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V. POLK COUNTY NEWS m rhu i>h< ?<* ,v. i PUS |i &Gfe.. -Ir-^ + 1 _ _ _ ; -:- AG1 * D^ll x fmi out doubt, the highest authority or th<* subject. Address all inquiries V) William A Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago. *111., and cmly inclose two-cant stamp for reply Corn, do mutter how good at shrn-ktime, rapidly loses Its value unless tt Is housed where It will he safe from lets and Hie ravages of weather. Those farmers who have a good modern erib and granary' have no reason to fear that the corn they store will not he as good In May as It was when It was stored away. It has Lost none of its feeding value and the same quantity that was stored Is available for sale or feeding when spring routes. The modern corn crib, such as shown In the illustration, Is designed to house corn find grnln so that it will be protected until such a time as it STATE ADA HORTICULT North Carolina 1* nautrally a horticultural state. Shipments of fruits ana vegetables from commercial centers are on the increaBe as shown by the fact that 15,421 carloads of such shipments went out last year as compared to 5^84 in 1920. These shipments Included apples, peaches, strawberries, Irish potatoes, dewberries, watermelons cantaloupes and all varieties of vegetables from the lower coastal plain. The farmers and their wives are also awankening to the value of the home garden as shown by the fact that 3,320 persons enrolled in a state-wide garden contest put on last year. Improved garden practices were adopted by 11,000 homes and over 1,000 individuals put in wintpr srnrripTiR fn?- th^ firaf flmo last year. The folks have realized, too, that a farm must be well terraced or drained to conserve moisture and th esoll. They are therefore calling on the college for aid in terracing and in draining land that better crop yields may be secured and the fertility of the land be not Imparled. They want better farm bulidnga ruin vuu Modern Corn Crib Protection Fro | i ii J Corn Crip I -2 Or**iha To? 3a?u.*(Tl>RAa ~S T " ! V o Drive Way I n o [ iH- r jo'-o jfTj^CoRN CBift COR i fbk 3meli.ex Drao ^ ' . |E ^ScainWIC \/ < * COR1 By WILLIAM A. RADFORD Mr. William A. Kadford will answer questions and give advice FRKE OF COST on all problems pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, Cor ,the readers of this paper On account of his wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, he is. with POL UCULTl mty C rhat Provides m Rats and Weather L I I =3jg=: . i^Sti I ; raj if *ltp?p n crip coknckip'"'| ????? i Corn Crid r^XI ^ Grids ! 14, marketed. This building is set on 1 a concrete foundation and has a eon- I crete floor. There are no rats under j the floor and if there should be, the animals have no chance to get at the I stored grain. The building itself Is of frume construction, tlie sides lieing of crtb siding, each piece of lumber set far enough apart to permit a good circulation of air to prevent heating or molding, and still close enough to 1 one another to keep out .rain and snow. I The building is gfi feel wide and ; 50 feet long. A ten-foot driveway | 1 runs through the center and on each ! side are double cribs. Overhead there are four grain bins, over the driveway. ' The cupola permits a power elevator j with adjustable spout so that the ear corn can be spouted to either of the i cribs, or the grain Into the bins. *1 This 'is the sort of building that pays dividends on the investment year | after year in cutting the labor cost of handling the crops and in keeping 1 them in the best possible condition untfl the markets are favorable. PTED TO UKAL (JKOFS I silos barns, poultry houses and | dwellings and so the farm engineering department has found itself with more calls on its hands than it can answer. There Is tremendous Interest in water works for the farm home and many of the leading farmers are now putting In these necessary conveniences. It appears, therefore, that North Carolina is awake to the possibilities of improved agriculture. The rural population is no less progessive than the business or urban groups. All ov,e rthe state there is a new consciousness. The farmer is no longer isolated as he once was. lie has his roads, his truck his morning newspaper, his agricultural paper, his radio, his bath tub and bis pleasure car. He attends the movies aim uie snows. his range of vision is enlarged and he has entered up a new era in North Carolina. The whole is reflected in better homes, more fertile farms and a brighter and more progressive group of people in the country-side of the state, ______ V K COUNTY A JKAL St Is Greai AGENCIES THAT ARE BEHIND FARM WORK Agricultural Progress of North Carolina Linked Up With Progress Made by the North Carolina Agricultural ExperiMent Stations and the N. C. Agricultural Extension Service?Details of the Advances Made Along Many Lines liy F. H. Jeter, Agricultural Editor North Carolina State College Agricultural progress in North Carolina has beeu definitely linked up with the progress made by the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment station and the North Carolina Agricultural Extension service These two agricultural institutions which are now Important parts of i he School of Agriculture at State college have furnished valuable leadership for over a Quarter of a century, formerly, the state department of agriculture and the State college acting in co-operation, s ipported research and extension ami the combination of funds and personnel did much to strengthen agricultural work in the state at a time when such a combination was absolutely necessary. in late yearsf however jtlj of the educational work in agriculture has been under the supervision of the college. The increase in funds fur nished by (Jhe , Co-operative Extension Act and the recent Purnell bill has made " possible for the college to expand its services and to give . a i ..n 9 ft nr?