ir YOU HAVE A MESSAGE FOB
ALL OF THE PEOPLE POT IT IN
THE COURIER WHICH REACHES
MOST OF THE PEOPLE.
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ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1931.
NO. 34:
Roxboro Broom Works
Gets Big State Contract
n
Awarded Contract For 1,800
Dozen Brooms At $2.50 To
17.00 Per Dozen
ROXBORO BROOMS VERY
POPULAR WITH TRADE
Mr. B. B. Newell, manager of the
Roxboro Broom Works attended a
letting held by the Division of Pur
chase and Contract last week and
landed the order for brooms. While
this concern has built up a splen
did trade with the wholesale houses
in the State, this wt* probably the
largest single order secured by Mr.
Newell. The contract calls for
eighteen hundred dozen brooms,
ranging from $2.50 to *1.00 per
n it is remembered that no
longer does "pull" have anything
to do with selling the State ft is
quite a compliment to Mr. Newell
that his brooms met the full re
quirement. and that he was able
to meet his competitors and secure
the order. With other normal busi
ness this large order will enable the
works to run full time and give ad
ditional help to the unemployed.
1 930 FARM CENSUS
Cemsna Reports Farm Acreage And
Valan In North Carolina
According to a bulletin recently
Issued by the Bureau of the Census,
there are 279,708 farms in the
State of "North Carolina having a
total acreage ef 18,055,103. and a
total value, including land, build
ings, and Implements and machin
ery, of $886333,636. These figures
are given in detail for each coun
ty and minor civil division within
the State. This is the first Federal
census report to show these figures
by minor civil divisions.
?dozen.
Of the total farm acreage 32.2
per cent, or 5,809,741 acres, was
crop land on which crops were har
vested In 1929 ; 5.9 per cent, or
1,073.840 acres, was crop land which
lay Idle or fallow; and 0.7 per cent,
or 128,620 acres, was land on which
the crops failed to mature or were
net harvested for any cause. Pas
ture lapd with a total of 2,845,283
acres, representing 15.8 per cent of
the total farm acreage of the State.
Included 887,956 acres of plowable
land, 1,423,912 acres of woodland,
and 533,415 acres of other land. In
addition to the land cropped and
pastured, the total land in farms
Included 6,902,522 acres of wood
land not used for pasture, and
1,295,097 acres not in forest pas
ture, or crops, including the land
occupied by house yards, barnyards,
feed lits, lanes, roads, etc.
?, The total value of farm land
and buildings was $844,121,809. of
which $270,363,969 represented the
value of all farm buildings, includ
ing the farmers' dwellings, which
were valued at $182,523,315. The
value of farm implements and ma
chinery. including farmers' auto
mobiles. was $42,211,827.
Copies of this bulletin may be ob
tained by writing to the Bureau of
' the Census, Washington, D. C.
What About Thi*?
If you are' buying a policy to
keep, and you are young it pays
to buy one that will pay a divi
dend. The dividend policy starts
slightly higher than one which
does not pay dividends, but th?
dividend paying policy Is cheaper
in the long run.
You can take a policy that par
ticipates for age 20. the average
cost being about $17.44. The total
cost is $348.80. A policy age 20.
coats $21.80 for every year. The
total IS $426.00. This is a 20 Pay
Life. v
Another thing when the policy is
paid up. you get dividends the. rest
of your life. If you- buy a policy
which does not pay dividends, you
will not get those dividends.
KNIGHTS INS. AGENCY.
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Go Back To The
Farm For Safety
"Those unable to find Jobs must
go back, to the land," says Liberty
Macazirte in an editorial on un
employment "Small farms of a few
acres will supply the food and the
crude comforts essential to health
ful living. A family with a small
farm does not have to ask for char
ity. A farmer can always raise gar
den truck and if he has a cow and
chickens he can practically sup
port himself."
Person County Has
5,647 Taxpayers
Roxboro Township Leads With 2,000
? AUensville Follows With 542
New tax books Jurft completed by
W. T. Kirby, register of deeds of
Person county, places the number
of tax payers In the county at 8,874.
