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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
GOOD RECORD rs GUIDE
IN MAKING FEOCKS PAY

slow much profit am I making?
What return cam I expect from my
laying flock next month? Next
year,"
These are questions constantly
coming before the poultryman, said
CD. Maupin, extension poultry spe-
cialist at State College.
The only way to find the answer
is to keep records on the flock, he
added Without records, there is no
way of determining just what the
flock is doing
Good records show the cost of
feeding the flock, the gross and net
returns, and the average egg pro-
duction of Individual birds.
A poultryman must know these
things before he can tell whether
his system of feeding and manage
ment is getting proper results
Records often show when the
flock needs to be culled. If a large
number of hens shows no profit, the
low producers should be sent to
market. Properly used, the record
will tell the story from month to
month.
If the birds are beng FED well and
are in good health, yet do not lay
satisfactorily, it may be that they
are not of a good breed or strain, or
it may be that that type of bird is
not suited to the farm where they
are located,
Don't buy highly advertised
breed of chicks, then trust to luck
that they will produce profitable
quantities of eggs.
Since the poultry year starts on
October l, this date or the first week
or two in October are the best time
for starting to keep records, Maupin
pointed out.
Many poultrymen have learned
the value Of good records, and each
month a number of them send re-
ports on their flocks to the extension
poultrymen at State College. The
poultry specialist study the records
and offer helpful suggestions when
needed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
u. S. DEBT CUT NINE
BILLION IN DEPRESSION
No Evidence Found That Business
Is Saddled With Too Great Debt

Private 1ong-term debt in the
United States was cut more than
So, ZOO, 100000 in the depression years
from 1880 through 1884, the nation
al industrial conference board re-
ported in Washington this week.
A reversal of debt liquidation was
indicated in the preliminary estl-
mate of a small increase in private
debt last year.
The 1884 total was placed at $76,-
ISL, 100000 compared with $85,774,-
OOO,O in 1880. In the decades prior
to 1880, the rising debt trend had
sent the total from SIS, 021 ,000,0 900 in
1880 to SAG, 1881, 100000 in 1920.
The board said it's study presented
no evidence ito support the theory
that business is saddled with too
great a burden, of private debt"
Rates of growth of private long
term debt and interest charges, it
noted, have been similar to those of
national wealth and income.
It added there was no ssfactual
basis" for statements the depression
was precipitated by excessive private
debt.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
DAIRY FEED TOO COSTLY
FOR LOW PRODUCING COVE

The advancing cost Of dairy feed
means that only good, producing
cows will pay the dairyman a. profit
this winter.
Low producers will be an unneces-
sary expense and they should be
sent to the butcher; said John A.
Arey, extension dairy specialist at
State College.
Consequently, he added, this is the
logical time to improve the average
quality of the herd by cnlGng out
inferior animals There is no reason
for keeping them.
The price of dairy feeds in North
Carolina has risen more than 80 per
cent since June l., he pointed out,
and there IS possibility of still a
further increase as a result OF the
mid-western drought during the
past summer.
Arey also stated on many dairy
farms it is advisable to grow winter
hays as we'll as summer hays to in
sure an adequate supply throughout
the year. Winter hays are not affect
ed by dry weather as are those
grown in summer.
He recommended that the follow
| ing mixture for winter hay should
be sown during the early part of Oc-
tober on well fertilized soil:
Two bushels of winter oats, one
bushel of beardless barley, one-hah
bushel of beardless wheat, and eth
er 20 pounds of Austrian winter peas
or Is pounds of hairy vetch.
This quantity of seed is enough fol
one acre. Yields of two to three tons
of hay per acre have been secured
from this mixture. Moving should
be done when the cereals are in the
milk stage, as the hay cut at that
time will be of better quality thar
that cut when the crop is more ma.
ture.
Permanent pastures can also be
seeded in most parts of the State uE
to the middle of October. Seed mix
lures for various sections are giver
in extension circular No. 202, which
may be secured free from the agrl'
cultural editor at State College, Ra
leigh.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
Man, Is, Commits
Gruesome Crime

