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tobacco co-ops OFF TO RALEIGH (By S. D. Frissell) Raleigh, May 11.—Headquarters of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative As sociation at Raleigh promises to be the Mecca for members of the As sociation from three states next Tlues day, May 19, whein the annual meet ing of the Association will be held in Pullen Hall at the North Carolina State College. Lively interest has developed among the tobacco farmers of Virginia and South Carolina in this annual meet ing of the Tobacco Cooperative As sociation owing to the fact that the directors have urged attendance from every state and if possible from ev ery county of the three states in which it operates. The policy of wide-open publicity which the Tobacco Association has adopted since inviting and publishing the report of public officials from three states on its affairs and poli cies will be the feature of the an nual meeting next week, at that time a full report by Richard R. Pattersotn, Manager of the Association, is to be followed by a frank discussion from 1 members representing every tobacco belt in the Carolinas and Virginia, as to the plans and policies for the sea son of 1925-1926. It is expected that next week’s meeting will be the largest gathering of tobacco platoters who have ever met together as representatives of the tobacco belts of the three states. It will unquestionably have much in-, fluence in shaping the policies of the new board whose election will be con- j firmed at this meeting, by the mem- , be vs. This will be the first time in the history of tobacco growing when far- j mers from the swamps of the Pee Dee : in South Carolina alnd mountaineers from the dark fired tobacco district of Virginia meet face to face with North Carolina growers, in large numbers to draw up plans for their mutual benefit. It is known that numbers of dele gations from Virginia and South Car olina are already beifng formed to at tend Tuesday’s meeting at State Col lege, and as a majority of the Tobacco Co-ops live within less than a hun dred miles of Raleigh there is every reason to expect a record breaking annual meetin gas the association starts its fourth year of operation. May 1st, 1925 Farm Livestock Report When North Carolina fell from a rank of fifth to twelfth in value of crops last year, the critic said, “5 es, that is the result of its being a cash crop state.” And it is true. This state ranks twenty-second in the value of livestock. A study of the breeds and methods of handling stock over the state would convince a good livestock man that We rank low in these also. Those acquainted with the live stock production opportunities of the Mid-West are convinced that, with our ample rainfall and large varie ties of natural and cultivated grasses and legumes, as well as the ability to grow grain as boulntifully as has been grown, North Carolina should be a good livestock state. Further evidence of this is brought out by the Nation al report on the condition and mortal ity of livestock on May 1st alnd dur ing the past year. The average condition of livestock in North Carolina, according to more than 400 reports received by the Co operative Crop Reporting Service, Raleigh, together with as many more reports collected by the Washington Department, shows work stock with 93 percent of a normal healthfulness in this state on May 1st, 1925 and 94 percent a year ago. Cattle of all ages showed a . condition of 93 percent of ideal healthfulness for both this and last year. The condition of swine on the first of the month in all counties averaged 92 percent as compared with 93 a year ago. Sheep, not including lambs, show-ed 93 percdnt or a 3 per cent better condition than a year ago. As is generally known, the princi pal cattle and sheep counties are in the mountain area. It is interesting to note that the condition of all livestock in this area averages high er than in either the Piedmont or Coastal Plains counties. While hogs are grown most extensively in the Coastal Plains area, due to the heavy production of peanuts, soy beans, po tatoes and truck, yet the average con dition in that area does not show as good healthfulness of swine as in the Central and Western counties. The mortality of livestock appears to run fairly low in North Carolina. According to melny reports from all paijts of the state, it appears that wrork stock had a rate of death fiom disease of only 1.6 percent during ihe past year; cattle of all ages showed 1.7 percent from disease and 1.2 from exposure, which includes starvation. The mortality of sheep has been 2.G percent from disease and 1.3 percent, from exposure; hogs showed 5.5 per cent from disease; lambs showed 4.5 Invent from both disease and ex Campfire Speedster lAMTOCACTCR I I j ■‘Radio”, Campfire Girls’ message carrying pigeon, safe on the shoulder of Katherine Hayden, af ter a flight from Chicago to New York in which he equalled the rime Of the “Twentieth Century,, tram. posure. Most of the livestock, except lambs, showed a better state of healthfullness or lower mortality than a year ago, occording to reports. The contributing causes of this condition utere the mild winter, early spring and freedom from disease epidemics. Released by N7. C.—U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, Cooperative Crop Reporting Service, Raleigh, N. C. Frank Parker, Agr. Statistician TAKING NOTE OF INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP It is an interesting and perhaps significant situation in which North Carolina finds itself when among the most important news it reads in its newspapers is the thought of its college leaders. That is something which could not have been said at various other periods in the state’s history, possibly would never have been said with so much of truth as today. The time has not yet come1, of course, when the predominant and therefore the most interesting prob lem of the state is not material. Few persons get far away from the pro cess of making money and spending it and the eternal task of finding out how to make still more. A raw civ ilization can do no less. Yet in these past few days the state has been concerned with whether President Chase would leave his adopted home, and with whether Dr. Henderson would forsake his na tive state, and with Dr. MacNider recognized at last by his own profes sion after most of the