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;y.ge TWO TOE FRANKLIN PRESS, FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, "CIVILIZATION BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE PLOW" THINGS TO PLAN TO THROUGHOUT COMING YEAR The .Farmers' Day at the test farm at Swannanoa on May 17, 1928. Poultry loading depot with facili ties for grading eggs. An annual poultry show. Monthly livestock sales. .' Farmers' own line of delivery trucks. ' y Purebred sires and seeds. . Guernsey cattle association. . A semi-annual seed exchange day. , A Harvest Carnival one day of the bread and butter show. Just About the Farm FALL VEGETABLE GARDEN Its my gucSs that the folks that 1 are putting in a fall garden in Macon county could be counted on the fing ers of one hand. , . There is as much profit and kick ' in a fall garden as there is in a spring garden. ' The following vegetables, if plant ed at once will pay well for the time and. effort; cabbage, kale, carrots, on ions, spinach, raddish, and turnips. Plant these on good rich soil and work them well and see if there is not a whole lot . of good come from the effort. ..-. Be sure to sow some winter cover crop on all the garden that you do not put in to fall vegetables. It pays. . . . POULTRY What has happened to our poultry in this county? Its mighty hard to find a farm flock of good well de veloped hens that arc laying or .arc are ready to go into lay. Arid the lice and mights are something awful. Went to a certain place day before yesterday on' a hurry call thatj-"All round worms and tape worms not just a few, scads of them. Then the lice were so thick that they were walking over each other hunting bet .tcr places to feed on. Mites were actually on the hens in the day time. Both mites and lice were so thick that they had crawled up the nose and were in all the passages' of . the head and in the canity above the brain. Lice and mites get their mois ture from the secretions of the no.,-.. They came down for this and foir.i.i that there were so many others look ing for the same thing that they had to go on up inside to get a suf ficiency. .'. Yet one continually hcavs tru- r- from certin sources which are, of course, painfully in the minority, "Book larnin' in fi'.vr'.i,'.' ain't n good no how." t t - - The follow'ii)'.; ti'''' " "ci ibi 1 . -1 to use for liro: . Mi-.v o.rie ounce of Sodium Flouride w'uh iwo ounces of flour, and dust ail fouls -thoroughly. ' .; . Repeat the -abm i-l-Liivo. r th::ei' days three or ftr; ' hv.es to be sir of a good job. x . i i . : . i. ' ror mixes, wmen siay in me roosts in tnc oay time, -get ;;i!lon of nil that has been (iraiiicu trom your, mo tor car and mix it with a gallon of kerosene and spray every crack and corner of the heii house. Repeat this in a week to be sure that a good job is done. Of course the man that has his chickens roosting in trees will just have to go on raising food for lice and mitcs. There is no help for him any way. -ft . BABY CHICKS Right . now is ,. the. time to .begin planning to get a c-ple of hundred baby chicks the very earliest possible , in the spring. To briner our farm flocks up to anything like standard it will take fifty thousand chicks this spuing, v A mighty god way to. do this would be to order at the same time and in one lot. ' There are several advantages in tvv One is that we would have a nv -e uniform lot of fryers to sell in t'.-c spring' and they would be coming n at the same time. Another advantu ve is that we would get them in in bet ter shape. They might be broHglU in from near by hatcheries in trucks thereby keeping them on the road a shorter time. t. HOGS AH indications - point toward hoj prices being good for some time. It will pay every, one having;, pigs : to feed them out as fast as they can and get them on the market. CONSULT YOUR KEEP YOUR FARM AND IT WILL KEEP .v j. :i . c pounds. l!:an vvti-h two Jr.indrul Thi spring ' market . out loVk is as V'oo.l ."; the fall out -look. Yonnj.' j,ij!;s just a 'lay or more old v.ow. cun be got on the March market in yovj shape and at agood profit. It takes minerals and tankage l' izei the best out of all. other feed I lint is fed to hogs. The Hick farmvr knows better, of course. DAIRY CATTLE We are getting renewed inquiries for dairy cows and heifers. There are enough listed to make a car load and we are - writing the prospective buyers to that effect. If there is any one that has some for sale, that would like to see the buyers when, and if i they come, please let your county 'agent know as soon as you can. Have you got that winter pasture in for the cattle this winter ?y If not why not. It will pay in more ways than one. The super farmer knows this. Are your cows going to have a fair chance this winter or are they going to have poor housing, just any old feed and then a bounteous amount of cussing next spring not only f.ir not giving milk, but for getting sick, as well? --' BREAD AND BUTTER SHOW There is a great deal of interest being shown in this. We are planning a local talent carn ival along with it arid a good time for everybody. The