Coroner H. J. Larson, of Crystal
Falls, Mich, reported that George
Ola, 25, shot and killed his parents,
MIR. and Mrs. Henry J. Ola, and sis
ter, Lulu, %, at their farm home
Sunday and then committed suicide.
DR.. Larson said that George also
set fire to the barn on the farm,
near Amasa, Mich, burning to death
% cows and horses, and left a note
saying he was 'stired of life" and
Indicating the family had been in
financial difficulties.
The bodies were found by neigh
Dor. Frank Maxi, about a. m.
when he was attracted by the blaz-
ing barn and went to the Ola home
to help put out the fire.
Maxi said Ola, about so years old,
was found dead on the pantry floor,
two bullets in his body. Mrs. Ola,
about the same age, was dead in bed
and the body of Lulu was on the
floor in her bedroom, each killed by
one bullet
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
PICTURES DETERMINE
ATMOSPHERE OF ROOM

A selection of good pictures har-
monizing with the color and furn-
ishings of a room will bring out
latent beauty and atmosphere that
would otherwise go unnoticed.
Pictures are constant companions
in the home, sid Miss Pauline Cor
don, extension specialist in house
furnishings at State College, and
they should be selected with care.
"a bare wall is better than ugly,
distasteful, or tiresome pictures
she declared.
In the first place, she continued, a
picture should be beautiful.It should
also harmonic with the room, suit
the space it is to occupy, and be ap-
propriate for the persons who will
use the room most.
For example, the living room
should not be cluttered up with pic
lures intended for the nursery or q
child's bedroom. Likewise, dark OF
somber pictures should not be plac-
ed in the children's rooms.
Omit pictures when color and fig
ure interest of background are -suffi-
Gent; use mirror or textile hang
ings. Where there is enough color
but not enough pattern, choose etch-
ings or drawings. With sufficient
pattern and not enough color, use
strong color pictures.
Place light pictures on light walls
and dark pictures on dark walls
Don't place picture in frame that
is more conspicuous than the picture
Oil paintings require larger, heavier
frames than water colors or prints
Warm colored pictures should be
framed with warm colors or gilt
Cool colors such as blue. white. or
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
OUR NATURAL BEAUTIES

A THOUGH THE western part OF North
"A Carolina continues to be spoken OF as
BASKERVILLE" by those who do not know North
Carolina, we in Ashe county who live in the
midst of scenery and climate that is second to
none in any other part of the state are convinc-
ed that we have the it all over tine rest of the
state when it comes to actually having scenery
to brag about
With the turning of the leaves which changes
the hills and mountains into flaming peaks of
color, each fall we should look about us and
spend some tine in pure enjoyment of the
beauties of nature instead of doing as we
apt to do, take our ever present loneliness flor
granted.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15

DOLTTIcAL soothsayers have everything so
= thoroughly figured out that it seems certain
that the election will go both ways and THAT
both presidents will be- elected False prophets
used to be man-handled and had no chance to go
wrong twice Nowadays anyone can make mis-
take in predicting what the future holds, and
90 right back to the adding machine when a
new opportunity for telling what is going to
happen arises When the election is over, good
sized company will say to the rest OF us:
81 told you sol"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
River Dragged for Body

FRANKLIN, Oct. 11.-Severa1
hundred volunteer workers tonight
were dragging the Cullasaja river
near here for the body of Robert
Cunningham, 26-year-old filling sta
tion operator who is believed to be
drowned in the river.
Cunningham, Charles Penan, and
Miss Bernice and Miss Agnes Seay,
all of Franklin, were returning from
a dance at Highlands about o'clock
this morning when their car went
over a 150-foot embankment into the
river. Penland and the Seay sisters,
who were slightly cut and bruised,
managed to escape from the car aft
er it struck the water.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15

