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PAGE FOUR STILL ONE FARM PRODUCT WHICH HAS NO SURPLUS The Number of Horses and Mules Decreasing on Many Farms There i» no surplus of farm work stock, and the scarcity of mules and horses will increase as the main breed ing centers continue to use tractors for power. "One important live-at-home policy being overlooked in North Carolina is the production of a farm supply of mules and horses," says David S. Weaver, agricultural engineer at State College. "Horses and mules suitable for farm power are dying off from old age more rapidly than they are being produced. In the western - states, which formerly produced a large part of the horse and mule supply, farmers have gone into tractor farming. This has resulted in a displacement of breeding mares. No other section j seems to be interested in producing 1 the animals of the size the Southern farmer needs, and it looks as if he-will have to get into this work for his own protection." Mr. Weaver believes that as long as we have small farms in the state, cut up by ditches and other obstructions, we shall continue to need animal pow- . er for farming. This means that a market will be available for mules and horses for a long period. From some figures which he has obtained from the Horse Association of America, Mr. Weaver finds there were eight million horses and mules under four years of age in the United States in 1920. By 1930, this number had de- WANTS MALE HELP WANTED RELIABLE LOCAL MAN. NOW employed, if really interested in splendid sideline business of your own that will not interfere with your . present work, send stamp for instruc- | tive folder and full details of our proposition; superintendent out-door • advertising; no selling. American Ad-1 vertisers Service, 515 W. Goodale St., | Columbus, Ohio. n-20-2t FOR RENT AFTEK DECEMBER store building on East Washing ton Street, now occupied by the Wil liam st on Motor to: Mrs; "Kate H. York. It CABBAGE PLANTS FOR SALE. Early Jersey Wakefields. 15 cents per 100. H. C. Green at Pecan Grove Farm, Williamston, N. C. Plants ob tained from the very best seeds. | ni-6 f tf WE WANT TO BUY PINE OR white oak logs put out to where our I truck can -be conveniently loaded., Murray and McCabe Co. 06 tf CAN STORE 3,000 BAGS PEA nuts at -cheap rate in bonded ware-| house. Interested parties see John K. ji Peel at J. G. Staton's office. dl 2t 1 1 WANTED TO BUY POULTRY: 1 December Ist to 15th: 200 turkeys, 1 1 9 to 15 pounds, at 20c; 25 turkeys, 15 to 30 pounds at 17c; 200 large hens I at 17c; 200 medium sire hens at 15c; i I-eghorn hens, brown or white, 12c; i springs, 14c to as to size. See, write, or phone at once. W. H. Hoi- I liday, Robersonville, N. C. dl 2t | Mlllllllllllllillllllllll I I I Service That Meets Ml I II Your Every Need •I I Our services extend into every branch of banking; IU savings, checking, bonds, ll* real estate loans, and per- [ I H sonal loans. Let these ||l I services be yours .. . use [|||] them at all times by asso- ' I 1 ciating yourself with this 11 1 j « I reliable bank as a deposi- 11 • I Branch Banking I & Trust Company I WILLIAMSTON, N. C. Sound Banking and Trust Service ior Eastern I Carolina \ Triplets To Get Movie Contract Next Spring i Plymouth, December 4. The 1 three triplet daughters of _ Mr, a>tjd Mrs. G. Lieberson, of Los An geles, Calif., who are here visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hardison, will leave next May for their home. They are here with their parents. When they ar rive at home each will be three years of age. A motion picture concern has been endeavoring to get the children under contract for work in the movie*. It is thought that negotiations for this will be completed when they return to their distant home. - PAYS TO* PLANT COTTON OF BUT ONE VARIETY • - With the outlook for more cotton than American mills can consume next year and low prices a certainty |in 1932. progressive individual farm 1 ers and entrie communities are seek ing some solution of the problejn. i "One of the best solutions is, of course, to reduce the acreage drasti cally next spring and then to grow the medium staple varieties running from 15-16 of an inch to 1 inch and ! over£—*ays Dr. K. Y. Winters, di rector *oi the North Carolina Experi ment Station, and an authority on cot ton production in the South'. " "If every farmer in a community will unite and agree on one variety of this length' staple and then prevent any mixing at the- gin, the problem will be further simplified." Mills use thousands of hales of cot ton in the course of a year, and it is addtional expense when they have to pick and thoir cotton from hundreds of The North Carolina grower is wasting his efforts trying to produce the low grade short ! staples against Competition of ma ichinery and low-priced labor in other sections. The only way this State will remain in the cotton game is to grow the better staples and to stan dardize on varieties." There are several instances in North Carolina this season where growers | have received a premium on their cot- I ton by uniting on a particular variety jof the medium staple length. The j cases of Union County and of the I Woodleaf Community in Rowan County are well known, says Dr. Winters. In Balls C reek community, Catawba C'lUyjty, the growers united to liwikc an order f Mexican seed last spring They had special gin