INTERESTING FARM NEWS
MORE RED MEAT
FROM NEW PASTURES
Every basic crop producer has
ample provide him
self and his with plenty
of red meat, milk, and dairy
products, now that the crop ad
justment program is under way,
says L. I. Case, animal husband
man at State College.
With the reduction of basic crops
—cqtton, tobacco, corn, hogs,
wheat, and the like—certain acre:
ages must be set aside. Much of
I the land thus retired is suited for
pasture, Case says, and should be
used as such.
Case advises the use of beef
cows that are fairly good milkers.
In this way, the landowner may
be provided with all the milk and
cream his family needs and at the
same time be able to raise calves
into good beef animals.
Beef that is not consumed fresh
after the slaughter can well be
canned for consumption through
j,i out the year. Beef is produced on
the acreages retired from the pro
duction of basic crops cannot be
marked, Case warned.
Two acres of good pasture are
needed for each cow. A ton and
' ' a half of hay and 12 bushels of
corn, or the equivalent, should also
be provided for each animal.
Case urged farmers to seed pas
ture lands where they do not al
ready have a good stand of grasses.
On soils of the Coastal
Plaif.' a seed mixture of: carpet
grass, pounds; lespedeza, 15
Ipoundkjiiind dallis grass, 5 pounds,
has proved good.
On coarse, sandy soils the fol
lowing mixture is good: Bermuda,
6 pounds; dallis grass, 6 pounds
and lespedeza, 18 pounds. On
black, peaty spils blue grass and
herds grass with lespedeza a ret
NO CASH CkOP
ON RENTED LAND
Dean I. 0. Schaub of State Col
lege has explained the following
points in regard to growing crops
on land retired from cultivation
under the crop reduction contracts.
The contracts allow growers to
use the rented acres to grow feed,
food, soil-building, or erosion pre
vention crops, provided none of
them are offered for sale.
Since the contracts also specify
that the growers are not to in
crease any of their other salable
crops when they reduce the one
•covered by the contract, a number
■of growers have gotten the idea
that it will be all right to grow a
cash crop on the rented acreage so
long as they do not increase the
, IHfe ' amount of that crop.
' lKfo> other words . the dean said, if
heretofore has been
growing two acres of garden truck
for sale, he may grow the same
amount of truck, but not on the
rented acres.
To do so- would be a violation of
the contract, the dean emphasized.
(Likewise, growers cannot shift
part of their cotton crop to land
retired from tobacco acreage or
part of their -tobacco crop to land
retired from cotton, even though
the total acreage of each crop is
not increased thereby.
The contracts specify that a cer
tain amount of land is to be re
tired from the production of cash
crops. That land and no other
must be set aside as the rented
acreage.
FREE CURRENT TO TEST
POSSIBLE DEMAND
San Francisco. During April
and May domestic consumers of
two California power companies
will be given all the current they
cpn use without waste at a charge
equal to what they paid the pre
| ceding month.
A heavy run-off of water from
Sierra watersheds affords the com
-4 pany a considerable surplus of
lA electricity, and the experiment, it
J | jjfc-a believed, will give some indica-
MI fit on of the maximum consumption i
Ifelectricity in the area affected.
J the test shows a material in
, the companies hope to be
to make permanently avail-
Ve to domestic consumers more
Kictricity for the same average
| P START TRADE WAR
1 ft London.—British retaliatory tar
flfll Iffs against French goods have
1| li gone into effect. Recently, France
K A reduced the quota of British goods
111 that could be imported into France.
IJB The two nations are in a real trade
IS War. Following the British move,
111 the French denounced existing com-
LSs mercial treaties.
RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
USE FULGHUM OATS
FOR SPRING HAY
Recent freezes having played
havoc with small grain and hay
crops planted last fall, many
dairymen and others have been
seeking information about crops
that may be planted now and will
produce an early crop of hay this
spring.
John A. Arey, dairy extension
specialist at State College, recom
mends Fulghum oats for this pur
pose. However, the oats must be
heavily seeded where the crop is
to be cut for hay. At least three
bushels of seed must be used per
acre.
"If Fulghum oats are planted as
soon as the soil will permit, they
will make a larger yield of spring
hay than any other crop that may
be planted at this time," says Mr.
