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The Smithfield Herald BEATY A LASSITER, Editor* and Proprietor*. Entered at the Postoffice at Smith field, Johnston County, N. C., as Second-class Matter. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year, - - - - - I1.0( Six months, - - * Three months, * 35c TAKE CARE OF THE COTTON. Cotton picking time is here and it is important that every farmer should save the crop in the best possible manner. Start the picking early. It is not necessary to wait until cotton is thick all over the field. If it is open in places over the fields it will pay to begin picking. Push the pick ing. Let nothing keep you from giv ing due attention to the picking of your cotton. Remember that cotton picked early frequently brings two to three cents per pound more than late picked cotton. Besides early picked cotton loses very little in weight. Many fields of cotton lose as much as a fourth of the crop by being picked late, one fourth off in weight and a fourth off in prices means entirely too much loss. No wonder some farm ers are hard run and cannot pay their debts when they encounter such losses. Do not pick the cotton out wet, and if it happens to get wet be sure to dry it out thoroughly. The desire to sell water is very great, but in most cases the farmer who tries to do it loses. Lookout for the trash and do not al low leaves and pieces of burs to be left in the cotton. Many times a dol lar and more per bale is lost on ac count of trash. When the cotton is ginned see that there is bagging put on it. Some ginners have been try ing to see how near without bagging they could run a ginning business. If possible place the bales of cotton un der shelter. If this cannot be done then put them up on poles to keep the cotton from the ground which is so apt to rot it. W'hen you work to make a crop of cotton why should you not get all that is possible out of it ? To do this you must give it the best care all the way through. WHAT GRASS IN CORN MEANS. On account of the recent rains there may be small grass in corn where there are no pea vines or where they are too thin to choke it out, and farmers may be excused, but where there is big grass in corn it means poor farming. Some men who are considered good farmers may have grassy corn, but they must admit that it is poor farming. Grassy corn means also poor yields. W'e have nev er known a good corn crop grown in a grassy field. Nor have we ever known a good pea crop in grassy fields. It is useless to expect a good yield of corn from fields poorly cul tivated, and it is almost useless to plant peas where the corn is not clean. When will our farmers ever learn that just as much attention is necessary for corn as for tobacco or cotton? Most farmers plant too much corn and make too little. A smaller acreage and more manure and better cultivation is what is needed Most of the late corn this year will do fairly well. The early corn is shotted. Some of it failed for want of manure and cultivation. When old corn got what it needed it came out and made fairly good yields. Let ev erybody stop and think about this matter and keep in mind what grass in corn means, that hereafter we may give it clean cultivation. The National Meat Problem. University News Letter. During the year ending with last June we shipped abroad 178,000,000 pounds of fresh beef or nearly 30 times the amount exported the year before; and 75,000,000 pounds of cann ed beef, a twenty-two fold increase in a single year. In addition we exported 562,000,000 pounds of bacon, hams and shoulders, an increase over last year amounting to 58 per cent. It is no secret that the stock of the country-at-large has not kept pace with the increase of population; that for many years the live stock supply has actually decreased, except a slight increase last year; that the price of meat to consumers has stead ily risen; and that the future meat supply of the country is a matter of grave concern, says the Federal De partment of Agriculture. It is a wise farmer who has plenty of meat to sell and none to buy this year and for many years to come. Nearly 3,000 tons of copper were ■used in building the ocean-to-ocean telephone. Sir Hiram Maxim’s many inven tions include roundabouts and mouse traps. The Cotton Market. Dun's Review. It is usually the unexpected that happens and the recent bullish dem onstration in cotton took not a few people by surprise. There were prob ably not many who anticipated that the market would develop such strength last week and, while the ad vance has not been fully maintained, sentiment has undergone a remarka ble reversal within the past fortnight. Thus, whereas bearish convictions were in the majority a short time ago, cotton now has many more friends and there are those who be lieve that still higher prices ar* warranted. It is now much more of a two-sided market and greater stress is laid on the factors on the contsruc tive side