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THE GLEANER ' ISSUED THUBSDAT . — 1. D. KERNODLE, Editor. SI.OO A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. * v , iVWVVI Entered at ttie Po3*offlce at Graham, N. C., aw second-class matter. The editor win DO* responsible for /lews expressed by correspondents. GRAJEL£M, N. 0., Nov. 11, 1926. »— GUESSING WRONG TOO OFTEN The lack of accuracy, and perhaps also frankness, on the part of the National Administration in present ing finances of the government has been so flagrant that it is no wonder the Democrats cf tho Congress are looked to for reliable information and for leadership in reform of tax ation. Estimates of receipts have time after time proved grossly erro neous. So much so that it has ap peared to be tho design of the Administration to keep the true facts from the people. , At the time the last-tax reduction measure was taken up in 1925, tho Administration advised that the Treasury could not stand a cut of more than $300,000,000. Kven that amount was referred to as at the danger line. As the bill passed the House the estimated reduction was about $327,000,000. Many Demo crats of the House contended that a larger was justifiable. In the Senate the Democrats, on a larger cut, did not get as much as they desired and as they well knew the condition of tho Treasury and the estimated receipts would war rant. But they waged such a vigor ous fight that it forced the majority party to vote with them for an in crease of tho estimated reduction in revenues to. $387,000,000, a large part of this additional reduction, as compared with the bill as it came from the House, being the result of lower tax rates for incomes in the lower brackets. Representative William R Green, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, after the Senate passed the bill and when the measure was about to go to confer ence, expressed fear that if a cut of $387,000,000 were made it might force Congress to increase levies next year. If his forecasts and fears had been well founded, the Congress would now be confronted with the necessity of passing a bill to increase taxes. Instead, the question is a further reduction, because of a growing surplus, which promises to be more than $400,000,000 by the end of the present fiscal year. In the course of the consideration of the present tax law, there were numerous warnings from the Treas ury Department and the White HOUBO against going farther than they had advised. Alter signing the measure last February, the White House Spokesman was quoted in the newspapers as saying that it carried a reduction too b ; g by $87,- 000,000 and the Spokesman express ed a fear of an unbalanced budget. This sort of thing was kept up for weeks but official statistics continued to prove Administration heads to be poor prophets. A confession ol error, even a conversion dictated by partisan considerations, was implied in the sudden declaration a few days after the recent election by the White House Spokesman that tin surplus would be of a size warrant ing a rebate, refund or credit to cei tain taxpayers. This is manifestly an unfair and inadequate way t deal with the problem yet it is i vindication of the contention by th Democrats all along—that the gov ernment is taking more money fron the people than the needs justify. In his recent budget message t the Congress the President, whil advocating a credit or rebate on ta: payments due next March and Jun 15, opposed any "permanent" relief and, evidently with a view to sus taining his position, cited an esti mated surplus for 1928 of $200,000, 000, or only about half his esiimate surplus for 1927. In the $200,000, 000 estimate he adopted the figure of Secretary Mellon, though, th Secretary's revenue forecasts hav time and time ag&n proved so far 1 below the facts that they have ceased to be a guide to the members of the Congress who gi.ve careful attention to government'finance: Under the circumstances, it is easy to see why the country is count ing on Democratic leadership to about an equitable reduction of taxes at the present session and is condemning the. Administration policy of temporizing for partisan advantßge at public expense. The Democrats said a year ago tax cuts should be greater. They were right thon, and they are right now. Ways and Means Committee Re publicans, it is announced, are against reporting out any tax reduc ion bill. Evidently tbev think discussion on the House floor would be hazirdous. They fear the President's credit or rebate plan could not survive