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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10
GRAIN REMAINING
ON FARMS MARCH |
Crop Reporting Board of De-
partment of Agriculture Make
Monthly Report
by the Associated Press

Washington. March 7.-Grain of last
e : frops remaining on farms March
issued at 2:15 p. m. today. The depart
ment's crop reporting board, from re
ports OF It's correspondents and agents
throughout. the country. estimates the
amount Of wheat corn. oats. and barley on
farms, With comparison for preceding
years, the proportion Of each crop which
grown, and the percentage of the 1919
crop which was of merchantable quality,
WHEAT: About 15f 500. 600 bushels. or
1919 per cent, Of the 1913 crop remained
on farms. March 1, 1914. compared with
l56 49, 600 bushels. or FLA per cent of
crop in 1912; and 162, 7o5. 900 bushels. or
2o!6 per cent of the 1910 crop in 1911.
! About !3,? per cent Of the 1913 crop
will be shipped out Of the counties where
grown, against GIG per cent of the 1912
f ,o,IP TO be shipped; o61 per cent of the
the 1910 crop to be shipped.
CORN: About t6.3S2.0 GOO bushels. or
So-f per cent of the 1913 crop remained on
farms March 1. 1914. compared with l.
2s6, 655.O 600 bushels, or 41.3 per cent of the
1912 crop in 1913: Se4. 069. OO0 bushels. or
34.9 per cent of the 1911 crop in 1912; and
1.160, -, GEO bushels or 40.i per cent of the
1910 crop in 1911.
About 10 per cent Of the 1913 crop
will be shipped out CT the counties where
grown. against 31s per cent Of the 1872
crop so shipped: 20.5 per cent of the
1911 crop SO shipped; and 22.9 per cent OF
the 1910 crop SO shipped.
The proportion of the 1913 crop which is
understandable is about SO.1 per cent com-
pared with $50 per cent Of the 1872 crop
SOL per cent of the 1911 crop, and So
per cent, of the 1910 crop.
OATS: About 416.476,oe0 bushels. O.
3l.4 per cent of the 1919 crop remained OF
farms. March /, 1914, compared with Goa,
21G.UD bushels. or 426 per cent of til,
1912 crop i'll 1918: 2S9, 9SS 900 or 42.6 re.
cent Of the 1912 crop in 1918; 2S9. 9eS
0O bushels or 31.4 per cent OF the 191
crop. in 1912: and 40. 600. coo bushels, o
37.3 per cent. Of the 1910 crop in 1911.
About 26.5 per cent of the 1913 crol
will be shipped out of the counties wher
grown, against 800 per cent Of the 191
crop so shipped: and 30.6 per cent Of til
1910 crop SO shipped.
BARLEY: About 44.126. eco bushels. o
3S.9 per cent Of the 1913 crop remained o
farms March 1, 1914. compared with g.
2S3. 900 bushels. or 27.S per cent Of tn
1912 crop IN 1913: 2t.7G0.N 600 bushels. G
1J.5 per cent. of the 1911 crop in 191.
/ and 80, 49S, 600 bushels, or 1913 per cen
of the 1910 crop in 1917.
, About 4S.4 per cent Of the 1913 crop Wi
be shipped out of the counties whel
grown. against 53.7 per cent Of the 191
crop so shipped; J7.2 per cent Of I'll
: 1911 crop so shipped: and 800 per cel
OF the 1910 crop 50 shipped.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10

All rurai high schools are meetin.
Win encouragement in their efforts !
Recommendations Outlined.
Inc detailed recommendations ~
- cOi,i4l1.ec on courses. as drawn
up ps froI. l. A. Williams of the
STATE oniVefsity, Include these poiuts.
I'd That there be Al leaet 49,
schoot III each county Offering . fn1j
TOUR Years course liz both the tradi-
tlonai and in the vocational or farn
life subjects. h
~ III the one-teacher high
school choose whether il shall offer
the traditional high scnool corrco ~
the vocational (farm Hfe1 eoursa
CD That no one-teacher high school
shall be allowed to attempt more
tnan two years of high school work
"a That no high school teachers
nall be allowed to teach more than
forty periods per week, each period
70 De OF not less than thirty-fve min
utes- tThis last recommendation is
intended Is a temporary measure
Only.)
20 hi a standard program OF
s.uoles IN both the traditional and the
farm life subjects be repaired and
that the schools in making their pro-
grams as closely as possibly, taking
into consideration the community
needs.
(6) That no school attempt to carry
four years of work. with les sthan
three teachers.
60 That teaching agriculture and
the allied subjects from a textbook
alone will no garden, no stock. no
lowers, no actual baking, no sewing,
no serving of meals, etc, is not to be
considered as satisfactory work.
60 That the principals of these
choolS should appointed for a
year Of twelve months and tina his
salary be liked With hat idea in mind.
60 That the aims Of the agricul-
tuEal courses should be:
Cd To meet the needs Of the great
majority Of our communities in the
State and make it increasingly posi-
BILE for the boys and girls to remain
in their communities.
CD To utilize the science Of agri-
culture as a e Of general cul.
ture.
go To give boys n girls a longer
period and proper surroundings il
which to develop mentally as the,
were intended to develop.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10
WARNS THE FARMERS

