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METHODS OF FARMING
IN THE MIDDLE WEST
Large Areas in Corn—Two To
Four Heavy Horses to One
Cultivator — No One-Horse
Plows Seen. “Holy Cross On
Snow-Capped Mountain.
(By Dr. R. J. Noble)
ARTICLE IV.
On our way from Chicago we saw
many corn farms, acres upon acres,
how many acres I know not, but I
wished for some of our good Johnston
county farmers so that they could see
how farming is done out west. I did
not see a single one-horse plow that
I can remember. Two, three and even
four horses to a cultivator was the
vtay it is done. The rows are long
and when they, the horses and culti
vator, turn it takes a big turn row.
The horses art the big Percheson
horses, look too large to be to a plow,
or cultivator, but when we see the
number of rows of corn cultivat'd at
one plowing we know that four of
those little Jack Rabbit mules as
Mose Winston used to call them could
not do the work properly. The corn
was about knee high, that is the best,
oftener ’twas up, but looked mig ty
pretty*
The land in the Dakotas and Mon
tana is not level like it is in Texas.
In Texas it is level like the old Harry
Durham cypress for miles and miles
away. The earth and sky coming to
gether so far away that the eye can
not tell where it is; but in the Da
kotas, Montana and Kansas the land
is rolling. Not high hills on what is
called the prairies, just little swells.
Then where a river had been, I say
had been for it was dry now, we
could see the river bed cut out of the
earth deep down, sometimes twenty
feet up to two hundred feet or more.
Generally when we came to a river in
Texas there would be a row cf small
stunted bushes on either side of the
river, but in the northwest we would
see where the river had been cut
down through the dirt. No trees,
nothing to tell that a river had been
there, but the sand and rock in the
bottom, and the banks on either side.
The west side was, or seemed to be
the higher. Of course ws were go
ing fast and had to look quick, but
we could see a long way. Now, the
river bottoms would be several hun
dred feet wide. I know nothing in
this country to compare them to.
Then the rock sides to the river would
be marked off into different layers.
The layers looking to be ten, fifteen^
and twenty feet high. How the pio
neers made any progress across the
plains I cannot see. These banks
looked to go on forever. Almost level
on top and no way to climb them to
get across. ’Twas a wonderful sight
to see the plains cut up with places
for rivers but no water. How long it
had taken for the water to cut the
plains so deep no one knows, and
then to dry up and be nothing but a
gulley. Those who have never seen
them cannot imagine how the place
looks. I have not words to desetibe
them any plainer, wish I did.
The trip was so planned as to give
us as much iright travel as possible,
but it could not be all night travel.
After we left Glacier Park we passed
over the Great Divide and began to
go down hill all the time. We saw
more large stone than I thought
there was in the whole world. We
saw enough stone if it were gotton
out in building form to make evei'y
man, woman and child in the United
States a ten room house and then
have enough left to do the same for
all their descendants for a hundred
years to come. What do you think of
that for a rock story ? I do not think
all this stone is as hard as the gran
ite in Western North Carolina as it
looks softer. Then it is not all the
same color. In one strata it would
be pink, another green and another
yellow. Almost all the colors of ftie
rainbow. Then one mountain would
be red, another pink, another gray,
all the colors. Now, the hills are net
small hills, but mountains. We would
be going down one ravine looking
across at the mountains on the other
side. Sometimes a mountain would
be several thousand feet high and a
mile or more long, that side next to
the railroad would be pink all over,
then the next would be of a different
color. If you think I am telling the
impossible or that it ought to be writ
ten plainer, just put yourself in my
place and say “I just can’t tell it like
it is.” Then ask Dr. Holland and Ed
Woodall how it is, and by the way,
our friend Ed Woodall had the time of
his life. I do not care how long he
lives or where he goes he will not
have a better time than he did on the
Oasis Shrine Special in 1920. We
had plenty of pretty girls and Ed
Woodall was not long getting ac
quainted with all of them and being
right much of a ladies-man, talked
to all of them, so he was kept busy.
