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i Devoted to the Interest of Those Who >t, I. V Till the Soil m ? CONDUCTED BY J. M. BEATY A j X * ^ THE WIDTH OF ROWS. It is dow row running time and we consider this a very important matter. Careful observation and experience has taught us thatou upland live feet is the best dis tance for corn rows. Then plant the corn in the rows three feet apart on poor land, two and a half feet on better laud and two feet on improved land. To have corn further upart than this is a waste of time on the part of the farmer as he has to go over too much land to make a bushel ot corn. To have it nearer than two feet in the rows except on low grounds and bottom places might prove a mistake in case of a dry season. Hut in all cases the rows should be as much as live feet wide. Cotton rows should be .'1, HJi, <1%, to 4 feet according to the condition of the lund and the amount of manure to be used. Very few farmers in this Bection have their rows wide enough. We have no cotton rows nearer than four feet apart and on high ly improved laud they are four and a half feet. No farmer who follows the intensive system of farming can afford to have ^>ws less than four feet apart. Re member it is not the number of stalks in a field that counts but the number of bolls. STUMP PULLERS. For years we have made it a rule to get up soinestuinpsevery winter ami spring. We do this with hands working by the month and occasionally we can get some help from those who do the work for a certain price per stump. In cases of this kind we count the stumpsbeforethe work begins so there may be no mis understanding. We do not con sider land fully cleared until the stumps are taken out. Farm machinery cannot be used to much advantage where they are. We have been getting them out the old way but would like to find an easier way if possible. We have seen several kinds of stump {pullers advertised but have been a little afraid of them. If we buy or advise others to buy we would like to find out which is the best one on themar ket. We have heard that stump pullers have been used in differ ent parts of this county recently. We want those who have used them to write us about them giving the cost, the place where they can be bought and how they work. Tell all about them and we Bball be glad to print the information in these columns. BUYING PATENT RIGHTS. It is a pleasure to kuow that the people are not throwing awaj so much money now an formerly in the purchase of patent rights They are becoming every yeai better informed and are not sc easily taken in|by every sharpei who passes along. It is surpris ing that so much money has been wasted this way on patenl churns, patent gates, patenl fences and many other patents People thought they saw for tunes in these things until aftei their money was gone and the} began to try to do something with the patent rights. Sorut bought township rights, othen county rights and some ever went so far as to invest in state rights. The money that was paid was clear money to the sellei and usually a clear waste to the buyer, it is strange that a far mer will decide suddenly and without taking time to think over the matter to go into some /tber business just because a man comes along and advises him to do bo. If a man hap something in which there is a ( fortune it seems to us he would manufacture it and well it himself 1 and not travel over the country to eell the right and let some- | body else make the fortuue. I* i is u safe rule to let patent rights alone. Not one in a hundred will 1 turn out anything to the pur chaser. ( THE SOUTHEHN COTTON ASSOCIA TION Every Cotton Grower and Every _ i Person Dependent Upon Cotton Should Aid and Join the Association. Why do you hesitate in joining the Association? Is it because cotton is no higher?not yet eleven cents? Or are you afraid j to "tamper" with so big a thing ?fearful "something will break I loose up North"? Suppose cotton gets no higher, is it not already a good price? Let us examine statistics and compare present prices with J those prevailing in the past, tak ing the average prices paid in the New York market for the years mentioned. In the year 1891 cotton averaged H.OOo per M> 1892 " 7.7Io 1893 ?? 8.6tfc 1894 " 6.94c 1895 " 7.44c 189? " 7.96c 1897 " 7.00c 1898 " 5 94c " 1899 M tt.88c M 1900 " 9.26c 1901 " 8.76c M 1902 M 9.00c " The figures quoted above should be studied closely. They show the average price for the entire crop each year for twelve consecutiveyears. Add the prices and divide by twelve and the re sult obtained is 7 fi-fj cents per pound. Now take last week's market for middling cotton, 10% cents per pound, and compare The difference is 2% cents per pound in favor of present prices. In other words a bale of cotton is worth $ 13.83 more now than in the twelve years compared. This is $13.81) more with which to pay debts, to buy necessaries for the family aud to make home happy. Without doubt the crop of last year will average that dif ference. On a 11,000,000 bale crop it means $148,000,000 more money to the South?men able to pay debts, men able to collect debts, new banks chartered and new enterprises established?a general prosperty. The ruinous prices above quot ed brought the Southern Cotton Association into being. It has had much to do in bringing about the present price, or more ?to better it, if possible. The largest cotton planters of the South, aud the capital of the South are joined haud iu hand in the solution of the cotton prob lem. Two years of profitable prices aud the South has $000, . 000,000 to her credit. Already the Association has demonstrated its power to suc ceed. Take the big crop of 11)04 ?13,656,503 bales. The crop of 1003 being short the new crop of 1004 opened up well?above 10 cents per pound. Cotton was rapidly picked and rushed on the market, but held its own well for j sixty days. Then cotton in sight. ginners' reports, and govern 1 ment reports made it evident ? that a heavy crop had been . growu. By Nov. 25th it had de 1 clined to 0 ceuts, by Dec. 1st to 8 cents, by Dec. 0th to 7 cents, by Jan. 12th to 0 cents. When the price reached this low figure . there were unsold more than 3, . 