9
-jcey, liver, bladder and uric
^roubles are most dangerous
auseof their insidious attacks.
d the first warning they give
I they need attention by taking
LATHROP'S
.ycrld's standard remedy for these
rdrrs. will often ward off these dis
; and strengthen the body against
jcrattacks. Threesizes.alldruggists.
jfer the nam? Cold Medal on every
boi and accept no imitation
luticura Soap
? SHAVES
Without Mug
icriN1!; j'.'.efsvorirp for safety mxor shaving.
i?HlSt anu WHISKEY HABITS Successfully
iiiij 5r n?* painless method. 13th success
or. CorresDcndence confidential.
!bh! Priia'e Sanitarium. Greensboro. N. C.
|N. U.. CHARLOTTE, NO. 29--1923.
VERSIONS OF THE ROMANS
rt-rg f-'en Used Quail as Well as
Cc:ks for Popular Combats
in the Arena.
? - *.i>? -<1 quails as well as
\:i.r. Quail combats
? '??? anions the ancients,
at Athens. The Clil
al.vays extremely fond
. as appears from
<?;' those people. The
s ? use the birds in
' >>"' ;at'<*ocks,
?' ?; : :rl. fl! toil for the pur
- i. ? "!ie another to the
"v .n are frequently
? .li*it:irtn writers to
- the Detroit News.
-? ' ?!?? in w!i i c-li the birds
' :.!!??* whose quail was
'-iv h> lost the stake,
money and pc
<i':-i!!s themselves. An
?' . t t<> produce one of
? "Intr tirst filliped with
i feather was then
: - In id. If the quail
? u i'?n without flinching
- ? ??'! tin' stake, but lost
"'I ? :n TVfiV.
Trie Your.g Philosopher.
^ %npin?r was employed
[-'M "f * !i?? ?n.ns at a salary of
l**r u li?> told his employer,
j he was going to
"*? i a hotter place.
* | echoed his em
*r- "W arc you to get?" ,
a week."'
taut is n.?t as much as you get
i * (
v"" > i: ! t!i?? hoy, "hut then it's
i];? ],.<s and get so much
& to and n<* g*>t enough." i
^ Let S eeping "Dogs" Lie.
P-V m,ii are asking papa for
I *ari''. i n i'!:iy something lively on
I'-UQ...
ru'l]?r you wouldn't, dearest
' [?>'< ijih' simply can't
' *'"<?! srHl when they hear j
* tnus!^. on Evening Tran- j
DOINGS IN THE
TAR HEEL STATE
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NEWS OF WORTH CAROLINA
TOLD IN SHORT PARA
GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE
Raeford. ? Two blacks one of whom
is a negro preacher, two whites and
is an negro preacher two whites. and
tw0 Croatans, and three liquor stills,
constitute the showing by the officers
of Hoke county during the past week.
Salisbury, ? Rev. Ingram, of Stony
Point, was instantly killed at China
Grove while working on a steel struc*
ture for the Southern Power Company.
He dame in contact with a high power
voltage wire and death resulted.
Rocky Mount. ? James Craig Bras
well. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Braswell, of this city,, was drowned
at Marblehead, Mass., according to
advices received by his parents.
Durham. ? Durham County Commis
sioners signed an agreement to co
operate with the State and Federal
departments of agriculture and test
ing all the cattle in the county for
tuberculosis. The work will start the
first of August. Durham is the twenty
sixth county to join in the movement.
Hamlet. ? One of the most important
financial transactions in the history of
Hamlet occurred whtn the Page Trust
Company took over the First National
Bank. The First National Bank had
assets, according to their last state
ment, of $275,000 with deposits of over
two hundred thousand.
Henderson. ? Final agreement was
reached by the city council at its
meet-ing upon the various paving pro
jects to be undertaken under th^ third
bond issue for $200,000 to be expend
ed In street improvements. A. total
of twelve street projects will bo g'.von
hard surface pavement.
Hickory? City council retained C.
