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? ? ? ? ? The Mountaineer's M ri Hall M liM ? IJl |m II f^t Wm^ rJ ~. fTiJ HH HUtfBHl H^Hfli BH^HHI IHHBBHHM WKM Hifl Hfll ItlBMUl IHH Keep Tab On Farm Costs, Raise Own Food Supply Keeping close tab on money ?pent running a farm and farm home and getting a Urge part of the family food from the farm it self are marks of efficient farming. Theodore T. Turnley, county super visor of the Farmers Home Admin istration said this week. Besides lending money to farm families this agency helps with farm and home planning problems and supplies technical aid in farm Snd home management so families can make the most of their land and family labor resources and re pay their debts Farm families are consumers as well as producers, and families with the Fanners Home Administration losns calls on the supervisor for aid in planning expenditures. He helps them get started on keeping ?farm' records, and those records ?sually show that family living v i hi in*. ' . Item* can easily amount to one fourth of the gross farm income. A good farm garden, when feas ible. U an eaaential part of every farm and home plan for t>a fam ily that hi seriously trying to aave money, make the beat of oppor tunities and repay debts. He points to butchering home meat supplies, producing their own milk and eggs, and proper conservation of all home produced food as being among other factors in efficient farm and home planning. Gardens can save a family anywheres from 100 to 500 dollars a year. The Farmers Home Administra tion urges its borrowers to turn to the county home demonstration agents who also help with family living problems. As a result, many of the wives are Joining home dem onstration clubs and in some places ojij |Yi2\ |j|Lttj : vkikly tim f?m agricultural cxtimiom scrvicc north carolina itatc collice There we two main causes of milk off-flavors in tha spring sea son: wild onion and pasture flav ors. These tips will help control the flavors, give your family a tasty, wholesome drink, and im prove the milk you sell. 1. Inspect pasture regularly for wild onions. 2. If possible, do not graze milking herd on pasture where onions grow. Use dry cows and heifers to nip off the onions. 3. If onion Infestation is mild, remove the milking herd four to six hours before you milk and feed lots of dry roughage when it comes off pasture. 4. Smell the milk from each cow before pouring It together and don't mix off-flavored milk with the good. Some cows seem to eat wild onions in greater quanti ties than others: a few cows won't eat onions at all. 5. Before turning cows onto Ladtno-grass pastures, feed an abundance of hay or other dry roughages. 6. Keep salt and fresh water before cows at all times. Farmer Won't Just Let Nature Take Its Course James Murrell of Poilocksvllle, Route 1, la through with "Just let ting nature take its course," with his tobacco plant bed. Jones County Agent Fletcher Barber says that Murrell has been planting his tobacco plant bed with out treating for weeds. Consequent ly, last year it took three workers nearly a week to pick his 200 yards of plant beds. This year he foriowed gassing practices recommendel by his ex tension agent and it took one per son only about lVfc hours to remo/e the weeds from around the edges of the boards. Burrell's plants were much larg er this year too, even though he seeded his bed two weeks later than new clubs are being formed to in clude the young farm homemakers. The home demonstration agents help with individual home needs such as planning kitchen improve ments. money management, food production and health problems, as well as yard and highway beauti flcation. Curb WUt By Using Hormones By ROBERT SCHMIDT Anyone who trie* to grow toma toes in the South is concerned with the problem of wilt. There are two kindk of wilt which commonly af fect tomatoes?fusarium and bac terial wilt?two different organisms which are quite common in garden soils of this state. They are both barried over In the soil from year to year. Fusarium wilt can Ineffectively com batted by the use of wilt resist ant varieties such as Homestead. Southlahd, Jefferson and other new introductions. Marglobe and Rut gers are still very popular vari eties but seem to have little resist ance to the present strains of fusar ium wilt. There are at present no varieties available which are resistant to bacterial wilt. That is why, when you plant a variety recommended to you as wilt resistant, the plants may all die of wilt. Bacterial wilt is commonly known as Granville wilt where tobacco is grown. It is a well-known fact that the early tomato blossoms or blossom clusters often fail to set fruits. This may be due to a number of factors but Is usually due to cool temperatures early in the growing season when the first two clusters of blossoms appear. It has been found that applica tions of certain plant hormones to the blossoms will cause fruits to set. In many cases these fruits are seedless or almost seedless. Experi ments have shown that, in the case of tomatoes, it is only