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- - i v - . 1 ; :..:vv.kIi , -' - ' , u v. PIT TFTrt 1 (fmm J : T ITi iffc! '1 !? 'TO) ' adVTTtTnq III II In n n I Vv ' s?'- fl II nil mm III II n IITll like bread cast upon W-JJ J UJr Jm U i tj 0f J JJ) J 11 J i IS the water, beturns Y OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, -3NEDSAY, AUGUST 11TH, 1915. ;d'vbKW9 NUMBER 66. --Ji . - - V. ' - THE COUNTY PAPER PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY VOLUME XXX. THE BURNING QUESTION - ROADS THAT LEAD IN THE WRONG DIRECTION Any Differences That Might Exist Should Be Leveled by the Process of a Mighty Tidalwave. The Granville County Commercial Club at its monthly meeting last Tuesday night had under discussion a question of vital importance to ev ery person in the county. Not only has the Club discussed the question, but wherever you find a half dozen or more live men you are apt to hear something about this very same im portant question; namely, the roads of Granville County. In discussing the question, it must be distinctly understood that neither the Public Ledger or the Commer cial Club, or any one else with or dinary reasoning powers, desires to criticize the County Commissioners. They are doing the best they can with the limited amount of funds in hands. The real live burning question the one that stings everybody in Granville county is our inability to compete with the good roads that are being built in Vance and Durham counties, sapping as they do our com mercial life and prestige. 1 When the people of Vance made the statement that the taxpayers of Granville would contribute more than two hundred thousand dollars towards their good roads they were not very far wrong. Like the Ger mans, in time of peace they prepared for war, and they now have good roads and are prepared to shell the woods on the western front. There has been consorted action in Vance county every good road they build leads to Henderson, and if you will notice very closely yoii will observe that every road they build leads from Granville county. In their most re cent scheme of building they have completed a magnificent road which skirts the eastern boundry of Gran ville from above Watkins station to a point just below Rehobath church, the road on which Mr. Herbert Crews splendid possessions lay and com monly known as "Broadway". It is a very nice piece of engineering, one that is calculated to inspire a lot of people on the eastern side of the county next winter when the cold rain begins to fall. "It is a long, long way to Tipperary" unless there is something to inspire courage. The question that was discussed by the Commercial Club Tuesday night came up in the shape of a coun ter move, and there were some very good generals present to consult the I map. We are not thoroughly posted as to the direction of some of thej roads of the county, but if we mis take not the one that was discussed by the Club leads from Dickerson to .jgjBJEtehobath church,, passing the homes aK js tJv-ttt.rrts, JsJ.fTT. Hunt J. W. Renn, R. C. Cothorn and' a number of other substantial farmers. We gathered from the discussion that this particular road is in fairly good condition all the way from Rehobath church to Oxford, except ing about two and one-half miles somewhere east of Dickerson. It is the desire of the Commercial Club to have one of the State engineers visit that section of the road and esti mate the probable cost of putting it in fair condition. In fact, the Club named a committee to handle this important piece of work. The great trouble in Granville is that we cannot get together on a pro position of this kind, and great is the pity. If the Public Ledger was asked to state a single reason why the people are divided on the road proposition we would scarcely know where to turn for an answer. We simply know that the good roads leading from other counties up to our county line are calculated to impede our progress and cheapen the useful ness of our institutions. It is a pro position that the politicians dare not touch. The relief must come through the personal touch of our most in fluential and progressive men. The Public Ledger knows no particular section when it comes to Granville county. Every hill and dale to us is sacred soil. Here, in the center, stands the old temple of justice the goal of every man; it is the county seat, blessed in memory. It would seem that every man, in the moment of pride, would turn his face this way. If there are any outlying ed dies and whirlpools to mar and blot the geographical beauty of old Gran ville they should be obliterated by the mighty leveling process of a great tidalwave which would insure increased valuations throughout the entire county. Away with personal interest and politics in matters of this kind. As a county, we need to strengthen our positon. It is simply a matter of business, one