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A SHORT TOBACCO CI0P.
The ItUoiat Hases Secretary Do
s parttaeat of arfricaUore.
In response to inquiries made as
to the probable size of the tobacco
crop this year Mr. Bias Can, sec
retary of the Department of Agri
culture, estimates that there
planted this year in North Carolina
160,000 acres as against 215,000 last
year. The yield, he estimates, will
be about 450 pounds to the sere as
against 600 last year, for while the
tobacco is heavy this year the stands
are reported as being poor. '
Mr. T. B. Parker, Farmer's Insti
tute conductor, " agrees . with ' Mr.
Cart as to the possible acreage, but
he estimates that the yield will be
about 550 pounds to the acre. The
estimate of Mr. Carr, he says,
based on reports received and on the
figures which show that in August,
1909 and 1910, the sales were about
eight million pounds, while August
of this year show sales of about four
million pounds. Both Mr. Carr and
Mr. Parker agree that the crop has
been cut off by very dry conditions
during the planting season, this hav
ing continued very far into the cul
tivation period, both affecting the
acreage and the yield per acre
News and Observer. .- r. :
Sew Wheat, Sow Wheat, Sow Wheat.
I often doubt whether it is worth
while to offer advice as to any farm
practice without first having been
requested to. do. so. . Every man
should be allowed to do as he plei
es, and to plant sucn crops as may
appear to him to be wise. '. They will
do this any way whether a different
course is advised or not and so
what's the use. But it seems to the
writer sacb an unwise policy to neg
lect sowing wheat that he proposes
on every occasion to continue offer
ing such advice. - This advice is "of
course offered for what it is worth
and no one is asked to accept it if he
does not think it good.
There are several excellent reas
ons why wheat should be a , regular
crop. Two of them will be mention
ed here and are enough to make
every farmer think about it. First
of all, it is necessary for the farmer
and his family to have bread.
Without bread all work will stop.
It is ture that bread can be bought
from the West. We have been do
ing this a long time, untif the West
ern wheat grower has become rich
at our expense. We - can make a
better quality of wheat than the
Westerner can make. - That js, our
home grown wheat contains a much
higher percentage of protein' than
the other, and is much . more valu
able as food. Of almost equal im
portance is a system of crop rota
tion that will enable us to conserve
our lards. There is no crop that fits
into such a rotation better than
wheat. - If we are ' to continue to
make a living for ourselves and
families we will have to, sooner or
later, recognize the necessity of tak
ing better care of the land. : Nature
will not be cheated or deceived. We
can not with impunity go on des
troying the soil and. not having to
n m rrri 9
V ; (GRAVELY'S OLD STAND) r . s -
ROCICY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, V
HIccr Than They Have Bcon In Eighteen Years on All Grcdcc,
tin All Otlior
there Is 1st Oae Way.
Not long ago there assembled in
Boston a mighty army of leading
boomers and business men from
every State in the Union to confer
together upon how best to advertise
a town and. to organize effectively
to secure the beet advertisement : of
live towns. Raleigh was well re
presented in that gathering and last
week an Ad Club with progressive
men at the head was ' organized ' in !
Raleigh. Now how shall we all help
flint olnh ts oAuarta . th Cf tn'.
.n;ti? t o f ..n
the following is taken from the
Wilmington Star: ; ; .' ' "
Says the Raleigh News and Obser
ver: People ought to buy from
home merchants, but if home mer
chants do not advertise how are
they to know the home merchants
wish their trade?' How are they to
know that there are any home mer
chants at all! How are they to
know what a home merchant sells,
anyhow? How are they to find
where a home merchant does busi
ness? ' How are they to know whe
ther a home merchant sells the kind
of grindstones that grind?. How
are they to know but what the
home merchant would rather be idle
than advertise and get trade?
A lew days ago a stranger coming
to Raleigh bought a News and Ob
server on the train, looked In its col
umns for a hotel advertisement, did
net find one, and said . to a fellow-
traveler that he was sorry to see
that Raleigh had no hotel. The
companion replied: "You are mis
taken. It has good hotels." The
reply was "I have been reading their
only morning paper and no hotel
wishes patronage well enough to in
vite me to stop " there". The best
answer to the Star's question is that
the only way for home merchants to
get big trade is . to, -advertise what
they have for sale and iavite home
folks "to trade with them. . They
need not expect to grow while they
hide their light : under a ; bushel.
News and Observer. v..
The indications are, judging from
the expressions of people : living in
various parts of the county, Nash
will be more largely represented at
the Great State Fair this year pos
sibly in the history of the county.
