IrPRACTICAL POULTRY COLUMN.I
J I- By "UNCLE McADOO".
MR. EDITOR:-
As you have beeu so kind as to
allow a column of your paper to be
devoted to, the poultry industry,
for the benefit of your readers; I
hope .all interested in the poultry
industry will unite with me in the
attempt to make it a paying as well
as an interesting column. That
we may be mutually benefitted I
shall always endeavor "to give the
readers of this column, an honest,
practical and truthful experience
along the line of successful poultry
raising.
My experience in breeding and
caring for poultry, dates back near
ly twenty years. It is remarkable .
to look back a decade ago and see
the great changes that have been
made in the industry of poultry
N raising in the South. In those
•olden times poultry was only kept
on the farm to supply the family
with fresh eggs and to trade for
supplies to the country store. In
these days the situation has greatly
changed, poultry is keeping pace
with other improved farming in
dustries and in some sections even
over stepping it in its rapid prog
ress.
Twenty years ago who would
have thought that men would lose
and make great fortunes in the i
poultry and egg business; but
such is true of to-day. There are
farms that arejdcvoted exclusively
to poultry, with large amounts of
money invested.
A good many farmers have a
large flock depending more or less
upon it as the meaus of turning
their farm produce into cash. Our
town friend also with the poultry
yard back of his house takes a live- I
ly interest in eggs, prices and
breeds.
It is these two classes I shall en- i
deavor to interest in the i
breeding, management and raising
of poultry. '
Now for a few words in favor of :
the old blue hen of oldeu days. I
Dare to be a Danlek
Reformers die hard—or rather
they do not die at all. When a
tnan is so ranch in favor of a re
form that he throws himself into
it unselfishly no single defeat by
mete numbers can change his con
tinued and persistent advocacy of
liis reform. This idea has been
nowhere better expressed than by
Mayor Outlirie, of ]Pittsburg, who
in a recent speech said:
"Babylon's King could not re
move Daniel by casting him into
the den of lions. Daniel lived 011.
And from that I read the lesson
that we cannot remove the reform
er who will welcome death, politi
cal, if his life will help in any way
the thing for which he is striving.
And, though he dies, the reforms 1
be has begun will continue, and
that is all he desires to know. The
race of reformers did not die with ,
t Daniel—they have gone on. They
are frequently told that they don't
understand this thing or that;
that they should not undertake
this or that. But still they go on.
And as we look about the chain
of history we find their story re
peated—often they are silenced,
but the things they do live on.
"Sometimes the things they do
seem hopeless. Sometimes the up
lift seems slow. But the life of
the people rises ever higher and
higher. You and I will go away
from these scenes; the reformer of
today may fail,to acomplish what
he seeks —bnt you and I must re
■inember that the warfare for right
and justice always is won in the
end, You and I may be the sow
ers; but the harvest will end in the
building up of a noble, honest
manhood and womanhood that will
glorify the nation."
The reason the church does not
do more to reach mankind, why
l politics is so often the handmaid
fc. of selfish men, and why social life
lacks the uplift of ptirity is that
there ye too few among us who
k now she makes more clear money
for the farmers of North Carolina
than the cotton crop, and she yet
needs to be improved on. She has
had a good deal of attention for
the last ten years, but the South is
just beginning to realize her value.
She has held a prominent posi
tion in the northern states for a
number of years as a money maker
with not half the climatic advan
tages of her southern sisters. All
she needs in the south, especially
in Martin County is improvement
and care. I mean by improve
ment and care, first, if you want
her to*lay, you must breed her up
•to laying, second if you want her
to set, you mu9t breed her up to
settiug, third, if you want her to
raise broilers that will sell for a
good price, in 8 to 10 weeks, you
must breed her up to raibiug broil
ers.
