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See Increase in Part-Time
Farming in North Carolina
Friday, September 25, 195ff
If you’re a typical North Caro
lina farmer, either you or your
neighbor works part-time in off-
farm work. In fact, on more than
one out of four farms in the state.
income from off-farm sources is earn up to $10,000 each year if the
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greater than farm sales. What’s
more, many farmers on large farms
have off-farm income, although
more small farm operators work-
off-farm part of the time.
With new industries locating in
the state, very often families on
small farms are looking at “the
greener pastures across the fence”
and wondering if one or more fam
ily members should take an off-
farm job, according to D. G. Har
wood, Jr,, farm management spe
cialist for the N. C. Agricultural
E.xtcnsion Service. This is no idle
day dream, either; the decision is
difficult to make. Employers usual
ly establish a schedule of work
which the part-time farmer must
meet, and farm work may need to
be done just when the off-farm job
beckons.
Also, while the part-time farm
er devotes much of his time and
attention to his job away from
home, other full-time farmers may
become so efficient that the part-
time farmer can no longer com
pete at the market.
Yet, research at N. C, State col
lege indicates that non-farm work
can come in handy as a means of
increasing farm family incomes.
For example, the typical Southern
Piedmont farm family of five mem
bers (four of whom are 18 years
of age or over) with about 25 acres
of cropland could expect to earn
only about $2,000 on the farm if
substantial sums could not be in
vested in new buildings and equip
ment.
However, the same family could
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four adult members could get off-
farm jobs at $1.30 per hour.
On the other hand, if substantial
additional investment could be
made to enlarge profitable enter
prises, an equally large income can
be made by using all the family
labor on the farm. Non-farm work,
or additional investment capital,
or a combination of these, may be
used to boost incomes on small
farms.
Families on .small farms have
about three choices; (1) full-time
farming, (2) part-time farming, and
(3) full-time non-farm jobs.
If the decision is made to devote
full-time to farming, large sums of
money must be invested on small
farms if family incomes are to be
as high as the incomes of most non
farm families. However, since sub
stantial risk is involved in mak
ing large investments on farms,
it is not likely that many small
farm operators are willing to great
ly expand their farm operations.
The farmer will likely prefer to or
ganize his farm and family labor
around some combination of both
farm and non-farm work. This re
quires only a moderate expenditure
of additional capital in the farm
business, and still allows for in
creased income.
The proportion of families on
small farms who are earning part
of their incomes off the farm can
definitely be expected to increase,
declares Harwood.
For more information regarding
the allocation of labor to part-time
off-farm work, write to the De
partment of Agricultural Informa
tion at N. C.. State college for a
free copy of Technical Bulletin
No. 138, “An Economic Analysis
of Farm and Non-Farm Resources
on Small Farms in the Southern
Piedmont, North Carolina.”
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In spite of ^ries of minor and not-so-minor accidents, pro
ducer Richard Einfield and director Gene Fowler, Jr., managed
to keep the cameras turning without interruption on the filming
of “The Oregon Trail,” which opens Sunday at the Kehoe Theatre.
First of the unscheduled happenings was when an extra,
playing the role of an Indian brave in a attack on Fort Laramie,
Wyoming, was stepped on by a horse and forced to retire from
the picture.
Shortly after that, a stunt man, jumping from the fort’s
buring roof sprained his ankle when he lit sideways on his foot.
Came an important scene in which star William Bishop was
to fire a revolver at close range at an attacking Indian. Bishop
fired and there was a malfunction the gun’s mechanism and
the actor was seriously burned on the right hand by the powder
flash from the blank cartridge. Bishop was taken to the Twentieth
Century-Fox hospital and given a tetanus shot. Against the advice
of the doctor, he returned to finish out the day’s work on the
film.
The fourth and final mishap might have been a great deal
more serious than it was, had not director Fowler called a lunch
break just 10 minutes before the trouble. For some unexplained
reason, the main power cable, feeding the camera, sound truck
and stage lights with power, blew up and started a fire. The
studio fire department finally succeeded in putting the conflagra
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electrical department could bring three large generators from
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