that should enlist the hearty support of every property owner in the county. It is one of the most vital questions that could possibly be brought to the at tention of the people of the county and it is worthy of careful consider ation. In its discussion the fanatic, the politician and the kicker should stand aside and let pride and wis dom speak. A BOUNTD7UL HARVEST All Nature is Working Night and Day for Us. The man who wished that money grew on trees must have been blind. For it does grow on trees, and on bushes, too, and in the fields. And there was never so much of it in old Granville as this year. Nature Is prolific. There is not a failure of any crop. There have been floods here and there, and there has been a lack of rain in places, but there never has been a season when collectively everything promised as well. And prices promise to be good, too. Save in the case of tobacco; speaking collectively, prices promise to be well in advance of the average for ten years. Certainly there is no occasion for pessimitic forebodings. Nature is working for us and we are work' ing for ourselves. The fields are full of optimism and the markets lull of hope. SEWER EXTENSION It is Estimated That the Project W7ill Cost $15,000 at Least. Elsewher in the Public Ledger ap pears an ordinance enjoining proper ty owners to make proper sewer con nections before the first day of May next. No surface closets after that date shall Be allowed on any premises in the town, of Oxford where sewer connections within two hundred feet, and water connection within three hundred feet, of the house can be made. A comprehensive report would no doubt show that the houses in Ox ford without proper sewer closets are for the greater part rented homes. They are owned by men who are able to pay the price to connect and furn ish fixtures. These property owners might even get a better rental con tract; at any rate they would furn ish their tenants something better than houses of dangers. Of course the man with the sewer connections pays more tax because his property is in a section of higher valuation, but the extension ordin ance was not passed merely to foster property values for the purpose of taxatioin, but to safe-guard all the people. It is one of the best pieces legislation imaginable. It is esti mated that the extension of the sew ers will cost between $15,000 and $20,000, but it will be worth the price. It may strike a poor man a little heavy just at the present time, but he should take courage from the fact that the sewer connecting will ensure both health and property valuation. DOWN BY THE SEA Capt. Fuller and Lieut. Stegall Gave Our Soldier Boys a 30 Mile Sail Camp Glenn, July 7th, 1915. Editor of the Public Ledger: We are enjoying our outing very much, and the weather and the wa ter is very fine. Cortez Wright is fulfilling his con tract to the letter. He came in last night with forty pounds of fine fish. Capt. Fuller and Lieut. Stegall gave the company a thirty-mile sail yesterday, as a result of a prize won by the later's squad at the Armory last Spring. As a token of apprecia tion the company presented the of ficers with a box of cigars. Our company has made a very fine showing on the target range, eigh teen men qualifying. As a whole we are having a good time, and Sargent Raynor is keeping us filled to the chin with good things to eat. FEY. THE BLESSED ABODE The Restful Presences of the Woods and the Fields. The greatest blessing the busy bus iness man can enjoy is to be able to get -but into' the 'open and - "limber" up'.' a little. There; is nothing that is of quite the same' value to man who spends the greater part of his day in an office over a desk as to be able to get out for an hour or two in the afternoon and enjoy, the fresh air and exercise. The best that we have been able to do this year is to spend an hour occasionally, per chance on Sunday afternoon, deep down in Hunt's woods, a stone's throw from Oxford's most beautiful suburb Ridley Park. The woods lie about a quarter of a mile east of Oxford College out there where the birds cajole and sing. The gospel of open air exercise has been preached for a great many years and possibly at no time in the life of our nation has the same gen eral interest been displayed by busi ness men in taking care of their health in this way as at this time. In the big cities we find the business men leaving their oflSces in the late afternoon and preparing for an hour's enjoyment of real life in the country. The automobile has possibly been the greatest single cause of this in terest that is being manifested in out of doors recreation. While riding through the coutry there has been often born in our minds the longing to enjoy the quiet and restful pres ences of the woods and the fields. This has lead to golf and tennis and other outdoor sports and from these sports will be developed a more heal