There are probably a good number
whose names have not been listed
which would run the figure to ap
proximately 5,700.
Roxboro township leads with the
number of taxpayers, there being
exactly 2,000 listed in the books to
date. Olive Hill township Is cred
ited with having the lowest num
ber, 406. Other townships and the
number of taxpayers follows:
Allensvllle, 542; Bushy Pork, 522; |
Cunningham. 400; Flat River, 495;
Holloways, 428; Mt. Tirzah, 458 and
Woodsdale, 423.
Evidently Person county Is a
county made up mostly of a popu
lation of Claytons. The tax books
show that the Claytons have it by i
a large margin, there being 166 of
them listed. -
n. c.lirniY
-ATLANTIC FLIGHT
Miss Shipman, of West Ashe
ville, to Prepare For Cross
ing Ocean
i WAS IN ACCIDENT JULY 1
I Asheville, Aug. 25. ? MiSs Uva
Shipman. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
' Z. A. Shipman of West Asheville,
] will leave here next week tor Cleve
land, where she will meet her man
I ager, Russell Brinkley, and big in
immediate preparations for a solo
flight across the Atlantic ocean, she
announced today.
If Miss Shipman sucessfully
completed her flight, she will be
the first girl flyer to cross the oOean
alone. All other women who have
flown the Atlantic have been ac
companied by men flyers.
At present Miss Shipman is suf
fering from a broken ankle, the re
sult of a parachute jump on July
I I at Roosevelt Field. N. ft. It will
be about a month before her foot
is out of cast and she is ablb to
; fly again, but she will buy a plane
in the near future, and begin prep
arations for the flight.
The accident prevented Miss
Shipman's taking off this summer
! as she had originally planned, and
: also prevented her participation in
, the national air races which are
now going on.
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Person Circuit
\
Next Sunday being a fifth Sun
day I have arranged to hold ser
i vices at Leas Chapel at the eleven
o'clock hour and at Warrens Grove
at 4 o'clock p. m. Sunday School
( at Leas Chapel at 10 o'clock and
, at Warren's Grove at 3 o'clock p. m.
Since our last service at Leas
Chapel Brother Henry Rogers has
been called to his reward. Let us
all resolve to carry on the work
of the Kingdom in a more glorious
way. Tell each other about these
Special services for this fifth Sun'
day.
W. L. MANESS. -Pastor.
BE WISE
! Don't let old man depression make
' you foolish. Tobacco is selling good
and prospects are bright.
Fire is ever present, always dan
gerous and destructive. Be safe and
insure your tobacco. Our prices
can't be beat and our service un
paralleled.
Delay is dangerous ? see us today,
i SATTERFIELD INS. AGENCY.
"Old and Tried'!.
Mrs. Street's Music
Class Begins Sept. 14
Mrs. Kendall Street's music class
will begin Fall work Sept. 14th.
Special instruction fa.- beginners
;and intermediates. Studio near
Grammar school buidlng. For In
formation. call Mrs. Kendall Street.
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? Keep records on the Individual
cow and get -rid of the low produc
ing animal as soon as possible, ad
vise dairy Specialists at State Col
lege.
PROMINENT PERSON
CITIZEN SUCCUMBS
AFTER LONG IUNESS
Henry T. Mitchell Dies After
Long Illness As Result Of
Paralytic Stroke
Mr. Henry T. Mitchell died at bis
home about six miles doutgh of
Woodsdale yesterday morning at
6:S0. He suffered a stroke of para
lysis about a year ago, and had*
been confined to his bed for about
three months. He was one of the
best known men in the Woodsdale
section; a member of Mill Creek
Baptist church.
Mr. Mitchell is survived by one
son, Mr. R. Earl Mitchell, of Woods
dale; one sitter, Mrs. H. 8. Wil
liams, Woodsdale, and" one bro
ther, Mr. George Mitchell, Roxboro,
Route two.
Active pall bearers will be Mess
rs. Joe O. Owen, Isaac Owen, John
R. Morris, Haywood Bailey, R. L.
Hall and T. J. Montague. Flower
bearers: Misses Evelyn Mitchell,
Ode 11, Es telle -and Pansy Mitchell,
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Parker, Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Mitfhell, Mr. and Mrs.
