North Carolina Newspapers

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, IZZZ THE FRANKLIN PRESS, FRANKLIN, N. C. PAGE TWO "CIVILIZATION BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE FLOW a V THINGS TO PLAN TO THROUGHOUT COMING YEAR The Farmer' Day at the tet farm at Swannanoa on May 17, 1328. Poultry loading depot with facili ties for grading eggs. An annual poultry show. Monthly livestock tales. Fanners' own line of delivery trucks. Purebred sires and seeds. , Guernsey cattle association. A semi-annuaf seed exchange day. A Harvest Carnival one day o the bread and butter show. KEEP YOUR FARPl AND IT WII4 KEEP, YOU AND YOURS Farming As She Is Done In Macon Field Crops There is going to be more -soy bean hay grown in Macon this year than has been grown in the last five years' before. And what's more, a lot of tha is just being planted to turn under for the land's sake. You take fellows like C. C. Cabc and Charlie Hender son and they come along and buy 12 bushels of beans of big, .rank, coarse variety, such as the Mammoth Yellow, and then in the next breath say "I want about 6 or 8 bushels of Virginia or Larcda" and you ask them in thp world thev are doing that r,nA ti,v v "Oh. I'm coing to aiivi -...-j j re t turn under all that coarse stuff tor the lan&Und the other 1 am going to feed to my dairy cows. There are others dozens of them but 1 just happened to remcmncr these two fellows in particular, be tUnrr Tiar! nlanned out exactly H.Vjr 1 - , .rVkOt tVinV ttlfMI ffht thev needed ana y 1 1 a v u'vj - o " - t , knew exactly the reasons ior wnat they did. 1 MANY MINERALS e-.xr FOUND IN STATE (Continued from page one) color. Ruby colored corundum and some small rubies have been found at the Minccy mines, Macon county, and the Grimshay . mine, Transylvania county. -( . Enteral, Beryl, Crystals Beryl is a mineral that vanes m color from emerald green, pale green and sea green, to yellow, golden, light blue, and colorless. The emer ald green is due to the presence of a minute amount of chorium and is the variety that is most highly prized as a. gem when clear and fre from flaws. . - . Emerald Beryl The berylemmonly sold at the present time, me oneuiui Id (the erccn variety of corundum) being one; of the rarest of gems. North Carolina has lurnisn ed some very handsome emerald beryl crystals of splendid color, some of which have cut very line siomy.. The largest stone cut weighed 4 23-32 carats and was of a somewhat light green color. The most celebrated cry ctoic arc still uncut and are in the hands of mupscufris which unfortunate ly are . outside the state, remaps the finest emerald beryl crystal iounu was from near Hiddenite, Alexander The farm pages of The Press are edited by the county agent in col laboration with the editor. ats of the green hiddenite. The finest crystal that has been obtained from this mine measured 2 3-5 Jnches by l-2inch by 3-4 inch, with one end of a 'very fine green emerald col or, which would pro,bably afford a gem of 5 1-2 carats' if cut. This crystal is in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. The crystals' obtained by the hiddenite Mining company were emerald green color throughout the crystal "and they represent , perhaps , the best group of crystals ever ! obtained froin the property. Carolina Garnet Gems Thp name irarnet is used to de scribe a group of minerals which Jiave ' many identical and similar physicial properties and similar chemical properities but varying in specific gravity ' and color according to their chemical composition. 'The different garnets vary in col or from colorress, through the dif ferent shades of red to almost black. The rarest color is green of the uvarovitc, the chromium garnet. Garnet' is one of the most widely dis- was irom near nmucunc, ..v. jvjanici is vit m m- ...v.. .......,,--county, and is 8 1-2 inches in length tributed minerals and Is found in and weighs 9 ounces, it is now .n.jnany ot tne crystalline roc.:., n the Morgan-Bemcnt collection in the j js commonly occurring with mica spangled appearance. These inclu sions ari nsnallv of a Yellowish mica mineral hematite.' This variety of - i T t it quartz has been tound in jrccieu and Alexander counties. Opalescent quartz has been found very sparingly in the state, the best