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,0 Pre -receive Ilcrchants The Trading Public So - Co lli OrapUc A4vrtlslng - " Colunuta l"ur Keu:i' I I I ' v U be rally Patronise Merchant Who Bid For Tbo Trad I I I It Reaches The . People 1 ', V ... J5. , . .... .. . ;, Watch For The Bidders The Heshvllle Publishing Co, Publisher.. ' ' ''?'' V ' t :VN': A' "j J- IV ' ' ESTABLISHED-IMS , "'j'.V'v' . : -. - ' .'.',.. M. W. LINCAE, Editor' VOL. XVII. " ; v ASH VILLE, North Carolina, September 28, 19 1 1. " ; - . NO. 38. r. . . i . i ' " : . i . . i ' . r - 1 Safest for Savings Inspected by .the United States .Government and managed Ijyjcompetent of .;, 'ficers and directors. . . The First National Bank Of lock? Mount, N. C ; """'."' " -v -' Insures security and courtesy to J patrons. 4 per cent interest paid on. savings deposits, com pounded quarterly." You can bank with os by mail. Write or call on J. B. Ramsey, President ' R, B. Davis, Jr. Cashier. . ! . S. G. Sills, Asst. Cashier. Truthful:' 'Advertising; ' Advertise the truth,' and ' people will depend upon yo ' and know that you 1 al- v ways state facts to tht,j. Wi - do not Advertise "Safest for Sayings," but we do advertise that we ' have A SAFE, STRONG and SOUND BANK,. Paying 4 per cent Interest compound- ed quarterly. ' -. . ; . . . ' ' CO.: Tht &prlhCrollna; ; College of Agriculture And Mechanic Arts. THE STATE'S imSTRLd COLLEGE. Four-year courses fn Agriculture: in CSvil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering; in Industrial Chemistry; in Cotton Manufacturing and Dye ing. Two-year courses in Mechanic Arts and in Textils Arts. One-year course in Agriculture. These courses are both practical and scientific.' Ex aminations for admission are held at all county seats on July 13. For Catalog address v : ' -: - " The Registrar, West Raleigh, N.C, . THE NORTH.CAROLINA State Normal and In dustrial College Maintained by the State for the ' Women of North . Carolina. Five regular Courses leading to Degrees. Special Courses for teackers. , Free tuition to those who agree to be come teachers in the State. Fall Session begins September 13, 1911. For catalogue and other information address ,y . .- - JULIUS L FOUST. Prti.. Grttnsbofo, N. C. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA; PHccc Are Higher Than They .Have ; Been in Eighteen Years on All Grades; T.'.nirnt I vr;r.t Fans the feaadadoa of Pmsority. Sometimes men make the mistake of getting the cart before the horse, or in other words, some large classes of men are grievously mistaken as to the relation of the farm to prosperity.-. During the quarter of a century in which we were mining the fertility of the corn belt and sel ling It at the cost of mining to the great cities of the east and foreign lands, the one thing that we wanted above all others was a market, and a market 'as. profitable as possible. Farmers had the idea that if facto ries were increased in number and the number of their operatives in creased and more fully : employed, then we should be on a basis of per manent prosperity; in short, that the fully employed factory was' the basis of the prosperity of the coun try. In England, a free-trade coun try buying four-fifth of its feed from foreign lands, and thus largely in dependent of the farm, thit was and still is true; but it is not true in the United States. -'. - . ' : ' The basis of prosperity , in our country is the farm: and the aim of legislation should be to give the far mer a square deal In both his buying and selling, and thus enable him to create values to the utmost possible limit. The manufacturer does not create; he merely fashions. The transporter does not Create; he merely takes products where they are abundant to where they are scarce. The middleman does not create. "He simply distributes pro ducts where they are needed for im mediate consumption. ! ' ... The farmer alone creates,..-and prosperity is baaed On the magni tude of the creation and noon the transportation or distribution or modification of form; When. 'the farmer has plenty of money and his empfoyea'are wen;paW, -business is prosperous Trom :onTentf of the country to the other; but when the farmer is living from hand to mouth, when there is not employment for labor on the farm, then there will be big, black trouble for business everywhere. If the farmers were with one accord to stop purchasing everything that they do not absolute ly need, we would have a panic from one end of the country to the other, from , which we would recover in thirty days after the farmers began buying again according to their nor mal requirements. . j 'r . : There are large sections of busi ness men who realize this fully. No one realizes this better than the rail roads. From now on