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VOL. I NO. 7
SYLVA, N. C, JUN!20. 1913
$1.00 THE YEAR IN ADVANCE
THE CULTIVATION
OF CORN
ANCE ROGERS.
CULLOWHEE N. & I. S.
The work at the Cullowhee Nor
mal and Industrial School of beauti
fying the campus and erecting -the
handsome new Admintstration
building is being pushed forward
as rapidly as possible. The .; work
0n the foundation of ,the building
as been completed and the walls
are in course of erection the work
being done as rapidly as the brick
can be manufactured. The contract
ors, Messrs. Wilson and Wamack
re manuiactunng their own brick
bere having installed a new an
up-to-date machine for that pur
pose. with the increased facilities and
from the applications and inquiries
that have been received there can
be no aoubt that the enrollment
ana work done will greatly exceed
the phenominal success of the past
session. -'
SEW COLLEGE OFFICIALS.
Rev. W. L. Sherrill, pastor of the
Methooist church, at Pineville, has,
been elected secretary-treasurer of
Davenport College in Western
North Carolina. The selection was
pade by the executive . committee
pf the board of trustees which met in
Salisbury. He will enter "upon his
duties at once. Rev. Mr. Sherrill has
for many years been the secretary
of the Western North Carolina con
ference, was formerly associate, edi
tor of the CnrisfiariA
Greensboro, and is well known.
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JOHN fl. PflRRIS
Dealer in '
TOatcbcs anb 3eveler
All kinds of repair work done on
short notice.
ENGRAVING A SPECIALTY
Sylva, N. C.
C. G. LOGAN
Undertaker and Embalmer
16 years experience
Full Line of Caskets and Robes.
License No, 6
Phone No. 17 Waynesville, N. .
COLEMAN C. COWAN,
Attorney and Counsellor atLaw,
WEBSTER, N. C
DR.S McGUIRE.
DENTISTS.
Office : Pharmacy Building,
SYLVA, N. O. ' ? ;
W. R. .SHERRILL.
Attorney atXaw.
Office n Court House,
"WEBSTER, N. C.
F,E-A13y C.C, Buchanan
CLflClft
Webster, N. G. . ; -V
Vhile Mr. Alley has "moved to
Waynesville, he will continue to
Wie active part in the practice of
aw at Webster.
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WEBSTER HICH SCHOOL BUILDING
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
FOB EXTRA SESSION
(Special to The News and Observer)
berland branch of the North Caro
Una Just Freight Rate Association
was organized here this afternoon
by Hubert Ramsaur, organizer,
with M. F. ,Shuford, president; Leigh
ton. Huske, vice-president: D. W.
Sanderlin, secretary and treasurer. !
The branch, having one representa-!
tive, will raise one hundred dollars. '
A publicity committee was appoint-
The nrooilonf Tirill lofor noma i
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nme uireciors.
A resolution requesting Governor
Craig to call a special session of the :
Legislature was adopted at Greens
boro, June 3. Adjournment was
taken until Wedaesday, June 25,
when a mass meeting of town and
country people will be held in the
courthouse at 11 o'clock.
FAMILY REUNION;
The annual family reunion of
the Wilson family was celebrated,
on the 66th anniversary of the birth
of the mother and grandmother,
Mrs. Hicks Wilson, at the home of
her son Ernest L. Wilson, Wednes-4
day June 18th. Nearly all thelsonae Dy ur J M MCManaway m
children and grandchildren were the presence of only a few friends,
present among whom are Mesdames Mrs- Ju9tice is tne daughter of Mr.
D. D. Hooper, and J. W. Keener and Mrs- w- R Farmer of this citvI
oth McQro Trtr.TT.co c wHc TTr-. Mr. Justice is the son of Mrs. J. W.
nest Wilson and John H. Wilson,
all of Sylva. The Wilson family
formerly resided, at Webster where
the children were raised but moved
to SylVa some few years ago and
all live here with the exception of
Mrs. Zachary, whose home , is in
Washington.
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It is, now well known that-not
more than one case of rheumatism
in ten requires any internal treat
ment whatever. All that is needed
is a frequent application of Cham
berlam'slininient and massaging the
parts at each application. Try it andj
see how; qvjickly it will relieve the
painand' soreness. Sold; by all
dealers "
SCHOOL BUILDING
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NOTICE I
CONTRACTORS
1P. M., July 8th, 1913, at office of
Chairman of Building Committee-
i
! jail at Sylva, N. C.
j Plans and specifications can . be
' seen at Smith & Carrier's office,
Asheville, N. CM or office of chair-
man, Sylva, N. C, on and after
June 23rd.
Bids will be considered on court
house and jail separately also joint-
. .
K,ht 18 reserved t0 reject any
ail(l a" D1"s-
E. L. McKEE, Chairman.
FARMER-JUSTICE.
The following from the Western
Carolina Enterprise will be of inter
est to the Sylva friends of the bride.
A weading wnicn came as a
pleasant surprise to the many friends ,
of the young couple, was that of
Miss Clyde Farmer of this city, to
o i f tu
Mr. Sam Justice of Biltmore. The
ceremony was solemnized Sunday 1
evening at 7:45 at the Baptist Par"
Justice of Biltmore. Both young
people are well known in this sec-
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tion. They will make Waynesville three inches deep yieided42.56 bush
their home for the remainder of the eis: while that cultivatedlfour inches
season.
rnlpman Hannnn has moved his
family to Dillsboro. where he will
engage in the mercantile business
with his brother, Samuel Cannon,
under the firm" name of Cannon
Brothers. They will occupy the
building recently vacated by C. B.
Allison, who will build on the , Jar-
rett lot. These two young men are
well and favorably known in the
county and it is expected that they
will receive eir
business.';,,;,?; sv-J
Successful corn culture depends
as. much upon the "know how" as
does success in any other business.
