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Thursday, April 25, 1912.] him through the university, send him abroad, bring him back home, head and shoulders above his friends and neighbors, but he won’t be very high when he is head and shoulders above his neighbors if his neighbors are ig norant and untaught and weak. You cannot get the best out of your boy unless other people’s boys are educat ed nearly or quite as well as your boy; you have got to get the best out of your boy by competing with other boys that are near about as good as he is but not quite. If you want to get the best out of a horse, do you put that horse on the track by him self? By no manner of means. How did you break the record below two minutes? Training Horses. “When they began training horses away back yonder when I was a boy they got him down to 2:40, and the record stayed at 2:40 so long until it became a proverb, when they say a man started to the devil by the short road that he was going at a 2:40 gait. How did they get it below 2:40? Did they train one horse? No. They trained 10,000 horses, all over the world, until they found one that broke it at 2:38, and then they train ed 10,000 more until they found one that broke it at 2:36, and then 10,000 more until they brought it step by step and step by step until they got it down to two minutes, and when they got it down to two minutes and half a Second, they trained 10,000 other horses, and some man said, T have found one horse that I think will do it,’ and did they put her on the race track by herself? No; they put her on the race-track and put a boy on the running horses, and put the run ner behind her, and with whip and spur he pressed her, pressed her, strong in her determination that she Would win the day, that she would give up the last breath she had be fore this running horse should beat her under the wire, and so in one grand last burst of speed she went nnder the wire, in less than two niinutes with the runner at her heels. Your boy is going to run a race; he Wants to run a race with the race horse and not with a scrub. (Ap plause.) “Suppose he can outrun his neigh- i^or. If his neighbor can’t make more fhan two miles an hour he is not run ning much, is he? Suppose he does stand head and shoulders above his Psighbor. If his neighbor is not P^ore than five feet high he is not all. Suppose he can throw his neighbor ^own, but his neighbor can’t lift more than twenty-five pounds, your boy is Pot much strong. Oh, no; if you want the best for your boy, thank God, you have got to believe in this splendid, Sfand democracy and give to my boy, Ppfi other people’s boys, the same op portunity that your boy has got, and *f then your boy outruns our boys in ^he race, he will be a winner that is "'Orth while and he will be some thing that is worth being proud of. Going to Educate Your Girl. “You are going to educate your I know you are. You are going sit up all night to educate her; you ^^0 going to save to educate her; go- PS to economize; going to be stingy P educate her. Maybe you want her to Piake a musician. Well, 1 am go- , IX ill il 01^1 Clli • VV X CXlll o'-' |Pg to tell you. You can send her to th p school; you can let her burn the - you OitU lei, uci uuiii me midnight oil; you can let her study Ppd PI' great musicians until she is Plpiost blind; you can send her to the ^Ppservatory of music, you can send abroad until her whole soul ^^ills and feels that glory of her fted music, but she cannot make Psic to people that do not under- PPd. You cannot talk to an audi- ^Pp that cannot hear. Governor, did p‘er try it? Well, I have. When I was Governor I made speeches all over North Carolina, I canvassed the State for four years in behalf of the education of the children of the State, right straight along; sometimes on Sundays they would ask me down to the churches to talk, and I always talked about education. Often, how ever, I spoke to audiences which did not hear. Have you ever had that experience. Governor O’Neal?’’ Governor O’Neal bowed and smil ed. In a weak voice. Governor Ay- cock continued: “However, I have determined, if such a thing is possible, to open the doors of the school to every child With these words Governor Ay- cock collapsed and was dead in a few minutes. BIG POWER PLOWS IN LEE AND MOORE. Messrs. John H. Kennedy nad J. L. Tull were in town Monday. They informed us that the big plow which has been shipped by the National Harvester Company to the Egypt Im provement Company of Cumnock, was set.up and made ready for operation last week. This is the largest plow of its kind in the State. The outfit weighs 43,000 pounds. This is a gang disk plow and is pulled by a 45- horse power Mogul traction engine. There are eight 28-inch disks on the plow. Each one cuts 10^/4 inches, making seven feet for the eight disks. Cutting seven feet at each trip is plowing some and sounds like farm ing in the West. This plow can be so regulated thr.t it can cut to a depth of fifteen inches, and its manufac turers claim that it can be made to reach a capacity of twenty acres a day. The running works of the plow contains four wheels and two seats. An expert has been sent to Cumnock by the manufacturers to put the plow in operation this week. Mem bers of the company are to come to Cumnock and be present at a demon stration and test which will be made next week. The Egypt Improvement Company is not to take the plow un less it will do what its manufactur ers claim for it. Mr. A. J. Jones, one of the most successful farmers in Moore County, has a gang disk plow pulled by a trac tion engine, but not so large as this one. He finds it a paying investment and a valuable piece of machinery for farming on a large scale. Mr. Tufts is testing one of these big plows on his farm near Pinehurst. The tests and experiments with the one at Cumnock will be watched with interest by the farmers of this sec tion. While they may never buy as heavy a plow as this, yet there is coming a change in the method of farming in this section of the coun try and our farmers have come to realize that the labor problem must be solved by heavier and more im proved farm machinery. To carry on deep plowing our farmers need heavier and better stock. They should not be satisfied at breaking and pre paring their land for seeding with a one-horse plow. It has been demon strated that in preparing land for planting, deep plowing is the thing that counts.—Sanford Express. Tubes made of stiff paper and placed around tender plants will pro tect them from cut-worms which work at night. The paper should extend two inches below the surface of the ground. 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