Who's Who
in the Southern Ruralist
In order that our readers' may know the authorities who are writing the
material for the Southern Ruralist which is being sold in connection with
our paper we print the following resume of their work and standing.
EDITORIAL STAFF—The editorial staff of Southern Ruralist is the strong
est of any Southern farm paper. The Editor-in-Chief, C. A. Cobb, now is
president of the American Agricultural Editors' Association, serving his third
term. He is the only president of the Association who has ever had the dis
tinction of being chosen as head of this National organization of Agricultural
Editors for more than one term.
MR. COBB was born on a rented farm in Tennes- [ran |||MlllllllM
ISgQHffiilMjfffiPf see and afterwards helped to buy that farm. He
ijpggp -fjlirilii worked his way through Mississippi Agricultural and BaamilMßrolS
P Mechanic College, and holds a B. S. degree from that lIH
IX ' institution. The first agricultural high school in Mis- I|||
Bc-i"- : sissippi was established by Mr. Cobb. This school -ew
--Sfo iiKiiiilU has' beeta the pattern for more than forty started
pjl . " ; j=: siuce. Mt. Cobb had charge of the Boys' and Girls'
BJClub Work in that state, as assistant Director of Ex- jjif
ygPiliPMI tens i° n . work, and is largely responsible for the SgF .. : s|g||ffl
splendid extension service developed in Mississippi,
lie is much sought after as a speaker for national aMj
aud sectional agricultural meetings. pgjkjL
ill COLONEL FRANK ,T. MERRlAM —President of lim :!: |tW
So «thern Ruralist and Editor of Gardening Depart- I ■■ 3§§f
HFp - jHi iuent. Colonel Merriam became interested in Southern
B . JHH Kuralist soon after it was established in 1893. He illllilllife
started his career as a truck gardener in Florida. 1 —
C. A. Cobb Although having the responsibility of the business Dr. C. A. Cary
' administration of the paper, he has never lost interest
in gardening. He still operates a garden near At- |sSjjSjjmjjj|
lanta and talks to the readers of Southern Ruralist
sj&sgf:';.. from his own experiences—past and present.
SBh®"- • N'lß I>AN T. GRAY—Editor Dairy and Livestock De- W& ■ .
ISIg- partment; Dean of Ihe College of Agriculture and ||| .*
Director Experiment Station, University of Arkansas. S
"' : -sill Reared on stock and grain farm; holds A. B. and |||p|lp&, £
.r B. S. legrees from University of Missouri; M. S. Illi- Ills.
"ois University; former professor Animal Industry, jjggjl; ji
Igllrffsfe A. & M. College, Raleigh. N. C.; Dean Agricultural
Jm College Alabama Polytechnic Institute; in charge of
WF Animal Industry Educational Work in South during
issLtrZ. World War for U. S. Department of Agriculture; Sec
retary Association Southern Agricultural Workers,
1914-1920; president Association Southern Agricultural
. DR. C. A. CARY, Editor Veterinary Department— IwwßMit 'jBBBi
F.l Afonriom Professor Veterinary Science, Alabama Agricultural n _ r
' merriam College; veterinarian to Alabama Experiment Station Dan T - Gra y
and Director of State Farmers' Institute; Dean of na—
Veterinarians in America; Past President of Amer
lean Veterinary Medical Association, highest honors gSr -HW
F in the profession; graduate of lowa State College of ff jH
1 •. Agriculture; and has been Professor of Veterinary f| J|
I • Science, Alabama Agricultural College for many Igpfcijgr.. B
' k M. C. GAY, Editor Department of Markets. Rep- jfcaafcL-.._nji J
resentative of one of the largest National Marketing
s JF« Organizations. Was engaged In special work here in
the South as state agent in marketing, Athens, Ga. S^jggj^ijnWß
W8B& MS\ Because of his wide range of practical experience jail
v il!tl ''MMfflßm] and because of his demonstrated ability and conver- sals
sation, was chosen to take over and edit this depart- gggl r ® JaW
ment. His whole time is spent battling with the Blllfe
ac t' lll l». practical problems the farmers are up against JB
DAN SCOATES, Editor Farm Mechanics, Professor
Rev. Faust of Agricultural Engineering, Texas Agricultural and r. J. Marshall
Mechanical College. B. S. lowa State College, Ames,
Agricultural Enginering, Montana State College; Pro
flHH feasor Agricultural Engineering, Mississippi A. & M.
