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THE Danbury Reporter. N, E. & E. P. PEPPER, Publishers. TERMS TO ANT ADDRESS : One year, sl, Q mo. 50c.; 3 mo. 25 FEBRUARYS; woe PROGRESSIVE REIDSVILLE. The business men of Reichsville had a big mass meeting last week at which resolutions were passed to build an electric road or dummy line into Caswell county. Com mittees were appointed, money was raised to bear preliminary ex panses, and the project will be to early consummation. Caswell is rich in timber and agri cultural resources, and the busi ness men of Reitlsville are wise in thus arranging to tap this rich vein of trade, before somebody elte heads them off. And this reminds us that the sime enterprise might with profit b) looking this way. There are a 1 irge number of .moneyed men in this county and outside who have ■1 >ng looked upon.an electric line np Dan river via iJladison, Dillard, D.mbury and* Piedmont Springs,, at a practicableJind feasible invest ment and moreover one that would from-the start pay good dividends. The grading would be trilling, and a. section rich in lumber, minerals, water power, summer r .-sorts, and produce would be opened. And the thousands of loads of tobasco that are now dragged many miles through the mtid to market would be at once diverted to easier and more profit able channels. Shrewd capitalists of Greens boro, Danville and Martinsville hive been watching the trade of Stokes and the back mountain cjunties, and they are eager to control it. The evolution of the Reidsville CaHwell enterprise will bj watched with interest. A PERNICIOUS PRACTICF. The farmers are making prepara tions for another big crop of the In dian weed, and the plantbed-burn ing season is now on hand in full blast. A few months ago Mr. W. A. Petree, of King, who is a farm er of advanced ideas, told in these columns how plantbeds could be prepared at infinitely less expense and trouble, and without the wholesale destruction of fuel that is witnessed on the average farm today. This method Mr. Petree and many others have tried and found to be entirely satisfactory. The "burning" of plantbeds is a pernicious practice. It is rapidly deforesting our lands, and there fore making us poorer. As an instance of its extreme destructive ness, take the farm of Mr. J. S. Taylor, near Danbury. Here, Mr. T'tylor toll 3 the Reporter, about ten acres of woodland are destroy ed every year to furnish fuel for his plantbeds and those of his tenants. Then when we reflect that that this is the case on nearly nil the farms in Piedmont North Carolina and Virginia, we can readily conclude that the day is not far distant when our noble forests and beautiful woodlands, which were the pride of our fath er*, will be only a memory, and wo shall be face to face with all the evds attendant upon such a situation. Tlie Reporter is having a good tleftl of trouble on account of a break in the press. This has been largely responsible for the lateness nf several issues lately. The friends of the paper are requested to be patient. We hope to get things in better shape early, as we hi'e now negotiating for the pur chase of a fast tr press ond folder, SUGGESTIONS IMPRACTICABLE. Prof. Tait Butler's Reply to R. P. McAnally's Recent Letter in Reporter. Raleigh, Jan. 19, 190(1. Mr. R. P. MoAnnally, Saxon, N. C. My clear sir : Please aocept my thanks for your letter of recent date, which would have been answered moro promptly but for uiy absence in tho eastern part of the stiito attend ing Farmers' I am go ing to reply scmewnat at to your kindly criticisms on tin* Experiment Station work ; but I hope you will understand that be cause 1 do so is no evidence that I fail to appreciate your letter or tho kindly spirit it! which 1 be lieve it was written. lu the first piffle, the Institute work atul the Experiment Station work are entirely different. The function of the Institute being to carry to the people results obtain ed by the Experiment Stations. However, I believe that you are iitistaken in iiio'sf of your state men%regardirtg the Experiment Station work of this state, and,* for'that reason,* I take the liberty to reply to* your criticisms. It may be tnue, as V'oorhees states, that*l-10 of the stable manures wasted in the United States is equal ty the cost of.the commercial fertilizers used, but this certainly does not apply to North Carolina. For last year we used about § 1,000,000 worth of commercial fertilizes, and we fed, according to the last census, about §10,000,- 000 worth of products to live stock. You will readily see that if §!),000,- 000 is only 1-10 of the value of our stable manures, then it must increase the fertilizer value of the food products nine fold to feed it to live stock. If tliis were true, it certainly would be the best argu ment I have yet seen for the keep ing of live stock in North Caro lina. The true facts are probably that we waste only 1-10 in stable manure what our fertilizer bills cost us. The reason not being because we carefully save our stable manure, simply because we do not make them. Moreover, there is no work that has ever been done at institution which has paid a better profit on the cost that has the fertilizer control work of this state. For it is a well known fact that previous to • • 6 r> . i % 1:1 L 0 v' L ! is a common cxpr«rs i 5-1 , i [g| S!on wc - ; l every side. Unless thc:s rr.s organic trouble, tii c; r.