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OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER, FRIDAY JULY 7, 1911 DROUGHT VERY SEVERE ASSISTANT DEMONSTRATOR T. J. W. BROOM GIVES ADVICE. Advises That People Note Carefully Successes and Failures For Future Succes Things to Do. Man sections of the state are ixs&ing through the most severe drought they have ever experienced at vhis season of the year. Man of us, as we review the faini operation of the past three months, see where we have made cosily mistakes. "We also see where we hit the "bull's-eye," so to speak, and scored a success. We should make careful note of these and they will serve us in good stead in the years to come. It would be a day well spent to take a day off at this season and drive over the riitfeyent fields and farms along the the ivay make inquiry as to date and depth of breaking, subsequent preparation, date of planting, and method of cultivation, and previous crops grown, noting carefully the physical and mechanical condition of each field. In this way we can get interesting matter for discussion at Union meeings, Alliance meetings Farmer's Clubs, picnics, and social gatherings. It is thus that we can learn and teach some most valuable lessons in soil and crop manage ment, and thereby make our mis takes contributory, to our future sue cess. JAvoid Future Mistakes. But the past with all that it teach es is behind us; the immediate fu ture is just before us.and we should try to avoid making future mistakes In the beginning of the season our minds and thoughts were engaged principally with the problem of pro per tertilization in most instances, methods of preparation and planting received secondary consideration. A greatj many of us didn't reckon with the problem of moisture, but just took it for granted that it would be forthcoming, and herein we find the cause of some of our most cost ly mistakes. Moisture is the most important fa tor in the production of crops, and methods by which water may be stored in the subsoil and conserved for future use by crops should re ceive our most careful consideration early in the season. The planting season in many sec ions opened with less water in the subsoil than ever before and the rainfall in most places since April 1, is below the average for this period by several inches. As a result, the soil is unusually dry, and the soil water unusually low for this seas on of the year. And as already stated, we are just entering the crit ical period in the growth of the crop the stage of growth at which most , moisture is required to bring good fruitage and maturity. Must Preserve Remaining Moisture. With a normal rainfall the remain der of the growing season it will re quire our utmost skill to preserve e ery particle of moisture possible,and herein we need to be resourceful, and perform , the work in the most efficient manner. The' only thing to ido is to cultivate. Cultivate shallow, cultivate frequently. Avoid open furrows. The man who takes a shovel plow, or solid sweep and opens a ditch on each side of the row as some are now doing, is guilty of murder the destruction o. plant life. Heel-scrapes, cotton sweeps, harrows, and cultivators set to run shallow, not overone or two inches, are good implements to use in making a dust mulch- Lay asMe the Dixie and shovel plow and 1 ht-re uy save the crop. Make all i haste to stir the soil after a shower. Under present conditions it is imperative that we do this; if we dt not, and a crust is allowed to form and remain for a few days the soil actually becomes dryer than if no rain had fallen, and the crop suffer-; most severely. Keep Up Cultivation. We should keep the cultivation gem? even if no rain falls to form a crust In some instances it may be better to run a drag or a light roller nstructed for the purpose to brea'K the crust or compact the soil wnere too open and loose. Go over the crop every week or ten days; if allowed to lie too long, in jury will be done by cultivation. It behooves us as farmers to study the situation, to stand by our crops, seek advice from each other and try not to let our crops suffe. through any mistake of ours. There is another thing that should not escape our attention the scarci ty and high price of hay. Many of o-jr farmers are now paying $30 to $35 cash per ton, and $35 to $40 on time for timothy hay. The drought has cut short the hay crop in the North and West ,and hay is going to be scarce and high next winter and spring. Still Time to Sow Fortunately, it is not too late for us to yet grow the hay and for age that we will need. An acre or two sowed or planted to sorghum now, or any time in July, and well fertilized, will yield an abundance of forage. Millet can be sown, as also can corn, cow peas and soy beans, and no opportunity should be spared to grow an abundance of these crops to provide ample .sup ply of forage for winter and spring. In the fall, rye, winter oats, bar ley, wheat, crimson clovei and vetch can and should be sown for spring crop of hay. Oat and wheat hay can be easily and cheaply grown,and is far superior to the best timothy hay. A Smart Boy's Observation. We recently saw a farmer paying $35 cash per ton for hay, and we wondered by what process of reason ing he arrived at the conclusion to grow cotton to buy hay instead of growing the hay itself. And as we pondered we thought of the re mark of a ten year old boy, who stood in a cotton field, leaning on his- hoe handle, in the middle of an afternoon about the last of May, wacthing a farmer going by with 10 bales of hay on his wagon. He had passed early in the