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'THE.GLEANER i ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. I. D. KERNODLE, E|ltor. SI.OO A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. ♦> The editor win dk responsible for eqprease by correspondents. Entered at tae Pcs'offlee at Graham, N. 0.. on aecouu-olass matter GRAEUM.N.n, April 1, 1926." EXTRA HALF INCH OF MILK Will Add $3,750,000 To Profits Of North Carolina Dairymen. An extra half-inch of milk in every cow's milk pail at each milkiDg would add $3,750,000 to the profits of North Carolina dairymen during :he next twelve months, according to the Larrowe Institute of Animal Economics. Better feeding and care of the animals is urged by the Institute as the means of bringing this additional sum of money iuto the state this j*ear and every year. The average cow in this state gives around three inches of milk at a milking," states the Institute. "At the prevailing market price of milk the extra half-inch in tbe pail would mean about fifteen] extra dollars in th 6 pocket of hf r owner. On the basis of over 250,- 000, cows of milking age on North Carolina farms, this should mean $3,750,000 that may be available to dairymen and to the farm family. As an instance of what better care and feeding will do for a dairy herd, the Institute cites the cow-testing association records of fifteen cows on the Valley Farm of Smith & Preston at Conotton, O. Ten dollars a day above their board is what this group paid the owners each day for a year for the privilege of remaining on the farm, or at the rate of $279.84 per cow per year. The herd ate from 2,338 pounds to 3,739 pounds per cow of a prepared, balanced ra tion and produced 1,447 cans of milk of a total value of $5,528.39. This was $3,941.71 above the feed cost. An outstanding example of what good feed and treatment will do for a cow is Sabina, one of the herd. In one year's time she produced 11,599.9 pounds of milk containing 702.1 pounds of butter. The total value of her 'production was $509.04, or $426 - 87 over tha costs of her feed dur ing the twelve months. Rural Hours Improved By Attractive Rooms One of the easiest ways to Im prove the rural home is by having attractive rooms and these may .-easily be improved by studying the home plan and the individual room. "The ideal house plan will pro vide the exposure best Buited to each room," says Miss Helen Estabrook, of the home demon- Htration division at at State Col lege. "The kitchen needs the cool exposure to the northwest while the dining room should have an eastern exposure to se cure the joy and healthgiviug qualities of the morning sunlight. The living room should be lo cated to the south and west so that it might have the sunlight ttnd air necessary to the health of ihe entire family. Each room should have at least two windows jind cross ventilation is needed for the kitchen and sleeping rooms." Miss Estabrobk states that rooms with a warm exposure need cool background oolors such as iitue, green, grey, or mauve. Warm colors are orange, yellow, tan or red. Light colors make a room seem larger and dark colors make the room seeib smaller. The 'floor should always be darker ilian the walls or draperies, If the ceiling is low, it should be lighter than the walls to give an effect of greater height. The room should be carefully studied before auy furnishings are added, Miss Estabrook states Then the selection of furnishings shoald be with the idta ot secur ing harmony between the archi tecture and furnishings as well Iks between the furnishings thorn s'lves. By a little careful study of the situation, many homes can be made more attractive by some simple changes and groupings of the furniture as well as by refin ishing the walls and adding need ed draperies and hangings. Fifteen farmers of Franklin county heard over a radio the speech of Governor Low'deu of Il linois delivered in Raleigh re cently. How Much Food For Hundred Hens' * > Frequeuily tho poultry grower goes into his business with no con ception of the amount of food that it takes to feed bis bens. He feeds what ho has on baud aud when that gives out he must buy. Experiments conducted by poul-' try investigators at tbe Stale Col lege Experiment Station show that one may know to a reason able degree the amount ol lood needed. In the experiments conducted, it was found that where all the feed was bought, beus