the Zebulon Record; Published every Friday by CHE RECORD PUBLISHING CO., Zebulon, N. C. THEO. B. DAVIS Editor MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS, Aaso. Editoi Entered as second-class mail matter /u-ie 26, 1925, at the Postoffice at fcebulon, North Carolina, under the \ct of March 3, 1878. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year f 1.60 Months ftarec Months Editorial THE IRON CLAW How well the name fits! So sug gestive of reaching out, clutching everything within its reach and pul ling it in to destruction and ruin. The iron claw without blood or heart, cold deadly. And this beastly aggregate was not just one claw, but man>, each reaching out to grab at little spheres of wax candy, a few nickles, fewer dimes and a dollar or two and children it was all chance, or luck, or perhaps some would call it by that uglier name known along the race track, in the pool room, or dive. And this creation or creature of man was not robbing and destroying out in the wilds, nor even on the high ways, but in every heart of civiliza tion in the horticultural hall of North Carolina Fair, in the midst of hun dred of school children. We stood at one side while they crowded around perhaps a dozen of these Iron Claws their nickles into the slot and wait paying in heir nickles, waiting, watching for the multitude return of their money which never came. Dozens of them were seen to slide their nickles into the slot and wiat for the two or three hits of varied wax candy to come out to reward their expectations and full ill their hope. Why raise a howl about what hap pens on the midway between respon sible men and women when the Fail permits a gambling scheme to oper ate within the exhibition hall where children get their first taste of gamb ling? Gambling is gambling whether it be done by grown-ups at SI.OO chance or by school children at ii\ei cents a grab. The principle involved I is not reckoned by dollars nor cents j but by the influence on character and destiny. ROFIT ON PAPER Press reports tell that the N. C. State Fair this year made a profit of around $2,500. We are wondering just how soon a second announcement will be made that there was a slight error or some bills overlooked, and consequently instead of a small pro fit being made, there is a little deficit of some few thousand. Mr. Smith may be a good business man, but it seems to us that any bus iness that would a!’ w suckers,swind lers and gangsters carry on their ne farious business as we saw them doing need not expect success. I was on my way one evening to the grand stand, and stooped to ask a man wear ing an officer’s badge and directing traft'is what the charge was. He in formed us that it was 50 cents to everybody, but that he had a ticket he would sell for 25 cents. 1 told him I had my two boys with me. “1 have two more tickets that 111 let you have for the same price,” said he. Before I got out of hearing I heard the same officer informing another man that he happened to have a ticket he would sell him for 25 cents. And we Went on our way wondering just how rotten the Fair was from the midway to the grand stand. If those in authority permit others to gamble and profit, it is a short way for employees to use the same argument to excuse their own effort to profit at the expense of employer by virtue of their knowledge and op portunity. NEW IRISH POTATO SHOWS SOME PROMISE A new irish potato developed by vegetable scientists of the United States Department of Agriculture and tested in this State for three years shows considerable promise especial ly in the western part of the State, announces M. E. Gardner, horticul turist at State College. This new variety is known as Katahdin and is rated highly by hor ticultural experts because of its ex cellent shape, its shallow eyes and small percentage of culls. In the eastern or early commercial section, the Katahadin variety is from 18 to 2! days later than the Irish Cobbler in maturing and for that reason will not be so widely in demand by eastern growers. However, when allowed to lorablv with the Cobbler. The Kat-j abdin gives a higher yield of No. 1 ! potatoes than does the Cobbler. In the western section, where earli ness is not such a sector, a new var iety has found great favor, In this territory, however, the yield is be low the Cobbled. The other good features seem to outweigh this dis-' advantage. In 1931, a large number of Kat ahdin hills were selected from test plots grown in Ashe and Watauga counties. Seed pieces were taken from each hill, tested for disease, and • those showing any trace of disease Iwere discarded before planting the 1932 crop. This has provided a source of disease-free seed for this year. Mr. Gardner says he has al ready received many requests for seed of the new variety and the de mands may exceed the supply. How ever, any grower who may wish to give the new potato a trial may write ! to him for some of the seed. Should i any be available, a sample will be ' supplied, he promises. I PLANT MORE GRAIN ADVISES BLAIR i There is need for sowing a large acreage of wheat and oats in all ■ parts of North Carolina this fall to ' make up for the short corn crop of 1932, declares Enos C. Blair, exten sion agronomist at State College, fol lowing his return from a field trip over the State. Small grain will be available next June but it will be October 1933, be fore another crop of corn will be ma tured, he says. Oats furnish a valu able feed for horses, cattle and poul