days fr the cotton this fall ami received a premium of from one-half to three fourths of a cent per pound. This section has always grown the short staple Rucker, hut next season the | growers say they wifl grow practically I nothing hut Mexican or some longer htaple. * KEEP SEED PANS IN USE ON PERSON COUNTY FARM Fourteen seed pans have been kept I busy in' Person-county this fall, har | vesting a supply of home-grown les pedeza seed. creasd to about two and a half mil lions. Over half of the mules and horses living on January 1 were over 10 years old, which will eplain the present high aleath rate of these animals. These figures show a half million yearly de crease in horse and mule population and means that more and more farms will begin to depend on some other kind of power unless the aliimals are produced at home. NK.MNID KVKNV POSTMASTER RE MINDS SHOPPERS CHRISTMAS NEAR —• — Early Mailing and Careful Wrapping Are Urged By Authorities 1 In mailing those Christmas cigar* t , this year, it is not enough to merely wrap paper around the boxes and ad dress them, says a list of instructions on Christmas (nailing just issued by tl>e pastmaster general and made pub lic by Postmaster J. T. Price, of this place. "Wrap in corrugated paste board or similar material," the instruc tions say, for boxes of cigars are now listed as "fragile articles:'' It is add ed that "cigars must be in good ship ping condition." Nothing is said a bout the smoking qualities. | Seriously, though, the Post Office Department calls attention to the fact that Christmas is just a ..little less than a,month away, though the weath er may have felt recently as if it were .months away. They have Christmas lin Colon, Canal Zone, though. By I reason of the nearness of the holidays, j the post office workers arc'urging that j Christmas shopping be done early; at ! least that part of the gift buying that |is designed for mailing. 'J'he volume of mail increases about 200 per cent during the period around C hristmas, | and the quicker the mailing is begun j the easier it will be to handle all this j matter. | Emphasis is placed throughout the instructions on very substantial wrap ping for all packages, as a protection to the articles, for ease in handling, land for protection of postal workers and other packages. Corrugated paste board is recommended for wrapping in most instances. It is light and re sists crushing and breaking. Insurance or registration of all ar ticle is urged, and a reminder is given 17 Made lui:SH V never parehed 9 never toasted CAMELS are KEPT Fresh! You probably know that heat is used in benefits of heat treatments and still avoid the treatment of all cigarette tobaccos. ing ever parching or toasting. But you know too that excessive heat With every assurance we tell you, Camels can destroy freshness and fragrance. * «« f re * h ' fresh-not parched or toasted—and then they're kept That's why there eoul.l be no truly fresh fregh in the Camel Humidor Pack. cigarette except for scientifically developed T » . , _ , , . J r If you wish to know why the swing to ,aiiet lods of applying ieat. Camels is nationwide and steadily growing Reynolds is proud of having discovered switch to them for just one day then and perfected methods for getting the leave them, if you can. R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY Wituton-SaUm, N. C. R. I. Reynolds Tobocco Company't Coatbio-Coasi Radio Program* UM QUAirn HOUB, Morton Downer, Tony Worn, and *£ Camel Orchertrm, direction Jacquet Rrnard, every niglil except Sunday, Columbia Breedeaeting Sytfem PUNCI AUOT QUAirn Houm, Alice Joy, "Old ITanrli," and Prince Albert Orchertra, direction Van Loan, •wry night except Sunday, N. B. C Red Network Sam radio paga of Ucat newspaper far tima ■ " IJ Q Don't rwiii i ha moisture pi oof wrapping from " rour package of CamoU after you open ft. The Comal Humidor Pack it protection against dm* amd garm*. In offices and homo*, even in the dry atmosphere of artificial hoot, the Canri Humidor Pock dslissrs fresh CamoU and lte*ps tham right until tha hot been smoked I ■ II PP ys fc|l M nrl Mode fllESU Kept FRESH ■' • ■. •" , • ♦ • • . • v>y .. ■ -."T~r——— ■ • ' ■*: ■■ . —-•- . •■ THE E N TERJP RISE ROWAN FARMERS MAKING MONEY WITH LESPEDEZA ■ ; —• — Threshing machines are humming £ out dollars in lespedeza seed for Row an County farmers this fall. J. T. , . Grham harvested 225 bushels of Kor • ean seed from seven acres of land, and others are turning out certified seed which finds a ready sale. ■ SAD PROSPECTS - FOR CASH CROP |i ; FARMING IN 1932 —* — s The outlook for cotton, tobacco, i - peanuts, early iristi potatoes, and corn : - for grain is unfavorable for the year ( I 1932; but the prospect for fair prices ( - for peaches, strawberries, poultry, and « ( - livestock is good if too much expan- j • sion is t • - • M "After studying the of data ' ( : accumulated by the United States De- } ' |>artment of Agriculture and -discussed j ' at a feathering of southern economists ] " and agricultural workers at Memphis, | : iTenn., lately, we are convinced that } 1 North Carolina farmers must plan to ( reduce their cotton and tobacco acre- 1 • j age next season, and plan to further ( ! Jive at home until all home needs are • '"'rtlet," says Dean I. O. Schaub, direc ' tor of agricultural etension"at State ' i College. "The cotton acreage must 1 be reduced by 35 per