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. V'v-J?" , - ; .. . ,',r...;..'-,-r. . .. J- -A ,1 " - I j .4 . .1 ; f . ' i- ... --- X' THE ROWAN RECORD Published Weekly CHINA OROVE, JORTH CAROLINA "The man behind the furnace is the 'an of the hour. Safs and sane football again comes up as a subject for consideration. ? It's a lucky man that has to worry oyer the perplexities of the income tax law. - The slH skirt may be 1,200 years old and still be a mere parvenu. The fig-? Jeaf always was slit. The only way some fellows attract ' attention these chilly days is by leav' ;lng wide open the door. The only abbreviated modern fash ion really objectionable is the report ed shortage in dressed beef. Surgery as a. cure for crime may cause some prompt repentances be fore it can be put into-practice. Young doctors, attention! Cincin nati has a man who grows hair on his face at the rate of an inh an hour. To the innocent bystander the tango looks yery much like the turkey trot, except around the shoulder blades. j Sometimes it looks like the smaller the automobile a man drives, the big ger the gauntlets he wears on bis hands. Perhaps one reason why the Eng lish sparrow flirts his tail so saucily is because it isn't long enough for an aigret. The war drum is an exciting instru ment, but the old steam calliope is Just about as stirring when it hits a high note. A woman writer says English wo men are the worst cooks in the world, which probably accounts for the vogue of the militant. If the land is flooded with counter feit $50 notes .a large portion of the population will remain in blissful ig norance of the fact. Two men took mercury tablets on a dare to find out how they tasted. It is men like these who make the fool-killer's Job an easy sinecure. r ' An alarm clock will wake a man up all right on a cold morning, but-tC won't pull the windows -down (ft"" ... A A. m . . i .iwa. .,7SJ.. iuiu uu iuh Bmm 101 luxu. A Missouri man, back from Chtna says the fighting over there was :a joke. Some people have a curious idea of what constitutes a joke. Foreign aviators are engaging in dangerous competition in making aer ial loops. One of these days ithey willcome to the end .of the circle. ; King George of England, likes to stand up. Nobody could possibly ob ject tp that, if etiquette did hot , re quire every one in his presence to do likewise. Men this year, according to certain fashion authorities, will have a well defined waist. But, o' course, men, of. gibbous build will havv. waists of tthj convex type. ' J The hobos' convention the other day indorsed woman suffrage. It is under stood that the hobos are dissatisfied with the vagrancy laws that the men have made. If the scientists can explode with the F-rays ammunition carried by the gun toters it will prove a very strong argument against carrying the means of shooting. A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush, of course, but those in the bush always seem so much big ger and fatter. Ferdinand may lose the throne of Bulgaria because of his disastrous "second war." To be a czar you have to keep on winning. No .300 batting average will do. "I have kept young on olive oil," says a California man who, at the age of eighty-four years, has married a lady of sixty. Womanlike, she de clines to let us know how she has kept young. The author of a new play expressed the hope, inasmuch as his play is de cent, that the public will soon tire of theatrical filth. His optimism is com mendable, but we fear his hope is de stined to be long deferred.- Chauffeurs get better average wages than school teachers, and that is not surprising,, because chauffeurs are lux uries and school teachers may be look ed upon as necessities, if the youns idea is ever going to shoot. i 1 A -London paper publishes an arti cle telling how it is possible to carry money and other valuables in safety, but the girls don't need to read it. Now that a "divine", courtship car ried on by long-distance phone has been shattered, the aggrieved widow may return her kisses by parcel post. According to her press agent, a cer tain beautiful actrfess has her beauti ful back insured for $35,000. Can she collect damages if she gets a erick in it? A large proportion of the aigrettes confiscated by New York customs of ficials have been found artificial. Eu rope's exploitation of the American anxious 'to purchase the ' foreign! ar ticle has evidently been extremely profitable. College . women are planning war on the tango and similar dances. This is showing the . effect of the higher education to much better advantage than hazing and other adoption of undesirable masculine college . toms. - cus- BRIEFLY TOLD CONDENSED RECORD ' OF