VOL. L STATE FAIR IN OCTOBER $30,000 in Premiums Offered—Prem ' ium Lists Being Sent Out. Raleigh, Aug. IS.—The North Carolina Agricultural Society is sending out its annual Premium Lists with thirty thousand dollars in good money offered as prizes for exhibits. This is the best guarantee that a real Fair will be held this year. Contemplated changes in the ownership of the sixty-odd acres used for the Fair site will not go into effect, this year anil the Fair will be hejd in October as usual. The attractive premiums guaran tee a big and interesting line of exhibits, the management an nounces, but these will be by no means all of the attraction■». Some oFthe best gymnasts and an as sort u.ent of shows will be provid ed for amusement. Three thousaim for beef cattle and over three thousand do'lar-J lor dairy cattle, ought to brjtig some good livestock to the Fair, R. S. Curtis states, while W. VV. Shay is equally sure that twenty five hundred dollars in premiums for swine will fill the pens iu his division. Allen G. Olivet has been allotted twenty-seven hundred dollars in premiums for poultry, and G. P. Williams has a coup eot thousand dollars to offer siieep growers. Altogether, more thau ten thou sand dollars is offered in the live stock division. C. B. Williams draws four thou sand five hundred dollars for his division of agricultural products, while a thousand dollars is offered in the contest by agricnlturo clubs and nearly a thousand dollars iu the fruit division. Attractive money prizes ar3 offered in the various other divi sion, while five thousand dollars is set uside for the races, which are always an important part of the Fair. Mebane Four-County Fair To be Best Yet. Mebane, Sept. 2., Entries in every Department of the big Mebane Four County Fair, which opens here for five days, beginning Tuesday, September 16, are larger to date than has ever been known. Ail build ings will be packed and jammed with exhibits of almost every kind known. In the cauning department alone, more than fifty entries have already been made with mere can ning in every day. Forty uiore en tries of cattle than ever before. Several new departments have been added this year, among which is the corn club, Jersey sire show, and the vocational department. Judges have been secured from Raleigh and every one is an expert in his line. In a telegram received, from the Frank West Shows, they state that this big 20-car attraction will arrive on time and will be in complete readiness for the opening date. Tuesday, September 10. This is said to be the finest equipped 20-car carnival in America. Secrelary Crawford has mailed to each manufacturer a letter, setting Monday, September Ist, as the date of allotment of space in the mer chants and manufacturers building This building will be crowded and jammed fram numerous local and out-of-town exhibits. Something new and different will be seen in this building, exhibits which have never been here before, and it is going to be a problem to accom modate all who desire spac?, there fore the Secretary has devised this means of allotment of space. There will bt. -so midways'this year. One will be run cfowii by the poultry and dog buildings and the other by the women's build ing. This will be necessary be cause Of the big extra attractions, especially on Wednesday of the fair. Wednesday, September 17, will be one of the biggest days of the Fair. Extra attractions will be seen on that date and the largest crowd of the entire live days is anticipated. Passes this year will be cut down considerably. Like the State Fair, the management of the Mebane Four-County Fair have come to tho conclusion that the issuance of so many' passes cots down the'revenue derived from gate receipts. THE ALAMANCE G LEANER. Caunty Farm Agents Study Forestry Work. Twenty years of forestry prac tice on the Vanderbilt estate demonstrate # the value of con servative methods in handling waste laud in Carolina, reports 11. M. Cnrran, Extension Forester for the State College of Agricul ture. Mr. Curran has just re turned to Raleigh from a trip through western Carolina where in company with a group of Agri cultural workers, a study was made of forestry conditions/ Mr. Curran says, "Old gullied fields arid poor, run-down farm