Senator Sam Lattimore Tells Union
County Folks Inside of Farm Progress
Says Union Could Be Banner County of State If Idle Lands Were
Used And Fertilizer Increased-Praises
Cleveland
(S. R. Bivens in Monroe Journal)
If the cleared land in Union coun
ty were growing cotton at anything
like its maximum capacity Union
county would be the banner county in
the State in value of cotton produced
each year. This is the opinion of a dirt
farmer of Cleveland county who has
made a success with cotton and one of
a group of leaders making Cleveland
county roach out for sixty thousand
bale crop. Cleveland county woul >
have mp.de that much this year witn
anything like favorable sacsons.
The man who makes this statement
is Senntoy Sam Lattimorc, who has
been all over Union county lately as'
on anpraising agent of the Durham !
Joint Stock Land Bank. Mr. Latti
more lr a college bred man of about j
thirty-live years of age. lie caught
the fanning spirit, and having been j
reared on a farm, laid down every- !
thing else and went back to the farm,!
believing that With modern methois |
there, was more opportunity there
than anywhere else for him. He is !
serving temporarily as an appraise! ]
by reason of having the job pushed J
on him so to speak. He is anxious to :
get back to his farming operations.
He has three tractors but does not I
urge their use except on a large scale.
In 1914 he had $51.00 and his wear
ing apparel. He began to buy lurid
and grow cotton. To date he has pur
chased $80,000.00 dollars worth of
Cleveland County dirt and has it
practically paid for. He owns .‘id
mules, three tractors, tw-o trucks, and '<
two automobiles, all of which are used
in his farming operations.
Union User; Too Little Fertilisers i
but for two reasons, says Latti-1
mne, Union county would now be,
the banner county in the state in th ■ j
production of cotton, in quantity. It ;
is at present the banner county as
to quality.
The firs* hold back in cotton pro
duclion in Union is the scanty appit- f
ention of fertilizers to cotton lands, j
On the whole the county uses under;
cotton between one third and one |
fourth only as much fertifizsrs as is
Advisable for the maximum product
ion and profit in growing here. When I
the expense of seeding and cultiva j
tion is made for an acre of cotton,!
it is a mistake, says the specialists, I
to not apply enough plant food for j
the plant to do its best. There is on
any soil, a fixed limit to which ferti
lisation pays for each and every
crop. The limit to which add tional
fertilization would pay under Union
County cotton is approached by one i
fourth to one third the distance, and I
with this condition prevailing, the I
real profits in cotton growing here
arc cut proportionately.
County VVouh’ He Three T imes More!
j Prosperous
At this point tne reporter stop pell
Mr. Lattimore and asked, “Do you
mean to say that if Union County |
farmers were to use three times a
much fertilizers as they use non.
the county woulr make three timer, a
much profit in the cotton fame?"
“That is exactly my point,” he rc«
g Bpondcd. You now produce about two
an done half million dollars worth
»f cotton annually. If after labor and
taxes are deducted, the county has a
half million dollars, profit, you can
make this profit a million and a half
by going the limit on fertilizers. Thir
would make your county three times
its present efficiency in institutions,
in business, in banking, in farmii ;*
and in the standards of living.
Union Lands Are Idle
The seeond reason why Union is
pot the banner county in cotton pro
duction, is that so vast amount of Hol
lands are lying idle, or are planted
to crops leas renumerative than ?ot
ton. I do not know says Mr. Lain*
more whether it is a lack of labor or
what is the cause, but I was indeed
surprised to find so much land in
Union County growing broom straw
and scrub pines. With the possibilities
for cotton production on this land, ihe
present condition Will not continue, it
the proper advertising were done.
Georgia Farmers Will Come
Have you any Georgia farmers
here? asked the land appraiser. We
answered that we have none. He re
plied that Cleveland County now has
about two thousand people from the
boll weevil sections of Georgia, that
more are coming, and that oone have
come and returned. On the farms of
Mr. Lattimore are nine families of
Georgia people. One of his tenants is
a man who owns three hundred acres
of land in Georgia, but chooses rather
to rent in North Carolina where the
•weevil is not so destructive. All you
have to do to get Georgians to Union
County is to let them know what you
have, and they will come, is what .Mr.
Lattimore says about it.
