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THE FAKMER 'AND MECHANIC. 3 IKE COUNTY PROBLEM 10 GOffiTIOi RAT 100 JElf III EVIL Hr. Parker Gives Result of His Experience 2:00 p. m. Address.

Franklin Sherman. State Entomologist. WOJIE'S FARM-LIFE CONVENTION. Tuesday, August 29, 1911. Welcome to Raleigh Mrs.

T. P. Harrison, President Woman's Club. Welcome on Behalf Department of Agriculture Mrs, W. N.

Hutt, Chairman. Response Miss Eula Dixon, Alamance County. Woman's Institutes Mr. T. B.

Parker, Director of Farmers' Institutes for North Carolina. What the College Can Do for the Home and Farm Dr. D. H. Hill, President A.

and M. College. The Paper and Magazine as Inspirations in the Home Mr. Clarence H. Poe: Beautifying the Farm Home Mr.

Jacques Busbee. The Girls' Tomato Club Mr. I. O. Schaub.

Wednesday, Ausrust 30, 1911. Demonstration The Killing, Dressing and Marketing of Chickens Mr. S. Jeffrey. Poultry man.

Bee Raising Mr. Walter Womble. Pickles Mrs. W. N.

Hutt Demonstration Quick Breads Miss 'Katherine Parker. Demonstration- Light Breads Mrs. Charles McKimmon. The State Fair as a Source of Pin Money Mr. Joseph E.

Pogue, Secretary State Fair Association. Demonstration Home Dressmaking Mrs. Frank Register, Halifax County. The Pure Food Crusade W. M.

Allen, State Food Chemist. Thursday, August 31, 1911. Sanitation in the Farmhouse Miss Minnie Hopper. Home Helps Miss Jane Ward. Sanitation on the Farm Mrs.

C. R. Hudson. Mothers' Clubs Mrs. F.

L. Stevens. Sanitation in Schools Mrs. R. Hollowell, President State Betterment Association for North Carolina.

Moral Training of Children Mrs. Orr, Statesville. The College Girl's Opportunities Miss Minnie Jamieson, State Normal. How to Obtain Pure Water Miss Daisy Allen, Water Analyist, State Laboratory of Hygiene. The -Care of Babies Dr.

Dixon Carroll. The School Teacher Miss Webb, Warren Plains. Housekeeping in Foreign Lands Col. Fred. Olds, Secretary Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.

UNCLE SAM's" MATRIMONIAL BUREAU HELD THIS WEEK Sessions at the A. Til. College, Beginning This Morning Fl Stato Farmers' Convention and Wo man Earm-Ldfe Convention to Be Held in Raleigh, the Sessions to Begin Tuesday Morning of This eek and Last Through Thursday Afternoon Large Delegations Expected Distinguished Speakers to Deal With Topics or Interest Pro. grams. There will be two conventions in Raleigh this week: The State Farmers' Convention and the Woman's Farm-Life Convention, the sessions of both to be held at the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College, beginning Tuesday and lasting through Thursday afternoon.

In attendance there will be a large number of leading, farmers, who will come from all portions of the State, and many women who are interested in farm life and are seeking to make the farm-home an ideal place, advancing improved methods by which this can be accomplished. At both conventions there will be "many distinguished speakers who wil deal wit htopics of interest to all in attendance. The full programs ar given below: STATE FARMERS' CONVENTION Tuesday, August 29. 19 tl. 10:30 a.

m. -Addresses of Welcome, Governor W. W. Hatchin, Coramis sioner W. A.

Graham, President H. Hill. 11:00 a. m. Address.

Clarence Poe, Editor Progressive Farmer. 11:45 a. m. The Farmers' Balane Sheet With His Soil. B.

W. Kilgore State Discussion. 12:30 p. Dinner. 2:00 p.

m. Tobacco Curing. G. Moss, U. S.

Department of Agricul ture. Discussion. 2:45 p. m. Farm Seeds, Pure and Adulterated.

