North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE FOUR I-.,... INTERESTING FACTS FOR . A "4 -r FARMERS 1 • ♦-— * TIMELY HINTS , ON GROWING CROPS. Some twelve farmers co-operated in unloading a shipment of ground limestone at Pittsboro l as t week. There were thirty tons of lime i n this car and most of it will he used for sweet clover, alfalla and pasture demonstrations. Mr. R. L. Ward of Pittsboro R. F. D. No. 1 is seeding one acre of alfalfa this spring as a project in co-operation with the county agent. Mr. Z. J. Johnson of Pittsboro R. F. D. No. 1 is also seeding alfalfa this spring. A * * Mr. L. D. Wolfe of Moncure R. F. D. No. 2 is seeding two acre in clover as a demonstration project this spring. Mr. Wolfe is a new arrival in the county, having moved here from Virginia last year. He has bought the “John Clegg” farm near Pittsboro. Mr. Wolfe is also seeding several acres in lespedeza and sov beans. * * Mr. C. W. Jordan of Siler City star route is co-operating with the county agent in conducting a five acre corn contest this year. Mr. Jordan has been consistently de veloping his farm with such legumes as red clover, soy beans, and les pedeza, and as a consequence, he makes good yields of corn. One of his fields last year averaged 50 bushels per acre. Mr. J. W. Dixon of Siler City R. F. D. No. 3 will feed out sev eral hogs again this year. Mr. Dixon expects to put about 15 pigs on feed. * * .* Mr. Wade Paschal of Siler City R. F. D. expects to seed 1000 pounds of lespedeza this year. All of these seed were saved on his farm. # * * Mr. John W. Johnson, manager of the county home has bought 225 pounds of lespedeza for spring seed ing. * * * T. A. Thompson of Bynum, R. F. D. No. 1, is putting five acres of lespedeza sod in the five-acre corn contest this spring. Mr. Thomp son is liming this five acres, and expects to use 400 opuds of 10-4-4 fertilizer per acre, and also use some form of quickly available ni trogen as a side dresser. * h S He Mr. DeWitt Smith of Pittsboro R. F. D. No. 3, expeet% to dust 12 acres of cotton this year under the county agent’s supervision for con trol of the boll weevil. CHATHAM COUNTY MARCH FARM CALENDAR Agronomy Apply readily available ammonia | HOW 3 about your next j JCorn Crop? THERE is away to make it the best crop you ever grew. No magic. No mystery. Simply fertilize it with Chil ean Nitrate of Soda. That is the way .*• com champions produce those win- &£ Ring crops. ■ s North Corolina Farmer Says: "If I couldn't get Chilean Nitrate of Soda , I think I’d just stop farming and go do some- . ; thing else. It certainly grows fine corn k-■ \ forme.' 9 L. C. Hines, Goldsboro, N. C. _*‘ A • • Mr. Hines top dresses his corn with Chilean f ; Nitrate. - i * » ; •> :£■ - 1 Chilean Nitrate is not synthetic. It is ’ natural —the world’s only natural ni trate fertilizer. As a side dressing on com it increases the yield . . . often doubles it. Larger ears. More ears to the stalk. Prevents “firing” too. Free Book about Corn Our new book “How to Fertilize Corn in the South” tells exactly what to do to make a better crop. Book is free. Ask for Book No. 5 or tear out this ad and mail it with your name and address written on the margin. 18aO-1930—This year marks the 100th year since Chilean Nitrate was first used on American Crops. A century of service! k v . Chilean 1 ■Nitrate of Soda 1 EDUCATIONAL bureau 3 220 Professional Bldg., Raleigh, N. C. B r < 3 plying, please refer to Ad ISo. 68 S WOT LUCK* g j Edited by N. C. SHIVER, County A*t. ;*'j to small grajn as soon as possible. Get ample supply of planting seed on hand for expected acreage. Break early and thoroughly all land, land, especially clay and clay looms. Use harrows and reduce the I amount, of cultivation necessary later. Prepare to plant an abundance of feed and food crops. Agricultural Engineering Cut stalks and trash with disc j harrow before plowing instead of burning. Use a two-horse middle buster with wide double-tree for laying off evenly spaced rows. | Equip the riding two-horse culti vator with opener center shovel, fertilizer distributors, and disc bill ers and save labor. Use two-horse machinery wher ever possible and save labor for growing crops. * * Dairying Remove cows from onion infested pastures five hours before milking. Freshen up by whitewashing un tainted buildings and fences. Clean up lots and houl off litter ,to destroy breeding places for flies. DID