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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 3V Qkgmt Jatlg Jiullptm 1c per copy (The World's Smallest Daily Newspaper) lc PER COPY Seth M„ Vining, Editor $1.50 Year In the Carolinas Vol. 13. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940 CURB REPORTEk Well, Colonel Dan Boone has made a quick trade. He has al ready sold the Costa place which he bought recently. The buyer is Leslie L. Savage of Passaic, N. J., who is also the new owner of the Lightner estate. Mr. Savage and his family are now occupying Seven Mountains and plan to make Tryon their permanent home. He wants to know which comes first “What the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina” or “What the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina”. You hear it both ways. Who is an authority on this subject? . . . The heat wave is something fierce oyer Hie nation. Six people, have died of it in Chicago. The thermometer registers 110 in Kan sas, 100 at Milwaukee, 102 at Aurora, 111., 101 at Chicago, 100 at Denver, Col., 99 at Charlotte. Mrs. Junius Judson reports that it has been hot at Rochester, N. Y. It even went to 94 in Tryon, but the nice mountain breezes we have been getting help a lot ... . The French government is prosecuting former Premier Daladier and 16 others for putting France in the war . . Air battles going on between the British and Germans and Italians . . . Young men with dependents not to be drafted for military service. The Willkie- Continued On Back Page Pine Needle Mulch Mulching with pine needles, or pine straw, to preserve moisture and hold the soil is familiar in many parts of North Carolina, but this practice will serve another purpose, says W. D. Lee, Extension soil conservationist of N. C. State College. A pine needle mulch will stimu" late reforestation of eroded and denuded area, he stated. This has been proven conclusively in tests, and scores of farmers have re ported a growth of pine trees in areas where they have covered ditch banks or idle fields with pine straw. Lee said that the Southern Pied mont Soil Conservation Experi ment Station at Athens, Ga., con ducted tests to demonstrate this method of reforesting old fields or clay gall areas. “Seeking an economical way of seeding eroded areas, the station mulched four clay-galled plots with 800 pounds of pine needle litter from adjacent woods. In five months, a healthy mixed vegetation developed, including more than 1,600 shortleaf seedlings—an av erage of two seedlings from each pound of mulch. “The study will observe for several years the survival and height growth of the seedlings re sulting from this simple and in expensive scattering of pine needle litter over the hare area to a depth of about _gne inch. “If only one-fourth of the ex isting seedlings live for five years, the area will be well planted,” Lee declared. In conclusion, he suggested that Please Turn To Back Page
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