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Demand For Lean Pork At ^Higher Price Pointed Out | [% By W. L. rUHKLgg Consumers want Imb pork. 7%a USDA in iwnt investigations found that over 89 per cent of the consumers want pork chop* with ten th*n half m inch of outaide fat la fact, consumers were willing to refularty pay 10 cent* per pound m for lean pork chop* than for "raguUr" pork chop*, and at that price the leaa outsold the "regu lar" 3 to Gone are the days of the fat pork chop! M This is exemplary of the "dieting 50'*." During thfe past decade peo pie in general have become acutely eonacioui of weight, mainly be cause of its much publicised ef fects on health. As a result there has been a tendency to eat leas high calorie foods, including some j meats. For example, in 1099 the average person ate nearly M pounds more beef per year than he did Just five years before. He also at* nearly three pounds mora veal and three pounds more poultry. But he ate exactly the same amount of pork in 1999 that he had in 1M0. In fact, during the 39 years prior to 1996 the part of the con sumers income spent on beef had Increased 22 per cent while for pork it had decreased 37 per cent. Behind the growing spathy to ward pork is probably a failure on the part of the meat processor to trim down the external fat on pork cuts t^sult the likes of the con sumer?! he consumer ususlly re sents hsving to buy a large amount of fat that she will probably never use. And in order to entice the consumer into taking such pork the mest processor must charge a lower price. The meat processor can hardly be blamed, however, for to trim down the cuts of pork only results in buckets of pure fat that would sell for only pennies ? nearly a complete loss. Neither can the meat processor do much about the internal fat in the pork cuts for this depends entirely on the chsr act eristics of the hog the pork comes from. Today (at is an almoit totally unwanted product of hogs. At the beginning of the century fat for lard waa tha moat valuable part of the hog. So for the farmer the fatter the hog, the fatter the profit With the increaaed use of vegetable and other cheaper artificial fata, lard prlcea decreased drastically. In 1999, the price for the lean parts were 84 centa more than the price for the whole live hog, while the price for the fat parts used for lard were 37 per cent less. De spite the increaaes in value of the lean cuts and reduction in valud of lard proportionally the same amount of lard to lean is produced. All this points to the fact that the bulk of the hoes now coming to market aren't the kind that will give the pork Mra. Housewife wants and will pay the money for. Prices and grades are the tools that help the hoc producer de termine what kind of hog to pro duce. Grade* describe the hog, tell how much the bog la worth, fa ther of the tools have been workiw very well. Aa a result the signal from the consumer to the producer has not been st>-ong. So pretty much the same type of hog keeps coming to market aa in past years. To revamp and energize 'hat signal so that consumers can again get the kind of pork they want and farmers can get a decent price for their hogs, two conditions will have I* be Mt: (1) An aRMpUbie set of grade* that will easily toll the ilfUnocm in the quality of different bop must be wed in buying bogs, and (S) differences in price* that will < clearly show the difference in quality will have to be paid. 0 No act of grade standards exist that tell us exactly how lean or fat the meat from any particular live hog will be Thi> grades now being uaed by the U8DA and by NCDA In several eastern hog mar ket* will com* a lot closer than the "top hog" system now being used. These grades will give us a better idea of whether a certain hog ia apt to five us high quality, medium quality, or low quality pork. In addition to quality dif ferences a fairly narrow weight range must be used. (The ranga now being used in North Carolina is from 110 to 240 pounds). Working hand In hand with a good set of grading standards there must be enough differences in prices for each of the different weight and quality group* of hogs that the farmer will not have the slightest doubt as to what kind of pork the consumer wants. If the farmer raise* and sells fatty hogr h* should not get as much as the farmer who ralaes and sells lean, well finiahed hogs. Unfortunately, this is not the case in North Caro lina or in many other parts of the country today. High land prices and an exceia of labor on North Carolina farma indicate that Uveitock enterprises such aa hog production is one of the better alternatives available In adjusting farming operationa to re duced acreage allotmenta. Profits in the pockets of the hog producer and expansion of the whole live stock industry in this state from hog production depends to a very large extent on the success of the fsrmers in producing the kind of pork that will be readily accepted bffche consumer. Soil Official To Be Chosen On December 9th to December 10th a soil conservation district supervisor will be elected for Ws taugs county. This supervisor will serve lor a three year term anA help to firm policies and guid^ the soil and water conservation activities of the district. Any eli gible voter is entitled to vote in this election. I