of values, such, for example, as the latest Government crop re port. The character if this document was fully discounted by the sharp rise in quotations and an abrupt de cline after the figures appeared on Monday of this week. Yet, the official returns were bullish, disclosing, as they did, a condition of 69.2 per cent on August 25, against 75.3 per cent a month previous, 78.0 per cent on Au gust 25 last year and 72.8 per cent as the average for the past ten years on that date. As explained by the De partment of Agriculture, drought and excessive rains in the cotton belt caused more than normal deteriora tion in the crop last month and the present indication is for a yield of less than 12,000,000 bales. In antic ipation of such a showing, prices had advanced rapidly prior to the publica tion of the Government estimate, but heavy profit-taking followed and a break of over $1.50 a bale ensued. Thereafter the market developed con siderable irregularity, ending at some net loss from the close last Satur day. This was not because support ing influences were lacking, as Texas sent in some poor crop advices and there was a notable expansion in spot sales at Liverpool, the transactions there on Thursday mounting up to 20, 000 bales. The effect of this, however, was offset by the continued demoral ization in foreign exchasge, which led to fears that export trade might be further restricted. Many people con sider this one of several stumbling blocks in the path of higher prices. Soil Building. For the farmer of the South, we hold that there are few greater re sponsibilities than that of caring for the land; not only caring for it, but making it better and better as the years go by. Indeed, so great is this responsibility that we affirm that the farmer who is not a soil-builder, rath er than a soil-robber, is not, however splendid his other qualities may be, a good citizen. No country has ever been or ever will be greater than its common people,—the people whose feet daily press the bosom of Mother Earth; and no farming people can ever be great unless the lands they live upon are fat and fruitful. Where the poor, barren lands are, there will you ever find a poor, barren people—poor in the common comforts that make life better and more wholesome, barren of all aspiration and hope of better things. Where the rich and fruitful lands are, there are ever found good homes, good schools, vigorous, hope ful men and women with “faces turned toward the rising sun.’’ It is given to but few men to be great, as greatness is commonly reck oned; but if true greatness lies in ser vice, in doing well our share of the world's work, and, when we go, leav ing behind us a world a little better for our having lived in it, in contrib uting our bit to the welfare and hap piness of the present generation and all the generations yet to be—if this be the sort of service that makes for greatness, then, no less than poets and painters, no less than warriors and statesmen, is the soil-builder.—Pro gressive Farmer. Teutons Get Another Russian Fort. Petrograd, Sept. 2.—A Russian war office communication tonight an nounces evacuation by the Russians of the fortress of Grodno and the retirement of the troops to the right bank of the Niemen river. London, Sept. 2.—Except in the region of Riga, where the Russians are presenting a solid front, the Austro-German offensive again is making headway. The western forts of Grodno were evacuated after two of them were destroyed by the heavy guns and stormed by the German in fantry. Vilna, doubtless, will be the next objective of the Austro-Germans on this front. Vienna reports a series of successes which virtually have driven the Rus sians out of Galicia; they now hold only a very narrow strip between the Sereth and Bessabia. Across the border in the latter province, the Austrians say, the Russians set fire to a number «f villages, which might kidicate a further retreat. HE’S THE SUNFLOWER KING. Plants 800 Acres in Them, and Sells Seed to Breakfast Food People. There are not many people who know that Missouri has a “sunflower kins:,’’ but it is a fact that one farm er in this State makes a specialty of growing the floral emblem of our sis ter State Kansas on a large scale for commercial purposes. He sells the seed to breakfast food makers. He is Lee C. Phillips, of New Mad rid County, who has 800 acres of sun flowers growing on his farm in that rich agricultural section. It costs him something like $8 per acre to grow sunflowers, and he markets the seed at from 3 to 4 cents per pound. The yield per acre, Phillips says, is from $35 to $50. Phillips, who for many years was County Clerk of New Madrid County, forsook politics several years ago and engaged in growing sunflowers. The corn, wheat, cotton and melon growers decided he was crazy at first, but the results have caused them to change their minds. “I plant the seed very much like com is planted and two plowings are sufficient to insure a crop,” he says. “I sell my product direct to the houses that manufacture breakfast foods, but I don’t know, of course, that sun flower seed enters into the produc I tion of articles of that kind. A large ! proportion of the crop is said to be used for poultry food.”