WEDNESDAY, MAR. 18, 1925
j FARM LOANS]
| "The Mortgage that Never Comes Due" g
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o Applications Solicited for Loans on Farm >
> Land in Stokes, Forsyth and o
> Surry Counties. >
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| Atlantic Joint Stock Land liank |
>5 Capital $550,000.00 S
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5 Organized and operating Under Supervision o
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0 Loans made on the 33-YEAR (l>verment. Amortization 0
0 Plan. Interest Rate 5 pi-r cent. Payments.) 0
No Bonus or Commission charter!. Liberal optional re- v
Y payment privileges. No stock subscription. No red tape. x
A Loans made direct to borrower. Loans closed and monev
paid through our representative in your own county. Q
S Prompt Appraisals INo i>elay Quick Action 0
For application blanks and further particulars write
1 Atlantic Joint Stock Land Bank
Q ()r Aoplv i >irect to C
$ C. 11. DAVIS. Cashier
0 BANK OS : STOKES COUNTY,
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Love Your Farm
Clarence I'oe, in Progressive
Farmer.
Love your farm. Kvery farmer
should not only love his work as the 1
artist loves his work, hut in the same!
spirit, too, every farmer should love j
his farm itself as he would love a j
favorite horse or don'. He should
know every rod of the ground, should j
know just what eaeh aere is best '
adapted to, should feel a joy and
pride in having every hill and valley ;
look its host, and lie should he a
much ashamed to have a Held sear- ,
red with gullies as he would he to
have a beautiful eolt marked with
lashes; as much ashamed to have a
piece of ground worn out from ill
treatment as to have a horse gaunt
and bony from neglect; as much hurt
d by seeing his acres sick from wretch
™i-d management as he would h, to see
his c>ws half-starved from the same
cause.
Love your ground -that piece of
(Soil's creation which you hold in fee
simple. Fatten its poorer pans as
carefully as you would an ailing
collie. Heal the washed, torn place.-
in the hillsides as you Would the
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Own a Car This Siafsamer
Enroll Now!
It soon will be a temptation to get out on the road in your own car. Many a
time you will wish you had a Ford—a wish almost anyone can make come
true through the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan.
,V This plait was evolved to put car-buying on the D ATI
simplest and easiest basis. Now no family need be JDAJUI-iVf "
handicapped for lack of a car; it may be paid for Tire Equipment
out of weekly earnings. Fuil Si^^p 4 f r 0)
Now Optional On All Ford Cars
By enrolling now, you can have your car for sum- soc extra on all closed body typi*s I
mer use. Have a Ford Dealer explain the Weekly $ 45
Purchase Plan in detail or write us direct.
Runabout $260 Coupe $520 Tudor Sedan SSBO Fordor Sedan $660
On open cars demountable rim* and ittrter arc SSS extra All price $ f. o. b. Detroit
Sec the Nearest Autnorii'.ed Ford Dealer // £
MA KE SAFE TY 11 ILL££ O S BILI T» Y
barb-scars on your pony. Feed with
legumes and soiling crops and ferti
lisers the barren and gullied pat el:
that needs especial attention; nursi
it hack to life and beauty and fruit
'fulness. Make a meadow of the In.:-
: torn that is inclined to wash; wat 1
lit and care for it until the kindl>
| root-masses heal every gaping woutu
j and in one unbroken surface tin
j "tides of grass break into foam oi
! flowers" upon the outer edges
M.iii't forget even the forest lands
i See that every acre of woodland ha:
'enough trees on it to make it profit
able- "a good stand" of the timbc
! crop as well as every other crop
Have an eye to the beautiful in lay
iie.; ilf the cleared fields a tree hen
and there, not wretched beggar'
mat niixiiitv of little patch.*:
.•■lid little rent:-; r a I ho
hioad fields of fully tended, and o
as nearly uniform fertility as pos
s.bli*. making of your growing crop
a it were . a beautiful garment
v.hole and unbroken, t > clothe tiii
''Villi fill sici • Cod has given you ti
!.eep ami tend even as lie gave t*i
l-'ivst (iardeii into the keeping of ou
lir.«t parents.
Anil so again we say. love you
THE DANBUItY REPORTER
farm. Mak> it a place of beauty, a
f place of joyous fruitfulness, an ex
( ample for your neighbors, a heritage
v for your children; Make improve
( nients on it that will last beyond
S your day. Make an ample yard
) about it with all the old fashioned
flowers that your grandmother
) knew; set a great orchard near it, '
( bearing many manner of fruits; lay
? i>lT roads and walks leading to it and
v keep them up; plant, hedges along
the approaches and flowering bulbs
\ crape myrtles and spriea and
JI privet and roses—so that your
) grandchildren will some day speak
) of their grandsire, who cared enough
) I fur the beautiful and lowd the farm
? i well enough to leave for them this
S | abiding glory of tree and shrub
jj flower.
y I Name the farm, too; treasure up
J its history; preserve the traditions of
} all the it.mance it in I adventure and
/ humor and pathos that are in any
» way connected with it; and if some of
It the young folks must leave it. let
\ them look back to it with happy
\ memories of beauty and worthy
y ideals and well-ordered industry.
!) We have not developed in this
country, as we should, the intense
priil." that the Englishman feels in
? being a landowner. It gives a man
x a distinction that the homeless man
A has not. lb- is a better citizen, a
» freeholder, a guardian holding in
A tru>'. a piece of creation dire, t from
Q the hands of the Almighty. And yet
0 how many al".s, how many! who
Q have such talents in their keeping
0 are indeed im 'roliiable servants
0 not mi much a> keeping their treas
-0 ui'" unhurt as the OlK— talent man in
I lie ltilde did.) but wearing out and
destroying in one brief lifetime the
heritage that the (ircatcr inr-nded
to remain fertile and fruitful, to
feed and nature our human race, as
long as the earth shall last.
I.ove your farm. If you cannot be
1 proud of it now, begin today to make
it a thing you can be proud of. Much
! dignity has come to you in that you
are owner and caretaker for a part
(i of God's footstool; show yourself
l v worthy of that dignity. Watch
,' t | earnestly over every acre. I.c'. no
) day go by that you do not add sonie-
I' thing of comeliness and potential
fertility to its fields. And finally
leave some spot beneath the shade
of Mime giant tree where at last,
J' "like as a shock of corn coineth in
j. his season," you can lay down your
! weary body, leaving the world a lit
| ! tie better for >Ol r having lived in it,
1V ; and earning the approval of the
.• jtircat Father (Who made the care
... of the fields and gardens the first
j. task given man): "Weil done,
County Coniiiii: sloners of Craven
County appropriated »0 for a mo
, tioi me*ore outfit for County Agent
(_'. 15. Farris. Mr. Farris will use
)i( tais principally in his educational
work with dubs this season.
111 .1. I!. Woodrull' and daughter, Miss
Maiy Wondru:!'. were visitors here
ur from Walnut Cove Saturday.
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