The Atlantic Coast Line should en
deavor to furnish convenient sched
ules and special trains on this divi
sion.; If this is done, the attendance
will be large during Fair week, be
ginning Oct. 16fo.-ffH?&:'l!i
bear the consequences. We can not
eat our pie and keep it too. We
must adopt a moral rational . system
of farming. It can not, be put off
many more years Aa we go on
from year to ; year destroying the
humus of the soil, nature is rapidly
locking up the available plant food.
When all the humus is gone then all
plant food will be practically una
vailable. Why not change when we
may, rather than be reduced to the
necssity of doing it after pursuing
such a wasteful and unwise policy.
Why should we.be such poor,, busi
ness men? Wheat, when given de
cent treatment, bays as well or bet
ter than cotton. W. L. Williams, in
Southern Cultivator.
My sale last Thursday for everything on floor, including scrap, averaged about
$15.00 per hundred. I have averaged for soveral customers during the last
few days from 22.50 to 31.00 per hundred for their ENTIRE LOAD.
Tovvnn In Prlcon. . . -
VAlIGfl AN - RANDOLPH NUPTIALS.
The IrMe Is Tory Well
Kaowsi la
- MashvUl,'
Tho Scotland Neck Commonwealth
gives the following. account of the
marriage of Miss Puttie Vaughan,
sister of Mr. Leon ,TC Vaughan, of
this place', to Mr. JH. Randolph:
- On Wednesday morning, Sept. 20,'
1911, at eleven o'clock, friends wit
nessed at the residence of Mrs. Pattie
Vaughan a beautiful borne wedding,
i when Mr. James
Ik Randolph, of
- ,oua'
was .united in mar
riage to Miss Pattie Vaughan, the
charming daughter of Mrs. Pattie
Vaughan. v.
The house had been decorated for
the occasion with ferns and potted
plants, and promptly to the strains
of Mendel8sobns I wedding march,
played by Miss Mabel Vaughan, sis
ter of the bride, came the little boys,
Francis M. Vaughan, Jr., and Leon
T. Vaughan, Jr., nephews of the
bride, bearing the ribbons to form
an aisle to a beautiful arch undet
which the bride and groom were to
stand, then came the bride gowned
in blue cloth with jhat, gloves and
shoes to match carrying a large bou
quet of white asters, leaning on the
arm of her sister, Miss Emma Vau
ghan, of Whitakers,who was hand
someiy gowned in wnite voile over
messaline with bead trimming, . car
rying pink' asters. The bride and
maid of honor were met at the altar
by the groom and j best man, Mr.
Leonard Randolph,ef House. The
words that made them man and wife
were spoken by Elder A, J. Moore.
After the -ceremony the party left
in an automobile for Hobgood to
take the South bound train for Port
Tampa, Fla., and ether points south.
The handsome and useful display
of presents betokened the esteem in
which the young couple were held.
Among the out of ' town guests
were; Mrs. r. M. vaughan and
children, of Norfolk, Misses Ruth
Moore, Emma Vaughan and Elder
A. J. Moore, of Whitakers, W. L.
Vaughan, : L. L. Standi, Charlie
Standi and Miss Carrie Simmons, of
Washington, Dr. and Mrs. F. M.
Register and Miss Jannie Sewell, of
Tillery, Messrs. L. A. Randolph, T.
E. Randolph, and Mr. Shelton, of
House. '. Miss Roland Jenkins, of
Greenville, Mr. and Mrs. " Leon T.
Vaughan and children, of Nashville.
Eighty million dollars a year for
cotton seed adds a t considerable
amount to the income of the indi
vidual southern farmer. ' It is a big
item and when we remember that it
has only been a few years since cot
ton seed were practically wasted,' it
is almost like finding money. The
turning of the cotton seed into
edible products is proving a good
thing for the southern farmer, as it
is also proving a good thing for . the
ultimate consumer." News and
Observer. v
Parson's Poem A Gem. - -
From Rev. H. Stubeavoll la., in
praise of Dr. King's New Life Pills.
"They're such a health necessity,
In every home these pills should be,
If other kinds you've tried in vain,
Use Dr. Kings, and be 1 well aarain.
Only 25o at Nashville Drug Co. - -.
Markotiag Cottoa.
Admirable In its tone and valuable
to every cotton grower who may ap.
ply it to his individual case is the ad
vice given by Mr. W. P. G. Hard
ing, president of the First National
Bank of Birmingham, to the gather
ing last week at Montgomery, Ala.,
to consider the question of market
ing cotton. Included in his wise
counsel were these words:
My advice as to financing of the
present srop of cotton is to fix no
figure at which you will sell your
Crop, but to market it gradually.
If the price Is not satisfactory and
you are obliged to pay an urgent
debt, sell enough to meet your
needs, but hold on to the balance of
it, letting it go month by month un
til the entire crop is sold.
