THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1932.
THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN. SELMA. N. C.
News of Interest to Farmers of Johnston and Adjoining Counties
State Needs More Sheep
And More Beef Cattle
JFor the mountain section of North
Carolina the production of feeder
cattle should be continued in spite
. of present low prices for beef and
in the piedmont and coastal counties,
the plan of fattening such feeder
cattle for- market might be a profit
able method of using- the surplus
feedstuffs. 
Where sufficient pasture can be
■grown economically, the keeping of
a cow herd and the fattening and
marketing of the calves at from 8
to 12 months of age will offer a
dependable source of income. If it
is imtiractical to keep a breeding
herd, it is probably best to buy the
feeder cattle from the mountain
breeding- grounds and fatten them
for market, especially where the buy
er has sufficient feed on hand.
The mountain area aj -well as the
foothills and piedmont section is also
ideally suited to the production of
sheep. Kvei-y piedmont farm should
have a farm flpck of sheep anl in
the higher altitudes the production
of market lambs might continue to
be a good farm program.
These give in a brief way some
of the recommendations made by
farmers attending' the regional agri
cultural conference held in the west
ern part of the State this winter.
These western farmers say there
are gcrod permanent pastures in the
mountain and foothill counties. The
climate is favorable; the drainage
is adequate and there is an abund
ance of land too steep and rough for
the profitable production , of o.ther
crops. Especially in these areas
shopld the growth of sheep and beef
Cattle be promoted, ‘ .
Down in the lowlands, the growers
.should buj* the feeder cattle fyr
fattening and keep only small flocks
of ,sheep.
These suggestions will be included
in the .li-\-estock program of State
College during the coming*few years^
says L. I. Case, animal husbandman.
FERTILIZER ESSENTIAL
IN GROWTH OF TOBACCO
RED LE.4E COTTON
l.S DANGER SIGNAL
■ The cotton growers who wants to
learn how easily different cotton
varieties mix with each other might
study the effect of red leaf in a
community. Seldom are any fields
of red leaf cotton found in North
Carolina, only one or two in any
community, but the effect of these
few fields is seen for miles round
about.
“When we find a field of the red
leaf cptton in a community, there
is a large percentage of the fields
of other varieties showing a mixture
of red plants,” says P. H. Kime,
plant breeder at State College, “The
amount of the mixtures may vary
from an occasional plant up to 20
percent or more. Planting seed saved
from a bale of cotton following a
bale of. the red leaf will contain
from 18 to 20 percent of mixture
and some mixture will be found in
the secoml, third .fourth and on up
probably to the tenth bale unless
the seed roll is dumped and the gin
cleaned after handling the red leaf
variety.”
Plant breeder Ivirae has also found
some mixture in the field due to
pollen mixing by bees and in.sects.
In one- community where all the
growers have united to gro-w an im
proved variety producing a good
medium .staple of one inch to one
and one-.sixteenth inch, a, grower
continues to plant "the red leaf
cotton. The other gi-rwer.« find it
'impossible to keep their improVatl
seed pure even though they take
every prcaution at thS gin. This
red leaf cotton is inferior and is
not proof ag-ain.st the boll weevil
as some uninformed growers .seem to
. think.
Request^ For Course
In Child Training
Rejuests have come to the- Home
-Demonstration office for a cour.sfe in
child ' training or parental, education.
The hofne agents believe thJt this is
one of tile big.gest phases of -home
.demonstration -work because the
..scientists tell us that a child’s idea
. of right and wrong is largely settled
before the chid is old enough to-go
to school, in" fact, the first^
years of a child's life are now con-
■ sitlefed fhd most lihpoBtaht'“in"cTiil(r
' training. That makes it irn'po.ssiblb’
for the, parents'to lay tjie blanie bit
■ the schools or the ehurch ’for' failure,
,in child development. We hope that'
there are', d great many whoAvil!
