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Machines Will
Revolutionize
Life On Farms
More Power For The Farmers
Will Change Old
Ways Of Doing Things
-Life down on the farm will
never be the same.
A postwar revolution in AmeiiI
can agricultural methods will introduce
thousands of "mechanical
i hired hands" to take over most
of the heavy tasks and many of
the chores. The volumeproduction
of these effecient robots awaits
thatday when materials and industrial
manpower become available.
jUene.al fanning will never
reach a stage or "push-button
operation," nut new machines,
new metnods, new chemicals and
new ideas are on the way to ease
, j iijag days of back-straining labor
I in the lields and help the farmer
fj ajhieve a far higher degree of
1 efficiency.
" New Farm Products
? .The farmer reads the papers
1 a fid listens to the ladio as his
H city cousin does, so he's looking
forward to that postwar world
of; television, helicopters, and other
| { oft-promised miracles. Hut in ad
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h even more anticipation a world
I cf new and improved agricultural
products?for aoead lies a golden
age which will crowd greater
(pjpgress into a few years than
IBe total advancement during
thousands of years man has worked!
the so*' 'More
power to the farmer?power
he can utilize to do the wo.k
qBicker and better than ever?is
tne chief factor in the modernization
of the American farm. In
1936, only one farm in 10 had
electricity; today four farms in
every ten have it. And immediately
after the war the Rural
Electrification Administration 'plans
to establish 100 new cooperatives,
build 6,000 miles of transmission
lines and 170,000 miles
of distribution lines, furnishing
power to pei form more than 300
useful tasks for the farmer?from
lighting his buildings to the killing
of bacteria in hen house and
water supply by ultra-violet rays.
Harnesing power, instead of
the horse, will drastically conserve
manhours and improve production
quality. There are still 13
million horses and mules on United
States farms, though their
numbers are declining at the rate
of 300,000 every year. In the days
when there were twice as many
animals at work it took 19 farmers
to feed one city person, while
coday the same number of farmers
can feed 66 city people. Major
reason: wider use of the tractor
and other mechinized implc
ments. let, les than a third ot
the six million American farms
are adequately mechinized.
Low-Cost Tractors Coming
New low-cost tractors are on
the way, and "deluxe" models equipped
with air-conditioned cabs
and radios. Thousands of mechinical
pickers will replice human
hands in the cotton fields, at
probably a fifth of the cost. The
flame-weeder, country cousin to
the army flame-thrower, will substitute
economically for manual
hoeing in the cultivation of cot-.
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ton, corn, sugar cane and other
crops, burning weeds yet leaving
the crops miraculously unhurt
and will "chop", o.' thin, cotton
plants ut a cost of cniy b7 tents
an acie compared Willi $6.50 lor
manual chopping. One-man bailers
improved narvesteis, new combines
and other robot workers
win roll from production lines to
important jobs in the fields.
i?ew meinods, and the tools to
appiy them, will make poor land
nio.eii tiuittul and Keep good land
wne.e it Should be?on tne lurm
and not far out at sea where so
many millionacres of topsoil have
needlessly been wasned. The Soil
Conservation Service estimates
tn-ui 122,01)0,000 more acres of
farm land must be contouied to
prevent fuither erosion. Better
ouildozers and earthmovmg equipment
have been designed to complete
this tremendous job of fully-filling,
terracing and drainage
wnich will save the countiy the
four bilion dollars a year lost in
soil depreciation and reduced
vielrls.
Perhaps the greatest changes
ill farming methods will take
piacc in tillage. The usefulness
of the plow in seed bed preparation
has been challenged by
Edward Faulkner in his provocative
book, "Plowman's Folly",
and his theories on shallow tillage
have won many supporters.
A few years of experimentation
will determine in what types of
soils this method may be effective.
