PACE TWO
Western Carolina Farmer
Makes Good With FSA Loan
I shore do thank God and the
Government for this chance that
ha,s been given me,' said Dan
Cochran, Haywood county farmer
as he showed a reported over Ins
new Piegon River farm, purchased
with the proceeds of a tenant
purchase loan from the Farm Se
curity Administration.
Three years ago Cochran bor
rowed money from the Farm Se
curity Administration, under its
rural rehabilitation program, to
buy work stock, cows, and other
things needed to work a share
crop. He repaid his loans and
succeeded so well under the re
habilitation program, the Farm Se
curity Administration upon advice
of the Haywood County Tenant
1'urchase Committee, decided he
wis worthy aiid able to take a
further step up the ladder that
of farm ownership.
"Three' years ago my taxes were
only $2.65; my taxes this fall will
be $47.48," Cochran s-aid. You see,
when I started with the Farm Se
curity Administration II wasn't
worth anything much.'!
Records in the County FSA of
fice show he was worth $229 in
the spring of 1930. When he made
his application, a year ago, to buy
a farm, his net worth, clear of all
debt had increased to $80H.5().
But it took more than Farm Se
1 curity credit. "Dan Cochran is a
hard worker and a keen trader,"
says Wilfred Jackson, FSA Coun
ty Supervisor, "and his wife and
children are good workers too."
First, Cochran worked as a farm
laborer. During the winter he cut
pulp wood and saved enough to
buy a $65 mule. The FSA lent
him money to buy another. Then
he sold the mules and bought two
Drop In Farm Loans Taken
For Good Sign By Officials
A decline in the volume of fed
eral loans for financing farm pur
chases was interpreted by farm
credit administration .spokesmen as
a healthy indication.
Such a decline, they said indi
cated that funds of individuals and
private financial institutions once
more were turning to agricultural
lands for sound investment.
The FCA reported a decline of
14 per; cent in the number of farm
purchases financed and 10 per cent
in total -funds used for the first
. half of this year, compared with
the same period in 1938.
It financed purchase of 8,697
farms in the first six months of
1939 compared with 10,056 in the
first half of 1938.
The FCA agencies require a
down payment of at least one
fourth of the appraised value of a
farm, Federal land banks can loan
one-half the value and the land
bank commissionei1 an additional
one-fourth.
Spokesman said there was "no
overlapping" between its operations
and those of the federal farm ten
ancy program under which a ten
ant, approved by a committee of
farmers, is loaned the full value of
the farm. These tenant-purchasers
are unable to qualify for the FCA
loans, it was explained.
FCA officials said the bulk of
funds for farm purchases normally
comes from individuals who regard
farm mortgages as a sound invest
ment. Insurance companies and
similar institutions ' also are heavy
investors in farm mortgages.
More than 71,000 farm purchasers
have been financed through the
FCA in four years under the farm
credit act of 1935. Of . these, 69
per cent were farms that had been
acquired by the federal agencies
under previous mortgages, , chiefly
through foreclosures.
The bulk of this mortgage re
financing and farm purchase loans
is handled through a system of 12
regional land banks.
Egg Label Law
To Be Enforced
RALEIGH, Sept, 13. Enforce
ment of North Carolina's new egg
law requiring cold storage eggs to
be labeled and advertised on men
us when sold will be placed in ef
fect immediately, Randal B. lith
eridge, chief of the state depart
ment of agriculture's markets divi
sion, announced today.
. C. W. Sheffield, senior market
ing specialist and R. B. Kelly,
poultry marketing specialist, both
of the markets division, will have
charge of the enforcement activ
ities. The law, entitled an act to regu
late the sale and distribution of
eggs, states that:
1. Any person, firm or corpora
tion offering cold storage eggs for
sale "shall cause crates containing
eggs or any other type of contain
er to be stamped or printed with
the words 'cold storage eggs'."
2. Any hotel, restaurant, inn or
other establishment serving cold
storage eggs to the public shall
cause to be written on their menu,
or printed on a card, "cold storage
eggs."