morning on his way to town and was now returning home. As we drove by with the cultivator the boy said, "'Papa, I have just been thinking. If that man had gone out last fall with his team and prepared half an acre of land and sowed to oats and crim son clover, and cut with mowing ma chine this spring and put in the barn, it would not have taken him longer to do this work than he has been gone from home for this load of hay, and he would have made as much pr more hay, too, and he could have saved the money he had to pay for that load." Was the boy right? Unless more than ordinary atten tion is paid to our forage crops from now on many farmers in this State will buy nay next sum mer at prices higher than they hux s paid for it in m.ny years.The hay crop outlook out West si short. In fact, it is short everywhere, and we may reasonably prepare for the evil day. If your stubble land is too narii co break with a plow, run a disk or cutaway harrow over it at once so as to form a mulch and stop evaporation of the little water remaining in the soil. Then when the first rain falls prepare and sow at once with some crop of hay. A failure on the part of the farm ers of the State to attend to this now will result in costly experience next summer. T. J. W. Broom, Assistant Demonstrator Approved : W. A- Graham. Commissioner of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C. BIG ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT- Piedmont Section of North Carolina Attracting Attention of the AVorld The immense hydro electric de velopment in North Carolina and the Piedmont section is attracting the attention of the entire country. North Carolina is said to be the ve ry first state in which water power generated electricity was used for lighting and power purposes- Since this beginning, the state has kept in the lead in the utilization of this most important industrial force of the twentieth century. Of about 400 textile mills in the state, one-fourth use electricity as a motive power. With the completion of a number of lines now under construction this number will be largely increased. The placing of this electrical en ergy within the reach of the farm ers to churn their butter, pump wa ter and to do a hundred other) thing that were formerly accomplished by the wearisome expenditure of muscu lar energy, is making farming in the Piedmont section the most enjoyable occupation in the world. With the completion of the inter-urban elec trical railway system now under pro cess of construction, the pleasures of the farm life will be doubly in creased. The increasing applica tion of this subtle, mysterious ener gy to various industries will in time make of the Piedmont section of North Carolina a center of indus trial activity; Investigations of ex pert engineers have disclosed the fact that there is a total of more than 2,000,000 horse power of this energy available in North Carolina. The utilization of this amount of energy would bring upon the state an era of industrial development that cannot readily be conceived. Within a few days the lines of the Southern Power Company will have been completed to Durham. The steel towers have been erected for some time, and .the wires have been strung to within a short dis tance ofthe city. This line is re ported to be the longest electrical transmission line in the world. The energy will be conveyed from points on the Catawba river a dozen miles below Charlotte to turn the wheels of the cotton mills of Durham. The prediction of such a miracle 25 year ago would have gotten into an in sane asylum. The placing of the energy at the disposal of local manufacturing and industrial plants will mark a new era in the industrial development of Durham. It is hoped that some arrangement can be made whereby this cheap energy can be placed at the disposal of the residents of the city for lighting and household pur poses. If this were done, residence in the city would be much more en joyable as well as less expensive and a great impetus would be given to establishment of small business con cerns. Durham Sun. THE OIL WELL SHOOTER. Sometimes Blown Into Eternity With His Own Ammunition. In certain of the petroleum produc ing districts it becomes necessary some times in opening an oil well sometimes when the well has become clogged or apparently exhausted to begin or re new the flow by exploding nitroglyc erin at the bottom of the well. This explosive is employed because it is ex plodes readily by the dropping of a weight upon it. A man who carries nitroglycerin from well to well for this purpose is known in the oil regions as a "shooter." The shooter has a wagon in which to carry his explosive. A square box un der the seat is carefully padded, and when it has been solidly filled with cans of, nitroglycerin, which is a molasses-like fluid, he fastens down the cover and drives slowly away to the well that he is to shoot. Usually he makes the trip very early in the morn ing to avoid the customary travel and so diminish the chance of danger. For the most part the roads are bad, and the wagon jolts along hi a way to make any one but an old shooter de cidedly nervous. If It is dark there is great danger that a wheel may drop into a hole with force enough to deto nate the explosive. Several wagons bearing shooters and their loads have been blown up, but no one ever lived to tell what sort of Jar cmraed the ex plosion. In such a case little Is ever found ex cept the great hole in the ground which the explosion has dug, with possibly a wheel of the wagon a quarter of a mile away in one direction and another in the opposite