till the frosts come their ' eyes will be upon the farm. They will .study, the clouds, note rainfall, note the temperature, for it is upon these elements that the magnitude of their business mainly depends. They may give pre ferred rates to the manufacturer; they may permit -discriminations against the farmers to remain; but none the less they fuljy understand, tht the measure of the prosperity of the farmer is the measure of their own prosperity, : If the crops' ' fall short, the cost of living advances'. If at the same time the farmer has not the means to purchase, they know, and so do the broadest minded manu facturers know, that there is trouble ahead of them ; in the very near future. ; 1 J ',.: -: Lone! "i All Other tor - 'l y.-r 7.1::co. 1 1 havs The farmer must not consider himself a yellow dog behind the wagon, nor a minor factor in the great business of this nation, but as the very basis of all our prosperity. He will be all the better farmer for thinking so, and a still better farmer if he acta constantly on that con vie tion. - . , ; . No only is the farmer the basis of our material prosperity,' but upon is rectitute, his freedom from pre Judice and partisanship in politics, depends the permanency of our free institutions. No nation has ever survived after the farmers ceased to take an Interest, an active interest, in publico affairs. , - When the farms of the Ho man empire were tilled by slaves . and great numbers of the farmers had moved to town, the nation was tot tering to its fall. " So long as the farmer keeps a level head, does his own voting, the country is safe; but when he begins to vote as the politi cians tell him to, when he begins to sell his vote, then gangrene has . set in the country, and even the city can not long survive unless there 1s re formation. Wallace's Farmer. . ; Tie Seatkera Pamer. " - Is the Southern farmer about to come into his ownt ' Has his ."decla- rationtof independence been Issued? Recently in Montgomery, Alaba ma,, over a-thousand farmers' and business men met and determined that cotton should be held for , 15 cents. A mere declaration that such action should fee taken would not mean much. Indeed, it would be the same old story over again. But a new element has entered the situ ation. . Domestic and foreign finan cial sources were ready to lend the farmers of the South, at a reason able rate, the ' colossal sum - of $135.(W9.(lP0t; flnanjee the project After years ef agitation,'" that looks as if something . Were really to hap pen. The sinews of war have here tofore been lacking; but with this hindrance being removed, there will be comparatively smooth sailing. And within a few years we may ex pect to see the great Southern crop safely warehoused to await the, de mands of the world at ' a figure the farmer deems reasonable. . Another meeting that indicates the independence dawn was the pro ducers' and consumers' conference at Fort Worth, .Texas. At this con ference they planned a central Bel ling agency for farm products and, in general, a more direct dealing be tween producer and consumer. Such direct dealing will go far toward giv ing the farmer a full share of the fruits of his toil. But the farmers independence will not be assured un til he has learned fully the lesson of diversification and intensive rather than extensivefarming. ' ' v With this lesson learned and wipn these movement in vjew, Southern fanners may indeed, take a rosy view of the situation. Kinston Free Press. - : ; Parson's Poemem.- From Rev. H. Stubeavoll la., in praise of Dr. King's New Life Pills, '.'They're such a health necessity, la every home these pills should be. I! other Winds you ye trtea- in vain, Use Dr. Kings, and be well again. Only 25o at Nashville Drug Co. , . ' . (GRAVELY'S OLD STAND) My cale last Thursday for everything on floor, including scrap, averaged about $15.00 er hundred, il have averaged for several customers durint the last few days- from $22.50 to : $31.00 per hundred for their ENTIRE LOAD. Toiynj In Prlcoo. the r.cr.?y to "r-y ycu'fcr it, SIGHTS Of IKE AUTOMOBILES. V 'i The Law WUk hbmn Pasila J-'.':.' "TeWtelee. ... . . Some of the automobile folks com plain that in , traveling, the public highways, decently and in order, in the peace of God and the State, they are not infrequently bold up by teamsters who bold the middle of the road and refuse to permit them to pass, and the automobile man Is thus delayed and ' iuconvenienced where the road is not wide enough for him to get around the team- In view of these circumstances and con ditions the automobile folks ask The Landmark to print Section 14 of the State automobile awl, ' which is as follows: ,,r Vt:v ' v ' "Section 14. If a vehicle drawn by a horse or horses or. other draft