A World Scarcity of Foodstuffs and
the Lesson for the South.
Whether there be peaco Between
this country and Germany, whether
war be continued in Europe for an
other year or two, or whether peace
should come, the demand for food
stuffs will exceed the supply, both
in this country and abroad. The short
ape in the world's food crops last
year, taken in connection with condi
tions created by the war, brings us
Hearer to a famine situation in food
stuffs than the world has known in
this generation. If the crops of this
country should, by unfavorable
weather conditions or by a lessened
acreage, be short of a full average
yield, wo would have almost famine
conditions, because we will go into the
next crop practically barren of food
supplies.
Nothing less than a bumper crop
of grain will save us from exorbitant
ly high prices for wheat and corn
next winter. It is important that the
whole country should understand this
situation, but it is doubly important
that the farmers of the South should
understand it and plant the largest
acreage in grain which they have
ever had in order to save themselves
from having to pay the highest
prices they have ever paid for their
foodstuffs.
Every business man in the South
should do all in his power to urge
upon Southern farmer the planting
of grain and the raising of food
stuffs of all kinds this spring and
summer.
It is hardly possible to predict what
may happen to cotton. Tho price,,
judged by the world's demand, ought
to be high, but in view of the uncer
tainties of conditions here and else
where, a large cotton crop might
prove a misfortune by forcing prices
below a far profit.
The South might raise too big a
cotton crop for its own prosperity,
but it can not raise too big p. grain
crop nor too much live stock. Every
available acre should be put into the
raising of foodstuffs, into grain, in
to vegetables, potntoes, and as much
attention as possible should be
given to live stock, and even to the
raising of chickens and to dairying,
for the purpor.e of meeting the home
demand for foodstuffs.
It will be almost a crime for any
Southern farmer not to provide, dur
ing tho coming spring and summer,
for all of tho foodstuffs which his
family will need for tho next twelve
months. Anything short of that
would be ignoring every condition
which this country and the world
confronts in the lack of foodstuffs,
and in the certainty of high prices.
Business men, State governments and
the national government owe it to
the farmers and to the welfare of the
country to stress these points with all
possible emphasis. The South can be
come independent for foodstuffs by
quick and vigorous action this spring
and summer by its farmers, and if it
fails to do so, it will be drained of
hundred:; of millions of dollars, for
high-priced foodstuffs, which should
have been raised at home, and there
will be poverty in many homes where
there should be abundance. ? Manu
facturers' Record.
Safe and Sane Farming.
"Whenever the greed for a money
crop unbalances the wisdom of hus
bandry, the money crop is a curse.
When it stimulates the general econ
omy of the farm it is the profit of
farming?
These words were written by the
late Henry W. Grady, many years
ago. They are true to-day. You are
face to face with a great question.
Are you going to permit the agri
culture of the South to again become
an unbalanced husbandry or are we
still to push forward toward safe
farming?
High prices of certain farm prod
ucts may tempt farmers to pursue an
unwise course. Now is the time to
take stock, to make an inventory and
consider the situation.
Think back to 1914 before the war,
when cotton was around thirteen
cents a pound. How much did you
pay for meat, flour and other food
products at retail? Go back in the
nineties when cotton was still lower
in value and what did you pay at re
tail for food products? Then compare
the present prices of food products
with the present prices of cotton; the
test is the exchange value of cotton.
How much will a pound of cotton pur
chase in food and feed products? By
growing all cotton and exchanging
it for a living you are simply swap
ping a high priced product produced
by your labor for a high priced prod
uct produced by the labor of the
other fellow. When you follow safe
farming, however, you produce your
own food and feed at cost and sell
your cotton for the other fellow's
dollars.
The South has made great progress
and has enjoyed wonderful prosperity
in the past year because it produced
so much of its own living.
What do we mean by safe farm
ing? Here are the items which should
constitute your program:
1. A home garden for every fam
ily on the farm. From one-tenth to
one-fourth acre, well located, well
tilled and tended as carefully as any
other crop on the farm, planted in
rotation to time the vegetable crops
so as to have a continuous supply
for the family table as many days in
the year as possible. To this should
be added one-four of an acre of po
tatoes, either Irish or sweet, or both,
to be used as food for the family. An
acre of sorghum or sugar cane
should be produced to supply the
family with syrup if means can be
found for grinding the cane and
making the syrup.