thy people, more capable of work and more in sympathy with mankind. Some of these days, perhaps, the good people of Oxford will want to organize a country club. If so, we shall vote for Hunt's woods first, last and all the time. Beet Seed From licirmany Conditional assurances have been received from Great Britain that im portation of German sugar beet seed to plant next year's American crop will be permitted as a result of infor mal negotiations by the State Depart ment. Each shipment will be considered by British officials on its merits, and will not be molested if three condi tions imposed by Great Britain are met. It must be shown that the seed is available for purchase only in Ger many: shipments must be made from neutral ports only, and there can be no exchange of American commodi ties with the German exporter. Ship ments that do not fill all ot these con ditions will be stopped under the British order in council. The Refund Ever since the Per kinson-Green Company inaugurated the svstem of refunding to purchas ers all the cash taken in on one day during the week, the store has been literally crowded. By reference to their advertisement elsewhere in the Public Ledger from week to week will be found the names of those who benefitted by the refund system. Tt is not for us to know how they do it, but they are doing it all the same and they seem to enjoy n. Lecral Notices Elsewhere in the Public Ledger witl he seen a certain mortagage ex ecuted bv N. N. Cupp, T. Lanier, trust Certain lands in Fishing Creek, E B. Howard, trustee. Certain land, A. H. Powell, trus tee. Certain property in Oxford, D. G. Brummitt, trustee. HAINTAIHEHCE OFHIGHWAY THE CHEAPEST AND BEST ROAD OP THE COUNTY It is Estimated That the National Highway From Now on Will Not Cost More Than $2,000 Per Year. There seems to be some misun derstanding in the county as to the cost of maintaining the National Highway. If we understand the pro position correct, the county has spent about $7,200 on the Highway south of Oxford and about $2,700 north of Oxford, making a total of $9,900. The work was begun by the county previous to the advent of the National Highway within our bord ers. Goinsr back to Anril. 16. 1914. we find on file in the Register of Deeds office a letter from Capt. W. L. Spoon, Highway engineer, who made an examination or the road and re nnrtpd that it would reauire $10,000 to put the road through Granville. in such a condition as to be maintain ed by the government at a cost of $60.00 per mile per year. " The work has now progressed to such an extent that it will not cost the county a figure exceeding $1,800 per year, unless it be one or two short. "stretches bf road which must be relocated or made permanent with clay. The National Highway through Granville is nothing short of an in spiration at this time. If not al ready, it will be the cheapest and the best road in Granville county. Cant. Spoon's letter, dated April 14, 1915, follows: I herewith submit my estimate or the cost of bringing the Granville Countv road into suitable condition for maintenance by this office. An examination of the road from Oxford to the Virginia line, a distan ce of 164 miles, shows the greater part to be only a dirt road proposi tion, in the main well laid out and in places well soiled and ready for maintenance but there is a much lar ger portion that will require soiling before it can be considered an all the year round good road maintenance nronosition. I estimate that fully 10 miles of this section will need resoil- ing or in some places soiling for the first time, as it has never been soiled. The estimated cost to do this work is an average of $300 per mile or $3000. Besides this there is a sec tion of 2000 yards (lineal) through stnvall. an incomorated town in this line that needs improvement as to alingnment and soiling. This will cost approximately $700 more, mak ing in all $3700 before it is a proper maintenance project with any hope of successfully standing the winter weather and travel. On the south side, of Oxford to the Durham line about 4 miles will have to he relocated and built. This is composed of two. sections, one from the Provldence'rdad to" Steni; -ana the other from Stem to the top of Indian Grave Hill. The first section will cost in the neighborhood ,of $3000 to srrade and ton soil and the second section including a bridge and abut ments approximately the same, in round numbers $10,000 should be spent on the road through Granvme before it will be in condition to be maintained by our office in a manner enual to the same class of roads in Virginia. It is thought after that is done the appropriation or $bu per mile will maintain in fair condition the road. Respectfully submitted, W. L. SPOON, Sr. Highway Engineer. THOSE DEADLY SHELLS The Most Popular Size at the Mom- . ent is the Six-Inch Shell. The New York Journal of Com merce estimates that $5,000,000,000 has been placed in this country and Europe within the last six weeks for high explosive shells, which calls for 700,000 tons of steel rounds. lhe Journal says the British specifica tions make the weight of the finished three-inch shells 27 pounds, the five inch 47 pounds, the six-inch 67 pounds, the eight-inch 107 pounds, the nine-inch 300 pounds, and the 12- inch 5 00 pounds, while the largest shell understood to be 14 inches in diameter, is said to weigh one ton. The contracts for loaded shells, in cluding the fuse, have been placed at prices ranging from $19 for the three-inch shell to $1,000 for the one ton or 14-inch shell. The most popu lar size at the moment is the six-inch shell, which is said to command $150 when loaded and ready for shipment. The Journal explains that the steel bars, billets, blooms and other ma terial, which is turned over to the machine shops of the shell manufac turers. It is estimated that the steel companies alone in the last four weeks have taken contracts calling for the receipt of about $50,000,000; 350,000 tons of rounds have been sold to manufacturers in this country netting the steel mills about $20, 000,000; 380,000 tons of rounds and billets sent abroad have netted nearly $21,000,000. Incidentally there have been miscellaneous contracts, which have netted about $10,000,000. The making and the firing of these shells is ticklish business. The greatest accuracy must be maintain ed in the machining of the internal chamber, as any important variation in the. charge of the high explosive or in the weight of the shell would mean incalculable damage to the Al lied armies, if not to the enemy. It is said that the high explosive shells are fired at a range of six miles and are designed to drop and explode in the enemy's trenches, which, at times are within 50 yards of the trenches of the Allied armies. Government Announcement All reputable practicing physicians de siring to be designated as local med ical examiners for the U. S. Civil Service Commission, and who are willing to execute medical certificat es in connection with civil-service examinations for a fee of one dollar, should so advise Mr. Nelson Ferebee, local Secretary, Board of Civil Ser vice Examiners, at the Post Office Building, or L. H. Fisher the Dis trict Secretary, Fourth Civil Service District, Washington, D. C. IR RUSSIAN RESIST ,?HAS f FIN ALLY BEEK. . jROfeEJT -. ': Warsaw, the JjargtfVtt.j Outside of the Capitols, is Kiw itt the Hands of the Geiroans-w-jlLH Europe Now Trembles. "i V; ; - V.; '. r 'V 'r'-'W ' The Public Ledger-has very ' little faith in the war nfeWsvas ft is dished out from day to d&y; - Why should we? The English handle all . the news we get, and ,it is plausible to suppose that they would let nothing escape that would -hthrt ' their cause. England is sorely i'&eed of recruits, and this report that Warsaw, the- lar gest city outside ; oK'the' European capitols, has f alien Xinio the hands of the Germans may er-inay not be true in the sense that' ther.Ehglish claim. There can be no de-bt about the Ger mans occupying tbecityj r but the question of 600,000 Germans routing more than one million strong heal thy Russians is a littlbit- shady. : If this is an actual act . it ,would ap pear that the Russians either have no ammunition or that they are tired of seeing the soldiers on the. western front playing the gentlemen while they do all the fighting. If the real truth was kaW3i, England and France thought that Tthe . Russians would be able to march on to Berlin but instead of that they have been hurled back five hundred miles. The Germans are now in a position . to give their attention . to the western front, and when they do you can. ex pect the fur to fly. ' The war has al ready lasted too long, and if England has been playing "politics the ;time has arrived for her "to fights The Tide of War. ; . ; The watchful waiting attitude of London as the Russian army backs step by step before! the enemy's ad vance, would be amusing ' if it were not an occasion of tragedy. While even now it must be pleasing to the pro-German element,; it, ought to be irksome to the friend of the . allies to read the speculative reports "r from England on the tideof.war and not hear a word of a diversion in the Ger man west. Petrograd has; hoped for relief by her allies; throujgh the en forcement withdranStlof part of the German offensive, ajtfd. it "would seem to an outsider that there ,were justice in the expectation. ; y:Wn0n German, princes and Austrain- archduckes are kings of Polish,; Ru.siai,. French and Belgain territory, the . -German, Em pire will become the iift-pbwerfulll in the earth, in an'aprkl force,", and the presenct indications, j are ; inat such a consummationIsvipt?t6 occujtV one eoneid tfs5 the- alleged I the Germi? Kaiser to nke all Europe trenbL-iycnet is, a.ia to have .included tettM1 