samnW have been found in Ca barrus county, which have very ' fair results, when cut. Many quartz crystals of both the amethyst, smoky and rock crystal varieties have been : found contain ing bubbles of water or liquified car bon dioxide. ,: These make interest ing mineral . specimens. ' . Amorphous , quartz occurrs widely distributed in the state. y , Chalcedony, from" colorless ;to'a pale greenish color in association with many of the perldotite rocks' in western North Carolina. , rhnisonrase. a ereen to greenish- white amorphous quartz occurrs " in gcmVquahty in Macon county. Arratp'has also been found in sev oral Wnlitipft in the state and. some cnWohU fnr rnttiner has been found Lin CabarrUsand Mecklenburg coun ties. " Moss, agate has been ' feportcd from orange county. Carnclian and jasper have also been found in the state . and occa sionally of suitable quality tor cut ting. - 1 . ' . -, Other Gem Minerals : 1 . THINGS TO PLAN FOR RIGHT NOW That cream check every two weeks. . That cannery check every time you come to town.' .,., Fat hog sale in March. . Poultry sale on Monday, March 12th. . . Bread and ' Butter Show next fall.- :' .. - -. .': Encourage the 4-H Clubbers. Big Farmers' day next , fall.' , '., Local Curb Market. .'( , Breed sows so that the pigs will go on the market in . March, April, August and September. American museum of natural history, New Yprk. Hiddenite is the most noted lo cality in the state for bcryl crystals. The first emeralds that were ODiaineu from this locality, were found in the soil, but in 1881 when the Emerald and Hiddenite Mining company was organized, systematic mining was un- W....w.V in pegmatic dikes and often is abundent in gneiss and cnists. i ne three verities that are of gem value .occurring in . North Carolina are rlirwiniiP niamam ite ana Dvrone. Rhodolite This variety of garncH is remarkable for its color and beau This rhodolite has a variety of shades of color, which for organizcu, iysuuidnc "m6 yj i variuiy ji simu . . ' . (lcnaKCn. ine ucryi uuuu inc mosi pari diq ; biotite gneiss in pockets or lens shap- delicate rose-like tinge with that of ed cavities, in quartz and feldspar the diamond. Most of the varieties veins, but which are continuous for i Qf garnet are only beautiful by many ieti. iysiiucii wmi ji iransmuitu &" " wmvi ... - . a. a Ttooiitifiil crvs- t:u:t rUnLc r( frAnr Vint rho III lllCnc trtVllitB ait L-awi" j - mull Udi IV auaviva w , " - tals of quarty, rutile, muscovite, dolo- dolite' gives most , striking effects of milC, CaiCH, pyrilL"t luuunauin- aiiKi deniter- - ; On - fr vlitrrniountain between Afrtrtnctntift is obtained from the di- rrnrlae variptv of feldsoar which, oc- currs in thei pegmatitic, dikes if' Mit chell and Yancy counties. ine pest moonstone was cut from . a niece of digoclase from the Hawk Mine, Mitchell county. feldspar aiso iur nishes material from which sun The best samples of this feldspar ' were found near Gold Hill, Rjwan v county. 't . . Opal has been found in this state as the variety' hylite, the transparent colorless variety w-hich has the appearance of dewdrops. The best samples have , been ob tainexl from the Corundum. Hill, Macon county. Pearl's of this fair quality are occa sionally found i- m fresh water mus Just About the Farm Where, oh where, are the howlers that say farming "ain'tTio good no how?" Thev should have been in Franklin- last Monday and scen r over 600 farm ers old and youngat the Farmers. IJay meeting. -- I 1.i.i1 'ill r THf-ll JWtiliW the "cant do it's" and all the It ain't no good's" about 150 of tbe good farmers of Macon county hay already signed contracts to. grow stuff for the cannery. They have in Acstigated and found that ommercia canneries arc paying $10.00 and $12.00 per ton for' tomatoes, 45 cents per bushel -for potatoes and 2 cents per -pound for beans, and getting all they can can ; and the farmers living around those canneries are growing all they can plant. Furthermore, the farm buildings of " these said cannery crop producers are all painted and in good repair; the fences are in good shape; their stock is fat; their kids are rosy-cheeked; the wife is smiling; the family car is well painted and repaired, and taxes are paid on time. Poultry We have had to change the load ing day for