Fertilizer Prices Are
"Frozen" By Agency
Price-control action designed to
aid the American farmer in his all
out food production campaign was
taken recently by Price Administra
tor Henderson in the form of a
"freeze" of fertilizer prices?a ma
jor item of cost to farmers?on the
eve of spring planting.
By Temporary Maximum Price
Regulation No. 1, the Price Admin
istrator forbids the retail sale of
mixed fertilizer, superphosphate, and
potash at prices above those at which
any seller of fertilizer at retail did
business during the 5-day period
from February 16-20, inclusive. This
temporary regulation has a life of
60 days from its effective date, but
on or before its expiration will be
supplanted by a permanent regula
In announcing the ceiling, Mr
Henderson disclosed that action to
bring about stable prices for nitrate I
of soda, sulphate of ammonia, and |
cyanamid, other leading fertilizers,
will be taken within the next few
days. Hi is will be done by setting
seasonal ceilings on seller's margins !
in a permanent price regulation.
"Fertilizer prices have advanced |
considerably as compared with a
year ago," Mr. Henderson stated.
"Our farmers are being called upon
to produce as never before the vital
commodities and foodstuffs that will
play so important a part in winning
this war. In making this effort, far
mers have a right to expect that sup
plies of fertilizer shall be placed at
their disposal at uninflated prices.
Higher fertilizer prices at this time
can only serve to hinder our nation
al food-production program."
So-called mixed fertilizers, cover
ed by the new "freeze" are the most
important product of the industry.
The business is highly seasonal. Most
fertilizer is used in the south for
growing cotton, corn, tobacco and
vegetable crops, and is necessary be
cause of soil conditions. Over 70 per
cent of the volume is sold in Febru
ary, March and April in the south,
when^pnn^seeding^ and planting
Interesting Bits Of
Business In the VS.
Apparently conversion is proceed
ing rapidly enough so that total In
dustrial production is still moving
up. despite localized blottings-out of
peacetime manufacturing?for the
Federal Reserve Board tally showed
total industrial production for Feb
ruary at 173. up two points over Jan
uary . . . Department store sales are
moving along at about 25 per cent
above same weeks last year?enough
higher to indicate actual volume of
goods is at least a little above the
year-ago pace, even allowing for
higher prices . The machinery man
ufacturer is moving to ease the farm
labor shortage with a nation-wide
program through its dealer organ
ization for training farm girls and
women to operate and service tract
ors and other farm machinery . . .
Washer and ironer makers asked
WPB to speed their conversion to 100
per cent war production, and within
takes place. In the north, while
greatest activity occurs in the spring
season, there is also a secondary peak
in the fall.
A majority of fertilizer sales are
made from manufacturers through
their agents to farmer users. All pre
vious OPA price ceilings have been
established at the primary or whole
sale source.
At the termination of the 60-day
temporary regulation period, the
main fertilizer sales season will be
over. Permanent price ceilings will
take into account shipping and oth
er factors existing at that time.
However, it was emphasized by Mr.
Henderson that every effort will be
made to hold prices to around cur
rent levels if studies prove that in
dustry profit margins will remain at
tair figures.
The order covers fertilizer sales
down to a minimum of 250 pounds.
OPA will scrutinize all such small
lot sales with extreme care for pos
sible evasions.
Some 750 mixers will be affected
by the fertilizer order. In 1940, the
industry produced 8.310,853 tons.
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HINTS FOR
HOMEMAKERS
By Irene James, Home
Service Director, Virginia Electric I
And Power Company
EGGS
According to the "Nutritional
Yardstick" for daily adequate diet,
we find that one requirement is that
we have an egg a
day or at least 3
or 4 a week. Eggs
are a protein food
but are also high
in mineral and vi
tamin content.
They are rich in
the much needed
Vitamin A which
iS needed to pro
mote growth, help
prevent night
blindness and also
build resistance to
disease. Eggs are
also high in iron
You may not
wish to eat an egg
every morning for breakfast in or
der to get the requirement, but there
are many other ways in which eggs
can be included in the diet. They are
used in custards/sauces, souffles, ice
cream, cakes and may be combined
with many other foods.
('reamed Eggs and Fish
6 hard cooked eggs
3 tbsp fat
3 tbsp flour
2 c milk
1 c salmon or other fish
Salt and pepper
Melt fat. add flour, add warm
milk. Cook slowly stirring constant
ly until smooth and thick. Season
Add chopped hard cooked eggs and
fish. Serve on toast or hot biscuit.