YOU KNOW THAT— Commercial fertilizer applied in ! the row at planting time increased 1 the yield of wheat 6.8 bushels per acre over the yield obtained when ~the same amount of fertilizer was broadcasted over the field, accord ing to results obtained by the Kan- I sas experiment station. I * The . cost of silage was carefully figured from over 100 silage cost records at New York State College. There was a variation from less than $4 to over S2O per ton. The average cost was $7.50 per ton. | Harvesting and filling comprised only one-third the total cost of corn for the silo. These costs varied from $1.77 per ton to $3.56. The cost was reduced by increasing the yield of corn. Low cost per ton calls for a high yield per acre and economy in filling costs. Filling costs depends largely on the volume of corn handled. Poultry meets its most serious menace in tuberculosis. This dis ease reduces egg yield and increases loss of fowls. No known cure for the disease exists. B. A. Boach, at the University of Wisconsin, rec ommends disposing of the entire flock, should it become badly in fected. Thorough disinfect the old quarters and give, the new flock new range, he advises. A tuberculin test is now available, but it should be applied by a qualified veterin arian. Use acreage cut from cotton for feed crops. Silage and legume hay make the ideal roughage feed for next winter. fTfEEGHATHAM N. C. | WINGSdF CHATHAM I,j j STOCK FARMING, 1 POULTRY, . I I I: ETC. I ' Animal Husbandry ‘ « 4 ‘ , .\* Make plans for summer forage for hogs. ' ” *'' Give the sows and in tention at farrowing. ,r \ ' If possible, place sows and ewes on new territory; to avoid para sites. Feed nursing sows liberally. Feed some fish jneal, tankage or skim milk to brood sows. Give ewes grain, and legume hay. Feed lambs from two weeks old grain from a creep. Gradually increase mule feed to avoid digestive disturbances while they get accustomed to spring work. * * * Poultry Raise baby chicks separate from old chickens. . v Provide feed, for chicks in feed hoppers or troughs. Get chicks into sunshine early. Clean brooder houses regularly. Plant green feed for summer. Arrange to secure stock for flock improvement next year. I * .~ “T ] Cheese Receipts | I I EGGS AU GRATIN 2 cupsfuls milk 1 onion 6 cloves 2 tablespoonfuls butter 4 or 5 eggs 2 tablespoonfuls flour Iv 2 teaspoonfuls, salt x /2 teaspoonfuls paprika 1 cupful soft breadcrumbs 1 cupful cheese grated Few grains mace ’ Scald the milk and the quartered onion in which the cloves have been stuck. Melt butter, add flour, ' and the milk. Stir until sauce boils then add V 2 teaspoonful salt and 14 teaspoonful paprika. Strain and pour half the sauce in a shallow baking dish. Mix crumbs, cheese, remaining salt, paprika and mace. ' Cover sauce with half the crumbs, place in the oven until very hot. Break eggs separately and arrange on the crumbs. Surround with re maining sauce, cover with crumbs and bake in a moderate oven 350° F. until eggs are set. TOMATO AND CHEESE ROAST 2 cupfuls cooked lima beans !4 lb. melted cheese V 2 cupful canned tomatoes Breadcrumbs Seasoning. Put lima beans and cheese through food chopper, add toma toes and seasoning, salt and pepper to taste and mix thoroughly. Then add breadcrumbs until it is thick enough to form into a roll. Bake in a moderate oven 350°F until brown, basting occasionally with a mixture of butter and water, using about M cupful butter to one cup ful of water. —-« CHEESE AND SPINACH TIMBALES 2 cupfuls cooked spinach 3 eggs % cupful milk 2 tablespoonfuls butter 1 cupful cheese V 2 teaspoonful salt Few grains pepper Chop spinach very fine. Beat egg yolks, add milk, melted butter, grated cheese and seasoning and stir while heating. Mix one-half of this sauce with the chopped spinach and fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Fill buttered spinach molds with the mixture. Place in a, pan of hot water and bake in a mod erate oven 350°F until firm. It will take about fifteen to twenty minutes. Turn out on a hot plate, garnish with slices of hard-boiled egg and pour balance • *of cheese sauce around the timbales. -— RICE AND CHEESE LOAF To two and one-half cupfuls of rice add one cupful of grated American cheese, one minced green pepper, and one and one-half tea spoonfuls salt,, one-eighth tieaspoon ful paprika and one egg slightly beaten. Put in a well-greased bread tin and bake at 375°F for 25 minutes. Serve with