animals or a motor vehicle' be over taken by any motor vehicle, and the person In charge of such motor ve hicle expresses a desire to pass, it shall be the duty of the driver of any such vehicle or motor : vehicles so overtaken as aforesaid, to turn either to the right or to the left of the center of the wrought or trav eled partion of the highway and give the person so making the re quest an opportunity to pass; but, in passing, the - person in charge of such motor vehicle and - the other male occupants thereof over the age of fifteen years shall give such as sistance as they are able to the oc cupant or occupants of the vehicle they are passing if assistance is ask ed, and in thus passing the chauf feurs, drivers or operator shall use all due care to avoid accidents." ' ' Having never failed aforetime to say what it thought of automobile drivers who disreguard the rights to others. The Landmark is willing to print the law rfejshoW ISat these people have some' rights , in the premises. Of course the teamsters who refuse to give the ' road have more than likely been irritated by the smart automobile drivers who dash up behind them and blow for them to get out of the way in a form and manner which -intimates that the teamster has no business there and is a trepasser on the track. It just naturally riles a man for somebody to run up behind him and peremtorily order him to get out of the way. There is a proper way to do these things and all automobile owners should not be made to suffer because a few play smart-' il .w . Teamsters should remember, too, that automobiles have the ' same right to the road as any other, vehi cle and they are not excusable for acting ugly or violating the law be cause a few automobile drivers show an utter lack of good sense and good manners.- Statesville Landmark. - .. ;, . Rift 9ea Tewns. : According to census returns Cen tralia. a small town in State of Kan sas, is the richest town in the Unit ed States in proportion to popula tion. Centralis is an old town, and is inhabited ' largely by men who homesteaded land, or bought it when it was dirt- cheap,. nd they hung on, ,to it. The town hasn't grown ony In a quarter ofa century and if you crs lookir.fcr a and never will grow until it hat 1 wealth . and more . enterprise, Towns are not built up by rich men. The men who make the wheels go round are the ones who have their fortunes to make. The , rich men are chiefly occupied with taking care of their bundles and clipping cou pons. Oxford Banner. W later CevtvCreps. - Every farmer owes it to himself, his family and to posterity, to take the best care of his land that he pos sibly can; to maintain its fertility and to keep it from washing away. : ; Investigators, whether scientists or practical farmers, have found that Winter cover crops of any kind pre vent land in a large measure from washing, and when turned under the following Spring make it more pro ductive than if no crop had grown on it. . An experiment covering a number of years in one of the Northwestern states showed that more plant food was lost from the land during the months when no crops were grown on it than was taken off in the regu lar Summer crops. If this was true in that State where they , have long and cold winters when leaching is impossible for weeks at a time, how much more would it be true in North Carolina with her open win ters when plant food can be leached from our soils almost any week du ring our winter months. . A ton of green rye contains accor ding to good authorities about 6.6 pounds nitrogen, 3 pounds phos phoric acid and 14.6 pounds potash. A ton of green' wheat contains 1 0.8 pounds nitrogen, 3 pounds phos phoric acid and. 14 pounds potash. Green ots contain just a little lees plant food than does green wheat. A ton of green crimson clover con tains 3.6 pounds "nitrogen, 2.6 phos phoric acid and 9.8 pounds potash. Red clover, Bur clover and the vet ches contain more plant food in their green state than crimson clover does.- The wheat and rye mention ed above wssl probably' grown on fertile land which explains their high percentage of nitrogen, for it is an established fact that crops grown on rich land contain more nitrogen than when grown on poor land. For that reason grain grown on rich land has a higher feeding value . than , that grown on poor . land. It may be well for us to remember this when growing grain for our own feeding purposes. . - .x Rye, wheat and ots take nitrogen from the soil and store it in the plant, thus saving much, of this cost ly element of plant food thot would otherwise be leached from the land by our winter rains.' .The stools or bunches and their roots and. leaves retard the flow of water and act as brakes which will prevent to a large degree the