tacts otrxne psssijte mind. He is safmri be. held . in have made the assertion to '' his- "august : sister- that Russia is paralyzed . for at least six months to come, and. that empire will be eliminated from aetion during the progress of the 'inqvement at which the German Emperor,so darkly hints. While one may be disposed to smile at the Kaiser's boast as a confident but unsupported threat, it is well to recall that other countries have been startetd. Belgium no longer counts as a factor and the same is true of Serbia that, at the beginning of the war, fought valiantly. If the pres ent enormous campaign of defeat in cludes the seizure of Warsaw and the crippling of the entire Russian front, certainly Russia will require at least six months for recovery. That will make the third country eliminated since the war begun. Who can say that the process of elimination would not continue until by the capture of Paris the French had been eliminated or through the taking of Calais and a drive upon England, that country was crippled. This progress of elim ination is a juggernaut one and thus far has been carried on with sur prising effectiveness. Europe cannot feel comfortable ov er the prediction of. the Kaiser in view of the action upon the east front that spells defeat in such startling big letters. So that while the friends of the Allies will be undaunted as are the governments and peoples, yet the words of the Kaiser will sink deeply into the consciousness and bring more than a superficial pang of ap prehension as to the outcome of the terriffic whipping that is being ad ministered to the Russians. THE STORY TELLING LEAGUE Met at the Home of Mrs A. H. Powell. The Story Telling League held a most interesting meeting last Thurs day at the home of Mrs. A. H. Powell The children all seemed greatly in terested not only by their large at tendance but by their eager faces. Miss Sadie Parham entertained the older children while Miss Mary Shaw told stories to the little ones. Little Misses Elizabeth Hall," Francis Coun cil, Kathleen Brown and Antonette Daniel also told stories. Miss Parrot of Kinston was pres ent and she delighted the children with "The Teeny Tiny Lady." The next meeting will be held with Mrs. C. D. Ray next Friday morning at 9:30. All children of the town under twelve are invited to come. W. A Slender Figure Slender persons formed the subject of conversation at a social gathering recently, when David F. Houston, the Secretary of Agriculture, told this about a doctor: The doctor was very thin. One af ternoon a small newsboy entered his office and on opening the door to the inner room, he was confronted by a grinning skeleton. He gave a terrified yell, and dashed for the middle of the streetpanting for breath. "That's all right, little boy," sooth ingly said the doctor, who had has tened to the door on hearing the yell, "Come in, and I'll buy one of your papers." "No, you don't!" was the rejoinder of the boy. "You can't fool me, even if you have got your clothes on." Miss Lucy Blount, of Richmond, is visting hef uncle Mr. Dan A. Coble. POPULATION TOO SPARSE HALF OF THE LAND OF GRAN-.- VDL.LE IS IDLE There is Room in the County for 1,980 New Familes, Allowing Seventy-live Acres to Each Family. The Public Ledger has often pon dered over the herculean task that lies before the State Bureau of Pub licity in its purpose to make known the resources, potentialities and op portunities in North Carolina. It must not only be a. very comprehen sive but a very practical scheme if we are to carry it out. There are in North Carolina 22, 380,000 idle acres of land, or 71 per cent of the total. There is room for 250,000 new farm families, on 75 acres each. According to the Uni versity News Letter 55.4 of the land of. Granville county is idle, an area sufficient to accommodate 1,9 80 new families. It is a manifest truth The News Letter utters when it says "we need more folks; not more tenants but more one-horse farm-owners. We need our share of the middle Western home-seekers, who since the first of last January have taken over into Canada some $20,000,000 of wealth." The following figures from the News Letter is interesting: We need more folks in North Car olina. Our population is too sparse. Our rural population in the State-at-large is only 39 to the square mile. We have 9 counties with fewer than 20 people and 3 counties with fewer than IS people to the square mile. And in these 9 counties there are three million wilderness acres. In the Cape Fear Country, the unculti vated area in eleven counties almost exactly equals the entire farm area of Belgium! The Wilderness Here is a neglected area almost ex actly twice the size of Belgium. Here is room for every manjack of the 450,000 Belgium farmers, on farms twice the average size of the little pocket handkerchief fields' they have been used to cultivating. And we should have some