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HATCHERIES NEXT NEW DEVELOPMENT OYSTERS PLANTED IN BAYS ANB SOUNDS OF NORTH CAROLINA. ACTIVITIES OF COMMISSION Pass Resolution Authorizing the Ex* penditure of $125,000 of the Half Million Appropriation. Raleigh. Three quarters of a million bushels of oysters have been planted in the bays and sounds of eastern North Carolina under the expanded program of fisheries development this year, Captain John A. Nelson, fisheries su perintendent, reported to the State Fisheries Commission in brief session here. Routine matters and the necessity of making available authorized funds for the continuance of the work of expanding the industry brought the Commission to Raleigh, and aside from the passage of a resolution au thorizing the expenditure of as much as $125,000 of the half million appro priation, no formal action came from the meeting. Next among the developments to be take;# up is the placing of fish hatch eries on the inland streams of the State, in accordance with the plans evolved by Governor Morrison. No definite plans have been made for the expenditure of the $125,000 for establishing hatcheries in inland streams. Governor Morrison insisted that they could be Installed to the great advantage and profit, both com mercially and for sport at not more than $5,000 each. Which streams are to be selected for the work has not been determined. Activities of the Commission thus far has centered in the planting of oysters, and the number put in this year is five times that put in last year. It is expected that a great harvest will develop from the seed planted, and that the industry in the State will sur pass even that of the waters of the Chesapeake. Digging of new inlets through the bars that girt the sounds of the east will probably be the last of the un dertakings outlined by the Governor when he presented the plan to the General Assembly amj put through aq^ appropriation of $500,000 far the development of the fishing industry in the State. Award Contract For Dormitory. Contract for the erection of ■>. mitory at State Colleen, iii, first building in the $1,350.Owo building pro gram authorized by the last General Assembly, was awarded to J, W. Stout & Co., of Sanford, at a cost of $164,000, by the building committee of the board of trustees. Construction starts at once and the dormitory will be com pleted by February 1, 1924. Members of the board who were here for letting of the contract were S. F. Patterson, chairman of the building committee, Roanoke Rapids; Robert N. Page, Biscoe; T. T. Thorne, Rocky Mount; Mark Squires, Lenoir, and Clarence Poe, of Raleigh. Eliminating Cattle Tuberculosis. Several North Carolina counties have been listed as areas where cattle tuberculosis practically has been elim inated, according to a report received here from the acting secretary of ag riculture. Mr. Pugsley lists the coun ties in various states of, the country where the disease has bene eliminat ed, in accordance with a recent amend ment of the federal regulations on the j .subject. As a result of the amended regula tions these counties will be relieved of the restrictions imposed on counties where the disease still is prevalent. No cattle may be taken into these areas in the future, it is announced, unless they come from an accredited herd or have passed a satisfactory tuberculin test. Counties in North Carolina ap proved as free of the disease are: Scotland, Rowan, Pender, New Han over, Davis, Davidson, Cumberland, Cabarrus, Buncombe, and Forsythe. Suit to Reunite Railroad. The suit by Attorney General James S. Manning in an effort to bring about reunion of the old Cape Fear and Yad kin railroad as a continuous line from Mt. Airy to Wilmington will be heard at the next civil term of Wake county superior court, it was announced at the attorney general’s office. Offers $500 Riward For Peake. Governor Morrison authorized a re ward of $400 for the capture of J. L. Peake, Winston-Salem man serving a thirty year sentence in the State pri son for second degree murder, who es caped from the Caledonia farm with six other prisoners. Superintendent Pou who requested the Governor to / issue the reward has already offered a reward of $100 for Peake’s capture. Peake was convicted about a year ago in the Superior Court of Forsyth for the killing of J. B. Ashburn. Weevil Lull is Now About Over. ‘‘Indications are that boll weevil infestation in North Carolina this year is spotted and irregular and that those farmers who were not stamped ed intrf using all kinds of poisonous mixture early may save money on their fight with the weevil this sea son,” declared Franklin Sherman, Chief of the Division of Entomology for the State College and Department of Agriculture, in a statement issued on the boll weevil situation in the State at