EVENTS OF THE WEEK. SEVEN DAYS' NEWS ATA GLANCE Important Happenings in All Parts of the World Summarized for the Busy. Reader. Southern. The number of known dead as a re-; suit of the flood which has spread over the lowlands in a dozen counties in south-central . Texas reached 150, with several thousand refugees ma-. rooned in half-flooded cotton gins and dwelling houses, safe from the water for the time being, but suffering from hunger and exposure. Four-fifths of. the dead and marooned were negro farm hands. Of the. dead the greater number lost their lives in the vicinity of Bryan, where a 30-mile stretch of levee along the Brazos river crumbled under the pressure of the flood. The great danger was starvation. A telegram from Chattanooga, Tenn., announces that Mrs. Fred A. Krause was drowned; her niece, Rosa Wilson, aged 8," was burned to death and several others were injured when a pleasure launch was burned near the dam at Hale's Bar on the Tennes see river. Several members of the party are in the - hospital at Hale's Bar. suffering from shock and expos ure. The fire was caused by the ex plosion of a gasoline tank. TheJoat was a new cne, and had made but three or four trips on the river when the explosion occurred. Twenty-one occupants of the launch were at once enveloped in flames. Instantly they plunged into the water with the ex ception of Rosa Wilsohi April 29 and 3fr' and May 1 have been selected as dates for the 1914 reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, to be held in Jacksonville, Fla. Judge Thomas sentenced L B. Hall to be hanged January 16, 1914, at Tif ton, Ga. Hall shot and killejd Dennis W. Hall, May 10 last. The two fam ilies lived in the same house, but were not related. He was convicted at the July term of Tift superior court and sentenced to be hanged August 22 A stay of execution was granted, pending a hearing before the .state su preme court. The supreme court af firmed, the verdict of. the lower court. With three rivers, the Trinity, Bra- I.20S "and Colorado and innumerable small streams out of their banks as a result of torrential rains, the flood situation in central Texas has assum ed serious proportions. Within a ter ritory 200 miles, in length and 100 miles in width, practically all of the lowlands are under water; approxi mately fifteen -thousand persons have been driven from their homes; scores have been rescued from tree tops and floating wreckage; several railroads have been forced to suspend opera tions and incalculable damage has been done to property. General. Denver awakened to find every manner bf traffic blocked by. more j'than two feet. of snow. Pedestrians made their way with difficulty. Rail road trains were unable to move from the station, and service on most of the' roads was abandoned. f . .The British cabinet, by a royal proc? lamation, promulgated, prohibited the importation of arms and ammunition into Ireland, for the first time grasped the nettle of the revolution in Ulster, although the followers of Sir Edward Carson' have been advertising their military preparations and daring in terference with them. It is stated that the settlement must not be hu miliating or degrading to Ulster. u ster's treatment must not be -different or exceptional from that meted out to the other parts of .the United King dom. Ulster, must retain, full protec tion of the imperial parliament. Chicago women who qualify ,as judges and clerks of elections will not have to tell their ages. This conces sion was granted by County Judge Ow ens, who will make the appointments. "Legal age" will be a 'satisfactory an swer to the question concerning age qualification. Nearly three hundred applications have been received from women who wish to serve as judges or clerks of elections. . The Cincinnati schools were ordered closed and great inconvenience is be ing caused by a water famine due to the bursting of one of the main sup; ply pipes. The central portion of the city and many of the suburbs are with: out water or with an inadequate sup ply, and the situation is becoming worse. The drain on the Eden Park reservoirs, which supply the basin of the city, became so great that Mayor Hunt ordered that whatever water is in them be cut off and used only in fire emergency. The complete route of Huerta's Fed eral army in northern Mexico,, with the frantic flight of his general for safety to the border and the demor alization of the unpaid troops, was established with the arrival at Ojin aga, Mexico, opposite Presidio, of the civilians who deserted Chihuahua City. In the remarkable hegira which struggled for eight days over an 185 mile trail through the desert and en dured great hardships for want of food and water was Gen. Salvador Mercado, Huerta's deposed military governor and commander of the Fed eral northern troops. The sixth cotton ginning report of the census bureau for the season, is sued December 8, announces that 12, 081,000 bales of cotton, counting: round as half bales, of the jrowth of 1913 had been ginned prior to Decem ber 1, to which date during the past A seven years the ginning . average 83.2 per cent, of the entire crop.. Last year to December 1, there had been ginned 11,854,541 hales, or.