Dr. Holland, quiet and sedate took in
all the scenery. Nothing passed
without his seeing it. After we pass
ed through the Rockies down into the
plain in Oregon we saw more signs
of life. The farms were not so far
apart, irrigation was more generally
used, there were more fruit trees and
everything looked more prosperous. I
kept my eyes open looking for some
signs of bird life. I had read so much
of the great American Eagle who has
for its home the peaks of the Rockies
that I wanted to see one, and I did
see one. and only one if it was an
eagle for it was so high above the
mountains that it looked to be about
the size of a sparrow hawk when fly
ing over the trees. Not a buzzard
been no rain for two years, and I be
lieve it true from the looks of things,
there had been light rains, enough to
lay the dust, just ahead of us. Then
our rear cars were so far from the en
gine that we had no cinders. One
thing we saw on our way was the
was to be seen even where dead hors
es were thick on the ground. Now,
it may be possible in these notes that
I may tell twice some of the things
seen, but I’ll have to, to tell of the
different parts of the country as I saw
them. In all that trip we had only
one day of dust. While we were told
that in parts of our journey there had
mountains covered with snow. The
snow capped mountains could be seen,
it seemed to me, one hundred miles,
for we would see them for hours be
fore we got to, them. We would be
going on the plains and would see the
snow capped mountains a long way
off. They seemed to rise right out of
plains, but before we would get to
them we would get into the “Foot
Hills” as they are called. Then we
would see that the mountains were
not covered with snow like it looked,
but the snow was in spots all over the
mountain and the farther we got from
the mountains the more snow seemed
to be on them. Much or little ’twas
a sight never to be forgotten to see
spow laying right out in the sun on
top of the mountains in the latter part
of June. Many asked, why don’t it
melt? No one could tell why except
that the air was so light that the
snow would not melt. In one place,
have forgotten where, the snow up on
the side of the mountain made a cross
and is called the Holy Cross. ’Tis said
that the cross has been there since
man first saw it. Now, this cross is
not an X but is in the shape of a
cross.
(To be continued)
A Trip to Kentucky.
Mr. L. F. Austin was here yester
day to attend the meeting of the
county commissioners. He returned
last Wednesday from Kentucky where
he went to visit his brother, Mr. J.
Elbert Austin who lives in Elizabeth
town. His brother went there twenty
one years ago and after teaching for
some time went into the drygoods and
clothing business and has built up a
large trade. Mr. Austin was greatly
impressed by the fine roads which he
says are worked by the state. He tells
us that the farmers of that section
are very prosperous and that many
of their residences are superior to the
city residences. He saw one residence
which had in it two mantels which
cost more than a thousand dollars
each. He saw a farm one hundred
acres in cultivation, twenty in wheat,
twenty five in oats, twenty five in
timothy grass and twenty five in corn.
He went into the log cabin in which
President Abraham Lmcoln was born.
He took a, ten mile trip into the Mam
mouth Cave. He was gone about ten
days and thoroughly enjoyed the trip.
Family Reunion.
On the 4th Saturday in August
there will be a family reunion and
picnic at the Blackman graveyard two
miles southwest from Four Oaks.
While there we will clean off the
graveyard. We hope to have a large
attendance and a good day.—R. F.
Blackman.
RAILROADS ALLOWED
FREIGHT INCREASE
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission Granted Roads In
crease in Freight and Passen
ger Rates Which Will Be Ap
proximately $1,500,000,000.
News was sent from Washington
Saturday by the Associated Press an
nouncing that authority for the rail
roads of the country to increase their
revenues by approximately one bil
lion and a half dollars was granted
today by the interstate commerce
commission. Freight rates will be ad
vanced about one-third, passenger
fares one-fifth and Pullman charges
one-half.
Coastwise and inland steamship
lines and electric railway companies
also were granted permission to in
crease their freight rates in propor
tion to the increases granted to the
railroads serving the same territory
No estimate of the aggregate amount
to the result from these advances has
been made.
The new rates, which are to con
tinue in force until March 1, 1922, will
become effective upon five days’ notice
by the carriers to the commission and
the public, and they mus't be in opera
tion before January 1. Since the gov
ernment guarantee expires Septembei
1, the carriers are expected to bend
every effort to put the advances intc
effect by that date.
Increases granted by the commis
sion are designed to offset the $600,
000.000 wage advance awarded by th<
railroad labor board and to provide
the 6 per cent net income on the ag
gregate value of the railroad proper
ties, as permitted under the transpor
tation • act. The aggregate value of
all of the railroads was estimated by
the commission at $18,900,000,000, as
against a book value of $20,040,000,
000 given by the carriers.
