North Carolina Newspapers

THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1932 THE JOHNSTONIAN-^SUN. SELMA. N. C. i... . News of Interest to Farmers of Johnston and Adjoining Counties Products Manufactured Valued At $1,312,000,000 Raleigh, May 3.—Products manu factured in North Carolina during' the last census year (1929) were valued at $1,312,000,000, or about three times the value of all crops and livestock. These products are g-rouped into 141 different classes hy the Bureau of the Census, some the classes comprising several dh'ferent kinds of articles. The 3,- '^00 manufacturing plants in the State gave employment to 210,000 wage earners and 17,000 salaried officers and employees and paid more than two hundred million dol lars in salaries and wages. Manufactured tobacco alone amounted to more than half a bil lion dollars and for the first time became the leading industry as measured by the vaiue of products. However, the textile industry, with products valued at approximately $453,000,000, is by far the largest in the employment of labor and the payment of salaries and wages. While all tobacco factories give employment to about ninteen thou- ■sand salary and wage earners and pay slightly more than twenty mil lion dollars in salaries and wages; all branches of the textile industry give employment to 117,500 officers and employees and pay over ninety- three million dollars in salaries and wages. Other leading industries as measured by the value of their pro- ^lucts are sawmills and planing mills, furniture, fertilizer, leather, ■cotton seed products, flour and meal, printing and publishing, and railroad and street car construction and repair. The products of our factories may be sumed up somewhat as follows: Wearing apparel, hosiery, and piece -goods for personal use; furnitur", stoves, draperies, blankets, sheets, pillow cases, and many other things for the home; canned fruits, vege tables, butter, cheese, and other pro cessed foods for the table; motor and horse drawn vehicles, auto tires and batteries, and similar things for our transportational needs; candies, cigars, cirgarette and smoking tobaccos fbr our plea sure; medicines, dru,gs, salves, and other medicinal products for our bodily ailments; and more than 150 other different kinds of articles, in cluding something for almost every imaginable need. Every section of the State shares in the production of .some of these articles, but as a .general rule. North Carolinians -APPLES CAN BE TO REPLACE USED VEGETABLES Apples may be used occasionally in place of green vegetables served with meat, food specialists of the United States department of Agri- cultrue suggest. Many of the usual spring vegetables are late and scarce because of the spring freeze in the Southern States. While wait ing for a later crop the housewife may very well turn to apples to give variety and to keep the diet balanced. There are plenty of apples of good quality in storage now to sup ply everybody for the rest of the season, according’ to Wells A. Sher man, of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. His information is sup plemented by the Bureau of Home Economics, which explains how to use the apples appropriately with the meat cour.-e. “Hot. baked apples, slightly sweet ened, go- well with almost any kind of meat,” says the bureau. “Scall oped apples served hot in a bak ing dish are also delicious and ea-y to prepare. Pare and slice the ap ples as for pie, arrange them in alternate layers with buttered crumbs in a deep dish, sprinkle the apples lightly with sugar, and bake until the apples are tender and the crumbs on top are brown and crisp. Slices or halves of apples simmered in thin sirup until tender and clear are also attractive in the main course of a meal. Slices of apples .and cooked sweetpotatoes are ex- cellnt baked together with a little butter and sugar or sirup for sea soning, and tart raw apples may well take the place of a vegetable in many salad combinations.” Johnston County Exports Continue To Climb are not as well acquainted with "what we manufacture as might be, because they have not been able to visit these manufacturing plants nor have they had many oppoi'- tunities to see them at exhibitions or in retail stores. In most ca>es, when they have bought them at the stores, they have not known that they were buying things made in North Carolina. In order to acquaint the public -with goods made in the State and to stimulate the sale of these ai't- icles in the home-stores, the State Department of Conservation and Development is sponsoring the third annual “Made-ln Carolina” cam paign. During this period many merchants plan to feature North Carolina-made goods in their show ■windows, on their counters, and in their newspaper advertising, plain ly marking all articles made in the State so that purchasers will know ■when they buy home-made products. ■‘Manufacturers have been asked to make a special effort to place their products in as many stores as possible before May 16th,” said of ficials of the Department, “and, of course, the public’s part is to buy these articles during this special ■week. If former campaigns can. be ■taken as representative of what ■will happen this year, then the mer chants -who take part in this plan to advertise North Carolina-made ■goods