THE GLEAN i<^ GRAHAM. N. C., JAN. 30, "J30. ISSUED IVEBY THUB8DAT. J. D. KERNODLE, Editor. $1.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Entered at toe Po?*offloe at Graham. N. 0.. aa seoouu-oiaaa matter ? McLEAN FOR SIMMONS The spirit of Governor of McLean in foregoing his cherished ambi tion to go to the Uited States Senate to throw his support to Senator Simmons, is an act which is praise worthy. Such acts of abnegation are rare. Mr. McLeans' statement is print ed in full elsewhere. Mr. McLean in supporting Sim mons is discharging an obligation, for he has been more than once honored through the efforts of Sen ator Simmons, and he could not conscientiously do otherwise than support a friend. That the candidacy of Senator Simmons will heal the breach in the Democratic party as McLean thinks it will, is a -matter of ut most doubt. There are many thousands of Democrats who will not support Mr. Simmons in the primary, and should he win in the primary, an overwhelmingly majority of 'those same Democrats will n-jt support him at the regular election. They will not forgive him for deserting the Democratic ticket in its dire distress. You do not have to look far to question voters before you find out the sentiment to be as stated a bove. It has been stated that Senator Simmons will have Republican sup port. That is a myth. Too often have Republicans felt the loading of Simmons when he was irpremt In the Democratic Saddle . r then to turn about and give nim aid and comfort. They would oe only too glad of the opportunity to hil back at him, whatever may now be their pretense of favoring him The administration Uui; o] the A. St. T. college, institutim loi the colored people at Greensboro early last Monday and library ol 7,000 volumes was burned The loss is estimated at $150,000 with $140,000 insurance. It will be re built at an early date. Now that MaJ. Charles M. Sted man is definitely out of the race for the Democratic nomination for Congress, .there will be a number of candidates for the place. Those mentioned so far are Hon. S. M. Gattis of Hillsboro, Mr. A. F. Sams of Winston-Salem, Mr. Folger ol Mt. Airy and Mr. Hancock of Ox ford. It will be an Interesting race. Acre Yields Increased By Crop Rotation Yields of staple crops are Increas ed from 10 to 25 percent an acre by following a well-defined system of crop rotation, report several Bladen County farmers to county agent J. R. Powell. "Among the best demonstrations In Bladen County are the crop rota tions that have been adopted by eight farmers," says Mr. Powell. "Each of these demonstrations com bines a number of good Ideas. The soil Is improved, a place made for wiqter cover crops, summer legumes are added, and better crop diver sification is permitted by the use of a large number of crops. The addition of hay and grain, makes It possible to keep livestock and feed It properly. The rotation systems also naturally bring about the keeping of records, which Is an Important thing on any farm." Mr. Powell recently submitted some of the results obtained to E. C. Blair, extension agronomist at State College. The records show that Henry Beatty of Tomahawk Is securing a 10 percent Increase In crop yields though he has followed his rotation only two years. Mr. Beatty says that the rotation gives him a definite system to follow and thus helps him to plan his work better. O. E. Oallahan of Bladenbcro says "I make a lot larger yield of corn now than I did before beginning the MAJOR STEDMAN CELEBRATES HIS 89TH BIKTHDAT Major Chas. Manley Stedman Congressman from the 5th dis trict, celebrr ted his 89th birthday Wednesday. He is the last Civil War veteran In Congress and the oldest member of that body. He1 will not be a candidate for re-elec tion. A Washington dispatch giving an account of the event says: "Slighty stooped and gray of beard, the veteran nevertheless rose to his feet promptly as Doug ton ended. He thanked his col leagues briefly and was given more applause in a few moments than has been heard in the House during days of wrangling over pi ohibition. The day at the capital began for Major Stedman with the booming of flashlights that must have re minded him of the surly roaring1 of Federal guns when lie led a Carolina regiment of Chatham Countians under Robert E. T_ee. He posed singly and with Repre sentative Hartley, Republican, New Jersey, who in comparison with the North Carolinian is a mere in fant, being only twenty-seven. In the intervals during the flash light cannonading he told news papermen that he felt fine and j though he was not as "spry" as he had once been, tbabhe still enjoy ed his two cigars daily. The Major was a close friend of the late Senator Warren, of Wyom ing. the last Union Army veteran of the War between the States in Congress, and he was visibly af fected by the latter's death last ;fall. They had a standard greeting when they met, little exchange of jocular remar'is in which one was designated as. a "Yank" and the other as "Johnny Reb." Doughton said that Major Sted man typified the highest type of American citizenship. "Whether as a private or Ma jor serving under the immotal tee in that Unfortunate struggle between the states," he said, "he is an able and honored member if the bar of North Carolina, hold ng many high and important pub 1 ic olfices in his native state, or 1 j a member of this