present. “W have just passed through a period when boll weevil have been scarce due to the over-wintering ones having died off,” Mr. Sherman con tinued. “Now, however, their prog eny are appearing in the fields and we may expect them to become in creasingly abundant from now on. “This lull in weevil activity oc curred earlier and is probably now over in the southern and eastern counties of the State. They are still scarce in the northern and western part of the State, however. Our ex aminations show the increase in in festation to be well under way in the southeast but nearly at a standstill in the piedmont. In Cleveland county on July 24 we could find very few weevils but we did find that the new generation are hatching from the squares and will Soon be on hand.” Mr. Sherman stated that in general the infestation is very spotted and ir regular some fields, he said, showing from 8 to 20 per cent of the squares infested and others showing hardly any infestation at all. The oncoming generation of weevils is expected to greatly increase this infestation, he said he thinks, in all counties where cotton is grown. “It seems probable, however, that many fields will reach the dusting point by August 1. This may mean a shorter dusting season with per haps fewer applications necessary, than in 1922. But let it be clearly understood thta the time to begin de pends for each field on the degree of its infestation. Our field workers and the county agents have done excet lent in saving the farmers from mak ing needless and wasteful applications when there was no certainty that these would return a profit. “While it may be that some fields will go through the entire season without needing the dust poison ap plications, yet others will, and the critical time or dusting point is be ing reached in the east and south and is near at hand in the southern pledmo'nt. “The grower who merely depends on what he ‘hears,’ cannot know just when to begin dusting. Get the of ficial publications and study them. Our circular 137 explains how to know when it is time to dust and says: ‘We know of no substitute for intelligent care and proper study in meeting the boll weevil problem. The farmer needs to know the degree to which his field is infested, he needs to watch the increase in infestation ; from the oncoming generation, and then, by the help of his study or by advice of his county agent or our field workers, he will Know when and how to dust so as to get a genuine profit from it.” Over Twenty-Five Millions Loaned. The total amount that has been loaned to North Carolina farmers by banks in the Federal farm loan sys tem has been $25,107,650, of which about half was borrowed during the last year, it was announced by S. Wade Marr, seccretary-treasurer of the Atlantic Joint Stock Land Bank. The twenty-five million represents North Carolina’s share of a total of $1,160,695,516 that the Joint stock land banks and the Federal land banks have advanced farmers of the entire country. During the year ending June 30, 1923, North Carolina farmers borrow ed $12,657,150 from the banks of the farm loan system. Of this amount $9,526,450 was borrowed through the joint stock land banks, and $3,130,700 through the Federal land bank| at Columbia. The statistics just issued show that of the $25,1,07,650 advanced to North Carolina farmers by the farm loan system since its organiza tion, $10,076,600 was supplied by joint stock land banks and $15,031,050 by the Federal land bank at Columbia. During the year closed on June 30, 1923, the total of loans made through all the banks of the. farm loan system throughout the forty-eight States was $446,389,813. Of this amount joint stock land banks supplied $233,920,o98 and the Federals $212,469,215. The billion dollar mark for the Fed eral farm loan system, which includes both joint stock land banks and Fed eral land banks, was passed on June 30, 1923, when the statement of busi ness done from organization to that date gave the total of loans -made by all the banks of the system as $1,160, 695,516.1 Of this amount, the Federal land banks have made $787,460,304 and the joint stock land banks have made $373,199,212. New Corporations. The following corporations were chartered by the Secretary of State to do business in North Carolina: Powers and Anderson Dental Com pany, of Winston-Salem, with $100, 000 authorized capital and $500 sub scribed by H. E. Pusey, Clarence T. Hanes, and J. L. Maxwell, all of Win ston-Salem. Daniel Boone Outdoor Club, ot Blowing Rock, with $200,000 authoriz ed capital and $1,500 subscribed by W. S. Alexander, Blowing Rock; R. 8. Mohan. Oreat. Falla TWO KILLED AND ONE HURT Grade Crossing Accident at Lilesville Costs Lives of Ben Downer and Miss Dorothy Webb. Wadesboro.