THE DANBURY REPORTER.
VOLUME XXtflH.
YOUR YOUNG CORN AND HOW TO
TREAT IT.
Mr French Tells How Good Crops Are
Made On Sunny Home Farm-
Smoothing Harrows and Sulky
Cultivators—Cultivate Shal
low And Keep Everlast
ingly At It.
w We have said and we repeat it :
the proper cultivation of the soil
for the growiug of any crop begins
* with the plowing.
This applies with especial force
to the cultivation of the corn crop.
No after-oultivation can make up
for poor, slovenly plowiug. The
corn plant—and especially in the
South—requires a deep well pul
verized soil. This thorough work
ing of tha soil, in our judgment,
should be performed principally
by the use of the plow, since no
_ other tool we have will pulverize
the aoil to so great a depth with
the same use of horse-power.
This is the reason why we plow
our corn land twice, —first in the
early winter, so the action of the
frost mky aid in the pulverizing of
the upper portion of the freshly
plowed soil. Then on replowiug
this land just before planting
time, this mellow portion of the
soil is turned in, and other cloddy
portions brought to the surface,
where they may be thoroughly
broken up by our surface cultiva
tors and harrows. In this manner
we secure a seed bed ten to twelve
inches in depth, thoroughly pul
verized ta the very bottom, and if
thia soil be fairly filled with
humus we have a good start to
ward a fine corn crop. The two
horse o«rn planters do the finest
of work on these well pulverized
soils, working 15 to 20 bores per
day.
WHAT THE BMOOTHING HARROW
DOES.
We always have our corn land
freshly worked just before plant
ing. Then with three or four days
after planting the cultivation
proper of the corn crop begins by
the nse of the ten or fifteen foot
smoothing harrow. We are writ
ing this at the noon hour, and our
! three-horse team has worked 11
aores of land since 7 o'clock; will
have 23 or 24 acres as smooth as a
town man's garden before night.
As soon as we have bad a shower
we will oroas the fields with this
same tool and onoe again when
- the corn plants are about two
inches high. By this treatment
our land will be perfectly olean
and in an ideal condition for the
plants to make their best growth.
NEXT THE SULKY CULTIVATOR AND
THEN THE WEEDER AGAIN.
If the land doesn't become
packed bv a heavy rain we will
probably use a weeder a couple of
times before starting the ten
tooth sulky cultivator. Our soil
is a rather heavy clay and while
I working the oom the first time
with the cultivator we will set the
shovels to run about four inches
deep. The machine will be equip
ped with the dirt guarda for the
protection of the plants, aud the
shovels will be held within two
!inohes of the row on each side, so
the fine dirt sifting under the
guards will lap, covering the en
tire space between and around the
corn plants.
The weeder will probably come
I into nse sgain within four or five
b depending upon the oondi
■pion of the weather. We never use
■Nf weeder or harrow on our clay
l|loil when the land or plants are
■damp, and Hfter the plants appear
Ipbove ground we don't care to be
gin weeding or harrowing until
the sun has warmed the plants up
well; then they will not break as
Kessily as they will when harrowed
■ while cold.
FIRST CULTIVATION, OUT
jv ONLY 2J INCHES DEEP.
At After the first cultivation, on.
cultivator is never allowed to cut
more than 2£ inches deep, and we
work the land just as often as we
can get over it. We never wait
for a rain but keep right on culti
vating. We keep the work going
with the sulkies as long as we can
get over the corn, then go once or
twice with the walking
and I have often wondered if this
shallow cultivation oould not be
kept up with profit until the corn
is in the milk stage. In fact with
one of the best crops of corn we
ever raised (90 bushels per acre
on 12 acres) we did follow this
practice, and, the season being
very dry, I believe we were paid
for the entire work. The corn
land when treated in this way is
in elegant condition for the fol
lowing grass, clover, rye, or wheat
crops. Our seed corn patoh will
be treated in the above manner
this spring, provided we have no
hard storms to blow the plants
down.
I expect my readers will be
come tired of my everlasting harp
ing on t{ie value of the corn crop
for the South, but I cannot help
it, "the truth will out."—A. L
French, Byrdvilie, Va., in Pro
gressive Farmer.
WESTFIELD.
Westfield, May 23.—The health
in this vicinity is good at presept.
The farmers in this section are
very busy.
Mr. Ralph Nunn and Miss Bes
sie Simmons were bound in the
holy bonds of matrimony last
Sunday.
We are sorry to report that Miss
Willie has the mumps. But we
hope she will soon recover.
Messrs. J. H. Tilley and Walter
George called to see Misess Ethel
and Fannie Sunday evening. Go
again, boys, they were glad to see
you.
