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' Consolidated with The lar'tnege Blade j»d. ANNUAL DEWBERRY SPECIAL OF I] jn^Urr tt it* Library F1U \lt WowUJINC -ANp uEVELl.r-«l?NT w MOLnc COu.rTY Jifc.rdfc.jC>£.*.&*»■, ■»; .«>■ ■ ' V -• ** •_ . _ '\ 1 he Blade eitaoluoed 1S75» The .newt Feo., id05 “VOL. XIX. NO. 13. T CARTHAGE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1923. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE FAMOUS DEWBERRY County Agent Gives a Record of its Strug gles and Achievements also of How to . Successfully Grow Them in Sandhills <By M. W. Wall, County Agent) I will endeavor to discuss the grow ing of dewberries ip Moore county as given out by1 some of the leading dewberry fanners of this section to gether with my personal observations. ' There has been much said in recent years concerning the culture of dew brries and this article will serve as a guide to those who may be interested in the future ,as k is the4best inf orma? tion we hfive^cdncernihg the crop. The soil bast, suited ^o this crop is the Norfolk sand-and the Hoffman sandy loam, which we usually clas sify as the sandy or sanciy-loam soil. In'beginning the crop the land should be in a good state of cultivation. Of ?*t|ie several varietea of dewberries the one most commonly used in this sec tion is the Lucretia, which sells on the '•market as a large * Size ^commercial ■i blackberry. It is very superior to the 1 blackberry in flavor, carries well and demands a Very good price. This va riety has been successfully grown in Moore county since 1890. The plants are usually set in March, although can be set in fall. A crop is not realized until the following year. The plants should be set . in tt>«n five feet wide and in the drill ' five feet apart. ,This making: a check \ of live fept square. After growth be gins the land should be barred off about eight inches'from the plant; then barred cross-wisemaldng a little _:jq«ar*„a*ound. the plant. Jf possible about, a handful of^ staple' manure * a&Stfld be applied to each hill or, a heavy application of cotton seed meal. ^Remember now that this staple ma ,nure is applied only the first year in the* spring and in the fall of the fol lowing years, if available, as results have proven that where staple ma nure is applied after the first year, in the spring, the berries do not ship well. After the fertilizer or' manure is'applied then back furrow with turn plow to cover fertilizer. Flat culti vate across beds during the year using hor other crop in intertilling. How ever, some of the growers have used cow peas planted abroad-cast at last' cultivation. Care should be taken to turn vines until the growth becomes so long that it is not practical. . ..'Don’t cut new plants first yearr allowing them to run during the fall and winter and then stake in Febru ary, 4>ing a good substantial stake ■ abdut six feet long,'driving twelve or eighteen inches in ground. Some ■ «f ths planters use wire stretched over the plants and allowing the plants to ’ be tied up to this. But practice has J * proven that the Stakes are really bet ter. It usually requires about 1750 stakes, when placed five feet each way iter acre.' Wrap vines four or - five thhSs around the stake up to the top 3$yd then clip the vines back at the tdp. of the stake. It usually requires abott two tyi^gs'to the stake. > The culivationwill have to be done very short qingleHtoes^ care be ing ..taken, to strike v the vines.or pp you should master in the sandjbdl stakes, ’. After the vines havp been tiedUup you should then bar off one , way,then cross-bar off using about four furrows to the middle. This .will practically "clear the field of any . weeds er grass that pccpmnlata$, dur ing the early spring. ■ ■ ■ <v.'- <* , ■ : > It in suggested that a fertiliser an* alysingabOut 6 per cent. Phosphoric • Acid, 2 per cent. Ammonia and >6 per oent. Potash, will give very good re* suite the second year, a sing about 400 i? pounds per acre and applying on both sides, which* will have to be dropped • . by hand. Then'throw one furrow ]>eck on fertiliser.and continue to ,cross cultivate, as before until about thevcbeffioning of the second picking. ^ :> The secrfnd year, which by the way, is the fixbt year picking, should yield • about 100 crates—of 32 quarts—per . acre. But the general average is' ■ about 65‘crates per acre, yet we have aome records of as much as 125 crates. • Second year should Wrease and - ' yield of about 125 crates should be ex pected, yet'it is not impossible to make 200 crates per acre. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth years should . yield ibout 20Q ctatss, then tha bor k .tendency to grsic> i!y j backward. The-plant will, last twen ty years if.not diseased, and Will bring' good results if properly managed. ' The vines should be cut just as soon as possible after picki/ig and should he. cut even -with the ground each year and all old vines piled and burned. - After burning Vines ScApe around the plants with a hoe before they start budding out and then bar Off and cultivate as often as‘possible ' until runners 'get too long. .Don’t turn runners after the first year. 600 to 800 pounds of* cottonseed meal, or a fertilkef very rich in ammonia should be used in the late summer, this makes a .total of 1200 or 1400 pounds of fertilizer per year per acre. Picking , The average hand can pick about 100 quarts per day and this is usually paid for by the quart, ranging froita one,to two cents, depending upon con ditions. The packets usually pack about 100 crates per day and too. much attention cannot be given to this important >work as the least bruise ,on the berry will cause them to mould or become “frosty” before they reach the market. The average cost ' of crates, including, cups, for' the past several years, is about 45 cents, the! price ranging from 22 cents to as High as 80. cents per crate. — 1 Observation .has shown us that ber ried usuaHy begin blossomiiyj, about* uta 15th of April and the shipments begin about the firit of June. The tearkhts that have given the best price are New York, Philadelphia, Pitts burg, although good prices have been received from Cincinatti, Buffalo, and Baltimore. Just as so|>n as more new markets are created the dewberry in dustry will increase in Moore county.* In the past years the prices have ranged from .04 to .42 per quart. The yield per acre varies considerably. The highest being as much as eight quarts per vine; but the general aver-, age will not exceed fgur. quarts per", vine. t • .•Our records show sines 1916, that dewberries have been -shipped from May 26th to as late at July the 6th, and the prices, have varied from 112.06 per crate in 1916 to as high as. $7.10 per crate in 1920. The general av erage being about $4.00 per crate for the past seven years. The best plants are those of the first year’s growth; and one should get about 1600 to 2000 plants per acre. The tips of the runners are usually,.covered'with a little dirt just after frost or thf prop er time may be shown , when the .tips turn downward. f., ^ * There is still some excellent dew berry laqd available. However, this crop is not planted .as extensively as end ip almost every instance it ih run in ,connection with general farming. TheT crop is. a specialized one and offers a great inducement in this section. Y -INRIIRBVEIUUBS BRING 48-80 «*.' • Diumu Cameron, ’ at - Southern Piuei, sent away the first dewberries from that section, and Sunday re ceived a cheek for $6.99 a crate for kis first shipments. He was Well sat i with the price, and say* the commission men wrote him that the outlook for henries tMi>; summer is fOOd. ' W-;- >? * Early-peacheSrare also going? outj in considerable quantities now;* and bringinf around four tOs six dollars, jfcnst week something over 900 crates went out, and more, trill go this week. REV. WILUAAf CURRIE ; , V v . TO BE AT CARTHAGE < Carthage people will be pleased toe learn that Rev. William Currie will preach at the Methodist church Sun day morning at 11:00 o’cock. He is )a preacher of note and' has made a fine record in his calling. He is a graduate of Davidson coilege; also of the Richmond Theological. Seminary, and spent one year in the' White Bible school in New Ydrk city. Ev erybody is invited-out to heaxtthis dis lisguUksd yothg’ Carthage boy with tr^; v nril’fant future. J ', " C11 < Nfc;, ’ Dewberry Field' at Cameron BIG NEW HOTEL , FOR PINEHURST Leonard Bliss and Adam Roch . mont Will Rebuild *■ Lexington. Arrangements have been made for the building of a modern big 60-room hotel 75' by 110 feet in dimensions at Pinehurst, on the site of the present Lexington hotel. Leonard Bliss and Adam de Rochmont are the projec tors. Work will be commenced at, onc$, The old hotise will be ■ torn (Sown, and in-its place win rise he°of' the most modern establishments that money and'skill can create. The build ing will be three stories with an at tic that wiU practically give rooms enough to make it a four-story house, and the plans are so drawn that a further unit of another hundred feet can be added at cny time the business demands. Mr. Blake, of Southern Pines, will do the work. The new building is to be ready for opening about the middle of De cember. It will be kept inf-dommis sion all the year round, as Pinehurst is drawing such a summer trade that Increased v facilities' for handling it are imperative. The type otv con struction will be what is known as electric stoney similar to that of which the Bank of. Pinehurst is built,/which makes an attractive building. The hotel'wll have a bath room connected with every guest room,, telephone in every rom, and all the cnveniences that make a hotel modern. It will conform to every known sanitary de sign, the window and door trim beihg of metal or cement construction, floors of cement wherever possible ifad every detail conforming to the latest suggestion of proper hotel contrac tion. „ » * • The hotel will be built and operated by. the owners, who have.hought the Lexington from Pinehurst, Incorpor ated. It is purely a private venture, built by men who are well enough ac quainted with Pinehurst that they a*3 attracted- by" an opening for such an institution, . for they, have been, fa milar with the village. and $he hotels there for years.,' fi A Pinehurst man, famuar.with Abe workings of the badness over there said to the Ndws, “ A now hotel of this type? is one of the best things that could happen at, Pinehurst. In the busy, season of the winter it is neces sary to decline several thousand re quests forxroomsr'-and it will be the Case until more hotel room is pro tided. Then in summer the. number of persons coming