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Pare Two THE FRANKLIN PRESS Friday, March 6, 1S25. - i 1 '. NEWS OF iTERESI m FARMERS j v - . -Jj RURAL TELEPHONES County Agent Arrendale finds that he could do more and better work if more farmers had telephones. In or der to help the farmers organize small companies in each community for the purpose of building, owning and maintaining telephone lines, he has asked the farmers and citizens to meet. him next week at the vege tables growers meeting, mentioned in another column of this issue He ex pects to have at these meeting 'a man that" knows the telephone business to explain the plan and workings, of a rural or farmers telephone line. . , ' Do Macon Farmers Want Electric Lights? When the Franklin power dam is completed there will be enough juice to light every farm home in the county and then some. Our farmers arc iust as progressive a sthose in Cleveland county. Think this matter where not more than $5 or INCUBATOR It seems that some have the idea that Prof Crawford carried the big incubator to his farm for bis own use In fact it was carried out there to do custom hatching on the same plan as was followed last year. He "is leady to start operating as soon as enough eggs are brought in. We see no reason why this incubator should hot be operated for several months at full capacity. . . V Beautifing Home Grounds Is Found Inexpensive Of all the onattractive places the home grounds without shade trees, shrubbery, and grass heads the list. There is no reason for such a state of affairs existing, because in whatever conditions one's finances may be a few dollars may be dug up for a few shade trees and few clumps oH shrubbery. We have seen may small homes almost remade in appearance $10 was oyer and see whether you w-ant ele-j spent for shrubbery and a dollar or trie iigms ana smaii nioiors ior ium tw0 for some as seed. work. , Neither is it necessary to secure the Read the following article services of a paid landscape gardner "Little by little the Cleveland coun-'j order t0 beautify the home ground, ty electric light program for rural . He, would probably make the place sections is answering the song hit of a few years back: 'How you Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm After They've Seen Paree?" And because of that program the farm world is tak ing note of Cleveland. The above is from the Cleveland County Star, edited by Lee Weath ers at Shelby, N. C, Really no need f such extensieve indentification now for the story of Cleveland county has gone to every nook and corner of ' this big country of ours. The story has been told by Lee Weathers in his Star and by Max Gardner and by every patriotic citizen of Cleveland. PUBLIC SERVICE is happy, to note and again pass on the story of developments in this progresive county. And here are some more signifi cant statements from the Star; "One by one community after com munity is falling into line, in the big county-wide light program. A num ber of communities will have their . lines completed and electric lights in their home by another month and seeing that the movement is a success will bring in the communities that have been somewhat hesitant about taking th forward step. "Four or five community power companiestjvill have completed their lines by spring with others only a few weeks behind." That's -the story: the little com munities are uniting and building lines to the nearest power stations. The people are lighting their rural homes and turning the wheels of their machinery by electricity." lhey are t enjoying the joys of rural life and banishing all its discomforts. Vegetable Growers Meeting In last week's issue, we gave an ac count of the, vegetable growers meet ing at the court house Since that time a few farmers have shown some interest .by 'inquiring but only a very few have agreed to grow any vege tables. 7"- Believing that the farmers do not understand the proposition and "its importance, County Agent Arrendale .i asking the larmcrs to meet him at the places and on the dates mentioned below.: Patton " School house, Monday March 9th, 10 A. M. Higdonville school house, Monday March 9th, 3:30 P. M. Slagle ' School house, Tuesday, March 10th'. 10 A. M. Holly Spring, School house Tuesday March 10th, 3:00 P. M. Prentiss Depot, Wednesday March 11th 10:00 A. M. Otto, Wednesday March 11th, at 1 P. M. Mulberry school house Wednesday March 11th, 4:00 P. M. Cowce School house Thursday March 12th, 10:00 A M. Jotla School house, Thursday March 12th, 3:00 P. M. Mr. Moody must have three hun dred acres of vegetables contracted to1 be grown and delivered to his packing house at a given price per pound before he will agree to come to Macon County. He also wants con tracts for not U-ss than 100 and not more than 200 acres of potatoes on the same plan. Talk this proposition over with your neighbor and do not fail to at tend one of these meetings. 