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POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, NORTH CAROLINA L W2& DUN pa ' J PK0todratfx3 4? FRANCES LA FOLLETTE i7J fn3 5" V, w " w'rpr, 9 EXCESS PROFITS BEIHG RETUBUED Collection From Dealers Proceed ing and Growers Will Get -; Their Share Soon. REPORTS IjOT YET COMPLETE ANTED: The Dunes National park la the sand dunes of Indiana on the shore of Lake Michigan be- . tween Gary and Michigan uy i The middle West has visited the playgrounds of the people in the scenic West the national parks of die Rockies, Sierras and Cascades. It has found them good. It has fallen in love -with the national park idea. Now it is asking: "Why not a na tional park right here, instead of half way across the continent T For rk worthy of the U is not a scen e u-- miorado and be between UocKy- on the coast n - ft So Maria, liunpw r",7 hp dunes as nul park, and they, have picu e right place for it. . tnbllsh i it,. tmincf to nrinsi auui w 3 So. The ProPose park area : all under private ownership and is held at spec toe prices on the chance of a second Gary t built at the head of Lake tt actual values it would cost about $2,500,000 to ray the 13.0JX) acres most desirable for par pu ,oses. The scenic parks of the West were taken rom the national forests and the public domain )y congress. To date there is no precedent for he appropriation by congress of funds to purchase 1 national park area. Lafayette was presented to Bhe government for national park purposes by me Uners of the property. ' r Congress has no national park policy. ",um dalUes with national parks as it does wiui ' other things. It is now generous with appropria tions and again niggardly; for Instance, iib Tellowstone $334,000 and Yosemite 255,000 m , 1919 and kept Rocky Mountain, with twice as many visitors as both parks, down to $10,000. Politics enters largely into all national park legis lation. In the Sixty-fourth congress the interior department supported the bill to enlarge Yellow stone and the bill to add to Sequoia and change its-name to Roosevelt: The agricultural depart ment, because the proposed additions would be , taken from national forests and therefore from its. control, opposed both bills, beating the former in the senate and the latter in the house. So there & no telling what congress will or will not do in the matter of-national park legislation. ' Can congress be induced fo appropriate money for the purchase of private holdings for national Park purposes? ' This question has been put squarely up to con 8Kss by two bills introduced at this session. One calls for tlw appropriation of a million dollars or so for the purchase of Mammoth cave, Kentucky, its environs for a national park. The other Provides for the establishment of the Mississippi valley National park on both sides of the Missis sippi in southwestern Wisconsin and northeastern Ioa. Hue the two states own the land under river, the federal government controls its navigation, part of the proposed area is a Wiscon sin state park some of the land will be donated and the. land to be purchased by the government has been appraised at a very moderate price, Can onaress condemn private holdings for na tlf'nill Park purposes? ' . Nobody ems to -know. Most lawyers would fff-hand that the state of Indiana can con Qetnn the dunes for state park purposes. And Presumably the state of Indiana could transfer the to the federal government. The national park service has been looking into the question of con demnation. It. is advised that the government can j-ndernn private holdings inside of national park boundaries in -fact, a bill is pending to condemn Macros in General Grant National park which e ,nv,'r will not sell for a reasonable price. As 0 the condemnation of patented land outside of a national park the national park service is yet ueeidid. Condemnation of the dunes has been wvocatett by private-individuals and by the press. ine creation of Lafayette National park has aMishe, this preCedent: The federal govern ent. win -accept suitable land presented to it for ational park purposes. So, while other questions J bein- thrashed out, the Indiana, Illinois and ii v n tw,Prations of the General Federation women's Clubs are engaged in a campaign to J se, suircient money by subscription to purchase fe dunes and present them to the government for National park. ; LAKE MICHIGAN 'It's f ' 'c,-t'tot f jfcfii VT VUHtN CITY scalc -or Kii.cs CIS . .rOiEi?i20' " 5 io u '-v. Auditing of Accounts of Largo FIrma Is Considerable Task No Re fund to Growers Who Con signed Their Clips. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) POTATOES PROPERLY STORED FOR WINTER Approximately One-Third of Crop Is Marketed in Fall. Reserve Supply Must Be Protected From Extremes of Heat and Cold - rovlde Sufficient, Ventila tion and Avoid Moisture. There is no question that the Indiana dunes are worthy of national park honors. October 30, 1916, a public hearing was held in Chicago bjr the in terior department in pursuance of a senate resolu tion. In September, 1917, a printed report by Director Stephen T. Mather of the national park service was Issued. This report eliminated from consideration all of the dune country except a strip along the shore of Lake Michigan .about a mile deep between Miller's in Lake county and Michigan City. After describing the dunes with considerable enthusiasm, Director Mather says: "Assuming, without further description of actual conditions in this dune country, that the sand dunes of Indiana are equal to those in any other section of the country ; that they are the most ac cessible dunes; that they possess extremely inter esting flora and fauna ; that they offer unparalleled opportunities to observe the action of the wind and its influence on the sand and plant life ; that the Lake Michigan beach is. beautiful and offers bathing facilities for a multitude ; that the recrea- tional uses of the region are myriad, should they, or a large section of them; be preserved for present and future generations? If they should be pre served, are they worthy of inclusion in a national park? And if they are worthy of consideration as a' possible national park, would it be practicable to establish them as such a park for the benefit and enjovment of the people?" He answers the first two questions emphatically in the affirmative. He says this region should be preserved to the people for all time and that it is ' worthy of national park honors. As to the third " Question, he thinks it one of legislative policy to he determined by congress, inasmuch as the dunes are not public lands, and private lands have never been purchased for national park purposes. He thinks the park should contain from 9.000 to 13,000 nrres: extending 15 or 20 miles along the lake. He finds 'that options secured by speculators vary between $350 and $600 an acre, with one 'tract of 9 300 acres held at $1,000 an acre. "Manifestly" says Mr. Mather, "none of these mnds -re actually worth $350 an acre at this time. A figure less than $200 an acre probably represents the actual value of the average tract of land not in ," thp influence of urban values, due to prox rftv tl cithfs Practically all of the larger hold ngs must be purchased in their entirety. I believe In t Q 000 to 13,000 acres of dune lands can prob ably be secured for park purposes for approximate-' u , 200 an acre. The purchase price of a park of iLTze suggested would therefore,. be between 000 and $2,600,000." $ S Proposed Dune Natfcnal park is really a ndprful Place. In the first place, the dunes are wonderful p denMJBg The fact tnat there is aD UU1?nhbited wilderness within a few miles of an uninhabiie Uonln Bloomington, the center o iv doQrg q ChlCilg0t he second lnd.-and at tn city of tbe wofld clty of the natkm a a the dunes are ls m itself a marve . mobiie of 20.- ,.t. o few nours vy m - Will"" " ooo.ooo rork-s nnfi stones and auicksarids, slopin gradually into deep water. There is probably no finer freshwater bathing beach Un the world.,. Don't think of the dunes as heaps of bare sand in a desert. They are exactly. the reverse. They have water, trees, shrubs, vines, flowers, gss, birds and small wild animal life,:The truth is that the dunes are a great natural propagating garden with a most astonishing array jof trees and Pnts and flowers. This garden is packed full of flora from the Lake Superior region Jthe-Atlantic coast, jji- o. 4.1, ,1 iroatpm Trairle. 'it tne miaaie ouum ' (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Potatoes properly stored should not sustain a loss throughout the winter season of more than 5 per cent, and under exceptionally good conditions not more than 3 or 4 per cent. The max imum return from the crop after it is nrr.fi ii rpd denends on the care with Collection of excess profits from whioh the nntatoes are harvested, wool dealers is proceeding, and their stored graded, sacked, and the ability distribution to wool growers win oe- of the grower .to sell at the most as- gin in the near future. This announce- vantageous time. Approximately one ment ls made by the United States de- tnird of the maln potato crop is mar partment of agriculture, which is com- keted at harvest time and the re pleting the work of the domestic wool malnder iS stored as a reserve supply section of the war industries board, in fQr winter and spring. It is physically accordance with a provision of the imp0SSible, as well as economically un agricultural appropriation bill. desirable, to attempt to market the en- Reports thus far received show that tire crop in tne autumn, and the only excess profits were made by about 10 way in wnich potatoes can be handled per cent of the "country" dealers. Cor- successfully, so as to insure a uniform respondence with "distributing center suppiyt is to provide sufficient storage dealers, whose total reports are not yet on f arm or at the shipping station completed, Indicate that some of them fop rom t0 75 per cent of the crop, have accumulated substantial amounts various types of storage places are of