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Page Two STANLY NEWS-HERALD- Tuesday, February 15 1921 OUR FARM COLUMN COl'NTRYSIDE IMPROVEMENT 'tobacco crop sell for less than 40 per cent of last year's average, and There shoukl be, and in the long the cotton market gradually tumble run there will tend to be, no more far mers in the nation than are needed to unprofitable levels. Planters i.f:er years of unprec t3 produce the auantitv of products dented prosperity wiil not be ruined -hich can be dissensed of at a pro- bv the fall's setbacks, if they imbibe the lesson of diversification with ex perience as a teacher. The scientific agriculturists are urgwig larger cr:? of the things needed at home next year. Many tobacco planters buy OVERS fit. There will be farmers enough if the business of farming is made more profitable and if rural life is made more attractive and healthful. The consumers must be willing tj on the market everything needed for pay prices for farm products which home consumption rather than keen will enable farmers to produce the.n apart a few acres from the money and to Tnaintain a s;.tisfactDry star.- crops for the production of grain, dard of individual and community meat, etc. Carter's Weekly, life. ! The nation, therefore, must be pre- lt)OD YEAR TO IMPROVE SOIL. pared to omit nothing to improve t.ie countryside. The Tarmers Droved themselves worthy 50good cigarettes for 10c from one sack of GENUINE n n n fi n I! II I LS ESS have North Carolina farmers now have citizens the best opportunity in years to and strontr bulwarks afi-ainst radical- imnrove their lands by growing le -;sm. D. F. Houston, formerly secre- gumes and turning them under, ac- tary of Agriculture. durha; TOBACCO THE CITYWAKD DRIFT I believe it would be an excellent; thing for humanity could be based on cording to the X. C. Division of Ag- due to faulty foundation and not to j ronomy, which lists five reasons why ;ie wearing surface. j soil improvement is valuable this year ". subgrade of rubber scrap would 1. It is not safe to plant "mon- not be expensive. It would, I believe j ' Its civilization ' e" crops on as many acres as iasi afford great cusmorung power to ine rural industry year. 2. Cutting the acreage of . roa j to absorb the heaviest blows, and j mainly and not on urban industry. I "money crops will leave lots ol lana would not resist the expansion of More and more men and women in 'idle unless some soil improving crop the road surfacing due to frost. It is ' our modern civilization drift out of ; s planted upon it. ". Cow peas, soy the resistance of the roadbed, as at J n: ture, out of sweet air. health, beau- i beans, red clover and other legume present constructed, to surface ex-! tv strength, into the cities, where in!see(ls are cher.per now than they have ! pansion which is responsible for the j the third generation there is a rick-1 b'n in years. 4. They can be plan- cracks. A rubber subgrade would ety population, mean in stature, vul-jted with smaller expense for seed, la. give the necessary play when frost is gar or depraved in character, witl i bor and fertilizers. 5. The land will distending the road, the image of the devil in mind and,t!len bc n good shape to make decid- "Rubber slabs have been used for matter more than the ii:ge of Deity, !edly larger yields when times get bet- many years i:i road making abroad. Those who go like it at first, but city i er. Anyone who lias ever visited Berlin, life is like the roll spoken of by the When a crop of peas, beans or Germany, will remember stretches of rophet which was sweet in the mouth ; clover is turned umr much nitrogen sucn roajs jn that city. When I was but bitter in the belly. The first I'1131 tnc P,ant has taken from the air with the Dunlop company in Mel generation are intoxicated by the!amI which costs noth'ig but the ex- bounre, Australia, I remember ex pense ol growing tne corn, will oe perimenting with success with this added to the soil. Acid phosphate or form 0f roaij construction. But this potash applied to such a crop is tak- js an expensive job, an almost pro- en up then turned back into the soil and used over again by the next crop. The fertilizing values of one ton of new life, but in the third generation the cord is cut which connected them with Xature, the Great Mother, and life shrivels up, sundried from the source of life. Geo. W. Russell in The Xational Being. MILK A NECESSARY FOOD. hibitive one. and would never answer for highway building. "The failure of 'gyp' tires to give roughages are: Soybean vines, whole, ' service to the purchaser should rel- $18.6o; soybean vines, beans removed, egate such worn out casings to a time $1"..;:;; red clover, $15.62; crimson ; y grave. Bury them under a high clover, $1:5.54; cowpeas, $19.P5; vel- wav for zoot) tires to roll over." On everv Southern farm, there is grazing land enough, or might be;ve wans, i.,:.su; peanut ines, ;...; grazing land enough, to feed a milk;corn stovr- wheat straw S4-02: cow for everv family living on the O" straw, $4.76. These are figured farm, without in any way lessening t the wholesale price of fertilizer, i n ..u:..i..i 1 exclusive of freight charges, and re- l.ie luliuii, corn, uuu uuicr cuiw aieo ' " . . . e n i- n f.,.m ,,. ! ta ilers' profits. With soy beans, clo- .youth is to fall ,n lne, nsre could be erown and saved to i ver- crimson clover, cowpeas and vel feed these cows without extra cost ' vct oeans thoroughly inoculated about ion, I never can understand why a fall FALLING IX LOVE. One good method of retaining your As I have said on a former occas- for labor, bv merely using some of i n"" 01 slxt Pr cent or more 01 "e the labor now wasted or now utilized, j fertilizing values are due to the ni Even if a little cottonseed meal hadjtroKen which these croPs take direct to be purchased the value of the ma-j'' f.rom ,the air. Agricultural Ex nure from the cow woula largely pay;tens'on "ews the purchase price of the meal. In ! fact, the priceless boon of clean, MAKING ROAD BEDS OF WORN whole milk for every growing person OUT TIRES who needs it most, and Tor all others who need it only a little less, could ! New York, Feb. 4. Utilizing down- is necessarily associated with love, but that is the usual term of ex ' pression. I recently saw a five-reel moving j picture in which a man is portrayed making exeraordinary endeavors to I get back his youthful spirits. He had j apparently grown old prematurely. for his appearance would hardly indi- be obtained at practically no extra at-the-heel and worn-out automobile cate a greater age than thirty-five or cost; and yet perhaps en average of (tires as an aid to good road building one-fourth the farm families of the is a new contribution to this vital South have no dairy cow and no milk supply. Many years ago the writer be- forty. He planned a house-party, to which he invited some of his boy- hood companions, men and women who had married and grwn old in the meantime, but who accepted the invitation nevertheless. He endeav. subject in a tetement given forth by John Kearns, one of the deans of the , tire industry, chairman of the Tire Di- came convinced that he could not vision of the Rubber Association of grow pigs out properly without milk. America and vice-president of thejored to bring back the keen enjoy. Then tankage came to his rescue, and Lee Tire and Rubber Company. ment of youth by indulging in the to a certain extent served as a substi- j "ln the world of manufacture, the : pleasures that they had enjoyed so tute. At least, he learned that tan- scrap heaps have became taboo," de- much in the old days. But his efforts kage was the nearest or best substi- dares Mr. Kearns. "Nothing is was. were fruitless. They were unable to tute for milk, although not quite ta- ted. Gold filings are salvaged from enter into the spirit of youth that he king its place. In fact, I learned workers' clothes by suction. Tl.j was trying to create. This was only many years ago that for me there modern factory guards its waste as a one of his many attempts to win was nothing that would quite take miser treasures his pennies. New back youth, and they were all failures i tne place of milk for growing out uses are discovered hourly for the resi until he accidentally met the girl that young p'.gs. ve cf manufacture. We know that thrilled his nerves with a new zest in In short, the feeders of livestock the ragman thrives at his trade and ; life. And the story ends with a state learned this many years ago, but; that the unclean individual who col-j ment to the effect that the spirit of only recently has it been proved that lects entrails from the butcher often youth is always with you if you are in the same fact holds true for growing sports diamonds. Every by-product love. children. There is no substitute for;j3 a tribute to the man who wastes' Therefore, if you are desirous of milk. It is an absolute necessity for not. the proper growth and development of children. It is not necessary that the child drink the milk, but it must "I have been handling rubber, moul ding rubber and fabricating it for a good many years, but I have never get milk in some way. Whole milkyet had any one to tell me just what must be consumed, as drink, in soups : becomes of the million and a half tons in bread, in creamed foods, or in some other form. This has been proved beyond any question, and it is a posi tive fact that there is no substitute, attaining the youthful spirit, and if you have not already fallen in love, or if you have fallen in and out sev eral times, and are now out, it is a good plan to fall again. When you are out of love, you are out of the world. You are alone, iso lated, often homeless, and sometimes hopeless. To be in love is the nor. of old vulcanized rubber scrap, the yearly remains of diseased automobile tires. Nobody has ever found any real use for it. This ever-increasing ! mal status of every healthy man or but still there are thousands of fami-, surplus of dead rubber will continue ! woman. lies in which milk is not regular! to pile up as long as people continue' To retain the spirit of youth, it is or principal for.": product even for the: to wear out tires. necessary that one should keep this' growing childr: i. I "At a meeting of the Tire division love-spark alive and active. It ,Tives To all these drives for Red Cross ' of the Rubber Association, it was ; zest to life. You have an objective. i funds, tuberculosis