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The news in this publi cation is released for the press on receipt. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA NEWS LETTER NOVEMBER 1,1922 Published Weekly by the University of North Caro lina for its University Ex tension Division. CHAPEL HILL, N. ( .. VOL, Vm, NO, 50 Bditori.l Board . E. 0. Branson, B. H. Hobbs, Jr., L. B. WUson, B, W. Knight, D. D. Carroll, J. B. Bnllitt H w rrs I ^ — - - - ■ • ■ . um. ntar second-alaa, n.atta, NoranLer U.1914. a. the Postoffloe at Chapel HiU, N. C., under the aot of August 1911. FARM VALUES IN UNITED STATES A REAL UNIVERSITY All records for matriculation at the University of North Carolina have been broken and unless the rate of en rollment slows down very markedly, the end of the session will find more than 2,000 students in attendance. This is indeed a remarkable tribute to the rapidity with which the Univer sity is expanding, and to the spirit of educational progress which is abroad in the state. When it is borne in mind that a few years ago the total enroll ment fell short of one thousand, this showing becomes all the more inspir ing. The credit for this growth belongs to the memory of Edward Kidder Graham. He did not live to see the fruits of his progressive policies but his spirit marches on. He planted the feet of the University firmly in the path of public service and his successor has kept them there. The Graham ideal is still the magic. The secret of the University’s growth is to be found in the fact that it is now an integral part of the public school system and a potent factor in the life of the state. It is no longer a monas tery where aspiring young men bury themselves for four years before ac cepting the responsibilities of man hood’s estate. It tries to bring col legiate training within the reach of every boy in North Carolina in whom ambition burns with ever so faint a glow.—Asheville Times. I believe that the community in which I live is a part of my home and that I should work earnestly with my neigh bors to bring more helpfulness and joy into the community life. I believe that God did not mean to shut me in a house, away from the free air and sunshine. I believe that all the blessings of the great outdoors are intended for me. I believe that for me it is an ennobling privilege to work with Nature—to care for the life- giving soil with my own hands, to sow the seed and help it grow. I believe that all my life I should plan to have some work that calls me every day in to the open air. I believe in learning to enjoy good books, good music, and good pictures, but most of all I believe in reading in Nature’s unwritten books the wonder ful stories of plants and animals; in listening to the music of birds and in sects, of wind and rain; in watching the ever-changing pictures of earth and sky. For I believe that God has given all these things to make my country home beautiful aud dear to me.—Flora Bullock. STOP THAT LEAH The two Carolinas stand among the, highest of states in the value of crop production. But in farm wealth we rank about fortieth. The margin be- j tween the two is out of all proportion | to natural law. If called in for consul-' tation the efficiency expert—the busi ness doctor—would tell us at once there is a leak where no leak has a right to be. • For almost a hundred years we have been bearing a large hand in helping to clothe the world with our cotton. OX-CART EDUCATION Sixty years ago America was the fourth nation in the world in terms of education. Then it slipped to fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and finally ninth ] and mighty and place. , ' j Pf>or and lowly in smokes and chew- Prussia has one man in a thousand ' began in this country, who cannot read or write. Denmark ' robbed our forests and sold Switzerland, and Holland have one man j fruits thereof that the people of out of four thousand who cannot read I nation might be housed, or write. 1 And for every one hundred cents We have seven men in every hundred received from the sale of who have acknowledged that they can do neither, and in the industrial centers among the foreign-born twenty out of every hundred are illiterate. We are still riding in an ox cart as far as rural education is concerned, while physically we are riding in a pal ace car.-Newell Dwight Hillis. WORTH $9.02 A DAY Every day spent in school pays a child $9.02. Here is the proof. Uneducated laborers earn on the average $500 a year for 40 years, a to tal of $20,000. High-school graduates earn on the average $1,000 a year for 40 years, a total of $40,000. This education requires 12 years of school of 180 days each, a total of 2, 160 days in school. If 2,160 days at school add $20,000 to the income for life, then each day at school adds $9.02. The child that stays out of school to earn less than $9.00 a day is losing money, not making money. With no schooling—of five million people, only 31 attained distinction. With elementary schooling—of 33 million people, only 808 attained dis tinction. With high-school education—of 3 mil lion people, only 1,245 attained distinc tion. The child with no schooling has one chance in 160,000 of performing dis tinguished service our crops, our timber and our mineral, the greatest inherited and acquired wealth God has ever given to any peo ple, we have sent about 80 cents away to build mighty cities and establish commanding markets in other states. A country may go on for a thousand years producing, but unless it conserves it will be poor and a debtor wherever credit may be obtained. When we peo ple of the Carolinas finally get it driven into and clear through our hides that! our farm wealth should more clearly j approach the figure of our average crop ' value we will stop sending away for the things that are produced in mill, or factory, or on farms within 40 miles ' of our home. j When we learn to keep our money at j home by buying at home—when we' build up our small towns into prosper-; ous cities by giving preference to the products of our struggling manufactur-; ing plants, price and quality being ] equal, the 80 cents that has been going ■ away never to return will stay at home ' for home distribution. | The leak is of our own creation. Let’s | plug it.