North Carolina Newspapers

advises farmers HOW, EFFECTIVE^ TO GOMRAT WEEVIL District Agent Gaither Returns From a Tour hf Southern States i By E. W. GAITHER, District Farm Demonstrator. writer has just returned from a . through South Carolina and Geor . looking into the boll weevil situa in these states. Tll(, vtops included Augusta, Dublin, .\tlanta, Ga.; and Florence, S. Qw rondhions in this territory were very discouraging as a whole. However, ;h'ero were oases in the desert. everv point it was found that farmers and a great many business felt that they would not be hurt " thc. weevil or that if it came that n would in some mysterious way pass i f,irm 0r business bv untouched. tVen'after the weevil showed up many i'mers felt that it woufd stay a year „r and pass on. Very few did any toward changing the cropping ■ u°m or in any other way to prepare f,w the havoc played with every thing rneeted with cotton. P'arm business and bank failures and general demoralization has. been the \fter this calamity, the men with grit 1,,'o-an to look aroumj to see what could he'done to come back. The man wlth ,,rt this spirit has run away, gone and vnl left the battle field. At one place ,'ter four vears of weevil, more than IPO negroes bought tickets out of the State and left one station in one year. done north. _ ’ In the piedmont section of Georgia, saw large fields of cotton stalk? without a sign of having produced a Vill of cotton, which was a distinct surprise to all, since w;e expected to sec less damagd done in this section than in the coastal plains. The story was the same as it has been from Texas to Virginia. "The boll weevil will not-come here a,Kl if he does it will do nl damage, it cannot live here” With results the same everywhere, the weevil came, did damage, destroyed the crop brought disaster to the cotton farmer and every one who had any dealings with it, and he will do the same thing in North Carolina that it has done every where rise and the North Carolina farmer will do the same thing the other farm er has done, sit calmly down and wait, if he is allowed to do so. He has done •his in the infested counties of this state and he is doing the s.same thing •' hi those counties recently Infested. The inly hope for him is in the fact that he raises some other crop than cotton as a cash crop. If he doesn’t he will set it the same as the Georgia and South Carolina farmer has gotten it. This will happen in this state in the <ame . ifroportion as the % cotton crop hears to other crops grown, on the fabm, unless we wake tip and profit by the ex jerinice of our neighbors. Have these farmers come back? Some have PCi V some never will. » Where he has come back he has done it by growing his home supplies; his livestock and his garden. He grows feed, .food and forage crops arid sells these- to himself, his family and his livestock and then sells hogs, sour cream and poultry for cash and raises seme cotton oiv a gamble. If he raises cotton he has it as a profit if he doesn’t In: doesn’t go 'broke. Dublin, tla offered the best we saw oi the trip. This town showed some things worth seeing, real team work. This section was as hard hit as aiiy of the rest, they waited just like the rest and got hit Just as hard for the waiting. When they woke up they got busy and have helped the farmer come back as best they could. A new sys t"ra of fanning was introduced, food teed and forage cijops are grown which are consumed on the farms by the peo ple and livestock, cows, pigs and poulJ try. These crops are wheat for home consumption, corn, velvet beans, soy beans, peas, oats, rye and peanuts. All ,■ ;hat can be marketed profitably is mar iteted and the rest fed to livestock but precious little is marketed except corn and peanuts. The livestock make the tetds into pork, poultry, eggs and ™dk, which is sold to the creamery; , livestock do the milling of these reeds and save- freight. Every farmer we saw who has come bwk has done it on this basis. "he farme rs have a big co-operative ",'e'’ator where corn is husked, shelled, combed and graded for the market ■re sold. They have a hammer milLfor - Ming velvet beans and other feeds, :'ree c"rh mills and stock pens for ■ estook. Teh lice plant and a pri 6 cure meat for the farm to'tUf “mail fee, which goes back ,e 'arm for consumption. This can - (one at ajiy season of the year mak il, pr,'ii:i'16. f°r the farmer'to kill i,-5„a"y ,lnir' they are ready to kill. ,,(■ i ere that over 300,000 pounds is tJi®1* rai','‘ meat has been cured or .M-rti/’b-’""'11 for the farmers of this .. n,}nis s*ason. The big packers !lave all r>i moved. c o'ert the local offices and , -* ■ farmers are not -getting: the are J,r,l es tor ‘heir products which !