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I rj0pM B SHKRRiLb .Editor a nd Publlaher. PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK. ' , 1 OO A ' YKJet. Dot TW ADVAW. VoLUrE XXXII! CONCORD, N. C, TUESDAY. MARCH 19, 1907. Number "76 - . ' . " '- i in nn-ir 1,1 i, ,i. m , - i m... m mi . i. n 2 . 1 - -L..- -M LTWO BALES OF COITON PER ACRE f h( iv h scarcely a limit to the ways" in which a , nji'jy achieve financial success. The arts, j.iofcssions, farming, merchandising and Ilj:Ulr,f;HtunigJjave all contrihuted to our men . ujaltli, hut there is one. which must the thoughtful person, . ' !J'! No A,an Ever W. -With-out Making Use of itHfank. kh m ) ', .'thought ever occur to you ? The bank account is the j.t;v 'I,1.,,,j.ortimity. Deposit your earnings in this Strong Bank, wliere tliey will be carefully guarded for you 'and your growing account will open the way to . , ipiusju'rity. We offer you every inducement -I in the way of safety, service and consid-' era t ion. .. . ' . i - '. i $ o '&.vvvwvvk)$s jfo the Farmers ! Wtv. have bought a large lot of" .. TOBACCO .. and will make you a wholesale price hv the box. - Buffalo Bill at $2.75 per box. Tagless - at $2.75 per box. Tliis Tobacco is worth $4.00 per box in a retail way. We also have a large lot of FRESH MACKEREL ' 100 Mackerel in a tub, which we will sell in a tub at $3.25 a tub.. . . ' '('a 1.1-and see us aim 'bring, your produce. The D. J. Bost Co. f Wtiy a NATIONAL BANK is Best " 1. O. A National Bank is, under the supervision of the United States Government. Laws governing National Banks are very strict. They are required to submit to the government a sworn detailed statement FIVE TIMES a year. The stockholders are held responsible for DOUBLE the amount of their stock. This is for the benefit of the depositors. ; The capital stock is required to be paid in cash, and must be held intact for the benefit of the depositors. The Rank is required each year to add to its surplus Hceount before declaring dividends. This Is for the tprtber security of the depositors. A National Bank cannot loan more than 10 per cent, of its capital to one man or firm. . The oncord National Bank Capital $1000 Surplus and Undivided Profits $26,000 . No large amount required to start an account. " : t The Cure ..... 1 . . .... '. : Do You Know What It Does? It relieves a person of all desire for strong drink or drugs, restores his nervous sys tem to its normal condition, and rein states a man to his home and business. For full particularsd dress, THE KEBLEY INSTITUTE, GREENSBORO, N. C. GIVE THIS BEAUTIFUL ' PICTURE, h. r iha teM it will t th beautiful picture free by returB m.U ThettuiiJul picture i. died "Fruits f Flower.." The rich fruitt ere io natural tht it eeeiM w if jou eould Lt toiS nd yoVcsn .lmort .m.U their refrerfun, Kent. Th. pXn U 1 b, 20 incbe. in 14 .bimmerinf wlon jurt right for frliiint-i .plendid orwrneS for ny dumf room. BE THE FIRST .werthi.edvertUemeiittheflraf to do Jurtone lime itot ror mo, r"- ---- - - of your neirhbor. to tui me only 10 eenta i ech and to eh picture IB connenm. wiui .iv. . , . -- - - -a minute to .peak to two friend, about thi. and they will eurnlT thank you for having-told them of the treat offer at 10c KEMEMBER you aend no money, you need pa, nothing forthepictureaeither now nor afterward. Bethiarrttownte. On a portal or In a letter aa, "Dear Mr. Rn kin Mr. Broom Outlines tbe Methods by Which He is Working Toward This Kesult. Progresitive Farmer. There 'are some grave problems confronting the cotton growers of the South, to-wit, the labor problem, the problem of maintaining a profit able price for cotton, and to the cot ton growers in the eastern states the problem of so producing the cost of production that they may success fully compete with the cotton grow ers further west. And the sooner we set ourselves to the task of their solution the better. The time is coming is even now at hand when slip-shod, go-as-you-please metho'ds will not avail, but when business sense and business methods must be applied to our farming operar tions.- vi This number of the Progressive Farmer is : a Cotton Special, and its design is to help Ilhe cotton farmers in its territory to solve he problems named above. And Mr. Poe has asked us to write on the subject, "Making Two Bales an Acre Without Hand-Chopping : ' The Result I Am Working Toward"-and that we re late our own experience. We sup pose Mr. Poe used the phrase "with out hand-chopping," because of the statement, or mis-statement rather, that he saw in a local paper that we had not put a hoe in our cotton crop in 1906. The truth is. we did do some hand-chopping, but far less than we ever did before, notwith standing we had the wettest season to make a crop m our recollection. And as to making two bales an acre, we are glad Mr. Poe mentioned it, as the result I m working toward, for we have not yet made two bales an acre, but don't deny that we are working toward it. Others are doing it, why