—Bulletin, Made-in-Carolina i Association. KNOW NORTH CAROLINA A South Carolina Verdict North Carolina, a leader among the States of the South in so many respects, has taken the, lead in the important matter of rehabiltating and further developing the fish and oyster industry. The North Caro linians have not confined themselves to mere talk about opening—or rather, reopening—this promising road to wealth. In fact they talked about it only a little while before proceeding to take action. With Governor Morrison heartily support ing the movement and pushing it ener getically, the work of restoring and then developing the North Carolina fish and shell-fish resources seems to be well under way. Surveys are now being made un der the direction of the Fisheries Commission and the Geological Sur vey. The first of these was under taken in New River, formerly one of the most important and most lucrative of the North Carolina oys ter centers. A survey of the New River region reveals that the tides have washed up sand bars which form a dam against Atlantic salt water and that the construction of inexpensive jetties will remove these obstructions. The point of importance is that North Carolina is not guessing a- bout her fisheries but is going to work both energetically and scientif ically, that she is finding out by in vestigation what needs to be done and is getting ready to do it. What she is doing forecasts, as The Ashe ville Citizen puts it, reconstruction of an industry whi'ch in earliet days was one of the most flourishing in the state and the revival of which will mean increased income for her citizens and for the state treasury. South Carolina’s opportunity in this field is as great as that of North Carolina, but we have not yet caught the latter state’s vision of the great things that lie in the development of natural resources. Only the oth er day there was found in North Carolina along Deep River a deposit of 60,000,000 tons of workable coal and the discovery was not due to ac cident but to the determination of Remove all trees and plants from me I bones, bad teeth, and and It will be as the desert -of Sahara. f •„ Plant me now. Nature is striving t^ f ’ cover my bare spots, but help is need- ed. Screen the harsh junction point of ground and building. Make of me a simple landscape garden. Trees eat, trees drink, neglect them they die. In which respect they are like your family. —Paul C. Bindley. the North Carolinians to find out by scientific investigation what their state contained in the form of natural wealth. With coal prices averaging $3.50 a ton at the mines, this discovery, as The Citizen points out, means an addition of over $200,- 000,000 to the wealth of the Old North State. —Charleston News and Courier. THE VALUE OF FARMS The average Iowa farm is the most valuable in the United States, as de tailed compilations of the last federal census reveal. Agricultural statistical tables just published by the census bureau list the Hawkeye estate first, with an average value per farm of $38,941. The Craven county farmer, upon reading those figures, will immediately say that some typographical error has been made. But rest easy; no error has been made. These are all actual figures-$38,941. We didn’t blame the farmer of this section for being skeptical. The figures as compared with the values of farms in eastern North Carolina are astound ing. But there’s a reason. Iowa is the richest agricultural state in the Union because of one fact—and that fact is that she has gone in extensively for di versified farming and livestock rais ing. If we wish to increase the value of our farm lands in this section of the country, there is only one thing; that we can do— and that is to follow Iowa’s example. The reason Craven county land is worth so'much less than Iowa is be cause we raise crops that are worth less. If the farmers of Iowa followed the same tactics as the farmers of Craven county, the value of their land would be decreased 50 percent or more. However there’s no reason for grow ing discouraged. Craven county is slowly but steadily climbing «ut of the rut into which she has sunk. 'The time is coming when the comparison be tween the value of our farm land and that of Iowa will not be as odious as it is at present.—New Bern Sun-Journal. A COW FOR EVERY FARM Although there are thousands of un dersized boys and girls with weak dull intellects, the cheapest and there is only one cow to every fifteen persons in fifty of our eastern counties. Dr. W. S. Ran kin, State Health Officer, says that failure to use milk with infancy and childhood in sufficient quantities and of pure quality is, in all probability, the greatest sin that parents commit a- gainst their children. Upon an ade quate milk supply, the future of the child and of the race is more depen dent perhaps than on any other single thing. Obviously, the remedy is to get more milk cows, not necessarily pure bred, but good milk cows. The average family, consisting of three children and two adults, should have for best nutri tion, a quart of milk'^each for the chil dren and one pint each for^the adults, or one gallon per day. This is just a- bout what the average cow produces. But be careful. Before getting too many cows we must first