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PACE TWO THZ raAN'XLlH PRESS THURSDAY, MAP. CM !. Helpful Hint: For Farmers EARLY SWEET POTATOES For an early crop of sweet po tatoes, I he seed should be bedded about six weeks before the average date of the last killing frost. This means thai the plant bed must be prepared and the seed put in six weeks before plants are needed for setting in the field. E. H. Morrow, extension horti culturist at State Collide, says I he best way to net good, plants for setting is to grow them on the home farm. He also says that every family this year, should have at. least one or two acres of sweet potatoes. The. medium sized, disease-free seed stock make the best bedding potatoes, though the small er ones may be used if obtaaincd from good parent stock. About eight bushels of seed are required to produce enough seed to set out an acre at the first pulling. Those who do not want the en tire crop to come early, 'may bed only four bushels and make suc cessive plantings from time to time. Mr. Morrow advocates the old-fashioned manure heated hot bed for farm use. Commercial plant growers use steam, hot wa ter or flues to hint their beds but this is not necessary for a small farm acreage. Space seed potatoes about one inch , apart over, the sand and manure after the soil temperature has dropped from the first heating period caused by the fresh manure. If spaced too closely, the plants will be spindling and weak. Cov er the seed with two or more in ches (( sandy soil and wet the bed thoroughly. It will be necessary to make a plank frame about the bed and cover it with glass or muslin cloth until frost danger is over. The wise potato grower usually treats his seed with a solution made of one ounce df bichloride of mercury to eight, gallons of water to kill any spores of disease germs. The potatoes are soaked in this solution for 15 minutes, placed immediately in the bed and covered with the soil after drying. both unless you can keep thcin well Separated. FOR HEALTHY PICS 1'lati to raise young pigs free from roundworms by following the system of swine sanitation develop ed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Write to the Depart ment for Leaflet 5-1.. It gives the details. Also avoid trouble with flies in summer by plowing under straw ami manure. CURE FOR CULLIES It is possible to prevent the for mation of destructive and wasteful gullies in any region in the South where Bermuda grass will grow. When planted ill newly formed' or even in old and large gullies, it catches the washed-down soil, holds it in place, and stops the gullies. Planting this, grass in newly formed gullies will soon smooth' them off. Bermuda i.'rass will also protect levees from washing. This grass grows well on almost any soil which is fertile and not too wet. but it does better on heavy soils. FARMERS INCREASING Last year, for the first time in at least ten years, the farm popula tion of the country increased in stead of diminishing. RALEIGH, March 4.-Thc 26,- 6te rural buys and girls enrolled in the 4-H clubs organized and conducted by extension workers of State college, played a coniinend- ible share in improving acre yields of food and feed crops and in handling livestock for better' profits last year. L. R. JIarrill, state club leader, says lor example, that there were 1,161 club members with corn pro jects. Of this number 1,001 mem bers completed their work and made reports. These boys and girls grew 1203 acres of com pro- luring 49,167 bushels or an aver- 11 f JStJt ige yield oi tv.t Dusneis an acre and compared to the 20.9 average acre yield for the state as a whole. The average yield of wheal grown by 29 club members was 16.8 bushels compared with a state iveragc of 12.5 bushels an acre. The average yield per acre of Irish potatoes grown by 127 mem bers reporting was 141 bushels as compared with the state average of MORE VETERINARIANS NEEDED One type of professional man at least, the veterinarian, is not find ing his field overcrowded today, in the .opinion of Dr. J. K. M older, chief of the Bureau of Animal In dustry, United States Department of Agriculture. Doctor Mohler says the field is not likely to be overcrowded for some time because there arc fewer students in veteri narycolleges than formerly and be cause the field is expanding. One of the most promising opportunities for the veterinarian is in the field of parasitology. Parasites, he says, are present in most animals almost everywhere at all times. Thus the veterinary parasitologist has a broad .field when he treats only our common domestic animals and fowls, but his future field will be very much broader than this. ANNOUNCE CORN CONTEST A state-wide coin growing con test open to all regularly enrolled 4-H club members' of North Caro lina will be conducted this year with cash