the size of Leghorns consumed 80 pounds of teed each, or 8,000 pounds for a flock of 100 biids during the year. Thirty pounds of the amouut con sumed by each hen was the mash or dry, ground, mixed feeds uud tilty pouuds was the bcratch or grain mixture. Larger birds such as llie Rhode Islsud Reds consume an average of 94 pouuds of leed per hen per year. This is 9,400 tor the flock of 100 birds. Of the 94 pounds consumed, 43 pounds was mash aud 51 pouuds, grain mixture. lu making these tests Dr. 13. F. Kaupp also studied the amount of feed it required to produce eggs. For iiigti producing Leg horns, it took 0.46 pounds of feed to produce one dozen eggs aud for the larger breeds it look 10 pouuds of feed to produce a doz en eggs. The heavier the layes, the more feed tho consumed. These tests also revea'ed tbe fact that ou a four-horse farm, between 25 and 50 perceut'of tbe feed would bo foraged by the poultry, thus lessening the amount needed to be bought or raised for the sole use of the flock. Hens Pay Well For Summer Care With profits increasing from poultry in. North Carolina, it will pay to take care of the producing hens this summer. "It is poor economy to neglect the hens during tbe rus'i of glim mer work," BOyn A. U. Oliver, poultry exteuriiou sptcfalist for State College. "When the hens are neglected, profits are reduc ed. Less grain is needed under range conditions but plenty of masli should be supplied in the hoppers, finder average farm conditions where the hens hive free range and production is de creasing, less of the scratch pi-tfin and more of the mash should be fed. This will force the birds to eat more mash aud thereby stim ulate egg production. .Mash con sumption inUf-t be encouraged to get high egg production. The mash is composed of wholegrains finely ground and is more easily digested." Mr. Oliver suggests that the hens bo given „ equal parts of cracked corn, wheat aud oats by weight as a scratch giain. If wheat is not available, one-third corn and two thirds oats should be fe«l. For the average I arm flock a maoli made of equal parts of wheat bran, wheat middlings, corn meal, ground oats and fish meal is good and this should be kept before the hens, in a dry place, at all tim^s. Feeding is one of the most im portant factors in rocuriug eggs' from the farm flock during sum-1 mer. The hens may bo kept lay ing aud molting delayed by either increasing the amount of mash' fed or by increasing the protein without- increasing the amount of mash. If a flock of birds can be selected which does not stop lay-J New Wffl to Stop Night Coughing Simple Method Brings Quick Relief For almost instant relief from hack ing, irritating, sleep-robbing night coughing there is a very simple treat ment which, often with a single dose, ■tope ail irritation and permits sound sleep the whole night through. This treatment is based on the Pre scription known aa Dr. King's New Discovery for Coughs. You simply take one teaspoonfui at bed-time and hold it in the throat for IS or 20 seconds before swallowing it The prescription has s double action. It not only soothes and heals soreness and irritatkm,but it * quickly removes the phlegm and con gestion which are the real cause of night coughing. People who have not slept weU for nights are often serprised bow quickly this simple method checks coughing and banishea the entire pough condition completely. ~Pr. Ring's New Discovery la for coughs, cfeaat colds, sore throat.hoarse ness, bronchitis, spasmodic croup, etc. Fine for children as well at grown nps—no harmful drugs. Economical, too, as the dose is only one teaspoon fnL At ail good druggists. Ask for I£ZJ)ISCOVE fVw THE ALAMANCE QLEAJNE&, GRAHAM, M. 0. ing until October or November, the chicks from these eggs will have a marked effect on the egg production of next season's flock, states Mr. Oliver. Early molters, ou the other hand, will produce early molting chicks while work short hours and eat as much as the heavy producers. Up until the first of May, the Board of Agriculture in Nash Couuty has bought and sold for its members $56,000 worth of-fer tilizers, seeds, com and other materials. C ASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Sorghum will m.'tke as good sil age as corn and will give better returns during a dry year, states agronomists State College. 