„as," ' on ‘he open markets for the irt-Pt Ut lhey tail t0 grow, for the Market to but standardize their products :lng custom wonderfiilljr and to r - -- “rs Vint~ -v, 1 * r-l?crimmatlng custom Wfit have done ,"ha‘V’in 'l0 better, ton section^of1* t'lls mean to the cot ■ win ., r* thl* state? It answer la part only. ir.en. for"n,. y‘ !'",ess the business aim anil .' ’an,t*rs and professional "ay jL ;;;7 0n3 *-lse who is In any up ami ml i ,'1;™ ,:°tton do not wake live piaa-of'^H^me sane construc ,,;i the (..■‘’JT>P\tis and credit, based '"It froii,'”i' "J!;':eY>f th® aatlre cotton f0rfc” , °Xth Tru’llna to Mexico, Sf»ml t 1>?\0nal gain and Per" ^'iprai rn‘ ^ ln\the work- for the ' trie j, n r,»t of the whAle people. In the same flx 1 -1" <t<Wton belt. arv. not going to do ut we are going t of the cotton ne aii Ihe way along— and w J ii't »i] ■rr lilt s 'o.msJ as n i,, 10 plant It “l! 'ike ^rc?slonal commu we can get w,. ,.f £ f,Nr -k ‘hat will do aJII'1"'*'ho ■has' rt ■, iu‘ occasional ^n,;tv Tf1 6jn of hls'llfa * *»4 nerve fi rmer with vis hom Wi.i mid "'Hi Wllt I erow „ ,Uai«5 nT.0tu,lr-* ‘htijin “ depart ,v-ill- break- away f* it. but the rest always done, just any way per >ne Jota from th« ‘ LONDON NEWS LETTER ■ By Cable to the Associated Press i LONDON, March A.—-(.By tne Asso ciated Press.)—This has been a week of congratulatory messages for Ellen Terry. The famous actress celebrated her 75th birthday on Tuesday and was showered with telegrams, letters and flowers. Although Miss Terry appears on the stage oflly In occasional charitable pro ductions, she remains the most popu lar figure connected With the British theatre. She attends all lzfiportant first night performances and her ap pearance in the. playhouse whether be hind the footlights or In the audience is the signal for an ovation. Terry and Mrs. Kendal are about the only survivors of one of the greatest periods . of the English stage, a day that knew Irvine, Tree Alexander and others. Prom Monte Carlo where she is liv ing quietly comes word of another once famous star, Lily Langtry who for years was England’s foremost profes sional beauty.1 She is now 71. "X would like to return to the stage immediately,” she1 told an interviewer, "if offered a suitable part and play.” Langtry, however, doubts whether this would be possible because “thev are all flapper plays now.” . This gives the theatrical 'managers afi^opportunity to deny in ihe newspapers that all parts are flapper roles and they point with pride to the popularity of the old standbys. Cyril Maude and compaiiy sailed on the Majestic last Wednesday for an American tour in “If Winter Comes.” When John Bull shuts up his shop on a Saturday afternoon and decides to attend a championship association football ipatch, ! he casts a heavy shadow over the attendance figures registered by his American cousin Sam uel at a world’s series baseball game or a college football "contest. At the annual championship match which is,held in April, the number of spectators far surpasses the record for American football. * Preparations are being made to accommodate 125,000 persons at this year’s match. The game will be played in a newly constructed stadium at Wembley, a London suburb. The final tests for the safety of the new stands were made in the last few days when a small army of unemployed found temporary and j.auguing wont hi carrying .out the exacting requirements of the contrac tor*. Thousands of the unemployed were formed into companies and maneuver ed over the ledges in the new struc ture, rachlng, marking time and sway ing backwards, forward and sideways. They even got paid f<§- sitting down. Although 12B,000 spectators will see the game, only 35,000 will have seats. Among the latter will be King George who will 'occupy the royal box. Most of the others will not even have soap •boxes, but will be packed into open spaces between the'seats and the play ing field. The packing will be done by officials who stand in the field and sout their directions and commands through megaphones. Charles Critchley, who for 20 years, has been a-night patrolman, made his debut last week as a grand opera bari tone in the Empire theatre. Through out his career as a policeman, Critch ley’s vocal talent remained dormant. Two years ago, however, he