The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-08
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FARMING GONE
J. W. johnson Writes
Home Impressions OF
Farming Here


loosa-Barnes City newspaper ed'-
tor. now residing here. writes m
terestinglv Of his impressions, m
Guiding Henderson county farm
inc. i'm the following article con-
tributed to his hometown paper.
Editors Notc.l pep
Shakespeare say something LiH'
this: Who hath not music III MS
soul and is rot stirred by concord
of sweet sounds Is mt only 20
strategy and spUiis.
To sucb a one The Lost
Chord" would mean nothing not
even if il fell from hcaHr", .os
we could not recognize IL, -",
having been there
Julia Ward Howc's Immortal
Battle Hymn of the Rcpublic
came 10 her one night rs she lay
restless on her couch. She arcs"
and wrote il, caught It cut OF me
air as We ROW hear Biz hen atr."e
in London tower on hcaE tGc s''a-
lime strains % the &t"C"u, tI'!'
Of TuskcegvC iEst,1-.. ID" H,'Ic.'s
mornings.
The man Who los, "Inr ir.-
Chord" w. rourvs th,.ch.. .e.
he MAJ not have O-eu II t"J.i.
He had ears but lie couldn't hrNs,
he had eyes but h. could no. So"
and the world was Il blank /" hlm.
The English Scotch soldiers
garriSoned at Lucknow were sur
rounded on three sides by hoardes
of native troops and there seemed
no avenue VI escape, for the
fourth approach was high blult;
Just when hope was gone and
eternal gloom was settling down
upon them one sensitive lady eN-
claimed. The CampbeliS are COM
ing; the bagpIDeS are playing;
dinna hear 'em?" but the de-
spondents said you're crazy;
they cannot come but in five
minutes the bagpipes came play
ing over the unguarded hill anu
relief had come TO Lucknow. 1t
belongs 20 rs to tune in. Maybe
some day wen talk with julius
Caesar and Aristotle and st. Paul,
but not if our brain be clouded
and we cannot understand.
In the pocket of a dead soldier
of the World war were found
these lines:
Suddenly one day
The last veil will fall away,
The last little beaStlineSS,
that is in our blood,
Will fall from Us as the sheath
falls from the bud.
And the great spirit Of man will
struggle through 4,
And spread vast branches underE
meath the blue,
In every mirror. be it bright or
dim,
Man will see God looking back at
him"
Do YOU not love music? Do
YOU not love poetry? Then some
thing is wrong with you.
Last night. as guest Of Editor
Fain of the Hendersonville Times
News, I attended theS Regional
Corn show and banquet where
$50 enthusiasts were assembled
TO do honor to the III youth, J.
d. Hooper, who produced l76
bushels and so pounds of splen-
did corn on one acre. He was
given a cash prize of S25 and the
honor of holding the silver cup
one year, a prize that any youth
might well covet.
There was an aft-dinner pro-
gram Of exceptional merit. Fac
ulty members from y. e. UniyerS-
ity and other nOtables took part.
More than 800 in prizes were
distributed and 70 corn raiSers in
the two counties we're named who
had produced in 1887, mrc than
100 bushels of corn per acre.
They did not tell how they did
it, nor what it cost to do it, but
the reports were verified by the
county agents OF the two cOun-
ties.
At the close, Agent White Of
Henderson county put on a movie
of his own production from !oca!
farm scenes.
This does not mean Jnat there
are vast areas Of corn land here
that produce as were mentioned.
| have a nephew near kcarney.
Neb., who farms $50 acres of Ne
braska prairie land and ia 1886
had out 100 acres Of corn Thin
self and 17-year-old son did the
entire job with tractors, combines
and I-rOw cultivators and deliv-
cred the grain at the town eleva-
tori
Suppose his corn had made l76
bushels per acre, he would have
had 22,88O bushels. Instead his
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