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!' TIWRSDAY, JUN:'|2<. 1926. ;j |;;| lz^ OF INTEREST Done Gathered Her that lHakas It Wor n Edit DOES NOT PAY TO SUCKER CORN. Raleigh, N. C., June 15.-rUnless the boys on the farm need some kind of job to keep them busy, i: might be better to let them go fish ng than to put them to "suckering" < orn. Demonstrations made by leading farmers prove that this practice dees not pay. "At this season of the y?ar, we get many inquiries as to whether it yaps to sucker corn," says E. (. Hlair, extension agronomist at Sts te College. "It does not. Last year H. H. Holleman of Hertford county found by a careful demonstration that the Increased yield secured by pulling suckers was rahdly enough to |>ay for the job. Mr. Holleman pulltjd suckers from two rows, 100 feet ldfig. and let ? *u... a.Hrlinine rows the plants on me i?>- ?v.jm ? -produce as many suckerp as they! could. He had a perfect s|and on all four rows and both plots ypere treated exactly alike with the inception of removing the suckers oij one plot. The two rows from whits the suckers were removed produced 96 ears, including nubbins, weighing 5h | pounds. The other two rows produced 117 ears weighing pounds." This would indicate, ! jstates Mr. Blair, that pulling suckdrS tends to increase the average size! of ears and to decrease the number.. J The total weight of the ears was increased. If these yields were calculated on an acre basis, the corn from which the suckers were removed yielded 46.6 bushels, while that left untouched yielded 46.2 bushels. Tbt) small difference of four-tenths of n| bushel per acre would hardly pay fori pulling the - 3 4w~ io,,or "oitM hpttpr be sucKers, uuu iuc [nf used in some other timhly Job. Mr. Rlair states that there is one timely job in the cornfield, however, aud this is to add the sidiej application suuuiu tic userr. s~ ~K""j hieh. MAKE PLANS NOW FOR FAMILY REUNIONS Speaking of kinsfolk reminds me to say that in practically aljl the longsettled rurai communities, kinsfolk are usually pretty well grouped together and we believe tnjore of our country Jife activities should take knowledge of.this fact. In such matters as co-operative buyjiig of farm supplies, co-operative sellihg of farm products, co-operative purchase and use of inmroved machineiv. etc. as well as in recreatiou anil Social activities, the best way to gfet) started ts usually through brothers, pousins, or other related groups. Of |course, we know that not all kinsfolk can get along together, but plenty of thero can: and we should not lose the successes the many might majce because of the failures that others) would report. In this connection we g^t back to 1 a movement The Progressive Farmer Is especially interested in promoting, | and that is the holding of'family re j unions in all artsp of the pouth. Un- j .1- - 1 ? lui tuiiaiciy suuie oi our line old country social customs are not do common as they once were?the cqrn shucK ings, quiltings, house-raisings, etc., ot former days?but the anm al family ! reunion is one fine social nstitutlon j which has "been immeasurably helped by modern inventions. Th i autoino ++++-J~f ?+ ++ +++++++++++++ ? , , jj WE po A Banking < > ;; Cofne in and giet our a< ! i business affairsu This is ;; > render to our customers or obligation.! May we e Start A Savi ;; J. R. Sams!, Chairmi ;; E. W. S: Cobb, Pres 1 Frank Jackson, Vict < W. T. Hammett, Vi< ! I Fred W. Blanton, V ;; P. S. Lewis, Asst. < ;; M. L Arledge, Asst < * < Polk County B< Columbus, 1 A --J TL.?? U/hVh 6 dfllJ 11161V VVIlivn th the Progressive F ed By "A Dirt Farmt bile has made it practicable for near-i ly all the members of a family group to come together one or two days ach summer or early fall in a happy fellowship such as nothing but a family reunion could well develop.. Sometimes there are old people all I >f whose children, grandchildren and ven great-grandchildren come back :o the old ancestral home one day each year, gladdening the hearts of everybody but especially adding to the happiness of the aged both by weeks of happy anticipation and by weeks of happy reminiscence. Father j ? <? irranrifathenmnd grand IIIU Iliwiun , v/* ? mother, find the coming reunion a chief source of eager conversation for weeks before it happens, and then discuss all that was said and done fiintil it is nearly time to begin anticipating another reunion. Or it may be that with parents and grandparents dead, brothers and sisters find life's holiest memories reviving as they meet at the scenes of their chllhood and the graves of their ancest- J drs, while uncles and aunts, nieces and nephews, and fifty-seven varte-1 lies of cousins meet together, get better acquainted, swap ideas and experiences, and go away wil all having been made happier and better for the experience. We want to see more family reun ions in every county in the Soutn this year, and now is the time to hegin preparing for them. Editor 'Clarence I'oe in The Progressive Farmer. 