THE DANBURY REPORTER.
OLUME XXXIII.
SUCCESS WITH FALL TURNIPS.
Some General Suggestions Looking
To Obtaining a Good Stand
and Vigorous Growth.
Every Southern farmer wauls
and Bhould have a good turnip
patch in the fall, even though he
does not grow them for market.
Moat of those who will read this
article will already know how to
grow this crop suoceasfully. There
are however, a number of points
connected with growing turnips,
which I feel sure will be helpful
to yen, and possibly enable you to
grow them more successfully than
before.
GETTING A BTANI).
The greatest trouble we have
had and the one that has operated
most seriously against our success
with late turnips is to secure a
good stand.
In order to make a good crop,
we find it necessary in this local
ity to plant the bulk of our turnip
crop between Aug. 15th and Sept.
15th. At this season the weather
is usually very hot and sometimes
quite dry, especially in September,
and it is no easy matter to get
seed of any kind to germinate at
Buch a time. To overcome this
trouble as much as possible, we
have found it advisable to prepare
our land very thoroughly a week
or more in advance of the time we
wish to plartt. If we can plow or
work it over a number of times,
so much the better, as this work
ing fines the soil and preserves
the moisture it contains. We lay
off our rows two feet apart and
apply our fertilizer in the drill,
using about SOO pounds per acre
of a fertilizer analyzing, nitrogen,
4 per cent., phosphoric acid 7 per
cent, and potash, 8 per cent.
Even when we have stable manure
or ou a cow-penned land we have
found that it pays UB to use some
commercial fertilizer along with it
in order to furnish requisite am
ount of potash to make good,
solid, sweet roota, as turnips re
quire a great deal of this element
of plant food. This fertilizer, we
stir well into the soil, and make a
low, fiat bed over it with a scooter
and scrape.
HARROWING THE SEEDBED.
After the land is ready for the
seed we wait a few days, if pos
sible, for a rain, as seed come
quicker and grow off better after a
rain, we harrow over the bed or
board it off and then put in our
seed with seed drill. If you have
no drill open the bed with a two
inch scooter, making a very shal
low furrow. Then drill in our
turnip seed by hand, from a bottle
tied to a stick with a quill run
through the cork to let out the
seed. Cover the seed by running
a wheelbarrow through the row or
|ramp them in with your feet. If
the soil is very damp and it is
likely to rain, the seed may be
covered with a rake or light har
row. If the weather is dry and
yon must plant without waiting
for rain, open your bed somewhat
deeper so as to get your seed into
moist soil, and drop and cover your
seed right behind the plow before
the soil has time to dry out. Even
if you have a seed drill it is better
to plant in the furrow in thiacase;
otherwise yon will not have suffic
ient moisture to bring up the seed.
It ia important that the soil be
well firmed over the seed, and we
frequently tramp over the row
with onr fwt after the seed drill.
If the seed are packed in the fur
rr v and there is any moisture at
all in the soil, you will be pretty
sure of a good stand whether it
raina or not. ,
As soon as your turnips are well
up ran around them with wheel
or fine-tooth harrow, and thin to a
stand when two to four inches
high. Then keep well cultivated
NEWS ON DANBURY ROUTE 1.
Mr. Levi Knight and Miss Emma
Priddy United In Marriage at
the Home Of Mr. Morefield
Last Sunday.
Danbury Route 1, Sept. 9.
Farmers are very busy cutting
tobacco and pulling fodder.
Preaching at North View Sun
day by Elders Biggs, Knight and
Priddy. A large crowd was out
to hear them.
Mr. Levi Knight and Miss
Emma Priddy were united in the
holy bonds of matrimony Sunday
morning at the home of Mr. J.
Wesley Morefield. Elder Biggs
officiated. A. large number of their
friends were preseut. Wish them
a long and happy life.
Misses Carrie and Claudia Sisk
and Bercha Dunlap visited at the
home of Mr. P. H. Morefield luat
Saturday and Sunday.
We are very sorry to say that
two of our young friends had the
misfortune to loso their horse's
bridle at church Sunday, having
to drive home without one. They
seemed to be enjoying their drive
fine.
The bean stringing at Mr. Jim
Lankford's Saturday night was
well attended by the young people
of this section.
"TWO."
Pink Grove Wants To Play Sandy
Ridge.
Germanton Route 1, Sept. 9.
The Pink Grove ball team was
expecting to play Sandy Ridge at
Danbury on Aug. 31. They wore
sent a challenge for that date but
did not accept. It seems like they
did not get the challenge or elso
they have won the championship
of Stokes and want to hold it.
We will play them at Danbury
any date that will suit them.
Hope they will say through the
Reporter whether they will play
us or not.
A PLAYER.
