OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER, FRIDAY APKIL I, i'1910
Never did a fertilizer give better satisfaction than did Ober's Special Compound for Tobacco in
Granville County last year and it will be used more than ever this year. In the counties of Gran
ville, Vance, Person and Durham, the home of fine Tobacco, this brand stands foremost as a Tobac
co euano. There is a reason for this.
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Results are the final test and this is the reason why Special Compound for Tobacco has gained re
mendously in popularity year after year. This mixture will give the young plant a proper start and
the plant will have a quick and vigorous growth. It will also cause it to ripen early and give it an
abundance of oil and weight with a fine texture.
Laws have been made to regulate the fertilizer industry, but Demand is a big factor in com
pelling manufacturers to maintain the standard of their goods. Don't encourage the manufacture
of poor grades of fertilizer by purchasing them yourself!
Use OIjcf's Tobacco Cream Once, And Yon Willi Always Use It
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CAPITAL HIGHWAY AGAIN
TTHE CAPITAL TO CAPITAL ROUTE
THE ONE THA WILL BE IN DEMAND.
xchange Predicts that Hordes of A
tos Will Soon be Spinning Over
This Route The County Through
1 Which Each Route Passes Some
More Facts.
"What has become of the Capitai-tc
Capital' automobile route?" inquires
the Abbeville Med'um. And replying
to its own query, says:
"The winds waft back the answer,
""Gone where the woodbine twinetii.' '
Nay, nay, fair co-eval and gifted
Medium, you interpret not aright the
toessage of the zephyrs,for this whis
per with sweet incense-laden breath:
"The Cap-tal highway is steadily bt
coining an accomplished fact, stretch
ing its smccth and simiovuil ength a
long from Augusta to Aiken, Colum
bia. Cuuidon,. liar ts.-: !i e, Darlington,
Jheraw, Rockingham, Pinehurst, Ral
eigh, Durham, and many other lovely
Tillages cf the plain, to the effete
and distant North,."
Hark, once again gentle Medium,
to the voices of tbb South wind, say
ins;: "There are two separate and distinct
automobile highway projects, the Cap
ital and the National, whkih yoa,
3ike many another have confused. Let
your mind dwell here for a moment
and get the fact clearly fixed in your
"thoughts.
"The Capita Highway is planned
to connect Florida with Washington,
'the route ccming by Augusta, Colum
bia and Ka!?5gh.
"The National project starts at At
lanta and following the general
course of the Southern railway, pass
es through Greenvile, CharloLte and
Greensboro, there over the mount
ains to Roanoke, Virginia, up the
Shenandoah Vally to Harper's Fer
ry and on by Harrisburg to Philadel
phia. "Did you get that?"
"Tho National follows the Southern
"Tbe Capital follows the Seaboard.
"The National crosses the Savan
"nth. river at Knox's bridge and pro
ceeds thence by Fair Play, over Lot
tie Beaver Dam creek to Anderson,
Pelzer and GreenvoTIe. That is the
route wbich was selected by the joy
riders representing the Atlanta Jour
nal and New York, Herald.who visited
Abbev.lle last Jure. Thry never had
any intention of locating their route
"via the Medium's thriving and hap
3y home. It is the Journal-Herald
Acbeviille-CreenwiCod route .which has
fif.-ne where the woodbine twines, and
where the ferns and the fondling
grass say "stay" and the dewberry
Jirs fcr to work delay.
As the two enterprising and stren
uous papers spent $30,000 of their
own easy money in promoting the
yr-"ect and, incdeta'ly, adve t's'ng
their philanthropy, modesty and eth
er virtues and boosting their circu
lation, they certainly had the insl'en
able right to select any route they
chese, even though it penetrated
quagmires and c"ambed red clay hiiftg
and rugged motmta'n". Wh'le Ander
GreoTivi.le and Srartanturg
counties have excellent dry weather
Toads, it will be many years before
he so-called National Highway" be
comes a negotiable touring road in
wet weather, and it never will be a
possr'b-My as a winter route, until
the ssaons change.
