COUNTY JOUniAI^WBPOlD, N. C. Help to Farmer i- Surplus War Explosive Used ? to Remove Stumps—Soda- % tol Now Available. •pcrad br the United BUtce Department o{ Aarloultare.) iome 45,000' farm^ in 28 atates ’e used picric acid, a surplus war ilosive, says the bureau. ^ public tds, United States Departmenr of rlculture, which has bad charge of i distribution. These fanners have ed 7,500,000 pounds of die explosive ^ . ?clear 250,000 acres of land and t/ t nqye stumps from about 86,000 acres ' - cultivation. It is estimated that « actual saving to the farmers over , 0 cost of commercial explosives has aounted to $750,000, but the actual neflts have been more far reacliing, I thousands of small farms have had le acreage of cultivatable land In- reased. The government ha,s also delivered V ome 4;000,000 pounds of picric acid j.-.or road construction by state and fed eral aggies. Sodatol Now Obtainable, e iKSt of the picric acid was dls- sed of a short time ago, but farmers may obtain sodatol, an explosive ' recently become available ^ J||M which many farmers say Is even vJrKr for stumping than picric acid. Yfle only charge to be made Is for cartridglng, and preparing for shipment and transportation cost which In gen eral amounts to about on^thlrd the cost of an equivalent amount of dynamite. In most states arrangements* have been made with some agency, usually the state agricultural college, for dls- : tributlng sodatol. Information as to what agency Is handling the distribu tion In any state can be obtained from county agricultural^ agents or from the state agricultural college. ^ Picric Acid Shipped. •• l^he total amount of picric acid shipped to the various states Is as follows: Alabama 100 lbs. Alaska 6.800 lbs. Arizona ;... 1,100 lbs. California 90,400 lbs. Connecticut .' 87,400 lbs. Oeorgla 77,800 lbs. Idaho 136,100 lbs. Indiana 24,000 lbs. Iowa 178,400 lbs. Kansr.s 16,100 lbs. Kentucky .. 38,000 lbs. Louisiana 37,300 Ibs^ Maryland 600 lbs. Michigan 1,108,000 lbs. ^■Ennnescita 1,810,400 lbs. I^^Jidlsslsslppl 41,000 lbs. '^Missouri 90,100 lbs. Montana 36,200 lbs. Nebraska 67,000 lbs. New York 100 lbs. North Carolina 225,650 lbs. Ohio 62.000 lbs. Oklahoma 400 lbs. South Carolina 33.800 lbs. Tennessee ...1. 61,100 Iba ................. 8.200'lbs. Washington 72,600 lbs. Wisconsin 3,412,300 Iba Total ^7.679.650 lbs. Agricultural- Census -in 1926 of Big Value Figures May Be Used in Planning Future Growth'. (Frepared by the United States Department of Asrioultnre.) The value of the proposed agricul tural census In 1925 as an aid In de veloping national agricultural policies la mnphaslised by Dr.. H. ’C. Taylor, chief, of the bureau of agricultural economics. United States Department of Agricnlture. "In working out the details of a properly balanced system of national agriculture under normal conditions, the basic agricultural atatistlcs col lected In 1920 are lAadequatg,” Doctor Taylor saya “At that time Ameri can agriculture was still In a period of readjustment from war conditions, and the statistics reflect the transitory effects of the war rather than to pro vide data from- which imtlonal agri cultural policies may be developed. “The,various branches of American agriculture are now gradually working 1 toward a more normal basis, and by 1925 will yield figures that may safely be used In planning the future healthy growth of the Industry as a whole. %'he plan to make agricultural enum erations In other than population census years la also merited In that the results can be made available nearer the date that the agricultural census Is taken.” Doctor Taylor says that baste*agri cultural statistics complied by the census bureau are continually used in connection with the department’s forecasts and. estimates of crops and live stock. In measuring the financial status of farms and farmers, and In gauging shifts In farm population Every plan for agricultural progress is necessarily based upon this infor mation, he says. The figures also pro vide business men with the Informa tion needed to plan sales campaigns and general industrial activity, par ticularly in commodities purchased by farmers. -jt' \ ' NEWS OP ORCHARD : 1 ■It.' FOiniMlE CO. TO REBinUI Many Old Apple Trees Carrying Too Much Wood Prune, brother, prune with care. This paraphrase of Mark Twain’s fa mous phrase