3. Final determination as to
whether eggs are "cold storage"
shall be determined by the candling
method.
r brood mares. Since then he has
made enough raising- and selling
colts' to maki' his payments' each
year to the Farm Security Ad
ministration. "1 worked the mule
I paid sixty-five dollars ' for four
years and then ,sold him for
seventy-five," Cochran said.
He has worked as a sharecrop
per for the past seven years on
the Connie Wilson farm in the
Dutch Cove' section. His new 50
acre river, bottom farm is in the
Bethel Section. He took posses
sion of the new place last May
and is now '.making arrangements
to remodel the house and repair
barns and outbuildings. He will
move to the new- farm later this
fall. A new kitchen and dining
room and screcned-in porch will
be added tp the house and Coch
ran is hauling, rock to build a
rock cellar and milk house in the
hillside near the kitchen door.
Water will be pumped into the
house from the well and electric
lights will be connected from the
new rural electrification line re
cently set up in that section. His
children will go to school at Beth
el 1 l.igh School. When the Coch
rans move to their new place they
will take with them two good
mares and a eolt, a 2-horse wagon,
plows and farming implements, 2
good milk cows, 9 head of beef
cattle, several shoats, fifty chick
ens and several hundred cans of
fruits and vegetables.
With the assistance of the Coun
ty Supervisor and the County
Agent Cochran already has laid
off his hillside in convenient fields
for strip-cropping and his plans
call for a new pasture fence to
separate his cattle from his row
crops. '...'.
4. Wholesalers must furnish in
voices or sale, receipts to pur
chasers of cold storage eggs, and
must hold such invoices on file
for 60 days subject to inspection.
5. Any person wilfully or inten
tionally violating the provisions of
the law "shall be guilty of a mis
demeanor and shall be fined or im
prisoned within the discretion of
the court."
A "cold storage egg" was defin
ed in the law as having been in
storage "30 days or more, either
within or without the state."
Copies of the law (House Bill
No. 630) can be obtained from the
Markets Division, Is. C. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Raleigh.
Iotla
By MRS. D. M. ROWLAND
Mrs.' Ida Anderson Rowland died
at the home of her father-in-law,
W. R. Rowland, Saturday, Sept.
9, at 1:15 a. in. She had been in
ill health for more than a year,
but her condition became serious
a month ago. She was a member
of the Iotla Baptist church. She
leaves to mourn her departure her
husband, Jesse Rowland; one son
O'Neill Rowland; her father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Mike An
derson; one sister, Mrs. John
Rowe, of Mars Hill; four broth
ers, Harley, Lylc, V'erlin and Ves
ter Anderson, all of Franklin, and
a host of other relatives and
friends. The funeral services were
conducted in the home, Sunday at
1 o'clock p. m., by Rev. R. F.
Mayberry', her pastor. Interment
was in the family cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Delia rt an
nounce the arrival of a ten-pound
girl, Maggie Sue, on September 7.
Miss Lura Mae Fouts, who is
employed in Ashcvillc, is spending
a week's vacation with her moth
er, Mrs. C. H. Fouts. . ' " '
Carl Plemmons, of Asheville,
spent the week-end with Nyle
Roper.
Mr. and Mrs. John Rowe and
children came over from Mars Hill
Saturday to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Rowe's sister on Sunday.-
We are glad to sec Mrs. Robert
Welch out again after being ill
for a few days.
Clark Burrcll, from - the CCC
Camp at Aquonc, spent the week
end with his father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. Hcrschell Burrcll.
Gwendolyn Morgan To
Graduate At Brevard
It is announced by the authorities
of Brevard college that Miss Gwen
dolyn Morgan, of Franklin,' will be
among the graduates of the sum
mer session who will receive their
diplomas on September 15. There
are 10 graduates besides Miss Mor
gan. SMALLEST
At the beginning of this year,
the number of horses on farm was
the smallest in 00 years and the
number of mules was estimated to
be the smallest in 30 years.
