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J V, Farm Department Devoted to the Ulerolt of Thooo Eogafted in Agricultural Purooito. Conducted by J. M. Beaty Price and Profit. Within the past week cotton fu tures in New York have twice reached 20 cents. The newspapers of the country have announced the fact with such headlines as: "Cot ton Soars," "Cotton Reaches High est Price Since the War," "Wealth for the South." Editorial writers have taken up the refrain that the whole South, but the cotton grower in particular. Is to enjoy the rewards of the most profitable crop ever (crown. Thoughtless or misinformed wri ters have asserted that the cost of making cotton was only 8 cents per pound. On this basis it is easy to figure enormous fortunes on a twelve million bale crop sold at 15 cents. These assertions are woefully mis leading. Unless counteracted, evil results are Inevitable. Let us, therefore, calmly consider a few actual facts bearing on the present situation. The first point to fix In mind is that the phenomenal price on which all this excitement is based is fic titious?not real. The 20 cents so much discussed Is merely the price quoted for cotton futures on the New York Exchange. It Is a speculative price forced by the exigencies of tt gambling game. On the days when 20 cents was thus quoted In New York, the high est price offered for spot cotton In any Southern market was 15 3-8 cents and no cotton to be had. The real fact Is that cotton grow ers are not receiving a phenomenal price for their crop, practically all of which Is yet to be harvested. In the winter of 1H04 cottonw as sold in Soulhern markets for higher prices than any yet quoted for the present crop. ?Mnn wKn ufn malfltltf ?.*. k UC mr 11 n im aiu niuDHvu - *? Aggerated claims as to present con ditions forget the fundamental eco nomic law that cost of production de termines profits. Because of this fact the recent comparatively high prices received for cotton have been misleading. Fif teen cents is not really a high price. It Is not even a lurlngly profitable price. Every man who has actually grown cotton for ten years with real bu slness management knows that then was more profit with cotton at S cents than there Is to-day at 15 cents. The eight-cent crop was grown with mules costing $100 to $125, corn 40 cents, side meat 6 cents, and other supplies In proportion. The labor and raw material. Including fer tlllzers, entering Into the eight-cent crop averaged about half the cost of the materials going Into the present crop. Another point Is overlooked by the theorists who figure out great prof its for cotton growers at present prices. Their paper estimates 6f the cost of production are based on the possibilities of large yields per acre. Yet it Is the actual average yield which determines fihe real prof It to the average grower. It is eas ily seen that the cost of growing 200 pounds per acre?about our average yield?Is the same, except for pick ing and ginning and possibly ferti liser, as would be the cost of pro ducing 450 pounds on the same acre. If 8 cents Is the cost of growing the bale per acre. Is is obvious that the average crop must cost the producer nearly twice as much. The plain fact Is that the average crop is not very profitable at pres ent prices. It puts tens of millions of dollars In circulation. It enables the grower to meet his obligations, but he is not getting rich. The man who is really making mon ey under present conditions is not the man who grows the cotton, but J the man who receives rent or share cotton?the same quantity he re ceived ten years ago?which he now sells for double the former price. These actual facts can hurt no one. The constant assertion that cotton prices are high and the grow ers are making great profits can only tend to depress prices and In jure the grower. In his behalf we insist that the present price Is not high.?Southern Rurallst. I It Saved His Leg. "All thought I'd lose my leg." ?writes J. A. Swensen, of Watertown, Wis. "Ten years of eczema, that 15 doctors could not cure, had at last laid me up. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured it, sound and well." In fallible for Skin Eruptions, Eczema, Salt Rheum. Boils, Fever Sores, Burns, Scalds, Cuts and Piles. 