—Jefferson City Dispatch St. Louis Republic. The “Best” Breed of Hogs. The question is often asked, “What is the best breed of hogs?” In answering this question, it may be said there is no one breed of hogs that is “best” for every farmer. That which is best for one may not be best for another. In a general way, the “best” hog is the one the farmer likes, provided it is what his market de mands. Should his market want a hog of the bacon type, then one or other of the breeds of that type would be best in his case. On the other hand, should the most marketable be a fat, or lard hog, then the most prof itable animal for him to raise would be one or other of the lard types. This is a matter which the farmer will have to decide for himself. After the farmer has decided upon the breed of hogs which he believes to be the bset and most profitable for him to raise, however, he should then stick to that breed and endeaver to develop it to its most perfect condi tion. There has been a tendency, up to the present, to change breeds fre quently, and upon the slightest sug gestion, whether with apparent rea son or otherwise, before adequately determining the suitability of each as to the needs of the farmer, or the requirements of his market. This is ! to be deprecated, as it is not possible to get the most out of a breed by con tinually changing from one to another. The most famous individual, and i the most famous herds of animals, have been built up, developed and perfected, only by sticking to the breed and getting the most out of it. There is plenty of room, and sale, for all the different breeds of hogs; but it is useless for one individual to try to raise, and bring to their most perfect development, all of them. In the opinion of the writer, there will be an increasing demand in the state for pure-bred hogs, of all kinds, for breeding and grading purposes; and those who make a specialty, each of his own particular breed, will reap the benefit of increased prices for an imals of the highest excellence.—W. H. Dalrymple, Louisiana State Uni . versity. Seasonal Garb. Whatever else may be said of the Summer of 1915, it must be written down as an unqualified success for Palm Beach cloth. The entire prod uct of the mills, 12,000,000 yards, was utilized. More white-clad men have been seen on the streets and boule vards of the United States this Sum mer than ever before. Although the fabric bears the name of a Florida town where Northern tourists go in the surf in mid-winter, it is ex clusively manufactured, by a mill in faraway Maine. The South, which is destined by climatic conditions to be the zone of the greatest popularity for this class of goods, has yet to realize its opportunity and meet it fully by manufacturing goods of similar qual ity in large quantities. When it does this and invades the Northern cities, where the heat is often more unbear able than in the South, capitulation by th# North and victory for the Southern manufacturers may be re garded as assured.—Charlotte Obser ver. The typhus geqm, the scourge of Serbia, was isolated by a 25-year-old scientific investigator. In the United States alone $5,000, 000 worth of luxuries were bought last year. IN THE WAR’S VAST ARENA. Charleroi, the Center of Belgium's Iron Industry, Named After King Charles of Spain. Charleroi, captured by the Germans at the outbreak of the war, was the center of the Belgian iron industry. Situated in the midst of a district rich in coal and iron, where there was an abundance of cheap, thrifty, industrious labor, the little city made it:: products known throughout Eu rcrc, South America and the Near East. More than 400,000 people found support in a surrounding area of 190 square miles, w*hile 40,000 men were employed in the factories and found ries of Charleroi. Against its broken skyeline, the smoke of its furnace fires ascended day and night, and, close behind one another, freight trains sped over the thick network of railroad in the hill country with an unending stream of metal ma terial and manufactured ware. The highly developed railway net was, however, insufficient for the trans port of the district’s goods, much of which found its market over the canals from Charleroi to Brussels and to Mons, thence through the main ! arteries of the Scheldt basin to the i port of Antwerp and to northern ' France. me coal mines arouna tne cuy were operated at depths of 5,000 feet and more. The coal belt reaches in a long, narrow band, northeast southeast, from northern Belgium into France. The basis of the indus try of the Charleroi district were its smelter and iron-w’orking factories. Here, within two miles of the city, the iron