- 87.9 per: - cen..- of the entire-crop ; in 1911 to that date,' 12,816.807 bales, or 82.4 per cent; and in. ? 908 to that date Il,008,m:. bales; or 84.1 per cent. Including In the ginnings were 75,706 round bales. V EWS users of public' highways In New: York City were killed and 2,149 injured in the ; state, - by, automobiles ' and other motor vehicles over, which the victims had no control, according to a state ment made by Mitchell May, secretary of state. Mr. Majr added that it was apparent that ''there is something rad ically, wrong jboth in the law and its enforcement, as this sacrifice of hu man life, almost double that of last year, is too heavy a toll ' to pay for the : advantages of the automobile.'' Wireless reports received in New York City tell of the rescue of 197 passengers from the steamer Ring rande, or Rio Grande, by the steamer Swanmore, 205 miles northwest of Diamond Shoals. The . Rio Grande had a fire in her hold, and sent out wireless S. O. S. calls for assistance. The Swanmore picked them up and went to the assistance of the burning steamer. She reached the Rio Grande before daybreak. She took off her passenger and, after helping to sub due the flames, put them back on board the Rio Grande, and proceeded on, her voyage, the fire under control. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre have arrived in London, England, and were met . by the American ambassa dor and Miss Paige and driven to the: ambassador's residence, where they will be guests during their stay in London. Mr and Mrs. Sayre, who are on their honeymoon, had a rough crossing on the steamship George Washington. During the first two days out a hurricane raged. The steamer reached Plymouth twelve hours late. The bridal couple, how ever, held to their original program and landed and went to London on a special boat train. The fire which cost the lives of twenty-eight homeless men in the Ar cadia hotel, a low priced lodging house in the south end district of Boston, Mass., has become the subject of eight separate investigations. Some oi these were aimed at determining where lay responsibility for the conditions which made the loss of life so large, and others were directed toward de viling measures to protect hundreds oi Other men forced by circumstances U seek shelter in similar places. Washington. A Washington dispatch says that the house committee on agriculture has favorably reported the "agricul tural extension" bill of Representa tive Lever of South Carolina,; -.. its chairman. Under the measure, the de partment of agriculture would send agents into every farming county in the United States to meet the farmers and give "them information acquired as" the result of many years of agrt. cultural experiments. Those agents would give particular attention tc home economics as well as to the im provement in actual tilling of the soiL Farming will be made more attractive Reorganization of the department of agriculture is foreshadowed in Sec retary Houston's first annual report presented to President Wilson. A plan to be submitted "to congress iE the fiscal estimates for 1916 nronoses .to carry oufe the wok of the1 depart ment in five cu six main groups, such as research, state relations, rural or ganization, forest service, weathei and regulation. Such a plan, Secr& tary Houston believes, will promote co-ordinatron.. Plans for redistricting the country for the enforcement of the pure food laws are announced by the secretary. Hearings before the house commit tee on rules relating to the proposed creation of a standing committee or I equal suffrage closed in Washington The last hours of ,the hearing were occupied by champions of the suf frage movement. No action on. the resolution which would provide for a house equal suffrage committee was taken. The subject will be considered and a report made within a short time It has been reported that many mem bers of the rules committee were se riously considering the extension ol authority to the present standing com mittee on election of president: Secretary McAdoo's first report tc congress is largely confined to a r view of the achievements of the treas ury department in matters that have been