We need not expect her to lay
all the days of her life, aud at the
same time set aud raise fine broil
ers, no more than you could edu
cate a boy and expect him to be a
successfull blacksmith, doctor and
lawyer. You need not expect her
qualities to he any better than they
were twenty years ago; if you just
go out and throw her a few grains of
corn, and tell her to go and scratch
for a living, just as you have to do
you can depend on her to do her
part of it if vou give her something
to scratch for. Then again you
need not expect her to do good
work if you allow her to sleep in a
tree or ou a pole in a freezing tem
perature, nor in a warm house
stamping her feet all night to keep
the vermiu from sucking her life
blood.
Last give her a variety of coarse
feed, plenty of course grit, lime
and charcoal. See that the drink
ing trough is kept clean and filled
with fresh water. Provide her
with cleau, comfortable quarters,
and you will find no fault with the
old blue hen.
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can stag: '
"Dare to be a Daniel,
Dare to stand alone,
Dare to have a purpose firm,
Dare to make it known." ,
When a man rises who dares to
"stand alone" for rtform, he is
first called a dreamer, then a crank,
aud if he persists unsuccessfully he
is called "a man with one idea,"
but if he succeeds he is a seer or a
statesman.—News and Observer.
The Ideal Ear ol Corn. J
Authorities have decided that the
best form for an ideal ear should
be as neai a cylinder as possible.
It should be about ten inches long
and about seven inches in circutn
| ference, or at least this ratio should
be maintained. The rows of grains
should be as near parallel as possi
! ble and the grains should grow well
over the tip and butt. The grains
should be wedge shape and their
length should be at least twice their
width. The cob should be small,
from H4 to 90 per cent, of an ear of
corn should be grain. In yellow
corn the cob should be red and in
white com it should be white. If
one desires his corn to have a high
pratein'content, the germ or heart
should be large. If meal is to be
made the white or starchy end
should be large. The grains should
be firm on the cob and the ear
should be firm, solid and heavy.
The grains of the "dent'' varieties
will be more or less wrinkled on
the outer tip, otherwise the surface
of the ear should be smooth and
glossy. A dead color usually in
dicates low vitality.—S. W. Black.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder
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■ v Notice
North Carolina—Martin County.
Superior Court, Before the Clerk
W. P. Moore rs. Eliiabeth Moore.
The defendant above named wilt take
netiee that a suitsous in the above en
titled action was issued against the said
defendant on the i9th day of November,
tttoS, by J. A. Hobhs, clerk of the Super
ior Court, which summons was retmfoa
ble before the Judge of the Superior
Court at Williauiston iu said county, on
the 14th day of December, 191)8.
The defendant will take notice that
the summons isaued was for divorce, as
stated in complaint filed therein, and to
be found in the office of the Clerk of
scid County, and which summons is
returnable at March Term of tke Super
ior Court, beiug the third Monduy aud
isth day of March 1909, when and where
the defendant U required to appear and
answer or demur to the complaint or the
relief demanded will be grauted.
This the 20th day of November 1908,
J. A. HOBHS, C. S. C.
Notice. y
North Carolina—Martin County
Superior Court, Before the Clerk.
S. H. Roebuck and others vs. John
Rhodes aud others.