ultimate success of the whole thing will depend on the good people of the county. The people of Franklin have been very generous in their support of the show and all are anxious to do more if it is needed and the farmers show their interest by showing their stuff and taking, an active part in the show. . The catalogues will be out this week I , u c,va ur- M(-'n nn,i every one. c ; Please be ' sure and advise the county agent right away what yon will have to show so that you will not be neglected. We wish to dr. the best for every one and can only do this when wc know what each one needs. Macon county, the land of super farmers that think maybe. LYLF.S HARRIS, County Agent. TOADS TAKE NIGHT SHIFT WITH BIRDS AGAINST INSECTS Many farmers rccqguize birds as a . i valuable ally in. the warfare against insect pests, but few know that when the birds cease theiri daylight ac tivities the battle is taken up by an other important ally the toau. Mealtime with "toads- often begins before sunset and continues through out " a "greater part of the night, ac cording to the Biological Survey of I lie United States Department of Ag riculture. Although loads, like birds, devour some beneficial insects, they more than compensate for such in- disrriuiinate teediuir bv eatinc ter . . . . . . ' . . mitcs, beetle larvae with mjurous or potentially injurious habits, plant-suck ing bugs, voracious caterpillars, and other noxious insects. Abnormal in festations of extremely destructive weevils are , frequently reduced by toads,; and they render a useful serv ice in feeding on adult click beetles, which if allowed to 'propagate would add to live number of wircworms feed- ing on valuable crops. Lcat cnaters, which destroy blossoms and defoliate orchard treej. are frequently taken priate for the ninth month. Many by loads as Weir as the; white grubs' of them onths have undergone changes of Mav beetles, which are such pests in the number of their days, but Scp in lawns, meadows, and cultivated tember has always had thirty days fields. Under certain conditions in green houses, gardens, fields, of small grain or forage crops, and on golf courses toads perform visibly, effective serv ice. In any of these situations nox ious insects and other invertebrates ares ure to, predominate; hence the; bulk of the toads food consists ot iniurious forms. Toads have managed to survive thus far in sp'f" of their unattuactiveness and the absurd superstitions and be liefs .associated with them. . As the country has become more densely settled, however, toads have had 1o face new dangers from man's in ventions, such as the automobile, the mower and binder, and other farm machinery, threat numbers ot toarts anvthing of that sort and jtist drop migrating, across highways are de- fpc , in , t0 ?ee what was going on. strove! eacn year Dy auiomoones, aim the sewer systems of large cities have long taken an annual toll. An active" interest in the conserva tion of toads must be taken, says the Biological Survey, if these useful an imals are o escape extermination by she draining of their breeding places. by the burning over of fields and COUNTY AGENT AS YOU WOULD YOUR DOCTOR OR The farm pages of The Press are edited by the county agen in col laboration with the editor. woods, ' and by other perils of their present-day environment. Barley should be more widely used as a stock feed, not lioly on account of its high yield per acre but also because of its nutritive value, says the United States Department pf Ag riculture. The only feed crop that can be compared readily with barley in farm economy is oats. Barley pro duces more pounds to the acre than oats and has a higher percentage of digestible nutrients. Sdccessin feed ing barley depends somewhat upon how it is fed. Barley " fed whole is too coarse for best results, "and if fed too finely gsound is pasty and un palatable. The best way of preparing it for livestock is to have it coarse ground or rolled, the latter way of oreparation being " common in the West. IT PAYS TO FERTILIZE A FERTILIZING CROP Green manuring is a practice grow ing in favor among good farmers, even in the Central and Northern States, although because of mild win ters it is of greater present impor tance in the South. Farmers realize that this is an excellent method for increasing the fertility of their crop lands. However, the fact that this is a method of soil imiprovement and fertilization sometimes, leads farmers to try the practice under conditions in which it can not be successful. The object in' growing a green manure crop, according to forage cop specialists of the : United States De partment of Agriculture, is to produce especially , on . noor soil as much ma terial as possible to turn under. On very poor soils it frequently happens that even the strongest feeders can make but a poor growth, and con sequently Me benefit from the cron is. decreased, liven cowpeas will some times make only a poor growth unless the .plants are stimulated bv an ar- III 1CIHI t l A . VV licil a UKUiui. i.t When a legume is gather its own nitrogen; but an ap plication of phosphorus and