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VOL. XLVIII ALAMANCE COUNTY BOARD AGRICULTURE Considers Matters Important to Farm ers—Looks Ahead to Excursion Next Year—Endorses Agricultural Fairs—Commends Dairy Cattle Breeding. Alamance County Hoard of Agriculture „ Met Saturday and Held a Very Inter esting Meeting. The Board considered policies oi the \Jounty Agent and discusser matters thut should have the Count * .Agent'i attention in the near future The excursion trips for the iar niers were considered well oil : while to all who took advantage oi same. It was requested that a tout V,f some part of Western North Ca j ilina not already visited, or South west Virginia, bo considered for a trip next year. Investigation of routes and accommodations will he the determining factor. The question of advertising im portant agricultural truths' as pertan. to this county was considered im portant and requested to bo under taken as soon as possible. The use of linn has grown to such an exteDt -that better accommoda tions for storing and uauling i> much needed. Hundreds of \ de monstrations prove that lime lias a I place for succebsfu soil building. Lime bins handled cooperatively oi by some business firm was consid ered. -No definite action was taken. The Fair work was considered to! be one of ike most important phases of work on the County Agent's pro gram. The following resolution was offered by a member of the Board and passed unanitaously: a "Realizing the importance "of an agricultural fair towards the en couragement of better farm products and better farm methods, and rec ognizing the Mebane Fair as h first clasS type of agricultural fair; Resolved that we, the Alamance County Board of Agriculture, urge the farmers of Alamauceaud adjoin / ing Counties to place therein exhibits of their best products arid that they study all exhibits with a view toward improving their own products and their own methods." Perhaps one of the most far reach ing and important questions was the consideration ol au agricultural policy for this couuty Dairy experts have staled that this county, Chatham and Randolph are perhaps better suited to dairy farm ing by nature of the soil, size ol farms, and disposition of the people than any other section in North • CarolinS. Considering the fact that milk co.vs are kept in this county in large numbers and that we are now starting a creamery that would handle all of the cream produced, dairy cattle should be handled on practically all farms as part of the system of farming.^ The following resolution in regard to Jersey cattle was passed: Resolved, That inasmuch as there are already 25 or more breeders of purebred Jersey herds }n this coun ty, and as Jerseys are the most pro dominant, that every encouragement should be given to start,new herds, aud to improve the grade ;ierds with better sires; that Alamance should be advertised as the home of pure * bred Jerseys by means of exhibits invitations to agricultural J. iders to inspect same", invitations t > farm-life schools to judge the cat tle, an(J by testing cows for produc tion of butterfat and milk; that this county should attract attention from the buyers of purebred cattle in car lots as we are now doing with grade cows. Among those who heartily,, en dorsed this policy were two breeders of Hereford cattle aud one breeder of Molsteins. Members of the Board present were: , Sherman Vestal, Will Walker, Edgar Long, Chas. F. Cates, George Isley, and W. Kerr Scott, County Agent. The smallest house in London is* opposite Kensington Palace Gardens. It has a six-foot front age and the ground lloor apart ment is Used as a A sit ting room and bedroom are above and a basement kitchen below. Nearly 30,000,(XX) barrels of flour could be added to our an nual output froiu wheat that pests and disease destroy. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. Congress Empowers President to Levy Tariff Taxes Washington Correspondence. Having ilia fled a tariff bill, the Senate then proceeded to delegate its ratouiaking power to the Pres ideut of the United States under the so-called flexible tariff amend ment which gives the President authority to increase OF decrease the rales in tlie bill until July 1, 19:24. This proposal was vitro rously- attacked by Senators Un derwood, Si . tnotis, Heed (Mo.), tad Walsh (Mont.). . In discussing this abandonment by Congress of its constitutional power*. Senator Underwood said: ' i think that this proposal is a iT'.ei retreat, of the Congress rotii ilie authority which ii holds I'rom : he American people to levy ..lie ta.\es that must be paid. It is a retieat of thd Congress from j,he responsibility that rests on its shoulders and which it, has no right to delegate. 