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"-. A K lx - i v vrvvi y i YVM VJLML VAVUVVKV JLk VOL. XXVII '- '. - OONE WATAUGA COUNTY, THURSDAY, September 30, 1915. NO. 9 I 1 ...... ... I I -. A A mm 1 YVVl V JLMk i -5 t i i I : '' A a;: Cbesse hidsstry in Iks South v The xeese .industry; in this country is branching out in sec- , tions where it was unknown be fore. The demand has started a brand new industry in the South ern States, North Carolina lead ing the way. Fostered by the United States department of Ag riculture, the first chain of cheese factories already is in operation south of the' Mason and Dixon line. Jt is at Sugar Grove, N. C, that the first factory, the pioneer cheese plant of all the South, was started June 5. If the ambitious vision of C. R. Doane, cheese ex pert of the Department of Agri culture, comes to fruitition, some thing like 100 cheese , factories will eventually be in operation in ' the three highest mountain coun ties of North Carolina AVatauga , Ashe and Alleghany. Since June five factories have been opened at two other places. The first Dixieland cheese fac tories are producing cheene of a quality that commands a price three cents per pound higher than that produced at longer estab lished factories in Pennsylvania. The vision itself is only a little more than a year old, but the North Carolinians fell into line just as soon as the practicability of the scheme was made clear to them, arid the farmers of the ad jacent country are co-operating with enthusiasm. It is even said that in some of the coves and little valleys back in the mountains persons who until the State "dry" law went into effect engaged in the manu facture of moonshine whiskey largely because there seemed to be nothingelse they could do, are welcoming the establishment of cheese factories because they real ly want to quit the illicit busi ness. Many of the coves and valleys are wonderfully productive, ideal spots for raising milcd cows. The cheese factories furnish a ready market for the milk. Some be lieve that the establishment of these factories will do more than any other one thing to promote the big movement for diversifica tion of crops in the southland. The first cheese factory opened in North Carolina is located in the celebrated Cove Creek Valley, which has been described by en thusiasts as the "Cream of Appa lachia," so far as farming in con cerned. The factory building is a modern structure of steel and concrete. Farmers daily bring in their supply of milk. In some instances several farm ers combine and take turns in hauling milk to the factory, in other instances men who do not possess a wagon come to the vil lage with a five-gallon can of milk on either side of the horse they are riding. When it is rea lized that prior to June 5 no milk or cream was sold in Watauga county, the success of this plant from the start is the more' sur prising. The first factory is owned by 37 farmers, who have gone into the dairy business and the co operative scheme of operation has proven Highly satisfactory. Of course, the plant is only in its early stages as yet and probably will not be kept in operation at all times throughout the first year. The stockholding farmers and others who sell the milk, however, are planning silos to store feed, for winter use. 1 Dr. Doane believes that condi tions are ideal in Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga counties. Com pared with Pennsylvania, the water is cooler, the pasturage (splendid and the per centage of abutter fat higher. Careful tests at the Cove Creek plant during the first two months of operation Observer readers who have been following the Tar Heel Prints the past few weeks have been edified and entertained by the number and variety of snake stories gath ered from the papers of the State. A superabundance of snakes has been indicated. It is a "bumper" year for snakes, as well as other things and the explanation is easy. The multiplication of the snakes is due to the snake's pro tection from its natural enemy, the hog. With the adoption of the no-fence law, the hogs have been penned up and the snakes have been given the free run of the woods and the fields with un hampered opportunity fof breed ing and multiplying. The main objection by the mountain people to the adoption of the stock law was that it would give protec tion to the snakes and things have turned out just as they had anticipated. There has been a multiplication of snakes of all kinds and especially of the rat tler. This variety is the particu lar object of vengeance by the niog. The average pine-robter would abandon a good feed of corn to give chase to a rattler and the rattler lives in mortal fear of the hog. At the first sign 6f the approach of his four-footed enemy, the rattle snake will run for a hole and his escape, if made at all, has. to be made quickly. Coming within reach of his vic tim, the bristling razor-back rears on his hind feet and darting with lightning-like rapidity upon his victim, fastens him back of the neck between the split of the hoof then tears him into ribbons, eat ing the strips with loudly-grunted satisfaction. In some of tbeeast ern counties, notably Bladen, the rattlers have multiplied to such an extent that the gun is regard ed as much of a necessity for a fishing expedition to the creek bank as the rod and line, the bait can and the jug. The piedmont section of the State enjoys a pe culiar freedom