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Contour Strip Cropping
Will Hold Soil On Hills
By KUY K. DttK
Soil Conservation Service
Robert Messer of Panther Creek
Community believes in holding
soil on a hill by contour stfrip crop
ping. Mr. Messer says: If a farmer
plows a whole hillside at one time
it will wash away in a big rain.
I'm using strip crop to hold my
land when I farm it in corn, before
reseeding."
Teague Williams of White Oak
coihmunity plans to begin farming
his tobacco in strips between al
falfa. Mr. Williams has an erosion
so great he is going to use a sys
tem of diversions between each
strip to help hold the land.
Mark Howell, conservation farm
er on Jonathan Creek, used a con
tour strip cropping system to clean
up an old hill field and get it back
into production. Mr. Howell seed
ed strips to small grain and clover
grass hay, while other strips were
planted in corn. Mr. Howell also
has installed field drain tile to im
prove his bottom land and permit
HI By Floyd Nelson
When you see food commercials
on television from now on. think
about the eighty pork chops they
wasted to get on film just right that
shot of the six that you actually
see Or, the do/ens of eggs and
many pounds 61 bacon for that de
licious frying pan scene of bacon
and eggs
A comany "Video HgggM
Vittles, Inc." specia- I
lizes in producing food I
commercials. It's not ?
an easy job and it's I
very expensive. For I
the average four min
ute there
are six hours of film
ing and hundreds of jr
feet of film. | jd
Little tricks like
making rice blue to -show up on
the TV screen are necessary for
good food viewing And in tele
vision commercials this is impor
tant.
Just like in television servicing,
you must know and understand the
electronic equipment to make fast
and efficient repairs. We at NEL
SONS TELEVISION SERVICE are
authorized electronic technicians
?nd will stand behind our services.
Phone GL 6-G581 and let us prove
ourselves with our services.
Good Care Is
Important For
Sewing Tools
By RUTH CURRENT
State Home Demonstration Agent
YOUR SEWING TOOLS ? The
sewing machine is the most im
portant tool. "The use and care
you give your machine." says Mary
Em Lee, extension specialist in
clothing at N. C. State College,
"will greatly determine the job it
will do for you. Keep it well oiled,
and only an experienced person
should regulate the tension."
Everyone who sews needs a good
sturdy sewing box or basket to
hold necessary tools and materials.
For neatness and convenience, keep
smaller tools such as pins, needles,
thimbles, etc. in a smaller box in
side your larger sewing box or bas
more efficient tractor farming.
R. H. Boone of Francis Cove
community started a definite
three-year contour-strip rotation
on his crop land last year. Mr.
Boone is using a corn-small-grain
ciover grass rotation.
Hugh Ferguson, conservation
farmer on Fines Creek, started with
the same contour striD rotation.
Mr. Ferguson plans to use this sys
tem of cropping on ail his sloping
land.
The Haywood County Soil Sup
ervisors furnished technical help
to ail these farmers in planning
for conservation farming and in
laying of the contour strips.
Farmers who do not own bottom
land have found that contour strip
cropping is the best means of con
trolling erosion where they must
grow corn and other cultivated
crops on hill land. Invariably
these yields are increased by this
method of farming.
Joe Davis, newly elected Soil
Supervisor, from White Oak com
munity has started a contour strip
cropping system on his farm. Mr.
Davis suggests that all farmers
give this methid a trial on their
hillside field. In his words: "You
just take a look at most any hill in
Haywood County to see what corn
from bottom to top has done. Us
uallly there are gullies. The soil is
thin. And it has taken a lot of
work, lime and fertilizers to get
these washed fields tied down to
grass. So, if you have to grow
corn on land, why not do it in
strips? It helps your land; it
takes more corn per acre and it
earns ACP cost-sharing when laid
off by Soil Conservation Service
people.
QUESTION: Why do marketing
specialists say that the egg out
look Is "bright" (or this year?
ANSWER: Lower feed cost com
pared to past years and a laying
flock about equal to 1955 indicate
that prices of feed and eggs should
remain favorable for six or seven
months at least, according to the
experts.
QUESTION: How much and how
often should I give salt to my fat
cattle?
ANSWER: Fattening cattle
should consume from one-half to
one and one-half ounces of salt per
head daily, depending on the kinds
of feed used in the ration and the
age of the cattle. It's a mistake to
withhold salt from cattle toward
the close of the feeding period and
salt heavily just before shipping,
USDA says.
State College |
Answers Timely
Farm Questions
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QUESTION: Is it safe to erase
sudan grass at any time?
ANSWER: No. Prussic acid pois
oning of livestock may resu\t if
sudan grass is grazed after a frost,
specialists warn. Sudan and sor
ghums have prussic acid at certain
stages of growth, in the early stages
and in new growth after frost. Bet
ter ask your county agent for de
tails on this.