an ! informed and just public opinicn and, if they can prevent it, they will not even let the House have all Op portunity to consider the merits of Representative John Garner's genu ine reform measure. They would rather postpone it all until near the 1928 election, meanwhile letting the axpayers foot the bills. MORE USES FOR GAS A company in Baltimore has put on the market a new gas cut ting and Welding tofch that uses illuminating gas costing only a fraction as much as the gases usu ally used. It is another victory, for common gas, that has been the friend of industry for so many years } a victory that was bound to come, awaiting pnly the serious study of an observant scientist. This weldiug development is one of the best industrial discoveries in years; it means cheaper build ing, cheaper machinery, cheaper repairs, and the utilization of many old an machine in ways tliat were prohibited by the present high cost of welding and cutting. More uses are being found for gas every day, and the future of the industry was never before so promising. THE HIGH COST OF VOTING Figures recently presented by the Montaua Taxpayers' Associa tion regarding the cost of a state wide primary, revealed that the election held August 3, 1926, cost the taxpayers $128,433 for 109,155 votes, an average cost of sl.lß per vote. The election cost the smallest county, which had only 770 votes, $4.11 per vote; while in'Ravalli county, with 2100 votes, the cost was 44 cents per vote, the lowest in the state. This is pretty good evidence of the high cost of gov ernment today. What Caused The Boston Tea Party? The paramount duty of govern ment officials is to keep taxes as low as possible * Everybody knows about the Boston Tea Party and what it led to, in our colonial days. Every body —every .taxing official at I least—ought to remember the fol ly of overtaxation, and the people ought to remember that they ' must pay for what they get. 7 C. A. Dyer, legislative agent 1 for Ohio farm bureaus and a granges, iu an addrass at an Agri cultural legislative conference, 0 said in part: * 0 '-The taxpayer is the one to - bring about relief- He can do it • through his own efforts and j through organization. The great est part of the taxes are used 10-0 0 cally. The taxpayer has the op- B portunity of attending local meet e ings where local budgets ace re r. viewed, and of fighting extrava- Q gance through each organizations as the farm bureau and grange," If more interest were taken in 0 local meetings whetfe tax budgets e are reviewed, taxing officials x would not be so liable to add ex e tra tax burdens.-Lima, Ohio, Star r ' "Deaf Telephone Sets j- l " A specially designed telephone ,- set for the use of the deaf, has d been perfected in the Bell Tele phone Laboratories, it pill open a wonderful new world to tftose 98 ; whose deafness has made it diffi ie cult or impossible to use the re telephone. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. 0. Campaign Put On For Better Farming The full energies of the agri cultural extension service'of the North Carolina State College will be 3evoted to a campaign for better balanced farming in the State during the year 1927. Better balanced farming is more business-like farming. It calls for more food and feed crops and ifaore livestock and poultry on the cfotton and tobacco farms and it means a greater degree of econom ic independence for the Tarheel farimw if he faithfully follows what he already knows to be sound methods of agriculture. . "There is nothing new in what we are offering as our program of work for this year," says Deau I. 0 Schaub, head of the extension service. "Nor are- the present conditions in the cotton growing sections now. Disaster with cot ton has been common in the pa«t. Our workers have succeeded in getting many farmers to abandon llie all-cotton or the all-tobacco 1 s3 7 stein of farming in many, many instances and we have found that, those farmers who have adopted whac we have called a live-at- home policy have succeeded even beyond their expectations." The campaign for a better bal anced svstem of farming began on January fourth after several weeks ot' preparation, by uxtension spec ialists. Better farming systems •hj&e' been studied by the agricul tural workers. New and old facts have been consulted; practical farm experiences have been drawn upon and economic facts have been hauled from their hiding places. All of this matter was placed before the farm agents at their conference in early Decem ber and the specialists, themsel ves, have studied