from the rattler, and while this species exists main ly in the western and eastern coun ties, it seems that he attains his greatest size in the low lands. The mountain rattler is short and stubby, but the eastern reptile has the girth of a log and the length of a fence rail. But we have plea showed that butter fat averaged 2-10 per cent., while in the cheese making districts of the North it hardly ever goes over 3 3-10. The cow best adapted to this region is the Holstein. The only ingredients needed to make the ration perfect are said to be ensi lage and cotton seed meal. People down in this region woajd have been glad to pay 10 or $2 cents a quart for good milk, but until about the time the cheese factories opened for business nobody in the territory immediately adjacent ever thought of selling it. Many farm ers, so the story goes, fed sweet milk to their bogs. The rule was to market prod ducts once a year, and in order to do so they had to devote their energies to raising products that could be handled in that way. Now many of these same farmers are getting cash for their pro ducts every 30 days. The South annually imports large quantities of cheese from Wisconsin and other long-estab lished cheese-making States. The more enthusiastic North Caroli nians in the "cheese belt" believe it is only a matter of a compara tively short time before they will wrest this market from the North era producers and sell their pro duct not only all over the South, but m the North, too. Washing- ton Spec. toPhiladelphiBecorda. Fcrsalitjes fesstisis NicKsarj The Raleigh News and Observer is outraged about the amount of red tape required to get into the State prison, as illustrated by the case of Walls, the Watauga man who, although he bad proper commitment papers, had to wait in Raleigh a week for the sheriff of his county to go to Raleigh and formally accompany him to the State prison. The Landmark has no patience with unnecessary formalities, but it seems to it that the 'prison authorities gave a very good reason for the enforce ment of this rule. If a convict is allowed to go to Raleigh and commit himself the way is open for fraud. The prisoner could, by arrangement, give the papers to a friend and the latter could enter the prison and stay until the real convict had ample op portunity to make a safe get away. Then the substitutecould make himself known and the State prison authorities couldn't hold him. There may be, and doubtless is,, a law to punish one who would help to perpetrate a fraud in such cases, but this wouldn't bring the real offender back and it would involve much trouble. It will be contended that such cases would be rare, but it is best, possibly, to be on the safe side and not open the door for them. Statesville Landmark. Dwtrts Purveyors of side-show amuse ments are agreed, it is said, that dwarfs no longer may be counted upon to draw audiences, no mat ter how gifted these Liliputians may be. In Charles Stratton, known the world over by his pseudonym of Tom Thumb, this country furnished the most at tractive dwarf that ever exploited his accomplishments, and who, as stated by his sponsor in what was considered the most "stun ning" advertising of the day, was "the delight of all the crowned heads of Europe" as well as of the uncrowned sovereigns of America. Great as Tom Thumb was iu his time, there were dwarfs pre ceding him that made most en viable reputations. Among these were Richard Gibson, aged 75 at his death, July 23, 1600, and his widow, who died 19 years later, eft the advanced age of 80. Gib son was a miniature painter- miniature in every sense of the phrase as well as court dwarf to Charles I of England, and his wife, Ann Shepherd, was court dwarf to Queen Henrietta Marie. Her majesty promoted a mar riage between these two clever but diminutive persons, and the marriage proved a happy one. The couple broke another estab lished opinion that dwarfs do not reproduce. They had. nine children, five of whom lived to years of maturity and were of or dinary stature. ' Gibson's works were valued and one of them was the innocent cause of a tragical event. This painting represented the parable of the lost sheep, and was highly prized by the King, who gave it in: charge to Vandervoorf the keeper of the royal pictures. One day the King asked for this pic ture. Afraid or ashamed to say that be mislaid it, Vandervo'ort. committed suicide by hanging. A few days after his death the picture was found in the spot where he had placed it. Gidson ty of snakes, including the deadly copperhead, without the rattler, and it is somewhat mournful to contemplate that while the snake family is on the increase, the fount of the all-potent antidote has gone dry as a gourd. It behooves the people more than ever to be ware the snake bite! Charlotte Observer. ' Electric Power Will bt Chsap ."The new schedule of rates for power on and after January 1 st next will be so ridiculously low that no practical cotton mill man in Piedmont Carolina who desires to obtain his lowest operating cost and greatest efficiency from his mill will be able to resist the contract that we will be in a po sition to offer him," declared Mr. James B. Duke, millionaire head of the Southern Power Company, to a group of cotton mill men at Andeison this week. "Further more this schedule will be availa ble to all mills in the Carolina transmission field and on such a remarkable basis as to admit of no