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? wa in VI VOLUME XLIII, NUMBER 16 CONTROL OF INSEC1 PESTS EXPLALNEL BY H. R. NISWONGEE Spray inj* Should Begin When Plant Are Two Inches High, Says Stat' Expert. Formulas for Cabbage am Potato Insects Given. Control o Cabbage Aphids Increase Price o Product on Markets. By H. R. NISWONGER (Extension Horticulturist) IMC- ilea beetles, pumiu uugo ar.i late blight of potatoes and the aphid; und wo*ms of the cabbage reduce po tato yields and hinder the develop ment of sound cabbage heads. It ij necessary to make every potato hil and every cabbage plant produce i marketable product if a fair margii * of profit is to be made under th< present trend of prices received foi farm products. The control of in sects and diseases will aid in seenr. ins this margin of profit. Control of Potato Peati Spray or dust with Poisoned Bor deaux. Make first application when potato plants are about three inches high and repeat avcry two weeks until plants begin to die. Poisoned Bordeaux for Spraying? Formuja: Blue stone, 3 pounds; hydrated lime (plasterers finishing lime) 1 pounds; 2 pounds arsenate of lead; Cfl .... 11,.,,c- rvt I t_?.. _ esr. -'J pSIlOns CI ?atci. t/ioeu I?c uiut stone in wooden or earthen container, mix hydra ted lime and arsenate of lead to a thin paste, each in a separate container. Fill a 50-gallon barrel three-fourths full of water; uud the lime paste and stir thoroughly. Mix thoroughly the dissolved 3 pounds of blue stone with the lime water. Fill the barrel full of water and add the arsenate of lead paste. A stock solution of blue stone may be marie by putting 10 pounds in a burlap bag and suspending it in ten gallons vi waier untu dissolved. vine gauon of this solution will equal one pound of blue stone. Make spray application as soon as Bordeaux Mixture is niade. Each spraying for an acre (when the vines are young) will require 75 gallons and about 125 gallons when they are about grown). Poisoned Bordeaux for Dusting? Commercial poisoned Bordeaux dusts or poison copper lime dusts are very satisfactory is thoroughly applied. A good dust gun is necessary to apply these ?mmnounds._It will take from 15 to 25 pounds or dust, depending upon the size of the. vines, to cover an sere of potatoes at- each dusting. Make dust applications early in the morning or late in the evening during periods when little wind is blowing. Control of Cafcoagc r?U The cabbage aphids, which are soft bodied insects, curl up the young cabbage leaves and prevent the formation of good cabbage heads. One of the best remedies is 40 per cent, nicotine sulphate. Pyrethrum extract, sold under various trade names, is also good. These mixtures can ne purchased from any dealer handling spray ntaterials. Follow the directions on the package as to their use. A soap solution consisting of about one pound of soap to 4 gallons of water is also good when used during early morning or late in the evening. Treatment should be given the plants when this pest first appears. Do not wait until the leaves have been curled by the aphids. It is necessary to cover the aphids with the spray solution in order to kill them. Several sprayings are often necsesery to completely destroy this pest. The cabbage worm is the most serious pest and very common in the vicinity of cabbage fields. They first feed on the outer leaves and then feed on the inner leaves, hiding in the young heads as they form. It is then hard to reach them with the first seen around the cabbage field. These butterflies occur from early summer until fall and are continually laying eggs. Therefore, several sprayings are necessary to kill the continuous appearance of worms. Spraying or Dusting Bent Control Spraying or dusting with arsenate of lead is the best control for the cabbage worm. For syvaying use two pounds of arsenate of lead, 3 pounds of soap and 50 gallons of water. Mix arsenate of lead to a thin paste before adding to water in spray tank. Dissolve the soap and add last to spray mixture. A small quantity oi spray is made up with five level tablespoonfuls of poison. I-4-inch cube of soap and 1 gallon of water. For dusting mix 1 pound of arsenate of lead and 8 pounds of hydrated or plasters lime. Dust when there is no wind blowing or in early morning or evening. The cabbage grower who market: cabbage damaged by worms is handicapped in two ways; first, the mer chant does not offer the top market price for cabbage when the outei leaves of the heads are Tiddled witl worm holes. Second: since cabbagi is sold by weight, there is a loss it weight whenever the grower has t< strip the heads of outer damage: leaves in order to market an attrac tive