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THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932. THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN. SELxMA. N. C. 4 ij ! News of Interest to Farmers of Johnston and Adjoining Counties Sp ray For Scale Before New Growth Before new growth begins in the 1 I > . • it? i orchards of North Carolina, grow * ^^186 Slush Fund ers should determine the amount To Fight CoOpCration of scale on their trees and give READ LABEL ON MUSTARD URGES FEDERAL OFFICIAL the orchards a thorough spraying. “Scale in.sect.s iiunease at a rapid rate and will .spread over the orcnards in large areas before any increase.s ,ue noticed if the owner is not (t.servant,” says. C. K. Brannon, e.vtension entomologist at State College. “Oils are now be ing used v.-i.lely in scale control. This kind of .-pray is very effec tive and sh.jiild be used without fail where .scale dfimage is severe or where the oysur shell ' scale or scurfy scale is known to occur. Lime-sulphur has been the standard scale spray for years and if thoroughly applied at proper strength, ordinary infestations may be controlled,” Good results from spraying usual ly depend upon three important factors, .says Mr, Brannon. The proper material must be obtained; it must be properly mixed, and it mu-st be' carefully and thoroughly applied. A great deal depends upon u.sing a .suitable spray machine. Good results will not be obtained with broken, worn-out machines. In reecnt trip.s over the State, Mr. Brannon has found scale to be on the increase in many, orchards. This has been due, he says, to omitting the scale or to careless work in making the application. Growers who wish definite in formation on the u.se of oihs or lime-sulphur may .secure it from Mr. Brannon or from the county farm agent in each county. 4 That a huge .slush funcfjbas been collected by cotton shipper a.s am munition with which to wage a streneous battle against the .-Vgri- cultural Marketing Act, passed in 1929 for the benefit of farmers, is disclosed in an editorial which will appear in the March issue of the Cotton Grower, official publication of the North Carolina Cotton Grow ers Cooperative Association. The editorial, of intere.st to farm ers in this section because their rights are involved, follo-v\'s in full: “The whole spirit of the attack on the .A.griciiltural Marketing Act by the cotton, grain and produce trades is .summed up in the follow ing telegram sent out by the .Ameri can Cotton Shijipers Association to the cotton e.xchanges throughout the South; “You gentlemen are requested to act as a committee to .solicit contri butions from cotton factors and deal ers at Savannah to .support a move ment fostered by the American Cotton Shippers Association to raise funds to either amend or repeal the -Agricultural Marketing Act with special reference to functions of the Farm Board. The amount to be rais ed from the Georgia shippers and factors is $4,000. In addition this amount the firm of Clayton & Me Fadden Will be solicited direct. The quota asse.ssed on Dallas was $10,000 and they raised the amount in 30 minutes. Houston (|uota was $10,000, all of which has been pledged. Dani- eron Williams wares that the inter e.st in the Memphi.s meeting is spreading and other .states are xe- SHALL FOREIGN GOODS TAKE OUR MARKETS? porting excellent progre.ss. Please While the Democratic House of i be good enough to phone or wire Representatives has contentel itself with passing a tariff bill that makes no change in any e.xisting .schedule, and while the Democratic leader on the floor of the House has gone on record as declaring that to reduce our tariff now would flood our country with foreign made goods, other leaders of' the party, having no legislative respon.sibility, continue to harp on the threadbare, theme that it is necessary for us to lower our tariff's in order that foreign nations may be able to pay their debt.s to us in goods. What the result of your efforts as (eaidy a.s po.ssible as I am obliged to make a report of the State to Dameron Williams this afternoon. We feel that our existence is at stake and that .something must be done im mediately and will be done if we have the moral and financial support of the cottoii trade. Terms of sub scription, fourth cash, balance a.s and if needed.” “The most effective one-sentence an.sw’er to the raising of this huge slush fund was made by one of the outstanding ed'itors ' of