25c. at Hood Bros. The Farmers' Union. The betterment of tne condition* surrounding farm life has been widely recognized as a matter of such importance as would be diffi cult to exaggerate. The Farmers' Union Is attacking the problem in no superficial or over-hasty fashion. Its leaders desire to make the Individual farmer's fields yield a larger return than heretofore. They want the farmer himself to become acquaint ed with such business principles as are necessary to enable him to dis pose of his products to the best ad vantage. In a larger sense, they want him to keep alert to what is going on about him, In order that he may make the best of himself and be a valuable citizen in the broad est sense of the word. Judging by what has been accomplished In North Carolina the organization is proving of most material benefit to the agricultural interests of all sections of the country. In that it Is keep ing In sight the alms mentioned and not allowing Its force to be wasted upon any side-Issues whatever, no matter how alluring they may ap pear.?Charlotte Observer. A WINTER COVER CROP. The farmer who does not try to get all he can out of his land an nually and yet leave It In condi tion to yield more the following season has mistaken his vocation. One way to do this is to plant cowpeas In the corn at the time of the last cultivation; harvest) the corn in September and pasture the cow peas In October. Early in Novem ber deep break and plant to rye, us ing about one bushel per acre. Our reasons for preferring rye are the following: 1. It Is hardy. It will germinate and make a stand when other grains fa41. Oats and barley will winter uninjured by the frost. It stands tramping and grazing better than other grains, 2. It takes kindly to poor soils, which is an important factor on most lands. Where hairy vetch will succeed, the addliton of a peck of vetch seed to a bushel of rye Is an improvement. Where there Is no boll weevil In festation, rye or rye and vetch may be planted between the rows of cot ton In October, and not later than the first of November. It is bet ter 'o use a narrow drill in plant Inn. hut where farmers do not have this the seed may be sown by han and cultivated or harrowed in. CRIMSON CLOVER?On lands adapted to It, crimson clover sown : In the corn at the last working has ; given excellent results. About 1"> ] pounds to the acre is generally used and by the first of the following 'April It furnishes a cutting of 1% I to 2Va tons of cured hay or. turned , under, adds a great body of manure : to the soil. The territory In which the crimson clover thrives best ap pears to be from the latitude of the northern portion of the Gulf States to the latitude of the Ohio River. Oats or barley do well some win ters. When they succeed they fur j nish a large amount of winter graz I Ing and considerable humus for plow 1 lng under in the spring. Facts About a Winter Cover Crop. 1. A winter cover crop largely pre 1 vents loss of soil fertility by wash ing (erosion); some lands suffer greater loss than others by washing. I but all lands are more or less in jured by It. 2. Soils without cover lose con siderable fertility by evaporation ('u;lng the fall and winter. A win . ter crop rtduces this loss to a neg ligible quantity. 3. Such crops, to some extent, 1 prevent the seeding of the land to foul weeds. 4. They Increase the porosity of the soil and add the humus so es sential to fertility. 5. They make a valuable crop white the la<id* would o'berwise be idle, which is a net gain to the land. We must increase the vege table matter in the soil to an amount sufficient to enable the soil to re tain a much larger proportion of the rainfall than at present and to great ly Increase the mechanical conditions of the soil. 6. A very important consideration in the winter cover crop is the large amount of grazing that can be se cured from it at a time when It is especially valuable for young stock, and its value is not limited altogeth er to the mere supply of food. It adds to the health and vigor of the stock. On an average from 2 to months grazing can be secured j at a nominal cost of a little labor in preparing and seeding the land.? S. A. Knapp, Special Agent in Charge, of Farm Demonstration Work. Don't waste your money buying plasters when you can get a bottle of Chamberlain's Liniment for twen ty-five cents. A piece of flannel dampened with this liniment is su perior to any plaster for lame back, pains In the side and chest, and much cheaper. Sold by Hood Bros. Farmer*' Union For Good Roads. There will be a mass-meeting of Union county citizens held in the court house at 2 o'clock on the first Monday In October for the purpose of I organizing a good roads association i for the county. The State Good Roads Association, of which the State Geologist, Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt Is the president, is very anx ious that associations be formed In all the