poultry from . Wednes davs to Mondays. . Don"t forget this: , t "..u. io.iincr will hp evcrv " other Monda- beginningthe12th ot this month. That is, Monday at 1'ranKim earlv at Otto. The next sale will be next Monday, the 12th. Prices to be seen elsewhere on this page. n w 'nkn been arranged that we get the prices every Wednesday before the sale on. Monday in time to get them in to The Press. Marketing Mr H. C. Hurst; Franklin, Route No. 1, has for sale: 4 bushels Virginia soy beans. . Miss Fay Franklin, Franklin, N. C, Route No. 4, has for sale : 10 pounds pumpkin seed. Hogs for sale :-Charlie Dills, Frank lin. N. c, Route No. l. r Mrs. R. A. Patton, Franklin, N. C, Route No. 1. ' T t C W. Cabe, Franklin, N. C, Route - " V. A. Norton, Dillard, Ga., Route No. 1. ' ' ' ,. r Arthur Mashburn, Franklin, N. L., tf- W 1 fPnland-China pigs.) Charlie Rhodes, Rainbow Springs, N. C. . . Bees for sale : Joe Corbin, Frankiin, N. C, Route No. 4. (5 colonies.) Jesse Carpenter, Otto, N. C. , . Poultry for sale: 6 Tancred Strain . White Leghorn Cox. Mrs. Shelly, Route No. 2. Silver Laced Wvandottes: hrank N. Norton, Dillard, Ga., Route No. 1. - . Milk cow for sale: ). T. Cabe, Franklin, N. C, Route No. 2. (7 years old Jersey.) , , , , Sov beans for sale: J. D. Welch, Franklin. N. C, Route No. 3, has 29 bushels for sale at $3.00 per bushel county, emerald beryl is round in a tu'iiiiatip ttvti associated nvith tourma- hinc, quartz and feldspar, some of' whic hcut good gems up to J-4 carats in wpi uht. Its chief value as gem matecrial is when cut en, cabochon, showing sections of the green emer ald and the white auartz and feld spar which makes a very pleasing combination and is known as emcram matrix." Aquamarine The aquamarine variety of beryl is found very commonly in many of the pegmatic dikes that have been worked for - mica, the most impor tant of which are in the vicinity of Spruce Pine, Mitchell county, at the Kay mine, Yancey county, and the Littlefield mine, Macon county. . In each of these lacalities aquamarine beryls have been iound very abun dantly .and have 1urnished material from which many beautiful gems have been cut. These beryl crystals are found ranging in size from the very rnimiteest transparent crystals to those of more than . .two feet -in length and as much as 7 inches in diarrtcter These larger crystals are generally bluish or greenish in col or but opaque and are only of value as mineral specimens. Amiamarine bervls have also been found in considerable quantity at the I'tnorald loralitv of Alexander county. Blue, Yellow and Golden BeryJ In the mica mines near Spruce Pine, Mitchell county, blue,-yellow tna gold en hprvls have been foun in fine rrvstak which have furnished many vprv beautiful cut stones. 1 he Dlue hprvl is the eaual in its colorine and brilliancy of the Brazilian stone. The Wiseman mica mine has Deen one of the chief producers of these beryls , The Hiddenite Gem . The hiddeiH ftero. is . a, variety oj the mineral soodumcne. and is of a deep green color, and thus far has only been found at the emerald lo cality linear Hiddenite. . Alexander county. Many of the crystals have a uniform green color, while otners are yellow at one end and gradu atcthrough yellowish green to em rpld ereen at the other. The first hiddenite crystal was found in. 1879 and was confused with the emerald beryl and it was not imtill two vears later that the min- rmt was found to be a new cem and was named hiddenite after William E. Hidden, a noted minerologist. In lRfcl he orcanijed the Emerald and Hiddenite Mining company which worked the cem area for several vpars, The nroDcrtv was worked quite extensively for a few years and then operations ceased until 1007 whpn t-hf mine : was reopened and operations conducted by the American Gem Mining Syndicate ivho. however, only conttnucu op- npratinni lout than two vearsi.' The mine then remained idle until 1926 when it was leased by the Hidden ite Mining company, a North Caro- KoQutifnl and varied colorine by re IieCteXl IIRIII. . VVHCir lU'lll (UI5WH.H.U i7ivn..V , 1 1 the rhodolite w&s mislakeuvby onary ljit wHinr -of - the creeks-and tJ - u..f.i-""f.J.Tnrrv"-,s,-rf'vsratizeii not until '"they had tested it . would they Dcheveotherwise. 