THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1943
THE NEWS - JOURNAL, RAEFORD, N. C.
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Improve Woodland
By Cutting Pulpwood
job I.-, a profit by cutting poorer,
crowded trees f o pulnwo'd. which is
hnrlv nppHeri in th war pffnrt. arenrH
ling to J. C. Hutchinson, assistant soil
Farmers who have stands cf young I conservationist, rf the Pee Dee-Cape
pines which are ready tor thinning, j fear oil conservation district,
can turn this woodland improvement The foil . wing signs indicate that
young pines are ready for Mid need
thinning.
1. Dead lower branches due to in-cr-.asing
competiti n. This begins to
occur after the younij trees have com
pletely covere.l the gr.und and the
lower blanches brcomo shaded.
When bionches are dead up to about
one-third of flip tutnl heii'ht of the
trees, it is a pretty good sign that !
thinning is advisable. i
2. As to age, normally when pines
having a spacing of ab ut six feet or '
less apait become 10 to 15 years of
age, depending chiefly upon varying j
site e nditions, they are ready for the
lUSl UllllOUlg.
3. The presence of dead or dying
trees thai have become ovei topped in
their struggle? t. r exisiance. This is
one of the easiest signs to see. It
means that if thinning is not done to
salvage these crwded-out trees, us
abl" material will be lost.
If selective cutting is used and trees
which are least desirable for other
uses are removed for pulpwo-'d the :
stand actually will be improved by
the thinning operations and the 1
gr . wth of the thrifty trees of desi a- 1
ble specks will be promoted.
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CHICKS
Reports f om the USDA indicate :
that the 2.712 hatcheries cooperating
in the national poultry improvement
plan produced nearly half a billion
chicks during the 1942-43 season.
This breaks all records.
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IMPORT FEED ' MEAL
The CCC has recently negotiated
the purchase of 40,000 t ns of cotton
seed meal for importation from Bra
zil. Some cf this meal has already
arrived in this country.
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A recent survey shows that the
.s'ock of vegetable seed on hand as of
June 30 was 32 per cent above the
amount held at this sa.re time last
year, but the supply was below the av
erage generally available at that
date.
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Total milk output has been increas
ed almost 10 billion pounds since 19
40, but is now at about the highest
level which can be expected under
present conciti. ns.
Museum Now Has
Pigmy Rattler
Halcigh, N. C, Sept. 14. The State
Museum received its first live pigmy
rattle-snake last week. Although
nly 18 inches in length, the rattler
is lull-grown and is just as vicious as
the larger specimens, according to
Harry Davis, museum director. The
new museum attraction has three
'attics and a butt n. the size of pin
heads.
Douglas Jones, 15-year-old Boy
Scout naturalist of S. uthport captur
ed the snake on the Orton Plantation
POOLE'S MEDLEY
By D. SCOTT POOI.E
I remember well how scarce food
was during the latter days of the
Southern Confederacy. The SouUh
clothed her soldiers, and much of
the clothing was made by women in
their homes.
They picked the seed out of the
cation, carded it, spun it wove it
into cloth and made that cloth into
garments. Women knitted as they
walked along the road going any
where. There was no time lost. I
picked my little pile of seed cotton
before I was allowed to go to bed.
"Whj cares for the homespun
dresses Southern ladies wear," was
sung in earnest. And this homemade
clothes business went on some years
after the close cf the war. The South
was bankrupt, crushed, and mis
ruled alter the was over.
Cotton sold in the fall of 1865 for
50 cents per pound, and other pro
duce was in demand, and sold well
I heard old men speak of it after
years had passed, how crops grew
and stock thrived following the Civil
War. But in 1873 cotton dropped to
7 or 8 cents per pound, and the av
erage price for the next 30 years
was 8 and one half cents.
I went to Fayetteville for the first
time in November, 1868. I still re
member the little oxcarts with which
Negroes hauled little loads of wood
to town. The streets of the town were
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ItEDDY KIIWT
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"Thert is no shortage of
cfn'e power .-rv and there
will be nont-ir. for wor
end. essential civilon reejurez
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J. A. KBUC,' DfracFor
Offic tt War (Mtwt
Cm 'dfr gv&t Wtone h
"Th War Production Board hat proclaimed nW maxU '
im war production roqulrei tho aroatotl DouibU conMrva- i '
Hon of manpower, transportation, fuel, equipment and critical 1
material such a copper, eteel, tungsten and many others'
much greater than has been heretofore accomplished. It j
haliavM that thl. null, r...n..U. -- k. nnli.k4 kw
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the voluntary cooperation of all t Itiiens of our country in the
effort."
