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LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, THURSDAY. APRIL 15, 1920
LENOIR, N. C.
HOME AND FARM
DEPARTMENT
By D. W. Roberts, County Agent
April Report of Co-operatire Crop
Reporting Service
(By Frank Parker, Director and
Field Agent)
" The shortage of farm labor in
North Carolina is the chief concern
of the farmers at this season. Farm
wages have advanced until they av
erage $47.78 per month without
board. Good cultivated lands aver
age $91.34, and all farm lands, ex
clusive of improvements, average
155.37 per acre. Breeding hogs de
creased 8 per cent in number since
-one year ago. Excepting that to
bacco will again be considerably in
creased and grains decreased, the in
tended total crop acreages will be
bout 2 per cent less than last year.
The condition of winter grain crops
h good, averaging 88 per cent of a
normal or "full crop."
According to reports from more
than 2,000 farmers the labor supply
is about 13 per cent short of last
year and 30 less than the usual. The
greatest deficiency is reported from
the central or piedmont territory,
where grain crops are grown. The
shortage also extends to the efficien
cy and working hours of labor along
with an increase in the wages paid.
It is no idle dream that the farm
ers are "up against it," as they can
not be expected to make a living in
come from crops no one but them
selves and children to produce
enough to feed themselves and the
otner nail of the non-food-producing
world, under present conditions.
There is a distinct and growing un
dercurrent of discontent and indif
ference that should be taken as a
warning, lest the food productoin be
further greatly decreased in the face
of greater requirements. The ten
dency is to produce the cash crops,
such as tobacco and cotton. Grains
do not promise a market value suffi
cient to make them profitable crops.
Some think that a monthly farm
wage of $48 is low, in, comparison
with wages paid in town. Perhaps
so, but on farms there are furnished
additionally a house, wood, garden,
a team and implements to use when
needed. Much of their "free" food
supplies also come from the orchard
and fields.
The values of farm lands have ad
vanced as follows:
Good cultivated land was worth in
1917, per acre, $4'J; 19 IS, $58; 1919,
$70; 1920, $87.
Average cultivated land 1917,
$35; 1918, $42; 1919, $51; 1920,
$63.
Poor eultivtaed land 1917, $24;
1918, $29; 1919, $-'S4; 1920, $42.
All land, wooded included 1917,
30; 1918, $36; 1919, $45; 1920,
$54.
All land, with improvements -1917,
$43; 1918, $49; 1919, $58;
1920, $75.
The present wheat crop shows the
best condition in the central pied
mont, and the poorest along the cen
tral mountain counties. The condi
tion of the rye crop is about the
same as that of wheat.
The high costs of feeds, housing
and labor make it unprofitable to pro
duce pork at the recent market
prices. This has led to an estimated
8 per cent decrease in the breeding
sows.
The high price of tobacco, sup
ported by the heavy demands for the
North Carolina bright leaf, has had
its effect on our farmers. Plant beds
are in evidence everywhere. The in
crease of 15 per cent last year is
expected to be again equaled.
Grain crops show decreases, on ac
count of the low yields and crop
vaiue returns of the past few years.
Cotton will occupy about the same
acreage as last year. The labor sup
ply will hold down any increase.
The cold and wet conditions of
March further belated farm work.
Since the middle of the month con
ditions have been better, although
interrupted by frequent rains. The
cold wave on the 6th to 8th of April
probably damaged the peach crop
considerably, but apples were not
enough advanced to be affected."
The figures for Caldwell county
ar eas follows: Labor supply as com
pared with last year, 98 per cent;
wages per month without board,
$41.50 value of good cultivated land,
$71; value of all farm land, not in
eluding improvements, $39; breeding
Why Be Dull
and Languid
This Spring
"Spring FeTer" I Natural, But Not
Necessary It's Dua to
Sluggish Blood
KEEP FEELING YOUR HAPPIEST
Purify and Tone Up Your Blood With
That Famous Tonic, Pepto-Mangan
Do you seem unable to do any
work, to concentrate, to take any fn
terest in things, during the wonder
ful Spring days? oD you feel just
useless and "no account"?
Nothing is really the matter, ex
cept that, as happens every Spring,
your blood is clogged it is sluggish
with poisons from its long Winter
fight.
In time your blood will probably
adjust itself. But meanwhile you
fret and worry, feel unhappy and
accomplish nothing. Why do it, when
it is easy to clear up your blood by
taking Pepto-Mangan for a while?
For thirty years, doctors have been
recommending this effective and
agreeable tonic to purify and build
up the blood of run-down, listless
people.