V. C. Mitchell, Mr. Alexander Win
stead and Fred Mltchel.
Funeral services will be held at
the home Wednesday, August 28th,
at 2 p. m? Rev. W. L. Maness, of
the Person Circuit, and. Rev. A. J.
McKelway, pastor of the Roxboro
Presbyterian church, in charge. In- i
terment will take place immediate
ly after the ceremonies in the Mit
dhell family cemetery.
SCHOOL DAYS
It won't be long now before vaca
tion Is over and school will begin '
again. Then the young ones will
get back into their own world, (or
in the life of the child the real
world is that in which he mixes on
equal terms with others of his own
age. We older folk are too- absorb
ed with the affairs of grown-ups to
understand what the young . ones '
are thinking about.
We are prone to think, as we
grow older, that what he had in
school is good enough for our chil
dren. That would be true if the
world stood still, but It doesn't. In
a changing world, the best educa
tion is that which makes the child
alive to the changes, which brings
him most closely in touch with the
new things that we didn't know j
anything about when we were
young. Everything is different to
day from yesterday; tomorrow
everything of today will be out of
date. The boy or girl who gains
from his school work the sense of
change, of constant forward move
ment steadily going on, has got the
best foundation for success in life.
We don't think it is nearly as
important to teach children how to
do things a* it is to teach them
how to understand things. One way
is to get more young people as
teachers and on school boards.
School systems must grow and
change, just as the world grows
and changes, and old folk are too
apt to resist change. There must
be old heads in school affairs, of
course, but some who are still
young enough to remember their
own schooldays ought to have some
say about school matters.
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Death of Mr#. Spencer
Mrs. May Allen Spencer died at
her home in Durham about ten
days since. Funeral services were
held from the home. Mrs. Spencer
was well known in Roxboro, having
visited here often; before her mar
riage she was Miss May Allen, and
had many friends here. Mrs. J. M.
Pass, one of her most Intimate
friends, attended the funeral ser
vices.
What Shall We
Do With It?
Our much admired and good
friend, Dr. E. J. Tucker, left on 'our
desk a vegetable peach, whatever
that if, and now we are in doubt
as to how to eat it; shall we bail,
it, stew it, or just eat it raw?
Touring Canada
Mr. R. P. Burns of Roxboro. and
Mr. R. O. O reaves of Raleigh, left
last Saturday for an extended auto
trip, which will carry them through
the New England States and thence
into Canada. -They . expect _ to . be
away for about two weeks.
First steps for an American navy
1 were taken October 18, 1778.
GOVERNOR GARDNER
ASKS PRESIDENT TO
CONVENE CONGRESS
State Legislation Compelling
Abandonment of Cotton Is
Termed Unsound
SAYS COTTON CRISIS
IS INTERNATIONAL
Shelby, Aug, 24. ? Governor O.
Max Gardner, of North Carolina,, to
day termed state legislation com
pelling abandonment of cotton as
"unsound" without some binding
agreement with foreign growers
and called upon President Hoover !
to convene an immediate Session of
congress to consider the cotton
crisis.
Governor Gardner called the cot
ton situation a "national affair and
not merely a sectional and state
matter." North Carolina, he said,
could be relied upon to support any
"intelligent and effectual plan."
"Cotton is not merely a sectional
crop confined to the south but is
a national and international com
modity. It Is grown In America I
and In at least 12 foreign ooun
tries. Last year the United States
produced 13,753,000 bales and for- I
efgn countries produced 11,724,000
bales.
Suggests Congress Meet a
"It is my judgment that before
any governor calls a special session
of the legislature, and as a condi
tion precedent thereto, the Presi
dent ^should call congress into im- j
mediate session and lay before the
states and foreign governments that
grow cotton the absolute necessity
for unified action and control.
"Nothing is more unsound than
state legislation compelling aban
donment of cotton growing in the
south without Sortie binding agree
ment with foreign growers. The
several states can make no treaty
with foreign growers. That is sole
ly the function of the federal gov
ernment.