College; President American Society Agricultural En-
gineers; Chairman College Division Society Agri- I
||P| cultural Engineers. pill '
F. J. MARSHALL, Editor Poultry Department.
Poultry Editor Southern Kuralist for 20 years. In- iHk. Hjlf
ternatiopally recognized as poultry judge. For ten
M years member of Standard Revision Committee, Amer
ican Poultry Association; former president South
jMa Central Branch American Poultry Association; mem- :A|
tier Executive Committee, Florida Branch American -Qj
Poultry Association; of Poultry Colun^bian
n 1904; and ' Jamestown Exposition, 1907, and many jg®
I others.
' MISS LOIS P. DOWDLE, Editor Home Department.
Dan Scoates Miss Dowdle was with the Home Economics Depart- r. Dowale j
ment at the Georgia State College of Agriculture,
...=..Athens, Ga., for twelve years as State Girls' Club
filllilHiilinliiyiyi Agent. For two j'enrs she has been contributing ed
itor of the Home Department, and now is devoting
her time to editorial and field work for Southern ff
Ruralist. During the World War she was Home
fc' .."!■■■Economics Director for the Federal Food Adminis- s^
tration of Georgia and Chairman of Food Production 1
K: and Food Conservation for the Women's Branch of M
the Georgia Division of the Council of National
Prior to going to Athens, Miss Dowdle served as a
rural school teacher, then as county agent in her jjjjgr
home county, Floyd, and later as District Home Eco
'Ei'S She attended Shorter College and Cornell University
and holds a B. S. degree from the University of
HirZr Georgia. She is prominently identified with the Geor
gia Home Economics Association. The U. S. Depart- —1
M. C. Gay ment of Agriculture has given her a number of im- Alma Simpson
portant assignments in Home Economics work.
Through these connections Miss Dowdle has come in intimate contact with thousands
of rural homes, not only in Georgia, but throughout the South.
MISS ALMA SIMPSON, Editor Boys' and Girls' Clubs. Miss Simpson was reared on
a farm in South Carolina ahd has been identified with Club work for several years.
REV. W. H. FAUST, D.D., is one of the most prominent ministers in Atlanta. He
contributes a religious feature story once a month. He has occupied places on about
all the Southern Baptist Boards and committees; is a member of the Home Mission
Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, a member of the Georgia Baptist Mission
Board Executive Committee, a member of the Executive Committee of the Atlanta Bap
tist Association; a member of the Executive Committee of the State Baptist Young
People's Convention; a member of the Executive Committee of the Sunday School Board,
Chairmnn of the Church Committee on Cooperation (Interdenominational), and for a
quarter of a century has been thrown into direct vital contact with thousands of folks all
over the South. His articles are read by laymen in many rural churches which do not have
the services of a minister every Sunday and in rural Sunday School work.
11. W. BROWN writes .si humorous feature for each issue of the paper.
Mr. Cobb. Colonel Merriam, Miss Dowdle. Miss Simpson and Mr. Brown are full
time employees of the Southern Ruralist. The other department editors, all of whom
have been on the staff of tl\e piper for a number of years, are on a salary basis and
write for no other farm paper.
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THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928
TELEPHONE LINK
HELPS FARMERS
HARVEST CROPS
Party Lines Forai Bnsis of New
Plan for Cccperatba to
Mset Lr.hor Problem
Farm costs must be cut if profits
are to be enlarged, declares a well
known South Dakota farmer, who
adds that the difficulty of hired
help makes it absolutely incumbent
upon laboring farmers to combine
their operations and to cooperate
with one another whenever pos
sible.
Pending the arrival of the era of
large, industrialized farm, the
smaller farmers, now minus hired
help, must exchange labor to get
tasks done. This has been accom
plished in certain sections by what
is termed threshing circles. Each
farmer shows up on the appointed
date with team and rack and collec
tively the men do the job, but the
interesting fact —and it is mute
evidence of the value and impor
tance of the telephone to the farm
er—is that each circle is comprised
of farmers who have service on
the same party telephone. Time is
so essential in the handling of
large crews of co-operators that
they naturally group themselves
along the quickest line of com
munication. Thus, all the farmers
on one party line are organized
into one group and those on the
next line into another group. The
same principle is likewise applied
to other co-operative operations he
sides threshing.