—Ben Downer, of Liles ville, and Miss Dorothy Debb, said to be of Pavo, Thomas county, Ga., are dead, and Miss Sarah Wall, of Liles ville, is in a hospital suffering from injuries received when the automobile in which the three were riding was struck by a Seaboard Air Line tram at a crossing between, this city and Lilesville. Downer was instantly killed, his body being carried a considerable dis tance down the track. Mips Wall and Miss Webb were both badly injured when picked up. They wore imme diately taken to a hospital at Wades boro, where Miss Webb died. It is believed that Miss Wall will recover. The car was torn to pieces. Details of the accident are meager. It is believed that Downer, who was driving, attempted to cross the irack without observing the stop law, and that he endeavored to stop when he saw the train approaching, with the result that his car stalled on the track. The sole survivor of the acci dent, Miss Wall, has not recovered sufficiently to make a coherent state meat. The chassis of the car was carried nearly 150 yrads down the track, and bit3 of the wreckage were scattered : along the intervening space. The i body of young Downer was also drag ! ged along the right of way. Miss Webb was visiting her sister, I Mrs. Battle Wall, at Lilesville. Miss Sarah Wall is said also to be‘a rela tive by marriage. Miss Webb is said to be a member of a very prominent Georgia family. Dr. F. L. Webb, a well known physician of Macon, Is believed to be related to her. Spend Millions on Roads and Schools. Kinston.—The 46 easternmost coun ties of North Carolina will have ex pended 100 million dollars on roads, school and public buildings during a two-year period ending December 31, according to an estimate from the sec tional chamber of commerce here. Every one of the counties has parti cipated in the program of public im provements to some extent. Hard surfaced highways, new courthouses, jails and other buildings, and numbers of modern schools have been built in the section. The “local group’’ ef counties has led in two respects. The longest mileage of roads and most schools have been constructed in Greene, Pitt, Wayne, Lenoir and Craven counties, it is believed. Street paving, sewerage and waterworks systems and electric lighting in towns have constituted I important items. The per capita ex penditure would probably establish a record for the country. Puts Heathen Chinese to Shame. Raeford.—Jasper Berry, a Crotan, now serving a sentence in Robeson county for the larceny of an automo bile, has put the heaten Chinese to shame in practice of ’’ways that are dark,” if charges against him are sub stantiated. Jasper's devious dealings, it is de clared, began with the theft of a milch cow, a mule and a buggy near St. Pauls.- He drove the mule and buggy to Troy where he turned the cow lose to graze, swapped the mule for some thing handier, an.J departed in an automobile belonging to G. L. Griffin, of Kannapolis. Later he sold the car to Gordon Berry and then stole it back, it is alleged. It was for this second theft that Jasper is now serving time. Bee Keepers Harvesting Rich Yeilcf. Mount Airy.--The bee-keepers are new harvesting the richest yield of honey in this section that has been produced in a number of years. Tnis is what has long been known as a “honey year.” For years this section produced the finest sourwood honey on the market, but with the clearing of woodland for farming purposes the old plan of beekeeping proved unprof itable, and the bees have died out un til only those who make a study of the bee industry and adopt modern methods can raise them with success. When the natural flowt of honey fails bees must be fed with a syrup made from sugar, and if they are not properly cared for they die out in the years when nature fails to sup ply them, or when rains wash the honey dew from the blooms. A Mr. Hawks, who lives in the Low Gap section, has about fifty colonies some of which wij^ yield him as much as 100 pounds of honey to the colony. F. L. Johnson, of this city, is the only professional beekeeper in this section and devotes his whole time to the bee business. He has more than 500 colonies and has a number of bee yards, some which are as much as fifteen miles away. Adopt Organization Mission Boards. Lake Junaluska.—A permanent or ganization of city mission boards or the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to meet annually at Lake Juna luska and plans for the work to be done were provided for in a commit tee report adopted here by the first regional conference of city mission boards at its closing session. Dr. J. W. Perry and Mrs. J. IT McCoy, home mission secretaries of the church, were appointed to work out details for the 1924 conference. ASHEVILLE FIRE CAUSES BIG LOSS TWO PERSONS SEVERELY BURN. ED AND OTHERS SAVE LIVES BY JUMPING. DEPARTMENT STORE BURNED Fire Department Estimated Loss at Approximately Two Hundrea Thousand Dollars. Asheville.