, ihterested in a class •w''hic’b'Is freijig’
'ifstarfeVl through the Hbnie' De'mon-
(JOHN R. MORRIS)
E. Y. Floyd, state extension to
bacco specialist, has just completed
a recent speaking tour of several
of the important ^ tobacco producing
counties in this state. At- every
gathering, he urged the farmers who
were able to buy fertilizer sufficient
only for four acres of tobacco to
properly fertilize four acres instead
of stretching the fertilizer over
eight acres.
Even with reduced acreage, this
year the outlook for tobacco is not
bright, sapl Mr. Floyd. He said the
carryover apd the.drop in consump
tion will make for as much tobacco
next -fall as was on hand the past
fall. ,
“Make good quality tobacco,” ad-
vi.sed the specialist. “Farmers may
do this,” he adder, “using seed
which will produce cigarette tobqcco,
using best mixtures of fertilizer,
and by proper cultivation.”
To those farmers whp have not
planted their plant-bed or who last
week plowed up the seed plot for
fear that the seed would come up
too rapidly before transplanting
time, a suggestion is made that they
secure high grade seed .such as
White- Stem Orinoco, Cash, Bananza,
or Jamacai seed. Early preparations
.should be made so that plenty of
large plants will be available at
transplanting- time. A late tobacco
crop i.s always one of poor quality.
“Our demonstrations and experi
ments in this state have shown that
pn sandy loam .soils' best results I
are secured by using 1,000 to 1,200
pounds per acre of a Fertilizer mix
ture analyzing 8 per cent phosphoric
acid, 4 per cent ammonia and G per
cent potash. Tlie ammonia should be
derived as follows: 50 per cent from
inorganic materials, such as nitrate
of soda or sulphate, of ammonia; and
50 per cent from organic materials,
such as cottonseed meal, dried
blood, fi.sh meal, high grade tank
age and Peruvian guano. Two per
cent of the potash should be de
rived from high grade muriate' of
potash and four per cent frorti high
grade sulphate of potash, or prefer
ably sulphate of pota.sh-magnesia,”
Mr. Floyd said.
“For the heavier soils of the Pied
mont region, the san;.e ingredients
may be used as above, increasing
the phosphoric acid content in the
mixture up to 10 per cent.”
Turning to cultivation. Mr. Floyd
continued; “The proper cultivation of
tobacco is very important. By th.^
ridge method ofi cultivation you de
velop a splendid feeding-root sys
tem that will gro-w and mature the
tobacco under average conditions.
This method of cultivation over an
average of four years’ demonstra-
t'on.s has given us an increase in
yield in value to about $60.00 per
acre .over the comihon practice,
known as the flat method of culti
vation. The ridge method of culti
vation is explained and illustrated
in E.xtension Folder No. 27 which
may be secured by writing to the
Division of Publications,. N. C. State
College, Raleigh, N. C.
Lime In Fertilizers
Is New Farm Idea
The use of ground limestone as a
part of the fertilizer is a new farm
practice winning many followers
in ^’orth Cai'olina at the present
time.
Writing- recently in the Monroe
Journal. Zeb Green, a careful observ
er and writer about agricultural
matters, reports on the use of
ground limestone as a filler and
.gives instances where good farmers
in his^county are asking the fertiliz
er companies to use limestone as
filler material rather than sand pr
some other inert ingredient.
“If limestone had been used as
a filler in fertilizers for the past
five years in Union County, suffici
ent limestone -would have been de
posited in our soils to double the
yields of lespedeza and'‘soybeans and
to greatly increase the yields of
grains and other crops without ad
ditional cost to farmers/’ declared
Mr. Green.
These . observations now get
support from scientific sources as
a paper presented before the Ameri
can Society of Agronomy on Novem
ber 30 at Chicago, seems to indi
cate. The facts brought out in this
paper show tliat -while the limestone
required for good fertilizer practice
can be applied -as a broadcast ap
plication once every four or five
years and the method has been used
in experimental work and by good
farmers,, the plan is open to object
ion in that many farmers will neg
lect to lime ,their land in this way
until crops have been injured by ex
cessive acidity. Some do not use
good judgment in applying the lime
and many -will not lime' under any
conditions, . .
