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All those inclined towards pes
simism should without fail read
in today’s Star the message Clyde
Jloey delivered to farmers and bu
siness men at the Kiwanis club last
night. Cleveland county isn’t hard
Judge Jas. L. Webb. veteran
Shelby jurist, will deliver the ora
tion at the dedication of Ruther
ford county’s fine new court house,
sacs an item in today's paper.
* * *
They still wear ’em—at lea t
the social columns carry an item
si\ :ng that a corset expert will vis
it Shelby for several demonstra
tions.
* * *
How much is tho average c'lov
ed man in Cleveland county worth''
Make your guess then get the fig
ures from an article in this paper.
* # *
Everybody has a solution for tin?
cotton problem. One is offered W
dav fi r Star readers by a South
Carolina professor.
• * *
Shelby’s street paving program
ha.' been moving along at a rapid
rate, the actual ptogress being re
lated in this issue.
* * *
One “fryer” is worth several
pounds of cotton. That’s what;
Cleveland county poultry farmers
say in planning the biggest poultry |
year the county has ever known. A j
meeting of poultrynien was held
here yesterday and another will be
held soon, The Star announces. j
* * *
Boiling Springs may soon be a
junior college. That’s the big
news of today’s paper to the loyal
Baptists of this section, who have
long had that as their goal for the ;
education of the youth in this sec- •
tion.
* * *
Cleveland county leads many :
neighboring counties in dairy farm
ing, but North Carolina still ini- j
ports twenty million pounds of
butter annually. Why not make j
dairy and poultry the money crops j
of Cleveland and worry no more
about cotton prices? Read an ar
ticle in today’s paper along that
line. ]
* * *
Hundreds of names appear in
the personals and news items of
every issue of The Star. That’s one
reason why more than 20,000 peo
ple eagerly await each issue. Read
all of today”s paper.
To Dedicate New
Court House At
Rutherfordton
Judge James L. Webb, Veteran
Jurist, To Deliver Oration
On November 3.
Rutherfordton, October 14.—
Tlic Bar association of Rutherford
county had a meeting last Monday
evening for the purpose of settling
details in regard to the dedication
of the new court house.
It was decided to hold the dedi
cation services in the court house
on Wednesday morning a‘ 10
o'clock, November 3. Mr. F. D.
Hamrick will introduce Jrdge
James L. Webb, of the superior
court, who will deliver the ora
tion.
Memorial Services
There will be a brass band in at
tendance, which will play before
the dedication services before and
afterwards. At 11:30 the memorial
services for the late Judge M. H.
Justice will take place, at which
en oil painting of the great jurist
fs previously announced exclus
ively by The Sun will be presented
to Rutherford county by members
of the Justice family. Mr. N. C.
Harris, as county attorney, wilt
accept the portrait on behalf of
t1'"' county commissioners Messrs,
i Yf (1. Harris, G. E. Morgan and
f>- W. Rollins.
The rest of the memorial ser
vices will take place 'at the ad
journed special term of court to
be held ear^y in December.
TO MAKE JUNIOR
COLLEGE OUT OF
BOILING SPRINGS
Rutherfordton.—The thirty
seventh annuel session of the
i'andy Run Baptist associa
tion convened at Wall’s
church, recently voted to
>uake Boiling Springs school a
Junior college, beginning
next year. The Kings Moun
tain and Gaston associations
have already voted to create
the Junior college. One year
"ill be added next year while
the second year will be added
iater. The three named as
sociations support the school
and will back the Junior col
lege.
Cleveland Farmers Coaid
Be Independent On Butter
North Carolina Imports Twenty Million
Pounds Of Butter. Why Not Produce
More Here?
In July 192*i North Caro
lina prc.:lnci'd 174,273 pounds
of butter.
During the same month Min
nesota, far less favorably lo
co'cd climatically, produced
27,893,.,38 pound-; Wisconsin
17,568,749 pounds; Iowa 17.481
849 pounds; and Ohio over 9,
000,000 pounds. And so on
throughout the country.