had occa sion to sing before a policeman smoker which marked the beginning of his new career. Friends immediately persuad ed him to cultivate his voice and soon afterward Critchley’ was discovered by a prominent opera manager, who com pleted the -transformation. February’s weather was unusually varied and severe. The last fort night of the. month was marked by an amount of rain unequalled for years. Nearly every day brought a downpour, and so many gales were reported from va rious quarters of the British Isles that the heads of the meteorologists swam as they tried to tabulate fbrebasts. Most of the gales were easterly in the north and westerly in the south. Thunder and lightning gave variety, and a church steeple in London was struck. Two or three snow storms swept the midlands and the counties. The newspapers described these lav ishly, but to New Englanders and Can adians the squalls would have been i comic failures, for drifts that drew so much attention from the press were in reality seldom more than ankle deep. The winter, however, in spite of its variety of weather has been mild. In southern England the thermometer has seldom failed below the freezing mark. MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF BAPTIST CHURCH TO MEET IN DURHAM Thirty-third Annual Session To Be Convened On March > Twenty-seventh. By WAI TER M. GILMORE DURHAM, March 3.—The 33rd annual session of the Woman's Missionary Union convention of North Carolina, auxiliary to the Baptist state conven tion, will he held in the audtiorium of the First Baptist church of this city March 27-29. This Is the one outstand- j lng event in the calendar of the Bap- I tist women of the state. Their multi farious church activities head up in this meeting-. Durham being in the central section of the’state and easy of access, the j largest delegation in the history of the ] convention is expected. At the Char- i lotte meeting last year there were 629 present It is estimated that there will be at least 700 or 800. and possibly more at this session. Only twice before has . Durham had the privilege of entertaining this fine body of women, representing the very highest type of wpmonhood in the state I • ’• ‘ sound program adopted by the state and federal agricultural workers, of food, feed, forage crops, a year round gar den and selling the crops to pigs, cows, chickens and the family, marketing the surplus In the most marketable form. Raise some cotton If you can. As to the direct methods of fighting the weevil we saw all manner of dopes and contraptions and heard of all kinds of things to do and to buy, we savy all kinds of machines and heard all kinds of stories of wonderful things that promised to do the work but didn’t. We found farmers who raised a bale of cotton per acre who did nothing but pick up squares, fertilize and plow. We saw farmers who raised 15 bales on a 150 acres of land who used every thing they heard of, mostly the wrong vyay and failed because they failed to pick up squares, fertilizer and plow. We found some who grew good crops under fair weather conditions by using dust. Some who did the same thing With other treatments but the general opinion was that good land, good seed, plenty of fertilizer, early seeding (not too early) fast and frequent shallow cultivation, about ten times, picking up early fallen squares, and dry weath er were the determining factors. If these things are done, poisoning pays If not It is a doubtful practice. A wet season is disastrous on poor land, a failure on ordinary land and doubtful on good /land, even If every thing Is done that can be done. * . Poisoning seemed to be the only thing mentioned below Augusta. All of the bug catchers had been scrapped so far as we could learn. Above all we. found no substitute for hard Intelligent work and >io method of weevil distmotion that killed weevil as fast as they are hatched. The destruction of the cotton indus try has moved neighborhoods, changed school districts, broken up families and routed out the lazy farmer. I.t has left big plantations without labor to grow even the crops,that can be grown with farm machinery. It has reduced land values apd taxable wealth. It has left the man who can fight against odds and rise from defeat and come back. He Is fighting his fight well and will win,-but he Is doing it after and not before he had to do.it. The boll Weevil may be a blessing in disguise- but If North Carolina cot ton farmers do not upmask him and pull oft the biggest change any agri