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k f' S - " . ", ' 't a r- - 2.-' -- r t i -THE WILMINGTON DISPATCH. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 70. 1918 v - PAGE TEN. - 1 if" . J"- ', ..... ' V V I MUNITIONS PLANTS MtBill Providing for Protecting war industries 10 jjc Presented SAME PROTECTION AS SHIPS IN4VAR ZONE I TTKe Prooosition is for Reliev- jcy - H ihg War Factories of Burd ensome High Rates Now in Effect h't (By -George H. Manning.) w.inn D. C. March 20. The goverirment contemplates placing in isurance on all factories and plants pro inducing' munitions and other materials lEof war for the Navy and War and pother departments, it was learned to-day on good uathority. A measure will be presented to Congress shortly providing for gov--eminent insurance of all war material plants at reasonable rates much in the ;fsame way that the government now Ijplaces insurance upon vessels plying Jfeihe war zones. 0h- The purpose - of this departure is ifsaid to be to relieve the plants and factories working on war materials rIrom the burden of the excessively c?..high insurance rates they are now charged by the insurance companies; 7to keep insurance inspectors out of fivvtfco rdnnts -who may be giving infor- r - V Mr - , 9 rfmaUon to the enemy, and to make it '."possible to manufacture war materials at. a number- of plan tsr where it is 4now impossible because insurance prates are prohibitive or it is impossible lvto obtain any insurance at all. ijj. This legislation will materially af fect all the commercial inurance com 'Mpanies, it is thought. I; - As only Federal agents will act as insurance inspectors if the proposed insurance plan is adopted this will .prevent enemy agents in the guise Hjef insurance surveyors, from entering ithe war material plants. The Ger man and Austrian insurance conv -panies have already been put out of business, thereby preventing the ene my from obtaining information re garding the plants through them, and the contemplated legislation will keep Sjall the surveyors of the domestic com t'anies out ofHhe plants. ''M? Before the Treasury Department be tgan issuing insurance on vessels go ring to the war zone the rates charged sby the insurance" companies were so lhigh as to either make it impossible to profitably sena tne snips tnrougn the European waters, or it added ma " 'terially to ocean freight rates. A few ; months after the government put the the marine insurance into effect it -was possible to reduce the rates to -s S 1-2 percent and still make a margin r-of profit. Under government insurance, sur veyors of private insurance companies " have beenkept off the boats and all the ships records have beeirkept from the knowledge of the enemy. It. is expected the government will be a,ble to extend very low rates to war material factories, and plants in placetof the high rates no paid to the private companies and that it will also be raiich easier o keep information regarding the workings of the plmts from the enemy. STEAMER WILMINGTON. CROP AND LABOR REQUIREMENTS By J. M. Johnson, Office of Farm Management. On the farm which is organized, on a war basis, labor is-going-to 'be 4he factor determining success or failure. The way this labor is distributed and used among the different productive enterprises is of as great importance as the actual amount available. Often the labpr shortage is due to a ' lack of foresight and system in distribut ing the supply among the most essen tial crops and classes of stock. Un der present conditions, all labor, whether hired or from members of the farmer's own family, should be directed toward making - the most needed products. Only after those enterprises have been fully cared for should any man direct his labor into less important channels. Food crops and those animals which give highest return in meat, milk, poultry and eggs should have first con sideration and should, by all mean3, receive their full allowance of labor. Then, if there is a surplus, strictly commercial enterprises may be han dled. To take care of a well organized two-horse farm with a family of five or six, to work it, the following should be grown: Corn, 800 bushels; wheat or its equivalent in other small grain, 70 to 100 bushels; hay, 8 tons, besides the corn fodder; sweet pota toes, 50 to 60 bushels; molasses from rene-half acre of cane; vegetables and small fruits -from one-half acre to one acre; and miscellaneous grazing and special crops from two to three acres for hogs and poultry. With good yields easily made on soils o average fertility, the corn may be grown on from twelve to sixteen acres of land; the small gain on eight or ten acres, after which the same land may be prepared and planted to peas or soybeans, if not already seed ed to clover. The hay required can, therefore, be made without extra acre age. The soybeans, peas or peanuts needed for feeding the hogs may be grown between corn rows and on one or two acres more of land. The cane for molasses, the sweet potatoes, vegetables and other truck and small fruits for home consumption with a surplus for sale may be grown on one and a half to two acres in the garden or on a good spot in the open fields. Such a cropping system started the 1st of March with eight acres of the small grain already planted may be carried through the year on 27 acres of land with 185 to 190 days work as follows: Work Work Days Days Requir Crops Acres Per Acre ed Corn, followed by.. 14 5.5 77 Soybeans or Peas for hogs.. ..14 . 