Arey. "In tests made "at the
Upper Coastal Plain branch sta
tion near Rocky Mount, this va
riety of oats produced 2,400 pounds
of hay per acre.
Mr. Arey also points out that
where the crops planted last fall
were well fertilized, it may not be
Necessary to add further fertilizer
under the oats at planting. How
ever, an application of about 100
pounds of nitrate of soda or some
other quickly available nitrogen
material will be highly beneficial.
Apply the nitrate when the oat
plants are from four to six inches
high.
Planting a crop 0 f spring oats
will aid dairymen over a tight
period when hay and forage of all
kinds will be scarce, Mr. Arey says.
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SELECT CLUB MEMBERS
FOR NATIONAL CAMP
Four 4-H club members, two
girls anS two boys, will be select
ed shortly by the Agricultural Ex
tension Service of State College to
attend the National 4-H club camp
at Washington to be held June 14
to 20, inclusive.
"The national camp is held an
nually, and is regarded by exten
sion workers both In Washington
and in the 48 states as the leading
club event of the year," says L.
R. Harrill, state club leader. "To
be selected as a delegate to this
camp is generally considered as
the greatest honor that can come
to a 4-H club member. The four
delegates from North Carolina to
gether with four others from each
of the remaining 47 states of the
Union are selected from a mem
bership of about one million club
members. In North Carolina, the
four delegates will represent about
30,000 club members."
To be selected as a delegate to
the national camp, a club member
must be at least 15 years of age,
must have completed three or
more years of club work, being ac
tive in 1933, and must be able to
furnish complete records on his
club projects for the three years.
Selection of the delegate will be
based upon the club members' re
port, the part he has taken in
community activities and the writ
ten story of his experiences and
results as a club member.
Mr. Harrill says' speakers of
national prominence will be on the
program of the Washington camp.
In addition, there will be trips
made to all the interesting anu
historical points about the National
Capital. All of the principal gov
ernmental departments will be
visited and studied.
NO PARK FOR NUDISTS
Los Angeles.—The City Council
refused to set aside a part of one
of the city parks for nudists, de
claring it would not be a proper
use of public property.
BIG BUSINESS TEACHES—
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Sttcntftlien 0 eonse rvative borrowing
* when the need arises is sound
your position iff financial practice. Individuals
by (m->erva 0811 ene^'t adopting the
j . same policy. A loan obtained
SDOrrOWIT# MStßjpSS?' here for improving your sta-
HkSfm m tion * n or any other
—iqually worthwhile purpose
HQ£ costs but little. And it can
be conveniently repaid out of
City Industrial Bank
"THE BANK THAT SERVES THE PEOPLE"
—Member Federal Deposit Insurance* Corporation—
THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934
NORTH CAROLINA RANKS
4TH IN CROP VALUES
Raleigh.—Last year, North Caro
lina regained its rank of fourth
amongst the States in the total
farm value of principal field crops
grown. In 1933, the State's total
crop value was 85 per cent more
than in 1932. With a total of
$353,378,000, Texas ranked first;
California was second with $277,-
077,000; lowa, third, with $214,-
492,000; North Carolina, fourth,
with $192,595,000, followed by Illi
nois, fifth, with $158,653,000. This
State has not held so high a place
since the post-war period 1919-
1923. At that time crop values
were far in excess of those at
present, so that in 1922 when North
Carolina was 4th in value of the
22 principal crops,hhre r total crop
value was $342,637,000, almost as
high as the present value shown
by Texas crops. So that our high
rank at present is comparative
only and does not mean that we,
have recovered the high valfles of J
the post-war period. The higher
1933 crop values in this State are
the results of a general price in
crease, together with acreage in
creases in many major crops, and
a favorable crop year with improv
ed yields in most crops.
The cotton acreage which had
shown a slight increase in plant
ings, was reduced 13 per cent in
acres for harvest by removal from
cultivation of 225,000 (plowed up).
The per acre yield of lint at 303
pounds was 51 pounds heavier
than in 1932 and was the highest
since 1926. The average price per
pound at 10c 6hows a total value
of $33,465,000, this being $13,000,-
000 more than in 1932.
The tobacco crop, valued at sß3*-
553,000, was $48,000,000 above
1932. The 1933 acreage was in
creased 43 per cent over 1932, and
the price per pound was also sub
stantially increased.