direction. The shooter generally takes from 80 to 240 quarts of nitroglycerin In his wagon. The smaller amount is quite enough if it should explode to leave no trace of the drtoar of the vehicle. When the shooter reaches the well which is to be treated long torpedo tubes are placed within the casing of the well, and the nitroglycerin Is poured carefully in,to them. The wen may be 1,500 feet deep and is seldom Jess than a thousand. When one of the tubes is filled it is lowered with the utmost care to the bottom of the well. This operation is repeated until the shoot er is satisfied that the load is heavy enough to accomplish the purpose. When an Is ready a bar of iron, known as a "go-devil,' Is dropped into the well. The instant it leaves his hand the shooter takes to his beets; seeking a place of safety. Suddenly the earth trembles; there Is a crash, followed by a snap; a muf fled sound arises and becomes louder and louder until a column of oil and water shoots from 75 to 100 feet Into the air. The country for hundreds of feet around Is filled with clouds . of spray floating to leeward. When this subsides the well is in operation and the shooter receives his fee and drives away. Harper's Weekly. RIGHTS OF THE HEX. Fruit of Her Industry Now Reaching Th-e Billion Dollar Mark. You hadn't thought much of this, but it's a big subject. When a hen cackles all over the place after lay sometimes criticize her for making 1 unnecessary disturbance about a triv jial matter. Nothing could be more j unjust- The hen is entitled to crow cackle if -you please in, a lady like manner over the product o her industry. An egg more or less may not affect the stability of the republic or the egg market, but af ter you have come to add together all the eggs produced in a year in this country, and reduce them to dollars and cents, the result is a mazing. Our corn crop running something over a billion and a half dollars in value, is our leading cereal. Wheat which comes next, amounts in value to about half a billion dollars. The egg crop, experts figure -for there have been no official figures since 1900 is now crowding the billion dollar mark. In other words, eggs are our most important national pro duct next to corn. Poultry raising is fast coming our most characteristic and diversified industry. A chain of poultry fan ciers extends across the continent. New England the cradle of liberty, was also the cradle of the poultry industry. Poultry raising is an im portant factor in the prosperity of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and the Mississippi valley generally. It helps the Georgian solve the prob lem of the cost of living. It is also a big factor in North Carolina and all other southern states. The laying hen is no longer a stranger on the Pacific Coast. Formerly anything with feather on , it and that cackled was called a hen. An egg was an egg unless it was too small to be visible to the naked eye. Nowadays the hen is the aristocrat of the barnyard. Her value may run as high as $1, 500, and eggs for hatching from $1 for a setting of thirteen td $10 an egg. Poultry courses are taught at more than 20 agricultural colleges, and the barnyard. Her valuei may run as raising more and better poul try by the adoption of modern meth ods. Scarcity and high price of eggs have led to experiments in poultry raising in cities,, which have demon strated that the hen easily adapts itself to city life and will be as happy and contented and lay as regularly as on the farm. The roos j ter is not so easily brought into har I mony with urban surroundings, al- hough his crow is much more mus iical and less disturbing than the j siren horns of some of the automo j biles and motorcycles. The advent of the crowless rooster, said to be among the possibilities of the near future, will complete the happy do mestic circle of the city, poultry i Is the Tuberculosis Crusade Losing Ground? Despite all the efforts being made by advocates of fresh air and essr-and-milh treatments, the number of new cases has not been noticeably decreased. Write to us and ask to be referred tc Clergymen, Priests, men and women who took Eckman's Alterative and are today well and strong without a trace of tuber culosispronounced so by physicians. Some of them took the Alterative 10 years ago when doctors said they would not live 10 weeks. Could anything be fairer to yourself and those who love you and would do anything to restore you to health? If you are skeptical investigate us, our medi cine, our advertised statements. Write to those who have sent in affidavits and testimonials telling how Eckman's Alter ative cured them. Here is oner 5323 Girard Ave., Philadelphia, . Pa. Gentlemen: "In the winter of 1003, I had an attack of Grippe, followed by Pneumonia and later by Consumption. I grw steadily worse. In the winter of 1C04 I had cough, night sweats, fever and r-ised quantities of awful looking stuff and later, I had many hemorrhages; at one time, three in three successive davs. Milk and eggs became so distasteful I could keep nothing down. Three physi cians treated me. I was ordered to the mountains, but did not go. .Eckman's Al terative was recommended by a friend. After taking a small quantity I had the rirst quiet night's sleep for weeks. My Improvement was marked from the first. I gained strength and wcisrlit and appe tite. I never had another ho:r.orrhaga and my cough gradually lessened until en tirely gone. I am perfectly well. Every thing I say here can be verified by niv family and friends." (Signed Affidavit) Annie Floyd Loughran. Eckman's Alterative cures Bronchitis. Asthma, Hay