It apparently is the opinion of
many agronomists that Southern
farmer's will not buy much limestone
unless it can be produced as a con
stituent of their fertilizers. The-
amount of limestone secured thi.s
way each year will not be large, yet
will "be sufficient to overcome any
acidity in the fertilizer itself anil
will soon put the soil *in excellent
condition for best crop yields.
Winner In Meat Story
Contest Is Announced
WILL SEMO VOU
AM»THIS NEWSPAPER
Win Always Grow
Cotton and Tobacco
stration depa.rtment, in cooperation
with the Woman’s clubs, in a child
-training course fed by Jlr. Herbert
Massey, pastor, of the Baptist church
of Smithfield. Mr. Massey was head
of the department of Sociolo.gy of
Lime.stone college before comi;jg to
Snjithfjeld. The course will be plann
ed from the standpoint of what
science has to tell the homemaker
in her many problems, of child rearr
hi.g. The firsj two lessons will 'be
taken up witli^ tiie general discussion-
of the Yield of. child' psychology.
Then the cla.ss will vote on various
topics to be discu.s.sed. The course:
will be planned -with a lecture follow
ed jby. an open forum and ^general
di.s|.u.ssion of particular problems.
■The' first class will be held in the'
Smithfield Womart's club rooms on
F’i-'day_ afternoon, .February 12, at
2:30 o’clock. - Eat h woman’s club in
the county is asked to send one or
two representath - s as a member of
this class who- v-'ll report to thei/
own club's, .somethin.g .of -what- is be-
in.g dond. In the spring we hope to
ha-ve a county wide meeting in which
evsr^b6dy7’hieh anti women both, are
invited; with h Speaker'from'Raleigh.
Thts 'is-'a- n'p-w ' phWe' of E.xtension:
Work -and anjmhe ' interested . 'riihV'
■ooitie. and ''enroll at the First’ meeU
ing-'if'pn's.sjWe. ' '
- 'Rathel' -Evefett,-'' ''''■
Home'Deiii. Agt. ’
North Carolina farmers will al-
ways grow cotton and tobacco. They
know how to grow the two crops;
they are trained and equipped to
.grew them; and they know that
during any .given serie.s of 'years,
"the.se, two crops liave returned the
highest acre income.
In this manner, C. B. Williams,
head of the department of agronomy
at State College, sum.s up the ques
tion of whether Tarheel farmers
should plant cotton and tobacco this
year. Mr. Will lams contends that
price,-' below’ the cost' of production
are no new thing. Thi.s has been true
since 1630 hvhen the early colonists
of Vii-ginia said that only the best
(luality of tobacco paid the cost of
production. In 1S!)4, cotton brought
only 4.G cents a pound o-n December
first. .-\t times since then the price
'of both crops has been belo-w the
cost of production.
“But,” say.s Mr. Williams, “despite
these low prices, farmei-s have re
duced their acreages, have made
good yields op what acres they have
pjlanted; and, when incr-eased con
sumption^ came about, the ruinous
prices did not u.-ually remain for
any great length of »time.”
Mr. Williams sug.gests seven
points for consideration by the cot
ton , and tobacco farmer this year,
fh-se are; .grow the two crops on
land best .suited which in itself wUI
j Pause a he-avy reduction; prepare
j tins .selected land better than it has
lever been'prepared before; plant at
I the right time and in the best man
ner of varieties adajjted to the sec
tion;^ use the kind amj amount of
fertilizer suited to the Crop and the
soil; space the rows and the plants
on the i;ovf to the ft-rtility -of the
land or the fertilizer used'; cultivate
thorcughly. and use the best meth
ods of harvesting and preparing for
the market. ■
Chicago, Feb. 8 — Announcement
of the ninth annual National Meat
Story contest for high-school girls,
offering university scholarships as
major awards, has just been made
to teachers of home economics in
high schools of North Carolina and
throu,ghout the country. This event
is sponsored by the National Live
Stock and Meat Board with the
cooperation of the U. S. Department
of Agi-icultui-e and a number of ag
ricultural colleges. It will close on
March 15.