The Watauga Soil Conservstion District was organized in 1949 and haa been of much assistance to farmers in the county since that date. About one-third of the farm land in the county is now under District plans. Each year more farmers become district coopers tors and carry out planned conser vation practices on their farma. A. C. MoreU, present chairman of the district supervisors, haa been duly nominated by a peti tion signed by twenty five fsrmers for another three year term. Ballot boxes will be lorated in the following place* Watauga ASC Office, Cove Creek Store. Deep Gap Post Office, Bill Fit-th ing's Store, Roy Jones' Store, snd Howard Mast's Store. Allow approximately Vt pound ready-to^ook turkey per serving. A VARIETY OF ROLLS For Your Best Meals > AT YOUR FAVORITE GROCERY Business Ed. ? Meeting Held Three-hundred and seventy-six Southern Business Education Teachers attended the annual a*- - soriation meeting on "Challenges In Buaineaa Edudstion" at the BiHmore Hotel in Atlanta, Geor gia on November 23-M Mias Jane Riner and Mrs Kath ryn C. Tully, Buaineaa Education Department, Appalachian State Teachers College attended thia meeting. On Thuraday afternoon, fro* 2:30-4:30 Mr*. Tully repre sented the Southerp Buaineaa Edu cation Teacher* and Mr. Harry H. Hart, Gregg Publishing Diviniqfi. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, represented the publiahera in presenting a lecture-demonstra tion on "New Audio-Visual Mater ials for Your Secretarial and Of fice Practice Classes." Dr. Buaaell Hosier, president of National Association of Business Teacher Education, Mias Gladys Bahr, president of United Busi nese Education Association, and Dr. Ray Price, president of Moun tain Plains Buaineaa Education A* aociation along with prominent educators from southern college* and universities participated on the program which was divided into divisional and sectional meet ings. Miss Riner and Mrs. Tully sttended the Colleges and Univer sities section, and Miss Riner at tended the Baaic Buainess Section while Mrs. Tully attended the Secretarial, and Administration and Supervision Meetings. * Thirty-nine buaineaa education teachers from North Carolina at tended thia meeting. George Pea body College for Teachers waa the only inatitution having the entire buaineas faculty present. Farm Questions And Answers Question: Why should I breed my dairy cows artificially? Answer: You stand ? better chance of getting a heifer thai will do a good job of converting her feed into milk, for one thing. And then the^jieifers probably will keep inheriting greater capacity for consuming roughage. ^fcestion:?When should I feed my cows roughage? Answer: Keep it available to them at all times, aqAbe sure it's of high quality. 1 Question: How much milk should ? 1,900-pound Holstein give per day? Ahswer: It depends on many things, of course; but the hay feeding program is a vital factor. If she eats 65 pounds of hay per day (probably supplemented with feed concentrate), she'll give aix gallons or more per day. If she eats only 37 pounds per day, she'll maintain her body weight; but she won't give but about three gallons per day. The farmer got only 38 cents of the food dollar in 1959. He got 40 cents in 1940 and 53 cents in 1945 (the peak war year). ALL NEW! 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Miller (Widower), dated October II, ISM. and recorded in Book 89. it Page 281 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Watauga County. North Carolina, (<iefault laving been made in the payment A the indebtedness thereby secur ?d and said deed of trust being by the .terms lltereof subject to f?r? closure, the undersigned Tiustee will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the courthouse door in Boi>ne. North Carolina, at noon, on the 23rd day of December, 1M0, the property conveyed In said deed of Eruat the same lying and being in the County of Watauga and State nf North Carolina, in Meat Camp Township, and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING on a (take near a pine at the creek running East 47 H poles to a maple; thence North 152 poles to a b-anch: thence Northwest course with aaid branch 81 poles to a maple: thence North 82 deg. West 90 poles to a Stake, corner to McNeil and in Wayne Miller line; thence South 6 deg. East with said line 58 poles to a beech in gap of rid<?e: thence South 15H deg. East 19 3-4 poles to a white oak: thence South 24 deg. East 13 poles to a^mall sugar tree#thence South TW deg East 24 poles and 6 links to a bunch of buckeye sprouts; thence South 15 deg. East 8 poles and 3 links to a stake where the road shall be between the two tracts poing to the Silverstone Road at the West end of McNeil lot; thenc^ South 14 deg. West with Wayn^ Miller line 8 poles to a manic near the East bank of the spring: thence same course 47 poles to the BE GINNING, containing 61 acres, more or less. But th's sale will be made sub ject to all outstanding and unpaid taxes and municipal assessments. Thii 22nd day of November, 1960. STACY C. EGGERS, JR., Trustee 12-l-4c-e How to Keep / MJ Money Coming w/W when Accident or Illness Knocks You Cr Cr w Ml T?r rmn i JERRY ADAMS, Agent CO 7-2403 Sugar Grove, N. C. DAVID N. SPAINHOUR Can you afford to retire? 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