the South the.se leaders are saying I Dr. Tait Butler, of the Progres.sive Mustard is a common article, but it adds a lot to the joys of eating and, if the housewife is a sticker for getting what she pays for— whether it is mustard or mustangs she wjll do well to read the label on mustard products, according to H. A. Lepper, of the Federal Food and Drug .Administration. “All mustard products come from the threl' general classes of seed— white, black, and intermediate, the latter shading from yellow to brown to red,” .says Lepper. The value of mustard as a condiment depends on its content of volatile oil or other pungent principles. The flour, or ground mustard is the powder made from seed after the hulls have largely been removed. Sometimes a portion of the fixed oil has been -removed. Prepared mustards, such as “Old English style,” “Dutch style,” or “French style,” are pastes composed of a mixture of ground mustard seed, flour, or cake, with salt, a vinegar, and perhaps .sugar, spices, or other condiments. The official standard Prohibits the presence of starch, mustard bran, or vegetable g-ums in prepared mustard. Turmeric is sometimes added to prepared mustard. If it is present, it will often be declared on the label While turmiric is sometime.® added to give the mustard a yollow color, it actually does not closely resemble the pure mustard color. Lepper states that some mustard manufacturers make an imitation which, as a rule, contains principal ly mustard bran, usually with some mustard seed and sometimes starch or gum. This food law requires that such an article be sold under a label 'w’hich makes it clear that the product is an imitation and further specifies that the ingredient of the product be declared on the label. RELIEF FOR .ALL (Washington Post ) An unfortunate misunderstanding of President Hoover’s relief pro gram has developed in some sec tions of the country. The Pre.sident More Milk Makes For Longer Life has been accused of neglecting the I OffCES SilvCF CupS in effect is this: Jf Argentina owes us hioney w^e must let her ship into our markets corn and beef in order to pay her debts to us. If Czechoslovakia owes us. money then we must let her send in shoes > to sell on our mar ket in order that she may pay. If Mexico owes us money then she shall be permitted to ship in live cattle in order to pay the debt. And so all the way around. But what is happening t-o our farmers and manufacturers and stock growers while this program is being put into effect? Isn't it perfectly ' clear that if Argejjtina ships 25 million bu.shels of corn into this country that exact amount of corn is left on our farms with out a market? If Czchoslovakai Farmer, M-.hen he said: '‘If it is ’woj'th o.ne hundred thou sand lolhirs to cotton merchants to have the cooperatives destroyed, it is worth hu.ndre.ds 'of miIlion.s to the farmers to maintain them.’’ Farm Roard Endorsed By N. G. Agriculture Raleigh, M.arch 1.—Organizel ar- riculture in North. Carolina has tive.s in Congre.s.s to .stand by the petitioned the .Skate’s .representa- liv.es in Congite.ss to .stand by .the -Agricojltm-al .Marketing Act and to fight any proposals to “abolish or cripple tbe Fed.eral Farm Board.” -A resolution, adopted here by the .North Carolina Council of .Agricul- sends in 10 million paris of shoes j tural Organizations, terms the Farm are not American shoe' workere .de- j Board “one (jf the greate.st ageii- prived of the labor and paj' for eia.® for helping .agficulture ever that (juantity of shoes? If Cana- created by a na.tional government” da and Mexico drive 500,000 head, and asks that it not be crippled by of cattle across our bortiers are not j being made a division of tlig U. S. >our cattle markets glutted to jn.sl ' Department of Agriculture, that extent? The Council .said the Board .should It i.s highly desirable that other ' not be subjected to .Ute “political countries indebted to us should pay ! pressure which might .ea.sily rei^ult those debts. But certainly some oth- I from hao-ing the F'arm Board as a er way can be found, as some othe'- division in a department headed by ■way always has been found in the I n member of the president's cabin-j., past, for our foreign debtors to di.s charge their obligations without de priving .American producers of their home markets. IRLSH FREE STATE RAISES MANY PIGS FOR SALE Dublin, March 1.