"This movement should begin
with a unified policy adopted by the
national government and come
down to the producing states in
stead of beginning in confusion
with the several state legislatures
and finally heading up in congress.
"I. therefore, urge President Hoo
ver to call an Immediate session
of congress to formulate a sound
national cotton policy.
GEORGIA WEED !
AVERAGES 6.94
Virtually 50,000,000 Pounns
Brings Three and Half Mil
lion Dollars to Date
MARKETS WILL BEGIN
CLOSING THIS WEEK
Atlanta, Aug. 24.? Tobacco grow
ers of Georgia received 1989.768 51
last week for 15.492,857 pounds of
tobacco sold at an average price of
6.39 cents a pound. It was shown
today in a compilation by Marcus
McWhorter, chief statistician for
the state department of agriculture.
Tq date, McWnorter said, 49.
596.954 pounds of Georgia tobacco
have been sold for 13,442,920.31, an.
average of '6.94 cents.
During the third week of 1931
total sales fer the State were 15,
079.606.88.
Fourth week sales volume this
week compared unusually' well with
third week volume. McWhorter
said, on account of the lateness of
the crop. Prices, however, averag
ed somewhat lower.
The smallest fourth week 1931
sales were 56,164 ponnds at Camilla.
That market also had the lowest
average price, 4.02.
Department of agriculture offi
cials said they understood several
markets would close this week.
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Juniors To Build
Large Auditorium
Charlotte, Aug. 25.? The North
Carolina Junior Order, United
American Mechanics, has voted to
build a 1100,000 auditorium sup
ported by the order at Lexington.
The auditorium wll be known as
the Sam T. Vance auditorium' In
tribute to the man who. for 32 years
was state council secretary.
House e?ta are descendants of
wild Egyptian cats.
ROOFS PACKED
WITH VICTIMS
AWAITING END
Death, Famine, Pestilence and
Insanity Maintain Ghastly
Vigil Over Stricken Hankow
PUNY POLICE EFFORTS
HAVING LITTLE EFFECT
Hankow, Aug. 24. ? Hunger
driven refugee* attacked a de
tail of soldiers here today as the
latter started moving a quantity
of grain from the navigable sec
tion of the flooded cities. The
soldiers called reinforcements
and the crowd quelled after the
arrival of junks with mounted
machine guns. Several refu
gees were wounded.
Shank hal, Aug. 24. ? A dis
patch to the Kuomin News
Agency from Hankow today
said more than 1,000 refugees
honed in the barracks at Wau
chang, across the Yangtse
river, were drowned as a result
of a fresh break in the dyke.
Hankow, China, Aug. 24. ? A
panorama of death, madness,
disease and starvation spread,
before the Associated Press cor
respondent today in cruWng
about the watery streets of
Hankow at a speed of one mile
an hour.
That pace was the fastest that
could be maintained through the
assorted thousands of craft drifting
above the inundated city.
Hundreds of additional houses
gave evidence that they would col
lapse soon whether the flood waters
subsided or not. Apparently the
water was all that was holding
them up. They were either crumb
ling or leaning in all directions.
Waiting Far Death.
On the roofs of these houses
thousand* of HankowlteS still were
clinging, reconciled to the prospect
that they soon would Join the pro
cession of corpses floating down
toward the sea along with count
less carcasses of animals caught in
the flood. Those still clinging to
unstable building* had watched
hundreds of their fellow towns peo
ple plunge to certain death with
the collapse of their dwellings.
A few had fashioned nets for fish
ing in the dirty flood water. Whole
families acclaimed the capture of a
single minnow, which meant food.
struggle to tmr naois
Efforts of the military to clear
the-- roofs were only partially suc
cessful. A few vendors cruised
about in sampans, but the major
ity of the roof sitters lacked even
one copper with which to buy. It
soon became dangerous for the
vendors because hunger began to
madden the sufferers.
Despite the colossal difficulties,
the police worked heroically cruis
ing the streets in boats and at
tempting to maintain a semblance
of order. They had a big Job try
ing to pound some traffic sense into
the 3.000 boatmen, many of whom
have entered the city for the first
time in their lives.
Riots Threaten.