1 think that those who vote for a provision of this kind plead guilty to the charge that the Congress of the United States is incapable of functioning within the powers •inferred upon it by the Consti tution of the United Slates; that they plead guilty to the fact that ihey are unable properly to levy ■Histoids taxes and to guard the] rights of. the American people upon any theory of taxation we may propose to have, whether it oe a revenue theory-or a protect ive theory. Those who support this proposition abdicate their functions. They say to the America*! people, 'We are incom petent; we are unable to serve you longer in this matter.'" Senator Walsh of 4 Montana, "called attention to the fact that in the year 1918 when the Senate was considering the Overman bill which permitted the transfer of the powers of one department to an ther, that a distinguished member of the Senate spoke as follows: 'lf the Senate of the United States is going to accept, an exe cutive mandate and pass bid, with every suggestion of amendment refused, Congress can only lilting!}' complete the program by delegating the taxing and appropriating power, adjourn and go home." Senator Walsh stated that the speaker was the present Presi dent of the United States, and added, "So, perhaps, Congress now had better take the advice then given, delegate the taxing power to the President and go home." Senator Reed made a strong protest against establishing such a precedent, saying: Two thiugs must be remembered. First,that he (the President) "uTas liable to err as the other meu of abilitjrjn the country. Second, we are es slablishing a precedent which, if sustained by the courts, will bo followed by subsequent Con gresses. We are breaking down the greatest safeguard there is iu our government. We are trans ferring the taxing power from Congress to the President just as certainly as wo are standing here. We are traitoriously assassinat ing the great principle which has been r.agrained in Saxon govern ment and in Saxon liberty." Senator Underwood also made the telling point that under this amendment the president is to fix &o tax at such a rate that shall be nothing more than a rea sonable profit, and then asks: "Who determines w hat shall be a reasonable profit?" Answering his own question, Senator Under wood said: "It will be the exe cutive mituk of the government that will hereafter regulate the amount of taxes at the customs house rather than the legislative determination of the matter. Therefore, it is clear to me that these provisions of the bill are not within the terms of the Con stitutions of the United States." But the shiftless Do-Nothing Congress passed the buck of tar iff making to the President, just w the President, in a dilemma passes the buck to Congress. And thus it goes, shifting and drifting and drifting and shifting. Many savages paint their skins as protection against the cold. Eighty per cent of the farmers of Oreuon have telephones. Glt AHA M, N. C., THURSDAY. AUGUST 31. 1922 GROWING WHEAT IN NORTH CAROLINA Preparation, Planting, Fertilizing, Kind of Seed and Other Useful Hints. C. I?. Williams, Division Agron omy, N. C. Exp. Station. . ' It is frequently advisable for a goodly number of North Carolinai farmers who have land suitable ior the growth of wheat to grow enough of this crop for their own tneeds and to spare. The sections of the State best suited for the growth of this crop are the Piedmont and Mountain portions There are soils, how ever, in the Eastern portion of the State on which this crop can with proper care be grown, but its general growth in that portion of the State is not to be encourag ed. Wheat makes its best growth in the Eastern part of the Stale: on well drained soils of a clay, sandy clay or loam nature under- a laid by a clay of sandy clay snb-i soil. Planting tlic'Crop. In order that wheat, as with other crops, may make its most' satisfactory growth, it is Of the; highest importance that the seed bed be properly prepared and fertilized and that the crop be 1 planted at the right time. • There, is no question but whatpoor yields are generally due to either poor: preparation of the soil, lack of proper fertilization, poor seed, or' too late planting when the wheat i is sown on the right kIu«l of soil. Wheat, as with other small grains, requires that the land be fairly compact below and fined on the surface to a depth of two to three inches so that the seed will be in , a mellow sded-bed if best results are to be secured. In order to obtain this condition, it, will gen- j erally be necessary to break'the! land some little time prior to planting so that the soil will re ceive a rain or two and settle. .1 ust immediately before planting the surface should be disked and harrowed to the depth indicated above in forming the seed-bed. If these precautions are taken, gen erally good results will follow. Fertilizing the Crop. For average soils in the Moun tain and Piedmont sections of the, State, 'he useof 3'JO n; (JCO peiimlsj per acre ot a fertilizer mixture' containing 10 to VI percent avail able phosphoric acid and about 2 to 3 percent of amnion i t will give , satisfactory results. 