might be taken as a motto by the orchard men, say the pomologlsts at the Ithaca State Agri cultural college, who declare that many old apple trees are carrying too much wood. They warn, however, against cutting out the large branches, Isince this Is likely to Injure the- tree frather than benefit It. The proper way to make this thin ning Is to cut out a number of small branches about the size of the finger, or possibly up to an Inch or an Inch and a half In diameter, throughout the tree. .This practice avoids water sprout growths and rejuvenates the remain ing fruit spurs. The college 'has studied enough orchards where this practice has been followed to know that It usually re sults In a better set of fruit of larger size. Trees handled In this way, ^terther, are more effectively sprayed, ^Ke color of the fruit Is improved and Its market value Increased. Plenty of Exercise Is Essential for Horses Plenty of exercise through the wln^ ter Is absolutely necessary to the wel fare of the horse. They should be given the run^of at least a lot or yard in the daytime. The yard should be provided with a protected shed, by rights, one that Is dry and well bedded. .. In agreement with the adage again, hold down the amount of feed. Bet ter rough the horses through. This fits In with the need for economy In feeding also. On account of the smaller amount of work to be done, and the consequent loss of return from the horses, the feeding should be as economical as possible. Given good roughage, the grain can usually be eliminated from the ration Idle work horses given the run of a well protected lot with a well pro tected shed or shelter will do well on a ration of hay, oat straw, corn stover and sorghum or cone, as much as they will eat. Of course. It depends on what shape^the horse Is In when he goes Into the Winter, as to the amount of grain fed. He should receive enough grain to bring him into shape If he Is low In condition but In the Interests of econ omy and the horse’s own welfare, the grain ration should be the minimum necessary to bring him back Into con dition. Let good roughage do the most toward carrying the horse through. Toward the end of the season, say a month and a half or two months be fore the spring work begins, start feed ing a light grain j-ation. Increase the ration gradually until the horses are on their working rations. Results of Experiments in Pruning Fruit-Trees Dr. W. H. Chandler, for many years head of the department at Corner Uni versity and -now with .the Unlver^ty of California, Berkeley, is the anthor of Bulletin 415, published by Cor nell agricultural experiment station, Ithaca, N. Y., entitled, “Resiflts of Some Elxperiments in Pruning Fmlt Trees.’’ Doctor Chandler has been In vestigating this subject a great many years and is recognized as one of the best authorities on pruning In Amer ica.' It Is impossible to give the completo summary of this bulletin owing to the many subjects treated and the elabo rate tables. The following summary, however, will be of Interest to our readers: The results reported In this publi cation were ob^ined by means of ex periments with 'tr^s none of which were more than tweiye years old. Such results give little inrormation as to the response that migM follow prun ing of older trees. Pruning away a part of a tree seema to cause more vigorous growth of the part remaining, the Increase In vigor being, greatest near the point where the cut hai been made. This in creased vigor seems to result from the fact that the tree is left smaller, while the root' system, which must supply water and mineral nutrients. Is tem porarily as large as if no pruning had been done. The resistance to water movement In-the tree may also be re duced temporarily by the pruning, but there Is little knowledge as to how much effect this resistance has on the supply of water reaching the growing points. Jb spite of the apparent increase in vigor, pruning a young tree Is a dwarf ing process. The tree is nearly al ways reduced in size by more than the amount of wood cut away In pruning. This Is because pruning reduces the Ifeaf surface, and, tlierefore, the pos sible production of materials neces sary for growth. The efficiency of the leaves in producing material for growth may also be reduced. Root growth Is generally reduced strikingly by