T. W. Hylton's Estate Pays 38
Cents On the Dollar.
The winding up of the estate
ofT. W. Hylton, bankrupt, was
completed last Friday. The
creditors received thirty eight
cents on the dollar.
Big Pony Sale.
Don't forget Benbow's big Pony
Sale at Madison, N. C, at 10
o'clock, A. M., Saturday, Sept.
14th, 1907. Two car loads ponies.
Attorney J. D, Humphreys
returned Saturday from a busi
ness trip to Graham, Winston
and other places.
CURES BLOOD, SKIN DIS
EASES, CANCER, GREAT
EST BLOOD PURIFIER
FREE.
If your blood is impure, thin,
diseased, hot or full of humors, if
you have blood poison, cancer, car
buncles, eating sores, scrofula, ec
zema, itching, risings and bumps,
Bcabby, pimply skin, bone paius,
catarrh, rheumatism, or any blood
or skin disease, take Botanic
Blood Balm (B. B. B.). Soon all
sores heal, aches and pains stop
and the blood is made pure and
rich. Druggists or by express $1
per large bottle, 3 bottles for $2 50
or 6 bottles for $5.00. Sample free
by writing Blood Balm Co., At
lanta, Ga. B. B. B. is especially
advised for chronic, deep-seated
cases, as it cures after all else fails.
to preserve the moisture and keep
down the grass.
There are a number of varieties
from which to choose, among
which the "Snow White Globe"
and "Purple Top Globe" are the
most popular for market. Sow
about two pounds of seed per acre
in the drill, or five pounds broad
cast. —F. J. Merriam, in Progres
sive Farmer.
DANBURY, N
SOME FACTS ABOUT WHEAT.
Brought Out By Long Series Of
Tests—Farmers May Profitably
Consider Before Sowing
As the result of experiments
made at the Ohio Experiment
Station for 13 years with some 60
varieties of wheat, the Station
says :
I. Yield of grain alone being
considered, the best ten varieties,
in the order of their rank are :
j Oip9y, Mealy, Early Ripe, Poole,
! Nigger, Perfection, Mediterra
nean, Valley, CurrelPs Prolific,
and Dawson's Golden Chaff,
i 2. Weight per bushel being
considered, the 10 varieties testing
highest are ; Hickman, Red Won
der, Fulcaster, Gypsy, Valley,
Dietz, Currell's Pri lific, Perfec
tion, Nigger and Lebanon.
3. The ten varieties ranking
highest in per cent, of protein
are : Velvet Chaff, Lehigh, Sib
ley's New Golden, Red Wonder,
Lebanon, New Columbia, Fulzo-
Mediterraneau, Dietz, and Buda
Pesth.
4. Climatic conditions have
much to do with the protein con
tent uf wheat. High temperature
! for the month preceding wheat
! harvest, results quite uniformly in
! decreasing the > ield and weight
per bushel, but in increasing the
per cent, of protein. The latter is
due to a shortage in Btarch con
tent rather than to any actual in
| crease of protein.
5. An) thing which tends to
interfere with the normal develop
\ merit of the kernel, as rust, Hes
sian tly, or midgo, tends to in
crease the percentage composition
| of the protein.
(). High protein resulting from
seusonal influences or insect de
predations is not desirable, as it is
|to be found more largely in the
bran and other waste products
I than in flour.
7. High protein as found in
normally plump wheat is deeira
ble. As a variety characteristic it
is to be sought for.
8. Ranking the several vari
eties as to yield, weight per bush
el and protein content, giving 60
points to yield, 25 points to weight
per bushel and 15 points to pro
■ tein content, the ten varieties
rcoring highest are : Gypsy,
! Early Ripe, Nigger, Poole, Mealy,
! Currell's Prolific, Valley, Red
i Wonder, Democrat, and Fulcaster.
9. Experiments in thick and
| thin seeding, covering 11 years'
work, indicate that Bto 10 pecks
|of seed per acre will give better
results than a less amount of seed
upon the aomewhat worn lands of
the State. At the Germantown
test farm 8 pecks have given the
largest yield.
10. Experiments extending over
a series of 13 years have failed to
show on the average any gain from
the use of seed from which the
small and light grains have been
removed by use of the fanning
mill although three seasons out of
the thirteen the first grade gave
largest yields.
11. In view of the possibility
of an unfavorable season and ef
the fact that a more uniform seed
ing can be secured by removing
the shrunken, broken and extrem
ely small grain, the Station would
advise doing this, but would not
hold out any hope that mere grad
ing of seed will produce a perma
nent improvement in wheat or any
marked temporary advantage, one
season with another.
12. The selection of large, as
compared with small heads doea
not promise much in the way of
improvement.