TO START HERD
V. G. Taylor and W. O. Abbitt,
Martin county farmers, will seed
several hundred' acres of land to
permanent pasture this fall and buy
foundation stock for beef cattle
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THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND
Farm
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Dan Cochran, Haywood County farmer, shown top right with his team, lived seven years'as a .share
cropper in .the Dutch Cove section in the little house shown in the inset at the left. He recently bought
a good farm of his own over, on Pigeon River. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran and their five sons and daughters
will move into their new home, shown in the larger picture, as soon as a new dining room and kitchen
and screened-in back porch are added at the back and a new coat of paint is applied. He bought his farm
with a Tenant-Purchase loan from the Farm Security Administration. The loan also included money for
improvements. - t -
Monument Unveiled to Founders of Liberty
Gov. William Vanderbilt of Rhode Island, right, nn veils a monument presented to the city of Newport by
the Jewish congregation of the city which was first established in 1658 when 15 Jewish families arrived at
Newport from the West Indies. Rabbi Morris Gutstein, right, participated In the exercises, which were part
of tha colorful Newport tercentenary celebration.
President Has
For Preserving Neutrality
Andrue Berding, of the Asso
ciated Press, in an article recently
released, demonstrates that the
President has a 'broad range of
powers which he may exercise at
any time to preserve American
neutrality.
Some are remnants of the World
war, some were put on the United
States statute books before the
World war. As a whole they give
the president about as much pow
er as does the neutrality act. All
are designed to keep Americans
from helping one side or the other
in a conflict.
By virtue of a law of 1917 the
president, in a war in which the
United . States is a neutral, may
detain any armed vessel, American
or foreign in an American port
until it is proven to him that the
vessel will not be employed against
any nation with which, the United
States is at peace and that it will
not be sold to a belligerent nation.
The president may order the
ship searched, may even order its
crew off tli e boat if his suspicions
are aroused. ,
He may require the owner of a
vessel - to give an oath before de
parture of his vessel from an
American port that his cargo will
not be transhipped, or, if it is to
be transhipped, to make a full
statement as to whom, where, etc.
He may prevent the departure
of a ship when he lias reason to
believe it will carry fuel, arms,
ammunition, men, supplies, dis
patches or information to any war-,
ship of a belligerent. This, how
ever, is also covered by the neu
trality act of 1937.
The president also .enforces a
wide variety of provisions of the
United States penal code of 1909
relating to the maintenance of
neutrality. The 'code covers many
activities of Americans that1 might
prejudice American neutrality. It
forbids:
Accepting and exercising a com
mission to serve a belligerent by
land or sea;
Enlisting in the service of a bel
ligerent a a soldier, marine or
seaman on board any warship;
Enlisting' another person in such
service;
Hiring another person to leave
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the United States with the inten
lion of enlisting;
Fitting out or arming and com
missioning any ship to be employ
ed in the service of a belligerent;
Increasing the guns of a 'belliger
ent warship or increasing their
calibre;
Setting on foot or providing or
preparing the means for any mill
t-ary expedition.
Here are other provisions the
president will enforce:
A warship must leave 'within 24
hours after its entrance into an
American port except in case of
bad weather or of requiring pro
visions for its' crew or of needing
repairs. But it must leave as soon
as possible after 24 hours without
taking on supplies beyond what
may be necessary for her immedi
ate use. The same warship may
not again fuel in an American port
until after three months have
passed.
If there are several vessels of
belligerents in an American port,
they must leave alternately, first
a ' vessel of one side, then a vessel
of the other.
No person within the territory
or jurisdiction of the United States
may take part, directly or indirect
ly, in the war.
The president also can proclaim
that American ships may not carry
arms or soldiers to belligerents or
attempt to break any blockade
which may be lawfully established
and maintained.
He may also proclaim that Amer
icans who claim protection of this
government and misconduct them
selves toward a belligerent will do
so at their own peril.
SILAGE VALUABLE
Anson county dairy farmers who
have been feeding silage consider
it one of the most economical and
valuable feeds for winter months,
says Farm Agent J. W. Cameron.
GREATER
Tenants, including sharecroppers,
operated 42 per cent of all farms
in the United States in 19.15, as
compared with only 25 per cent in
1880, according to a recent AAA
report,
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By MISS HAZEL BRADLEY
The members of the Asbury Ep
worth League enjoyed a well at
tended social Saturday evening at
7:30 with Miss Bernice Cabe act
ing as hoste&s.