AN ANCIENT skull from the Alaskan islands
s has been measured in the Smithsonian In
stitution- and found to have the largest brain
capacity known to science We wonder what
this Alaskan old-timer with his big mind made
out of life He probably found nothing more
interesting to do with it than to expertly stab
seals with stone spear or repair the skins on
his house. He lacked opportunity. Even with a
smaller mind, it is worth something to be hv-
ing in 1886.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
WINONAH BETH BLACKBURN

Winonah Beth. Blackburn was
born April 8, 1884, and departed this
life October 9, 1886, making her stay
on earth two years, six months and
one day.
''Diddie'', as everyone called her,
was little angel sent to us from
heaven to stay only a short time.
She has made our home bright and
sunny but she has gone back to the
one who gave her. May we all live
the kind of life God would have us
live so we can meet Little Diddie''
in heaven.
Surviving are her parents Winnie
Coins Blackburn and Nick Black
burn, relatives and friends who will
love the memory of this little dar-
ling:
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
VOCATIONAL TRAINING

VOCATIONAL training, if campaign promises
mean anything, at last has chance to get
somewhere in North Carolina. Both MIR. Hoey
and Mr. Grissom have declared themselves in
favor of doing something definite toward train
ing the boys and girls in the state to become
practical men and women.
For years the Skyland Post has seen the need
of such training. Ye editor, being an ex-teacher
who tried to teach Latin to high school boys and
girls because it was state requirement. knows
from experience that valuable time and effort
are wasted when the majority of our students in
rural communities have to wade through foreign
languages, impractical sciences, and higher
mathematics in order to get high school oil
ploma-which being won, fits the winner only
for freshman course in college and not at all
for going back home and taking up the serious
duties of making or helping make living
Only five per cent of the high school gradu-
ates in the United States 60 to college, yet al
most all of the training in high school today is
toward preparing the student for college en-
trance something he will never use If he falls
into that ninety-five per cent who do not go to
college
If each high school had departments for
training pupils in handicrafts, the science of
farming, the science of home-making, and other
arts from which they could learn enough to
leave school and make their way in the world,
then the purpose of education would be solved
for that great mass of young people who seek
to learn how to make living but have no way
open to them other than the standardized and
inefficient methods of the present.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
TREAT SMALL GRAIN TO
FREE SEED FROM SHUTS

SHUTS in wheat and barley cam
best be controlled by treating the
seeds: with flngicides or hot water
to, kiIT the fungus organisms.
Planting seed that has never been
irfacted also is good, said DR.. L1th-
err Shaw, extension plant patholbgist
at State College, but sometimes it is
hard to get seed perfectly free from
disease
A. few smutty heads in field are
capable of infesting large percent
age Of the seed produced or the
farm, and threshing machines can
spread the spores from one farm to
another.
Dat smuts can be controlled either
by planting disease-resistant va
riety or by treating the seed with
fungicide, DR.. Shaw added.
The treatment recommended diff
fers with the type of smut and the
kind of seed.
Treat loose smut by lmmerSing
the seed in rot water. Keep wheat
10 minutes in water that has been
heated to 129 degrees fahrenheit.
Barley should be left IS minutes in
water with a temperature of 1875 de-
grees.
A fungicide dust will kill the COW
cred smut spores. Treat wheat with
IL ounce of ethyl mercury phos-
plate dust to each bushel of seed,
or 2 to 2 IL ounces of cooper car
Donate dust $50 per cent copper).
Both covered and black loose
smuts in barley may be eradicated
by busting each bushel of seed with
IL ounce of ethyl mercury phos-
phate dust or three ounces of for
maldehyde dust.
This last treatment will also kill
covered and loose smut in oats.
The simplest and most effective
homemade machine to use in treat
ing seed with fungicidal dusts is the
barrel mixer. It should not cost more
than SIS to make and with proper
care it should last indefinitely.
A diagram showing how to make
such buster, together with a de-
tailed discussion of smuts and smut
control methods may be secured
free from DR.. Luther Shaw, State
College, Raleigh.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
FARMS AND GARDENS

gray should be framed with cool
color or possibly silver.
Fine picture wire should be used
rather than large ornate cords. Me-
dunn and small pictures should be
hung blind, that iss, to hook OF
nail hidden behind the picture. Large
rectangular pictures should be hung
with two vertical wires, and large
round or oval pictures should be
hung with a wire going over one
hook or hanger in the form of tri-
angle.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15