pruning. The Invigorating effect of-pruning, then, is tempOTary, lasting only until by reductlqn in growth the root system comes to be no larger in proportion to the top than It was be fore the pruning. Prunjng reduces the amount of fruit borne by trees that have not r^ched maximum bearing size. With some trees that fruit ter minally (« spurs, such as the apple and the pear, the reduction In fruit ing Is greater ythan the reduction In growth. Use Lights on Poultry Very Early in Morning - It is better to liRrrease the chickens’ day early In the morning rather than In the evening, accordl^ to experi ments conducted at the New Hamp shire Agricultural college. The hens come off the roosts quite early In the morning to get their feed. In the eve ning many of tfiem go to roost regard less of With pullets the amount of light ^ should be Increased gradually, begth- \ nlng with eleven hours of total light ^ about the first of November. This may be Increased to fourteen hours by the first of February. After April the arti ficial light should be gradually re duced at the rate of about thirty min utes per week. With old hens the artificial illumination should begin In the fall when egg production is on the Increase. Ohio Poultrymen Favor ^ Feeding Wheat to Hens Because of the present low price of wheat. Ohio poultrymen have changed the old. standard. Ohio dry mas^j^or- raula from equal parts of "bran, tnldr dllngs cornmeal, ground oats and meat scrap to two parts ground, whole wheat and one part each of cornmeal. around oats and meat scrap. Whole wheat Increases the feeding value of the mash. It Is claimed, and saves buying bran and middlings. With middlings at $40 a ton, wheat Is estimated.to have a value of around $1,20 a bushel when thus fed. Store Abundant Supply of Ice for Next Summer In those sections of the country where natural Iqe can be harvested, every dairyman should make prepara tions to store an abundant^upply for next summer. Ice Is extremely desir able, In fact almost necessary. In the production and marketing of high- quality milk and cream. Proper cool ing and 'cold storage on the farm Is the greatest single factor Influencing the bacterial content of milk between the time It leaves the cow and the time It reaches the consumer. At least tons of Ice per cow should be stored. This will cool the milk, allow for meltage, and provide a margin for household uses. Ice ponds should be built If no river or lake Is 'available. Water used for Ice making should be of unquestioned purity. Old ice ponds should be cleared of vegetable niatter and refuse Id preparation for the coming harvest. Farmers’ Bulletin l078'deals with harvesting and storing Ice on the farm. It can be secured by writing the Dairy Division, United Statn Department of Agriculture, Washington. * — - - - - _ Eradication of Lice and Mites Is Not Difficult Lice and mites are a sign of care lessness, as they are rather easily controlled. Lice live upon the bird’s body at all times and can be eradi cated by dusting the bird with finely powdered sodium fluoride, a chemical which can be obtained at hiost drug Stores ond Is low In cost. Tlie red mites live In the cracks and crevices of the roosts and neihs and attack the bird’s body only lit night, get ting their food supply by sucking blood through the Mrd’^ nkln. Paint Ing the roosts with an* oily substance, such as gas tar or a commercial perch paint, will keep the tnltes from getting on the perches and the blrda. Work of gleaning Away Oabria From - Reeenk biatarious Mabane Fire to ' Start At Once. Meb'ailfc^The | work of clearing away thh'Jhebrls of the fire which de stroyed the building of the White Furititare company on December 21, will begln^at oncet preparatory to the erectiourM one of the most modem furnitur^actorles in the south Arch itects are^ow busy drawing plans and bids recelred forfn conractors for the etetclon of this modern plant. - According to Mr. W. E. White, presi dent pf Ih# White Furnltilre company, the 'bhildlng will be In such shape and machinery installed that they will be shipping their finished product by June 1, this year and the new build ing will be considerably larger which is necessary to take care of their In creased bosiness. More workmen will be employed when this factory Is finished than ever before, according to Mr. White, and