PACE TWO
THE. FRANKLIN PRESS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1323.
market when the price is highest.
Every poultryman knows these .ad
vantages mean dollars to the pro
ducer. Franklin offers an unusually good
market for poultry priducts during
the summer, tourist months. In ad
dition, thousasds' of dollars worth of
chickens and eggs are shipped to the
Atlanta and Jacksonville markets
each year.
Pure-bred flocks are being put in
all over the county, and the indus
try, already large, is growing daily
There is no better opportunity for
the making of real money than the
poultry business in Macon county.
. Manufacturing
. Franklin is well situated for cer
tain classes of' manufacturing enter
prises and extends a cordial invita
tion to those interested in finding a
location for such plants. For furni
ture, chair, and all classes of wood
products factories Franklin is ideally
located on account of the wealth of
standing timber in Macon county.
Macon county has an almost inex
haustible supply of chestnut timber
On account of this fact, the Union
Tanning company of New York, has
built a large tannic acid plant here.
The Western Electric company has
a mica products plant here in which
'.much of the mica is manufactured for
final use.
The labor situation in Macon
county is unusually advantageous for
manufacturing enterprises. Local la
bor can be secured in plentiful sup
ply. . Franklin has a new hydro-electric
.'plant producing 1,500 horse power
iand is well able to supply sufficient
power for numerous new manufac
turing plants.
Mineral and Mining
North Carolina has 184 native min
erals, and a large majority of these
are found in Macon county. Copper
gold, mica, kaolin, clays, corundum,
granite, talc, and various gems are
now being or have in the past been
mined profitably in this section. The
Corundum Hill mine seven miles
' from Franklin, has been one of the
'greatest producers . of commercial
corundum and of the crystal corun
dum gems ruby, sapphire, emerald
in 'the United States. The finest
specimen of Oriental emerald in ex
istence was taken from this mine. It
is now in a famous New York collec
tion. A number of single rubies rang
ing from $3,000 to $7,000 in value have
been produced by Macon county ru
. by mines, and one, a perfect stone'
weighing nine carats, which sold 40
'years ago for $10,000, is now almost
priceless. Beryls, garnets, rhodo
lites, amethysts, are also found in
paying quantities. (
Climate
v Franklin has no weather station
hence the figures given in this sec
tion are only approximate. They are
however, very careful estimates, made
from the available data and will be
found substantially correct.
Franklin and Macon county have
a unique and very fortunate location.
By reason of our southern latitude,
the winters are temperate, and by
reason of our altitude, high summer
temperatures do not prevail. High
'above humid sultry and less-favored
sections, isolation js intense during,
the day and radiation active at night
conductive to sound, restful sleep
'Close, oppressive periods so cbmmon
'during ' the summer months in many
portions of the country are absolute-
. ly unknown hare. i
There are no mosquitoes in Macon
county, no malaria, and no hot nights
Our midway situation between the
extreme cold of the north and the en
ervating heat of the ' south gives us
what is, ( without doubt, one of the
'best all-year" round climates in the
; world.
An Invitation
Franklin wants the summer tourist,
'.She offers an unsurpassed climate,
wonderful scenery, modern conveni
ences, varied amusements, and a big
iheartfelt WELCOME that is spelled
in Jarge capitals.
Sp
ecial Lenten Services
At St. Agnes Church
If you are keeping up with current
news, especially in religious circles,
you will see that most all denomina-
tions of the Christian religion observe
the season of Lent in some way or
other. The old idea, held by many
people that Lent was a time of the
year when certain so-called Chris
tians tried to behave themselves for
'the Lenten period and then let them
selves go all the rest of the year has
been discarded and more and morr
. Christian people all over the world
" are observing this period of six weeks
before Easter.
The services at St. Agnes church
will be as follows;
Wednesday afternoons at 3:30 chil
' drens' service with short talk on the
1 life of some great man. ;
Friday afternoons at 3 :30, the
' Litany and short address. .
Celebration of the Holy Commu
nionat 10:30 every day during Holy
Week except Good Friday.
The Three Hour Service from 12 to
3 on Good Friday. At this service the
ministers of the other churches will
; preach on some phase of the Cruci-
f.x:on. '- ... '
Easter services will be a celebra
tion of the Holy Communion at 8
o'clock, a Second celebration with
sermon at 11, and the children's serv
. ice at 3:30 in the afternoon.'
Yoti are cordially invited to all
these services and urged to attend
some of them. .
Oh! Ye John Thomas
Editor of Press;
Where is my pen and ink?' I want
to discuss the word "John Thomas,"
a name that rolls as a sweet morsel
under the tongue pf .every woman on
Ellijay. The mail line to Ellijay is
a Star Route and we sure have a
Star Rider on it.