Meantime, a revolutionary
implement known as the
Rototiller is scheduled for massproduction
by Graham-Paige Motors
Corporation. .This unique
Swiss-invented machine prepares
the ground for planting in a
single operation, compared with
sevetal operations by plow, disk
and harrow. It thoroughly crumbles
the soil with rotating steel
tines which mix fertilizer and
cover crops uniformly into the
seed bed, and is used as cultivator,
furrower, compactor, field
mower and power plant.
A "tool" which will increasingly
serve the postwar former
is the airplane. Its winder use
in cropdusting is a certainty, and
the air. transport of tomorrow,
as indicated by preliminary experiments
of Wayne University,
may carry tons of perishable
fruits and vegetables to distant
vis Fun
PONSOR OF TAB
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JOHN F. MAI
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markets. roastem Airlines announces
it wni start flying Fiorina
products to New iork in
Uie i'car tutuie.
A neiwo.K or new and improved
highways arier the war, to- '
gether witn improved automobiles
and trucks, win enaole the farmer
to speed nis crops to market
raster uian ever, rsven raims
located on poo. oacK roads have
a brighter transput taiion future 1
through development or u cnem- :
ical wnicn Keeps sou diy. Spieud
cm loads wu.ui usually become
quagiii.rej in a lam, uie powder
eireetively watei proofs the sur- '
face.
SIKE DEATH FOR PESTS 1
A chemical with applications 1
as important to agriculture as '
to the Army is the amazing DDT
?deadly to potato beetles, cab- 1
bage worms, Japanese beetles,
aphids, corn borers, apple coddling
moths, fruit worms and |
other pests. It will kill mosquito
larvae, rid farm buildings of J
I lies a n? prevent many diseases.
Farms will not only be cleaner, '
but more attractive. The farmhouse
of tomorrow may be pre- '
fabricated. The farmer's wife has
her eye on that kitchen of tomorrow
and, according to REA
estimates, there will be immediate
rural demands for 315,000
electric clocks, 600,000 irons, 390,000
toasters. 285,000 vacuum
cleaners, 15,000 air conditioners, .
50,000 food mixers, 555,000 .radios,
425,000 refrigerators and 575,000 '
washing machines. High on every '
postwar farm list stands the '
quick-freeze unit to keep farm 1
produce fresh year-round.
From the kitchen, the farmer's
wife will talk to her husband in
the fields by "walkie-talkie"!
radio, and the farmer will direct1:
the work of helpers by radio
without spending much of his
time walking and driving from
job to job.
1 In spite of increased agricul-j
tural mechanization, there will1
1jea\ oil') aayb sqot uuej oq jips
Agriculture accounted for 25 per
cent of the U. S. labor before the'
war, ar.d now comprises about 15
per cent. In the postwar period, j
according to an estimate of the j
Committee on Economic Development,
agriculture will employ 19
per cent of the total labor force.'
Many people who left the farms]
eral Hoi
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Azier Simmons
Award Winnei
Azier Simmons, valedictoriai
Df the graduating class at Wil
liams Township High School, ha
been given the Sixth Annua
Award of The Header's Diges
Association for students who b;
their successful school work giv
promise of attaining leadership
in the community, it was an
nounced today by F. A. Ficquetl
principal.
Mr. Simmons will receive a:
honorary subset iption to Th
Reader's Digest for one year am
an engraved certificate from th
editors, "in recognition of pas
accomplishment and in anticipa
lion of unusual achievement ti
come."
The award to Mr. Simmons
who is the son of Mr. and Mrs
Bruce Simmons of Clarendon
was made possible through th'
cooperation of Mr. Ficquett am
his teaching staff. They selectei
Mr. Simmons to receive th
award, designed to stimulab
scholarship, citizenship, anil eon
Nnnnai pnntupt with pnoil rAftriini
after graduation.