works of Couillet turned out one-third of all the caste iron pro duced in Belgium. Large nail fac tories, glass works, both for blown and plate glass, and a number of lesser industries throve. There was a large increase of immigration from northern France into the region, and the famous forest of Caesar’s time was fast shrinking to a mere classical memory. Charleroi was founded in 1666, and named after the willful sovereign, Charles *11. of Spain, by its Spanish governor, Roderigo. It lies upon the Sambre, and its communications with France and with the commercial cen ters of its own country are excellent. By the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, it became French and was fortified by the renowned Vauban. The little city twice withstood the might of William of Orange. There is a strong French element in the city’s character. Many French men were in its mills and factories and French peasant families grew much of Charleroi’s produce in the comparatively thin soils of the re gion. In 1894, it fell again into the hands of the French, later to become Dutch and finally Belgian. Welling ton, the best remembered war lord among the Belgians, directed the re-, fortification of the city in 1816. The Germans found the city’s defenses negligible when they swept over the place in August, 1914.—National Geo graphical Society. HOW LIGHTNING SERVES MAN. What the Miraculous Electric Messen ger Does For Us. Spokane Spokesman-Review. Seventy-one years ago the telegraph was born. It came to serve the new hunger of the modern world for news. In 1844 it transmitted a dozen words for fewer than 100 miles, and preach ers called the pretty performance a revelation of divine favor to men. In 1913 it sent more than 1,000,000 words about the Titanic disaster from New York across America and perhaps another third of a million under the Atlantic within four hours, and yet only the newspapers knew' of the tre mendous feat and they simply spoke of it casually as “extra heavy traffic.” The modern appetite for the events of the day grows keener every year. The telegraphic slave is annually sum moned to more exacting service. But no reader of the daily paper exper- j iences amazement at the multiplying j prodigies in the publication of the j new's. He is not even aw'are of the prodigies’ occurrence. A Japanese censor prohibits the telegraph from talking, but it hoodwinks him and talks. An earthquake breaks the Pacific cable, but the wireless flings the news through the air. Every mo ment the telegraph is everlastingly on the job. It is estimated that 2,600 papers in the United States daily receive tele graphic service. At least 100 dailies divide between them, 1,000,000 words of telegrafJhed new's in addition to the report furnished by the collecting agencies. An average day sends 1,190,000 words over the wires in the United States, and the cables raise the daily average to more than 2,000, 000 words. A startling or widely in teresting ocurrence raises this average by tens of thousands of words. A full third of the total in 24 hours may | come from a single town if it is Chi- j cago holding some national nominet-' ing convention or San Francisco in earthquake and flames. The telegraph’s voice rivals light in speed. When Hoxsey, the aviator, fell to death at Los Angeles, Cal., New York knew it before the doomed man had plunged down 1,000 feet, and while men tore madly across the field 20 lines were sending the terrible news all over the United States. “Speed! More speed! Still more speed!” is the cry. The telegrapher is keyed to su perhuman efficency. He must possess instinctive capacity for swift sure ness. Sometimes the loss of a single second is intolerable. When the con tests occur between league champions of baseball for the world’s champion ship newspaper rivalry enforces a competition where lost seconds mean lost prestige and lost money. More Farm Labor. Congress when it meets in Decem ber may be appealed to to make the immigration laws more liberal, so far as agricultural laborers are concerned, than they are at present in order to facilitate the entry of able-bodied Bel gians and other refugees from Europe who sooner or later are likely to be forced to emigrate. Canadian farmers are able to send to the old country and obtain help.' American farmers cannot do so. If the law could be so framed as to per-! mit of the immgration of able-bodied agricultural laborers destined for spe cified places in this country, the la bor situation on the farms, it is be lieved, would be greatly relieved and the country at large would be greatly benefited. There is nothing immoral I in assisting an agricultural immigrant! to come to this country, if it is made certain that he will go to the farm where he is wanted and will not be come a public charge. Large tracts of vacant land in the United States would eventually be util ized as farms by immigrants if they could first get a start. The Belgian farmers are hard-working, thrifty people, who would be most desirable additions to the rural population of the United States. An amendment of the immigration laws would do the I double service of helping the farm la- i bor situation in this country and aid-! ing worthy immigrants to find a home. J —Indiana Farmer. 