I think Mr. Willie Cardwelland
Miss Louvie Pell will soon jump
the broom.
Don't think Mies Ethel visits
Miss Willie so often since she
took the mumps.
MAMA'S ONLY GIRL.
PINE HALL.
Pine Hall, May 25.—1 guess
there will not be much tobacco
planted in this section.
Pine Hall is building up right
sharply. They are putting up a
new brick mill, etc.
Measles have about died out in
this section.
Guess Misses Beulah and Maud
Neal is grinning some this week
as their best fellows called Sun
day.
Guess the people of Hamburg
have jolly times on Saturday even
ings playing marbles
Oh, I think there will be a wed
ding over the river Boon as Mr. J.
R. goes over that way right often.
Think Mr. W. A. Glidewell will
stop raising tobacco as be has
quit chewing.
Some of the boys near Pine
Hall was in the wreck at Martins
ville recently, but not seriously
hart. ,
Mr. Charlie Shropshire left a
few days sinoe for Martinsville.
Miss Minnie Neal, of this place,
went to Madison Saturday shop
ping.
POSY.
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and skill, and in ingredients and
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That they are the original and
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whose reputation imitators trade.
That Allcook'a Plasters never
fail to perform their remedial
work quickly and effectually.
That for Weak Back, Rheuma
tism, Colds, Lung Trouble, Kid
ney Difficulties, Strains and all
Looal Pains they are invaluable.
That when vou buy Allcook'a
Plasters you obtain the best plas
ters made.
DANBURY, N. C., MAY 30, 1907.
COUNTING UP PROMTS AND LOSS
ON THE FARM.
Capt. Chas. Petty Gives Some Prac
tical Suggestions On Farm Ac
counting And the Advantages
Of Hired Hands Over Tenants.
Too much figuring aud count
ing the cost of animals, poultry
and farm products will lead the
lazy or despondent farmer to be
lieve that it is cheaper to buy sup
plies that raise them on the farm.
A humorous wag used to sit down
and prove to farmers, when they
were selling chickens at 10 to 25
cents, that it was a losing busi
ness to raise chickens. They ought
to buy them. The figures were on
his side, but the facts were on the
other side.
The farmer who counts the
w hole price received for his pro
ducts as net profit is about as far
out of the way as the pessimist
who sees nothing but want ahead.
Let us raise a shout for thei / clear
headed, hopeful, cheerful farmer,
who acts as though he knew the
last year of his life was ahead of
him. When they come to town
they have a broad smile and
cheerful words and their buoyant
spirits and unbounded energy are
an inspiration to every one. We
have snch farmers and their num
ber is increasing every year. Let
us take courage and be thankful.
Victory will come to these Pied
mont farmers of the two Carolines
one of these days. It will be the
more decisive because long de
layed.
ESTIMATING COST OF A CROP.
It is right and proper, however,
for all farmers to make a careful
estimate of the cost of a crop.
This is difficult to do where the
father, mother and children do all
the work. In the first place food,
clothing and stock feed come from
the farm and that is often a large
item. Some farmers have hoed
orops paying one-third to the
hands for all work except plowiug.
Others furnish horse-power, tools
and seed and give one-half. Then
the renter who furnishes every
thing either pays to the landlord
a part of the crop or standing
rent. In one of these ways land
is rented and there is little differ
ence in profits to the landlord. To
get at the expense of a crop, take
the hand that work§ his landlord's
stock and receives one-half. Not
counting anything for rent the ex
pense account will stand about as
follows :
EXPENSE OF LANDLORD.
Use of tenant's house $15.00
Firewood 15.00
Use of mule 20 00
Feed for mule 40.00
Seed for plnnting 6.00
Tools and wagon 15.00
Total expense slll.OO
INCOME.
10 bales of cotton $500.00
Seed from same 65.00
150 bushels corn 105.00
1,500 bundles fodder 20.00
10 bushels peas 10.00
Total $700.00
Dednct 2J tons of guano,
$55, and ginning aqd
bagging, $lB 73.00
$627.00
The farmer would receive one
half of this amount, or $313.c0.
Deduct expenses as above
($111.00), and he will have left
for that one orop $202.50, as an
offset for rent and his superinten
dence.
In the above statement it is sup
posed that the land is good, the
seasons favorable aud the tonant a
good worker. Put the orop at six
bales of cotton agd 75 bushels of
oom and the landlord would get
about sllO for rent and his own
oupervisson.—Chas. Petty, in Pro
gressive Farmer.
ITEMS FROM MADISON.
New Town Officials Sworn In—Mrs.
-x R. D. Reid Better—R.P.Webster
To Erect New House.