cent, and the to-. ' ' bacco acreage even more drastically.: 1 There is little incentive to expand the 1 peanut acreage. Sweet potatoes ought not be expanded above that of this year, and the early irisli potato acre age should Im' reduced 35 per cent un- j ' der this year to get a profit." The director-said the low prices of 1 all feedstuffs should be an encourage- j ! nol 'o gue>s at the amount of postage ■ required on any package, for parcels ] Won't even get away from the mail ing oflice unless they have the proper amount of postage attached. WILLIAMSTON CAJKX..NA RATHER BE IN JAIL'THAN OUT Ellis Brooks Knows When He Is Well Off, Accord ing To Letter (Roanoke Beacon) I Prisoners in the Washington Coun ty unit of the North Carolina Prison Camps had rather be "on the inside looking out than on the outside look-! ing in" in these hard times, accord-' ■ ing to Ellis Brooks, who is. in jail I : for his second term, this time for a sentence -of six years. "As long as I get as good a din- j ner as I did Thanksgiving Day, it. doesn't matter whether I get out or j not. Many people in this county had nothing better Thanksgiving Day than barbecue, cabbage, sweet potatoes, bis cuits, corn bread, and potato pie. As long as I sleep warm with the good food I get, I don't want to get "out now to starve. Broolcs is one of the prisoners who - works daily on the State maintained j roads in this section under the super vision of L. L. Basnight. The above excerpts are from a letter received at The Beacon office from the negro. ment to steadily expand the livestock and poultry industry of the State. Not enough poultry and poultry products, dairy products, beef, and mutton, and pork are being produced to meet the needs of the state at presefit. This is especially true of dairy products on a homt Ixi-tfs. Cairn, Itay, and other feedstuffs will not demand such a prof itable price in the markets, but will pay a profit when fed to livestock. The outlook for seed* is not any too bright, hut North Carolina needs a larger supply of. cheap certified seeds which may be used to plant legumes for soil building, for hay, and other purposes. LENOIR FARMERS WELL PLEASED WITH LESPEDEZA Lespedeza is moving eastward in North Carolina with pleasing results to those farmers who grew the crop this year. Especially favorable results to those farmers who grew the crop: | this year. Especially favorable results are reported from Lenoir County,! , where 20 growers produced 191 tons 1 of excellent hay from 83 1-2 acres. "This hay is of the best quality,' .thoroughly cured before weighing, and will aid these 20 fanners in living at ' home this winter," says Ehos C. Blair,' ' extension agronomist at State College. 1 "Each of the men used the common variety, which was planted on oats last spring. No record was kept oh the j amount of oat hay produced. The les- [ pedeza hay was cut during the last | week in August, which gave the crop, ample time to reseed the land for an-! other crop next season." j Jacob West, of Kinston, made the NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND FOR TAXES I, J. S. Ayers, tax collector for the town of Hamilton, North Carolina, have this day levied on the following tracts or parcels of land, and will sell the same at public auction, for cash, in front of the post office in said town, on Monday, the 7th day of December, 1931, at 12 o'clock noon, for taxes due and unpaid for the year 1930, unless said taxes, penalties and interest, plus cost, are paid on or before that date. 'This 6th day of Nevember, 1931. •J. S. AYERS, Tax Collector. White Taxes Cost Total Mrs. J. R. Bunting, house and lot $ 9.40 SI.BO sll JO W. R. Bunting, house and lot 1— 12.60 1.80 14.40 J. W. Davenport, hotel and store 14.00 1.80 15.80 P. H. Davenport, house and lot 5.00 1.80 6.80 J. A. Davenport, house and lot 8.20 1.80 10.00 W. E. Davis, house and lot 5.14 1.80 6.94 Mrs. J. H. Kdmondson, house and lot 4.80 1.80 6.60 11. M. Fecle, house and lot _. 9.15 1.80 10.95 C. D. Perkins, garage and 2 lots 19.70 1.80 21.50 Colored John Bonds, house and lot 2.10 180 3.90 W. N. Petet'son, house and lot 2.40 1.80 4.20 Sabra Kaynor Estate, house and lot 80 1.80 2.60 Laura Staton, house and lot 2.40 1.80 4.20 W. H. Williams, house and lot 3.80 1.80 5.60 Mack W'N' anl *' house and lot 1.00 1.80 2.80 Friday, December 4, 1931 , best record, My* l(r. Blair. This fann er secured 6,750 pounds of cored hay an acre on five acres. The land was seeded originally in 1930. J. V. Hart ley, of Kinston, secured 6,130 pounds I of dry hay an acre from nine and one half acres seeded this spring. From these yields, the average ranged downward to 1,470 pounds of hay an acre. The average yield secured by I all 20 men was 3,898 pounds. As a result of the splendid yields secured in Lenoir County this season,, ! farm agent C. M. Brickhouse reports ! plans for a larger acreage next sea son. He said the saving in labor per mitted by planting the lespedeza on sm«ll grain at a time when other farm work is not pressing was a decided advantage over growing such other le gume crops as soybeans or cowpeas. The ability to reseed when the hay is cut early enough is another advantage causing lespedeza to find favor with | Lenoir farmers. I » Cuba has just completed the con" j struction of a new 700-mile highway at the cost of $100,000,000.
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