Teachers in 694 schools entered
their classes in the contest last year,
an increai;e of more than 200 schools
over the previous year, it js said.
In North Carolina there were en
tries from Selma, Bessemer City,
Clayton, Goldsboro, Wendell, .Ashe
ville, and Brevard. Elizabeth Max
well of Asheville was the North
Carolina winner.
Teachers look upon the contest as
a material aid to them in teaching
their meat courses, according to its
.sponsors. Students are required to
write essays on some phase of the
subject of meat and the research
required in order to write these es
says tends to broaden their knowl
edge of the subject.
The essays may be on any sub
ject from live-stock production to
the cooking and serving- of meat.
The committee which -will judge
the storie.s will be announced at a
later date, it is said. As in the past
it is the plan to include on this
committee leaders in the field of
home economics. Dr. Louise Stanley,
chief of the Bureau of Home Eco
nomics, U. S. Department of Agri
culture, served as chairman of the
committee last year and for several
previous contests.
As A Newspaper
Man Sees
It
Poor Profit Prospects
For Peanut Growers
-Though many peainut growejfc of
North Carolina used little casli^ut-
lay in producing the crop of 1931
a bumper crop was produced be
cause of the favorable .season. It
wd.s 'state.d in the crop outlook lie-
port di'st' 'year -'-that 'the prospect
for'''p!ites was poor-, and Such wa.s
tti4 cjjs'e. The oiltlobk for‘’profit thi.s
yeal-' i’s iiSi-eil- Wor.se’ th&ii' It wa.s -last
'yeari’’ " ‘ ■ ■
(Jim ’Vance, in Fellocvship Forum)
We have Congress with us a,gain.
Its Seventy-second session convened
on December 7th, and, after much
ado about chan.ging offiicer.s and em
ployees, it has settled down to a
sort of “cat ' and mouse” program
which may or may not be helpful
to the country. ' I .say “cat and
mouse” program ailvidsedly, for each
political organization is determined
to gather up as much benefit for its
next year Presidential- campaign as
pos.sihls and prevent the other party
from doing anything which -will
prove helpful to its candidate for
I Chief Executive of the nation. I
don’t know why but -somehow or
other 1 lean strongly toward want
ing Congress to do very little this
year other than provide for the vast
unemployment and for the solution
of the 'great business depression
problem. If Congress will only do
that and aidjeurn and go home, 1
j feel the cjiuntry will be better off.
I This i.s ns time for wrangling and
disturbing tho.se effoi'Ls being made
I to bring .America' back into normal-'
1 cy once more.
It would be idle for us to .say. that
the depression Is not still with us
That would be untrue. But 1 -b«lieyp
I can hone.stiy .say to you that times
are going to get better pretty,..s.o|ph'
now. .All signals point in '.that- di
rection. However, we mustn't get
the idea that prosperity i.s; going to’
come back ovesmight. Our best bu.sJ
ine.ss minds here at th-e Capita) tiell
u.s that bu.sines-s restoTrilio'iV ls .sure,
but its c nning wdil be gradual, aind
more stable than formerly^ J'^’ltbilnk
that is correct. Imcau.sp"' 1 am'' k(:e-
in.g evidences of sui-b ' a '■ rbturr.
anion,g our busine.ss . friends both
here and in other seF'ttdnf?'''(ljr.’' (he,
cotmtry. My -nyaii Is a wbndeT'-ful ba
rometer of how things ai‘e''g6i'ng
throiTghout .America, ''and "ThM ye-
vea’is a much bri,ghtr*'hope‘ fo'r'bii.s-
iness and return of ''em'plojiHfi^iit
than it has .shown foi- hlofith.s "past.
