• Lit ^ TBAB 01 ADYi ■r X. 8. Mill up*, who haa boon dia frtet farm tfmt in thia iUU for * nsbtr of foin, prooontod tho botfd • atatomont of Dm tentaf oituation fti Hits county u *H wymI«< by the Moral emu ukoti la 1M0. And It aright bo Mid that wfcon tho imift farm rnado a poor ihowinc at that Mm, If tho facto wore known tho «it aation h rr*n woroo today. Tho Uttor of Mr. Millaop • In ro |vd to Barry'* fararin* otatiotiea w addiooml to Mr. Byorly, Chair Ma of tho Board of Caaaty Coaraiia fftiDiri) ml fa publbbut Mow m one that win proro of valnaUo informa tion to tho poofrio of tho manly: Btatoorillc, If. C., Sopt. 4, lftt. *r. W. J. Byorly, Chairman, Sorry County Cafcnaiasioaora. m Airy, N. C. jrtoM ia IS bwhete It «■ W to only about tl« fnrtiM of the MM fi ■ • Mock. The «I wp In Mto In amounting to laaa than S mm per bum. la the Matter of wheat, It la not much batter. The malt rw laaa than 4 Mm per fan*. would Mean a yield of laaa than .» bushel i par farm, and aa the average farm population would be I It wilt be nm that til# wheat prodncsd is not enough to feed the fan* population Coming down to Ihmiii, It ia found that the entire county had only 28 ecrea in soybeana in 1M Mid only Ml in cowpea*. Theee two rropa are the leading noil Improving crope aa well aa fine bay producing erapa -for Hveatock, and yet the acreage and production are aa low aa to ha neg ligible. The arrange In each of thsse crope ahoald he tecreased to the e* beot that each farm in the coanty where from 5 to IS acre* each. Tour total acreage hi hay cropa hi 1M0 ■ M ii «i — *• ' -* ft ggfl » - rtrjulmrti iii Hiiif/UVlln'U aw# •» (Otw, ■fv(l w ^^»^eCe UCUwII of (.741 tena. that weald amount to which added to the forage from the corn crop and the wheat straw, fe. your roughage for tl tbia la entirely Iaadsquati to -*ea a very peer ration. I am K formed that tlM town of Etkia ahipa ia several hundred ear leada at hay •ach year, and I do not doubt that the same ia true of yoar town of Mt. Airy in the roaaty. I an handing you herewith 4sto taken ha the 1M peri m th* •pinltaril }M hi deciding whether the 41 MtiiUiKt. Ton will aae by reI ■mi ta time statiatica that the to tal population of Barry euuaty to mmmi 18 per caat daring the i 1910 to 1«8. and that kaa population period 23.8 which »iabra««a Mt. ibjr town alone. The rural popula in embraces your village* includ k| the town of Elkin. The popula ttsn of Elkia increaaed during that y ini< MJ per cant. When the oth er villages of the ounty are toaaM arod. the real 'xra population of tht aojiity durinc the decade increaaed Wljr little. A* shown fcjf i(« Census report. ti« msasber of f:.-ra» in the c-unty de r»wd durinc the period by 1« or 4 par cent. Th- increase in, acreage la farm* was a little more than S per 4MK. The dec -ease in improved land to farm* was mcr* than 7 per cent. tW value of farm property during 4he period increaaed amazingly, autre than 157 per cent. lite numlyr of horses and nulee, which meals only work stock and doaa not include th* young (tack, to 5,182. which is a little than one and one-fourth horses far fana. The heef cattle for the en. Ike county amount* ttfs. only WSO, Is very low considering the of rough land that should he la pasture in the county. Tou fare Vttle better in the matter of dairy s. 8412, but that includes young If the calve* and heifers are from that number the produr | cows would probably not amount more than 7,800, which would not more than one and three cows per farm. That is ily enough to furnish the farm papulation with milk to say nothing af a few dairymen whoa* cows are in Mad la the number and who fur adah milk to the towns. Ike am all animals are almoat neg ligible Hie census report shows on to US sheep, whan there ought to he *aft many thousand The report 7JM.hoga which would moan hog* par farm ft ! be airnsary far the coanty to i or foar times that I to ardor to to the eouaty. The la th* Tour tobacco crop for 1M4 accord ing to the N. C. Farm Census of that year amounted to 1SJS4 anw, and tobacco «u grown on MM farms TW valar of the crop ia not given, Vat of nan* the tobacco crop is the moat valuable crop probably pndand in the county. However, tba money lataH ed for tobacco la larfdv spent for feed and food to supply the farm pop ulation and the farm animals, to say nothing at the city of M the girl ia to a aertoaa I'aodtttoa, the ft ..