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Established 1877.
RALEIGH, N. C, DECEMBER 19, 1911.
Vol. 37. No. 11
Farmers Experience Meetin
FARM WORK IN SURRY
A Story Told by Dmonstrator
Millsaps That Has a Lsson
(Mt- Airy News.)
.ir. E. S. Millsaps made-The News
office a call this week and while here
told something of the work he is do
ing:. In the course" of the conversa
tion ye editor remarked that a certain
amount of this world's goods is essen
tial to the best form of living and use
fulness. "Exactly," said Mr. Millsaps,
and then he briefly told a story of an
experience he had some time ago in
his work. After telling the story,
which was a most excellent one, we
asked him why not write out the story
and let us print it. The suggestion
appealed favorably to him and here
is the story from his own hand:
How the Farm Demonstration Work
Helped a Poor Farmer.
The county agent of farm demon
station work in a North Carolina
county was making his rounds among
. the farmers, encouraging them in bet
ter methods, and he passed once a
month by a poor farm all the first
year. The owner of the little farm
was a shiftless sort of fellow, who
preferred to loaf around town, drink
mean liquor, and trade horses to cul
tivating the little farm- His sad
faced little wife, who had once been
some man's bright-eyed, smiling faced,
glad-hearted daughter, was almost in
rags, and the troup of children in dirt
and rags. The little house they knew
as "home" was bare and poorly kept;
the place everywhere had a run-down
appearance. The agent could not
help but see the condition of the man
rnd his family, and he sympathized
with the sad-faced woman and the
pale, forlorn looking children, but
whatj, could he do?
Toward the close of the first year,
when the farmers who had been work
ing their corn under the agent's di
rection began gathering the corn and
reporting the big yields, the poor fel
low began to think he might do better
than he was doing if he could get the
agent to show him what to do. . So
the next time the agent came along,
he stopped him and told Jiim he
would like to do some demonstration
work, but the agent thought he would
not f ollow his directions and paid lit
tle attention to him, but after passing
by he thought he had made a mistake,
and passing again in a few days he
stopped and talked with the man and
told him if he would do what he told
him to do, he would be glad to help
him. The farmer said he would do
anything he recommended. So the land
Was looked over and directions given,
and the man began to work in earn
est. He followed every direction, and
the corn grew and the man continued
his good work; the neighbors began to
notice how well the poor farmer was
working and the fine corn he. was
making and begun talking about it.
. The f armer and his corn
NORTH CAROLINA WINS AT Uina, had the grand cham-:
COLUMBIA CORN SH0W!Pion, ea.r of the entire show:
m both mere, and bovs:
T. C. Goodwin, of Apex, Had
classes. It is interesting to
note that a vpnr fn n Qnn
the Grand Champion Ear of of Mr. Goodwin w ne
4-U r i : ru i- i l
me enure onow in bow
Men and Boys Classes.
Columbia, S. C. Dec. 14
North Carolina carries off
the honors at the South At
lantic Corn Show.
In competition with
South Carolina and Georgia
the farmers, and bovs
of North Carolina demon-
1 -m m .
CllUAlipiOllMlip Oil MUC
at the South Atlantic Show.
North Carolina exhibi
tors won hundreds of dol
lars in prizes this year. Out
of five r championship
classes North Carolina won
three, Soulh Carolina one
land Georgia one.
The judges for this year
were L. B. Gore of In
diana the "Corn King
strated their ability to select of the world and "Bill"
Young of Illinois.
These two men are per-
good corn by winning the
Grand Champion Sweep
Stakes in the fifty ear class,
the single ear for both men
and boys.
Mr. J. W. Lewis of Boom
er, Wilkes county, won the
Sweep-Stakes for best fifty
ears.
Charlie Lewis, a son of J.
W. Lewis, exhibited the
champion ear of com in the
boys classes. T. C. Good
win, of Apex, North Caro-
in the world. Mr. Clore,
won the championship at
three successive National
Corn Shows. These men
speak in the highest terms
of the corn shown at this
South Atlantic Show, and
the interest of the farmers
of the South Atlantic
States, in the production of
more and better corn.
and give the whole place a different
look. -
At the end of the second season the
agent was passing: the road and John
was at work, in the field. The little
woman came out to the road and told
the agent that she wanted to thank
him for what he had done for them.
She said John had quit drinking and
gone to work. She no longer wore
the sad face and ragged dress, but had
a happy, contented look, and the chil
dren looked happy and their cheeks
had the red glow of hildhood. The
man is still at work, he has forgotten
his old habits, he is making a good
citizen, his wife is proud of him, and
his neighbors say he is one of the
best farmers in the community.
ANOTHER INDEPENDENT
What Mr. R. A. Smith, of McNeills,
Did "In His Own Way."
(Moore County News)
Heretofore v;e have given results
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JONNIE HOECAKE
Two More Records of How
Much Good Men Made
During 1911
( Moore County News
Demonstration Agent T. 1 M.-i. an
has handed us the doings of two mor
u in their efforts to keep the corn
ut of the West. Again are they
oi.. t kinds of land one in tho
sand. . so in the cliv. Makes no
! difference .n which part of Moore you
go, sand or clay, and it is about equ
ally divided, and till her soil intelli
gently, you will get good results. And
the more intelligence used the great
er the yield. That's what the demon
stration work is for help our people
to do their work in an intelligent way.
And our demonstrator is on the job
all the time.
We gie the work of Mr. M l.
MeKeithen, of Cameron, first, Mr.