666 is a prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever. Dengue or Bilious Fever, It Mlla the germ*. ' OLIVER " OCTOBER By George Barr McCutcheon (Continued) "It—lt cannot come true," she said. It cannot, Oliver." "Still It is pomethlng to be consid ered," he said heavily and Judicially. His hand closed over hers and gripped it tightly. "If you were In my place wouldn't yon hesitate about Inviting her to —to become a widow P •Oh, I love you, Oliver, when your voice sounds as If It had a laugh In It," she whispered. "In a month I will be thirty," he went on, his heart as light as air. "I might ask her to give me a thirty-day option, or something like that." "You goose!" He pressed her arm to his side, and was serious when he spoke again, aft er a moment's pause. "I have never asked a girl to marry me, Jane. Never in all my life. Do you know why?" She buried her face against his shoul der. A vast, overwhelming thrill raced through him. His amp went abont her'and drew her close. "I. never realised it, Jane—l never even thought of it till just a little while ago—but now I know that I have always loved you." Her arm stole up about his neck, she raised her chin. 1 began calling myself your wife, Oliver, when I was a very little girt— when we first began playing house together, and you were my husband and the dolls were our children." He kissed her rapturously. "Oh, my God!" he burst out. "YouH never ' know how miserable I have been these last "lew weeks—how horribly Jealous I've been." She stroked his cheek—possessively. "I haven't been very happy myself," she sighed. "I—l wasn't quite sure yot would ever, ever ask me to be your wife." . * "That reminds me," he cried boy ishly. "Will you marry me, Miss Sage?" i "Of course I will. Didn't I say I I would marry the first—what was I thatf I As she uttered the exclamation un | der her breath, she drew away from I him quickly, looking over her shoul der at the thick, shadowy underbrush that lined the road below them. * "I didn't hear anything," said he, , turning with her. "It must have been my heart trying to burst out of ft— , sh! Listen. .There is someone over there In the brush. D—n his sneaking eyes, Til —" "Don't! Don't go down there!" she , cried, clutching his arm. "You must not leave me alone. I'm—l'm afraid, Ollle. lam always afraid when I am near that awful swamp." "Let's walk down tbe road a little way. Jan*" said he stubbornly, "Don't be afraid. I'll stick close beside you." "You won't go' down into the swamp," she cried qnxiously. "No. Just along the road." 1 They ran down the little embank ment into the road. After fiftten or twenty paces Oliver pressed her arm warnlngly and „ stopped to listen. Ahead of than, some distance away, they beard footfalls—the slow, regular tread of a man walking la the road. They stood still listening. Suddenly the footfalls ceased. "He knows we have stopped," said Oliver- ''He's listening to see If we are following." She waa silent for a moment "You remember what I said about being spied upon, Oliver. I fed U, I feel It all about me. You are being watched all the time, Oliver. Oh, how hateful. qflfalr I" "See hew, Jane, I*?* hem thinking. It's Wrong for me to ask yea to nuwry me till all this mess Is over. Ifs wrong for me to even ask yon to con sider yourself engaged to me." "Nobody believes that you had any thing p) d# ptyb— * - v to ZLT the wont of It My father is gone. I was, BO far as anyone knows, the last to see blm. As you say, no one may believe that I had anything to do with It, but —where Is he? A queer thing iif» Just happened. Tou know Peter Hlnes —that queer old bird who has always lived in the cabin at the lower end of the swamp? He has skipped out Boarded up the door and win dows and—" He started violently, the words dy ing on his UP*- Off to" the sooth, be yond the almost Impenetrable wall of night gleamed far-off lights In the wall of Peter Hlnes' shack. "He must have returned," he said, in an odd voice. "Those lights—" "Let us go In, dear," she pleaded. "I —I hear something moving among We Btarted Violently, the Words Dying •n His Lips. the weeds down there. It's grisly, Oli ver—creepy." Oliver yielded to her entreaties and they made their way back to the house. Mrs. Sage waS~ holding forth In lier most effective English when the two entered the sitting-room. She may have eyed them narrowly for a second or two, but that was all. Sammy Parr, however, who had been observing Oliver, very closely, got