"The only good sure, all-the-y ear
round touring highway between the
South and the North will be the Cap
ital route because it traverses a sec
tion where the roads are as fine u
winter as in summer, where snow is
practically unknown and where the
beat hotels, and jgolf links are to be
found at the end of each day's jour
ney, from Pinehurst at Palm Beach.
"And such progress has been made
in actually constructing the Capital
Highway that 250 miles of it, connect
ing Augusta and Pinehurst, will be
formally opened on April IS, less
than 30 days hence.
"Come, dist ngadohed Med'um, brin;
your $10,000 imported motor carjoin
the Soc'aMLlty run leaving Colombia
on the data above iven, and see the
splend'd road we have.
"The. Capital Highway is the route
w.hccfo wiU get the travel, too, be
cause the hostelries appeal to the
fasi'id'ors motcr.'sis.
"The great resorts of the Carolinas
Georga and Florida are right now
forming a combination which means
much for the Capital highway. We
sincerely wish. Abbeville could move
down 50 miles and get on the route
because the cities and towns along
it will b9 fortunate provided the
co-operate. Tbe Highway is a busli
nes? propcs?t"on and, in business, no
li ody gets something for nothing.
As we understard it, the towns a
long the Nat'onal did net co-operate
much and they have not received
mucb, and probably never will from
that source.
"Th3 Capital route's strength lies
largely in the tremendous influence
rnd advertising by the winter re
sorts. "One resort alcne, Pinehurst,-spend
$30,000 a year on advertising, and
w'.th Camden, A' ken, Augusta. Savan
rah, JacksonviD'e and the Florida
East Ccast po'.nts. the total must run
up to $250,000 annually.
"The towns which spend a few hun
dred dollars now in he'ping the pro
ject in its infancy will continue to
draw di-v"denjs on their investment
so long as biting Wizards drive Nor
thern people to ssek the delights
only to be found in the nation's win
ter playgrounds here in the South.
"Py tbe end of 1910 there will be
COO 000 auitos in thi-3 country, and by
the erd of 1911, upwards of 1,000,000.
It Is estimated that in five years
there wi l be 6,000,000. motor cars in
the United States. The auto is here
to stay. Every auto owner is more
or lees of a tourist. Realizing the
immense p-ssrbTtes of auto touring
patronage, the men who have million!
invested in Southern winter resorts
are getting beihind the Capital hieh
way. They will see that it is wide
ly adverttp-ed ard undoubtedly new
resorts will spring up along the route
becarse those already estebliVred
comdd not accomjmodate this season's
buscness. We lock to see a dozen
few resorts in the next few years. It
is a most inevitable that they wilil
ZX-1lcaIe!i ateng the Capital H'ghway
ai-oh is destined to become one of
the greatest fact-rs in the Sough's
o.umbia which are now helping to
jay the freight, krow what they are
do-n- for they w.!H scon see
inMTard and outward, to Northward
and Somthiwajd, the shimmering au
tos swirl,
"As a silver-wrouight garment that
clings to and foEows the firmweet
limbs of a girl.
That is what the winds wat not the
hot winds but the balmy breezes.
THE HEN AND THE EGS.
The Modern Commercial Her Is Ex
pected to Work Overtime and Must
Be Fed in Accordance.
A series cf egg-laying competitions
was inaugurated by Australia. A full
repcrt of the experiments is given
by Consul Henry Baker, in The Week
ly Consular and Trade Reports, print
ed by the Department of Commerce
and Labor. He was shown the hens
that took part in the egg-liaying com
petition and poultry expert explained
to him that for an intense egg pro
duction a large amount of limb and
bone-forming material must be sup
plied to the hers. His egg lore is
worth while. He says:
"You have to feed them unnatur
ally, and has it ever occured to you
what you are asking the modern ihen
to accimplish aa;nit what nature in
tended her- to do? A natural hen
would lay at the most 24 eggs in
tbe year, she wouM be called upon
to produce 24 egg shells' and 24 fram
es of chickenn, because, remember,
the frame cf the chick has to be con
tained in the egg, or the egg is not
laid. Now the hen has 365 days to
gather and store this frame-forming
material, but we ask the mcdern com
merc'al hen to lay 150 to 200 eggs,
with 150 to 250 egg shells, and there
fore 150 or 250 frames cf chickens
must be formed. Therefore, you
have to ass'st her by what might
be termed unnatural feeding. Fortu
nately, ground bone anjd shell grit ia
cheap. I find that green focd can
be fed in much liarg?r quantities than
I wxs aware of ard takes the place
of bran to a con-ziderahle extent. I
place lucerne first, clover next, and
then grains." Rockingham Pest.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
Planter Pelade a Mathematical Cal
culation Cultivated Right and
used His Brains in Working.