body for si. long ? i period of time, he has by his . conscientious devotion to duty, his r assidious and untiring enerey, rendered a service that has com ? manned national recognition. : v> proval and admiration." Alamance County's Lespedza King. Unless one knew Mr. E. C. Ingle, he would never suspect him being a "King," one of Alamance county's best farmer, and It Is a misfortune to anyone that does not know this energetic progressive farmer who . lives south of Burlington. Mr. Ingle is one of the first to grasp an Idea and carry It out. Several years ago he purchased sev en bushels of trashy lespedeza seed paying a high price for same. Many , remarked that "Em" Ingle had gone crazy. Today Mr. Ingle said, "I wish I had gone crazy twenty years ago." He agrees that lespedeza has nc equal as a combination pasture, hay, and soil building crop. Also, that it requires no lime, no inocula tion, reseeds itself very satisfactorily making the seeding cost per,acre cheaper than any other legume, yields one to two tons of the very best quality hay. Mr. Ingle for tunately turns his lespedeza under , thus getting eighteen to thirty bus hels Increase In corn yield on one acre. Mr. Ingle has purchased a seed pan and seed cleaner, and this year will sow one-hundred and twenty acres to lespedeza. His practice is to throw the seed on the ground, forget them until harvest time and then reap a good reward. Friends, we do not have to go to Rowan and Stanly counties to see good lespedeza. Take a few hours off and visit E. C. Ingle the lespedeza king of Alamance county and let him tell you his success. W. H. HERRING, Jr., Asst County Agent. rotation. The boll weevil gets my cotton but I grow 1600 pounds of tobacco an acre where I grew only 900 pounds previously. I consider my farm 25 percent more produc | tlve." O. P. Hlllburn of Council says, "Taking my farm as a whole, I con sider it from 25 to 30 percent more productive than when I first began to rotate. All my crops grow bet ter each year and the real value is that my land Is being built up each season. Eventually It will be back to Its virgin state. I am able to use riding plows now to I do all my cultivation." FORMER GOVERNOR McLEAN WILL SUPPORT SIMMONS Former Governor Angus W. Mc Lean, will support Senator Sim mons for renomination in the Dem ocratic primary in June. Mr. McLean makes the following announcement: "I do not see why there should be any doubt as to my position in the Senatorial contest. After giving i.he matter most serious considera tion, I reached the conclusion that the best interest of the Democratic party and particularly its future harmony and solidarity would be best subserved by the renomina tion of Senator Simmons, notwith standing the fact that during, the .ast campaign I followed by own convictions and loyally supported the national ticket in sharp con ilict with the attitude of Senator Simmons and thousands of other Democrats who took a contrary view. "No Democrat in the State dif fered with Senator Simmons more emphatically than I did. It seems to me to be the duty of every Dem ocrat in this hour to weigh the present situation with the great _st deliberation and take such course in the impending contest as he conscientiously believes to be for the best interest of the Demo cratic party in the future without regard to differences of opinion in the last campaign. "I applied this formula to my own case and reached the conclusion that it would be best for the party that there should be no opposition to Senator Simmons, and thereup >n decided that I would not enter he contest myself. I believe then and believe now that in the pres ent unfortunate posture of paity affairs it is the duty of every loyal Democrat to put the future inter ests of the party far above any mere question of rewarding one man or punishing another. In reaching a decision it became ne cessary for me to renounce my own ambition to represent North Caro lina in the Senate." "The same reason that impelled me to forego my own candidacy impels me to support Senator Sim mons instead of his opponent, Mr. Bailey. I have no criticism to make of any of my friends who feel it their duty to pursue a different course." The former Governor made his statement after the editor of the Robesonian had remarked: "There is still a good deal of speculation as to whether you will support Senator Simmons or Mr. Bailey in ; the contest now pending." Profit From Tobacco When Feed Produced Not every tenant farmer in the cotton and tobacco growing sections of North Carolina is on the verge of starvation as some calamity how lers would have one believe. Take the case of H. C. Fowler, T. J. Beacham and Guy Cox,, all of Garner, route one, in Wake coun ty, who farm the place of T. W. Turner of Raleigh. Last spring Mr. Turner offered each man a new suit uf clothes if he would make an average of $300 an acre on his to bacco. He bought each of these men a suit this fall and promptly renewed the offer for the coming | year. The results secured by H. C. How ler is a good example of what was done on the place. He cultivated less than five acres in tobacco and produced 5,142 pounds of good qual ity leaf which sold for $2,071.10 clear of all warehouse charges. This was an average of nearly 40 cents a pound. But he also produced seven bales of cotton weighing over 500 pounds each on ten acres of