nine million acres of our wilderness spaces still left for woodlot uses. Calmness and Solitude At present, only 29 per cent of our total 'area is devoted to farms, mea dows and pastures, orchards and gar dens.yards . and barn lots! Seventy one'per cent is devoted to what Col onel Mulleberry Sellers called calm ness, and solitude. , v': The uncultivated acreage in North Carolina "ranges from34- per cent of the total in Alamance 'county- to 9 8' per cent, in Dare..' Whave 48 coun ties, ,with three-fourths , Or more , of their- area "uncultivated j 39 'counties with four-fifths or mqr,e lot ; it; held out of productive f ar nr use's t ' . and S -Sounties -with ,n Disappearing- Chances And this, in face of the fact that our landless, homeless people in North Carolina, in the towns and the country regions, numbered 1,13 6,000 souls in the census year. Around two-fifths of our farmers and two thirds of our city dwellers were ten ants and renters. And the further fact, that our homeless multitude steadily increas es year by year. As communities be come more and more populous and prosperous, the fewer are the people who live in their own homes. Foolish Policies 1. Our tax system in the United States favors land-ownership by the few and land orphanage for the many. It allows one and a half billion acres in the country-at-large to be held out of productive farm uses, for speculative rises in value i in the South some 200,000,000 acres; in North Carolina, 22,000,000 acres! In the United States, during the last census period farm lands increas ed in value eighteen billion dollars! The railroads of the country did not dare to water their stock to this a mount. In North Carolina during these ten years farm lands increased in value $200,000,000. Land values ranged all the way from a decrease of 9 per cent in Dare, to an increase of 383 per cent in Pamlico. Of course the chance of land own ership by our landless multitudes is a dwindling, disappearing chance! And everyhere it ought always to be easily possible for the intelligent, in dustrious, thrifty, upright tenant to rise into ownership. Our Chinese Wall 2. It is foolish for a county or a State to beat tomtoms about the op portunities that lie in its soils and seasons when land owners refuse to sell to new comers at reasonable fig ures and in this way build a Chinese wall of speculativ.e prices against the home-seekers. If the bolder of a thousand idle acres can see no business wisdom in selling off 500 acres at fair prices to ten new farm families and thereby trebling the value of his remaining land by increasing the population of his community ten times. oveT: if landlords in general with 22 million wilderness acres on their hands in North Carolina cannot develop what Calhoun called a policy of Intelligent self-interest in this matter, then in sheer self-defense the State will be driven to adopt New Zealand's grad uated land tax, sensibly modified to suit prevailing conditions. The room for new farm families ranges from 55 in Allegbany to 7,000 in Bladen county. New Residences Dr. Watkins has completed the Dolby residence which he removed from the corner of Main and Front streets, which is now very attractive, and it wfll be occupied by Dr. Frazier the first of September. Carpenters have commenced work on the new residence of Mrs. Joe Renn. ,, , The new residence of Mr. Cam Easton on Front street is nearing completion. BEST TOBACCO VnIVES MADE Tobacco twine, thermometers and lanterns, also fruit, jars, etc., at Lyon-Winston Co. 8-7-tf TOBACCO BRING? This is a Vital Question in the Minds of Everybody. The farmers, the merchants and men in every walk of life are asking what will tobacco bring this year? It would seem that there are in Gran county twenty-six thousand people anxious to know how tobacco will sell. Upon the sale of this crop of tobacco depends the prosperity or depression of old Granville. The people have learned a lesson, and next year there will not be so much tobacco and more of other things.. There are no reasons or statistics to indicate that the war has redilced the demand for the weed; but just the same everybody is disturbed, and naturally so. The consumption of tobacco has steadily increased from year to year, ,but no one can tell at this time how the weed will sell this fall. There are great many people pre dicting low prices for tobacco, but the fact is, they do not know any more about it than the farmer. We have heard a farmer say that he is hoping and praying that prices will be as good as they were last year, when he nearly perished. The Public Ledger is no prophet, nor the son of. a prophet, but we pre dict that the present tobacco crop in Granville will sell for considerable more money than did last years' crop There is just enough data at hand to warrant this assertion. The times seems ripe for marketing a fair crop of tobacco at fair prices. NORTH