2. Produce enough corn on eacn
farm to last the family and the live
stock with certainty for one year,
with a little cxcess for safety.
3. Produce sufficient oats and oth
er small grain to supplement the
corn as food for one year with cer
tainty, remembering that these small
grains conserve the soil in winter
and provide some grazing for live
stock.
4. Produce the hay and forage
crops necessary to supply the live
stock on the farm for one year, with
a little excess for safety, not forget
ting the legumes which add fertility
to the soil and produce the best hay.
5. Produce the necessary meat,
eggs and milk for the family. The
meat should be produced by increased
attention to poultry and hogs because
of the rapidity with which these can
be produced. Every family should
have at least two cows so that one
can be in milk all of the time. A
sufficient number of brood sows
should be kept to produce the pork
for the family, with some excess for
sale. The number of laying hens
should bo increased and carefully
tended to produce eggs and poultry
for the table with a sufficient excess
for sale. The average number of
poultry per farm should be gradually
increased to at least fifty. The live
stock on the farm should be gradu
ally increased as a whole so as to
consume the otherwise waste prod
ucts of the farm and make the profit
able feeding of poultry and hogs,
beef cattle, milch cows, etc.
6. When the living has been amp
ly provided for, grow cotton for the
main money crop.
7. Plan to sell or exchange the
surplus products of the garden, the
orchard, the poultry, the live stock,
the eggs and the feed crops, to cover
the necessary running expenses of
the farm and save the cotton as the
real cash crop.
The fact that cotton has been up
to eighteen and twenty cents per
pound should not in any sense tempt
farmers, merchants or bankers to de
part in practice or in influence from
this program. Are you going to play
safe or gamble on the European war
and bet that cotton will be high and
food products low? One of the serious
problems of this nation to-day is the
production of food. At this time no
man in the South can afford to be
tempted to reduce the production of
food and feed crops. Rather should
they be increased. It is the only safe
plan.
The agricultural colleges of the
Southern States, in co-operation with
the United States Department of
Agriculture, are conducting, through
the Extension Division and County
Agents in every State, campaigns to
sustain the production of food and
feed crops in the South.
We need more of the three F's,
food, feed, and fertility. Let us feed
the people, feed the live stock and
feed the soil. When we have done
these three things, then raise such
acreage in money crops as we have
the labor to tend. ? Bradford Knapp,
Chief.
Vocal I'nion.
The next session of the Lower
Johston Vocal Union will bo held
with Hood's Grove Baptist church,
in Bentonsville township, on the fifth
iy in April. We arc expecting a
J. B. BEASLEY,
President of the Vocal Union.
Services at Hopewell.
We are requested to announce that
regular services will be conducted at
Hopewell, fourth Sunday, April 22nd,
at 11 o'clock, and Saturday night be
fore at early candle light. There will
not be any service on Saturday at
11 o'clock on account of train being
too late for the pastor to get there
in time.
Attention Confederate Veterans!
The County Commissioners will be
asked to pay the railroad fare for
all Confederate Veterans to the
Washington, D. C. Reunion in June.
All those desirous of going will please
write me at once. Don't delay.
C. S. POWELL.
Smithfield, N. C., April 14, 1917.
crowd and a good time.
A pound of feathers costs more
than a pound of lead.
KENLY NEWS NOTES.
Kenly, April 14. ? "M^s. Briggs of
the Poultry Yard" is the title of one
of the most delightful home talent
entertainments that has been given
in the Kenly High School auditorium
this year. Mrs. G. B. Woodard was
director and acted as the leading
character, Mrs. Briggs. Mr. Frank
Aycock acted the wealthy aristocrat
of the play. The acting from begin
ning to end was decidedly creditable.
The audience was pleasantly enter
tained every moment of the entire
hour and a half program. The ad
mission fee was fifteen and twenty
five cents. $13.00 were realized,
which will be used by the Woman's
Missionary Union of the Methodist
church for the benefit of the new par
sonage which is now being construct
ed. The cast of characters was as
follows:
Mrs. Briggs, a woman of business.
Mrs. G. B. Woodard.
Her family ? Ralph ? Mr. F. A. White
Jimmy Mr. Hal Gilbreath
Alvira Miss Nellie Hardison
Melissa Mrs. Frank Aycock
Silas Green, "a near relation."
Mr. Tonie Barnes.
Mr. Lee, a wealthy neighbor
Mr. Frank Aycock.
