DISTINGUISHED
VISITOR COWING
OCTOBER 27TH
i Professor L 0. Schaud, Dean of top
Agricultural School at State College
-will spend Wednesday October 27th,
with the Clay County people. Prof.
■Schaud is spending ten days in west
ern North Carolina, studying the ex
tension work conducted there and
meeting the farm people. Prof.
Schaud represents the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture in the work done
in North Carolin , at the Agriculture
College, at the Experiment Station
an^.the. extension work done on the
field.
Professor Schaud will want to meet
the farm people of Clay County as
far as possible and to this end there
has been arranged a public meeting
at the court house at 7 o'clock. If
you want to know what the United
States Department of Agriculture
through the college; the Expirement
Farm and the Extension Forces has
to offer Clay County come to this
public gathering, hear Prof. Schaud
and make any inquiry into the work
you care to. He will explain the ex
tension work and how it is carried on,
what the county can derive from co
operating in this work.
Prof. Schaud will visit several of
the farms in the county, study the ex
tension work going on and make re
commendations what ever changes he
.-sees advisible.
Don’t forget the date, Wednesday,
October 27th, at 7:00 P. M., in the
Court House/ at Hayesville. Dr.
Schaud will explain the extension
■work. /
It will be advisible for every busl
nass man interested in the County to
impress Prq#. Schaud of the interest
taken, in Agriculture by coining out.
HOG FEEDING
Mr. W. W. Shay, Extension Swine
Specialist is spendihg the week of
October tbe^ 25th to 30th, with the
County Agent in hog feeding work.
A dozen men . have already agreed to
feed something like one hundred and
twenty-five pigs for the Auril mark
et. During this week each of these
men will be visited by the County
Agent and Mr, Shay and give specific
instructions in just how to feed hogs
for the greatest profit. Each feeder
will be expected to have on hand
some fish meal and shorts to supple
ment his com in his hog feed.
The Farmer’s Co-operative Asso
ciation has ordered fish meal and will
have it in their warehouse at the river
for the feeders. Be sure to provide
yourself with a sack of fish meal and
a couple hundred pounds of shorts
to make up your first batch of feed.
At this time when Mr. Shay and the
County Agent visit you* you will want
to weigh your pigs, make up your
batch of feed and begin your feeding
period. ^
The price of hogB looks very bright
at present as cholora is striking the
hog-belt and killing them by the
thousands, besides there is a shortage
of hogs previous to this.
WILLARD B. ANDERSON,
' County Agent.
THE POULTRY
DEVELOPMENT
IN CLAY COUNTY
Up to date there are ten poultry
houses built according to State Poul
try Extension plan. Mr. W. J. Win
chester is excavating for a poultry
house twenty by thirty feet to be
built according to the State plan^all
the material is on the ground to con
struct this poultry house> Shade
Leatherwood is already running his
brooder with a bunch of baby chicks.
Every body is scrambling for pullets
ready to go to laying and.there will
be several more commercial laying
houses built between now and cold.
weather.
For fall and winter poultry work
there will be a great number of brood
er houses built for early spring fryers.
The idea' in this Is, take day old
chicks just after the first of the year
and produce two and two and one
half pound fryers for March and
April market when the price is very
high usually around fifty cents per
pound. There are two great benefiits
to be derived from this work, it is easy
to raise chickens with brooders at
this time and you get the best re
turn for your labor of any time of
tile year. The poultry grower who
provides him-self with equipment for
.raising winter broilers will stand
ready for the raising of laying hens
in the early spring in two ways: First;
he will have these spring frys to sell
to provide him with money to get his
laying chickens and carry them thru
to a productive stage, and second,
he will have equipment and every
thing ready for his chickens. This
is the easiest and most desirable way
to get into tbe poultry business.
If you want to know what poultry
really pays inquire your neighbors
who are really ih the poultrjr business
MR. COOK GROWS
LARGE PUMPKINS
Mr. R. W. Cook, of Hayesville
Route 4, has the honor of growing
a pumpkin weighing seventy-five
pounds. If you can beat this record
trot 'em out.
