MARCH 27, 1941
THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER
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on East street has recently been
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the needs of the troop which the
Rotary club as sponsor.
About $50 was spent on the work,
and the boys are to make other im
provements under the direction of
their scoutmaster R. C. McBride.
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A trout is always hungry and will
take whatever he can get with the
least effort, BUT 'you have to
find out what he is eating as his
regular diet when you are calling
on him," declares "Dick" Miller,
world champion distance flycaster,
in the current Rotarian magazine.
Experiments with "tame" fish
show that they will rise to a lure
the same as they are eating at the
time, but will ignore one that dif
fers in color or general appear
ance. And trout are pretty pernick
ety, so fit the fly to the feding bait
at the time, warns Miller.
"Improve your casting, and you'll
improve your fishing," Miller as
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your catch!" Yep but maybe you
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Haywood Man Rates Strip-Cropping
As "Payingest" Thing Farmer Can Do
Good Farmer
L. ZEMRY MESSER
Bull Fghting
Offers Thrills
MEXICO CITY. Walking away
from the Plaza Do Toros- the bull
ring to you non Latin an empty
and futile feeling overtakes you.
Not that bull fighting is without
its elements of suspense, surprise
and thrills, but it leaves yojj feeing
so differently than you do when
departing from Yankee stadium
after a red-hot ball game or Frank
lin field after a bitter football bat
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From a spectacular standpoint
bull fighting offers tremendous
emotionul thrills and, lurking in the
background, there's always the
possibility of the matador being;
gored. It seems savage to buy a
ticket , to witness a scene where
death sometimes occurs. Many
persons, however, pay their money
for a seat in the bull ring regularly,
hoping it will be their luck to be
present when such a tragedy occurs.
To me bull-fighting is no sport.
It is a colorful dramatic and thrill
producing exhibition, but In the
parlance of the prise ring, it is "no
contest." The matadors are mas
ter showmen. They are artists who
work from boyhood to perfect their
technique They are as painstak
ing as a fine watch-maker assem
bling a watch the only difference
being that when the bull-fighter
blunders, It may be fatal.
Death, however, is a rarity in the
Mexico City bull ring. Baldcras,
one of Mexico's ton matadoa. "was
1 gored through the kidney in Jan
uary and died within 20 minutes.
He was not even due to be in the
ring; at that moment. He had gone
out to distract the attention of
another matador's bull during a
joust with the picadors. The pica
dors are the horsemen who jab the
barbed banderillas into the bull's
back to get him fighting mad.
The Plaza Do Toros was bunt tn
1907 and is one of the world's larg
est. It scats about 23,000. It was
filled to capacity the two Sundays
I attended. . The crowd is one of
main attractions for the American
tourist Who attends the fights. The
true Africando (fan) has a touch
of Brooklyn Dodger rooter In him.
He can hoot his favorite matador
right out of the ring, if he commits
a single ungraceful pass with his
cape, yet take him right back into
his heart in the next 10 seconds
if the fighter pulls off a brilliant
feint.
The true fan sits "en el sol" just
as do American baseball bleacher
ites. Seats in the sun cost from
three to five, pesos (60 cents to $1).
The other half of the ring, de som
bra'' (the shade), lias seats rang
ing from 10 to 25 pesos ($2 to $$)
Its hard to get a good seat for less
than $5 because the scalpers buy
them all up and tack on a 25 to
30 per cent fee to the tourist trade.
' One of the biggest scalpers is
"El Flaco" '(skinny), a good-natured
fellow, who for 15 years has
been giving his patrons "the last
tW0."'V.
Recognized as the top bull-fighter
in Mexico today, is Armillita. They
call him "Master of Masters." He
handles a bull as if it were a baby
kitten instead of a rip-roaring,
vile-tempered beast bent upon de
stroying his tormentor with one
vicious charge, Armillita is frail
and effeminate in appearance,
weighing about 135 pounds. His
legs are like match sticks. But he
is all muscle and hard as steel.
He trains more avidly than any
prize fighter.
Armillita also is the richest bull
fighter in the country. He owns
two apartment houses in Mexico
City, has a ranch within five min
utes drive of the Waldorf hotel,
and a seaside retreat at Acapulco
on the Pacific. He makes about
$3,000 for each appearance in the
ring,
The turnpike road to people's
hearts, I find, lies through their
mouth, or I mistake mankind.