- ':_n can doubtless be rcrr.cdicd. our doctor is the best adviser. .')o not dose yourself v iih ail • nds of advertised remedies his opinion. More (hen likely you need a concentrated fat food to enrich \our blood ana (one up (he system. Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is just such a food in its best form. It will build up the weakened and wasted body when all other foods fail to nourish. If you are run down or emaciated, give it a trial s it cannot hurt you. It is essentially the best possible nourishment for delicate children and pale, anaemic girls. We will send you a sample free. Be jure that this picturt In the form of a label is on vX. IV-A the wrapper of every Vottl* of Emulsion you buy. Pjfftrjl I scon & BOWNE ML" Chemists -tj Jjf } 409 Ptarl Street, New York " 50c. and sl. All Druggists this supervision of the fertiliser ; trade, tons of fertilisers were sold for S2O that did not oontain $lO worth of plant feed. In fsot, the saving to the farmers, resulting from the fertitizer oontroi work, is worth many times the entire cost of maintaining the State De partment of Agriculture. Now, as to the work of the North Carolina Station and Test Farms not being down to the level of the farmer, I wish to state that I know it is the purpose to make tH« vtork applicable to farm con ditions, and I believe that it is. If .you know of one single piece of work now being d*ne by the test farms in this state that is not I practical and applicable to farm conditions we would be pleased to have you name it. I believe that the trouble is not with the charac ter of the work as muob as it is due to the fact that farmers do I not read what is published by the [ Stations with a desire to get from these experiments the good which they might. For instance: You request,that we give plans for st,ock houses for a man with one mule, one ftow, a couple of hogs ami a dozen hens, and state that if we did this the man who has two mules could "double our plans." If this be so, then I ask why cannot the man with one mule halve the plan that is given for the man with two mules? No Experiment Station can make plans for all farmers, nor can any Station lay down rules for running nil farms. Only one man can know how to plan for a farm and that is the man living on it. No one else can know the conditions well enough. In regard to your last sugges tion, relative to the cost of orops, | there are several errors. In the lirst place, you say the labor on i our Test Farms cost too much, when the fact is it costs muoh less than that on the average farm, ow ing to the better implements used and a more intelligent manage ment. Again, our work is not contined to plot work ; but field crops are grown, 5, 10, 15 and 50 acres, —just as on other farms, and the corn or cotton grown ou these tiokls does not know it is ou a Test Farm but grows just the ■mme for us and we get experi ence out of it just an you do. I do not think it possible to ascertain the cost of growing any «'rop that will be applicable to any other farm than the oae on which it is grown. So much de uends on land, seed, fertilisation, -ultivation, harvesting and mana gement that there can be no fixed price of production set. More over, it will perhaps cost more to produce a crop this year than it will next and even to ascertain the cost of growing a crop or the the same land, with identically the same management, seed and • uiltivation, it would be necessary to continue the experiments over >\ period of not less than five years. VII of which, it seems to me, makes your suggestions impractic. able. -Thanking you for yoor letter and with best wishes, I am, Yours very truly, TAIT BUTLER, State Veterinarian. LUCKIEST MAN IN ARKAN SAS. "I'm the luckiest man in Arkan sas," writes H. L. Stauley, of Bruno, "since the restoration of my wife's health after fire years of continuous coughing and and bleeding from the lungs; and I owe my good fortune to the world's greatest medicine, Dr. King's New Discovery for Consuptiun, which I know from experience will cure will cure consnmption if taken In time. My wife improved with first bottle and twelve bottles com pleted the euro." , Cures the worst coughs and colds or money refund ed.At all druggists. 