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thk c.astoxi. aizmio. VL!L(C(ipl!L NOTICE THE PUBLIC f ii u a a a a a a a a a a a a TO - - .1 " - The ' I After this date we will not ace!, from rf retail trade, or ders for bread Jot delivery Itefore noon later tliun 1 1 a. ui. or for evening deliver)" later than 5 p. m. We are obliged to make this role in order to till all orders with satisfaction to ourselves and oar customers. We hope all of our patrons will take note f this change and act accordingly as it will not only assist greatly but will Insure the housewives getting their bread plenty of time for their meals. us in Todd's Bakery Phone 63 LTAKES REPORT FOR YEAR CCUSTT k&EUT 6RAY 6nTES MAMY FACTS ;astoa Farm Demonstrator In An anal Report to Hoard of County Oonunlmlooera Telia of Things Ac . campllabed I hiring 1010 Large ' Increase In Pure-Bred Cattle and :" Hogs Khow-a Halting of Legume KeretTed Iwpetaa Work Hone In '. Variety lines. i .' County Farm Demonstration Agent J. M. Cray yesterday submitted to the board of county commissioners his report for the year 1916. It is a valuable and Interesting report and ' ( gire It to our readers below in fall: To the Board of County Commisslon--?L. ere, Gentlemen: . I herewith submit my annual re - port of work done from January 15. lKlt. to December 15, 1 1 6. This 'report is merely a summary to give yon some Idea of the work and what is -being planned for another year. ' More details can be furnished. I have made 1972 official visits during the .time, traveling 5450 miles. I have held 576 consulta tions In the office and 37 over the telephone concerning more than one . hundred agricultural subjects. There hare been 54 meetings held under the - auspices of the extension work and 1 hare addressed 8 1 meetings with "an attendance of 4 250. Five field meetings Aave been held witn an attendance of 75. Thirty per cent of my time has been spent in the or fice divided as follows: Corres pondence 25 per cent, conferences 50 per cent, miscellaneous 25 er cent. seventy per cent of my time has been spent in the field work divided as follows: supervising regular demonstrations 0 per cent, other farm visits 50 per cent, organiza tion 15 per cent, and miscellaneous S per cent. Seven hundred and nine- ty-three official letters have been written and mailed out; 5ft bulletins have been distributed among tne farmers of the county; 12 articles prepared for publication, and 6.045 circular letters written and mailed out, 21 school visits have been made . and a talk given at each visit. During this time I nave had I'o visits from specialists from the State and Federal Departments of Agricul ture to give instruction on special subjects. These men work a I high t entirely in those counties wiiich have county agents because of tiie neces sity of "foljow up work' that can De , bad in no other way. VARIETY OF ( HOPS. Work has been carried on with the farmers with corn, cotton, wheat, oats, rye. alfalfa, crimson, clover, vetch and oats, red clover, lespedeza. bur clover, mixed grasses and clover, cow peas, soy beans, velvet beans, burmuda grass, sudan grass, peanuts millet, rape and cane. With all these - crops instructions have been given as to the best soil suited to them, soli preparation, fertilization, cultivation, harvesting, seed saving and market ing. Inoculation for all the legumes -has been furnished free where de sired and advisable. The most im portant results of the work are a hundred per cent increase in the a mount of cultivated grasses and clover sown for hay and pasture, the saving of mure than 15.000 pounds of crimson clover seed, and 12.000 pounds of vetch seed. I have no Idea at to the amount saved due to the Indirect influence of extension work. Velvet beans and soy beans have been town this year for the first time In any considerable amount. Every fanner who did work witn these - crops is exceptionally well pleased with the results and the acre age will be materially Increased another year. Considerable work was done a mong the orchards of the county. ... -- t . There la ssers Catarrh la this sectioa ef the country than all other diseases put together, aad for rears It was sup posse1 te be tacurable.. Doctors are acrlbod local retMdies. and bjr constant ly tallies; to curs with local treatment, pronounced It lacurabl. Catarrh ts a local disease, greatly laflnoacod by con stitutional conditions and thertfor re attires coasUtatioBsJ trestatoet. Hall's Catarrh Care, aiaaetactersa by F. J. Caener ft Caw. Toledo, OhlK Is a constl tutioaal remedy, tab- 'Internally oJ acts tbro the Etood d the Mucous t-urfce of tb Cyifm. .n Hundred I . rw r4 U ' -rel tor say Cass t I all'a Crrn lure ttl to curs, it:. 1 tor lr -r ar I te m on late. I. J. CI'ENCT A co Toisde, Ohio. I : s I'.