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Friday, August 29, 1941. WHICH IS WISER? TO BUY OR RAISE THE PILOT. Southern Pines. North Carolina Page Pinehurst Silk Mills Is Large Hemp Manufactory Good Work Stock Can Be Raised Cheaply if Fed Well and Cared For Properly Which is the wiser—for North Carolina farmers to raise their own work stock or to pay about $3,500,000 each year to have new work stock shipped in from other states? According to agricultural authori ties, about 22,000 horses and mules have to be replaced on North Caro lina farms annually , and until re cently most of these had been pur chased from outside the State. In Moore County, as well as other parts of the State farmers have shown a renewed interest in trying to raise their own work stock replace ments. As a result, more and more colts are born each spring, and theso colts grow into useful work animals, if they receive proper feed and man agement during tlie first three years, Kaise t’olts for Working Most farmers are not in the horse or mule breeding business but rais? one or two colts a year to take plac ? of older animals. Occasionally,, nf course, they do realize a good price Irom the sale of one of their colls. Certainly, whether they sell the colt or not, they realize from $300 to $600 saving by not having to p;fy cash for a team. The cost of raising a colt is a non-cash cost, because only a small amount of additional feed is requir ed, with practically no rash outlay. In many cases, the few additional acres of feed crops and pasture required is a way of putting to use land v.hic'a is now idle. Colt I'sON Mother’s Milk Until atxnit six months old, a colt should consume mostly his mother’s milk, using relatively small amount of grain and hay. Care should be tak en that the colt receives his mother’s first milk, immediately after birth. Livestock authorities advise giving the colt an ounce of castor oil, in case he misses this first milk. To prevent infection and disease, the naval cord of the colt should be saturated with iodine immediately af ter birth and once each day until it dries up. It is also well to wash th»; udder of the mare with a luke-warm solution of two percent coal-tar dis infectant and then rinse off with warm water, before allowing the foal its first meal. Mares with first colt or those who have worked too hard often fail to supply enough milk, and they should be given feeds that will stimulate the flow of milk. Good pasture grass, along with oats, corn and wheat bran, are good for this purpose. Colt Ki'gins To F^t The sooner a colt begins to eat tha better. When only three weeks old, he will probably begin nibbling at his mother’s feed and acqurie a taste for hay and grain. A good mixture for the foal is obtained by mixing equal parts of oats, wheat bran and cracked corn. Give the colt a special feeding box and gradually increase the amount. The young animals also should get good clover alfalfa or other legume hay. Be sure that fresh clean water is available. Care of the Mare development of the young animal. After foaling, the mare should be If these simple care and feeding allowed about a 10-day rest, usually suggestions are followed as closely along Vith her colt in a good pasture, i as practical, a farmer should have no After putting her back to work, she trouble raising good work ^tock, at should be in a cool, darkened stall.,a minimum of cost to his cash pile. !>■ ‘ MEAT VALUABLE FOR VITAMIN B-1 Agent Describes (Continued from page one) the upper end of the County some- I Recently, a second has just Energy, Growth and Appetite ® third is beine Come from Good Supply of Thiamine in Body By MI.SS FU)K.\ M<IK)N.\IJ) Home Demonstration Agent One of our greatest North Carolina worked on now. Thfs has made Inr better living conditions and mere conveniences. With all this has eom» the production of chackens on a large scale, particularly broileis. Tli» income from all this is showuig iiow they have had amazing results. Vitamin B-1—or llwianine,—goes to work for a person in numerous ways. You can praise it for your healthy appetite, normal growth, vi tality and general good health. The logical place to get this vit amin is in your food. It is not stored ill the l)ody, to any extent, and the .“upply must be added to daily. Best means to that end is to have meat daily, twice if possible. Moat is one of the be.st sources of thiamine. , physicians said, "Our whole nation j faim and home improvements, is lacking in Vitamin B-1." This vit-1 the wheat yit 1.1 ur amin is being fed to millions of soi-j^*'® County was low. The addition «if I diers, especially in England where p^^'^ry, live.stoek, and better Jarrn- ing conditions has generally incieas ed the yields of all crops. It is net uncommon now to find fanners inah- ing an average of 20 to 2,'i bushels of wheat per acre. The same thing in becoming general in the Sanilhllls with the addition of cover crops and a better program of fertilizing. Corn and oat crops are on about the same increase. Cattle are on the increase in num ber and quality. We are hoping as'joi.p, as we can get a little better sJart A generous serving of pork chops—' milk route underway. 1 hia I .