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MACON COUNTY IS DISTINGUISHED Was First in State to Have Compul sory School Attendance Pioneer ed Firs* Cooperative Car Sale of Poultry State Follows Example of Macon Twenty-two years ago Macon be came North Carolina county to make school attendance compul sory. And a little less than four years nee. it led the way again. This was when Macon farmers loaded the first co-operative carlot shipment of poul tr\ ever to go out of "North Carolina. There may or may not be a con nection between the two events; that would be a question for the student of sociology* education, and agricul ture. But however that may be, the fact remains that this county, in each instance, set ?**n example to be fol lowed shortly by the remainder of North Carolina. For it wasn't long after the people of Macon voted favorably on the compulsory education proposal until such a law applied to all North Caro lina; and the movement for co-op rathe shipment of poultry has grown until last year farmers in 86 North Carolina counties loaded 120 cars? 2,069,000 pounds of live, cackling poultry, mostly chickens destined for oiit-of-State markets. That 2. (Mil), 000 pounds of poultry the farmers in liie neighborhood of two-thirds of a million dollars. But, mere important, the farmers, by marketing co-operatively in cat lots received nearly $125,000 more for their fowls than they would have, had they marketed them as individuals, either locally or through poultry dealers. The figure is the estimate of the extension department of State College, which places the increase ;n price received at an average of six cents per pound. The farmers in other words, mar- ! keted co-operatively, and as a result put nearly $125,000 in their own porkets instead of in the pockets of local merchants and poultry shippers. And this movement, already grown to ich proportions, is yet in its in fancy. Illustrating the truth of that state ment is the fact that, of the 120 cars loaded in the entire State last year, 10 went out of M'acon county, . a county, com parti vely small; from | the standpoint of population. This .county is certainly small enough in j comparison to make it quite reason able to suppose that the other 99 j counties in North Carolina will ave rage within a few years what Macon did in 1926. Such an average would mean a total of 1,000 cars for the entire State, and 1,000 cars would place around $5,000,000 in the pockets of the Tarheel farmer-poultrymen a million of which would represent his savings effected through co-operative marketing in carlots. That the lowly hen is destined to play an important role in an agri cultural revolution in North Carolina especially in the mountain counties is a thesis upon which agricultural workers have long discussed. But the figures indicate that itis not the hen and her offspring which are placing jingling coins in the farmers pocket so much as the method he is em ploying today to market his poultry. For the hen, the farmer has had with him always; while co-operative carlot marketing of poultry is less than four years old in North Carolina dating back to a bright, sunshiny day in April, 1923, when the first car left Franklin. Back of that first shipment, and of those that followed, lies a story of struggle and accomplishment. How a group of progresive business men and farmers secured a county agent for Macon; how } hat agent, when jhe came, chose the hen and her brood, plus cooperative effort, as the means tor earning his salary; and how he ? a hard-headed, hard-working, hard fighting Georgian-in the fact of criti cism. indifference, and bitter oppo sition, launched and made successful a movement that apparently is de stined to play a leading part in the present revolution of North Carolina j agriculture ? all these are inter-twin ed in an interesting story of personal achievement, and, even more, of com mercial success for the farmer, via the co-operative route. j The story has never been told in full, perhaps, but parts of it were re vealed by the county agent, while other bits were picked up from the farmers. | It was in 1922 that the agitation for a county farm agent here be | came insistent. But the Board of County Commissioners coud not see their way clear to adding $900 ? the county's share of an agent's salary ? to the county's budget. And when, Why shouldn't the Standard Oil Company make the best motor oil?. . .Well, it does . . and puts its name on it Our motor oil would not carry the name ??Standard" if it did not possess the best qualities claimed for other lubricating oils, plus extra lubri cating power of its own. When you buy "Standard"MotorOil you can get the right grade for your mo tor. It is always uniform. It mini mizes carbon. It re sists heat. Can a motorist ask more from any oil? 'STANDARD"MOTOK OIL The Measure of Oil Value -TANDARD STANDARD Oil COMPANY CM- J4 U. J Right across the country ! Natural tobacco taste has the inside track to smokers' preference Chesterfield sales prove it! | finally, they did ;v. :<> employ an acri-n i , t; > . v'*' n.i i against h\ v, i . ; : was pi. : j local i .t i 'lei. . A-I ial risks, I ed a note : >r le paya . . : the county. Tlu . :cnt was t j if, at the end . .;r, the ? I missitmer* were e ced that ii j farm a_>nr had t at least | for the :: met , tl. te would be i cancelled; iu-ners s'. ? pay the county the l>00, and the j county I?e uui u resiiii_ _ ' cm^loyini;- a i \ . t. It was under .;ui editions that jJohn V. Arrendale car: ? to th*s coun ty as farm agent; c ditions surely to put a man cu hi ttle! What concictt th could he do that would dtri: i.eiy . d conclusively prove that he was ting .$000 or more annually into . e .pockets of Macon's farmers? i he question was ar.-wered for him shortly after he va? ? ? .1 Franklin. "See that building? , he was asked when a new office building was point ed out. "Well, that was built and paid for by Macon county farmers' chickens and eggs." And it was ex plained that the building was the property of a local buyer and shipper of poultry and eggs. i The suggestion was chough for Arrendale. Poultry, plus co-operaticn, would turn the trick. And he set j to work. And it did turn it. For Arremlalc toll the rural -.'<?<>!* o;n-r;iu-. marki ilnar. he wrote for *. Franklin Press, the | Part of his preaching was done for ommlssioners .... er again mention- [him hy a demons" j ation on the public -1 that SO 00 ? r - siv'UM' and - ? :at a;.. 11- c ffructecl and t: avek'.l * .:i.. y owr ... hi- '-^ed ; '.no ??-. re a model poultry ?ord car. A 1 v.he: --ver ve . ' ? n ?' ? ' ' brood of tairi 1 - . of p-.r re . -??>???>> cl. ? iiich he pro -?rock, pro; or . y houses, ii: ear- J { fi(l " ' ' ? 'd to seienui.c :y broil r, nr. . :no?t ir. ort.i , ? (C . i-.-i: .11 ; -e six) AS HEVILLE - MURPHY .BUS SCHEDULE MURPHY Leave Leave ABBEVILLE 8:00 E. T. 12:00 E. T. Arrive ASHEV1LLE 3:30 E. T. 7:30 E. T. Leave ANDREWS 1:00 E. T. 5:30 E. T. Arrive MURPHY 12:30 C. T. 5:00 C. T. ALL PASSENGERS INSURED INDEPENDENT COACH LINE, Inc
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