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Poole’s Medley
BY D. SCOTT POOLE
The showers which broke the
drought last week were accom-
pani^ by hail and wind in sev
eral communities,, doing consider
able damage.
I have noticed for years that
dry weather spells were broken
by clouds which carried hail.
Hailstorms are mysterious to me
—do not know the why.
The older I get the more I
value and love the Sandhills, but
that word should be written in
two words;^and and Hills, noted
for .beauty.
The crops that have not been
destroyed have increased and are
fine. It is worth while to drive
over Hoke County and take a
look at the growing and ripening
crops.
Clay is not so far 'away, nor so
deep, and these ditches in the
Sand Hills show that. Where it
looks like a sand bank, there is
a clay foundation.
It is amusing to hear the prices
of cotton quoted over the radio.
It drops back to much lower
quotations for March than in Oc
tober.
These combines have put the
old time threshing machines out
of business, but we boys looked
forward to the wheat threshing
and 4he cornshucking. We feasted
for days.
There is a good crop of peaches
this year, and of apples. The
freezer locker people should do
a good business this season. They
keep fruit and vegetables fresh.
The first town fire I ever saw
was J. Reece Blair’s barn in Troy
one Sunday afternoon. He had
his horse and buggy removed and
let it burn.
Occasionally a house burned,
but a fire started in Nance’s feed
barnloft in a pile of hay. I saw it
and gave the alarm, some fellow
smoking. Two residences, a hotel
and four stores burned, and most
of the goods.
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The best fire fighting I have
seen was in Troy when Spike
Morris’ hotel was burned, one
Sunday in November, 1900. 1
think it was. A bunch of citizens
kept the courthouse from burn
ing, and the lightwood pile, too.
There were two two-room of
fices behind Allen’s store and
hotel and we kept them from
burning. One of them and the
lightwood pile caught fire but it
was put out before it started burn
ing.
When the Morris store, post-
office and rugstore were burned
the fire fighters saved other
buildings by keeping them wet.
Building materials are scarcer
and more expensive, and fires
seem more frequent, but we get
the news these days. That is the
.liggest change of any.
Our newsgatherers are a won-
ter. We get news from the war
-ore sometimes within two hours
tier it occurred. The destruction
'f life is about as fast.
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These tractors are going to re
duce the number of horses and
mules in use on the farms, for a
tractor can do as much plowing
in a day as ten horses or mules.
A horse or dog can be a true
and tried friend, gnd not many
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tROLINA PO^
will do away with them altogether.
President Truman seems anxi
ous to have his views presented
to the people. Th^ have had some
of that off and on, long enough
to know them.
There is a great, difference in
getting a living from fields clear
of stumps and roots, and from
fields recently cut out from the
forests.
Singing as the music is written
is an accomplishment worth
while, and it is a delight to hear
good singing. Praise is as needful
as prayer, though many do not
take in the worship of song and
praise.
The old time singing class was
a great help. At both Jackson
Springs and at Bensalem churches
they often had singing schools,
and as a rule, they had splendid
singing at the preaching services.
GARDEN TIME
By Robert Schmidt
.Ms.0, they do not know how acid
their soil is. It is foolLsh to add
■ me to soil if you do not know
that it needs lime or that crops
to be' grown require more lime.
Lime reduces soil acidity. Most
vegetable crops will thrive in
slightly acid" (pH 6 to 6.7) soils
but there are a number of them
that will not thrive at all in very
acid (pH 4.5 to 5.0) soils. These
are asparagus, spinach, onions,
celery, lettuce, beets, muskmelons,
cauliflower, broccoli, parsnips,
okra, and salsify. Crops such as
beans, cucumbers, watermelons,
com, sweet potatoes, Irish po
tatoes and tomatoes are quUe tole
rant of very acid soils—in fact,
it is desirable for watermelons.
It is also desirable to grow Irish
potatoes on quite acid soils to pre
vent the development of potato
scab, a serious disease which is
made worse by lining the soil.
The soil testing laboratory of
the N. C. Department of Agricul
ture, Raleigh, will test your soil'
free of charge and tell yon how
much li.m.c ‘.o jse. That leaves m
excusje for nor knowing the cor
rect acid.'.y of your soil. Take
samples by slicing the soil with a
spade or trowel to a depjh of four
to six inches which will give you
soil from the top as well as lower
down. Thoroughly mix and send
about one pint to the laboratory.
If your garden is large take sam-
It possible thfrt
agent has equipment Sot
simple soil tests.
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While we' are between crops, in
a sense, we should be thinking
of ways to improve our garden
soils. Much needed organic mat
ter may be added through the
use of stable manures or summer
and fall green crops to be turned
under. These materials will make
heavy soils easier to work an'"
will give sandy soils a better
water-holding capacity and along
with that, there is the added fer
tility. But what I wish to talk
about is soil acidity and the use
of lime. Many gardeneres do not
understand the proper use o"’
lime because they do not know
the needs of the individual crops.
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Buick’s newest engine—
the F-263 Fireball-
gives this year’s SPECIAL
the highest power in SPECIAL history
Remember-only BUICK has a
Firebau Bmgime
W E get a chuckle, sometimes,
over all the fuss that’s being
made about “new engines.”
You’ll note that the key feature of
their design in every case is the
valve-in-head principle—whether
these engines are already in produc
tion or still in the dream stage.
Fact is, it takes this design to get
the most from “high compression”
—and how high you can go depends
upon the available fuel. Using this
design, wartime airoraft engines
operated on 100 octane gasoline.
It also takes this design to get the
more-miles-per-gallon which folks
like in an automobile. .
So what gives us a chuckle is this:
^fo other type of engine has ever
been used in a Buick—which means
that Buick owners, all along, have
WhflR you com* to check Iho Sold youH
And that there's a sweet freedom from
roughness to this engine's operation—trac
ing to th# fact that iho wholo mochanism
itself Is engineered smooth, and tho further
fact that overy fireball Ingino gets o
Micropoise bolondng offer ossomUy.
been getting a lot of things that
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day’s Fireball Engine has one standout
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That name “Fireball” isn’t just a
trick word. It describes ‘ what
happens in this engine. Inrushing
fuel rolls into a swirling ball of
gasoline vapor compacted around
the spairk plug. And when the fat
spark Sets it off, a cyclone of power
lets go.
Of course, a Fireball Engine, being
a valve-in-head, keeps pace with
high-test fuel, when it comes to
“high compression.”
But what’s more important in tha
present state of the world is ^St
A Fireball Engine is designed to handle
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