"Isaac Keener, Charlie Crawford
Leslie Higdon, build a fire under them
wash pots, us women folks wants to
get out this (Washing early. John
Thomas will be along here with that
mail directly and us women want to
go to John Henry's store to get some
onion buttons. There! I hear John
Thomas' whistle. He is coming 1 You
men folks finish hanging these clothes
on the line, we've got to meet that
car.
While John is very attentive to his
passengers, there is no irregularity
about distributing' the. mail, except
one package an old woman mailed
sending her spectacles to have a new
temple put on. On the wrapper she
marked "Fraglie, Handle with Care."
John noticed the package and the
word "Fragile" and shook his head
saying, "Fragile, fragile, now that's a
new name for dynamite and the blame
package can stay in there, some of
these men want to kill' me." So the
poor old woman couldn't read her
Bible for two weeks.
I rode to town with John a few
days ago, in his buggy, and had the
opportunity to scrutinize his face to
see if the women on Ellijay were mis
taken in his good looks. After tak
ing a close look at his blue eyes, rosy
cheeks and pleasant smile, 1 decided
in favor of the women, but when I
stopped with him for dinner, and as
he sat at the head of the table and
dropped those eye brows down, with
his face close to his plate, I happened
to glance at his face as he asked that
blessing in a very low tone. That
face! That face. 1 1 I wish you could
have seen it. He accented the first
two or three words of the blessing,
slowing down to a low whisper, so
much so, that Mrs. Thomas and I
didn't know when he stopped. But
before going to dinner I asked Mr.
Thomas what he had to eat. He said
that Mrs. Thomas had ,had mumps
for the last two weeks and they had
nothing but "hot tongue." since, and
there wasn't a cat left on the place
Now, John, I'd rather disown my
children than to talk about my wife
in such a way, for everybody knows
that Ms. Thomas is one of the best
women in Macon county. But it's just
like Dan Carter said to me one day,
while we were talking, discussing
some of our friends, "That a real good
woman always gets a sorry man."
Talk about me being in the real es
tate business, after dinner was over
John took me' out and showed me, pn
his place, one of the most beautiful
wooded hills around Franklin, ' it is
one of the finest views overlooking
Lake Emory and the train coming in
on the T. F. railroad, with smoke
waving back for miles through the
Tennessee valley. Facing the west
you can see the Nantahala , moun
tains from Rabun Gap to the Smoky
Mountain park. Standing there he
said he wanted to sell me four acres
and hejd' make the terms so easy if I
would build a cottage there, and if I
failed to pay for it before I died, he
would make a. deed to Lula. I stud
ied a minute, it was a very attractive
proposition, but on second thought
I shook my head, I told him I'd try
to sell it for him. I put the proposi
tion . up to Isaac Keener, Charlie
Crawford and Leslie Higdon, but
they said they wouldn't have it as a
gracious gift unless John Thomas
was dead.
Well, I don't see how we 11 ever get
John Thomas off of this mail line un
less we can get him to run for sheriff
and get the Democrat party to let the
Republicans vote in the primary. In
that case, every woman in -Ellijay
township will vote for John as a mat
ter of course, and the men will vote
for him in self-defense because no--body
can ever get this mail route be
cause John Thomas will bid it down
to starvation price in order to con
tinue along this line. I would hate to
see Ellijay township go Democratic
which it has not done in fifty years
but anything now to get rid of this
mail rider.
Now John, in making this campaign
for sheriff, be sure to wear your, mail
uniform and have your shirt collar
unbottoned. It will be no expense
hiring cars to take the ladies to the
election, as they will wade through
mud. and cast their vote for you on
account of, your good looks. And I
will be your campaign manager up
here. , -
' With best wishes to the Press.
- T. B. HIGDON.
REAL ESTATE FIRM LIKED -DEVELOPMENTS
EDITION
Highlands, N. C, Feb. 10, 1926
Dear Major Harris: v
We duly received the two packages
of your special issue and greatly ap
preciate your sending them to us. It
is an excellent, issue to broadcast.
Thanking you for your considera
tion and with all good wishes for
your continued a and increasing suc
cess, we are, . ,
n Yours very truly,1
PIERSON & staub:
Forest Fires and Fertilizer
(By W. R. Mattoon, Washington.)
How much is the organic matter of
forest floor worth? As one of the
items of money loss by fire iii "the
woods we must include the loss of
humus, or, in the farmer's language,
vegetable matter. Do we have at our
finger tips information as to the value
of the organic or vegetable matter?