MeKeithen has sandy soil with subsoil
of yellow sand. He worked one ;-ri
under demonstration methods. This
haps the best judges ol corn i(K.he deep, u was planted
May the 10, lull, in rows Jive feet
apart and eighteen inches in the drill
with Biggs 1'rolilie. It was cul
tivated shallow three or four times
The yield was 76 bushels of shelled
corn. Mr. MeKeithen cultivated this
year 11 1-2 acres in corn, including
the demonstration acre, upon which
he made 6 00 bushels, or an average of
52 4-23 bushels per acre. You s'e -V
difference in favor of the demonstra
tion work of nearly 1' 4 bushels per
acre. Mr. MeKeithen used on hi
demonstration acre COO lbs. 8-3-3 and
100 pounds of soda a-s a top dresser.
The clay record this week is by Mr.
U. O. S'eawell, of Cartilage township.
The plat was sown to rye in
fall of 1910 for a winter cover crop.
The rye was plowed under May 10th
and plat planted the l."th of th
same month. This lateness w.-is due
to the extreme dry spring. The seed
used was Bigg's Prolific The stand
was very poor and only in the month
of June was a fairly good stand se
cured. The season was too dry for
early breaking, to secure a good or to
properly grow the crop. Yet in spite
of all the adverse conditions und-r
which lie labored, Mr. Sea well made
on his acre 87 bushels of corn.
The records from different sec
tions are only an earnest of what will
be our tern output when all our wast
land is occupied and all our farmers
get to farming by the latest and most
up to date 'methods.
Work of a Widow Farmer
this experiment and - consider the
length of , time this land had been
tended, we are thoroughly convinced
that there at least is a shining exam
ple that sandy land can and will hold
its own and that no other will give so
large returns for care used labor con
sidered. We believe this yield is the best of
its kind so far handed to us- and
are glad to hear of so many of our
farmers doing such good work and
congratulate Mr. Smith on his ex
cellent record. '
Cotton Holding Plan
(Carolina Union Farmer.)
Of course President Alexander is
correct in the conclusion that new
schemes to linance the cotton crop by
Northern capitalists is not satisfac
tory. We can't expect any more re
sults from that source than we could
expect from a convention of Southern
Governors and politicians, or from
trust-busting and trust-dissolving and
trust-indicting politicians generally,
and there's no use for Farmers' Union
accomplished by some of our rarm.rs i folkg to consjder movements of this
under demonstration methods. ait j fc.nd seriously If we wni proceed to
week, under the caption In His wn . bonded warehouses we can rest
Way." we told of wat-.r' "f,;: ! assured that .Southern bankers can
Pherson of Cameron did hite farm busine3S system of that kind to
inff by his own idea wouia to finance
make a good yield. - V ,j he tm tha,'rannot be financed
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TO-olr the. record OI anouiei
farmer who has also ideas of his own
in regard to his land and how to get
the best results. The report is made
bv Mr K. A. Smith, of McNeills town
ship, the heart of the sand hills of
Moore. . , ,
j Air. Smith experimented on
attracted, - Tne soil is sa.ndy loam
it was uru i
v... .ft.i.vn rrw on l h.e croo ,;m ciTrisnil or cia
vvuS ,ad and harvested, and a sp.en-! i .arch to a aep.n of .even e,,ht
did vild was made, more than ever ' v.rt5iiz1,. used
before. John forgot his drinking and dred" pounds home mixture, 9-3 l-i--
x -ant lipv No soda was Ui-eu.
loafing because he had become inter- ; 20 pe. nt lime . Trolific.
I'l-I IlirtUHU ...w mt -
ested in his work,
ton had yielded so
v."is 700
uecwi 7r't,tnA with Sirnpkins
corn and cot- vield cn the pint was pounds
wMli'that he Tvas:i . ntron. This iaii'1 has n ...
. i- m lir or,-k-k.- .1 ! rirr.-. ,;v:iriiill a:"Ui -i
LJ JUV '113 lain".' e , Lim""
the house, i vv.-neu t
and put some furniture in
loo i
century.
at all the
j under the sheds of the owners at
home. "if we had a bonded ware
house in this county our bank could
easily have linanced five thousand
bales of cotton this season," said the
president of a local bank of only sixty
thousand capital stock, the other day.
If wo will capitalise our product in a
business way throngh a system of
bonded wareliou.-cs the "financing"
part will be easy. Why not let the
trust-busing" politicians and politi
cian reformers ( ?) and the nortl ern
iinancial schemes that are periodically
expioited by the press severely alone
and concentrate our energies toward
the establishment of a sane and sensi
ble business system of marketing?
! ( l-'ayettf'Ville Observer.
I We give below an account of s-ni
I very successful and cheap farming n
j the sandhills of Cumberland county.
The story is vouched for by a r-liabl
person, "who is acquainted with ih
, facts.
Uast winter or sprintr Mrs. luisy
: K. Pate, a widow, moved from Gibson
Station. S. C. to Seventy-First town
ship. Cumberland county, wher sh;
purchased eighty-six acres of land,
'paying therefor U'.IOO cash. This year,
on - 7 u res of this trart, with no
other hdp but her four boys (the eld
est 14 years of age), a girl and an
old rnule 12 or 1C years old. she raise. I
and gathered twenty-two dO-pound
bales of cotton. 300 bushels of corn
and sufficient forage to 'just two inul-s
for a year.
Mrs. Pate has shown herself an in
dustrious woman, who. instead of
j moaning the lack of hands, went to
work with her children and made hr
crops and picked her cotton. We do
. not think" many men in CurnWrI .n l
'tan boju-t of a b?tter record.
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