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Farm Notes By V. ('■ TAYLOR, County Agent Mr. Geo. Hays, of Ladonla. who aas heen feeding out a number of hogs under the supervision of the County Agent, and the State Depart ment of Agriculture, completed the demonstration last week and I am giving below the results of his work. Date of beginning: May 5. 1930. Date of killing: August 5, 15, and 21. Average length of feeding: 100 days. ' Number of hogs at beginning: 20. One small runt pig died a few days after beginning. One hog was.ac cidently killed July 5. by automobile. This hog weighed 103 pounds when killed, but was a low. Number of hogs killed: 18. Value of hogs at beginning: sll4 Total cost of feeding: $210.10 Dressing and Marketing: $6.75. Total cost $329.85. Weight of hogp at beginning 676.4 pounds. Gross weight at killing: 3563.5 pounds. Gain In live weight: 2887.1 pounds. Cost per pound of gain in live weight: 7.3 cents. Net weight at killing, 3163.5 pounds at 15 cents pound: $474.63 Lard kept at home, 40 pounds, at 20 cents per pound: SB.OO. Total Income $482.53. Net profit $152.26, or $1.50 per day for feeding and care of hogs for the entire feeding period, after all expenses have been deducted. These figures are actual costs and expenses. and show that hogs can be fed at a profit in this county if properly handled, and that pork can be produced for less money than it can be bought for, if properly fed. Let's produce our pork at home next year. A number of complaints have come to me relative to tobacco be ing hard to cure this year. In my opinion this is caused by two fac tors: first, tobacco made a late growth and is full of sap; and sec ond it is being pulled too green. I believe it will pay every farmer to let his tobacco stand on the hill un till it Is ripe, if possible, of course, if it is diseasing and will not stand it must be saved, but where it is not loosing too much it should be let to ripen. Reports coming from mar kets already open are that while all grades are selling low that ripe to bacco is selling much better than tobacco pulled slightly green in order to cure bright. Tobacco will usually cure with more weight if allowed to ripen. Commissioner William A. Graham has issued the following statement relative to the purchase of rye and oats: "A number df seed dealers have MRS. J.E. WISEMAN, B. S. fa Nunc Instruct",, in Piano and Voice 1 Studio 0|N»II Hept. i. Phone 965 j l MARTIN'S INC. RENTAL AGENTS Real Estate and Insurance Office Greenwood Bldg. Phone 105 Elkin. N. C. " j Wm- Ordinary pains— head' ache and neuralgia, muscu lar pains, functional pains, „ the headache and congested feeling of a cold in the head— how quickly they disappear when you take s tablet or two of DR. MILES* CbbUmint Dr. MO**' Aspir-Mint is the new, stable, miat-flavored tablet that is making people all over the country "Smue at the Acha" Tour druggist has thm. 15e aad 25c Package® Governors and President Confer on Drought Relief , MB i- - 1 lS«gllilaßiW^fe^^KlM^»MaKti^Bß^ iMnffjri iHi * The chief executives of twelve states and of the United States confer in Washington on measures to aid firmer* who have been ruined by the long-continued drought. In the picture besides Mr. Hoover are C.overnors Caul field of Missouri, Emmerson of Illinois, Leslie of Indian*. Cooper of of West Virginia Po ' of Virginia, Erickson of Montana. Weaver of Nebraska, Hammill of lowa. Reed of Kansas, and repres«itatives of the governors of Arkansas. Kentucky and Tennessee, as well as the Secretar) Agriculture and the Chairman of the Federal Farm Board. shown an interest in our recent cam paign against the shipping of mls branded "abruzzi rye and Fulghum oats Into North Carolina. This la very encouraging as It shows a dis position on the part of our dealers to make an effort to sell the farmers only the best seed obtainable. lam anxious to have the farmers to co operate with these dealers and keep a close record as to date of sale, kind of seed purchased, and the tags found on the bags, .and the record of the crop produced by the said seed. Above all, let them keep sam ples of tUe crop taken just before It was harvested in order to show these samples in court In case damage suits are Instituted. It has been called to our attention that so-called Abruzzi rye and Fulghum oats have been sold to North Carolina farmers when the crop showed that the rye was not Abruzzi, but commiffß rye; that the oats were not Fulghum, but common red oats and in some cases ■ ... ~ir' I tf,ou uranta c^welß that h