Miss Q. I. Tillman State Department of Agriculture Discussion. 3:30 p. m.

Tile Drainage. A. Smith-, U. S. Department of Agricul ture.

Discussion. 4:15 p. m. Demonstration of Va rious Kinds "of Plows. 7:30 p.

m. Annual Address by President of the Convention. Frank Scotland Neck, N. C. 8:15 p.

m. Cotton Standardization. T. E. Earle, Department of Agriculture.

Wednesday, August SO, 1 9 1 1. 8:10 a. m. Stock Judging Horses. Prof.

J. C. McNutt 10:15 a. m. My Experience with Hogs.

W. H. Merriman, of Illinois. Discussion. 11:00 a.

m. The Guernsey Cow and Her Island Home. W. H. Caldwell, Secretary American Guernsey Club.

Discussion. 12:00 a. m. The Feeding of Farm Animals. J.

C. McNutt, of Agricul-, tural and Mechanical College. Discussion. ,12:30 p. m.

Dinner. 1:00 p. m. Auction Sale of Fifty Pure-bred Berkshire Hogs. By N.

C. Berkshire Breeders' Association. 7:30 p. m. How I Raised 146 Bushels of Corn.

Ernest Starnes, Hickory, N. C. 7:45 pr m. Song "The Corn Club Eoys." Mrs. Charles McKimmon.

8:00 p. m. Boys' and Girls' Clubs in the South (Illustrated). O. B.

Martin, Washington, D. C. p. m. Business Meeting State Live Stock Association.

9:30 p. m. Business Meeting of the North Carolina" Berkshire Breeders' Association. Thursday, August 31, 1911. 8:10 a.

m. Stock Judging Cattle. Prof. J. C.

McNutt. 10:15. a. m. Handling of Sandy Land.

A. M. Swinnerton, Manager Pinehurst Farm. Discussion. 10:45 a.

m. Results of the Demonstration Work. C. Hudson, State Agent. Discussion.

11:30, a. m. Co-operative Marketing in Catawba County. W. J.

Shu-ford. Discussion. 12:15. p. m.

Business Meeting of the Conventi6n. 13:30 p. m. Dinner. Mil Three Big Progaessive Measures to Be Passed On (Cary Farmer's Journal.) There are three propositions before" the people of Wake county; first there is the Central Highway.

This Ls to be built under an act of the Legislature incorporating such a highway from the ocean to the Tennessee line. There is a fallacious idea in the country that this is to be an automobile road, the truth is it is to be the finest wafiron road the State has ever had, no grade being over 4 1-2 per cent. While automobiles will travel it they have no monopoly, no rights other ve hicles wUl not have, and it is a lair estimate to say there will be ten wagons and buggies traveling it to one automobile. The second proposition is a bond issue oi tnree nunarea tnousanu dollars for our public roads. It is a source of mortification to every progressive citizen of Wake that this, the metropolitan county of the State, that should set the pace in all work for the development of the common wealth is rapidly falling behind in the matter of road building.

With a road tax of which will probably be augumented by some 520,000 more by the new assessment, we have 2,000 miles of public road to build and maintain. We have already built as much road as we can maintain with our present income, our road build ing has about reachd its limit, if we are to keep up the road already built With $17,000 deducted from the road tax, under the new assessment, we can pay the interest and establish a sinking fund to take care of our bond issue, and still have $63,000 to use in maintaining our roads, without in creasing our tax one dollar. In other words, by withdrawing $17,000 per annum from our road tax we can still have $63,000 for or road fund and build $300,000 worth of roads in the county. If there ever was a case of eating our cake and still having it," our people have that chance now. The third is the farm-life school.

