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HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1909.
PIEDMONT TRUCKING.
Growth of a Profitable Indus
try in This Section.
The opportunities for market
gardeners are first-class in the
Piedmont region, where many
cotton mills are- grouped and
other lines of manufacturing ex
tensively carried on. Here are
markets which will readily take
all the products neigh
boring gardens place in them,
and return to the growers excel
lent dividends for their time and
investment. At Spartanburg,
in the Piedmont section of South
Carolina and a great cotton mill
centre, Mr. H. Z. Taylor, who is
engaged in gardening, recently
gave the results of his opera
tions on two small pieces of land
amounting to something ever an
acre, one of which returned him
$123 and the other $241. In
speaking of these crops, Mr.Tay
lor said: "I made a profitable
crop on one and one-fourth acres
of ground. I planted one-half
acre in English peas. This was
a deep black soil, having been
used /or gardening several years,
and was rich. Thi3 land had
planted the previous year
in onions, followed by cotton in
every other cotton row, leaving
cotton stalks five and six feet
high. I planted three kinds of
peas and got a perfect stand.
They grew and al
most covered up the stalks. I
gathered and sold from this patch
of peas sixty bushels, receiving
from $1 to $1.50 per bushel. The
cotton stalks and pea vines were
turned under in June, and the
feround planted with a prolific
corn. The corn was sold in the
roasting ear stage, for which I
received $3l, leaving a ton of
stover worth $l2; I received $BO
for the peas, $3l for roasting
corn, and $l2 for stover, making
a total of $123. Three-fourths of
an acre planted to potatoes, the
same kind of land, was heavily
manured the previous year and
planted to cabbage, followed with
the turnips. I turned this deep
with two horses the first of
March and harrowed open the
rows three feet and a half wide
with middle burster. I cut my
seed two to three eyes and plant
ed immediately after cutting fif
teen inches apart, pressing the
cut part of the potato by hand
hard down in the loose soil, leav
ing the eyes up. The seed plant
ed consisted of five barrels, and
produced one hundred and forty
five bushels. After the potatoes
were dug, I ran a middle burster
in the potato rows and planted
with prolific corn as thick as cot
ton, selling 150 worth of roast
ing corn, leaving two tons of
stover worth $24. There was a
volunteer crop of potatoes after
the corn which brought in $9.
The proceeds from three-quart
ers of an acre were as follows:
Potatoes, $158; corn, $5O; stover,
$24; volunteer potatoes, $9; to
tal, $241. .
The mirket in which this pro
duce was sold is typical of that
afforded by the manufacturing
towns tributary to the Southern
Railway system, where hundreds
of people employed in the mills
and factories purchase their veg
etables and fruit, creating a con
stant demand which can be sup
plied by the growers in the ad
jacent country. Figures compiled
during the past winter gave $2,-
000,000 as the sum which was
paid annually to the textile
workers of Spartanburg county,
of which Spartanburg is the cap
ital, and nearly seven hundred
thousand as the number of spin
dles operated by the different
mills. Spartanburg has a popula
tion approaching twenty thous
and. and in addition to its large
cotton mills has a number of oth
er industries which add to its
pay rolls and purchasing power.
It is well located for industries
and has cheap electricsl power
for manufacturing purposes. The
town is built at an elevation of
more than eight hundred feet,
and the average temperature for
the season is: Spring, 57.8 de
grees, summer, 73.5; autumn,
60.1; winter 41. Good farming
purposes are available at from
$3O per acre up, but lands close
to the town, of course, are held
at much higher figures. In writ
ing of the adaptability of Spar
tanburg county soils to truck
growing, the agricultural editor
of the Spartanburg Journal rec
ently made this statement, which
applies equally well to the other
counties in this section of the
Piedmont region: "This county
will produce nearly everything
that grows in the temperate zone.
When it comes to raising truck
for market all the common vege
tables grow to perfection. The
best celery seen here this season
was raised in the city. An acre
of celery planted on the right
kind of soil, rows four feet apart
and plants ten inehes, will make
12,000 stalks. At "three cents
each it would bring $360. The
price is generally double that.
If people could buy crisp home
raised they would not touch the
tough shucky imported stuff.
There is a growing demand for
spinach. If one had an acre near
town he could sell it at a remun
reative price. Salsify is another
vegetable the demand for which
is increasing. Here are three
vegetables, admirably suited for
winter and early spring, and it
will not be many vears before
acres will be required to supply
the demand. The greatest abun
dance of the more common vege
tables can be easily raised. There
is money in very early corn and
sweet potatoes, -These sugges
tions are made for people living
near markets."
Big Advertising.
Few people realize the enor
mous extent to which advertising
has been carried in America.
Take for instance the eleven
largest retail stores in New York
City. The following table is said
to have been carefully compiled,
and shows what each store spent
in advertising in a single month:
The Siegel-Cooper Co. $32,052.31
John Wanamaker, 30,273.83
The Simpson Craw
ford Co. 20,406.95
The 14th Street Store, 25,402.24
R. H. Macy &Co. 21,193.03
Hearn, 20,412.45
Rloomingdale Bros. 13,677.28
The Adams O'Neill Co. 17,499.14
Ehrich Bros. 14,201.23
Saks & Co. 13,912-97
Rothenberg & Co. 12,488.84
These figures afford about as
convincing proof of the fact that
it pays to advertise as any one
could desire. These great retail
establishments are not in the
habit of spending money for
things that do not pay. Every
penny of these enormous appro
priations pays direct returns, or
it never would have been ex
pended.—Merchant's Journal.
