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1 t THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY,; HERTFORD, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1935 "" -i - n"nnrinr irrn- -i-rri-"-)- inn n rir i nnn arm Vfr i ji j un.ni i Blakemore Variety .Firmly Established In Carolina Strawberry Belt fAJE TERES By GUY A. CARDWELL Agricrittiral and Industrial Agent Atlantic Coast One Railroad Co. The Blackmore Otrawherry was first tested at the Coastal Plain Station near Willard, N. C. in 1928. In the seven years since it has suc ceeded each year in a wider region of the country and the commercial success of the variety has fully just ified its introduction. The U. S. De partment of Agriculture and the North Carolina State Department of Agriculture both recommend it as the best variety for North Carolina except possibly in a small region aoout (jhadbourn. rences. " When the variety was intra duced it was stated that it was very vigorous, made plants freely, and that care should be taken to avoid having too many plants crowded to gether in the row. The Coastal Plain Station at Willard mailed with each 1 otof plants sent out a circular stat ing that the variety responded excel lently to the hill system of culture in contrast to the matted row system Although the varietv has rjroven Nevertheless, because the matted row so successful generally, it has failed l?atf bem so. generally prac-v- . faced in eastern North Carolina the .c UH ox cenam growers, ana growers hftVe not al heeded this " ,beieVCd. th'8 !"ay be, d.ue advice. As a result they have had ux uiiuersianiung 01 tne 8mall nW. -mwH trnwrtW. nr.m- to a lack variety and its difference from other varieties previously grown rather than to local soil of climatic diffe VICTOR HUGO!! Fren Id screen play by W. . tlpicemb tarring FREDRIC MARCH CHARLES LAUGHTON 20th CENTUIV NCTUK tw thre Unltti Arliila CHAPTER 6 WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE ,J J J tan Vol jean, fugitive from the french authorttte and on J avert in particular, plan to escape once and for all to England. Hit plant are in terrupted by a ttudentr law reform revolt which eweept over the entire cuy. He attempt, to rescue it ring leader, young Marine, in love with hit ward, Cotette. J avert appeart on the tcene, deeidet Jean it th "man .Jdgktt up," tenret hit opportunity to ntfut u previous nwmnacion ana . go eater him with a vengeance. Frej at Last Jean and Bponine come out. The; are in the light for a brief second as they look around cautiously. Ja vert has the house spotted from an opposite window. "Valjean!" To a gendarme, "Come on follow that's the man I want." As they start off, two students fighting with a gendarme emerge from a doorway. Instinctively the gendarme with Javert stops to aid his comrade and Javert goes on done. Through narrow streets around dark corners and then up a dozen or so stone steps rush Jean and Epo nine. "Quick! He's following us get np the stairs we're there!" gasps Eponine. Jnvert arrives just as they disao- ear into the building. He fires with command to Stop!' ;.f The street where Marius and his (ompaoions are barricaded is a blind ney. a house nearby is afire and ver the barricade of doors, paving Jean batters through the steel gate that bars them from the river and they pass through. Through dark alleys they wind their way back to Jean's house in the Rue Druond. Cosette, on her knees before a small altar, rises and comes forward to Marius eagerly. For a moment it looks as though she has forgotten everything Jean has done. Jean closes the door on them and backs into the hall. He senses the presence of another person. "Javert! You're here, I know it where are you!" A shadowy form moves and Javert steps out into the light "I'm ready. All I ask is a few moments to say goodbye." "The law allows you nothing.' Jean raises his head to Javert, a face so agonized helpless and hope less that even Javert is moved. He nods slowly. He knows this man has saved his life but still he can't help himself. "It's not I it's the law that wants you the law. 1 can't help myself." (ashamed of his weakness) "Go ahead, I'll wait." Jean goes in. "Cosette, I've come to say goodbye. It has to be thero are reasons. My dear, what little I could do I have done in my poor, stupid way I have tried to do what I could. Now I give her to you (to Marius) let her be as precious to you as she has been to me. Look after him, Cosette. Look after her." His face is bathed in perspiration from the struggle going on within him. He turns, looks back and takes down the two candlesticks which he has kept with him all this time. Keep these always. He fingers them. "Silver, they say but more than gold to me." Cosette kisses bim and clings to i HimmMMMMHil Ewmm liii SSW tt . i .. i... ... lL Jan pulU Mariu through th manhol into the ttwert 4 stones, etc., the defenders are firing. one by one. Wounded are strewn about the streets. Javert is caught in the dead-end passage when a student steps behind Dim. Joined Oy others, breathless, uisneveuea, iney oar tne way. "Police! Spy!" is the warnine crv. "Spy, possibly; police, certainly," is javert s cairn reply. "Ha! We've got one of them. The guillotine will run here and now!" shouts one, lingering a wicked-look ing blade. Ws MIm!" "Let me. This man has persecuted me for ten years he's mine!" - It's Jean's voice. - "Do it then!" The knife is thrust into his hand. "I'll do it as it was done in the valleys tne pistol in the mouth." W" Cries in the distance attract the Others ana tfley rush off, leaving Jean and Javert alone, v Jean tarns to his old enemy, his thoughts flood ed wun revenge, .r ... "Now, Javert, the hunt ends.". "End it then.'A ';.. . "It bad to be one of us. Yon hounded me; you pursued ' me it's you who drive me to this you and your iaw m. "Do your part I've done mine; I stand by everything Tve done. I Mice wnar, comes." 