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1 THURSDAY, QCTOPvn , THE NEWS REPORTER PAGE TWO - - , i AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT Devoted Totally to the Interests of the Farmers and Farm Women of the County of Columbus (by county agent and home demonstration agent) The School Lunch I pearance, may encourage refinishing ! of these pieces and thus add to the Growing children have special general effect of the home, needs in the way of food. Even j A comfortable and attractive home when they eat all of their meals at may be the controlling element in home it is no easy matter to see that they are properly fed and when they eat part of their meals at school the difficulty is far greater. It is not easy to keep food clean and attrac tive when it must be packed and car ried in a lunch basket. Nor is it easy to prepare meals in schools which are not specially fitted for the purpose. ' Hot soups or a hot drink served at school makes a good meal of the cold lunch carried in the lunch box. One cold meal for one day may not mean much, but hundreds of cold meals in the course of the year's spent in school may mean the difference between a poorly nourish ed child and a well nourished child; poor health and good health; poor di gestion and good digestion. The not lunch means that the child will be better nourished. Better nourished he can do better school work, for what is good for the body is good for the train, with a bet ter school training, the child is bet ter fitted to be useful and success ful when he grows up. No amount of good and care in later years can make up for the lack of right food for the growing child. The serving of a hot dish is one of the ways to overcome the hard ship to the country child of taking his cold lunch to school. Hot cocoa, milk and vegetable soups, creamed vegetables and maca roni prepared in various ways are some of the dishes which may be served to supplement the lunch brought fiom home. Sandwich Fillings Cottagecheese, moistened with salad dressing. Cottage cheese and peanut butter. Cold meat in their slices. Cold meat chopped fine mixed with salad dressing. Eggs hard cooked, chopped fine mix ed with salad dressing. Lettuce and salad dressing. Fig paste with nuts. Raisins and nuts chopped fine. Brown bread and butter. Planning Better Homes The most telling improvements in the home from the efficiency stand point may be those that cost nothing in money. Just a desire on the part holding the family together in spite of many outside attractions. The woman with limited money must give more thought to planning, keep ing her home comfortable and invit ing. To assist women interested in this line of work, the Home Demonstra tion service of New Hampshire out lined the following work under the home improvement project: Convenient homes Study of ar rangement of kitchens; consideration of home conveniences, including small articles, and pressure and fireless cookers; stenciling of sanitas oilcloth; rug making. Beautiful Homes Refinishing old furniture; caning of chairs; basketry; parchment and muslin shades; tied and dyed work; practical work in in terior decorating. Home improvement goes hand in hand with community improvement. Establishing of women's exchanges, community rest rooms and communi ty houses and beautifying public grounds are encouraged as work in which all will find a share. All the results of the year's work cannot be tabulated. Money values may be placed on some. But the biggest things coming from it are the spread of influence and the number of permanent practices established along with increased comfort and happiness in the home Daisy Dean Williamson, State Home Demonstra tion Agent, Durham, H. THE FRAGRANT, SAVORY SCUPPERNONG (By G.A. Cardwell, Agricultural and Industrial Agent A. C. L. R. R. Co.) Autumn days are here. The aroma of the ripening grape is in the air; the perfume delights the olfactory sense and causes hunger, irresistible. "From dewy lanes at morning, The grapes' sweet odors rise ; At noon the roads all flutter With yellow butterflies. By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather, And autumn's best of cheer." of the woman to have a little more time to ao tnings sne really likes may .Pretty is it not: Lsut are we lead to the rearrangement of her ! realizing money returns in other kitchen, or changing about of furni- j than a most limited way, on the mil ture in the living room, or planning lions of pounds of grapes produced her work ahead to save time. A re luctance to develop into a chronic grouch may. lead her to find what has caused her irritable disposition it and harvested? You will find a few bushels of the fruit on the local markets, and the I traveler will recall having caught the may be just the color scheme she has moquet of the grape at some railroad carried out in her furnishings. The j station. Upon investigation, for tell-tale backache with the all-tired- j it is a stolid individual who does not out feeling may cause her to realize ; trace the fragrant odor to its source, that working surfaces should con-! a crate or two of the fruit will form to individuals, not individuals ' be found, addressed, usually, to to working surfaces. Blocks unler : some self-expatriated Carolinian, the table legs solve this dif