JUSTICE CLARK - DIES OF STRODE HAD BRILLIANT CAREER AS SOL. DIER. WRITER, LAWYER AND JUDGE. Raleigh—Walter Clark. Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, died at his home here at 8 o’clock Monday morning. He was stricken Sunday morning with an at tack of apoplexy. Judge Clark was taken suddenly ill shortly after he prepared to attend church services Sunday morning. His physician advised him to rest quietly at home. Two hours later, he sank into unconsciousness from which he never rallied. He steadily grew weak er as the day passed but at 1 o'clock Monday morning was reported hold ing his own. though unconscious. Later he sank again and died at eight A. M. of apoplexy. Judge Clark has served as a judge in Superior and Supreme Court for 38 years. He was 78 years old. Members of the family summoned here after the attack were at the bedside when the end came. Long Chief Justice. Judge Clark was for 22 years Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. And for 14 years prier to his ap pointment to that position in 1923 n associate justice of the court. Had he lived until next August the Chief Justice would have been past his seventy-eighth year and within a year he would have rounded out two score years of judicial service, first as judge of the superior court for four years then for fourteen years' on the Supreme Court bench as an asso ciate justice and then a quarter of a century as chief justice. He was born in Halifax county August 19, 1846. The Chief Justice gave promise of unusual attainments early in his youth, not only displaying intelllectual gifts but a physical courage and stami na that brought him through three generations of unparalleled events, a Civil War a political revolution and an era of great constructive acheive ments. The father of the Chief Justice was General David Clark ,one of the fore most citizens of Halifax County in his day and the only general officer of the State militia called into service dur ing the Civil War. His gradnfather and great-granfather were meif of like calibre the first being a minister of note. His mother was Miss Ann M. Thorne, of Halifax, and from both sides of his house, the Chief Justice inherited the blood of many of the State's finest families. At the Tew military school at Hills boro as a youth Judge Clark was an oustanding student, and though only fifteen years of age when the war came he was assigned to duty as a drill-master in the 35th regiment, re turning to school after that service was done. Later he was in the sever est of the fighting in Virginia, a»d was wounded in the hand at the bat tle of Sharpsburg. Though a slender lad of 16 he commanded the respect of the entire regiment. Saw Heavy Fighting. Too young for service, though he had seen two years of it, he returned to North Carolina and entered the University where he graduated in 1S«4. After that he re-entered the military service and was made lieutenant col onel of the 70th North Carolina that saw heavy service in the eastern end of the State, and was mustered out after fighting the approach of Sher man across the State. He went to Columbia law school in Washington where he was graduated in law ip 1867. ' After several years of practice in Scotland Neck and in Halifax county he moved to Raleigh, where he devel oped a wide practice and engaged hi newspaper work, directing the editor ial policy of The News. In January, 1874, he was married to Miss Susan Graham, daughter of Governor Wil liam A. Graham and a sister of the late Major W. A. Graham. In 1902 he was nominated and elected Chief Justice of the court, the post which he had held continuously since. During the years of his judi cial service he has found time for prodigous labor on matters of many sorts, the writing of legal treaties and the writing of historical matter on the Civil War. One of his notable labors was the translation of the Constant Diary, a splendid work in three vol umes and held by Napoleonic, students to be one of the most important con tributions to the bibliography of the era. Influenced Leagal Thinking. The Chief Justice was a man of pro found convictions and a courage that measured up to every conviction. It was frequently said of him that “Judge Clark's dissenting opinions of this year become the laws of next year.” No man since Ruffin had so profound ly influenced the legal thinking of the profession in the State. He retained his youthful vigor 6f mind until the morning he was stricken ill and never did he turn aside to avoid meeting an adversary. As a public speaker he wasain wide demand and in addition to his work on the bench he usually found time dur ing the court recess in the Summer to deliver a series of lectures at some law school. He- had indexed and con notated the reports of the court for many years ,a prodigious labor in ifc self. _ ___ v - rIG FARMING NEW INDUSTRY Another Large Plantation Being Devel oped; W)ill Begin to Yield Next Year. Kinston.