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....... j, ; ' . - -- Tl or njii'i i Vri i -. -u n m :!7..TT - " " ' "f ; ' i " '.' i u " i " ....! - i i i ...... i M i - """ ii "ii 9 n ,n' j t SUB3B We Carry in' Stcfcli- ill nT:v Tl- 2, . Water Qocetov ' ; ..;&?ce.aEsd Life:" : ' : ' : .;rTeiiTa-.nCa. Pipso, :. Repair Work o Specially Reasonable Prices I-. r. - e -.- 3i: Slxilled Vorlanen 4 ? S. Main Street rr Henderconville9 N. C, - ... ,.. ... , . . r I ""N. A i i X V X , " ----- - Made vin city and suburban property. ' r'" ST ; I have listed some of the. most valuable property in the city. I '. - - - - . .,. own a few real bargains in real estate and will sell very reasonable easy terms. M . . " v . " - TOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. Timber lands, building lots, houses and; lots, business buildings and hotels. ."Write or call on te Hendersont ;bimt4s iation; :H can bel boughtSt m$10 ipf peracre. r Jcliinat e andiatural nditions espetiaXlj tifKtb'.pisiix pro- adapted to the live stock industry, which as " perty;,wlll practically pay for the land. The 5 ' it exists in an undeveloped "stage is'a good :: growth caiibe cut - downin the summer Spaying; investment "and ;that therels an;al- 5n cover fall , mosV orinteE; can easilyfbe burned oipvmg it "greater development, is the opinion: of I)rV7iieparation ; " C.. J.Lowe, of Mqrfistqwn, Tjenn., ,whio was .Within, a year or so the land will hare a Pin Hendersonvfle i last weoilrej)reseHting & live stock department of. the Southern Rail- stances and .with the .proper attention will he; year. - admirably ; adapted Tto itoclCraising"and a. ; the pasturage l'- CTeai&uW'wSit thiltiection by;reas6no ex- of the" possibilities of $his Industry' added: -pense ana. worn jrear io year ine size oi nis Z6r. w$S isJenavoring to Cstimulate; " herds caii be increased until in tfie course of VintereslJreaboutal in t few;years it -will b i found that the stock- "S&e'VrvcattIe i 1tnxfiW faint in Jn speaking ofthe possibilities. of sheep . ailnring colors inducements tna ttbe; inves- and goaVraising in Henderson county,' V. C. tacts subsfantiatea by actual conditi results -can be -obtained at homewiurthereiis adyaarietniJHed j TAWm fRAnripwiftnviiiA ; for j nftftr omnion He eonteQ.ds that a, goat never H)na this stiSiect; i&-ii-Ir v peW n;atnav a; dog wasi n - .,n - uStaton Building. . X:l -5HendersonviUeN..C. for which PHe?idersonville. dies a natur- ever known vfThe success that such men as John L. Orr,y to BU oneie and can 'have had ; -have not made'a s ii:-:is 'a master familkr to ? ever r section i ': i 1 r J - Vr? : ; J - .months : of Wfjff:' three or ; WhUe special stress is Jjeing laid on cat- ' tie raising in Henderson county, those fa- 'vvould use one goat forlnutten. each day. Iii ' miliar witH local conditions assert that fine way fully 300,goats could disposed J ; opportuiitiesrare iwait sive enough; to' preparo, for raising horses, : the summer season at a airpricelto say sheep, goats and hogs" on Very extensive yiothiug of the market another seasons of I" scales: -'What has been done in could be conduct- -tionslf western Jorth Carolina in stock ed at sma11. expense ; by reason of the fact T Raising can : be ; duplicated in ; county, is a fact" that has ' never been dis- anything during; the'- coldest winter jnonths. 5 puted by those who have -acquainted" them-: r :Possibly it is weir fo rthe county that the ; "Telyes 1 with the peculiar advantages offered x.Piuions of . citizens differ: on the question - ? by this county. ' : X .-v ;r ' ri etiockraisingf Some: ?V,4s an instance of the necessity for raising:ki?df 0 othersanoertherefore 'es in Henderson oun as well ' - portunities offered such" an: undertaking, it a va;1 emselves of some of the . opportuni Us estimated -Tthat Henderson:, county pays : ties awaiting them iii . various lines of stock- approximately $30,000 annually for horses. ' wing, there is not a possibility of over i There's V. C. V. Shepherd, who has been crowding any one line:of stock. , . dealing with horses for a number "of years hile - Mr. Shepherd, is a goat fancier, and during the past thirteen months W and - cmissioner of 7 Agriculture Albert Can ' his associate, J. B. Brook'shire, have speFt-! olPrsM the PessM . .over ten thousand dollars for horses in wes-r of hoS raising .in Henderson counxy. tern markets. "There are others who buy He ou o fthe hog in- -them in piece, if not whole car load lots, to atry in sDsjance as. ioiiowsr :. say nothing of the scores of horses and mules brought to the county from surround ; " ing territory. : ;This enormous outflow of money-, could be . checkedlin the course of only a few years, if the 'opinion- of 'those who have studied the question is worth annually. Roland .Uhma pigs -will weigh on ;vwhile .;.r - -r v": 275 pounds at ten It is a well known oldan dthe.meat wiU b : ' county is a natural grass producing section ten c?nts per pound; making a total' of ap ; and tht before' any country can be called a iPately 4,000 annually at very little c "stock Country or -before stock be conducted on apaying basis, there, must hogs can. graze with yery little feed' be anrabundance of cheap grass with long lng trom the middle of April till the middle grazing seasons and mild winters, otherwise then a little feeding from the . the expense of wintering will overrun "the" granar3r vlU Pthe animals in fine shape : profit : derived" "from"' pasturing; .M species of well known grasses thrive here . The. demand for well .bred cattle of all - land even- on the - highest elevations native ; ,;has never been greater than it is to : grasses come and attain a luxuriant growth, day and with numbers constantly d affording pasturie annually for hundreds of ing iu the west the opportunity is indeed a battle and - sheep, "not only ' through the : rre one for the southern breeder or stock-l- V summer season but through the winter also, - man. to both, enlarge and improve his herds, and stock, is able to live and thrive without s Rurally opens up a much, broader --'extra food except for a;few winter months. ; With: the introduction of winter grasses, no Place in r: this country . today where the ; ;ahd"the reservation' of boun for - "ter grazing only, " the question" of Twi of cattle tock is not a, serious one and rthejfarrt- P11?? rcounty.Not only Hen- - ; with a- few acres.of, feed producing land is TeTon. pty Jbut the: entire south is awak . able annually to stock hundredsof acres';bff:i??d:i- and pasture with- the necessary number gof live fertility of ;'.r: stock'.; x v.. ; ; 'v-?: . 0-i its iarms, land thejjonly " way this " can : be ' A more general use of the silo W "1 economically ilone is by the purchase of pure J tr(uction of heavy p ; such "aslfdl hay :nd v ty te raised any; cheaper or better , rcl(err aU ofhich a "i son county, has done much; to; minimize the .fe?n ac that the prices will remain good ycostpfmt , anus in Henderson! county; susceptible Secretary. Wilson in announcing that there Ten acres -of pasture , can be made at lit tle expense and ;-Tten sows can be placed thereon.; -There will be an average of two litters a year With eight pigs to the litter or sixteenipigs tphef sow, making 160 pigs i 9