Mrs. Julius Curtis visited her
daughter, Mrs. , Ed Keener, in
Clayton the past week-end.
Mrs. George Elliott, of Franklin,
visited at the home of her brother
(luring the past week-end.
Wilson Curtis went Sunday to
Hiawassec, Ga., where he plans to
spend some time.
Ira Cabe, of Barrett, West Vir
ginia, is visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Cabe, for two
weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Conley, of
Salem, N. J., and Lawrence Con
ley, of Bridgeton, N. J., recently
visited their parent, Mr. and Mrs.
K. B. Conley.
About 400 descendants of the
late Jimmie Bradley and other
Bradley families enjoyed a day at
the home of Lawrence Bingham.
Abundant picnic lunch was added
to by a delicious barbecue of pig,
Clippings
"THE MOST ALARMING
SYMPTOM
(From The SUU, Columbia, S. C.)
Ernest Kr'L'indley, one of the
most sagacious and withal best in
formed of the Washington politic
al writers, says after a study of
all the various indexes to public
opinion, that "the most alarming
symptom in the United States is
the fatalistic notion that we can
not stay out of war in Europe."
This notion, as all the several pop
ular polls have indicated, has
grown steadily duriiig the last
year. We need consciously to cul
tivate the will to peace. If this
defeatist feeling of the inevitability
of our participation is allowed to
grow, more or less by default, the
likelihood of our being sucked into
an overseas, war will be propor
tionately increased.
SHOW INTEREST
Cabarrus county farmers are
showing interest in seeding rye
grass and crimson clover over the
top of temporary lespedeza pas
tures, reports R. D. Goodman, farm
agent of the State College Exten
sion Service,
THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 193S
Specialist Offers Hint
To Meet Rising Prices
Sharply rising food prices as a
result of the European War has
brought a suggestion from Mrs.
Cornelia C. Morris, extension eco
nomist in food conservation and
marketing at State college, to can
unprofitable heris..
When a hen's production of eggs
declines, she may be just right
for canning. Repeated tests have
shown that the best chickens to
put in jars or cans are , plump
hens two year,s old or a little
older. Thousands of these "board
er" birds will be culled from North
Carolina flocks this fall.
The canning of chicken should
be in line with other treasures of
the farm family to get as much
food and . feed on hand ' as pos
sible, both for the winter and for
protection against rising prices."
In canning chicken, Mrs. Morris
says it is most important that a
steam pressure canner be used.
Only with one of these is it pos
sible to maintain a temperature
that is above boiling inside a can
or jar. This heat is necessary to
kill the bacteria that may cause
'angerous food poisoning.
The canning expert warned that
it is not safe to can poultry or, any
meat in water baths, .steam can
ners without pressure, or in., the
even, because in none of these des
the temperature ever get above
boiling. '
Containers for canning chicken
may be either glass or plain 'tin.
Pint jars and No. 2 or No. 2li
plain tin cans are generally con
sidered the best sizes. Larger con
tainers are not recommended be
cause they need extremely heavy
processing,
For the most part, Mrs. Morris
explains, it is best to put up the
chicken by itself and then combine
it later in the same ways as
freshly stewed chicken. Complete
directions for canning poultry may
be obtained free by writing to the
Home Demonstration Department
at State college.
SOYBEANS INOCULATION
Where soybeans were inoculated
before planting on the farm of J.
A. Breedlove, demonstration farmer,
of Swain county, the growth is al
most twice as much as where beans
not inoculated were planted.
SCHOOL BELL
IS RINGING!
You heard it Ut year. Did
you do anything about it?
Don't find ' yourself . in the
same fix year from now!
Let us ekow you how you
can go to, achiool in the quiet
of jnour borne, without los
inf time or pay from your
present work. Home study.
Business, and technical sub
jects. International Correspondence
' Sdhools
Ray Anderson, Rep.
Franklin, N. C.
Science Scbvei
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plaaalaf tkat piefaced tac
cereaway.
UR eeJm aterlaary practices
hare made II muck easier
fer the llvlne le say geed-Lye to
tketo leVed ants.
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