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Good Farm Butter
Depends On Cream
The demand today is for a mild-
flavored butter njade from sweet
cream or cream that is only slight
ly sour. Many North Carolina farm
ers and housewives are adding to
their incomes during this period hy
preparing such butter for sale to
boarding houses, on curb markets or
to a selected trade in towns and
cities.
“The first step in making good
butter is to handle the milk with
care from the time it i.-- drawn
from the cow until it i- churned,"
.says W. L. Clevenger, dairy manu
facturing specialist at State Col
lege. “At milking time, no dust,
dirt or objectionable odors should
be allowed and the cow’s udder,
teats and flanks should be free
all filth. It is important too that
the milker’s clothes and hands be
clean. When a .sufficient amount of
cream has been accumulated for
churning, ten hours should elapse
after the last cream is added be
fore churning.”
Clevenger suggests that the cream
be brought to the proper tempera
ture or five hours before churning.
At that time, it should have a clean
mild, pleasing taste and smell. The
churning temperature varies from
55 to 60 degrees in summer and
from 65 to 70 degrees in winter. The
butter should appear in from 20 to
30 minutes. If the churning is done
at a too-high temperature, the but
ter will have a weak and grea-y
body. 1 sj
Jn churning, agitate the cream
tiniformly and use a churn that
holds three times as much cream
as that placed in it. If the churn is
too full, poor re.sults are secured.
TREN( H .SILO SOLVES
WINTER FEEDING PROBLEM
PROGRAM
LITTLE RIVER BAPTIST UNION
HELD WITH
PARRISH MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
APRIL 30TH, 1933.
9:45 A. M.—Union Sunday School.
10:45 A. M.—Roll Call of Churches in Union.
10:50 A. M.—Reading of Previous Minutes.
10:55 A. M.^—Business of Union, Expenses and Ap
pointment of Committees for place and Program
11:10 A. M.—Sermon .. . By Rev. Nevel Standi
12:00 M.—Announcements ... by Clarence Pender
1:00 P. M.—Devotional By Mrs. Linimie Batten
1:15 P. M.—Why Baptists Believe In Total Abstinence
By Rev. Luther Standi
2:00 P. M.—Open Discussion—By any one on any sub
ject.
2:30 P. M.—Subject chosen by speaker—Rev. W. J.
(Jrain.
3:00 P. M.—Round Table Discussion and Miscellane
ous.
3:15 P.M.—Adjournment. ^
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J. M. RICHARDSON,
J. R. ATKINSON,
S. C. BATTEN,
Program Committee.
G. W. ANDERSON,Moderator.
A. J. PRICE, Clerk.
In many section.s of North Caro
lina cattle and .sheep get sleek and
fat in .summer only to become weak
and emaciated in winter. This lack
of an adeciuate supply of winter
feed of proper quality is one of the
greate.st handicap.s to the continued
development of the livestock in
dustry in the State.
“We know that silage is one of
the be.st winter feeds for maintain
ing or fattening cattle or sheep ' or
for feeding dairy cows; however,
the e.xpen.se of building the upright
type of silo has prevented many
farmers from using this valuable
feed,’’ says I.. 1. Case, livestoc’ic
specialist at State Colleg-e. “Now
that the trench silo is proving so
suitable and economical, every man
with a cow or two or a small flock
of .sheep can have silage in abun
dance, The trench silos now in ue
vary in .size from a capacity of one
ton to 150 tons and more. In
practically all cases, the silage is
keeping well.”
Case gives as the two main re
quisites for a good trench silo, a
stiff soil and a water table below
the level of the bottom of the silo.
Corn is the best silage crop for
.this State, he says. Varieties of the
sorghums are used in some sections
but only about the only advantage
these sorghums have over corn is
that they will grow on poorer soils
and with less rain.