cultural state Ufas ever pulled oft dur ing the next two . time before somi see the blessing range tellsco»k trS It Will OS W 1UXIB ^us will be able, to jrot it with a long —In 1902 and in 1906. Under the su perb leadership of Mrs. C. t>. Haywood, chairman of the hospitality committee, those who contemplate attending this meeting need have no apprehensions about entertainment, provided they no tify Mrs. Haywood in time ot their in tention. The railroads also will give the usual reduction in fare on the return trip, ] provided a certificate is secured by the j purchaser of the ticket from the agent at the starting point. Those who are entitled to membership in this body are the officers, exectuivq committee, j associations! superintendents, five rep-j resentatives from the entertaining so| ciety, with one adult representative, from each society of any grade i-n the state, provided no church has more than five delegates. ' It is too soon to forecast the results of the past year’s work, and yet it is quite ■ certain that these will measure up with the best in the history of the organization. The reports for the last quarter are now pouring into headquar ters by every mail, and the prospects look bright. According to the corre- : sponding secretary. Miss Mary Warren, | the third quarter eclipsed all other rec- | ords. At their last annual report the Baptist women of the state reported for benevolent objects $298,694.24. It is thought they will go beyond that mark tb's year. Miss Warren, who was elected a year ago to succeed Mrs. W. H. Reddish, whose health had failed, as correspond ing secretary of the union, has made j good in her work. She has visited the \ various church and associations! or ganizations from one end of the state to the other and impressed them with her clear insight of the work and her zeal and consecration ip performing her ‘ task. The outstanding features of the pro gram will be notable addresses by rep resentative women and men, both from outside and in the state. The address of the president, Mrs. W. N. Jones, of Raleigh, is always a high light and gives the keynote of the convention. The subject of Mrs. Jones’ address this year will be “Builders With God. ’ The general feature of the work of the women that will be emphasized at this convention will be education. The pro gram is built up around that idea. At the opening session Tuesday night March 27, Dr. A. Paul Bagby, the gifted and oultured pastor at Wake Forest college, will preach the annual sermon. Dr. R. T. Vann,, corresponding secretary of the Baptist board of education of North Carolina, and Dr. W. C. Jones of Birmingham, secretary of the Baptist board of education of the Southern Baptist convention, will deliver ad dresses. Another notable feature will be the address of Mrs. W. C. James of Birmingham, who is the president of the W- M. U. of the Southern Baptist convention. Other features will be ad dresses by the following returned mis sionaries: Mrs. D. W. Herrjng of Chang Chow, China; Mrs. M. L. Braun, of Kaifeng, China, and Mrs. John An derson .of China, and' very probably Miss Susan. Anderson, of Abeokuta, Af rica, All of these ladles are very in teresting talkers. Mrs. Herring is the wife of a native “Tar Heel,” though she herself is from Australia. She Is a deeply spiritually minded lady and will be master of the situation. Mrs. Braun, now resting at Asheville, is an unusually gifted woman. Her singing at the recent Baptist state convention In Winston-Salem elicited much favor able comment. Mrs. Anderson, who was Miss, Minnie Middleton, of Warsaw, is one "of North Carolina's most gifted daughters. Some months ago her hus band, who had already made a perma nent place for himself in the work in China, was drowned on his way to one of his appointments in China. It was a tragedy that, stirred the Christian world at the time it happened. Another feature will be an address by Rev. G. T. Lumpkin, head of the new Baptist hos pital at Winston-Salem, in which the ladies have taken such‘a worthv part in stabilizing. ., - ■ - A young lady tells us after her hus band has worn a suit twice it looks as old as King Tut’s sult^ I HISTORIC PAGEANT TO FEATURE SYNOD MEETING IN HICKORY Will Deal With the Establish ment and Growth of Lenoi^ College. HICKORY, March 3.