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! FARM QUESTION BOX I ? br ED W. MITCHELL Farm Advitor Gumwrul EUttric Stati oa WCT Q. Do you have any bulletins \>n turkey diseases? A. Yes, I can get you-%he tur key bulletin covering the more common diseases. Turkeys are subject to so many Internal para sites and diseases that only a post-mortem examination in the laboratory by an expert can give an exact diagnosis. About all ?one can do is to uce a disinfec tant in the drinking water and butcher flock if it is threatened with an epidemic. H? 11 Q. Should rose bushes be cut back before being wrapped up for the winter? A. Hill them up six inches with coal ashes; prune back to three or four feet t" get strong, atiff canes, and tie these together. Bind straw or cornstalks around the whole bunch. In the spring prune back to threa_or four canes, twelve inches long. Climbing roses should be pruned after harvest. 11?11 Q. Will a concrete floor affect the health of chickens? A. A concrete floor Is all right for chickens if you build up ? a deep Utter, say 8 to 12 inches deep. Keep adding shavings, straw, leaves or hay all season and clean out at the end of the year. Deep litter insulates ths floor, absorbs moisture and drop pings, and works well. Temper ature is not as important as good \ /ICTOEY ON THE FARM FRONT ? MIWS from tht Aqricultvnl fxftnsioa Strrict 8TATB COLLEGE ANSWERS TIMELY FARM QUESTIONS QUESTION: Wliut is the most important factor in egg produc tion? ANSWER: ".Breeding." "No amount of feeding, care and man agement can bring a large num ber of eggs otft of a chicken if it does not have the hereditary fac tors for heavy egg production. Hens must be selected from fam ilies with high eggproduction and good livability. Superior cockerels also exert an important influence in egg production." It? 11 , QUESTION: Should I carry alt my workstock to the clinics'.' ANSWER: Yes. The chances about 19 to 1 that the particular horse or mule that you have in mind has internal parasites. About 95 per cent of the work stock in North Carolina are in fected with such parasites, ? botn In the western part of the State and roundworms in the eastern part. To farmers in the Pied mont and Mountain counties, It is suggested that workstock be examined for eggs of the botfly on the forelegs. These eggs should be thoroughly washed off with water at 105 degrees temp erature, NOW. This should be done In prepahatiou for the clin ics during December, January, and February. Watch for the icllnic scheduled for your com munity. 11? f QUESTION: Will there be a shortage of fertilizer for 1045 crops? ANSWER: No. There are adc ventilation, dryness and freedom from drafts. H ? U (j, Have you plans for building <"> <*gK cooler? A. A home-made cooler can bo built about 18 inches square and long enough to accommodate the wire baskets normally collected in one day. Cut round holes in the top board to receive the bas kets, and set a shelf in the box or have it shallow enough so the egg baskets rest on the floor. At one end set a small electric fan to blow through the box and send a current of air up through the eggs. Just ahead of the fan, hang strips of burlap dangling in a pan of water: The burlap strips take up water like a lamp wick, and the moisture helps cool the air and keep the eggs moist. 11?11 Q. How should barberry hedg es l>e transplanted? A. Transplant the barberry hedge early in the spring. Pre pare the soil in autumn and cut the bushes back at least half. Barberry grows rather large, and a space of 2 1-2 feet apart' is none too much. H? H <J. Why do tomatoes rot before they ripen? A. Bordeaux spray is the stand ard remedy to prevent the fun gus which causes most of the rot. However, tomatoes rot from many causes, and sometimes for no apparent cause. quate supplies of most fertilizer materials but you are warned that about 500 thousand tons. of fertilizer must be mofred from manufacturing plants to .North Carolina farms before January 1, or growers may not be able to obtain the fertilizer they need for 1945 crops. Labor shortages in the fertilizer plants, lack of suf ficient storage room, and railway transportation difficulties point to a bottleneck in fertilizer deliv eries next spring. . AN EXPLANATION -Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 24. ? Due to the many inquiries received by the American Red Cross South eastern Area Office here concern ing the role of the Red Cross in handling requests for the return of soldiers from overseas. Major General Frederick E. Uhl, com manding general, Fourth Service Command, today issued this state ment: Such requests ? granted in rare cases of family emergency or critical illness in the home ? can now be made only through the Red Cross, he said. Under the new War Department procedure for making such appli cations, first responsibility for in vestigating the actual need for a soldier's return to the States lies with the local chapter of the American Red