Census Data Urges Farm Agent Hire In Surry County
Millsaps forwards 1920 census figures showing Surry County's farming conditions including population shifts, declining farms, low cattle and hog counts, meager poultry, and limited corn oats and soy production. He notes tobacco wealth but argues small cash incomes and rural depopulation justify federal matched funding for a farm demonstration agent.
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W. J. Byerly
E. S. Millsaps
Surry County
Alex Chatham
Elkin
Surry’s Court House
FE. S. Millsaps
Millsaps
Surry
Byerly
Board of County Commissioners
Statesville
N. C
Airy
Mt. Airy
Econty
Burned at the stake after mob seizure in New Albany
L Q Ivy a timber cutter was taken from officers near New Albany Mississippi and burned alive by a mob of over a thousand. Sheriff Roberts said Ivy confessed to attacking a farmer’s daughter in nearby Utah community and identification by the girl followed by a rush to Aberdeen. The mob blocked roads and acted without gunfire as authorities fled. The incident occurred Friday, with hundreds of farmers in the area and guards attempting to escort Ivy back to the scene for identification.
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New Albany
Miss
L. Q. Ivy
Ivy
John W. Roberts
Utah
Roberta
Union County
Reese
Lee County
Aberdeen
Roberts
Holly Springs
Etah
Barefoot 400 Mile Walk Tied to Election Bet
Robert A. Lear of Fairmont West Virginia traveled to Philadelphia barefoot en route to New York to meet the contract terms of a bet. If John W. Davis failed to win the election Lear would walk from his home to Tammany Hall rather than pay the forfeit.
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Philadelphia
Robert A. Lear
Fairmont
W. Va
John W. Davis
Tammany Hall
New York
Lear
Circle Grove Farm Hog Raising Drives North Carolina Profit
North Carolina farmer F. P. Latham and his son Harry run Circle Grove Farm near Belhaven Beaufort County. They cultivate 225 acres with corn soybeans cotton Irish potatoes and pasture plus beef dairy sheep poultry and swine. Hogs produced about 9000 in sales this year while corn yields average 45 bushels per acre. Latham scouts soil health via crop rotation and legumes, growing Latham’s Double corn and several soybean varieties including Mammoth Yellow Biloxi Tokio and Dixie. Visitors study his methods as he blends hog production with diversified crops and sustainable soil fertility.
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Iowa
Elkin
Mt. Airy
N. C
Mount Airy
North Carolina
Belhaven
Beaufort County
F. P. Latham
Harry Latham
Circle Grove
Richmond
Circle Grove Farm
Carolina
Latham
Virginia
United States Department of Agriculture
Cire Grove Farm
Snow and Quake Give Helena Thrill in Unusual September
Helena Montana reports a brief 3.45 am tremor that halted the Court House tower clock and followed an unusual September storm. Three inches of wet snow damaged trees disrupted streetcar and power service while Great Falls and other Montana points also reported snowfall. Malnourished Cleveland children are enrolled in nutrition clinic classes to reach weight standards.
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Helena
Mont
Court House
Great Falls
Montana
Rural prosperity hinges on boosting farm income statewide
The speaker argues farm incomes could rise three to four times current levels, stressing that higher farm earnings would funnel more money through county banks and fuel prosperity in towns and cities. He invites associates to decide on county wide actions to improve rural conditions.
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