to Pinehurst if growing year by year, and it will not be much longer until more-hotels than one will have to be continued through out the year.j The afcmmer patronage of the hotels in summer will’grow as business With Pinehurst increases and ai.the orchards are expanded and as other affairs continue to draw more people. -The new house that' Mr. Bliss and Mr. de Rochmont are start ing is only a beginning of* what is bound to follow to n»Uet the, all the year requirements of this ‘ com munity.” , : iW- /-yj" '’v, <"■ Pinehurst has some other building projects . under consideration which will add further to the activity ‘al ready announced for the summer, and --is tist th9 estimate of a quar 1 *r *-t <v n*fl!;on dollars for th r r> HARRY GOLDSMITH AND HIS FARM | He Is Successful Grower of ! Many Fruits and Varieties of Garden Stuff. One of the most progressive and thrifty farms of Moore county be longs to Harry Goldsmith, a young fellow who came to North 'Carolina *'hen a youngster with his family,, who located in Southern Pines about jwenty years ago. W. H. Goldsmith, pi* father, owned and ope«ate4-^me; of the larger truck and garden farms of Npw Jersey, consequently was a man of experience in that kind ' of work, and raised only strictly high class stuff which was offered to the fastideous trade of the New York markets. On the northern farm nil kinds of garden vegetables and fruits were raised with care and knowledge of how to^nake only the best that any market would later offer to. customers brought top-knotch food articles. So when a farm was bought and devel oped in Moore county the same kind of high grade work was carried on, by a young man who had experience making a farm that is not onljr pro ductive ; but one that is turning out material that is a credit to any far mer. On hia farm strawberries have been picked *ow for several weeks, and sold to the trade in Southern Pines. They are of such excellence that noth ing ever offered in any local market around in this sectjpn will compare with them. They are large and sweet, the latter being the only virtue to a strawberry. As high as 16 crates a day werfc picked from'this one patch of an jKre, and the returns were most gratifying. The public was willing to pay what those berries were worth, j Apples satisfactorily raised and whiie pdt on a large Scale, they pro vide the': fajpilyconsumption and add their share of the general income. The grapes that ripen in the fell are ad fine is anything^ grown in the lake regions of northern New’York state, end hasg in heavy benches from vines that dee known to be good producers and are well taken care of. Peach! trees are- also numbered among the income producers, with an abundance of poultry, that materialize into* meat j and eggs, milk and butter of the same high standard as other things''are de veloped on this farm, it means noth ing less than a substantial satisfac-; tion for the young people who harvest ■ the crop.. Harry Goldsmith's farm proves what can be raised in Sandtyll land, and anybdy els^ can have -the same' things if they go about it with some degree of intelligence yid - a knowledge of what they want. y/ PREACHING THIRD SUNDAY The News is requested to announce' that there will • be preaching at Epha sus church near White HilK on the Third $unday aft'eroon at 3:00 o’clock ;hy the - new pastor, Rev. Mr. Hare.. -": f. ‘ Subscribe to the &ewii today. mer is destined to give the half nil* lion mark a chase if the schedule con* rcrease much more * v iBigy: uyn juNi :»»!5iP|i*swii BUILDING ON THE KNOOLWOOD HILL Three New Modern Houses Are in, Course of Construction. At three different locations on the hill at Knollwood village building crews are actively at work on new houses, and every house of a modern and expensive type. Last winter Richard Tufts started on a house on the lot at the corner of the Midlands roads and the CreaL.xoad, but other things demanded ?t£e labor " and ma terial, and it was impossible to push the work in time tolget the house ready fort the past winter. But at last Work has started there again, and un less labor shortage interferes it will go forward rapidly to a finish. This house will be a brick veneer building, two stories and attic, of a most in teresting design, and a fit building for the commanding locations it oc cupies. From its first floor a view is given over the whole golf course and out over the Weymouth hills, which cannot be surpassed in the county. The framing is under way on this bouse, and unless the men are called back to Pinehurst to help along with the work under way there the body of the structure will show in a short time what a fine building it is to be. Half way between this house and the home of Judge Way Mr. Tufts has begun work on another house. Ma terial is coming on (he ground. The excavation is nearly ready ‘for the mhsons, and here is another charac teristic building, which will be in harmony with the surrounding. It has a fine outlook over the club grounds and the entire valley, as the other one has. These, houses will cost around fifteen thousand or more, and will be ready fohjh* fdil season. It is the intention of Vpr. Tufts to build two gr thr$e more houses at Knollwood just as fast as it is pos sible to get to the work> but labor conditions have beeri aggravating for the past several months, and it is hard how to get help and Material as fast as it is needed, , This may hold back some of the- projected work not only at Knollwood hot at some of the other places in the county.' Farther south Major Nettleton has E. O. Howard busy with another house of about the same prominence as those -started by Mr. Tufts. Mr. Howard has a force at work, and a cellar1. 