1 his mixture I should be applied at I lie time the crop is sown. On very poor soils, nitrate of soda may be applied a' | the rate of 15 to 10U poll uds broad cast per acre at about-tho tiine in the spring the plants are begin-! ning to setid up stems for the' formation of seed heads Where manure can bo applied to the land during the fall, winter or early spring, an application of nitrate of soda will not be needed, cer-, taiuly not if the application of mauure is fairly liberal. With! soils that have had a goo I. growth of peas, clover or soybeans plowed in during the early fail, the amount of ammonia in the mix tures given above may be reduced ! materially and if the growth is: fairly large left out entirely. However, with most of our soils, the mixture indicated above will; be the one that should bo most generally used in fertilizing this! crop. Mowing tlie Meed. lu.-the sowing or drilling of j wheat, it will uenerally be the safest plan to wait until altera! good frost has occurred. This is recommended Oecause of the fact that frequently if this precaution is not observed there may develop l the following spring, certainly in some years, trouble from the lies-: sian ily. If the seeding is delay- 1 ed until soon after a good fros' .-k • bas been our observation thai! there is considerably less danger from damage from this iu»e-c.t than if the seeding is made earlier. Generally, in the Piedmont sec tion, the best date f«»r seeding is from October 20 to 30. For the Mountain section, seed a little earlier. In seeding, it will not be well to use the seed too sparingly. Ordinarily, it is recommended that from a bushel and a half to two bushels l»© used to the acre. Varieties to Plant. For a number of years the Kx- periment Station Itas been study ing the relative value as yielders | of different varieties grown under different conditions existing in different parts of the State. result of this work, we would rocommeud Leap's Prolific, Pur ple Straw and Fuleaster. ■'reparation of Laud. Great care should be exorcised to see that the land set aside for i the growth of wheat is brokeu well some 4 to 5 weeks in advance, I and that jtist before the seeding it may be put in a finely pulver ized condition h}' disking and har rowing. No painsshould be spared to see that fthe seed-bed is put iu proper condition as this is a very .determining factor in securing a gao: stand and yield. Seeding Reil Clover in Wheat. In untny cases, early the next ;spring, it will be a good plan to i seed red clover on the wheat at the rate of about 12 pounds of seed per aero. The clover, after Jie wheat has been removed, [should make a good growth for 'fit least one.cult iug the first and two itie second year. If planned to sow red clover on the wheat I next spring, it will be Tfecessary , where lime has not been added I during the btsi two or three years I to apply broadcast 1 1-2 to 2 tons (if ground limestone, or its equiv alent in some other form of lime, ■ this fall to be assuriMW success with the clover. The Mill and the "Child. Charlotte Observer. .Mr. Stuart W. Cramer, owner and creator of the industrial town of Cramertdn and chairman of the National Committee of the American Cotton .Manulacturers Association, was invited to deliver an address at the Blue Ridge j Southern Industrial Conference, and lie performed that mission on .Inly 15. The speech he delivered before the conference should have wide circulation. It, was infor mation so suitable for absorption of our Congressmen that it would not be out of place in the pages of The Congressional Record. Mr. Cramer makes proclamation of the altitude of ninety percent of ihe cotton mill owners of the South on the one question of con stant agitation—child labor. He indicated tjiat Llie Southern tex tile manufacturers are intensely i iterested in tho labor problem and have in mind the working out of a civic code for industrial | communities that shall appeal to I the average man, whether he be stockholder, manager, worker or any other good ciiizen. This code is to be a piinimum policy, under which a standard will bo' achieved iu practically all of the mills "which shall make it a pride to both employer and employee to proclaim to all the world that they are citizens in any cotton mill village." The aim is also for-extinction of what has l»een termed "the feudal villages, of the mill 'barony," about which the dema gogues rant so much. These, Mr. Cramer declared, "are a great handicap and something the mill lowners would be glad to unload and get rid of." Mr. Cramer came out in decided | statement that the child "is tho ] hope of future Sou them industri alism." The health, training and jjpportunities brought to tho child ren ot today, "will determine very largely whether they will care to ! be the mill workers of tomorrow," Mr. Cramer, therefore, made stout contention that "any South ern mill man who fails to .support child welfare work and to observe the child labor restrictions that have gradually emerged from the 'chaos of experimentation, both legislative and industrial, whe . ther compelled to do so by law or Hot, is a traitor to his industry and to his own sHfish interests." And that, succinctly, is truth ful and faithful representation 6f the Southern col ton mill man's attitude toward child labor, as it is.indication of the great end the Southern textile industry is striv ing for. 