lands on the Biltinore estate were plant ed to pine tweuty years ago. To day these areas are flourishing young forests, already yielding many cords of fuel wood. Twenty years more will see good sawlogs from this area, and-a profitable' return to the owners over the cost of planting, taxes, and other expenses." District Agent J. M. Goodman, Jr , of the State Service,called in the county agents of the mountain district that they might familiarize themselves witn modern methods of handling farm forests. E. 11. Frothinghatn, Director of the Apoalachian Forest Experi ment Station, and Supervisor Verne Rhodes of the Pisgah Na tional Forest explained to the visiting agents, farmers aud foresters the method used in set ting trees and the cost of seed lings and planting and care. They also spoke of thetamouut of wood removed in two thinnings which were made to improve the rate of growth of best trees. Iu addition to the extension agents, many farmers were pres ent on this tour. State Forester J. S. Holmes and his assistants, foresters G. H. Collingwood and VV. R. Mattoon of Washington, D. C., who are visiting demonstra tion work, and extension forester 11. M. Curran were also amoug the visitors. Eight automobiles carried the party from Asheville to Biltmore. Returninglhe party looked over the wonderful farm of the Biltmore estate, were guests at the model dairy and then visited the plant of the Champion Fiber Company at Canton. Must Do Better Marketing Lewis Tells Farm Club "We are past the day of recom : mending that two blades of grass be grown until the one first grown is successfully marketed. If--the second blade is needed it will follow," says V. W. Lewis in an address recently delivered before the Craven County Fanners' Club. "Economic production and effi cient marketing rather tnan tnass production and indiscriminate handling of farm produce will determine if our farmers are to continue to succeed. W« have recently been putting this into practice in many eastern Carolina counties by urging that farmers take the hogs and poultry now on hand and marnet them to advan tage. This has been done iu several cooperative shipments. "These demonstrations have shown the possibilities of these various crops that so far have proved helpful sidelines. Both of these projects will grow to larger proportions during the next few years one limiting being for Eastern Carolina-the extent to which the growers will produce feed." Mr. Lewis stated that farmers' clubs over the State could well avt as agencies for determining the money crops to be growu in certain t help correct economic ills !,n production and to sponsor the marketiug of farm products. "Good farming practice," he said, leads successful farmers to not attempt too many money crops bnt to these, say, to three—two major crops and one smaljer one—and then such far mers will become more efficient and will more nearly succeed with those." Have you ordered your pecan true*? Bread, butter and beef steak me furnished by NtitsJn an aiiti hi package,concentrated and unconlaininsted. l'lant a few taees this fall, advise horticultur al workers of ilie State College Extension Division. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1924 ARE YOUR SOYBEANS DISEASED; Dr. Wolf Suggests a Health Survey for the Soybean Crop. It is known that the soybean is subject to about twelve different diseases at this time according to investigations made by Dr. F. A. Wolf of the State College Experi ment Station. But as to the damage done by thene diseases and the extent of the trouble BO one seems to know. This is partially explained by the fact that North Carolina crows about one-third of the soybeans produced in this country and the crop is relatively small and less important in other states so the authorities in those states have done little research in the control of soybean diseases. Investiga tions by Dr. Wolf, however, re veal the fact that the crop as grown in North Carolina is affect ed with pod and stein blight, bac terial blight, bacterial pusjtule, mildew, brown leafspot, anthrac nose, Pythium root rot, Mosaic, Rhizoctonia root rot, sclerotial blitrht jjnd collar rot. From this it is evident that the poor plant is going to have a hard time.if all these things attack it at