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 Game is abundant and consists of deer, wild turkeys, quail, squirrel, wild ducks and other game birds. Hook and line fishing is an inviting sport.

Berries and nuts grow here in abundance, especially strawberries and pecans. English walnuts thrive well.

There are fine areas for colonization. The cut-over "piney woods" section can be bought cheap and made garden spots of productivity.

Ninety-three per cent of the adult population are members of some church. Baptist, Episcopal and Methodist churches are in the towns and scattered about the county.

The county has a number of good country schools and is determined to give its youth every educational advantage.

Bertie County employs a whole-time health officer. The health of the people is generally good, and the citizenship is robust, energetic and thrifty.

Public roads reach all sections of the county, and the whole population is well served by rural delivery and telephone.

The population of the county descended from Scotch-Irish and English ancestry. There is no foreign population.

The southern practice of hospitality still abides. The stranger within our gates is made to feel at home by our whole-hearted welcome of "howdy, come in."

S. W. KENNEY,

Register of Deeds. Five