will enjoy a big increase in sales during this period. Union County cotton growers have ordered another supply of pedigreed Mexican seed from the Experiment Station plots to further ■upgrade the cotton of that county. -Alamance County farmers are go ing into the hog feeding business this season. Eight new demonstra tions were started by the county agent last week. The official reports these days must be terribly discouraging to the Democratic orators who have been building their speeches around the theory that the Hawley-Smoot law has destroyed our foreign commerce. Comes no^w a statement by the De partment of Commerce, under date of -April 16, declaring that “Ameri can merchandise exports reached a new mark for 1932 when they at tained the value of 156 million dol lars in March.” The March total represented an increase of $2,061,- 000 over the February amount, which was in turn about 4 million dollars above the January figures. In view of price conditions, the vol umes of exports in March was evi dently improved considerably for price advances had little to do with the gain. The report shows, also, that the favorable trade balance for March was 25 million dollars, so other nations do continue to buy from us in spite of the Democratic declaration that they can not and will not do it. Not only has the export of -American merchandise in creased from month to month, but March was the sixth successive month showing a larger value of exports of cotton as compared with last season, 927,000 bales this March as against 605,000 bales in March, 1931. Over an eight month period cotton exports have shown an in crease of 1,337,000 bales over thg corresponding eight months of last season. Those old speeches will certainly have to be revised. In East Piedmont, West Coastal, Sandhills; population, 54,100; area 516,480 acres; topography, fertile, hilly, rolling, level uplands; waters: Neuse, Little liver.s; railroads: Southern, -A. C. L; buslines, Caro lina, Safety; highways. Nos. 10, 22,' 91, 220; incorporated cities and towns, Benson, Clayton, Four Oaks, Kenly, Micro, Pine Level, Princeton, 'Smithfield, Selma. Forest Products The forest are is approximately 328, 665 acres, comprising 64 per cent of the total land area. More than .57 per cent of the fore.st area is farm woodland, including spme 51,135 acres of woodland pasture. The principle merchantable species are loblolly pine 80 per cent, gum 10 per cent, oak and hickory. The estimated present total stand of 130,000,000 board- feet of saw timber is fairly accessible. On the edge of the Coastal Plan, most of the upland originally sup ported a longleaf ‘ pine forest. Little of this is now left. One-thrid is now hardwood, generally mixed with pine and two-thirds is pine forest, almost entirely loblolly. Most is heavily cut over. Some 40 sawmills produce about 12,000,000 board feet of lumber per annum. .A considerable quantity of ties and veneer logs are also cut. The estimated stunipage value of the timber cut annually is around $50,000. ' Mineral Products Near Selma, Four Oaks, and just to the vvest of Smithfield bi^ick clays occur. The clays are the sedi mentary clays which are rather sandy or lean. Just north of Clay ton a low grade sedimentary iron ore occurs. Gneissic granite outcrops at sevei-al localities in the north western part of the country. Value of the minral production for 1926 wa.s $90,661. Water Resources -And Power Waters: Neuse and Little river.s; Buffalo, Little Buffalo, Swift, Mid dle, Black, Hannah, Stone, and oth er creeks. Water: Abundant in point of large streams available as sour ces of supply, chemical and physi cal, qualities generally good but sanitary protection and filteration possibly necessary in some instances'. Power: Service is made available from the high tension transmission system of the Carolina Power with lines parallel to almost the entire railroad system of the county. -Agricultural Products Considered from every angle, this county is classed as a leader in agriculture in North Carolina. Most of its land is slightly rolling, with good drainage, underlaid with a good clay .sub-soil, has fertility is easily maintained. Progressive farming methods are practiced and high yields result. This is the state’s lead ing cotton county, with 51,249 bales ginned in 1927 besides over 14,000,- 000 pounds of tobacco produced. -A considerable acerage of spring oats is usually g;rown to aid in the feed problem as, with the exception of corn, it is .sometimes short in hay and grain crops. Its 25.582 head of hogs disposed of in 1927 gives it second rank in this item in the state. Over 200 tractors and 3,3.82 tenants operated on the farms and 106,692 hens were reported. Grow a Good Pasture Or Quit Dairying Look For Locusts During Late May The most economical way to feed dairy cows is to have a good past ure and supplement the grazing with the proper grain and rough- age mixtures. This is the natural way to feed cows and to produce milk at a profit. Either have a pas ture or quit dairying. In this way does A. C. Kimrey, dairy e.xtension specialist at State College, stess the>value of having a plentiful supply of nutritious grazing for milk producing cows. Dairymen have attempted from time to time to keep cows in un natural conditions. But the wise dairyman assists nature by