—Improvement in the i|uality of pigs produced in Ireland has been so marked during Agricultural Organization, recent years that English curers , name implies, is, composed of rep- abe now reported to be purchasing ' re.sentative.s of practically all the Poor Economy To Grind Roughage Feed It is not necessary to grind the rougha.ges ordinarily used for live stock feed and certainly it is poor economy to do so with all feeds as low in price as they are now. “We have come in contact re cently with much mi.sleading pro- pag'anda in regard to the advant- a,ges of grinding feeds for live stock,”, says L. I. Case, animal hus bandman at State College. “Some of this material i.s findin,g its way into the agricultural press and much of it is being disseminated by salesmen of feed ,grimlin,g mills who of coui'se' are intere.sted in selling their product. I recently overheard a salesman wdio .was giv ing a demon-stration of his machine say that the grin-cl'in-.g of com stov- er» would imake it 100 percent digest'ble. Such a statement ridiculous on its face beca'u.st corn -stover at best is only about 50 percent di,gestible and no amount of ,grindiiig will make it any more #0.” , Mr. Case .says no hard and fast rules may be laid down for every farm but generally ‘ speakm,g it tioes not pay ’ '.to 'grind roughage. He says that Trve.s'tock men engag ed in re-search at the experimental stations of the L’hi ted State.s are about iOO percent in a'.greement on this.' ' . ' f-n feeding beef cattle where hogs are to follow 'fbe, 'beeves, it does not pay" even to grind corn. Old feeders know this by exper ience and the majority' of them f;!ed broken ear -earn -Or ..s'hdlLed corn, says Mr. Case. About the .same thin.g is ti-ue in feeding corn to hog.s. Numerous feeding trials prove conclusively that fhei-e i.s little .’saving, in feeding ,ground corn to ho,2's in place of ear corn welfare of the workin,g-man and the common people, whil^ concentrating biff attention on Iro interests of -American banker.4 and foreign na tions. That charge is palpably un true. It arises only from confusion as to the nature of Mr. Hoover’s relief plan;s. Criticism of this nature began to circulate soon after President Hoover had proposed a postpone ment of inter-governmental pay ments. Some people who did not un derstand the nature of the crisis that was faci.ng the world at that time feared that the President was too much concerned in giving re lief to Europe. As a matter of fact, the President acted to save Ameri can business and finance from the shock of a European collapse. ■ President Hoover has opposed a dole for the unemployed because he fears that the cost -of thi.s uneco nomic experiment would postpone the time when American working men may return to their regular jobs. .An attempt to create artificial employment for about 6,000,000 men, when the national debt is al ready increasing at the rate of $2,000,000,000 per year, would lead to disaster. Instead of wasting en ergy on such palliatives, the Pres ident launched a program to reha bilitate the economic structure of the country so that production and work may return to normal. Some fanatics have gone so far as to denounce the Reconstruction Finance Corporation a.s a “dole to bankers.” That thought completely ignores the interrelation of finance, industry and employment. Funds released by this corporation will percolate through the banks to in dustry and to jobless men. In so far as it stabilizes the I'ailroads, em ployes who are now’ idle will bene fit. The new capital which has just been voted for the Federal Land Bank system is not for the relief of hankers, but to make credit more available to farmers. Many forclose- ures because fanners were unable to meet the terms of their mortga ges will be averted. New credit fa cilities will be open to farmer's who otherwise might be unable to fin ance their crops. If this appropria tion had been divided among the farmers as a handout there would have been nothing more than a pit tance for each. But when it is'mul tiplied in the form of crediL it be comes an invaluable aid to agricul tural -America. Throiqgb a system of home loan discount banks the President has is urged Co’ng-ress to extend similar relief to home owners. The Gov ernment could not possibly step in and save mort,gaged homes with funds from the Treasury. But through the extension of credit At can enable home owners to help themselves through this emergency period. Of .similar significance is the pro gram to liquidate clo.sed bank.s. Ob