MONDAV M'SIIMIM) F.VK** The Mountaineer's , '? ?. ? , y. ??,.? ft PIWKHID mi? MONDAY * jlv, . - M Ml I M M I A m 9 ?i f M I ,, M 7 if ^^M H M ? a ? MR ^1 ? M jM ,^.;l B| 28 ?? VI /? -^P S J SH ~K ^P ^P^H | ^^P K ^Pi^P f M* ^^^^P ? -^P JH JP w ^P jP ? J^P ^HP BPP planting this variety. (TUe to its resistance to black, shank. He rdcohimends that any, farmer who has had trouble Willi black shank plant n black ~ shrink resistant variety such as Hurley 11-B or Burley 11-A i* - ' Over three hundred f-'eder calves were marketed by Haywood County farmers in the recent feed er ealf sale hold In Ashevllle Farm ers from (lie, county selling calves were well pleased with the sale, and took a great deal of interest in tho grading of the aniinaU. As a result of the sale and tlx- interest by/armors in the grading system, several farmers have decided to purchase bettor herd sires in the I near future"1 Onee again at the feeder calf sale we were impressed by the fact that early calves return more money to their owners Manv Hay wood County breeders had choice ateer calves weighing .VK) pound* .and up. thai returned ovt i* $100 (K ; rift, white a 300-pound mvdlun hli^er calf returned only abou $30.00. Certainly it doesn't take double the amount of feed and pasture ti I keep the cow that produi -d thi j 300-pound calf. Beef breeders rat | efficiently cull their herds on th< dollar return* from their cows I r best rate they have ever produced -this After twp vear? of fertilizing his crops properly. State College Answers Timely Farm Questions QUESTION: llo" much v?ntRa tion should you hgue for laying liens? ANSWER; For ventilation, pro vide one 'tuiorr foot of nnen sonce for each 8 to 10 foo' of floor sonce In the lieu".- Windows should he placed on nll>id<> of the house to furnish lieht and extra ventilation in the hot summer months. A r< movable board all around the^ house 'lena -Uui lonaaMikalMuAiAiiiii keep the house cool in the summer Y i ' ? QUESTION What type of soil is h>-st for alfalfa'' ANSWER: Alfalfa crows host on I veil drained clay soils. However, it will crow satisfactorily on llcht sandv soils, especially if the sandy soil has a clay subsoil. Alfalfa is verv sensitive to poor drainage and will not live lone if planted on a ; soil that has a birth water table ; ov noor drainage It cannot stand ? "wet feet." ___ 2' QUESTION; Why will grain sorghum withstand droueht better than manv pther crops"' ANSWER. (train sorghum has . an inerent ability to withstand drought The plants become almost dormant during periods when the | water is scarce. They start growing acain when the plants are supplied with water. This one feature has allowed cuyn sorghum to compete successfully with other summer crops during the dry season QUESTION: When should you begin culling laying hens? / ANSWER: Culling should really begin early, as good management ? VI !l jil M ki Rl linr* ** 11 ^-11M i?i of chief's will Improve the perform I ance of the hens. Start culling ?hen you plare the chirks under the brooder Promptly cull all chirks that nnuear runty or weak Kill them and dl?no?e of them by burning or deep hurvlng QI'ESTION: Why have trench silo* become more popular? ANSWER Roth the temporary |aod permanent tvpo* of trench ?Hos " ill usually have more spoil a-*'?. However, thev arc lower in i cost than most unrlffht tvies, and | they may s?t-e labor ih filling and emptying They ran be located so itiwiN vehicle' mm be ftriren through them for dumntng They are very oesflv adapted to self feeding the pottle. QI'ESTION: Should I crow feed for my dairy cattle? ANSWER: Feed for 1hc dairy cow. In so far as is practical, should be produced on the farm. Commercially speaking, iho cow is a marketing agent for farm feeds. If her feed Is grown on some other farm or in a distant section, transportation and hand ling costs are involved. In this way, the cow is handicapped from the start In converting such feed into profitable milk and butterfat. North Carolina farms can produce legume hav, silage crops, corn, cotton seed, soybeans, peanuts, small grains, and good pasture ? all the necessary feeds for profit able milk production QI'ESTION: What effect does weather have on forage crop diseases? ANSWER: Weather conditions, especially temperature and mois ture, largely detornilne?thc destruc tiveness of the disease They are responsible for a disease being of epidemie proportions one season and of minor consequence the next. Unfortunately, weather conditions in North Carolina favor the de velopment and spread of certain forage diseases the year around. I'se Mountaineer Want Ads. A DEAD CEDAR Irtr Ri'U irtrn paint, not watrr, front the hone hrld by caretaker Eugene Nrlmn on the landneaped top of Kan Han C'ltjr'a underground auto park. Dead Trees Remain Green With Help Of Some Paint Crop Report HAY CROPS j The condition of current hay i crops Is reported as mostly fair to good, with the proportion of fair and Rood report* distributed about j evenly throuRhout the Stat .'