In the vicinity of Columbia, S.
D., one place where the group
method is employed with much suc
cess, the members work together
in this way for at least fifty days
of the year, sometimes more. The
circles are built up around the tele
phone which is considered just as
necessary and important a factor
to modern, efficient farming as are
any other labor-saving devices now
being used.
At the beginning of the present
year, approximately 2,600,000 tele
phones were located on American
farms, an increase of about 100,000
since 1920, despite the fact that in
the same period the number of
farms in the United States has
actually decreased by 100,000. On
the basis of 6,371,640 farm 3 report
ed by the Bureau of the Census in
connection with the 1925 farm cen
sus, over forty out of every hun
dred farmers now enjoy telephone
service and 14 per cent of the coun
try's telephones are located on
farms. The farm telephone is used
to the greatest extent in the mid
dlewest in the states of Idaho,
Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana,
Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota, South.
Dakota and Wisconsin. Of states
in the east, Vermont possesses the
highest farm telephone develop
ment.
The telephone, indispensable in
modern business, is being adopted
by farmers to lower overhead, in
crease production, simplify opera
tion and control markets. Quick
communication has become as nec
essary to the farmer as it is in the
industrial world.
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A new telephone exchange in the
city of London has been named
Gladstone in honor of Great Brit
ain's noted statesman. Another ex
change has been named for Living
stone and still another for Macau
lay.
British Columbia leads the prov
inces of Canada in the matter of
telephone development, having 18.7
telephones per one hundred popula
tion.
TRAIN SCHEDULES
Seaboard
No. 109, South. Arr. 10:30 a.m.
No. 21, South Arr. 12:18 p. m.
No. 22, North Arr. 4:21 p. rn.
Southern
No. 113, South, Arr. 6:20 a. m.
No, 36, North, Arr. 10:09 a.m.
No. 35, South, Arr. 5:35 p, m.
No. 114, North, Arr. 8:56 p. m.
Clincbtteld
No. 37, North, Arr. 10:45 a. m.
No. 38, South, Arr. 4:48 p. m.
No. 110, North, Arr. 11 :-20 a. m.
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MIKADO
TRUSTEE'S SALE
OF LAND
By virtue of the power of sale |
contained in a certain Deed of Trust j
made by Mrs. Mamie Blanton and j
husband, W. F. 11. Blanton. to the
undersigned Trustee, dated Septem
ber 3rd, 1924, and duiy recorded in
the office of the Register of Deeds
for Rutherford County, State of
North Carolina, in the 1 Record of
Mortgages and Deeds of Trust in
Book W-15 of Deeds, on page 116,
to which reference is hereby made
and default having been made in the
payment of the indebtedness secured
by said Deed of Trust, whereby the
power of sale contained therein will
on
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1929
at at 12:00 o'clock noon, sell for cash
to the highest bidder, at public auc
tion, at the Court House door, in the
Town of Rutherfordton, North Caro- i
lina, a certain tract of land lying
and being in High Shoals Township,
Rutherford County, North Carolina,
and more particularly described and
defined as follows: Being in the vil
lage of Caroleen in that part of the
village known as Harrill Town and
lying on the State Highway leading
from the Town of Forest City, North
Carolina, to the South Carolina line,
being bounded on the North by the
lands of John Parker: on the East
by the lands of John Parker and on
the South by the lands of Oscar
Lynch and on the West by the lands
of Mr. Buff described by courses and
distances as follows:
Beginning on the North side of
the road on an iron stake and runs
thence North East 250 feet to Park
er's corner; thence West 100 feet
to a stake: thence South 108 feet to
a rock; thence West 23 feet to a
rock; thence South 142 feet to an
iron stake; thence East 123 feet to
the place of the Beginning, duly re
corded in the office of the Register
of Deeds for Rutherford County,
State of North Carolina.
This the 4th day of Dec., 1928.
9-4t. R. R. BLANTON, Trustee.
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The New York State Federation
of Women's Club endorses an
amendment to the Domestic Relations
Law that would give a woman tie
same civil rights against her husband
that he now enjoys against her. If
these women were really sincere in
their wish for equality, they might•
also complain of the fact that they i
are not required to pay alimony.
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