Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-09-19

and readers as facts by the Ra-
leigh Farmer and Mechanic,
Laurinburg Exchange, Lumber
ton RobeSonian. Kinston Press,
Aberdeen Telegram. and Mon
roe Journal. And they went llrs
this:
Mr.. Charley Boyd has a COW
That has an automatic tea,.
When you milk one. the milk
runs out the others until il runs
out. Now, if anyone don't be-
lieve this, Mr.. Boyd has the COW
at his home two miles west of
Gastonia.
Day before yesterday. Sidney
Hicks found cowbell. With this
good start he will likely go into
the cattle business.
There are spiders in Chatham
County big enough to carry of
chickens.
An Avery County farmer has
grown Irish potatoes so big that
when he sold a half bushel of
them, the purchaser piled them
on his arm like stove wood and
carried them off.
Is. w. Lovett of Robson Co
unity said he saw on Burnt Is
land mosquitoes kill q turtle.
Ihey Swarmed so thick and
sucked the blood from him
through his shell. The writer be-
!icVes this possible. because he
has seen them completely cover
the sails of a boat.
Cut worms were bad in Jones
County. They prey on tobacco
plants. O. G. Ruckcr said he
knew farmer using a stick to
make holes in transplanting to-
oacco last spring, and left the
stick in a hole while ne went to
lunch and returned 70 find that
the worms had cut it in two
IN 30 minutes. George Skinner
SAID he had discovered cnorm-
Gus turnipS in his field near
klnston. The owner told George
someone had tried to buy SO
pounds. but he didn't want to
sell, because he didn't want to
cut a turnip in two.
A visitor came to town yester-
day TO sell his tobacco and saw
% wagon for the first time. He
followed II three miles to see
whether the back wheels would
ever ovcrtakc the front wheels
II was hot this week, but a
stranger from Greensboro said
where he came from that if the
mercury ever got so low as it
was here yesterday, it would
freeze solid. He said in his
country during the summer he
couldn't use pencils, because the
heat mcltS the lead and il runs
all over everything like ink.
People may not like to work
around engines these days, but
he said where he came from the
neat from the mill engines is so
much less than that of the air
mat all the StOkcrS wear furs TO
work. In fact. he said new arriv-
ais in Greensboro always put
up a Hght for the post of stokcr.
which the older inhabitants find
really uncomfortably cool.
There's one stand Of lard in
Robson County that Shcrman's.
army didn't get. This was found
by J. W. Smith near Bownosr
The lard had been buried carlvI
in 1865 under an old srnoi p.
house, and was not found until
Mr.. Smith. in clearing off the
ground where the Smokchousci
stood. suddenly discovered him
self knee deep in lard.
AT the meeting of the deacons
at Hog Ford church last week
behind closed doors. it was de
cided hereafter to give the prca-I
cher one half of all he collected
during his Sunday sermon. TheI
remainder will be divided a.
monG the deaconS.
One OF the many serious faultsI
of the Excelsior Fiddling Band
is that their feet are too large |
The other night when they went
TO sercnadc a lady. they tramped
down an acre of potatoes.
SiZcmorc Hicks has invented
a monkey wrench that will
crack nuts and pull corks.
Seed corn that beats the band