. APPLES The reported condition of the current apple crop showed some decline ltdriir,' the week. Prospects i for th-j crop appear to be best in the commercial producing moun ! tain counties PASTURES The condition of pastures showed little or no change from the previ ous week. Pasture condition is re ported as mostly fair to Rood in all areas TOBACCO For all practical purposes, hur !.-y tobacco crop has been harvest ed as of the week ended October 20 Some tobacco was reported as unharvesied. However, the unharv ested nci 'aee would consist of only a minor part of the total acreage in the area Err production in North Caro lina during June. 1956. is esti mated at 137 million eggs?9 per cent above the June. 1955. figure. By LEO MARKS KANSAS CITy iAP) ? All is nut what it appears to be atop Kansas City's municipal under ground auto park Four of those cedar trees adorn { ing it are dead and remain green only through the efforts of care taker Eugene Nelson who sprays them liberally with paint. The trees can't be replaced until t fall. Ndson explains; "They are ! nat^e red cedars and it is difficult 1 to transplant them successfully. It's natural to lose some trees in any transplanting operation. Dead trees wouldn't have looked good, in th-? midst of live ones, so we decided on the spraying idea." Nelson, a spry 64. defies anyone to tell "the painted trcos from the others, unless you get real nosey and start fingering the leaves." Me has found early morning the best tiny to repaint and touch up his trees. "There aren't so many curious and inquisitive people around then," he says. I Broiler numbers reach tb?ir peak in the summer, but demand pushes the price to its highest then. Congress has approved funds to construct a storage plant for a na tional seed storage laboratory at ; Fort Collins. Colo. MIKE AND IKE ARE HERE! CUMt Stt cMj t V . I MlKfc pnd iKfc, a pair of live pigs, have started their growing race right in our store. MIJKE gets Purina Pig Starteo*. but IKE gets no Purina. See 'em now, visit 'em ofteia Watch MIKE pull away from IKE. See how cheafly he makes a pound of gain ... how fast... on so ImI* feed. We Hw* what MIKE will do, because we know what Purina Pig Scartena will do. But we want yea to see it .evith your own eyes. Come in today. j. ?? ? ^ Your Store with the Checkerhoord Sign nfr5ajjfe"^jr^ CLINE - BRADLEY COMPANY JLfiq'JJ Joe CUae ? Diefc Bradlev i l?W> m ! Fip A WORD TO THE WISE... I I . . . should he sufficient! Mother Nature is warning you! It's time to insulate your home. Our lTSG Insula* tion will keep your home cozy warm and comfortable . . . will help you lock in your costly heat . . . lock out winter . . . save you up to 1/3 of your fuel hill. We'll advise you if you want to do-it-yourself. jLBUItPERS stnllsi ! I 1| I I Many Haywood Farmers Turning To Grass Farming Helpful Hints Offered On Beekeeping WHl honey soif? Will capped honey keep? Will bees seal poison ous honey? Extension Beekeeper W A. Stephen at North Carolina State Col lens says these questions inquire a lot of explanation, but briefly, the answers are In order. yes. no, yes. Money will sour, says Stephen, because plant spores, called yeast*, are floating around in the air. Tl.jy may fall into the nectar which the bees are colleting and get into the hive. Given warmth, moisture, and foods necessary lor growth, the spoils like all plants will grow and nroduce more spores or seed. As these yeasts croar, they produce al cohol and carbon dioxide, typical fermentation, says Stephen. There's not much alcohol pro ilut -d. stales Stephen, but the car I bon diox'dc gas will show up as hubbies. Sometimes this gas pres sure becomes great enough to blow 'he top off the container, but usu ally. it just causes slobbering around the edf? of the cap This may make the honey unpalatable as far as humans are concerned. During very damp weather bees cannot "ripen" the honey a.