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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
ERADICATE THE White GRuBs
Growers OF Strawberries Should Be-
Careful in Selecting Land-Best
to Avoid Sod Lands.

strawberry growers who are trou-
bled with white grubworms should be
careful in selecting the land upon
which the plants are to be set. Sod
land. according to ]. r. Watson. en-
tomologist to the University of Fiori-
da experiment station, is apt to be in
tested with the worms. He advises
that the land be given to some crop
not injured by the grubs for two or
three years after the sod is turned
under. If the grower cannot wait
that long. he might pasture pigs on
the land six months before planting.
Pigs root the grubs out and eat them.
If stable or barnyard manure is used
as fertilizer, 1t might be well to mix
with it from 200 to 400 pounds of eva
hide to the acre. 1t is possible that
cyanide cannot be obtained. Abou.
100 pounds OF sulphur or enough to
slightly color the manure might be
added. The sulphur can be applied
between the rows.
Neither of these substances will kin
the grubs, but they act as repellents
and will probably drive the grubs
away. The best method, however, is
to avoid sod lands.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24

Spring Grain Aphis or screen Bug"
kansas. The danger of this pest doing
serious damage in the spring depends
to a great extent upon the weather be-
tween now and the middle of April. II
the temperature during this period is
sufficiently high to enable the green
bug to breed throughout the winter.
and at the same time sufficiently low
to prevent its principal natural enemy
"a minute black. four-winged fly
from developing. a serious visitation
over large areas may be expected.
In all the states where the green
bug has made it's appearance grain
growers should watch their fields care
fully. If any spots appear where the
grain changes from green to yellow in
color, these should be plowed under as
deeply as possible and the ground har-
rowed and rolled. It Is from spots of
this character that the green bug
spreads over the remainder of the
fields. If straw can be spared for the
purpose. it may be spread over the in
fected patches and burned. This de-
stroys the pest as effectively as the
blowing under of the ground.
Ordinarily. the green bug is kept in
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24

Germans and of producing the goods
four per cent cheaper"
Mr.. Mills then showed me around
the works and demonstrated all the
processes, from the raw material.
which in this case is a reel of fine
Canadian wood pulp, to the highly
finished fancy wall coverings in pat
tern and color
The papeT is first cut into strips &C
cording to the width of yarn or rope
strand required, then twisted ON
frames very similar to those used in
cotton or wooden manufacture, and
afterward, by means of spools of welt
and warp, the material Is transferred
to looms which will weave anything.
plain or fancy, ribbed or patterned.
Incidentally, the invention will
solve the great problem of how to
make up the supply of packing string,
for paper is now proved to be capable
of carrying any reasonable weight.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
Graham Visits Mari Beds.

Maj. W. A. Graham, Commissioner
of Agriculture, has returned after a
visit of several days in the east, the
mari beds of Craven being an objec-
tive
He also went to Goldsboro. After
visiting Newbern he went out to the
mari beds which are daily furnishing
60 tons for the farmers of the state.
The state has bought small loco
motive which 1t backs to the very spot
and makes the transportation very
much easier. Lime is figuring extern
sievly in nearly all the important
crops of the state and the supply in
Craven gives every promise of lasting
long. The department has recently
issued bulletins which show the for
mula for mixing mari with other in
gradients that constitute first-class
fertilizers.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24

Up-to-date fruit growers spray their
peach trees as we'll as their apples, al
though it is well understood that good
results are not always certain. and
there is also liability to injury if
care is not used to have the spray so
lutions of proper strengths and care
fully prepared.
With the advent of the ready-pre-
pared lime-sulphur solutions which
are safely used at diluted strengths
on apples after the blooming period.
there has been a tendency to use
these ready-made lime-sulphur washes
at diluted strength on peaches after
the blooming period also, and many
fruit growers have been asking the d.
vision of entomology of the state de-
partment of agriculture whether this
can be safely done. Accordingly Mr..
Sherman and Mr.. Clapp have been
making experiments with this material
during the past two seasons in the
peach orchard at the Statesville test
farm. The results SO far show that
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
FEEDING THE WORKING MIL
Unlike the Horse, He Will Not Bolt
His Food-He Knows When He
Has Had Enough.