/,aii)n (r ill It/Ill It'll IQ iuuai VI ^ Uiu agricultural problems. WORK OF COLLEGE How well this work has been done Is revealed In the eleventh annu&l report of extension work now being printed. The report show that the college gives aid In nearly all of the leading agricultural counties. This aid is extended through the county home and farm agents and by extension specialists traveling out from the college all over the state. These workers have made It possible for the prospective farmer to get, rigl^t start, to (slimlnsfe mistakes and to grow those crops and clases of livestock suited to his soil, climatic and market conditions In spite of a bad crop year in 1925 the farmers of the state continued to make progress. So intense was the drouth in some sections of the state that many streams ceased to follow, old forest trees died for lack of moisture and the records show that it was the hottest and driest Beason since official records have been kept- In the coastal plain area, however, there were frequent showers and good crop yields, on the whole, were main t aiiied. INFORMS THE PEOPLE The agricultural extension division of State college has an Information service which keeps th? people of the state informed through the press of the state of the latest findings about modern methods of farming. The division prints and distributes bulletins and circulars on the more Important matters and distributes these free of charge to those who request them. During the past year 155,500 copies of such publications were printed *nd dls ** / CHIEVEMEN' f IT TT npT iijfiLil VEWi iCTION t Asset 1 trlbuted in addition to the news i material and Information printed by leading, progressive papers such as , The Charlotte Observer. In the farm demonstration divl-1 sion there are seventy-five of the I 100 counties supplied with farm j agent sand in a number of coun-1 ties these men were supplied with j """I"'" " - In na rrv nn the WOrk With j aooioiaiiLo tw v??. w? olub boys and girls. The records Bhow ihat these men worked In 971 communitie a where 317 junior leaders aud 1,443 adult leaders aided the agents In the extension program, j The farm agents organized 171 [ clubs for junior work and 309 clubs j for adult work. In these clubs was J a membership of 1(505 boys, 484 girls> 8,858 men and 2,034 women. Nearly al lof the club members did j the work outlined for them and made reports of their activities. Not only do the agents spend most of their time in the field but they also make visits to the individual farms and advise with the owners as to the best agricultural practices. They hold a great number of meetings which are addressed by some of the specialists from the col- j lege. In this way, the People reached run into the hundreds of thousands. Nor is the work confined alone to j white,, farmers. In the more thickly populated n^gro communities. The college has 20 local agents at work. These men stress, especially, the i lirejafc-home ideh among the peo-1 pie of their race. THOUSAND OF FARM HOMES REACHED With farm women, there are fifty-two counties which have home demonstration agents employed. In six counties negro home agents are sewing, home furnishing and beautification, home management, nutrition and foods, home health and sanitation, arts and crafts and home marketing. In marketing alone, | rural women of North Carolina added $221,996.78 to their income by selling on the curb markets i maintained by the agents. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO YOUNG PEOPLE Agricultural club work will al- j ways be one of the major projects of the extension service. The young people of the farm are in a position to take tlie training offftred by the extension workers and to apply this to the farm and home life -for a long period of years. Last year there were 974 organized clubs of young people with a membership of 2^582 j members receiving definite detailed j instruction. A large percentage of these young floks carried theh^work through to completion and made re- i ports of their results. The results show that they made good yields of crops, that they had learned how to i care for their livestock or gardens j and that they could sew or cook j with the best of the adult^. PROGRESS MADE IN DAIRYING Thework in dairy extension alone ! would probably justify the existence of the extension division. This | group ot workers has aided in es-! tablishing creameries and cheese J facories;in bringing in pure bred cattle to replace scrub stock; in | factories; in bringing in pure bred feeding and care of pure bred cattle and in buliding silos, barns, and other outhouses for the successful handling of the dairy industry. Cow testing associations are being organized over the state. Last year there were five such active associations at work comprising 108 herds in the membership and over 3,000 cows. Especially significant was the reOVERBROOK ORC r fC E L E B R A T'.' JRAL j |BM IN W. iN ro This ( suit of a pure bred sire campaign i put oil last year In which 198 new I pare bred bulls were placed In 12 countyes. Th^ creameries of the state ; last year produced 1,677,000 pounds of butter and were supplied cream by 7,650 farmers who received over 1^65^00 for their prod net. Other creameries are being organized where the number of cows in a territory warrant such action. The j work with swine has continued to be one of the most popular phased of agriculture work. The tanners of the state are rapidly learning that pork may be produced as cheaply and marketed as efficiently in North