According to figures compli
ed by William l.ineberger, and
embodied in an advertisement
in this issue of The Star, North
Carolina imports over 20,000,
000 pounds of butter every year
—North Carolina one of the
most favored by Nature in soil
and climate of any common
wealth of the l r»;n.
So much for butter.
Now consider the hen, end
draw upon the condition exist
ing locally for an illustration.
For weeks now. local meat
markets have been able to sup
ply only a small percentage of
the demand for fowl for the
table. Fryers are very rare:
and it is difficult to produce for
trbfo use even ITie barnyard
hen.
The Ideal Ice and Fuel com
pany is a constantly advertised
market for fowl, a; cash prices
—and those prices are not low.
And in spite of this effort Mr.
C. B. Cabniess, the manager of
the Ideal, asserts he has to
make great effort to fill his
orders for dressed chickens.
Cleveland county farmers, it |
seems, have the opportunity— 1
an obvious opportunity—to be
come financially independent.
Why import butter into this ,
community from the far north
west when good grazing lands
for cattle exist all over the
county; and why this shortage
of poultry, when the hen is one
of the most prolific of farm
products?
Buzzard Has Steel
Trap on Its Feet
(Special to The Star)
The farmers are busy picking
cotton and making molasses.
Mrs. James Gardner 70 years of
age picked 106 pounds of cotton in
one afternoon. She is one moie
picker, and picks every day.
The Green brothers have their
new residence almost completed on
their farm near Mooresboro.
Mrs. Fannie Dobbins made 621
gallons of molasses at one set.
Some of the people in this com
munity had the pleasure of seeing
a buzzard with a rteel-trap on
both feet, supposed to have been
catching chickens around Trinity.
Mr. Gordon Bostic and sors
have remodeled and painted their
residence recently.
Messrs. Guy Greene, Ernest
Bailey, F. F. Bridges, James Ilar
rill and T. E. Bridges picked cotton
afternoon for Mr. Onnie Blanton1
who has had sickness in the family
for some time.
Messrs. Clarence, Forrest and
Ernest Bailey motored to Alexan-,
der last Sunday for a few hours.
Charlie Montgomery’s wife (col
ored > picked 50 pounds of cottor.
in one hour for Mr. B. B. Harris.
The children and grand children
of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Winn met
last Sunday and enjoyed the day
pleasantly among them was Mr.
and Mrs. S. M. Bailey and two chil
dren of South Shelby.
Woman of 82 Years
Is Unusual Worker
Kings Mtn. Herald.
Mrs; Cynthia Medlin of the
F!-Bethel section has hung up
a record that should stimulate
the ladies of the land. October
7th was her 82;id birthday an.
niversary. On that day Mrs.
Medlir arose and cooked
breakfast, milked the cow,
churned, and then picked cot
ton awhile. Then she went
and cooked dinner and cleaned
up the dishes and went out
end picked more cotton and
then went in and cooked sup
per. When her day’s picking
was weighed up in the evening
it was found that she had
picked 70 pounds of cotton.
You women getting old at 50
need to ask Mrs. Medlin sonm
ouestions about ■ how to get
along on the shady side of the
hill. Mrs. Medlin figures that
she was in the cotton patch
* seven hours. She baptised into
the membership of Bethlehem
Baptist church 70 years ago by
IOhler Jacob Cansler.
I
At a meeting held at the court;
house here yesterday and attend j
cd hy .'if, or 40 noulfrymiHi. uf the J
county Rev. W. R. f.ovc was elect
cd president of Cleveland <*ous«
tv n tnltrv organize* W.. with R.
Am tell of Earl, as vi -e-president,
and Rev. John W. Suttle of f-’hel
by, as secretary ard .rca- ircr. It
was what might be termed a gen
eral reorganization of tne county
poultry organization functioning in
bygone years.