supply ing an abundance of luxurian and tender grass during as many months of the year as possible. Nor is it impossible to have a .good pasture in North Carolina. Mr. Kimrey finds some dairymen, par ticularly in, eastern Carolina, who say that ii^is not practical to have a pasture. This opinion has been formed from failures in seeding grass mixtures not adapted to con ditions and in planting the seed on an infertile soil which the hot sun quickly bakes and destroys the ten der roots of the young grass. This happens generally before the grass has had time to form a sod which would adequately cover the land and prevent parching. Grasses such as Bermuda, peren nial rye grass, orchard grass, blue .grass, and herds grass are adapted to patures in nearly all parts of the State. So are the white dutch and lespedeza clovers. They will furnish abundant grazing when seeded on land properly prepared. It is not expensive to prepare such a past ure and the returns will more than pay for the expense of limestone and seedbed preparation neenled in the operation. Not only is grass economical in milk production but it is a source of vitamins essential to the growth and health of the human body, says Kimrey. What Happened to Farmers In Other Slumps FOOLISH TALK IS HARMFUL HOtV TO TELL A QUALITA’ EGG Local banks in Columbus County assisted the tobacco growers in buying 100 spray pumps for con trolling the blue mold disease in tobacco beds. To tell the quality of eggs break two or three into a flat plate, and note whe.ther the white is thick enough to stay near the yolk and stand up around it like a layer of clear, firm jelly. If the white runs over .the plate and appears very- watery the egg is poor in quality^ or somewhat stale, according to poultry specialists of the United States Department of -Agriculture. The quality of an egg shows up in cooking. It takes an egg with a .good firm white to poach well. High quality eggs make lighter sponge cakes and omelets. For making cus tards and for scrambling eggs, those with slightly^ watery whites will do very well. In the spring practically all eggs are good and most of them are strictly fresh. Any off odor generally means off flavor. The color of the yolk, whether deep or pale yellow, de pends chiefly on the feed of the hens, and is not often a-n index of quality. Some people who ought to know better, and some who are not ex pected to know any better, have been saying of late that the Recon struction Corporation has been hand ing out vast sums to big banks in New York and that the small bank ing concerns all ovejr the .country have not been helped. Statement.^ of this sort have had a tendency to make the public lose confidence in the work of the Reconstruction Cor poration. The truth is that this big corporation backed by vast resources furnished by the United States gov ernment is doing a great deal of good. The facts in the case are that more than eight hundred banks and trust companies scattered all over the country have received aid from the Reconstruction Corporation. Rail roads, building and loan associations and other business concerns are get tings assistance also. Not a single large bank in New Y'ork has asked for aid or received any. Bank fail ures have practically stopped since the Reconstruction Corporation be gan to function and confidence is being slowly but surely restored. Money' is the most timid thing in the world and will not Work when it is scared. Restoration of confi dence is needed now more than any' thing else.—Beaufort News. The farm agent of Catawba coun ty reports 750 boys and girls en rolled in the 4-H clubs of the county -A sixty'-year-old Iowa farmer, who beside.-^ farming the same farm for forty years, has been active in the civic and political life of his community', in a private letter re cently said: “1 have been through five de pressions since I- started farming. 1 have sold corn for 10c a bushel, oats for 4c a bushel, and burned corn because there was no market for it. I have sold hogs for 2c a pounil and stopped breeding pigs because we had no market even at that price. 1 have sold eggs at 3c a dozen and could not give hens away. In each of these de pressions we farmers had to mud dle through as best we could. .We never had any help or en couragement from Washington. We were outcasts so far as the federal government was concern ed. “But things are different during this depression. Mr. Hoover has taken the initiative so far as ag riculture is concerned. Through him the Federal Land Banks were recapitalized by $125,000,- 000, thus easing the mortgage burden on thousands of our farm ers. Upon his recommendation $200,000,000 were set aside for loans to farmers whose borrow ing capacity was limited and who were unable to arrange loans at their local -banks. Throu.gh his agency agriculture was given the first real tariff protection, pro tection that I believe will be re flected on all farm products as soon as this country returns to normalcy. His attitude toward the farmer has taken away the threat of hunger and want in the drought stricken states. Forty million bushels of Farm Board wheat is now being distributed through the drought territory. A program we could not have dream ed of in the old days. “President Hoover may have enemies in his own party—I hope not. He is