Feel your best. 'Have a fine color,
and spring in your step. Be vigor
ous, happy, red-blooded. Get a bot
tl eof Pepto-Mangan today. The
nearest druggist has it, and in either
liquid or tablet form, just as you pre
fer. There's no difference in medic
inal value.
But be' sure you get the genuine
Gude's Pepto-Mangan. Ask for it
by that name "Gude's Pepto-Mangan,"
and be sure the full name is
on the package. Adv.
sows compared with last year, 101
per cent; winter wheat condition,
91 per cent; rye condition, 86 per
cent; intended crop acreage com
pared with last year Wheat, 94 per
cent; hay, 104; oats, 87; tobacco,
108; soy beans, 78 per cent.
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After you eat always take
ATONIC
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And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
Little Jane was busy figuring when
dad came in and told her she had bet
ter move up closer to the light. Moth
er, who was darning stockings, looked
up and moved her own ch:iir to make
room for Jane and dad near the
damp.
Dad looked at Jane and her papers
covered with figures and said:
"What are you doing, g.rl? Not
arithmetic?"
"Yes," replied Jane; "I've just
been figuring on a problem teacher
gave us today," and she went on
carefully making large wobbly fig
ures with her pencil.
At last she stopped and sighed.
Dad was filling his pipe and looked
up with an other question: "If you're
through figuring, tell me what it's
all about."
"Oh," said Jane, "I've just been
figuring up how many steps mother
would save in a year if we had water
piped into the kitchen and she didn't
nave to go out to the well every time
sh ewanted a bucket full."
"Well, how many steps would
mother save?" asked dad.
"If jjhe made only three trips a day
to theAvell she'd save 63,510 steps in
a year by having a tap in the kitch
en," said Jane.
"Let's see your figures," said dad,
and after he'd seen them he began
to do some figuring himself, and his
figures were not about steps, but
about pipe and tanks and dollars and
cents and mother will not have to
take the 63,510 steps this year.
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Aiii dig tiou, and appetite. Keepi stomach
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THIS STATE IS SHORT OF
, SCHOOL TEACHERS
I A reecnt dispatch from Washing
: ton says North Carolina had a short
tage of 700 school teachers and is
i one of the six States leading in the
, teacher shortage situation confront
ing the country. This is the observa
tion of Commissioner Claxton of the
Federal bii-eau of education, who has
completed a survey of tecahing con
ditions and compiled figures showing
. the serious conditions.
' The returns from State school offi
cers showed that there a'e 18.271
schools closed because of lack of
teachers, and 41.9UU schools utugiii
by teachers characterized as "below
standard but taken on temporarily
in the emergency." The largest
'shortages are as follows: Kentucky,
' U50; Texas. 2,055; Virginia, 2,000;
Georgia. 1,500; North Carolina, 700;
Iowa, 600.
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Distributers
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PUT CREAM IN NOSE M
AND STOP CATARRH
Tells How To Open Clogged Nos
trils and End Head-Colds.
DRUGS
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KIDNEYS. USE SALTS
If your Sack is aching or Bladder
bothers, drink lots of water
nd eat less meat
When yatir kidneys hurt and yonr back
Jaala sore, don't get scared and proceed
4o lead your stomach with a lot of drugs
that excite the kidneys and irritate the
antifs urinary tract Keep your kidneys
wleen like you keep your bowels clean,
tor flushing them with a mild, harmless
alts which removes the body's urinous S
waste ana stimulates them to their nor
mal activity. The function of the kid
neys is to Alter the blood. In 24 hours
they strain from it 600 grains of acid
sua waste, so we can readily understand
the vital importance of keeping the kid
aeyt active.
Prink lots of water you cant drink
too much; also get from any pharmacist
stout four ounces of Jad Salts take
tablespoonful in glass of water
before breakfast each morning for a few
Jays and your kidneys will act. fine.
This famous salts is made from th
said of grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia, and has been used for genera
tiona to clean and stimulate dogged kid
awyst also to neutralize the acids In
Mine so it no laager is a source of Irrfr
i tation, thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive cannot fat
tore; makes a. delightful effervescent
Ithia-water drink which everyone should
take sow and then to keep their kid
saeys clean and active. Try this, also
keep op the water drinking, and bo
doubt you will wonder what became of
jour kidney trouble and backache.
Formula for Whitewash
As the clean-up season is now ap
proaching, the agricultural extension
seryice is receiving requests daily
for the formula for making white
wash, which is effective in killing
mites and other vermin and may be
used freely in spraying the houses,
brood coops, roosts, and on trees.
Here's the formula:
Slake half a peck of lime and di
lute it with 20 gallons of water; add
1 pound of salt previously dissolved
in water; to this mixture add 2
quarts of crude, carbolic 'acid. Ap
ply with a spray pump or brusn.
