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COMMUNITY CLUB Meets Tonight, Friday, in School Auditorium
VOLUME
THE PILOT
NUMBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, NARCH 3, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PINEHURST FARMS MAKE
GOOD OFFER
REPORT SUCCESS OF KENTUCKY GROWERS
Pinehurst Farms makes the follow
ing offers to Pig Club members in
Moore county:
Option 1.
We will sell to any member of the
Moore County Pig Club who is re
commended by the county agent, a
registered Berkshire pig of either
sex, double treated against cholera,
for $15.00. The fee of 50 cents in
sures for the amount of $10.00 to
November 10th, 1922. In case of
death of the pig another pig of the
weight of original pig at the time
of purchase will be furnished for
$15.00 and the 10.00 in^rance ap
plied on this payment or on any de
ferred payments on the original pig.
Option 2.
W^e will sell to any member of the
Moore County Pig Club who is re
commended by the county agent, a
registered Berkshire sow pig, double
treated against cholera, for two pigs,
one boar and one sow, from the first
litter of the original sow pig sired by
a registered Berkshire bear to be de
livered at Pinehurst. In case of death
of the pig we will furnish another
sow pig but will receive three pigs,
one boar and two sows, from the first
litter. The club member agrees to
breed the sow pig when she is not
less than eight or tWelve months
old and that the pigs delivered in
payment will not be less than eight
weeks old and an average of the lit
ter. We will furnish free boar ser
vice when the sow is brought to Pine
hurst Farm.
In Either Option
Pig Club Members Agree—
To feed and care for the pig to the
best of their ability, to comply with
all the rules of the Pig Chib, to pro
vide, if possible, one half acre of per
manent pasture, and to notify the
county agent of death of a pig in
forty-eight hours.
Pinehurst Farms Agree—
To arrange a Pig Club Show of
Berkshires at the Sandhill Fair and to
offer substantial cash prizes for Pig
Club Berkshires and to feed and care
for all Berkshire pigs exhibited by
Pig Club members free of charge
during the fair.
It is Mutually Agreed—
That the county agent is to have
general supervision over the growing
of the pig and if, in his opinion, it
is not receiving the proper food and
attention that in option one the bal
ance on pig becomes due and in op
tion two that the pig is to be re
turned to Pinehurst Farm and to be
come their-property.
Either one option or the other must
be selected when the pig is delivered.
Mr. John Wilcox will offer register
ed Duroc Jersey pigs the same as
option two, and both his offer and the
Pinehurst offer will be for May de
livery.
I want to urge every boy and girl
under 18 years of age to join this
movement if possible.
M, W, WALL, County Ag«it.
Returning directly from Kentucky
to the Directors’ meeting of the To
bacco Growers’ Co-operative Associa
tion held in Raleigh last week, mem
bers of the executive committee of
the Board from North Carolina and
Virginia investigating the Burley
Growers’ Association, reported that
co-operative marketing of tobacco in
Kentucky has been a complete suc
cess to date. '
The sucess of the Kentucky growers
is due in large measure to their free
dom from one crop system, according
to the report, which states that in
the land of blue grass, sleek cattle
and fat hogs, the tobacco crop is the
big money maker because Kentucky
growers raise their food and feed at
home instead of paying for it with
the proceeds from tobacco.
The directors from Virginia and
North Carolina, of the Co-operative
Marketing Association, who studied
the Burley Association within the
past fortnight, are strongly advising
the growers of the Carolinas and
Virginia to plant more hay and com,
and to raise enough live stock this
year to insure the enjoyment of such
splendid profits from tobacco as the
Burley Growers of Kentucky are cele
brating with the first sales in the hun
dred warehouses of their co-operative
Marketing Association.
The success of the Kentucky Bur
ley Growers Marketing Association is
described in the current issue of the
Tri-State Tobacco Grower, which was
mailed last week to over 60,000 mem
bers of the Tobacco Growers’ Co-op
erative Association in Virginia and
the Carolinas, and contains an ar
ticle by Eta*. J. Y. Joyner, formerly
superintendent of public instruction
for North Carolina, and now director
from the 8th district, in reply to
recent extravagant criticisms of this
association.
CURCULIO CONTROL CAMPAIGN
In response to the request of the
Sandhill fruit growers, Mr. John B.
Gill and Dr. R. W. Leiby, represent
ing the entomological agencies, have
established headquarters at Aberdeen.
N. C., for the purpose of instructing
peach growers in the control of the
curculio, and have this to say:
“We will issue timely bulletins con
cerning control operations, and we
will expect the co-operation of the
peach growers in carrying out our
recommendations, which will be based
upon past experiences in handling
severe infestations and upon extended
laboratory studies of the life-history
of the curculio. The growers are in
vited to visit the laboratory in which
we hope to be housed at an early
date, and consult us by phone or
letter at any time. For the present
we are located in the office of the
Sandhill Fruit Growers’ Association.