COTTON SEED SELLING LOW.
Said to f^e Bringing Only 37 1-2
Cents a Bushel in Texas; Little De
mand For Oil.
Southern Pines, Aug. 1.—A cotton
oil man remarked here yesterday that
seed had started to sell in Texas at
371-2 cents a bushel for the new
crop. A year ago the price was
around a dollar and a quarter. That
is such a startling announcement
that he was asked why such a falling
off and he said that Texas is the first
state to begin ginning the new crop,
and therefore the first to offer seed
to the oil mills. The mills are not
in position to pay the old price for
seed for oil is not selling at all. Sales
have been transacted in small lots for
around 8 1-2 cents a pound for the
crude oil, as against 25 cents a year
ago, and at the low figure the sale is
a rariety. The New York papers are
quoting crude there at around 12
cents, but note that the quotations
are nominal. The truth is that the
cotton oil trade is in the chumps, and
that seed is off along with oil.
As the story goes the trouble is
with the vegetable oil supply of the
orient. China is making a lot of so.isr
bean, peanut and other vegetable oil,
which is offered the world trade in
large quantities and at low prices, for
China wants money at the present
time and is cashing in to get it. While
the war was orr and shipping was
scarce for the Oriental trade the west
ern nations faced a shortage of fats.
Then this country strained every nerve
to supply the needed fats. Now with,
the ships numerous enough to carry
the products of the far east over to
Europe and the United States there
is no shortage of fats, and the oil
mills are faced by the abundant sup
ply of eastern oil made at the low
prices that Chinese labor permits, and
the American oil has gone off in price
until the American cotton oil man i«
not sure where he is at. It is said
that some of the mills have on hand
a considerable ©arry-over which they
cannot realize on now.
This is something that more than
oil mill men will begin to think abouti
Cotton seed has been one of the im
portant products of the cotton crop.
The difference between seed at $25
a ton and $75 a ton means about $25
to the bale of cotton. On the basis
of exchange of meal for seed the dif
ference would not be so bad if the
Dil ratios held, but contracts have been
TEACHERS ENDORSE
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Summer School Gives It Over
whelming Majority — They
Also Back Revaluation Act
And League of Nations by
Big Majorities.
Chapel Hill, July 31.—The women
school teachers at the University of
North Carolina school Rave today a
decisive answer to the question of
whether they wanted the vote. In a
straw baljot which marked a cam
paign designed to teach them the de
tails of practical politics they showed
that they were already pretty well
versed in the game and wanted to play
it more often, by voting 429 to 87 in
favor of ratification of the suffrage
amendment b^ the special session of
the legislature which Governor Bick
ett has called for August. At the
same time they came out even strong
er for the revaluation act, 484 to 29,
and they backed President Wilson’s
lea cue of nations. 460 to 45.
The suffrage issue, as had been
foreseen bv the active campaign wag
er by both the sutfragists and the
anti’s was the storm center of the
voting and more ballots were cast on
that issue than on either of the others,
516 in all. The registration which
ended a week ago amounted to 664,
but university officials tonight attrib
uted the decrease to the departure of
manv summer school students for
their homes. In six precincts on the
camnus where only women live the
voto was 336 to 45 for ratification.
The other two precincts contain a
number of female students, many of
whom voted against ratifieaiotn. Or
ance county has never seen a quieter,
more orderly election.
No one could be found today who
had a word to say against the way
in which the amateur registrars and
judges of election handled their jobs.
They had been coached to the last de
tail and were ready for any question
which might be thrown at them. But
in the main they had few questions
to answer. The women took to their
voting in deadly earnestness. They
walked quietly into the rooms where
the ballot boxes were waiting for
them, marked their ballots and walk
ed away and that was the end of it.
There was virtually no loafing around
the voting places and veteran politici
ans of Chapel Hill, looking around to
see how “they” were doing it, had
some trouble even in locating the bal
lot rooms.—Charlotte Observer.
Visited Their Brother at ^Jreenville
Last Friday Messrs. L. L. and J. C.
Ennis went to Greenville to visit their
brother, Mr. Lewis A. Ennis who
lives there. They found him suffici
ently improved to be at work again.