1 The planting season is near and Mr. Moody must know by Saturday, March 14th whether or not the far mers of Macon County will sign the contracts for 300 acres. ,We understand that the farmers at Dillard. Ga and Mt, City, Ga., arc anxious to get Mr. Moody to con tract there. Will the farmers of Macon County sit still and let an opportunity like this pass by? We hope notl Sec copy of contracts in this issue., Quite Modern. About 1852 Marcel Deprez, a French engineer and pioneer electrician, suc ceeded in transmitting electric power by telegraph wire between Munich and Miesbach, thirty-five miles. This is considered the first successful Jbx pcn.-r.ent in long-distance transmis sion. . ' j look better than the home owner himself yet with the free information that is available for everyone there is no reason why anyone cannbt proper ly locate and plant shrubbery and trees. State agricultural colleges, county agents, nurserymen farm papers and other agricultural organizations are all glad to supply information of this kind, Where one will take a picture of the house and yard where trees and shrubbery are desired and send it to the state agricultural college, or to nurserymen having shrubbery for sale, detailed information as to the exact kind of shrubbery that is. best suited and where it should be located may be had. In sending in such a pic ture send along a rough drawing, showing the location of, house, walks driveways and any trees or shrub bery that may be already on , the grounds. Also show on the drawing the dis trance between the house and , the driveway and the distance between the trees and house, the height of the eaves of the roof of the house, the height of the porch floor frooi the ground. . ' Another source rom whir'i much information along this line may be securd is from the dialogues put out by nirserynan, and from bulletin j put out by the ft-'itc departing of -.(rirsrlinrc. Wellington, D. C. They arc. written by ir n who arc fu' -formed as to the best methods of beautifying the home grounds and are free to any one who asks for them. The main point that wc wish to make here is that the cost of improv ing the home grounds is not necessar ily expensive. It is true that one may spend an unlimited amount of money in improving the grounds, but it is equally true that a mightly good showing may be made with a limited amount of money. Another point we would make is that this work should not be put off until the last minute.; Many folks in tend to plant the grounds but put it off until it is too late in the spring and then say they will do it the fol lowing year and repeat the same thing over and over again. Therefore the time to begin studying this prop osition is winter, so that the plans may be made the work mapped out etc.. before spring. Nothing will add as much to the making of the house a real home as to beautify the surroundings. Even men who make no pretension of caring for the beautiful are influenced by their surroundings. No one cat possibly live in a home with beautiful grounds made so by trees, shrubbery, etc, and not be a better man. Therefore let' say that we care nothing for the beautiful, because we do whether con scious of it or not. Let's not stifle what love there may be in our nature for beauty of this kind. ' ' He Wants to Come Home - The h ti that Fr;fklin is a fit" place to live is proven by the pli! of a man in Honda man v.ii. a 't5ty :n the Franklin jail. One day he perhaps heard Bill Moore extoll ing the virtues of Florida as a winter resort. So the trusty started, for and arrived in the land of flowers. He is there now but much prefers the jail in l-ranklin. Yea, though he sit tcthj now beneath the palm trees foot loose and free this man pines to view the mountains' through the bars of Macon county s jail rather than to pluck luscious, bananas in a tropical clinic Read his letter: , Dear Sir I am in hard hick. You tret the commissioner to Vire me $25,0!) or 1 will have to -turn in ,-nd iit the Vl'triff to wire for home om to come and get me, I got too far outh to get a job, Have it sent at ence, ' '. Respt Absent-Minded, Absent-Minded Husband: "I forgot my umbrella tbts mornintr. dear." Wife (larcattically) : "How did you ever come to remember that otl had torgotten it? , . ... Husband : "Well. I ''shouldn't have missed if, dear, only I raised my hand to shut it when the ram ceased." A Lespedeza Episode Albe., X C March, 6, 1925-Sam Lcve, a Wcu;!d War veteran of. Stanly County, although somewhat disabled from an injury to his hip, is proving himself to be very active on his farm and very enthusiastic over the meth ods he is using to bring his rough hilly land into economical produc tion, states O. ,H, Phillips, County Agent for the State College Extens-on Service- A visiting farmer was complaining to Sam about everything going wrong about tho poor season last year, hi$ empty corn crib, his empty barn, and several horses to feed -with an ex hausted bank account. - i The farmer discovered that Sam's' barn was full of something that had green tings to it. "Where did you get all that