of nation-wide interest; to rec ommendations for increased appropri ations for bureaus under his authority, and for legislation, which he declares necessary to the better conduct of the government and the protection of the pecuple. The secretary discussed al length the Subject of currency legisla tion, reviewing the activities in his department' related to it. He details the treasury's offer to loan to banks of the ' country to move the crops. Absolute necessity for dry docks on the Pacific coast in which the great battleships of the Atlantic fleet j can be docked when they pass ' through the Panama canal, has led Secretary Daniels to seek authority , from . congress to ente"r into an un-! usual contract with private dock own'; ers. The collapse of the great Pear harbor dock located in Hawaii, which was to have been the mainstay of the navy, on the west coast, and the in- j accessibility of the Mare Island navy ; yard basins . until a great deal oi dredging has been done, has reduced the naval resources -on the west coast President Wilson told a delegation from the National American Woman's Suffrage Association that he favored a standing woman's suffrage commit tee in the house of representatives, but he denied their request that he send a special message to congress urging the reform. Marching by twos and fours with banners afloat,; the suf fragists braved the chill . winds 6! a raw day to storm the ' whie house offices. They .were soon ushered into the president's - private office, and formed in a circle about the presi dent. Dr.' Anna" 'Howard Shaw summa rized the appeal, td ; the president Requesting an appropriation 'of $34, 016,395 for river and harbor Improve ments and an additional $7,217,500 fof contract work already commenced, Geri. W. H. Bixby, chief of the army engineers, has presented, his annual report to Secretary of War Garrison, General Blxby drew attention to the fact that the appropriations asked re nearly ten million dollars less than those received ' .for the present flscM yean " The current estimates strike r off $7,000,000 from the rivers and har- k.Dors appropriation and deduct $2,S00,' uuo irom the amount asked for in the sundry civil 2ill. v - (Conducted ly the ? National Woman's Christian Temperance Union.) ARMY CUTS OUT; ALCOHOL. ) The Austro-Hungarian arrny, accord ing to the Vienna correspondent of the Journal of the American Medical asso ciation (May 31, 1913), is closely limit ing the use of alcoaoL The present unsettled political con ditions in Europe have resulted in' keeping a large number of soldiers in readiness for. more than half a year, and the provisions for hygienic weK fare of several hundred thousand men are being put to a cruclP tst. A fact worthy of notlco-Ia tfce nearly complete absence of alOOhol 'f rom the daily bill of fare of the soldiers on the frontier. The wate;upply In that country being none too od care b:as been taken to instruct the soldiers in this respect that they are being con stantly told that the old iitatement. "bad water is made innocuous by alcohol" ij a dangerous misrepresenta tion. . f "' " It has also .been ascertained that' whenever a period of endurance was, required of the soldiers those who took no alcohol were much more fit for work than the other men. In mountain climbing the consumption of alcoholic beverages was distinctly de trimental to the accuracy of stepping. The effect of sweetened liquid (sweet tea, coffee or milk) was very gratify ing. The sweet mild black Italian or Turkish wine with a very low per centage of alcohol was ranked with these other beverages, but even this wine was , disallowed when long exer cises were taken. The experiences obtained tsj the army authorities will no doubt lead to a complete elimination of alcohol as "war rations" except for medical use, although here also "experience speaks at least not in favor of an addition of alcohol for pneumonia, typhoid and general debility. ; It is also noted that, total abstainers form a negligible fraction among those soldiers who have tc be punished fur disorderly conduct, breach of dis cipline or other minor offenses of a military nature, although total abstention- is frequent now la the rank and file of the army, for, in the anti alcohol movement In Europe, says the correspondent "our army is one of the leaders." GOOD, BETTER, BEST. Total abstinence for a town or coun ty is good from a business stand point, .but there is something better and that Is total abstinence fof the state. It must certainly be conceded that a state whose taxable property has increased in ten years $1,200,000, 000, or at the rate of $120,000,000 a year is amazinglarpsperous. Kan sas is the commfi!raAlthv of