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A ?.? 9 j(j 9 |^l ^ ? jB mf A ^ ? ll m.^f JH |P ij Egg production In North Carollni during December 1955 was estim ated at 109 million?one million below the record high December production for 1954. GIVE YOtlR CHICKS THE BEST POSSIBLE START BY USING ; F. F. COOP STARTER MASH FARMERS FEDERATION ? 205 Depot St. Dial GL 6-5361 s LET tJ8 FILL YOUR A.S.C. ORDERS We IJave A Complete LtaF of Field Seeds ? Abo Blue Ridge Plant Food .. . And * ? BAGGED OR BULK # 2-12-12 FERTILIZER ? SUPERPHOSPHATE + POTASH ' ... REMEMBER YOU SAVE TWICE AT YOUR Haywood County : Farmers Co-op, Inc. H. M. DULIN, MGR. Depot Street Dial GL 6-8(21 Overplanting Is Costly, Inconvenient Every year, some farmers In North Carolina are (really incon venienced because they overplanted their allotment of a basic crop. Tilman R. Walker, chairman of the State ABC committee, has remind ed Tar Heel farmers that it is definitely their responsibility to plant within their arreace allot ment. Every year a few farmers over the state, on having their acreage measured by ASC personnel, find that they have overplanted. Many of these farmers, according to Walker, pay additional money out of their pockets to have a repre sentative of the ASC county com mittee witness disposition of the excess acreage. Other farmers make a deposit with the ASC Of. Act to have officials revisit the farm and remeasure the acreage. In Just about every case, this is an unnecessary drain on the farmer's pocket book, and in every case, the time lost by these revisits to the farm la a great Inconvenience to the farmer, he says. "That's Just one ol the reasons the farmer should remember that it is his responsibility to plant within his acreage allotment," Walker adds. Another reason is that every time a farmer plants over his allotment, he is wasting seed or plants, fertilizer and tabor. As a service to farmers, ASC will send trained reporters to the farm to lay. off a farmer's allot ment before any planting. Por this service, the farmer pays only the actual cost of the visit to the farm. Only through premeaaurement. Walker cautioned, can farmers be certain that they are not overplant ing and bringing on themselves a considerable amount of increased expense, as well as quite a bit of Inconvenience and delay. Farmer Doesn't Take Chances On Vegetable Garden Johnnie Perker of Elm City, Route 3, doesn't take any chances on getting caught short of vege tables. Wilson County Agent W. G. Pierce explains that Parker always has two vegetable gardens, one near the house and one back of the held. Parker says the garden site near the house Isn't the best for vege table production but he says he has a reason for using it. Some folks say he uses It as a decoy so that his neighbors won't be calling on him Just when vegetables arc right for eating. Whatever his reasons, he has a nice home freeser filled to the top with vegetables, says Pierce. On tfiair way ,v to the laying housa hayWood county farmers co-op, inc. H. M. Dulin, Mgr. Depot SL ? GL ?-8621 THE HAYWOOD COUNTY CDP organization re cently planned its 1956 program in the court house and voted to stress rural Are protection, safety, better health, and improved garbage dis posal. Pictured here are county officers and di rectors and chairmen of the individual commun ities, discussing plana for a county-wide tour picnic to replace the separate tours held the last several years. (County Agent's Photo). Forester Is A Friend To Tar Heel Farmers State College Answers Timely Farm Questions QUESTION: What type of toil is beat foe a home rarden? ANSWER: Horticulturists say that the Ideal soil for a good home garden Is deep-well-drained and loamy. That's fine when you tan order Just the type of soil you want. i QUESTION: Why has farm land gone ap in the face of declining farm income? ANSWER: Here are some of the reasons advanced: (1) farmers themselves are strong bidders for additional land to enlarge their farms, in an attempt to increase production efficiency by using more machinery; (2) credit to finance farm purchases has become more readily available, and (3) a boom ing non-farm economy has encour aged Investment in farm land by urban people. QUESTION: Is it worthwhile to feed gin trash to cattle* ANSWER: Oln trash has proved of little value in wintering cattle unless supplemented by other feeds. Because of lower feed prices this winter, dairy and poultry product feed price ratios are higher than a year earlier, i tWI What can a forester do for you, "Mr. Landowner?" Jim Andersen, State College ex tension forestry specialist, says that forester can be a "buddy" to the landowner in many ways. "Just as an example, he can show you how to grow two or three times as much wood per acre as you are now do ing if you are an average forest owner. "He can guide you when you plan to sell timber. He car. show you the way to a sustained production of valuable products from your woods from now on. He can mark trees for cutting so that only those which should come out will be cut." In addition, Andersen point* out that the forester can help the farm er determine how much timber he has to sell, how to market his forest products to get th* mo t out of it, how to grow valuable timber spA cies on his land rather than brush. Most anyone would admit that sounds 'ike a pretty yood "friend". From April until January 1 of this year, butter purchases by householders gained 6 per cent over the same period in 1054. In 1900, it took about 100 hours of work to produce 100 bushels of wheat; today, it takes only about 25 hours of work to produce this amount. The total net farm income to North Carolina farmers in 1954 has been estimated at 5X7 million dol lars. representing 51.2 per cent of the gross farm income. Broiler Feeding Efficiency Tops, Libeau Asserts Broiler feeding efficiency is mov ing ahead of other livestock, ac cording to Clayton P. Libeau. poul try and egg marketing specialist at N. C. State College. Libeau says that broilers take a smaller quantity of feed per pound of edible meat produced than any other meat producing animal. Hogs require the smallest quantity of feed per calorie of food energy product, but much of this food energy is fat, he explains. Turkeys use more feed per pound of gain than hogs, but