try, while wheat may be used for hogs and poultry and for grinding in to flour or feed. To grow small grain successfully, Mr. Blair suggests eight pertinent points: select good, well drained land; prepare a shallow seed bed by pul verizing the soil for four inches and leaving it undisturbed below that; disc in a legume such as soybeans or cotvpeas if possible; apply from 200 Ito 300 pounds of acid phosphate in the piedmont and mountains and none in the coastal plain; sow the grain between October and November 1; use Fulghum or Norton oats, and pur ple straw or red heart wheat for the coastal plain, or any standard wheat variety for the piedmont and moun ! tains; do not graze the grain if a full I crop is wanted, and finally, top dress | in March with from 50 to 100 pounds jof nitrate of soda or some other I quick-acting nitrogen fertilizer, j In seeding the grain use a grain j drill if possible. Sow five pecks of j wheat with a drill or six pecks if 1 planted by hand. Sow from 2 to 3 bushels of oats an acre and treat the seed for smut before planting. This !is comparatively easy and inexpen i sive to do nowadays and assures a | better crop. Prevent Dahlias From Milting I The best way is to cut them early j it: the morning while they are still wet with dew and sink the stefs im mediately in a- vase or bucket of tol t i water. Then place them in a cool dark cellar for one or two hours. The dahlias can then be moved wherever desired without wilting, never cut dahlias in the heat of the day and never place them where a breeze will blow on them. Yellow Corn for Scratch Feed Yellow corn is much more valuable ' for scratch feed than white corn. It not only contains Vitamin A which is so necessary for poultry growth but it also contains a pigment called xan thophyll which produces a rich, yel low yoke of the egg. It should be i used wherever possible in poultry feeding. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS Catawba county farmers are busy at work at present filling the silos [for feeding their daily cattle during the coming winter. A number of farmers are digging trench silos to care for their surplus corn. Lincoln county is self-supporting in so far as its hay crop is concerned The corn is short, however, and there will be a heavy acreage os small grain planted this fall as a result. Corn planted by 11. E. Bonds of Cabarrus county on land producing oats and lespideza for the past two i years will make 100 bushels to the acre, he says. Growers of Barred Rock poultry in Madison county are shipping hatching eggs to the territory around St. Pet ersburg. Florida. Four pure bred dairy calves pur -1 chased by business men of Iredell f county were placed last week with i dairy calf club members by A. R. Morrow, county agent. i, nurp bred Jersey bull calves THE RECORD, Zebulon. Wake Countv, N. C, October 28, 1932 I have been placed in Chatam county .this year by farm agent, H. M. Sin j gletary. H. L. Davis of Thomasville, route | 1 has just completed the first trench silo for Davidson county. i Mrs. A. E. Conrad of the Forbush .section of Yadkin county is finding a ready sale for all of her canned to mato products. She places an attrac tive label on each can or jar and | guarantees the fine quality of the , home produced product. RESULTS WITH SYRUP BETTER THAN COTTON In addition to supplying a tasty food for the winter table, sorghum syrup has paid Negro farmers well for the time and labor invested in the crop this past season. C. R. Hudson, in charge of exten sion work with Negroes for State College, has insisted that growing sorghum cane and converting it into syrup be a part of the program on every Negro farm since the present depression began. This, he believes, is good live-at-home insurance for all farmers and especially the colored man, and the local Negro farm agents have been instructed to encourage sorghum growing each year. Some indication of the value of this plan is given from a report by the extension worker from McKay McNeill, local agent in Johnston county. During the past year, Mc- Neill, local agent in Johnston county. During the past year, McNeill placed 11 demonstrations in sorghum with negro farmers. The average yield was 104 gallons an acre at a cost of 32 cents a gallon. At present price of 50 cents a gallon, this syrup returned a profit of $18.72 an acre. The average yield of cotton is about one-half bale an acre which at a price of 8 cents a pound gives a total of only S2O an acre. It costs about the same to grow cotton as it does syrup. Figured on this basis, therefore, the cotton hardly paid the cost of pro duction while the syrup gave a profit of $18.72 an acre. The results on these 11 demonstra tions should lead all Negros in all parts of the State to put in a good patch of sorghum next summer. Even though there may not be a ready sale for the product, it assures the family of a supply of a tasty and nutritious sweet during the winter. 