all the old employes who were thrown oat of work that desire are now given employment. Severel car loads Of machinery which was burn ed haa bedn purchased by junk deal ers who will move It as early as pos sible. The Whtle Furniture company, as a token of their appreciation to the Durham, Burlington, Graham and Me- bane fire departments, pres^ted each with a check ranging from $3lRmDwn to $100, together with a letter of ap preciation. Three Forms of Pruning Practiced on Raspberry ' There are three forms of pruning practiced upon raspberries, depending upon the variety of'the plant and the preferences of the grower. The first it to head back the young canes to the desired height the first season. This Is uQually done by pinching out the tip of the growing cane. This causes the cane to become stocky and form side branches enabling it to stand uprlgdit without any support. Another method Is to permit the canes to grow the first season and then the following spring cut out the weak canes and shorten the lateral branches on the canes that are saved. The third Is to merely cut out the old canes after they have borne fruit. This can b« done as «oon' as the crop has bemi harvested. In the spring and after harvest pruning, some form of sup port for the canes will be required. Mulch for Strawberries. When cold weather sets in, it la time to think of the winter mulch for strawberries. For this purpose there is nothing better than clean straw from which the chaff has been shaken out. This enables one to ^t rid of any grain that has passed through the separator fts well as any weed seed that the straw may contain. Tims to Get Apple Scab. When blossom time comes. It’s then or never, If you want to get appla •cab. No other spray pays aa wall Plan Largest Overall Factory. Greensboro.—Plans for expansion of the Blue Bell Overall Company here make it the largest exclusive overall manufacturing concern in the world. An addition to a building will be erected, work to start soon, which wil Itake care of the expansion of the company. C. C. Hudson, president of the con cern, has sold realty, which he hak held individually, to the oeneem and a charter for the Blue Bell Overall Company, Inc., has been applied for. The capital stock will be $375,000, all paid in. Incorporators are C. C. Hud son, president; Mrs. Daisy Hudson, vice-president, and Miss Pearl Bow man, secretary. DADDY’S miHMC EMRYTAII ^Mary Graham Banner ai^rmc/ifrgr»gjn»0inaMmam»r LITTLE WHITE DOG Tm Only a Itttle white dog. Pm not very large. In fact I’m really lit tle, really small. He Studies Lessons. “I’m not partic ularly beautiful. In fact I don’t believe I’d even be called pretty. “My , hair la shaggy and some what curly though It is more apt to look snarly than curly. ^Stlll, my mas ter does the best he can with It. It Is difficult hair with which to do anything. “But It doesn’t mattor to me that I am not a big It doesn’t matter to me not beautiful. It doesn’t me that my hair Isn’t Cause and Cure ofilote of Apples in Storage Black rot is a storage disease of ap ples that may occur In many sections of the country. " Black rot is more common to sumnier and fall varieties than to winter apples. Those who go through the orchards and cut out canker limbs and use seme good spray material regularly are not so apt to be troubled w’lth black rot aa others who neglect theiy trees. Com mercial orchardlsts hardly ever worry enough over storage rots, because It Is the buyer and dealer who suffer, and they get used to passing the trouble along. With home orchards, where apples are raised Just for win ter table use, more thoi^ht must be given to such diseases and their pre vention. Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1160 by the United States Department of Agriculture gives us some good sug gestions as to the cause and cure of storage rots. Black rot usually starts at an insect sting or other skin puncture, or at the calyx where Injury has resulted from frost. It Is primarily a rot of ripe fruit, but It has been found spot ted on apples several weeks before picking time. A> the fruit matures the spots turn dark brown or blacR. The affected flesh Is dagk brown and firm, not soggy. Chitham Woman Fatally Burned. Burlington.—Mrs. O. 0.'