The general tone of the meeting
was that poultry will make up for
much of the cotton loss in the coun
ty. Leaders in poultry work gave
as their opinion that this would he
the biggest poultry year in the
history of the county.
More broilers will be placed on the
market next spring than ever be
f much money will be saved
poultry raisers of the county bv the
local hatcheries, and the standards
of flocks will be bettered.
The meeting adopted a regular,
constitution and by-laws by which
the poultrymen of the county will
be governed. Among other topics ]
taken up was a decision of the
hatcheries in the county. Ben Sut
tle is preparing a 12.000 capacity
hatchery, D. P.' Washburn has one
with a capacity near 3,000, and B.
Austell and Bob Turner, of Earl,'"
have another of a 4,000 capacity.
In addition to these there are sev
eral small hatcheries scattered
over the county giving Cleveland a
total hatching capacity ot over
20,000.
Meet October 28.
The poultrymen will meet again
on Thursday night, October 28. at
7 o’clock in the court house and ev
erybody interested to any extent
in poultry is urged to attend. A
regular program will he held at the
coming meeting which should prove
beneficial to the poultry farmers
of -the county.
Washburn Praises
First Church Young
The recent B. Y. P. U. training
School hold at the First Baptist
church, clearly demonstrates the
fact thai. this church' has on*
among the best young peoples’ or
ganizations in North Carolina, ac
cording to A. V. Washburn, B. Y.
P. U. field worker. Never before
has Shelby seen suth an interest
shown by the young people in
Christian training, which tetsifies
to the efficient work of Mr. Harry
M. Pippin, the diretor of young
peoples’ work.
Mr. Pippin is being recognized
by our state B. Y. P. U. leaders as
one of the outstanding leaders of
young people in the South. By his
untiring efforts and the hearty
co-operation of his faithful co
workers, every B. Y. P. U. presi
dent and leader took the entire
course. This is seldom accomplish
ed in either B. Y. P. U. or Sunday
school institutes.
We are hoping to see this fine
spirit of co-operation duplicated
in a city-wide enlargement cam
paign and training school for the
Sunday schools of the city some
time during the winter months.
Many cities in North Carolina, are
now doing this kind of work with
wonderful results. Let the four
Baptist churches of Shelby be think
ing and praying for an awakening
in Sunday school work as never
seen before in North Carolina.
A La Main Street
Charlotte News.
The Associated Press dispatch,
telling of the Rumanian Queen
leaving Paris, deals with the at
tractiveness of Her Highness with
proper dignity in referring to her
looking “positive radiant,’ but the
Queen may as well get herself set
for the way her beauty will be dis
coursed upon by the common run
of the inhabitants of this Western
Nation.
They are not going to whisper in
soft accents behind her back in the
language of the Society Editor,
and if she is expecting any tip-toe
ing about tfie thing when she
lands, somebody ought to get her
quickly disillusioned, because it is
as certain as anything uncertain
can be that some guy is going to
be heard saying, “Kid, you sure
look good to me,” in regular old
Main Street jargon.
Ely Construction Co. V/ill Finish up
■
in a Few Days. Weathers and
Sow; on Sidewalks.
Wtihir a few days the street!
construction project which has
been under way in Shelby during
the summer, will have been finish
ed and work will be suspended fo» I
the present, although Mayor
Weathers states that another
street paving project may be inau
gurated next year. The street im
provement bond issue almost
spent but enough is left *o com
plete an extensive r 'de-walk pav
ing urogram now under way. The
Ely Construction Co., which had
th > i-oo tii : fer .isjpnalt -tT-ds
he completed thre- ij j 'Vlers of a |
mile in South Shelby, one of the
prettiest streets in town now, about
one-half mile on Lineberger street,!
500 feet on Marietta street, six feet j
on each side of Marion street,
(Highway No. 20) from the Meth
odist parsonage to near Belvedere
park, making this street 30 feet
wide. Graham street is now being
finished with blaic top from the
Southern railway west to McBray.
er .street, a distance of 1,000 feet j
or more.