When the farm mule is working
hard, feed him all the grain and hav
he will eat. He will not eat too much.
Unlike the horse. he will not bolt his
grain and leave his hay, but eats
little of one and then a little of the
other, When he has had enough he
knows enough to stop
During the winter give him all the
corn fodder he can eat. little hay
may be added If desired. but this is
not necessary. Many mule owners
winter their animals entirely on corn
fodder
What is not cleaned up in the racks
is used for bedding. When mules are
not working they will eat about >
per cent of their weight a day OF
corn fodder.-Farm and Home.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
USES TICKET 20 YEARS OLD
Started and Has Been in
Prison Since.

Kansas City.-A man whose face
was white and drawn has just ended a
long delayed journey. He entered a
train at the Union station here and
after a while gave his ticket to the
conductor, who regarded it curiously.
The ticket called for a trip to Gala
tin, Mo-, was issued by the Wabash
& Pacific railway in 1886 and was
good still.
The passenger told his story briefly,
sadly. Twenty-Five years ago he was
travelling from Leavenworth to Gala
tin. He had arrived in Kansas City
and bought ticket to Gallatin when
he was arrested and taken back to
Leavenworth. Found guilty, he had
served 20 years in the federal prison
in Leavenworth.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
Health Work In AIamanee Schools.

Health Work In AIamance Schools.
DR.. T. M. Jordan, county health Of
fee of Alamance county, is here con
ferring with the state board of health
in regard to his work. He also filed
his report of work done in the schools
of Alamance since November Is, 1915,
when he began his campaign of school
inspection. The report contains many
striking facts and shows just how val
liable good health officer can make
himself to a county.
Doctor Jordans county, Alamance,
was the first county to adopt medical
inspection of schools. He began No
vember Is and finished his work Feb
ruary II. In that time he visited
dren. Of these he found that II per
cent. or 1880, had some defect
These figures include all defects, Sc
rious and minor Those having de-
fects of such serious nature as to
hinder the development of the child,
mentally or physically, numbered L.
400, or SO per cent. In every case
Doctor Jordan gave advice that if
followed will result in improvement
to the unfortunate.
Not all of his work was examining
the children, through that he consid-
cred most important. The morning
hours were devoted to inspection of
the children, the afternoon to health
talks and study Of health literature
and at night, in 81 different schools,
he delivered lantern-slide lectures to
all who would come to hear. He
spoke to $3.50 people in these school
houses and travelled 379 miles.
Doctor Jordan carefully examined
the school houses and found only
one, the graded school building in
Graham, in perfect sanitary condi-
ton. Prizes offered the schools were
won by the Altamahaw public school,
Miss Florine Robertson, teacher, first
Is-ize, and second by the Burlington
graded school.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
YARNS FROM PAPER
New Industries Spring Up as Re.
suit of War.
Factory in England Now Spins
Threads Fine Enough for Gas
Nantes and Strong Enough
to Tie Up Ship.

London.-LondOn has, no doubt, add
ed many new industries to it's list
since the war began, but few, per-
haps, of greater Importance and fasci-
mating interest than that of paper spin
ming and weaving.
l have had the opportunity of see
Ing some wonderful things in the way
of yarns and textiles manufactured
from paper pulp, and also of seeing a
demonstration plant at work spinning
threads of paper into Irvine fine
enough for gas nantes and strong
enough to hold a ship.
This wonderland is to be found in
Southwark and at the works of the
Textilite Engineering company, which
Is now supplying British-made ma
chinery. made according to it's pat
ents, for the manufacture of every
kind of thing Imaginable which for
merly was made of hemp and jute
and fax.
THE thugs you see around you,'
said Mr.. George Seaton Mills, the
managing director Of the company
ARE new, and yet they are not new.
What l mean is that the people of
China, in the days of Confucius, prob
ably twisted a strip of paper in the
fingers absent-mindedly and found it
had remarkable tensile strength, but
what we have done is to make that
idea into practical proposition.
"The Germans, with their faculty
for imitation, have spun paper for
years, but they never could spin it
fast enough to make it pay. We now
have found means of spinning the pa.
per four or five times faster than the
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
Rifle Ranges For Guards.