- th>-> -hould If more than 18 per cent ?water is left in the honey, the leasts may grow and cause fermen j tation. Bees may cap o\ ?r the I honey even when it is not "ripe," Stephen points out, but the fer mentation may cause the capping^ to burst. The fact that honey is not sealed is no evidence that it is not "ripe". If there is need for the room, bees will fill uo these cells and cap them over The honey In these cells, says i Stephen, may be "riper," that is | I hey contain less moisture, than ?iime in th - sealed comb along side. I This Is particularly true if the sealed honev has been stored dur ing wet "muggy" weather and if (he unsealed honev was stored dur ing th ? drv day's that followed. Bees ! treat all honey the same. By HOY R. BECK Sell Conservation Service Many farmers arc turning to all grass farming for conservation, ef ficiency. and quality livestock fecd ? ing. Some farmers don't even own a plow. Qltnn Noland of Fines Creek is planning to seed all but his tobacco allotment to or?"s during the next two years Mr Noland also plans to install field drain tile this winter below the Billy Noland house. Reed Canarv grass Is helping Noland hold stream banks in place on Fines Creek, w'heip it passes through hfs farm. This grass, which eattlp graze well," grows right to the wafer on these bunks It takes a loCof punlsnnxilt when the creek gets up before being torn loose by .swift flowing water. Glenn has giv j en six bushels of sprigs to two oth er Soil Conservation District coop erators for controlling erosion on the back slopes of farm pond'dams. Another Fines Crock farmer. Grover Ferguson, plans to dig out 1500 feet of four-inch tile and re place with six-inch tile. Mr. Fer , guson said the four-inch tile had never given satisfaction, for it had to be dug uo and cleaned out each year. ^ The Panther Creek community is landscaping its cemetepv. They olans to snrav the cemetery for .Kulalia grass, build new roads and | sc >d next soring to control erosion and beautify. Cotton in cultivation on July 1 in North Carolina is estimated at ?105,000 acres, or the smallest cot ton acreage harvested in the state since 1871. Trained inspectors stationed at i border, sea and air ports, inter cepted about 18,500 destructive rests?11.500 insects and 7.000 ! diseases, last year, according to VSDA | Adding'nitrogen to the soil after 1 crops are harvested to speed up decay of crop residues does not I pay, says the USD A. ! i : imhii'} iriui is poisonous or trad ? tasting to human* may bo quite "* all right for bees, reports Stephen. It is immaterial whether the honey is in a scaled or open comb Egg Producton Sets New High For September ? I Based on reports from produc ers. the September egg production is estimated at 129.3 million, a new high for the month and about 21 million above the 1955 previous record high production, according to the N. C. Crop Reporting Serv ice. The September 1956 produc tion represents an increase of about 2.6 million eggs from August. Th.> increase in egg production for September is attributed to an increase in number of hens and i outlets of laying age per farm. Production oer 100 layers is estim- | ated at 1.401. which is the highest of record for the month, exceeding i the old record hieh for September of 1955 by about 7^>er cent. Increased use of electricity on farms has led to lower average cost per kilowatt hour paid by farmers but somewhat higher monthly electric bills. PATSY SATS: Coal Is Economical/ Pitiy Coal give* yw oort beet pci dollar, ktauM ii'i over 97% pure. Hit little ?* ?it long-bunting, ghet chian. xcady beet. Quick wtyaaw to rontrojt, too! 0*r PATSY UAL T*y Credit Terms Available RICHLAND ? SUPPLY CO. J BAG COAL PROMPT DELIVERY CREDIT TERMS GL <-1271 Wajroeorlllc - ?b?. i ? i 1 Davis Completes SCS Course At U. Of Georgia Carlyle Davis of the Haywood j ! tfounty Soil Conservation District has returned from a special train i ins course at the University of ! Georgia. Athens, Ga? where he studied advanc ed courts in engin , eering. soils, forestry, aerial pho tography, biology, agronomy and public relations. Davis was one of Ihe three men chosen from North Carolina io'at* 'tend this trainina course, lit- has | been with th ? Soil Conservation 1 Service for the past two years. . The Athens Training Center is one of five set up to tripn SCS per sonnel in the United State* and her territories. Twenty-three SCS emptpyqes representing North Carolina. Ten-1 nes.-r?, Mississippi. Arkansas, Robert Miller Given Army Promotion BINDLACH. Germanv ? Rob ert E. Milier. 29, Route 1. Waynes vjlle, recently was promoted to snrcialM third class while serving with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Hi giment in Germany. Specialist Miller, a parts clerk in lleadouarters Company of the regiment's |?t Battalion entered the Armv ir November 1945 and arrived in Europe iu August 1955. In civilian life Ire attended high school in Mavnard, Ark. Stat,.> College specialists suggest avoiding heavy dosages of insec ticides and fungicides on edible crops. Follow directions carefully, and never apply more than ommended. "* Georgia. South Carolina . co5> * * ???? :? .??. ? -...?? ;'? . LET'S BETTER THIS SITUATION VOTE DEMOCRATIC LORANZO SMATHERS. HAYWOOD CHAIRMAN iear Senator Scott A t Clyde Nov. 1-7:30 Paid AdvrrtUtmeat k I