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4tf 4 .. PAGE EIGHT uirzzzz, r?j.uzu:i, n. c. REPORT ON FARM WORK RECEIVED (Continued from page one) in the Department. Statistics At this point, he gave statistics .showing the acmitics of the Ik partment in its inspectional work in connection with fruits and vegetables. "For the calendar year of 1929," he said, "inspections have been made as follows; strawberries, 975 carloads and 182,000 packages; sweet potatoes, 176 carloads and 64,000 packages; Irish potatoes, 2,581 carloads and ''516.000 cackaces; peaches," 240 car loads and 88,000 packages; apples, 35 carloads and. 5,800 packages; peas, 13 carloads and 6,500 packages; huckle berries, 17 carloads and 3,924 pack ages; cucumbers 175 carloads and 87,500 packages, beans, 249 carloads and 144,500 packages. Other facts incident to the work of the , marketing division included a statement to the effect that 5,384,837 pounds of live poultry had - been marketed during the season for the farmers of North Carolina, in co-operation with county agents and .others. - Report on the Warehouse Division disclosed that there are now 51 li censed warehouses in the state sys tem, with a capacity of 166,000 bales of cotton. Last year there were 45 -warehouses, a capacity of 150,000 tales. There had been stored, up to December 1, 105,651 bales, as com pared with 83,210 bales last year. Official report was made of the de parture of Forester H. M. Curran for research work in the Philippines. Facts and figures in connection with work done to keep the .fruit fly out of North Carolina were disclosed in the report of the Division of Ento- mology. Further this Division's work in behalf of the protection of bulbs in North Carolina was given promi nent mention. . In the inspection work incident to the fight against the Mediterranean fruit fly it was shown that, during the past summer season, Department inspectors had examined 7,925 prem- . lses in 71 counties of the state. Of these, 1,243 were commercial and 6, 682 residential properties. A total of 10,096 crates of oranges and 5,464 crates of grapefruit were examined, as well as 591,039 fruit trees. A to tal of 235 lots of specimens suspected of being fruit flies or their maggots were examined by the Department. Eiuhtv crates of citrus fruits were ordered returned to Virginia during October and 37 shipments, found dur ing November, were cither ordered de stroved or returned to Virginia. Commissioner Graham then went in to details as to the work done by the Division of Botany, the Food and Oil Division, the Analytical Division, the Drainage Division, the State Mu sewn, the Statistical Division, the Division of Publications, the Veten nary Division, the Weights and Meas ures Division, and the Savings and Loan Associations. ' that she gave Bill Scruggs , for sup per. BASKETBALL PRACTICE TO START THIS WEEK (Continued from page one) the practice sessions ate well under way. Among those who are expected to make strong bids for places on the team are Sutton, Freeman, Wilk es, McCollum, Houser, and Dalrymplc. The first game is scheduled to be played with the Rabun Gap-Nacoo-chee school here on December 19. Patrolman Mack Franks, - stations: J in Rutherfordton county on the state police force, was in Franklin last week on a visit home and for the purpose of attending to matters in connection with his work. DAUGHTER BEING HELD -i IN COUNTY JAIL . (Continued from page one) inc at Doc Scruggs, defended him self by saying that Doc was drunk and after him with a knife. Parnsh is a native of Clayton, Ga., where he is said to be wanted n charges the nature of which were n3t learn ed. He had been boarding in the Mashburn Branch community. The stomachs of Bill Scruggs and of the dog were removed and sent to Raleigh to determine whether the deaths were the result of strychnine poisoning. Meanwhile, Minnie Scruggs and Parrish are being held in the county jail; Burgess, and Doc Scruggs are being held on the liquor counts. On Monday of this week, Minnie Scruggs admitted purchasing strych nine from Perry's Drue store. She still asserts, however, that she did not administer the poison. She gave it to Parrish, she said, who was, as she thought, going to use it to kill some dogs in the community. Par rish she admits was in the Scrugg's kitchen on the day Bill Scruggs died, He maintins his innocence, however. 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