^Thomas, wife of the late George O. Thomas, 10 miles south of Siler City, Chatham county, wae accidentally burned to death while sitting with her hack to the open fire place at the home of her brother, Mr. Ernest Dowd, where she was spending the day and assisting in quUtlng a ^qullt placed in front of the It is thought the sash of the dress wore by Mrs. Thomas first caught, the flames rapidly spreading to her other clothing and the unfinish ed quilt. Mrs. Thomas ran out into the yard and as the wind fanned the flames she was fatally burned before help could come to .^her. Burlington Reports Small Fire Loss. Burlington.—Burlington’s fire loss for 1923 amounted to $82,850 aifccord- Ing to records of the fire department, although $60,000 of this amount went up in the flrq of the Thompson-Sexton Manufacturing Company, outside the corporate limits, with water connec tions unavailable. This must be counted In the city's losses. Leaving out this fire the loss is $22,850 as compared with $25,280 for the year 1922, a redaction of $2,430. This small loss for a town of this size speaks 1^11 for the fire company and the care of the citizens. Let Coiftracts For Reformatory. The contract was let Friday by the trustees for the first group of build ings of the Morrison Training Bchool, the negro reformatory for boys to be erelcted bjr the state. The Plckler- Lampley Go.,' of Aberdeen, was the lowest of tour bidders for the general contract while the Raleigh Iron Works will put in the heating the cost In cluding the heating to be $26,000. Llnthicum and Llnthicum, of Raleigh, are the architects. A tractor has been purchased and the 400 acre site near Rockingham is being cleared under the direction of the business manager, J. 3. Bras well, former chief of polce of Hamlet. A committee composed of Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson* Commissioner of Public Welfare, ■ and. J- J- Blair, who super vises plans-for dchool buildings in the state, will go Richmond county with the architects to decide where the first buildings are to be placed. New Watorworka Few Laurinburg. Laurlnburg.—The total cost of Laur- Inburg’s new waterworks system. In cluding pumping station at the creek, 3 3-4 miles of 12-inch cast iron piping, illterhg plant, 500,000 gallon reser- vlqr, auxiliary station, etc., will be $145,661.84. This is the total of the several items Included In the program. Too Much Tobacco Raised. Kinston.—The tobacco board of trade here is expected to begin early its annual' agitation against a big to bacco crop^hi this part of the bright leaf ,belL .Though that conservative body may not take official action In the matter, its 'members will preach a nominal acreage and intensive cul tivation ‘"niere should be no dupli cation of the 1923 cri'p; it was entire ly too large,” warehousemen, factory men and others are contending, now that the crop has been almost entire ly marketed. creature, that I am matter to pretty. “Nor does It matter to my master. That Is the best of all. “My master is a fine boy. He goes to school. He studies lessons out of many books. It Is surprising to see how many books he studies and surely he will be very wise when he grows up. “He always comes home from school with an armful of books. “I wonder then if he Is going to pay attention to the books and not to me. “But no, he doesn't bother about his books until much later on when It Is dark ^ and when I curl up in his lap or lie by his feet and rest while he studies. “I’d be glad to help him with his lessons, but I know I can’t. I am not a student. I never was and I feel sure »I never will be. “And so I don’t bother to try for 1 know I’d only be a nuisance to my master If I tried to look at the books and see what they were all about “When I was only a wee dog, no more than a puppy, I believe I tore up a school book once and chewed some of It. “Probably I swallowed some knowl edge then. But it has never been of any use to me and It has never been of any help to me. “I don’t know about anything be cause of that book. What I know I have learned because of my master and my own good sense which has been handed down to one dog after another for generation after genera tion. “Of course, I do not mean fhat learn ing has beeif handed to us In our paws.' I mean that as an expression to let you know. If you don’t alrrady, that dogs ’inherit’ as they say, qualities. “We u^ed to have some wolf cesters