viously, thi.s is not -a measure to help bankers. Its centj-al purpose is to allow depositors in -such bank-s to regain their funds and thus' restore their purchasing power. Pre.sideTit H.')over’s' program does not attempt to- smooth over the surf-ace of the depression ' with a dole, but it strikes -at the roots of the deflation mania. It i,s calculated to stimulate into activity the indus trial and co-mmercial nmc'hinery of the whole nation, . The problems of the' people c-i-nnot be solved in any other w-av. In Milk Poster Gontest Doctor James M. Parrott of Kin ston and Raleigh, State Health Of ficer, is offering two silver cup.s as prizes for the best posters submit ted by school children in the milk po.ster contest, an educational feat ure of the State-wide Milk-for- Helath Campai,gn that is being con ducted by the State Board of Health. Dr. Parrott considers that interest in the use of milk for health created through educational processes such as the po.ster and essay conte.sts spo-nsored by the schools, is ilUt only lasting, but will produce permanent re.sults. One of the cups offered is for the best milk poster made -by a boy or girl in any graded school in the State, and the other is for the best poster by any high school pupil in'the State. Not more than five posters from each group may be submitted from any one county to the State Committee, but every school in every county is expected to enter the county contest. .All competing posters should be in the office of the State Board of Health by April 25th, 1932, and should be in .sizes either 14 by 22 inches or 22 by 28 inches. The chief require ment is that the message of the poster be brief, based on facts, not overstated, and that it make no un fair comparisons. Go-op Fieldmen Help Farmers Obtain Loans or shelle: corn. ’ et and re.®ponsible to him.” before .a livestock man allows to be persuade.3 into this extra expensb, he should get his Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer, ' and passed unanimously. The Coundr akso 'appealed to president Hoover to fill the existing vacancy on the F'ai’m Board with a representative from the Southea.st.' The .North Carolina Council of as its approximately 10,000 pigs a week from the Irish F'ree S(^te, accord ing to a- report from Consul Henry H. Balch, Dublin, made public by the Department of Commerce. ’I’he live stoc'k expert also stat ed that during a recent visit to Southern Ireland, he failed to see a black' pig. The prevailing type is agricultural State. organizations in the Unlucky. Number They were quarreling, and Ahe wife said to the husband, “Fd-.like to know how. many girls you made love to before you met me?” “Twelve,” . groaned the miserable ■white and middle white, a cross, | man, “but didn't remember to count with the gilt pregeny cros.sed back | tJiem until if was top late.”—Stfay i Stories. ' '' J ' ftjets from unbiased so'urces and govern' his . actions accordingly, says Mr. Ca.se. . Raleigh, March 2.—To help alle viate .stringent credit conditions fac ing farmers this year, the l^rth Carolina Cotton Growers Cojpera- tive .Association has instructed its fieldmen to cooperate with county agents and others in helping farm ers obtain loans from the $50,000,- 000 agricultural loan fund set up by the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration. Regulations limit the maximum government crop production loan to any one borro-tt’er to -$400. Farmers ■tt’ho ha'-e need of more capital than this and cannot make ar rangements locally are advised to communicate with the .Agricultural | Credit Corporation, of Raleigh, which -will function this year. Use More Milk For Better Health To live to be a hundred and en- ^ joy life while doing it is a good principle, but few accomplish the feat. Today when the conquest of disease and the .scientific promotion- of health have nearly doubled the span of life, only one person in 25,000 in this country reaches UJe century mark. But the tendency V live to a “ripe old age” is on thV';'-. increase. A person who has reacheuV the age of 58 now has a further expectancy of life of about 16 years, according to authentic life tables. It is now a well established faq that what we eat or do not e/ has a definite effect on our tend? cy to live long. Scientists un^-Mi- tatingly declare that the most n-n- portant factor contributing to a long and happy life is. proper nu trition and that milk more than any other food is essential to