50c and 91.00. Trial bottle free. FARMERS—Deposit yoor mon-' ey with the Bank of Stokes County, the bank that helps you ' pay your taxes. KING ROUTE TWO. • "King, Route 2, Jan. 29. Mr. Editor : We are having some awful rough weathef along now. Friday last was certainly a juue-sweetner. If some of yopr readers have for gotten what kind of a day it was; just ask the R. F. D. boys. Say, No. 2, began to think you was snowed under that drty. I kept looking for old Dan to come trotting down the road until 12 o'olock, and I went to the door and give a long look np the rond and couldn't see anything of No. 2, or old Dan. So my next thought was to go to the mail box and take out my letter which had been lay ing there ever since 7 o'clook, and what did I do then? it was bound to go. Why I sent it by hand It only had to go about M miles. Among the farmers of this sec tion who marketed tobacco last week were Messrs. P. Oliver, Wade, Charlie and James Boyles, J. Walter Tuttle, Joe Gibson, B. N. Smith and Coy Bennett. There waß an old time spelling at Oak Grove School Hone last Friday evening. I think that Oak 1 Grove is hard to beat in spellings. And the school is progressing nicely f under the direction of Pfof. Faw, of Ashe county. Mr. Roy Boyles and Martail Smith are talking of going to Texas to make their future home, but I guess thpy won't get much farther than 2 miles this side of Pinnaole. H. K. Ashby and C. Boyles are planning another trip to Mt. Airy. Wonder what is attracting their attention up there? Misses Laura and Bessie, I guess. Misses Bessie and Hattie Gib son spent a few days of last week with their Uncle, Mr. J. M. Gib son, near Mizpah. They report a nice trip. Messrs. N. I. Boyles and J. M. Smith called on their best girls Sunday, Misses Dora and Lestie Eaton, reporting a nice time. BRIGHT EYES. FRIGHTFULLY BURNED. Chas. W. Moore, a machinist, of Ford City, Pa., had his hand frightfully burned in an electrical furnace. He applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve with the usual re salt: "a qnick and perfect care." Greatest healer on earth for Burns, Woundes, Sores, Eozema and Piles. 25c at all Druggists. CREDIT PRICES —Have you got money enough to raise your crop on ? If not, borrow a small sum from the Bank of Stokes county and avoid paying credit prices for your supplies. HAW MarfolkiWestern BJL •CHBDULE IV BPFECT DEC 3, 11 >OS l>illv I>*H? EX. Hun. Daily Ki PM AM PM PM 2:50 7.30 Lv Winston Ar 2.00 10.00 3.28 8.13 " W«l. Cove " 1.21 9.20 5.00 9.50 " Martinsv. "11.45 7.49 7.25 12.30 Ar Rofuioku Lv 9.20 5.15 P.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. WP.STBOUNLL-I.KAVK KOAX'IKK DAII.Y. 4:10 era— KOß Kant lladfiinl. BLUEFLELD, TUT wetland Norton, rolltnnn .sii'Oper TO i lotpmbuo. Ohio, cnf« »»r .1.10 a m ( WHHIIIIIU'OII and ('hiitfaunoK* I tmi'r.l) for Pnla«k( PRINCIPAL ntnflonK. ILRIATOL MI., TLIO South. Pnllinmi ttiMper*-, to Sew Jr- unit Memphla l!afc »J»P m—Tin St. HXPREN*, for Minefield. PorHhvtiU*, Ketwira. 'ftn.l tinattl, Indlanoniill*. St. i*>ul». Kan»*« l.lltv, Cotumhua and hW-»*o. Pullman Buffet sleeper* ttnanoke to Co'nmbm and llliiallcld to Olnrlnantt. Hafe or I;1A [i TO— For llluette'idand intermediate Ga llon*. «:ift |i m—lially. P.>r Itrtotnl itlul III'BI IMWLMT# *lutlnn« Knoivltl*. Chattanooga and point* South. PuJltnun Hi#ei«>r to Knoxvllta. 9 no a m—l-'or BrUtnl and lnfermedliitr ufartinia, Blnnflrld, Sorton Piieabinta* and Well l». Pullatan Slreper to Welch ' TToK'ftf AND rA»TIH>I'M> l:Vfpm -Kor Peter»lnir(t, Itlrhraond and Nor folk. Pullman liuftfct arlor Carlo .Nnrrtilk t:4An m—.for W.ahlngtmi. lUtferatowii. Phil* delphla »nd New Tori *l* H»ger»ti>wii and Harrlabnrg. PijlllUan to Near Vork. 7W p »—For Hager.town. Pullman Sle*p«r to Phlladalphla. 1:01 a m—ror ulrlim >nd iml Norfolk Pullman sleeper T,ynrlihiir» to Norfolk and Rlrhnmml. li:ti*a m—(WaMilngton alid ■ .hntlanooira l.lm lt*l). Kor W*»hln«ton. Philadelphia and Sew Tork «t» l.*nebbnrg Pullman «lei-|>ern to Waidilnginn, Baltimore. Philadelphia and Ne» Vork. 7:10 a in—Pur (•yiH'lihiirg, IVtcubur?. Hii-hwiditl ami Norfolk* 1*46 p tii»«l»afly. • for I«* nWilittrg. f"lil I nun &!t»>per fur ffl hmond. DUKHAM DIVMOH. Leave hyncMwH* (Union .Stat Inn) dkllv nxcfpt NiiniUr SIOO • ra, 430 p m for South Ifc«ion and Durham Mid lutormediaU at»- Uoi». ' ' *' ' I For all aJdiHonnl Information apply to ticket offlonr, or to W M. HKVLLL, M. fVBRAOti, Uuii'l Pmm. Agent. TVav. Paaa. Agmit. j KOANUiCK, VA. BLUE FRONT STORE, WALNUT COVE, C. ... • •• . :l. Si rv I don't claim to have the - LABGKBT store on earth, • but the CHEAPEST. J. 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