Most of these boatmen had lived
on the river since childhood. Stern
measures also became necessary
when 30,000 Jinrikisha men, their
vehicles useless or gone, threaten
ed to rush the more prosperous
sections of the city and seize food.
Officers mounted machine guns
on Several small junks and manned
rach with a gunner and a squad of
riflemen with fixed bayonets. If'
the machine guns ever are used,
the death toll will be heavy be
cause the surface of the water Is
thick with refugees.
Some of these cling to tubs,
boards, barrels, baskets, or any
thing else that will support them.
In the shallower waters hundreds
of beggars stand neck deep in the
flood with small, children perched
on their shoulders.
The correspondent saw scores of
aged men and women wading about
in water up to their necks in search
of supposedly better refuges they
had heard about. These aged per
sons had lacked strength to flght
for plaoes aboard the few refugee
ferries operated by the authorities.
Many of these waders lose their
footing, or, succumbing to exhaus
tion, disappear beneath the muddy
waters.
Clin* to Trortopn.
_ From the outskirts of Hankow
came reports thaT hundreds oT're-'
fugees. left with no other haven
when their- farms were submerged,
(Continued on last page)
Lube Lea and Davis Are
Given Prison Sentences;
> '
Lea, Jr., Is Fined $25,000
How He Was "Ke'p
Off The Crow"
A North Carolinian, on a busi
ness trip in Powatan County, Vir
ginia, ran across "an old negro
farmer who had an unusually large
store of canned fodo in his home.
"It's what ke'p me oft o' the :
cross," said the negro. Asking what |
was meant by the term, the visitor
learned that drought had froced
most rfther negroes In the neighbor
hood to look to the Red Cross for
food in the latter part of 1930.
This one had plenty of his own,
though able to produce little.
"I long ago learned that the good
Lord sometimes sends drought and
sometimes floods," the negro 'told
him. "So I always puts up food for
two years ahead." He was putting
up enough this year to last him
through all 1932 and at least a part
of 1933.
China ware was little known in
America until revoluntionary times.
captumJoo
LOAD OF LIQUOR
Federal Officers Also Arrest
Four White Men and Con
fiscate Truck
* Wilmington, Aug. 25. ? Pour white
men, foreign liquor valued at $5,000
and a truck were captured near
here today by Federal prohlbtion
agents and customs and Depart
ment of Justice authorities in a
concerted effort to break a rum
syndicate operating along the lower
Carolina coast.
The raid occurred two miles south I
of here early this morning at an
outlying barn and farm house. One
hundred and eighty-five cases of
bottled in bond liquor were cap- |
tured in the truck parked In the
barn as the driver slept. 4
The men are charged with viola
tion of the prohibition^ , law and
and other charges are expected to be
placed. They are:
Lennox Gore, resident of the |
farm, who gave his occupation as ,
farmer.
James Grosby, who was found |
asleep In the truck, no address.
E. J. Aldredge, resident of Castle
Hayne road In New Hanover coun
ty who, a few days ago, claimed
the Seized truck after it had toeen
taken in a raid on the Lockwoods
Folly river.
"Chuck" Cummings, New Han
over county, son-in-law of Aldredge,
alleged to be connected In the en
terprise.
The liquor was destroyed in the
city incinerator.
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Charlotte Leads In
Amount Of Checks
Charlotte, Aug. 25. ? Charlotte
continued its leadership in the
Carolinas In total amount of checks
drawn against individual accounts
for the week ended August 19, ac
cording to figures released by the
local branch of the Federal Re
serve Bank of Richmond.
Figures for the leading cities of ,
the Carolinas: Asheville, 13,556,000;
Charleston. $3,845,000; Charlotte, $9.
389,000; Columbia, *3,440,000; Dur
ham, $6,285,000; areensboro, $3,
265,000; OreenviUe. $2,726,000; Ra
leigh, $3,495,000; Spartanburg, $2.
149,000; Wilmington, $2,083,000. and I
Winston-Salem, $6,057,000.
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Mr. Bullock Improving
Mr. R. A. Bullock, who has been .
in Watts hospital for a couple of i
weeks, is reported as being very
much Improved, and his family ex
pect him to be able to return
home soon.