W'hile there are several varieties
of silage corn, that variety which
makes the best acre yield or grain
in a community is nearly alway.s
best for silage also. The greater the
quanitity of grain in the silage, the
more nutritious it is and the great
er the saving in the concentrated
ration needed to supplement the
isilage. Case says, ^ •
scratch given by the second day.
Sour skimmilk may be added when
the poults are from 36 to 48 hours
old and then kept before them there
after at all times.
Maupin also sugge.sts gradual
changes in feed as the birds grow
older and then when they are ready
for the range' ,the ration may be
simplified and reduced to whatever
grains are available on the farm.
IMPROVED COTTON STAPLE
HAD INCREASE LAST YEAR
Raleigh, .April 24.—“'I'here are
a day at six months of age when
the calf should be weaned. The .grain
will then be further increased to
provide nece.ssary nutritients form
erly supplied by the milk.
Question: When should breeding
cockerels and pullets be culled ?
Answer: Culling is almo.st a con
tinual process but where all cripples
and undersized birds have been
eliminated the first culling .should
be made when the birds are, between
eight and twelve weeks old. The
birds, ■ however,. .should be carefully
watched durin,g the entire growing
just as many possibilities in the period and those that lack vigor or
development of plant life as there' are slow in developing .should be
are in the development of animal discarded
1 .ARE WITH POULTS
. MEANS TURKEY PROFPrS
life, but this fact is not always ap
preciated by our farmers,” com
mented U. Benton Blalock, general
mana.ger of the North Carolina
Cotton Growers Cooperative Associa
tion, after studying a government
report which showed that the pro
duction of inch and inch and one
thirty-second cotton in North Caro
lina in 1932 nearly doubled that of
1931.
The report .issued by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture April
20, showed that North Carolina
stepped up in the production of inch
and 1 1-32 cotton from 16.3 per cent
in 1931 to 23.6 per cent in 1932.
“In the production of 1 1-16 and
1 3-32 the comparison shows seven
per cent on these leng-ths as com
pared with 3.6 per cent of the crop
of 1931,” he said.
“One and one-eighth and longer
staples went up from six-tenths of
one per cent to a full two per cent.
“While the seasons, of course al
ways have a certain amount of in
fluence in the production of better
staples, yet the underlying cause of
this heavy increa.se in better length
staple is the wide distribution an
nually of thousands of bushels of
improved seeds that have been made
in North Carolina for the past
several years,
“One of the most intere.sting
booklets is.sued recently by the North
Carolina Agricultural Experiment
Station is bulletin number X 284 on
the subject of “The Home Market
for North Carolina Cotton” which
shows in a very interesting way the
development that has been going on
for some years in this State in the
production of better staples.”
Getting the poults through the
brooding period into free range is
the most difficult job in turkey
raising and this re([uires good
management and clean sanitation.
“The first reiiuirement for a
.succe.ssful hatch with turkeys is the
use of strickly fresh eggs,” says
C. J. M.aupin, extension poultryman
at State College. “When the tur
key hens are confined to a small
range or yard, the eggs may be, home-grown cotton is used by North
STATE COLLEGE GETS
FARM QUESTIONS
Quetion: What percentage of
gathered twice each day and then
stored in a well ventilated room nr
cellar where the temperature is not
over 00 degrees. It is better to set
the eggs when only seven to eight
Carolina mills?
.Answer: The amount of home
grown cotton used in the State
varies each year with the v>roduc-
tion of certain grades but a recent
SAYS CHICKEN STEALING
IS ORGANIZED RACKET
Chicken stealing has become a
serious menace to the success of the
poultry industry in North Carolina
and should be fought in an organiz
ed way by the poultrymen of the
State, is the belief of Roy S. Dear-
sty ne, head of the poultry depart
ment at State College.
“In the past, we have considered
chicken stealing as a necessary evil,
more of a prank than anything else,
but of late it has developed into
something more serious and poultry-
men mu-t begin to take steps in
their defense,” says Dearstyne.
