Legal Advertisement ORDER AUTHORIZING $15,000 * ROAD AND BRIDGE AND GENERAL REFUNDING BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF POLK. BE IT ORDERED by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Polk, North Carolina, as follows: Section 1. That bonds of the * County of Polk of the maximum aggregate amount of $15,000 are hereby authorized to ibe issued pur suant to tiie County Finance Act, as amended, for the purpose of «iding valid existing debt of county incurred for necessary ises and for special purposes within the meaning of the Consti tution of North Carolina and evi denced by the following bonds: $2,000 5% Road and Bridge Bonds dated July 1, 1.925, and payable July 1, 1951. $1,000 6% General Refunding Bonds dated July 1, 1936, and payable July 1, 1951. $2,000 5% General Refunding Bonds dated July 1,/1936, and pay able July 1, 1951. 7 $1,000 5% Road/and Bridge Re funding Bonds dated July 1, 1936, and payable JulV 1, 1961. y $5,000 6% %/Road and/Rridge Bonds dated March 1, 1927,, and payable Marctf 1, 195JJT $4,000 hVabo FuiWing Bonds dated May 16, 1929, and payable f« 15, 195t//^ “c. 2. Thirc a tax sufficient to pay 'he principal and interest of the bonds herein authorized when due shall be annually levied and collected. Sec. 3. That a statement of the County debt for other than school purposes has been filed with the clerk and is open to public inspec tion. Sec. 4. That this order shall take effect upon its passage and shall not be submitted to the voters. The foregoing order was finally passed on the 4th day of June, 1951, and was first published on the 15th day of June, 1951. Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of said order must be commenced within 30 days after its first publication. C. W. BALLENGER, Clerk Board of County Commission* ers. 15, 22 Old Saw Dust Now in Use The problem of what to do with old saw dust piles has been solved Six or seven years ago Mack Rice, R-4, Marshall, had a consid erable amount of timber cut and sawed into lumber on his farm. As usual, when the saw mill oper ator moved out, he left a large stack of slabs and a huge pile of saw dust on the old saw mill site, as firewood. Evehtually Rice used up the slabs The saw dust has now begun to decay. Rice is spreading it over scr'e poor, thin land which he is putting in pasture. The decaying sawdust, he believes, is a/ good soil conditioner and will. add much needed organic matter; oir humus, to the land. t land. only a good so has limited er. Its value, John E. Ford, assistant exten sion forester at State College,'saysx* recent studies by several experi ment stations show that raw, fresh saw dust, when added to -the soil, requires the addltionf-Pf" extra amounts of nitrogen a£'lhe rate of about 60 pounds of 'nitrogen to a ton of dry saw dust. The organ isms which cause the saw dust to decay require large amounts of nitrogen. However, this extra nitrogen is returned- to the soil again when the sawdust has com pletely rotted. Ford says mixing saw dust in soils loosens heavy soils, and rain water is much more likely to seep inte them than run off. In sandy soils the humus derived from saw dust helps increase the water-hold ing capacity of Saw dust~is conditioner, but it value as a fertiliser says Ford, is roughly _-— to that of a 4-2-4 ferterlizer. See our g tee "Boxes. Th£ Ballen, AdvertisenniRfit.