not we We long since decided that we at least would not grow it for half a bale an acre. So we went to study ing the conditions of soil improve ment. The agricultural papers and the Experiment Station Bulletins told us that ( Dppn nlmitrhinty. and (2) Terracing to prevent washing: (3) A rotation of crops, and the growing of such catch crops ts peas and clover for hay, or to be turned under; f (4) The growing; of winter cover crops to prevent leaching du ring the winter; (5) The careful saving of home made manure; and " (6) The judicious use hi commer cial fertilizers j would tend to a steady inpruyement of the soil s condition. We at once began to put in practice these prin ciples. This was seven .years ago, when we gave up all other pursuits, and began to devote our whole at- tention to the farm- We remember iri this first year we were ploughing, along in May, in a field that had been in cotton tne previous year, in fact, every year since it had been brought into , culti vation, and it was producing but lit tle more than half what it did when fresh when two neighbors came along and asked what we were going to plant there : "Corn," we replied. "Well, you will get a good crop, they said. "That's what we want," we an swered. 'But vou will rum your land, they rejoined. They say it improves it, we re- Plied. "Who says so I" tney asKea. "Those fellows down at Raleigh, and we outlined our plans as stated above. "You follow those fellows at Ra leigh rfhd you'll SCO where you land," was trjje parting shot. (We want to say, however, these men, who are intelligent fanners, see differently now.) v Well, let s see where we did land, taking that particular field : We gathered 25 bushels corn per acre that first year, had peas sowed in com, and seeded to oats that fall. Made 40 bushels of oats 'per acre. Sowed peas and cut for hay, two tons per acre; seeded to crimson clover and oats for hay, cut the first week in May, and planted to cotton 18th of May and made over a bale per acre. Seeded to rye as a winter cover, and planted to corn the next spring, and gathered 40 bushels per acre; peas again in corn, and seeded to oats, making 51 bushels per acre. Then seeded to peas and sorghum, and cut for hay. It is now in rye and clover and will be used for graz ing when ground is dry for milch cow, brood mare and colts until mid dle of April, whep it will be turned for cotton, and we are expecting a larger crop than we have ever grown on it. N We would not make the impres sion that all of our cultivated land is in so high a state of cultivation, but we usually average a bale per acre. We sometimes vary the rotation, and put wheat after cotton and then to peas, after wheat is off, ; followed by oats in the fall, peas again after the oats, then a winter cover, the main purpose of the rotation being to keep the soil m in such condition as would "tbi to the highest develop ment of thf. cotton plant the chief money crop. ! But the rotation has been! produc tive of other results. For instance, we sold last year's grain and f orange crops and their concomitants, such as pork, pigs butter, chickens and eggs, approximately $500 worth, and still have more than plenty to meet this yea-i's' crop. Besides, we have fed a brood mare and two mule colts; the increase in their value would add $100 jto the above. We run a two-horse " farm, ; have forty-five acres in cultivation, and we, with the help of our son, who is less than thirteen years of age, do all the work except as a neighbor is pressed in now and then. Our fertilizer bill has never exceeded $135 per year for all crops, j : " We are not boasting or bragging. Others are doing much better. We only relate this part of our. experi ence that others may be encouraged to adopt the same methpds methods which improve the soil, ' increase the yield of cotton per acre, and put money into the pocket at the same time and insure plenty to- eat at home, and give the cotton crop as a surplus. Another good way of increasing the yield per acre, and a very impor tant way it is, too, is that of im proved seed selection. In fact, this is the first requisite to a maximum yield. And there is no plant that responds more quickly to the efforts to improve it, than the cotton plant. In this way, we believe, it is possi ble to increase the yield one-fourth, or even one-third, in a few years' time. By the methods outlined above we are working towards two bales to the acre. We want to utter a word of caution about ploughing. Plow dee i). but be sure the clay is dry. What you want is to make dust not brick-bats. All other ettorts toward improvement of the soil are useless if the land is plowed when too wet. T. J. W. Broom. Union County, N. C. ACTS 07 TEX LEGISLATURE. JfJL Makes the finest, light est,best flavored biscuit, hot -breads, cake and pastry. Renders the food n more digestible and wholesome. ABSOIUUIEIV - PURE. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. NEW YOK. A Summary of th New Laws-Mass of Miscellaneous Measures. Cor. Charlotte OtNttrrrr. Raleigh, March 14. It has been the custom of The Observer corre spondent for the past 30 years, that is, for fifteen sessions of the Legisla ture, to look over the list of the acts in order to get the ones which are most important to the people of North Carolina, and he is able now to furnish them. THE IMPORTANT RESOLUTION'S. The following are the most impor tant resolutions which were adopted : Requesting Congress to vote for the Appalachian Forest Reserve arid asking the Governor to go to Wash ington;Jkj the interest of that measure. Endorsing the second Hague Peace conference. Endorsing the Jamestown Exposi tion, appropriating $20,000 more to it and allowing the North Carolina building to be sold and the proceeds used by the commission. Making a $5,000 gift to the cruiser North Carolina. : Urging Congress to improve the upper Cape Fear river. Also urging it to prohibit po lygamy. j To secure a change in the constitu tion so senators will be elected by a direct vote of the people. Bills were passed eliminating whis key from the following counties : Burke, Lincoln, Catawba, McDowell, Madison, Cherokee, Macon, Cabar rus, Cleveland, Rutherford, North ampton, Stanly, Scotland, Cumber land and Mecklenburg. ROAD IMPROVEMENTS. Thirty counties were- allowed to improve their roads 'and very large bond issues were allowed to be voted on for this purpose in the counties of Franklin, Forsythe. Durham, Rowan, Wake, Cabarrus, Granville and Buncombe, ranging from $100, 000 to $300,000. , FOR SCHOOL. In the way of schools and school matters, bills passed incorporating the Stonewall Jackson Training School or reformatory, i i To establish a manual training school in the mountains, j To establishing a teachers training school in the East. , A school of Technology at fc'pray. To aid the Elhannan Orphanage at Marion. . I To allow elections to , be held in townships or school districts upon the subject of compulsory education. f To require deaf muies to attend the State school at J&org&nto.n. and to limit the attendance to North Carolina children. I To require 16 weeks attendance each year of children between a.?es of 8 and 14 years. ; I To provide a &ife and adequate water supply for all schools, public and private. Creating a system of public high sbhools, the number for each county to be fixed by the State superintend ent of public instruction to be not less than one or more than four. RAILWAY' MATTERS. A great deil of attention was giv en railway riatters, and the follow- ibgr are the important bills which passed : To hx the maximum passenger rate at 21 cents per mile. I To regulate freight rates and pre- veni unjust aiserimination. To prevent public drinking in pas senger cars. To require railways to keep pas senger cars clean. To allow conductors and station agents to arrest drunk, disorderly or boisterous persons. To allow railways to construct belt lines at towns. To require one director and one incorporator of all railways to be a citizen and resident of this btate. To allow the corporation commis sion to require union depots in towns of 2.000 persons. To require street railways to pro vide - separate accommodations for negroes and whites To prevent stealing of goods in transit, and also to prevent stealing of brasses and other railway prop erty. To greatly enlarge' the powers of i the corporation commission. MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES. Other important bills of a miscel laneous character are as follows : To restore dentists to their former dignity as doctors. To allow judges and magistrates to exclude all persons except those concerned in trials for felonious as sault. v i To allow benevolent associations to receive, buy, hold or sell real or per- armal estate- To regulate sales of leaf tobacco on warehouse floors and require re ports to the agricultural department, i To prevent usury and extortion. s To extend for two years the time for settling the State debt. To promote public decency by pun ishing people for using indecent signs, writings and pictures in public. To allow the Governor to appoint special police for water power, trans2 portation and construction compa nies. f I To provide for the care of the men tally deficient by providing special institutions for them. I To prevent the sale of adulterated or misbranded foods, drugs, medi cines and liquors. To increase the number of State challenges in all cases less than cap ital ) To allow the Governor traveling expenses. To allow judges to send criminal boys under 16 to the reformatory or county home. To extend the crime of vagrancy so as to include keepers or inmates of disorderly houses. To prevent and punUh trust and combines. - To authorize the State board of health to provide for preventive treatment of tuberculosis by means of a hospital in Moore county. To regulate the writing of pre scriptions by; physicians. To protect electrical power trans mission lines. To require the penitentiary to pay its