~ f f “'VOL. XXVuT ' V \i)KINVJLLE, YADKIN CO. N. C., THURSDAYTaPRIL til ' , - ■ f ' iv-rr mrr® i: K . , : ) ',4 ti l H V' / ft 3 :.'j) r* nzri ‘a cky^ . f . 1 :* 5 | ii 4A . > Luyu Eet - T ■ • '!•» I y Disease in 1519 LPlr J at 123.000,000 Bushels— De . ;y o: low Under All Stubble Possible. •VPrei d by the XT lilted States Depart ment of \g ioulture.) C i. of one variMy or another, is our most wid Jy distributed cereal crop, ' heretore, any single disease thin nkes a toll of 4 per cent is a mar • for serious consideration. The Uniud Mates Department of Agricul ture estimates the damage done by. corn mot rots in 1019 at over 1 On,1)00, 000 ' n dels. Multiplied by the aver age price of coni for that year, we liave before us the unpleasant fact that these rots exacted a tax of over •*:f20('i n.U(K). When it considered that one of the same organising which causes corn root rot also causes wheat scrub and that these organisms carried over on -corn stubble may infect a field of ■win ;it (lie next year, the seriousness increases. Works Inciduously. Corn root rots are among the most •deceptive diseases known to agricul Preparing Rag Dolls According to the Improved Method. ture, say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. They affect the kernels of corn in such a way that while they may germi nate they often will produce sickly, diseased plants which may die in early stages or produce infected corn. These diseases weaken the plants at the low er joints, and If they come to maturity the damage is perpetuated. It ns necessary for farmers wishing i to* ;i void corn root rot to germinate ! kernels from every ear of corn to be used for seed. The simplest iriethod of making n test Is by means of an Improved rag-doll gerrainator. This, fn its essential features, consists of nothing more than a broad strip of xnusiin backed by raoistureproof fiber paper. Rows of seed kernels are placed on the cloth which is rolled up and left in a warm bo*. The re sults are, of course, checked against the ears from which the kernels were taken, and only perfect, or nearly'per fect. ears are kept for seed. This gf’ m '.at- Is vet;, simple ar*-’ * nishes a practically complete test, i . Bleached or unbleached muslin can he used for the rag doll. The cloth, which usually comes in a 54-Inch width. Is torn across into 12-inch strips, 54 inches long. Before being used th» cloth is boiled, and it should be damp when the seeds are placed on it. This cloth is laid on a strip of glazed paper, a little longer than [the cloth, to allow folding over at the ends, fresh newspapers being placed jhp the table under the paper to avoid Infection. [ About 8 kernels are then taken from each ear and, beginping at the butt are laid in rows across the muslin atrip, so that when the strip is rolled rip and placed in a germinating box v /the tips of the seed will be down 2b .ward. The rag dolls are sprinkled ■ twice daily, and at the end of 7 days are taken out, unrolled, and in spected. The appearance of the sprouts is a guide to the quality of the seed. If more than one seed shows signs of infection, the infected ear is thrown our. If the farmer has enough corn it is be t to throw out an ear for ^ as gle bad kernel. Destroying the Stubble. Root rot is carried over in stubble^ anc every effort should be made to de stroy or plow under as much stubble as possible. (Increasing the fertility of he soii and crop rotation have alsc be< a found beneficial. One difficulty about rotation as a remedy is that root , rot affects corn and wheat and in many localities Is always present on the farm. For this reason the de par* ment is anxious that rag-doll germ toaiors he put into general and intelli gent use. and the seasou started with *" clean seed. — —— Said There Will Co No More Wild Horsesfn Rocky Moun tain Slates. pwijl !7AT?n?.i on 5 p nw£U UlViLii-i'i s»J.i v.. c.LL($ ii SS^yfl Ranches Are Being Fenced and No More Do Wild Horses Range the Plains of Wyoming and Adjacent States. Denver,, Colo.