—Another fig plantation nas been started at a tidewater point, i "TJp-conntry” capital is interested but other details have not been made known. A few acres of “typical fig soil” have been planted to small trees of two or three varieties, and other trees are expected to be imported from Asia Minor. Though small, the plantation is believed to be the second ! largest yet established in North Caro lina. Northern capital is reported to be interested in the larger venture, the scene of which is in the Roanoke sound country. The new fig farm is known to be ■■ thriving, but the owners have with held information regarding the opera tions. The trees are expected to be gin bearing next year. The owners claim better fruit can be produced in the sandy eastern Carolina country than in California, where the industry has been developed on a large scale, or Texas, where large acreages are now being planted to figs. Self-polonizing trees which have thrived about Beautfort and Morehead ! City and on Ocracoke island for many years are said to be of the Adriatic variety. Many of these grow to be as large as oaks, but they give more fruit when kept dwarfed, authorities on fig culture state. Make Headway on New Power Plant. Rhodhiss.—Excavation fqrr the tur bines for the new Southern Power Company’s plant here is about com pleted. Forces are being placed and the concrete is already being poured in some sections of this foundation work. “It will be two weeks yet be fore thefe will be any noticeable prog ress in this construction work," satB C. T. Wanzer, engineer in charge of the work. At present excavation for the turbines has reached a depth of about fifty feet below the surface of the river. Big pumps are kept busy at all times keeping the water out so that this excavation work below the level of the river may go forward. Just as soon as this excavation work is com pleted. which will be wMthin the next day ot two, forces will start again on the excavation for the mill race. This will be carried to a depth of about fifty feet below the present water level |ji Preparing to Block Rum Fleets. Wilmington. — When the United States Coast'Guard places its immense fleet of more than 300 fast motor boats, several former naval destroyers and mine sweepers into service i^ about six months the coast of North Caro lina and that of every other State on fiae Atlantic and Pacific is going to be an unhealthy place for rum runners, according to information .reaching here from the district Coast Guard of fice at Norfolk. There is little doubt but what Wilmington will be the head quarters for some vessels of this great booze fleet, as wel las the base of operation for the cutter Modoc. Slays His Wife and Kills Himself. Winston-Salem.—After killing his wife with a revolver, John SauLts, 35 years old, who resided in the Chestnut Hill section of Ash County, shot him helf to death at his home according to dispatches received here. Details of the double shoot/ig'-are meagre, but It -was learned that there are three children surviving. There was no theory advanced for the shooting. Saults had just returned to his home from West Virginia shortly before the affairs, it was reported. Govjrnor Talks to Durham Clubs. Durham.—Arriving nearly one hour late, Governor Morrison delivered an excellent address before the Social Service deaprtment of the local "We considered the basis of satisfactory pork produc tion, according to C. G. Ellihg, swine specialist at the Kansas State Agricul tural college. “The cost of raising three or four Scrawny pigs to the litter is nearly as great as the cost of raising large thrifty litters up to weaning time,” Mr. Elling added. “The overhead expense of maintaining the boar and a number of brood sows is best met If the litters are large and thrifty. "The thrifty litters farrowed down In the timber or the successful litters farrowed the first year that one has hogs in new pens and Sheds embody a practical suggestion regarding health ful conditions for small pigs. “Old hogs closely confined in yards and sheds make very unsatisfactory and unhealthful conditions for the tender newly horn litters. Small pigs nursing, sleeping and living in such quarters are attacked try lice, mange, scorn's, worms, thumps and other forms of small pig ailments wliieh re duce their vitality.” Better Baby Chicks Is Slogan of Poultryman Strong, healthy, vigorous chicks, given the proper kind of feed In sani tary quarters. fre^ from dampness, comfortably warm and with ample ventilation, will develop properly and grow into profitable mature birds, ac cording to .1. H. McAdams, poultry specialist for the Kansas State Agri cultural college. Chicks that are stunted through lack of vitality used In the breeding stock, or chicks that are stunted by crowding or from scanty feeding, will not develop into vigorous breeding stock and good lay ers, Mr. McAdams says. A chick ration to bring about the best results should contain those ele ments that furnish body heat and energy and build up bone and muscle, McAdams points out. These feeds must at the same time be provided with respect to the ease with which tlMy cao be handled hv the chick. Cream and Milk Must Be of Good Quality Federal Standard Is Placed at 18 Per Cent Butterfat. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Because cream sold in smaller quantities than milk is no reason why less care should be given by inspect ors in insuring a safe supply of good quality, says the United States ' De partment of Agriculture. It is Just as desirable for cream to come from tuberculin-tested cows or be properly pasteurized, or both, as that milk should. Heavy cream for whipping purposes Is often sold raw aiul Its quality should be above susjncion. Cream from old or returned milk of poor quality Is not desirable. All cities need carefully defined grades for cream, according to the de partment, with a fixed minimum for light, table, or coffee cream, which is the usual cream of commerce. The federal standard for cream which goes into interstate or foreign commerce is IS per cent bntterfat, and in differ ent cities it varies usually from 18 to 20 per cent. Sometimes what is known as “double cream" is sold, and when that term is used the cream should contain twice as much fat as is required in ordinary cream, usually from 30 to 40 per cent of butterfat. “Whipping cream" may contain less butterfat than “double cream,” but according to a ruling by thP bureau of chemistry, cream thus labeled, if shipped interstate, must contain at least 30 per cent butterfat. Moonblindness Is Most Peculiar Eye Disease Horsemen have long recognized 1n certain parts of the world a disease of the eye of the horse that comes and goes several times before finally producing complete blindness. They have many theories, hut no real facts about this disease. It is safe to say, however, that there is more super stition than good logic in connecting wolf teeth with this trouble. Many mares have no wolf teeth at all, but suffer from mooublindness just the same, and many have had the wolf teetli extracted with no noticeable benefits. The wolf teeth do the horse no good, however, nnd may be re moved if one desires. It is easily done with good instruments. There is a good deal of reason for suspecting that tills disease is Infectious, but it has not been proved to be so. Affect ed animals should be protected from bright light by cloths over the eyes and tlie discharge should be cleaned up with a two per cent boric acid solution In water. A solution of one part pyoctantn blue to one thousand parts of distilled water and a few drops put into the eyes twice daily seems to long delay the finnl effects of the disease in some cases. Treat Small Grain for Smut With* Formaldehyde Small grain may be treated for smut with formnldehyde or copper carbonate. The smut of corn, how ever, is an altogether different kind of proposition, nnd no method of treat ing the seed corn Is of any value whatsoever. It seems that corn smut Is carried over In the soil more than it is on the seed. Of course, we would avoid picking for seed ears which are affected with smut or which come from plants which are infected. In this way it may be possible eventual ly to build up a smut resistant strain. It will take a good many years to do this. Best Depth for Plowing Depends Much on Soil The proper depth for plowing for corn and wheat depends on the char acter of the soil, the time It is done and a number of other factors. Gen erally plowing less than five inches deep Is called shallow plowing and deeper than six inches is called deep plowing. Under ordinary conditions it does not pay to plow more than six inches deep nor shallower than five inches. The deeper plowing Is usually best when dona In tty? fall for corn the next year, and the shallow plow ing for wheat or oats. It does not pay to plow ext(J deep or extra shallow. Have one test to every four or five bens. • • • Clover seed of doubtful origin prob ably will prove of doubtful value. * • * Too early pasturing may mean short pasturing. Give the grass a cliance to become firm. * * * Grapevines need a severe annual pruning to keep on producing a large crop of first-class fruit. * • * Be sure you are right about food crops and feed crops, then go ahead with cash crops. • • • Most of the losses In farm animals are due to carelessness and neglect on the part of their owners. • • * Provide shade for summer. Hens need protection from extreme heat. Panting is the only method they have for cooling off. • • • The first few days of a chick's life is the most Important time. Watch the temperature of the brooder and •loo vnnr feedlnv method*. LIVE OCK FOUNDATION STOCK IS BIG ESSENTIAL The good breeder of live stock may be said to be the one that has been successful in the selection of the parents of his stock. The corner stone of success is selection. Cara and feed are essential, but they can develop nn animal no further than the inheritance that animal