debt bonds of 1S99. amounting to $110,000 and to pay $175,000 of its earnings into the treasury to go to the central fund. To separate tuberculosis prisoners. To require the commissioners of agriculture and the board of agri- ture to be practical farmers. To require registration of trained nurses. To protect makers and dealers in mineral waters. To amend the law regarding re moval of cloud on tiles. To protect primary elections and conventions and punish frauds thereat. To pay half fees to officers and wit nesses where no true bill is found. To extend time for obtaining land grants. To regulate osteopathy and create a State board of examiners. To protect hotel and boarding house keepers. lo prescribe the hours of service for railway employes operating trains. 1 To establ ish a State board of eq ual ization for the assessment of real estate. ( To regulate the hours of the labor of children in. factories. To amend the landlord and tenant law. To so amend the general road law that county commissioners can let the working of road3 ..by contracts by sections. To enable the State to make proof of the possession of whiskey licenses, issued by the government in prose cuting offenders. To limit the poll tax to $2 in cities and towns. To provide for the display of the State flag on all courthouses, schools and other public buildings. To exclude minors under 18 from pool rooms, barrooms, etc. To prohibit corporations from pre venting public improvements by other corporations by preventing occupancy of land for right-of-way. lo place all telephone lines under the porporation commission. To promote the oyster industry. To punish fraud in giving worth less checks, drafts and orders. To create the office of fish commis sioner, To require express companies to pay. claim for loss or damage to property. Tp secure imxnijrraUon bi Korth Carolina; appropriating $10,000, half from the State, half from It Agri cultural department. To secure a statue of Zeb Vane to be placed in statuard hall at the Cap itol at Weington. - To fix the saJarie of State officers and to retire fee to be turned into the State Treasury. To make general election , day legal holidayv To make the pension appropria tion .00.000. an increase of HIS . 000.? V There were bills, of course, carry ing increased appropriations for all the State institutions, some forty in number. ' They An Too Baty Otbonrtso. tnegrbur Ttmt and Ifcmocntt. There are no printcn In . the Ohio penitentiary. While the printer! were in the penitentiary tbejr issued a publication, but' suddenly it was discontinued and upon inquiry it was found that there was not a printer left in imprisonment. It is said that there are enough bankers there to start a clearing house, enough preach ers to-form a ministerial association, and brokers to operate a stock ex change. The moral is obvious, even if one does have to improve oo Mark Twain to point it out. Mark-said: "Be good and you'll be printers." But really this is weH for: the craft ' and we note it with pJeasare.-: As s rule the printers are the most intel ligent class of workingmen wo have, and we are glad to know that when it comes to being crood thev ara in a class to themselves. KemarkabU Occomaco. Jrirerxm, S.V., t'tlin. Several ynars ago a farmer near Chester Moid, whose modesty forbids the publication of his name. hung hi3 vest on the barn yard fence. A calf cl ewed up a pocket in the gar ment in which was contained a. stan dard gold watch. Last week the an imal, a staid old milch cow, was butchered for beef and the timepiece was found in such a position between the lungs of the cow that Lh pro cess of respiration had kept the stem winder wound up, and the watch had lost but four minutes and two and a half ticks in seven years. It is one of the most remarkable occur ences we ever heard of. A Beautif ul Verb." At Christmas party in upper fifth avenue the other night there was an interesting and highly amusing' dis cussion of the Carnegie discredited spelling. A wise young blade, dis coursed eloquently on part of speech. A beautiful young woman asked: "What part of a speech am IT" He answered instantly:' " Your arc an abstract noun." "I! An abstract noun, sir! Why am I not a verb?" "Because no one has ever yet been able to conjugate you." u J3 IT'S TTQ ZrC. See this Machine and hear it play. Sample Machine by Express rif i I .J. onipmeni on me way. Free with Every $50.00 "Worth. of Cash.- Business. .,. We have arranged with the Standarc 1 Phonoharp Co. to give one of those splendid Machines free, You buy nothing, but the Records, and you don't have to buy the Records. You don't have' to 'buy fifty dollars worth at a time or in one day,, week, month or year. We give you coupon with every dollar you pay us until vou have the desired amount, oee ! It's iust as easv to own one of those splendid Machines as falliug off a log.-The Store that Satisfies is behind it Ck)me and see. 11LW HUH : I PI h u s t i;
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