Z. B. Weathers and Sons who has |
the contract for concrete street
paving, did a block on Sumter be
tween Washington and LaFayette,
an alley between the Paragon Fur
niture company building and Webb
building from Warren to Graham
street, the alley between the Roys
ter buildings from LaFayette to
Washington streets.
Silewalks have been put down
on one side of N. Washington street
and both sides of Wumier street arc
now being finished up with side
walks. A sidewalk will be put down
on N. LaFayette for the conven
ience of the school children who
attend Washington street school,
now nearing completion and exten
sive sidewalks paving will be done
in South Shelby, after which other
work will be taken up where re
quests have come in to the city
fathers in the form of petitions.
Mission Day Held
At Double Springs
(Special to The Star)
State Mission Day was observed
at Double Springs Sunday. A very
interesting program was rendered.
The pastor, Rev. .J. W. Suttlc
s're sod t he importance of giv
ing to th:s phese cf our work. An
offering was made, another to be
taken next Sunday to be added to
the fund before it is sent to the
Mission Board.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Humphries
and others of Beaver Dam were
present at the preaching service
Sunday evening.
The Senior B. Y. P. U. is to give
a special program Sunday evening
in the form of a play. Several of
the neighboring churches have
been invited to be present.
Mr. and Mrs. William Toms and
children of Sunshine were the
week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
G. R. Wilson.
Monday afternoon members of
the Sunday school gathered at the
home of Mr. Will Wright who has
recently returned from the hospi
tal at Rutherfordton where he suf
fered an operation for appendicitis,
and picked out two bales of cotton
for him.
Wednesday afternoon members
of the Sunday school also went
to the home of Mr. Sammic Brooks
who is in the Shelby hospital re
covering from an appendicitis
operation, and assisted in gather
ing his crop.
Shelby Folk* See
State-Wildcai Game
Sheriff Hugh Logan, and Messrs
Bob Hord andj^harles Austell were
among the Snelby folks attendirg
the State-Davidson football game
at Raleigh yesterday
Sheriff Logan attended to par
ticipate in the honors of “Dad’s
Day’’ as celebrated by the college
students, his son, Fred, being cap
.-tain of the Wolfpack eleven.
Cleveland Colored
Not Very Wealthy
According to the University
News Letter the taxable wealth
per negro inhabitant in Cleveland
county is only $110. this is about
$22 below the state average. The
total taxable wealth of the colored
population of Cleveland county i-s
set at $667,353.
This county ranks 68th in the
state and above Gaston, Mecklen
burg, Lincoln, Catawba and
Burke,
Tiny People Call on President
—NEA, Washington Bureau!
Jean De Lacruz. 49, and his sister. Martini De Lacruz, 51. art believed'
the smallest iieople in the world. They are Filipinos, and called on Preal*>
den; irolidK* recently. . . . .
Urges Law To Cut Cotton
Acreage Ovet Entire South
Winthrnp Professor Has IMan For
Board to Control Production
Of Cotton
Rock Hill, S. C.—Approval of
the plan as being “theoretically of
great value” featured the meeting
in the Citizen Bank and Trust
company Monday night to discuss
the cotton crisis, problems which
this section along with others in
the South is facing, and discus
sion of the plan advanced by
Professor J. F. Thomasson, head
of the rural education department
of Winthrop college for coping
with the situation.
The biggest question regarding
Dr. Thomasson’s plan, in the opin
ion of the business men, educators,
farmers, officials and others pre
sent at the meeting, is whether or
not proper legislation can be enact
ed which will make the scheme ef
fective.
Professor Thomasson explained
his plan in detail and stated that
a synopsis is being sent out byTtho
extension department of Winthrop
college to superintendents of edu
cation and other leaders in schools
and colleges with the request that
the plan be made a subject of de
bate in order that it may receive
widest attention among the peo
ple generally. The plan is also be
ing sent to the Southwide mooting
of bankers, farmers and educa
tional leaders in Memphis, begin
ning Wednesday.