Peter Pindar.
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By John Fox, Assistant Extension
Editor N. C. State College.
(Special to The Mountaineer).
"We folks here in the Panther
Creek community are farming 60
per cent better today than we did
five or ten years ago." These ar
the words of L. Zemry Messer, of
Fines Creek township, Haywood
county. And he added: "I believe
that strip-cropping is the 'pay
ingest' thing a man can do in
farming."
J. C. Lynn, Haywood county farm
agent, stood in the background and
listened to Mr. Messer tell of the
new agricultural outlook in his
remote mountain community re
lating what new ideas such as
strip-cropping, and help in the
form of TVA phosphate, and triple
A lime and phosphate, have meant
to himself and his fellow-farmers
on Panther Creek.
Lynn was quick to give credit
to Mr. Messer for pioneering in
several of the improved practices.
"So far as I know," the farm agent
said, "Zemry Messer was the flrst
farmer in this community to strip-
crop He is a real farm leader in
this section. Last summer, just
before the out-of-state tour ha'
personally called a meeting of
farmers in the community at the
Panther Creek Methodist church.
About 100 farm people attended.
A half dozen or so went on the
tour." '
Organizes Corn Club
Then Lynn suggested that Mr.
Messer tell about his adult corn
growing club. "There's a county
wide corn-growing club," the farm
er explained, "but we farmers up
here in the hills knew we couldn't
compete with those fellows own
ing rich bottom land. So I called
abouta half dozen of them together
here at my house and we organized
our own community club, We de
cided to Bee how near we could
come to 100 bushels of corn per
acre. Lots of things happened,
but we all aid better than in the
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bushels from my acre. The aver
age yield in this community used
to be 15 to 20 bushels per acre,
but I expect it was around 40 to
50 bushels last year.'
Mr. Messer is chairman of the
demonstration farmers in his com
munity. He has been co-operat-ina-
with the N. C. State Collara
Extension Service and the Tennes
see Valley Authority In their ef
forts to conserve soil and water
resources, and to test fertiliser
material, since the program be
gan in his section.
When he bought his present farm
15 years ago, the Panther Creek
farmer said most of the land was
in briars and scrub pines. "It
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'"We grew some tobacco and corn,
but didn't have much to sell. We
had a few cattle, mostly scrub, I
had grassland up in the mountains,
but no place to grow winter feed
crops."
"I used to grow as much as three
acres of tobacco. Now my. alot
ment is 1.2 acres. I plant four to
five acres of corn each year, where
as I used to plant 10 to 15 acres.
We used to think if we didn't plow
the whole mountainside, we'd starve
to death."
Get Plow Down Out of Hills
"Now our goal is to to get the
plow down out of the hills, and to
cultivate less land but get more
production." Mr. Messer recalled
a discussion which took place in
the early days of the demonstra
tion furm program, when he and
his neighbors answered "no" to
the question as to whether there
was enough level land to support
the township. But how, under the
npw nroirrAm fit Rfrinurnnninff And .
using lime and phosphate to im-
jjiuvc jiaaLuies mm &iuw legumes,
he thinks there is enough.
R. W. Shoffner, who is in charge
of the demonstration farm program
for the extension service, was pre
ent when this discussion was tak
ing place, but he wasn't in hearing
distance and it wasn't for his ben
efit that Zemery Messer said: "I
believe this TVA phosphate we are
getting is one of the biggest helps
the Government could offer. Our
land has got to make good legumes
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crops."
Mr. Messer has on his farm 12
beef animals and two Guernsey
dairy cows. One of his beef ani
mals is a registered Hereford cow,
which recently was bred to a pure
bred bull for which $650 was re
fused. Last spring he bought a
registered bull out of a shipment
made from Kansas, but he sold the
bull for $100 profit and bought
the. cow,.
Near his home Mr. Messer is
conducting an alfalfa experiment,
and he thinks highly of this crop
as a source1 of hay. He got the
idea for the alfalfa in Virginia
while on the out-of-state farm
tour, conducted under the spon
sorship of Farm Agent Lynn and
his assistants, W. A. Corpening
and J. L. Reitzel.
In conclusion, Zemery Messer
summed up the demonstration farm
idea by saying: "A man naturally
will make more money if his land
is good."
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