Virginia Lee, his daughter
Miss Ina Morris.
Daisy Thornton, her friend
Miss Faye Barnes.
Mrs. O'Connor, with no liking for
goats Miss Agnes Watson
Mandy Bates, whos^ tongue will
stumble Mrs. J. A. Broughton
Miss Nellie Alford's school, locat
ed about two miles from Kenly, came
to a close Friday afternoon. Miss Al
ford carried out an all-day program,
which was largely attended and
thoroughly enjoyed. The morning
program consisted of songs and reci
tations by the students of the school.
In the afternoon Superintendent M.
B. Andrews, of Kenly, delivered the
commencement address. His was an
inspiring, practical talk on things of
worth and some suggestions as to
how they may be obtained. The Ken
ly quartette featured the program
with several selections; the audience
was especially plaseed with their
rendering of the humorous number,
"Brudder Brown."
Miss Alford is an untiring worker
and many spoke kind words of her
success in the school this year.
Ononis Township Loan Association.
Last Saturday afternoon some 20
or 30 men met at Narron Lodge and
discussed the advantages of the new
Farm Loan Law. Those present were
unanimously in favor of organizing
the Oneals Township Farm Loan As
sociation at an early date, and set
next Saturday, April 21st, at one
o'clock, for a meeting of all the
citizens of Oneals township at Hare's
Store, to hear the conditions explain
ed, organize a permanent Association
and elect the officers, etc. There are
several men well informed on the
subject who expect to be there and
make talks.
This is undoubtedly the greatest
legislation ever enacted to directly
help the farmer. The government
plans to lend the farmer money at 5
per cent and let him use it to advance
his farm and pay back in 40 years.
There are many other benefits by
joining the Association, even if you
never care to borrow money.
Let everybody come next Saturday.
Hare's Store, 1 o'clock.
T. H. ATKINSON.
By order of
PRESTON CHAMBLEE,
Temporary Chairman.
WILSON'S MILLS NEWS.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Pool, of Sol
ma, spent Sunday at the home of Mr.
Ransom Pool.
Mr. Carey Britt and Mr. Lonnie
Page, of Garner, spent Sunday at
the home of Mr. G. G. Beaty.
Mr. Burlon Jones and Robert
Coats, of Clayton, spent Sunday at
the homo of Mr. J. A. Price.
M iss Margaret Wilson went to La
Grange Friday.
Miss Nyphie Myrtie Spence attend
ed the commencement at Johnson
school Thursday.
Miss Commie Price, of Clayton,
spent Sunday with Miss Lena Beaty.
Mr. Lamb Jones, of Pisgah section,
spent Sunday in our burg.
Mr. Leon Uzzle made a business
trip to Smithfield Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Spence, of
Powhatan, spent Sunday at the
home of Mr. J. A. Spence.
Miss Gertrude Stallings spent Sun
day with Miss Lucy Turnage.
Miss Addie Beaty spent Tuesday
night with Miss Essie Price.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gentry spent
Sunday afternoon out in the coun
try.
Mrs. George Moore, of Benson,
spent last Thursday visiting her pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lassiter,
of Wilson's Mills.
Mr. Marvin Price spent Sunday af
ternoon in Selma.
O. U. KID.
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25 Cent Books
At Special Prices
For the Next Few Days We Will
Sell Any Book in the List Be
low for 20 Cents; Any 3 Books
for 50 Cents; Any 7 Books
for $1.00.
The Boy Scouts on the RoJl of Honor.
The Boy Scouts with the Motion
Picture Players.
The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squad
ron.
The Boy Scouts of Naval Reserve.
A Fool for Love.
Wallingford, by Chester.
Trolley Folly, by Phillips.
The Motormaniacs, by Osborne.
Chimes from a Jester's Bell.
The Princess Elopes.
Four in Family.
The Fifth String, by Sousa.
Eccentric Mr. Clark.
A Girl From America, by Meade.
Strong and Steady, by Alger.
Four Years of Fighting.
Flower Fables, by Alcott.
Camping Out, by Stephens.
The Lamplighter, by Cummins.
Pretty Polly Pemberton.
Six Little Princesses.
A Modern Cinderella, by Alcott.
Bertha's Christmas Vision.
Paul, the Pedler, by Alger.
Aesop's Fables.
Wood's Natural History. ,
The Water Babies, by Kingsley.
