The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-04-01
For Beef Cattle Of Finest Kind.

For Beef Cattle Of Finest Kind
A one days beef cattle show ard
banquet will be held at Pinehurst, N.
c., on Saturday. April 10th, under the
auspices of the North Carolina Beef
breeders and Feeders Association.
me following speakers will attend:
MT. frederick Delano, Federal Re-
serve Board, Washington, D. c.; DR..
Bradford r. Knapp, director of the
Bureau Of Farm Demonstration Work.
washington, d. c. GMr. BENJAMIN
JOY, vice president of the National
Shawmut Bank, Boston, Mass: Mr.,
george A. Holderness, Tarboro, N. G.
The object of the meeting is to dis
cuss' the financing of the farmer in
the production of live stock and to
interest the bankers of the state in
the production Of beef cattle and to
bring them into close, touch with the
state and government beef cattle ex-
perts and the county demonstration
agent. Good specimens of the vari-
GUS types of cattle adaptable to North
Carolina conditions will be on exhibi-
ton as we'll as stereoptican pictures.
The cost for the dinner will be $3.50
per plate.
The following program has been ar
ranged for the day:
10:3O-North Carolina Bankers
Golf Tournament Prizes will be Of
fered.
4:30-Cattle show.
8:O0-Banquet at the Carolina Ho-
tel. North Carolina bred and fattened
will hn
Notice of the meeting has been sent
out to all the bankers, prominent cat
tie feeders and breeders and state and
government beef cattle experts and
managers of the farm demonstration
work in the state.
A number of fine specimens of beef
cattle will be on exhibition and the
meeting should have a great effect in
stimulating interest in this industry.
The officers of the association are:
President, Roger A. Derby, Jackson
Springs; first vice president, T. L.
Gwyn, Canton; second vice president,
G. A. Holderness, Tarboro; third vice
president, Guy V. Roberts, Marshall;
fourth vice president H. T. Schaf-
ner, Winston Salem; secretary-treas-
urer, r. S. Curtis West Raleigh.
There is also a vice president for
every county in the state.
Licenses to 434 Insurance Companies.
Licenses to 434 insurance compnies
and to $4,000 local agents represent
ing these companies in evrey section
of the state are being issued just now
by the State Department of Insurance
ut @1o Io
ginning of a new fiscal year. OF the
companies being licensed LAG are fire
insurance, SO are life, As miscellan-
eous, so fraternal, livestock and 14O
building and loan associations. These
licenses will be bringing into the
State Treasury, too, very consider
able sum of money that will help
nightly in the stringent conditions
that have troubled the treasurer for
some time The new provision Of the
insurance law for the Commissioner
of Insurance to pass upon the qualifi-
cations of applicants for licenses as
insurance agents before issuing the
license, is not being applied at this
time, as the act was passed too near
the end of the fiscal year for the ma
chinery for this to- be put in motion
before April 1.
North Carolina State Expenses.
A recent bulletin sent out by the
Federal Census Bureau, entitled Ma
tional and State Revenues and Elk
chance to study North Carolina in
contrast with the rest of the states.
The statements that follow are based
on this bulletin:
In our state government unneces-
sarily expensive. How does it COM
pare with other states? In answer
we find that the per capita cost of
our state government in 1913 was
s1.46. 1t was more in every other
state in the union, South Carolina
alone excepted.
The per capita cost ranged from
s1.46 in North and South Carolina to
S1O42 in Nevada.