f icul- who has become Scuppernong huri ty. Her love for old pieces of fur- r;ry. niture, beautiful in design and ma- j It is time that we gave more .terial but disreputable in appear-, thought to supplementing the in- BDBBBBBQDDBODBBSH QS BQQHDQBBBDQBaBSBESBBBBI S B B E B fl B B B B .B B B B B m B a u JUST RECEIVED A FULL LINE OF WALL AI I7 HP IN ALL l COLORS mm m mm B B B O a T j. jlL I 1 f n iu gei uiis une oeiore J ll LI me duduc we are gome to sell it at $2.50 per gallon for the next thirty days only. H TT n B B B B B H B B B B B B B B 1 SCHULKEN BROS. 1 QnDDnanDnaDnanDDnanDpaaaaDqaQ come from our money crops, cotton, tobacco and peanuts, with grape, pecan, blueberry, poultry-money etc., for during the past ten years the standard of living on the farm has materially advanced, and it takes larger incomes to support this more elevated standard than it did in the days before the World war. A Promising Industry. The local or home markets will take Muscadine grapes in consider able quantities but this demand, ac tive though it may be, does not be gin to absorb more than a very small part of the crop. The writer thinks that satisfactory connections could be sescured in some of the less distant large mar kets, if a sufficient volume of care fully picked, handled and packed grapes (fresh fruit) could be as sembled by some association, club, firm, or responsible individual in position to guarantee regular ship ments during the season. The fruit of all varieties of the Muscadine family raised in this sec tion could be shipped as far as Wash ington and Baltimore. "Cluster va rieties" like James, Mish and Flowers are better packed in stan dard Climax two quart grape bas ets, while "berry varieties" like Thomas and Scuppernong do best when packed in strawberry cups or tills and crates. Thomas is a much better shipper than Scupper nong as the latter shrinks and if poorly picked it becomes wet, sticky and fermently from exuding juices. Clipped fruit can be successfully shipped to New York, Philadelphia and other cities of equal distance. There are a lot of Southerners in the northern cities who would be glad to buy Muscadines by the crate or by the basket. At present the only demand would probably come from Southern people who know the Muscadine grape, but persistence and enterprise in marketing carefully packed fruit from vines well cared for would be rewarded in time. Manufactured Products Muscadine grapes lend themselves in many ways to culinary purposes. They make delicious grape juice, jelly, paste, sauce, marmalade, but ter, catsup, conserve, syrup, mince meat, vinegar and many other pro ducts. These Muscadine grape pro ducts are easily and cheaply made. While the mehods are simple, they must be carefully followed to get best results. It is only a matter of time until the enterpriseing business interests of the South will be co operating with the farmers in the great industry of grape growing and the production of grape products. SELECT SEED CORN FROM STALKS IN FIELD Raleigh, Oct. 6. An increase of between three and four bushels per acre has been secured by the Divis ion of Agronomy of the State Col lege Experiment Station in its tests with, seed corn selected from the field as contrasted with seed obtained from the crib. In some cases the increased yield was as high as eight bushels per acre within the same va riety. This in itself proves that it pays to select in the field, the seed corn for next year's plantng, state the agronomy workers. Seed carefully selected in the crib next spring is better than no selec tion at all because poor seed results in poor stands, waste of land and labor and in low yields at harvest. Agronomy workers advise that be fore the corn is cut for shocking or before it is gathered, ego into the field and secure more than twice as much as will be needed for next year's planting. The grower needs to get his seed ears from the kind of stalk that he would like to have grown in his fields next year. When the desired amount has been secured, the ears should be stored in a place where they will be dry and free from rats and weevils. Some good farmers hang their seed ears by strings or wire from the rafters and others use tight bins. Next spring, the best of these field se lected ears may be used for seed and the remainder discarded. It is also wise to make a germination test before planting to be sure that a good stand will be secured. Where seed corn is carefully se lected in the field each year and. a good seed patch planted to supply the needed amount of seed for the en tire farm, yields will be improved and the corn will more nearly pay for the time, labor, and fertilizer used in growing it, say the agronomy worker. The statue of George Rogers Clark, the cut of which appears in our July 19 issue, was given to the University of Virginia, by an alumnus, Paul Goodloe Mclntirc. TWENTY PECAN TREES FOR EVERY COASTAL FARM Raleigh, Oct. 7. Twenty pecan trees for every farm in the coastal plain of North Carolina is the goal of a campaign now being waged in the State by H. M. Curran, forester for the State College extension ser vice. Mr. Curran believes that this one thing will add much wealth to that section and will make the farm homes more attractive and beautiful. In a recent letter mailed to agri