head of cabbage. -1 \ ,t_L_ r f VALAl A Ncn-Partisan Ns BOONl Satuiu?y Last Day } To Register Voters Next Saturday is the last SaturL day when registrars are required to be at the polling places in the # county for the purpose of registere ing voters for the June primary, j the following Saturday having been f set aside as challenge day. All vobf ers who have reached their majority since the last election, and those who have moved their place of residence during that time are required to register. A number of new voters have been registered in Boone J township; however, generally speak5 ir.g, the registration is regarded as - light. I SPECIAL TERM OF f - CIVIL COURT WILL BE HELD IN JUNE; < t Governor Gardner Issues Call for ; Special Term of Watauga Court 1 for the Trial of Civil Cases. To Be f Held June 20th for Two Weeks, 1 with Judge Schenck Presiding. Large -Docket Held Over. 1 ( Pursuant to a request recently < made by the Board of County Com- i missioners, Governor 0. Max Gardner i ' has issued an order for a special term a of Watauga Superior Court which < will convene on June 20th, and which 1 is expected to continue for Hyp weeks. 1 Judge Schenck has been commissioned 1 . to preside. t The request for the special term * was made upon petition of the local < bar to the commissioners, when it s was found impossible to handle the > , civil cnlendar at the April term, when 1 , an unprecedented number of criminal c cases occupied the attention of the * court for almost two weeks. About v . seventy-five civil actions had been calendared for trial at that time- 1 AUSTIN ADDRESSES \ YOUNG DEMOCRATS1 r . ! Jefferson Attorney Principal Speaker ^ at Organization Meeting. Offi- ^ cors Elected. Variou* Town- . ^ ; : ?' anrjrs w ??cr v. y j I \Y\ B. Austin, prominent attorney J of Jefferson, N. C., addressed the meeting: of the Young Democratic J Voters Club of Watauga County at " the courthouse last Friday evening. J About 150 young men and women ^ representative of all townships in the . county save three, enthusiastically ^ approved the discourse of Mr. Austin, ^ which centered about the progress * North Carolina has made educationally and industrially since the days of Charles B. Aycock, who inaugu- * rated th<> State-wide educational movement. He cited the State road system as a masterpiece of Democratic genius and compared conditions of today with those prevailing 1 thirty years ago. He then assailed the national Republican administration, charging that President Hoover had made campaign guarantees of increased prosperity, thereby himself assuming the responsibility of the re- o sultant panic. i Mr. Austin was introduced by Jim \ Rivers. Attorney Wade. E. Brown 2 spoke on the responsibilities resting \ upon the shoulders of the young { Democratic voters, and urged united J action on the part of the youthful i partisans in returning the nation to \ | the Democratic party. f A permanent organization was 11 formed, Jim Rivers having been I < named chairman, Sam F. Horton of 11 Cove Creek, vice-chairman; Miss Eula 11 Carroll of Elk Township, second vice- 1 chairman, and Wade E. Brown of Blowing Rock, secretary-treasurer. It 1 was arranged that future meetings 1 should be held in various townships J and that permanent individual organ- J izations would be set up. 1 Mr. G. B. Gambill of Jefferson, chairman of the Ashe County young peoples' organization, who came to Boone with Mr. Austin, W. R. Lovill and John H. Bingham made extemporaneous remarks before the meeting adjourned. Mrs. E. F. Harmon Dies In Beech Creek Section Mrs. E. F. Harmon, 76 years old, passed away at her home in the Zion [ Hill Community on Sunday afternoon, ! May 8, following a long illness. The death of the popular lady was probably due to cerebral hemorrhage. ' Funeral services were conducted on Monday, the 9th, at 3 o'clock by Rev. - W. H. Glenn. Burial followed in the family cemetery. " Surviving are the husband and the ' following children: Oscar Harmon and - Mrs. Nettie Stynes, of Beech Creek, ' and Ruby Harmon of Elk. Tcnn. The > deceased was a good woman, a kindI hearted neighbor, and will be missed - in her community. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. JGA >wspaper, Devotee! to tKe 3, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH C FISHING-HUNTING CLUB TO CONTROL MIDDLE FORK Local Organization Will Supervise Popular Stream During Season. Meat Camp and NorrU' Fork to Be Opened. Thousands of Trout Released. Twenty-eight Members Attend Club Meeting. Twenty-eight members of the Watauga County Hunting and Fishing Club and other local sportsmen gathered at dc Daniel Boone Hotel on last Friday afternoon to discuss plans of the organization for the present season. President Tom Cashing presided. Various complaints had been raised regarding the club's control of certain streams in the county, and at the Friday meeting it was decided to DpeTi Meat Camp Creek and Morris* Fork, both of which have been under organization control since last spring, rhesc streams have beer, well stocked vith brook trout, ranging in size from t to 12 inches, and many large catches lave already been reported. Middle Fork has been signed up from the New River Light and Pow;r Company dam to the Snyder property near Blowing Rock, and will for no present season l?e under the fishng clubs control. This fine body of vater has also been receiving large consignments of trout from the local latchery. and is said to be in excel-1 ent condition. Middle Fork, like I loward's Creek, may be fished for he small sum of fifty cents a day "or clnb members and one dollar a lay for non-inemhers. Only one Stretch of the stream?that portion vhich runs through the Thomas Greer oroperty?is exempted from club ontrol. Sign boards along the road will designate boundaries of the club's waters. More than five thousand brook and ainbow trout of legal length have >een released this season by the Fishng and Hunting Club, and it is said hat the streams which they superrise are in better condition than in 'ears. The meeting! Friday was the: most iYthusiastic yet held, and a perfect indciVitiir.dir.^ was reached hetweep lub members and outside sportsmen. L'hose present were: Tom Gushing, f. G. McConnell, Kenneth Linney, J.j rl. Uaitner, A. E. Kamby, riiiwi Irown, H. G. Farthing, Tom Shores, 'nul Hodges. A. T. Brown. Sam Tate. I. E. Cook, Glenn Coffey, C. E. imathers, I. S. Ayers, S. M. Ayers, .1. B. Craven, J. W. Bryan, J. D. louneill, Paul Coffey, Charles L. founcG,-- B. Frank Wliiams, Luther /lay, Fin Shores, Itoby Shores, Fred t. Greene, C. B. Duncan, Walter Vinebarger. IliRY DRAWN FOR FEDERAL COURT! Term Begins at Wilkesboro on May j O-J?i n?i?? * 1- - - ' 1 wunci Laijjciy vompoiea of Liquor Cases. McRary to Prosecute for First Time. Federal Court for the trial of cases riginating in Wilkes, Alleghany, ^.she and Watauga counties* will con ene in Wilkesboro on Monday, May 13, says the WilkCs Journal. The term vas scheduled for May 16, but was >ostponed recently by Judge Johnson !. Hayes of the Middle District. The docket for the May term is teavy and practically all the cases ire for violation of the prohibition aws. District Attorney J. F. Mc>ary, of Lexington, will prosecute he docket for the first time in iVilkeaboro. The jurors picked from iVatauga are as follows: Collis Austin, R. P. Miller, A. C-. dust, S. G. Carroll, B. Fred Cook, loward Holshouser, Will B. Reese, loe J. Wellborn, Charles L. Younce, Toe L. Coffey, Conley Glenn and Carl lyers. I Lauds Newsp Mr. J. C. Shell, Mayor of Ban for a recent feature in The Den county paper on the story, and sa from the publicity are reaching Shell writes! "Mr. R. C. Rivers, Editor Wataug Dear Mr. Rivera: "It seems that the article in deal of excitement throughout tl at the publicity it has given, no! of Western North Carolina. I ax New York papers about it. "The people of this town are the excellent way in which it hai ing a list of subscribers wbo want at once; and, by the way: 1 want the paper you can in which this requests for them every day. "Thanking yea for a!! yea h "Verj Banner Elk, N. C. DEM< : Best Interesis of Northvv JAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1 Biggest Dog ai Marion Joan Wagner of St. Lo Othiwand, champion St Bernard of Matney Girl Ma Al Appalachian ! FuiIIUUS iiu V/ atauRa .^tudciit littending any college has made a more outstanding record than Miss Dessa Mae Triplett of Matney, who last wppIc received h^r R. S. degree at | Appalachian State Teachers College, and due to the fact that she has participated so widely in extra-curricular j activities, she finished with the highest. honors ever awarded any graduate from that institution. Having taken her freshman work at Queens College in Charlotte, she began her sophomore work at Boone, where she has taken the last three years 'work. At the very beginning of her first year at Boone, she was elected president of the Y. W. C. A., to which practically every college girl belonged. Under her leadership this organization reached a degree of usefulness and efficiency excelled by none other on the campus. In Miss -Tripieti/s senior year, when the c?auMurtii had ultne&l uGUuWd, "'vui the hundreds of girls she was again chosen president. In "the fields of debating and oratory she has been a leadihg^xigureV having been an outstanding; debater -each