Say what you ])lease about' business
conditions in this' country, one f^ict
certainly .stands ou’tr" America is
fundamentally sqund^.she ' iff* far
from broke—;and whenever qiir peo
ple .stop doubtin.g each other and
begin to have confidence feho'ugh to
trust those with whom we deal, I
believe we’ll se-e'things grow bright
er and b'etter. ” ' , '
Right ffiere, -witho^ut in any way
givin.g i|^i»f)ught to politics, 1 want
to .say that President Hoover has
been imd 'is-- doing his utmost to re-
d:,ri4mu!iine^ levels. Whether we
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like him or not, common honesty
compels us to say that no President
in this ^generation has had more to
contend with and made more Sincere
efforts to .solve knotty problems
than Herbert Hoover. If he has in
■^ur judgment made m'islakeSj let us
remember thaf he^ is human. Per
fection^ is a Divine asset. All thi^
loose talk about his being responsi
ble for every untoward happening-
in this country during the last two
years is sickening. If we want to
help bring about better days in
America, we must get back of the.
President, i*egafdl4ss of political
opinions, and try t'o help him solve
tli^ .grave problems before us. Let’s
try to forget politics' for a'few
\^eeks and give patriotism a chance
to function as it.did in days of long
a?ro. ■ ^ •
Club .members of jMcDowell younty
will plant 2,500 black walnut trees
this winter.
If
You
Wanti
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to get rid of that piece
of Furniture....
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EXTi:iNSI(')N WORK NOTES.
to dispose of that Rug
Mis.-; Ras'hel Evei'etc; Home Deniq I
bb'sti-ation '-Agbiit'j is in i-eceipc 'ol a !
tlettei* from Mi.'is Helen E.'itDeArook. |
5 Wlio ' IS the home managemene spe-
• c'ialistj ’-from ' State College.' at Ral,
j'ej,ghl SSUe bas; acce']itj?d the hate jt
■'Felniiary Slli at two o'616'dK a.s'tna
tim'e'foT th‘e'borne-minay-ement oias-s
or worn Carpplipg......-',
► ■: . hliVi.lq o-.'. - i, ,
rto ' self''’ ydur Second-
Jf Hand Clothing .that -is Y
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still ,g.o,od,.;.„.
tb‘* lie' sVi'r'ted ■
" We
should like to hav^ tne namAs r^
•istered of the women interested in ;
Miss Vra
i6-.'8Dmebody tO’dooiai' jofi
joinin’g
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wofklng.qut tliejibudgo);, .tq.bfive- the | X
are also ..,?$kjng.., ,.ii.ssjsta.nF« ici'i'X X
woa;^e/i,,,brin»: jn a,s qo^ipjete, am aejl V'House -OeaTl- ft
t:-1 hr'- -.1' 01 yW
ount as the.v can of their expendi-,
j Cites and, receipt . jtmmth.
j Jaquary -tip ; that ,y^e ..pan,, piiiloe; jt a ' ft
year-round 'iim.ilge'L If , ,'havienot ! ^
i..t'or.I Ii—./-.t- — f +1-:.. .....
,ing....
j-kep,t track of .thi.s,; es-ji-ntate .it: the,
; best yo^ _an. *We are having sohip j
' account, ,,forips mimeographed ; .aml 1
trust they, ; -will be i-epdy, by ' that ■
time. -Hp-w.eypr., if,, y,uu, haye,,;ybiir.-l
own. account book .which ,you wis^’,'
to ti.se, .bring it along ta the meet- !
,ing. The meeting will be ibeUT jfi (he '
Commiaaioners’ ilbbnt at’' the "Cfcitirt ‘
House "on Friday’, FAbriVtliy"’oth.
Please be-prompt. .A-^e’ne'fa!' invHa.-, *'
tipn. is g'iven to all. thp., rvraI,,G'ih
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