has re ceived from Its parents will permit. A man was seen one time upon the Denver market trying to buy a boar to take home to his herd. When en gaged in conversation he showed that type, ancestry or health did not en ter his mind. A boar was a boar and nothing more to him. Selection is Just as important to that man who was a producer of mar ket hogs as it is to the producer of animals from which others breed. Satisfactory results cannot be ob tained by taking anything ns founda tion stock and then save the best from their, increase. There is quite likely not to be any best nmong the* increase. The live stock man must decide upon his ideal be fore he starts in the business and selects his foundation animals with his ideal always before his mind’s eye. It is impossible very frequently to obtain our ideal or even approach It, but to ha\-e a goal toward which to work and never reach It, is better than not to have any goal at all. Selection is important, as has been suggested, and it may now be said that selection to a type is important. Diversity of types seen in n breeder’s flock or herd Is generally Indicative of haphazard breeding operations. What is the value of uniformity of type? No one will question its finan cial advantages In feeding or sellfcig. Many worry about which breed to raise, but the selection of and ad herence to a type is even more Im portant than the selection of a breed. The breeder of live stock must be a student of animal form and a judge to insure success in his endeavor.— II. W. Fairbanks, Colorado Agricul tural College. Winter Swine Slaughter Shows Decided Increase During the winter months of Decem ber, January and February, 10.821,291 hogs were slaughtered in establish ments operating under federal meat inspection. ThH number exceeds the previous record for three months, made December, 1918, and January amd February, 1919, by more than one mil lion hegs. Those who have studied the reasons for this enormous increase say that many factors are involved. Increased breeding, due to the successful cqrn crop for the last two years and a sat isfactory public purchasing power, have contributed to the record-break ing slaughter. The ly>gs have been somewhat lighter in weight, however, than in former years and the large number does not mean such a record breaking quantity of pork as the hog slaughter might Indicate, Roughage for Fattening Lambs in Feeding Test Very little difference between al falfn and soy-bean hay as roughages for fattening'lnmbs was noted in a i feeding test at the Illinois experiment station. The two hays w'ere fed to lots of 25 lambs fed shelled corn In addition, with no supplement. Gains made by the two groups of lnmbs were almost exactly the same. The lambs given soy-bean hay ate somewhat mor4 buy than those fed alfalfa, but the soy-bean hay group ate slightly less corn to compensate for the in creased hay consumption. Somewhat more of the soy-bean hay was wasted than of alfnlfa. At the end of the test the alfalfa lambs were valued Jen cents higher than those fed soy bean hay, but both lots brought the same price when sold at Chicago. Tetanus in Lambs Often Follows Spring Docking Tetanus is quite common among lambs at this time of the year, since it frequently follows docking if the operation is not properly performed. Tetanus is often spoken of as “lock jaw,” though that is really not the correct name because the locking of the jaws does not always occur. Little can he done for animals that are already diseased. The scab that has formed over the stump of the tail after docking should be removed and the stump painted with' tincture of iodine two or three times daily. When docking 'amhs again the stump should be painted immediately after the oper tion. Some stockmen make a practice of searing the stump with a hot iron. The latter sterilizes the wound and also controls the bleeding. Sunlight for Little Pigs Sunlight is indispensable to the health and vigor of newly born pigs. This Is true In all except extremely hot weather. The sooner they get It the better It Is for them, and farrow ing houses fitted to let in the sunshine are decidedly advantageous. As soon as the little fellows are strong enough to run around and follow after the sow they may be let outdoors Into the sunshine. They ought to be strong enough to do this within from three day* to a week. Stomach Trouble Can Be Corrected Quickly and Easily [f the Stomach Is Upset and the Digestive System Is Not Working Properly One Cannot Hope to Feel Well and Strong. 'Many Complications Have Their Origin in an Upset Stom ach. v TANLAC IS WORLD’S BEST TONIC FOR STOMACH TROUBLE This Great Medicine Will Tone Up the System, Soothe an Inflamed Stom ach, Remove Accumulated Poison and Start the Di gestive Organs Function ing Properly, Thus Allow ing the System to Assimi late the Food One Eats— All Good Druggists Sell TANLAC. Don’t put tilings off--put them over. 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