.Cutting Affray At«.
Camp Saturday
John Riggins and Oscar Floyd, col.
engaged in a fight at the Highway
camps on Highway No. 28, Saturday.
Riggins cutting Floyd about the arms.
They were both placed in jail a few
hours later by Sheriff Kitchens.
CORRECTION
OF ERROR
In the last issue of this paper it
was announced that the Republican
Executive Committee hand nominat
ed W. E. Penland for Representative.
This was our error in the-intials the
candidate being E. W. Penland, more
commonly known as Witt Penland.
We regret the error and are glad to
make this correction. ,
- The boys basket ball team had its
first contest of the season with Blaire
ville last Thursday. The game was
played on the Murphy fair grounds.
Quite a large crowd firom Hayesville
were present to see their team win
by the score of 17 to 8. A clean
game was witnessed. The line-up for
Hayesville yran as follows:
Robert. Penland x, f.; Clay Rogers,
1. f.; George Garrett, C.; Pearl Cher
ry, r. g.; Prank Beal, V g. We are
ifeopeful over the good form which
hlnd lhStMm afid give them all the
Giant Camera for Airplane Work
This composite drawing and photograph shows the method of using the
“fire-mile high” camera designed at Dayton, Ohio, for the army service and
soon to be used there by Lieut. George W. Goddard. This aerial camera has
the largest photographic lens ever ground. With its aluminum mounting the
lens Is nine Inches across. A specially sensitized film Is to be used to record
light at the infra red end of the spectrum, and the actual size of each
negative Is 9 by 9 inches, with 100 exposures to the film. Photographs may
be taken from an altitude of 35,000 feet, If the plane can make It, which
should show a city thl size of Detroit to be about three Inches long In the
picture.
Do You Want Better
Prices for Your Cream?
We all want to get the very best
price possible out of our cream, so
we always have to keep on the alert
looking for this better prices. The
Carolina Creamery at Franklin is mak
ing us an excellent bid for our cream.
At present they offer us more for our
cream than we are getting. When
Highway No. 28 is completed they
offer us a proposition which is equiv
alent of a creamery or to most of us
better.
There is no creamery in North
that the highly discriminating Ashe
ville market will take. The Carolina
Creamery in Asheville'has establish
ed a plant in Franklin at which they
are making butter out of Macon
Coutny cream that will sell on the
Asheville market. They arc taking
the cream every four days there and
making a high flavored flics quality
butter which the cream taken up
every week, or two weeks absolutely
wont do. Every person knows that if
you want to sell anything you must
have a high quality product. So for
this reason the Haycsville Cream Sta
tion is going to start on October the
26th, which is Tuesday receiving
cream twice per week This well be
a little trouble for a while but by
spring H will be different andhere
will he the difference.
The Carolina Creamery will run
a truck form Bryson City through
Andrews and Murphy and follow' 28
thrpujgh HayeBville hack to Franklin,
This wilt go through the heart of
(Clay County, four ofita biggest town
ships, and will collect cream as it goes
npw that’s line isn’t it. Btat what is
the is this. This higii quality cream
tire will be putting ou)b twice per week
we will get from five to seven cents
pdr pound butter fat for our cream,
or in other words wo will be getting
the saH>e price that is paid at the
Carolina that is able to sell butter
to the wholesaler and jobbers in
Asheville. Most of the butter sold in
Asheville is bought in Kentucky and
Tennessee as this is the oniy buttei
ELF HIGH VS
HIAWASSEE
On last Friday afternoon the Elf
High School basket-ball team played
its first game of the season on its
own court, meeting and defeating
the husky Hiawasse quintet and de
feating it to the tune of 25 to 5.
Elf lost no time In piling up points
Kitchens the diminutive right forward
of the Elvins, began the fire-works
by receiving a swift pass from Hen
son, and sending it neatly through
tlie basket. This was done almost
before the spectators realized the
game was in progress. During no
period was the home team in any
grave danger of defeat. The accur
ate shooting, efficient guarding and
steady team work of the Elvins were
the main features of the game. Fos
ter of Hiawasse made the star shot of
the game, sacking the ball from near
the center of the court.