In his article on "The Conserva
tion of Fertilizer Materials From
Minor Sources," in the Agriculture
Yearbook for 1917, C, C. Fletcher, as
sociate chemist of the Bureau of
Soils, gives the percentage of . fertil
izer materials contained in oak leaves.
On this basis a ton of oak leaves con
tains: Nitrogen (or ammonia) (NH3) 16 lbs.
Phosphoric acid (P205) 7 lbs.
Potash (K20) - :-3 lbs.
Ill a recent telephone conversation
with the writer, Mr. Fletcher stated
that pine needles, or straw, contain
approximately the same amounts of
these materials as oak leaves. Based
upon the experience of the writer in
hauling away the yearly accumulation
of four oak trees growing in near-by
Maryland, it' is estimated that on an
acre two tons of leaves fall to the
ground yearly from a well stocked
oak stand. It is likely that pines shed
less, also the intolerant trees, such as
the ash, black walnut, and black lo
cust. The very tolerant beech is
known to have a very heavy foliage.
How much is the yearly crop of oak
leaves worth, per acre? Nitrogen,' or
ammonia, costs the farmer at whole
sale rates from 12 to 20 cents per
pound, phosphoric acid about 5 to 6
cents, and potash at its present very
low price about 5 to6 cents. Two tons
of oak leaves from one acre are
therefore worth for fertilizer:
Nitrogen, 16 lbs x 232 lbs. 15c
;.. $4.80
Phosphoric acid, 7 lbs. x 214 lbs (3)
S c. ,...:..... .....70
Potash, 3 lbs. x 2-6 lbs. Sc i.30
The yearly crop of oak leaves on
an acre is therefore worth $5.80 for
fertilizer.
In the burning of leaves it is known
that little or none of the phosphoric
acid or potash is lost, but remains in
the ashes. The vegetable matter
would, however, be a total loss. Al
lowing for some natural loss in the
nitrogen by leaching and volatiliza
tion, if the woods were not burned,
the figure of $5.80 given above should
probably be reduced to $4.50 or $4.00
per acre.
Four dollars probably represents
conservatively the monfcy value of
the fertilizing element that goes -up
in smoke and gas when a single year's
crop of oak leaves on one acre burns.
With an accumulation of 4 to 6 year's
of organic matter 'on the ground
undecomposed and decomposed and
on average value,, say of 3 (due to nat
ural loss in that time, a fire would
easily destroy a value of $12 to $15
an acre. This does not take into ac
count, the indirect damage resulting
from the removal of the spongy pro
tective soil covering with the conse
quent compacting of the soil and dam
aging erosion from run-off of rain
water on hillsides.
Extra Half-Inch of Milk
Would Add to Profits
An extra half-inch of milk in evprv
cow's milk pail at each milking woulc
add $3,750,000 to the profits of North
Carolina dairymen during the next 12
months, according to the Larrbwe In
stitute ot Animal Lconomics. .Better
feeding and care of the animals is
urged bv the Institute as the mpans
of , bringing this additional -sum of
money into the state this year and
every year. .,
The average cow in this state
gives around three inches of milk at
a milking," states the Institute. "At
the prevailing market price pf milk
the extra half-inch in the pail would
mean about 15 extra dollars in the
pocket of her owner. On the basis of
over 250,000 cows of milking age on
North Carolina farms,, this J should
mean $3,750,000 that may deavailable
ti' dairymen and to the. farm family.".
.s As an instance of what better care
and feeding will do for a dairy herd,
the Institute cites the cow-testing as
sociation records of 15 cows on the
Vallef Farm oL Smith and Preston,
at Conotton, O. Ten dollars a day
above their board is .what this group
paid the owners each day for a year
for the privilege of remaining on the
farm, or at the rate of $279.84 per cow
pe year. The herd ate from 2338
pounds to 3739 pounds per cow of
prepared,' balanced ration and pro
duced 1447 cans 'of milk of a total
value of $5,528.39. .This was $3,941.71
above the feed cost.
An outstanding example of what
good feed and treatment will do for
a cow is Sabina, one of the herd. In
one year's . time she , produced 11,599.9
pounds of milk containing 702,1
pounds of butte . The total value of
her production was $509.04, or $426.87
over the costs of her feed during the
12 months. ,
WOMEN. VOTERS TO MEET
The League of Women Voters .will
hold a regular meeting and tea at the
rectory on the afternoon f Thnrd.,,,
February 25, at 3:30 o'clock. The
sunjeci win De the Child Labor
Amendment. Several interesting talks
will be made and n'mrt'al Vinnr .
joyed. Don't fail to come out.
CANT DO WITHOUT IT
Murphy, N. C, Feb. 13 1926
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