milder cmct oj better tmte.: Chesterfield MULDER,YES-BUTSOMETHING MORE. ' Chesterfield offers richness, aroma, satisfying BETTER TASTE —that's the answer; and / * that's what smokers get in Chesterfield in full- C est measure—the flavor and aroma of mellow • | ' V*' tobaccos, exactly blended and cross-blended. | Better taste, and milder too! © 1030. Lwarrr t Mrwa Tobaocq Co. ■ i . uaflCTTanvatnaACCßca |j 7* i i •'! . • -V" » V- f ' • - ' ' ■ lis, Hfcji . A . THE ELKIV TRIBUNE, EI, KIN, NORTH CAROLINA not even red oats but mixed oats of lithe or no seed value. "Our farmers have been thus de frauded of thousands and thousands of dollars by unreliable seed dealers outside of North Carolina, and I am hereby warning them to pur chase seeds grown inside of North Carolina, whenever possible, under guarantee of the grower. When this is not possible, they should try to get seed grown by a reliable grow er and sold by a reliable dealef*. The price may be a few cents higher per bushel, but those farmers who have had experience will figure the price in the crop produced rather than in the seed purchased. For instance many farmers have bought rye mis branded "Abruzzi" for one dollar and a quarter a bushel, this rye pro duced, we will say, ten bushels to the acre, while a bushel of genuine Abruzzi rye purchased at the same time for $2.00 a bushel produced under like conditions, twenty bushels to the acre. The common rye cost 75c less on the market and produced ten bushels less in the field. It is in the field and not on the market, where the seed price should be cal culated." Our farmers and seed dealers should give the above careful con sideration as we can easily loose thousands of dollars in this county by purchasing inferior seed, not only with rye and oats but with wheat, clovers, and other crops. J. C. PENNEY CO. DIVIDEND ON COMMON STOCK The Board of Directors of the J. C. Penney Company, at a meeting held September 2, 1930, declared out of surplus a quarterly divident for the quarter ending September 30, 1930, of $0.75 per share on the out standing Common Stock of the com pany, payable September 30, 1930 to Common Stockholders of record at the close of business September 20, 1930. At the same time they declared out of surplus, a quarterly divident for the quarter ending Sep tember 30, 1930, of $1.50 per sliara on the outstanding Proferred Stent of the Company, payable September 30, 1930 to Preferred Stock holders of record at the close of busiuens September 20, 1930. HRKT BUSINESS MINDS SEE END OF DEPRESSION The very best business minds are now predicting with confidence that fall will bring an improvement in trade and business conditions gen erally. .They also argue that the be ginning of the end -of the depression that started with the Wall Street crash nearly a year ago is even now in sight. Snch men as Ford, Edison, Firestone, Alfred Sloan, of General Motors and Roger Bstbson financial wizard, all share that belief and are freely predicting that the worst will be over with the passing of August. It might be said that the traveling salesmen who visit Winston-Salem are talking more optimistically. "People are merely afraid to buy; For Sale Or Exchange! kA A "few good mules and horsed , also a few pairs. Let me know your wants—lf I don't have what want, I will Ret It for you. - I a load if the de mand justifies it. Under JlcNier's ELKIN, N. C. - ffn 4ftt *W t*m»* "* 1 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1080 that's all that's the matter." saya Ford. "There is no danger of over production so long as people are buy ing what they want and need. There is bound to be employment, too, for men will have to work to make the things that peqple are buying." Bdlson and Firestone are of the same opinion. They feel that with the arrival of September, when crop money commences to move in all parts of the country, fall and winter buying will start. That would help industry, too, since merchants can't sell goods if the factories and mills are not turning them out. No one anticipates a tremendous boom, or such fre~-spending as followed the war. But there Is a widespread opinion that sensible buying is going to return at a very early date, and that the business depression of the past several month 3 will gradually be swept away and the skies clears ed pretty generally of financial and industrial clouus.—Twin City Senti nel. A ship with heated holds to main tain a cargo of asphalt in liquid form is being built in Ireland.
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