Cross, though on ly at the request of military au thorities. The chapter's report and the family request are then forward ed by the Red Cross to the field director of the proper theater of operations. In turn, the com manding officer in the theater takes whatever final action he considers proper. Wheatland maize will be given a thorough test In Franklin Coun ty next year as a substitute feed crop for corn. It can be planted relatively late in the season. The Sky's the Limit! ANTI-INFLATION CAMPAIGN Raleigh, Nov. 27. ? District OPA Director Theodore S. John son said today initial success of the Grocer-Consumer Anti-Infla tion Campaign was assured by immediate response of food re-j tailers and consumer organiza tions, particularly women's or ganizations, Future success, he pointed out, will depend largely) on cooperation by housewives who buy groceries. ?Strengthened control of food1 prices now, Johnson said, is the foundation on which postwar con-i trol of inflationary prices will be built. He cited prices of certain staple items during and following World War I to show that runa way food prices came after mili tary victory and when vigilance against inflation had relaxed. For example, he said, on, Arm istice Day potatoes were selling at 3.3 cents per pound. By the middle of 1920 the price had risen to 10.3 cents per pound ? only to plunge to 2.1 cents per pound three months later. Other exam ples cited were: Sugar, 10.8 cents per pound in November, 1918, rose to 26.7 cents per pound in the middle of 1920 only to drop to 6,2 cents per pound a few months later; lard which was held to 34.2 cents per pound during the war rose to 42 cents then plunged to 15.4 cents per pound; butter went from 6.8 cents per pound to 78 cents then down to | 40.2 cents when economic col lapse followed the inflation peak; lound steak went from 38.5 cents up to 45 cents then down to 30.2 cents per pound; rice jumped from 14 cents up to 18.7 cents then dropped to 8.7 cents per pound; eggs, which had reached a price of 74.1 cents per dozen on Armistice Da^ rose to 92.41 cents then plunged to 31.7 cents1 per dozen in the crash late in 1920. Every housewife was caught in the mealstorm of inflatlon-defla tion of food prices and wartimei savings were wiped out. Grocers who might have gained temporari-i lyrdurlng inflation saw their en ure business wiped out in defla-l tion. Farmers went bankrupt. Only through adequate price control can a recurrence of suci) catastrophe be averted, - Johnson said. PULPWOOD POUNDS GATES OF BERLIN General Eisenhower Is author-| ity for the statement that 6,000 rounds of ammunition are being poured into German defenses on the western front every minute. Six million pounds of artillery fire and 2,000,000 rounds of mortar fire are being hurled at the Nazis each month. That's a lot of gun powder and explosives, and it took a lot of pulpwood to manufacture it. Pulpwool now makes 80 per cent of the smokeless powder used by our armed forces. While pulpwood producers muy feel justly proud of their part tn blasting the Nazi fortresses, they should also heed the plea of Gen eral Eisenhower for even greater production on the Home Front: "Unless everyone all the way through the nation, those at the front and those at home; keeps j on the everlastingly and witiii mounting intensity we are only J postponing the day of victory, ' he said. As a No. 1 war material pulp- ] wood is playing a vital role in the Allied advances in Europe and] in the Pacific. But this is 1)91 time for over-optimism. It is est sential that Home Front produc tion be increased to overcome, last fall's lag when many persons be lieved the European war was | about to end. "We cannot all fight the eno | fy face to face," said our Presi 1 dent. But there are tJ>vo things we can do: BUY MORE WAK BONDS AND CUT MOKE PULP WOOD. Make $10 for $1 by carrying your workstock to the horse and mule clinics for free examination and for treatments. These ani mals should be ready for a full day's work in 1945. Rockingham County farmers and sportsmen have -organized for the protection of wild life in that, section. THE YOUNG IDE* By MossU j COtMMy UNlTto FIATUKl SYMIICATt IMC. "I guess Pop didn't understand that I wanted the $18.75 raise in ? allowance to buy War Bonds!" Christmas Season Will Open In Henderson I THURSDAY, DEC. 14th A BAND IN ALL THE SPLENDOR OF CHIRSTMAS ? FEATURING ? GRAND STREET PARADE MUSIC - FREE GIFTS J AND NONE OTHER THAN THAT GRAND OLD MAN HIMSELF SANTA CLAUS IN PERSON HENDERSON IS READY FOR CHRISTMAS AND INVITES EVERYONE BOTH FAR AND NEAR TO BE ON HAND FOR THIS GRAND OPENING OF THE YULETIDE SEASON. HENDERSON MERCHANTS ARE READY TO SERVE YOU STORES ARE WELL STOCKED WITH THE THINGS YOU WANT MOST FOR CHRISTMAS, AND EVERY MERCHANT WILL WELCOME AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP SUPPLY YOUR CHRISTMAS NEEDS. 1 * DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN
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