once, but_ fortunately only a few of these diseases occur year after year on wide areas. Some of them are encountered only oc casionally and in restricted local ities. Some are destructive some years and unimportant •in other years. "Hut," says i) r . Wolf, "we know too little about soybean (lis eases. If your plants are infested with some disease send us in a specimen plant and perhaps we can tell you the trouble and how to overcome it." Those growers who desire, to send specimens of diseased plants to Dr. Wolf may reach him at the Division ofPlaitt Pathology, State College Station, lialeigh. This Country Preacher Finds Good Way to Build Soils. Rev. J. N. Brinkley of Idodell county in addition to looking after the spiritual welfare of his community is also proving to be a farsighted teacher of improved farming methods, according to report by R. W. Gnu;her, County Farm Agent for trio BUue College Extension Division in this county. Extension worker* agree that more fertile soils is one ure-it need iu North Carolina and ,t he use of lime and legumesiii building ;rp the soil is being strenuously ad vocated at this period of the year when clovers should be prepared for or j lan ted. "Rev. Brinkley began, keeping accounts with a two acre piece of land on hi* farm in 1919," s iys Mr. Graeber. "His demonstration was with- wheat and duri m the period from 1919 present helms built up his yields from 4 bushels per acre to .l** bushels by using soil improving methods. This is an increase of 844 pe» cent in crtfp yHd and is worthy of careful consideration." In 1919, with a wheat yield of four bushels per acre, Rev. Hrink ley seeded the land to cowpeas, turned them under and resettled the land to wheat. In 192*>, wheat vield was ten hushsls per acre largely on ac count of the exceptionally good year for wheat in the county. This spring red clover was seeded over the wheat. In 1921, the first crop of red clover was cut for hay and second turned under for soil improve ment. Lund was seeded to wheat in fall of 1921. In 1022 red clover WHS again seeded over wheat. The yield secured was 15£ bushels per aero and this was a poor #heat year. In 1923, the first crop of red clover was cut for hay, the second turned under and the field seeded to wheat. this year, a yield of 37| bnshels per acre ef grain w.ts secured and it is estimated that at least ihree bushels per acre was loßt by sprouting from the cap sheaf. Unfortunately, most people read to get away from themselves and not to find themselves; and not to find themselves much of our read ing therefore is comparable to day-dreaming. Plowing Under Clover Improves Cotton Farm Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 30.—John ■Holland of Johnston County is a small farmer who, with his two boys, does all'his own work and. produces results thatshould make many larger fanners of Eastern Carolina pay his practices careful attention This year his cotton crop will ouike more than a bale to the acre, luis corn fifty or aixty bushels, and hetheshedSl bushels of wheat from two acres. He has had Iris share of this summers rains, hot, hissoil is in such con- dition that the crops have resist ed the excess of water. "The foundation of Mr. Uol- aud's sucess lies in the use of legumes, chiefly crimson clover and vetch, ' says E. (J. Blair, ex- tension agronomist for the State College of Agriculture. "He sows [ nearly every acre to oue of these crops every year, and turns under most of it the next spring.' Mr. 151 air found one five acre field of cotton that is of part icular interest. This field has been iu corn for the past three years, and crimson clover was sown in the corn every fall. The three crops of crimson clover were turned under, filling the soil with nitro gen and 'organic matter. Before planting cotton this year, 350 pounds of acid phosphate and >so pounds of Kainit per mire were broadcasted over the field. One may wonder at this method,, but the soil is so mellow that the cot ton roots carl reach thiir food anywhere in the top'six inches. The cotton was planted about April 28, with about 00 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre. At the tiuie of Mr. Blair's visit recently •the cotton was four feet high, well, i ranched, of a healthy ureen color, and literally covered with squares and bolls,. It looks as if the live acres wiH tnako seven or eight -bales. Twenty feet away, on another farm, there is a field of cotton that has had nearly 10 >0 pounds of fertilizers per acre, but no crimson clover or other legume. This is thirty inches high, pale in color, and is apparently about half as'good as Mr. Holland,s. "Air. Holland Haves his own clover seed by leuviug a couple of acres i«> get deaii ripe, and then mowing it," says ,\lr. lilair. ''Last year he g>t enough from two acres t > see I thirty of his own laud an 1 sold a lot bo- Bides." Mr.