Of course, a deep, humus-filled soil
is the first consideration, but much
depends upon the cultivation given
the corn after it is up. The far
met who understands and practices
the best principles of corn growing,
who knows the root-system, the
movements of soil moisture and
the uses of soil mulches, will make
a good corn crop in spite of adverse
seasons of rainfall and drought
The one who does not understand
these things attributes his . failures
to the wet weather, the dry weath
er, the hot weather, the cold weath
er, or something else the eiiects oi
which he should be abte to obitate.
In the Farm Demonstration Work 1
last season some big crops of corn
were made, where no rain fell from
tiie time the corn was planted till
it was mature. Yet the yield of
corn in this country are more, de
pendent upon rainfall during the
growing season than upon any one
thing else. This should not be.r
But let us see that we under
stand what proper cultivation does.
Every good farmer knows that cul
tjvation is to save the moisture,- to
destroy germinating weed seeds, to
liberate plant food" and to warm
and aerate the soiL Jf the first two
are accomplished tha; others are
over because he knows that it is
then losing moisture. To prevent
rnicnrncnno men npsrrnv wpph nnn
grass seed that may be coming up
in the soil. So we see that all that
is necessary is to cultivate often
enqugh to keep the soil loose on
top. One of the Experiment Sta
tions has found that during very
dry hot weather a single corn stalk
will take from the soil and evapor
ate as much as ten pints of Water
in one day. It requires about 300
pounds ot water to produce one
pound of dry matter. So we learn
that corn is a crop that requires im
mense amounts of moisture. Yet,
throughout this section, we have
sutficient rainfall every year to pro
duce two or three corn crops on our
land. '1 he wise farmer is he who
hdS learned how to catch the rain
tall and keep it in the soil until it
is needed.
As to depth of cultivation, we
must remember that corn belongs
to the grass family and therefore
has a line fibrous, extensive root
system. By the time corn is a foot
tw6een the rowg lhe roots grow QUt
ward through the soil from two to
four times a fast s,talks
grow upward, lo destroy these
r0Qts in cultivating is t0 cut off the
feeding powers of the corn. It
very often happens that the
soil needs a ratner deep stirring
while the corn is small and before
the roots get out far. If this is the
case, it should be given, but care
must be taken not to cultivate deep
ly later. The Indiana Experiment
Station has shown that corn culti
vated about two inches deep yield
ed 42.36 bushels; that cultivated
y
deep yielded only 37.92 bushels
Another station found that shallow
cultivation yielded 81.8 bushels per
1 CUltiVati0n gavW
As to the number of times to
cultivate corn, this will depend up
on conditions. The thing to keep
in mind is to keep a mulch on the
surface until the corn has fully tas
seled. In many cases it will pay
J to cultivate until some of the "silks"
, begin to turn brown. It is a
cnti-ma-
cal time with corn- when it is
turmg e grain. . It should not . be
Vi'r;-- '::' Raleigh; M.C
Arice Rogers, a well known youngs
elwood on train No. 20, as he was?
being carried to Asheville to , the:
hospital for an operation. He had1,
been ill only a few days but it was
found that ah operation would be -necessary
but death came before he
reached the hospital. (
He was a young man and wast
married only about two months
ago to Miss Nora Cope, a daugh
ter of A C. Cope of Sylva. His
remains were laid to rest Saturday
afternoon at the Old Field grave
yard. Beta, Rev. J. J. Gray conduct
ing the obsequies.
GRASS.
That was an important story in
wuu:u
tola 01 tne bereiaction 01
Charles Shope, who caused some
five tons of hay to grow where no
grass to speak of grew before Mr.
Shope took ihe land in hand. For
seven years careful methods of
soil conservation were applied to aj
piece of land that had become im- -povished:
Subsoiled, limed, green -manured,
this little patch of land i&
now capable of yielding a gross rev
enue of about 150 per acre pen
year.
It is a magnificent yield of hay, .
a triumph of intelligent agriculture- .
An achievement like this Should be
r publishedi! ar and near, $hd the , re--
suit nd the: method' v beaMenheTr
commpn knowledge of all farmers.,
Because farmers everywhere are
working on and toward the theory
that such results will follow intel
ligent study of their problems and
the application of certain funda
mental methods. These little dem- ' '
onstration lots scattered through
out Buncombe county and the oth
er counties are making for prosper
ity faster than any amount of legis
lation by congress, with all its bil
lions of expenditure, can do. This
work is serving to dam up the flow
of money for farm crops that has
been draining this section through
decade to decade. Western North
Carolina, it is a common sayings
ougnt never to buy a bale of hay'
produced elsewhere, because, prac
tically every bit of our arable landl
is naturally grass land and the
climate is nowhere more favorable
and it is only a question of time
when the importation of hay will be
stopped.
When the Gazette-News was de
voting attention day after day and
month after month to the demon
stration work, an Asheville gentle
man used to say that we ought to
give more time to grass. WehV
maize is a grass, as a matter . ofT
fact; and even if the acre, contests,
had been in potatoes or cabbages,
the essentials of business farming,,
the principle . of intensive cultiva
tionfewer acres, bigger crops
would have been just as effectively
presented. We believe that not
only hay but every field crop has
felt the reflex of the boys and; men's
corn contest in this sections The
Jeaven is working faster and faster
toward that time when the solitary
and waste places shall be glad.
Gazette-News.
Rev. Tipton, a returned; mission
ary from'Chiha, will preach at Beta
Sunday, June 22nd, at 11; o'clocki
Mrs. ; Tipton; who ) was - Miss r Mary
Bryson of BrysonCity, wiU. address
theiadies . in ;the - afternoon at 3
o'clock jtismefc
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