-- . I'Uis for eeastlaatioa. inree spraying outnts were pur chased on my advice and the results this year will more than pay for tne outfits. More than 200, MO feet of terraces were located by uie. This was reter- racing and putting in terraces where there had been none before. FI RE-BRED CATTLE. Seven pure-bred Jersey bulls and two pure bred Holstein bulls have been placed with the Dairy Breeders Associations which 1 have 'organized and one Holstein and two Jersey bulls have been bought by individuals on my advice. This means that at least 750 cows will be bred to regis tered bulls of good qualities that have hitherto been to grade or scrub bulls. All these bulls have been pur chased because of the high produc ing qualities of the cows behind tbeni. Not one of the nine bulls placed with the associations but whose mother was in the advanced registry. It is hard to estimate the good that will result to the dairy in dustry of the county from the intro duction of such sires as these. Five registered cows and heifers have been placed in tho county also. Work with beef cattle has not been carried on as extensively as that witn the dairy cattle. This is because the county is primarily a dairy county. Yet there are a number of farms be cause of their situation and the labor conditions are much better suited1 to the beef cattle than to the dairy cattle. There are several larme on which pure bred beei bulla will be placed this winter and spring. Ai iead) plans have been made lor tne pastures and next spring the cattle will bo bought. Fifteen head of pure bred Angus cows and bulls have been brought into the county tins cai. These purchases were not alt di.vriiy due to the Extension W ork. iM.vrfv and I mention them to show tli growth in tho beef industry, ma:;.- iy- INCREASE IN HOGS. The most decided increase in imrc bred stock has been with the hogs. Eighteen pure bred gilts have been placed with the Pig lub members during the past eight months, vad seven gills and sows and three bnn'i have been placed with the farmers This means that there will be a iarge increase in the number of pure bred hogs in the county within the next few months, because all tho sows at.u gilts were so placed that they wil. oe bred to registered boars of the sime breed. A number of farmers are breeding high grade sows to register ed boarR at my suggestion anu it looks as if there will be a verv de cided increase in the numberor hogs raised in tiaston county within trie next year. 1 have arranged with two sources to handle all the advertising the fanners may want of livestock free, and I hope in this way to be able to place to advantage any excess that may occur in the number of hogs. I am now working on the details of marketing the grade and meat hogs with some of the packers and wiien these plans are completed I hope to engage a large number of hogs for this purpose. I believe that when properly handled more profit can De made from hogs than from any of our domestic animals, and it requires less capital and acreage to handle hogs than either the beef or dairy cattle. I believe there are many small farmers struggling to make ends meet with poor land and cotton who can turn most of the land into crops that will grow a profitable bunch of hogs with less labor and less fertilizer and will give greater returns in the improvement of tne soil and the farmers pocket book than any other crops he may grow. Many farmers are so situated that they cannot successfully handle beef or dairy cattle or large acreage of crops, but they can grow, a fe-. ares of sweet potatoes, peanuts, soy beans, etc.. and put a number o" hogs on these crops to grow in; bank accounts. MICH LIME ISE1). During the fall there was pur chased and placed on the farms 250 tons of lime due directly to exu s'.on work. There was considera" more purchased that I have no re cord of. More would have been put chased but for the car shortage. Much other work haa been done sucn as plans furnished for farm heme and buildings, buildings palnt- m mm i 1! m ed, grounds improved, sanitary co;i diti'ms. improved, water systems itnpi-.'t id, etc., that would' take too iu'ch time to enumerate. W'.'.en I came here there was no urbanization other tnan a few Karru eis' I nion IfOCals through which i i. '.i; woik. In county agents wni ii is abf : lutely impossible for one nan -. do all the work if the best reoinK- are to be obtained. To rcai:. all ihe farmers by individual visits is impossible. The county agv-'ht must have some means or ebihint, the people collecti'.ly. Knowing this I began at once : look ,ir local organizations ti.rouii U.'ii i could work. The Farmer: i'nion was all that I could find, llns was splendid as far as it went but only a small per cent of the farmers were members. I realized that I must have a broader organization. ono whose meetings every man. woman and child would feel an in terest in and would feel free to at tend. I went to Mr. Lloyd. Secre tary of the