have pasture for them. Every family, be it tenant or otherwise, should at once get ready to plant two or more acres for every cow it has, or expects to have. This should be sown right away, if condi tions are favorable, but not later than first to tenth of October. Don’t delay. Get the soil prepared, get the seed and have them ready to sow when there is moisture in the soil. For a formula for pasture grasses, call on your County Agent, or write to your Agricultural Extension Service at Raleigh, N. C. AN AMERICAN I am an American. God willing, I will carve out the future with these two hands and this brain. I will stand on my own feet and I will win success for myself and my own. If I should fail, or fall behind my fellows in the race of life, the fault and discredit will be mine, no other’s. If I lose I seek no alibi in the character of my en vironment; I harbor no class resent ment; I carry no red flag of bitterness or sedition. I fight foward, whining not, independent, clear-eyed. I am an American, — Selected. I AM THE VACANT LOT I am the unplanted city lot—one of the 100,000 such lots in North Caro lina. Build upon me a home not a house. Plant me with loving hands and heart felt interest, and plant me for your children’s sake. Plant me with care With elementary education he has and with earth filled with humus. With ....a.?,. .. n n ^ rtVY T ITT 4 1 1 ff 1T7 O TY*m four times the chance. With high school education, 87 times the chance. With college education, 800 ‘times the chance. What is your child’s chance?—U. S. Government Report. A COUNTRY GIRL S CREED I believe that the country is a better place for me to live in than the city, because it is cleaner, quieter, and more beautiful. I believe that I can find no Nobler work than to use all the knowledge and skill I can obtain to make my coun- home a place of happiness for my family and friends. this foundation, I will give you fruit and flowers. Plant me to last. Let oaks and hard maples shade and protect the children of this and the next generation. Mow, lime, and re-seed my lawn often to make me a green carpet. Landscape me in harmony with my neighbors. Plant my street with one variety of permanent trees. Let me and my neighboring lots breathe and express the cheerful smile of bloom and shade trees. The world at the beginning was a garden, the first man and woman walked in beauty whereso ever they went. Locate my home back from the street, the noise, the dust. Let my en trance path beginning at my most con venient corner wind to a welcoming door step. Hundreds pass by to one who enters. Plan to plant a wel come. Plant me for every month in the year. Plant in masses, avoid straight lines and leave the lawn center open. Ever greens will give winter warmth, ber ried plants will attract the birds. Look out the living room door, the dining room window, and from where Mother sits sewing. Inside the home is the place from which to properly locate shade, shrubs, and flower beds. Plan before planting me. Make of me no checker board. Make flowers a part of my landscape but avoid pails perched on posts, kettles, and old tanks stood on end. Be a good housekeeper in the outdoor living room. Select plants to suit the cost and style of home. Planting me will make you a better man, a more successful man, a better neighbor. Your family will be born here, will grow up here, will live their happiest days with me. Beauty is a necessary commodity for happiness. FARM PROPERTY IN THE UNITED STATES Average per Farm in 1920 Based on the 1920 Census of Agriculture, and covering (1) farm lands and buildings, (2) livestock, and (3) farm machinery, tools, and implements. The values are greatly decreased since 1920, but the decreases are fairly uniform the country over, and therefore the rank of the states remains practi- cally unchanged. United States average per farm $12,084; North Carolina average $4,634. Forty-two states make a better showing. Among these are seven southern states Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina, in the order named. ’ The differences in rank lie mainly (1) in the average size of farms in the different states, (2) in the varying number of cultivated acres per farm, (3) in the value of farm buildings, (4) in tire quantity and quality of livestock, and (6) in the amount and value of farm implements-cheap hand-tools, costly labor- saving machinery, and the like. The tables to follow will exhibit (1) the average number of cultivated acres per farm, (2) the average value of farm building.^, (3) the average value of livestock, and (4) the average value of livestock per farm in the various states of the Union. J. H. Burton, Rockingham County Department Rural Social Economics, University of North Carolina Rank States Property Per Farm 1 Iowa $39,941 2 South Dakota 37,835 3 Nebraska 33,771 4 Nevada 31,546 5 California 29,158 6 Illinois 28,108 7 Arizona 23,418 8 North Dakota' 22,651 9 Wyoming 21,235 10 Minnesota 21,221 11 Kansas 19,982 12 Colorado 17,966 13 Montana 17,095 14 Idaho 17,008 16 Oregon 16,304 16 Washington 15,962 17 Indiana 14,831 18 Wisconsin 14,143 19 Missouri 13,664 20 Utah 12,130 21 Ohio 12,060 22 New Mexico 10,896 23 New Jersey 10,499 24 Texas 10,200 Rank States Property Per Farm 25 Connecticut $10,019 26 New York 9,879 27 Maryland 9,678 28 Massachusetts 9,389 29 Michigan 8,976 30 Oklahoma 8,649 31 Pennsylvania 8,651 32 Rhode Island 8,238 33 Delaware 7,903 34 Vermont 7,661 36 Virginia 6,426 36 Florida 6,116 37 New Hampshire 6,782 38 West Virginia 6,687 39 Maine 6,609 40 Kentucky 5,587 41 Tennessee 4,953 42 South Carolina 4,946 43 North Carolina 4,634 44 Georgia 4,366 46 Louisiana 4,364 46 Arkansas 3,974 47 Mississippi 3,546 48 Alabama 2,698
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