prizes amounting to $350 offered through the agricultural ex tension service of State College by the Chilean Nitrate of Soda Edu cational Bureau. The contest will be in charge of L. R. Harrill, state club leader, and will be conducted in each of the four extension districts. Dis trict prizes of $35, $20, $15, $10 and $17.50 are offered for first, sec ond, third, fourth and fifth places respectively. In addition, the Chi! can Nitrate Rurcau will award a gold medal for the highest yield produced in. the State with a silver medal for second state prize and a bronze medal for third plan Under the rules of the contest, each contestant will enter one acre W corn by June 15. The acre must be designated and approved by the county farm agent and will be grown according to his advice and suggestion. At least 50 con testants must be entered ffom the extension district before prizes for that district will be awarded says Mr. Harrill. If there are less than 50 contestants in a district, only the highest records will be eligible to compete ill the state awards and no district prizes will be given in that district. In addition to growing the corn according to .recommendations of the county agent, a complete rec ord must be kept on the acre and this filed with the county agent TO GET RID OF GARLIC ine plowing ot tillable and in late fall and again in early spring, immediately followed by the grow ing of a thoroughly cultivated row crop, will control , wild garlic, t . . troublesome weed in small-gram fields and in pastures. This method Usually must be followed for three years to clean up most, of the garlic. Garlicky wheat produce garlic-tainted bread, and milk from cows that graze on garlic-infeste pastures is. tainted. DON'T MIX 'EM Turkeys convey tapeworms t( chickens, and " chickens convej Dlackliead to turkeys. lion t raise Funeral Directors And Embalmers v W are prepared to render ' prompt, courteous and respectful service in ' , the hour of need. ORDERS FOR FLOWERS HANDLED Ambulance Service BRYANT Furniture Company Day Phone ' Night Phone ICS . 6205 COOPERATE AND SAVE Edgecombe county farmers saved about $1,(XK) through cooperative purchase of lespedeza seed. One hundred farmers pooled their or ders. - PITY THIS FARRMER Because of hail damage last sum mer in Wayne county, one farmer sold actually $150 worth of produce from the 150 acres, of land he had in cultivation. About 2o growers have made applications for govern ment loans due to this hail damage MELON GROWERS COOPERATE Hoke county farmers, will plant about 1200 acres to watermelons this year and will market the crop through a local produce association recently organized. 4-H. Clubs Over Slate Improving Farm Yields 93. The average acre yield of sweet potatoes grown by 79 club members reporting was 159 bushels an acre as compared with the state average of 97 bushels. With cot ton, 322 club members produced an average yield of 675 pounds of lint an acre as compared with an aver age for the state last year of 233 pounds. Mi. Harrill is especially pleased with the increased interest in the livestock clubs. He says 1040 club members were . enrolled in dairy calf work last year with 802 mem bers completing their projects. These boys and girls had 802 ani mals. There were also 1200 club members enrolled in the pig project and , 806 reported though it was impossible to get A complete record of all pigs handled. However, 27 club members reported on their sheep projects showing 130 animals handled. With poultry, 1,276 members out of 2,228 members en rolled, reported on their projects showing 43,783 birds handled. if BAPTISTS HEAR J. A. FLANAGAN JOHN B. RAMSEY Rev. Dr. W. E. Aberhethy Leaves; Church Is Without Pastor DEATH CLAIMS Funeral for Well Known ' Macon Resident Held At Iotla Church POULTRY BLOOD-TESTED Poultrymen of tturkc county had 1,441 hens blood-tested to be used for breeding purposes. The flocks have also been rigidly culled. Dr. W. E. Abernethy, former pas tor of the Baptist church, left for Rutherford College, in Burke coun ty, last Sunday mornng. It is hoped, however, the church will not be without a pastor very long. riicrc was no' preaching at the church Sunday morning, but Dr. Abernethy, before he left, invited the Rev. J. A, Flanagan, pastor of the Presbyterian church, to preach Sunday night, which he did, using as a text, Mark, 14-8, "She hath done what she could." Subject : "Our Best for Christ." He stressed the fact that we should do what we can for the Master. Johnnie Rogers, general super intendent of all the B. Y. P, U. organizations of the church, re ports that 78 per cent of the en rollment attended Sunday nighj, and that there was general im provement irt attendance and work in all the departments of the or ganization. He also announced that there would be a social galh erig at the home of Mr. and