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Sell Your Tobacco In Whiteville And Buy Your Farm Equipment From Commerce Motors. DO IT BETTER WITH AVERY TRACTORS WD EQUIPMENT Avery Model V-109?3 to 4 Horse Farm Capacity.... PRICE DELIVERED To YOUR Farm $1151 Commerce Motors WEST COMMERCE ST. ? WHITEVILLE, N. C. TOBACCONISTS and FRIENDS ... VISIT? Shallotte Soda Shop $ Cafe While In iHALLOTT E foWreshing? FOUNTAIN DRINKS AND Tasty MEALS WE SERVE ANYTHING THAT IS GOOD TO EAT ! . SPECIALIZING IN SEAFOODS Try Our Seafood Platter ! (HOURS:?6:30 A.M. - 7 P.M.) (SUNDAY?8 A.M. to 4 P.M.) > Also See Us For Your Drugs, Sundries, Toilet Goods, Cosmetics, Stationery. AND MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT OUR FOUNTAIN ! OUR CAFE IS UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. GUY CULPEPPER TELEPHONE 8109 GUY CULPEPPER, Owner SHALLOTTE Better Farming For Better Living Looks To Future (By Nell Bolton, Agricultural Agent, Tide Water Power Company) To lose a dollar is a major catastrophe with many of us. To lose five becomes almost a tragedy and to lose eight isn't much short of a disaster. Someone has said "Every $1.00 less farm income means about $5.00 less business transacted in your community and $8.00 less business in the United States. Farm income is basic, j Perhaps most of us would recover i from the loss of a single dollar, | five, or eight. The setrious part comes if and when many dollars I are lost on individual farms. For , example, Columbus County has ' somewhere around 5,500 farms. A loss of $50 i.icome <jn each faun would mean about a quarter million less dollars. If the above statement is true then it becomes a rather serious problem. There are two school? of thought among farm management experts. Some say that it is best for farmers to specialize in one particular thing. Others say that it is best for the farmer to have (several sources of income. If one thing goes wrong then there may be some income from another cvop, or from livestock or poultry. Here in this area it is the con sidered cpinion among most folks that the diversified way is the best. Most farmers are really tobacco specialists. However, many tobacco farmers are find ing it profitable to add other things, to grow some hogs, keep some poultry and a few have, found keeping dairy cows pro fitable. Most of these folks con tinue to grow about the usual amount of tobacco. Then another thing that counts is having a good home food supply, a good garden, milk, meat and eggs. ! BETTER FARMING FOR BET jTER LIVING is a program de i signed to encourage farmers in j Southeastern North Carolina to get the best out of farming and I homemaking by following the ! best-known farm and hame man Ugement practices know, by mak jing the best use of the land and 'by making the best use of added | income. It had its origin in 1946 when agricultural leaders of State College, County Extension Work ers and officials of the Tide Water Power Company sat down to gether to plan a farm and home improvement program. Tidewater's interest is in the long time re sults obtained rather than any immediate benefits. Tide Water, like all business concerns in the area, realize that it will prosper to the same extent as farmers prosper. BETTER FARMING FOR BETTER LIVING is really a community project and not a Tide Water Power Co. project. Actually all Tide Water does is prqvide the booklets used by the contestants, furnish a limited amount of prize money and some help from their agricultural agent. BETTER FARMING FOR BET TER LIVING includes the same things that have been recom mended by the Experiment Station, Extension Service, Vaca tional Agricultural teachers, and other agricultural agency work ers for many years. It lays em phasis on growing, preserving and processing a home food supply. Making the best use of time said energy. Fixing up the place to make it attractive a*>d convenient for the farmer, his wife and chil dren in one big part. The booklet mentioned is divid ed into six sections so the family ; can check themselves to see what progress is being made. Section one has to do with their taking part in Community Activities, farm organizations, school, church, 4-H, papers, and magazines read, etc. Section two concerns "Feed ing Our Family". This section deals with the garden, cows kept, chickens, meat animals, food can ned, frozen, or dried. Section three?"General Appearances and Efficiency of our Farmstead and Homemaking Practices" provides a place to check up on the yard, state of repair of the house both inside and out, wetter supply, laundry, refrigeration, heat, light ing, storage, arrangement, cloth ing made or