their accumu lated data fin order to serve the fanners and the agents to best advantage. The college has pre pared and issued extension cir cular 163 in an edition of 50,000 copies. This bulletin gives the reasons for a better balanced syctem of agriculture, shows why it is imperative to adopt such a system during 1927 and points out clearly how it may be adopted on the farms of North Carolina. Hotbed Makes Possible Early Garden Vegetatables The seed catalogues are out in all their glory ahich means that the time for panning the year around garden has come. Ofxe of the first essentials in be ginning the early gayden ifi to have ri* hotbed. „• "January is the month to pre pare the hotbed over most parts of North Carolina," says Robert Schmidt, vegetable specialist at State College. "The hotbed does best located in a sheltered place with a southern exposure where it is protected from cold winds aud receives plenty of sunlight. Con venience to both house and garden is another matter to consider and the soil in and around the frame must be well drained." __ For the average garden, a hot bed six feet loug by six feet wide will be ample and may be con structed without much cost. The staudard glass sash for the hotbed is three feet by six feet and may be ejtber purchased or built at home, states Mr. Schmidt. The best * heating material is fresh hol-se or mule manure containing about one-third straw. This ma nure is piled under shelter until it v begins to heat and is then turned two or three times uutif the whole jnass is heating uni formly. Thsn it may be placed iu the pit. The pit should be about 18 inches deep for eastern North Caroliua and about 24 inches deep for the western part of the State. Fill the pit to within four inches of the top, states Mr Schmidt. Pack tho manure thor oughly aud then build the frame of one inch boards so as to give the regulation slope. Put four or live inches of loamy soil over the manure and when the tempera ture of the manure has dropped to about 85 degrees, the seeds may be planted. It is well to remember then that moisture is needed for germination and growth. Too much moisture will cause darapingoff of the seedlings - Tests made by the Department of Agriculture at Wat-hington show that North Carolina grown cottons have as high spinning qualities as oottons grown in Tex as and southwestern states. Plant a bushel of black walnut seed this fall.- The wood is one of the two finest cabinet woods known to the world. Tho logs or stumps have a valne of from $l5O to S2OO per thousand feet. Farm and home agents are now reorganizing extension'work in (hefr hotjpe counties preparing for the new ya^r. Eat Way Through Corn Acres / / 4 CATTLE \ / 96.9% \ MPI W (Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation) Eating their way through almost four million acres of canned corn in' the form of silage is thf Job American cattle, mostly*dairy cows, accomplish every year, according to the Sears- / Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. It has been estimated that they eat 96.6% of the vast amount of silage while of the small amount left, swine con sume 2.2%, houses, *t.7% and sheep 1.1%. Very little silage is fed to poultry. All silage made on the farm is consumed on the farm because it is not a product that can be handled successfully through commercial chan nels. More Rye This Year / ssy V / HORSES / \ / Z6.S/. / / \ / / / OOULTRY\ It // 7 +- 6% \ Agricultural Foundation) American thumbs have always been turned down where rye for table pur poses Is concerned. Most of "our rye crop has been exported tb Europe and the bulk of the remainder fed to farm animals, according to a survey by the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. This year, however, a crop of 42,000,000 bushels is expected and less than usual will be sent to Europe as their crops will also be fairly large. This fact, coupled with feed-crop failures in many of our rye growing sections, means that more of our rye crop will be fed to farm ani mals this year than usual. Hogs; on an average, consume 53.4% of the rye used on the farm, horses 26.5%, poul try 14.6% and cattle 55%. * 1 i Cutting Down Corn Surplus j —J /. CATTLE HOASe 8 \ /. \ I HOGS 50*% j law (Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation) Whether you prefer your corn nice ly buttered on the ear, or In the form of roast pork with fried apples, there are on the average 25% bushels of corn coming to each person In the United States every year, according tp experts of the Sears-Roebuck Ag ricultural