- Holland sows thirty pounds of seed per acre, in the hull. He says, "I sow'it in a corn field iiny titne from August If) to October 15, if the corn is"nortoo ran'k. —1( the com is very heavy, I wait until it has been cut and shocked. I sow in cotton after the lirst picking, usual ly the same day the cotton is picked. At this time the leaves are falling s > that. t/ie clover will not lie shad ed to death. I prefer to scratch the ground with a l'mht Cultivator cither just beforo or just after I sow the although I have gotton perfect st.in Is without this." Cotton Growers' Association Will Pay S9O per Bale. Kaloigh, Aug .'soth —Farmers of North Carolina wh • are members of the Cotton U rowers Cooperat.i vo 'Association will receive an ad vance of S9O on each •"> H> p mud bale ot cotton delivered be giniug September J, when the pools for the HeW crop are opened ami deliveries wilt be eC'vptsd, according to a afnteinont issued from the headquarters in KaJeigh last night. Xhe association is in shape for the season, said T. hambiiss, Director of inform.ition, and Re ceiving agetits have been appoint ed throughout the territory, and contracts have ben made with bonded warehouses lor I be coming' seas >ii The associati'» i lias been abl6 to mik i fcvjnnr i a I /a>i' - ageuus'cootracU with warehouse ineu and in addition has secured reduced insuraiicc tales and it is, estimated til it by rswiu of lh Concessions s j ju re I t i i iu ii '»ir* of the association will be save I approximately 1100,00.) on those j two items, warehousing and in surance. Concernitig tin? MIVAIIM, Mr. OhHinhiioH HHII! that, 'Otu»ii Grower*. Coopcrniive Association would advance S7O on every 500 pound hale and the North Carolina Agricultural Corporation would make an additional advance of 820 the bale, making the total advance of $1)0 a bale or 75 per centof the market value of the cotton and in the mesent state of the market practically all that any farmer could expect to secure if the cotton was dumped on the market and the coopera tive marketing association was to "withdraw from business. The advance to be made on bales weighing less than flOO! pounds will be in the same pro- 1 portion, as follows: between 400 ] and 500 pounds, total advance $80; between 100 and 450 pounds, ■ •~?70; between SBO and l()(i, pounds, SO2. Peach Disease Checked By Having Vigorous Trees, Kvery peach grower has been com pel let I, during Mm seinou which is jlist closing, lo throw a way many bushels of peaches be cause they were a line ted with a disease called baeteriosis. "This olsease," says Dr. F. A. Wnlt, [Mailt Pathologist for the North Carolina Experiment Station, "manifests itself by the presence of dry, brown spots on the fruit. The spots, when numerous, cause the peaches to crack open irregu larly and thoy are tlrarefore not marketable. Baeteriosis may cause a 'shot holo' disease of the leaves and prematiPre shedding of these leaves follows. Small cankers from which gum oozes may appear on the twigs at the lehf scars. Baeteriosis oil the leaves ami on the twigs is quite similar in appearance to injury, resulting Irom spraying with ar senicals ati(l is often confused with it. In consequence when- ! ever baeteriosis is present it gets | the blame for spray injury m welhC' Dr. Wolf states that """experi ments on control of baeteriosis h»ve been conducted in Georgia ami Arkansas over a period of abfint ten years. These experi ments have always been started in orchards which in the previous year had been seriously damaged The tests have shown that orch ards which are k«*pt a high state of vigor by proper pruning, worming and cultivation can be' made resistant to the disease by the use of nitrate of soda. Simi lar results are to be expected in North Carolina. In hill side orch ards, espcially during seasons of' heavy rainfall, much of the value of nitrate of soda is lost by leach ing. 