The defendants, John Rhodes, Alison
Wiggins, Augustus Wiggins. Julia Wig
gins, Samuel Purvis and wife Luciuda,
Andrew Wiggins, Maggie Wiggins, Rob
ert Wiggins, Alfred Wiggins and wife
Jane, John Sharif, George Baker, Augus
tus Loyd, Joseph Beaaley and wife Ida,
John William* and wife Luzetta, Henry
Shark, Henry Butler aud wife Gertrude,
Charlie Keys, George Keys, Bessie Keys,
William Keys, Relius Wiggins, Ephrius
Williams aud wife Penny, James Speight,
Joe Speight, Lawrence Speight, Isaac
Speight, John Speight, Reubin S|>eight,
Lotin Speight, Jerry Sladeaud wife Mesa,
Turner Spruill and wife Harriet Ann,
Moses Beecher ami wife Sallie, Gordon
Bailey and wife Geuetta, Jack Bailey,
John T. Bailey, Hoyt Bailey and wife
Annie, Gus Bailey, Clinton Roscoe aud
wife Otelia, Karnest Bailey, Sam Bailey,
Savanali Bailey, John If. Bailey, Robert
Bailey and wife Annie May, Mittie Jane
Bailey, Faunie Bailey, Hattie Odell Bai
ley, Arthur Bailey, Mack Noble and wife
Mamie, Bal>e Railey, James Bailey,
James Bailey, John Ar* Bailey, lames
Bailey and wife Martha, will take notice
that an action entitled as above has l>een
commenced in the Superior Court, Martin
County before the clerk to sell for peti
tion a tract of land in Martin, in which
the above named defendants are inter,
ested; aud the said defendants will
further take notice that they are required
to appear at the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court for the Cjnyitv of Martin
on Hie 22nd day of Deottnt>er, ii*> Baud
answer or demur to the complaint in said
action, or the plaintiff a will apply to the
court for the -elief demanded in said
complaint. This the 20th day of Novem- 1
l>er, 1908.
J. A. HOHHS,
ii-ay-4t Clerk Superior Court.
Notid.
North Carolina—Martin County 1
Superior Court, Before the Clerk. ]
George E. Peel, Executor of Enoch Stal
lions vs. Sarah Stallinge, Jol>e Stalling*. 1
Frances Riddick and Henry Ruldick, i
Ida Godard, Joshua Godard, Agnes Rob-
erson, Florence Hayes and L. H. Hayes. I
The defendants John Stalling and 1
Joeb Stalling* above uamed will take 1
notice that an action entitled as aljove j
has been commenced before the Clerk of /
the Superior Court of Martin County, for 1
the purpose of selling the real estate be- »
longing to the late Enoch Stallings, de- s
ceased, to create assets for the payment (
of debts standing against said estate; and
the defendants will further take notice
that they are required to appear at the 1
Court-house in the town of Williamston, .
Martin County, N. C., in the Clerk's
office on the first day of January, 1909 ,
and answer or demur to the petition in
•aid action or the petitioner will apply
to the court for relief in said complaint.
This the 25th day of Novemlier, 1908.
J. A. HOBHS
1 r-27-4t Clerk Superior Court. ,
Under an 1 by virtue of authority vest- '
ed in me by a certain deed executed to 1
me by N. E. Williams and wite Vino *
Williams, on the first day of January, '
nineteen hundred and one, to secure '
the payment of a certain bond bearing '
even date therewith, and registered in
the Register's office for Martin County '
in book C C C at page oyi, and the stip- '
ulations contained in said deed in trust 1
not having been complied, and upon re
quest of cestui que trust therein named,
I shall on the 28th day of December,
nineteen hundred and eight, at two
o'clock, p. tn., in front of the Bank of
Robersonville, in the town ot Roberson
ville, N. C., sell to tbe highest bidder,
fcr ca«h, the following parcel or tract of
land, situate in Martin County, Poplar
Point Township, and adjoining the lands
of Riley Spruill and others and being a
part of the Perry Baxemore farm, and a
more accurate description will he found
by reference to a certain deed, executed
to said N. E. Williams by J. A. Martin,
and properly recerd-d in Martin County
Said parcel o tract of land is said to
contain one hundred acres, more or less.
This the 13rd day of November 1908.
ix-Z7-4t J. B. RAW 13, Trustee.
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W irL .It
Notice.]
By virtue of a power of sale contained
in a certain deed of trust, executed to me
by Geo. W. Smith, and bearing date the
17th of December, 1904, and recorded in
the public registry of Martin County in
Book GGG at page 253, to secure the
payment of certain bonds of even date
and tenor therewith, and the stipulations
in said deed of trust not having been
complied with, and upon the request of
the beneficiary therein named, I shall
sell, at public action, to the highest
bidder, for cash, at Robersouville, Mar
tin County, North Carolina, on Saturday
the sth day of December, 1908, at twelve
o'clock noon, the following described
property, to-wit: —
Beginning in the center of Main Street
in the town of Rol>ersouville, N. C., at R.