13. Permanent improvement in
wheat must be based upon the se
lection of plants as a whole, rather
than upon parts of plants. Ex
cellence due to hereditary in-
C., SEPT. 12, 1907.
AT LIBERTY TWENTY YEARS.
Calvin Westmoreland, Sentenced To
Penitentiary From Stokes
County In 1885, Rearrested
Last Week.
After enjoying his freedom for
20 years, 10 of which were spent
in Winston-Salem, says the Wins
ton Journal, Calvin Westmore
land, a white man, who escaped
from the State convict force while
at work on the old C. F. & Y V.
railroad in 1887, was rearrested
here last week by Jailor O. W
Hanner, upon information receiv
ed a few days ago from Mr. T. M.
Arrington, the State penitentiary
clerk. Jailor Hanner will carry
Westmoreland to Raleigh and
turn him over to the pen
itentiary authorities.
Westmoreland is about 50 years
old. He was tried at Danbury,
Stokes county, on Feb. 2, 1885, on
the charge of larceny. He was
convicted and sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary. He was
put out with a force of hands in
the construction of the old Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad,
the road from Wilmington to Mt.
Airy. Here he worked one year,
11 months and 15 days. On Jan
uary 17, 1887, he made hie escape.
He came to Winston-Salem
some eight or ten years ago and
has resided here continuously
ever since. He has a wife and
several children. For some time
they have been living near the
seoond dry bridge over the Nor
folk & Western railroad, in the
northern part of the city.
A few days ago Jailor O, W.
Hanner reoeived a letter from Mr.
j Arrington, penitentiary clerk,
'stating that Westmoreland was
wanted there and that for his ar
rest and delivery to the prison
authorities a reward of $lO would
be paid.
Jailor Hanner found West
moreland in Farmers' Warehouse.
: At first Westmoreland denied ever
having been sent to the peniten
tiary, but in reply to a question,
stated that he worked on the C. F.
&Y. V. road. When Jailor Han
ner informed Mrs. Westmoreland
of her husband's arrest she said :
"Why, he served over half of his
time before he escaped."
Westmoreland has been work
ing at the carpenter's trade since
coming to Winston-Salem.
He thinks that he will be able
to escape by pleading statute of
limitation.
SAFE SURE AND SPEEDY.
No external remedy ever yet
devised has BO fully and unques
tionably met these three prime
conditions as successfully
Alloock's Plasters. They are safe
because they contain no deleteri
ous drugs and are manufactured
upon scientific principals of medi
cine. They are sure because
nothing goes into them except
ingredients which are exactly
adapted to the purposes for which
a plaster ia required. They are
speedy in their action because
their medioinal qualities go right
to their work of relieving pain
and restoring the natural and
healthy performance of the
functions of muscles, nerves and
skin.
Allcock's Plasters are the
original and genuine porous
plasters and like most meritori
ous articles have been extensively
imitated, therefore always make
sure and get the genuiue Allcock's.
fiuence must be distinguished
from excellence due to environ
ment.
In these tests Gypsy has made
as high as 60 buahela per acre,
Mealy, 59J, Early Ripe, 58}, Poole
58, Nigger, 57J, Valley, 54J Cur
rell's prolific, 54%, Fulcaster, 50,
and Fultz, 48J. —Prog. Farmer.
A BIRTHDAY DINNER.
Mrs. Lucy Harriet Grabs Is Pleas
antly Surprised On Her 82
Birthday.
Tobaccoville Route 2, Sept, 2.
We, here af our house, feel ob
ligated to acknowlege a birthday
celebration—one such as did not
originate on our part. My mother,;
Lucy Harriet Grabs, was "four i
score" and two years old (N2) Inst
Wednesday, and was respected on :
the evening of that day by the
visit of about 125 neighbors. They
came wtih their well-filled has- j
kets, and soon after four o'clock a
long table was spread in the yard,
and proved to be the best well- j
filled tables that lias ever been j
at this place. This writing was j
thought of mainly to acknowlege j
the kindness of friends on the
above mentioned occasion.
My mother, through this report,
thanks all for the favors of the oc
casion. As was the case nt the
birthday dinner of Mr. Jas. Wall,
we were honored with the pres
ence of two ministers, Revs. W.O.
and W. F. Kennett, They were
engaged in a meeting at Dalton
Chapel, Methodist Protestant
church. They had been invited
by my mother for the occasion,
but she said "don't tell them that
it is my birthday." We were all
glad that they were with us on the
occasion.
I felt when I saw the crowd and
experienced the surprise that I
was not caught up with when I
had my old hat on. This much of
the luck by the preachers being
with us. My mother, being gladly
surprised, could only think of one
objection to the treat, and this lie
cause she did not know of the
project before hand, so as to help
fix some things. The two minis
ters had been with us before, but
this was as it seemed far back in
the past, twenty-seven years ago.