—After making a first ] hand inspection of the site of the . Emporium building, which was de 1 stroyed by one of the worst fires that ever occurred in the uptown district, | and after consulting Jack Blomberg, manager of the establishment, Chief A. L. Buckett. of the fire department, j estimated the losses at approximate- j ly $200,000. Further investigation may reveal that the loss is less, he j said. Insurance on the building and contents was about $76,000, a total of $40,000 on the building itself having been covered by policies held by Haywood Parker, owner. Mr, Blom berg holds policies for about $30,000 on the stock of goods and a policy for $6,000 on the fixtures. A modern structure costing about $200,000 will be built, on the site, Mr. Parker announced, if the walls are condemned. If they are not, the building will be repaired. The three-story building and con tents of the Emporium Department Store on South Pack Square were entirely destroyed by fire. O. P. Mc Arthur and Mrs. C. A. Williams, em ployes, were severely burned and the former suffered a broken leg when he jumped from a second story win dow. Two clerks reported missing were later located. So rapidly did the fire gain head way that for a time it appeared that several other buildings in the heart of the business section would be de stroyed. All the fire apparatus of the city was concentrated and save for minor losses to the City Library and ! Legal Building, the fire was confined I to the department store. Several clerks escaped from the second ann | third floors by jumping into life nets. Inspect Sites For Fish Hatchery. Fayetteville.—The committee ap pointed by the North Carolina Fish eries commission to select a location for a state hatchery i neastern Caro lina completed the inspection of a score of sites in Cumberland county. A decision will be announced about the first of September, after sites have been inspected near Raleigh, Kinston, Rockingham, Smithfleld, and other cities, according to statements 1 made by members of the committee before leaving for Rockinham. The members of the committee . were much pleased with the co-opera- | tion shown by the local committee of business men, headed by Frank H. Stedman, and were evidently quite | favorably impressed with the sites shown them here. The best of these, in the opinion of the committee mem bers, is Curries pond, in the western part of the county, and the local business men declare that the out- , look for the selection of this site Is encouraging. The committee making the tour of inspectifin is composed of J. K. Dixon, of Trenton, chairman; Captain J. A. Nelson, of Morehead City, and G. W. N. Brown, a fisheries expert who has charge of the hatchery at Orange burg, S. C. Three Negroes Killed by Lightning. Mount Oolive.—George Faison, 23; Aaron Jackson, 12, and Thomas Fai son, 9, all colored, were killed instant ly by lightning at a tenant house on the farm belonging to Y. H. Knowles, about a mile and a half from here. The two boys were on the front porch and showed not the least sign of any contact with the bolt. The man was back in the kitchen, and was just preparing to take his seat at the table and partake of a meal. His clothes were partially burned off of him and his breast was badly scorched. His wife was also scorched, but suffered no other in jury. Terriffic Storm in Pitt County. Goldsboro.—According to informa tio nreceived by telephone from Sher iff Jackson, of Pitt county, damage to growing crops estimated at $500,000 was caused by a terriffic hail, will’d and electrical storm which struck the Greenville section of that county Tobacco Buyers Migrate. Kinston.—Large numbers of East ern North Carolina tobacconists have gone to the South Carolina markets as buyers, warehouse helpers and book men. These will remain in the Pal metto belt during the sales season there and return to this belt for the bright leaf opening August 21. Most of the transients will migrate again late in the fall, going to Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio. Many of the men are all-year employes of big to bacco companies. LIVC ^ 1 W % Solid Permanent Water Trough for Sheep Flock Ordinary wood troughs are unsani tary, subject to decay, and when jn use are often impractical because they are so easily overturned. All these objections have been over come in building the type of trough shown in the* illustration. It is made of a rich mixture of concrete, one part of cement being used to one and one half parts of clean sand to three parts i-—-3 A Solid Permanent Water Trough. of well-graded pebbles or broken stone. The inside is troweled smooth, so as to facilitate cleaning. This trough is designed particularly for the watering of sheep and Is, therefore, set low and deep in the ground