—Broncho busters of the northern Rocky Mountain states are about to go out of business, accord ing to reports from otlicials of wild West and frontier shows. The reasqn is there aren't any wild horses to bust. At least not around Wyoming and this part of the country. But down in Arizona they have wild horses to eat. There are 10,000 of them. They belong to the San Carlos Indians, who have a reservation not far from Globe. But there isn’t much chance of getting the Arizona ponies for the broncho busters of Wyoming, for the Indians won’t give them up. Growing Shorter. The day of the wild herd of horses roaming the plains of Wyoming and adjacent states has been growing rapidly shorter with the encourage ment of civilization. More and more ranches are being fenced in, herds of cattle are reduced or confined, and to make the matter worse for the ex istence of the wild steeds, oil drilling camps have been extended over wide areas of Wyoming, northwestern Colo rado and Utah. But down on the San Carlos Indian reservation there are 30.000 wild steeds, roaming at will over the fields, destroying mile after mile of grazing land which might be put int(v good use for cattle, and turning green grass of the prairie into a scrawny covering for their bones which hardly makes even a decent meal for an Indian. The cattlemen have tried to buy them, but the Indians wouldn’t listen. The government, through A. H. Sy rnonds, Indian agent, offered to pur chase them at about $0 a head, invest the money in cattle and save the meat from the horses, giving it back to the Indians for winter food. Horses Are Worthless. But the Indians would have none of It. The horses are worthless, even for hides. They cannot be domesti cated and the meat isn’t much of a delicacy, but the Indians insist on their age-old prerogative to have their herds out on the open prairie even as their fathers did. The Indians also have about 2,000 wild burros which the^ say they will keep. "And when an Indian makes up his mind,’’ Symonds says, "you’ve got to have patience to get him to change it They are proud of the horses and burros for some reason, and although some of their leaders have tried to persuade them to accept the offers made, so far they have refused to sell.” CANT ATTEND MOVIES’ SUES Wife, 'la, b iua.^rv., Let Her Wear Short Skirls, Either. Estherville, la.—Alleging tl. it her husband, Tom C. Jones, a farmer, re fused to permit her to attend n ovies; to read novels or daily pap. rs; to wear short skirts, high heels >r cor sets, or to go calling on Sunday, Mrs. Jones has brought suit for divorce on grounds of cruelty. Mrs. Jones also asserts that her husband insisted that she Join the Latter Day Saints’ church. Jonen is 78 years oldh- and bis wife is lb. Jones has been marr ' four times. ■ ■■ .... —i— ■■ ■ =—' Married Two Wives, So He Had to Ste°* 1 ! Minneapolis. Minn. — Hanson, who made the \ plea, according to the that he was driven to a 1... . _ banditry because he married two women and had to support two families was arraigned in Municipal court today. Hanson was hourtd to th grand jury under $d0,00<‘ ’ oc a charge of rubber, pleaded not guilty *o a charge of nonsupport, preferred by Mrs. Elizabeth Flainson. whom tlie police designated as ■ '^e No. 1. She has three cl The police said Hanson wus found at the home of Mrs. i.enor Hanson, who r-esidr b her mother. The s<^cei Hanson has a 10 imot s >n. ' 1 +-: ■ ,s=r.T= r --4 . . i • A- A Prof. Julian Huxley Checks Sen „ tlity for 19 Generations of Worms. fens mm PBoeie,?, Elixir of Life So Long Sought in the Middle Ages Has at Least Been Found, but, Alas! Only for Fiat worms—C se of Regression Cited. London.—Popular interest in the oft discussed question whether or not it is possible to keep old a<|e at bay in deflniteiy and correspondingly prolong J the span of life has been revived by Prof. Julian Iiuxley of Oxford. Ju lian is a grandson of the great Huxley and - inherits no inconsiderable meas ure of his talent for painstaking sci entific research. “The common-sense view of the life cycle, drawn from the observation of man and the familiar animals,” said Prof. Huxley, “is that it proceeds al ways and inevitably in a definite direc tion, with a definite plan. The nor mal life cycle of man, for instance, is as follows: The Individual starts as a minute^ single cell, then follows a period of rapid growth, accompanied by differentiation, then senility, and finally death, which supervenes as a natural phenomenon, even if not through disease or accident.” Process Not “Irreversible.” Experiments had shown, however, that this process was not irreversible, he said, and -was not Inevitably sim ilar in all animals; that it was pos sible to modify tlie rate of growth and the length of the period of growth and thus prolong lift*. “It has been shown,” Prof. Iiuxley continued, “that by alternately starv ing and feeding planarian flatworms they can be kept not only within cer tain definite limits of size, as was to be expected, but also within certain