1 14 Small grain 8 3 24 Followed by Hay .. 8 3 24 Vegetables and Fruits 1 15 15 Sweet potatoes ...1-2 16 8 Cane 1-2 16 8 Iliscellaneous graz ing and forage ..3 6 18 Schedule Effective March 16th, 1918. Leave- Wilmington Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and- Fridays. 9:29 A. M. Leave; Wilmington Saturdays 5:30 A. M. and 12 M. Leave Wilmington Sundays 9 A. M. Leave Southport and Fort Caswell Mon days, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 2 :30 P. M. .Leave Southport and Fort Caswell Satin - days S :3p A. M. and 5 P. M. Leaver Fort Caswell 3 :15 P. M. and South port 3:30 P. M. on Sundays. ORTON D T7TT IAKD PARLOR E. M. CHEEK, Prop. The Gentleman's Retreat Good Tables f r Pleasant Surroundings Congenial Companions and A good time for those' yvhor take their recreation tiere. ' x .27 1S8 Total The land for corn, vegetables, sweet potatoes, cane and one-half of that which is devoted to miscellaneous grazing crops, or between 17 and 18 acres will require -plowing, harrowing, fertilizing, and a part ol it. bedding before planting in the spring. Usually this will be done between the middle of March and the 10th of May. The plowing with a iwo-horse dIow will take from ten to twelve days: har rowing three days; opening up the rows, putting down fertilizers, plant ing corn, bedding the other land with one-horse plows, distributors and planters, can be done at the rate of 1 1-4 to 1 1-2 acres per day for all the operations. Thus, to prepare and seed the 18 acres of spring planted food crops there should and must be avail able a minimum of 27 days labor be tween the middle of March and the close of planting time in May. Cultivating with one-horse imple ments twice before the fifth of June and the necessary hoeing and thin ning will require another day per acre or 18 days for the above crops. The small grain or winter hav croDa is? then to be harvested, the ground plowed or disked and planted with peas or soybeans for hay. Harvesting tne gram and planting the leeume hay crops will require from two to three days per acre or 20 days for the eight acres. This should be done by the middle of June, and then bv the last of the month the spring planted crop should be cultivated twice and the legumes be planted in the corn field which will take about 20 days man work. The miscellaneous crops will then require 5 to 10 days work hy tne last of July. Thus, to take the 27 acres' of food crops from the middle of March to the first of August, a period of four and one-half months, the farmer must have available 95 days of labor. This is almost one-half the amount re quired bythese crops during the en tire twelve months, but the demand so far has btfen distributed pretty evenly over slightly more than one third of the year. Not more than 10 or 15 days work will be required on the above crops during the month of August. This will be used very large ly m handling vegetables; fruits pre- yaittory xo storage either in cans, or otherwise, for winter use, and on the r IS I6 or grazing crops. -with the beeinniner nr c i St fTQ handlme of the peavine JI savingPof the " gram and PP- aration of land to srh n IWZa 8weet Potatoes must be handled the cane cut and made up and everything put in shape lor 11'. proaching cold weather. P The working schedule on the 27 acres of crop land devoted to takins cart of. 8ke subslstaace needs of the two-horse farm will clos early in De cember after the fall period of thsee and onehalf pionths over which the demands have ljen distributed retty evenly. From the first of September to the middle of December these crops have demanded between 70 and 80 days work, the nature of which allows It to he pushed forward or backward a few days at almost any time with out serious results. A study of the program will show that Its fulfilment is just about a one man's job from the middle of March to the middle of December. It is true that for a few days, in May and June and again in September and October the work can be done to better ad vantage by two or three working to gether. There is also more than one workman in the average family of five or six. In fact, there is more apt to be the equivalent of from two