Mr. Harding set forth tersely the
difficulties in the wsy of banks In
the larger cities aiding directly in
the holding back of the cotton crop
even if they should be willing to do
so. He said that the merchants
and local banks to whom most of the
farmers' debts are due and who can
best secure accommodations from
the larger banks must do their part,
and he added: ; .
1 Many of the stockholders of these
banks, several thousand in number,,
are farmers, and many are merch
ants, and almost all . of them are
directly interested in the priee of
cotton, upon which the money sup
ply of their community so largely
depends. Their interests are iden
tical with yours. Your prosperity
last year and in previous years had
made them prosperous. You are
able to help yourselves. You are
able to give good security. They
are able to help you and they, .will
do se.f ... 'frVs,j.', v-.--"""-''"
Mr. Harding is fully persuaded
that the people of the South can be
greatly benefited by co-operative
methods in producing , and market
ing crops, one feature of which is
mutual consideration of merchants,
local bankers and farmers for one
another. Such co-operation worked
out successfully in the marketing of
cotton a decade ago when the bear
interests in New York attempted to
rob the cotton growers in of the
legitimate returns for ' their crops.
and that co-operation ' marked the
beginning of a wiser policy, like
that outlined by Mr. Harding, on
the part of growers in getting their
crop to market. This policy was
made possible by the change from
the poverty prices of the period be
tween 1390 and 1900 to the prosperi
ty prices of the past 10, years. The
cotton grower with money in bank
is in a position to hold bis cotton un
til a reasonable price is offered for
it It gives him an advantage in
bargaining. , The development of a
system for warehousing cotton still
in control of the farmers would tend
to place them upon an equality with
the cotton mills with their cotton in
warehouses.
While the warehouse system and a
definitely defined policy1 of co-operation
among local , bankers, merch
ants and farmers are bound to bene
fit all parties concerned, . including
the buyers of the staple, the surest
reliance of the individual cotton
farmer is the making, wherever pos-
I Lpatl Rcclcy Blount In Cctli IPotm:"
KILLED HIS RIVAL.
Tetrible Trai'ea'y at lochia; k a. hj
a Jealeas Lover.
RockinghamT Sept. 28. Resenting
the efforts of his jealous rival to per
suade his sweetheart, whom he was
escortingto leave him, Clyde Chil
ders shot and killed Hank Morse, at
the girl's feet here to-night, and
then turned the pistol upon himself.
inflicting probably fatal wounds.
Competition for the hand of pretty
twenty-year-old Beulah Stone had
been keen for months and on the
strength of a promise that she is
said to have given Morse, he secured
marriage license; to-night and
started to her home.' bhehad gone
for a walk with Childers and when
Morse, in his buggy, overtook them
he alighted and tried to persuade
the girl to go with . him. To this
Childers demurred and Morse struck
at him. Childers then drew his pistol
and fired. As Morse staggered away
desperately wounded, Childers fired
two more bullets into his body, and
then shot himself twice, falling with
in a few feet of his victim. Rally
ing on his way to the hospital, Chil
ders declared he had no regrets, ex
cept that he had not finished himself.
Aaericaa Tobacco Company.
New York, Seyt. 28. Plans for
the re-organization of the American
Tobacco Company to conform with
the mandate of the Supreme Court,
it was said today, provide for the
disintegration of the parent com
pany into its several parts and a re
assembling of these parts into three
separate companies to be known " ss
the American Tobacco Company, the
Lorillard Company and the Leggett
and Meyers Company.'
The holders of six per cent bonds
of the American Tobacco Company
will receive $1,200, it is said, for
each bond, to be paid $600 in cash,
$300 in five per cent Lorillard Com
pany bonds and $300 in five per cent
bonds of Leggett & Meyers Com
pany. It is reported that holeers of
the four par cent bonds will receive
$900 to be paid $400 in cash, $250 in
five per cent Lorillard bonds and
$250 in five per cent bonds of Leg
gitt & Meyers Company.
What the preferred stockholders
will receive has not become known,
but it is said shareholders in the
American Tobacco Company will re
ceive proportional holdings in each
of the three new companies.
sible, of home supplies of foodstuffs,
so that whatever the i cotton may
bring there will be the least expend
iture for the necessaries of life from
the cotton money. With this raising
of home supplies should go the most
approved methods of cultivating
cotton, so that each acre of land
may produce to its fullest capability.
Cotton farmers would be saved
much anxiety at the begining of
every marketing season if each in
dividual should adopt the policy of
concentration of effort; in making
the crop and of co-operation in sell
ing it. Manufactures Record.
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