Gadsden Sayre, of Anderson S. C.,
and Raleigh, as architect for the pro
posed high school building and cut
the amount of the bond issue from
$.^00,000 to $250,000. Mr. Sayre told
the board that $225,000 woaid erect
and furnish the building, leaving $25.
000 to be spent on improvements on
the other buildings.
New Bern. ? Excitement that bord
ered on panic broke out in Mt. Calvin
negro church here when, during the
funeral service of the wife of Mile9
Spruill, pastor of the church, a section
of the floor in the rear of the audito
rium broke through and 2.000 shock
ing mourners plunged through doors
and windows seeking safety.
Charlotte. ? I^ord Lochiel, chief of
the Glen Cameron, and his wife. Lady
Hermiane. who were to arrive in this
country October 15 from Scotland,
will visit Red Springs and Flora Mae
Donald College, It was announced
here. Plans ar under way for a great
gathering at Red Springs of North
Carolinians of Scottish descent to wel
come tfce couple.
Hickory. ? Chief of Police Pink Cam
bell, of West Hickory, is in a critical
condition at a local hospital as a re
sult of knife stabs inflicted, it is; as
serted by officers, by Claude Pollard,
young white giant, as Cambell and
Policeman Ben Danner wero attempt
ing to arrest him in West Hickory.
One of the wounds is between the
heart and the liver.
Henderson? A public library t^
cost not more than,$30,0o0, and a lot
in the heart of the city on which to
build it ,is offered the city of Hender
son by Col. and Mrs. Henry Perry,
parents, and Mrs. H. L. Perry, w^'iw,
of the late Henry I/.slie Perry as a
permanent memorial to the prominent
young local attorney who died a few
weeks ago after an illness of several
years.
Sanford. ? Dr. W. C. Wicker, Elon
College educational field worker of the
Masonic order of this state, address
ed a good sized audience of the craft
and a number of visitors in the audi
torium of the We?t Sanford school
building on the subject of "The
Brotherhood of Man and the Sister
hood of Woman."
Winston-Salem. ? Richmond Brown
suffered serious sinal injury; D. W.
McCaskill internal injury, and Clay
ton McMicbael two fractured ribs
when a car in which they were riding
near Kernersville left the road,
plunged into a ditch and turned
over.
Henderson. ? Bennia Jarrell, 17, was
killed by lightning at his father's
home in Warren county, ten miles
east of here. Two of the lad's broth
ers were sitting on the porch with
him at the time and were seriously
shocked and burned.
Reidsville. ? Clyde Hodges, a youth
of Draper, was the victim of a horri
fying accident, when his left arm was
literally torn rom fthe body at the
shoulder by a pulley belt, and hurled
a distance of fifty feet.
Charlotte. ? Mr. and Mrs. W. D.
Brown, whose bodies were found In
the burned ruins of their home at Hil
ton Head, S. C., were the parents of
Mrs. D. M. Holmes, 811 North Tryon
street, here.
Henderson. ? North Carolina's new
law requiring all vehicles to stop at
railroad crossings after July 1 is not
being generally observed in this sec
tion, if reports being received here
are accurate. No arrests have been
made for violations of the statute so
far as has been learned, certainly
there have been no trials in Iocs'
courts for that offense.
Horticultural
Hints
Blackberry Plants Need
Cultivation in Summer
Blackberry plants should be kept
cultivated during the entire summer
and where they are kept cultivated
the sprouts will be kept down in the
middle of the row.
If you have not already begun to top
the young shoots or canes of the black
berry plants you should do so when
they reach a height of two and a half
or three feet. This can be done readily
by going through the patch and pinch
ing out the tops while the sprouts are
young and tender. It will be necessary
to go through the patch several times
during the summer in order to pinch
the plants back when they have
reached the proper height.
This pinching back will cause the
plants to branch and be stocky, better
able to reafct the winds, and will in
crease the fruiting wood for another
year.