Madison, May 25.—Mayor C. Or
McMichael and the new Board of
town Commissioners took the oath
of office and assumed control of
affairs. Mayor MaMichael, after
being sworn in, addressed the
Board and citizens assembled, out
lining the plans of bis adminis
tration and asking the aid of all
citizens in preserving law and or
der, and for the material develop
ment of the town. H. T. Pratt
was elected Chief of Police ; the
fee system was abolished, and he
was placed on a salary of $35.00
per month. S. F. Webster was
elected assistant policeman. The
board voted to issue the bonds for
street improvements as voted in
the election.
The County Commissioners
held a call meeting Monday. Ar
chitect Frank P. Milburn, of
Washington, was present and to
gether with the Commissioners
made an inspection of the "Falls"
and other branches with the view
of devising a plan to furnish, at
the lowest cost for the best results,
a water system which will supply
both the jail and court house.
The contractors on the new
court house at Wentworth are
having a hard time of it on ac
count of lack of water. The Went
worth wells are unreliable and
plans are on foot to put in a ram
at the shower bath near Lake
Lucile, and pipe water to the vil
lage.
Mrs. Reuben D. Reid, who was
so seriously ill last week that Mr.
Reid was hurriedly called from
Stokes court, is reported very
much improved and on the way to
recovery.
We learn with pleasure that
Miss Mary Griffith, a Madison
girl, has led her class in the ex
aminations at Lynchburg Chris
tian College. Miss Mary is a
charming young lady and a hard
student and deserves all the honors
awarded her.
Miss Mary Lewellyn returned
from Stoneville Wednesday ac
companied by her friend, Miss
Seymour.
Mr. R. P. Webster is having
lumber placed on his lot an Hun
ter street preparatory to erecting
his new dwelling.—Madison Her
ald.
GENIUS RECOGNIZED.
An Exhibition Of Inventions Not Yet
On the Market, At the James
town Exposition.
Norfolk, Va., May 24.—A most
interesting feature of the James
town Exposition, on Hampton
Roads, near Norfolk, whioh open
ed April 26, and will close Novem
ber 30, is the "section for inven
tions," in which inventors are in
vited to display their inventions
and demonstrate their value to
visitors.
The invitation is open to all,
and every facility is offered in the
way of floor space, tables and
shelves, advertising cards and la
bels, electric current, gas, lights,
etc. A modest fee of from ten to
not more than thirty dollars, ex
cept in very special cases, is
charged for such space and ser
vice. The service includes, as
well as the general care of models,
explanations to visitors, and the
return of the exhibit at the close
of the Exposition.
Awards will be made of gold,
silver and bronze medals and di
plomas. That inventors are alive
to this unparelleled opportunity
for making public their creations,
is Bhown by the fact that within
four weeks after the first notice
was sent out by the Bureau of In
ventions of the Jamestown Expo
sition, applications haß been made
for more than five'thousand square
feet, and new applications are now
ooining at the rate of a hundred a
day.
The inventors are not the only
ones who will profit by this dis
play, fqr the exhibition cannot
fail to be one of interest and ma
terial benefit to the public at
large. Never before has such an
opportunity been presented at
any exposition, and now that the
first step has been made in this
direction, such exhibitions of in
ventions will no doubt become a
part of all future expositions.
SOME PATRICK COUNTY NEWS.
Death Of Mrs. Noell—Dr. Cummings
Also Dead—A Marriage—Some
Other Notes.
, Stuart, Va., May 25. —The re
mains of Mrs. Belle Noel, widow
of the late W. T. Noel, who died
at Roanoke Tuesday froru an op
eration for appendicitis, were
buried here by the side of her
husband and two little children
in the family burying ground at
the old home of Dr. J as. T. Noel,
deceased, now the residence of
Mrs. Bertha Noel. Mrs. Noel was
a sister of our townsman, Mr. W.
W. Moir, Sr., and moved from this
place some years ago.
Dr. W. R. Cummings died at
his home near Stella on the 20th
inst. Dr. Cummings had been in
ill health for some time. He was
regarded as an able minister of
the Baptist church and a agood
physician. He was married some
two or three times, and has seven
teen children. He was seventy
odd years of age.
The session of the 1906-7 of the
Stuart High SchooV closed Friday.
The school board and patrons can
compliment themselves on retain
ing for another year the services
of Prof. B. M. Cox, as principal,
and Miss Sydney Penn as his as
sistant.
Misses Mamye Gilbert, Carolyne
Staples, Mr. R. L. George, Miss
Elva Shockley, Mr. Robt. Massey
and Miss Margaret Tatum, chap
eroned by Mr and Mrs. Walter
Smith, were among the Stuart
people who attended the associa
tion at Big Creek, near Francisco,
last Saturday and Sunday. They
were so elegantly entertained at
the hospitable home of Rev. R.