1 he rhodo lite has only been found in North Carolina, and in-i vry limited area, which includes the gravels of the streams that rise in Mason moun tain, Macon county. This variety is iiprnliar tn North Carolina and was named on account, of the similarity rrst of its color to the rhododendron, ine largest rhodolite found eave a gem stone weighing 43 1-2 carats. Almandite and Fyrope liesides the rhodolite referred to above the almandite and pyrope varieties of garnet have been tound extensively in many sections of the state. Py mnp is a deen red carnet. while the I" - - - i. . almandite has something of a pink ish tinge. Good gem material oi these varieties has been found in Alexander,'- Burke, Caldwell, Cataw ba, Lincoln, Macon, McDowell, Mit chell and Yancy counties. The best colored and most transparent . . i r material has ben obtained irom 1nvanrlpr and Yancev counties Many- -of the mica - mines in western North Carolina, particularly in Mit chell and Yancey - counties, contain garnet crystals that, are found flat tened out between the foliage ot tne mln Thpsp arp often transnarent and some have been . found thick enough to cut into . gems. Quartz Gems In Many .. Colors Thp minpral nuartz is very varied in ito nrrnrrpnrp and is found in many colors and formations furnish ing many varieties of gems. The most important of these gem varie ties are as follows: - CJJ . . . UUbllClS lui "L v,vw r I iuia . luijuittHuii, ,invr i 'ated the properties tor about a year Who's got something else for sale? ami have taken 6at about 450 car- UntWo- hpautiTuify "-efystatizecf Vtic Kn found near Hiddenite.' Alex ander county, of suitable quality for cutting into gems that resemuic black diamonds. Cyanite occurrs abundantly in many localities in North Carolina but only at a few is it found infine blue crystals of gem quality. Such cry stals of cyanite; occurr on Yellow mountain in Mitchell county and near Micaville, Yancey county. A grass green variety of cyanite of gem quality has bben found near Spruce Pine, Mitchell county and is the finest sample of this variety of cyanite thus far known. Zircon which occurrs in somewhat transparent crystals throughout the monazitc region o? Nortlr Carolina allv been found of sutvi- lldS uooj'""""; .... i 1 cient .size to cut small limpid white nmr a it nniiyn y.ircuii ui twi color' occurrs. in these deposits, no si)ecimcns have been found of suf ficient size for cutting. Zircon cry stals up to an inch in diameter (not : i,o,n hppn found in usiup' r -- - ... c ,f- tUo npfmiatic dikes. SUIHC iv .... 1 1-tA Spinel, staurolite, peridot Jazulite, serpenti V, malacite, epitUe , ?ind rp amonc the other that have been ocra sionally . obtained in the state.-1 he Charlotte, Observer KEEP LAMBS " GAINING FLESH Fat spring lambs are the ones which make" money for the farmer. By the time this is printed in your es are as toiiows: u.. - --..--- - , Rock crystal, a .perfectly color- Ut's cmn ; m he al p pc transnarpnt oiiartz. has been Foil nl in manv beautiful crystals and masses near White. Plains, Surry county, Hiddenrtc,. Alexander coun ty, and Chestnut Hill, Ashe county. Smoky quartz, or cairngorm stone, occurs in many shades of brown from very deep (almost black) through varying rich tones and fad ing into limpid white, wnue u maK pes which are very-effectiveinartificialJightbome Ol the mOSt DCaUUIUI licumcus this gem mineral Jiave been touna in - Alexander and Iredell counties. It has also been found to less extent in Catawba, Burke and Randolph couties. : , '. , rifi-in. or snnnish tonaz. is a yel low variety of quartz that has been Alexander and ad- ivuuu joining counties, but is seldom of a rich deep color. It mases a siriMup gem when the color is good and is much esteemed as a gem. Uc nr nint niiartz of Eem dUal V. f t V ' ' iioc hoon found in Alexander and faron counties. In the Hiddenite minff eomp verv beautiful crystal ninlfiiiartz was found asso ciated with the hiddenite. The cry stals were extermely small but very Krilliant . ' ' .' , Aventurine is a quartz containing inclusion of . other minerals as Bpecks or thin flakes which are very many lambs will be frisking about over greening pasture lands and rye fields., , . , , . . . But' as lambs must be seal iat to u".;., u fon of the market, it might be well for the farmer to give them a small portion of grain teea aany. C C rlanery, lennessee luvjsiuu Extension, has this to 'W cn important subject in the SOUTHERN AGRICULTUKlbi: . . It should be kept in mind a very mWmounT"6f "feed should be-given Knainninff. and that the feed left in the trough be taken out each time that new feed is added. - lhts need not be wasted, as the old .snccp will handle it. 