repaired, state of re pair of farm buildings, cleanliness and neatness of surroundings, etc. Four hundred of the fifteen hun dred points comprise this section. The nest section has to do with the Care of the Land. It en courages the making o/ a com plete farm plan. This year a special part on corn production .has been included with this sec tion. Section five has to do with "Qur Farm Business". It deals with the planning part, use of 'labor, number qf sources of in come, etc. The final part has to 'do with the total production of ' crops, livestock, and liv?stock and poultry products. Acceptance of a thing is a pretty good test as to whether it is any good or not. In 1947 there was 350 families in the 13 county-area who took part. In 1948, 430 todk part. This year 780 families are participating. Columbus county is the top coun ty this year In numbers of folks j taking part. 163 families are en- j rolled. Sponsorship in the county i is under the supervision of a I county BETTER LIVING FOR j BETTER FARMING council who has the backing of the White ville, Tabor City, and Chadbourn Merchants associations. Mr. Rufus Marks is Chairman of the Council, Mr. C. R. Yoder is Vice-Chairman, and Miss Gayle Wells, Assistant Demonstration Agent, serves as secretary. Others on the council are; Larry Ashby, W. J. Boger, Ivey C. Brown, Mrs. H. H. Bul lock, N. B. Chestnutt, Willard G. Cole, L. Paul Cook, Kenneth Dor ward, Bill Hooks, Dr. J. R. HQ ward, Sam Jackson, Dave Neil son, Charles Raper, Nan Ratliff, Henry B. Wyche, J. J. Barnhardt, E. S. Lloyd, B. J. Brady, R. L. Jones, Jr., J. P. Huggins, F. L. Grass, and P. G. Caddock. This fall over $500.00 in prizes will be awarded to the families showing the greatest improve ments. Incidentally awards are made on improvements made con sidering the opportunities afford ed rather than on who has the most or best. Awards probably will be made at a barbecue sup per as was the case last year when Mr. and Mrs. Ernest D. Hayes were selected for the high est honors. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence P. Benton were top winners in 1947. County winners will take part in the regional sweepstakes competition for recognition in the entire thirteen county area. At pre-' sent the county council is making visits to the 163 families enrolled for the purpose of encouraging and helping -those who are taking part. The motives behind BETTER FARMING FOR BETTER LIV ING may be somewhat seltish. However, it is a form of enlight ed selfishness for which no apolo Igles need be made. It all adds up , to this Better Farming means. better incomes which means Bet-1 I ter Living. Better Living means I Better World. There is everything! I turn can help in the building of a1 ; Better Wold. There is everything j to gain and nothing to lose. | There's A Difference' When Mrs. Taylor emerged from her house and started down the street, she seemed to bo in a great hurry. "Going shopping ?" her next door neighbor called out. "Oh no," she called back over her shoulder, "I haven't the time. I'm just going to get some thing I need." ?Christian Science Monitor. Clipping Lowers Bacteria Count Clipping of cow's udders and hindquarteds has been shown to lower the bacteria count in milk, according to a recent report on experiments at the University of Wisconsin. The value of clipping was test ed in connection with both hand and machine milking. The aver age decrease in numbers of bac teria In milk from clipped as compared to undipped, was about 30 per cent. In machine milking test* there was small difference in the bac teria count after clipping, the experiment showed. Great care was taken to pre vent outside contamination of the milk during the experiment and the most modern methods of quality production were used. To do a good job of clipping, say the researchers, run a line from the pinbone near the bas? the tail diagonally down to tk^ milk well, then clip all hair low that line, except the switch. Two clippings are generally quired in winter, one in Deceit ber and another in February, tli report stated. Early detention of cancer is tl best chance of cure. Frequef medical examinations are the safeguard against cancer. NEARLY A Half Century Of SER VICE "Yes. I enioy Trading At McNElLLS ... Been Doing it For Years.", . J . A, McNeill & Sons "DRUGGISTS SINCE 1900" During the Past 49 Years We Have Carefully and Accurately Compounded Over 300,000 Prescripti ions WELCOME FARMERS and TOBACCONISTS! TRY OUR FOUNTAIN LUNCHES i TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS WHITEVILLE DRUGS,.. COSMETICS... TOILETRIES... MAGAZINES, Etc. 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