Professor Thomasson's plan in
brief is as follows:
Methods of procedure to secure
successful growing of cotton:
Apply the principles of Federat
ed government to secure the cor
rect organization of the cotton
growing industry.
(1) By having a convention of
the cotton states formulate a body
of business and constitutional law
which upon ratification shall be
come a part of our State consti
tutional laws.
(2) Let the action of the con
vention be submitted to the re
spective legislatures of the States
whose interests are involved and
with unanimous approval, let it
become binding to all. Also, let it
subject to amendment only by a
carefully arranged provision, as
our national constitution.
Suggested principals to become
incorporated in this law might
provide as follows:
(1) Let the individual farmer be
made the unit.
“Adopt a percentage of cultiv
able area which may be planted hi
cotton. If 50 per cent should be de
termined upon, diversification and
rotation naturally follow.
(3) In order to secure elasticity
and flexibility, let n percentage
range be adopted possibly 40 per
cent to 60 per cent of the cultiv
able area; and let the operation of
this range of percentage be placed
in the hands of a board of experts
who receive salaries and who are
held responsible.
(4) Let the same board have
control of the sale of cotton, and
let an adequate system of ware
houses be provided.
(5) Finance the whole plan of
operation by whatever sales tax on
cotton that may be necessary.
(6) Enforce law by penalty of
[fine and all fine money to be
placed into sales tax fund for
[ operating expenses, ' ••
Gardner Estate
Sell Land Oct. 30
at Public Auction
High School Band (o Furnish
Music and Hatcher Webb
To Cry Sale on 3 Tracts
In order to settle the estate of
the late Rufus W. Gardner, his
beautiful^ located homestead farm
on the Shelby-Fallston road will
be sold at public auction Saturday
Oct. 30th, the sale to begin at 10
1 o’clock. Hatcher Webb, of Shelby,
will cry the sale and the Shelby
high school band will fumiah music
making a home talent selling or
i ganization.
The Rufus W. Gardner farm has
been divided into three tracts of
i M, '18, and 52 acres, each tract
having frontage on the state high
i way between Shelby and Morgan
| ton. Through the property runs an
1 electric light line to furnish cur
rent for lights and power. School
! busses pass the property every day
' to the big Fallston high school,
while several mail deliveries are
| to be had daily. This is considered
; one of the finest farms in Cleve
land county, in a fine neighborhood
with good schools and churches
nearby. The land is level and
I productive and the bidding will no
doubt be spirited, as highway
frontage property is at a premium
in Cleveland county. --i—v—
Virgil A. Gardner and Sylvanus
Gardner, sons of the" late R. W.
Gardner are executors selling the
property for division, the first time
it has been offered for sale in
over a half century.
Another Auction
Or. For Saturday
The .T. B. Nolan Real Estate com
pany is putting on a Shelby auction
Saturday, this being the third
welkin ringer the Nolan’s have
been on this autunm. The other
two went over big, and it is ex
pected this will do as well or bet
ter.
It is the Green B. Blanton es
tate that is offered Saturday aft
ernoon. This is a hundred and thir
ty acre tract, located south of
town, on the Shelby-Gaffney road.
An advertisement in this issue of
The Star tells the complete story.
A Ford will be given away—
there will be a band concert, and
all the excitement that attends such
events. It is a good matinee enter
tainment, and the Nolans say an
unexcelled opportunity for invest
ment.
Hoosier Sale At
Best Furniture Co.
Mr. John M. Best of the John
M. Best Furniture Co., has just
received a large shipment of the
famous Hoosier kitchen cabinets
for which he has the exclusive
agency. Saturday he inaugurates
a special sale of Hoosiers. offering
all models at small cash weekly
payments. The Best Furniture win
dow is beautifully dressed w'ith n
display of Hoosiers, showing the
wonderful offer of 50 different
kinds of standard, well-advertised
grocery items free with each Hoos
ier sold. A page advertisement in
today’s Star tells of the wonder
ful offer and the special advantage
during this sale.