A fine grade of sportsmanship
was displayed by both teams.
The line-up and score follows:
Hiawasse . 5
Gibson, It. F. Com, L. F., 2
Bradshaw, C., 1 M oody R. G.
Foster, L. G., 2
Elf ..-. 25
Kitchens, R. F., 12 Henson L'. F. 6
Henson, C., 6 Tipton, R. G, 1
Henson, L. G.
On Saturday night, October 30th,
a box supper will be given at the Elf
School. Proceeds to be tised for
school Equipment.
They tell us that Henry Ford has
something up his sleeve. Probably
a new motor car about that site.
Anyway, a liberal party doesn’t
always band oat the most cigars.
equal to a creamery, at your door to
a great many and to the rest a cream
ery in Clay County.
.. Lets all try to put out a product
that the Carolina Creamery can make
blitter that will sell on the Asheville
market and they will pay us the very
dollar for it.
)—B. Nea Haigler in charge
Cream Station for Carolina
CHANGE IN :•#
DEMOCRATIC
M&h _LINE up
It is learned that Mr. A. M. Cole
man who was nominated by the Dem
ocratic Convention for county com
missioner will be the candidate om
the Democratic Ticket for Chairman
of the Board of Coutny Commission
ers. Mr. B. H. Martin, who was
nominated by the convention as Chair
man of the Board has voluntarily re
tired as a candidate for this position,
but is a candidate for election as
Member of the Board along with
Frank Roger of ShootingCreek.
STATE SEVENTH IN
GAS TAX RETURNS
Only Four State* in Union Not,Now
Levying Gasoline Tax
North Carolina ranked seventh i*
the collection of tax on gasoline used
in motor vehicles during the past
six months, according to figures made
public at Raleigh recently. The
State showed a total collection for
that period of $3,598,412, as com
pared with the total froin 45 states
imposing such a tax of $48,939,378.
The figures which were compiled
by experts with the United States
Department of Agriculture, indicat
ed that there are only four states in
the Union not now levying a gas tax.
They are: New York, New Jersey, Il
linois and Massachusetts. The Dis
trict of Columbia is counted as a
state in the total gas levy.
California led the .list for the first
half of 1926, showing collections of
$7,413,624. Florida, with $6,197,42
came next and was followed in order
by Ohio with $5,968,232; Pennsyl
vania, $5,252,410; Michigan with
$4,373,598; Indiana, with $4,022,264
and North Carolina, with $3,598,412.
This consumption, divided among
the 19,697,832 motor vehicles in the
U. S., registered during the six-month
period shows an average consump
tion per vehicle of 225 gallons.
Zeb Weaver to Speak
In Hayesville
Hon. Zebulon Weaver, Member of
Congress from the Tenth Congres
sional District, and candidate for re
election on the Democratic Ticket
will address the voters of Clay Coun
ty at the courthouse in Hayesville at
two o’clock P. M. on Monday, Octob
er 25th.
Lumber Dealer Dies
In Wreck of Auto
Bryson City, Oct. 16.—Thomas
Woodward, 63, well-known lumber1
dealer of this city, whor maintained
offices in Asheville and other western
North Carolina cities, was killed soon
after noon Saturday when the auto
mobile in which he was riding ran
down an embankment frdm a narrow
road just outside of Forney Creek.
Herbert Woodward, a nephew, who
was in the automobile when it sought
to pas sanother car driven by G. C.
Proctor, was injured badly and was
taken to a local hospital. Another
nephew, Jefferson Woodward, was
hurt slightly.
130-MILE HURRICANE
SMASHES OVER CUBA
Havana- was struck by the West
Indian hurricane early Thursday by
an 130 mile an hour hurricane. The
streets were flooded and littered
with debris of all ldnds. Hie storm
left Cuba headed northeast towards
Key West and the east coast of Flori
da. ■,
SISSIE” LEFT OUT
Plyler it will not
issue. We hope
In n^.walk’s.i
a large number