Some one has summed, it up by saying if the farmers don't want it other People needn't worry, but that is not so, for if it is not established the farmer and everybody else will still have to pay Wake's proportion of the ten schools to be" established this year and ten more next year, making it a matter in which we are all in terested. We have neither time or space to discuss it fully, but it is estimated thru less than 10 cents on the thousand dollars worth of property to take care of the bonds for it and when wTe contemplate the wonderful no sensible, intelligent man can afford to oppose it. THE GOURD. The Gourds of Long Ago and How xney were Used, as Remembered By Editor Harris of The Charlotte Chronicle. (Charlotte Chronicle.

Old Man Pearsall, of Rocky. Point, who came into the press convention at Wrightsville, last year, toting a jug of phehistoric wine dug from an Indian mound, which he to present to his friend, Josephus Daniels, has sent to The Wilmington Star a clean, swell-headed water gourd, "to be used asva mascot to keep off hookworm, appendicitis anthrax trichinosis, pellagra and all those other ailments that peoole didn't use to have when they drank out of gourds." Colonel PearsalU discussing on the gourd, says: "This member of the curcurbita-ceous family is of remote antiquity. The prophet Jonah had a fine one growing over his 'shack and a 'worm stung it and it withered, leaving poor old Jonah with the hot sun broiling down upon his head. In old times 'before the war' there were all kinds of uses to which gourds were put; the most important were the salt gourds no family was 'without one the soap gourd, the milk gourd, the grease gourd for lard (thev raised bushel goards then), the dip gourd, the gourd I thought the most of then was the cider gourd. It held over two quarts and hung over the cider barrel-and you could drink and drink and nobody cared how much you drank.

There weren't any chills or fever then, especially when the cider got hsrd." Doesn't that make one hark back to barefoot days on the farm? Wp hare often shocked our friends bv expressions oi our uaa taste, but it is a fact that any day we would rather reach down into a pebbly bottomed spring with- a long-handled gourd th3n to pull a bottle of extra dry out of a basket of crushed Will Have Salutary Effect. Hight Point Enterprise. A verdict which meets with the unqualified endorsement and annrAv- al of the people of the entire State was the one sentencing Chari es XTr to 15 years in the State penitentiary for abducting two children, one thirteen and the other fourteen years of age. Judge Daniel3 gave Noel the limit under the law, and it goes without saying that the verdict will have a most salutary effect Sets Out the Plans Tsed in Work and How Excellent H-Ults Were Obtained With a Preparati of Paris Green and Flour. At the request of the ehairmu: the Raleigh Health League.

Mr. Parker gives the results of penence in exterminating r-its-a other vermin. His article follow "We have been requested to u-. a me result oi our experience ing premises from vermin and We have tried many remedies various times and places in that have been placed in our care, many of which we received badly -1 fected by all manner of vermin. "There arc a great many in- s.

some are excellent; others art; r--pared to be sold. We have mr found anything that would z'np satisfactory results from one only. It requires constant euro un systematic effort to avoid troui this kind. One of the simplest and most effectual remedies is poisoning by strewing a preparation of i'am green and flour (one part Paris and two parts flour) along the places where the rats, roaches, water-bus and. other insects; travel.

"Those who have observed th habits of insects and small anim-ls have noticed that in. getting' about tl premises they usually travel alonir the walling of the room and yard. They have also noticed that in.sVets an i most small animals groom thcnisti, by licking their feet, a habit cm-monly observed in cats and house-tlies. Small quantities of the poison should be strewn along the walling ot thi room or beside the fence, so that the vermin will get their reet in it while going about the premises. As soon as they discover any foreign particles adhering to their feet they at first opportunity, proceed to remove the same by licking their fe and in this act they will eat the poison that it would be impossible to trif them into eating by means of poisoned baits.

This meansis especially effectual in driving off insect pcfts and mice. We have never had an opportunity of trying it on the larger rats, we believe it will prove effectual with them. "Of-course, where there are email children in the house care must used in methods of distributing this poison, but by placing it behind' the bath tub, kitchen stove, bureaus and other articles of furniture that are seldom moved, there is less risk in using it than in leaving poisoned itsl which can be carried about and left where the-domestic pets will find them. A plenty of air-slacked lime under the dwelling and about the premises is another powerful agency in driving away insect pests." mm APT. OF "GEN.