Hoey Holds That Product j
Of Farms Will Bring Us 10
Million Dollars This Year
CHARLOTTE GAME i
COMES ON FRIDAY
COUCH HERE SAYS
Shelby football fans will 'h<- j
enabled to see the Chariotte-Shel
by (fame here next Friday and
also the Wake-Forest-Davidson
game jn Charlotte Saturday, it is
announced from the high school.
According to a recent news dis
patch from Charlotte it was gen
erally understood that the high
school classic hero would be on Sat
urday and would thus conflict i
with the premier college game in ;
Charlotte on the same day. With
that impression Charlotte officials
began conferring with Coach
Casey Morris with the idea of
changing the high school game
to Friday so that fans might set
both games. The Shelby coach re
j plied that he was of the opinion all
i along that the Charlotte-Shelby
j game would come on Friday,
j Meaning that ho matter how the
game was scheduled it will be
played here next Friday and will
interfere in no way with the col
lege game in Charlotte Saturday,
which will likely be attended by
scores of Wake Forest followers
in this section in addition to those
who will witness the contest from
love of football alone as the game
is rated as having an important
bearing on the state championship.
Likewise the gome with Char
lotte here next Friday will un
doubtedly be the big Shelby game
of the pre-series season. From ad
' vance reports it seems as if the
Queen City lads are the class of
the western section and will be
one of the best bets for title hon
ors. Contrary to the custom of by
gone years Shelby hardly expects
a victory over Charlotte. Coach
Morris this year hasn’t the hofty
eleven he usually has to send
’against the always strong Char
lotte teams. Pessimists dope
Charlotte to win by a 30-point
margin, while others have a better
opinion of Shelby and set the dif
ference at 12 to 20 points. As
suring n good game is the fact
that the only folks to concede
Shelby a chance of winning are the
members of the local eleven. The
boys, man for man, think they’ll
give the heavier and more exper
ienced Charlotte squad all they’re
looking for.
Fans remembering great Char
lotte-Shelby games of the past
will expect the locals to put up
their best fight against Char
lotte. On other occasions Char
lotte has come to Shelby doped to
win only to lose in contests that
become a part of football history
hereabouts. The locals will meet
Charlotte under a double handi
cap—they are light and none too
| speedy. The backfield has sev
jeral fine broken field runners, all
j too slow getting off however to
Iprove dangerous threats to such i>
j strong eleven as that working for
i Coach Jack Caldwell. There was
| some hope that Laymon Beam, the
i headiest and speediest performer
of the Bquad, might be shifted to
the backfield and thereby add to
the offence, but Morris to date has
no one capable of taking Beam’s
berth at end.
Despite all the pessimistic views
and the strength of the opposition
the Highs will go through a strenu
ous period before the Charlotte
game and all in all the little eleven
has an outside chance of winning
—let the experts say what they
may.
Suttle Hatchery
To Boost Poultry
Ben Suttle has taken steps, he
tells The Star, to shove Cleveland
county up the economic ladder to
ward greater poultry production.
Chickens have been one of the
hobbies of Mr. Suttle, and in view
of the poultry shortage in the
community, it is more or less nat
ural that he should turn his atten
tion to the business aspect of the
question.
He announces that he is install
ing a “custom incubator” to hatch
chicks for the farmers. He is in
stalling an incubator that will be
capable of turning out 12,096 chicks
every three weeks, or eighty thou
sand over a five months period.
It is said Mr. Suttle has one cus
tomer who is in the market to raise
6,000 broilers. At this rate, Mr.
Suttle says, it is a question of not
a great "while before Cleveland
county will have poultry for home
consumption and export.
Cotton Crop Will Bring Just $20,•
000 Lem Than Last Year.
Food Crop Bounteous.