1 BRITISH VESSEL PIRATE SHIP A British vessel has been released after having been in control of orien tal pirates for some time. The free- I hooters stripped the passengers of their belongings and told them to ! make themselves comfortable in their j empty cabins, attempted to disguise j the ship so that her real condition ! would not be recognized, and threat i ened disaster of the crew of an ap- I proaching craft were permitted to in vestiy or ' ake charge. They were courti to the women, who probably I were voters, and finally, they carried off the loot in their own junks The account reads like the story of a Re publican administration. j SEES LITTLE HOPE FOR HIGH COTTON Facing the facts about the cotton crop this fall, leads one to the con clusion that despite the short crop of approximately 11.300.000 bales this year, the carry-over of 13,000,000 bales will give such a supply that high prices for the staple can hardly be expected, says J. F. Criswell, ex tension economist at State College. The acreage planted to cotton in the United States this year was es timated on September 1 to be 30,161,' 000 acres which is the smallest acre age since 1923. The estimated pro duction of 11,310 000 bales is the j smallest since 1923, also, but the I world carry-over is 13,000.000 bales [which gives a supply ot over 24 mil lion bales. This is exceeded only bv the supply of 20 million bales of last year. Considering prices, the supply of 120,400,000 bales in 1930 brought the farmers only 9.5 cents a, pound. The supply of 26,200,000 bales in 1931 i brought an average of only 5.7 cents a pound. The general business de pression might account in part for the low prices of these two years but in 1926 when there was a supply of only 23,400,000 bales, the farmer got only 10. 9 cent a pound for his crop The supply of over 24 million bale this season does not warrent the grower in expecting high prices. It is true, he says, that business show's I some improvement but our present condition with the cotton crop ap proximates conditions prevailing in 1930 and 9131. Only 12 million bales were consumed during the past year at a time when cotton was lower in price than at any time since 1894. From these facts and figures, Mr. I Criswell does not believe that prices j this fall will be very far removed from those of the past two years. DRYING CONSERVES SURPLUS , FRUITS AND VEGETABLES When cans and jars are scarce or not available, the garden and orchard ! products may be saved by drying in sun or oven. “All fruits and vegetables may be dried satisfactorily by cleaning, slic ing, and exposing to the sun or the process may be hastened by placing in trays over a stove so that the warm air will pass upward through the trays,” says Mrs. Cornelia C. Mor ris, district home demonstration agent at State College. It is advisable to begin sun-drying by placing the product in the shade for an hour before exposing to the direct sunlight, states Mrs. Morris. This will prevent “case hardening” and will cause the product to dry evenly. If drying is too rapid, the outer walls will harden before the moisture evaporates from the inside and will cause the fruit and vege tables to mold. When the drying is properly done, the finished product should be dry and brittle, she states. Cover all products with a wire net ting, advises Mrs. Norris. This will keep away insects and will also pro tect the product from trash and other matter in the air. After the drying is completed the fruits and vegetables should be con ditioned by turning frequently or pouring from one container to an other. This allows more complete drying and also gives an even distri bution of moisture. The dried pro ducts should be stored in paper bags, boxes, cans or glass jars. For best results Mrs. Norris recom mends that only ripe, firm fruit be selected for drying. This should be quartered or sliced and placed in the j sun as directed. The peel may be left on if desired but this does not make as fine a product as when the peel is removed. Vegetables selected should be young a tender, she says. SHOULD ADVERTISE WOOD AS EFFICIENT FUEL Those folks who enjoy a fire-place and appreciate the cheer and coziness of a fireplace fire on frosty fall even ing* say there is no substitute for j wood as a fireplace fuel. The wood fire in the kitchen range will heat the kitchen while the food is cooking and will also give a supply of hot water thus reducing the costs of three operations, says R. W. Graeber, extension forester at State College, who believes farmers should advertise the virtues of wood as a fuel. _ | “For the farmer himself, there is no more efficient fuel than the wood from his own forest,” “and it undoubt edly is true that many city people may save on their fuel bills b\ using wood for both cooking and heating. Particularly is this true in the early fall and* spring when it is not eco nomical to have the furnace going. A wood fire is quickly and easily started and when the fuel is dry and well seasoned, the amount of smoke and gas is reduced to a minimum. Many a city person has found that he can use wood in his furnace at las* cost than coal. Some use wood during the day and coal at night. A wood fire in a furnace requires more attention than a coal fire but by us ing large chunks of hardwood and giving attention to the grates and drafts, this object may be largely overcome.” The merit* of X : 'h Carolina hard wood as fuel should be continually; emphasized by farmers and other j wood land owners. It should not be [ hard to establish a dependable trade | in the fuel where the buyers are as sured of a constant supply. This lack of a supply is one reason why more wood. At this time, however, many people lare interested in reducing their living costs and will give more attention to the arguments in favor of wood. PRAISE FOR SOYBEANS BY VETERAN FARMER C. R. Hudson, veteran farm demon stration worker at State College, and the man who began county agent work in North Carolina 25 years ago. ac claims the soybean as one of the State's greatest