'v Jean can't bring himself to do it There is a terrific struggle going on within him. He shakes his head. "Go, before the others do what 1 can't :---.;.. fv ' "Yon fool, yon know wbatU hap pen. I shall take yen' in the end. . You know I. will yon know I mast I can't help, myself I am what I am." ...w.-w i,,.- ;;ii,"I take what comes? .o?Tr;? Jean remains looking after Javert then fires" the pistol into the air. He returns to the barricade.. Eponine tries to pull him down from bis ex posed position and herself falls deadi Mounted gendarmes begin to at tack with drawn sabres. ' There is a . scrimmage. ' Marius it felled with a Wow ori the bead.; Jean pulls bim . down through a. half -open manhole into. the sewers, picks up the uncon sdous boy and staggers along down ; the tunnel in water up to his knees. ; Marius tomes -to-enough to nod to Jean and; flounder along iiimself. fl ;tp'; -.. ..;. ..t ;,. l''.'"..-.-' ,.:. ; ;..'...;'--' . him, overcome with emotion. He moves over to Marius with her. "Love each other there's scarcely anything more in the world but that. Remember, as was once told me Life is to give, not to take. ' What I give take, and give again." The door clicks and he is gone. It is over. He has given up Cosette and now he has to face the other the galleys. He tries to move to tho door to the street, but his strength cracks and he drops to one knee. "Father of all I've done what I could take what You will I've given all I can I'm ready!" With a great effort he rises and marches towards the open doorway to the "street, bis hands in front of him, his wrists drawn together to re ceive Javert's handcuffs, his eyes half-closed, repeating; in a whisper the word "Oive!" , ; v Javert Disappears But there is no Javert. The' moon lit street beyond is empty. To Jean it is unbelievable Javert is gone. He has left bim. , We can almost hear the voice of the old bishop over the Scene. "Well done, m ann. Wall done!", - ' His eyes go up to the heavens to the voice bis face lights on with a smile as if the whole soul were lifted at last be is free. , . . Excited erie nf -"rtnwn !.. t- Down here! Hurry!'' snap bim out of his trance. ,, Through a , narrow opening in the street opposite is an alley leading to the river.;. Thero is , a :, small' crowd gathered others are ; eemiBf np.--.--'-;.;v .-',..-,,'-,,H-;' :,;:;;.,';; J ' Jean Bulla Mmaalf invthar 'n4 4' if drawn by magnet races to tho scene. -!.- . - m.: .- - T.,-;v - "What ia a.V:M'im:f:- 1 .j"Suicide-Hmnst beC3'v' ' , 'I tried to stop blmadds i an- 1 away 'and jumpei ln-rThe, river's in " I .StmJwiotfierilkaW " -A. gendarme takes it 'and innba t ' oveft Jean -immediately recognizes " it as Javert's, He turns and looks at-the river. The water is swirling past -., He now realises thai Javert has left him for good. He is free, indeed-free to go back o Cosette and Marius. ' - r- peting for sustenance, and yielding accordingly a small crop of under sized berries which tend to be soft and to decay under the dense foilage. The largest yields of Missionary seem to come from the matted row system, but with the Blackmore the plants must be kept well separated and distributed in the row if it is to be successfully grown. The Blackmore strawberry origi nated from a cross of Missionary X. Howard 17 (Premier) made in 1923 at the United States Plant Field Station, near Glenn Dale, Md. Be cause the results of tests have so far shown many points of superiority and no weaknesses as compared with the Missionary it is recommended for growing in the eastern North Carolina section. The Blackmore has succeeded un der a wide range of field conditions. It has been grown on a clay and on a sandy loam in North Carolina. It may not succeed well on the light est sandy loam in both New Jersey and Maryland and on rather light, medium, and fine sandy loams in North Carolina. It may not succeed well on the lightest sandy loams, but it has grown well on other soil types. The value of a new variety may be most readily estimated by compan son with the standard variety or varieties of any section. Hence, in this article the characteristics of the Blackmore are compared with those of the Missionary and to some extent with those of the Klondike. The plants are somewhat more, vi- gorour than those of the Missionary with foilage as resistant to leaf spots. The common leaf sometimes occurs on this variety but not usually has it been serious, while the Variety is very resistant to leaf scorch which is so serious on the Klondike and at the end of the picking season is some times serious on the Missionary. Dr. George M. Darrow, Senior Pomolo gist, United States Department of Agriculture, warns that new plant ings should be set from fields which were carefully rogued the previous year for the yellow plant. The ro gueing should be done during May and June in newly set fields so that just as far as possible the new plant ings be set from fields without any of the disease. Apparently there is a small percentage of plants which sports to the yellow plant each year. and if there is an accumulation of the yellow plant it may become se rious. Runners are produced