pro per nutrition and good health. The increase in the consumption of milk and milk products in this country for the past decade has unquestion ably been one of the factors in creasing- the span of human life. History bear.s out the statement that milk drinking people are strong- and robust as well as long lived. The pastoral people of the world who have had possession of many dairy animals and whose diet has consisted largely of the milk and dairy products from tho.se animals have always displayed the finest physical development, and naturally acquired a long life. It is related of David that he was carrying ten cheeses for the nourishment of his cohorts when he met and conquar- ed the redoubtable Goliath. The beef-eaters, so called, of England, have akso been drinkers of milk. The Scandinavian countries, where the span of life is so much greater than ours, have always been noted as dairy countries, and the same is true of Holland, who.se av erage .span of life i.s even longer. Gene Tunney, Lindbergh, Richard Byrd, Paavo Nurmi have been great milk di-inker.s. Dr. .A. T. .Allen, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Dr. E. C. Brooks, Pre.sident of North Carolina State College, have joined the list of promoters of the State-wide Milk- for-Health-Campaigii. To increase North Carolina’s Milk consumption and to interest the school in thi.s timely health movement. Dr. .Allen and D)'. Brooks are offering prize.- for the best milk rhymes or bits of poetry written by school children on the subject of milk. Dr. Allen is offering -a silver cup for the best milk rhyme furni.shed by any pupil in the graded schools of the State, j while Di'. Brooks is offering a silver THE EDITOR OF THE JOHN- stonian-Sun will be glad to credit any farmer reader on his sub- .scription for a bushel -jr two of sweet potatoes. fif I You i Want to get rid of that piece of Furniture.... cup for the be.st rhyme submitted j y KANSAS TAKES A HAND Farm For Living First Then For Money Raleigh, March 2.—Farmers who would make a profit should “farm first. /or a living and then for .money,” according . to M. G. Mann, spcrethry-ter6asurer of . the North sCarolina Cotton Grow;ers Coopera tive '.Association.. He ' said that experience ' shd-ivs that the farm-first-for-a-living far mers are the ones -who are making a" profit while those farming for n-iohey first are “going in the hole.” ^ to dispose of that Rug or worn Carpeting.... ^ to sell your Second- fice of the State Board of Health ' V Hand Clothing that is p still good..,. ^ somebody to do a job of Papering or Repair- by any high' .school pupil of the I State. I Contestants foi these State prizes | must have their rhymes in the of- ; not later than noon, .April 25th. They must be original and not ex ■ceed six lines in length. SK K POULTRY. t If a few' birds in the flock become sick, it is poultry usually better to kill them than to attempt 1 ^ ing,... .spread through the flock befoi-e re cognized. If the poultry owner to treat sick birds, he may carry a disease to healthy birds through ! ROO.SEVELT TAKE.S HLS NEW The Kansas .Agricultural Council, including The Grange, The Farm Bureau, The Farmers Union, the Kansas Co-operative Wheat Market ing Association, the Kansas Live stock Association, and-two or three | other agricultural organizations, on ' January 12, passed the followin resolution; “■We endorse the co-onerative pro- g'ram of the Government as set forth ■in the .Agricultural. Marketing .Act. We insist that this program be giv en opportunity to develop and func tion as vv-as originally, intended. We are opposed to any amendments ■ to the act, except such amendments as are desired by the agricultural peo ple and are -approved by the au thorized representative.® of the farm organizations.” to apply treatment. TJiey may have ; -y i k I .some contagious disease whii-h will . n cbody tO help 9 •e re- A with the House Clean- tries;A . mg.... X Take This Tip I’O.ST- IN THE BHILIPPINES I A ^ iX Alanila, P. 1. Feb. 27.—Formally j inaugurated governor general of the ! Jf Philippine Islands, Theodore Roose- I V velt today called for a program de- j y signed to promote “the wt-ll being | O of the average Filipino.” i A BRING THE EDITOR OF THE John.stoniun-Sun your country produce, and get credit on your subscription for .-ame. PUT A LITTLE AD IN THESE COLUMNS 1 AT A COST OF BUT A FEW CENTS And Your Worries End a
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