Ajutant General Laurence Young
has received from Architect Frank
Thomson plans for uniform rifle ranges
to be installed at each company head
quarters in North Carolina for the use
of the North Carolina national guard
The plans and specifications are COM
plete and Adjutant General Young
much to improve the craftsmanship
of the companies of the national guard
already known for shooting qualities
twenty-five ranges are contemplated
This will give range at the head
quarters of each company. Already
there have been requests filed for fif-
teen of these.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24

Mrs. Gardner is a native
chester, Mass, and a relative 20
racker. who founded Lehigh univer.
slly' sne began painting thirtv wears
ago. IN all that time she has painted
oats OF all types and degrees-arts.
,oclatlc cats and just plain Tables
nave been the subjects for her brush
ohe mas selected her models from ali
quarters from the back fence as VOL
as from the hearthstone, and her worl
uas iouad It's way to far corners Of
the globe Probably the most famous
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
Program For Shakespeare Day.

Program For Shakespeare Day.
DR.. J. Y. Joyner sent to the printer
program for the celebration of Shakes
peare Day, on Match "a. The pro-
gram was prepared by Mrs. Lindsay
Patterson of Winston-Salem, chairman
G the North Carolina Shakespeare
Precautionary Association and is de.
signed to stimulate interest in the
works of Shakespeare on the part OF
the children of the state. Doctor
Joyner pronounces the program a de-
lightful one in every respect and one
that will encourage the study of
Shakespeare In the schools of the
state.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
CLEAN HOUSES PLEASE HENS
10 promote Comfort and Lessen DAN
ger OF Disease Droppings Should
Be Removed Daily.

Droppings should be removed dailv
Tor cleanliness in the poultry house
promotes comfort and lessons the
chance of disease. Poultry houses,
however simple. should be both warm
in winter and well lighted. The win,
dows should also be provided with
iron netting. so the sash may be raised
to admit air in summer. and in mild
weather in winter. One portion should
be half dark, for the laying and sit
ting hens. and a proper dust bath
should be provided If lice make their
appearance. fumigate thoroughly and
after cleansing whitewash with lime
to which little carbolic acid is added
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24

when diluted even at the rate of one
gallon of the ready-made solution TO
fifty gallons of water, there is apt 10
be serious injury to the trees if the
treatment be given continuously
though they have used it successfully
on single occasions when not conven-
lent to prepare the standard self boiled
lime-sulphur solution. Trees on which
the diluted ready-made solution has
been used for two seasons now show a
serious lack of growth, even though
they made good yields of fine fruit
both years, and the treatment was sue
cessful against both insects and rot.
They conclude that the self-boiled lime
sulphur solution should still be relied
upon for spring and summer spraying
of peaches-though the ready-mada
solution should be used in winter at
strength of one gallon to eight gallons
water for control of San Jose scale.
But to depend on the ready-made solu.
lions regularly for summer spraying of
peaches ?-experience says don't
North Carolina Experiment Station.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
New Charters Are Issued.

Bank of Davidson, of Davidson.
Capital stock, $4,000 Subscriber
stock, 100000
Keystone Manufacturing Company
Henderson, to manufacture mattress
es and upholstered furniture; capital
stock paid in, $1,000, which may be
increased to $4,000
B. H. Stephens & Co., Wilmington,
architects and engineers, authorized
capital, $4,000, with $500 paid in.
The Kelford Chero Cola Bottling
Works Company, with authorized cap
ital of $4,000 and $4,000 paid in.
The United Motor Lines Company
o. Mooresville is a $50 900 corporation
with $500 paid in
Northup-McDuffie Hardware Com
pany. of Asheville. Capital stock,
100000. Subscribed stock, $4,000.
The Mutual Stores Company, Colds
boro, to do a general merchandising
business; authorized capital, $4,000,
with $1,000 paid in.
Badin Realty Company, Albemarle,
organized to deal in real estate in and
around Badin, Yadkin Narrows; auth
orized capital, 100000, with $4,000
paid in.
The r. G. Lassister Company of OK.
ford, being a S125,OOO paid-in capital
construction corporation The auth
orized capital is $15O,OOO
The Farmers Cooperative Company
! CT Middlesex is 100000 in ambition
but begins with $4,000 paid in.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
GLASS GIVES "$1" TRUE RING
Counterfeit Dollar Is Detected by New
Appearance and Twenty-Year-
Old Date.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Everyone
here is on the lookout for what is said
to be the most deceptivesof silver dol
lar counterfeits that has appeared for
long time.
The counterfeit is said to ring
true, but examination of one Of tho
dollars" disclosed that this quality
was given to it by the use of glass
The real point upon which detection
I Ies's IS the new appearance despite
the date of 20 years ago.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
SCOTS GET HAGG|S|
Men in Trenches to Live on Food
of Warriors. .-
British War Office Gives Official Rec.
ignition to the National Dish Of
Scots-Famed in Song
and Story.