for the convenience of the ani mals themselves and to rt'duce the probability of freezing. Very Satisfactory Milk Substitute for Calves (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) A very satisfactory milk substitute for feeding calves after the second week has been devised by the United States Department of Agriculture. The mixture consists of 50 parts finely ground corn, 15 parts linseed-oil meal, 15 pnrts finely ground rolled oats, 10 parts dried blood flour, 10 parts skim milk powder, and one-half part salt. It is stirred up with warm water at the rate of 1 pound of meal to 9 pounds of water. The feed Is increased gradually as the whole milk Is decreased, until at the time the calf te 50 days old it Is getting only the gruel. At this time 1% to 2 pounds of meal mixed with water will constitute a day’s feed. Whenever there are Indications of scours the feed must be reduced. When calves are vigorous, the fol lowing schedule may be adhered to in changing from whole milk to the sub stitute : First week—Whole milk. Second week—Whole milk. Third week—Three parts whole milk, one part gruel. Fourth week—Three parts whole milk, one part gruel. Fifth week—Whole milk and gruel, equal parts. Sixth week—Whole milk one part, gruel three parts. Seventh week—All gruel. Grain and roughage should be fed i with milk substitutes the same as with separated milk. Milk has to be very high in price to justify the use of sub stitutes during the first two weeks of the calf's life. Right Care of Horse in Harvest Quite Important Horses working in the heat should be fed only a limited amount of hay in the morning and the noon feeds, and should be given a liberal amount of grain, preferably on.ts, with from 10 to 20 per cent of bran added. They should be watered in the morning be fore being fed and should be allowed water again after feeding. At noon, when coming from the field they should be given a limited amount of water if they are hot, followed by feed, and again be watered before going to the field. At night they should be given a limited amount when brought from the field, followed by the evening feed, and should then be gifpn all the wnter they will drink. It is an excellent practice, also, to water the horses In the middle of each half day’s work. A drink at this time Is as refreshing to the horse as to the man and will be repaid by better serv ice. Frequent breathing spells should be given in the harvest field to avoid overheating and injury to the wind, which may result in permanent un soundness. The shoulders should be washed with cool salt water at night to pre vent shoulder galls and sore necks. The collar shouHl also be carefully cleaned when taken off.—J. S. Mont gomery, University Farm, St. Paul. Immense Damage Is Done Annually by Ox Warble An estimated damage of over $00, 000,000 annually is caused by the os warble, a cattle pest found in all part* of the United States. This pest 1* well known by the cattleman and th< dairyman in the grub or larval form when it produces the little lumps thai are found in the cow's back in th« spring. The adult warble is verj much like the bot fl,tes and It als< resembles a honey bee. I COULD HARDLY DO ANY WORK Since Taking Lydia E. PinkhanTt Vegetable Compound This Woman Feels So Well Keeseville, N. Y.—“I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound too highly for the good it has dona me. I was so much troubled with female weakness I could hardly do any work. I saw your advertise ment in the paper, and read it to my husband. He said, ‘You had better try Lydia E. Pinkhama Vegetable Com pound’, so I bought six bottles, and by taking it I am not troubled a3 I was. I am gaining strength and getting fleshy. My female troubles have vanished and I have never felt so well. The Liver Pills are the best I ever took. If you think my letter will en courage other sufferers you have my permission to use it as an advertise ment.’’-Mrs. Sarah Blaise, Box 177, Keeseville, N. Y. Doing the housework for the average American family is some task,and many w omen lose their health in so doing. If ou. as a housewife, are troubled with ackache, irregularities, are easily tired out and irritable, or have other dis agreeable ailments caused by some weakness, give Lydia E.Pinkham’s Veg etable Compound a trial. Let it help you. Cuticura Soap -is Ideal for The Complexion Soap 25c, Ointment 25 and 50e, Talcum 25c. His Way. “I use long words as seldom as pos sible In my poetry,” stated Tennyson J. Daft, the versatile verslfleatloniSt. ‘‘As a rule they do not rhyme as read ily as the shorter ones, and then it takes too much time to look up their spelling in the dictionary.”—Kansas City Star. BABIES GRY FOR “CASTORIA” Prepared Especially for Infants and Children of All Ages Mother! 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