—A unique fea ture of the confel ence of pastors and congregational chairmen of the North Carolina Lutheran Synod at Hickory, March 7 and 8, will be an historic Pa geant of the establishment and growth of Lenoir college—the first ever pro duced in the history of the Institution. The conference, called to pledge whole hearted support of the North Carolina Synod to Lenoir College in its present appeal for $860,000 for endowment and expansion, will be attended by over 200 delegates from 1 every district in the synod. The reunion of Lenoir gradu ates and former students on Wednes day afternoon, and the banquet follow ing, it is said will attract a larger number of former Lenoiriaris than have ever been grouped together. In addi tion to the Pageant and the conference on Thursday there will be staged -a Grand Parade of students, former stu dents and townspeople of Hickory, which will express the indomitable spirit of Lenoir College, victor over countless difficulties and supreme In the midst of dangers which threatened its life. In liv^ig pictures the pageant will show many incident from history of the institution—the days of struggle when the state was young and poor, the growth of the student body, the ereo tion of now historic buildings, the re sognition of Lenoir as a Grade A Col lege in 1915, the after-war depression with students gone to the army, friends turned to other interests, and the col lege dollar shrunk to one third 6t its pre-war value, when it seemed as though the struggle of decades to live and grow had been In vain and Lenoir must die, and the jubilation which fol lowed when unexpected help came In answer to prayers. Then the Pageant comes to a close with the more recent period when the vision of a great fu ture has appeared and is realized to be within grasp. ' The Pageant was written and pre pared and will be presented under the direction of Dr. Robt. ■ L. Fritz, con nected with Lenoir from its beginning and its honored president for seventeen years, the years of greatest struggle for existence, Prof. E. deF. Heald, head of the department of English, Miss Lela BERLIN NEWS LETTER By Cable to the Associated Press BERLIN, March 3.—(By Associated Press.)—“King Lear" was being played at the theatre in the Ruhr the night the French occupied the town of Recite leinghauseq. Gloster’s son, Edgar, was wandering about alone on the heath at the opening of the fourth act. Gloster was approaching off stage and Edgar interrupted his soliloquy by exclaiming in a loud voice, “but who comes?” At that very moment the audience was startled by the crack of riding ■frhips and French soldiers who had forced their way in to the auditorium hastily dispersed the crowd while the surprised actors watched the excite ment from 'the stage. . “Old Heidelberg” is reappearing on the stage throughout Germany and at tracting great crowds because of its nationalistic character and the near ness of the French occupation troops to Heidelberg afid its historic castle, which was destroyed by -the French in the -80 years’ war. A film of the life of Frederick the Great also is attracting great crowds and taking rank with “William Tell” as an inspiration for patriotic demon stration. An angry woman without a country has been expressing very forcibly here her opinion of the law restricting im migration into the United States. This woman ,born a Hungarian, recently married a United States treasury offi cial in Germany. She tried to obtain an American passport, but /the Ameri can consular officials are said to have told her that she still was a Hunga rian. The Hungarian consul, on the other hand, asserted that she was not now a Hungarian. The American officials have offered to give the woman a vise direct to the United States on an affidavit stat ing the facts in the case; but they will not give her a vise to any other country, arguing that she first must go to the United States and live there one year and be naturalised before she is entitled to a passport and vises for general travel. The woman and her husband desire to go by way of Eng land on their way to New York, but the bride cannot aocompany her hus band. Women from Mediterranean states, the immigration quotas of which are filled, are in a worse predicament than the Hungarian woman if thiey are married to Americans, as they cannot even get a vise to the United States, direct, but must register and wait their turn for admission, which may be a year in some cases. On the other hand American women who marry Germans retain their American passports and also may have German passports. Leaders of the movement among German, women for greater freedom have celebrated the 100th universal birthday of Calvlda Von Meysenburg, by issuing a complete