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Farm Cleanup Week Is Suggested Bv Vet A "Farm Cleanup Week" during these early days in April is suggest ed by Dr. C. D. Grinnels, State Col lege veterinarian. "We should set our goal," he said, "at a 20 per cent reduction in livestock losses by cleaning and disinfecting barns and farm lots." The veterinarian says that at least one-fifth of today's annual loss of i baby pigs, calves and other live stock could be saved if every farmer would join in this effort. Old barn yards and dirty livestock quarters harbor millions of germs of livestock diseases?such as cholera, enteritis, erysipelas, and other fatal livestock plagues These germs are passed from one generation of livetock to anoth er until quarters are properly clean ed. Dr Grinnels says that the Ameri can Foundation for Animal Health is sponsoring a nation-wide "Farm Cleanup" campaign. Among the ma- j jor objectives are: Clean and disinfect all buildings used by livestock; fence or fill old mudholes and wallows; burn old straw stacks; board up holes and bur I rows beneath buildings; fence >ff manure piles, which are major sources of parasite infection; scrub feed boxes and poultry roots with hot lye water; eradicate rats, mice, pigeons, and sparrows; disinfect poultry houses and nests. Due to higher hog prices this year. Dr. Grinnels says that wise farmers will use extra care to prevent baby I pig losses at farrowing time, and to have pigs immunized against cholera as early as possible. Raising of pigs on fresh pasture, away from old hog lots, is also a profitable practice. ' The nation is being called upon to increase its livestock production for national defense." the veterinar ian declared, "and farm cleanup week can be a large factor in pre venting costly disease losses if all farmers will cooperate." The number of milk cows on Am erican farms increased by 520.000 head in 1940. with the number of January 1, the largest since 1935. re ports the U. S Department of Agri culture. COLE Planters B?*hI in lli?* World ? Wr Have I'linn in SliH'k KLANTKKS ami DISTRIBUTORS For Corn bkans I'KANITS Hill or Drill FERTILIZERS \ND FEEDS McKay and McWhorter Sowers Farmers Supply Company WILLIAMSTON. N. C. Words Without Meaning THE endless repetition of hackneyed advice takes no root unless rightly impressed. Consider that you must save not merely because it is a good habit ? but because it means safety and financial gain for you. Branch Banking & Trust Co. "THE SAFE EXECUTOR" Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation WILLIAMSTON, N. C. WHEN YOU BUY A LUXURIOUS NSW^C w/vr/Ac roxpiDo Ar Despite the fact that these sensational new ? cars are bigger, roomier, and more power Ad?they still retain gas and oil economy at ?h! last year's record high BODY TYPiS. CHOICE OP SIX OK EI0H7 IN ANY MODill w&f *: i # v- $IwPlSHHHMRHNHMHKPMr' See Your Nearest PONTIAC Dealer (?) Confer on Workers' Registration William S. Knudsen (left), director of production management, and Sidney Hillman (center), associate on the production management board, confer with Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator, in connection with the program to secure registration of workers avail able for defense jobs. The registration primarily is for persons skilled in aviation trades, shipbuilding, machine shop or machine manufac turing work who are not now employed in defense work. B*rtr Stunt) t^oxu - n JXL Step y/rub JJu> (fccudD Six Counties Once llad Represent*-; tion Out of Proportion To Wealth And Population. I The' state legislature has faced the j problem ??f surveying the census re turns for North Carolina; and thaf-j problem always brings a second one 1 of rearranging districts for reappor j tionment of representation. It seems as though the present reapportion ment is without hte struggle and bit terness prevalent during the- eigh teenth century Several eountn s or precincts as they well1 tailed at that time, had representation out of proportion-1<> size, population and wealth. The governor sent over from England in 1734. Gabriel Johnston, used trick ery that added to the feud between' the Albemarle counties and those in the Ncuse Cape Fear region. In 1745 the Counties of Chowan, | Currituck. Perquimans. Tyrrell and Pasquotank had five representatives each, and the county of Bertie had three. These six eounties were "twen ty-eight strong" in voting power. Eleven other counties, in the Neuse Cape Fear section had only twenty - two votes, for each was entitled to i only two representatives in the Gen eral Assembly. In the eigtheenth century towns were permitted to send one man v'ach to the State legislature. Bath, New Bern, Wilmington and Eden ton were the ones sending a member to the General Assembly. Although the first htree of these towns voted with the southern group, the Albe marle counties could dominate leg islation. The eleven counties could not be convinced that it was fair for the other six to out vote them. Governor Johnston was shrewd I sufficiently to understand that his only chance to rule m the king's ab solute way was to get the southern colonies to side-wjth him. To obtain the- support of those eleven eounties, he cooperated in their effort to break the power of the twenty-nine I votes representing the Albemarle region. To give Ins friends a "break," Johnston summoned the assembly to meet in Wilmington. He thought that the distance from the northern coun ties would eliminate enough of their J members to enable the opposing group to have a majority of the vot- j ing strength. The men from Albe marle would not be caught sleeping. Each agreed to take the long, hard, ! dangerous trip to Wilmington Again, in the worst part of winter. Governor Johnston tried the same trick. This time the northern mem hers agreed to stay at home. All re mained at home and there was not a quorum present The Albemarle i men thought they had won again; ! but the assembly swore in seven new I members and declared a quorum ! present. A long period of internal strife re- | suited, for the Albemarle counties 1 Upside-Down Baby Gail Grochowski, two months old, is the youngest victim of the upside- _ down stomach malady on record. She is shown with nurse Florence McRealy in St. Vincent's Hospital, Worcester, Mass., after doctors made her right-side up. Child's parents live in Providence, K. 1. Seed Certification i cations l)nc Formers who wish to have small Krain : rrd certified by the N C. Crop Improvement Association should make application for field in spection by April J5, announces A. j D. Stuart. State College sent" spec - ialist. ?In the case of wheat, oats and bar ley, eertifieation can be had from either certified or registered seed, hut in the case of rye, the seed with which the crop was planted must have been registered-certified seed, ttye is a cross polinated crop and mixes with other rye just as readily as yellow corn mixes with whit'* Corn when planted near each other. Wheat varieties which an- accept ed by the Crop Improvement Asso ciation for certification are Leaps, Carala. Purple Straw. Forward, Red hart and Fulcaster. The last-named variety is a bearded wheat. Barley varieties which will be ac cepted for certification are: Iredell No 23, and Tennessee No. 6, hooded ! varieties, and Davidson 15 and Ran dolph 68. bearded barleys. Varieties of oats eligible for cer tification are: Fulghum, Lee and Lee 5, Norton, Fulgrain (Strains 1, 2 and 3), and Coker 33-47, 32-1 and 33-50. L- The only variety of rve accepted is Abruz/.i, and it must have bet n planted at hast 250 yards distant from any other variety to be ac cepted for certification. Patronage Prevails In Awarding Jobs While 71 per cent of the present federal employees were selected on the basis of fitness, and 650 cities have adopted the merit'system, only a negligible few American counties have availed themselves of this mod ern, effective hiring policy, accord ing to a report of Mrs. Melville Muc klcstono, president of the National Consumers Tax Commission. "Pat ronagc dies hard in counties," she declared. She cited the case of big Cuyahoga County. Ohio, where two thirds of the present 2,500 workers got their jobs through political fa vor "despite the fact that for 28 years Ohio law has required all county employees to be selected on the bas is of tested n\erit.'* did not abide by the laws passed as a result of the governor's "manage ment." 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