potash often increases the crop greatly and thus enable the plants to gather more nitroeen. The nhosnhon's and not- ash that may be applied for the ben-j efit of the ereen-manure cm" are nt wasted eilher, as they will all be avail able for the next crop when the green-manure croD decays. What fr- .lilizer to use and how much will do-1 nend oil the soil and on the cro- . - but generally 3(X) to 4(X) pounds tf 1 per cent U c im..c . nounds of muriate ot notasn per acrci l'"""."8 V ... .. .i will be found to stimulate the growth of the green-manure so as to pro-. luce a larger cop man romu p -vi- neen grown witnotu ine xeriiiizcr. tut larger cron. if a lecume. will gathr- more nitrogen than a small one could, and the soil will receive correspond ingly greater, benefit. Tt is also goo-' pracuee o app.y "-"' v v heavy rains would have leached it out particularly poor spots so as to i en- my courage a good growth , and T would have barren stalks and nub- the field up to a more uniform pro-1 . ductiveness. 1 'i "find that practically all , of our , . wide-awake , farmers feel the need of O sweet September, thy breezes bring, a county demonstrator. I meet a few The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel s j omers who still seem to think that laughter, . .. -, an almanac is all that is needed. The cool fresh air whence health and r wjsh, Mr. Editor, to congratulate vigor spring, " . ! vou for "your success in" making our And promise of exceeding, joy here-. county paper the best weekly . agricul zfter. a ' ii ' tura' PaPer have ever seen, The George Arnold, people of Macon county have a right . to be proud of their paper and can THE EQUINOX MONTH ! with pride send it out into the world The year once began in March, and j to absent friends. For more than a then September was the seventh quarter of a century I have wandered month. The calendar change that widely and my interest in agriculture! made January the first month rcn dered the name September inappro- since the old Roman, times On September 22 the sun enters '.the constellation Libra, and passes to the south of the equator, thus producing the autumnal equinox, a period us- f ually followed by storm weather. Harbison Expresses Views Highlands, N. C, Sept. 17, 1928. F.ditor Franklin Press; There was a gathering of Macon county citizens called a Republican oounty convention at Franklin which I attended last Saturday afternoon. It was a very orderly meeting and it reminded rile of an old time coun try Sunday school, but there were no ladies present. I Was no delegate nr Jt was the most democratic conven tion 1 ever saw or heard of. I am a great believer in democracy as long as the word is written with a small d, but when the canital ' 1) is use ! I Jight shy and thmk of what Pat rick Henry said: "You can trust the people, but you cannot trust the pol- iticians." . At' this meeting any one YOU AND YOURS who cared to do so could nominate any one for any office and after all nominations were made--a hat was passed around to 'collect the ballots. This ws a good object lesson n pure democracy. This is a fair ami inexpensive way to .get the sentiment, of the people, but it would be hard on the fellow who counts largely on absentee ballots for . his election. . I was told that through the cour tesy of some of the Democrats a good many Republicans were permitted to vote in the Dernocratic' primary, and this may be the reason or one of the reasons why some Republicans felt like nominating a few Democrats to run on the Republican ticket! As a final outcome of Jhis meeting one Democrat and two Republicans were nominated ' for the office of county commissioner. A number of the Re publicans -"present were in favor of placing two Democrats on the Re publican ticket for this office. There is a nigger in the wood-pile some where and he should be smoked out before the election in November. On the street T found quite a num ber of itj'zcns who seem to be afraid that we may lose the county demon strator. One man plainly told me that he did not think that we, meaning Macon county farmers, need a county demonstrator. If we do not " need a demonstrator, what is it that wc' do need? .We certainly need something. I lately made a trip of 175 miles to inspect crops and orchards. Corn on the hills is practically ..nothing' and that on the bottoms not much better. Apples with few exceptions are badly scabbed and blotched. , The weathp gets' thc entire blame. I met only one man who blamed himself. He is a college graduate and a man of long and varied experience in farming "d orcharding. He knows1 where he miss ed it and is not ashamed to own up to it One of niv neighbors, Andrew Pickjesimer. after observing the corn from- Highlands tn". F-"klin looked over the corn of the writer to make a careful comparison and decided that but one field between here and .Frank lin was nearly as good ?s my f,orn on , ... . . , T 1 tivatecrin thc lasuaf way. it iook-u exactly , like what ' we saw on the 'inlands between here and Franklin. Then I showed him a plot that was cultivated according to the suggestion made at