edition of her writings.. The centenary of the birth of the philosopher and idealist occurred six yearB ago, bjit war conditions pre ! vented the publication of her works until the present time. Carl Schurx, once said her "memoirs of an idealist," which was really an autobiography, was the greatest book ever written by a German woman. Malvida von Beysenburg was born a baroness, the sister of the Baden statesman, Baron William Rivalier von Meysenburg, but broke off relations with her family because of her demo cratic views and fled in 1848 to Lon don, where she became a teacher, writer and leader among the Germen political refugees. She moved to Italy in 1870 and became. associated ' with Garabaldi. She also was an intimate friend of Cosima and Richard Wagner, Nietzsche and Liszt, , The memoirs. of the noted woman were published in 1876 while she was! living in Rome. She wrote continu ously until her death in 1903. Mlffer, librarian- &*»d graduate of the school, Dr. E. J. Sox, dean of the fac ulty, and Miss Hortense Hoty, teaoher of expression. Among the distinguished visitors who will be present in Hickory to view the Pageant will be Dr. F. H. Knubel, New York, president of the United Luth eran church in America, who will de liver his first address on North Caro lina soil that day, Hon, Josephus Dan iels, former secretary of the navy, Dr. E. C. Brooks, state superintendent of. pu.bllo instruction, and Dr. Wm. S. Cur rell, of the University of South Caro lina. Kennedy Home Gifts. Following is the monthly report of gifts to the Catherine Kennedy Home: Coffee, from a friend;, grooerieB, Mrs. F. E. Wilder; milk dally, a friend; laundry, $1.60 weekly, Ideal laundry; groceries, Mrs. F. H. Bajalewi Wilming ton Star, by the.publishers; cakes and rolls, St. John’s church; bread and sal ads, St. James’ church; book case, Mrs. Roger Moore; preserves, Mrs. J. E. W. j Cook. The monthly meeting of the board of directors for March will be held next Tuesday* EXPLAINS HOW TO FERTILIZE COTTON IN WEEVIL REGION m Fertilization Under Cotton Pest Conditions Explained By ■ 1 Expert. By W. P. PATE Soil Fortuity Agronomist North Caro lina State Hxperiment Station. RAT.TglGH, March 8.—In growing cot- ; ton In this stats, the heat farmers have recognized for a long time that It paid (1) to h$ve the land In a good physical condition; (2) to secure a good variety of ootton and seed that had' a high good stand; (5) to cultivate frequently, goo dstand; (jt),to cultivate frequently, to keep down grass and conserve mois ture, and (6) to fertilize heavily and with a fertilizer containing the beet proportions of the different plant foods. Under boll weevil „ conditions, all of these things things wtlll have to be done as well, or better than before in order to make a profitable cotton crop, and the farmers that pay little'heed to these things, stand a little chanoe t* succeed. / ''It has been proven time and again b*> experiments, carefully oarried out. that the cotton crpp will respond by In creased yields when flertllliers are add ed containing nltrogejn, phosphorlo acid and potash In correct proportions. It has also been proven that the soils on which cotton Is grown In this seotlon of the state contain .only small amounts of the necessary elements of plant food and only very small orops can be grown without the addition of thes^ materials. One of the main points to he consid ered this year In growing cotton . Is earliness. The use of fertilizers cor rectly will aid In this particular. Phos phates tend to hasten maturity. Pot ash and nitrogen if used In excessive amounts will detay maturity, but are very necessary and if used correctly will increase total crop yields and will not unduly prolong the maturity date. Considering (all the factors regarding the fertilization of cotton this year, It Is recommended that for very light sandy soils, from 600 to 1,000 pounds per acre he used, analyzing 8 Der cent phosphoric acid, 4 to 6 per cent nitro gen and 3 per cent potash. For the heavier sandy loam soils, use 600 to 1,000-pounds per acre, analyzing 8 to 10 per cent phosphoric acid. 3 to 4 per cent nitrogen, and 3 per cent potash. If any soils contain large amounts of (Continued on Pafe Three.) Made by a Nine-Ton Steam Roller Chairs dragged across your *g iet Boors, the scurrying of bi feet and tittle feet, and the othc buses which a floor receives will ruin the finish, unless he toughest, the most durable varnish is used. 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