SLOLCUM" PAROLED FROM W. H. Van Slialck. Who Commanded Ferryboat -When a Thousand A Were4Lost Seven Years Ago in Hell Gate. New York, Aug.

26. Capt Wm. II. Van Schaick, who was commander of the excursion steamer Gen. Slocum when it burned in Hell Gate June 15, 1904, with a loss of a thousand lives, was paroiea oy me uniieu rune today and returned to his home in this city tonight from S'ing Sing prison.

It w-as a surprise to his wife and family and to the captain himself. The old man, now 72-yar. of age, was almost overcome when Warden John S. Kennedy, of Sins Sing, told him today that parole papers had arrived from Attorney-General Wickersham. Following the historical catastrophe the captain of the olocum was made a federal prisoner on the criminal neglect.

At the time of ('apt Van Schaick's conviction tlere was considerable popular sympathy him because all the punishment the terrible accident fell on his shoulders. Even the families of the victims came to feel the seeming injustice of his bearing the nurden alone, and many of them- signed a petition for the captain's pardon, which aj sent to Washington. Religion Downs Rum. Rev. Dr.

William S. Long, of Chapel Hill, was in the city yesterday, returning home from Toungville, where during the past week he held a meeting with Rev. Cornelius Roland, of Fort Worth, Texas, formerly of Wake county. Seventeen years ago Mr. Roland held a meeting at Youngsville.

One night as he was preaching the jrospel a man passed with a lod of cider, on his way to a still to have some brandy, made. He heard a part of the sermon as he passed, and all the way to the still the preacher could be heard. The man reached his destination and still acVoss the silo nee. of the night the preacher's rang out Thinking a on the error of his ways, the man became converted and stopped his dealings with liquor. (Continued From Page One:) red, looking more like that of a beet root than anything else.

He has sent in the so-called honey peaeh, which grows in Shantung, and the beef peach of Shansi, which looks like raw meat. Some of the peaches now be-ng tested are fiat, and they are of all shades from green and yellow to a rich rosy red. Mr. Meyer has sent in many apricots from China, and wild apricots from Manchuria and northern Korea, which will stand more cold and drought than anything we now have. Some of these apricots have been successfully tested at Boston, and some even as far North as Wisconsin.

We are indebted to Mr. Meyer also tor new Chinese varieties of plums, cherries, quinces and apples, as well as for other fruits which the department expects will be grown in different parts of the One of the most important of the latter is the jujube, the fruit of which is not unlike dates and can be eaten fresh, dried and preserved, and also stewed or smoked. The jujube will grow In an alkali soil, and it is well adapted to some of the dry lands of the West. Rev. Homer Starr to Go to Chapel HilL (Carolina Churchman.) The Rev.

Homer Starr, rector of Christ Church, Waukegan, I1L, a church of National reputation because the late Mr. James Houghteling, founder of the Brotherhood of St. An drew, was a communicant there, has accepted the call to succeed Rev. Richard W. Hogue at the Chapel of the Cross, Chapel HilL Mr.

Starr is a Southern man reared in Texas, educated at Sewanee and Harvard, a successful rector at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and an English teacher at Sewanee. His experience as teacher of boys as well as his native personal and intellectual ability fit him well for the work among the students of the Stat University. AUTOMOBILE FACTORY FOR HENDERSON. Company is Organized With Capital Stock of $250,000. (Special to News and Observer.) Henderson, 26.

With R. J. Corbitt as president, a stock company, with a capital of $250,000, has "been organized and will at once build an automobile factory In Henderson. The other officers of the company are: Samuel Peace, vice-president; Augustus Zollicoffer, secretary, and W. A.

Hunt treasurer. A goodly amount of the stock has been -paid in ana the work of construction will soon be under way. A woman can make believe about everything except a good cook. i) i it (.1.