Foundation. In 1925 there was a bit more; this year there will probably be a few ears less apiece but -"plenty for all of us Just the same. Less than a fifth of all this coriff leaves the farm. Excluding a small fraction of the best grade that is kept out for seed purposes, 81% of those 2,850,000,000 bushels runs around on legs In the following forms: Hogs, 50.3%; horses, 24.5%; cattle, 19.2 %; poultry, 9.1% and sheep, 0.0%. * Hay Cafeteria Service / I Ns CATTLE 5X4%/ (Sears-Roeback Agricultural Foundation) Our hay crop furnishes one yf the largest cafeteria services In existence, according to the Sears-Roebuck Agri cultural Foundation. Seventy-eight million tops, it Is expected, will be produced Iff 1026. * large part of which will be consumed by cattle. According to figures put out by the l Department of Agriculture, 51.4% of ■ this amount will be eaten by cattle, I 44.6% by horses and the remaining 3.8% by sheep. The amount of hay eaten by hogs is very slight, only a , small fraction of one per cent of the alfulfa ci-op. As In the case of other feed crops, most of tills hay Is con ' sumed rlfjht on Ihe farm where It Is crown. . —' I . Another Big U. S. Cotton Crop 1926' '- imi* ts lUH-ioina *«ICUI.TU*M 1 A NOTHER big cotton crop this xx. year will supply not only all American needs for clothing, but will provide a surplus to send enough abroad for those who depend on the American farmer for cotton, says the Sears- Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. This large crop comes on the top of the large crop of last year, amount ing to 18,104,000 bales and a carry over of 3,500,000 bales. Cotton will 52 Billion Loaves in U. S. Wheat » * / ENOUGH wheat will be produced in the United States this year to make 52,018,000,000 loaves of bread, according to the Sears-Roebuck Agri cultural Foundation. The latest offi cial estimates Indicate that 839,000,- 000 bushels of wheat will be produced this year, and It is figured that 62 one-pound loaves of bread can be ob tained from every bushel of wheat. Of the total estimated output 626,000,000 bushels were produced by winter wheat growers and 212,000,000 bushels by spring wheat growers in the Northwest Last year the winter wheat production was 396,000,000 $29,686,214 in Dairy Products and Eggs Shipped Out of U. S. GMtRCOUNTINIsU \ sw ™ N Y® * i i 3MALL LOT [_J \ / ■ umiiiigiiiTW tomeuiTVNAi PPggg = yTWIWW tnwTOMM Dairy products and eggs valued at $29,686,214 were exported from the United States in the year ending June 30, 1920, according to a state ment on the export situation issued by the' Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. Canned milk topped the list, with eggs second, cheese third and butter fourth. The principal ex port market for these products proved Less Hay on Cattle Menu 1 1 ffTTilfiiTrriiii " 'nil ' THERE will be less hay on the live stock menu this year, due to the short hay crop, says the Sears-Roe bqck Agricultural Foundation. Farm ers will produce only 73,900,000 tops, because of the unfavorable weather. Last year they produced 87,000,000 tons, and the five-year average crop 1s 90,000,000 tons, the Foundation points out It Is true that there are fewer live stock to consume this year's Hogs Won't Have to Reduce 1926 I 1925 1921-25 Att HOCUS won't have to go on a reduc ing diet They will have plenty of corn to eat, in spite of a prospec tive short crop, which will- amount to MHJBt 2,608,0p0,p00 bushels this year, according to tbe Sears-Roebuck Agri cultural Foundation. Last year the crop was bushels, consid erably larger than the flve-year aver age crop of 2,849,000,000 bushels. This year's crop was grown on 101,- 074,000 acres and is rated to yield 26.7 bushels per More than so per cent of the corn crop is ted to Uri stock, and hogs consume mora be picked from 47,183,000 acres this year, according to the Foundation, and will make around 154 pounds o lint per acre. When used for export the cotton goes to the compress, where It Is reduced to a smaller bale. A large percentage of-the American crop normally Is exported to help clothe the nations that cannot raise cotton. Pros perity in the cotton belt Is thus di rectly related to the foreign demand. bushels and spring wheat 271,000,000. The present crop is above the five year average of 802,000,000 bushels. The acreage devoted to the crop this year is put at 57,584,000 and the lat est estimates place the production at 14.0 bushels per acre, the Foundation states. Winter wheat will run over 17 bushels per acre and spring wheat 10.2 per acre., Domestic needs are