'l'his can be prevented, in part, explains Dr. Wolf, by the 1 plowing under of green cover crops. President Coolidgc Creates Two New Eastern (i.tme Rofu cs President Coolidge Imi just signed • a proclamation two game refuges on the Chero kee National Forest in Teuift'ssee and Georgia for the protection and administration of game in that region, « Orgiually all sort* of fcild lif ( native tothoregion thrived there, and mi effort will In. Mtnle lj ry store the gaino through prof«totii;n and pos*iUl/ thron/Ni pluming of desirable species, Deerand Wild turkey are we;l adapu*>! to tins, general region, 'lie? nuccess of the effort made will depelul very largely on llie cooperation of iti leresij-d citizens. The Ten ue-,see J Jaw llelujje i.H in the IJighVog Mountain country Souih of till- i) o'*e in I'olk County. * it h.irt an aii-u of":> i,t I iicr-'M, acquired under the \V • Law, iind is to be called t|;e C ue; keo National (iaiuc Kuiti ber One. Llie o'V>r;;i i Refuse is on the watersheds of Nuontootla iind lio«k Creeks iu Fannin Out: , with a -i jall part in Union County about 11,0)) acres in nil to be known as Cherokee National Game li'-fiisie Xmnbi-r Tw^>. The Sfat«« of Tenum*#" aul I lIHVO pil.SSl'd logitdftl ion which h'ivh* to the Fclcrnl (»«v --erutnunt I'lli authority to in • rule*. and regulation*! designed t» protect and prop the game HtiimaJfl, K'mif ami n.m-^ame bird*, imdjlsli. Thin work will bo in tlu« hand* of.the Fofest Service of tin* D«»p iri m.-iit of cnlture, iindor tli« immediate •nprrii>inn of the Pornat Super visor, For HI Snrviee, Knox villi*, TCIIIIO.VHV. 1 Erosion Cost $38.75 in One Month. ' That nature's forces tako an I enormous toil from tiio hillsides , of l'iedmont North Carolina is [ shown by measurements o soil orosion conducted by engineers ( of the I>r;si tifir: Division on the JixyorUn-n: : i' .. farm near | lialei^hi J Uuriuf; tue ,lurioil. i'roib Juno i l.ft to July 18 the lo -t of soil from ■a. plot six )'■ t wide afid one hnn- idroit ami - v.-iitA fiv iVct- ]iuijr planted itM' ilihs was llm pounds ••or tMi MVt-i-ff" .if tons (o-the acre. On l(!. ol' mi Uich'oi sofl > Was ri'i.i.i' ' rro ii 'l!; 1 surface | during tins period with a rainfall iof S>.l3 inclivft Au eslii ate of the ,dilut'loial lost on each ji rr»- and its value in dollars aii' ci" i- 1 ; > folios; Pin s. o'iu il bs. al 'iC s 1.05 j I Wash r,(; i; ' a ? 5,« . iXilj-ou' ii . " i • 4.4j Tlu*rttethotl-tni-d it i.iertsuring ' the soil wi. t«> col loot the silt laden wale • .m it d; ,ined from iho ; plot into liir : in, 1 » wUoro it was lallowed to settle 1i ■ w ;t c was jthen drained oi; , 1 the i hiain i i"« nuul taken out, !nn. 1 and weighed. The plant food loss was t hen found !>y ~na!;, - ■ the NolJ. In order lo -remedy this loss, cover crops :aus! !>■• grown and above all, k system- of terraces must tie constructed and main tained. This i-t in )-L imp; riant as terraces lessen ihe leaching and keep ihn fertile soil on the fields. While most of the soil is deposited in hollows and small valleys before it reaches the stream,.yet the larger oart is lost, as only a small portion of tho soil thus deposited can b> used for the growing crops. Properly constructed tsrraees will k.eep this soil on thivhillsido where iis fertility, win be used. \ ■ v Regular Process Toil can forgive u mnn who linn wronged you; but If you have wronged Mm you must hate lijm more and i more to keep four conscience soothed. I —Duluth Herald. Chinese Home Bodies Old-fashioned Chineve glrU neldoni j think of mualc and art us a means of enjoyment. preferring _ cooking, laun dering and the tank of bringing up ! children. . Nature's Camouflage —33jp white ernb spider, is(iy« Nature ; Magazine, nmramea the color of'TTre : flower In which he has taken up hit : abode and than enjoys 11h protection. I { Uncle Sam'a Beea On tlii- I'nifed Stales (.-overnment farm for !••••*• are 'mind :i,7.~'>.000 ot ;! tl>« finest Italian pe-iajcns, whlcS I are wed f«T oh* -rvii n inn-pones, I 11 , . No Three-times Trying Moriiri.:* i n '.nt :a|. , .?t- knock' Ins a r-llro- ' tr-ilw off the track , i alumld ' In tnir ''rit they petrmif on ve.