POLK COUNTY NEWS
C. BUSH, Publisher
H. M: FRASER. Editor
Phone 99,
Published every Thursday at
Tryon, North Carolina
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It is expected that some definite
action will be taken soon by the
Board of Trade of Tryon and the
citizens of the County to cooperate
with Western North Carolina, Inc.,
in developing this region.
A good newspaper helps to make
a good community but the editor
needs the cooperation of the com
munity to build a good newspaper.
Better bulls and better feeding are
the two main needs of the dairy in
dustry in North Carolina, was the
verdict of the livestock men at
Hickory last week.
Tom Tarheel says that if the aver
age production ^of milk by the cows
of North Carolina is only about 3.000
pounds per year and the eight class
class leaders winning the silver cups
for high production averaged about
11,000 pounds this past year, there
must surely be something to this
pure bred business after all.
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Interesting Trips For
Winter Visitors!
GOLF COURSE ? A real beauty spot j
with mountains on three sides. .
Log Cabin club house. Mountain
stream entire length of course
making seven natural water haz- 1
ards. Walk, motor or carriage.
Wm. GILLETTE'S OLD HOME? |
"Mount of a thousand Pines." A j
nice walk, or by carriage, motor, |
or horseback. If vou "hike" be I
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sure to return by the Brook Walk, j
PACOLET VALLEY?
Upto Melrose Station and Pierson j
Falls. AcroSs the wonderful gorge.
Beautiful scenery all the way.
About two hours by carriage, or
Can be made by horseback or
motor.
SKYUKA ? The old deserted Inn on
top of White Oak Mountain. A
gorgeous all day trip, with out
door dinner of broiled beef steak,
coffee and all the "fixings" cooked
over the open fire. Carriages and
horseback only on this trip.
LUDLUMS ? On White Oak Moun
tain. This is an all day trip. Hot j
dinner served by Mrs. Ludlum on I
porch of cabin. Be sure to have"
her show you the hand loom and
the jbeautiful work she does on
it. Must let her know how many
are coming. Carriages and horse
back only.
RIX HAVEN ? On top of Tryon
Mountain. Through Howard Gap,
named for general Howard, who
with the help of the trusty Indian
guide, Skyuka defeated the Chero
kee nation in 1776. Here a momu
ment has been erected in his
honor. Over the mountains, down
the valley on the other side, then a
gradual climb up to Rix Haven. An
all day trip with out-door dinner.
Carriage and horseback only.
HOG BACK MOUNTAIN? A most
rugged all day trip on horseback,
though it is possible for carriages
to make it. Out-door dinner and
marvelous views from top of old
Hog Back.
CHIMNEY ROCK ? An all day trip
with luncheon at "Cliff Dwellers"
Club. on the Rock. Or two days
trip by horseback staying over !
nigfct at "Cliff Dwellers" and re
turning next day. A Journey
never to Be forgotten.
PI8GAH NATIONAL FORREST?
Second highest point east of the
Rockies. A two days trip by
motor, spending the night at Pis
gah National Forest Inn, returning
past Mrs. Geo. Vanderbilt's lodge
on the mountain and down
through Asheville. Be sure to in
quire about one way Government
roads in Pisgah Forest, before
leaving Pine Crest Inn.
SPARTANBURG or GREENVILLE?
An afternoon motor trip thrpugh
the cotton fields of South Carolina
to these rival cities. Excellent
roads all the way.
ASHEVILLE ? A splendid all day
trip by motor, thru the valleys and
over the mountains. Excellent
roads. Have luncheon at the
Manor. Visit Grove Park Inn and
the Asheville Country Club. Re
turn by way of Biltmore Forest
.and the Biltmore Forest Club.
OTHER HORSEBACK TRIPS of
ENTIRE DAY: ? Glassy Rock, Rocky
Spur; Hubert Cove, and Salud*
River Ride. Also the new Green
River Dam, which may be made
by motor.
SHORT DRIVES and RIDES:? Hem
lock Shoals, Melrose Falls, Mel
rose Mountain, Clark Mountain,
and Lynch Farm and Lake, and
many others.
[Farm Federation
News and Reviews
By P4 C. Sguires
LETTUCE BED INSPECTION
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i The manager made his first inspec
: tion of planted Iceberg lettuce beds
onFriday of last week. Three beds
were visited one of them by special
i request. It was some two weeks
earlier than we had planned to be
gin our inspection but it was a
pleasure as well as a duty, especial
ly when the request came from out
good friend Mr. J. F. Black. The
day was nearly spent when the call
came over the telephone, and the
sun was just dropping behind the
mountains when we alighted from
Mr. Blacks car at Bon-Air.