year she been at Boone. GREEN PT4RK HOTEL TO OPEN ON MAY 28 Many Dignitaries Invited to Inaugural Dinner Dance. Extensive Repair Work Being Done on Popular Hostelry. Green Park Hotel, one of the most famous of the Blowing Rock section's hostelries, will open this year on May 28th, it was learned Wednesday. Many dignitaries, including the Governor of North Carolina, have been invited to the opening, which will be featured by a dinner dance, and indications are that the hotel will be well patronized from the start. Mr. Paul Moldcnhauer of Florida, touist hotelist, recently purchased the Green Park, and is in charge of its operation. Extensive repair work is being done, the building-is being repainted inside and out, floors refinished, and the attractiveness of the interior is being enhanced by a great number of pieces of especially-designed furniture. BANK HOLIDAY The Watauga County Bank and Peoples Industrial Bank will not be open for business on Monday, May 20ih. The holiday is in celebration 01 the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration fo Independence. .1 I aper Feature oer Elk, who furnished the facts iocrat on his city, felicitates the tys that communications resulting ! him from distant points. Mr. a Democrat . your paper is creating a great te whole country. 1 am surprised t only to Banner Elk, but to all n receiving daily comments from i giving praise to your paper for i boosted our town. I am prepar1 your paper, which 1 will send in. : you to send me all the copies of article appeared. 1 am receiving ... J.? c ... 1 = I*** ?UI r cordially joun, "J. C. SHELL." ?? I LMJKA est North Carolina 932 ! _ id Littlest Girl jju k mm 11 uis makes friends with Barry Von p' America at the St. Louis dog show. , lL?! c ^: 1 !? rb i m niie neeord ^ tio Teacher College mc an ! Or.ly - shgs?in?hsr dsbstli0, hlstorv have the judges aeeii fit to vote against her in an inter-collegiate debate. She was on the debating team s v in 11)21) when Appalachia held the junior college ^Vuwwinnghin ir> Pri ing. This year she won out over the tai speakers of every girls' society in sa3 the oratorical contest, and she and Leroy Sossanion, the winner from <>ai the hoys' societies, represented Anpalachia at the State Intercollegiate 1110 Oratorical Contest, held in Asheville in April. ?* This year Miss Triplett obtained ' an honor never before received by a sor girl?she was elected editor-in-chief set I of the Rhododendron, college annual, sun i Added to this she has been business act manager of the Rhododendron, class yes poet, assistant in biology laboratory, an president of the Thalian Literary So- ass ciety, president of the letter club, me and has held other important offices Na 1 In luirmr uttu Ollttii 01'galii23tlvli5^ I Titv scholastic record ranks with ha> j her other achievements. These facts Gf | arm tne vote ol her class that she is mo I the best all-round student, is suff i- for icienl pvoot ncr cn ec-->d :?.jA is one to be envied by all, but to be /$ equaled or surpassed by few. car _ js ( [Mrs. Pashia Dotson foil I Dies at Poplar Grove the Mrs. Pashia Dotson, aged lady of er the Poplar Grove community, died at the home of her son, H. F. Dotson, Saturday evening at 7:30. She Ol had been ill for only five days, hav- 1- J ing visited her other son, Mr. John j Dotson. on Mother's Day. | Mrs. Dotson would have been S7 years of age had she lived until May 29th. She was an energetic person ^*'w and during her long life had served j J family and community well. "Auntj Pashia," as she was known to her many friends and relatives, had been a member of Poplar Grove Baptist Church for about thirty years and of the impressive funeral services were of Ifceld there, interment following at vie the Gragg Cemetery, one mile south- 23 t west of Boone. Rev. Ed Hodges was rel in charge of the rites Vo j Survivis** arc two sons H. P.- and Uhi IT T T~V - x * ' u. u. uotiiou, oi ro pi a r urove, ana three daughters who reside in Ten- air nessee. A number of grandchildren be and great-grandchildren also survive, wil t hi Revival Meeting at Cove Creek Baptist ch: pul A revival meeting will begin at <|'a the Cove Creek Baptist Church on Sunday, May 22nd, Hev. J. A. Mc- a KRUghan, pastor of the local church, taL has secured the services of Rev. B. ^h E. Morris of Statesville, who will be tea the revival preacher. Rev. Morris is known n3 one of the state's greatest Jsur preachers, and a cordial invitation is j Pr? extended to all to hear him. a<^ The daily vacation Bible school arc begins Monday, the 23rd, and all the 1 children from the age of 3 to 17 Ga are cordially invited, and there will De be a class arranged for the older