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Patrolman Arrives
Mr O. C. Robinson, patrolman, ,
who has been assigned to this ter- j
. ritory, with headquarters! in Rox
boro, has arrived. He is making
his home with Mr. N. 8. Thompson,
and has established offices in the
Sheriff's office.
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Jackson Cduhty farmers are
shipping spring lambs at good ,
prices A car of #5' lambs was Ship
ped to Cincinnati last week.
Three Principals in Asheville
Bank Fraud Case All Dt
clared Guilty By Jury
CHARLET IS ACQUITTED
Asheville, Aug. 25? Luke Lea,
Tennessee newspaper publisher and
former U. S. Senator, today was
sentenced to serve from six to ten
years In the North Carolina State
Prison upon conviction of having
defrauded the Central Bank and
Trust Company here of $1,136,000.
Luke Lea, Jr., convicted along
with his father in the conspiracy
trial which has been under way here
for more than four weeks, was
fined $35,000 after Solicitor Zeb V.
Nettles had made a plea for him on
the grounds of his age ? 23 ? and the
fact that he was merely doing as
instructed by his father.
Wallace B. Davis, president of the
bank who already faces a five to ~
seven year sentence in connection
with its failure, was given four to
six years in prison.
E. P. Chariet, business assistant
ot-the Leas, was acquitted by the
jury and discharged by the court.
Tried on Six Counts.
They were iried on six counts of
conspiracy to defraud the bajik and
one count of misapplication of its
funds pursuant to the conspiracy.
The Leas were convicted on four
counts, and Davis on three, but
Judge M. V. Barnhill, who presided
over the special trial of superior
court ? called by Governor Gardner
to try them, set aside the verdict on
the county in which the Leas alone
were convicted, as it charged con
spiracy, of which they could not
have been guilty exoept in con
junction with aji officer of the bank.
Sentences in DetalL
They were sentenced as follows:
First count, charging conspiracy
to misapply $300,000 worth of the
bank's certificates of deposit ? Davis
two w> three years; Luke Lea three
to five yftirs ; Luke Lea, Jr., fined
$10,000.
Fourth count, charging conspir
acy to misapply $100 XXX) more of
certificates of deposit? Davis, two
to three years, to be served at the
expiration of the first term; Luke _
Lea, three to five years, to be serv
ed likewise; Luke Lea, Jr., to pay
Buncombe county $5,000 toward the
costs of the case.
Seventh count ? charging actual
misapplication? Davis four U> six
years, to be served concurrently
with first two Sentences; Luke Lea,
six to ten years, to be served like
wise; Luke Lea, Jr., fined $5,000 and
ordered to pay $5,000 toward court
costs.
It was the fifth count, charging
misapplication of $100,000 worth of
| cashier's checks, on which the Leas
were convicted alone, -on which the
verdict was set aside. Returns of
"not guilty" were made upon the
other counts.
Included in the bill of particulars
on the seventh count were loans by
the bank to Lea totaling *572,000;
City of Asheville notes worth $45,000
delivered to Lea for which bank
never received payment: $214X100
worth of th?- bank's bonds delivered
ta him fofc )piich bank never re
ceived payment, and portion of the
cashier's checks and certificates of
deposit mentioned In the first si*
counts. Loans totaling $46,000 which
had originally been listed in the
bill were deleted by the judge when
evidence failed to show their pro
ceeds went to Lea.
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Another New Home
On Reams Avenue
Mr. E. E. Thomas has let the
contract for his new home which
he will build on Reams Ave.. Mr.
E. T. Day being tjie successful bid
der. The residence will be mod
ern In every particular and will be
another handsome home on Mils
residential street.
T co Much Home Brew
Six quarts of home brew was
found In the possession of William
Beasley, which Chief Oliver thought
was entirely too much for one per
son. Beasley was given a
and was bound over to court
a bond of $50.00
Plan now for an exhibit at
county or district fair. Let the
fellow see-thf kind of caw
or the kind of crops you
maybe It's a pig you want to
Anyway ? it pays.