a hot sauce made by heating one can of tomato soup. . , •* ■ ' PEPPERS STUUFFED WITH CHEESE 6 green peppers Vi lb. cheese I V2 cupfuls breadcrumbs 1 teaspoonful grated onion 2 tablespoonfuls butter Salt and pepper to taste Cut off a thin slice from stem end of pepper, remove seeds and pith. Parboil peppers two minutes, drain and fill with mixture of re maining ingredients. Cover top with cheese. Place in a baking dish, bake about 25 minutes in a moderate oven 350 °F. <g> Lon 2 Railroads The longest railroad in the world Is he 1 ranssiberian railway, which runs rnm Leningrad to Vladivostok, a dis anee of more than o.fiOO miles. The argest system of railways operated aider a single management is the Ca mdiaii National, with a total mileage ,f Tl, e largest railway system a the United States is the Chicago IMwaukee & St. Paul, with n total a lea go of I.‘..MtH),-Pathiff , der M a ga FU LI ROW S ■ ■ %£ *C. \^ Vol. IljfNo; 3 • Virgima-Carolina Chemical Corporation • Copyright 1930 Bait for 801 l Weevil The Department of Agriculture thinks the boll weevil smells her ‘ way to the cotton field —and there -1 it is planning ways to trick her. “The odorous principle of the cotton plant has bean studied,’* says the Secretary of Agriculture. “This principle has been isolated, and tiie compound can probably be made synthetically. Here is a pos sible means of furnishing bait for boll weevils which may have con siderable importance.” Sounds like a joke, but it is far from being that. Maybe two or three years from now we’ll be spreading empty V-C sacks on frames, with a little of this “prin ciple” in the bottom, and when a sack gets full of weevils all we’ll have to do will be to haul it away and get rid of them. , ~ v-c “Have sold V-C for 30 years, and have used V-O on our own crops, with excellent results. V-C’s duality and other merits are proved—our customers always come back for more.” The P. B. Halligan Co., Dealer, Carson, Va. -C Millions from a Weed! in all countries where tobacco i 3 produced on any considerable 59&I®} tt -proyld&l Sfi. intf&rtabt source of state revenues.” says Encyclopaedia Britannica —which is another way of saying it pays a lot of taxes. Think of the billions of dollars' worth of public works that have been paid for with taxes on the descendants of the plant that even the Indians first thought was a weed! -C “Have just closed our 14th season selling V-C. We have always guar anteed every bag of V-C and have not had one dissatisfied customer.” —Seed & Fertilizer Co., Christians burg, Va. i . . . 1 VIRGINIA-CAROLINA CHEMICAL CORPORATION nnn.ii .. m ■ William Howard Taft to Lie in Arlington William Howard Taft died at his Washington home Saturday after noon. The only man ever to hold the two highest offices in America, that of president of the United States and chief justice of the United States supreme court, he held the esteem of the nation to greater degree than almost any liv ing man during the past few years. From the time some weeks ago that his failing health brought him to the North Carolina mountains for recuperation the slightest change in his condition has been followed with sympathetic interest. Unfavorable reports had prepared the public for his death. He was 70 years old. Born of wealthy parents in Ohio he had all the advantages of education and prominent connection and he was accustomed to success. Honors came to him unsought and he added dis tinction to every office he held with the possible exception of the presidency. It is signifificant that the only time he ever sought an office was when he tried for a second term as president and polled only eight votes in the electoral college. The historic deflection of Roosevelt split the Republican party and elected Wilson in 1912. It was as chief justice that Mr. Taft firmly established himself in the hearts of his countrymen. He is accorded credit for doing more to simplify court procedure than anyone else in two decades or more. The body lay in state in the capitol rotunda Tuesday and then was buried in beautiful Arlington cemetery. He is the first president to die out of office to be accorded the honor of a state funeral. Presi dent Harding was the last to lie in the capitol where Lincoln arid Gar field and the Unknown Soldier had lain. Some high spots in Taft’s life are given below: Born at Cincinnati, 0., Septem bber 15, 1857. Graduated from Yale, June 27, 1878. Appointed judge of superior