Castonia Chamber of Commerce, and told him I thought that a county wide organization would be to the advantage of botn his and my work. He agreed with me and we drew up plans for organ ization almost indentical with those finally adopted by the Greater Gas ton County Association. We planned to start a campaign for this work the last of July or first of August. lief ore this time arrived Mr. I.lo.vd resigned and Mr. Roberts, the present Secretary was employed. He came here with more working knowledge of the plans of such an organization than either Mr. I.Ioyd or I had and entered into the work with a zest that has gotten him a well deservea place as an organizer and Gaston county the best organization that can be tound any where. With this organization and its branches it is i ossiblo for me to have a meeting most any where in the county with out iiiLoh enort and it makes it pos sible lor r.ie to carry my work to the armexs collectively, thereby readi ng more pcopie and saving mucii time. l.esides this organization t have orgar.izcu rrine Dairy Breeders' Associations one Berkshire Breed ers Association, afld given consid erable time and aid to the Gaston ounty National Farm loan Asso iation and a similar organl.zatlon t Cherry. iile. The Mf'ed i felt when f came here or better organization has been iretty well hUed. The work for Cue oming year. then, is to w o r hrough thtiii. Briefly :-luied my plans for doing i. is are si M.ctning as follows. !lan to vork with the Farm Loan ssociatLip in helping lift every l i t ! ?ii; !! oebt that now hinders i-ro'-ire1-' or. the farms and to give such aid as I may to each member, and to get him in touch with those who ciiii jMve hini better aid. in spend. i.;- li;is money to the best ad rantai' ;o him and the farnf. One of tht objects of the Greater Gaston County Association is ,to f.reat!, in- r",'ise the number of live stock in uie county beef, dairy, hogs and peullry. By working in co operation we plan to considerably more than double the number of pro ductive milk cows. There is an un Jimite' atmand for dairy produces, and. with a little management, most of the farms can he made to produce the he. i f crops and pastures for handling this kind of livestock. There :i:- ;i nu-iiLer of farms so far from iiu.i! et and ;o handicapped by labor i)t.;!iiions that the dairy cattle would !e a bitten there. On such farms we ,Ii. lo entourage the placing or Nee:' iHille and hos. Through all the local organiza tions I plan to work for the better-ii.-.i o t!.e oauitary conditions on the fauna. tl;e improvement of the com munity life and spirit, and to worK .villi iu the furtherance of the objc ts of the organizations. Work with the general farm crops will be lon.inued with the idea of producing as much cotton and more of the ofrer crops at a smaller cost and cn fewer acres. By introducing llv.j no: and new crops I hope to I see muny acres that are not now j paying tu,.';ts turned to some economic ' .ion An o.'ro thai Ij tirtt nrnHnrlnir i . . v . .... u iv ii.ui . . ii' i 1. n an economic crop is producing one that is harmful and practically every time these acres represent the dif ference between farming at a profit and tanning at a loss. With the increased population of our towns and villages the farmers will be afforded a market for every thing they can raise. And if I do nothing the next year but get some of these thousands of non-economic acres to doing their part towards feeding this non-producing popula tion it will be worth much to tne farmers and to the county. With the hearty co-operation that I have been given by the County Superintendent of Public Schools and his efficient and enthusiastic teach ers, 1 hope to greatly further the work of the Corn. Pig. and Poultry Clubs in the county. The work and objects of these different clubs can bo summed up in their motto: "Training tho Heart, the Head, tne Hands and the Health". The train ing that theso boys and girls are getting is of incalculable worth in producing p. generation of farmers and fanners' wives that can stand four square to the world and take their p!aces amnog the mighty forties that arc making this the greatest and b-'st nation of the world. We can not afiord to neglect such work. CO-OPERATION OF BANKS. I feel ihat my report would be in complete without mention of tiie hearty co-operation the First Nation Hi Bank of Gastonia. the First Na tional Bank of Cherryville, The Bank of l eln.ont and the Mt. Holly Bank hav given extension work. This co-ope ration was not only their good will, but with their money they have made it possible to place much of I the pure bred livestock which has j been brought into the county. The one regret I have is that the farmers and the club members did not avail themselves of all the money that was placed at their disposal for such pur poses. 