years and years ago, Uiey say, and the way we bury bones and find them again comes from the old wolf strain In us which bids us sifve some food for a rainy dav. “Now I don’t mean a* actual rainy day. ' “That Is Just an expression which means a day when things aren’t at their best and when It is well to have a little something saved for such a time. “But, oh, the best of all Is the way my master loves me and treats me. “In the summer time he goes to play in a park nearby. In that park there Is a little drinking place. My master puts his head down over a spray of water which Is always com ing up and has a drink. “But he doesn’t forget about me. He holds me up In his arms and he takes the water in his hand and I lap It up from his hand. “Of course, I can’t get a great deal at a time this way and so he holds me in his arms, under his left arm, to be exact, and I am given all I want. “My tongue. Is so refreshed. He dampens It for me. And he doesn’t think fhat Just I e c a u 8 e there Isn’t • regular place for dogs to drink that I must wait until we get home. “And everyone loves to see my master’s devotion to me. I can see that they think It Is very sweet. “No one minds If I have a drink from my master’s hand at this lit tle fountain for the water keeps bubbling up fresh all the time. “But, oh. It la thing to be loved! derful thing to fee cared Doesn't Bother About Books. Whea Ibg Catdi Cbli Rdi M MasterA Muaten^iacanrtoaflpIfaadllfllB m its good work right awaqr. OttmW preventsa cM from taming into or pneunxmia. Just igipfr Mostedola with the fingers. It does aO the good work of grandoMither's mustard without the blister. Musterole is a clean, white ointmenf;' n^e of oil of mustard and other honaa simples. It is recommended by maiqr doctors and nurses. Try Mustooie for ■ore throat, cold on the chest, tbemm- tism, lumbago, pleurisy, stiff neck, broo* chitis, asthma, neur^gia, congestioa* pains and aches of the back and joints* sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilbiaoiSb frosted feet—colds of all sorts. To Mothers: Must«rol« U now mad* in milder form for babies and small ehildrm. Ask for Children's Mustsrola. • 35c and 6^, jma and tubes; hos- Bettsr than a, mmstard pUutar Any fool can be disagreeable, but 11 takes rare self control to be a gentle man 4n all circumstances. for sp“edy and action. Dr. ppery’9 “Dead Shot” has no A iini?Ie do«e'cleans out Worma or Tapeworm. 172 Pearl St.. N. Y. Adv. If you aren’t Intere.sted In other people, you won’t gossip. Mrs, L. E, Gunn such a wonderful It is such a won- looked after and for and petted and treaWfl so welt and so affectionately. i “It Is so wonderful never to be for gotten ! “What does It matter If one Is only a little white dog, not very large and not,beautiful and not even pretty and whose , hair Is not the nicest In the world so long as one Is the pet of a perfect young masterl ■ “It ’doesn’t matter in the least! That's what thla little white dog says.” Health Brings Beauty A Discovery That Has Dona a WotU of Good Augusta, Ga.—“My father's family was kept well ever since I can re^ member by using Dr. Pierce's remedies. My father used to get a supply of the 'Golden Medical Dis covery' every spring, as a tonic. He took It himself and gave it to the rest of us. He did not wait until we were sick. He said, ‘An ounce of preven tion is worth a pound of cure.’ When I was about sixteen niy parents saved ,^e, I believe, from serious feminine trouble by giving me Dr. Pic»ce’s Favorite Prescription.’*—Mrs. L. E. Gunn, 506 Moore Ave. Keep yourself in the pink of con dition by obtaining Dr. Pierce’s Gold en Medical Discovery in liquid or tablets from your neimborhood drug gist, or send 10c to Dr. Pierce's In valids’ Hotel in Buffal^ N. Y., for trial package. is the ideal dciXdtnc TAKE; IN Tbt PLJCEOF calomel - rO/f AA4/ - tVEHfWHLRt 30^^^° 60 ' BUY A BOTTLE W.LHAND MEDICINE CO.. CHARLOTTE N r \&ss avom 6r»v»las ^ itranc dvact S* »ym Hc* fnii AlUt ar gtk*t liilUtUiL n* aM tteol* nmter (tut tutoti ii—fni1lin tons k«rt. 15*. aO Snssitn mats niiii.ziwVaiaqw Mitchell Eye . Salve “ For SORE EYES Hekv» you RHEUMATISm Lumbago or Gout? Tzk* BHBUVACIDW W iMMvalkMaaM mod drive tk« »oUeD ttvm %as»sw»mm. "uusazaM w tu imin Pint susaittM w vaa •enM" At Ail Oraeztota Jm. 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