excess profits on the wool which nQW in USGt rangmg from pits or they actually bought. Auditing of the cheapiy constructed dug-outs to large, accounts of the larger dealers is a con- substantially built storage houses, siderable task and will require several piang for the construction of storage months. The bureau of markets, which nouses are given in the department's acts for the department of agriculture Farmers Bulletin 847. For successful storage, the tubers must be protected from extremes of cold and heat; a-temperature of from 35 to 40 degrees F. is considered sat isfactory. Sufficient ventilation must b4 provided to remove foul air and excessive moisture. The storage house must be so constructed as to make it possible to exclude the light, as tho table quality of potatoes quickly de teriorates in the light. The tubers should be dry and reason ably free from dirt when put into storage, an excess of moisture or soil increases the amount of heat In newly stored potatoes. The soil tends to fill up the spaces between the tubers, thus cutting off air circulation, and helping to retain heat that would otherwise escape. All diseased, badly cut, or bruised tubers should be removed from the crop before putting it into storage. It is a common practice for commer cial growers and shippers to store po tatoes in bins to a depth of 10 to 15 very Medium and Finer Grades of Choice feet Thls is aim0st certain to entail a Wool Are in Keen Demand. In this work, will enclose with each check sent to a grower a circular letter giving the name of the firm which handled his wool and which has re turned the excess profits, of which the customer ls receiving his share. No Refunds to Consigners. The department fcalls attention to the fact that the regulations of the war industries board did not permit . i r-wrx-Tvrr- n th mant line seems to nave uimu -- . mroh of wool in the great wool i J v tA1Kl 1 VII I' 3 I I I I I I I IIIIVU . V - XT I Llll. kua. - IZ oF W W characteristic and" gr0wing states of the Rocky mountain trees. a list oi . 20g , . pacific coast reglon exCept in the lTrthe orolnary Kbly - the spectacle Case of clips of less than 1,000 pounds -A... r,ae iB thmost interesting, each. All larger clips were required to iere he wes land inthem be consigned. This region produces r .fnt dnne crowned with flowers and plants ab01lt two-thirds of the entire wool w, - oSSTit isonefand where it was Is cllp of the country, which was about Tli& With itS 257,000,(KK) pounds in 1918. Growers in iiS strewn with dead trunks ! exhumed from an the eastern states were urged to pool nPipnr Graveyard of a previous forest. Today and consign their wools and many of ?W ldwp gash in the bluff; tomorrow its them did so. Since the government there is a aety fe . i ... v -nrhitP SJ ao Gtta .rrnimlsslnn on tnken by a very iony "y paiu me ucaicio a . IjiVp nn whicn grasses uuu "- . , . -a-, nt-tnrpcriinv liir i hiuliiuiu. .v i winrn I nr v uuufciii, v - clips Should not expect to receive refunds. much heavier shrinkage loss than when stored to a depth of not more than feet. The heavier shrinkage is . the result of the greater amount of heat generated by a large pile of potatoes, , which results in a higher amount oi moisture loss as well as a heavier loss from decay, as heat and moisture both help to develop organisms ; causing: tuber rots. Frequently the losses sus tained when the potatoes are stored under these conditions reach 25 per cent, and where rigid care has not been exercised to remove all diseased tubers before storing the crop, the loss is even greater. It is advisable, therefore, to pile the potatoes not greater than 5 or 6 feet deep, and the floor dimensions oi the bin should not be greater than I2x 12 feet unless provided with a series of ventilating shafts or division walls for the escape of moisture and heat. 1 rr i a folrpn by & V c I J luiij - jjaiu iuc vu. SnTthaAas come up, grainf by grain, out of the consigned wool, excess profits could be sand tnat nus , :fents and shrubs and mndP onlv on that part of the wool lake, on wnicu & fnnTnnld. To- .vv, hpv hnno-ht outriffht. Therefore, trpelets are aireaay sirussi-"$ nvi. -- nuu w" 7 . dov stands a forest on the edge a v growers wuw wuoigu w uay aw omfltBrv; Nrlth even the tree- hnnW not exnect to receive re tomorrow u . , u Krt0h nni nf wnni rnvpred by sand marching in iroiu luc u. oince uie guaumcUl map tops RAISE RABBITS FOR PROFITS mi. nrnnvinjr maD mna aiagraiu uuwo nas ceasea tne wor. oj. aiuutu . .v..' ..ioi fhnt builds the dunes is com- cf agriculture In this connection cpn- wnere tue-ui . . Michigan sists 0nlv of auditing the records and S " rrntprini froliilthe west shore and acC0unts of approved wool dealers, the dpnositin-it at the dunes for period reckoned at collection of any profits which they rTmn Vpars. Previousf to this period the may have made in excess of those per- lPVPi of the lake was 50 or 60 feet higher than now mitted under the regulation of the J;I discharge was towarfl the Mississippi at war industries board, and the