which this, fact Is statedrand ex-Governor Stubbs is the man who vouches for the figures. He further affirms that Kansas contains more taxable prop erty to the citizen than Nevr York or Massachusetts; that its farmers own eighty-five per cent of the bank de posits, and that these have increased at the rate of $10,000,000 a year for ten years; that it has many well populated agricultural counties in which the Jails and , the poorhomses have had no occupants for years. All the other total abstinence states can testify that prohibition brings financial prosperity as well as home happiness and individual well being. WHAT DID JOHN HAVE TO SHOW? In a certain community which was going to vote "wet" or "dry," an Irish man and a publican were discussing the question. Finally, the Irishman, whose given name was John, said to the saloon keeper, "Yes, Bennie, I'm going to vote 'dry next fall." "Now, John, you are joking," said the publi can, "you are too good a friend of mine to, put me out of business. ' Jst think, I have been here twnty years, and all the money I have made have put into th,is business. How am 1 going to get my money back?" The Irishman said: "Well, Ben, I have been here-twenty years, and all the! money I have made I have put intd.' your business. 1 How am i going to get back my money?" "- : :- . , INSURANCE AND LIQUOR." The following strong temperance testimony has just been - given by ao Industrial insurance "main : ."'in Mun cie. a city of about . 35,000, bur com pany placed many -policies,, the pay ment of which were mefc jtromptly and cheerfully. Last year' the city voted wet, since which time1 our collectors have had the greatest difficulty in se curing payments. In fact, delinquent payments and lapsed policies are now the rule instead of the exception. The industrial insurance men inHhe fu ture will all vote for' a" temperance city, because it sustains and promotes their business." LONG AND SHORT ELOQUENCE. Several pages of a certain number of the Congressional Record are taken up by a speech of Congressman Bar tholdt on Personaal Liberty a de fense t of the liquor traffic. But what is all the long eloquence of this rep resentative as apainst this short elo quence of a woman writer to the Star: "My husband is also a Arm, believer in personal liberty, therefore the saloons get his money and my personal lib erty consists in. washing and scrub bing in order to feed -my children." WHITE EMBLEM. White Includes all the prismatic colors, so the white ribbon stands for all phases of reform, and there is no phase ' which the drink curse has not rendered necessary. Our emblem holds within itself the colors of all nations and stands for universal parity and patriotism, universal prohibition and philanthropy, and universal peace. Frances E. Willard. ' i - BAD ANY DAY. If an open .saloon Is bad on electioa day, it is bad on any day. '.. ' Everybody- Should Join in Universal Farm Uplift the FARM METHODS ARE LACKING Farmers Can Easily Grow Twice Aver ge of Staple 'Crops Many Great Industrial Corporations of Country Are Interested. (By O. H. ALFOED.) - We have between the average and the best In farming in the cotton belt an attainable 1,000 per cent. This dif ference of 1,000 per cent, against the average farmer is due wholly" to con-' ditions which he can easily control with the necessary knowledge. Every corporation and business man interest ed in the welfare of the country should join forces with the United States de partment of agriculture, agricultural colleges, experiment stations, state de partments of agriculture and other forces and conduct, great educational campaigns until the foolish and crim inal waste that is going on every year by reason of unscientific methods of farming is a thing of the past Our farmers can grow easily twice the average yield of our staple crops. This increase would pour many mil lions of dollars annually into our Industrial channels. Such an addi tion could not be made without touch ing every corporation, every banker, every storekeeper, every doctor, every lawyer, every editor and; in fact, every person in the country. Many of t the great industrial corpo rations of ' the country have already joined forces with national and state institutions and are helping the farm ers to larger production and to larger life, and are thereby contributing to the prosperity and uplift of the whole people. Some people may attribute this to pure selfishness, but from out of that selfishness will evolve a better condition among the farmers, greater comforts in living, and more luxuries of life and better :opportunities for the farmers to educate their sons and daughters thus the presumed selfish ness contains' within