At that time they were engaged
in preaching at our church near
here known as "old" Crooked Run.
Perhaps about half of the 125 peo
ple of this occasion were born
since 27 years ago.
In my report of the surprise
birthday given Mr. Wall, 1 refer
red to the veterans of bloody "war
times." But there are other vet
erans just as worthy of honor as
those, such as attend to the order
and the discipline that is espec
ially belonging to the daily rounds
of the domestic affairs inside of
the "house and kitchen" and oc
casionally resulting in a well
organized feast.
W. F. GRABS.
To Bridge the Yadkin River.
The Secretary of State has
j granted articles of incorporation
to the Yadkin River Bridge Co.,
of East Bend, N. C., to build and
operate a toll bridge or bridges
across the Yadkin river. The stock
authorized is $15,000; subscribed,
$3,000. The incorporators are T. A.
Steelman, W. A. Martin and J.
Irvin.
Mr. R. R Rogers spent Suuday
at Walnut Cove.
HEALTH IN THE CANAL
ZONE.
The high wages paid make it a
mighty temptation to our young
artisans to join the force of skilled
workman needed to construct the
Panama Canal. Many are
restrained however by the fear of
fevers and malaria. It is the
knowing ones —those who have
used Electric Bitters, who go
there without this fear, well know
ing they are safe from malarious
influence with Electric Bitters on
hand. Cures blood poison too.
biliousness, weakness and all
Btomach, liver and kidney troubles.
Guaranteed by all druggists 50c.
"DAVID" RETRACTS CHARGES.
Makes Acceptable Apology To Mr.
Buxton For Language Used In
Article Recently Printed
In Reporter.
The criminal libel suit, institu
ted by State Senator J. C. Buxton,
of Winston, against Mr. R. I'.
McAnally, of Saxon, this county,
was Inst Friday amicably adjusted
by the defendant signing a retrac
tion acceptable to the Senator.
Mr. McAnally. who was the
author of the article ngainst Mr.
Buxton which appeared in the
Reporter a few weeks ngo, was
arrested a week or more ago. He
gave bond for his appearance
before J. C. Bessent, justice of
the peace. Last Friday when the
case was called the defendant,
through his counsel, Mr. ('. >.
McMichael, of Madison, presented
a signed statement retracting the
charges made against the Senator
and voluntarily offered to pay all
costs of the prosecution. This
was acceptable to Mr. Buxtcn
and the warrant against Mr. Mc-
Anally was dismissed by the court.
The statement signed by Mr. Mc-
Anally reads as follows:
To the Public:
I wrote an article signed "David"'
which was published in the Dan
bury Reporter of August 22. 1907,
in which I reflected upon the
course of Mr. J. C. Buxton,
Senator from Forsyth county, in
the legislature of 1907.
I now desire, of my own accord,
to publicly apologize to Senator
Buxton for t lie language used by
me in that communication and to
retract every word in said article
which in any way reflected upon
him. 1 had no reason at the tin e
I wrote the article to make the
statement which I did, and 1 now
admit that the charge was made
without any foundation and that
I had no reason to believe tl e
charge to be true at the time 1
wrote the article.
K. P. MCANALIJY.
Sept. IS, I'.HIT.
Winston Tobacco Report.
The annual meeting of the Tc
bacco Board of Trade was held
Monday. The president's report
sliowns that during tho past
year 15,477,245 pounds of tobacco
j was sold on the Winston-Salem
I market from September 1, 190f>,'
to September 1, 1907, It brought
$1,290,107.05, an average of s.s:s;s.
j This is considered a high average
when the crop is taken into con
sideration.
The sales in August amounted
to 211,284 pounds, bringing sl;>,-
298.1)8, an average of §(> .'SO per
hundred. Most of the offerings
were primings,—Winston Sen
| tinel.
Overall Factory For Madison.
Madison is to have an overall
factory. The capital stock has
i been subscribed and a site will
jbe selected within the next few
' IH> S. The name of the new
' enterprise is to be the Madison
[ Overall Manufacturing Company
and will employ a half hundred
•operatives, mostly female help.
It is learned that efforts are also
being made to build a cotton mill
and that a practical mill man
from Eastern Carolina has notified
Mr. F. B. Kemp that if ho will
put the movement on foot he will
take $20,000 worth of the stock,
and Mr. Kemp says that if Madi
son will raiso SIO,OOO he will ruibe
| the other SIO,OOJ outside and the
| mill will bj assured, says the
Herald.
Mrs. W. H, Marler and son,
Willie, of Winston, wtra guests
at the Taylor Hotel Sunday and
I Monday.
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