100-Bushel Growers Use Soil Packers Three out of four of the 84 gold medal Indiana corn growers of 1925, who farmed with tractors, use ttie soil or land packer in preparation of iAvig.^e.adbeds ?nd for weed killing. aaTlon ror tire seeu coiu, uui u i?cquently does such- good service as a weed killer, just when the weeds are getting started, that it paves a culttf vation or two on the crop after It ! gets up. Few of the farmers in the western edge of the Corn Belt are well eilough acquainted with this tool yet, according to these growers who I fiud it fits nicely with horse or tracj tor farming. 1 * CULTIVATION TO KILL WEEDS IMPORTANT Weedds take tremendous tolls from jthe American farmer, says the Re! search Department of the National Asjsociation of Farm Equipment Manufacturers. Row crops should be cultivated frequently to kill the weeds , while young, all small grain and grass Iseedds should be put through the fanning mill to eliminate dirt, weed "on/lo mnttnr Ulrr. rtlinf* a ?? .1 o?;vuo, it'ii ihii luauii nau vucsii. ?u?i broken weed stems, etc. Tne disk, thhe peg-tooth pr spring-tooth harrows, the rotary hoe, walking, riding, one-row or two-row cultivatora of surface or shovel types, are all great weed fighters. Even the mowing machine does its part by mowing weed patches, abandoned ihog lota, road sides, etc., just before the seed forms on the plants. a boom wouldn't be bo bad If It didn't make bums out of the ones that it don't make prosperous. GENERAL j <? Business >? ivice pertaining to your | a part of the service we " and friends without cost ;; xpect you today? ? ?? N(V* A 59 nttuuill 4 I ? ? in of the Board. lident. !! s Pres. / ; | te Pres. ;; ice Pre*, and Cash. ? > Cashier. !! . Cashier. *\ * ink & Trust i ? North Carolina ;; 4 ? ? I llSsr J tf Y FARMERS ' *? *! ilntflo MS d LUUdt nugiv armer's Attention sr" CALIFORNIA LEADS IN FARM TRACTORS Maybe California's lead in so many things agricultu\al can be found In the rapid adoption of the farm tractor, suggests the Research Department of the National Association of Farm Equipment Manufacturers, which has been checking over the United States Department of Commerce figures on the 1925 farm census. The Golden State reported that 25,991 farms owned 29,948 tractors; 19 per cent of her farms being "tractorized,' ' compared to only 12,131 farms with tractors in 1920 when only 10 per cent of her farms owned "iron horses." The Dakotas and Illinois get some of the tractor honors, Illinois i__ farillS With navms uiuic ... 41,454, but only 18.3 per cent, or near 1 per cent less than the Coast state. The Dakotas both show over 20 per cent of their own tractors, North Dakota being .3 per cent higher, but only 15,852 and 16,374 of their farms jhave tractors. Nor has the numbers I or percentages increased at such a rapid rate as in California where tractorized farms more than doubled In number and the percentage of farms nearly doubled. Iowa and Kansas are close together at over 17 per cent or their farms tractorized. Nebraska fol| lows at 14 er cent, Wisconsin 15 per cent, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Coljorado right close to 10 per cent, New ! York 13 per cent, Ohio and Indiana 'about 13 per cent, New Jersey 14 epr cent, and on down the line. ) ' j Peace will come to th eworld when J nations battle for the championship j instead of for the champion battle I ship. I i i 1 w OPTOMETRISTShelb' Will TRYO Saturday, June At MISSILDINE Will be in SALUDA, at June 25th. Eyes Examined. Glass If you have HEADACHE, i Blur, come in and consult Eyes. i Every F? Milady's Cosmetics of every imagii would expect to see in tt and all priced within reas( summer headquarters. Deliciou, Wats Tryon PI TRYON THE POLK COUNTY NEWS SEWS ICE CREAM FOR SUNDAY DINNER. Sue Rriiiges lives on a large dairy frnm farm, only a few miies an.., a good-sized town. One Saturday, while shopping, she heard a stranger say to the woman with her, "I wish we cou'd have ice cream for dinner tomorrow, but my cook can't majee It and I don't care for the bought kind." Sue, who had been longing for a means to make money, hesitated only a moment before she went up to the) lady and offered to supply her with the frozen dessert. The next day she delivered the very best ice cream she could make of pure cream, fresh eggs and fruit, straight from the home orchard. The customer was delighted, and when Sue I called on Monday for the bucket and mold, she ordered more for the following week. She told her friends about it and soon Sue, with the help of her younger brother, was making from 50 to 60 quarts every Sunday, besides taking special orders for parties or other occasions. " *winifine of Installing an l\OW sue la UI1.1 o _ electric freezer so as to make the work easier, but she say9 that she expects always to serve her custom' ers with the same homemade Ice cream that brought her success fn tfo beginning. She uses only the finest home-grown ingredients, and measures and mixes with the care and exactness fo a chemist. Thus she has built up a reputation for an especially fine -product for which people