Our readers will recall that we pub
lished an account of his being shot
recently. He went out some time ago
several miles from Greenville to help
Dr. Heiny to dip some cattle in a
neighborhood where there was much
opposition to dioping vats. Eight
families there had refused to have
their cattle dipped and three dipping
vats had been blown up with dyna
mite. The fourth vat had been con
structed and the two men had done a
successful day’s dipping. In the af
ternoon Dr. Heiny and Mr. Ennis
were shot twice from ambush with
number four shot from a shot gun.
The distance was only thirty five
yards and both loads took effect. Sev
en shot entered Dr. Heiny and Mr.
Ennis took twenty seven of them, he
being nearer to the gun. The shot
lodged in the upper part of Mr. En
nis’ body, one load in the front and
one load in the back. The govern
ment sent two detectives to inves
tigate the matter and eighteen men
have been arrested. It is thought
they will get the man who did the
shooting from this number.
making recently on meal at about $55
while seed at the price reported from
Texas would not bring half that
amount for seed at 37 1-2 means about
$25 a ton.
It might be inferred that cheap seed
means good prc'"'ect for the oil mill,
but that is the riist'’ke. Seed threat
ens to be low because the oil mill is
against the wrH, and cannot pay a
high price for i. and do business at
the low price of oil.—Bion H. Butler,
in News and Observer.
MR. H. V. ROSE WAS
RE-ELECTED MONDAY
The Board, of County Commis
sioners and Board of Educa
tion In Joint Session Yester
day Continue Him as Superin
tendent Public Welfare.
The Board of County Commissioners
and Board of Education in joint ses
sion here yesterday unanimously re
elected Mr. H. V. Rose as County
Superintendent of Public Welfare at
an increased salai-y. Mr. Rose took
up this important work here a year
ago and has made good. It was a
new work for Johnston county and
Mr. Rose had no path blazed for him
to follow, but with that spirit of op
timism that always characterizes the
truly progressive citizen he forged
ahead and has done a good year’s
work. He has made his services in
dispensable to the people of the coun
ty and has made nuyiy warm person
al friends during his year of service.
He is greatly interested in the work
and has put his best self into it.
As county attendance officer he has
looked after the school attendance and
has tried to see that all children who
ought to be in school have been there.
This is a very important part of his
work and that he has done it well the
act of the two boards yesterday tes
tifies in clarion tones. The Herald
wishes Mr. Rose well in this work
and will give him its cordial support.
The county is to be congratulated
that Mr. Rose is to continue in this
work. He has plans already outlined
and at work that no new man could
carry out so well as he. He has a
vision of the work ahead and is lend
ing his best energies to make the
work one of help to the people of the
county.
J. FRANK HANLY KILLED
WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO
Former Governor of Indiana and Two
(Rhers Die as Result of Collision—
Occurs Near Dennison, Ohio.
Dennison, Ohio, Aug. 1.—J. Frank
Hanly, former governor cf Indiana
and candidate for President on the
prohibition ticket in 1916, and Dr. and
Mrs. C. M. Baker, of Kilgore, Ohio,
were killed six miles from here early
today, when a Pennsylvania freight
train struck the automobile in which
the party were driving to Kilgore.
All three suffered fractured skulls
and crushed bodies and neither recov
ered consciousness after bein^ brought
to a local hospital. Mr. Hanly died
at 9 o’clock; Mrs. Baker at 11:30 and
her husband at 5:30 o’clock.
Dr. and Mrs. Baker had met Mr.
Hanly in Dennison at 6:45 o’clock this
morning and were driving him to their
home in Kilgore, 20 miles from here.
The automobile drove across the
Pennsylvania tracks back of one
freight train and directly in front of
another. The automobile was struck
squarely.
Mr. Hanly was en -oute to Carroll
ton, where he was to have delivered
an address tomorrow. He had intend
ed spending the day with the Bakers
at their home in Kilgore.
A Surprise Visitor.
It will be quite a pleasant surprise
for the many friends of Mr. Albert
Allen to hear that he was able to
visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
D. E. R. Evans Sunday August 1.
Mr. Allen is about 25 years old, and
has been confined to his bed nearly
five years, being a victim of inflamma
tory rheumatism. He is absolutely
helpless. This is the first time Mr.
Allen has been out of the house in
over four years. His nurse, Miss
Belle Southerland, accompanied him.
A few friends were present and all
enjoyed a good dinner.