NEW WAREHOUSE
ONE OF LARGEST
IN ENTIRE BELT
(Continued *>< ni a-age One)
and lot will cost in the neighbor
flood of $100,000 Mr. Garrell stat
sd, but. it is believed, the nev
house will prove of tremendou
benefit to the farmers of this sec
tion of the Carolinas who marke
their tobacco and produce ii
Tabor City.
La Paz, capital of Bolivia wa
founded by the Spaniards ii
1548.
for the war jobs to industry di
not want to return to the fields
they say they will like it bet
ter where they arc.
Thousands of servicemen wh
plan on careers in agricultur
are thoroughly familiar wit'
mechanized warfare, and that'
the way they'll want their farm
?mechanized. Electric eye:
electric brains, mechanical hand
and legs will help tomorrow'
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of efficiency in agriculture th
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Editor's Note:
Pfc. Roscoe C. Coleman, Jr., |
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe
Coleman of Tabor City, is a
member of Company E, llUth
Regiment, about which the fol- 1
lowing story is told.
WITH THE 28th INFANTRY,
DIVISION IN GERMANY- While
22 top-ranking generals including
General Omar Bradley and Lieutenant
General George Patton observed
the unfu.ling of me Amer-j
ican flag over Fort Ehrenbreitstein,
Rhine valley fortiess that
served as headquarters for the
US Army of Occupation after the
last war, men of Company E,
110th Infantry Regiment, 28th
"Bloody Bucket" Division, stood
as the Guard of Honor in recent
ceremonies in observance of Army
Day.
As the caravan of big cars
- bearing some of the most important
officers on the Western
r i Front swung into the massive
stone gateways of the ancient
(fort, they were greeted by the
11 dressed ranks of Company E
standing stiffly at attention.
? i After being inspected by Gen.
Bradley, one of the division's
fo: mer commanders, and Gen'
eral Norman D. Cotu, its present
e commander, the company stood
P guard during the brief and impressive
ceremonies in which the
J same flag that was hauled down
|at Fort Ehrenbrcitstein 23 years
" ago was again raised over the
e fortress.
' Chosen as the "spearhead come
pany" of the 110th Infantry's
' 2nd Battalion, Company E has
" j led many of the division's drives
J, since it first broke the path into
Percy, France, first major objective
after hitting the Normandy
' | beaches on July 23, 1944. From
l> j then on the veteran rifle com2
pany paced the hard driving ad'
vance across France. Belgium,
;1, and Luxembourg to the bastions
cjof the Siegfried Line St. Sever,
2 j Calvados, St. Qucntin, the key
" citadel of Bastogne, which the
i 28th later helped defend against
von Rundstedt's last drive, all
fell to E Company's driving
spearhead.
As adept at dress ceremonies
as at fighting, it was Company
E that led the 28th Division
- through Paris on August 28, 1944,
- in the "tactical parade" that
v symbolized the liberation of the
s'French capital even as the troops
. continued their pursuit of the I
t retreating Germans.
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20 of the men who landed with! I
it on the Normandy beachhead.' I
At present the company is com- I
manded by Captain Floyd- K. Mc- I
Cutchson of Indianapolis, In- I
diana.
WRIGHT AT HOME
TABOR CITY, July 30.?Sgt.
Willie Wright arrived Saturday,
July 21, at the home cf his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. (Britt)
Wright near town from Germany
where he had spent 10 months
in service. He has had three
years with the armed forces. At
the end of a 30-day fui lough on
August 27, he will report to Ft.
Bragg for either new assignment
or separation for Military service.
Clifton Wright, a second son
of Mr. and Mrs. Wright, is in
England awaiting transportation
back to the states. Clifton, too,
has had a long run in the army.
BILLY DORM AN PROMOTED
TABOR CITY, July 30?Mr.
and Mrs. G. L. Dornian sometime
ago were advised that their son,
Billic G. Dorman, has recovered
from illness in a hospital in Belgium
and is now in Germany.'
Billic not long since was advanced
in rating to that of a
First Class Private.
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or the captain's log- of the sea. I
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