It a resulting philanthropy. ,. During the last ten years our' acre yield Increased, but not half as much as the increase of population. There fore, there is every inducement to do good farming, and to do good farming we must decrease the number of the acres of cotton and increase the num ber devoted to pastures, forage crops and live stock. We have all heard the old-Dutch proverb quoted before, but we cannot quote it too often: "No grass, no stock; no steck, no manure; no manure, no' crop." Holland is al most entirely a grass and stock coun try, and latds are worth on an aver age of $500 per acre. These people have found that they can make more out of land from grasses and live Btock than they can by cultivating it Unnumbered acres of hill land in the cotton belt are making less than one-third bale of cotton per acre, and at the same time making poverty for those tilling them. . The cost of com mercial fertilizer applied annually is appalling. The razor-back -terraces, covered with weeds, grass and briars, and the circled and short rows pre vent the use of labor-saving imple ments. Millions of acres of poor hillside land'' now producing less than one third bale of cotton per acre should be plowed deep, well fertilized with acid phosphate and some nitrogen and some potash, when needed, and plant ed In summer and winter legumes for, say, two years, and then sodded in Bermuda grass, lespedeza, crimson nnd HOW PLANT FOOD CAN BE RETURNED TO SOIL 1 By Barnyard Manure. 2 By Growing and Feeding " Clover, Alfalfa, Etc. . 3 By PJdwing Under Green .- Crops. . . ' 4 By Plowing Under. Corn stalks, Stubble, Straw, Etc. 5 By Applying Commercial Fertilizers, burr clovers. Only5 by this, method nd -stock raising can our wornout. gullied cotton lands be restored to fer tility and only in this way can the people of our southland become pros perous and contented. - v i . We have worn out our lands . In the quickest possible time by growing cot ton and ' rigidly excluding ' grasses, clovers and live stock. We have de pleted the soil of vegetable matter aiid' it has 'washed away. This poor soil means a poor people, and the poor SALT NECESSARY FOR - SHEEP Lives of Score . or More of i Animals May Be Sacrificed for Want of Substance During Year. A handful of salt is . a . mere matter, hut the : life of a score ot. sheep, or more, may be sacrificed for the want of It any time during the year,"' writes William, Henry, in an exchange. The first result of this want is falling oft of the appetite, or the appetite becomes perverted and all kinds of rubbish will be sought to supply the want. But in either case the .result is 'the same. , " . .; 'v. ; "" ; .' - ; " - -. ; The food Is not duly digested and the nutriment of it is wasted, and so far as these failures go the animals starve. " A supply of salt Is thus one of the most exacting necessities of not only sheep, but the. stock as well,- and ' as domesticated,' animals are wholly de , pendent ..on thUr 'owners , or keepers for their substance, if this food which salt realls is 4s not duly sujk plied, the animal! must in fact starve! not only tor ma want of ' salt, , but people means bad roads, -uncomfort able home-C poorly equipped farms, very little education,; the ; credit sys tem,' and all'that retards civilization. The last census shows that our pop ulation Increased 21 per cent in the preceding decade, while our meat' pro ducing animals decreased more than 10 per cent We are facing a very serious situation. The meat-producing animals must be grown on the farm. The farmers will not long continue to grow stock at a loss. The conditions must he such that stock, falsing - is profitable or the farmers will sooner or later go out of the business en tirely. ; ';-'. - The cotton belt has an overwhelm ing advantage over every, other sec tion in Uve stock raising. We have Farm Ownership and Tenantry- Percentage of Farms In the U. S. Operatd by Owner or by Tenant. "Census 1900." Cotton .'"-' D Tobacco Sugar Hay and Grain Rice V . C Vegetables Miscellaneous Dairy Products C live Stock Fruit C Flowers -Plant Nursery Prod's C Classified by Source of Income. great climatic advantages that, per mit outdoor pasturing and feeding .dur ing the whole, or the greater part, of the year. We can obtain large yields of oats, leguminous crops, Johnson and Bermuda grasses, sorghum cane hay and an abundance of corn for making . silage,- the most economic fpfm of carbohydrates. The keep ing of good cattle and the Intelli gent use of thoroughly good, perman ent pastures and grazing crops, and the economic use of the silo and cot tonseed meal will make our lands rich, keep millions of dollars at home that are now sent to the