1 feel that the crowning fea ture of this years work is the hearty spirit with which these prominen bankers of the county responded to the invitation to show the good fei I lowship which they wish to exist be tween the farmers of the county and the business men, and the willingness of other business men to do likewise when the opportunity is afforded them. With the extension work as a working medium between these two great forces of the county mucn can be done to make this indeed the greatest county in the world. Respectfully submitted. JAMES M. GRAY. County Agent a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Citizens National Bank GASTONIA, N. C. For Seven years this Bank has success fully operated a Savings Department in which we have hundreds of despositors. 4 per cent is paid and compounded quar terly. $1.00 will start an account. a a a a Begin the New Year by starting a Savings Account with this bank and add. to it each week. You will be surprised to learn how the account will grow if only a small amount is deposited each week. Deposits made by January 5 will draw interest from January 1. GASTONIA NEWS This f'a- ,THIS ASH F1VK C-KXT8! DONT MISS THIS. Cut out this slip, enclose fire cents to Foley A Co.. ms 8heffleW . , Aye., rhleirn III., writing, your name sad addresri cieany, iou win receive in return a trial package contalaing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for ecitrs. roughs, and croup: Foley Kidney iU. and Foley : -rrtic Tablets. fuse Has a Hint for Many zrtte Iteadcrtt. ; A Gaston woman has used Doan's Kidney Pills. ?he has found them as represent ed. She, wishes her neighbors to know Mie piiDiiciy recommenas mem. No need to look further for a test ed kidney remedy. The proof of merit is here and can be investigated. Profit by Miss Gardner's state ment. Miss Utile Gardner, 117 S. High land St.. Gastonia. says: "I have taken Doan's Kidney Pills on several occasions for kidney disorders and have always found them beneficial. Others of - (the family have - tried Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney trou ble and bare been cured. I consid er Doan's Kidney Pills an excellent kidney medicine." .. . ,i Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply Ssk for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Hiss Gardner had. Foster-Mil-burn Co.. Props.. Buffalo. N. Y. m-atli at lover. Mr. Appleby, father of Mrs. Thom as T. B. Williams, of Clover, died at his home in that town Sunday af ternoon following a long illness, aged about "" years. He made his home with Mrs. Williams. His only other surviving child is a married daugn ter who lives in Baltimore. Funeral services were held at the Williams home yesterday morning at at 11 o dock by Rev. A.. A. McLean, pastor of the Clover Presbyterian church Interment was in Woodside Ceme tery. Clover. It is astonishing how much asinin ity poses as individuality. Desert News Salt Ike City.) WHAT TO DO FOll KVI COI.IK it ou want e. cough medicine that gives quick and sure action in heal ing colds, coughs or croup, get Fol ey's Honey and Tar. It heals in flamed membranes in throat, chest or bronchial tubes: breaks up tight coughs. loosens phlegm. makes breathing easier, stops tickling in throat. Contains no opiates. J. H. Kennedy Co. XOTICK. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Gastonia Mutual Building & Loan Association will be held at the City Hall in Gastonia onJ liuirsaay 'aiternoon. January 4. 1917, at 3 o'clock. You are request ed to be present. Report of the man agement will be made and officers elected for the ensuing year. Stock holders who are unable to be present will All out and return the proxies which have been mailed to them. r, K. G. M'lATRD. Sec. & Treas. S. A. ROBINSON. President. J-2c2 OA8TO.MA IjOOGE NO. 3419 A.. P. Sk Am M. Called Meeting, Jam. 5, 1917. Work In the 3rd "Degree. POCAHONTAS LODGE NO. 1.. DIPROVED ORDER OF RED BfEIf Reenter, Meet! Tbarsday . Night, Jaanary 4, 117, 7:3 p. as. All saesaber are arged to be present. In our Savings Department we also have a 4 'Citizens Savings Club." This is provided for people desiring to put aside a certain amount each week for fifty weeks and to be withdrawn .at the end and to be used for some purpose, such as Christmas. We also pay inter est on deposits of this kind. n a 25c deposited weekly amounts to $12.50 50c deposited weekly amounts to $25.00 q $1 . 00 deposited weekly amounts to $50. 00 p p D a a a a p a a a a a p a a a a a p Interest at 4 per cent per annum will be added to the above. To those opening a Savings account between this date and January 6 we will present a nice souvenir. Capital and Surplus $156,000.00 p p p P a p a p u n u n ii n ii ii i i THE Citizens National Bank s ANDREW L M00RE, President, A. C MYERS, Vice-President, v W. H. JU)AMS, Cutier, x JOHN A. HUNTER, Jr Asst. Cashier GASTONIA, N. 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