Mrs. tirover Jamison's Friday night. The Rev. G. Clifton Ervin, pas tor of hte Methodist church, upon invitation, conducted prayer meet ing at the Baptist church Wed nesday night a week ago. The B. Y. P. U. will give a pro gram at the church next Sunday night at 8 o'clock, and invites all who will to conic out, and by their presence, encourage them .in their work. , Funeral services for John B Ramsey, 68, of Iotla, were held last" Thursday afternoon at the Iotla Baptist church, of which he was a devoted member. The Rev W. L. Bradley, of Oak Grove, and the Rev. A. S. Solesbec, of Iotla, conducted the rites. Interment was in the church cemetery. Mr. Ramsey left here a few weeks ago for Coeburn, Va., for a visit with his children there. He was taken suddenly ill and only lived a few hours. A heart attack was the cause of his death. He was at the home of his son, Ros coe Ramsey, in Blackey, Va. -lr. Kamscy, having hveu on Iotla the most of his life, had many friends in Macon county He is survived by his widow and eight children: Charlie, of Bristol, Va. ; Vance, of Coeburn, Va. ; John and Ted, of Hurley, Va. ; Roscoc, of Blackey, Va.; Harry, of Red Jacket, West Va.; Mrs. J. A Campbell, of Marshall, N. C. ; an Mrs. Wade II. Moody, of Detroit Mich.: one brother, Sam Ramsey of Tellico; and two sisters, Mrs Ivalce Hurst, and a Mrs. Jacobs in the state of Washington; sever al grand-children and other rel atives. COUiJTY ROAD III IJ. CLIPPED Survey Shows Counties Maintain 45,030 Highway Miles -1 (Special to The Franklin Press) WASHINGTON, March 4.-The first complete atlas showing county roads in North Carolina has just cen completed by the State High- way Commission, the lsureau 01 'ublic Roads, U. S. Department of Agriculture! has announced. The maps were compiled atlcr a sur vey of county roads and the fi nancial operations of local road authorities in which the State High way and Tax Commissions and the bureau cooperated at the request of Governon O. Max Gardner. hey are made on a scale of one inch per mile, and are perhaps the irst complete county road maps for any State in the country. There are in all 100 maps, one for each county. The maps can not be classed as true survey charts but they never theless show accurately the eola tion of all the roads; They also disclose a wide discrepancy be tween the 65,311 miles estimated as the total county road mileage by county officials in 1926 and the 45,090 miles actually counted in the survey. However, 2,645 miles of county roads were transferred to the state highway system lit the four-year period, leaving air actual discrepancy of more than 17,500 miles. The survey was begun about August 1 ; field work was finished October; and the maps were completed in less than six months. THE PASTOR SAYS Isaiah might have put it this way: "They shall beat their plow shares into swords, ami their prun-ing-hooks into spears, neither shall they cease to learn war any, in or der that nation may be scared too stiff to lift up sword against na tion." John Andrew Holmes. Improvements at W. C. T. College CULLOWIIEE, March 4. Im provements are being made on the grounds surrounding the new Reu ben Robertson Hall at Western Carolina Teachers college. Grounds have been prepared for sewing grass seed, new tennis courts are being ' made, and' preparation is being completed preparatory to building a new -driveway that will lie back of the dormitory. The BEST Gray Hair Remedy is Dome F.b!e To half pint of water add one ounce bay rum, asmall box of Barbo Compound and one-fourth ounce of glycerine. Any druggist can put this up or you can mix it at home at very little' cost. Apply to the hair twice a week until the desired shade is ob tained. It will gradually darken streaked, faded or gray hair and make it soft and glossy. 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TO NAME NEW OFFICERS AT MEETING FRIDAY There will be an important meet ing of the Parent-Teachers as sociation at the school house Fri day afternoon, March 6, at 3:30 o'clock. All members are urged to be present," as this will be the time for the election of officers for the ensujng year. Mrs. R. Jones' class in expression will en tertain the members of the associa liou. . ADVERTISE IN THE PRESS FOR RESULTS! Allen & Jamison Insurance PHONE S9 Franklin, N. C r - " - VI I v.; if ' ! 'i ' if ' ('I I mm a j ' k '' BEST SELLING NOVEL NOW PUT INTO TALKIES "Passion Flower," a thrilling icx triangle talkie produced by M-G-M from Kathleen Norris best selling novel, will be shown at the Macon theatre next Monday and Tuesday. In the cast of the picture are numbered such famous screen per sonalities as Kay Francis, Kay Johnson, Lewis Stone, Charles Bickford, Zasu Pitts. Frankly, "PASSION FLOWEjR" is not ' recommended for the im mature mind. 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