That many farmers are losing
money because of q misapprehenslon
in their purchase of cotton seed feed
for cotton seed meal, is the opinion
Of Mai. w. A. Graham, Commissioner
OF Agriculture of North Carolina.
Major Graham directs the farm
ers to the labels on the purchased
product and says this in a letter 10
this paper:
.Raleigh, March 9TH, 1914.
THE Department Of Agriculture
has reason to think that some arm
ers h are mixing their own fertlll-
zers. are buying cotton seed 1ccu LOT
cotton seed meal. The value OF the
feed is not as valuable as the Il
per cent meal, by o~ne-third. Nheh
| meal is worth thirty dollars per tol'
| the feed is worth about $2l.oo.
..It vonld be of benefit to the farm
ers if the papers would call the at
tention of the farmers to this matter.
The Board Of Agriculture does no,
hermit the word meal to heu sea Oh
fpPi.'
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10
GOLF AT

pinehurst, n. c.. March 7.-P. w
Whitemore, B%rookline, today Won the
presidents Trophy i'll the tenth an
nual spring golf tournament mere, de
feating /. S. Robson, Oak Hill, four
,o and three to play. IN the semi
finals, also played today, Nhitemore
won from. J. S. Harding, oakmont.
three up and one to play, while lobe
son took a t~wenty-hole match from
@ /. Becker. Woodland. Robert
Hunter Weeburn took the first flight
consolation trophy from \. II. Rob
bins, Garden City, one up Winners
in the other flights We're: K. II.
Fortune, Winnipeg: L. Z. WardweH,
camden: g. \. Bernard. Niagara. {.
G. Morse. Rochester.
II. \. Sheedy. Altoona; l.. {. Reed,
Detroit: F. A. Hidgman, 1onkers;
=. =. Belts, Washington; W. +. Wells,
| II. k~enilworth, Ohio; G. p Andrews,
bridgeport, Conn. and F. T. Sage,
Rochester.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10
billiard BRUCE SIGNS
AS FAIR PUBLICITY MAN
Former Raleigh Newspaper Man Now
Publicity Agent With County Fair
in Connecticut

Former Managing Editor Hiiliard
Bruce, Of the Raleigh Times. who has
been an editor in Florida, Pennsyl-
vania. Connecticut and Now Jersey
since ne left here in the summer Of
1908, has been signed up as advertis-
ing man and general press agent by
the New London County (Ct.) Agri-
cultural Society, which aims to have
the biggest fair in the northeast, with
the possible exception of Brockton,
Mass, III the course of the next ten
years.
MIR. Bruce was the Society's publ
city mar in 1913. The job was Great
ed for him ecaus Col. r. G.. Plant,
the fair boomer. thought printers ink
in carload quantities ought to be used
in the four counties of the Second
Congressional district. The 1913 fair
made IS, 900 and all the old debts
were cleaped UP and the two mort
cages were burned the other day. MIR.
Bruce will have a good thing from
this time out. His pay in his new
job Will be generous.
Friends Of the One-time Raleigh
| editor in Norwich, e from him oc-
c%asionally. He says he never has for
gotten Pullen PARK and the Sunday
| afternoon band concerts, and that he
| often thinks of the squirrels at play
| on the Capitol grounds. He hasn't
been down his way since the tall Oh
| 1909. when he went to wilmington
and took a sail down the Cape Fear
1 river
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10
LIFE-SANERS HANDICAPPED.
Boat Upset and Rcscuers Have To
Save Themselves.