‘;uch as Li’l Abner might have for that with some more equipment example, will keep you in Vitamin pa;<ture and some of ,the b«'.st i B-1 for a whole day. You'll also find breeding stock to be found in thr n:i- I it in your breakfast bacon, your tion, located at Pinehurst, we should I lunchtime liver pudding, ham, roast *-o go places with cattlc. I of pork, steak and stew beef. Re-^ All this jirt goes to show" what I member, though, that vitamins in fan come of one movement started Largest industry in Hemp is the plant of the I’inehurst Silk Mills, which employed about 900 hands, price tag—they aro in the right direction by a gtouji vi mostly from upper Moore County. Although established in 1924, the plant was not operated by the Pinehurst plentiful in cheap cuts as in determined farmers. .Silk Mills until l!t:U, when it started with about SO or !'0 employes. It now operates around 4X0 looms, under most expensive ones. , VV. B Saunders, vice-president and general manager of the mill. Mr. Saunders is also mayor of the town of Pork Is Best Source Hcnip AdVUnCCS ' Hemp. Kecent expansion of the mill is shown in the picture above, with some of the mill homes, owned by the Re.seah h shows that pork is the workers, in the background. Foreground shows the mill lake. Because most of the work at the mill is weaving ^est source of this nnuh-needed vit-1 (Conlhtucd from page one) fabric from rayon, the rerent order reducing silk manufacture does not aftect this plant. The Pinehurst Silk amin, and that all meats provide shape. Being on a through highwa>f Mill also operates the Mid-State Cloth Mill at Red Springs. quantities of it. In addition to tiiia- Norfolk Southern railway ! " —' nieat contributed vitamin B-2, a brick railroad station, >lcmp tenants.” i proteins and minerals (copper, iron lack transportation faciti- No analysis of what became of the and phosphorous.! ties, so important for marketing cf “lost” Negro tenants was made, but Vitam.n requirements are just as ^^rm goods and receiving of goods it was indicated that a few may have necessary in summer as in winter, j the rest of the nation. —; _ _ . , * sought to farm lands in the western When you say, "It's too hot to eat” Hemp has moved along with the Kcport Gives lotal oj’ 518 hite | throughout North Carolina. ^ part of the State, while others lost ^—it's not the heat, it's lack of meat since that post office was c»- lenants and 1—5 Negro I Jn 1940, Moore County listed a to-1 status as tenants and became day la- —vitamin B-1. tablished in 1900. 'lenants in County ! tal of 518 white tenants, including borens. ' i„,.. income liiKiP-et« imi- .. por low income ouclgets get low- WHAT Nl’TRITIDN MKANS in-price, higl'-in-value meat cuts such Moore White Tenants Increase, But Decline Shown For Negroes White farm tenants in Moore croppers, and only 125 Negro ten ants, the report stated. There has also County increased 23.9 percent during j ^een an increase of 32.4 percent in the last decade while Negro farm ten- croppers and a 53.8 percent de ants decreased 46.6 percent, accord ing to a report of The University of North Carolina News Letter. The increase for Moore in white tenants compares with only 1.2 in crease for the State as a whole and in Negro tenants with a 26.5 decrease It is best to turn both mare and colt on pasture each night. Weaning of the colt should start when it is about si.\ months old. If he has l)een encouraged to eat more and more grain, the weaning process should not be hard. At weaning, the grain ration of the mare should be reduced until she dries off. It should be remembered that the colt makes more than half its growth during the first year and, if stunted, may never fully recover. Feed rich in nutrients are essential to gooj bone and muscle and nothing is su perior to good pasture along with oats as a grain. Also, wheat bran, linseed I oil and cottonseed meal are rich in nitrogen and phosphorous, important I for its growlh. Alfalfa,, clover or soybean, are rich in protein and cal cium, the principal mineral com pound of the bone. The.se hayes, it' handled properly, are also rich in vitamin A and D, essential to growth 'Nutrition means the freeing of North Caiolina probably has more 1 a.s._neck. plate, bri.sket and short perhaps one-third of our people fiom water powered grist mills in opera- ribs of beef; calf's tongue, brain and jUj, directly or indirectly due to feed lion than any other state. Mills are heart; pork liver, kidneys and heart:' conditions. It could mean, aKso. the crease in Negro croppers in the Coun-1 especially numerous in the Blue lamjb liver, bologna, frankfurters, building of higher health and effi- ty. Croppers are included in the to- mountains and the Smokies, sausage, spareribs, ham hocks, ham | ciency in the people who are alieady tal tenant figures, but mean a ten-, Qj,p reason may be that old fashion- shank.s and such cuts as these. . well and efficient.” Dr Henry (i ant w'ho does not own his work- ^ pj southern corn bread, according to Sherman, professor of nutriticn. at ®tock. experts, can only be rightly made witn The 1940 Census found only 67 1 National Nutrition These tenancy figures may be com- j -water ground meal ” mules in New Hampshire. 67 I National Defense. I pared with a recent report of farm ownership in Moore County, in which it was shown that white farm owners increased 28.4 percent and Negro farm owners, 34 percent during the same decade. White Crcjiper Kxceed Negroes North Carolina’s white tenant pop ulation totaled 81,482 in 1940, of whom 33,497 are croppers; and Negro ten ant population was 41,994, of whom 26,803 are croppers. “There are now approximately twice as many white tenants as Ne gro tenants in the State,” the report notes. “Also there are now for the first time more white cropper ten ants than Negro cropper tenants. Numerically, there were almost the same in 1930, but at the present time there are 6,694 more white croppers than Ne|;ro. “The decline of farms operated by Negro tenants during the last decade I is one of the most significant facts ! revealed,” the News Letter states. ■ “This decrease occurred all over the'li: State. Numerically, the losses were 1:: heaviest in cotton and tobacco coun- ' i ties. This is the first time in the his- j ■ tory of the State that the cash-crop | counties have shown a loss of Negro Conference for —i2_. Your :: :: Welcome Governor •« *« and Other Visitors to the 4th Annual Livestock Show We Carrx A' Complete Line of Groceries and Meats Allen Stores liiiiiiiimmMiiiiriTTnmnr - And Your Bank-- What They Mean to You! Your Bank is part of your flag—part of the great American system under which we live. No other country in the world can come up to our standard of living, nor can equal the advantages we enjoy. Visit us while Attending the Liyestock show in Hemp. I Bank of Biscoe Hemp, N. C. Biscoe, N. C. 1||n»|n| |
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