north and west, and make our people prosperous. Tho calamity howler says: '"What about the lack of lime In the soft?" Dr. Tait Butler, probably the best-posted man on southern agriculture, says, In summing up a most excellent editorial on "Lime In Southern Feeds:" "We have shown: (1) That our soils are not deficient in lime as regards the plant food requirements of our crops; (2) that plants grown in the south have as much ash as the same plants grown elsewhere, and that the feed crops of the , south, especially the legumes peculiar to the south, contain as high a per cent, of ash as the feed crops of other sections; (3) that typical southern rations" are those made up of typical southern feeds and contain 'more ash than typical north ern feeds. The conclusion is, there fore, that while our animals, fail to get the mineral matter they need, it is not because this material is de ficient in our feeds, but because our animals do not get sufficient of our feeds." In the cotton belt, live stock farm ing has been avoided mainly for two reasons: (1) Because all-cotton farm ing paid better until the soil became poor; (2) because of the cattle tick, Now, millions of acres are too poor to grow cotton profitably and we can easily eradicate the cattle tick. Since the work of eradicating the. tick was inaugurated, nearlr 200,000 'square miles have been cleaned for all time; this is an area over three times as large as Alabama. The tick injures the hide, reduces the milk fioW at least ten per cent., makes it very dif ficult to fatten cattle, prevents the in troduction of good cattle to breed up our native cattle, lowers the price' of tur cattle on the markets and destroys moro than enough cattle every year to pay for its eradication.-: The invasion ot the boll weevil and the consequent reduction of the profits of cotton 'growing is forcing . many farmers to grow crops which must of necessity be marketed through the agency of live stock, and it is the func tion .of live stock on the farm to fur nish a. market for the crops that are grown, enabling the farmers to ' con vert" grasses, forage crops, cow peas and soy beans, and so on,, into higher priced, finished products and to return to the soil the plant food taken from it. The greatest need of the farmers of the cotton belt at present is more .grass, and more live stock, and those who assist in eradicating the cattle tick and in otherwise helping to create conditions that will enable farmers to grow two" good animals In the place of one scrub is surely as great a benefactor as those who cause two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before. ; Li7e stock should certainly be given a prominent place in the agricultural development of the cotton belt. Next to having good and intelligent people in a countryf . good live stock is probably of the most importance. through the failure of the digestive or gans to perform their functions for the need of it. .Cause of I m potency. v Impotency.pf the herd boar is usual ly due -to one of three causes: first, overfeeding; second, lack of exercise;' third, abuse in overservlce. A boar should be in good condition at the start of the breeding season, and be well fed at all times, but breeding is a tax en vitality. . A boar should not be confined. In a little coop where he cannot get such exercise as he de sires. A . boar should Hot run loose with the sows or allowed to give more than one, at most two services a day, especially In the case of the spring boar. Lack of observance of any one of these three points may quite pos sibly delay or even entirely I lose for you a good crop of pigs next spring . 'v Best Milk Pallal -r: 1 -Never use a milk pall with a seam ft you can help iL There ' are now tnanufactored .pressed palls out of single sheet of metal which are Ideal for cleanliness. FAIRFAX HARRISON SUCCEEDS Finny VIRGIN IAN A ND FORMER VICE: PRESIDENT CHOSEN TO HEAD SOUTHERN RAILWAY. LATE PRESIDENT PRAISED Harrison FInley's' Close Adviser,. Will Continue His Policies and Work For Upbuilding South. New York. Fairfax Harrison, for- merly yiceresident of the Southern Railway Company and for- the .last . three years president of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louis ville Railway Company, of which the Southern is part owner, was elected president of" the ' Southern Railway ; Company to succeed the late William Wilson Fin ley,1 a special meeting of the board -of directors being held for the pur pose of filling the vacancy caused by Mr. Finley's death. . V Mr. Harrison is a Virginian, his home being at BelvOlr, Virginia. He is peculiarly identified with the South, as his father was , private secretary to Jefferson Davis while