YOU CAN HELP SPEED VICTORY BY SAVING
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Man-power
Transportation
' Vital materials
4 Since Pearl Harbor there has not been a single Instance .
of shortage of electricity in the whole United States for any
war production ob for any user; home, farm, office, store or -factory.
Even though this country has more electricity than
all the Axis nations combined we are asked to use it wisely' ,
during this conservation program. Any reduction you can
safely make in its use will reduce the amount of fuel needed
to make it.
That will mean fewer freight cars to haul it and fewer
man hours to handle it. More cars and more men w'll bej
available for the war effort. Each little bit that you save,?
multiplied by thousands of other Americans, will be an!
Important contribution to the Voluntary Conservation Pro
grant. Help Win the War-by Saving Mere! If youjtayelanv '
questions, .telephone? write tT -
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LAMOUR'S ALLURE is obviously not confined to a sarong.
The delectable Dottie is gorgeous in s bathing suit and, as her current
picture, "Diiie," proves, can be just is glamorouB in crinolines and
hoop skirts. In that film she's the heart throb of Bing Crosby who
plays Daniel Decatur Eminett, America's original minstrel man.
working alive with these little carts,!
covered wagrons, and drays. Every ;
where was working alive with the.n.
From the wagons everything known j
in the country was sold, possums. :
coons, rabbits, wild Uirkeysi cotton, j
chickens, butter and eggs. !
Brother John and I went down
that creek McNeill's mill is on untill j
we found Cross Creek. He would i
throw sticks into one stream and 1 1
into the other, and they always shot
across. We learned to notice the
street numbers and we did not get ,
lost.
There were several wagonyards ;
in the town, and the owners allowed
the campers to sleep in a room in
a building in front of the wagon
yards. This first time I went to town,
the streets were very bad. One mud
hole joined on to another. And,
there was no paving in that city un
till 1910. A water and sewerage sys
tem was put in in 1908.
The town of Fayetteville lost
heavily on plank roads. The Civil
War robbed it of its manpower: the
Yankees burned the town in March,
1865. The town and the adjoining
country around invested alll they
raise in railroads. These named in
vestments caused banks to break.
The stockholders had $8,000,000 in
railroads paid for, and they invol
ved that to build a railroad down the
Cape Fdar to Wilmington, which
cost $3,000,000 and that swa.nped the
the whole $11,000,000.
We all spend good money alter
bad. We all get cheated by those
we do not suspect. There ise some
body settin for all any of us have.
Circumstances change people's mi
and often their characters. I have
had numbers of subscribers to not
pay their subscription until the lat
ter part of the year, and make that
pay for two years. Good folks often
did that .
Folks take up stray stock, and
say nothing about it. I have adver
tised stray pigs, and the fellow who
took up such and advertised them
did not find an owner nor pay for
the ad.
The meanest man I ever heard ol
was one who in a copartnership wilti
his son-in-law bought a cow, and
afterward claimed he bought the
rear part and he got all the milk,
while his son-in-law had to feed
the cow.
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BEESWAX
More than a million pounds of bev.
wax a year needed for use in war
products, adhesives. waterproofing
for srells, belts, machinery, and pro
tective covering for fighting planes.
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Silk made from seaweed is declar
ed a possibility in England.
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IN THE NAVY t
they say: "SACK" f td
"BOOT CAMP for
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for water mised
with soap powder
CAMEL for the favorite
Offarette with men in the Navy
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The favorite cigarette with
men in the Navy, the Arm?,
the Marines, and the Coaac
Guard is Camel. (Based OS
actual tales rciords.)
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Stumpage Wanted
Timber owners in the Sandhill section with Pine or Hard
wood stumpage for sale are urged to write to:
Wood and Land Department
NORTH CAROLINA PULP CO.
PLYMOUTH, N. C.
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