QUESTION: Why do pine mice
seem to prefer a field where soy
beans are plowed down?
ANSWER: L C. Whitehead, Fish
and Wildlife Service, says that the
type of soil in which soybeans
would be grown generally suit the
pine mice's fancy. They are quite
fond of beans and other types of
legumes,
ket.
Along with the usual scissors,
needles, thimble, thread,-tape mea
sure and pins, put an emery bag
in your sewing box. The purpose of
the emery bag is to sharpen and
remove rust and tarnish from pins
and needles. They are not designed
as a pin cushion or needle holder
but to run pins and needles
through when needed.
Other handy sewing tools are
carbon paper and tracing wheel,
tailor's chalk, machine seam gauge,
zipper and cording foot.
CHILDREN'S SOCKS ? Socks
for children should be smooth, well
shaped to fit the foot, and reinforc
ed at the toe and heel. Socks
should measure one-half inch long
er than the child's foot, and it's
safer to buy them by measurement
than by size.
Snooty Hens Need More Bookmobile
Space. Poultryman Learns Schedule
FALMOUTH, Maine (AP)?Hens
ire snootier and more ornery than
>eople. says Ernest E. York,
rhat's why he's adding 60 feet to
lis chicken house.
York isn't doing it just to please
he chickens. It will mean more
rggs for him to sell. Experiment
las shown. Ernie explains, that his
liens will lay 10 per cent more
9ggs if he can rear them in the
same pen from the time they are a
fay old until he sends them to
market as prospective dinners.
Chickens, says York, have a
social system all their own, and
It's pretty rigid.
Chickens usually are brooded
ibout eight weeks. Then they are
ranged or kept separately from
older hens until they're ready to
start laying. That's because poul
trynven like to get maximum use
from their laying houses for egg
production.
ORNERY ? Ernest York checks
on one of his hens.
Tax Forms
For Farmers
Explained
(EDITOR'S NOTE ? This
article, the second in > series
describing the provisions of the
Federal income and Social Se
curity tax laws as they affect
farm people, was prepared by
Charles R. Pugh. W. L. Turner,
and C. W. Williams, extension
farm management specialists,
N. C. State College.)
If you filed a Federal Income tax
return last year, the necessary
forms for reporting Federal in
come tax will be mailed to you.
Otherwise, forms, including any
extra forms required, may be se
cured from your local post office
or bank or the nearest Internal
Revenue Service office. By com
pleting two copies of each form,
the taxpayer can retain a copy for
himself.
The forms most commonly re
quired by farmers and their use
are as follows:
"Ffc>rm 1040": The amount of in
come tax is computed on this form
from the listing of taxable income
from all sources, including the
profit (or loss) from farming opera
tions. nonbusiness deductions ior
the standard deduction) and ex
emptions.
"Schedule F": Used to determine
farm profit or loss from the itemiz
ed sources of farm income and
farm deductions. It is designed for
use by farmers filing on either the
cash or the accrual basis. Types of
farm income reported on Schedule
F include: livestock raised or pur
chased, produce raised or purchas
ed, agricultural program payments. j
and patronage dividends.
Farm business deductions or ex
penses include labor hired for
farming operations, fertilizer, seed,
repairs and maintenance, taxes, in
surance, interest and rent on farm
property, and depreciation of as
sets used in farming. Personal ex
penses should not be included on
Schedule F but on Form 1040 if ,
they are allowable deductions.
Page 4 of Schedule F is used for
computing net earnings from self- j
employment from farming. If there ;
are no sources of self-employment j
for the taxpayer except farming,
the self-employment tax is com
puted on page 4. These taxes may i
result in social security benefits
for you or your dependents in event
of your death or retirement.
"Schedule D": used to show your
gains and losses from sales of cap
ital assets such as farm land and
certain property used in the farm
ing business, such as farm equip
ment and dairy, breeding, and
draft animals held for 12 months
or more.
"Schedule C": used to compute
the profit (or loss) from a nonfarm
business or profession. Therefore
it will be used by farm people hav
ing a business in addition to farm
ing, In fact this form may be used
for reporting profit (or loss) from
farming if the farmer files his re
turn on the accrual basis. Farm
people having both a farm and non
farm business or profession use
page 3, Schedule C. to compute
their self-employment tax. The net
earning from self - employment
from farming as computed on
Schedule F are transferred to
Schedule C and the 3 per cent self
employment tax is figured from
the combined amounts of self-em
ployment income.
"Form 1040 ES": used to declare
an estimate of tax. Farmers file
estimate by January 15 unless they
file their final return and pay the
tax on or before February 15.
Despite popular belief, a stricken
snake does not wait until sundown
to die.
At the age of four weeks, York
says, chickens begin establishing
their "peck" or social system.