The canes which bear the fruit any
one season die at the close of the har
vest. The time to remove these old
canes depends on the location or ex
posure of the planting. Ordinarily the
recommendations ar# to remove the old
canes at the end of harvest, but prac
tice has demonstrated that in exposed
windy localities the old canes protect
the young tender shoots from injury
by the wind. In cases other than this,
remove the old canes at the close of
harvest. ? By D. C. Mooring, Extension
Horticulturist, Oklahoma A. and M.
College.
Spray for Cherry Slugs
With Arsenate of Lead
The eggs from which the slugs that j
infest the cherry and plum leaves I
hatch are deposited by a black four
winged fly about as large as a com
mon house fly. The eggs are laid one
in a place and are then thrust just
beneath the epidermis of the leaf, mak
ing a pimple about the size of a small
pinhead.
The slugs are easily destroyed by j
spraying with arsenate of lead, or |
white hellebore, as soon as they begin
to appear. If there are cherries I |
would not advise using the arsenate of j
lead late in the season, on account of j
the danger of poisoning those who eat j
the fruit. The white hellebore, lightly ,
dusted over the leaves, or put in water
in the proportion of an ounce to 3 gal
lons, and sprayed on the leaves, will
kill the slugs and not poison those who
eat the cherries.
The slugs may also be killed by
spraying with Black-Leaf 40, a good |
teaspoonful to a gallon of water, or a
pint in 100 gallons. ? C. P. Gillette,
Colorado State Entomologist.
Fourth Spray Helps in
Controlling Apple Pest
R. S. Mackintosh, specialist in hor
ticulture for the agricultural exten
sion division of Minnesota university,
sends out notice that the fourth spray
to assist In controlling the apple mug
got shouli be applied about July 20.
As th? adult flies do not all appear
at the same time, It is necessary to
keep the foliage covered with poison.
Ordinarily it is advisable, says Mr. 1
Mackintosh, to leave a few trees un- ?
sprayed in order to check up results,
but with the apple maggot it is safer
to spryy all tin* trees. If there Is
sufficient arse *<? of lead present, j
the insects are killed.
Minnesota orchardists are showing ,
a preference for the standard liquid
lime sulphur, says Mr. Mackintosh, j
"One of our orchardists used the
liquid last season while his neighbors
used the dry," he says, 'but they lost
so much from ?he scab that this year
they are using the liquid. It has been
found necessary in Michigan orchards
to use five or six pounds of the dry j
per 50 gallons of water to equal the
liquid."
Proper Thinning Tends
to Improve Apple Crop
Proper thinning reduces the number,
but the remaining fruit becomes so
much larger in size that the yield Is j
practically as much. Besides this the j
fruit is nearly all marketable at a !
good price.
1 Thin apples (Then about one Inch In
diameter, removing all apples at the
ends of branches. Where two or more
apples ate attached to the same fruit
spur, only the best one should be left.
If the spurs are too close together,
remove all th* apples from some of
them, so that the fruit is five, 3lx and ;
sometimes eight inches apart. Al
ways remove the smallest and most in
ferior fruit.
Some do all the thinning by hand,
twisting the apples off backward, be
ing careful not to Injure the one that
remains. This tedious job is aidfcd by ,
a pair of thinning shears, especially
when the frtit Is thick, as the apples
can be clipped off without disturbing
others.
Potatoes Help Trees.
If you can possibly spare them, put
a few potatoes under each tree around
the roots. The rotting potatoes fur
nish moisture and some plant food. If
they grow, let them, but do not at
tempt to dig the potatoes.
Control Fire Blight.
Fire blight is easier to control than
most people believe, only it requires
the utmost vigilance and careful
watching, together with the prompt re
moval of all blighted limbs as soon ai
! they appear.
Farmer Can Make Money
by Culling Farm Flock ;
Each year a nice little profit could 1
be made by the average farmer by j
giving his hens a little study and cull
ing out the poor layers, thus allowing
more room for the good layers, saving
on feed, labor, time and closer atten
tion.