ones bri if they come. Mr wil District Meeting of to Juniors Next Week at* . Wll The Junior Order councils in the Seventh District of North Carolina or have been called to meet with North th< Wilkesboro Council on Tuesday, May set 24, for a district meeting, it has been vis learned from officials of the local pis unit of the organization. A business ma meeting will be held at 3:30 in the afternoon and an open session at 8:00 in the evening. II is stated that sev- is eral matters of importance wiii be its taken up and some degree work put cei on. Local officials urge as many Wa- ea< tauga members as possible to attend, of ' ~ ; T $1.50 PER YEAR GOAL MAN WOULD iOLD PAGEANT IN IN. C, MOUNTAINS of ess or I. G. Greet Cc=ct!?e? Id<s* of "Passion Play" for Great Smokies. Event Would Depict in Song and Story the Sternness of Life in the Hills. Native Singers Would Take Part. A nationall-known publication rently carried a story relative to the ggestion of Professor I. G. Greer, th?t n "Passion Play of the ountains" be conducted at some iot in the Southern Appalachians ch year. This event would be patrned after the Oberammergau play id would be based on the ballads, istoms and culture of mountain peoe. The story follows: "A great "Passion Play/ patterned mewnat alter that of Oberammeru and based on the ballads, native stoms, culture and folklore of the eat Smoky Mountains in North rolina, has been conceived by Pro;sor I. G. Greer, of the Appalaina State Teachers College, Boone, C. It is still only an idea, but it s been given enthusiastic recepn. "The coming of modern days in the untains, with good roads, schools, d radios has brought the fear that > old ballads handed down for genitiviio ZTy nrOuuiaixccis v? m uc luav. >untain youth is singing jazz in ail of the songs of its fathers. "Many of the ballads have been ^served in book form, but a monnn ballad on paper, Kroiessor Greer ,rs, is not a mountain ballad as sung a native. The ballads go back to ly English times. The greater part them are sorrowful, rhythmic, urnful echoes of the sternness of mountaineer's life, as it was that medieval people. 'Professor Greers' idea visious a t of amphitheatre in a mountain ting where these ballads would be ig and their long, droning stories ed out. Possibly for a week each :r these mountaineers could offer attraction that would graduallv ume national appeal, as developnt of the Great Smoky Mountains tional Park materializes. 'National pars service offici /e expressed favor for Greer's idea creating a passion play of the untains and have promised support starting the drama. "Smg?rsutsirig pari wuuiirue iiii- " ss, Greer said, for trained voices mot interpret the simple songs. It explained that ballads differ from k songs in that they are imperial and record the experiences of ers, whereas the folk songs record joys and tribulations of the singand his experiences." RESBYTERIAL TO BE HELD AT ROCK enty-eighth Annual Meeting of \ppal?dii* Synod Opens at Mayview Manor on May 23rd. A Three-Day Session. The twenty-eighth annual meeting the Holston Presbyterial, Synod Appalachia, is to be held at Mayw Manor, Blowing Rocka on May -24-25, according to information u? xr- T TT yac\.a ii cuncfuay U V 1U X S. ?l . XI nCannon, the president, at Ban. Elk. The regular meetings of the first d third days, it is explained, will particularly for delegates, who II be entertained in the homes of ; members of the Blowing Kook ixiliary. On Tuesday, the all-day eting will be of a more popular tracter and will be open to the blic, anyone interested being corilly invited to attend. The hightlts of the program will include study of the Book of Hebrews, ight by Mrs. J. S. Poindexter of attanooga, Tcnn., an outstanding cher of the Presbyterian Church, the afternoon, Mrs. R. C. Anderi of Monlrc&t, N. C., the synodieal rsident, will give an inspirational Icess based on "The New Stand1 for Auxiliary." In the evening Miss Janie Mcughey, of Atlanta, secretary of the nartmpnt Of Woman's WnrV will ng a message, "Looking to Jesus." . and Mrs. I. G. Greer of Boone 11 render songs of the hill people, the accompaniment of the dulcir, and Mrs. Brown, student worker the Teachers College in Boone, 11 appear on the program. The management of Mayview Manis co-operating with the ladies of ; Blowing Rock Auxiliary, and will ve a luncheon to delegates and itors on Tuesday at 60 cents per ite. It is asked that reservations be ide in advance. The Alleghany Farmers Exchange selling lamb3 and beef cattle for members al a flat charge of 15 its each for the lambs and $1.60 :h for the beeves. This takes care all marketing costs.
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