London.-Scotchmen all over the
world should thrill with delight at
the news that the war Office at last
has given it's official recognition to
their national dish, the haggis. With
the laudable object of making the
trenches as homelike as possible to
the Scottish troops, Mrs. Porter Brown
of No. 16 Holland road, Kensington, is
raising q fund to provide for them
real Scotch haggis in bulk. If this
does not bring to them the scent of
nothing will
The haggis is one of the few ma
tiOnal dishes which has retained it's
splendid isolation. Except maybe on
Burns nights or at private gatherings
of exiles from north of the Tweed it
is seldom seen in England. To Scotch
whisky and shortbread, especially the
former, the Southron has taken very
kindly, but to him the haggis is still
an alien, probably because it is still
too strong for his more delicate stom-
ach.
For the great chieftain o. the
puddin' race" as Burns calls it, is to
tho Sassenach q fearful and wonder
full wild fowl. It is made of a sleeps
heart, liver and lungs, with some of
the smaller intestines. These are sea-
soned with pepper, salt and onions,
and the whole is chopped up fine, with
suet and oatmeal. Then the mixture
is rammed into the membrane of a
sleeps stomach and boiled And this
It is which has helped to make Scot
land what she is today. Says Burns,
addressing the haggis:
But mark the rustic, haggis fed.
The trembling earth resounds his tread
Clap in his walie nieve blade.
He'll max it whistle;
An legs an arms. an heads will sned
Like taps O thrissles.
Evidently not bad stuff to fight on.
And now Mrs. Browns fund is to be
recognized by the war office. Her
rich and rare buildings are to go to
the front with the sanction of the
powers that be; and "Jock" and
Tam once again will sit around
their we'll beloved dish all hot from
the pot. And when they have eaten
OF 1t, woe betide the "boehe" that
comes within striking distance of their
''walfe nieves." There will be dirty
work. For, as a Scotchman will tell
you, there is all Scotland in the hag-
gis. There is Bannockburn and Flod-
den Field and the Forty-Five. There
is the wind in the heather and the
plunge of the salmon stream.
With bit of haggis on his dirk the
Scot can see in its stream the banks
and braes O. Bonnie Doom and the
bonnie, bonnie banks O. Loeb Lomond.
He will feel his foot once more on
his native heath, and there will be
sparks. But, as a brither Scot would
add, their ''nieves" would be all the
more "walie' if Mrs. Brown would
only see to it that a proportionate
quantity of mellow "Old Orkney" were
sent to stir into the haggises.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24

until their numbers are sufficient to
overcome any material increase in the
numbers Of the green bug. They are
not. however, able to withstand as
severe weather as the green bug it.
self. and it is important, therefore
that the farmers in the regions likely
to be affected by the latter take the
necessary steps Immediately for their
own protection.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
Economic Way.

Good cooks ask such high wages
now that few people can afford &c
keep one.'
Il have one of the best in town,
and don't pay her any wages, eithey
nor give her single day off,"
How do you manage ttr"
married her"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
CAT ARTIST GOES BLIND
Mrs (. N. Gardner Of New Jersey Had
oainted Portraits Of 1000
Tables.

