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PAGE TWO THE NEWS REPORTER USE THOSE WASTE ACRES One of the Greatest agricultural problems of Eastern North Carolina is the waste acres of land that is not earning a revenue for the owner. These lands may be divided into three classes, cut-over timberJand that is capable of being brought" in to cutivation with little drainage expense, cut-over swamp land which will require extensive drainage pro- PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. C. MOFFITT Notary Public Whiteville, N. C. SCHULKEN, TOON & SCHULKEN Attorneyt-at-Law Office in Maxwell Drug Co. Buildi-.g Whiteville, N. C. DONALD MacRACKAN Attorney-at-Law Whiteville, N. C. JACKSON GREER Attorney-at-Law Whiteville, N. C. I. B. Tucker. E. K. Proctor. TUCKER & PROCTOR. Attorneys-at-Law Whiteville, N. C. POWELL & LEWIS Attorney-at-Law Whiteville, N. C. M. H. SCHULKEN Attorney at Law Schulken Building Vineland, N. C. H. L. LYON R. H. BURNS LYON & BURNS Attorney s-At-Law WHITEVILLE, N. C. E. Garland Brown Wm. Porter S. J. Bennett BROWN, PORTER & BENNETT Attorneys and Counselors at Law Whiteville, N. C. Offices: Above Whiteville P. O. DR. CLEMENT L. WOOTEN DENTIST Office Up $tairs Over Bank of Whiteville. (Court House Square.) Whiteville, N. C. DR. W. ROSS DAVIS Dentist. Whiteville, N. C. DR. H. L. WILLIAMSON Dentist Vtneland, N. C. Office Over Bank of Columbus DR. N. A. CULBRETH, Dentist, 501-502 Murchison Bldg Wilmington,) N. C. J. M. DORjMAN Justice of the Peace Notary Public Collecting a Specialty Member, National Collectors Association, TABOR. N C. Box 131. jects and abandoned farm land that has been robbed to the point where it is unprofitable as cultivated land. Our wasteful system of forest ex ploitation is reasonable for the greater part of the depreciation of the forest land and ignorance, care lessness and almost criminal use of the torch in burning off these cut over areas for a few measley weeks of grazing has prevented nature from making these areas profitable. By using the French method of extracting turpentine from our sec ond growth, old field, short and long leaf pine timber; it is possible to start turpentine operations when the trees are six inches in diameter and continue working the tur pentine without injury to the norraai growth of the trees for forty years, when the trees are as good or tim ber as if they had not been worked for turpentine, provided, of course, that proper foresty methods are practiced and fire is kept out of the forests. The income per acre for the tur pentine from forests with a normal growth of" timber should average around seventeen dollars per year and the timber growth should aver age around eight dollars per year, at present prices of turpentine and timber. These are estimates made by Mr. H. M. Curran, extension forestry specialist of state college, after making a partial survey of the old turpentine area of the state. Farmers who have such land should get in touch with Mr. Cur ran and begin to grow a crop of tim ber on their farms. There are large areas of swamp lands with growths of various kinds of soft swamp timber which is not markable as timber but is excellent for paper pulp of one kind or anoth er, which should be used as such. This will; of course, necessitate the locating in this. Aside from these timber areas there are large sections which are practically barren of young trees and for lack of drainage are not suitable for crop production. The owners are not in position to drvn NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain mort- j gage deed made and executed on i the 26th day of February 1921, by j R. D. Haynes and Annie Haynes to F. D. Martin to secure the payment of one bond of even date therewith for the principal sum of $551.45 and interest, at the rate of six (6) per cent per annum, default having been made in the payment of the same the undersigned will offer for sale and sell at public sale at the court house door in the town of White ville to the highest bidder for cash Monday, March 24, 1924, at 12 o'clock noon, the following described tract of land: Lying and being in Tatums township: Beginning at Martha Haynes corner a stake aand runs Strong and D. Powell's line Eastward to Billie Robesons' corner and with Billie Robeson's line south ward to Lewis McRackan's corner; thence westward " with Henry Mc Kenzie's line to Martha Haynes corner; thence northward with Mar tha Haynes line to the beginning, containing 14 acres, more or less. This the 18th day of Feb. 1924. P. D. MARTIN, Mortgagee. Jackson Greer, Attorney. 