Friday, February 9, 1940 THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Quality—Not Quantity for Profitable Poultry Farmers Going: In(o C’hicken and Err lUisinesH Should Start «»n Small Scale Interesting Facts Taken From Annual Report of S. P. Library At timoa during the year North ■Carolina expctienros a siirp’ais of •poultry and eggs, yet there is gen erally a ileficienry of high quality poultry products most of the year. W'c need fewer poorly fed, mixed. Torccd or purebred chickens that are light in weight, poorly feathered, scaly-legged and with bumble feel; and need more purebred poultry that is well fed, soft nieated, heavy, uni formly colored, and of high market ■value. We need fewer mixed.colored and of high quality oggs^ fewer dirty, low qualtiy mixed size eggs, and more of high quality, strictly fresh graded eggs. 'There are some light weight, poor quality chickens going- T>n the market that should be de stroyed rather than sold for food. There are as many cull eggs reaching the market that should be used at home instead of being sold. It is easier to prevent a large percent of the eggs from getting dirty than it la to clean them, but if a few are dirty they should be cleaned before they are marketed. Which market aie you producing •poultry and eggs for? One is bur. dened with low quality products; the other usually has a sm.ill ."iupply but ■a strong demand. Why not join the few that are furnishing renl high •quality poultry and fresh clean gra ced eggs? You’ll have less market ing competition. Shift to Poultry Farming Gradually Prices and restricted cotton and tobacco acreage in North Carolina will no doubt cau.se many farmers to turn to poultry raising in an endea. vor to increase their farm income in 1940. Such shifts should be gradual as there i.r the year ending December 1939. The library was founded in .Janu ary 1922, and is governed by a board of Trustees. The present librarian was appointed in September, 1938. According to the 1930 census fig ures, the library serve."< 2,524 peo. pie, but this is only in theory, for the library is not public and must seek its support from its members. On December 31, 1939, the library had 330 members. 42 of these were chil. dren. The library was open 304 days dur ing 1939, with holidays on th" 4 th of July, Labor Day. New Year’s Hay, three days at Easter_ and three duy.'i at Christmas, The library wns open 39 1-2 hours per week: 9-12, 1-5 from Monday thrwugh Fiiday, 9.12 on Sat urday, and fn^n 7:30 to 0 p. in. on Wednesdays. * As to cirrulation 7,991 volumes were lent for home use during the year; 942 (12 per cent) of these were adult nonfiction, 5,132 (04 per cent) woi*e adult fiction, and 1,917 (24 per cent) were juveniles. 7,139 adults and 3,363 juveniles used the library last year, making a total attendance of 10.492, At the beginning of the year the Southern Pines Libiary had a book stock of 11,451 books. 362 books were added to this stock during 1939, b\it approximately 900 books were given away, usually to the West Southern Pines school or to the Sanatorium, leaving a total book stock on December ,31, 19.'?9 of 10, 913. Total receipts diiring the year amounted to $1,640.45 Total expendi tures amounted to SI,359,41. leaving a balance on hand at the cid of the year of S281.04. We have seen already, by thl.s re port, what the new buikling will do toward piomoting the library, even though we had been in it only foul’ months when the report was roni- piled. Atendance was 4,665 more in 1939 than in 19.'^8, while circulation Rare Old Prints Will Be Shown at Pine Needles Commissioners Receive $10,000 Check from ABCi Struthers Burt Talks Here on ‘Powder River’ Local Author (Jives InterestinR Discussion on Hi^ Latest Hook at Civic Club At a meeting of the Soutliern Pines Civic Club last Friday. Mi', j Struthers Burt presented an inter esting description of the "Powtler | liiver” country of Wyoming, which | is the setting of his recent book of' the same name. j "Powder River—Let ’cr Buclc' | which is the complete title of the j book, was an expression formerly | used by Wyoming cow.men, and la. I ter on fields of Fninre. where it be-! came the favorite expression of the' A. K. F. i Mr, Burt stated that his eontri- : I buUon was one of seven books which have been written on the rivers of the country. The series when com pleted will number 24. E-ich book is to be biography of a certain river which has played an important role in the country’s history. Among the river series puVItshfU so far are the James the Hudsun, the Swanee, the Powder, the UppiT Missiasippi, and the Sacramento. Hr mentioiiod the Cape Fear river as a likely subject for a later book. lilu.strating his talk with maps of Wyoming and bordering states. Mr. Burt showed vividly the difficulties encountered by our frontier troops in subduing the well.organizcd In. dian tribes thereabouts. In addition to the talk, Mr. Burt read passajfes from the book, there by proving to his audience th.it his tory can be factual and .at the same time vitally interesting. u »« • • :: Pines stores. The Moore county Alcoholic Bev erages Control Board records show Collection Krom (Jalloway (Jal-! County Has Received po.OOO^ Icries in New York to He So Far This Fiscal Year, | operation of the stores a total of On Display i Which Ends March .‘{1 ! S120,000 lias been turned over to the - I — - j (ounty board of conimi.s.sioners. Of Mi.ss Caliierlne Pierson has ar-, The Mioore County ABC Board turn, j amount $40,000 was received by iimged for an exhibition and tea to led over to Wilbur H. Cunie, chair-i the county in 1937-lf*'i'j; $.">0,000 in tie held at Ih' Pine Xeiclles C’lub on' Board of Con.missioners| 193S-1939. and .so far this year $30,- Siiturday, Febru.".ry 10 from 4:00 to!"*^ Moore county Monday a check for | 000 has been pre.sented t>j the coni- ‘ . i !? 10,000 profits accruing from liquor I mi.ssiimers. The Moore County ABC •j.oo, at uliK'h time rare old piints • . ' . i mo,., i, , .sale.s in the Pinehurst and Southern fi.scal year ends March 31. Iroin the galleries of H.Trry Callo. - way of New York wui be on display. * Mr. Callr)way. who is an indiviilual j collector, numbers among his collec-; tion a wi Preparatory and other courses for older girls apply to >Irs. C'oliurn Bruee. St. Hilda’s or to Mrs. Haves The Week in Carthage Millie ( liib MiH'ts Mrs. J. K. Iloberts entei^ained the Cnrthnge Music Club at her home on Friday afternoon. The living room was attractive with evergrceiis and led beiries. The president, H. Lee Thoma.s. presided over a bu.siness meeting and a program, on which Mis. J. McPhaill, Mr.s. Charles Cox, and Mrs R. L. Tyson had parts wa.’s given. The entire club ,<5ang a cho. 1 us. The ho.stess .sei'ved a salad plate and s'vveet cour.se with coffee. Invi ted guests were: Mi’S. Charles Me. Donald, Mrs, Joe Allan and Mrs. Charles Barringer. Bridge Club Entertainesing- ing Dynaflash power plant and swing out in gentle coil-spring comfort to take in the fresh spring landscape. Maybe, like others we know of, you’ve even got tiie model picked out, and are just “waiting a few weeks” to do some- tliing definite about it. Hut may we emphasize, in purely friendly interest, that a lot of other people probably have the same idea. And that when they start buying in droves—as they do every year about the ides of March—even liuick’s big factory has trouble keeping up with them. Of course, we’re doing all we can to be ready for everyone. But you can get only so many cars in a warehouse. And a full warehouse can empty aw fully fast. And what with everybody wanting Buicks this season, wc can’t say how long we can promise the delivery we can give now. So why not play the early bird this year? Why not get the jump on your neighbor and be drii'ing your Buick while he’s still talking about getting his? ^’ou’ve nothing to lose, a lot of fun to gain — and you'll find ihe address of >our Buick dealer in the phone book. lie/p r—mnte — r