W. George, that they all seem
anxious to take the trip again.
No compromise has as yet been
made between the Stuart Orchard
Company and the burnt district
sufferers who lost considerable
property from the fire.
Miss Carrie, the pretty and at
tractive 19-year-old daughter of
Mr. T. C. McNichols, who moved
here from Bethesda, 0., was quiet
ly married to Mr. J. K. Patterson,
a prominent business man of Be
thesda, 0., at the Methodist par
sonage Monc'ay night by Rev. L,
L. Banks.
On Saturday, the 18th, death en
tered the home of Mr. Rufus Mar
tin, near Liberty Church, and bore
the spirit of his devoted wife,
Rosa, to the great beyond, return
ing to God who giveth and taketh
away. Mrs. Martin was about 40
years of age and leaves some nine
or ten children.—Stuart Enter
prise.
DON'T PAY ALIMONY
to be divorced from your appen
dix. There will be no occasion
for it if you keep your bowels
regular with Dr. King's
New Life Pills. Their action is so
gentle that the appendix never
has cause to make the least com
plaint. Guaranteed by all drug
gists. 25c.
To The People Of Stokes County.
I hereby announce myself a
candidate on the Republican tick
et for Sheriff's office in 1908, sub
ject to the will of the convention.
Yours very respectfully,
D. A. SIMMONS.
WALNUT COVE COAL MINES.
Will Be Thoroughly [Developed By
Northern Company—The iunoirt
To Have Flag Raising, Etc—
Some Personals.
Walnut Cove, May 27.—A com
pany, composed of several north
ern men, iB again preparing to be
gin operations for the develop
ment of the coal mine situated
near Walnut Cove. The company
apparently means to make a
thorough investigation as to the
quantity and quality of the coal as
they are already placing machin
ery for that purpose. It is learn
ed that Mr. W. T. Brown, of
Winston, is associated with the
company,
Messrs. R. W. Hedgecock &
Sons are turning out brick at a
rapid rate now. The weather re
cently haß been ideal and they are
running two machines, each hav
ing a capacity of about (50,000 per
day.
The remains of Mr. Samuel Hill
were brought through here Friday
from Bluefield, W. Va., where he
had been living for several years.
The deceased formerly resided in
Surry county and the remains
were being carried to Pilot Moun
tain. Mr. Hill was 80 years of age.
Mr. E. C. Willis, who has been
teaching the past winter in
the eastern part of the State,
was here yesterday on the way
to his home near Germanton.
Miss Annie Kate Jones return
ed Thursday from
where she has been attending the
G. F. College. She was accom
panied home by her friend and
class mate, Miss Maud Kramer, of
Elizabeth City.
Miss Claudia Rierson returned
to her home here Friday. She has
been attending school at Littleton
Female College.
Mr. R. R. Rogers, cashier of the
bank here, attended the meeting
of the State Bankers' Association
at Winston, the past week.
Miss Bertha Dalton, of Dalton,
visited at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. A. G. Jones the past week.
Our merchants are experiencing
quite a lull in trade this week.
The farmers are at home at work.
The lodge of the J. O. U. A. M.
here is preparing for a flag rais
ing, etc., on July 4th. The gov
ernor will probably be present and
a big time is promised. Partic
ulars will be given a little later.
WESTFIELD.
Weßtfield, May 21. —Mrs. Al
bert Hill, of Winston-Salem, came
up Friday to visit her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Tilley.
Miss Loline Payne is visiting
relatives at Claudville, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Ayers, of
Stuart R. F. D., spent Saturday
night with Mrs. Ayers' parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ashburn,
Miss Hulda Marshall, accom
panied by Mr. Bishop Niohols, of
White Plains, spent Saturday
night at this place.
Messrs. Vance Joyce and J. T.
Poindexter, of Winston, spent
Wednesday night in town.
A number of our people attend
ed the Association as Big Creek
Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Mr. Will Hall, of Mt. Airy, was
in our midst one day recently.
Miss Glady Dobyns, of Claud
ville, is visiting relatives at West
field.
Mr. and Mrs. Spangler, of
Spray, spent Saturday night and
Sunday night with their unole,
Mr. E. Y. Payne.
Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Dobyns, of
Claudville, visited relatives here
Saturday and Sunday and attend
ed the Association at Big Creek.
Misses Hallie Aldred and Maud
Johnson, of Mt. Airy, visited their
aunt, Mrs. C. T. Christian, at this
place, last week.
Dr. J. T. Smith leaves this af
ternoon for Gibsonville, where he
will conduot a series of meetings.
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