Boll Weevil Will Never Be Serious
Here
Due to the altitude of Union and
Cleveland Counties, and the rapidity
with which cotton puts on a crop,
the boll weevil will never bo serious
here. Mr. Lattimore here refers again
to fertilizers and says that the source
of nitrogen in all cotton fertilizers
should be nitrate of soda, or some
quick acting source. He reasons thus
with the weevil, “Our first blooms
come in both counties about the same
time, which is the early days in July
A small crop of weevils may be pro
duced in twenty days, anl in twenty
days more another crop may hatch.
But while these forty day3 are trans
piring, cotton in Union and Cleveland
fourties which ha« b«*»n f •'
i li'/.pj will have put on a good crop
which will he sufficiently advanced to
be out of the way of the weevil." We
asked for the authority on this point
and was told that the Georgia fann
ers who have come to C leveland county
arc the authority, and that study ol
the weevil and Iris life history back
it up.
i mm t ounty \uds Land Loom.
The land appraiser declares that
Unien county is suffering because of
cheap lari 1 and stand.; in need of land
boom. Land litre h valued at much
below what it i actually worth for
the production of col on. This is true
because of the quality, of staple and
the quantity < f cotton of whi: h it is
capable .and also and particularly bo-1
cau :> of the fat t that y >u people here
need never fear that the weevil wni
destroy you. So long as this land ir.,
cheap, the people wil hold it and pay
taxis on it to lie out, and the county
will suffer for the want of utilisation
o li. lard i os aurcof. Land in Clev
eland county is now selling: for two
hundred to two hundred and filtv
dollars per acre, uni is worth no mere
for productive purposes than Union;
soil. Two-thirds of all Union County is
either in woods or old fi< Id pines, ci
I room sedge. It you would prosper,
boom your land, got Georgia opticn
growers in here ar/i utilize it. and
your county v.i.l become one of the
most prosperous in the state.
Union county continued Mr, T,dt
tinvore, needy, softie real agricultural
leadership. It needs some one to do
for it cvhat Max Gat'd!?, r and the
Blftnton boys have cone i^r Cleveland,
lie criticised the methods of Union
county “town farmers"* and s.iys that
they own some land but do nothing
with it. If they would apply m ale i»
method ■ and show farmers and high
school folks that tame i. k r oil field
for service and profit in ngricultu*y.
it would Uni dignity to the profeasioi.
and prove an awakening in agricuitui e
us nothing else would do. Let men who
do not need to farm, farm and nr* lew
money at it, and thus prove to the
citizenship that farming is a good bifid
ness in which to engage.
Wi I Make Out Schedule for State
Fcctball Race Early Kist Week.
■ Rankin Soy s
(Special to The' Star.)
Chapel Hill, 04, tii—High Schools
throughout North Carolina are now
filing with the executive committee of
the State High School Athletic As
sociation individual entry blanks for
the entrance of their football teams
in the State High s lined football
championship contest for this season,
it was stated today by Li. It. Rankin,
secretary.
The ;•■hee.uio cf the eastern champ
ionship series mid the schedule of
the western championship aeries will
be .arranged by conference of faculty
manager ef the sc.hools concerned
which will ho held early next week It.
the east and in the west, t he games
of the championship secies will begin
at choc after the conferences have
! been hold. .Strict .rulers of eligibility
governing the participation of big.')
school students in the championship
contest arc called for and adhered to
under the regulations of the State
High School Athletic Association, u
was stated today by Secretary Rank
in.
The annual State high school foot
ball championship contest was inaug
urated in 1913 and has been conduc
ed every year since with the excep
tion of 1918 when war conditions pre
vented. The contest this year will thus
he the twelfth since the annual high
school contest was started.
The State championship has been
won in the past by high schools as icl
lowr: Raleigh high school, 1913, Ra
leigh high school, 1914, Raleigh hig*t
school, 1916; Charlotte high school,
litlfi; Charlotte high school, 1917;
Chapel FT■ 11 high school, 1919; Chanel
High high school, 1920; Fayetteville
high school, 1921; Asheville high
school, 1922; Charlotte high school,
1923; and Rockingham -high school,
1924.
The State high school football
championship contest is a content o;
the State High School Athletic As
sociation. Membership in the associa
tion is open to accredited public high
schools of the State. The association
in addition to the high school foot
ball contest, State championship con
las' s in high school basketball, bu-e
ball, track and tennis. There are now
ISO member schools of the associa
tion.
The executive committee of the
association is composed of the follow
ing members: N, \V. Walker, chair
man, Chapel Hill; R. R. Rankin, sec
retary, Chapel Mill; T. Wingate An
drew-';. Hi Hi Point; A. W. Hol.hr,
Chapel Hill; W. R. Kirkman, States
II ; C. R. Phillips, Purliam; P. A
Fet7.fr, Chapel Hill: G. II. Phillips.