comparison between the two kinds of power steam and elec tric It is our purpose to load up every plant we have in operation and then just as fast as the out put is taken, to erect new plants until the entire field is covered. This is for secondary power but the facts of the situation will be such that for the next three years this secondary power will be prac tically the equivalent of primary power and therefore just as valu able but at a very low secondary rate power basis." Charlotte Ob server. Explorer Stepson is Safe Vilhjahnur Stefanssonfc chief of the Canadian governmentrctic exploring and surveying expedi tion that left Victoria, B. C, in June, 1913, and who set out afoot over the ice with two com panions from the shoresof north eastern Alaska in March, 1914, to seek new land in unchartered seas, did not go to his death, as the world had begun to fear, but found the new land and the only hardships endured were those of short rations. The power shcooner Ruby has arrived from Hcrschel Island with dispatches from Stefansson to the Canadian government, in which he omits reference to the perils of the journey on the ice and gives space to the scientific results achieved. Stefansson is' wintering at Banks Land, where lie has a large power schooner and a small one. He-plans to explore his new ter ritory during thewiuterand next summer penetrate further into the region of mystery between Alaska and the North Pole, where no ship has ever gone. The southern, or Anderson, wing of the expedition is pursu ing its scientific work in Macken zie Delta and reports no mishap except the death of Engineer Dan iel Blue, of the power boat Alas ka. This is the thirteenth death among the members of the cxpe dition. Eight men perished while trying to reach Wrangell Island and another accidentally shot and killed himself there. Anoth er in the Mackenzie country went insane while lost and committed suicide by shooting. iorne, Alas ka, Dispatch. Eat Dogs Cats and Horse Flesh The Associate Reformed PreS' byterian quotes from a private letter from Dr. Neill E. Pressly, the raissiouary, who writes from Tampico, Mexico: "A man came from Mexico City, and his word is not to be doubt- 'ed, who was telling of the neces ! sity there. He said there was not I a. ilnii' nnv on t tr Vm uurn n nrl 5f perchance one came out, itj was immediately killed and eaten. One ol the rich men there had a beautiful pair of ponies of which he was very fond, and as long as and his wile have, however, been excelled in brevity of stature, as the united height of the two was about seven feet. Indianapolis News. There are 26 museums of safe ty and institutes for the study of industrial hygiene in the world 22 in Europe, three in the United States and one in Canada. Water power turbines, aided when necessary by electric mo tors, enable a Swiss waterworks to pump water to a town 1,500 feet above it'. H OS 4 0 Q o H W -e a -J 2 ' 111 he could, he bought provender for them and grain. When at last he could not get anything for them to eat, he sent them to be killed, so as not to suffer. They were taken to some point and on the way, w hen it was learned they were to be shot, a multitude soon gathered along the way and in creased as it went. The ponies were shot and as soon as they fell they were devoured by the hungry crowd. In halt an hour ; there was nothing left bat the ' skin and bones. Much of the flesh was eaten raw." PROFESSIONAL R. H. HARDIN, JUL D? . JUL m' " " ri:-:-,'''. . BOONE, n! a - V : Offlcj oyw Wink ) Poom CmImI w lert Store. j . WtoktarT jV All Call Promptly attended. Q ' Z Offlee houn, flto 11, a. m. to 8, p. n 'J;f. Dn G. M. Peavieiv Treat DImmn of tho Eye, Ear (lose and Threat BRISTOL. TENN., 1 15 '14 ly, 1 ,v.7--'V;v T. E. Bingham, Lawyer BOONE, .... ., . N.C Prompt attention .eiven to nil matters of a legal nature Collections a specialty. Office with Solicitor F. A. Lb ney 1-29. ly. pd, Silas M. Greene, JEWELER Mabel, N. c. All kinds of repair work done under a positive guar, antee. When in need of any thing in my line give me a call and get honest work at ! honest prices. Witch Rpaiiunq A Specialty VETERINARY SURGERY. I have been Duttinir much htnd on this subject; have received my diploma, and - . ----r. for the praotioe of Vetarln&rv R.. gery In all lti branehei, and am th 3- XI uuiy vue in lae county, all on or j j . Kuareai me at viiaa, H, , R, F. D.l . G.H.HAYES, Veterinary Surgeon. i-17-'ll. E. S. COFFEY. -A Tl ORNEf Al LA. W', BOONE, N.C. Prompt attention given to all matters of a legal nature. IS" Abstracting titles and :ouection of claims a special M-'ll. Dr. Nat. T. Dulaney SPECIALIST BTK, BAR; HOSE, THROAT AKD CHIST KTKS KXAMINKD ron GLASSES FOURTH STREET Bristol, Tcnn.-Va. EDMUND JONES LAWYER LENOIR, N, C, Will Practice Regularly in the Courts ol W &tvuga, 6-1 'ix. L. P.LOWE T. 1. LOVE, Plncola, N. C. Banner Elk, N. C. LOWE & LOVE ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Practice in the courts of Avery and surrounding counties. Care-. ml attention given to all matters of a legal nature. 7-6-12. F. A. LINNEY, ATTORNEY AT LA W, BOONE, N. C. Will practice in the courts of the 13th Judicial District in all matters of a civil nature. 6-11-1911. B. F. JLovill. W. B. LoTlll Lovill & Lovill -Attorneys At Law-; -BOONE, N. f Special attention give to all business . entni -to . their care. .. ' .v-v4H;i: ... .j. , i 'OA;
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