crops and considers its spread over this State as one of the greatest agricultural accomplish ments of recent times. Recounting the use of the soybean Mr. Hudson says the farmer of east ern Carolina uses them in the drills between the bills of corn in themid dles between the rows, seperately in rows, and broadcasted. “Soybeans are vigorous in growth, easy to cultivate and mature in a short time,” he says. “Usually they do not decrease the crop of corn when planted with it and are often; worth much as the corn crop itself, j The beans are used for grazing live-; stock, especially hogs, mowing for forage; turning under for soil im provement, and are harvested for seed leaving the vines and stalks on the 'land. They a fine quality of ! hay and cure more readily than most j I hays They, stand wet weather bet ter than cowpeas and are not badly injured by dry weather. > As a sales crop, the hay and seed both bring good prices, he declares. In many communities of eastern Car lolina farmers are building their soils j with this crop while at the same time they are selling hay. Nor is the soybean confined to eastern Carolina. Plantings are be | ing increased rapidly in the western [part of the State as farmers learn of ! their value. ijv is not generally known that No. I 1 Carolina gave the soybean to the na tion, says Hudson. A campaign to increase the popularity of the legume was conducted in the State several 1 years ago when only a small acreage was planted in the extreme coastal section. Now the crop is one of the most popular in the mid-west corn country. TIMELY FARM QUESTIONS AN SWERED AT STATE COLLEGE Seed Wheat Smut Prevention I An application of copper eorbonate dust at the rate of two ounces to each bushel of seed grai% will prevent this disease. Use a tight barrel or metal drum for mixing, however, as the dust is poisonous and will irritate ! the eyes and nose. The grain thus treated must not be used for any pur pose other than planting as the cop per carbonate dust is highly poison ous to men and animals. PLAN CROP ROTATION TO INCREASE SOIL FERTILITY I A well planned rotation system will I include those crops best adapted to soil and climate conditions together with at least one legume crop to be turned under each year. “This legume will not only add nitrogen to the soil but will also fur nish much of the necessary organic matter,” says C. B. Williams, head of the department of agronomy at State j ! College. “The crops selected should 1 ; fit in with the farm organization and j should also give a fairly uniform dis tribution of labor throughout the year.” Mr. Williams states that such crops a* rye, used in the rotation will also add to the organic matter j but will not add nitrogen or other nuitrients to the soil as will soybeans, cowpeas, crimson clover, lespedeza, red clover or other legumes. Three-vear rotation experiment* conducted for the past nine years on ( Norfolk sandy loam soil in the Coast-1 al Plain section and on the Cecil clay j loam soil in the Piedmont section show a heavy increase in crop pro- j duction where a legume was plowed j ; under each year and where the regu-j lar fertilizer applications were made. Corn was used as the principal crop in both sections with cowpeas j as the legume. The percentage oft increase for corn was 128 in the) coastal plain era and 156 in the pied-1 mont area. Cotton followed by crim-! j son clover as the legume was grown I as the main crop in the second year !on the coastal soil and showed an in crease in production of 22.8 percent. On the piedmont soil, wheat followed, by red clover was grown as ihe second 1 i rotation. This crop showed an in- r i crease of 71.4 percent. | If soil** are to be kept in the best j ! condition for profitable crop preduc- ( ; tion a rotation sysfem must he plan-j ; ned which puts hack into the soil all [the plant food removed by the grow ing crop.” says Mr. Williams. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS Prices should be more satisfactory for apples this winter because of the. short supply in the main growing sec tion of western North Carolina, says M. E. Gardner, horticulturist at State College. Cumberland farmers will plant < more -mall grain this fall than in 1 some years past due to the shortage of corn because of the summer drought. Jone* county farmers ordered 138 bushels of Abruzzi rye seed this fall through the local mutual exchange. —o — George L. Pate of Robeson County is grazing 40 breeding cows, 39 calves. I 56 yearlings and three herd bulls, of the Hereford breed, on 200 acres of lespedeza, carpet grass, dallis grass and bermuda pasture. Dr. A. Capehart of Roxobel, Bert:# County, says he will make 20 hales of cotton on 16 acres where he used good seed and liberal applications of | stable manure. James Yount of Hickory, route 5,, | Catawba County, harvested 24 loads of fine alfalfa hay from three acres ■ which was cut three times this season.) He is planting an additional acreage [ READERS FORUM —o — I The registration books are now open at the Massey’s Lumber Co. store. If you haven’t yet registered 'go at once or by and through Sat. Oct. 29th. us he not neglectful! of this so important duty and privi lege. There are three reasons why a I woman should vote, There is not such a thing as being veritral, if you stay at home and do not vote, you auto matically give the vote to the strong est side, regardless of your wish or desire as to who is victorious, as to who is wet or dry. There are no wets an