Georges body lay in a driveway
near the house, pistol beside him
and the penciled note in his pocket.
The note said:
"My health is not good. am tired
of life This is the best way out. The
county can have the property for
funeral expenses. My fathers life in
surance can be given to his aunt of
Even, Mich"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
THE WOODEN leg dealers of the country

THE WOODEN leg dealers of the country
have assembled in convention recently and
informed the world that the loss of leg is not
much worse than the loss of ones teeth The
statement may be extravagant, but it has some
truth behind it. President Roosevelt, for ex-
ample, is known to have serious disability of
the lower limbs, but no one marks that fact up
against him as disqualification for office hold
ing In the days when man had to carry a
pack or make quick sprint to get away from
Indians wooden leg was a misfortune, but
street cars, buses and cheaply operated takes
have shifted the handicap to the man who can
not deliver his food to his stomach properly
chewed
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15
IN New York will teach children

CCHOOLS IN New York will teach children
- table manners. Eating properly is task
that tries everyone now and then. 1t is said that
the Hindus battle in public but eat in private,
which is justifiable when the efforts of some
eaters are noted Which reminds us of the sailor
who drank his soup instead of handling it with
a spoon He declared there was no use in taking
on a cargo by count when it could be loaded
in bulk.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15

lives in the Deep River erosion area
near High Point.
When the meadow strip was con-
structed two years ago Willard did,
not like the idea, Tribou continued.
But at. the end of the first year, after
he had made three cuttings of hay
from the, area, he was particularly
pleased and reported he had made
more from the meadow strip in the
form of; hay than he could possibly
have derived from crop grown ON
the same land.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15

In 1872 10 persons including two
women and a baby drifted 100
miles on an Arctic, ice floe in 1877
days without the loss of life.
Snails Of one species can live a
year without food.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15

There we're no national bank fail
ures in 1885.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-15

Entered as second-class matter on Oct. /, 1925 at
the post Office at West Jefferson, North Carolina
Evening star., 1936-12-29
PLANES EXPORT TO SPAIN
SPURS NEUTRALITY BILL
Senator Duffy Forecasts Action 1mme.
diately After Congress Convenes
Tuesday to Plug Hole in Act.

arms sales to belligerent foreign
powers" but not to factions in q civil
war
Chairman Pittman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee and Sem
ator Vandenberg. Republican, Of Mich
igan, one of the leading minority
members, declined to comment until
they had studied possible remedial
measures.
Senator Van Nuys, Democrat. OF
Indiana said he would favor "exten-
sion Of the present act to cover the
civil war in Spain or any other coun-
try"
MY impression is that provision for
such emergency would have been in
cluded in the present act II the trouble
in Spain could have been foreseen." "
he added. Il shall most certainly
support any legislation designed to
remedy the defect"
Because the munitions embargo
provisions of the neutrality act do not
apply to civil conflicts like that in
Spain. the State Department has
sought to prevent by moral suasion
alone the dispatch of war implements
to either side.
1t had no choice, however, but to
grant the licenses when Cuse applied
He Is president Of the Vimalert
Co., Ltd.
Effect on European Efforts.
Speculation arose Immediately in
well-informed circles as to the pos
sible effect on the attempts of Euro
pean powers to tighten the n-inter.
vention restrictions by which they
lSee NEIITRHITY page Al
Evening star., 1936-12-29
j. S. AGENTS J0|N
SEARCH FOR REED
Matthews Case Suspect Is
Wanted for Second Staying
and Two Kidnapings.
Py . Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

