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In the Southeastern Essay Contest recently conducted by the Sears Roe buck Agricultural Foundation at Atlanta, the two North Carolina winners were Ralph Sikes of Polkton, N. C., and Forest Hunt of Forest City, N. C. The state winners, each of whom received as an acknowledgement of his effort an expense-paid trip to the Southeastern Fair and a gold Stone Moun tain Memorial Medal, submitted essays which were exceedingly outstanding among the many North Carolina entries, and which can be practically and profitably applied to North Carolina's agricultural program. Ralph Sikes of Polkton, who Is a junior in the Burnsville High School has been in club work for the past five years. He chose for his subject "The Marketing of Poultry in My Community." Poultry, Ralph points out, is the source of a large portion of the farm income in Anson County, and in his essay he covers every division of successful poultry raising from, the selec tion of eggs right through the raising of baby chicks, culling, picking, dress ing, and packing. Forest Hunt of Forest City, a junior in the Cool Springs High School, selected as his subject, "The Marketing of Cotton in My Community." He •deals with cotton marketing generally and the situation as it affects Ruther ford County in particular. The essay is comprehensive in every extent and deals with the whole program of cotton marketing, from planting time, up through picking and ginning until the cotton is put on the market. In the case of both winners they have chosen subjects containing prac tical money-making ideas which can be put into immediate use with satis factory results by almost every North Carolina farmer. COTTON TESTS ARE COMPLETED Cotton Demonstrations of Farm of W. L. Hunt Shows Interesting Re sults The cotton demonstration that was conducted by the Department of Vo cational Agriculture of the Cool Springs High School on the farm of W. L. Hunt has just been complet ed. It has shown some interesting things for study. The outstanding jfc\ing shown is that it pays. to side cotton with nitrate of soda after chopping. It also shows that it pays to use fertilizer up to about six hun dred pounds per acre. The follow ing is the method in which the test was run with the results of each plot. A study of these methods and results will repay any farmer. On plot one, 420 pounds of 10-4-4 fertilizer was used per* acre. This was applied at planting time. The cost of this fertilizer was $5.78. The plot yielded 1340 pounds per acre which was worth $119.42. After pay ing for the fertilizer there was left $113.64. On plot two, 275 pounds of acid phosphate, 25 pounds of muriate of : potash, and 40 pounds of nitrate of j soda was applied per acre before j planting. After chopping 100 pounds of nitrate of soda was applied. The yield per acre of this plot was 1390 pounds and it was worth $123.88. After paying for the fertilizer, which was $6.80, there was left $117.08. This plot, compared with plot one?, showed the value of side dressing with nitrate of soda after chopping. On plot three no fertilizer was used. The yield of cotton was 950 pounds per acre valued at $84.69. The low yield in this plot demonstrat ed the value ef fertilizer. To plot four was applied at plant ing time 500 pounds of acid phos phate, 30 pounds of muriate of pot ash, and 50 pounds of nitrate of soda. To this was added after chopping 150 pounds of nitrate of soda. The cost i of all the fertilizer in this plot was $10.30. The yield of cotton was j 1660 pounds worth $148.02, After j. paying for the fertilizer there was ! left $137.72. This plot demonstrated the value of a large amount of fer tilizer. On plot five, 420 pounds of 10-4-4 vyas applied before planting, and af ter chopping 200 pounds of nitrate of soda was applied. The cost of the fertilizer used was $11.78. The yield of cotton was 1790 pounds per acre, { which wag worth $159.54. After sub tracting the cost of fertilizer, there was left $147.76. This plot gave the largest profit of any plot, and it -demonstrated conclusively the value •of applying nitrate of soda to cotton lifter chopping. Forest City Lodge, No- 1689, Loyal Order of Moose. Meets every Tuesday night, j Pythian Hall. Visiting brothers, welcomed. MASONIC NOTlCE—Forest City ' Lodge, No. 381, A. F. & A. M., meets j ?very second and fourth Tuesday nights at 8 o'clock. Visitors welcome. J. S. Wood, Secretary, B. M. Price, 1 W. M. 30-tf I STANDARD CLOAK COMPANY * j » 115 E. Main Street Spartanburg, S. C. 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For Christmas Gifts- Kayser Chamoisette $1.19 * $4.95 * 3 ' 45 "2.50 59 C ° SI.OO and Silk Gloves Men>s Travelingl gets, - ' ————————— Complete assortment of beau- __ Children's tiful styles, colors and materi- I 51. 95 Flowers Hendkerchiefs als ~~ (This is a $5.00 value) OQc to dji nr Per Box— • tl Afl to $1 Q5 9C C to QO c Men , s Military SetS) LD «Jsf (Straight and turn back cuffs) ■■■■■—■"■■■» ■—Hand SACS Ladies' Rayon Ladies' Garter Sets vt , f Bloomers Specially priced at Men's Handkerchiefs, a 6 most use u 81 $100" $1.95 50°'° $1.50 25°75 c E " k $2.95'° $5.95 THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER IS. 1921 COMMUNITY NIGHT AT SPINDALE IS WELL ATTENDED | ■ December Community Night Program Was Devoted to Athletics and Athletic Stunts I j Spindale, Dec. 13.