“Under ordinary circumstances, this
thievery is the bane of the poultry
growers existence, especially where
he is developing highly-bred birds
but now with the use of the motor
trucks and good highways, it is
possible for thieves to steal chickens
in large quantities and be off with
them to market before the grow’er
is aware of his loss.”
Dearstyne say he has received
numerous letters in past weeks tell
ing of w’holesale losses by poultry-
men. One man said the thieves had
taken every chicken except one old
rooster and left a note tied to his
leg.
In .some instances, the entire liv
ing of a family is tied up in the
poultry flock. The flock has beep
built up by the investment of hai'd-
earned money, long hours of work
and careful study. Under such cir
cumstances,, the wiping out of the
flock in one night is a serious mat
ter.
To combat this, Dearstyne urges
community and county poultry as
sociations and the cooperation of
honest dealers. Courts should im-
po e heavier sentences and every
poultry owner should follow' up the
prosecution of thieves and insi.st
that they get maximum sentences.
days old, whether a hen or incu- I publication of the .Agricultural Ex
periment Station on “The Home
Market for North Carolina Cotton,”
Bulletin No. 284, gives definite in
formation on the consumption and
required grades and staple-lengths.
.A copy of this bulletin may be se
cured by request to the Agricultural
Editor, State College, Raleigh, N. C.
hator is used. When poults are fir.-t
hatched they are less active than
chicks and must be kept warm. The
temperature in the brooder house
needs to be kept around 90 degrees
Tor several days.”
Maupin says the home-made brick
brooder may be used for poults but
it is well to make some wire parti
tions in the house to separate the
different ages.
Feeding the poults is about the
.‘'ame as for baby chicks. Hard-boil
ed egg.s with some of the shell left
in has worked out well for the fir.st
feed. Give one egg to each 20 poults.
Water shoald be given at 36 hours
and the first chick starter or chick
Question: How soon can grain and
hay be fed to dairy calves?
.Answer: A small amount of gr.ain
Most of “Modern”
Jokes Told Long Ago
There is no more dangerous
literary symptom than a temptation
to write about wit and humor. It
indicates a total loss of both.—G. B.
Shaw to Max Eastman.
In spite of Mr. Shaw’s grave
w'arning here is an article on the
changing style in jokes. This might
not prove either a difficult or un-
■•deasant task—perhaps not even a
and hav should he offered to the I fruitle-s one—provided one
calf when about two weeks of age
or when skimmilk is substituted for
whole milk. This should be gradual
ly increased until the animal is re
ceiving about .three pounds of grain
even half convinced that there is a
change, writes Willard De Lue in
the Boston Globe. In outward dress,
joke.s, like humans, do vary from
age to age. But in body they stay
pretty )nuch the same.
in 1930 J. Gilchrist Lawson pro
duced “The World’s Best Humorous
Anecdotes,” which he as-ured his
readers were “gleaned entire from
leading religious i^apers.” One of
them runs thi.s way:
“You remember that you sold me
a hor.se la.st week?” said, the cab
man angrily to the horse dealer.
“A^es. What about him?”
“He fell dead yesterday.”
“Well, 1 never!” said the dealer.
“I told you he had., some funny
little ways, but upon my word I
never knew him to do that before.”
Now hark ye to an item in “The
Chaplet of Comus, or Feast of Senti
ment and Festival of Wit,” publish
ed in Boston in 1811:
“On an inque.st lately taken on
the body of a soldier, who had com
mitted suicide, a companion of the
deceased was examined touching the
evident signs of lunacy betrayed by
the decea.sed. He solemnly declared
on his oath ‘he never knew him
guilty of such an act before in hi-
iife.’ ”
Here’s the same thing cropping up
in slig-htly different form, after 100
years. Yet that is nothing. The
story is actually thousands of year.s
old, has appeared in many forms in
many languages, and seems to have
its origin in this one, which they
snickered at in Athens in the dim,
dark ages:
“The slave I bought of you has
died.” ■
“By the gods, i do assure you
that he never once played such a
trick when I had him!”