CAROLINA TEST FARMS Seven Farms Locted in Different Sections of the State There is an excellent opportunity for North Carolina farmers to study the results of Experimental Work by taking a trip to the Test Farms that is in their section. Seven of these farms are being run by the Depart ment of Agriculture for the purpose of finding the needs of the farms in the different sections of the State. These farms are located on the repre sentative soil types found in the State and are also distributed so that the difference in altitude and climate are fairly represented. All farms carry extensive series of fertilizer experiments and numersous tests with varieties of grains and grasses. Tests with varities of fruits and vegetables are carried on with each farm by the Horticultural Division; and the Animal Husbandry Division has" every animal we have on the farms under some kind of experiment Even the work animals are being tested to find out the amount of work that can be done with different kinds and amounts of feed.;f. . . vThe- seven 'farihsare located as fol lows; ,.'"'' :,; '.. ', y'-y The. Granville Farm oped largely to co-operative the. Department of Agriculture at Washington.' Some grain , and grass work is also carried on. The farm is situated about one mile south of Ox ford on the National Highway. Mr. Eugene Moss is the superintendent. and he will be glad t6 see the farm ers. The Iredell Farm Is in the grain belt of the State and it is at this farm that all the grains work of the Experiment Sta tion is to be concentrated. Numer ous exeperiments with small grains are being conducted on this farm by the Agronomy Division. The Edgecombe Farm Is in the cotton and peanut region and unmerous experiments with these two crops are being conducted there. A specialty in sheep work is also be ing carried on by the Animal Hus bandry Division. The Pender Farm Is in the truck belt and here the Horticulture Division is carrying on extensive experiments with all kinds of vegetables and small fruits. Spe cial work is being done with sweet potatoes for the purpose of studying the different varities and methods of storage. Also at this farm the Unit ed States Department of Agriculture has several thousand plants put out in its work with scuppernong grapes. This is the largest experimental grape vineyard in the South. The Buncombe Farm Is located in the mountains Asheville and the feature of near the work on this farm will be the experi ments with Eual Purpose Cattle General work with frain. grasses and orchards will be carried on in addi tion to the tests on all; these crops with ditterent kinds of fertilizer, The Transylvania Farm Is devoted largely to experimental work with apples. Some work is be ing carried on with peaches in addi tion also to the general grass and gram experiments. The Washington Farm At Wanona is located on the new drainage area in Washington county and experiments in bandling this muck land will be conducted. This is the youngest farm of all, and work with growing the various crops was not begun until this year, In addition to the regular work of the various farms, there has recently been inaugurated at the Iredell and Pender Farms some extensive poul try wotk. This work now being car Tied on at the Experiment Station at West Raleigh and, will finally be ex tended to the Edgecombe and Bun combe Farms. "Whispering Hope' It Is a great pleasure to the good people of Ox ford to have Miss Elizabeth Hancock with them during her vacation, and also Mrs. Howerton, nee Miss Mamie Royster, the daughter of Gen. and Mrs. B. S. Royster, who lives in Shelby. Miss Hancock will return to the faculty of Wadesboro school in September and Mrs. Howerton will return to Shelby, where Prof. Howerton is superintendent of the city schools. These two highly cul tured young ladies, with Miss Mary Webb gracefully presiding at the big pipe organ, sang ever so beautiful at the Baptist church Sunday night a duet entitled, , "Whispering Hope," which was greatly enjoyed by the large congregation. WHAT WILL CONCENTRATED ENERGIES SOME ARE AT WORK WHILE OTHERS ARE IDLE If a Business Man Declines to Join the- Commercial Club, Is It a Re flection on His Integrity or the In tegrity of the Club. There are a lot of people around town who think that the Granville Commercial Club smacks of a "good time and spike tail coats." It is a kind of a" tony affair, we will admit, but we observed the other evening that the Club is a working body, com Dosed of men who do not rare a fit whether you wear a cutaway coat or a Palm Beach suit. While the roads of the county were under discussion, we noticed a number of our very best men at the meeting, some of them wearing real "sporty" shirts; and better still, so urgent was the ques tion they were ready to roll back their sleeves and wade into the limit. The Public Ledger has a high re gard for the ability and integrity