P1tman, N. 1.-THE worlds endur-
ance record for cat painting doubt
less goes to Mrs. E. M. Gardner of
this place, who has just completed
her thousandth cat and has been
stricken with blindness, her sight hay-
ir8 given out under the strain of
many years of painting.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
OooS A. fArtilizer

There is now lat one impeachment t..
the extension o! sheep raising and that
is the hundreds * worthless dogs run.
ming at large. Those who have expert
mented say that a dead and buried dog
makes excellent fertilizer for the Or
chard or for growing crops of any
kind
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
New Automobile TAOS.

A design for number plates for auto
mobiles in North Carolina has been
selected. The new numbers will have
blue background. with white raised
letters of very large size, monogram
n. c.. and date of expiration The
numbers will be easily legible in al
most any sort of light.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24

check by the minute fly already men
toned This parasite lays it's eggs in
the body of the green bug. and the
young. Matching from the eggs wi, hin
the body. ultif ttely cause the death
of the bug. TIL Sc parasites are fo,nd
In considerable number of insects
which are closa41 related to the grit en-
bug. Under favorable temperate re
conditions they Sil. probably Increase
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
Respite Is Granted Murderers.

Governor Craig granted a respite to
Ida Ball Warren and Samuel P. Chris
ty. the Winston Salem murderers who
were to have been executed Friday.
March 3 They will have four moro
weeks
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
Possible Exclamation

Possible Explanation.
why are some ministers called doc
tors?" asked the inquisitive person.
Because they cure lot of people OF
insomnia. l suppose" answered the
wise guy.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
Trait Visiting Convict Camps.

DR.. joseph Hyde Pratt. State Geolo-
list has just left for Western North
Carolina, where he will visit state con-
vfct camps, one on Hickory Nut Gap
Road, one on Central Highway at
Graphiteville, in Mcdowell county,
and the third in Madison county on
Central Highway. At Bat Cave, on
Hickory Nut Gap Road, there will be
held a meeting of Hickory Nut Gap
Read Commission, composed of M. H
Fletcher, Asheville, Buncombe. Mr.. C.
Oates, Bear Wall0w. Henderson, and
a representative from Rutherford.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
For the Hall Of History.

In the State Hall of History Man
ager F. A. Odds, has just installed a
special case of old coins and currency
that gives a clear representation Of
coins and bills for the past three
thousand years, there being old Ro-
man coins, early English money, Am
erican Colonial and the later monies
issued in the early days of North Car
olina's statehood down to 1875. It is a
unique case that it attracting much at
tention. Col. Odds has recently added,
also a unique candlestick that was
once property Of Gen. Lafayette
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24

Miss Ethlyn La Lande, one of the
four sisters famous throughout the
South for their beauty, and members
of one of the Oldest and most exclu
slve families of New Orleans, whose
arrest and detention by the London
police when suffering from a nervous
breakdown due to her strenuous wa,
relief work has just been reported.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
Plan Equipment,

IL Is no more our mission to keen
the hogs healthy than it is to plan
our equipment so that they may keeT
themselves So
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24

Average Weight Of Goose
The average weight of the goose IA
twice that of tbs duck
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
Provides For Eighty-Seven Librarien

Provides For EightySeven Librarie1
Mr.. E. E. Sans, of the state depart
ment of education, guardian of the
state library fund, mailed out war
rants aggregating funds sufficient,
with county and district appropria-
tons, to furnish eighty-seven libra
ries. Sixty-one of these were original
libraries and twenty-six were supple
mentary ones. The provision of the
law calls for an appropriation of ten
dollars by the county and ten dollars
by the district to secure the ten dol
lors from the state for the original
library.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24

cat she ever painted was Tix, a beau.
tfful Angora, which for years has orna.
mented the Office Of Green's hotel
Philadelphia
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-02-24
GREEN APHIS APPEARS
Many Southwestern Grain Fields
Are infested, Say Reports.
Serious Spread May Follow Favorable
Weather Conditions-Spread Straw
Over Infected Spots and
Destroy Insects.

The spring grain aphis. popularity
known as the green bug. has appeared
in grain fields in Tennessee, Texas.
Oklahoma, Kansas and in northeastern
New Mexico, and it is probable that it
Is also in southern Missouri and Ar