As evidence of the substantial
price increases, the following crops
with decreased acreages show in
creased values: Tame hay acreage
92 per cent of 1932, value 124 per
cent of 1932 value; annual legume
hay acreage 81 per cent, value 114
per cent; rye acreage 94 per cent,
value 128 per cent; sorghum syrup
acreage 86 per cent, value 123 per
cent; sweet potatoes acreage 90
per cent, value 136 per cent; pea
nuts acreage 76.7 per cent, value
137 per cent.
With the exception of certain
commercial truck crops and some
minor field crops, all other crops
showed acreage increases in 1933.
North Carolina ranked 22nd in
total acreage i n all crops.
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HOd 33IAH3S IVIHQU
(Continued from nase one)
cept for six years during which
time he lived in Kinston, he prac
ticed in Nasi* County. He was
greatly beloved, having been active
in all movements for the good of
his community and section and
having won countless friends dur
ing his two score years of prac
tice.
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Ninety-nine per cent of the land
grown to tobacco in Person County
has been signed under reduction
contracts for 1934 and 1935, re
ports the farm agent.
A. HICKS
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132 San Set Ave., Phone 724
Rocky Mount, N. C.
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The President's Birthday
Party
Every one regardless of party
or religious affiliation was wishing
for the President a most happy
birthday on February 6. There
were a good many, however, who
had some question marks in their
minds as to the manner in which
the country observed the day. An
editorial in last week's Christian
Century, (which, by the way, is
quite liberal) gives expression to
sentiments which seem to us quite
wforthy of consideration.
"Somewhat tardily, but none the
less sincerely, The Christian Cen
tury extends to President Roose
velt its felicitations upon his birth
day. It is his frier.d, as everybody
1 is, and rejoices in his wellbeing
and hopes for his continued happi
ness. With such felicitations the
matter might well have been
dropped. There seeras to be no
particular reason why the country
should have indulged in maudlin
demonstrations of rapture. It does
not help the President in the per
formance of his tasks, nor will it
in the long run augment his per
sonal pleasure or give him a higher
niche in the hall of fame, to re
ceive congratulatory telegrams
with such extended lists of signa
tures that they must be delivered
in trucks, or to hear of birthday
dinners in his honor in a thousand
cities and, towns. These things
are a psychological contagion, like
the children's crusade. This coun
i try needs to learn how to be friend
ly, even affectionate, without being
! foolish and without permitting its
generous sentiments to be shame
fully exploited by interested par
ties. The telegrams and dinners
doubtless left Mr. Roosevelt grate
ful but more than a little em
barrassed. The night-club celebra
tions more or less for the benefit
of the Warm Springs foundation
must have produced genuine dis
tress. It is impossible to believe
that he enjoyed seeing his picture,
a little less than life size, at the
head of the three-column adver
tisement of a Dinner of Gratitude
from the Wine and Liquor Industry
to be held at the Hotel Roosevelt
in New York under the sponsor-
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 59
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Horizontal.
I—Affirmative
4—Frontiersman
10— Imitate
13— Make public
IR—I n terfere
17—Understood
10— Pertaining: to the foot
20—Vane
21—Boy'« name
22—Greek letter for "M"
24—Wield dlllyently
25—One In every needle
20—Tool for punchinf hole*
27—A nicer
20— Famous cross-word puzzle bird
31—Live
32 Having the color of raw allk
33—Molten roek
85—Preposition denoting; place
30—Takes food by violence
«7 Raise
38—Continent of western hemisphere
(abbr.)
40— Half an em (printing)
41—Humble
40— Finds fault with (coll.)
50— Zinc (chemical symbol)
51—Beautiful
52—Weird
53—Jumbled type
54 Period of time (poetic)
50—Black, viscous substance
57—Every tennis court has one
58—To be atfected with pain
50—Juice of a plant
Gl—Thus
02—Thallium (symbol)
011—Study of birds (abbr.)
04— Disturbs
00—Hackneyed
05— Pin* on the end of which some
thing turns
70—Plant with blue bell-shaped
flowers
72—Highest card In suit In many
game*
'3—Pertaining to the phylum (sool.)
74—Conducted
Solution will appear In next Issue.