Carolina as in the corn belt and some farmers are now actually growing corn for th? sole p.irpose of feeding it to pigs. Only swine fed an fattened according to he recommendations of the college workers w^as shipped^ from New Kern [to the Richmond market. During tljat same week 25 cars went lrom other counties and the movement is growing. The workers in this division conducted 107 accurate swine feeding demonstrations last \ ear und proved that hogs may be properly fed and finished an^ then old it the right time to secure the maxiiium profits. The North Caroina 'armer is rapidly learning that lie ei.n put hogs on the large markets during the first of April and i lie ijirst of September when the marki't is high. He can also finish these] hogs so that they will commandj the best possible prices. Great Interest In Poultry Poultry is rapidy becoming one , f th great cash crops of the North Carolina farm. Situated as he is withi.i s'riking distance of the great consuming markets of the east^ the Tarheel farmer has gone into the '' - ? * ? poultry same in a large way. ?^r operative car lot marketing of poul- J try is being fostered by the extension division and has meant the bring ng in of many thousand dol- J pirs of cash at a time when such mouejy is badly needed. All over | the s tate are new poultry houses j being erected, the baby chick busi-1 tiess is growing aid pure bred flocks are apidly replacing the old scrub i stock of former days. The boys and girls are finding that they can ' produce birds which will rival the : best production of the fanciers as ! shown in the great poultry shows of thje country. Buk. it is not alone with dairy cattle swine and poultry that good results] are being secured. With fiel/ cropi, soil fertilityj pastures, tobacco, insect and plant disease control, horticulture and agricultural engineer ng great strides are also being mad'5l The extension workers have realized that communities must specialize on the growing of a few varieties of the major field crops for Ibest results and now with cotton |alone, fully 76 percent of the cott<j>n grown in the state is of the Mexican or Cleveland varieties. Cori^ varieties are also being improved and better yields per acre with the same labor and cultivation are being secured. It has been ealized also that the success of i livestock growing in the pastures i and hay crops. The extension ser vice has recently added a pasture 1 specialist who gives his sole time 1 to finding out the best grass mixtures to plant for a given locality. ' Last year, the pasture acreage of '< the state was doubled. ? ^ The work In fighting the boll < weevil is an important matter to < the cotton farmer. Last year North i Carolina wa sone of the first states < of the south to adopt ariplane dust- 1 ing. Excellent results were obts^-11 HARD, SALUDA, N. C. [ON * ' *' ? I * r J. C. GR] * * Zomniunr CLUB HAS MEIMBl Regular Meetings And Are Lar By MAE IRENE FLYNTE In December 1924 a meeting ol representatives citizens was held it Columbus, N C. at the Boxwaad Inn. There were about sixty preseni and after some toasts and shorl speeches the matter of organizing a club in Polk County along the lines of the one which was func tioning so successfully in Ruther ford County was considered, and n committee consisting of Dr. E. Mc y<ieen Sally F_ \V. Blanton, and J R. Sams was appointed and instruct ed to attend the next meeting of th? Rutherford County Club and get al possible data as to objects and methods of organization. This committee attended the Jan uary meeting of therf"Rutherford County Club and brought a copy ol the by-laws and plenty of enthusiasm borne with them. A meeting was held at the Boxwood Inn on March 18 to complete a permanent organi zation_ At this meeting Mr. Blanton acted as temporary Chairman and W. S, Green as temporary secretary. The report of the committee was unanimously adopted and by-laws ordered printed and a nominating committee appointed and the Polk County organization became a younger brother of the Rutherford County organization. The officers elected for 1925 were as follows: President^ F# W. Blanton; Vice President, E. B. Cloud; Sargeant at ?rma P I I .vneh Dironfnro _T W - "J"-". ?' , - Brown, Mrs. J. W. Mclintosh, Mrs. H. P. Corwith, and J. I. Branscomb. Mae Irene Flentye was elected Secretary by the Board of Directors and Miss Minnie Arledge Treasurer. Durinfe 1925 the club held U(ine meetings, one at each of the folIowipg places Tryon, Saluda, Greens Creek, Mill Springy and Rutherdfordton and the balance at Columbus. It had the peasure of having as out of town speakers the following: Prof. C. L. Newman of the Progressive Faimer; Mr. Goodman, Supervisor of County Agents of the Mountain District; Miss Creighton; Supervisor of Home Agents; P. L. Wright of Hendersonville; Mr. Fred ed by this method on some 3,000 acres in te lower cotton belt of the state. The work , with ground machines was also fostered and the weevil has done less damage in North Carolina than in any other 3tate. This, of course, has been lue in a large measure to excellent weather conditions during the time the weevil is normally most prevalent and most dangerous. Bee-keeping is another new venture in North Carolina. Farmers ire learning that incomes of from ?3^000 to $6,000 per year may be asily secured by keeping several lolonles of bees and permittin gthe Meets to feast on the great abunlance of honey producing plants .vhich grow in profusion all oyer be state. j jj Jf i* " ' IMS! J eat ^ * ty Cert, I B ? M I ii .^ i NlftNY ERS Nil Ave Held Mol gely Attended I In::.iv Huihtrloriios, ; , I),,:: t'narlone; fit^ ; .h. ' Nor: t Mr. ?: sukpioa d pia^ i; K >: ' . .re o! 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