Greek Heroes, by Kingsley.
Coming Back with the Spitball.
Tom Turner's Legacy, by Alger.
Poor Boys' Chances, by John Hab
berton.
Tom Thatcher's Fortune, by Alger.
The Automobile Girls Along the Hud
son.
The Automobile Girls in the Berk
shires.
The Young Editor.
Frank's Campaign, by Alger.
The Telegraph Boy, by Alger.
Polly Perkins' Adventures.
The Campfire Girls in the Outside
World.
My Days and Nights on the Battle
field.
The Boy Scouts with the Geological
Survey.
Folly in Fairyland, by Carolyn Wells.
Hospital Sketches by Alcott.
Adventures in Frozen Seas.
Camp Fire Girls in After Years.
Left on Labrador.
Merle's Crusade by Carey.
The Boy Geologists. .. .by Houston.
Story of John G. Paton.
Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger.
Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows.
Camp Fire Girls Careers.
Do and Dare by Alger.
Another Year With Dennis and Ned
Toodles.
Moods by Mrs. Alcot.
Herbert Carter's Legacy Alger.
The School Queen by Meade.
In a New World by Alger.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill.
Charlie Codman's Cruise.
See Kings and Naval Heroes.
Friends Though Divided Henty.
In the Reign of Terror Henty.
The Lion of St. Mark Henty.
Through the Fray Henty.
LIST NUMBER ONE OF
35-Cent Books.
Any book in this list for 25c., or anj
four books for 90c.
Campfires of the Wolf Patrol.
Pathfinder; or the Missing Tenderfoot.
Fast Nine; or a Challenge from Fair
field.
Great Hike; or The Pride of the Kha
ki Troup.
Endurance Test; or How Clear Grit
Won the Day.
Under Canvas; or The Hunt for the
Cartaret Ghost.
With Trapper Jim in the North
Woods.
Elsie Dinsmore. (3 copies).
The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock
and Thistle.
Her Senator, by Gunter.
Under Two Flags, by Onida.
The Camp on the Big Sunflower.
The Rivals of the Trail.
The Strange Cabin on Catamount
Island.
Lost in the Great Dismal Swamp.
Caught in a Forest Fire.
Chums of the Campfire.
The Chouans, by Balzac.
Hans Brinker; or the Silver Skates.
Mr. Potter of Texas, by Gunter.
Peck's Uncle Ike and the Red Headed
Boy.
The Schonberg-Cotta Family.
Larry Dexter in Belgium.
Larry Dexter and the Stolen Boy.
Tales From Shakespeare.
Helen's Babies, by Habberton.
The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore.
The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge.
The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook
The Bobbsey Twins at Home.
Dora Thome, by Braeme.
The First Violin.
THE HERALD OFFICE,
Smithfield, N. C.
FOR SALE-ONE CHASE MOTOR
truck in good condition. Price
right. Box 48, Smithfield, N. C.
BUSINESS LOCALS
SEE US FOR GALVANIZED ROOF
ing. We can sell you cheap. Cotter
Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C.
DON'T PUT OFF SCREENING
your house ? do it now. Phone us,
we have the Screens. Cotter Hard
ware Co., Smithfield, N. C.
SEE US FOR WELL TILING.
Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield,
X. c.
WANTED: A GOOD, LARGE FARM.
Give full description and lowest
price. Address P. O. Box 196, Fay
etteville, N. C.
ANOTHER LOT OF CHILDREN'S
books, suitable for children from
4 to 10, just received at Herald
Book Store.
FOR SALE? COOK'S STRAIN OF
Buff Orpington Eggs from Madi
son Square Garden prize winners,
$2.00 for a setting of 15; $6.00
fifty; $10.00 for 100. I also have
Byrd strain giant bone Mammoth
Bronze Turkey Eggs at $2.00 for
10; $4.50 for 25; $8.00 for 50. Pcole
Farm, J. W. Poole, Manager, Smith
field, N. C.
GET OUR PRICES ON SASH,
doors and blinds. Cotter Hardware
Company, Smithfield, N. C.
FRESH JERSEY COWS FOR SALE
by E. F. Boyett, Smithfield, N. C.
WE HAVE WIRE FENCING IN
any height. Cotter Hardware Co.,
Smithfield, N. C.
SEED CHUFAS $1.00 PER PECK.