Fever; Throat and Lung Affections. Ask for booklet of cured cases and write to the Eckman Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pa., for additional evidence. For Sale by nil leading drugsrists and J. G. T2LYLL, OXFORD, N. O. The Dead Man's Hand. Charms as cures for sickness were common In England a century ago. Lady Wake, who was born in 1800, tells of a grewsome cure adopted for the removal of some birthmarks which disfigured her face. Her mother was persuaded that "a dead man's hand laid upon my cheek and hands would effectually remove the marks," she writes. "As a man could not be killed for the occasion, it was necessary to wait till some one died. An old man at last did die in one of the nearest cottages, and I was taken there In my sleep. I remember afterward being constantly stopped by the widow, who always examined my cheek in order to ascertain the state of her husband's body, as the marks, she told my nurse, would certainly fade away as he turn ed into dust. Whatever the cause of the cure, the marks in time disap peared." "It's the Cut." An aged country rector who had an old tailor as his clerk, returning from his church one Sunday with the lat ter, thus addressed him: "Thomas, I cannot think how it is that our church should be getting thinner, for I am sure I preach as well as ever I did and ought to have far more experience than I had when I first came among you." "Indeed," replied Thomas. "I'll tell you what; old parsons nowadays are just like old tailors, for I'm sure I sew as well as ever I did in my life, and the cloth is the same, but if s the cut, sir Ah, It's the new cut." Pearson's Weekly. Flower of the Air. There is a plant in Chile and a simi lar one in Japan called the "flower of the air." It is so called because it ap pears to have no root and is never fixed to the earth. It twines round a dry tree or sterile rock. Each shoot produces two or three flowers like a lily white, transparent and odorifer ous. It is capable of being transported 600 to 700 miles and vegetates as it travels suspended on a twig. 1879 J. G. HALL 1911 Leading Druggist Seedsman of Granville County. Doctors' Prescriptions and Family Receipts a Specialty, Compounded by Regis tered Pharmacists. Pure Drugs and Medicines, Every Kind. Agent for "REXALL" Remedies. Every one is guaranteed. If not satisfied after taking any of these medicines your money returned You cannot lose. SPECTACLES and EYEGLASSES that suit your eyes at reasonable prices. Money back if not satisfied. Two registered optometrists. High Grade Graden and Field Seeds. HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS. J. F. Ropster's Special Horse Bower. Hall's Celebrated Hog Powder prevants and cures Hog Cholera and adds one pound of meat for every cent's worth of the powder fed to hogs. MOST FASHIONALE STYLES IN STATIONERY. Box Paper, Tablets and School Supplies. Depository for Public School Books. Bibles, Teachers Bibles Family Bibles and Testament at every price, Fountain Pens from 81 to f7.5Q. Guaronteed Razors and Pocket Knives. Large Stock of Toilet Articles. Extracts and Other Perfumes, Combs and Brushes, all Kinds of Soaps, Toilet and Talcum Powders. CONFECTIONERIES, FRUITS AND CANDIES. Huyler's, Fenways and other high grade Chocolates and Chocolate Bon Bons. They are the BEST. PANACEA, GENUINE, CHLORIDE CALCIUM WATERS AND ALL OTHER KINDS OF MINERAL WATERS, ALL THE MOST POPULAR SODA FOUNVA1N DRINKS. THE - BEST - ICE - CREAIVI - ON - EARTH. Your Friend J HALXi Oxford, North Carolina. house without including a jarring or discordant noise. Greensboro News. Thought They Couldn't Do Better. Phialdelphia Record. Tfcfcie's a certain minister whose duties sometime call him out of the city. He has aluajE arranged for some one of his pari&honers to keep company with his wife and little daughter during those absences. Re cently however, he was called away so suddenly that he had no bpportui ity of nroi .ving a guardian-' The wife was very brave during the early evening, but after dark had fallen her courage began to fail she stayed up with her little girl un til there was no excuse for staying any longer and then took her up stairs to bed. "Now, go to bed, dearies," she said. "Don't be afraid. God will protect you." '"Yes, mother," answered the lit tie girl, "that'll be all right to night, but next time let's make bet ter arrangements." FOR SALE Cheap, second hand carraige- Apply to Ledger Office. A Leading Citizen. "Didn't you tell me Faro Joe was one of the leading citizens of Crimson Gulch r "Well," answered Broncho Bob, he was. When he left town be led the vigilance committee by a quarter of a mile clean to the next county." Washington Star. Didn't Mun It That Way. ' Willie I say, ma, if dad was to die would he go to heaven? Ma Hush. Willie! Who's been putting such ri diculous thoughts into your head! London Opinion. One today is worth two tomorrows. -Franklin, I1 TTT O mm rm MAN I "MANTS to say to you, that if saving money is any item of interest, then now is the time to come and look his line of buggies over. He pays your railroad fare one way, whether you buy or not, just to advertise his buggies and phaetons. Now From The Number of Farmers that have come from Granville this time and bought buggies, it would seem there is a reason. Now won't you to-day write or come to see man Davis, and just let him show you the styles and makes he has. The man "PRICE" cuts a great fig ure here. If you can save $7.50 on a rig, won't this pay you for your time. Yours for business, D AMtLJEL EMM So VIRGINIA.
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