H. Hargrove's corner, runs thenre S 81
&XW 13 & poles, thence S8 & %
E 5 poles, thence N 81 Bc. R 13 & l A
poles, thence N8 & W 5 poles to the
beginning, containing seven-sixteenths
of an acre, more or less.
This November 2, 1908.
.. A. R. DUNRINC,
U-6-4t Trustee.
Administrator's Notice.
Having this day qualified as adminis
trator to the estate of A. G. Cawey, de
ceased, this is to give notice to all parties
holding accounts against this estate that
they must lie presented within one year
from date of this notice, or this noticl
will be plead in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate will
settle immediately.
This October 24,1908.
R. H. SAMHURY,
io-30-6t Administrator.
Notice.
Having this day qualified as adminis
trator to the estate of Walter R. Harrell,
deceased, this is to give notice to all
parties holding accounts against this
estate that they must l>e presented with
in one year from date of this notice, *or
this notice will l>e plead in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to said
estate will settle immediately.
This Octol>er 10, 19(18.
S. J. EVKRKTT,
10 l 6 st. Administrator.
Notice.
Having qualified as administrator of
W. J. Hadley, deceased, late of Martin
County, N. C., this is to notify all j>er
sons having claims against the estate of
said deceased to exhibit them to the
undersigned on or before the 20th day of
Octol>er, or this notice will l>e
pleaded in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate payment. This
the 20th day of Octol>er, 190 K.
JOHN T. HAOI.rv,
Administrator.
Land Sale.
By virtue of authority vested in me by
an order for a resale made in the Superior
Court and approved by the Judge in the
special proceedings entitled, Cherry,
Rogers and ! others, against Rogers,
Cherry and others. I shall sell to the
highest bidder 011 the third Monday in
Decemlier, being the 21st day, at I 2 |
o'clock noon, at the Court-House door
in Willianiston, for cash, the following
described tract of land: Being in Wil
liamston Township, lying on the road
leading from Willianiston to Rolterson
ville, and known as the Amelick Askew
place, containing 75 acres more or less.
A more definite description of which can
lie had bv referring to the deed to Am
elick I'. Askew in the Register's office,
said land containing farm buildings and
60 acres of open land.
This the 18th day of Noveml»er, 19»H.
S. J. RVERKTT,
u-20-4t Commissioner.^
Notice
State of North Carolina—Martin County.
Personally appeared l>efore me this
day Asa T. Crawford, a resident citizen
of Martin County, N. C., who enters
and claims the following vacant land
lying and being in Jai»e»ville Township, '
Martin County, lying near Cat«n Branch
about 4 miles south cf Roanoke River,
bounded as follows: Beginning in the j
Gurkin Branch in Benjamin Corey's, pat- -
ent line, theuce running said line to the
Grimes line of the J as. G»ay Blou»t pat
ent. Thence with said Blount's line to
Caswell's Bjranch, theuce up
corjrses of said blanch to the Gurkin
Branch, thence up. said Gurkin Branch
to the In-ginning, containing too seres
more or less.
This Neyelnher roth 1908.
AHA T. CRAWFORD,
Applicant.
W. C. MANNNINU,
Entry Taker. u-20-4t
Administrator's Notice
Having qualified as administrator of
R. P. Satterwhije, deceased, late of Mar
tin County, N. C., this is to notify all
persons having claims against the estate
of said decased to exhibit them to the un
dersigned on or before the Ist day of
December 1909, or this notice will be
plead in liar of their recovery. All per
sons indebted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 16th day of November, 1908.
W. A. BURROUGHS, T.
11 20-6t . Administrator.
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