Answer to this puzz]
ship of the Spirits club. Every
night club in Chicago put on a big
party on the evening of the birth
day, in the name and under the
aegis of the President and the
beautiful charity which is dear to
him. The total proceeds for Warm
Springs, from night clubs and all
other sources in this district,
amounted to fifteen thousand dol
lars. One concludes that this con
gratulatory and charitable debauch
was not altogether without profit
to its promoters. The President's
friends—that is, everybody except
those who made the most noise
about the celebration of his birth
day and made the most money out
of it—ought to save him from a
repetition of this sort of thing next
year. He gains nothing by being
enshrined as the patron saint of
the liquor industry or by being
made the object of a hysteria of
felicitations. Christmas and the
Fourth of July are still our major
celebrations—not the President's
birthday."
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The Dogs Must Be Very-
Hungry
My grand-dad, raising Duroc hogs,
Said, "Things are going to the
dogs."
His grand-dad, in his house of logs,
Said "Things are going to the
dogs."
His grand-dad, in his English bog s .,
Said, "Things are going to the
dogs."
His grand-dad in his old skin togs,
Said, "Things are going to the
dogs."
But here and now I wish to state
Those dogs have had a good long
wait.
What Determines Destiny
"One ship sails East
And another West,
By the selfsame winds that blow;
Tis the of the sails
And not the gales
That tells them the way t? go."
"Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time
As we voyage along through life;
'Tis the set of the soul
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife."
Vertical.
I—Domesticated o* of Thibet
58—Affected with boredom
3—To breathe when asleep with a
hoarse vibratory noise
4—Play on words
5 Preposition
6 Eyelike spot of color (BOOI.)
7—Point of compass (abbr.)
B—Printing measure
U—ltlhhed fabric
10—Muddle
11—Pal
115—The same old fis!i
14— Possess
10— Deputy (abbr,)
18—Grin
21—Askew
23—European mountr.la range
25 Stain black
2(l—o n e
28—First woman
80—Kitchen accessory
32—The letters King Edward signed
after hls> name
34—Roadway (abbr.)
39—One who believes all knowledge
Is relative and uncertain
42—Preposition
43—Night bird
44—Oldest division of the European
Jurassic system (ffeol.)
45—Don't make them and you'll
solve this pussle
40—Middle position
47—Spool
48—Skill
40— Preposition
53—Pivot pin, as of a hln^e
55 liiKenuouN
58—Spirit In Shakespeare's "The
Tempest"
00—Short for an athlete who ac
cepts money for services
03—Eye (poetic)
04—Mineral spring
05—Depot (abbr.)
0(1—Boy's nickname
07—Former days (poetic)
00—Chemical symbol for til
70—Personal pronoun
71—Eastern state (abbr.) ,
le found on page six ~
REYNOLDS ANNOUNCES
DEPUTY MARSHALS
(Continued from Dag e one)
ing and well qualified, and all of
whom were highly indorsed by
some of the leading citizens of the
state.
He added there are 26 counties
in the middle federal district and,
in view of the fact that he only
had five deputy marshals for that
district, he could not name one
man from each and every county.
—Greensboro Daily News.
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Senate repasses bill barring
loans to defaulting nations.
Phone 845
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AT YOUR SERVICE DAILY
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TOBACCO FLUES
Roofing of all Kind, Guttering, Spouting, Cornice Work
Skylights and Ventilating
# Telephone 1746 118 Sunset Ave.
Rocky Mount, N. C.
MAY & GORHAM
Druggists
FIVE POINTS
PHONE 200
WE INVITE YOUR PATRONAGE
DRIVE THE
NEW
FORD
V-8
Before You Buy
Any Car
We Have a Complete
Line of Cars in Stock
For Immed
Delivery
*
Twin County
Motor Co.
20 PER CENT SUBNORMAL
London.—That twenty per cent
of the population is subnormal in
intellectual capacity is the concltfr*
sion of Sir C. G. Robertson, prm»
cipal of an English university. H*
says that at most only five per
cent have really first-rate brains.
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SHOT IN AMATEUR PLAY
Vegreville, Alta. Andrew T»-
resio, 18, was critically wounded
in a stage performance when paper
wadding from a blank cartridge
penetrated his abdomen.