Exchange.
When one reads of an exceptional
yield cf jgra";n or corn an interest
very naaturally attache to the meth
ods followed in producing it. For this
reason those who have read the pre
vious reference in these notes to the
of corn secured from a single acre
by John Saundburg will be interested
in knowing how it was grown. The
ground on which this l;ne yield was
produced was second bottom Missou
ri valley soil which had been in clov
er pasture some five years pirece.l
ing It was plowed in the fall and in
th a spring it was given the uua!
thorough, preparation for corn, includ
ing disking and harrowing. An a
cre and a half were chosen in the
richest part of the field, one acre be
ing laid out for the actual test. The
grower figured out in advance just
how many plants he would have to
have to produce 150 bushels at har
vest. To this were added a sufficden
number cf. kernels to make up for
these that fail to produce ears. He
planted the corn early in May, using
a drill and. double planting, bo that
the rows were twenty-one inches a
part, the kerneTs te'ng dropped eigh
teen inches apart in the row. The
cultivating was done with a ingle
horse and a five tooth cultivator, than
being given at frequent intervals so
as to kfep the soil loose and moist.
At h ifcMng time an actual count pJha
ed 11,880 stalks with ears averaging
wod&ht 14.40 ounces. The land wias
re-measured .and the corn weighed in
the presence of a justice of the peace
The variety planted was Redd 's Yel
low Dent. It is interesting to note
in connection with this yield that It
was just about sis: times the avornn
yield per acre for corn the country
ever. It is worth treimembering, too,
that, in addition to using the finest
pure bred seed obtainable, the corn
was just about six times the average
bottom land and was given ideal cul
tivation. When corn growers . will
give more heed to the three factors
aere mentioned in the growing of
the-5 corn the yield of this great ce
roa' will he materially increased.
ROAD TALK.
Bad Argument to say that People
Are Too Poor to Build Roads Too
Poor Not to.
Those people who are opposed to
good roadis and there are lots of then
sirange.as it may seem,should paste
the following in their hats and read
it at every opportunity.
"A farm having 100 acres in culti
vation requires at least two teams
to cultivate th:s size farm. In Ca
tawba the farms are, on an average,
eight miles from market or railroad;
put the difference of the amount of
work done by each horse at $5, haul
ing over gocd roads and bad ones,
which, makes $20. A farm of this
s'ze usually has two wagons and two
other vehicles of some kind. Pmt the
saving at $2.50 each and you have
the saving of $10 more, which will
make $30. The road tax on an aver
age farm of this size, at 20 cents a
hundred, will not be ovr $3.
"The objection made by some peo
ple, that we are too poor to builM
scood roads is a m 'stake. Tho facts
is we are too poor not to build
tuem. Increasing traffic makes the
unimproved roads worse and worse.
On them the cost of transportation
ii constanatiy increasing and. unless
something is don.et competition will
force us out of business. There is
not a single county in the state,
where road improvement has been
started, tihat the people are not anx
ious to carry it on as rapidly as pos
sible. The above Is taken from an ar
ticle written by Mr. R. L. Shuford,
of Catawba county, on "Why Cataw
ba Should Build Good Roads.' The
article was awarded a prize at the
Catawba County fair.
Good roads cost money but so do
bad ones. It is this latter fact that
those who oppose good roads fail to
grasp. Mr. Shuford's figures ought
to help them to grasp that fact.
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