up from his chair and marched across the room, his hand extended. "Congratulations, old man I" he shouted Joyously. And little old Mrs. Grimes, from her place on the sofa, remarked, as she leaned back with a sigh of content: "Well, goodness knows It's about time." Proving that since the entrance of the lovers the great Josephine had fallgd to hold her audience spellbound. CHAPTER IX Oliver May Withdraw The ensuing three week,s were busy ones for Oliver. He was off "election eering" by day and out speechinaklng by night In district schoolhouses, in town halls and at mass meetings held at the county seat. The opposition press, stirred to action by the har assed Mr. Goocb, printed frequent re ports of their search for old Oliver Baxter. They made sensation out of two or three minor discoveries —such as the finding of an old straw hat in one of the pools and the unearthing of a stout spade handle at the edge of the swamp not far from where the old man and his son had parfcd com pany. •- Malone and his gang of Italian la borers were conducting the quest lei surely. The chief operative was bored —admitted it to Oliver and Mrs. Grimes and Lizzie Meggs and to the high heavens besides. Mid-afternoon of a windy day in Oc tober—lt was the nineteenth, to be ex act —he sat in the shelter, of the kitchen wing, his chair propped against the wall, reading a book. He yawned frequently and seemed to be having great difficulty In keeping bis pipe go lag. From time to time he dozed. His partner, Charlie What's-Uls name, was out in the swamp directing the efforts of eight or ten men who were sounding the scattered "mud holes" with long poles or digging nt random In sections where the earth was sufficiently solid to bear the weight of man or beast These men were now far out beyond the wire fence, within a hundred yards" or so qf the pond. Mr. Malone's rest was disturbed shortly before three o'clock by the aa> rival of Oliver October. The two had become quite good friends. "Say, Malone, would you mind call ing off those gravqdiggers of yours for half an hour or so? I am expecting | committee here at three o'clock." f'gure" said If alqpe. He gat up ■lowly. "Hey!" be shouted over his shoulder. "Come out o' that I Knock off I Ifs four o'clock. In New York," he added In an aside to Oliver. "As Pve said before, Mr. Baxter, lt'a all d—d foolishness digging up your place like this." "Mrs. Grimes says the house la likely to fall down on our heads at any min ute," said Oliver. "She notified me this noon that our hired girl, Lizzie Meggs, has decided to give up her place unless your men fill up some of 0$ g»ves they're dog in my cellar" B SSSSW l|s|pr JK Sof* "*B? "I setf r , 88 •SSto* yxi ®easufei ?„ st afes flour = Br ' MSSSB&s* P° you w&OMau, made f rn Bgy gggggpt||§ W J?*** "St-'itt ~Jr • •" • 'V*. *TII have 'em put some planks oyer those holes," said the detective. "That reminds me. Now that they've stopped work under the porch, you might call off your watchdog. Give the old boy • llttl* much-needed rest." Oliver walked to the corner. Joseph Slkes was sitting on the back step*, his coat collar turned up about his throat, his -aged back bent almost doable, his chin resting on the mlt tened hands that gripped the head of his cane, his wrinkled face screwed up into a dogged scowl. "Better step Into the kitchen, Uncle Joe, and ask Lizzie for a cup of hot coffee. Work's over lor today." "The h—l it is," growled Mr. Slices, without changing bis position. . "Let him alone," said Malone, good* naturedly. "He's hatching out some new trouble for me. As for Fink, he's down there in the swamp from morn* ing till night, supervising the whole blamed job." "They are the best friends I've got in the world, Malone," said Oliver ear nestly. "Well, we'll clear yon so's you can have your committee meeting In peace," said the detective. "I have put it np to county head quarters, . Malone," said Oliver, In an emotionless tone, "as to whether J should stay In the race or withdraw," "What do you mean, withdraw r asked the detective sharply. "Well, It's only fair to give them a chalice to put someone else on the ticket in my place If they feel—" "Come off! You've got old Gooch )}cke| to a standstill, SQ what THE devil's got Into you? We're not going to find your father's body, my boy." "How do you know yon are not going to find it?" was Oliver's surpris ing question. Malone started. "What