produce cheaper protein. Beef cattle con sume more feed units per pound output than any other class of meat animal, however, if pasture is ex cluded, cattle take a little less feed per pound of protein than hogs. What does all this talk of feed efficiency mean to you? Libeau says that for one thing improved feeding efficiency in creases specialization, means larger farms, bigger incomes, and make price competition tough on the small producer. Libeau concludes that in order to make $100 worth of production, the average farmer has to spend 40 more man-hours in dairying than he does in broilers for the same value of production; 26 more hours in producing eggs; nine more for $100 worth of beef; and five more for $100 worth of hogs. Two new edible soybean vari eties, named Kim and Kanrich, have been supplied to commercial seed and canning companies for testing during 1956, according to U9DA. Give Your Chicks a Super Start ? Toor chicks shook! grew wp to 5.4% fiitar en 7.4% loss food P* % poond of gain than m boforo on Torino Sopor Chick Sfwtoaa Purina scientists have done it again! They have improved even last year's wonderful formula ao much that yoe cad see the difference. SUMR GROWTH. Several thouaand chicks in aaany different tests have averaged V6% big ger than ever before on Startena. And they took 7.4% lets feed per pound of gain. SUPtff SAN. Yon can order Startena with a built-in coeridiosis control. It'a the best con trol ever tested by Purina Laboratories to help TtHi protect chick* from the worst killer of all chick diseases. SUPER VtOOR. You can see brighter yellow shanks, perkier red combs aod fast smooth feathering. SUPER ECONOMY. It takes only 2 lbs. of Super Starteoa per light-breed chick, 3 lbs. per heavy. This is a real sating, because most feeds recommend 3 to 4 lbs. of starter?or more?before the chicks are ready for growing ration. 1 CLINE - BRADLEY CO. , 5 Pot?U J?* C'ine - Di* Bradfcjr Huvlwood ?V.V.V.VV.V.V.V.V. I Ballentine Warns Situation Of U. S. Farmers Is 'Urgent'. "A broad, comprehensive farm program must be developed promptly if agriculture is to be spared the economic collapse it experienced in the thirties," Agri culture Commissioner L. Y. Bal lentlne told the Farm Hands Club at its January meeting in Raleigh. Emphasizing the urgency of the situation, he said economists es timate that a farmer can now go broke in 20 months as compared with nine years in the horae-end buggy days of 1875. Ballentine said he had no ob jection to President Eisenhower's soil bank proposal in principle, ' but warned that 'this is only a single tool, not a program that will solve the whole problem." "Before seeking a remedy we need to diagnose the disease," the Commissioner said. "About the only thing that we hear from those who profess to have the diagnosis but who have failed completely to produce the remedy is that high, rigid price supports have caused the storing up of un manageable surpluses which have driven prices down and that we can expect little improvement until we have disposed of those surpluses. "In fact, some of those who peddle this defeatist philosophy go further and suggest by action and word that the way to get rid of the surpluses is to reduce prices by flexible supports low enough to bankrupt the less efficient farm er. This policy, if followed long and far enough, would eliminate a large percentage of our family size farms, the owners and oper ators of which have been the bul wark of our American society." Ballentine defended price sup ports at 90 per cent of parity as sound for many farm commodities. "The fact that surpluses of some crops have built up under supports at 90 per cent of parity should not serve to indict the principle," he continued. "In such cases it is rather the fault of the administra tion, and that is said without re gard to political parties. "If you have doubts about this position, I ask fou to examine the price of other farm crops which have been on flexible supports or without any support at all. Con Under the U. S. Forest Service, State and Private cooperative pro gram the North Carolina Forest Service receives financial assist ance for forest fire control, tree nurseries and service to private woodland owners and the North Carolina Extension Service to pro mote better woodland practices. sider, for instance, the price of hogs." He said surpluses of most farm products would vanish, if Ameri can housewives would stock up their pantries as their mothers be fore them used to do. "Once our lines of production and consumption merge, Balien tine added, "we will be facing America's darkest day, for the next day we will not have enough to meet our needs." Ballentine declared that "a pros perous agriculture in a prosperous economy is a nationally sound otr ied ive." Efficient . ? ? A I4A.A k?||A|i|M ? si NWii iwwinp *>wi (j^ ^y _ for yovr fool dollar. RAY'S SHEET METAL SHOP GL 6-6331 Wall Street _ I BIG NEWS FROM ROGERS TRACTOR Co. i v.- ? ? -yy-* . v . Ford Motor Company announces a new automatic twine tie hay baler, designed far one-man operation and employing sweep fork feed, unique in the lowest-priced baler field. The new four-bales-a-mlnuta machine is the Ford 250, available in three models, engine driven with starter or without starter, and power take-off. Pay Only 1/3 Down (Cash or Trade) Balance Up to 3 Crop Payments or 34 Monthly Payments. ROGERS TRACTOR Co. Specialists In Farm Equipment Financing Phone Canton 3944 Clyde, N. C. -MMmnMi^MmmMm??____M_.mn^__.nawmunm_ YOUR MONEY SPENT AT HOME, WORKS FOR YOU IN BUILDING A MORE PROSPEROUS COMMUNITY. t , Blue Ridge Plant Foods ARE A HOME PRODUCT. WAGES AND EARNINGS ARE RE - INVESTED IN YOUR AREA, AND TAXES GO TO THE DEVELOP MENT OF YOUR STATE AND COUNTY WELFARE. GET THE MOST VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY ? r We take pride in making the best product possible for the price. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture Bulletin No. 142, covering the results of all fertilizer tested by the State in the 19$4-5$ season, found the average value of BLUE RIDGE BRANDS tested to be $.94 higher per ton than the guarantee. Manufactured By Smoky Mountains Fertilizer Co. Waynasrille, N. C. P. O. Box 170 Phono GLendale 6-0321 /
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