'j In Para, Brazil, the raiuy sea son extends qVer eight months of I the year. • * Fourteen thousand species of moths and butterflies exist iu -j Brazil. EASTERN CAROLINA COOPERATIVE TO BACCO MARKETS Close to Million Pounds Deliverd First Week—Growers Well Pleased. Correspondence. Close to oue million pounds of tobacco were delivered to the Co operative maruets of Eastern North Carolina last week, at their opening, according to latest re turns which describe heavy deliv eries at Washington, New Bern, Richlauds, Kingston and o .her big receiving centers -where lire sign-up of the 00-operativo is particularly heavy. Rejoicing, prayer and thanks giving featured the day in a score of markets which the long cherish ed hope of Ihe farmer to control the marketing of his own product in a fair, orderly and profitable way, became at last a reality, fol low ing years of struggle and or ganization. Visiting Goldsboro, Smithfield, Zebulon, Wendell, Bailey and Fremont, Ji\ C. Watkius, Jr., director of wai'ehoust* for the Association, and C. B. Cheatham, assistant general manager of the Leaf Department found almost universal enthusiasm and satis faction among the grower mem bers, which were confirmed by telegraphic reports from a dozen other markets. In celebration of the day, the doors were thrown open to new signers throughout the belt, and nmre than 250 new members hastened to join the Association. At Richlantte, where more than 50,000 pouudsWere delivered, 46 new members joined the Co-opera tive, 38 came in at Kinston, where closo to 100,000 pounds of tobacco were handled on the first day, 40 from* New Bern, 24 At Washing ton aud 3'J at Smithfield, where 100,000 pounds were delivered, and 70,000 pounds were graded, weighed and stored for shipment. Three farmers en route to Wil son, with tobacco from Cumber land county were invited to viiiit the Cooperative warehouse at Smithfield. So pleased were they with the table of advances and the system of Cooperative sales, that they drove their loads of to bacco into the Association ware house, Bigned the contract and have returned to Cumberland county, enthusiastic members of the Association, with their first advances in cash, their participa tion receipts and the knowledge that they will receive further pay ments aud the highest dollar for each pound of tobacco which they left with the Association. Members of the Association are being urged to save their fodder to deliver at their convenience and in an orderly manner, and satisfaction is being expressed od all sides by those who do not feel obliged to rush their tobacco to market and do not find it neces sary to drive long distances to se cure the highest price. The cooperative markets will be open for deliveries on Mon days, Tuesdays, Thursdays aud Fridays until the machinery is sped up at a later date to meet the increasing deliveries which are expected as the farmers' crop is prepared for market. The fact that present payments are based on a conservative cash value was maae clear to members delivering tobacco on the opening day. Final payments, according to Aaron Sapiro, Attorney for our Association, will amount to over J times the lirst cash advance, if the first successful sales of the Association are au indication of the prices which its leaf depart ment will continue to secure. A new gas has been developed for aerial navigation. It is called currenium and cost |IOO a thou sand cubic feet less than it costs to produce helium. It is non-in flammable and non-explosive and ban a lift about the same as pure by * The Paraguay River iu South America is more than 1,800 miles in length. The best way to live when sleep ing is ou the rigfit side. The sea urchin has five jaws, eaeh with a single tooth. REPUBLICAN REVOLT \ _ Business Men and Press Against the Tariff—Refuse to Help to Elect Republican Congress. Washington Correspoudenc-. Throughout the entire tariff discussion the Republican reac tionary leaders in Congress have made a specialty of insulting, ac cusing aud denouncing legitimate business men, especially tnose engaged in importing and in mef> cautile pursuits. They have been accused by the Republican reac tionary leaders of falsehoods,con spiracy by the most reprehensible aud dishonest methods while heir only, offense has been their opposition to the worst profiteer ing ami dishonest tariff bill ever submitted in Congress. The great Republican press of the country equally opposed to the bill have likewise been accused by the Re publican 1 actionary loaders. The able Mr. Louis Seibold, Washington correspondent of the New York Herald, recently said: "The Republican party has lost syuipath ic contact with the busi ness interests of the country." One of the best evidences of the truth of i his is fouud in the fol lowing extracts from a letter of j S. B. Rosenbaum, president of j the National Suit aud Cloak Com pany, New York, to the treasurer of the National Republican Con gressional Coffjmittee, under date 1 of August IS: "I have your letter of Aug. 8, asking my cooperation in au ef fort to e.ect a Republican Con gress in November. "You are justified, on general j principles, iu asking my assist-1 ance. I have been a Republican [ ever Bince I cast my first vote. 11 believe, generally speaking, in the principles of the