worth while to spray the hormones on the first two or three clusters. These hormones are available at any seed store under trade names such as "Blossom Sets." "Sure Set" and "Fruitone". They should be used according to the directions given by the manufacturer, other wise they may cause damage or heavy wri'ikling of the tomato fruits. The material should be sprayed on the open blossom* with an atomizer or fine spray. Since all the blossoms on a cluster do not open at one time it will require at least two applications for each cluster. Many commercial growers are now using fruit setting hor mones successfully and there is no reason why they should not be suc cessful In home gardens, especially in cool growing seasons QUESTION: flow can I control honeysuckle and poison ivy? ANSWER: Control is expensive when undertaken with 1.4-D. If spraying is dqne with a tractor mounted sprayer, one-half pound of 2,4-D amine salt per acre of in fested area will do an effective job. If you use a knapsack sprayer, mix about two teaspoons of the same chemical In one gallon of water and spray leaves and exposed stems. QUESTION: What can I do to keep fungi from attacking grain sorghum aeed? ANSWER: Seed-borne or soil fungi can be combatted by treat ing the seed with an effective fun gicide such a* Ceresan M, New Improved Ceresan. Arasan, Arasan SFX. or Panogen. usual. Murrell says from low on he'll gas his plant bed. ? _ Soil Conservation Practices Varied For Individual Farms Bjr EOY BECK Soil Conservation Service Conservation farming Involves many different practices to fit par ticular soil and water problems. Buford Ferguson of Upper Crab tree has been having trouble keep ing a sod on the hill behind bis milking parlor. The cows kept go ing up and down this steep hill every day, deatroying all attempts to get grass started. So. last fall Mr. Ferguson planned to stop the cattle from ; going over this hill every day. Last month, lime, fertilizer and seed were put down on the hill. Then, a fence was built across the slope. This fence dead-ends up stream where the cattle can walk up hill on a more gentle slope to graze the main part of the pasture. Frank Davis of Iron Duff Is In stalling field drain tile through wet areas in his lower crop field. The first section of the tile system drained the low flat area. Mr. Davis is extending one line 300 feet up through the middle of the field, to drain several seepage areas that have always held up tractor work in this field and where weeds have always grown better than corn. : Federal coat sharing has been ap proved, for this work by the A.S.C. Committee. Tile drainage often helps a farm er practice, other conservation farming practices. C. R Palmer and Alvin Palmer of Mauney Cove have worked together to drain their adjoining crop fields with drain tile, so that they can strip crop the field. These fields have been broken up into five patches by ditches and wet areas not yet draided. Now. these two farmers can cultivate from one side of the State College Answers Timely Farm Questions QUESTION; When should saw Wo he cut? ANSWER: Hold on to the saw timber, if possible, until it's mature. That way you get some high-quality lumber with "clear'' logs. Some timber owners are cutting trees from 10 to 12 inches in diameter around the stump ? trees which quite likely are at their peak rate of growth and making the owner some money. ? ? ' 11 ' QUESTION: How many chickens do I need to provide eggs for my family? ANSWER: Five layers for each two persons. If you have good stock and manage it well, each layer should produce 180 or more eggs a year. Held to the other, on the contour, for erosion control and efficient work. One lesson learned by the Palmers is to install tile as soon as a ditch is dug, because, having had the ditches dug by machine last year, they had a big job of clean ing out by hand before the tile was laid. Ten Common , Mistakes In i Home Decor < Well-meaning housewives who at tempt to decorate their own homes make many mistakes, says interior designer Henry End. member of i the American Institute of Decora tors and designers of hotel inte riors. Here are tbe ten most com- i mon mistakes made by amateurs, as he lists them: I 1. Lack of coordination. I 2. Confused ideas as to re quirements. 3. Selection of items individu- i ally instead of considering the fin al effect of the room. 4. Choice of colors by person- i ality whims. 5. Planning an interior that i When the family cow freshens this spring, take her calf away in i day or two and teach it to cat from a bucket. Milk the cow and >ell what milk you don't need, rhe cow will give more milk if the ;alf is not allowed to nurse. doesn't fit the exterior ? for in* stance, early American decor in a modem house. 6. Changing their minds in the middle of the plan. 7. Failure to consider main, tenance problems in selection of fabrics. 8. Trying to impress the neigh* bors instead of pleasing them selves. ' 9. Failure to consider natural lighting conditions in planning rotors. 18. 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