C. S. Powell, Smithfield, N. C.,
R. F. D. No. 2.
SEE US FOR WIRE FENCING.
We have it in any weight. Cotter
Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C.
WANTED? WHITE HOUSE KEEP
er to wait on old man and his wife.
Box 48, Pikeville, N. C.
DON'T PUT OFF SCREENING
your house ? do it now. Phone us,
we have the Screens. Cotter Hard
ware Co., Smithfield, N. C.
GOOD HOME-MADE SYRUP FOR
sale, 60 cents a gallon. John A.
Smith, Smithfield, Route No. 1.
JOHN DEER CORN PLANTERS
$12.50. Cotter Hardware Company,
Smithfield, N. C .
PLENTY OF OLI) PAPERS NOW
on hand at The Herald Office at 5
cents per bundle.
THE SMITHFIELI) BUILDING &
Loan Association has helped a
number of people to build homes.
It will help others, and maybe you.
New series of shares now open.
See Mr. J. J. Broadhurst.
I)R. A. C. SMITH? VETERINA
rian, Four Oaks, N. C. Ready to
answer calls day or night for the
treatment of horses, cattle and all
other animals. Telephone to D. H.
Sanders Drug Store at Four Oaks.
Drilling at Wake F?rest.
More than 100 students at Wake
Forest College have volunteered fg#
military training during the remahfc
der of the term. This action is tak
ing independent of the government.
JOHN I)EEK CORN PLANTERS
$12.50. Cotter Hardware Company,
Smithfield, N. C .
BUY A COTTON SEED GRADES
and increase your yield. Cotte*
Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C.
JOHN DEER CORN PLANTERS
$12.50. Cotter Hardware Company,
Smithfield, N. C .
I HAVE SEVERAL STACKS OF
millet for sale at my farm whei*
Mr. W. A. Price lives near Wilsonfo
Mills. Price $1.50 per 100 pouncfe.
J. M. Beaty, Smithfield, N. C.
SEE US FOR WIRE FENCING.
We have it in any weight. Cott#r
Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C.
SEE US FOR WELL TILING.
Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield,
N. C.
SEED CHUFAS AT $1.00 PER PECK
A. G. Powell, Smithfield, N. C.,
R. F. D. No. 2.
WHEN YOU NEED SASH, DOORS
and blinds see the Cotter Hardware
Co., Smithfield, N. C.
THE COTTER HARDWARE COM
pany can sell you galvanized roof
ing cheap. Smithfield, N. C.
FOR WIRE FENCING, ANY
height, see the Cotter Hardware
Company, Smithfield, N. C
BUY A COTTON SEED GRADER
and increase your yield. Cotter
Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C.
SELECTED COTTON SEED FOR
PLANTING.
Avera Seed ? $2.50 per bushel.
Icana Pool Selected ? and ginnod
from first picking. Seed cottcn til
April 10th ? just ginned. No chance
to heat. Price $1.50 per bushel.
W. D. AVERA.
Smithfield, N. C., R. F. D. No. 1.
MY PONY FOR SALE? WILL
Sell with or without cart, harness,
saddle and bridles. A bargain for
quick buyer. Claude W. Smith, Jr..
Smithfield, N. C.
!
Wood and
Blacksmith
Shops
I am now at the Floyd Shop&
in Kenly and am prepared to d?
all kinds of repairing on carts,
wagons and buggies.
I run both wood and black'
smith shops.
Call to see me.
J. H. Holland
Kenly, N. C.
Special Prices ! ! !
We are making some special prices on the following
Goods :
15-Cent Dress Ginghams, now 12'/2c
1214-Cent Ginghams, now 11c
12V2-Cent White Homespun, now 11 Vic
40-Cent 10-4 Sheeting, now 35c
15-Cent Towels, now 10c
15-Cent Percals, now 12'/2C
50-Cent Table Damask 43c
25-Cent Table Damask, now 19c
121/j-Cent Window Curtains ,now 10c
10-Cent Calico, now 7'/2c
C. M. C. Crochet 3 for 25c
R. M. C. Crochet 3 for 25c
$1.25 Overalls, now $1.19
$3.50 Men's Hats, now $2.69
50-Cent Children's Dresses, now 39c
It will pay you to come to Pine Level and share in the
many Bargains we are offering. You will see from the
above prices what great reductions we are making. Come
and see the Goods and we are sure you will buy.
J. F. Thompson
Pine Level, N. C.