500 LIVES LOST AT SHANGHAI. Typhoon in China Results in Property | Damage of $5,000,000. Shanghai, Aug. 2.—Reliable compi lations of the damage by the typhoon which swept over Shanghai on the night of July 29 show that at least 500 . lives were lost here, largely through ! drowning, and that about $5,000,00€ worth of property was destroyed. Shanghai has not suffered such a storm in thidty years. Following the wind was a terrible rain, which underminded many houses. Electric currents were cut off, and to tal darkness added to the discomfort of the city. The Chinese department building of St. Francis Xavier college was so weakened that it collapsed the next day, but without loss of life. The United States army collier No. 1 broke from her moorings at Poo Ting, and was driven ashore at Yang Tse Poo. The shore was strewn with fragments of junks. POSITION WANTED AS FOREMAN Am experienced tobacco foreman, j Can furnish good references. E. L. j Nordan, Smithfield, N. C., R. F. D. 11 No. 2. 9-7-4Tu.!, WILL GIVE 4 /j TO 5 CENTS ON the foot for 50 steers. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. I HAVE A FULL SUPPLY OF BAG- 1 ging and ties, one car new ties, 100 bales new sugar bag cloth, picking sheets and bags. I invite farmers and ginners in Johnston and ad joining counties to see me before 1 buying these articles. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. A Poor Method of Corn Breeding, Some corn growers attempt to im prove their com by crossing it with one or more very different varieties. The object of such crossing is to com bine the good qualities into one va riety. It is not an unusual practice to cross a large-eared variety with a prolific variety or a deep-grained va riety with a shallow-grained corn. Such practice should be avoided. It not only produces a badly mixed va riety, but usually fails to produce the desired results. Our varieties are al ready too badly mixed for the produc tion of the best yields and quality of corn. If a variety has undesirable qualities which can not be corrected by straight selection, discard it and secure an established variety which has the desired qualities. The results will be much surer and more quickly gotten if one secures an established variety which comes nearest to having the desired qualities and improves it further by selecting the best plants. Straight selection is the best practice for improving the yield and quality of the corn crop. Toronto last year collected $10,437, 000 in taxes. Dogwood trees are being planted in Tokio parks. J. E. CREECH SOLD A BARN OF first primings with Boyett Bros., and made an average of 13 Try them with your next load. Z. R. BALLANCE SOLD HIS BEST grade of lugs with Boyett Bros, for 25 cents per pound. IF MORE MONEY IS WHAT YOU are looking for, carry your next load of tobacco to Boyett Bros. BOYETT BROS. ARE HEADQUAR ters for everything for which a to bacco farmer is looking. NOTICE OF SALE. That under and by virtue of the powers contained in a Mortgage Deed, executed to the undersigned, by Will Sanders and wife, Hattie Sanders, on the 3rd day of October, 1910, as se :urity to their bond of even date; and, whereas, said conditions stipulated in said mortgage have been broken, I will on Monday, the 13th day of Sep :ember, 1915, between the hours of 12 j’clock m. and 2 p. m., in front of the Courthouse door in Smithfield, North Carolina, sell for cash, the following iescribed property, to-wit: Beginning it the southeast corner of the colored Baptist church lot in Selma on Pol oek street, and running westwardly 150 feet to J. H. Parker’s line; thence southwardly 75 feet to a stake in Parker’s line; thence eastwardly 150 feet to Pollock street; thence north wardly with said stret 75 feet to the beginning, containing one-fourth (H) >f an acre, and being that same lot ’ormerly sold by J. H. Parker and wife to L. H. Allred. Said mortgage leing recorded in Book N, No. 11, sage 16, in the office of the Register if Deeds of Johnston County. This the 9th day of August, 1915. W. B. ROBERTS, Mortgagee. R. L. RAY, Attorney. At Watsons Old Stand The Fall is here and you will ie coming to Smithfield. While lere be sure to call and see me it Mr. G. H. Watson’s old stand, deavy and fancy Groceries, Pea luts and Fruits a specialty. J. E. BOOKER Smithfield, N. C. a;**** ***** saw* aw** wnaafi iHfaafiSfisaiS Smithfield Seed House SEED RYE, CLOVER SEED, SEED WHEAT, SEED OATS, HARRY VETCH. In fact everything in Seed suitable for this section always in stock. I also have Farmergerm for inoculating seed. W. M. Sanders Smithfield, N. C. $
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