Seaside Park, y. J.. March The
steamer ChaTlemagnc Tower, IT..
sank yesterday IN 80 fee Of water
three-quarters Of q mile from shore
between Cedar Greek and Forked
River ~Lifc-Saving Stations, six miles
south of here.
II. r.. Thompson, of Brooklyn, first
mate, and three Of the members Cf
the crew were brought ashore.
The eVenue cutter ItaSca reached
the scene after the steamer went
down. The commander Of the cutter
was signalled from shore of the pre-
dicament Of the eighteen men who
put off in a boat.
There are two big sand bars near
where the teamer sank and the life
savers We're seriously handicapped in
launching their boats One finally
was launched, but was upset and the
l~ife-savers wadcd ashore
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10
CRAWFORD WILL VALID
SAYS SPECIAL AUDITOR
Widow, Formerly Accused. Receives
$50, 900 Request From Husbands
WIFI

Will.
Atlanta, Ga, March THE Will of
the late Joshua B.. Crawford, of At
lanta, leaving his entire estate worth
approximately $500 to his widow,
Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford, is valid.
according to the report today handed
down here by James l.. Anderson,
special auditor i'll the famous case.
Mr.. Anderson was appointed by the
court to investigate charges by nu-
lnerOus persons claiming to be heirs
at law to the estate, that Mrs. gCraW-
ford exercised undue influence over
her husband before and after mar
riage. IN his report, MI. Anderson
declares that Mr.. Crawford was of
sound mind when he married and that
there was 10 evidence that Mrs. Craw-
ford frauduHently induced him to wed
her. In the event hat the special
auditors report is approved by the
Superior Court here, the case Will be
finally closed.
Recently efforts were made to prove
that Mr.. CraWford's death vas due to
poisoning, and it also was attempted
20 onnec Mrs. Crawford with this
phase of the case. After inVestiSa-
ton. however, a grand jury here re-
turned a finding OF no bill' against
tIa widow
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10
FOR BREACH Oh PROMISE.
prc,tv Girl sues Prominent FARMER
Who Married AN.akhef'.

res;n COOK. a pretty Stokes county
hei1o Eas Instituted crinlinal> action
aga;!1et caleb Iesslp. a prolhlneh'
"7ur@ farr,er for breach OF promise,
.g;ss C..ok alleged that JeSsup secuFeu
=, license to we'd her on January :,
hu+ that a few days later ne Secqlsn
= license and n1aTT1ed ""7 1850
owens. If Surry county.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10

All rural high schools are meetin.
VIZ" 4 in their efforts.
recommendations Outlined
The Ordway new era., 1914-10-02
Invent, a New Chicken.

George White has produced by Sc
ective breeding, the shortest legged
chicken in existence after ten years
u effort, during which he crossed and
'ecrossed breeds. The result Is a
big white fowl that continually seems
o be sitting. the impression being due
loleiy to the shortness of it's legs. When
walks 1t waddles like a duck.
The advantage. says Whi;a, is that
he newly invented" type or chicken
not a roamer and not a scratcher.
I canont go very far and has not
,nough OF a reach to scratch. The re-
,ult is that 1t lives quiet. peace
'ul existence, never roosts on neigh
oor's fence. and Is busy layer
eaton tO.) dispatchfto the New York
World.
The Ordway new era., 1914-10-02
Children Rails. strange Crops.

Greeley.-That tobacco. okra, Bel
GUM sprout and many other kinds of
odd and unusual vegetables can be
successfully raised In this altitude has
been demonstrated by the work of the
children of the agricultural depart
ment Of the Teachers college, who
held their annual harvest festival at
the college. The festival consisted Of
exhibits of vegetables and flowers, the
product of the students gardens. Each
season the children are given little
plots of ground at the college. under
the supervision Of a teacher. At the
end of the season, after the crops
have been harvested. the children
take the vegetables home with them.
This years exhibit was one OF the
best that has been crown since the
custom originated. -
The Ordway new era., 1914-10-02
WASHINGTON.

Telegraphic reports from State De-
partment agents throughout Europe
Indicated that there has been general
improvement in financial. commercial
and Industrial conditions in the war
zone. @
Formal announcement was made by
Secretary Bryan that there would be
NO postponement of the Panama-Pa-
cific exposition at San Francisco and
that no foreign nation had given
notice Of its intention to withdraw
from participation on account Of the
European war.
Warning Congress not to impose n
"tyrannical leasing act upon the
liberty.loving people Of Alaska" SEN
ator ,Shafroth of Colorado renewed his
attack in the Senate On the Alaska
coal land leasing bill. Me declared
that, however much lessees might prof
1t from the leasing system, the indus
tries depending upon it for coal would
suffer
President Wilson told J. F. We'll
born, president Of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company. that he believed
1t to be the duty of the operators OF
Colorado to accept the basis for the
settlement OF the strike proposed by
federal mediators. Mr.. Welborn told
the President that the operators OBJ
jected to several points In the plan,
but the President asked that they re-
consider the question. III answer to
the objections of Mr.. Welborn, the
President declared he could not act as
the umpire between the operators and
miners, and that he felt 1t the duty
OF the operators to accept the plan al
ready adopted by the miners.
"A total of 100000 acres planted
to beets would free lis from depend
ence upon foreign-grown sugar" says
bulletin No. 2e0 of the United states
Department Of Agriculture In calling
attention to the ease with which the
United States could make itself In
dependent of the rest of the world
for its sugar supply. s ,r-
An exhaustive Investigation Of the
Standard Oil Company is proposed as
the first duty to be imposed upon the
newly created federal trade commits
sion in resolution introduced by>Sen-
ator Gore OF Oklahoma.
The Ordway new era., 1914-10-02