There you have a joke that ha.s
come down the centuries almost
without change of wording. Buto
when it come.s to adaptation of
ideas the cases are innumerable.
Tom Masson, who employed him-
.self a few years ago in corting out
this one about a Scottish farmer in
Everybody’s Magazine for 1925:
“A Scottish farmer, being elect
ed to the .school board, visited the
village school and tested the intelli
gence of the class by question.
Now, boys, can any of you tell
me what naething- is?’
“After a moment’s silence a small
boy in the back seat rose.
“ ‘It’s what ye gi’d me the other
day for holding your horse.’ ”
Now this suggestion of thrift
goes well in its Scottish setting.
But the basic idea of the thing is
no different than that I'epoi’ted in
1829 hy Lady Morgan, from Dublin:
“l.ary M-n-rs was addre-sed by a
well-known beggar.
“ ‘Go away,’ said the ladyship, ‘i
will .give you nothing.’
“ ‘Och! then long life to your
lady-.ship; and it’s often you gave
us that, God bless you!’”
Here is a complete transition of
a basic idea.
‘‘.Ah, you say. “But certainly there
is somethin,"' new and original in the
‘smart,’ sophisticated humor of to
day—the subtle play on life and
manners, and the extravagances of
ideas,”
But, ill truth, there isn’t.
In a collection called “Hood’s
Own,” published in London in the
1850.S, there are scattered illustrat
ed humors that would not be out of
place today in the ultra New York
er. The gentlemanly hunter, for
instances. gun under arm, calls out
to his dog, “Don’t point. It’s rude.”
. .And the t-wo men on the gallows-
about- to be. hanged, who say, see
ing an enraged bull chasing- a mar.
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Brinr or ».H thi. Coopon to oor ofBeo tod.T—NOW ^
below them, “How lucky. Bill, we’
re up here,” are but prototypes of
the .structual worker on the top
most pinnacle of the skyscraper who
looks down, in the pages ■ of the
modern comics, and comments on
the hazards of life in traffic-filled
streets. '
It is po sible in most ca.ses to
trace the geneaology of a joke
through many generations.
‘So ye be gaun. to lave us, pas-
son,” said an old lady to a vicar.
‘Yes, Sarah,” he’ replied. “I’m
getting on in years, and they can
not hear me at the end of the
church.”
“Hear ’e! Sure that don’t matter
so long- as we can see ’e; and you
know, passon, ’tain’t the pig's that
squeals the loude-t that makes the
best bacon.”
Here is an alleged Cornish joke,
yet it is merely a good old misap
plication of metaphor that has been
used probably since the beginning
of man.
‘The Merry Fellow's’ Companion,
or American Je.“t Book,” publisheci
at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1797, has
this:
‘.A lady was saying she had over
thrown heri adversary, at which one
of her servants said: ‘Ay, he took
the w'rong sow by the ear -w'hen he
meddled with your ladyship.’ ”
And thi.s, rest assured, W'as copied
from an English original, which in
turn, doubtless copied it from some-
thin.g- else.
Getting it-elf copied, twisted, turn
ed and adapted—even having its
nationality changed—is the ordinary
life of a jest.
bers, according to a scathing- d'i-
scription of them by Dr. "Moore in,
the .Asheville Citizen of .April 5, are
a cheap bunch of politicians. They
have, according to Dr. Moore’s blunt
statement, shown all kind-S of pa'C-
tiality in hiring teachers and pur-
cha;sin,g supplies. In his resigna
tion he accuses the chairman'of the
board of being ‘so drunk at boar:f
meetings that- he. was utterly ur-
fit. to preside. If the board.-of ed
ucation of Mad.ison county is like.