court at Cincinnati, March 7, 1887. Appointed solicitor general of the United States, February 4, 1890. Named first civil governor of the Philippines, July 4, 11)1. Selected as secretary of war in President Roosevelt’s cabinet, Feb ruary 1, 1904. Nominated for President by Re publican national convention, June 18, 1908. Elected President, November 3, 1908. Inaugurated March 4, 1909. During his administration the chief events were: The Bering sea seal controversy with Great Britain, Russia and Ja pan. Purchase of canal rights in Ni para om a ————■————— The Consumer Pays It All The United States is one country that does not tax or control the growing of tobacco. But after the leaf is marketed, what a harvest it gathers! Internal revenue taxes for manufacturing, license taxes for selling—and finally the consumer refunds everything everybody else has paid up to that minute. -c “Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant .” — Dis raeli, at Edinburgh, 1&07. -C Seeding from the Air A tract of 1,000 acres In Oregon was seeded from an airplane travel ing 70 miles an hour, 500 feet above ground, says an exchange. A fine stand of grass was obtained and the cost was about one-third that of hand seeding. -C Strong and vigorous young to bacco plants stand best the shock of transplanting and leave you less re-planting to do. Then your tobacco crop comes on in uniform size, matures evenly, cures better. If you haven’t tried V-C Bloom Aid for fertilizing your plant bed, you haven’t seen what vigor and strength young plants can have. Bloom Aid makes them beg to be transplanted! : .„./ - - . Cfose Spacing, High Yield “Probably J&ost valuable les son that the cotton contest has taught is the effect of close spacing on yield,” writes A. B. Bryan in Manufacturers Record, describing re sults of the Ciemson College 5-Acre contest which recently completed its fourth year. “Clearly and positively, close spacing of row and in drill increase til© yield per acre.” The best width of row is 35 to 37 inches, he con tinues. * A decrease throughout South Carolina to this width of row would add about $16,000,000 to the value of the state’s crop, at 18 cents a pound, he says. And by actual count of stalks it has been found that the'"highest yields are made with an average of about three stalks per foot of row. tgua by marines. Enactment of the income tax eon 1, stitutional amendment. Payne-Aldrich tariff act. Law requiring publication of cam ’ paign funds. Act admitting American ships to Panama canal toll free. Creation of department of labor; | bureau of mines; commerce court; ’ court of customs appeals; federal industrial commission. Admission of New Mexico and Arizona, to statehood. November 5, 1912, he was de feated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson. Professor of law, Yale university 1913-21. ; i' Appointed chief justice of the United States by President Hard ing, June 30, 1921. Resigned chierf justiceship Febru ary 3, 1930. Died March 8, 1930. — Corn Yield Controlled by the Stand Secured i The number of stalks of corn , growing upon an acre of land will l be one of the important factors i controlling the total yield of grain ? secured from that acre at harvest. i G. M. Garren, cereal agronomist at State College, says that the , number _of stalks the acre will sup i port depends chiefly on the fertility s of the soil and the :* %ifall during > the growing season. One may fer [ tilize well and yet not have a good , stand and thus fall to make a good > yield. Usually, rows of corn are i planted four feet apart and the i hills kept from 12 to '24 inches ; apart on the row according to the [ soil fertility. Mr. Garren says that • the best yields secured in tests i made by the North Carolina Experi ment Station were obtained when [ the rows were four feet apart and the corn planted 24 inches apart > on the row. Such a distance will give 5,445 stalks to the acre when a perfect stand is secured. Usiially with a perfect stand of > 5,445 stalks to the acre and each stalk averaging one good ear, the ' ield obtained when figuring it takes 125 ears to shell one bushel of s grain, will be 43 bushels to the acre. When a prolific type of corn ! is used, at least 60 per cent of the stalks will bear two ears and thus i the yield will then average about • 50 bushels to the acre. Fifty bush els an acre is the standard set for • corn growing in this State. To get such yields, Mr. Garren