Baked Egg 6
Break the desired number of eggs
into a well greased baking dish. Sea
son with salt and pepper. Add en
ough milk to barely cover. Sprinkle
with dry bread crumbs. Dot with
butter Bake until eggs are set?
ubout 30 minutes at 350*
Fluffy Batter Bread
2 eggs
1 c sweet milk
1 c buttermilk
2 tbsp melted butter
1-2 c corn meal
2 tbsp baking powder
1-2 tsp salt
1-2 tsp soda
Beat eggs with sweet and butter
milk. Add sifted dry ingredients.
Pour into baking dish in which but
ter has been melted. Bake from 20
to 30 minutes at 450*.
I.emon Sponge Pudding
2 tbsp butter
1 c sugar
4 tbsp melted butter
Few grains of salt
5 tbsp lemon juice
3 eggs
1 1-2 c milk
Grated rind of 1 lemon
Cream butter and sugar, add flour
and salt, mix well. Add lemon juice
and rind. Beat egg yolk, add milk and
stir into first mixture. Fold in egg
whites beaten stiff. Pour into bak
ing dish and set in pari of water ?
Bake 30 minutes at 375*.
Fruit Whip
4 to 5 egg whites
1-2 lb dried prunes, peaches or
apricots
1-2 c sugar
1 4 tap salt ?
1 tbsp lemon juice
Soak fruit overnight. Cook until
soft, in water in which soaked. Press
through sieve. Add sugar and lem
on. Add salt to egg whites, beat un
til stiff. Fold into fruit mixture.
Chill?serve with soft custard made
with yolks.
Soft Custard
1 c milk
2 or 3 egg yolks
2 to 4 tbsp sugar
1 -2 tsp vanilla
Few grains nutmeg
NOTICE OF RE-SALE
North Carolina. Martin County.
Whereas, the undersigned, acting
as Substituted Trustee in a certain
deed of trust executed by Edgar M.
Long, and recorde d in Book B-3 at
puge 277, in the office of the Register
of Deeds of Martin County^ foreclose
ed and offered for sale the land here
inafter described; and whereas, with
in the time allowed by law an ad
vanced bid was filed with the Clerk
of the Superior Court and an order
issued directing the Substituted
Trustee to re-sell said land upon an
opening bid of Two Hundred Thir
ty and 00-100 ($230.00) Dollars, sub
ject do taxes.
Now, therefore, under and by vir
tue of said order of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Martin County
and the power of sale contained in
said deed of trust, the undersigned
Substituted Trustee will offer for
sale, upon said opening bid, at pub
lic auction, to the highest bidder, for
cash, at the Courthouse Door of Mar
tin County, at Williamston, N. C., on
Tuesday, the 14tl^day of April, 1942,
at twelve (12) o'clock Noon, the fol
lowing described real estate, to-wit:
That certain lot or parcel of land
situate in the town of Hamilton,
Martin County, North Carolina, on
the North side of Main Street in
^i^own^^oimn^h^stor^ot^f^
MISS JAMES
\ /ICTORY
ON THE FARM FRONT
? KetVS from t*o
Afkf/tvri/ h/muot Stnict
SURVEY SHOWS HOW DRAFT
AFFECTS EASTERN COUNTY
In 7 per cent of all Harnett Coun
ty farm families, single men between
20 and 44 years of agfe constitute the
only source of male workers of
working age. Dr. C. Horace Hamil
ton head of the Rural Sociology De
partment of N. C. State College,
found in a recent survey.
Within certain limitations, this
same condition may exist In wide
areas of the State. Dr. Hamilton said
Harnett is fairly representative of
the Eastern North Carolina county.
The Harnett survey showed that
if all single men 20 to 44 years of age
were drafted for military service or
if they left home to work in war
time industries, the county would
lose 23 per cent of their male farm
family labor between 14 and 65 years
of age. .
However, these young single men
of selective service age are concen
trated within 30 per cent of the
farm families of which they com
pose 53 per cent of the male farm
workers between 14 and 65 years of
ago
The survey was made of 250 rep
resentative Harnett County farm
families in 1040 before the selective
service or war had begun to deplete
the farm population.