of the Commercial organization. Not many years ago some parties from the North seeking opportunities in North Carolina stopped over in Ox ford for a day. They stated "that they had been led to believe that the resources of this section were great and that opportunities were many. Naturally they wanted to know what the opportunities were. They began to inquire and found that neither Tom, Dick nor Harry could tell them. They were referred to various per sons who were considered local hot air artists, and they only spoke of their own schemes and tried to inter est the visitors in that. It was nobody's business to show . them around and ponit out specific or definite opportunites or to waste time telling them about this section's generally alleged resources. A cer tain Oxford gentleman, knowing of one opportunity that might interest? them and in which he was not inter ested himself, took a day off, provid- , ed lunch and carried the party on a . jaunt to an adjoining county. He gave a day of his valuable time and cheerfully gave the use of his auto mobile for an exploit that was not worth 30 cents to him. You just let an opportunity of that kind assert itself now, and if the Commercial Club did not get on to ; it with both feet we would be .greats ly surprised. There aiv; afew good ni(;n in Oxford, who ir. not belong to the Club. We should like to -see 4( them in line. The time isfripe for concentration. The Club is doing all it can, but they need the advise and wisdom of rthe few good intluentiai men who have failed; so far to aililiate With them. i i. There is ' something wrong' somewhere.5 7 It is either a re- l flection oit themselves, or the integ- -The simply. truth. is .we' naYe g e-ot TO organization In the varlousJocalities of the State, if we can co-operate to advantage with the State Bureau of Publicity. It can do something but it cannot help communities unless they help the Bureau. It is strictly a game of organization and co-operation, and the counties which find it out and act accordingly will get the benefit of whatever the State organi zation aims to accomplish for North Carolina. A ROAD-SIDE EXPERIENCE An Old Friend Objects to Feeding Green Corn to Horses In ridine through the country the other day we ran across an old farm er friend at the end of a long row. We got out of the car and felt his brawny hand. While talking to him we gathered some green corn and handed it to his horse. We had done the same thing when we were a boy, and now every day Mrs. W. T. Yancev's fine little pony comes to our office window and we go out and gather some green stuff for it, and the pony enjoys it and so do we. But, our old farmer friend jerked the horses' head to one side and he told us that green corn was not good for stock. We wanted to tell our old friend on the spot that green corn is a very sound healthful feed when given at the proper time and in pro per quantities; that it can be fed reg ularly to mules and horses with no bad effects. They will eat it stalks fodder, corn, cobs, shuck9 and tassel. We may have transgressed in offer ing green corn to our friends' horse in the afternoon, but it should be fed. once a day and let that be at night. Then the stock will digest it before the next day's work is to be begun. It should be fed with plenty of dry feed. We know of nothing which will help more to fatten a poor horse or mule than green corn. It can be fed to cattle if the grass in the pas ture is short. If given to hogs when it is tender they will eat it up so close you could hardly find the place where it was fed to them. Greert corn should be freely used by every man who keeps mules and horses or cattle or hogs. Just remember that when fed to mules and horses it should be given when they are fed the last time for the day and with plenty of dry feed. Now, my old friend will you be good. THE VIRGILINA PROGRESS The New Weekly Paper Conies to Our Desk. "The Virgilina Progress" is the name of the new paper which made its bow to the public August 6th. It Is a neat four-page, 6 column paper, printed weekly. Messrs. A. L. R. Stephenson is the editor and R. H. Bryan is the business manager. We turn to the editorial page and find the following in its first number: "In some places not very far re moved from this place Virgilina has acquired a reputation for lawlessness which is entirely unmerited. We hold no brief for the whiskey people and have always voted a dry ticket, but we feel that justice de mands that the above statements should be made." The new paper is well gotten ud and its pages are loaded with adver tisements. We Are personally ac quainted with Mr. Bryan, the busi ness manager, and we predict much success for him.
Oxford Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.)
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Aug. 11, 1915, edition 1
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