This mixture, if properly put on, not
only kills the mites, but destroys the
eggs, and will make the house, or anv
building where it is used, fresh and
clean.
You feel fine in a few moments. Your
cold in head or catarrh will be gone.
Your clogged nostrils will open. The air
passages of $)1T head will clear and
you can breathe freely. No more dull
ness, headache; no hawking, snuffling,
mucous discharges or dryness; no strug
gling for breath at night.
Tell your druggist you want a small
bottle of Ely's Cream Balm. Apply a
little of this fragrant, antiseptic cream
in vour nostrils, let it penetrate through
every air passage of the head; soothe
and heal tne swollen, innamea mucous
membrane, and relief comes instantly.
It is just what every cold and catarrh
sufferer needs. Dont stay stuffed-up
and miserable.
IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION OF
FORD-NEWBERRY ELECTION
The Senate election acommittee
! last Friday ordered a full and imme
diate investigation of the rord-New-berry
election by the sub-committee
of which Senator Watkins, Republi
can, of Indiana, is chairman, and
which was appointed for the purpose
of recounting the ballots cost in
Michigan for both candidates.
In ten generations the descendants
of a single sow would number 6,-000,000.
TENNESSEE
LADY RUN-DOWH
Hud Hurt In Side Of Her Held. Is Bene
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sriei. accidents, etc.. the greatest need
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such cases, try Ziron Iron Tonic.
Zlron Is a pleasant medicine, having
the strengthening effects of iron with
other valuable building ingredients.
Read what Mrs. Emma Man us, of Las
cassas, Tenn., says about it
"I was weak and run-down, not able
to do my work. Mr trouble was all in
the side of my head. I heard of Ziron
and cot a bottle, and I am glad to say it
has done me more good than anything.
Ziron is a splendid tonic." -
Try Ziron. ' It may be Jusi the medi
cine you need, Ziron contains no habit
forming drugs. It is a safe, reliable tonic,
good for children; men and women. 1
Sold by druggists on a money-back
guarantee.
DRINK HOT TEA
FOB A BAD COLD
Get a small package of Hamburg
Breast Tea at any pharmacy. Take a
tablespoonful of the tea, put a cup of
boiling water upon it, pour through a
sieve and drink a teacup full at any
time during the day or before retiring.
It is the most effective way to break a
cold and cure grip, as it opens the
pores of the skin, relievftig congestion.
Also loosens the bowels, thus driving a
cold from the system.
Try it the next time you suffer from
a cold or the grip. It is inexpensive
and entirely vegetable, therefore safe
and harmless.
LI
I
bur Blood Needs
con do
Bub Paan and Stiffness away with
a small bottle of old honest
St Jacobs Liniment
'When your back is sore and lame or
i lumbago, sciatica or rneumatism has
I yon stiffened up, don't suffer i Get a
' SO cent bottle of old, honest "St.
Jacobs Liniment at any drug store,
pour a little in your hand and rub it
right into the paia or ache, and by the
time yon count fifty, (bo soreness and
lameness is gone,. 1
, Don't stay crippled 1 This soothing.
penetrating oil Deeds to be used only
' once. It takes the ache and pain right
out of your back and ends the misery.
' If is magical, yet absolutely harmless
and doesn't burn the skin.
Nothing AImc stops lumbago, sciatica
and lame back misery so promptly J
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I
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A Fordson will solve your labor troubles, save you money, as well as
worry, and help you make a Bigger and Better Crop.
With a Fordson Tractor you can plant on time and plant more acres.
You can overcome the delays caused by spring rains and the Fordson
enables you to cultivate and harvest the increased acreage.
IF YOU EVER TRY A FORDSON
YOU ARE SURE TO BUY A FORDSON
REMEMBER: The Power Farming Unit can be operated by one man.
Place your order now. Delay may mean your loss, as the factory may
not be able to supply the demands this spring.
PRICE ONLY $850.00 F. O. B. FACTORY
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LENOIR, N. C
Corner East Harper and South Mulberry
Phone 26
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When about to
17 lUCildSe U JTIUW weigh every
fact well.
You of course want to secure the plow that will wear the
. longest, ts the easiest to handle, has the lightest draft. Is
made the strongest and of the best material, hns the best
turning and scouring qualttiesi tn fact you want a plow
first-class to every respect.
, THE OLIVER CHILLED PLOW answers allot these
requirements and while many different manes of so
r ceuiad chilled plows have Men Brougnt out ana a
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been forced to iva way to that superior merits of the
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tion cab arise as to tbe quality ol your
slow.
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