land. He grew sufficient corn and hay for his mule and he did enough outside work to pay most of his current expenses. Mr. Beacham did almost as well. One barn of tobacco weighing 1,138 pounds sould for $675 or aprox mately 60 cents a pound. John C. Anderson, county agent of Wake County, says that the three tenants planted only 16 acres in tobacco altogether. The crop the 16 acres sold for $6,126.28. The land was limed with dolomitlc limestone at the rate of one ton to the acre and was fertilized with 1000 pounds an acre of a high grade material as recommended by the State College extension ser vice. Each of the three tenants, says Mr. Anderson, has a good barn, i good work stock, and a neat home. Each one produces the feed need ed and none of them has much to say about hard times. Three of the five men that draf ted the Declaration of Independence were scientists. > CAN OF PEAS BRINGS FARM WOMAN FAME AND FORTUNE i Mrs. Mary Hv&ss, of Kenn&n, Wis., Wins $1,250 iq National Canning Contest?Gives Pressure Cooking Credit. America's champion canner la a farmer's wife, once cook in a lumber jack lunchroom. She is Mrs. Mary Brass of Kennan, Wis., who won tills title and a grand prize of $1,250 In the National Canning contest, con ducted by the Sears-Roebuck Agricul tural Foundation, just ended in Chi America'* Champion Canner?Mrs. Mary Hvass of Kennan, Wis., putting up can of peas in her pressure cooker with which she won grand prize of $1,250 in the National Canning con test in Chicago for the best Jar of preserved food. cago, for the best Jar of home-cooked food submitted in the nation-wide con test in which 25,000 women partici pated. Her contribution, which emi nent domestic science Judges selected as the premier Jar, was a can of peas. Mrs. Hvass is a pioneer who has been winning prizes ever since she and her husband, John Hvass, set out ' to win a livelihood from their Wiscon sin land. Prizes at the county and state fairs for chickens, bread and cakes, and canned goods. She first saw the Wisconsin prairies as three-year-old Mary Jensen. It was her Job, as she grew np, to help her father and mother win bread and butter for nine small Jensens and themselves. She was her mother's helper on the farm until all the chil dren were well on their way to grow ing up. Then she yielded to tlu glamour of the trading town called Minneapolis. At Minneapolis she became a cook at a lumberjack lunchroom, where she met and married lumberjack John Hvass. They moved to Wisconsin, first to a small farm, later to a larger one, where they are living today. There Mary Hvass helped her husband fell trees, build barns, fences, and their house. For nearly thirty-three years they struggled together. When Mrs. Mary Hvass heard that one Jar of peas that she bad canned was worth $1,250, It seemed incredible to her. It was Just one Jar out of hundreds that were canned all as part of a summer's work. And It was simple business to put them up. She followed directions In a government bulletin. "I used a pressure cooker, as the government advised, because I've tried every other way and I know It's best" she explained. "First,' I blanched the peas for 30 minutes In scalding water. Then I dipped them In cold water, poured them In a mason jar with seasoning, and put the jar In my pressure cook er for 50 minutes nt 240 degrees. "That's all the work It took to make them ready for the contest. I wouldn't want anything more certain and simple than my Kook-Kwick pres sure cooker for canning peas and all kinds of food." Judges of the contest who declared the peas canned by Mrs. Brass to be perfect in flavor, color and general appearance were Dr. Margaret Justin, president of the American Borne Eco nomics association; Dr. Louise Stan- ! ley, director of the United States Bu reau of Home Economics; Mrs. Jose phine Bakke, home economics direc tor at Iowa State Agricultural col lege; Miss Elaine Massey, director of girls' club work In Mississippi, and George Farrell, director of extension in the Middle West for the Depart ment of Agriculture. There are canned peas and canned peA that win prize?, but those that wefe canned by Mrs. Mary Hvass go even further. They are going to pay Brings Fame and Fortune to Fam ily?Mrs. Mary Hvass of Kennan, Wit., showing her husband and tons the $1,250 check she won with a can of pressure-cooker-made peas. She won over 25,000 rivals In the National Can ning contest. for their own creaming and bntterlng. The grand prise check of $1,250 Is go ing to set np Mrs. Hvass in the dairy business. Her ambition for many years was to own a herd of pure-bred Holstein cattle and to extend her prize win ning into wider fields. Now her am bition will be realized with the pur chase of the nucleus of sucb a dairy herd. JOHNNY MUSKRAT TELLS I | HOW TO PREPARE RAW FURS | (i KEEP PELT CLEAN OF ^7.yT\ STRETCH PELT] r-~^ REMOVE HEAVY MEAT AND WA YV JUST TIGHT i^y) FAT AH0 GREASE j\ ?-.>?/ FAT AS \ ill \ ENOUGH TO ,?jf .V WITH DULL \H X^A YOU SKIN Sg&n \| TAKE OUT \ HATCHET OR r\ > | f slack - \) IrVA knife #fK5? om' ~ PLACE PELTS 7 WW PACK IN CLOTH 0\ GMf //V IN COOL. AIRY \ | LO OR BURLAP. SEW V* 1 PREPARATION ? PLACE UNTIL [J I fC: BUNDLE UP A&?j~~ MEANS BETTER DRY ENOUGHTIGHTLY. LEAY- L Y \ WCES 727 W20 7\'5tA I \ ING NO HOLES m\ ? > Jj Y { THEIR r~-jV 1 'N WRAPPER (Win jf ?jyj f J V rfV A.I ? * WX8UC* A^ W Al \ /J w