es timated at 640,000,000 bushels, so there will be more than 250,000,000 bushels for export. Prices are not aa high as a year ago, but the crop prob ably will bring growers more than « billion dollars. to'be.Cuba, which took two-flftha of the eggs shipped abroad and was next to the United Kingdom as a buyer of canned milk. Great Britain was the second largest customer for these products, with the Philippine Islands in third position. Mexico, Germany, China and Japan, Panama and Can ada were the other markets which bought the surpluses of these products. hay crop. Most of the crop is eaten by cattle. Horses and sheep also re quire large quantities. This year farmers devoted 56,080,000 acres to tamp pfpps, such as alfalfa, clov er, tlmrithj ana m|*pd props. - ;s a slight reduction, from last year's acreage. This is expected to yield 1.34 tons per acre,*a smaller yield than usual. ' MMCUUWM ICUNMTtON than 40 per cent of the crop. This year hogs hare been scarce and hare not eaten as much from last year's crop as normally. The corn year be gins November L A year ago the parry-over from 1924 was only 61,000,- 00Q bushels, but because of the short age of bogs and other live stock the carry-over on November 1 from the 1923 crop will be more than 500,000,- 000 bushels. This, with the present crop, will be ample to meet all-needs, the Foundation estimates, so the hogs and other live stock will not have to go hungry. Trustees Sale of R cal Property. By authority of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to the undT signed Trustee by D.W. Brow n and wife, Lula Brown, exec*? Ed on the 25th day of February 1924 and recorded in the office of | the Register of Deeds f or Alamance Ooupty in Deed of Trust Bwk No. 95, at page 25e said deed of trust having been executed for the purpose of se curing the payment of certain bonds therein described; and' default having been made- in the payment of said bonds and interest thereon as set out in said deed of trust, the under-> 5 signed Trustee will, on SATURDAY, JAN. 8, 1927 at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Courthouse door in Graham N. C., offer for sale at public auc tion to the last and highest bid der for cash, the following de scribed real proj>erty, to-wit: Two certain lqTts or parcels of lnd lying and being situated at Elon Cnllege, Boon Station Township, Alamance County, North Carolina, adjoining each other and the lands of Mrs. E. C. Crawford, G. W. Patton, W, S. Tate, B. Cable, L. Tickle, E, Huffines and others, described and defined as follows: FIRST TRACT: Beginning at a stake on Mrs. Crawford's line, W. W. Staley's N. W. cor ner, running N 4 deg E to a stone, corner Mrs. Crawford's lot; thence N 89£ deg W to a, stone in Pattoti'g line 0,40 chs; thence N & degE 7.53 chs to a stone in lluffines line; thence N 86£ deg E 14 52 chs to a stone in W. S. Tate's line; thence S 4£■ deg W12.31 chs to a stone in edge of said Tate's yard; thence S 84 ohs to a stone in middle of Kerr Avenue, projected; thence 5i.97 Chs to the middle of the intersection of Kerr and Hag gard Avenues; thence W with Haggard Ave. to Staley's cor ner, thence N with Staley's line to his N E corner; thence W with Staley's line to the begin ning, containing fourteen (14) acres, more or less, on which is situated a dwelling, apd other orthoses, SfeCOND TRACT: Beginning at a rock, corner with said Hnf fines; thence S 5£ deg W 4.95 chs to an iron bar in said Brown's line; thence S 63JE 2.06 chs to an iron bar in a road; thence N 87£ deg E 5.?§ chs to a rock W Qable'i line at a tobacco hajii; thence N 4i deg E 18.33 chs to a rock orner with said Cable; thence S 87i deg E (B.S. 84*) 74* Iks - to a rock, corner with said Cable; thence N 4Jdeg E 13.35 chs to a rock, corner with sas Tipfete; theaee N f 6 deg W u Iks to a dead red oak tree, cor ner with said Tickle; thence N i deg E 3.06 chs to a rock, cor ner with said Tickle; thence N 84.05 deg W ft. 57 chs to a rock, Corner with Huffines; thence S 5 deg 55| min W 29.75 chs ft the beginning, pontainiog twen ty-six (20) acres, more or less. Sale subject to advance bids as provided by law. This the 4th day of December, 1926. Alamance Ins, & Real Estate Co., J. p«lph liong, Attorney^ STRAIGHT - SALARY: 1 35 00 per week and expenses Man l or woman with rig to introduce PRODUCER. Enreka Mfg- Co '> East St. Lonis, 111. LADIES, who can do plain owing at homes and w « nt profita ble spaie time work. cluM stamp) to HOMAID DRESS COMPANf, N-. \ s * eLar y&jLgal wn»
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