«iee. I.lantllla rl * ' (|L I #< » » ' Ivltlii iwwIHInWHi wffeilTT RiyDertw declared. Miatm of the Mob Mark •4 every road leading oat af New Al bany. The two nherHTa atartad at a high apaed in the direction af Roily Springe, followed by hundrada of au tomobile*. About eight milea from Saw Al bany, the ahertfr* ear ran into a bar ricade of automobile* *trotchad aeroaa the road. The mob ctoeed to from' eeory direction. Not a (hot waa fired by the offi cer*, Sheriff Robert* declaring later Tahaa Negro Away Ivy waa one of a crew of timber! cotter* who war* working to New Albany Friday near a earn field to which the girl waa attacked. Al though *he waa in a aariooa physical condition the girl r>a«h*d her home and the alarm waa spread. Hundred* of farmer* from the Bteh community were to Aberdeen Friday, bat Sheriff] *«bert» aecaped with the negro to] Aberdeen. L—don of tbt mob IttfMd of thf intention of officer* to brine tW ae-j fro hark today, sad «»«; road wma Into the town after the town officer* had entered New Albany with their pVVMMg* After they had seised the negro the mob started the auirch bach te Etah with criee of "tarn him Piles of brash were heaped arotmd the stake to which the negro was tied aad he irrinii ae they w*n ignited. In a few mount* Me body was en veloped in flame* and hie outcries •tilled. W~ rnmd QmIm Jm To Civw Helena Thrill Helena, Mont.. Sept. It.—-Snow and earthquakes ware experienced here today. A sharp, short If Slur was feh at MS o'clock this Morning bat did no property damage. It stopped the clock est the Ceort House tower. The qoake rams as a climax to an unuaual September storm during which thrse inches of wet, heavy snow ML The snow did henry dam age to tree*. Street car service was Hum pared and electric light aad power service was halted temporarily. A heavy snow was report* d at Great Falls. Despite the fhet :hat tem peratures were above frees tag, the •now lay to a depth of several laches early today. Several other Montana points reported snow. Malnourished children in Cleveland schools are gathered into special classes conducted by the nutrition clinic*. They "graduate" when they attain the weight required for their age and height. ' 1 1 ; banks. If the farm income could he pushed up to three or four times what It now is, aad It should he aad can, the farmers would have asaay times the assouat of money that woald pass through the baaki^ institutions of the county. A prosperous rural pop •nterprises for the towns aad eMee. I have made these few fimaiks on your attention te thsm, bat leaving the matter to yoe aad year sseodatss te decide whether the county as a whole should make nay effort te ins While the rep#t of m at 18 rents for tM Fttrtaor.1 *thh uT^nTr'" fact that takaaeo nU tor 11 cants to that The osaaDy to* "* ** J h la •* ^J* ^ a sorry crop of bacco. Tha first offer-toga to hare baan Mm sorrier than had baan loohad for to view of tha lon« dry spall, bat the quality generally la said to ba good. The tobacco growi tha Eastern markets with their toga because they are difficult t*j keep to wot weather, sad this waa ana cauae of the eonfaation at the first of tha month, and added to tha da- j Stamp Broaght DumIn. While generally the quality of to bacco higher up the sialic is said to bo good, the stamp m price brought • great Jsprsssion bscaaa■ it to con ceded that the cotton crop in the Eastern belt wfll be much shorter than Orst expected. It did not rain in Aagvat, bat the boil weevil got hi much of hto deadly work just the luuae. aad it to said that to Many sec tions there to practically no August crop of cotton. Until tbt slump hi tobacco fwrli m. Eastern North Carolina r«iiisidsm< itself in clover. It looked forward to a bountiful tobacco crop, which to still in prospect, aad also to