fully as treely as by the Missionary. The blossoms are perfect, the sta ens containing more pollen than those of the Missionary. Neither this variety nor Missionary produces stamens an l pollen as freely at the beginning nf the blossoming season as does the Klondike. In North Carolina the Blackmore is earlier than the Missionary, in 1929 being four to six days earlier. It is also a little earlier than the Klondike. Under conditions so far tested in the Carolina section it has been somewhat more productive than the Missionary and much more pro ductive than the Klondike. The ber ries are bluntly conic, not long conic like the berries of the Missionary un der some conditions. Moreover, the berries color on the underside better than either Missionary or Klondike (Tie berries are a bright light red, which does not change on holding, as do the Missionary and Klondike colors. Because of this its color is much more attractive in the market than is that of either the Missionary or Klondike, especially after the ber ries have been held several days. The berries are much firmer, and the skin is not as easily broken as is that of the Missionary or Klondike and Blackmore berries do not shrivel on standing as do the Klondike and Mis sionary berries. ' Because of its firm flesh and relatively tough skin the Blackmore has proved considerably superior as a marke- variety. It is easier to pick and to cap than most varieties. The seeds are slightly smaller and usually closer together than those of common varieties. It is an acid berry of the Missionary and Klondike type, though not as acid as the Klondike; it has a higher pectin content thanvatandard vanties and it has a better dessert quality than, the Missionary and Klondike. Its easy picking and capping quali ties, its bright light red color, tough skin, and firm flesh, -solid center, aci dity,, high pectin content, and excel lent; flavor make it very desirable for preserving:. , ,.-'. Under conditions so far tested the berries' 'are larger than those of the Missionary or .Klondike, although un der 'some? conditions" they probably will not averagejas large as the lat ter vaneiy. technical Description Of The Fruit - Form5 a slightly 'blunted conic with broad shoulder, and a slight neck, size medium, pubescence on pedicels ascending, ' 'calyx reflexed,,. medium size; apex ripens uniformity; surface slightly glossy; color bright lightred; seeds yellow or ereenish vellow: small,, even with surface; flesh light red, texture tender, firm, rarely with cavity, juicy; shipping quality excel lent; flavor acid, aromatic; dessert quality slightly better than Missio nary. Season slightly before Miss ionary in North Carolina. The information in this article was culled from Circular No. 93, Septem ber 1929, United States Department of Apnculture "The Blackmore Strawberry" and from The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, March, 1934; "The Culture and Handling of the Black- more Strawberry." Nothing in this article should be contrued as a re commendation that growers of the Klondike variety in the Chadbourn section would find it profitable to switch to the Blackmore. Chadboum has lor years been recognized as a Klondike berry growing center and the buyers who have been coming to this market year after year for more than a quarter of a centum come to buy Klondike berries and usually pay a premium for this variety. How ever, on the Wallace market during the 1935 season, Blackmore straw berries, according to Government market reports, brought from 25 to 50 cents per crate premium over Missionary berries, day after day, during the season. Timely Questions On Farm Answered it Question: Is the appearance of poultry mash any index as to the quality ? Answer: No. The value of poul try mash cannot be determined by the appearance of texture. At one time it was believed that a finely ground mash was more easily digest ed but experience has shown that, in some cases, the regrinding is done to hide inferiority in quality. Cer tain mash ingredients, such as wheat bran should not be ground too fine. The flakes of bran in the mixture tends to produce bulkiness which aids digestion. Check carefully on the in gredients and see that sufficient bulk iness is allowed. Question: When should alfalfa be cultivated ? Answer: Cultivation is often of very little value except under certain conditions. When the stand is thin and crab grass comes in late in the summer, the crop may be cultivated during July or August. This will destroy much of the grass. If any cultivation is done it should be made immediately after a cutting. A spring-tooth alfalfa harrow is the best implement for this work. In no case should a disc harrow be used as it splits the crown and renders the plants more susceptible to diseases and freezing. Question: What size can is best for putting up fruits and vegetables for home use? Answer: The number two or three is the size most generally used for home canning. Only experienced canners should use the No. 10 cans as it is difficult to sterilize so large filled container. Corn, squash, peas, or pumpkin should never be Daredevil Hero HOOIT GIBSON, daredevil hero of twenty million fans, who will be seen in "Sunset Range" at the Taylor Theatre, Edenton, Saturday. Eighty-four thousand tomato plants are being distributed to Hay wood County farmers who signed contracts to produce tomatoes for the Haywood County Mutual Canning Association. put up in a No. 10 caii. 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