are willing to pay a good price.?The Progressive Farmer. Every acre yf corn should have soy beans planted in the rows along the corn. The feed will be needed next fall and winter. The hogs will gatbei j the soybeans after the corn is harvest ed, r they will gather both the com and beans, or if rough feed for win tering the dry cattle is needed, th< corn stover and beans may be saved [together for that purpose; and, some thing that may be still more import ant, the soybeans will improve the fer tility of the soil. ? The Progresstv i Farmer. i HEAD THE POLK COUNTY NEWS -EYE SPECIALIST f, N. <S. Be In N, N. C. 26th, 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. The I PHARMACY the Saluda Pharmacy, Friday, T7C4-4.?i ni r> * ca i-iiAtsu. Classes rvepairea. if your EYES Burn, Ache or DR. MORRISON aDout Your thing ?r Boudoir liable kind?the kind you le big city drug stores? in. Make this store your s Soda's oris liarmacy . N. c. ' 1 V - f '*"<*- , , ... ^ TR At, TRUCK TO GROW FOR ] LOCAL MARKET ( "I am doing general farming, but 1 wish to grow some truck to sell in I the nearby town, which has 8,000 pop- ; ulation. I want to have principally fall apd winter vegetables in order that I may give most of my time tn the spring and summer to field crops. How should 1 proceed to have onions, cabbage, spinach and other vegetables ready for winter and spring marjkets? What else would you suggest that I plant?" To have green onions for next winter's use, put out the sets in October, using some of the early varieties like the Extra Early White Pearl. To jhave cabbage nexxt i^nter, set the -?- ?.,<rilaf or early Sep plants in mie AUcuuv tember. Sow spinach In September. Set some collards in August or early September. Plant some snap-beans about 70 or 75 days before the first frost usually appears. This will probably be late in August. Sow some I rutabaga turnips in late July. Sow the regular varietms of turnips at several different times, beginning in August and sowing once every two or three weeks until the middle of October. Sow mustard, kale and rape for greens in September.?L. A. Niven in the Progressive Farmer. PAYS TO PICK UP SQUARES. TheHhore up to date practice of dusting cotton to combat the boll weevil has rather caused us to neglect the earlier practice of ipckjng up squares. During 1925 one of my ten| ants, who runs a two-horse farm, * ?</>lrlno' I pinned his faith entirely iu ' up squares with very good success. i PEOPLES BAI l Member Ar Tryc f % interest un . Capital $25,000 Si No loans ar 0 G. H. HOLMES, President. J. T WALDROP, Vice President. WALTER JONES, Vice President W. F. LITTLE, Active Vice President .:: 1 ? ? > I All news ? i - I be inserted i ii office not la |j of eachweel i! live on Rura I perative thai | Office on Tt ii forced to drc ii torn of all pr Ii: Your co ^ 1 appreciated. POLK He planted about 18 acres to cotton hu.-l, c ? luring the last week in April, lie , . H <ias a large family, and they got over |r, ... fl Ehe crop on an average twice a week f. r>.;, . .. picking up squares until August lo. I The crop was fertilized with 300 . !, poundds of 8-3-3 fertilizer per acre, > .B and on July 1 it had an application B of sulphate of ammonia at the rate or ii . :'':cB 75 poundds per acre. I,, , ' \ M This tenant gathered 11 heavy bales wl, ' F-':-.B of cotton from Jjis 18 acres. At no T! --B time did the bool weevil have the <-au mastery of the situation. The crop ..f tj,, *B in this country was about one-third li? , : B that produced in 1920. His yield per l>: ~B acre was about two-thirds his yield, dh ' iB ?T. E. Kaitt in The Progressive I . : Farmer. Fa:-.- ?B COWPEAS DID IT. D0 Y0I L,VE 0^B The Alabama Experiment Station , r? B i h GOCn u J wanted to know the real value of "< planting cowpeas in corn middles at ! B i..i cultivation. To determine jU| ^ III C lUOb vw.... I this value, an experiment was started | -.va .. f on the experiment station at Auburn. 1 . -u: 4B It consisted of two plots, each of p..ij; , , . ,!*H wlitch received ample acid phosphate i r ~ *B and kainit each year for corn, birty Jud:. "B I cowpeas were planted in the corn I - middles of one and nothing was plant- ] p<>> -: . \ ed in the middles of the other. * During the first ten years the aver- m k. . . "B age annual corn yield, where cow-' . . B j peas were planted, was 19.2 bushels j ?l?-\ .-i , per acre; where no peas were planted, i-nn 1' :.~.r;B j it was 17.1 bushels. ___B During the next ten years the cow 11 'pea plot produced 16.2 bushels per - fl acre, while that receiving no cowp as re;. ' ? <1 1 k.mhala ?rd. i H j maae lkj.c, uusu^m. ! During the last three years, the 'plot receiving cowpeas made 17.4 I i K i? *n;.; 'PoLK CCmH NK AND TRUST OMFf nerican Bankers Association! ?n, North Carolina I " ? I I A I savings Hccoums uuiiifjoimdeo "??*" "?? VTTTVTTTTTTT irplus over $7,000 Resources over? e made by this bank to any of it's I fficers or Directors. I t+++** 4> + * * ! +++ ++++++ + ++++*++r v V V * V >++++++*1? 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