000,000 bales. The Southern . Cotton Association met at New Orleans. Delegates from all the cotton States assembled to de ' vise means to avert a certain ca ; lamity which was coming upon , the Southern people. They ap ! pealed to the people to hold all cotton from the market for sixty days. They appealed to the peo i pie to decrease cotton acreage ? twenty-five per cent. Of course, , all did not hold?somecouldnot. All did not reduce acreage?some | could not. Others lacked faith. ' But enough was held from the market, and there was sufficient evidence of decreased acreage hat by Feb. 1st the price ad-1 danced to 7 cents, by May l)Sfh &o 8 ceats, by June 20th to 9 ?elite, by July 4th to 10 cente, Aug. 30th to 11 cent*. The big crop was disponed oi by Bteps caken by the Association far away above 9 cents, and half a million bales carried over as sur plus. Now, reader, can you doubt any longer the success of the Southern Cotton Association? Garly last fall the farmers were advised to hold the crop at 11 cents. True the average price to date has not exactly reucbed the figure aimed at, though approxi mating closely. Later when the crop was seen to be shorter tiian was first expected advice was given out to hold the remainder1 at lo cents. How wise that ad vice was remains to be seen. Re member it is very seldom we reach our ideal in anything. The truth is an unusually high price now would teud lk? stimulate far mers to plant too much any way.' Send in your name at once?no j obligation except to do the best you can to carry out the objects of the Association. Iton't waii lor others to tight out this bat - ? ? * ? n ? ill.. lie. .nisi nere aiiow "if iu illus trate by a good story told by our worthy friend, Mr. Henry M. Johnson, in making a Cotton Association speech in Meadow Township. He says: "Comeright in and help kill the bear, [cotton bear] and then claim the honor like a man?not like the old man who seeing a bear [animal] come in deserted his wife and climbed up into the loft. The old lady j snatched up the poker?a long, old fashioned pan-handle, and by hard blows downed the bear, j Then the brave old man came down from the loft and said, j 'Give me that stick, and I'll show] you how to kill a bear.' The truth was the bear v as dead al ready, but the old man said, 'we have killed a bear sure enough; ain't we brave?' " No man in the county is better educated in agricultural science than Mr. Johnson. He says when we have j bad a hard battle and killed the! cotton bears then all the brave; (?) fellows will come down from the loft and say: "Well, boys, I'll tell you what: we've got there] all right. 1 knew this Associa tion would do the work for us!" Now, readers, young men, when such wise leaders as Mr. Johnson and scores of others like him ov er the county say: "JointbeCot ton Association," don't hesitate any longer. J. 1*. Canaday. ltenson, N.C., Mar. 19th,'06. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BEOMOQuin ine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature on every box. 25c. ^ Complete Education. A girl's education is most in complete unless she has learned: To sew. To cook. To mend. To be gentle. To value time. To dress neatly. To keep a secret. To be self-reliant. To avoid idleness. To darn stockings. To respect old age. To make good bread. To keep a bouse tidy. To make home happy. To control her temper. To be above gossiping. To take care of the sick. To sweep down cobwebs. To take care of the baby. To take plenty of exercise. To marrv a man for his worth. | To be a womanly woman un der all circumstances.?Selected. The danger periods for Pneu monia and Croup, sore throat, and head colds is March and April. Be warned and have ready Vick's Croup and Pneu monia Cure?25c. It will save suffering, expense and often life. At Hood's Drug Store. True In a Sense. "I wonder where Harduppe made his strike. He's got lots of money now." "What makes you think that?" "1 just heard him telling Bor roughs thai he hadn't anything less than a $20 bill." "That's true A penny is lees than a $20 bill, and he hasn't got that."?Philadelphia Press. In the spring time you reno vate your house. Why not your body? Hollister's Rocky Moun tain Tea drives out impurities, cleanses and enriches the blood and purifies the entire system. 35 cents.?Selma DrugCo., A. H. Boyett, druggist. For Twenty-one Years Bonanza, Orinoco ^Farmer's Bone have been the standard Cotton and Tobacco guanos in the South? because great care is used in the selection of materials. Ask your dealer for Royslcr's goods and don't take substitutes said to be just as good. See that the trade-mark is on every bag. d TRADE MARK ?fSR.> REGISTERED F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO., Norfolk, Va. v___ I f ??I Gorgeous, Gigantic, Great, Good, Gratifying. i These are some of the words that go to ex press the condition of affairs found in con nection with our Exquisite, Enlivening, Entrancing, and Economical, Every-day Spring Goods, Right Now Ladies, Gentlemen. Boys and Girls?Every body Invited. I' GULLEY (?l GULLEY CLAYTON, N. C. Farmers! Merchants!! If you heve a policy written by Sam T. Honeycutt, The leading Fire Insurance Agent of Johnston County, It means that you are protected against loss by Fire or Lightning. I His Companies are Strong and Reliable His companies are Prompt in Paying Losses His companies want to protect every home in Johnston County ?^?a? | For Planting Corn and Cotton This is the best of all Planters. Will save more than the cost the first season. . . . For sale by W. m. SANDERS, Smithfield. N. C. Let The Herald do Your Job Printing, you will get the best -I Mules & Horses por Sale k \ We keep on hand a large lot of well broke Mules and Horses which we will sell for cash or on time. Come and see our stock before you b y. B. M. Robertson & Company, Clayton, N. C. It Will Pay You! I have on hand a select line of Buggies and Wagons also Harness at <n?i Low Prices For Cash When in need ef a first class Vehicle be sure to see me before buying. I keep well broke Mules And Horses and ask all to come to see me and save money by buying now. 1 will carry a number of stock all the season, so you can come any time and get suit ed. Don't buy until you see me. Yours to serve, Alonzo Parrish BENSON. N. C. Cotter-Underwood Co. have two horses they will sell cheap
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