Sa':i«bi!rv; C. I). Snell, Chapel Hill; (>
A. Hamilton, Goldsboro; II. IX Meyer,
Chapel Hill; C. R. Teague, Santoi>1:
C. T. Woidle \ Chapel Hill; H. P.
Smith, New Bern: W. McK. Fetz'%
Chanel Hill; and II. M. Roland, Scot
land Neck
A trophy cup will be awarded 1 v
ilie arcoeiation to the high selip* I
whose team wins the State high school
football champion;hip for the sea'*
in.
So Conan Doyle is Told By Spirit
Guide. Will he Shattering In
Nature. lie Says
“In order to arouse the world to a
sense of its responsibilities, a great
catastrophe, shattering in its nature,
is nproaching.
That is the warning received by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from his
“guide’’ in the spirit world, trnns
nvtted to him through the medium
of I.ady Conan Doyle.
Lady Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur ex
plained, is more highly developed in
this respect than himself.
“Recently she has taken inspira
tional speaking,” he said. “Any time
cl the day or night she will suddenly
go into n kind of a trance, when the
power descends upon her, during
which time she uses cxpressions\obvi
ously not her own and therefore in
spired.’’
Sir Arthur has been receiving
messages from the “beyond" for sev
eral years, he explained.
“In the first year,” he said, “these
messages were concerned chiefly with
fanrly matters regarding my wife’s
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mother, my son and so on, and tell
ing of their experiences in the other
world. Then about three years ago
the matter took a different turn. In
stead of relatives who spoke, it was
some one else, professing to be a very
l igh personage. He stated himself to
have been my guide from the time I
began this spiritualistic work.
“The messages received are quite
clear. They point out that the world
lias been getting into ■ a shocking
state of materialism. The Great War,
Bolshevism and other troubles have
come upon us as a result of this. m&- ,
terialism. It has been made clear that J
the world must, undergo a great, ca
tastrophe unless a change comes over j
“In order to bring about a reforma
tion many afflictions have been let
loose upon us. To mention two only,
there has been the Great War, with
the loss of millions of lives. Then
! there came the influenza epidemic of
I 1018, carrying off many thousands of
people. Something further, however, '
is needed, in order to satisfy the high- |
or powers.”
Many messages now being received, '
according to Sir Arthur, foreshad- |
owed for a certainty a catastrophe
which promised to shatter the world |
and rouse the churches to a sense of J
their responsibilities.
“The time is not certain,” he de
clared, although everything points to
it being very close. Dates are given
in certain messages ranging from
1925 to 1928. If the higher powers
find that mankind is improving, and
that the world can be cleaned and
brought by other means to its right
mind as regards strict spiritual mat
ters then we may be saved.
“I take it very gravely whatever
is in store. But I think it will be a
good thing. The world needs a tre
mendous shakeup. Mankind is to bo
passed through a sieve, as it were.
But spiritualism will be preserved.”
Lady Canon Doyle declared that
i the Japanese earthquake of May j
| 22 last, was fsrshadoWed the night i
before, and that information regard- \
Lug the troubles in China and Egypt j
had been conveyed to them before the ;
events took place.
14—BASEBALL (intide )ygha-o he"
Greensboro News.
Those who object to Sunday base- '
ball might consider what did not j
occur when a game between Wash- j
ington and Pittsburgh was shown on !
the Daily News playogrsph on a Sun- j
day. The following Monday there was
not a single case of gambling on the
docket of the Municipal court here.
Lust Sunday, with everything quiet
and no worldly distractions like base
ball, was followed by 1G names on the
books, docketed as gambling. It is i
true that four of the defendants were
acquitted but that left a dozen.
There may not be any connection
between the baseball game on one
Sunday and lack of gamblers arrest
ed the same day; it may have been
merely a coincidence. There is no de
sire here to start a debate on any
thing, especially upon Lord's’ day ob
servance, but people who haven”t
anything to do or anywhere to go
except up and down the street can
easily get in “a little pame.” Time
hanging heavy often makes for some
very light handed handling of the
pasteboards.
They could go to church? They
could, but not all of them do and
all of them never will.
The upper and lower classes.
America liave little in common excem
the spending habit and dieting P"'
ppere icsuandlowershTd LiThcsn
In the old wet days nobody realize-i
how much oratory depended on a fe
drinks in the listener.
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