He seemed to enjoy the fried chick
en, ham, cakes and pies as well as
any one. Peaches, watermelon and
ice cream was served in the afternoon.
It was quite an enjoyable day for all
who were present.
B. E. H.
Sold 200 Cars Titaothy Hay.
Jt said that up to two months
ago Mr. J. P. Wilson, a wholesale
merchant of Warsaw had sold two
hundred car loads of timothy hay.
More than half of this hay was used
in Duplin county.
FREE VACCINATION
CAMPAIGN NOWiON
Meet the Doctor on One of the
Days Named Below at the
Place Nearest You and Forti- j
fy Yourself Against Ravages
Of Typhoid Fever
Any man who can work can make
enough money to pay a note these
days. Security is the demand of the
bank. Nothing secures like work and
health enables a man to work. Ty
phoid treatments keep this fever from
you.
The same means employed to make
our Armies free from this dreadful
disease is offered the people in John
ston county. It is free to all. It caus
es no sore. It prevents typhoid fever
and does not make one so he can’t
keep his work going. A painful arm
for a few hours is better than sick
a-bed for several weeks".
Citizens of this county, come to the
front.
Following is a list of the dispensary
points and the dates and hours when
citizens may receive the treatment
free of cost to them:
Selma, 10-12 A. M., Mondays, Au
gust 2, 9, 16 and 23.
Kenly, 2-4 P. M., Mondays, August
2, 9, 16 and 23.
Micro, 4:30-5:30 P. M., Mondays,
August 2, 9, 16 and 23.
Benson, 2-4 P. M., Wednesdays, Au
gust 4, 11, 18 and 25.
Four Oaks, 4:30-5:30 P. M., Wed
nesdays, August 4, 11, 18 and 25.
( layton, 2-4 P. M.. Fridays, August
6, 13, 20 and 27.
Wilson’s Mills, 4:30-5:30 P. M., Fri
days, August 6, 13, 20 and 27.
Pine Level, 1-2 P. M., Saturdays,
August 7, 14, 21 and 28.
Smithfield, 2-5 P. M., Saturdays,
August 7, 14, 21 and 28.
Princeton, 2-5 P. M., Saturdays,
August 7, 14, 21 and 28.
Farmer’s Mercantile Co., 3-4 P. M.,
Saturdays, August 7, 14, 21 and 28.
Newton Grove (Dr. R. B. Wilson),
9-12 A. M., Saturdays, August 7, 14,
21 and 28.
Peacock’s Cross Roads, (Dr. S. P.
J. Lee) 9-10 A. M., Saturdays, August
7, 14, 21 and 28.
Dr. Thel Hooks at Smithfield will
give the treatment at his office at any
time. ~ ,
A »Lie Like a Ball.
It is always difficult to kill a lie.
It is all but impossible to p^t it into
a corner, to get its back to the wall,
to traee it to its ultimate source.
Truth is a cube, which when put down
remains where and as it is placed. A
lie is a ball, which easily rolls from *
place to place, gathering momentum
as it goes and readily losing itself by
the way. There is a legend that a
woman came to Mahomet to complain
of a slander which her neighbor had
uttered against her. Mahomet, listen
ing, summoned the offender, made her
confess the slander, then commanded
her to bring a goose into his presence.
When she had obeyed, che was com
manded t» cut off the head of the
goose and to fling it into the gutter,
to pluck the feathers and the down
from the carcass and give them to
the winds. When all this had been
•ccomplished, then the stern master
said, “Put back the head and make
the fowl live again. Gather these
feathers from the winds and put them
b^fk upon the living bird.” In tears -
the woman confessed her inability.
So, said Mahomet, ‘is it with a lie.
Once given voice to, the winds carry
it beyond your reach, and the ruin
of it is the^ death of some innocent
person—his good name, his standing
in society, his usefulness in service.”
Breaks Record for Auto Speed.
Columbus, O., Aug. 1.—Gaston
Chevrolet set a new world’s record
for 186 miles over a dirt track here
today, when he covered the distance
without a stop in 89 minutes and 23
seconds. Chevrolet drove the same
car with whieh he won the $80,000
Indianapolis Decoration Day race The
former record of 91 minutes and 30
seconds was set by Tom Alky at
Minneapolis in 1914.
The man who thinks the country Is
being run just as good as he could rtm
it himself can be safely classed as. a
conservative.