Providence, by defeating Baltimore
captured the International league pen
nant. '5t
William E. A. vannatt's unbeaten
stallion from Otterbein. Ind, defeated
Directum l.. in three straight heats
for the pacing championship Of the
horse world at Grand Rapids. Mich.
The purse was worth $4,000. VIII
-liam's best time was 2:02 1-2,
A baseball game, umpired by Billy
Sunday. will be played for the bene-
fit of the Colorado branch of the
American Red Cross Society between
the Denver team of the Western
league and the indianapolis team Of
the American Association Monday,
Oct. 5, at Broadway park in Denver.
The Ordway new era., 1914-10-02
Racer Injured in Auto Smash.

Colorado Springs.-Verner Shoup.
son OF Oliver II. Shoup, president OF
the Midwest Refining Company, was
dangerously injured in an automobile
accident when racing car in which
he was riding overturned at railroad
crossing ten miles east Of here. Shoup
sustained internal injuries. The car
was going about 60 miles an hour,
when 1t turned turtle. making one and
one-half revolutions. Ernest Sommers.
who was in the car with Shoup. was
unhurt.
The Ordway new era., 1914-10-02
!. How y. Fe,q.ve !Nefasb.

A Scotchman on his deathbed was
reminded by the attending, minister
that the hour OF death Is an hour for
the banishing OF all ill-feeling-a time
for universal forgiveness.
He was McGregor. and his feud
with the McNabs had been notable. So
the clergyman. with the family's per-
mission and assistance, summoned
the head of clan McNab to the dying
McGregor's bedside.
"Iforgiveye, McNab, whispered the
expiring man. ''wY all my heart-but
may my curse rest on my son forever
IL he ever does!"
The Ordway new era., 1914-10-02
!. w. swanbreuqh killed in Race.

Denver.-E. W. Swanbrough. one OF
the best-known not orists in Colorado,
holder Of innumerable state auto rec.
ords and cne of the veteran bicycle
riders of the West was killed in the
auto show races at Overland park
when his car blew tire, skidded over
two embankments. collided with a
post and crushed itss1river. Swan.
brough was living when extricated
from the ruins OF his. car. but died as
he was being taken to the county hos
pital.
The Ordway new era., 1914-10-02
CONFESSION IS UNTRUE
GEORGE MepoNALoAoMiTs sLAY.
ING MAX NEWMAN.
Aceompliee Promised Light Sentence.
Convicted and Sentenced for Life,
Takes Entire Blame.

western Newspspcr Union News Service
Pueblo, Colo.-Called TO the stand to
give the testimony by which 1t was
hoped to convict Lemma Grose of the
,irst degree murder Of Max Newman
in jewelry store robbery May L.
George Mcdonald, Grose's companion
when Newman was killed and robbed,
conlounded ]. w. Davidson. district
attorney. by declaring that he alone
had killed Newman and that Crosse
was looking out Of the window when
the staying took place. .
Mcdonald was the star witness for
the prosecution and his startling state
ment has baffled the state attorneys.
Previously he had reiterated that
Grose did the killing while he was
only concerned in the robbery. T..
Revenge against the local author
tiles is assigned as the reason for Nc
Donald's change. He confessed to his
part with the understanding that he
was to get light sentence for SO do
ing, but in June he was sent to the
peuitentiary for life after conviction
by the same Jury which disagreed at
Crosses first trial, pine members in
sisting on hanging Grose.
Mcdonald was brought from Canon
City and verified his previous confes-
sion. Fifteen minutes later, on the
witness stand, as he was expected to
fasten guilt on Grose. he announced:
II killed Newman and Grose Is inno-
cent. Grose was in the store at the
time, but he was looking out OF the
window" 2a ~
The Ordway new era., 1914-10-02
Red Cross Need. More Funds.