Dr. Moore says and if the people:
do not fire them the county is at
a low ebb. 'We hope that Dr. Moore
is mistaken but, believing. a.s h»
doesfi he has given utterance to the
bolde.st .statements we have- ever-
read. There are many counties ,'n
the state that need Bob Moore.”
TO MANUFACTURE BEER
IN NORTH CAROLINA
ALLEGED EMBEZZLER AR
RESTED
W. J. Wenrich, former chief clerk
in the office of the Southern Public
Utilities Co., at Greensboro, who has
been mis-ing from that city since
May 3, 1932, W’as arrested this -«-eek
in Reading, Pa., and has been
brought to Greensboro to answer to
the charge of embezzling $27,000 of
the company’s funds.
.As soon as the manufacture of
beer is le,galized in North Carolina,
and there doesn’t seem any doubt-
but that it will be, seeing as we
have a dripping wet Legislature,
three Asheville men plan to estab
lish a brewery in that city that,
will produce 400 barrels daily.
E. M. Jarrett, C. G. Bulloch and
James H. Hensley, all Ashe-ville
business men, have announced plans'
to form a company capitalized at-
$50,000 and convert Skyland Farma,
poultry plant on Sweeten creak
high-vv-ay ,into a modern brewery.
Union Meeting
The next session of the Easter
Litter River Primitive Baptis.t Union
-ft-ill meet with Bethany church at.
Pine Level, N. C., on Saturday and
fifth Sunday in .April 1933. Eld. 'E.
F. Pearce is appointed to preath
the introductory. Eld. J. T. Collier
appointed his alternate.
Brethern, .sister's, and friends an-i
especially ministers, are coi^ially
invited to attend.
J. A. BATTEN, Union clerk.
AGED COPLE IN MARITAL
DIFFICULTIES
Joseph Lessner, 86, and his bride
of a month, Anna Les.sner, 76, took
their domestic difficulties to a mag
istrate in New York, Thursday.
“We couldn’t agree after the
second or third day,” M^s. Les-ner
said. “He grabbed me around the
throat .tossed me about the room
anl told me to run home to my
relatives. He’.s got my clothes lock
ed up and I’d like to have them.”
‘T’ve been married four times,’’
Lessner replied. “Lived with one
wife for 50 years and never had
any trouble to speak of. This is all
the fault of the grandchildren and
the great-grandchildren butting in.'’
Half a dozen relatives on each
.side were in court. The magistrate
called them foi"ward, admonished
them to leave the newly-w’eds alone,
and the Lessners walked out arm
in arm.
MEANS MUST SERVE''■SEN
TENCE
.At Wa.shington, Saturday, the Dis--
trict Court of Appeals affirmed a
sentence of 15 years imposed on,
Gaston B. Mean", following Hi's con--
viction bn charges of stealing $104,--
000 from Mrs. Evelyn WaLsh M.:-
Lean, wealthy Washington woman.,,
who was intere.sted in the return 0"f
the kidnaped Lindbergh baby.
Means was also -indicted-on an--
other count the past week in. con—,
nection with the same case in which
.$35,000 was involved. Whether he is
out on bail or in jail is not stated.
None of the .$104,000 he secured
from Mrs. McLean has ever been
recovered and no trace can be fouiid
what he did with the money. .-
MAKES GRAVE CHARGES
(From Charity and Children)
“R. L. Moore, president of Mars
Hill College, has resigned from the
school board of Madison county. He
had been on the hoard for four
years. During these four years he
sought to take the schools out of
lolitics and run them for the bene-
it of his county. The other mem-
ARRANGED FOR HIS OWN
FUNERAL
Two weeks ago Hiram Wall, aged
negro, walked into a negro under
taking establishment at Dan-ville,
'Va., and explained that he did not
have long to live and wanted to
make arrangements for his funeral.
He selected his casket and gave
minute instructions as to his put
ting aw'ay. He even offered to pay
for his own funeral from a wad of
hills.
Tuesday Wall died at noon. His
instructions were carried', out to thei
letter, it was said;.