counties, and this is rapidly being done. The object is to create sentiment for good roads and to study ways and means for road im provement. At the Invitation of the editor of ! The Journal Dr. Pratt has promised to come to Monroe on the first Monday In October, deliver an ad dress and organize a local associa tion. There never was so much en thusiasm for road Improvement as at present. Dr. Pratt and the other men employed by the government will help us to find out what we | can do, and how to do it. That Is the object of the association. And I we are going to have a good one. Town and country people alike are interested and when Union county gets started something Is going to be done. Yesterday the farmers' union of the county passed a resolution en ! dorsing the plan to have a road improvement association. The union is wide awake on all . the subjects that help the farmers, , and nothing will so help them as good roads.?Monroe Journal. South'* Agricultural Growth. Within ten years the South has ( more than doubled the value of its ? agricultural products. In the opinion of Richard H. Edmonds of Baltimore, j who Is better qualified to pas. on ! Southern conditions than almost any 1 | other man, the value of the South's I farm products this year will be $2, 700,000,000. TU.? is $200,000,00o more than the value of the Southern agri cultural products for 1909. The great est increase will be in the grain crop, which Is estimated at 200.000, 900 bushels in excess of the yi< Id of last year.?Nashville Tennesstar. Uncle Sam a Spend Thrift. If reports about our National Ex travagance are even half way true, it is time we were calling a halt on our out goes. We are told that the Government Is spending over one billion dollars annually, which is about one-third the entire gold pro duct qt the nation for the past 120 years! It is one-third the value of last year's foreign commerce. It is more than the value of our entir.' | corn crop, and nearly twice that of J our wheat crop. It means at daily : expenditure of over $3,567,000! It means for every man, woman and child in the country we spend I leach year $11. It means that for every family in ! the United States the yearly expen diture at Washington is $55. Every citizen, especially every vo ; ter and taxpayer owes it to himself i to find out if these things are so. j Let us ask our Congressman, and I if the Items are true, urge him to I use his best endeavor to reduce this I vast torrent of extravagant expendi | ture. The figures are taken from an | article in the N. Y. World.?Indiana Farmer. Law Enforcement. Numerous homicides have occurred . in Asheville during the past few months, and The Citizen, in an out spoken and fearless editorial, traces the trouble to the "near-beer" joints | and similar dives which are all too numerous. A general reign of lawlessness seems to have evolved from inade quate law enforcement, and, facing | a situation which called for prompt 'action, the Law Enforcement League | has just held a meeting. Addresses 1 were delivered by such men as the Hon. Locke Craig, and as a result it is believed much good will come. According to The Citizen the near beer Joints have been proline in their fruits of lawlessness, a result not surprising in the least. The News considers near-beer one of the graveest menaces to proper law enforcement to be contended within the state today, and it trusts that the legislature will clothe towns and communities with authority to re fuse them license when this course is deemed wisest. Without popular co-operation and backing it is difficult for officers to adequately enforce the laws, and in order to stir up the people to a keener sense of duty this meeting was called.?Charlotte News. "Can be depended upon'' is an expression we all like to hear, and when It is used in connection with Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy it means that it never fails to cure diarrhoea, dysen tery or bowel complaints. It Is pleas ant to take and equally valuable for i children and adul.'s. Sold by Hood Bros. Free Sample For Baby's Ills Something can and must be done for the puny, crying baby, for the child that refuses to eat and is rest less in its sleep. And since the basis of all health is the proper working of the digestive organs, look first to the condition of the stomach and bowels. A child should have two full and fres movement* of the bowels a day. This emptying of the bowels Is very important, as with it comes a clear head, a light ness of step, good appetite and sound Sleep. But it Is equally Important to know what to give the child in