Making the survey were the State
College Department of Rural Sociol
ogy and the Agricultural Experiment
Station, under the auspices of the
Harnett County Land-Use planning
committee.
The study showed further that of
all color and tenure groups, white
farm owner families are the ones
most seriously affected by the select
ive service or by other migration
from farms. Thirty-six per cent of
these families have one or more sin
gle males between the ages of 20 and
44
Slude Rhodes and Company and oth
ers and commonly known as the Dr
II 1- Long Drug Store and office
lot. being the same premises devised
to Edgar M. Long under the Will of
Di 11 L l/ong. deceased, which said
I Will IS recorded in the Office of the
CI. rk of the Superior Court of Mar
tin County. ,, .
The last and highest bidder will be
required to deposit ten (101 per
(.(>nt of said bid before closing the
S''tIiis the 27th day of March. 1942.
HUG It G. HORTON,
m31-2t Substituted Trustee.
NOTICE of sale
Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue of an order of the
Clerk of the Superior Court entered
ill that certain special proceedings
pending in the Superior Court of
Martin County entitled: Sam Moore
and wife and Jasper Moore and wife,
and others vs. Reginald Chesson,
Bonnie Harrell Wynne and others,
same being a partition proceedings,
the undersigned Commissioner will
on the 10th day of April, 1942, at
twelve (12) o'clock Noon, at the
Courthouse door of Martin County,
Williamston, North Carolina, offer
for sale, at public uuction, to the
highest bidder, for cash, the follow
ing described real estate, to-wit:
FIRST TRACT: A certain tract or
parcel of land in Martin County,
Stale of North Carolina, adjoining
the lands of la niuel Glisson, S. R. L.
Km tnn-li in 1 "? ? ? 1 *"? Iul
lows, viz:
Beginning at a pust oak oil toe
Wild Cat Road, running thence
North 67 degrees East 70 poles to a
lightwood post; thence North 6 de
un.es West 6 poles to a pine; thence
North 30 poles to a sweet gum in a
small drain; thence down the run
of said drain North 21 degrees fc**st
30 poles to a pine on a branch; thence
North 22 degrees West 25 Doles to a
short straw pine in William Hurst
line; thence South 71 degrees West
with said Hurst line 77 poles to a
pond on the Wild Cat Koad; thence
with said road to the beginning, con
taining 41 acres, more or less.
SECOND TRACT: All that certain
piece, parcel or tract of land con
taining acres, more or less, sit
uate, lying and being on the old
Williamston and Hamilton Road, on
Western line of the Town of Wil
liamston, in Williamston Township,
Martin County, State of North Car
olina, having such shapes, metes and
bounds, courses and distances as will
more fully appear by reference to a
plat thereof made by T. Jones Tay
lor, Surveyor, on January 3, 1927,
and attached to the abstract now on
file with the Atlantic Joint Stock
Land Bank of Raleigh, the same be
ing bounded on the North by the;
lands of S. Hassell, J. D. Leggett and
Whit Price, on the East by the lands
of Walter Halberstadt, on the South ]
by the lands of G. W. Blount and
Walter Halberstadt, and on the West
by the lands of G. W. Blount. S. Has-1
sell and J. D. Liggett, and being the
identical tract of land conveyed by
deed from J. L. Hassell and A. Mas
se 11 and wife, to George S. Moore,
of date January 22. 1910, said deed
being duly recorded in Deed Book
YYY. at page 557, in the office of
the Register of Deeds for Martin
County. State of North Carolina, and
i by deed from the Williamston Land
Improvement Company to George S
Moore of date September 9, 1907, said
deed being recorded in Deed Book
RRR, at page 287, in the office of the
Register of Deeds for Martin Coun
ty, State of North Carolina, to which j
reference may be had for full de- j
scription.
THIRD TRACT: A certain lot or
parcel of land in or near the cor
porate limits of the town of William
ston. situate on Pine Street, being a
Inthn^Wdhy^JStWeet^ adjoining R '
S. Criteher, Tom Harris, Pine Street
and others, and being a part of the
\ lands conveyed to the late George S.
I Moore out of the J. S. Rhodes land
| division.
I The Jast and highest bidder, or
bidders, will be required to deposit
the amount of ten (10%) per cent
of their said bid, or bids, at the time
of sate.
This the 9th day of March, 1942.
HUGH G. HORTON,
ml0-4t Commissioner.
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