has caused yon to change your tone like this, Bax ter T "If s getting on my nerves, Melon*-* I don't mind saying so," said the younger man, frowning. "I get you," said Malone, sympa thetically. "It does give a fellow the shivers. But now about this getting off the ticket Don't you do anything «I the sort, Baxte^t "Malone, I can feel It In the air that a great many people believe 1 know what became of my father." Mr. Slkea, who had shuffled around the corner, overheard the remark. He fairly barked: «If fton't make a particle of o!fe* pee what .they believe provided no- I body Is able to find-the corpus delicti. They've got to dlfc np your father's corpus delicti What M» thun der are you laughing at, sir*" MulT. to whom this wstfn wg| addressed In Mr. Slices' most aggres sive manner, put his band to his month and succeeded^in replying with as straight a face is possible: "I've been reading an awfully funny book, Mr. Slkes. It's about detec tives." There is no telling what-Mr. Slkes would have .said to Mr. Malone about detectives In general if the delegation from headquarters had not arrived a minute or two later. (To be oontinued) 'Pastureless Cow" Throws New Light On Dairying. The dairyman oaunot rely on past ure .alone for milk and make money by doing sa according to the Lar rowe Institute of Animal Economics. Experiments on the comparative value of grain and pasture, carried on at tbe Institute's research farm, Red ford, Michigan, amply backß up this statement. "The record of cow No. 76 in 1924 and 1925 is typical of the re sults obtained in these ex periments," states the Institute, "This cow is an ordinary grade Holstein, and a pretty good producer. Throughout the whole lactation, in 1924, she was kept on a grain aud hay ration with absolutely no pasture. Throughout the milking period she produced 'an average of 3.6 gallon- of milk pwday. M the end of the yfealfc lactation, she ex-, perienced a normal decline in milk production. She was in splendid condition as a result of her year round grain ration, as she evidenc ed by starting off hsr 1035 lactation by producing up to 5.4 gallons of milk per day. "A year ago this week this cow went on pas ure. For 10 days milk producti«>n. moved up but after tbe first stimulus of the gfass tonic wore off, she fell steadily in milk $$ Ler giaiu ra ion was , reduced. Two mouths after she went on pasture, she was receiving two jgmnds of grain per day. Her production has dropped from 4.6 galtona per day to 2.6 gallonj. The production con tinued to drop off until the 280 th day when she was only producing 1.1 gallons daily as against almost 8 gallons daily in the previous lacta tion at the same time. "No dairyman coold aak for more convincing proof that the veljait* on Commissioner's Sale Of Valuable Land. By virture of an order of the Superior Court of Alamance County, made in an action therein pending wherein R. Doak Walker is plaintiff and Thos. D. Cooper, Receiver, and J. S. Copk, are defendants, the undersigned commissioners will sell the real property below de scribed, at the court house door, for cash, at 12:00 o'clock M., on MONDAY, JULY sth, 1920: A certain tract or parcel of land in Burlington Township, Alamance County, North Caro lina, adjoining the lands of Fannie Foushee, heirs of Austin Whitsett, J. C. Wiley, Lula Graham Harden and others and bounded as follows: Beginning at a rock, corner with said Harden, running thence 8 2 J deg W 3.25 chs to a rock or iron bar, corner with said Foushee; thence S 78 deg E 3.75 chs to a rock or iron bar, corner with said Foushee; thence S2f deg W 3.27 chs to a rock or iron bar, corner with said Foushee; thqnce S 87| deg E iisf chs tq a rock or iron bar, corner with said Wiley; thence N 4f deg» E 4.50 chs to a rock or iron b&r, oorner with said Wiley } thence N 85 deg VV 2.80 chs to a rock or iron bar, corner with"*eaid Harden; thence r» a deg E 2.48 chs to a rock or iron bar, corner with said Harden: thence N 86f deg W 6.16 to the beginning and containing 4.06 acres mare or less. It being the same known as the Capes place and upon it there is a good dwelling.house. Terms of sale: Cash. This the Ist d&y of Jwne, 192 ,Ji J, Dolph Long, .* J. ,S. Cook. Commissioners. grass alone is eostly and tbata regu lar grain ration with pasture throng oat the summer pays real dividends \n ;»ilt production,"
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