—As usual the j Spindale House was packed Tuesday ; evening for the regular community night program. The December meet ing was designated as athletic night and an exhibition of the many fea tures that are being taught in the gym was given. The Spindale Band was present and furnished music for the program. ; A volley ball game was the first event. One team, composed of Lind say, Wells, James, Howard, Bigger staff and Dotson battled against the second line-up composed of Yelton, Sherrill, Harrill, Poole, Williams and Smith. The teams played two games, each team winning one. ! A fine exhibition of calesthentics was given by sixteen little girls, aged from six to twelve years. Mr. Berry explained that he had been giving ( these girls this drill for some time, , especially on the afternoons when they became troublesome to him. Fol- I lowing this Mr. Berry addressed a j few remarks to the audience on the! i value of play and gym work in ref-1 erence to keeping the body in best I possible condition. I A basketball game between the fats and leans was the next item on program, and many felt repaid for their trouble in coming out just to witness this. In a hard fought game the leans won 13-11. Playing for the fats were Watson, Duncan, Bigger staff, Howard and Williams. For the leans were Sherrill, Grose, Dotson, Harrill and Yelton. The scoremen were Watson, four points, Duncan five points and Biggerstaff, two points. On the leans Grose secured six points and Dotson seven. A group of smaller boys, from six to fourteen, next gave some fine j examples of tumbling, pyramid build ing, and other athletic stunts. Some sixteen or eighteen boys participated in this and it was one of the big features of the evening. The program was in charge of KIWANIS CLUB TO ASSIST POOR 'L ~ i Next Monday Evening's Pro-' gram Will Be Devoted to ' Christmas Topics *i j ' • i With good attendance the Ki-j ! wanis club enjoyed a delightful eve- ning Monday. A hearty voce of i thanks and appreciation was extend-' |ed the committee in charge of the Christmas lights and decorations in' ! the business district. A committee j j was appointed to raise funds from j I all Kiwanians to be used in the dis j tribution of Christmas cheer to the i j needy poor of the city, the commit- i I tee to work in conjunction with the j ; secretary of the Welfare association ' i and Chief of Police. The program was in charge of j Rev. M. F. Moox*es and put on in j entertaining style by the new mem- j bers ' who have matriculated in Ki-1 wanis during 1927. Attorney Tom Moss delivered the salutatory of the Class of '27, in his usual happy eloquent way, R. C. Alexander was both witty and Entertaining as class prophet,, as were C. P. Parks, class poet and G. R. Gillespie as val edictorian. Each speaker of the eve ning was decorated by J. H. Thomas I with a huge button hole bouquet. | The dinner and program was | enlivened by music of t I local muicians composing the (Moore orchestra , who dispensed some snappy stuff during the eve ning. Next Monday night retiring presi dent Dalton will give a summary of the past year's work and the Christ mas program will be in charge of Kiwanian Gillespie. Miss Claire Reid will entertain with a Christmas re cital and the choir of Methodist church will sing Christmas carols. NOTICE—Dr. D. M. Morrison, op tometrist-eye specialist will be in Forest City on every Thursday. • Hours 8 to 9 a. m. and 2 p. m. to 3 j. m. Office back of Dr. Duncan. 52-tf. Mr. J. E. Berry, superintendent of the Spindale House. SECRETARY JARDINE URGES MUSCLE SHOALS FERTILIZER AS AID TO FARMERS Have Been Making Promises Too Long, He Says "One of the chief ways in which we can help the farmers of thi« country is to help reduce the cost of their fertilizer bills." Secretary A? Agriculture, William Jardine, told a Muscle Shoals inquiry ?L con ° ress ,ast s P rin S In a statement that has just been made public They have to use more of It rather than less of it. and concentrate! fertilizer if I understand it correctly—means a reduction of 25 or 20 mixing'" iD thC preS6nt COSt ' simply through savings on freight rates and Secretary Jardine, in addressing this committee charged with thm disposition of Muscle Shoals, explained that he was not interested Muscle Shoals from the power standpoint nor for any other kind of development except that of "making U work as effectively as possible in the interest of the farmers by giving them cheap fertilizers " • •I My chief concern is that we do it without delay. We have been makine Slf L or \ long K t, . me ' For 10 years now the Promise of a ehoaoer fertilizer has been before this country. If we had had this goine^n e last five years, it would have helped the farmers materially " During this same hearing Congressman John J. McSwain of South ?.rH» na ' ,? ade J' C ' ear that thCTe 13 no guarantee ot any very rteaS »d res ssjs&ma* G ' ma nll fac tu re° n 1 troge nous cost-plus-a-reasonable-profit plan (as involved in the offe~ of tho \ 5? rtZ?" "SV m * rgin IhoTat to°uLZ ir m t NOW ' Wha " i ra a"'anl«s ey to W "o at^MuS ready for w.?". 1 " I"", 6 P** on " r ke!P U -icp S down through comoetitfon" hammer to drive fertilizer Dre F sslJ p Christmas Why buy new Clothes, when we can make the old ones look like new? Get out the suits and dresses now and send them in to be dry cleaned and pressed. Do it now, and be ready for Christmas. Phone 103 for service and satisfaction. CITY DRY CLEANING CO. Forest City, N. C.'
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