If we find every lettuce bed in as
good condition and aa promising as
Mr. Blacks there will be millions of
Icdberg lfcWucc plants in Polk Coun
ty for the early spring setting. We
were glad to be able to pronounce
Mr. Blacks lettuce bed 100 per cent
perfect.
..But the fine lettuce beds was not
the only attraction at Bon-Air. The
beautiful bed of chrysanthemums of
many colors could be seen before
crossing the river. We saw an as
paragus bed that netted Mr. Black
at the rate of close to one thousand
dollars per acre, and grape vines of
last spring planting with a growth
of nine and a half feet
The lettuce (beds of Mr. Howes
and also that of Mr. Edwards will
run a close second to Mr. Blacks in
point of excellence. We hope that j
before this news item is read Mr.
Howes has succeeded in trapping ,
the pesky mole that was making tun
nels thru his lettuce bed.
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COMMERCIAL PEACH GROWING
We were favored on Tuesday of i
last week with a visit form Mr. M. j
R. Niswonger. Extension Hortieul- j
turalist of the^gpartinen of Agri
culture. Mr. Niswonger believes
that commercial peach growing
could be made very profitable in !
Polk County. We are of the same
opinion, and would like to see a co
operative effort made to plant a
large acreage, working along the
same lines the lettuce campaign has !
been conducted. The fine peaches
that have been grown in various
parts of the county in a limited way
should be convincing evidence that j
there is nothing lacking In soil and
climatic conditions.
There are few farmers in Polk
County who could not find suitable !
soil and location on their farms for
one quarter acre to an acre or more
of peach trees. Set eighteen feet
apart 134 trees would be required !
for one acre. The cost of trees for
an acre would be very small as we
could purchase them for the 'farmer
at wholesale prices. Truck crops
could be grown between the tree
rows for several years, or until the
orchard came in to bearing.
The shipping season would probab
ly come in near the close of the
Sand Hills crop, which woul f)e very
favorable as thre are few peaches
grown commercially between North
Carolina and Maryland. The writer
I has picked a peck of the early
Rochester peach from trees se three
years, and has seen the Bell of
Georgia variety produce a Georgia
carrier crate of peaches on trees set
four years. These peaches sold
readily at four dollars per crate.
We have seen peaches grow along
the shores of Lake Ontario in Can
ada which netted the growers five
hundred dollars per acre. If peaches
can be grown successfully and profi
tably in the Dominion of Canada,
surely the farmers of Polk County
North Carolina should do as well.
THE VALUE OF HUMUS
It is hard, to impress fanners and
gardeners the great value of humus.
It is one of the greatest possible
factors in contributing to the fertil
ity of the soil. It has well been said
that humus in the soil makes it
warmer in the winter, cooler in the
summer, dryer in wet weather, ^nd
moister in dry weather. The soil
you have selected for .your Iceberg
lettuce must have humus, and if it is
not there in sufficient quantity you
must put it there. If thre Is vegeta
tion of anykind plow it under, better
stil spread any kind of animal ma.
nure on the land and plow it under
with the vegation, then spread preci
pitated lime at the rate of one ton to
two tons per acre.
At this time of the year we sea
many bon fires of weeds, leaves, etc.
all such material is worth as much
as straw to be thoroughly composted
and used on the soil as humus.
Straw is considered for such pur
pose as worth eight to ten dollars
per ton, and fallen leaves are good.
One of the first things a prospective
farm buyer inquires about on the
eastern shore of Virginia Is the pine
thicket. If you traveled over the
New York Philadelphia and Norfork
Railroad this month you would see
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the sweet potatoe farmers hauling
pine straw, leaves and leaf mold
from the woods and spreading on
the land that has been selected for
their sweet potatoe- crop for 1924.
All this material costs them is the
gathering and it went a long way to
ward producing the one million bar
rel sweet potato crop grown in the
two counties of Accomac and North
hampton a corp which required five
thousand cars to move to the north
ern markets. Some of the Accomac
county pine thickets are raked and j
scraped and clean in the fall of the J
year as many kitchens the writer
haR seen. There Virginia farmers
know the value of humu?. The good
Lord has been spreading humus in
these woods and mountains for a
million years. Why don't you Polk
County formers get busy and use
some of it.
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To Whom It May Concern.
Mr. P. C. Squires, Manager of the
Farmers Warehouse, Tryon, N. C.,
has had long and large experience in
handling and shipping holly, galax
anil other Southern Evergreens to
Northern markets. Farmers, and es
pecially those of the mountain sec
tions who have such evergreens
might do well to get in touch with
Mr. Squires; who can handle such
things in car lots.