Turning them into new surround
ings after that age upsets the so
cial order. This is even more
pronounced when young birds just
coming into laying are put into
pens with veterans to replace culls.
The chicks become confused by
new faces and surroundings. The
"hierarchy" is disturbed.
Pens of birds set up early a so
cial system in which there is al
ways a No. 1 bird, a No. 2 bird.
No. 3. etc.
"There is always a top bird,"
the poultryman said.
Those high up in the caste scale
peck at those below in passing or
being passed. No. 1 will peck at
all those below if she chooses.
No. 5 can't peck Nos. 1-4,?only
those below.
The social system can cause
trouble when a poultryman hasn't
enough waterers or feed hoppers
in a pen. Correction has boosted
production by as much as 20 per
cent. Ernie says:
"Researchers have determined
that hens tend to remain in their
own little social groups, seldom
traveling more than 25 feet.
"Suppose there aren't enough
feeders. A hen is hungry. She
starts out to get some grain. On
the way she has to brave the pecks
of other hens higher on the social
scale. She gets discouraged, fright
ened. She returns to her own group
without eating. Poor egg produc
tion results.
"Nests must be accessible as well
as food and water. Otherwise a hen
may drop her egg on the floor
rf 'her than undergo a series of
pecks in trying to find a nest. That
means dirty or cracked eggs."
By adding the 60 x 40 foot ex
tension, York will have a 120-foot
house with adequate space for 2,
400 mature birds with a caste sys
tem and few occasions to run a
gauntlet of peckers.
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Misses Mobility
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP> ?
Axel Leary is a name as Irish as
they come ? or so thought a
Dublin, Ireland genealogy firm.
The firm offered to supply Infor
mation on Leary's "noble Irish
background" and a copy of the
Family coat of arms for a nominal
sum.
Same searching would have been
In order. Leary says his parents
are natives of Finland. The family
name was changed from Learics.
Industry accounts for 30 per cent
af Algeria's annual income.
Tuesday. Jan. 31
DUTCH COVK ? MORNING STAR
Quay Sinathers 9:30- 9:45 s
Jack Chambers 9:50-10:00 a
Wilson's Store 10:15-10:30 b
Finley Cook 10:35-10:45 c
Morning Star School ... 11:00-12:30 s
B. M. Stamey 12:45- 1:00 C
Smathers' Dairy 1:15- 1:30 i>
Thursday, Feb. 2
BETHEL
Bethel School 9:15 V
Friday, Feb. 3 f
FINES CREEK
Trantham's Store 9:30- 9:45
Francis Rogers 10:00-10:15 ,
Fines Creek School 10:30-12:00
J. L. Rathbone 12:15-12:30 e
R. G. Rathbone 12:35-12:45 j
C. R. McElreath 1:00- 1:15 t
Paul Ferguson ? 1:30- 1:45 t
White Rocks and Rhode Island 1
reds are the most popular chickens
among North Carolina poultrymen, I
says R. S. Dearstyne of the State 1
College poultry science depart
ment.
I
Forestry Specialist Cites
Planting Failure Causes
In January the pine planting sea
on Is in full swing. And if you're
pine planter, chances are you'll
e interested in the three major
auses of "planting failure," de
cribed by Jim Andersen, State
College extension forestry special
it.
Andersen says the three factors
/hich contribute most to poor sur
ival after planting are:
(1> Improper depth of planting,
?ine seedlings should be set .in the
iround at the same depth they
vere in the nursery. It's better to
ilant them a little too deep than
lot deep enough, however.
t2> Bending of roots. The easi
est way to overcome root bending
s to force the seedling into the
lole further than necessary and
hen withdraw it to the proper
planting level before closing the
lole.
(3) Drying of roots. This can
happen at two different phases of
'.he planting operation. First, they
may dry out before the seedlings
are planted. This can be prevented
I
by carrying the seedlings to the
planting site in a bucket of water
or mud. Then they may dry after
planting if the hole is not closed
properly. This fault is common
when using a planting iron or drib
ble in setting out trees. After the
seedling has been placed in the
hole, the planter should take spe
cial care to close the bottom part
of the hole as well as the top. ,
Despite expected lower hog
ices in 1956, many North Caro
a producers may still And hog
aduction one of the best ways
market feed grains, according
a State College extension mar
ting specialist.
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No dairyman likes the milk price this year?but that's no
reason to give up. Good dairymen are still making a good
living. They do it by getting good production per cow.
j In order to bring up the herd average, they have cut out
the tail end cows?ones that can't make a profit at today's
? milk price.
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.Then they manage and feed the rest for good cow condition;
'and peak production. They may not ship quite as muchl
milk (which cuts surplus). And every can makes more profit
because there are fewer cows to feed?less work to do.'
We'll be glad to help you check over your herd and put it
on a high-production basis. And don't fail to give them every'
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