president of" the Confederate States, and all his railroad experience has been with the Southern and its associated lines. Mr. Harrison was born in 1869 and was. graduated from Yale with the A. B. degree in 1890, and from Columbia, with the A. M. degree in 1891. He was admitted, to the bar In New YorK in 1892 and continued the practice of law in this city until 1896, when he entered the service of the Southern. Railway in the legal department as so licitor. In 1903, he was made assist ant to the president, and in 1906 be came vice president, which position, he held until 1910, when he resigned on being elected president of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville. He, however, continued as a director -of the Southern Railway so that his service with the parent company has. been uninterrupted. "". Mr. Harrison was one of Mr. Fin ley's closest and most trusted advis ors and is thoroughly in sympathy with'the policies which made Mr.-Fin-ley's -administration so successful bot"f for pie Southern Railway Com pany: and - the territory served by its lines. Though" Mr. Hjarrison entered the. service of the Southern In the legal department, his 1 experience has not been confined to that branch of the service. He has given much study to financial, traffic and operating prob lems and is . intimately acquainted with conditions on the Southern Rail way and throughout the section which it traverses. Asj president of the Chicago, Indianapolis - and "Louisville; " he was actively In charge of the oper ation of the railway, so that he" comes to the ' Southern Railway prepared by practical experience as well as the most detailed knowledge of the details of its affairs to take up the duties of chief executive.,. Mr. Harrison was- also elected president of the Ala bama? Great Southern ' Rallrokd, the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and tvirgin- tit and Southwestern Railway. ' Resolutions deploring the death , of Mr. FInley and paying a high tribute for his work for the' railways he .. headed and the. territory they served were adopted by the board of direc tors of the Southern Railway, the Mo bile and Ohio Railroad, the Alabama Great Southern Railroad and the Vir-" ginla and Southwestern f Railway. These resolutions will 1 tbe printed throughout the South. Immediately following his election, President Har rirfon e.aie out tbe following state ment: . "I am In entire accord and sympa thy with the policies of my lamented friend, Mr. Finley, under whom I have worked for seventeen years. I hope to continue to build the South em as he built it by promoting and enhancing its usefulness to and its cordial relations with the people of the South. I count on the support of the entire present working organiza tion of the Southern, rank, and file. Having grown up In the service with most of them, I know' how to Value them and I am proud to believe that they are my. friends." . . .England Ready For Changes. London British ship owners and merchants, in ' every line of : produce and manufacture, have carefully laid plans for any change that will come over the trade of the world as a result of the opening of the Panama Canal. All shipping companies that have in terests in the countries benefitted by the new waterway have either added, to their tonnage or made perparations for doing so, and in every case -t will le found that the steamers built are of the size considered most suit able for the transit of the -canal. Treasury .Department Achievements. Washington.- Secretary McAdoo's first report to congress is, confined to a review of the achievements of the treasury department in matters that have been of nation-wide Interest; to recommendations for increased appro priations for: bureaus under his .au thority and for legislation,-' which, he declares, necessary to the better con-i duct of the government The secre tary discusses at some length the sub ject of currency legislation reviewing the activities in his" department relat ed to it. " . v'1;. ':.-,-! Save" Much . For . Cotton Growers. Philadelphia.'. To mature ' cotton bolls artifically, saving millions of dol tars annually to planters, producing a better seed and eventually exterminat- . ing: the boll ' weevil is the dream" of John B. Hall, Inventor,; and the Hall I Cotton Reclaiming ' 'company, incor A porated In the State of Delaware with an initial capital of $100,000. ; It reads ; like a 'Mulberry Seller's ; orosnecrnn. . " ret Che dream of the. inventor and his ' 5ompany; gives promise" of early, real- r A i -S3 f,-:-Htti tfi a?s i. i -; ' S..V-..- 1 !. - 1.: -T :ii 'j : r-'ii i "
China Grove Record (Salisbury, N.C.)
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