'The trough should be swept clean each time feed is added. The feed given should be free from bad odors, and teed tnat nas uecii run over by chickens er rats is often objectionable. . Wtin n Tamh is 30 davs of age it will consume about 1-4 pound "of rv.; it u iitqq started oil feed, when K, 1 x i i i ii ii -J ' r , , ahoiit 10 davs of aee. The amount of rmslipt crrain consumed just be fore going to the market will-arnoupt to about 3-4 pound daily. Occasional ly a lamh will consume 1 pound daily. At this time corn is never worth more than about 2 cents per nonnrf while lambs, caining 1 poutld daily, will ' be worth around 15 cents per pound Such meetings .as you all' pullci . ... off last Monday sure puts your coun ty agent on his metal; and 1 just want to say right here that I am more convinced than ever that we have trot thp hpst hnnrh of laiiticr . I citizens to be found anywhere. . Now' As wp have trot started. what about each individual one keep- ing tnis pep up rignt on r I will begin myself by asking every one of you right ' here : Have you a particular little pet problem that we could jump onto right now and try to solve?" ; Nearly . every man has soincthhg hian is just a little bit in the dark as to where to start. And nearly every man, again, has about as good an idea on that question as any other man, but he just needs the other man to back , him up a little bit before he gets started and puts the thing over. For instance, let us stinnosp ihnt you have chickens, hogs, cows, corn,. etc., and etc., out ot which you arc . making your living. Now, question No. one is: Have I trot the best variety? Question No. 2 is: Have I got the right amount of said va riety? , Question No. 3 is: Am 1. working them right? Question-4 is: It not, why not? Question JMoi-5 iS: How and what to do to get it right? Its just the above questions plus the question "Am I doing my part" that makes up the problems of farm ing. ' Do you . KNOW how much your eggspdrk, ..buttefatutc., are cpst-. ing you? 1 mean exactly what 1 said. Do ydu KNOW what it is rest ing you? . '.. To put it another way what pro portion of the cost is attributed to the followintr thinsrs: Investmpnt feed,, .labor, depreciation, up-keep, spares, renewals, eequipment, taxes on investments, etc.? t t Ht What I'm getting at is this: One' of the best things I know that could be done in lacon county right now is for one man in each township to analyze 'his business a,s it stands; ascertain his costs and then let him and me work out a plan by using jilst the equipment . he has and the amount of investment he has, and everything s just ' as it , isr except his mpthods anrl spp if ro fmlAn'i - " . . V V.UU1U 11 l 1 . . ..... - . ' oy tne end ot, .the year, have made as much over and above his nsn-.il income to more than defray his taxes.. A A. . . . and I can hear the howlers howr "Vpah hv Jiprlr tnrl ttin'o n fn- ... , .. Litciv n aa .idl as it will git that I hope this summer to be able to find a farmer in a:h township who has the same kind of dream, and we can hit on a prac tical plan and -work it out. enprks or- mm naites vim.i v -j . , .... - t brSt and ' e the crystals a The more of the right sort of green feed the lamb has, the less ?rain it will consume. There is of- tene; a period of two to four weeks n ' thp lifp of tW snrinor lomkg " " " 1' ' 4 1 1UI11LJ JJl Tennessee when they seem to care jaothing for it, and are inclined to be :ndifferpnt ahont ' patincr o-rain ,Tk,' , . . - - - - o ;,.... ijiii ;s when many feeders quit, and it is a mistake, in just a tew weeks--the green stuff begins to get woodv md docs not suit the lambs so well, or make them gain so . fast, and it is with extreme difficulty that lambs can be made to go back to their feed. In the early period lambs need to be fed, as the grass is too watery for the right sort of gains. ., '2 V V I 5 J4 1 N o . x 13 o V Jet us know i YOUR LAWYER colwt