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''^-m WASB Poole’s Medley BY D. SCOTT POOLE There were several grist mills to grind -corn in our community in my boyhood, and I have been informed that it -was so in other commimities in this state, but these are numbered with the things of the past. Corn is ground now in several towns and cities, and neatly put up in 10 poimds and larger packages. We boys of bur community used to take a bushel of corn to mill, and we had a chance to fish until our corn had been ground. We arose before clear daylight every morning, fed stock, and did other chores about the house and barn, ate breakfast and went to work until the horn, or other signal called us to .dinner. day, plowed out two acres of corn, cut with a cradle four acres of wheat or oats. These combines, disks and trac tors do more work, and make work easier. The drudgery of farm life has been removed, and life is worth more to the average citizen now than it was even a few years ago why we do not have more elec trical display. I have seen many awe-inspiring thunderstorms. There are 100 counties in this state, and it is likely the number will be change any time. Hoke was small to begin with. To prove our position: No citi zen would have less or more bus iness at the county seat, and, as we have said before, the mileage, the largest single item on the county expense, would be in creased, aad so would the time re quired to attend any business for the number of courts would be increased. I do not believe the manner of giving out knowledge has im proved, for there is no way but the commonsense way. But in nearly every essential thing, there has been progress made, and en joyment added to our manner of life. We shoveled both sides of four acres of cotton on an average’each Real Estate LOANS I have 1 new house which I can sell and finance to F. H. A. approved buyers for as little as 20 percent down. F. H. A. Insured Home Loans for 20 Years at 4 1-2 Per cent Interest. I Will Handle Your Application Also Lots Approved For F. H. A. Loans For Sale. Julian Wright Office: Central Avenue I have been wondering why there are not more thimderstorms these times. I well remember how terrific thimderstorms were ih the olden days. You could not de termine whether there was one thunder peal or several. I remember when the average yield of corn in North Carolina was five bushels, so reported by the Agricultural Department. Reason; The farmers were unable to buy fertilizers, or to' improve their soils. Unless the electricity is gradu ally carried away to the earth by guy wires, we do not understand Are You Trading Cars? REGARDLESS OF WHERE OR WHEN — LET US FINANCE IT FOR YOU. Lninber River DisconntCp. Phone 767 South Ehcn Si LUMB^TON, N. C. Two locomotives were on a railroad track in a prairie portion of Texas, facing each other. The engineers had every thing ready, started their loco motives wide open, and. jumped off. The locomotives had about two miles in open country to run before they met and they acted, it was said, a good deal like two big dogs fighting. The spectators, thousands of them, paid $V to see the show The railroads in North Caro lina were nearly all built since the Civil War. The Aberdeen and Asheboro was built since 1896. The Mt. Gilead branch was com pleted in 1897. There was a lot of timber in Montgomery swapped for rations while they were cutting the right of way. That branch road from Biscoe to Mount Gilead would make a snake’s trail look straight. But it did the work waking up Montgomery County, which had been slumbering for a century. State College Answers Timely Farm Questitms QUESTION: I am considering the purchase of a mechanical cot ton picker. How much can I ex pect it to save me in harvesting costs? ANSWER: The amount mech anical harvesting will save de pends upon how much you use the harvester. Of course, the main expense in mechanical harvest ing will be the original or “fix ed” cost of the machine. This cost remains the same .whether you harvest one acre or a hundred. But of course, if you harvest a hundred acres, the cost per acre for the machine will be much smaller. A recent study of mechanical cotton picking in the Mississippi Delta has shown that if hand pickers are paid at the rate of $2.65 a hundred pounds of seed cotton or less, the costs of har vesting are about the same for hand and machine. But if hand picking rates are $3.00 or more, there will _be_ a big saving by the use of the mechanical picker. The study also showed that many of the 600 to 650 machiries In the Delta re^on are still being used experimentally at a -fraction of their capacity. Economists sug gest doing custom work, if the owner’s personal acreage o fcot- ton is limited. said that when you apply extra nitrogen to corn, you get more of an increase in stalks and leaves than in grain. Is this true? ANSWER: No. Recent studies conducted by the North Carolina Agrftultural Experiment Station have shown that nitrogen appli cation increases grain yields three to four times as much as the weight of stover -stalks and leaves-. In fact, the com grain represents the biggest proportion of total plant weight when the nitrogen rate is high. These stu dies showed that when no nitro gen was used, there were about three pounds of stover for each pound of grain. At the highest nitrogen rate, there was a .little less than a pound of stover for each pound of grain. QUESTION: I’ve often heard it Everyone thinks a town is getting better if the opulation increases. ■ There is not steel enough in the razor blades they are making now to interest a whisker. They just haven’t the strength to cut. Troy built from 155 population in 1895 to 1809 population in 1898. I do not understand the high prices of so many things we all have to buy for our living. Coffee for instance. The price of many things must have got hung up and can’t come down. QUESTION: My . feed dealer is selling a new dairy feeding mix ture made up largely of sweet potato meal. He tells me it’s as good as com. Is he right? ANSWER: Well, he’s pretty close to right. R. K. Waugh, head of the dairy husbandry section at State College, has just com pleted a feeding trial at Willard Branch Experiment Station with sweet potato meal. He says that except for a low protein content, dehydrated sweet potato meal is nearly equal to com in milk- producing qualities. 0 Farmers Advised To Defoiiiate Their Cotton Recent heavy rains and con tinued attacks -of boll weevils are further reasons . why farmers should begin preparing to defo liate their cotton, says J. A. Shan- klin„ Extension cotton specialist at State College. In most areas, Shanklin said, cotton is mature enough now where it would be safe to apply the defoliant. A good check to determine the time of. applica tion would be to wait until bolls expected to rr.ature ire at least 20 days old. One application of 20 to 30 pounds of cyanamid du.st per acre sho-ald be sufficient to do the job. Shanklin recommends that the dust be app'ie- d early in the morn ing before the dew has dried off the cotton plants so the defoUant will stic. t.p the leaves; Another good time ;o apply the dust is after a light rain while the plants are still wet. Any dusting equip ment that IS Suitable for using in insect control will work satisfac torily in applying the defoliant. Farmers in some of the western states have o’otained good results with some o t the liquid defoli ants, the .-pecialist said; however, there has not been enough ex perimental -.vork conducted with such spray.s ipjjg tify their 115 e. FRIGIDAIRE dealer fHr tiw imt IS; BefriseratoMr ter Heaters ai pliances. BAUC»F PlioBe 3221 - Baefoti, jL m Southern Marble Works Lumberton, N. C. 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