remainder of the world had recognized him, and now with what is possibly the swan song of that towering followers of truth, President William Louis Po teat. We may turn quickly to the next cotton mill, the next murder or the next international crisis, and base ball we have with us always and there are waters yet where the fish do bite. But it may be also that this spark of interest in the intellectual, well nigh smothered by the sheer rush of ma terial growth, finds now fuel whereon to make a brighter blaze than this state has ever known. Dr. Chase’s decision to stand by the ship is so essentially the answer to the call of duty and of greatest service that North Carolina will re joice. The state will hope also that Dr. Henderson will understand how badly he is needed here, and it will find some satisfaction that the amal gamation of pure science and native Tar Heel that is D(r. MacNider can spend one week being crowned with the honorary position of physician in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham hospital of the sacred bean-eaters and the next elected chief of his own med ical society with a few moments in between to tend to his garden. The state, furthermore, will stop to listen when this flaming Poteat stands up to talk, whenever he may be and re gardless of whether this is his con fession of faith. For the man breeds confidence. So staunchily has he stood by truth when truth had few to tell her teachings that his career has been one long triumph over big otry and falseness and honest ignor ance. North Carolina has never yet appreciated the sheer courage of this man, who has known how to lead without driving and to fight without giving quarter or leaving poisoned wounds. So closely do we live to the routine of our daily lives that we cannot always perceive the greatest movements that are astir about us. But some day the state will come to itself and when it does it will trace much of its intellectual freedom from Dr. Poteat. If it be fantasy that today we have more of interest in the intellect ual, it will certainly not always be fantasy. The rush of material devel opment is in full tide and will be these many years. But if the state can recognize, by whatever means, something of its inner life that beats in tune with the fundamental har mony of the human mind and the di vine soul, that will be an achievement greater than he that taketh a city.— Greensboro News. A Fresh Rendering of a Stale Tale Versions of the “sparrow-cigarette fire story recur with such persistence that it already promises to take its DR. J. C. MANN THE WELL KNOWN EYESIGHT SPECIALIST will be at Dr. L- D. Wharton’s Office Smithfield, N. C. EVERY SECOND FRIDAY IN EACH MONTH Remmeber His Next Visit FRIDAY, JUNE 12 C. A Bailey Undertaker and Embaimer SELMA, N. C. Prompt Service Day and Night AUTO HEARSE SERVICE Day Phone 158 Night Phone 9085 SAY “BAYER” when you Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Colds Pain Headache Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis Lumbago Rheumatism ►.Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets yUso bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. place in the growing body of Ameri can folkldt'e. Latest of these tales to attain the dignity of type is the fol lowing, extracted from the columns of the National Underwriter: “Solution of the mystery surround ing a number of serious barn fires was believed to have resulted when a group of road workmen in Shelby county, Iowa, saw an English spar row carry a lighted cigarette stub to a nest it was building under the eaves of a nearby ba«n. The stub had been thrown out by a smoker in a passing automobile. “The men nitified the farmer, who procured a ladder, climbed to the nest and discovered a spark which if farined into life by the vrind would soon have had the nest on fire and the destruction of the barn would have been a natural result.” In the Washington Star appears the story of a friendly argument that arose between two young chaplains of different denominations, in which the senior chaplain rather cleverly gotj the better of his opponent. “Let us bury the hatchet, my broth- i er,” he said. “After all, we are both [ UNION CARBIDE For Farm Lighting World’s Best Quality — Highest Gas Yield V-SW Always Packed in Blue and Qray Drums The Product of the Originators and De velopers of the Carbide and Acetylene Industry HIGHEST GAS VALUE Always Uniform A carload has just been received. Order a supply today AUSTIN STEPHENSON CO. Smithfield, N. C. doing the Lord’s work, are we not ? ” “We certainly are,” said the junior chaplain, quite disarmed. “Let us, then, do it to the best of our ability, you in your way, and I in His.” Watch the date on your label. The American heiress had just come back from her first trip to Europe. At dinner her neighbor inquired: “Did you see many picturesque old ruins during your trip?’ ’ “Yes,” she replied, “ and six of them proposed to me.”—Irish Weekly Times. * FOR SALE! We have for sale Cotton Seed Hulls, loose _ and sacked; also a supply of meal. See Pine Level Oil Mill Comp’y Pine Level, N. C. ARMY SADDLES Comfort for the Riding Sports Value $35 Wholesale to U. S. Government Our price compared with that will make you feel that you have done your neighbor wrong Come and let us quote you Austin-Stephenson Company SMITHFIELD, N . C. Milady’s Powder Puff LADIES’ BEAUTY PARLOR Will open for business on TUESDAY, MAY 19th On Second Floor of the Davis Building Shampooing Marcelling Manicuring Scalp Treatment Call by telephone for appointment MRS. N. H. YAHNKE, Proprietress SMITHFIELD, N. C. HOLLAND’S TEN DAY SALE OF Spring and Summer DRESSES STARTS TOMORROW Here’s your greatest chance for full money’s worth, and then some. We don’t know when we’ve offered such new styles and high quality at such low prices. These are the frocks you’ll see worn by the best dressed women in Raleigh this summer. Every smart and fashion-right color is represen ted, fashioned of Voile, Printed Crepes, Wash Silks, Crepe de Chines, Georgette and Satin Back Crepe. Some of these dresses have been re duced as much as 50 per cnt. We are offering them in four groups, priced at— $10.75, $14.95, $19.75 and $24.95 SPECIAL PRICES ON GRADUATION FROCKS Come in early while we have large assortments to select from. HOLLAND’S No. 11 Odd Fellows Bldg. RALEIGH. N. C.
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