good feed?" asked the visitor. ' "That is lespedeza hay, the finest hay I ever fed and I believe it is the best hay to be had anywhere," re marked Sam. Come on out to the barn and let- me show you something He opened a stable door and in front of the visitor stood a nice fat horse almost too fat for spring work. "You see that horse," said Sam "he gets only five eas of corn per day and the rest of his feed is lespedeza hay. But this is nothing let me show you in the next stable. Here is an old horse that has not had a thing to eat but lespedeza hay since November 1st. No, sir, no orn, no oats, just good lespedea hay." The visiting farmer remarked, That horse looks better than the other one" "Well," said Sam, "If you make friends with lespedeza, sow lots of seed, make lots of hay, and save enough seed to sow on evrey acre of small grain, you will never need to worry about winter feed, and jt will enable you to make lots of improve ments around the farm and home that you otherwise couldn't." "Do you really believe all you say about lespedeza?" asked the visitor "I believe all rhat and more," replied Sam. "How about selling me some seed," remarked the visitor. . . "No, I have sold all that I have to spate, a;;d all the local seed have been sold, so you willhavc to 'pet yours from a dealer. Last week we. had the Victor Talking Maching program and Tuesday night this week we had the 'Brunswick Musical, memory contest program on Jhe Radio. ( These were fine and almost every night we have something worth listening to. We keep a good fire and if you want to "Listen in" we will be glad to have you come and spend the evening. . .vv.'EiUiiK't siieih': PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST A School Child's Lullaby (To the tune of "Good Old Sum mer Time") In the good old rainy time, In the good old rainy time, Winging broom sage by the ton, All along the line, We catch a tadpole by the tail, t And that's a very good sign, There's mud a plenty at our school In the good old rainy time. POULTRY SALE A poultry sale is being planned for March 18th. A decisiion will be made as soon as we know whether or not a veternarian can be sent to inspect the poultry as loaded so that a health certificate can be issued. Poultry is bringing a very good price in the big markets, owing to the a;t that very little poultry has been .'hipped A good load i poultry could be shipped. Money Earning For Women Many houewives feel a desire for a little more spending money than their husbands are able to give them,, and would gladly work for' the same if they knew what to attempt. A great many women have obtained help in these ways by little industries' of their own. Some of them product knitted arti cles, embroidery, or other forms of handwork. Many of them .who are good cooks, will supply some article of food to some store. Others who are skillful in putting up jellies and preserves will provide such supolies regularly for some store. r Others sell rugs and mats or other house furnishings. Many women raise pout try, for .the product of which there is an unlifnited demand. There are plenty of openings for women and girls who wish to earn a little money. IT IS NOT INTENDED THAT A CAR SHALL RUN BY GAS ALONE .' It takes grease. ; Not merely motor oik GREASE! Every automobile should be thoroughly greased at least each 500 miles each 300 miles is better. This adds 50 per cent to the life of your car. -Doubles efficiency. ' j"".-:. 'Materially increases resale value. - . Any mechanic will endorse this statement. -GREASE REGULARLY! PORTER MOTOR COMPANY West Main Street Phone 45 Franklin, N. C. This paper carries the timely farm news and information sent out by the extension division of State College. HARDWARE GOOD EQUIPMENT MAKES GOOD FARMERS Our Stock of Farm Equipment is very complete, and second to none. v We have Chattanooga and Vulcan plows, Disc Har rows, Cutway Harrows, Peg Tooth Harrows, Corn Drills, Seed Sowers, Hoes, Shovels, Mattocks, Garden tools in great variety, :md other items too numerous to mention. . . When tools ? re wanted see us. Our prices are right. MACON COUNTY SUPPLY CO FARTJ1EE1S FEDERATION If good quality, low prices, prompt service, courteous treatment and a square deal mean anything to the public we are convinced that the Farmers Federation, wilt have an enormous trade during the year 1925. In January our sales amounted to $5,600. Thisr shows that we treat you right and that the public has Confidence in this organization which it owns. - v WE BUY -4WE SELL AT- COST fvs :is -PIus 10 percent Hams, .20 Side Meat, .18 . Shoulders, ..:. ... .12 n Soy Beans, . 2.50 Buck Wnet Flour.........$ 1.50 Peas, ,... ; : 2.50 ? : ' white Fawn Flour, per ' .::z:::r 1$ ' Hides, dry, 08 Pastry Queen Flour 1 ,35 Hides, green, .05 Prices subject to hange without notice , Trade with the Farmers Federation! We pay spot cash for your produce and deliver in town.- Farmers Federation ELMEft JOHNSON, Manager. .
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