without question being- maligned and grossly misrepre sented by the xDemocratic office seekers. But among the thinking farmers of the Middle West, President Hoover stands out as the first President to recognize agriculture and place it on a working equality with the other industries.” North Carolina’s best known brood of 17-year locusts will begin to emerge from the homes they have made in the soil since 1915 and will advertise their presence by an aw ful din in the forest trees of the State in late May or early June. Dr. Z. P. Metcalf, head of the department of entomology and zo- ogy at State College, says the lo custs which will emerge this year are from eggs that were laid in the limbs of trees back in 1915. The eggs hatched into tiny grubs about one-sixteenth of an inch long and these crawled into the soil throug'h small crevices where the grubs attached themselves to the roots. The small beaks were forced into the bark to suck sap from the living trees. Here these grubs have been living and developing for about 17 years. Their wings are now full grown and they are awaii- ing the coming of warm weather when they will emerge in countless thousands. “This is one of the most pre- nominal happenings in the insect world,” says the entomologist. “It was observed by the earliest set tlers in this State and careful re cords have been kept since that time. There are some kinds of ci cadas or locusts which appear each j'ear. Then there are the 13-year locusts as well as the 17-year brood. Sometimes these over-lap in emerg ence as they did in 1898. There are also several broods of the 17-year variety and all this has caused con fusion but the brood which emerg es this spring is the best known and the one on which the most careful records have been kept.” Dr. Metcalf requests that speci mens of the locusts be sent to him this spring with a record about where they were found and on what date. He says the locusts will tlo little harm except possibly to young fruit trees nearby to a forest which is heavily infested. N OTIC E The undersigned having qualified as Administratrix on the estate of J. A. Parker, deceased, hereby no tifies all persons having claims against said estate to present the. same to me duly verified on or be fore the 1st day of April, 1933, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment. This 28th day of March, 1932. MRS. LOUISA C. PARKER, Admrx. Four Oaks, N. C., R.F.D. No. 3. Parker & Lee, Attys. 3-31-6t Twenty-eight Edgecombs County farmers soki 89,210 pounds of fat hogs for $3,485.46 in a cooperative shipment last week. The best -way to dispose of sur plus seed soybeans is to make up a cooperative carlot shipment, find growers of Tyrrell County who re cently made such a shipment at a profit above local prices. Too Much ACID What Have the Democrats to Offer? Dr. Z. P. Metcalf, entomologist at State College; has asked for speeU mens of the 17-year locust to be sent him when the insects appear in late May or early June with da ta as to the place and time of securing the specimens. (Stampa Unida, Rochester, N. A'.) Back-biting, snarling, criticizing, blaming and ridiculing—that sum.s up the whole campaign propaganda of the Democratic party. In the three years of depression—world wide in its effect—the Democratic party has offered nothing. It has been too intent on finding fault with the President to set forth any principles or suggestions which would be of help to the country, ’'t has harped continually on the great number of people out of work, yet it has offered no remedy to help the situation. There may have been isolated Democratic lead ers offering concrete suggestions, but the party as a whole has been too intent on damning the admin istration to think in a constructive and helpful manner. No'w, if that is the .situation at a time when the country needs every o'unce of constructive help to bring about better material conditions for the people, how would the election of a group of faxilt-finding, snarling, ridiculing and self-centered Demo crats help conditions ? This much is true. The Republi- j can party has gone through nearly j four years of depression. It has at- I tempted by every conceivable means j to alleviate the business depression. ' President Hoover has worked un tiringly. He has shouldered the burden, taken the blame. He has been harshly and unfairly criticized. Newspaper men have ridiculed him. It has been our experience that many newspaper men have an idea that a man in public life should have no privacy at all; and we suppose because the President don’t slap a few newspaper men on the back, ask them to have a drink with him, and invite them to dinner, the President is a “poor sport.” The trouble in our country, in so far as constituted authority is concerned, is that daily newspapers primarily have created a scornful opinion of most of our public officials, starting with the President. Carping and criticizing will do no good. The situation is here. Business is bad. What can we do to offset the depression or to bring back business ? Two ways- are open. Shall we re-elect the administration. President Hoover, who has grappled with this stupendous task for four years, and who apparently is slow ly but surely bringing us back to better days ? 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