Respectfully,
J. R. SAMS, County Agent.
Forty years' experience as a farm
er may mean little. Some of the old
est farmers are the poorest, while
some of the youngest are very suc
cessful.
Hie wise driver will stop, look and
listen, and then take another look
when he comes to a grade crossing.
A man can do much better work ;
after he comes back from his vacation
and gets through talking about it.
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If youth, by its carryings-on, didn't i
cause so much knocking, crabbed age
wouldn't get near enough exercise.
If all women were beautiful, the ]
kitchen and dining room problem Ij
would be a very painful one for father, j I
The man who stole a top trom an
automobile la getting ready for a com
fortable winter, either In his car or Im
JalL
About the only nation that aeemi to
have any Influence In the matter of
German reparations if procrastina
tion.
Since custom requires men to wear I
coats, it isn't surprising that the word !
is pronounced with the accent on the i
"cus."
The moderns think they are rough
ing It in the wilds when they place the
car cushions right ont on the bare
ground.
Lots of people think they are fight- >'
Ing for their rights when they are I
fighting simply because they talked
too much.
As time goes on It begins to appear
that what the consumer should have i
done was lay in a ten years' supply of
coal in 1921.
? woman's agO Is the Issue in a law
suit. She could settle it, of course,
but cannot be compelled to Incrimi
nate herself.
An egg Is accepted as admission ia
some theaters in Hungary. What sort
of an ogg one paya to see a punk play
Is not specified.
Nothing is sacred to science. It la
proposed to change the expressive
"straight as a bee line" into "straight
as a radio line."
The reason dictated letters always
sound more Impressive is because a
man feels free to use words he doesn't
know how to spell.
The country la becoming much more |
prosperous. Every pig you run over
on a country road is a registered thor- '
oughbred worth $75.
It's only the people who live
near the boulevard stops, of course,
who think that the automobillsts ought
to grease their brakes.
The giraffe probably feels that na
ture, In giving It a tongue 18 inches
long and withholding from it the power
of speech, had a lot of neck.
States should be ablt to get along
with smaller institutions for the
feeble-minded now that io many of
that class are behind steering wheels.
More Scotch emigrants are now com
ing to the United States than go to
Canada, perhaps because there are
enough golf couraes in this country to
make it look like homo.
While surgeons have succeeded with
wireless amplifiers In ma nifying
heart beats, nothing haa been brought
ont yet to enlarge upon a man's will
ingness to attack the sitting room j
ruga.
Another disagreeable feature of the |
waning summer la the way in which |
other people always want to bore us 1
by telling us about their vacations, j
Instead of listening to us tell themj
about ours.
!0ur bargain Basement is still goinp
and will continue to go. TWe have" )Jar.
gains in domestics, bleached and un.
bleached, outings, ginghams, charnbrays
| clothing, shoes, hats, gloves, ties towels'
I handkerchiefs, hosiery, underwear, shirts'
| waists, skirts, sweaters, knitted caps and
! knitted scarfs.
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| It is impossible to name prices on all these as
I there are a variety of each style but we do name a
? few prices below.
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One lot of shoes for $1.69, one lot $2.48, one lot $2.98, one lot $3.79
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For Ladies
Boys' Suits $1.95, $2.48 and up.
P. B. Overcoats $6.00. B.
Dress Coats $3.50 and $4.50
Suits $11-48, $18.50- $17.50,
$20.00 and up.
Hats $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00.
One lot Suits ' at $4.48, one lot
$6.50 and up.
A big lot of House Dresses at 88c
Unbleached Domestics "J 1c yd. wide.
Bleached Domestics yd. wide, 12c.
Ginghams 10c and up. Outings 27 in.,
20c., 3 G inch best quality. 22 1-2c.
Hickory Shirtings, good quality, 3 yards, 57c the piece.
One lot -of Ladies' Coats, .values up to $27.50 for $9.S5.
6 ROC E R I ES
Flour $5.90 per bbl., the best grade. Lard $1.25 per bucket. Suga^
1 Pounds to the $1.00- Coffee, good grade. Five Pounds for the $1.00
* Sacks Hulls, $1.15, C. S. Meal, $2.45> Hay, $1.65.
Don't overlook the Automobile tickets. We are
going- to give an Automobile away soon now.
tickets for what you trade cash for or pay on ac
count.
Why should you go elsewhere for your merchandise ant! pay
more?
The Ballenger Company
FOR EVERYTHING