urges growers this year to plant i only on a thoroughly prepared seed bed, to plant plenty of sound seed, to use only mature Seed and to use those varieties which have proven best yielders in the local neighbor hood. 2 When these suggestions are ! followed and the corn fertilized and side-dressed as it should be, one should more than measure up to THURS»A¥\ MARCH, Jl >.» Heavy Fertilizing Pays Tests in growing bright tobacco, made by the Virginia experiment station through a period of nine successive years, show clearly that heavy applications of fertilizer pay better than light applications. The record of the tests shows that 1,400 pounds of 3-8-3 per acre brought an average yield of 1,038 pounds that sold for an average of $lB6 per acre — Whereas only 700 pounds per acre, of the same analysis, brought a yield of 648 pounds that sold for s9l per acre. The difference in favor of heavy, applications was 320 pounds or $95 per acre. -C “V-0 goods are OK —none bet ter.” — E. S. Hyder & Son, Dealer, Stonypoint, Tenn. -O Cotton, Oldest of Crops, “Cotton is one of the oldest of. all. cultivated plants, and is the, most valuable fiber plant in the world. It was grown ih China three thousand years before Christ. Europeans did nut know of the Plant until a few centuries ago. It was first cultivated in the United States by the early settlers in Virginia.”— William S. Myers , — —Y-Q - —- "’ ~■ ■ i; T ” r “.., _ ■ '-4 “I furnish what my trade speci fies — V-C.” —W. D. Joyner, Dealer, Rocky Mount, N. C. -C The Way Is Open “Most American mills require cotton better than the average of the grades and staples produced in the United States. Growers have therefore an opportunity to increase their income by producing cotton of higher spinning value. The strongest demand is for middling „ to strict middling cotton from iffg to l/-(g inch in length of staple. Foreign competition in the production of these lengths is prac tically non-existent. Clearly the American cotton industry has here an opportunity which ought not to be neglected.”— W. M. Jar dine, former Secretary of Agriculture. Corn More Profitable Than Cotton, Tobacco Corn properly supplemented and fed to hogs in 1930 will be more likely to return a profit than will cotton and tobacco.., “The cost of producing four acres of corn is but little if any greater than the cost of producing one acre of cotton or tobacco,” say 3 W. W. Shay, swine extension specialist at State College. “This corn when fed to good hogs will certainly stand a better chance this year of paying a profit on the ven- .. ture. , Therefore instead of plant ing cotton and tobacco with les3 than the needed amount of ferti-' lizer, and therefore working two acres to get the amount that one should produce, try putting in sev eral acres of Jarvis Golden Prolific corn this season to be hogged down in August and September.” Thousands of acres of Jarvis Golden Prolific corn -shouldbe planted for hogging down, believes Mr. Shay. Other thousands 'of acres of corn should be planted to meet the requirements of the half starved hogs which are not profit able now but which could be made so if they were properly fed. ■« Unless the amount of corn grown in North Carolina is increased, some of the hogs now bn farms should be decreased. During 1929, eleven county farm agents assisted 46 farmers in keeping complete rec ords on the feed eaten by 918 hogs during periods of time aver aging 83 days. The hogs ate 0,852 bushels of corn which was charged to them at the current local market price of $1.09 a bushel. After pay ing for all other feeds, including 92 bushels of wheat for which they paid at the rate of $1.36 a bushel and 135 bushels of barley for which they paid $1 a bushel, the hogs then paid $1.50 for each bushels of corn consumed. Mr. Shay says that these hogs sold at an average price of $11.54 a hundred pounds and that market conditions are equally as satisfac tory during the coming vear. <S> DR. FREDERICK COOK LEAVES LEAVENWORTH Dr. Frederick A. Cook left Leav enworth prison Sunday after serv ing five years of a term for using mails to defraud. He was paroled by President Hoover. Dr. Cook in an interview with newspaper men re iterated his claim as discoverer of the North Pole, which claims was denied by geographic and ex officially conferred upon Admiral ploration societies and the honor Peary. Dr. Cook will go to Chi cago for scientific study and experi ments. S>