The good poultryman will cull his
flock the year round beginning at in
cubation, but for the farmer who
doesn't make poultry raising a busi
ness, and wants to make it a profit
able side line, one thorough culling
each year will increase the production
average of his flock. About the middle
of the mating period is the proper
time to give your flock a good culling.
This will vary with different flocks,
but usually comes in the middle of
July, August, September, and the first
part of October. The characteristics
which distinguish the poor layer from
the good are most evident at this time.
The poor producer will not lay during
the fall and winter months. A care
ful culling at this time will reduce
the feed bill but not the egg pro
duction.
Culling pullets is based on an esti
mate of the future production of the
bird. Culling hens is based on her
past performances.
A careful culling of your pullets
just before they start the laying sea
Bon will Improve the production of
your flock. The pullets that mature ,
early, showing best body development
and redness of comb, should be saved, i
I'ullets that are undersized, lacking |
vigor, deformed or hatched too late ,
for winter production should be culled.
Select pullets with prominent eyes,
broad back with the width well car
ried to the tail, broad head and a
deep rectangular body.
To cull a flock right each bird must
be handled. In order to save time and
enable one to go through a large flock
of birds in a short while some means
for catching tho hens should be ar
ranged. A coop or crate open at one
end so the hens may be driven through
a small door in the hen house into the
coop is <1 good method. If the coop
has an opening in the top so the birds
can be lifted out, you can cull the
whole flock with little disturbance and
quickly.
Molting Is one Important point to
'consider When a hen molts she has
finished her laying season. The early
molters, that is, the hen that molts
In July, August and September. Is a
pocfr producer. ? Phil H. Hayes, Exten
sion Poultryman, Oklahoma A. and M.
College.
Only Quality Eggs Get j
High Prices in Summer 1
Egg markets of the country are over- j
loaded at this season of the year, and
thus eggs are sold on a quality basis
and not simply as eggs.
And because eggs are not "Just eggs"
these days, and because quality eggs are
the only ones that get the prices, the j
wise poult ryman takes every step to
put a super egg on the market. J
Quality eggs are produced by taking '
the male birds out of the pens as soon
as breeding is over and being very par- j
ticular to keep broody hens off the
nests, for a "setting" hen can start the
process of incubation after a- few 1
hoiirs.
R. E. Cray, assistant poultry special- '
1st at the New Jersey State college,
suggests also that eggs be gathered
twice a day and kept in a cool, dry,
clean place. Eggs should be shipped
often and in clean, dry cases with good
fillers. A ruoldy filler will spoil the
quality of the entire case of eggs. He
further adds:
Keep the nests dry and clean, as
washed eggs will not keep very long in
warm weather.
' Cover the eggs up when on the way
to the station and keep them out of the
gun at all times.
Be sure to grade more carefully dur
ing this season If you would get high
prices.
Always Catch Ducks and
Drakes by Their Necks
To pick up grown ducks and drakes,
always catch a bird by the neck in a
firm grasp. Never pick up a duck by
the body. If you do, you will make
trouble for yourself arrd the 'duck. You I
are liable to bend or twist, or dislocate,
or break the bonaa of the wings and
legs. You can carry three or four
ducks, or more, as many as you can
lift, between two hands, in front of
your body. Do not be- afraid of stran
gling the ducks, or breaking th&r
necks.
In Shipping Live Birds
Uniformity Is Big Factor
When shipping live birds, sort them
as to size, age, color and sex, and1
don't crowd the coops. The buyer will
always pay more for uniformity in
color and size, because these factors
appeal to his eye, just as good food
daintily served appeals to the palate.
Poor Place for Chicks.
Ground where last year's chick* died
Isn't good ground fpr this year's chick*
Move the coops and brooders
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Hog-Growing Contests
Make Better Breeders
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
I log-growing contests In which the
object is to make a litter weigh a ton
when six months old have demonstrat
ed the soundness of the recommenda
tions on breeding, feeding and manage
ment which have long, been made by
the various state department stations
and the United States Department of
Agriculture. In one of these contests
conducted last year by the Indiana
Live Stock 'Breeders'1 association 555
farmers enrolled and 33 of them raised
30 litters which weighed 2,000 pounds
or more at the end of 180 days.