— ! >l l ■> !'■'■>* «. Poor Tfwi? to Live For Soitti" •! i - fnrfiin , 1 :t noli j tie H. to I-. 1-.rf! ■:.«| -Fc.rmer k'ia Pi si of It ; iu» ■■■■ ift ge length life of «l I fee. 'ne it n d 1 •-.«Ml»lrdf i rt.ivt »f a f: rm» I First Cu it)ate Diligence ! r>ili r it i ~ii. 4n 11 hot good toe tune. . I I". l.t .. Real Gratitude Old If • ' ' •atleionn)— . w:int for a k» ' tl !£%*»_ _ .; ;>•} p!v« It >o far."- -jJiMton Evening j - Trnrwefit.t. "■ l/acs an Empty Shell Tlie hermit crab; ajyr.--. Nature Maff azlne, protect b Iwortlbg Ita ahdunen Into some er, ;»ty ahell rt-hlch It carries about in all. ot Its wander Incs. 1 Fate Seltcts the Worthy Kate does riot iiing tier ,-reat prizes ; to the Idle, the Indifferent, but to j the determined, the enthntdaslle, the : man who la bound to win.—Exchange, That Settles It ! . Man may be a god, bat one-third of Me hflpptneg* depends on his liver and i the oilier two-third* the weather.— 1 • The Duluth i NO. 31 How Much Feed For Beef Cattle? One of the first things to con j Hirter in planning to grow beef j eattle is to have pasturage so that the animals may be kept on pas ! ture from si.* to eight months each roar. "If this is not done," says ( R, S. Curtis, Chief of the Animal Industry Division of the Noith' Oarolin Experiment Station, "there is no reason for trying tp i prof ft by raising beef cattle." Mr. Cuplis gives the following requirements needed to feed beef eattletoroue year: » • •• stook cattle wintered for thi ' average period of four and one half mouths, will require 3QO j pounds' fit oar corn and 1,250 pounds'of corn stovor or hay, or .GO [founds of corn silage and ,'2,000 pounds of the,stdVeror hay. For maintaining breeding animals in good average condition this ration should bo increased from 25 to 50 per cent per animal (depending on the breed and size of the auitnil>beingfeed. For fattening cattle for the market, it will require 1200 pounds :'f !"i;>.-«vl meal and _'Mous of Corn silage as one ration or 12()Q pounds of cottonseed meal, tons of corn silage and 1500 pounds of good hay. If corn is raised on tho farm iufsuft leiout quantities, the grain part of both rations may bo made one-half of cottonseed meal and one-half of corn. M r.Ourtis states that sheep like beef cattle should spend from six to eight months on pasture. Dur ing tho four months wintering period the requirements per sheep per day are two pounds of legnme hay and from one-half to ono pound of concentrates, oae fourth ol which may be cottonseed meal. 1 hys the total requirements will be one-eight of a ton of hay and from 00j to 120 pounds of grain Tor etch sheep. The larger breeds will require the heavier feeding of grain. I " I low the jvomou do applaud I tn« ne'er-do-well Htage hero who kivew liin wife a carnation instead of a pay envelope! Did von over try it? Industry, independence and pa tient e aru said to be the three, . Hiipi-uio qualities needed'.by a' - limn for mi6ce*s as a farmer. j Mrs. Crandall (Iowa) Tells How She Stopped Chiclcen Losses _ "i.ajt Jprinir. rata kilM all our baby chick*. Wuh I'd Itnoin *!*>ut K.H-hna|. before. With Just om large package wckilledawarim of rata. They won't gft this year's half hot. I'll lift." KuUSuap i.. i;uar. auU-cd au l sells (or .15c, 65c, $1.25. Sold an J yuaranUcu by GRAHAM DBUO COMPANY; ' i m PROFESSIONAL CARDS J. B. BALL, D. C. CUIKOPKACTOK Xurvoiw und Chronic Diseases, * HUHLLN'OTON, N. C. I (»i!i! (Her Mis, Alice KouUna's Mtorr. ■ •' tllii. Kmd. nee. 10. LOVICK U. KERNODLE, • Atioriicy-al-Luw, GRAHAM /N . C . 1 ' ' 5. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. »»Tio* ovor Perrell Drug Co. I! sirs: 2to and 7 toy p. in , and * d by nppoiwment. Phone- y?*J GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. ' '•' • !• t.i II i. a). ami by n>pi>ioUii"at . ;\JI M ,)in- ()vi-i Aciiiu Co. T.' l jl"oiie»r oilire I 10-Ucil.lence *«l ' . JOHN J. HENDERSON J , Attorney-ai-Law 1-4 GRAHAM, N. C. O'lUe «v«r Vntloui! Baakol Aluuae ■7\. 3. COOK, AttOrney-nt-L««r* F.AHAM, - - N. 0 • i : xU'.'/son ilutldlog "* ff >nd Floor. , , ♦ |j m. will uomuh : DENTIST ! t I ' J 3'ahM - North Carolina OFFICE IN I'ARIS BUILDING