hospitals, Salva- recommended that the tire manufac- You have a reason for living. You, t'on Army support, charities, etc., turers discontinue their present prec-; have a future to which you can !aok all of which are worthy, there should ice of selling to rebuilders, scrap j forward. For love always brings its be or.e more added, because more casings which have been returned to . responsibilities. And as they grow important than all others combined, j the factory for adjustment and that , bigger and older, you are compelled a drive for a milk cow and an ample supply of milk for every home. The Progressive Farmer. MONEY CROP SENSE. . More soy beans, potatoes and com, more beef and pork and more of some other food and feed stuffs will be grown in the lower prt of the east ern tobacco belt next year than ever before, if the advice of expert agri culturists, including federal demon stration agents, is followed by the farmera who this fall Dave seen their they so mutilate and destroy them asito assume duties that help to keep to make them unavailable for use as 'you alive and young. so-called "rebuilt tires." "I am of the opinion that old scrap rubber could be profitably used in the making of sub-grades for high ways. Roughly ground old rubber say to about the size of a cubic inch, laid down to a thickness of four or five in ches. I believe could be used as an excellent base for highway-building. The surfacing could be of either ma cadam or concrete. Recent investi gation of road sub-grades indicate that 70 per cent of road failures are furthermore, children assist mate- f rially in the retention of the spirit of youth, for when a parent enters into their joys and activities, he renews his own youth. He lives over again his days of childhood. The keenness and zest of childish joys becomes his : once more. Therefore, fall in love as often as i you can, though it is far safer and better if the object of your affection i happens to be' yoor own wife or hus- ; band. "- I - TOCKED 0 N Farm Implements, Wagons, Buggies, Ranges, Etc. ajfai prediB OUR FARMERS ARE OVERSTOCKED ON LOW PRICED COT TON, THAT IS THEIR PREDICAMENT. TO HELP MEET THE ISSUES, WE ARE OFFERING THESE SPECIAL PRICES FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DA YS FOR CASH. Ohio 9-blade, double-edged Stalk cutters, $65.00, reduced to $48.00 Chattanooga, Xo. 11 Sulky Plows, 3-horse, $40.00, reduced to $25.00 Avery 8-20 in. Disc Harrow, $55.00, re duced to $42.00 Avery 8-18 in. Disc Harrow, $52.50, re duced to $40.00 Bucher & Gibbs Disc Harrows, same price as Avery's. Avery Spike tooth (50 tooth) Harrows, $18.00, reduced to $15.00 Xissen Wagons Buckeye Wagons Web ber Wagons They were made to roll. Medium 2-horse Wagon with brake 2 in. tire, $123.00, reduced to $98.50 Heavy 2-horse Wagon with brake 2 in. tire, $1.25.00, reduced to $98.50 Heavy 2-horse Wagon with brake 2 in. tire, $1.45.00, reduced to $117.00 Heavy 2-horse Wagon with brake 3 in. tire $153.00, reduced to $124.00 Heavy 3 or 1-horse Wagon with brake and body with 3 in. tires, $165.00, reduced to $100.00 Emerson Top Buggies, $150.00, reduced to $117.00 Carolina Top Buggies, $140.00, reduced to $110.00 Smith & Summers Top Buggy, $160.00, re duced to $120.00 HARNESS PRICES ALSO REDUCED TO FIT BUGGY PRICES. 26 IN. FENCE, 30 IN. FENCE, 36 IN. FENCE AND 48 IN. FENCE AT SPECIAL PRICES. Barb Wire, 80 rod rolls $4.50 Copper Clad Ranges, $150.00, reduced to $98.50 South Bend Malleable Ranges, $150.00, re duced to $98.50 Colonial Helena Ranges, $60.00, reduced to $50.00 Cook Stoves, large size, No. 8, with ware $27.50 Special Prices on All Stoves and Heaters COLE PLANTERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, OLIVER AND CHATTANOOGA PLOWS, MYERS' PUMPS AND CYLIN DERS, SIMMONDS CROSS-CUT AND CIRCULAR SAWS AND BITS. LARGE STOCK OF ALFALFA, CANVAS AND CARBON RUBBER BELTING WE WILL UNDERSELL ALL COMPETITORS ON THESE LINES. Plow Stocks, Singletrees, Backhands, Plow Lines, Clevises, Heel Bolts, Traces, Bridles, Collars, Mule Millinery of every description. Plows, pound 5c ONE SECOND HAND 10 H. P. GAS EN GINE AT A BARGAIN. ONE NEW 10-20 I. H. C. TRACTOR AT COST (WILL SELL ON EASY TERMS.) Lally Farm Lighting Plants, $595.00, re duced to $450.00 Laundry Queen Washing Machines, $115, reduced to $85.00 Electric Churns, $42.00, reduced to $30.00 Electric Irons, $8.50, reduced to $6.50 WE DO ELECTRIC WIRING ALSO. ARE YOU GOING TO BUILD? THEN SEE US ON NAILS, GALVANIZED ROOFING, CEDAR SHINGLES, LIME AND BRICK, SASH, DOORS, FRAMES, PAINTS AND OILS, LOCKS AND HINGES. LARD CANS 25 pound size 25c 35 pound size 35c 50 pound size 50c 4 GALVANIZED TUBS 0 size 98c 1 size $1.25 2 size $1.50 3 size $1.60 WASH POTS 10 gal. $5.50, reduced to $3.42 12 gal. $6.50, reduced to $4.21 15 gaL $7.50, reduced to -$5.26 20 gal. $10.00, reduced to $6.84 CAR LOAD STONE CHURNS 3 gal. with cover 47c 4 gal. with cover 58c 5 gal. with cover 70c A COPY OF THIS ADVERTISEMENT OR A HANDFUL OF U. S. A. "LONG GREENS" WILL INTRODUCE YOU AT OUR STORE AS A CASH BUYER, AND CASH WILLL TALK WITH US FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS TRY US. Blalock-Allen Hardware Co. Store Phone 253 WadesborO, N. C. Office Phone 28
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