definite limits of age. One animal has lbus iieen kept of the same age—that is, the same lively activity, the same form, the same type of behavior—for t time during which the rest of Ike. brood have passed through T!) genera tions: a period which, translated into human terms, would take us hack to Chaucer. Thus, age does hot merely depend on the lapse of time; it is the expn -sion of internal processes. ' “hi elixir of liiVso long sought iD the Middle trges lias at last been found but, alas! only for flatworms.” C tes Case of Regression. A: . n illustration ».i‘ reversal in men's! life Prof. Huxley mentioned that u some shell-shock and neuralgia case- ti e patients revert to an earlier 'lag- of mental existence, having the in in* of children in the bodies Of •idvd “The most striking case.” he said >\as that of an Australian sol dier reverted to the condition of ” i. unable to walk or talk, and mkb no food except milk. This is -is mental regression.” I* sor Huxley held that nutner • er examples showed that, the r Ability of the life cycle was par,At a ■ <^at the ordinary I • -' had been adopted as nost convenient but not as tlr « -able method of grappling \vit; ex e. In the case of mammals tin >nal life of rats had been pro ion ibout 40 per cent. ■“ration of life process,” said Pr< uxle.v in conclusion, “has given wa experiment as the chief meth od -search and experiment is lead ing ontroC GR. FOOD INJURES FOWLS Too >uch Causes Gall Bladder to Be come Swollen and Even Burst— Flesh Is Tinged. Ir ie ease of chickens mating too mu ' ’reen food the pill Madder be co» -ontlv swollen, or may even buv / .id it? com ent3 impart a green tin ■' > the flesh, >r even to the skin tiea ae gall buckles. Egg Mash Is Essential. V. >ut a good egg mash a hen anp nof *he uHSinaum of eggs. She re , dtii'v a U *‘ge >nnt of pro die :,a>.s iv; ■•*:'(> form to \vl e o: -'ou. • v of the egg. i F --tiny « ternooi? j r; ■ so V of Him ! Y:> -1 \\j . a... w ' o al . ]>y fn e abon 'j.-lfl I U, -Ig IferDOOl). Tbe ''e i- suppose-: lo Lave star ! fro n spar s from tlio smo1-:0 stacl . i %<•» by heroic wor> that t < oH e arts of the plant was save . f i STATE TCfcwS Stokes superior court is ir .. • sion this week. . . - C ' t . Hair inch of ice was rep- • i at Hickory the past week. Messrs. P. M. Burdette, I Ramsey and Gray Gorham e bought The Asheville Tim ‘The Danbury Reporter ? that the peaches and apples in that section were destroyed y the recent frosts. A large apartment, house s burned early Sunday morn ig. ^ny of the occupants bare y escaped with their lives. The State Sunday School Convention will be held in Raleigh April 12th. 13th and m A peanut lodged in the w ;d pipe caused the death of the 13 monlhs-old son of Mr. and i* .rs, CL W. Huffines at Greensboro. A Greek cafe in Winston At* lem was robbed one night he past w($j£ anu $2,400 in mu; y, waflclWIpetc. was taken. |he plant/ of the Nath nal Luhiber Go., at Concord, as destroyed by fire the past we k. Loss about $35,000, partly iusu; ed. Randolph^ ^Superior court awarded W. S- Snyder $4,5aO ;or the loss oi' an arm at the Crown mills at Ashboro where he was employed. For the season just closed Wilson won the title of largest tobacco in the world. Winston Salem is second with Daaville, Va., third. Governor Morrison has ap pointed Col. A. D. Watts, of Statesville, Commissioner of Revenue. The job pays $5,500 a year. Mr. James Storey, i'a farmer living near Burlington,(commil ted suicide Saturday by blowing his brains out withja shot fgun. Tired of living. The building trades of Ashe ville h^ve agreed accept a cut in wages. Plumbers and car penters accepted a dollar a day cut, the others fifty cents a day. The mansion and |club house at Fairview Lodge, near lh.li Point, was destroyed by fire last Friday. Loss about ^$200,000 with $l75,0004insurance. A home building company was organized in —. lotte 1 m uvk with $1,000,udO capital. The company will build moderte priced homes for salaried peo ple. P. D. Cline and Charley James had a ^misunderstanding in a barber shop^m JStqtesvilie the other day and^Cline used his pistol, planting a bullet in James’ leg. Messrs, R. Don Laws, editor the Yellow Tackett and William Lovette, of Florida, are demon strating a wireless telephon e ap paratus at Moravian Falls. They are said to be meeting with success. Thread body of Mrs. Rob ert Sullivan with four; bullet wounds in it was found by her children in :h v oe 4 n • •• home in Rock igham county a few days ago. N Claude Hail, a white man, is charged with the horrible crime. /let:*. C:< fd. ...... 