fair to bacco prices, then, it was thoaght that there woald bo a good cotton crop with fair prices. Coincident with the slump to tobacco prices case reports of the catting off of the cot ton crop. This brought discourage ment not only to the farmers bat also to the business Men. Growing Spirit of Unity Una indicate that more thinking to being done in that 'sectioa than erer before. There to an aboence of con versation fa meoaingUss subjects. The animosity that had grown up in recent years orsc the co-operative marketing movement to snid to have bean largely i —used with a spirit of give and take and nn aheence of ques tioning of motives in evidsnee. Then to said to ha a growing spirit of unity wnong the people of Eastern North Carolina with the realtoatiea that af ter all they have common battles to It to stated that this evidence of a common interest has been tatenai fied by the realization that a half doxen large tobacco corporations with interests running int» .Millions domi nate and control the prices en Eastern Carolina markets. Each corporatioK uses special kinds of tobacco in the manufacture of Its products, and there to said to be little competition between the various sets of buyers. Walks BiNfMt Far 400 Mifes Om Ehete hi Philadelphia. Sept. 1 l—Feet blis tered, but spirits high, Bib mi A. Loar aa attorney of Fairmont, W. Va„ whs last Call made a bat with a friend that if John W. Davis, the Democratic presidential candidate, was not elect ed. he would walk barefooted from his home to Tammany Bat, New York, arrived here Satan-day en roote to the latter city IMMn afcoat Jana 1 Tbia wll aw ry thaaa omit tba <1rat W July «baa crop of Wan* at which Hn tba (Mi la est and plawrf to daw. ' Tito bogs than (a into tba first flald ■< corn raady and m carriad Utroufh [H tA J-n|.a(|lu.a an J ...|m Arf kar ww nvpwnDvr ana wif ucvoow, Tba fall farrow nn« fro* ffapf Har 1» to Oetobar 14. "If tba flwt earn Raid la rlaaoad up by Oetobar SO, tba flald b aowad to ctewr, U la tor, tba flald la waad to oata. But by tbia tuna, our eora ia all hard and a flald it randy far tba p%a aa faat aa thay ara raady far it. In thaaa flaida, wa can gat aa covar crop baaaaaa of tba bags grac ing. bat tba |/ll auaa of aay baaa waato and tba raatdua of tba an ere* togatbar wttk tba tk iipphiga frua tba pigs mabaa ttttla naad af lha rorar crap. Thaaa flaida carry *h» pigs until Jaaaary Tbay Haaa ap tba flaida daring tba viator mi wa W tbaai aaiagh aara to sisba • >>a ooaaa to tba bam «a*b night. "By Fabruary flrat, aw ptga ga to tba faad lot arbaaa tkay ara fiawbad for • to 8 waaka with eora. flab isaal tnd aoy baaa aiaal. Wa ciaaa ap rvaryrhing by AvU first aad gaa ara!.y aaU two orsthraa cars af gaad, fmirbsd bags. Wa try to arraaga for atnra if tba aurfcat jaatiflaa sacb —4 ,— <• Si* Carloads TMa Toaf Thi. poit jrvar Mr Lathjua mM three car* on March 9, and later m April • aoM another ear, some of which ha purchased from Mifttm; so during August, he aold an addi tional two cars using mm of the ani malt tluit ht Intended to fn4 during 'h« roainf winter. Tfceae vara >a«h rd however and broaght a good priea. Tito pigs oald thi* year Wroogit in grftsa about It ,000 to Circle Grvn farm and ia addition titer graasd crop residues and ate waste Material or the grating crops which flourish Ml the farm. Mr. Latham also has some 20 acres | to cotton, all of which will prndacs at Isast one hale par acre. He has keeps about 40 head of heef rattle. He hps his awn milk cow* which sap ply a plentiful flow of milk for the two Latham families and he ptaata about SO acre* to Irish potatoes for the early market Ia feet ana is atracfc bjr the fact that every cleared acre of CM* drove Farm is'made to work. Abeut the houae, even in the fence tnnmrs there are magnificent pecan tree. Here and there is a walnut and to am vide, the grape arbor. Mr. I atliam haa recently rtt oat a good acroafl* to a young p«<-aa grore and hoMeves that it will ha time tarnish a good ia He believes it heat to have eaty a small farm sad to so rotate his eraps that li|Hi will go on each acre