to two and one-half men available during nearly all this time. Weather condi tions are such that each of the hands can do from 19.0 to 210 v days productive-field work provided "the farm or ganization is such that the work is to be done. There is available in Ihe above fam ily during the crop .growing nine months, about 500 days of labor of which only 100 is needed to vgrow abundant supplies for the home and farm. There is then 300 to 310 days for commercial enterprises. Our studies show that the most successful farms are taking care of home needs, with the two horses, these farms are work ing from 50 to 55 acres in all, crops of which almost exactly one-half is re quired for home needs We then, have 300 days surplus labor and 25 to 28 acres of land yto be devoted to com mercial enterprises. In the cotton sections, 15 acres ol cotton and 10 acres in corn for sale: or more soybeans, peanuts, sweet potatoes and hay may well use the land and will give the desired, even ly distributed employment, to the la bor. Where peanuts, soybeans, and cotton are all important crops the surplus land may be divided almost evenly betweenNthese three crops, and tne labor requirements will be almost exactly met. v In the coastal plain region where cotton and -tobacco are both good crops 15 to 20 acres of cotton 'and three to five acres of tobacco with a few more acres of corn and soybeans will fit the land and labor require ments very well. In the tobacco section of the Pied mont region, the wheat, corn and hay acreage should be increased to take 15 to 20 acres more than that actually required to support tne place and then from five to seven acres in, tobacco will use the rest of the land and give the labor fairly uniform employment. witnm the past few years this office has studied carefully records covering from one to three years' op erations on nearly 600 North Carolina farms distnbuated over every impor tant acre of the State. These studies show that almost without, exception those farms complying quite closely with the program just outlined are matting more money; their operators are living better and are exertin? a more potent influence in their respect ive communities tnan are any others Safe farming has been good for the most prosperous in times ofN peace it ia nie uuiy course ior any of us in times of war. A IFll, TON BANK ER KILLED BY NEIGHBOR J. F. Deaderick Shot to Death by J. G. Hege in the Lat ter vs Home Lexington, N. C., March ' 20. J Franklin Deaderick, cashier of the Commercial and Savings Bank here was shot and killed yesterday after noon by J. Graham Hege, manager of the Southern Upholstery Com pany. The shooting took place in the sitting room of the Has: hom Five shots were fired, two of which took 'effect. Hege immediately after me snooung telephoned to the sher iff and gave himself ub. Further than to say that he shot in defense oi tne nonor of his home, Hege would make no further statement. The man has been, the best of inenas, tne oack lots of their homes adjoining. The dead man was a no. phew of former Governor R. B. Glenn of Winston-Salem. Hege was com mitted to jail without asking for uvuu. , v X T. Headrick, of the bank of which the dead man was cashier, is sued a statement this afternoon say ing that Hege had invited Deaderick to his home. Counsel for Hege de nies that he asked Deaderick to his home, though saying that an Inter view was in mind. Mrs. Hege, when interviewed, deT clined to make a statement as to the exact nature of the trouble that led up o the shooting further than to say that it was of domestic na ture. She and her husband both al lege that the pistol with which Dead erick was killed was bought some weeks ago and given to Mrs. Hege after Mrs. Deaderickr wif e of. .the dead man, had made threats upon the life of Mrs. Hege. Deaderick left for Asheville sev eral weeks ago where his friends at that time said he had gone on ac count of a nervous breakdown. He returned here Saturday night. Coun sel for Deaderlck's famiiv inHmaa I that the Asheville trip will figure in tuts cas.e. Deaderick was about 35 years old and has two Children. Hege is about the-same and also has children"'" Mill White Shoes for Chilclren We are receiving daily Spring- Shoes and . Oxfords. White High Top, White Sole and Spring Heel. sizeV 5 to 8, $1 .25. White ' Medium Top, with Leather Sole andv Spring Heel, 51-2 to 8, $1.50. White High Top and White Sole and White Heel, sizes 8 42 to 11, $1.39 to $1.50. , White Medium Top and Leather Sole and Heel a shoe for service and looks, $1 .75. White Shoe High Top, White Sole and Heel, sizes 11 1-2 to 2, $1.50 to $J.75. jWhite Shoes for G rowing Girls High Top Lace, White Heel and Sole, $1.75. White Pumps for Children, White Sole and Heel, sizezs 5 to 8, $1 to $1.10. Mary Jane style. 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