1 i ! The Little Town A By Abe Martin Jr Jake Bentley is in townmdiiv* 1 his mother’s home. HMs > t:n away to the dry Mr tmr*1 >'• ' years and it’s eu working fer a auto thek • or? cun. He says the trouble about 11 v a4 in a little town is that ev r • I -tody knows ever.body else:. | msiuess. That’s the reason fa: e has been living in the city. " e all thought we knew his easiness here, but we wusru jure enough to have him arrest ed. The best thing about a little own is that we come purty -hose to knowing who* every body is. We know who our next-dooi neighbor is and vve know who’s -tbie to own a car. i in a city,%where all that’s nec | s-ssary is to keep sliced up, ith | d it * eren t .j Nobody knows v o u j and nobody,- cares anything ! aboutvou They don’t know whether the ! payment pian truck is taking | your planner away or delivering i y£,u a Victroly, a n d they j do n’t ; care sojong as you don’t steal ihet miik off the window sin. ' . d Here's an unwritten law in | the city against disturbing your | milk and your morning news | paper, but aside from that nc ; body bothers you. . Someifolks get to the front in a city that couldn’t get trusted hr a can of cove oysters in a lit tle town. Some folks apologize fer liv ing in a little town. When you ask them where i they live they live they color un ; and stutter, “I—I—I live about ten miles north of Springfield, Ohio,” and after while it leaks out that ther from Urbana,Ohio. JThen they'll say that ther go ing to Chicago as tiler’s ho op portunities in little towns. And then you can’t help thinking what a flurry they’ll cause in 1 Chicago. | aiThe park benches of the cities are filled with little town peo pie that have been jlured from home and friends by the ambi tion to get to the front kand be ! some beans. But the best plan is to get to the trout, at home , before you try it on some big heartless city. pm cfjrue folks nr« jest cutout .aficial v _-.fc.iiit , so the little towns can afford to lose them. but n y ou want to live a nice, cleaa, Honest, peaceiul life, re lieved oy au occasional excur sion to vagary khaiis,. the iittie town’s the place-the place whore respectability is a rear as set -wucie the funerals don’t tro.—wiioie you don't have to pay a at ae to get your hat;back when y ou eat at the O. K. ks tain iUt, Conner, oue^oi v': j negroes connecttu with o uiu .e. Nof Deputy bn. i Cie u»hvf of llcu.il C>u. aboi rar ago, aud sent-., to i ^ r* itentiary to; *.30 \. ma i escape idai week . at i. rrts had n t Uti prehendtd. , 1 aston-bah v ii tu of v ouiiueice, lhruu n se i Sinr.-. , has exieu. eu ai vita * Sir Anew tiu(Jt the > d ambassador, to vi [that city, »o the peop^* ot ti i loity u.. nave the hi* or oft ' !?r . ry ^ A;*. J\ - ** *'' ' * S C >. ._ i ' j\tm ' u y id . ;. i I d-' I lows: W j ia ’'Vi; eci v ile I *•-'•:■■' i w, recall nt ■ • ;•:• -hv^’ . . ba »>jy oh tais r; the • b.,.r ■ rccol’ccih. , .he I circus had, this lime, t ted |al ilaeietenvill^p wi c •• a;ia ill 0.' V ii .18 ll CliSti i 0 .11 i: J. * ol lice,*and also a ciiahc .. da lior lor the horses oi i..-, \ i^e coach iines. However, Robin son s emeus ‘dim mer. ij-.4’•;iud been in that section i no i;ext day the whole caravan wav on ns way to Statesville, where Uivy were ;i: was a flourishing village. Robinson bought, and tor years owned a lot on “Cowhide Hid’ ior his exhibitions there and the ring remained in good shapi until 25 or 30 years ago.” rire Destroys Dwelling ii-We learn that, fire uestroyed j the dwelling-house of Mrs, ' ’ son, Gray* Hobson, near Union Cross, lastik Monday aiternoon, uestroying almost everything in- , side. The lire starteu from a defective flue. ^Mrs. Hobson and [her son liv ed together and the fire started from the flue soon alter the • noon me&l was cooked. This represcutsja seriousjloss to these good people, altnough they h ad a small amount Of insurance, aad the people sympathise with them. 4 Help! Help They taxed my merger in come, they’ve taxed n Camp bell pre. . my false teem they’ve 1- vied on, and my wife’s last winter dress; they’ve taxed my coal oil cook stove, my breeches a ad my cloc ks, toothb u T nd > trlow ' mile, siiirts and tics and socks; n.j mgersol, razor, type v liter and my breath, and they’ll xeep right on a-taxing till they tux this hi id to death. And when 1 .. all dignified, with cold, stiff, upturned feel they’ll likely n my harp and wings, •and jna h job complete.— Tullahoma Guardian. ^ ^ a. jkjsSv, Al*.