We hope to show tlie peach growers
that in order to grow a high per
centage of worm-free fruit, it will
be necessary to clean up and burn
around the orchard, spray or dust
timely and thoroughly with proper in
gredients, cultivate properly, and
pick up “drops.” A combination of
all these orchard operations is es
sential for good control.
“Remember that if one curcialio
escapes, it may be responsible for
several hundred wormy peaches. Be
thorough therefore in your fight
against the curculio.
“Large numbers of curculio were
undoubtedly reared in the Sandhill
section* last year, and those surviving
the winter will leave their hiberna
tion (Quarters upon the advent of
spring weather to feed and center
their attacks upon the peagh crop for
the coming season. The winter has
been reasonably mild. Conditions
hftv^e, therefore, been favorable for
curculios and we anticipate a rather
heavy infestation/*
LIKES THE PILOT
Durham, N. C., Feb. 15, 1922.
The Pilot,
Vass, N. C.
Dear Editor:
Together with my renewal to the
Pilot, I wish to personally extend to
you my appreciation of the paper.
The .Pilot twelve months ago was only
a kid in rompers and if it had not
been for its coming from my old
home, where the last three years of
my life, before coming to Durham,
had been spent, thereby linking me
up to home folks and old friends, I
would not have thought it much of a
paper But it has developed in one
year, into a hearty, robust, young
man, and I would not want to be
without it. I believe in putting on the
flowers now. Not that I see any signs
of having it to do when The Pilot
is dead, for as I see it, it is improv
ing more than any paper in my re
collection. It suits me and I don’t
want to miss a copy, and I wish for
it and all concerned continued suc
cess and usefulness.
Yours very truly,
D. B. CAMERON.
SANDHILL BEEKEENERS’
MEETING
Every owner of bees in Moore coun
ty is urged to attend a meeting of the
Sandhill Beekeepers Association at
the court house at Carthage at 2
o’clock p. m., March 14th. This as
sociation has just begun work and is
accomplishing a great deal of good
Mr. C. L. Sams, beekeeping specialist,
will address the meeting.
M. W| WALL, County Agt.
IT’S LOOKING UP
Now that we’ve got a good running
start into 1922, we see it is going
to be a bigger and a better year for
agriculture, with more prosperity for
people dependent upon farming. This
is not a prophecy, but a fact that is
now in course of fulfillment. We’re
all tired of talking and thinking hard
times, and around Vass folks are be
ginning to grin again. Now and then
some professional worrier has to
break out with a wail, but there aren't
so many joining in the chorus now.
The average man just says: “Oh, well,
that’s part of his job; he’s getting
paid for it,” and lets it go at that.
Reports from rural communities and
small towns all over the country in
dicate that things are on the mend,
and the normal man, when once he
realizes this and admits it soon for
gets about his passing troubles in a
determination to prove that these re
ports are true of his own community.
Things are chirking up all along the
line—^but keep your sleeves rolled up
and your mind on your work. That’s
what brings prosperity when nothing
else will.
LAWS AND CHEATING
Farm jobs are reported by employ
ment bureaus to have gone begging.
They haven’t anything on some of
those who gave up a good job on Uie
farm for one in the city.
Will Attorney General Daugher
ty’s campaign against profiteering
retailers amount to anything? That
is the question interesting more than
one Vass family now, just as it in
terests every family that finds the
biggest part of its income going for
food and clothing.
We believe Mr. Daugherty has
started at the wrong end of the line.
The American people have fallen into
a habit of blaming everything on the
man who runs the retail store and
like Mr. Daugherty, they are largely
wrong in their presumption. If a
man persistently overcharges for his
merchandise his customers get wise
and take their trade somewhere else,
so as a general rule the storekeeper,
knowing this, has ceased to be a
party to high-handed methods, if,
indeed, he ever did indulge in them.
The whole question of profiteering
might best be left to the individual
and to the fnormal adjii'stment of
trade. For with each purchaser in
sisting upon value for his money, and
each merchant refusing to pay pro
ducers and middlemen excessive
r>rofits, the matter of retail prices will
adjust itself.
We still contend r that to stop profi
teering entirely it is necessary to
start in at the head of the stream—
to check up on the manufacturer and,
above all else, to cut off all the mid-
dle-men possible. The retail mer
chant, after a manufactured product
has passed through a half-dozen
hands gets less profit for the article
than any of. those who had any part
in its handling. So, Mr. Daugherty's
attempt will probably amount to
nothing until he starts his probe high
er up.
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