the emergency of constipation and Indiges tion. Cathartics are too strong and salts and other purgatives are not only too strong, but the child refuses them b? cauiie of their bad taste. Have you ever tried Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin? It is a liquid tonic that families have been using for a quarter of a century. It is mild, pleasant-tasting and promptly ef fective. It is good for you as well as the child, but there Is nothing better to be found for children. They like its taste ?you will not have to force them to tako It First of all. If you have not yet used It. Dr. Caldwell would like to send you a sample bottle free of charge. In this way you can try it befo"-* buying. Later, when convinced of Its merits, you can get It of your druggist at fifty cents and one dollar a bottle, just as thousands of other families are doing The family of Mr. D. W. Spangler of Btrattonville. Pa., ss well as that of Mr. A. F Johnson of Walnut Grove, Tenn . started with It In that way and now write that It Is their one family necessity next to food Itself. If you are unfortunate enough to have a sickly child, one given to constipation and indigestion, you should send for a free sample of this remedy. Dr. Caldwell personally will be pleased to give you any medical advice you may desire for yourself or family pertaining to the stomach, liver or bowels absolutely free of charge Explain your case In a letter and he wiff replv to you In detail. For the free samplp simply send your name and address on a postal card or otherwise. For either request the doctor's address Is Dr. W. R. Caldwell, R.5U'j Cald well building, Monticello. 111. HOOO BROS. Stoves! Stoves! Hardware, Tinware, Crockery, Glassware. Galvanized Roofing, any standard length. Stove Pipe, any size. Going cheaper at S. B. Johnson's SMITHFIELD, N. C. MMMMIMIMWIlMtMMWmlHmil?? * "better clothes" % For full comprise the highest product in "ready. X for-service" clothes. Models from Fifth Avenue?? The patterns are very elaborate, therefore they jj ? different w, Jp /rom the general ran of "ready-to-wear" clothes, j# Yoa can wear "BETTER CLOTHES" longer than an> other clothes, % x and they cost no more % than the other kinds.?$6 00 to $25.00 for rea- S J dy to-wear "BETTER CLOTHES." $12. to $49. jjf S for made-to-order "BETTER CLOTHES." Boys' jj and Youths' ready-to-wear suits $1.50 to $15.00 ^ S GULLEY ? GULLEY i CLAYTON, N. C. ****Sflfc******** ************ The Herald and the Tri-Weekly Atlanta Constitution One Year for One Dollarr, ^t^^[====1E3E3I=====ir====lC^ 1095 | mm Times a Year You Eat Bread. That is T if you eat three meals a day and are well and healthy. If You Eat W CRYSTAL FLOUR "I you will be well and healthy and will f eat it 1095 times. TRY A SACK. ITS GUARANTEED. Mr. Troy Henry is with me now and will be glad to have -? his friends call to see him. W. H. ETHEREDGE ^ SELMA. N. C. 77 ^r==ir- ir=imr \r=\& ^11 ii IE ii ==ii =ii ikn ] When Yoo Come to Town f We want you to make Our Three Big Stores Your Headquarters We Will Sell You Goods as Cheap 3 as the Cheapest ? Our lines are now Complete with Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Hats and Shoes, Oxford and Durham Buggies, Harness, Robes and Whips. Thornhill, Gregory and Our King Wagons. Dan Valley and Dunlop Patent Flour, Corn, Oats, Hay, Mill Feed and SEED RYE. y I FURNITURE | We have some of it too, and the Prices are RIGHT. Ask to see it and then price it. We take "l a pleasure in showing you, if you don't intend buying any at all. We have a few special bar gains in Odd Dressers, Hall Racks and Chiffoniers at a very low price. J All Matting, and a few Tapestry and Ingrain Art Squares at Cost. These will not be p iJ on Sale very long as they must be sold. Our New Stock is arriving each day and all Summer LI Goods must go before. We are, Yours to Please J Cotter= Underwood Co. [ SMITHFIELD, N. C. JT ^ir=ir=nr=ir==ir==ir==ir=ir==ir==ir^ PTSiiiTiesH S DOES NOT AFFECT OUR BUSINESS J S ? J in * ^ We are belter prepared than ever to furnish the Builder's Trade f with any kind of Builder's Material. Flooring, Ceiling, Sash and Doors made to order, Door and Window Frames, all kinds Builder's hardware. Mails. I.ocks, Hinges, anything you need in building. Zj 5? We also carry a very extensive line of Cook Stoves. Ranges, ^ a Heating Stoves. Paints, Oils. Varnishes. Etc. We are receiving ^ this week the best*and most extensive line of BELTING and MILL ffi SUPPLIES EVER SHOWN IN JOHNSTON COUNTY. * JINO. I. BARNES Sc BRO. % : CLAYT?N': N?RTH CAROLINA
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