The True Purpose of the High
School.
"The high school is for the
pupil. Its course should be so
shaped as to do the most good to
the largest number of its pupils.
The large majority enter life,not
the college, and the high school,
agricultural or not, should fit its
pupils for the lives that they will
lead. The duty of fitting the
few, 1, 2, or 10 per cent, by
special training for college en
trance must fall upon the few
who are to enjoy the advanced
education, or the colleges must
adjust their entrance require
ments to the existing status.
"The training of ninety boys
who are to go no further than
the high school, must not be
dwarfed or misshapen because of
the ten or less who may perhaps
enter college.—Dr. F.L. Stevens,
in Raleign (N. C.) Progressive
Farmer.
New Churches.
Rev. C. A. Mumoe and Maj.
W. F. Harper, elder of Lenoir,
as a commission of Concord Pres
bytery, recently organized a
church at Patterson, with twelve
members. The name given the
new church is The Beattie Mem
orial, in honor of the elect lady
who the beautiful and
splendid new building made of
brick, and elegantly furnished,
as a house of worship. The out
look for the growth of this is
p.omising.
By virtue of the authority
given herein as general Evangel
ist of Concord Presbytery, Rev.
C. A. Munroe, in compliance
with the request of forty and
more petitions in the vicinity of
McLean's school house, and with
the advice and approval of Le
noir session and pastor, organ
ized a ehurch of Presbyterian
faith and order in said school
house, seven miles from Lenoir,
on the last Sunday in August.
The number of Christian mem
bers is twenty-five. The result
of planting pastors of the Lenoir
church, Munroe and McGeachy,
and of the recent maturing of
the seeds planted by candidate
George Thomas, student of Un
ion Theological Seminery, Rich
mond, Va.
The Mad-Dog Craze.
Whenever a dog in play snaps
at a child or in anger inflicts a
wound, some foolish person is
almost sure to raise the "mad
dog" cry and perhaps frighten
the injured one into idelness.
Patients in such cases sometimes
hypnotize themselves into the
belief that they are stricken and
simulate wnat they suppose to
be hydrophobia symptoms. They
may even die in their terror and
agony.
The ayerage citizen stands a
thousand times greater chance of
falling out of a window while
asleep or being hit by a dislodg
ed sign-board than he does of dy
ing by hydrophobia. Even in
cases of dog-bite the real danger
is usually blood-poisoning or lock
jaw or rabies.
So in dogs themselves the dis
ease is not very common. The
unjustly accused may be a home
less and ailing cur suffering for
want of water, in which case, the
community is served by despatch
ing him. If a household pet is
taken with fits which alarm the
neighbors a homely remedy is to
tie him in a cool place, with no
food but plenty ©f water, until
he recovers.
In any event the "mad-dog
scare" is pure folly, utterly base
less except in the millionth case,
and even then it adds t« the dan
ger.
Life.
Man comes into the world with
out his consent and leaves it
against his will.
During his stay on earth his
time is spent in one continuous
round of contraries and misun
standings. In his infancy he is
an angel; in his boyhood he is a
devil; in his manhood he is every
thing from a lizard up; in his du
ties he is a fool; if he raises a
family he is a chump, if he raises
a check he is a thief, and then
the law raises the deuce with
him; if he is a poor man he is a
bad manager and ha* no sense;
if he is rich he is dishonest, but
considered smart; if he is in po
litics he is a grafter and a crook;
if he is out of politics you can't
place him, as he is an "undesir
able citizen;" if he goes to church
he is a hypocrite, if he stays away
he is a sinner; if he donates to
foreign missions he does it for
show; if he doesn't he is stingy
and a "tight wad." When he
first comes into the world every
body wants to kiss him —before
he goes out they all want to kick
him. If he dies young there was
a great future before him; if he
lives to ripe old age he is in the
way, only living to. save funeral
expenses. Life is a f&nny prop
osition, after all.—Exchange.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated r905
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EXCURSION
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Claremont to Ashevillc
Thursday, Sept. 23rd.
Train leaves Claremont 7 a. m., and arrives at Asheville 11
a. m. Returns the same day.
This positively will be the only Excursion this season
Now is your chance.
A great chance to visit Biltmore Estate, Sunset Mountain,
Connelly's Heights, Ostrich Farm, Etc. The view from the
cars in crossing the Blue Ridge, Round Knob, with the
highest natural fountain in the world, Royal George, Etc. is
the finest scenery in the world. Electric Street Cars will
meet the train at Asheville and carry you Anywhere in the
City for Only Fve Cents.
TAKE A DAY OFF AND HAVE A GOOD TIME WITH US
We go, rain or shine. Remember the Date
Thursday, September 23rd, 1909
Special policemen will be provided for the train.
Schedule and Fare:
Train Leaves Fare Train Leaves Fare
7:00 a. m. Claremont $2.00 7;50 a. m. Connelly Springs $2.00
7:15 " Newton 2.00 7;55 " Valdese 1.75
7:20 " Conover 2.00 8;05 " Drexel 1.75
7:25 , " Oyama 2.00 8;10 " Morganton 1.75
7:35 " Hickory 2.00 8;23 " Glen Alpine 1.75
7:40 " Hildebran 2.00 8;30 u Bridgewater 1.75
John A. Isenhower, Conover, N. C.
J. W. SETZER, Claremont, N. C.
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