Clyde R. Hoey dispelled all pes
simism that might have been in
the minds of business men and
farmers who heard him Thursday
night at the Kiwanis club when he
made a survey of the agricultural
products of Cleveland county, de
claring that even with low-priced
cotton, the value of the product!
of the farm this year will be worth
the gigantic sum of ten million dol
lars and figuring on a basis of 40*
000 bales of cotton this year, this
crop alone will be worth only §20,
000 less than the smaller crop
bought last year at a higher prlctj
Moat Bountiful Harvest.
Mr. Hoey was the only speaker
at the Kiwanis club meeting, pro;
gram of which was in the hands o
Mr. Earl Hamrick. His address wa;
a survey of the business outlet* «
which he urged his hearers t*' taki
n hopeful view of the future amt
not complain because God has pou<
ed his gracious bounces upon oui
people, making fields orchard!
and gardens to yield one of th«
most abundant harvests on record*
He appealed to these men not hj
go through the wt-rfd complaining
and murmuring of bad luck. Any.
; body can be a good sport in fad
; weather, but it takes a live fisl
to swim upstream and the spirii
! of our fathers to defy difficulties
' overcome obstacles and wrap our
selves up in that invincible spirfi
| that characterized the men an<
women who have made Cleveland
county the great #nd powerfu
force that it is. People have nevej
accomplished much with doubt
fear and pessimism nutured in the®
hearts. The people who have mai
the greatest strides have alway
; been thankful for the bounties a
! a gracious Providence, overcorn
seeming obstacles and faced th
future with a radiant hope.
Better Than a Year Ago. 1
Mr. Hoey declared this county'*
| be in better condition than a yet
ago. The fact that Kings Cotti
was around 20 cents in price lat
year and is now only 12 cents do
not by any means rpell disaster. ‘
show that we have much to
thankful for. Mr. Hoey pointed o»
that in the spring the most op*
mistic person would have been sa
isfied with a 26,000 bale yield i
cotton at 26 cents per pound, bt
instead . we are certain to mal
40,0000 bales and perhaps it ms
go to 60,000 bales. Last year it
crop averaged 17 to 18 cents ar
brought in $3,166,000. If it go*
to 50,000 bales, this year’s ere
will be $3,lb5,000 which is on
$20,000 less than last year. In a<
dition to this the increased yie
gives more cotton seed and t
basis for obtaining fertilizer ft
next year’s crop at a reduced pri*
Mr. Hoey went back over a t*
year period and cited the avera,
cotton yield in the county, pou|
ing out that within the last ft
years cotton yield has gradua
grown until this year it may rea
nearly three times the average ett
of 17,000 bales ten years ago. J
Worth Ten Millions. |
Last year we had the smalte
hay crop on record. This year i
have the largest crop of ha
wheat, molasses, potatoes, frt
vegetables and other crops ha
yielded in abundance and the far;
ers have more to eat at home thi
in any year in all nistory. Figu
if you will the farm products wor
ten million dollars to be divid
among the 40,000 people and y
are obliged to agree that we ha
much to be thankful for. Mr. Ho
cited one farmer who had put i
400 cans of fruit. Speaking of dai
ing and poultrying, the county it
just begun in this respect.
He cited the fact that No*
Carolina produced 174,000 poun
of butter in July this year, wb
Minnesota produced 27,900,0
pounds to show the possibilit
that lie ahead of us in this line
endeavor.
Reduce Acreage.
Mr. Hoey gave his endorser^
to the plan suggested by Hon.
J. Maxwell of Raleigh to imp re
the price of cotton, Mr. Maxw
proposing that all farmers throa
out the cotton belt be asked to si
a binding agreement to redt
acreage next year by one third
what it was this year. The agri
ments could be circulated throu
the governmental agencies, si
as the farm demonstrators in ev<
county of the cotton belt and wl
this campaign is completed cot
would immediately respond
| price because the consumers wo
know that there would be a -he
er crop next year.
“Cotton has already touched b
ton. It is now on the upward tre
(Continued on page five.)