Washington.--Of the s325,oO0 the
American Red Cross has received to
date for its war relief fund, expendi-
turcs and obligations already In
CURED total $2SO.0c0. 1T is apparent
therefore" says the Red Cross, that
the society will be able to accomplish
little more than already undertaken
unless large amount of additional
contributions are received The
first relief expedition to Europe cost
s2OO. 900. $4,000 was used TO purchase
hospital and surgical equipment and
supplies and 100000 TO European Red
Cross societies.
The Ordway new era., 1914-10-02
GENE ERAL.

The $10O,00O,OO0 per cent loan
floated by New York city has proved
a satisfactory success.
At Houghton. Mich. the trial of
John Huhta and three others, charged
with the murder of Thomas Daily and
Henry and Arthur Jane last year, was
transferred 10 Marquette county by or
der of Judge Cooper.
Mrs. Henry NJ FlagIer at Asheville,
N. c., recovered the $4,000 pearl and
diamond pendant for which the police
had been searching. The officers re-
fused to say where It was found and
no arrests were made.
Twenty-Five hundred bales Of cot
ton were subscribed for by New York
merchants at meeting held In the
rooms OF the Merchants Association
to foster the Buy uy-a-bale-of-cotton"
movement It is planned to sell 100.-
900 bales in New York within the
next few days.
The administration of President
Wilson was warmly indorsed and the
congressional ticket named at the re-
cent state primary and headed by
John Walter Smith, renominated for
tina United States Senate, was formal
ly ratified by the Democratic state con-
vention at Baltimore. Md.
An oral order was entered by the
State Supreme Court dismissing the
applications of President Mcdonald OF
the Mine Workers Union Of Butte.
owen Smith, Joseph Bradley, ID. w.
Malone, Ed Ross and James Chapman
for writs of habeas corpus to secure
their release from Jail in Butte. Mont,
where they are held by the state
militia.
Theodore Roosevelt's Youngest
daughter, Ethel. wife Of DIR. Richard
Derby, will nurse the wounded In the
hospitals Of Paris and her husband
will be surgeon in the French city.
The Ordway new era., 1914-10-02
CONDENSED REcoRo or THE
PROGRESS or EVENTS At
HOME AMpsAsRoAo.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. boTM Q .. ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINcs. HoPEs
AND FEARs of;MAHklHp.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
WEsTERN.

Theodore Roosevelt made a two
days campaign in Illinois In behalf Of
Raymond, Robins. senatorial scandi-
date OF the Progressive party OF I'LL
nois.
At meeting OF business men at
the Chamber OF Commerce in Cincin-
natl movement was set on foot to
buy 100000 bales of cotton at $50 a
bale.
Resolutions approving a central Ia
bor union bank in Indianapolis were
passed by the International Associa-
ton of Bridgand Structural Iron
Workers In international convention.
San Francisco. was chosen as the
meeting place for the 1915 convention
of the International Association Of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
at the annual convention of that or
ganization at Peoria. Ill.
The Colorado coal operators stated
In Denver that they will take no
further action in connection with the
settlement Of the coal strike until an
answer to their joint letter addressed
to President Wilson has been received.
The property OF the Illinois Tunnel
Company. consisting Of vaults and un-
derground holdings valued at more
than $3.5O0,000, were sold at Chicago
to Deidrich Arnold for the 1918 coun-
ty taxes. The taxes amounted to 1884,
726.72.
Six persons were injured when Chi.
cago. Rock Island & Pacific passenger
train No. "a was derailed near Yale.
Mo-. twenty-five miles east of Kansas
City. w. l.. Williams. engineer. and
Fred Mayer. fireman, both Of Elder.
NO.. were fatally injured.
william 8. Evans of Philadelphia
was elected president and San Fran
cisco was chosen as the 1915 meeting
place by the American Institute Of
Banking at the closing session Of its
twelfth annual convention at Dallas.
Tex. Thomas H. West OF Portland,
Ore. was elected vice president.
Enamored Of his stepdaughter. Miss
Hattie Lee. twenty-one, Edward Law
renee. thirty.four, OF La Moure, N. D.,
shot and killed her as she lay In her
bed. Bullets sent after his fleeing
wife did not take effect. Lawrence
then attempted to take his own life.
but only blew out both his eyes.
Mrs. Katherine Kuista was burned
to death, her husband. Max, a baker,
severely burned and dozen other
persons had thrilling escapes in fire
that followed an explosion of gas in
two-story frame building in Chicago.
Returning from work. Kuista struck
a match in the kitchen to light gas
jet. The explosion followed.