Republican party. However, I shall not help to elect a Republican Congress: next November, and you are en titled to know the reason why. "But first let me say that it will be impossible to elect a Re publican Congress. The Repub lican party has failed to measure up io its responsibilities, and the country know* it. »«* * ♦ A great- opportunity for constructive work lias been lost. The Tariff bill which is now be fore Congress, and which will doubtless be enacted into law within a few days, is a colossal blunder. If President Taft re ferred to the Payne-Aldrich tariff as 'indefensible,' what can be said about the bill which is about to be enacted? "Reputable business men and representative newspapers, who have attempted to point out the error aud injustice of the bill have been met by a flood of vilification and abuse from Congressman Fordney and other Representa tives and Senators. Certain Re publican Senators, who are among the largest producers and dealers in wool iu the country, have been working for a tariff which puts high duty upon raw wool, and which, it is esti mated, will tax our people $350,"- 000,000 a year. Do you think the r 'Ople of the country do not* know his and resent it? When tlte , .'acts ii regard to this seandalou situation are pointed out by a rep utable merchant who knows his business, he is branded on the floor of th* II "use and Senate .'is a liar, a traitor and 'impostor,' the 1 itter epithet, in the opinion of many Republican Congressmen, apparently being the most" damn ing of all. "V ?ry trulv yours, G ROSENBAUM." The Bolshevik leaders have preserved the great Royal Palace of the Kremlin, of Moscow, almoßt without cliauge, as a reminder of "the lavish wealth and the pomp and splendor of the old regimfe." Smoking among the women of England has increased to such an extent that the rnilroads have provided special smokers. 66J is a peescriptiou for Colds, Fever aud LaGrippe. It's the most speedy remedy we know. So many congressmen are using airplanes. But they are accus tomed to being up in the air. The tea tree is an evergreen plant. NO. 30 More Power to Pat Harrison. From the New York Herald (Rep.). When the wool producing statesmen confess pecuniary in terests in the wool schedules they say they are within their rights and sneer solemnly at any sug gestioa that private interest en ters into their legislative action. And when oil Senators confess personal interest in a thirty-live cent tariff on crude petroleum, as Senator Harreld of Oklahoma did day before yesterday, you get the reply that they are "within their rights" in votiDg for the duty. It is high time there should be clearly established the principle that it is not within a Senator's or a Representative's rights to vote on questions or for measures in whi h lie has a direct personal interest, big or little. The need ed illuuiinant will be afforded by a record vote in the Senate on Senator Harrison's searching re solution affirming the just rule in Jefferson's Mauual and the com mon law of Congress for a cen tury and a third. Naturally there is every disposition among profiteering statesmen to block the progress of the resolution to ward a record vote. T' ere i& no justification, legal, moral or per sonal, for such an attitude. Let Pat Harrison hammer away. The New York llerald is for liim in this" matter because it believes he has the discernment, the wit and the courage to make the fight, aud it does not care a continental for the circumstance that he is a Democrat. NOTICE. All persons, firms,-or corpora tions, holdingclaims against the Enterprise Company, a corpora tion, with its principal place of business at Mebane, North Car rolina, will take notice that the undersigned has been duly ap pointed, is qualifying and acting as receiver of said Company, and that persons, firms or corpora tions, holding claims against said Company will fde said claims, duly itemized and verifi ed, with the undersigned receiver, on or before the first day of De cember, 1922, or else this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery of said claims. All persons indebted to said Company will please settle at once. 'W. O. WARREN. Receiver of Enterprise Company, 31aug4b Mebane, N. C. PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorncy-al.Law, GRAHAM, N. C. ° Asuoclated with Joliu J. Henderson. Office over National Hank of Alamance THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Couosellof-at-Law, BURLINGTON,. N. C, A' ociated with V. S. Coulter, Nos. 7 ad 3 Flr»t National Bank Bldg. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. EL Graham, N. C. Office over Ferrell Drug Co. Hour*: 2 to 3 Hud 7 toy p. in., and by appointment. Phone 97 GRAHAM HARDEN,M.IK Burlington, N. C. Office Hours: 9 to tl a. in. and by appointmint Office Over Acme Drug Co. Telephones: Oflire I H»—Hexidence JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-a t-Law GRAHAM. N. C. Qltlcc over National Baak ol Alaouarc ;T, sT~ C OOZEC, Attorney-at-Law Tit A HAM, .... N. 0 Offloe Patterson Building Second Floor. . , . m. WILLS.LONG,JR. . . DENTISYv ! 8 3 Graham, .... Nertk Carellae OFFICK IN PARIS BUILDING