2-21 or develop these lands for crop production, as is generally prac ticed in this section. This may also include abandoned farm land and open wood land. Unfortunately, or otherwise, na ture failed to provide this section with any good native grasses for live stock grazing, (about the only natural advantage she forgot to place here) therefore it will be nec essary Sor the owner of such land to invest In seed if he wants to grow grass for live stock on this sort of land. Several years of experience has shown that there are three pasture plants that will fill the bill so ad mirably that hundreds of farmers all over this section are using them. They are Dallas Grass, Carpet grass and Lespendeza (Japan clover). Dal las grass is one of the best and most nutritious of all the grasses. Carpet Grass is about the same as Timothy in feed value and Lespen deza, which is a legume plant, is in the class with clovers. The method of getting these plants is so simple that it appeals to the Jazinest of the lazy. All that is necessary to get a pasture of these plants is to clear off the brush and burn over the stubble. When this is done the seed are scattered over the land, without preparation or covering the seed, and as soon as the native grass begins to put out, cattle and any other live stock are turned on the land in sufficient numbers to keep the native grass eaten down close. The Lespedeza will give grazing from the first of June until frost, when it reseeds and dies down, the seed coming up again in the spring. The dead plants are eaten by cattle, sheep and goats all winter and furnish some fair feed. The Carpet Grass and Dallas grass iire rather slow in getting started and usually do not make much showing until late sum mer or early fall. If weather condi tions are favorable and grazing has been sufficiently close, these grass es will make considerable growth bv frost the first year, after which they will take possession of the land and spread from roots and sped very rapidly until they make, a perfect sod, lasting indefinitely. Where it is not practicable to graze the native grasses close, it is advisable that the land be mowed over during the first year. If the land is particularly wet, Dallas grass will do better than Car pet grass. Where the land is dry or very light in texture, Cjarpet grass will do better than Dallas grass. Lespedeza will do well on almost any fairly good soil, but will not do so well on very dry thin sandy soil. One place where Lespedeza is be ing used very successfully is on grain, oats, rye or wheat for hay. The seed are scattered, without be ing covered, over the growing grain in March. The grain crqpis har vested and the grass and Lespedeza left to grow. In the late summer or or early fall, it is cut for hay. On fairly good land it wiU yield from one to two tons of excellent hay per acre. It's feed value is close to that of Alfalfa. The use of these plants has become so general in Eastern North Caro lina that any farmer who is inter ested can see demonstration pas tures in his own county bygetting in touch with his county agerTt. -E. W. Gaithee District agent. A NEW REPORTER'S VERSION OF SOCIETY FUNCTION A new reporter on the Topeka Capital was assigned to gather police news . with the customary warning as to the importance of ac curacy, and the danger of ftbel suits, if his statements were not pro perly qualified. He was told that, unless facts were fully proved, it was always safer to make use of such terms as "alleged" and others similar. It happened to be the vacation season, and the newspaper office was short-handed. In an emergen ency the new reporter was called on to write up a society function, and this is the way he did it: "A woman giving the name of J. C. Jones, who is reported to be one of the 'social leaders of the city and claims to reside at 1749 Capital Hill Avenue, is said to SJ what purported to be a ceptiop yesterday afternoon. fZx Jtood that- a considerable number of so called, guests, reported be ladies notorious m vyy -were present, and soe of them are the occasion. It is ,charJe frf Bower furnished the alleged refresh ments and Stringham the purported music. The hostess is said to have worn a necklace of alleged pearls which she declares was given to her by her reputed husband. Considering the rough usage it has had, the entente is lasting re markably well. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY It's a long route that road hog. Alarm clocks will never cal as long as they say get up!" According to a critic, a real lover of music sees colors as the music is rendered. 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