washing of our rolling lands. The clovers save the land from washing in the same way and in addition to this are beneficial by being able to take nitrogen from the air thrqugit the agency of bacteria which adds to the fertility of the soil. But to grow these latter crops successfully the soil must contain the bacteria peculiar"to the particular crop grown. , - It has been the experience of many. I Load Rocky Mount In Doth Poundn "Zrm Deal," bect treatment -Waal the Harckaat Dees. ; The retail merchant pays taxes to the State, pays taxes to the county, pays taxes to the town; gives em' ployment to salesmen and salesladies Pays rent and insurance, helps sup port your churches, charitable and civic organization; works with you to make your town a city; helps your fellow business man and neigh bor. The mail order-house away off in New York, Chicago pays no taxes, rent or insurance; employs no clerks; donates to no public enterprise. takes .business away from your home town thereby injuring your town or its people. You are a booster for good roads, but why not also boost your home market? The mail order house is its most serious menace. Don't get the idea into your head that the mail order house's business is a small or insignificant item. It takes away from your merchants a surprisingly large volume of profitable cash busi ness, and it is the greatest and most unjust competition your local mer chants are fighting against. They are your friends and co-workers they help develop and build up the town and country in wh ich you live, and for that reason are entitled to your support in the conduct of a legitimate business. Is it fair for the mail order people to have the privilege of doing busi ness without taxation and compete with your local dealers who support the State, county and town and" do nate to puplic improvements? San- ford Express. of our farmers that any crop grown after a winter cover crop, when turned under at the proper time in the Spring, and disked well before and after turning, will prodnce a great deal more, often as much as 60 percent more, than if no winter cover crop bad been grown. The seed for a cover crop will cost from one to five dollars an acre, accor ding to kind and quantity of seed used.' This should save to the soil and add to the next year s crop more than twice the cost of the cov-: er crop. . j Sow at the rate of 15 ta 20 pounds crimson clover seed per acre and. cover lightly with harrow and culti-! vator. These can be sowed in grow ing crops, on stubble land, or after peas. Sow from 20 to 30 pounds of vetch per acre if sown with small grain, and if sown alone put from 40 to 50 pounds per acre. Rye should be sown at the rate of one to one and a half bushels per acre. An application of manure, or from 200 to 600 pounds acid phosphate, per acre, and 25 to 50 pounds muri ate of potash on sandy or gray land, will be helpful to the clovers and vetches. For rye or other small grain it may be better to add 2 per per cent nitrogen to the above. It is now time to commence put ting these crops in. When put in cotton fields it is better to sow im mediately after the pickers, as in that way no cotton will be knocked out in covering the seed. ' Put in' the crop that will succeed best in your locality and experiment with other crops in a small way un til you are assured they will make satisfactory growth on your land and under your conditions. - n. ' ; T. B. Parker. Director Cooperative Experiments N . u. state Dept. oi Agriculture. Pll . ; tnd tha h:-hc;t prices, cc:::3 PnOTECTIOIJ! In cold, unassuming figures, here is our guarantee to every depositor, regardless of the a mount he may have in this bank Capital - Ssrplas MetPreflts SteckkMrsLlak , Tetal- " fioee $3Utr $261,000.00, that amount stands; between your deposit and any possible loss. Not a safer Bank ing Institution has Edgecombe or Nash County. Come to see us. your business. Four Per Cent Interest paid on Savings deposits Compounded Qurterly The Planters Bank; 4 Rocky Mount. N. C . SCHOOL BOOKS And All Kinds of : SCHOOL SUPPLIES ' At The '. :' WARD DRUG CO. Nashville, N. C. . " . if- '--' ..... . . remember;: r We are the exclusive agents for the cel ebrated Ml remedies. Wood's Fall . Seed Catalogue- just issued tells what crop you can put in to make the quickest grazing, or hay, to help out the short feed crop. Also tells about both - Vegetable and Farm Seeds that can be planted in the fall to advantage and profit , . Every Farmer, Market Grower and Gardener should hare copy of this catalog. It is the best and most com plete fall seed catalog issued. . Mailed free. Write for it T.W.WOOD O SONS, ; ; Seedsmen, Richmond, Va. . v ; to i i;ry; Ycun :;:r::D, 4 K
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