strengthens the lungs *nd bron
chial tubes. The mother's friend and
the children's favorite. Bjst for Croup.
Whooping-Cough, etc. Sold by J. K.
Ledbetter, Hood B oh. and Benson
Drug Co.
You will find th?' Irvm Drew,
fine dret*8 shoew for ladies hr, W.
(i. Yelvington'e Kverv
f-Cuir warranted to give natmfacj
tion.
Get a bottle of A. II. B'b Rheu
matic Cure and be cured. A. H.
Boyett, the druggist.
You will find a nice line of
Ladies' Skirts, Waist, Cloaks, i
Jackets and capes at W. G.
Yelvington's store, very nice
and cheap.
Every ounce of food ymi ent that fails
to digest does a pound of harm. It turns
the entire meal into po son. This not
only deprives the blood of the necessary
tissue-building material, but it poisons
it. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Is a perfect
digestant. It digests the food regard
less of the condition of the stomach. It
allows that organ to rest and get s roug
again. Kelieves Belching, Heart Burn,
Hour Stomach, Indigestion, Palpitation
of the Heart, etc. Sold by Benson Drug J
Co., Hood Bros, and J. K. Ledbetter.
V\ hen your bike in wick come
to Peacock's Hospital. Sundries |
at your own price. New wheels j
cheap. See us.
R. C. Peacock & Co.
Just received nice line Hack- j
ney, Rock Hill, Hughes and Bab
cock buggies. Ellington Buggy
Co.
Why do you buy shoes at ad
vanced prices, when you can
buy them at VY. G. Yelvington's
store, at the old price? Large
stock to select from.
When in need of all kinds
sewing machine needles, bands,
oil, &c., see Hood Bros. Read
our big ad elsewhere in this pa
per.
WANTED?10,000 pounds scrap
iron. It. C. Peacock & Co.
Just received one solid car load
of Thornhill wagons. Ellington
Buggy Co.
The Herald office will take
your subscriptidta tor any paper
or magazine published in the
United States.
On September 1st Mr.
Milton R. Stallings came
to Smithfield to help me
again this fall in selling
Sewing Machines. We
have the machines just
from the factory and
are ready to carry them
out to you. Let us
know at once if you
want one.
New Home
and Domestic ^
J. M. BEATY.
Smithfield. N. C.
Insurance! Insurance!!
Real Estate! Real Estate!!
I represent a number of the stro >gest Fire Insurance Com
panies in America, and can protect Tour property from lo s by
Fire at a small coat, tiinneriea UQd Farm property a specialty.
Heal Estate, both Farm and Town Property bought and sold.
If you want to sell or bur a borne in Johnston Co., I can
handle your Keal Estate to an advantage.
S. T. Honeycutt,
Jj Buggies, Wagons and $
S HARNESS $
% We are prepared to suit the public in lingeries, Wagons a!
and all kinds of Harness. ' We sell the Hackney, the 5?
\V Parker, the Hummer and other well-known makes of W
viy buggies. We have tbem in stock, not to keep but to sell,
and ask all who trade at Benson to call and examine our ff\
stock. Will sell for cash or on time.
* G. W. & P. B. JOHNSON,
\it BENSON, N. C. T
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/ PAINT
IjgL j, FILMS
\ \ ilwJ"* ! The paint you put on r^ir
, 5 WW your house should be VtlS mm M >? I
-W TV , j&: a protecting film that IdKi 1
'r ^ will stay on and keep L
decay out.
Some mixtures, called paint, never do this, others do it some
times, but
The Sherwin-Williams Paint
does it always.
It is the best protection you can give your house. It does
not powder, flake off or crack. It forms a tough, durable film
that will last longest and look best.
sold by
J. E. PAGE=
General Wood and Blacksmith Shops and Planing Mills.
Dealer in Wagon and Carriage Material, Builders' Material,
Mill Supplies, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Etc.
Undertaking a Specialty. Clayton, N. C.
all Trade
We have for the Fall Trade Cooking and Heating
Stoves and Majestic Ranges. These Ranges are
superb in their equipment. Guns, Loaded Shells
and ammunition. Devoe's and Kurfee's Paints,
Lead, Oil and Varnishes. Carpenter's Tools and
Farm Implements. Sash, Doors and other [build
ing material. Rubber, Leather and Canvass belt
ing, and other Mill Supplies. Royal Washing Ma
chines. Boys Wagons and Velocipedes. Johnston
harvesting Machinery, which is as good as the
best and cheaper. Call to see us.
CLAYTON HARDWARE
COMPANY
C. W. CARTER, Proprietor.
You Have
The Horse
You have the horse, but what is he
worth by himself? When you think of
using him remember we have a full line of
Buggies, Harness and Saddles
in different styles and at prices to suit
everybody ? ,
D. E.
HcKinne
Princeton, N. C.
Is it O n- you want
m rinting ????????
Direct it to THE HERALD Smithfield