42 by 55 feet has been com pleted and masons are well alon^ with the”brick foundations walls.. This house stands On the brow , of the hill overlooking'fairway No. 15, and here is also* a romatic picture of the ground! and the valley and the hills of Southern Pines across the strema. Major Nettleton is a little in advance of the development, being some 1500 feet from Judge Way’s home. The location is one thdt will not leave him long /without neighbors, for.the rim of the hill north'and south of the new houges is so well adapted for desirable homes that it is an easy guess that some other Pittsburgers will follow these two pioneers into the delectable mountain. \ * The Ngttleton tyousewill be a bun galow in general principle, but wit) \ ^ (Cytt i-inr» on p*gh F<yat.> H. P, BILYEU, THE . DEWBERRY MAN Southhern Pines Pioneer Who Has Influenced Industry In This Section. TVhen the men who have made the ! Sandhills are counted prominent , among the number will be H. P. Bil ; VCU, the dewberry man. Bilyeu does not get out much in public meeting j nor in the newspaper, but wherever you hear the name of Lucretia dew j berry it is a chance that Bilyeu is j fairly well known. He has probably I supplied more dewberry plants than [ any other man in the South, and help | cd to put out more dewberi'y vine I yards. - Mr. Bilyeu came to North Carolina from New Jersey, or up that way j somewhere and in his earlier days in | this section he planted peaches. He ' and his brother originated the Bilyeu |T>each, which was a prominent variety i in the North a few years ago. But ! Mr. Bilyeu did not meet with the suc cess in peaches that he looked for, : several causes accounting for his dis appointment. He was among the j^irst to plant peaches in the Sandhills, I and along with the other pioneers he was caught by the disease that first bothered the orchard men. At that time the varieties that are now mak ing the Sandhills famous had not be come familiar to the orchard men. j Neither had the orchard practices of the present been introduced. ' Mr. Bilyeu it not the only man who star ted with peaches and quit. Of the early orchards, those that gave Moore county its start in peach growing, the van Lindley is about the only one that came through all the storms, and it has been cut into small holdings and considerable of it abandoned. Mr. Bilyeu worked wit;h peaches un til he concluded that he could do something better, *nd then he took J!p the-lmere^*,^ * the oiiiy one that seems to be worth* considering, *and he established a vineyard that is the source of plants for vineyards all over the Sandhill country and in many other parts of the state and the country. He has a close knowledge of the fruit and the plant, and for years he has had a crop on his farm near Pinehurst, and he has shown others how to raise dewber nes until if information is wanted on the subject the majority of people turn to Bilyeu, and his association with this one crop is so widely fixed in the minds of the planter that he stands practically alone in his posi tion. Bilyeu and dewberries are as firmly linked together as east and west are in talking about direction. Mr. Bilyeu has a large farm near Pinehurst and Knollwood Village, chief among its products being dew berries, and this season as well as every season he has a big output to go to the early markets, and he gets his stuff in, in time to get the first prices. He paid some attention to grapes, but his principal interest is in dewberries and in supplying plants to those who want to set out vineyards. He still goes on electioneering for the dewberry, and for plants, and it will be 9 long cold day when Mr. Bil yeu is not spreading the gospel of tlpg fine berry. He hafe learned how to bring it to perfection and how to make plants that make the fruit. He is fa miliar with the various products of ’ the dewherry, for it is fit for canning for making preserves^ and for eotfc-' ing as well as to eat raw. ft is large* * ly a new comer among farm products ‘‘ and ndt Widely acquainted as to its M< many virtues, and this leaves Mr. Bil- ” yea*s field still an open one which he will find plenty oi room lor hia com ing days. CARTHAGE SCHOOL CLOSES . ' , - The Carthage Graded school ' closed Tuesday morning with exer cises by the graduating class. The annual serqidn was preached in the ’ Methodist church Sunday morning by Rev. W. C. Barrett, of Gastonia. His- ’ was strong sermon and greatly ap preciated by a large congregation in attendance. On Tuesday morning Hon. Robt. N. Page delivered a stir- ; ring and very inspirational address to the graduating class. His theme was education. ’ '.. v Following are the names of the graduating students composing the graduating class this year: Ollie Muse, Mary Robert Seawell, Annie Reid ,Yow, Norman McEeithen, Fran- . 9©s MqKeithen, Gladys Watson^ Dwight Currie, Paul Fields, and Tem ple Dalrymple, , A g,yg ~ ~ ^ ■' te, f xt tt* NdW!»;'^t
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