distri- S inlnt near where now are .the dunes. When the bution by the department of agricul- frp eorce or glacer which prevented the discharge ture of these profits directly to the If water into the St. Lawrence was removed and growers upon whose wool the profits the lake drained into the Atlantic instead of the were made wherever the identity of the Lulf the level dropped, the present lake currents wool can be traced, set in and the building of the" dunes was begun. Permits Issued to Wool Dealers. PnWiP land surveys made! in 1835 and soundings war industries board issued per- of Lake Michigan furnish! ! the data for these mitg tQ about 3 500 "country" dealers estimates: During the last jSjKX) years the waters autnorizing them o buy wool directly of the lake have washed away about 500 square from the grower. Permits were also miles of land from the shore extending from the lggued ,t0 179 distributing center" Indiana state line northward into Wisconsin. dealers who had facilities for handling Where this land was is noy; water from 30 to 60 woq1 .q large quantities and most of feet deep The old shore line extends out from wftom were located on the eastern sea three to nine miles; then there ls an abrupt drop board near the centers of wool manu of several hundred feet. ji facture. These larger dealers were re This i an unparalleled erosion ; it is accounted quired to handle wool on consignment fnr hv the softness of the shore, which is largely frpTn eitfier growers or country dealers pnmDOsed of material umu iwno Kiwun and were aiso peonuieu i uuy hv the glaciers that deposited it. It is estimated country dealers direct, or from growers that 7 000,000 tons of soil lsr taken yearly by the through their agents. , fi.nm the shore north! of Chicago. So there Blank forras calling for a detailed s Plenty of material for funding operations at acc0unting have been sent by the de partment to both classes or aeaiers. Reports have been received from about 3,000 of the country dealers and about one-half of the dealers in distributing centers. The taking over or tne wooi Little Domestic Animals Are Easy to Handle and Remarkably Free From Disease. Rabbit raising on a backyard scale is not an experiment. Thousands of small rabbitries in this country are producing meat crops regularly for family tables. These domestic ani mals are easily raised and remarkably free from disease when propeny carea for. The Belgian hare is one of the best rabbits for table use. It weighs more than most breeds, develops rapidly people. This makes them unique as a pub- A lie Pf0 dunes are a different world from Again. e u fllltnesa of the Chicago plain. the monou"" . Ln. L country of hil Tney or.0 orts Country of hills and bluffs, gullies and 0JL n sorts of interesting varia- valleys. uc0 breams, bogs, meaaows. The t'S he beach are Imposing. The beach Wtf llwciderd. smooth, clean, free from LUC 1 ' 1 is plenty thTheneeSfacts suggest Interesting question: What will happen to the dunes when the supply nf hnllding material stopsi?Jf etnn it will, and that comparatively soon. v, chore north of Chicago will in a few years . the war department was completed hP oretty solidly settled byjpeople who have money go3 recentiy that many of the larger tn snend to prevent furi her erosion of the shore. dealers nave been unable to prepare Tn fact erosion has already been stopped over their rep0rts at an earlier date. The lone stretches, and in many j places the shore has aDditlng of these reports is proceeding been built out. The time is coming whea the west ag.raplaiy as It can be done with the shore will be protected from! erosion by piers and llmited force available for assignment breakwaters. The supply ofi building material ior t0 ms workf the department says. thp dunes will presumaDiy; gvop. tremtty.- men Aaa will ston "walking.'l 1 ' Selection of Seeds. it hone that long! before that time the TPrv farmer should study and pro- Dunes National park will b a people's playground, moU methods that will Insure larger dedicated to public recreat: on forever. crops and better quality. Close selec tion of seer Is pays Dig pronts. Female Flemish Giant. and the quality of the meat is superior to all the others. The Flemish giant is a Belgian hare bred exclusively for large size, with the result that the meat is coarser and less delicate io flavor. These characteristics are con sidered by some persons as desirable, but this is largely a matter of individ ual taste. EXPERIMENT IN STEER FEED Pennsylvania Station Makes Success ful Test With Silage, Stover and Linseed Oil Meal. Twelve head of two-year-old steers were fed at the Pennsylvania experi ment station on a ration of 41.09 pounds of corn silage, 2.12 pounds of shredded com stover and 3.02 pounds of linseed oil meal per head daily. They made an average daily gain of 2.22 pounds per head at a cost of $13.84 per hundredweight. The cattle were valued at $14.40 per hundred, making a net profit of $20.93 per head. f ! 1 1 f 1' i f
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