The Important facts for pig pro
ducers to remember, says E. Z. Russell,
in charge of swine investigations for
the United States Departmeut of Agri
culture, is that all of the winning lit-'
ters were farrowed and suckled In
clean quarters ; all were sired by pure
bred boars; 28 of the dams were pure
bred, 6 were high-grades and 2 cross
breds ; none of the 36 litters contained
fewer than 10 pigs; and all of them
were farrowed by old sows. On the
average, therefore, the pigs in these
record litters weighed 200 pounds when
they had reached the tender age of
six months. *
Many states are holding similar con
tests this year, says the department,
and it is expected that the results will
make a large number of converts to
the principles and practices of better
breeding, feeding and care, not only
for hogs, but for all kinds of farm ani
mals.
Horses Are Annoyed by
Botfly Pest in August
During August, horses are annoyed
to u considerable extent by the pres
ence of botflies. These flies are about
the size of honeybees, and are most
annoying to horses' legs.
Botflies deposit small yellow eggs,
and cement them to hairs at the time
they are laid. During the late fall and
early winter the eggs enter the horse's
mouth. Later the eggs hatch in the
stomach, and develop into the larval
form known as bots. They attach
themselves to the lining of the stom
ach, where they remain and consume I
some of the nutriment that should J
nourish the horse. During late spring
and early summer the bots pass out in I
the manure. They at once burrow Into
the. ground, where they undergo
I changes in their life cycle, and soon
emerge as fully developed botflies.
| Bots produce no definite symptoms,
neither is there any satisfactory treat
ment that can be applied. Prevention
is easy, and practicable to a consider
able extent. Every few days during
the fall months all hairs should be
clipped off that contain eggs of bot- |
files. By thus reducing the number of i
eggs the number of bots will be re- '
duced.
Pigs on Rape Pasture
Require Some Tankage
Tests in hog feeding conducted Jby
W. L. Robison of the Ohio experiment
station show an advantage of feeding
some tankage as a supplement to corn
j to pigs on rope pasture. Some farm
( ers have believed that rape pasture
alone is a satisfactory supplement for (
corn.
Pigs weighing 36 pounds and fed a j
, ration of corn 19, tankage 1, parts by
weight, for 18 weeks on rape pasture
weighed 171 pounds at the end of the
experiment.
A similar lot of pigs full fed on
corn alone but on rape pasture for 18
weeks made a final weight of 146
pounds.
The average daily gain for tlje tank
age-fed group Is 1.1 pounds and nine
tenths of a pound for the lot full fed
on corn alone.
The tests show that rape Is a valu
able pasture for swine, but It will not
fully supplement a full-fed ration of
corn.
Self-Feeders for Swine
Fattening Reduce Cost
Wherever labor can be saved on the
farm and results accomplished Just as
satisfactorily, by all means save th?
labor. Results of experiments at the
University of Missouri College of Agri
culture with self-feeders for fattening
hogs show that those eating from a
self-feeder gain more rapidly than
those depending on the hand-feeding
methods. The amount of feed neces
sary to produce a pound of pork re
mains practically the same, but the
amount of labor Is usually reduced. It
Is this decrease in labor which enters
as a factor in cheapening the cost of
producing pork.
Profitable to Provide
Plenty Shade and Water
It Is a profitable practice to pro
vide plenty of shade and water for the
hogs. While trees furnish the best
shade a simple sun protection in the
form of a straw or brush roof sup
ported by posts will be satisfactory
for tills purpose If left open at the
sides. The hog is not equipped with
sufficient sweat glands for cooling
purposes and needs this help during
j the heat of summer.
Summer Find Yon Miserable?
It's hard to do one's work when
even* day brings morning lameness,
throbbing backache, and a dull,, tired
feeling. If you suffer thus, why not
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bladder irregularities may give further
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night to pass the
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pains shot
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