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PAGE SIX Cover Crops Check Erosion And Provide Food for Quail Every farmer knows a bobwhite quail when he sees one, but few are thoroughly familiar with its food and breeding habits, its ene mies and the diseases that thin out its numbers. George B. Becker, biologist of the soil conservation service, says that 86 per cent of the food of the q.uail consists of waste grains and plant food. In providing quail .and other de sirable forms of wildlife with food and cover by the planting of shrubs, legumes and grasses in gul lied areas, galled spots and odd corners, the farmer in cooperation with the soil conservation service and state college extension service not only helps to replenish the sup ply of wildlife but controls erosion on his farm. Cowpeas, soybeans, viiaste grains left after harvest, sorghums, millet, wild plum, mulberry, dewberry, rag weed, lespedeza, beggarweed, blue berries, huckleberries, dogwood, wild cherry and weeds are among the food producing plants attractive to the bobwhite quail. Fourteen percent of the food of the bobwhite quail consists of ani mal life, including grasshoppers, weevils, locusts, chinchbugs, cater pillars, squash bugs, cucumber beet les and wireworms, said Becker. Th’C bobwhite mates usually in May and lays from 6 to 20 eggs, which are hatched in 23 to 24 days. Soon after hatching the young are able to take care of themselves in their new environment, and if everything g"oes well with the first brood the female usually does not lay another set of eggs. Among the agencies tending to decrease the bobwhite, B'ecker pointed out, are its predatory ene mies, disease, and weather condi tions. Some of the prominent enemies of the quail are stray cats and dogs. Cooper’s hawk, sharp-shin ned hawk, skunk, o’possum, cotton rats, snakes, ticks, redbugs, and red afits. Quail are very susceptible to poultry diseases and cannot be propagated successfully near chick ens. Quail diseases, coccidiosis, and blackhead are among the diseases of the bobwhite. While farmers have no control over' the weather, Becker stated, they can provide the quail with food and cover, which will at the same time help to control soil ero sion and build Mp the fertility of the soil as well as add beauty of the farm. THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACO ^ MIUIONS SPW ON CWAIGNS Parties rSd’what it calls a “poll end all poUs.” That newspaper covered that no separate polls^^, LEGAL ADVERTISING EXECUTOR’S Having qualified NOTICE as executor of Margarel; J. Moffitt, deceased, late of Maco,n county, N. 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C. “We Clothe the Family” Expenses of All Expected To Be About $25,000,000 (Special to The Preis-Maconlan) WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. —The most expensive political campaign in the nation’s history comes to an end next Tuesday. More money will have been spent by tooth parties m the National, Senatorial, Congres sional, state and local campaigns than ever before. That is ,not to imply that there is anything improper in the spending of money by political organizations for election purposes. It costs m> ney to pay the expenses of speak ers, to pay for advertising in news papers and on billboards, to, buy time on the air, to print booklets circulars and badges by the tens of millions, and to pay the wages of employees. All of these expenses so far as they relate to national offices, Pres idential, Senatorial or Congression al, are required to be reported to the proper officials in Washington in detail, and particular pains are taken to scrutinize them with great care and frequently to investigate them afterwards. Since the passage of the corrupt practices act, more than 20 years ago, instances have been very rare of improper or fraudulent use of money in elec tions for such purposes as bribing voters or concealing the expenditure of campaign funds. Practically all of the states re quire reports of campaign expendi tures made on behalf of state, county and municipal officers, so that it is increasingly difficult for any party, however well organized and financed, to buy an election. There is nothing shocking, there fore, in the fact that this year’s political campaigns, taken altogeth er, will run to around $25,(300,000. The Money Speht Of this amount the Republican National Committee is expected to report the expenditure of $8,336,000, which is the largest amount ever spent by any party in a presidential campaign, except in 1928, when the Republican National Committee spent $9,433,000 and the Democratic National Committee, $7,152,511. This year the Democratic National Com mittee expenditures will run around $3,000,000. The Senatorial and Con gressional Committees of the two major parties are expected to spend about $500,000 each. Senatorial and Congressional can didates’ personal expenditures will run to about $2,000,000. The minor parties. Union, Socialist, Commun ist, Probhition, Farmer-Labor, etc., will probably spend among them about $3,000,000. State, county and local campaigns will account for another $8y000,000. One of the reasons for the heavy expenditure this year is the great increase in the number of voters whom every candidate and com mittee is trying to reach and in fluence. The addition of more than a million to the registered vote of New York State led to the calling of a special session of the legisla ture last week for the purpose of enacting a law permitting the polls to remain open several hours later than the established closing time of 5 o’clock. If the efforts of the various cam paign committees to get out the full vote'are successful, the probability is that in many of the crucial states and cities the process of counting the ballots will necessarily be pro longed. It is, therefore, quite pos sible that the nation will not know definitely who has been elected President until well along o,n Wed nesday morning, Nov. 4. In the cities which use voting ma chines, such as New York, Buffalo and many of the larger cities of the Middle West, the total vote is normally completely tabulated and recorded within an hour after the close of the polls. But with the ex tension of voting time in New York and the probability that it will be necessary to resort to paper ballots to supplement the work of the voting machines, the way is paved for a long delay in the re ports from this and other vital centers of election night interest The Straw Vote Polls In no previous campaign has there been such, an exte»sive use of the method of trying to fore cast the election by means of polls to dis- less than 3,007 were being made, nationally or ’^Combining the results of these noils the Cleveland News comes to the conclusion that, if these straws actually do show which way the wind blows, Mr. Landon will get 307 electoral votes against Roosevelt’s 220. Analyses of major polls by others do not bear out this conclusion. Indeed, as the election day approaches, it still re mains anybody’s guess as to wheth er the President will be reelected or Mr. Landon will go to, the White House. All of the polls and straw votes have been under more vigorous fire than ever before. Polls which show a decided trend toward Republican victory have been attacked by the Democrats and vice .versa. M.uch of the criticism of some of Mr. the THURSDAY, Qct, 25, the more important based upon the allespt,. , - do not necessarily ren"r views of actual voters Th ' have maintained that' to get an accurate foJ poll all of the registered the state or nation. The £ Sun undertook to dn state of Maryland, with that Its straw vote 'f about 10 per cent if publican commentator p®®'® nothing is easier than for organized party to see to it, Its adherents record their ' i enoes, while the weaker or 3 tion cannot do that so Where .here i. , *«>1 organization the method of, registered voters is likely to a Republican majority versa. And there we are. next week we ought to'knoi| is to be the next President olT United States. ' and'a Attention Folks! 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