cultural workers and farmers, Mr. Curran says, "Thirty-five acres of pecan trees in Columbus county now promise the owner, George Sutton, $2,000 for his crop on 800 trees. The crop is already sold. "The average county in North Carolina has 50,000 acres of im proved land or land under the plow. The farms run from 75 to 100 acres of cultivated land each or 500 farms to the county. If twenty pecan trees are planted in a grove about the house and barn on every farm, this will give 10,000 trees to a county. "Ten thousand trees cared for as Mr. Sutton cares for his will mean one hundred thousand dollars of new wealth added to the county." This, then, is one argument ad vanced by Mr. Curren for the plant ing of more pecans in the state. He believes that pecans are just as at tractive as oaks, that they grow like maples and will live for many years. He states that the pecan will outlive the oaks and will pay the taxes. Many farmers all over the east ern section of the state have become interested in this new venture and indications are that many thousands of trees will be planted this fall, he reports. 50 per cent," declared Mr. Ross. "Of course my figures are lower than those of the Federal government, but I am confident those figures will be reduced gradually week by week. "The rain during the past two weeks has done as much damage as adverse weather conditions in all of the time preceding that period." Mr. Ross is basing his figures a gainst last year when under practi cally ideal conditions there were pro duced a million bales of cotton in North Carolina, POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE STATE COTTON YIELD IS CUT BY HEAVY RAIN Raleigh Forty per cent of a crop is the estimate placed by George Ross, Chief of the Division of Mar kets of the North Carolina Depart ment of Agriculture, upon the cot ton yield in the State for this year. "I may be too pessimistic but 40 per cent is my figure and I do not see how the crop can possibly go over (By James J. Montgomery) The Sunshine Trail Don't bo sad or melancholy; Smile at every one you meet; At the strangers in the trolley, At the girls along the street. They of course may be offended, And may have you put in jail, But when prison days are ended Take once more the sunshine trail. If your neighbor looks downhearted, Slap him roughly on the back, Say the dog days have departed And good times are coming back. And should he get mad and beat you, Do not let your spirits fail Or discouragement defeat you; Keep along the sunshine trail. Do not ever grouch or grumble, Greet all trouble with a scoff, Tell the cop who takes a tumble On the street, to laugh it off. Then, when funds you have to borrow To put up the needful bail, Let the man who lends 'em sorrow; You keep on the sunshine trail. When you find your friends repining For a fortune that is gone, Bid them seek the silver lining That comes just before the dawn. Tell them it's no use to worry, And regret will naught avail, Then if I were you I'd hurry To resume that sunshine trail. News and Observer. MRS. R r wrrrr . MFD! V r L r(JR. TY HOPES FOR son : In an effort to protect its Eskimo subjects from drink and disease, the Danish government has kept such close watch over most of Greenland that very little is known of its topography. Laurinburg. Gv: ; which told of the Waters at Hazelhu,.- , killing of a p,,iioe ,,V; place was of special iv R. C. Woodell. v.-hw ; First avenue, Dick,,. Woodell tells a st., like a tale from Baku-, that 14 years ago sh, living in Columbus Cn;., Waters and wife weiv the same county, ami ; son, Daniel Hardee. l,v band , was temporarik, the Waters family, knowledge or consent . ell) (then Mrs. Hank , , his wife went away. , them her little son. From that day un Mrs. Woodell says. h, where they went or v h, her son. Learning f , that Waters was han-. hurst, Ga., on Friday, S Q"u Linuugn irienas and a the hanged man who nv, Lumberton, she (Mrs. y. , she was able to establish of Waters as the man who t '-tit 1 15 ' ':-r-ol(i , the n lVi,.l. ;;-mc of ,;1 Hazel. 'l!1r 19 Hv,s at (! says e Klein f.. "ok her to learn where the bey. now j years of age, is and h.-m- m v, , nave him come back to his mother. l.f ITT 1 11 mi-,. vooueu says tilat , suffered much heart anguish at the loss of her son and through all the fourteen years since he Went away she had never heard anything from him, nor knew anything 0f his whereabouts. Since that time Mrs Hardee was married a second time and became Mrs. Woodc-11. and has been living at Laurinburg for sonje time. little son, and now v...inn,i uiot i.iiMji is one of the fine arts the nohk-st tho most important and the most difficult and that its fluent ha i monies may be spolied by the intrusion of a sin gle harsh note." Oliver Wendell Holmes. The city of Cohoes, N,-w Y(,rk, is building houses for sale k u citizens. TV ! A VIA THE GREATEST EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF COLUMBUS COUNTY Remember the dates: Oct. 28,29,30, 31 and Nov. 1. Every day a great day. Thousands will be here daily. All your friends will be here. Don't be left out of this great crowd. Your friends will be looking to meet you every day. WELCOME VERYBODT COLUMBUS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
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