As . StaA SOIAcSpOHQtut VI i nc 6t2I.
ROCKVILLE, Md, December 2e.-
Federal agents joined in the wide
spread hunt today for William B.
Reed. 25-year-old Montgomery County
desperate, who is wanted in connec-
ton with two slayings and several
other crimes in Maryland, Virginia
and West Virginia.
A conference was held here this
morning between representatives Of
the Justice Department and States
Attorney James H. Pugh, who said the
former left after assuring local au-
thorities G-men will take up the
search Immediately.
Reed is sought for the murders of
Elwood Matthews, 68. well-to- do Mont
gomery County farmer, who was ab-
Quoted. robbed and slain on Novem-
Der 81, and w. Earle Dollman, "a
year-old Philadelphia salesman and
former West Virginia athlete, who
was robbed, killed and cremated in
his burning automobile near Sutton,
w. Va, on Thanksgiving day. In
addition. Reed is wanted for two
kidnapings. that of q bank cashier in
West Virginia and of a resident of
Richmond, Va; the thefts of several
automobiles in Maryland and the two
Virginias, all of which are Federal
ofenses. and a hold-up at Oak
land, Md.
Reed. only member of q trio OF
young men still at large, has been i'm
plicated in the crimes by statements
furnished police by his two compan-
ions. The statements brand him as
ringleader.
Lawrence Gingell, 20-year-old FORM
er golf caddy, was captured by Wash
ington police nine days ago as he was
crossing Highway Bridge between the
National Capital and Virginia, while
War Joseph Kirby, 81, third member
OF the band. was captured in q gun
battle following the abduction of the
bank cashier in West Virginia. He
was wounded and was easily appre-
hended.
Gingell is said by police to have
confessed participation in the Mat
thews murder and to have implicated
Reed and Kirby, while the latter al
legedly has confessed connection with
the Matthews staying and to have
named Gingell and Reed as the muir
derers of Dollman.
Evening star., 1936-12-29
By the Associated Press.

~ tie hcouCiateu AAUoos
Congressional demands for swift
amendment of the neutrality act were
prompted today by q State Depart
ment grant of licenses to export $2.-
777,000 Of secondhand airplanes and
engines to the Madrid government.
Senator Duffy, Democrat, Of Wis
consin. member Of the Senate For
eign Relations Committee, forecast
action Immediately after Congress
convenes Tuesday to plug the loop
hole" which compels the licensing of
arms shipments for use in civil con-
fiicts.
simultaneously, the legislative as
poets of the problem were discussed
at conference between Acting Sec
retary of State Moore and Chairman
McReynolds of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee. No announcement
was forthcoming Immediately as to
results of their talk.
Other State Department quarters
voiced apprehension that the Govern
ment's action in granting the export
license might lead to demands for
similar permission from other sources.
No Others Follow Lead.
Thus far, however, it was stated Of
ficially that no other American dealers
in war implements had sought to fol-
low the lead of Robert Cuse Of Jersey
City in insisting on his right under
the neutrality law to make such ship
ments.
Duffy said there was mo doubt
that the amendment would be adopted
with little opposition. The present
neutrality act expiring May forbids
Evening star., 1936-12-29
CLOUDY SKIES KEEP.
Temperature DOWN
Mercury 20 Degrees Below Read.
ings Yesterday, Highest for
December 20 in % Years.

Overcast skies today were keeping
the temperature almost 20 degrees
below yesterdays readings. which
reached the highest level for Decem-
Der 28 in 10 years.
When the mercury touched 60, short
ly before II am. yesterday, it became
the warmest day for the time Of year
In Washington since December %,
1907, when the high" was So.
All-time records for the date were
not threatened, however, q maximum
of 10 having been recorded In the
Capital on December 2s, 1874.
A considerable change took place
during the night, the temperature
falling steadily until tbs this morn
ing, when the reading was 80. It was
S. at that time yesterday.
With occasional light showers pre-
dicted. the temperature is not ex-
pected to climb much above 40 this
safternoon. Tonight and tomorrEF
also are likely to be intermittenfIy
rainy and the low" overnight viii
probably be about 70, the torecaster