the beginning of the wet season by our agronomist at Raleigh ?.s well as lay Mr. Harris, our demon strator, and Mr. Picklesimer remarked that this is as good as one finds in x . wuu uw j: A ...L J i -- r tx fit a rt irinn rvr ma i i n '"Y. .J!:.: IU HMISIUC1 dllUll W11C1I mill is badly .in need of a demonstrator. T , . rnrn t hv0 . v " . , nn whrrp to raisp anv exeent he- no where to raise anv except be tween rows of apple trees and inake no effort to raise heavy yields. Tn fact, I do not want to crop heavily in my orchard. I will not make quite as much to the acre as I did last i-ear, but it will not cost as much pe bushel. I saved on fertilizer. I saved on labor. Had I used fertilizer the and horticulture, has naturally drawn me to centers where these subjects arc stressed and I have naturally visited many county demonstrator's offices. T saw ours for the first time last Saturday. It-is the best I have cvr seen. No need to tell me that the one who fitted' out that office Has traveled widely and has seen m-'ch. It reminded nae of a Danish, Swedish, of Dutch office. Pei-haps it is too soon to sav anything about Germany. but they! too, aro systematic. We must keep that office. We have a right to be proud of it. ' is r rood advertisement for Frrmallin aid V v- con county. How I wish I cpu'tl drop in frequently. A live county wcekb' vith p agri cultural deuartment, independent . n politics that" is the Jh'mr. Keexi it up. T. G. HARliTSON. Miss Annie Sile- '-omnlimented Mrs, E. G. Bidwell last Wednesday afternoon with n bridge parry. Two tables were assembled for play, Mrs. Bidwell played high and was present ed with a yr'w.c: The honored guest also received a lovely gift. A salad course was served. Harry McCorrcl! left''' Thursday -to reenter Christ School at Aden. H--rv is- th son of -M-. afid Mrs, AV. W. McConncIl. THINGS TO PLAN FOR RIGHT NOW That cream check every two weeks. i That cannery check every time you come to town. Fat hog sale in June. . Bread and Butter Show next fall. Encourage the 4-H Clubbers. I Big Farmers' day next fall. Local Curb Market. Breed sows so that the pigs will gq on the market in March, April, August and September. ' WANT ADS 5c per Line for Each Insertion No Want Ad taken for less than the price of five lines 25 cents WANTED Good fat ; cattle, good sheep, also corn fed hogs off the pole, 100 to 175 lbs. Spot cash paid Essig Market. tf SYRUP BUCKETS 9c-No. .10 (Gal.) . syrup buckets,- strong and heavy, $9.00 hundred any quantity. No. 5 (1-2 Gal.) 6 l-2c. FRANK II. SHIRLEY, Westminister, S. C. : JtS20 BARGAIN FOR SALE One 3 eye , Hot Point electric- stove for sale. Biggest bargain ever offered. D. G. Stewart, City. tf WANTED Three men with car that want job, not position. Will pay good salary while learning. Write JACK, care Franklin Press. p4t011 WANTED FOR MACON COUNTY r Are you making $40 to $150 weekly? Dealers starting near you without ex- . your own car or team and wagon and do business on bur capital. No lay offspermanent business for farmers, laborers, salesmen and others. White men write today for Whitmer's "Every-day-pay-day-plan" for you. THE H. C. WHITMER COMPANY, Columbus, Tndiana, Dept. K-339-I. p4t011 FOUND In mine shaft cast of River; side one black and tan hound dog. Owner can get dog at my home by paying for this ad. J. S. GRAY, pit FOR RENT Furnished or unfurnish ed a five-room house on Georgia road near city limits. Water and lights. Miss Lassie Kelly. It ' . . ; FOR RENT or SALE House and lot on River View St., hot and cold water, bath, six rpoms, two grates, porches, fine view, on paved street, near Angel Bros. Hospital. Good garage, and garden, etc. J. M. MOORE. Phone 78. ; tf FOR SALE-Fifty acre tract of land at head of Coweta Creek, cabin, orchard, good springs, fishing. Suit able for small farm or camp. Three miles from concrete. See Charlie Mc Clure or w-ritc the Rev. E. J. Pipes, Golden, Colo. It W. P. Peek of Gneiss, has gone to Maggie, N. C, to take a job with a lumber company. Miss Louise Stribling has entered Rabun Gap-Nachoochee school. Mr. and Mrs. Awtrey Mot, and two sons of Atlanta, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stribling. Mrs. Belle Bowers and daughter, M iss Helen, returned to )ecatur, III, last week after a visit Mr. and Mrs. W. W. McConnell. I Mrs. Mar tha MeLoud wtnt homeK with her daugherr, Mrs, Bowers. I Nr. and Mrs. J. S. Gray ind chil dren spent the. week end visiting Mr. Gray's sister, Mrs. E. G. Fergaison of Marion, N. C, Mrs. R. L. Crook of Biltmore, N. C, and Mrs. ' James Mcdford.rtf Waynesville. i Mr. Orlandw Awtrey of Acworth, (ia., defeated two opponents iin the recent primary for representative of Cobb county Georgia. Mr. Awltrev is a brother of Judge John Awtrey of Iranklin. , Mrs; J. A. Cook entertained the Wednesday Afternoon club with ljhree tables in play. The house was beau tifully decorated in fall flowers. ' Mrs. Emory Hunnicutt won , high scpre prize and Miss Nora- Moody ut consolation. After the games delicious refreshments were served, f YOUR LAWYER ! r o -I V li 01 -
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